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Body 503 [Shui'an's]

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    According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, both Fujian and Guangdong have more than 4 million people.

    However, Fujian has a Taiwan prefecture, and Guangdong has a Qiongzhou prefecture.  A large number of landless people from Fujian and Guangdong were immigrated to the coastal areas of Taiwan and Hainan Island for reclamation.

    The cost of this kind of immigration is not high, just go by boat.

    In the first year, the land is often directly burned, and the primitive agricultural technology of slash-and-burn farming is very effective in reclaiming raw land.  It doesn't take much effort to cut down trees, and the ash left by burning wasteland can also be used as fertilizer to nourish crops.

    In the central and northern regions of Taiwan Island alone, more than 600,000 Han Chinese have settled down one after another¡ª50,000 to 60,000 of them were immigrated by Zheng Zhilong when he was a pirate.

    Taking into account the population who immigrated to Taiwan and the coastal port cities, there are actually only about 2 million farmers left in the vast Fujian countryside.

    Therefore, although there is not much arable land in Fujian, farmers really have no shortage of land to plant!

    The development level of Hainan Island is much higher than that of Taiwan Island.  The number of registered Han Chinese and Shu Li exceeded 1 million. Most of the Han immigrants came to the island during the Ming Dynasty.  The ancestors of these Han people, about 300,000 to 500,000, were organized by the Ming government to emigrate, and many of them were military households and exiled prisoners.

    This time Zhao Han announced to the world and used policies to encourage overseas development. In addition to many street thieves, there are also a large number of businessmen who have heard the news.

    After they came to Luzon, they were told the principle of pioneering when they settled down, and they were not allowed to rob the territory of friendly indigenous tribes.

    The so-called goodwill tribes are the tribes who followed the Datong Army and attacked Manila together.  There are also tribes that quietly accepted and protected Chinese survivors after the Tu Hua incident.

    These tribes have been registered one after another.

    At the same time, the coastal area on the west side of Luzon Island is divided into five administrative regions, and five magistrates are appointed to manage it.  The pioneering areas of the Han people all radiated from the five major counties. For the time being, they only engaged in agricultural planting and port trade, and did not go into the mountains to find gold and silver mines.

    ?It is said to swallow the entire Luzon Island, but in fact it can only control the western coastal area, and 80% of the island is still in the hands of the indigenous people.

    Wan Zhaoan, who brought more than 2,000 Chinese refugees and attacked Spanish plantations everywhere, has now become a plantation owner.  He was allocated a tobacco plantation by drawing lots, and the girl he saved halfway was also taken as his concubine.

    ?One wife, one concubine, one father-in-law, the family has a total of more than 200 mu of land, and there are 13 natives as tenants for them.

    They are all serfs left by the Spaniards. They are very good at growing tobacco, but no one likes to be lazy.

    Wan Zhaoan called the tenants together, took out the employment contract and said: "Come and press your fingerprints. I will temporarily divide the tobacco plantation into 13 pieces of land and lease them to you for cultivation. The tobacco grown every year will be paid by us."  Come and sell, 60% of the money will go to me, and 40% to yourselves. If you want to make more money, just farm the land honestly for me!"

    The native tenants are used to being serfs, so they don't know what tenancy is, so they just press their fingerprints in a daze.

    Then, the native tenants were led out to inspect the land they cultivated one by one.  After tossing for several days, I finally understood what it meant, and my enthusiasm for farming increased slightly.

    If you want to really make them work hard, you have to harvest the tobacco.

    When the time comes, call everyone and distribute the money in front of everyone.  Some get less money, some get more money, and you can experience the benefits of hard work firsthand.

    Wan Zhaoan was kind enough to leave 40% to the tenants.

    ? True traditional landlords will not give tenants a share at all, but directly set the rent quota.  Even in the event of natural disasters and no harvests, the tenants have to pay the rent in full according to the quota.

    Wan Zhaoan didn't think about exploiting the native tenants hard, because he was thinking about making the cake bigger.

    There are four members of the family, and they have not yet occupied 400 mu of land. It is too wasteful of manpower for 13 tenants to plant more than 200 mu of land.  After all, this is a tobacco plantation, unlike grain farming, it is easy for a tenant to plant 10 mu of land.

    This guy then reclaimed wasteland in the surrounding area. As long as he has cultivated the wasteland for three years, the wasteland will be his, and the tax will be very light during the three years.

    The first generation of Luzon Han people who settled down took root in this way.

    What awaits them will be tax adjustments in the next two to three years.  For example, heavy taxes are levied on tobacco and sugarcane, and light taxes are levied on growing grain, etc.¡ªDon¡¯t think about filing taxes indiscriminately, the number of Han people is too small, and the land of Han people is also small, and officials can see everything when they go to the countryside.

    Zheng Guozhong, who was sent to Nanjing and was in charge of negotiations, was promoted to the governor of Luzon, and he was promoted several levels at once.

    That black buddy, Tie Hong, became the first Luzon General Soldier.

    theI will definitely envy the Sichuan soldiers, because it is so easy to fight.

    An Rupan actually did not drill the mountains, but mobilized troops to defend the city. Siege warfare is much easier than guerrilla warfare.

    A soldier climbed over the mountain and came down from the cliff on the east side of the stockade.

    "My lord, the son said that there will be a night attack tonight!"

    "good!"

    An Rupan was overjoyed.

    The enemy actually divides his forces to attack the two villages, and the defenders of the two villages can move troops at will through the valley.  Coupled with his son An Kun, the army transferred from Guiyang will surely be able to respond to the night attack from inside and outside, and wipe out all the Datong army that was separated!

    Fei Yinggong was sitting in the camp, and the spies who came from white soldiers also rushed in to report: "General, there are enemy troops in the south. They didn't take the official road, they went over the mountain and took the path, and they are hiding in the valley a few miles to the south.  inside."

    Fei Yinggong couldn't help laughing: "I was planning to leave the empty battalion and dispatch troops to surprise Guiyang, but the enemy from Guiyang came to surprise me.?¡­
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