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Chapter 41: Adding two more counties
Taiwan Prefecture and Taiwan County have jurisdiction over a total of more than 16 households, Fengshan County in Tainan has jurisdiction over [-] households, and Zhuluo County in Taipei has jurisdiction over more than [-] households.

This population distribution is obviously unreasonable.Only in Fengshan County, the population under its jurisdiction has reached half of the total of Fucheng and Taiwan County. The same is true for Zhuluo County in Taipei.

Fengshan County can also be understood as being located in Tainan. Most of the land here is the farm of Marquis Jinghai of the Qing Dynasty, so it is normal for the number of common people (serfs) to be larger.

However, most of Taipei is a mountainous and forested area, and the population in Zhuluo County seems too dense.It only relies on the geographical conditions of Zhuluo County, which is full of deep mountains and old forests, plus the administrative division of a county.

It is difficult to completely digest these populations, and it is also difficult to actually control them.It would be even harder to survive in the deep mountains of Taipei. In addition, most of the people with Taiwan hukou are inland immigrants, and the migration time generally does not take long.I am afraid that these people have long since hid in the mountains and become mountain residents who have fled their households.

But just because someone didn't run away doesn't mean the problem doesn't need to be solved.After all, so many people without property and jobs are gathered in areas such as Taipei, which are densely covered with mountains and forests and are beyond the reach of the police.

This is just a pile of dry wood. Once a huge natural disaster occurs, it may burn at any time.

Not only Zhuluo County, but also Fengshan County in Tainan is the same, and even more dangerous.The turmoil in Zhuluo County only corrupted Taipei, the turmoil in Fengshan County...the last one made him King Zhu.

Zhu Yijiong immediately expressed his doubts to Wang Li and other civil servants. Civil servants use this kind of moment.

And Wang Li is worthy of being a local official who has been an official in Taiwan for many years. He can naturally see the problems that King Zhu has seen.

Otherwise, he would not have been so ready to lead the city officials to the front lines after the heavy rain to comfort the victims and inspire people.

Wang Li said calmly: "Returning to the supervision of the country, I have two strategies to solve this problem. One is to add two counties to Taipei and Tainan to divide households into people and stabilize the place. The other is to encourage the people to cultivate new fields. Increase output. In this way, we can not only solve problems, but also fill our Ming Dynasty's food gap."

"Add two more counties? Encourage reclamation?"

Zhu Yijiong thought about it for a moment, then motioned to Wang Li to continue.

Wang Li said: "To the supervising state, we can add two counties to the south of Fengshan County and one county to the winter of Pingshan County. The county seat will be expanded and rebuilt based on the original Ahou Town."

"In Taipei, the remaining households in Zhuluo County will be relocated to Luzai Port and a new county will be built. In this way, it can not only relieve the pressure on households in Fengshan and Zhuluo Counties, but also control Danshui in the south and hook up in the north. Going up to Tamsui connects Taipei, Taichung and Tainan."

"We can also take this opportunity of relocation and household division to encourage people to open up land in the name of the imperial court and increase the number of cultivated fields in Taiwan, thereby alleviating the food shortage in our Ming Dynasty. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone."

After listening to Wang Li's words, Zhu Yijiong suddenly understood.Wang Li's method was to divert the originally dense and crowded people by increasing administrative divisions, and at the same time strengthen local control.

Moreover, the people were encouraged to cultivate new fields by taking the opportunity of establishing new counties.It can not only fill the current food gap of the Ming Dynasty, but also keep the people busy with reclamation without thinking about unnecessary chores.

More importantly, the addition of a new county in Luzi Port also geographically connects Taipei, Taichung and Tainan.In this way, Ming Dynasty would not have to be out of reach of strategic places such as fresh water and even chicken coops because of the long distance.

Wang Li's words of advice can be said to be well thought out and considered in all aspects. They can be regarded as mature words for the country.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a moment and felt that there was indeed no problem, so she nodded and said "yes".

Then he asked casually: "Since Wang Qing has the draft, I wonder if the names of the two new counties have been decided?"

Wang Li said: "Reporting to the prison state, the new county in the south is based on Ahou, so the county can be named Ahou. However, the new county in the north needs to be built, so the ministers were bold and named it Changhua to show the greatness of Wang Hua. meaning."

In naming the new county, he also flattered King Zhu. He really did not forget his original intention.

Zhu Yijiong listened without changing his expression. He had been a king for so long. He had not learned the skill of transferring Qi and nourishing his body, but he was quite proficient in the ability of keeping his expression unchanged.

"Hmm... Ah Hou's name is a bit hard to describe. Since it is located to the east of Pingshan Mountain, why not call it Pingtung County?" Wang Li said without hesitation: "It is a wise man who oversees the country!"

"In that case, let's do this! After the meeting is over, I will give you another memorial about the establishment of a county."

Zhu Yijiong nodded, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked: "By the way, are there any sweet potatoes grown on this terrace?"

Wang Li and other civil servants would complain to King Zhu every day when they had nothing to do. Although no one asked King Zhu to disarm, they would complain every day, which really annoyed King Zhu.

The reason why a secretariat was set up, apart from being too busy with official duties, was also to sift out the rubbish written by the few civil servants below.

"Reporting to the Supervisory State, due to the imperial edict of the puppet Qing Dynasty enemy chiefs, there are some plantings in this sweet potato terrace. However, the actual planting area is not large. Most of them are perfunctory by the local government to cope with the cross-border work."

It was Liang Wenxuan, the magistrate of the government, who spoke. Although Wang Li was the magistrate and the head of the civil servants, he couldn't always speak alone!You have to leave some room for opportunity for others.

When Liang Wenxuan said this, Zhu Yijiong remembered it.Indeed, in the late Qing Dynasty, although they tried their best to promote the cultivation of high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes.

But even by the end of the Qing Dynasty, sweet potatoes accounted for no more than 5.00% of the total agricultural crop planting area in the country, and ordinary people were still growing rice and wheat.

It’s not that the yield of sweet potatoes was not high in the past. On the contrary, the yield of sweet potatoes was higher than that of rice and wheat, which is known to the common people.

The reason why it cannot be promoted has been investigated by Zhu Yijiong in his previous life. The reason is that the Aixinjueluo family in the Qing Dynasty and the old Zhu family in the Ming Dynasty had the same virtues.

Lao Zhu issued Ming Dynasty banknotes for currency circulation, but refused to use Ming Dynasty banknotes as taxes. The Qing Dynasty did the same, promoting sweet potatoes, but taxes could not be paid with sweet potatoes.

Isn't this so nonsense?

Ordinary people are stupid to grow sweet potatoes.When the tax is not paid, the whole family will be ruined by the government.

Zhu Yijiong thought for a while and said, "In this case, when we encourage people to cultivate land, we will add one more thing. All the mountainous land that has been reclaimed will be planted with sweet potatoes in the future."

"Unlike the Puppet Qing Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty can also deduct summer and autumn taxes on sweet potatoes. The tax rate will remain unchanged. Those who are willing to take the initiative to cultivate sweet potatoes will be exempted from corvee in the future."

Then he added: "Only in mountainous and bad fields."

Zhu Yijiong knew that sweet potatoes were indeed a good crop, but after all, they could only be used for large-scale promotion in areas where food was insufficient.Sweet potatoes themselves have low protein content and can cause bloating easily if eaten too much. As a food, they are not considered a good food.

Just promote it through government decrees in mountainous areas. Anyway, the mountainous areas are barren and you can't harvest much rice or wheat. You might as well plant sweet potatoes.

"The minister waits for the order!"

All the civil servants handed over their hands and had no objections.

Anyway, it's just a promotion in mountainous areas. As long as King Zhu doesn't go crazy, all the plain areas can be replanted with sweet potatoes, and this can indeed improve the food shortage problem of the Ming Dynasty.

　Changhua County was established in the first year of Yongzheng's reign, with the intention of emphasizing the power of the king. In fact, it was the Taiwan local officials who flattered Yongzheng.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)