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Chapter 456 Zhang Guangsi ran away

According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the number of registered households in Fujian and Guangdong provinces has exceeded 250 million, accounting for a total population of more than 1100 million.

This does not include the people of Taiwan and Qiongzhou. Under the immigration policy formulated by the imperial court, the governments of Fujian and Guangdong moved a large number of landless people to Taiwan and Qiongzhou every year.

These people were also very happy. After all, they could divide their fields and settle down. The government would also bear the cost of money and food along the way, and they would also lend farm tools and seeds for reclamation when they first arrived.

The cost of the government is not high, because it is very close, and it can be taken directly by boat, and Taiwan can only be reached in two or three days by sailing.

Today's Taiwan Prefecture, after several years of immigration and reclamation, the entire vast area from the west of Taiwan to Jilong has been brought under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

The territory of the headhunters in the mountainous areas of Taitung is now being encroached upon by the reclamation villages composed of officials and people in Taiwan.Those headhunting tribal villages were either slaughtered by the people who reclaimed the wasteland, or they fled deeper into the mountains and forests.

As for naturalization and mature status, the Taiwan government does not have that much time and energy to do such a difficult and somewhat thankless task.

Taipei County, which was planned when Luzon was first conquered, was officially established as a city and county last year. Together with the two counties of Ryukyu and Penglai under its jurisdiction, Taiwan Prefecture now has eight counties.

The level of development is already quite good, almost catching up with Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Moreover, it has also diverted a large number of landless peasants to Fujian, which has a growing population.

In the Qiongzhou Prefecture, the former prefect Cui Sheng was promoted to the governor of Guangnan, and the new Qiongzhou Prefect took office at the end of last year. The imperial court basically required him to follow the legacy policies of the previous prefect, and to have good relations with the local Sinicized Shuli and Miao villages. Encourage Shuli, Miao and some mountain people to actively register and register.

For those students who live in the mountains, try to appease them. If possible, attract them to leave the mountains and settle down. Even if it doesn't work, don't cut off the contact.

In addition to Taiwan and Qiongzhou, the immigrant population in Luzon Island is also increasing year by year.

Although the increase is not large, the number of Han people coming and going and the number of merchants settling here are indeed increasing.

This is because the Han people in Luzon mainly organized private groups to reclaim wasteland. The government did not participate in the immigration. Because the distance was too far and the government did not have enough money and food, the immigrant population was not large. Basically, it was to guide the people to spontaneously immigrate and provide various Incentives.

The most attractive thing is that when you come to Luzon, you can freely annex land. As long as it is not the land of Han compatriots, there are no restrictions, as long as you can afford to pay the tax per acre.

The number of Han people in the entire Luzon Island has exceeded [-] after several years of immigration. However, this is still limited by independent private immigration, so the overall efficiency is not high.

Moreover, Luzon Island is said to have been captured by the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, including the Governor's Palace, all Han settlements are basically in coastal areas.Most of them are concentrated on the western coast, while most of the mountainous areas in central and northern Luzon are in the hands of indigenous people.

It's just that the relationship between these indigenous people and the Han Governor's Palace is more harmonious than that of the Spanish Governor's Palace.

After all, the Han people helped them drive away the damn red-haired devil, and did not plunder their tribes. They even gave them gifts when they first met. Today, the officials and the people still maintain a friendly, trading and cooperative attitude towards these natives.

Of course, these are only temporary. As the population of Luzon increases, sooner or later the land left by the Spaniards and the indigenous serfs will not be enough, and a colonial war will inevitably break out.

The first generation of Luzon immigrants took root firmly in Luzon Island. Not only the Han tenants, but also the indigenous serfs were not treated too harshly.

The Luzon Governor's Office is also temporarily focusing on agricultural production and using Manila's ports to participate in trade, and mining and gold mining are not considered for the time being.

It is worth mentioning that although the Ming Dynasty established a nearly independent governor-general in Luzon, its jurisdiction was still governed by dividing land and setting up counties.

For example, Tortoiseshell Port City was set up as Tortoiseshell County, and the Tortoiseshell County Magistrate was appointed to manage it. The county magistrate there also served a term of three years, and the governor did not have the power to appoint the county magistrate.

The cabinet instantly understood that the emperor planned to treat Luzon as an overseas province in the future, rather than as a simple imperial fiefdom.

In this way, the cabinet will have a bottom line, and Luzon will probably have a lot of money to invest in in the future.

...Southwestern Yunnan and Guizhou.

The Ming army moved very quickly. As soon as they received the order from the imperial court to mobilize troops, He Xiangming, who was stationed in southern Hunan, quickly moved his troops to Jingzhou, and then marched majestically along Jingzhou into Liping Prefecture in Guizhou.

There are many Miao villages on the border of Liping Prefecture. As soon as they heard that the Ming army was coming from Jingzhou, they immediately became a leader without hesitation.

It is true that Zhang Guangsi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, went too far. He not only robbed their land and asked them to repatriate, but also paid heavy taxes to the Manchu and Qing officials and performed heavy corvee for free.

This was not deliberately targeting them, because the tax corvee of the Han people in Guizhou also increased.

Don't ask so many questions. The only question is that the court wants to go to war and pay taxes quickly.

What?No money?

They must be traitors and spies who collaborate with the enemy and treason. I will put them in jail.

Well, the same routine as the Taiwanese government used to force Zhu Yijiong out.

Nowadays, these Guizhou officials still dare to do this. It's not that they are crazy, on the contrary, they just think of it together with their colleagues in Shaanxi.

The imperial court is almost dying, and the Ming Dynasty is about to attack, so why don't you hurry up and make more money now?

These people know that even if they turn out, they probably won't be able to hold office, so they just mess around together and try their best to plunder the people's wealth and support.

And Zhang Guangsi neither intends to control nor is easy to control. Killing those Miao people is easy, but these court officials are really difficult to kill. If one of them is not handled well, many people may become thieves.

Anyway, as long as you can collect the tax money, that's all. As for other things, just turn a blind eye.

With such actions and actions, Yunnan's Diao Ruzhen will rebel again. I really can't blame him entirely.

It was more than a month after the southwest city fell that Zhang Guangsi, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, knew that before he could gather troops to attack, he heard that the Guangxi Ming army had already penetrated Guangnan Prefecture.

The Ming army in southern Hunan also rushed into Liping Mansion, and now it is estimated that they are almost over Guzhou (Rongjiang).

Although Zhang Guangsi was a famous general, he was still very young at this time, and he was new to the task. He had not enough troops to deal with the Ming army in Guangxi, and now he also had to face the Ming army in southern Hunan.

He Xiangming followed Liping Mansion all the way to the west, and it was said that he was unstoppable. In less than half a month, he penetrated the southeastern part of Guizhou. Wang Zhongxun, the prefect of Duyun, looked down on the wind, and the magistrate of Guiding County farther west also hurriedly changed his flag.

"What? Zhang Guangsi actually ran away?" He Xiangming frowned and looked at Feng Guangyu, the chief envoy of Guizhou who had asked to surrender.

Feng Guangyu quickly replied: "To tell you what the general said, the pseudo-governor Zhang Guangsi had led his troops to evacuate Guiyang City almost half a month ago before the general came to kill him. At first, he even lied to his subordinates that he was going to suppress bandits... No, he was raising troops to fight. Heavenly soldier, it was only after many days that I realized something was wrong."

He Xiangming was still in disbelief for a moment. He was silent for a moment and then said: "This guy... runs really fast! What a pity."

It is indeed a pity that a big fish was let go.

Fortunately, the Ming army was not without gains.

Zhang Guangsi's escape was equivalent to completely ruining the hopes of the puppet Qing officials in Yunnan and Guizhou. Even the chief envoy of Guizhou went out of the city to surrender in person.

To capture the rest of the state capital, it was just a piece of paper.

(End of this chapter)