Ming politicians

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I don't know the reason, although in the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court immigrated a lot, but they didn't pay much attention to the issue of Taiwan's administrative divisions, as it has been in history.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, Taiwan was under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Fujian Road. In the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court set up an inspection department in Taiwan, but at that time, the imperial court valued the Penghu Islands, and Taiwan was under the jurisdiction of Tong’an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Xingzhongshu Province, Fujian Province.

In the Ming Dynasty, the situation did not change. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, due to the need for conquests, all the people on Taiwan Island were relocated to the coastal areas of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, Fujian. The imperial court abolished the Taiwan Inspection Department. With the establishment of the prosecution department, some Taiwanese people also migrated back. In the Wanli period, the Dutch and the Spanish occupied Taiwan, and the imperial court rarely paid attention to this place. All administrative divisions have not changed.

In the final analysis, this is the imperial court’s contempt for Taiwan, thinking that Taiwan Island, which is far away from the mainland, is just a barren land, not worth investing much energy in construction, and the aborigines there are still uncivilized. Here, just like primitive people.

Su Tiancheng is very aware of the importance of administrative divisions.

Whether the administrative division of a place is reasonable or not will directly affect the development of the place. If the division is reasonable, the government can administer it well and let the common people accept education.It can also promote economic development. Unreasonable zoning will waste a lot of resources and increase the burden on the common people.

So, before leaving Taiwan, what Su Tiancheng needs to do.It is to plan the division of Taiwan.

Because of the cruel oppression by the Dutch and the Spaniards, coupled with the conquest for a period of time, the life of the people in Taiwan is very difficult, and the population is not very large. Those who have a little way of life escaped from Taiwan with merchant ships. The population of the entire island is not very large. , especially to the north.It is also very desolate, far from what Taiwan Island will look like hundreds of years later.

The 20 Jiangning battalion soldiers who came to Taiwan will all stay in Taiwan. The families of these soldiers will also come to Taiwan in a short time. Of course, these people are far from enough.According to Su Tiancheng's estimate, at least [-] people will immigrate.When you come to Taiwan, you need to make a good division, set up prefectures and counties, build a city in the shortest time, and start to manage Taiwan in an orderly manner.Let Taiwan start to develop rapidly.

Chixian City, Song Ke's Governor's Mansion, has become the temporary command center of Jiangning Battalion.

Su Tiancheng, Qu Qingze, Wang Dazhi, Song Sijun and others are all here, in front of them.It is a huge sand table with all the topography and landforms of Taiwan, including the Penghu Islands.

It is impossible for the sand table to cover all the topography and landforms of Taiwan. It can only show a general outline, which is not much different from a map.

How to set up Taiwan's divisions, Su Tiancheng took great pains. His initial plan was to set up Taiwan as a province, but it would not be set up like other provinces under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. It would not set up so many official positions. Taiwan Province would set up a governor. There are no three divisions, and the governor is the highest official in Taiwan, who is fully responsible for military and civil affairs. A governor's office is established, and the number of all officials is controlled within 20. They are divided into two aspects: military and civil affairs.

Under the governor, three prefectures, three states and ten counties were established.

The three blocks are Taipei, Taichung, and Tainan, and the governor's office is established in Tainan.

The three states are Keelung Prefecture, Chiayi Prefecture and Kaohsiung Prefecture, of which Keelung Prefecture is under the direct jurisdiction of Taipei Prefecture, while Chiayi Prefecture and Kaohsiung Prefecture are under the jurisdiction of Tainan Prefecture.

The ten counties are Penghu County, Hualien County, Pingtung County, Yunlin County, Nantou County, Changhua County, Miaoli County, Taoyuan County, Yilan County and Hsinchu County.

This divisional setting is similar to the one hundreds of years later, but there are also differences. For example, Taipei County is not established under Taipei Prefecture, and the magistrate’s office directly governs all matters. They are all set up like this, and the purpose of this set up is to minimize the number of officials and reduce the burden.

As for the center of Taiwan, in Tainan Prefecture, this is also the result of Su Tiancheng's careful thinking.

Hundreds of years later, most of Taiwan's central areas, including the political center, are located in Taipei. Su Tiancheng is not very clear about why this happened, but judging from the current situation, the Tainan area is most closely connected with Fujian. The location of the Penghu Islands is even more important. They can directly control the entire Taiwan Strait and the waterways on the sea. Whether it is Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch or the Spaniards, the focus is on Tainan. Over the years, most of the construction has been done in Tainan. , from this reality, the center is still in Tainan.

Of course, the setting of divisions indicates a large amount of investment in building cities and clarifying the areas under the jurisdiction of each county, including reclamation of cultivated land, development of commerce and trade, etc. Too many things are started from scratch. Many things that Su Tiancheng marked on the sand table The county, the current actual situation, is still blank, nothing.

Even the three most important cities of Tainan, Taichung, and Taipei, except that Tainan looks a bit similar, the scale of Taichung and Taipei is not even comparable to some market towns under the jurisdiction of Gyeonggi County in Southern Zhili.

The gap is huge, which also means that in the next few years, Taiwan's construction tasks will be extremely arduous and require a lot of investment.

Su Tiancheng pointed to the sand table and talked eloquently, and quickly explained the entire division of Taiwan.

During this process, Qu Qingze, Wang Dazhi, and Song Sijun didn't say a word. They felt dizzy and couldn't figure out why Su Tiancheng was so familiar with Taiwan's situation. Of course, before attacking Taiwan, Su Tiancheng read a lot of information, Including the map of Taiwan, they can only think that, probably a long time ago, all the matters in Taiwan had entered into Su Tiancheng's mind, and Su Tiancheng was seriously thinking about it.

Qu Qingze and Song Sijun knew what Su Tiancheng was thinking, but Su Tiancheng was able to state Taiwan's divisions so clearly and set up three prefectures, three prefectures and ten counties. , and couldn't come up with such an opinion on division, the two of them could also laugh at themselves, who is Su Tiancheng, if he can follow things and keep up with the rhythm, it is considered very good.

Song Sijun was the most touched. He had just landed on Taiwan Island. Because of the different responsibilities, Song Sijun paid attention to observing all the situations he saw, but the more he looked at them, the more he felt sad. If you want to talk about the situation in Shaanxi before, the situation was bad enough. But compared to Taiwan, it is pretty good. Even Yan'an Mansion, which suffered the most wars, is hundreds of times stronger than Chixian City. It is too difficult to develop merchants in such a place, and Su Tiancheng's requirements are different.

Su Tiancheng wanted to build Taiwan well and would not plunder the wealth here. The purpose of the Dutch and the Spaniards is different. They just want to plunder here. They don’t care whether it is developed or not. So, Song Sijun develops business here , It is to make this place prosperous, with more people, a bumper harvest of food, and a better life for the common people.

As Song Sijun, who has been in business for many years and then participated in management, under normal circumstances, he would not complain, but facing the situation in Taiwan, he secretly complained. If possible, he would think of going to Taiwan anyway. state to go.

But after Su Tiancheng put forward his opinion on the division of Taiwan, Song Sijun had a bottom line in his mind.

It turned out that Su Tiancheng had thought about it a long time ago. According to this division, as long as there is enough material support, Taiwan's development will be very fast. A large number of cities need to be built, which requires labor. The labor of the people has been paid, which is enough to maintain the life of the family. After the family members of the Jiangning camp soldiers come here, they can also bring the technology of food planting here. Once the prefecture and county cities are built, the government can effectively govern If so, it will definitely attract a large number of people here, maybe when the city is built, it will be able to attract a lot of people.

More people means consumption, the circulation of silver, and the normal development of commerce.

Having experienced so much, especially in Shaanxi, Anningbao and Jingbian, Song Sijun understood that starting from scratch, as long as he can grasp the direction well, the construction results will be much better than those places with a solid foundation.

That is to say, after Su Tiancheng expressed Taiwan's administrative division opinions, Song Sijun also made up his mind to stay in Taiwan and build it well, not to mention Su Tiancheng's purpose, he knew.

After clarifying the division of Taiwan, Su Tiancheng specifically explained to Wang Dazhi.

Wang Dazhi is his most trusted confidant, and the relationship between the two is different, so Su Tiancheng is completely at ease.

Su Tiancheng told Wang Dazhi very clearly that Taiwan must be built well. This is where we will stand in the future. To build Taiwan well means to build our own homeland. He will suggest to the court that Wang Dazhi be the governor of Taiwan Province. The officials of the three prefectures, three prefectures and ten counties under the jurisdiction, except the magistrates, magistrates, and magistrates, the rest of Wang Dazhi and Song Sijun negotiated and were fully equipped.

Wang Dazhi only understood the meaning at this time. He has always been a little worried. He has followed Su Tiancheng for a long time. He is clear about the suspicion of the court. He also thinks that there may be troubles in the future. Unexpectedly, Su Tiancheng has already done it. Planning, and the burden of construction fell on his own head.

Wang Dazhi readily accepted the task. This is a kind of trust that cannot be expressed in words. Su Tiancheng completely entrusted him with the affairs behind him.

After spending about ten days, Su Tiancheng looked around the entire Taiwan Island, and roughly determined the location of Fuzhou County.

When the time came to the end of March, Su Tiancheng could not delay, and the soldiers of the Jiangning Battalion were also ready. Under the leadership of Xiong Zijian, Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Chenggong and others, they would start to conquer Luzon and Nanyang and other places.

On March [-]th, Su Tiancheng left Taiwan and rushed to Dengzhou. At this time, a large number of merchant ships from Dengzhou began to come to Taiwan. (To be continued..)