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According to statistics from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, there are more than 4 million people in both Fujian and Guangdong.

However, there is Taiwan Prefecture in Fujian and Qiongzhou Prefecture (Hainan Island) in Guangdong. A large number of landless people from Fujian and Guangdong were immigrated to the coastal areas of Taiwan and Hainan Island to cultivate land.

The cost of this kind of immigration is not high, just take a boat there.

The original agricultural technique of slash-and-burn farming is often very effective in reclaiming raw land in the first year. There is no need to waste effort in cutting down trees, and the ash left by burning wasteland can also be used as fertilizer to nourish crops.

In the central and northern areas of Taiwan alone, more than 600,000 Han people have settled there - 50,000 to 60,000 of whom were immigrated by Zheng Zhilong when he was a pirate.

Excluding the population who immigrated to Taiwan, and then excluding the coastal port cities, in fact, there are only about 2 million farmers left in the huge rural areas of Fujian.

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

The level of development on Hainan Island is much higher than that on Taiwan Island. The number of settled Han and Shuli people actually exceeds 1 million. Most of the Han immigrants came to the island during the Ming Dynasty. The ancestors of these Han people, approximately 300,000 to 500,000, were immigrated by the Ming government, and many of them were military households and exiled prisoners.

This time Zhao Han announced to the world that he would use policies to encourage overseas development. In addition to many street gangsters, there were also a large number of merchants who took action after hearing the news.

After they arrived in Luzon, they were informed of the principles of development when they settled in, and they were not allowed to seize the territory of friendly indigenous tribes.

The so-called friendly tribes are the tribes that followed the Datong Army to attack Manila. There are also tribes that quietly accepted and protected Chinese survivors after the Chinese Massacre.

These tribes are being registered one after another.

At the same time, the coastal area on the west side of Luzon Island was divided into five administrative regions, and five magistrates were appointed for management. The Han people's pioneering areas 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 that it can swallow the entire Luzon Island, but in fact it can only control the western coastal area. 80% of the island's territory is still in the hands of the indigenous people.

Wan Zhaoan, who took more than 2,000 Chinese refugees and attacked Spanish plantations everywhere, has now become a plantation owner. He was assigned a tobacco plantation by drawing lots, and the girl he rescued on the way was also adopted as his concubine.

With one wife, one concubine, and one father-in-law, the family owned more than 200 acres of land, and there were 13 indigenous people who worked as tenants for them.

They are all serfs left by the Spanish. They are very good at growing tobacco, but no one is watching and they like to be lazy.

Wan Zhaoan summoned the tenants together, took out the employment contract and said: "Come and sign your fingerprints. I will temporarily divide the tobacco plantation into 13 plots of land and rent them to you for farming. The tobacco grown every year will be mined. Come and sell it, 60% of the money will go to me and 40% to you. If you want to make more money, just farm the land for me!"

The indigenous tenant farmers were used to being serfs and had no idea what tenant rent was. They just pressed their fingerprints in confusion.

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

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

When the time comes, call everyone together 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-hearted and actually left 40% to the tenants.

Real traditional landowners will not give their tenants a share at all, but directly set the rent amount. Even if there is a natural disaster and there is no harvest, the tenants must pay the rent in full according to the fixed amount. If they do not pay enough, they will of course sell their children and take out loan sharks.

Wan Zhaoan did not think about exploiting the indigenous tenants because he was thinking about making the cake bigger.

The family of four has not yet occupied 400 acres of land. It would be a waste of manpower for 13 tenants to cultivate more than 200 acres of land. After all, this is a tobacco plantation. It is not as intensive as growing grains. A tenant can easily cultivate 20 acres of land.

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

The first generation of Han people who settled in Luzon 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 sugar cane, light taxes are levied on growing grain, etc. - Don't think about filing taxes randomly. The number of Han people is too small, and the land of the Han people is small. When officials go to the countryside, they can see everything.

Zheng Guozhong, who was sent to Nanjing as an envoy and was responsible for negotiations, was promoted to governor of Luzon, and he was promoted several levels at once.

That black guy Tie Hong became the first Luzon Commander-in-Chief.

In Luzon, which has been cut off from trade for more than half a year, countless merchants came to Manila with their backlog of goods. Then after hearing the news, they swarmed to Cebu Island and sold the goods to the Spaniards for shipment to the Americas for sale.

Cebu Island became a new commercial center in Southeast Asia, and Manila became a transit point for Chinese maritime merchants.

That winter, a piece of news spread widely: Luzon is rich in gold!

In the coastal prefectures and counties of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang, many traditional landowners whose land had been confiscated and who had considerable wealth finally couldn't sit still after hearing the news. They recruited their own people and organized a trip to southeastern Luzon Island to occupy land and pan for gold.

There is no government office set up by Zhao Han at all!

It was not until the number of gold diggers increased to more than 3,000 that Luzon Governor Zheng Guozhong requested the establishment of a sixth county here.

Luzon is the first gold-producing country in East Asia. The gold mines discovered at this time were all in the southeast of the island. Moreover, it is mainly gold sand, which has been mined for hundreds of years. The yield is actually very low, so low that the Spaniards are too lazy to intervene.

Zhao Han didn't bother to intervene, because he had already received the news and knew that there was not much gold production there.

The real large-scale gold mine is still in the territory of the indigenous people. Who knows one day it will be discovered!

On the other hand, the Luzon Copper Mine was taken over by the government due to its large scale, and the governor was ordered to organize manual mining.

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Turn back the time to June.

Gushi Khan, who occupied Qinghai and Tibet, sent his sixth son to Nanjing to express his submission. As early as eight years ago, this guy had contacted Huang Taiji and expressed his friendly attitude towards the Manchu regime.

This guy even sent his seventh son to Taiyuan to befriend Li Zicheng.

In a word, Gushi Khan made friends with everyone and only wanted to be a local emperor in Qinghai and Tibet.

Since Gushi Khan promised to surrender, Zhao Han did not want to cause trouble and sent an envoy to confer him the title of King of Shunyi. When he freed up his hands, Gushi Khan broke out internal conflicts again, and it was not too late to regain Qinghai and Tibet.

Just in time to mobilize troops from Sichuan and take advantage of the end of the summer harvest to go to Guizhou!

The entire Guizhou, nominally belonging to the Yunnan Puppet Imperial Court, was actually ruled by Chieftain An Rupan.

However, An Rupan cannot sweep Guizhou. His way of unifying Guizhou was to enfeoff the small chieftains and make the big chieftains themselves. There are more than 20 chieftains in southern Guizhou who listen to both the Yunnan court and An Rupan, but they may not listen to either.

Guiyang.

An Rupan was furious: "It's okay to say that the chieftain of Pu'an (Pan County) didn't come. After all, it's far away. Why didn't Wolong, Dalong, Jinshifan, and Pingzhou Liudong come? After gathering the troops for a month, we still didn't come. If we don’t get together, the fake bandits and bandits will soon reach Guiyang!”

The two divisions of the Datong Army in Sichuan were led by Huang Yao and marched from Xuyong to Chishui. The other two divisions were led by Fei Yinggon and marched from Zunyi to Guiyang.

The two divisions from Guangxi also entered southeastern Guizhou.

The puppet imperial court in Yunnan received a request for help and adopted a strategy of holding back its troops. Mu Tianbo did not send troops at all because he was suppressing the chieftain rebellion.

But the leader of Guizhou was safe and sound, and ordered to gather troops. Only 40,000 people gathered there for a month.

Yanglongkeng was easily breached by Fei Yinggon's troops, and after being bombarded with artillery for a long time, the defenders simply surrendered. Continuing to the south, Qianhu of the Ming Dynasty in Xifeng's place watched the wind and descended. Fei Yinggong captured Zhazuosi in one month.

In a certain time and space, this was Wang Yuan's hometown, and not far next door was Longchangyi where Wang Yangming attained enlightenment.

Zazuosi was the territory of the Shuidong Song family, a chieftain family that was so sinicized that it produced poets. They nominally surrendered to An Rupan, but when they encountered the Datong Army, they also surrendered.

Continuing to the south is the hometown of the Shuidong Song family.

An Rupan was afraid that the Song family would surrender, so he personally led the army to capture the village first, put all the Song family elders under house arrest, and recruited more than 3,000 Song family soldiers.

Finally, Fei Yinggong led his troops to kill him.

Ten thousand regular soldiers, three thousand peasant soldiers, and twenty thousand civilian troops surrounded Song's chain village from front to back.

These are two villages, connected by a valley in the middle, so they can support each other at any time. There is also a Song family's north office built like a royal palace.

On the outside of the two villages, each had half its troops. They pulled out artillery and started bombarding.

"Boom boom boom!"

An Rupan felt his heart pounding as he listened to the thundering cannon outside. If the bombardment continued like this, he would be finished sooner or later.

He has more than 40,000 people in his hands, and he has brought 20,000 here, and another 20,000 are guarding Guiyang. There were also more than 20,000 Shuixi elites who gathered directly in Chishui and Bijie to guard against Huang Yao's front army there due to the difficulty of traveling through the mountain roads.

If the friendly forces in Guangxi know the situation, they will definitely envy the Sichuan soldiers, because it is so easy to fight.

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

A soldier climbed over the mountains and came down from the cliff on the east side of the village.

"Your Majesty, the young master said that there will be a night attack tonight!"

"good!"

An Rupan is overjoyed.

The enemy actually divided his forces to attack the two villages, and the defenders of the two villages could move their troops at will through the valley. Coupled with his son An Kun, who has transferred a large army from Guiyang, he will definitely be able to coordinate the night attack inside and outside, and annihilate all the Datong troops that have been separated!

Fei Yinggong was sitting in the camp, and a spy who was a white-pole soldier also rushed in to report: "General, there are enemy troops appearing in the south. They did not take the official road, but took a small road through the mountains. They are currently hiding in the valley a few miles away in the south. inside."

Fei Yinggong couldn't help laughing: "I was planning to leave the empty camp and mobilize troops to surprise Guiyang, but I didn't expect that the enemy troops from Guiyang came to surprise me."