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Zhang Zhaoyong said goodbye to Li Jixiu and went home to study seriously on his own.

No one would know that their whole family would sacrifice themselves in another time and space to resist the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, Guangdong was occupied by the Manchus. A middle-aged woman from Tianjin, named Zhang, claimed to be the queen of Emperor Tianqi. He carved seals and made flags, dispersed wealth in Tianjin to recruit troops, and contacted the peasant army in Jinghai County, and repeatedly repelled encirclement and suppression by local Manchu troops. Unfortunately, Zhang was captured and sacrificed, but his men continued to resist the Qing Dynasty.

The governor of Tianjin was frightened and invited the leaders of the peasant army to a banquet in an attempt to recruit people. When the incident was revealed, the governor of Tianjin was dismissed, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty mobilized heavy troops to suppress the Tianjin rebels for more than a year.

Among those who died in the same year were the Five Gentlemen of Ningbo.

Hua Xia, Wang Jiaqin, Yang Wenqi, Tu Xianchen, and Dong Deqin learned that the Qing army in Zhejiang was transferred to Fujian. He immediately sent someone to contact the anti-Qing generals Wang Yi and Huang Binqing, and planned to work together internally and externally to regain Ningbo.

But Huang Binqing was timid and weak, hesitant and did not dare to send troops. The liaison letter to Wang Yi was intercepted by the traitorous landlord and sent to the government to report the letter and receive the reward.

The Five Gentlemen did not receive a response for a long time, so they simply launched an uprising themselves.

The uprising failed and he was unfortunately captured and taken to Hangzhou where he was tortured to death.

Wang Yi, who did not receive the letter, continued to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After being captured and sacrificed, his tribe continued to revolt until the Kangxi period.

At the same time, in the northwest, an uprising broke out among the Hui people in Gansu. Once they conquered Liangzhou, controlled the Hexi Corridor, and connected with the Han gentry and peasants, the rebel army quickly increased to one hundred thousand, and they failed after a year of persistence.

In the southwest, although some chieftains defected to the Qing army, most people of all ethnic groups were resisting. The Yi, Zhuang, Miao, Tujia people...were fighting one after another, preferring death to surrender.

Faced with the brutal rule of the Qing Dynasty, people of all ethnic groups achieved great national unity.

"Aren't you going to send troops to destroy the Tatars this year?" Pang Chunlai asked.

Zhao Han said: "We don't have enough money and food. Let's wait until next year. The Tatars are like grasshoppers after autumn. They can't jump around for a few days anymore."

"Alas!" Pang Chunlai sighed.

First they sent troops to Ryukyu and Satsuma, then to Vietnam, and then to a large number of immigrants. The money and food of the Datong court was really not enough to fight the war.

Zhao Han put down the emperor's airs and patiently explained: "Sir, please forgive me, I understand your urgency to eliminate the Tatars. But in the long run, immigrating and garrisoning troops in Taiwan and Guangnan is more important than quickly annihilating the Tatars. Three divisions All the soldiers and their families have immigrated to Taiwan and Guangnan. If they are not given generous and generous treatment, they will feel that they have been assigned."

"I understand." Pang Chunlai expressed his understanding.

Datong soldiers and their families who immigrated to Taiwan and Guangnan will not only be allocated an additional five acres of land each, but the imperial court will also give them a large amount of cattle and grain. In addition, there is no need to pay land tax for ten years, and the land tax will be halved in twenty years.

Especially for the families of soldiers and soldiers who immigrated to Taiwan, three families were given an ox as a gift. They did not have to pay land tax for twenty years, and the land tax was halved in fifty years.

Pang Chunlai suddenly asked: "When will Your Majesty take action against the Dutch on Taiwan Island?"

Zhao Han said: "It's either next year or the year after."

This is really not Zhao Han's militarism, but the Dutch rule in Tainan has reached a critical period. Its oppression of Han Chinese and aboriginal people has reached its limit. In the next two to three years, the Han people in Tainan will rebel, and the Netherlands is expected to carry out massacres.

This news was reported by the magistrate of Zhuluo (Chiayi). Tainan Han leader Guo Huaiyi was contacting the magistrate of Zhuluo to raise troops.

Historically, when Guo Huaiyi's uprising failed, more than 4,000 Han men in the Chican area were arrested and more than 1,800 were killed. More than 5,000 women were killed or captured, and many children were killed or made into slaves. This accounts for four-fifths of the Han population in the Chijian area.

Zhao Han tried every means to immigrate to Taiwan, so he naturally could not let the situation get out of control. The purpose of sending the Datong Army to station this time was to prevent the Netherlands from committing a massacre.

When the Dutch first arrived in Tainan, they were very humble. Even to build a castle, they had to pay to buy land from the indigenous people.

Gradually, as the Dutch increased their troops, they began to exploit the indigenous people.

When the Dutch failed to attack the larger tribes, they bullied the smaller tribes in order to scare the monkeys. They also brought smallpox to the indigenous people, causing local plagues to become rampant, and took the opportunity to send troops to conquer various tribes.

Xiaoliuqiu Island (near Tainan) had more than 1,200 residents. The Dutch slaughtered more than 400 of them and sold more than 100 young people to Southeast Asia as slaves. All the young women on the island were assigned to slaves by Dutch soldiers, which was equivalent to annihilating the island's tribe.

To deal with the Han people, the Netherlands first fomented divisions and then brutally suppressed them.

Then, oppression through economic means. First a liquor tax was levied on the Han people, then a poll tax, and then a toll tax. Not satisfied with this, the Han people were also prohibited from privately selling deer skins, and all must be sold to the Netherlands. When Han people buy or sell houses, they are taxed one-tenth. You also have to pay tax when buying salt. The private sale of sugar cane is no longer allowed and must be sold to the Netherlands.

To this day, when the Han people buy sugar, candles, tobacco, fish... or even kill New Year pigs, or buy firewood for heating in winter, they are taxed by the Dutch.

In addition, the Netherlands continues to spread propaganda to the indigenous people, saying that the Han people are robbers and bullies, and sow discord between the indigenous people and the Han people. It also prohibited Han Chinese from opening schools and forced Han Chinese and aborigines to practice religion. Religious preaching is held at a fixed time, and the people in the area must come to listen. Anyone who does not come will be fined with a deer skin.

There is also a "democratic conference" in which Han and aboriginal leaders must attend every year.

The so-called democratic conference was to promote the goodwill of the Netherlands, and finally to urge the payment of taxes quickly and punish those tribes who did not pay taxes in full. This often happens. The envoys sent by the Netherlands to call the aboriginal people for a meeting were directly killed by the aboriginal people. The Dutch preached at the democratic conference that the indigenous people directly assassinated them on the spot.

Now every year when a democratic conference is held, the Netherlands sends troops to maintain order to prevent the democratic conference from turning into an insurrectionary conference.

It was this high-pressure policy that led the Han people who had originally defected to the Netherlands to plot rebellions one by one. Now the situation is at a critical point. If Zhao Han does not move troops, fighting will break out in Tainan, and the result will definitely be a massacre against the Han people.

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Taiwan.

Zhang Xianzhong was in Taipei, Sun Kewang was in Taoyuan, and Li Dingguo's garrison was in Zhuluo (Chiayi).

For a while, they were out of reach.

In Zhuluo County, Taiwan Prefecture, the aboriginal tribe is called Zhuluoshan Society. They have a high degree of Chineseization, and with the immigration of Zheng Zhilong and Zhao Han, Han people and aborigines have had close exchanges.

"Hey, there are a lot of people here. It's not the kind of place where birds don't poop." Yuan Shizhong joked as he looked at the houses from a distance before landing.

Li Dingguo said: "Zhuluo County is the place with the largest registered population in Taiwan."

The jurisdiction of Zhuluo County includes not only Chiayi, but also the Penghu Islands. The registered population of Han and aboriginal people has reached 70,000, more than half of which are immigrants and descendants of Zheng Zhilong's organization.

Lin Chaofeng, the magistrate of Zhuluo County, personally led the officials to greet the Datong soldiers at the dock.

"General Li, General Yuan, thank you for your hard work coming all the way!" Lin Chaofeng greeted with cupped hands.

"Easy to say, easy to say!"

The two parties exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Li Dingguo asked: "How is the situation in Zhuluo County?"

Lin Chaofeng said: "There are constant Han people from the south who cannot bear the oppression of the Dutch and flee to the south of Zhuluo County to cultivate wasteland. The Dutch red-haired ghosts often send troops to plunder and force the Han people to pay taxes."

Li Dingguo asked: "Didn't Zhuluo County send anyone to negotiate with Holland?"

Lin Chaofeng said: "We have negotiated several times, but we can't tell whose territory it is. The Dutch ghost always quibbles, insisting that it is not the jurisdiction of Zhuluo County. I also sent people to organize peasant soldiers and peasants there. Yes, but the number of Han people is too small to resist the Dutch guns and artillery."

"Have these Han people who cultivated wasteland in the border areas been registered?" Li Dingguo asked.

Lin Chaofeng said: "I was unwilling at first and kept hiding from the government, fearing that the government would impose heavy taxes. Now one after another they have lost their citizenship. From the mouth of the salt dealer, they learned that the government's land tax was very light, and in the first few days of land reclamation You don’t have to pay taxes every year.”

Yuan Shizhong suddenly said: "Now that we have registered and established households, we are the common people of the country! The red-haired ghosts plundering villages and forcing the people to pay taxes are invading our territory and harming our people. There is every reason to send troops, damn it!"

Li Dingguo raised his hand and said: "Our army just finished fighting in Guangnan, and the soldiers need to rest and recuperate. Moreover, the families of all the soldiers in the army have not immigrated here yet, and they are all looking forward to being reunited with their families. The best time to start the war should be next year to reclaim wasteland and plant seeds." After the seed.”

Lin Chaofeng added: "Under the rule of the red-haired ghost, there was a Han leader Guo Huaiyi who sent people to contact him many times. He said that if he raised an army, he would be able to capture Chican City, but he needed help from the government, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with the Dutch counterattack. "

Chikan City is Zheng Chenggong's Chengtian Mansion, the core of the Zheng family's rule over Taiwan.

At this time, more than 10,000 Han people settled in Chican City and surrounding villages.

Li Dingguo said: "Let him wait a little longer and make an appointment to start an uprising next year."

Ten thousand Datong soldiers were taken to the south of Zhuluo County by Li Dingguo. There were hundreds of Han farmers there who had escaped from the Dutch rule and came to reclaim the wasteland, as well as an aboriginal tribe numbering over a thousand people.

The soldiers were ordered to cut down the trees, transport the grain and grass on the ship, and build a large camp in a few days.

Yuan Shizhong stayed in the camp to guard, while Li Dingguo led people to explore the nearby situation.

When he came to Beimen Township in later Taiwan, Li Dingguo grabbed the soil by the river and said happily: "This is very fertile. It's a good place to grow food."

Can the soil in alluvial areas where rivers flow into the sea not be fertile?

This land is suitable for farming, while the coastal areas farther to the north and south are relatively barren, but they can be used to dry salt!

Li Dingguo asked the Han people who had fled nearby, "Are there any indigenous people here?"

The Han people replied: "Yes, their tribe is called Xiaolongshe, and they call themselves the Siraya tribe. There are not many people, only one or two thousand. They do not farm well, and they usually have to rely on fishing and hunting to make a living."

Li Dingguo said: "Bring five hundred catties of rice and twenty catties of salt. I am going to visit these natives."

In the past, the Dutch were able to get along well with the natives even if they brought gifts, let alone the black-haired Han Chinese.

The rice and salt were sent out, and the indigenous leaders were very happy and willing to be neighbors with the Datong Army.

Li Dingguo returned to the military camp and summoned all the soldiers in the army to lecture: "Don't complain in your hearts, thinking that coming to Taiwan is just a distribution. Your Majesty said that the families of the soldiers who have moved here can each cultivate thirty acres of land and will not pay land taxes for twenty years. The land tax will be halved in fifty years. I just went to see it. There are two rivers flowing into the sea. The land is very fertile and it is not a wild land. As long as you cultivate for a few years, everyone will become a landlord. Do you want to do it? "

"Do it!" the soldiers shouted in unison.

The prestige of the founding monarch was enough to eliminate the resentment in the hearts of soldiers.

During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, a large number of soldiers and their families were moved to Yunnan, Guizhou, southern Jiangxi, Northeast China, and even to the grasslands north of Yanshan Mountain. There may have been complaints, but the soldiers were very obedient.

Li Dingguo said: "Don't wait for your family to come, let's do it now!"

Soldiers went out with axes in hand and ran to both sides of the two rivers, cutting down trees and leveling the land. Those who did not have axes would carry wood and stones.

The efficiency is amazing. In half a month, a large forest disappeared, and the felled wood can also be used to build houses.