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 their lives fighting against the Qing Dynasty in another time and space.
At that time, Guangdong was occupied by the Manchus. A middle-aged woman named Zhang from Tianjin claimed to be the empress of Emperor Tianqi. She carved seals and ordered flags, dispersed wealth and recruited troops in Tianjin, and contacted the peasant army in Jinghai County, and fought back many times.
Encirclement and suppression by local troops of the Qing Dynasty. Unfortunately, Zhang was captured and sacrificed, but his subordinates continued to resist the Qing Dynasty...
The governor of Tianjin was frightened and uneasy, 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.
Huaxia, Wang Jiaqin, Yang Wenqi, Tu Xianchen, and Dong Deqin learned that the Qing army in Zhejiang was transferred to Fujian. They immediately sent people to contact the anti-Qing generals Wang Yi and Huang Binqing, and planned to cooperate inside and outside to regain Ningbo.
But Huang Binqing was cowardly 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 reward.
The Five Gentlemen received no response for a long time, so they simply launched an uprising themselves.
The uprising failed, and unfortunately he was captured, taken to Hangzhou, and 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. They once conquered Liangzhou, controlled the Hexi Corridor, and connected with the Han people, gentry, and peasants. The rebel army quickly increased to 100,000, but 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, and Tujia people...were fighting one after another, preferring death to surrender.
Facing 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. Tatars are like grasshoppers after autumn, and they can no longer jump around for a few days."
"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, moving to Taiwan and Guangnan to immigrate and garrison troops 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.
The Datong soldiers and their families who immigrated to Taiwan and Guangnan will not only be allocated five more acres of land each, but the court will also give them a large amount of cattle and grain as gifts. In addition, they will not have 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 a farm cow as a gift, and they did not have to pay land taxes for twenty years.
Land tax will be halved within 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 the Han people and aborigines has reached its limit. In the next two to three years, the Han people in Tainan will rebel, and the Dutch are expected to carry out massacres.
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This news was reported by the magistrate of Zhuluo (Chiayi). Guo Huaiyi, the leader of the Han people in Tainan, 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 1,800 were killed.
More than 5,000 women were killed or captured, and many children were killed or turned into slaves. This accounted for four-fifths of the Han population in the Chijian area.
Zhao Han tried every means to immigrate to Taiwan. Naturally, he could not let the situation get out of control. This time he sent the Datong Army to station.
It was to prevent the Netherlands from committing a massacre.
When the Dutch first arrived in Tainan, their attitude was very humble. Even when they built 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 a plague in the area, and took the opportunity to send troops to conquer various tribes.
There were more than 1,200 residents on Xiaoliuqiu Island (near Tainan). The Dutch massacred more than 400 of them and sold more than 100 young men to Southeast Asia as slaves. All the young women on the island were assigned to slaves by Dutch soldiers, which is equivalent to
The tribes on this island were wiped out.
To deal with the Han people, the Netherlands first fomented divisions and then brutally suppressed them.
Then, they oppressed the Han people through economic means. They first levied a wine tax on the Han people, then a head 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. The Han people bought and sold houses and levied taxes.
One-tenth. You also have to pay taxes when buying salt. If private sales of sugar cane are prohibited, they 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 propagandize to the aboriginal people, saying that the Han people are robbers and bullies, sowing discord between the aboriginal people and the Han people. It also prohibits the Han people from opening schools and forces the Han people and aboriginal people to believe in religion. It provides religious lectures at fixed times.
The people in the area must come to listen, and whoever fails to come will be fined with a deerskin.
There is also a "democratic conference" in which Han and aboriginal leaders must attend every year.
The purpose of the democratic conference was to promote the goodwill of the Netherlands, and finally to urge the payment of taxes quickly and punish the tribes who did not pay the taxes in full. This often happened, and the envoys sent by the Netherlands to call the aborigines for a meeting were directly killed by the aborigines.
.The Dutch preached at the democratic conference that the aborigines would be assassinated directly 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 caused the Han people who had originally defected to the Netherlands to plan rebellions one by one. Now the situation has reached a critical point. If Zhao Han does not move the army, fighting will begin in Tainan, and the result will definitely be a massacre of the Han people.
Taiwan.
Zhang Xianzhong is in Taipei, Sun Kewang is in Taoyuan, and Li Dingguo's garrison is 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 indigenous 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 sides 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 the Netherlands?"
Lin Chaofeng said: "We have negotiated several times, but we can't tell whose territory it is. The Dutch ghost always quibbles.
He insisted that it was not under the jurisdiction of Zhuluo County. I also sent people to organize peasant soldiers and peasant associations there, but the number of Han people was 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 registered households, we are the common people of the country! The red-haired ghosts plunder the villages and force the people to pay taxes. They 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 the battle 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 to reclaim wasteland and plant seeds next year.
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.
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Chikan City is Zheng Chenggong's Chengtian Mansion and the core of the Zheng family's rule over Taiwan.
At this time, there were more than 10,000 Han people living 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 by Li Dingguo to the south of Zhuluo County. There were hundreds of Han farmers there who had escaped from the Dutch rule and came to reclaim the wasteland, as well as an overpopulated aboriginal tribe.
The soldiers were ordered to cut down the trees and transport the grain and grass on the ships. After a few days, a large camp was built. Yuan Shizhong stayed in the camp to guard it, while Li Dingguo led people to explore the nearby situation.
When he came to the Beimen Township area of Taiwan in later generations, Li Dingguo grabbed the soil by the river and said happily: "This is very fertile. It is a good place to grow food."
Can the alluvial zone where rivers flow into the sea not have fertile soil?
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 Xiaochengshe, and they call themselves the Siraya tribe. There are not many people, only one or two thousand, and they do not farm well. They usually have to rely on fishing and hunting to make a living."
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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 could get along well with the scholars 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 have moved here, and each person can cultivate thirty acres of land, and they 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 barbaric land. As long as you cultivate it 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.
At the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, a large number of soldiers were moved with their families to Yunnan, Guizhou, Gannan, Northeast China, and even to the grasslands north of Yanshan. There may be complaints, but the soldiers were very obedient.
Li Dingguo said: "Don't wait for your family to come, let's do it now!"
Soldiers carried axes and went out to both sides of the two rivers to cut down trees and level the land. Those who did not have axes had to 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.