As for the future administrative planning of Taiwan Region or Taiwan Province, although some senators have already made plans for fifteen counties and two special cities based on the settings of the old time and space, in fact in Taiwan in 1632, the Senate only set up one
Kaohsiung Special City is also organized into an agricultural reclamation brigade. Generally speaking, the Kaohsiung City Government governs the urban area, and the brigade governs areas outside the urban area.
At the end of the plan, a separate chapter is listed to describe the relevant settings "serving the elders", such as the Kenting elders' villa area, the Sun Moon Lake elders resort, the Beitou elders hot spring resort and other special projects. Of course, this is purely to attract people.
I have a good impression. It is hard to say whether these places will become "familiar places" in twenty years. The Alishan area will actually have tourist value only after the mountain climbing railway was built during the Japanese occupation. He is writing this now just to paint a picture for the Senate.
Just a big cake.
Although he was painting a pie, he also got an enthusiastic response from Comrade Wei Bachi. When it came to pie, he was more professional and more ambitious than Guan Shanyue in painting the pie, so that in every meeting, everyone spent one-third of the time talking.
Listening to his description of the "Taiwan Development Plan", Guan Shanyue is not disgusted with this. Who doesn't have some dreams? Besides, this plan is indeed well written.
When it comes to agricultural development specifically, Guan Shanyue is much more realistic. The theme of this landing in Taiwan is Operation Engine. In a sense, it is because in order to engage in Operation Engine, a large-scale transshipment base is needed, and the development of Taiwan will be mentioned.
Being on the agenda is essentially the same thing as the action of occupying Jeju.
Under this premise, "development" is only for the purpose of "transferring refugees", resettling some refugees, and engaging in agricultural production. To be honest, the attention given to agricultural reclamation is very limited. Guan Shanyue looked at the specific task list.
Obviously the "construction" component is larger. It includes the new urban area and several large refugee camps, quarantine camps and docks.
Agricultural development will only start after the engine operation is running stably. He does not need to do the initial work of overcoming obstacles and opening up the base. This is all the work of Hong Laojun and Shi Dafu, the veterans of construction engineering. Wait until they will
Only after the wharf is built and the road is opened can the agricultural reclamation brigade led by him officially land. This will save a lot of effort. Guan Shanyue still remembers the past events of D-Day and does not want to relive these things again.
Reclamation in subtropical areas is a waste of time and money, especially when there is a lack of medical treatment. From a health point of view, the ideal place to live in undeveloped tropical and subtropical areas is obviously the seaside. This has been the case since ancient times.
The experiences summarized by countless colonists in their lives,
Although cities can be built on the seaside, the seaside is not suitable for agriculture. The invasion of the coast by sea tides and the salty brine of groundwater severely restrict the development of agriculture. In the old days, the seawall in Tainan was finally completed during the Japanese occupation period.
After this, the coastal area entered the era of large-scale agricultural development.
With the current capabilities of the Senate, building a seawall is nothing more than a foolish dream. Therefore, after many consultations and information searches, the Agriculture Committee will place Kaohsiung's agricultural production in the Kaoping River Basin-formerly known as Xiadanshui River. The reason why
It is called Gaoping River because in the old days it was the administrative boundary river between Kaohsiung and Pingtung.
Xiadanshui River is the second largest river in Taiwan. Although it is only 171 kilometers long, its drainage area exceeds 3,000 square kilometers and has abundant water. It was the main source of industrial, agricultural and domestic water in Kaohsiung and Pingtung in the old days.
In the history of agricultural development in Tainan, Fujian immigrants first started agricultural development in the Kaohsiung area. They opened up wasteland for farming and could not produce excess food to supply other places in the short term. However, tens of thousands of acres of wasteland were opened up every year.
There is no problem in making Kaohsiung region self-sufficient in food.
The specific location is the Fengshan Niaosong Daliao area in the old time and space. There is a clearing lake here that can be used for irrigation. The clearing lake was formerly called Dabei Lake. There is also a Xiaobei Lake on the east side that can adjust the water volume. There is a Fenghuang Lake on the south side.
Water can be obtained from mountain streams.
However, before the completion of Caogongzhen in 1837, the output here had to depend on the weather and was very unstable. Therefore, if you want to develop agriculture, you have to allow the Caogongzhen water conservancy facility to appear two hundred years in advance. In the late 19th century, there were already irrigated paddy fields in this area.
It is clearly recorded that: 6,500 hectares, the grain harvested in a normal year in the 19th century could feed 350 million people.
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As for the shortcomings, it is that this agricultural development zone is somewhat remote from the urban area of Kaohsiung. It is difficult for the navy and army stationed in Kaohsiung to effectively defend this area, and must have corresponding self-protection capabilities.
"If we can do peaceful reclamation, we can just build a few farms. What else do we need to do with the reclamation corps? This is the advantage of armed reclamation."
To "deepen the barrenness", health issues must be put on the agenda. Whether it was Yan Siqi's inauguration, Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, the large-scale reclamation of the Qing Dynasty, or even the early days of the Japanese occupation, the raging of various infectious diseases was the main factor affecting Taiwan's development.
factor. It was also one of the main factors why the Senate initially denied Taiwan’s opening.
Both Yan Siqi and Zheng Chenggong died soon after living in Taiwan. Although there were some other reasons, the most important factor was "acclimatization". Although the historical data about their illnesses at the time of death are unknown, modern medical research is likely that they were
Died due to infection with certain subtropical epidemics.
Traditional records of Taiwan are often described as a ferocious place with miasma, and many people who come from afar for the first time often die of illness. "Records of Maritime Observations" tells that when Zheng Chenggong, the country's surname, conquered Taiwan, his soldiers "arrived for the first time, but the water and soil were not suitable for them, and epidemics and diseases broke out."
, Seventy-eight out of ten people are sick, and many people have died.”
According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, there was a saying of "ten departures, six deaths, three stays, and one return" when going to Taiwan. Among these "six deaths", except for a few who died in conflicts with the aborigines, most of them died in
Various diseases. Even in the 19th century, Taiwan's degree of development had greatly improved, but the mortality rate after entering Taiwan remained high.
During the Sino-French War, Liu Mingchuan, a famous general of the Huai Army, guarded the Keelung area in northern Taiwan. He wrote a letter reporting that "the land is smoky, windy, rainy, and cold from time to time. The soldiers and ministers went to the front of the enemy, and one-tenth of those who died in the battle died from the miasma and epidemic."
Four or five out of ten, those who are lucky enough to survive will live their remaining lives in a miserable state, as if they were reincarnated."
The Peony Society Incident in 1874: The Japanese army landed in Pingtung, Taiwan and stayed for more than seven months. With superior strength and equipment, more than 3,000 Japanese troops easily defeated the Taiwanese aborigines. Only 12 people died in battle, but 561 died of illness.
At the same time, the Qing government also dispatched the 13th Huai Army Horse Battalion to station in Taiwan. The injuries and illnesses within one year were also very serious. In the end, they had to return within the next year. According to Shen Baozhen's report: Qing soldiers buried in Taiwan
Nearly two thousand people. One hundred and ten civil and military officials died during the period, of which only six were killed in action. Three named admirals of the Huai Army all died of illness in Taiwan.
With such a terrible disease mortality rate, unless the Senate already had a considerable pharmaceutical industry and a full understanding of the principles of disease onset and prevention, large-scale colonization of Taiwan would be an extremely risky operation.
According to the estimation of the Ministry of Health, malaria is the most difficult disease to deal with among various epidemic diseases in Taiwan. Not only is it difficult to prevent, but it is also difficult to effectively treat it based on the current medical level of the Senate.
Guan Shanyue had contributed a lot to the manufacturing and debugging of equipment during the preparation and production stages of the pharmaceutical factory. He was familiar with the elders of the pharmaceutical factory. He knew that the sanitary port could be used to treat malaria, in addition to the drugs brought from the old time and space.
It is the quinine bark from the New World imported from the Portuguese. Whether it is the former or the latter, the quantity is far from meeting the demand. Although the experiment of artemisinin extraction has been successful, there is still a raw material business for mass production.
The prerequisite for chemical cultivation and chemical extraction agent manufacturing is that it can only be regarded as being put on the agenda.
He is particularly concerned about this issue because farming has to be settled in barren inland areas, rather than on "relatively hygienic" seashores. Without medicine, inland settlements will soon be wiped out by malaria. This is very common in Africa and
The history of colonization in the Americas is full of examples.
According to the report of Haitian Hao, the Tainan Plain is still in an undeveloped state, with dense pools, lush vegetation, and mosquitoes. Mosquito nets, anti-mosquito hats, and anti-mosquito protective clothing are all necessary. Medicines are also necessary, even if there is no anti-microbial agent
Malaria medicine, at least some mosquito repellent.
But mosquito repellents are also hard to find. In the old days, there were mainly two lines of mosquito repellent products, one was pyrethroids; the other was DEET (N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide).
Also known as DEET, it is the main ingredient in mosquito repellent and insect repellent products in supermarkets in the old world. After being diluted with water to different concentrations, it can effectively prevent mosquito bites.
However, after he went to the pharmaceutical factory and talked with Dr. Qi, he discovered that they could not yet chemically synthesize pyrethroids. They had adopted a technical route of large-scale planting of pyrethroids and then extraction. Needless to say, the cost was high, and the yield was still low.
Can't come up. And the synthesis of DEET is limited to laboratory conditions, with limited scale and high cost. Under Guan Shanyue's persuasion, Dr. Qi still agreed to try to help synthesize something. But Datou had already thought about it.
, you can’t rely on others, you should go to the Minister of Agriculture to get some seeds and seedlings first, establish a settlement and then plant them yourself. By then, a new pharmaceutical factory will be built in Taiwan, focusing on plant extracts, and using modern science to transform traditional
Traditional Chinese medicine may lead to a new path for traditional Chinese medicine.
The two crops he chose were quinine, which itself is a subtropical/tropical crop. In the old days, it was mainly introduced in Yunnan. The Committee of Agriculture also introduced it in the southern mountainous area of Lingao, although it has not yet formed a large-scale plantation.
, but seedlings have been cultivated. Although there is no introduction record in Taiwan, the water and heat conditions should be more suitable than in Hainan. He is confident that he can grow quinine.