Mai Dahai's escort fleet missed the time to rendezvous with the Xinxing and Haihun due to a typhoon, so when Yin Feng and his party arrived at sea, there was no escort fleet.
Before leaving the coast of Zhejiang, the Xinxing had been following behind. Although several ships of the Songhai Navy were single-masted, they were familiar with the coastal water conditions and could always take a detour to reach the Xinxing along the coastal waterways of countless islands in eastern Zhejiang. Nearby, finally, the Xinxing sailed towards the open sea. Those flat-bottomed sailboats of the Zhejiang Navy could not go out to the ocean, so they had to look at the ocean and sigh.
The Xinxing diverted the naval vessels away, and the Sea Spirit quickly headed south without any hindrance.
Yin Feng looked at the Taiwan Strait in front of him from the bow of the ship, thinking about his trip to the mainland.
Suddenly, a pleasant sound of pipa came to his ears. Yin Feng stood at the bow of the boat and listened for a moment. The song he heard was "Haiqing takes the swan", which was played by Mei Xinlan that day at Nanjing Danyan Book Apartment. The song he listened to.
Yin Feng walked slowly to the back cabin, and all the watching sailors dispersed. Mei Xinlan, wearing a silk shirt, sat on the side of the ship outside the wheelhouse, immersed in the sound of her own music.
"The girl plays so well. It's a pity that I couldn't finish listening to it in Jinling that day. Now when I hear this piece of music on the sea, I feel like the sea and the sky are filled with the sound of geese. The girl's music is so expressive!"
Mei Xinlan looked up when she heard the voice, and quickly stood up to salute. Yin Feng raised his hand to block her: "No need to be polite, how is Miss Tang's health?"
Mei Xinlan replied softly: "Sister Tang suffered too much. She was frightened when she came out of Jinling, and she had a lot of travel and travel along the way... Now she is just a little better and can sit up and drink porridge."
Yin Feng nodded: "That's good, take good care of her, Miss Mei. This time we go boating to Taiwan, we won't be able to return to Jinling in a short time. Do you have any family members you care about there? I can send someone to pick them up." …”
Mei Xinlan lowered her head, and her white neck was revealed in her long hair. She said lightly: "I have no family anymore. From now on, except for Sister Tang, the little girl will be alone."
Yin Feng sighed, turned and walked away... Mei Xinlan was considered a beauty, but not as beautiful as Zeng Qian, and not as quiet and elegant as Zeng Qian. Therefore, Mei Xinlan felt that Yin Feng, a sea hero, did not treat her very much. Although interested, she was slightly disappointed...
Yin Feng quietly returned to Taiwan Port without attracting anyone's attention. Zeng Qi, as the head of the administrative system, has been inspecting chicken coops in Tamsui, Taipei these days. Xu Xinsu is still in Japan, and wealthy businessmen such as Han's father and son and Huang Qian are also He went to Nanyang for trade matters. Only Lu Shitou, who was in charge of agricultural reclamation development, and Li Yue, who was in charge of the engineering and construction department, among the senior officials of the China Company, knew about Yin Feng's return.
Yin Feng brought two more women home, which caused a slight shock in the family. Fortunately, Yin Feng just let Mei Xinlan live outside the house as a music teacher for the family members of the company's top executives; because of Tang Xiaowan's poor background, Yin Feng The women in the family probably knew her, so they kept her as a maid.
The next day, Yin Feng issued an order without consulting anyone, which was later called the "Land Division Order":
All citizens of the Ming Dynasty who come to Taiwan, Luzon and other places, as long as they cultivate land for the company for free or work in factories for five years, can get ten acres of land within the territory controlled by the Chinese Company; after that, no matter what crops they cultivate, as long as they can If you cultivate for twenty consecutive years and pay a tax equal to one-fifth of the goods produced to the local government of the Chinese Company, you can obtain the ownership of the cultivated land and pass it on to future generations. Of course, you must also pay taxes to the Chinese company. The local management authorities of the company only need to pay taxes according to the actual size of the land. The land tax per mu is only 5 cents, which is equivalent to half of the land tax collected by the Ming Dynasty court during the same period.
Of course, if immigrants apply to join the Chinese Army, they can receive cash rewards for meritorious service, and can also receive land allotment after retirement. First, as tenants of the Chinese Company, they can obtain ownership after ten years and pass it on to their children and grandchildren.
In addition, the Chinese Army's preferential treatment system for military personnel has also been adjusted. Military families are exempted from land tax during their military service. After retirement, in addition to the land due to veterans, they can also pay half of the land tax; after military personnel open shops and factories after retirement,
Workshops can get tax reductions and exemptions.
Another detailed rule stipulates: After five years of unpaid labor, both workers and farmers can freely acquire land outside the area directly controlled by the China Company. As long as they pay taxes to the China Company, they can obtain this land.
The protection of the Chinese company’s armed forces caused a series of land conflicts between Han and Pan on the island of Taiwan, as well as a series of conflicts among indigenous people in the Luzon Islands and Ryukyu Islands.
Conflict with Han immigrants. After five years of working for the company, many immigrants from the mainland formed many pioneering groups based on fellow villagers and ethnic groups, or formed free groups, headed by veterans of the Chinese Army, and took the initiative to penetrate into various places.
The agricultural development department of the Chinese Company, headed by Lu Shitou, discovered this trend and began to use the organized armed forces of the Chinese Army as its backing to develop colonial settlements in indigenous settlements.
Organizing an immigration pioneering group, just a few years after the issuance of the "Land Divide Order", immigrants from the mainland have occupied almost all of Taiwan's east coast. The territory of the former Big Belly Country in central and western Taiwan has been divided up by immigrant villages dotted around it, and is even inaccessible.
Han lumberjacks have appeared in the mountains; in the Luzon Islands, the coolies and tenants of various business gangs' large plantations, estates, and tenants have fled to the company's property.
On the land below, after working for five years, they would join various voluntary organizations or pioneer groups organized by Chinese companies to fight for their own land. One of the consequences of this detailed rule in Luzon was that large groups in various places
After the manor was unable to obtain enough mainland immigrants as labor force, it began to rob, deceive, and abduct various indigenous residents from Southeast Asia to be used as slave labor in large numbers. This was completely beyond Yin Feng's expectations.
At the same time, the pioneering regiment organized by Yan Siqi's Nanyang Regiment sent troops and weapons, setting off a peak of Chinese immigration throughout Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Kalimantan and other islands.
After Yin Feng traveled in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, he discovered that the land issue was actually the central issue of the Ming Dynasty. He had to bow to the reality: in this era, there was no large industry that could absorb a large number of agricultural people, and the small peasant economy was
The vitality is far from being exhausted; therefore, in order to allow a large number of people from the mainland to immigrate, the land must be transferred to them.
They are opening up. The land sales policy on Luzon Island for wealthy businessmen and powerful people has actually encountered a bottleneck. Large tracts of land are uninterested. Those big domestic business gangs are not used to expanding their power overseas, and they are not used to the strict taxation of Chinese companies.
Management, in places such as Taiwan Island and Ryukyu Island, the land is strictly controlled by the Chinese Company. Now, whether it is the company's land or the company's direct
Anyone can develop the land outside the controlled area, and wealthy people can also invest in Chinese company farms, plantations, etc. Of course, these people must pay taxes to the Chinese company management authorities, regardless of their status or wealth.
, all must pay taxes. This is a rule Yin Feng set when the Chinese Company occupied Taiwan in the early days. Of course, the main income of the Chinese Company is
The income is the income from product trade, and the land tax is only half of the land tax stipulated by the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, because the Chinese company does not pay attention to land tax, it focuses on the sales revenue of agricultural products, and does not need to support so many officials, so there are no excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes except land tax.
, and there is no free corvee assigned by the government, and all the company's infrastructure is built using hired workers.
As soon as this policy of the China Company came out, the attractiveness of the land and trade profits was unparalleled, and it was simply a fatal temptation. The former was aimed at the farmers in the mainland, and the latter was aimed at the wealthy businessmen in the mainland.
Yin Feng asked several ink movable type printing factories in Taiwan to run at full capacity and printed a large number of leaflets about Taiwan, Luzon and the sub-territory order, and then distributed them to Huaxing joint stores, Huaxing banks and banks across the country, through local organizations Use your connections to publish these flyer information.
After all, population mobility in this era is not large, and information is blocked and information circulation is difficult, so these messages are widely circulated in coastal provinces. Even so, at the end of this year, Chen Dong, the clerk in charge of immigration work, has already shouted that he is busy But now, immigrants from Liaodong, Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places have been arriving spontaneously and organizedly. The number has reached 1,000 people every day. On the highest day, there were 2,000 people in Taiwan. They landed from all over the island, and this does not include the number of immigrants who spontaneously smuggled themselves to Taiwan, and the management of the Chinese company cannot count the number of immigrants.
Land and commercial profits are huge temptations that ordinary people cannot resist. From this year, the forty-second year of Wanli, the end of 1614 in the Western calendar, hundreds of branches of Chinese companies in various places turned into organizations almost at the same time. Immigration agencies.
By the end of the year, the number of mainland immigrants under the jurisdiction of the China Company officially exceeded 1 million. Adding in the Han people who spontaneously immigrated to various places, as well as the indigenous residents from various places who submitted to the rule of the China Company, the population controlled by the China Company had reached more than 2.2 million.
In the first month of the forty-third year of Wanli, the first large-scale immigration fleet set off for Southeast Asia. Under the protection of the Second Fleet's main battleship Fei Zi, ten three-masted Fuchuan gunboats, and ten two-masted clippers , there were as many as 150 various sea-going ships, carrying a total of 20,000 Chinese immigrants to various regions in Southeast Asia to develop colonies.
During the same period, the three major fleets gathered four Feizi and fifty or sixty other warships, gathered on the coast of Guangdong, and began to sweep the coasts of Guangdong and Hainan Island. Yin Feng was prepared to completely control the country's maritime territory in his own hands and would not allow No other pirate armed forces exist.
At the same time, Zhang Fenglai, deputy envoy of the Fujian Coast Guard, issued a document calling for the abolition of the Kinmen Inspection Division. This was obviously directed at the China Company. Everyone knows that the Kinmen Inspection Division is stationed with the Chinese Navy’s First Squadron. In the name of the Kinmen Inspection Division He appears to be an official of the imperial court, but actually he is a member of the China Company.
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In the first month, Zeng Qi, the Han family's father and son, An Heping, who had been busy in Luzon, Xu Xinsu, who was stationed in Satsuma, Japan, to collect debts, Huang Cheng, who was managing commercial trade in the mainland, and others all returned to Taiwan. Yin Feng summoned almost all members of the board of directors. , as well as senior military personnel such as Zhao Tie, Mai De, Ye Hua, etc., held a decisive meeting to determine the future direction of the Chinese company,