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After all, immigrating to Luzon is also risky, and one who is not acclimatized may die.

It's a pity that everyone in the countryside has land, and those who don't have land have already immigrated to the north, and even the encouragement of pioneering cannot be encouraged.

Brothers Lin Yingwen and Lin Congwen came to their hometown and called the elders.

They offer extremely favorable conditions, provide travel expenses, provide seeds, and you can divide the land when you go to Luzon, and as long as you can grow it, it doesn't matter how much you plant, and you can also recruit indigenous people to become big landlords.However, few responded.

"I know Luzon, that place is far away."

"I heard that there is miasma in Luzon, and if you enter the forest, you will die."

"My family's land is enough, and we can earn some income by weaving. It's not bad to buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar."

"..."

After several days of tossing, the brothers only recruited three villagers.

When they returned to the city, they saw a large number of citizens arguing in front of the imperial edict.

Many of these citizens do not know how to farm, and they work in the city to make a living.At this moment, many people are tempted. Even if they don't know how to farm, they can recruit native tenants and landlords!

Ninety-nine percent of the first batch of civilian immigrants to Luzon were urbanites!

Especially those idlers, Zhao Han ordered the magistrates to crack down on gangsters.They were cut off from their sources of income and refused to work honestly. Now they finally have the opportunity to go out and make a living.

Chapter 503 [Water An's]

According to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, both Fujian and Guangdong have more than 400 million people.

However, Fujian has a Taiwan prefecture, and Guangdong has a Qiongzhou prefecture (Hainan Island).A large number of landless people from Fujian and Guangdong were immigrated to the coastal areas of Taiwan and Hainan Island for reclamation.

The cost of this kind of immigration is not high, just go there by boat.

In the first year, the land is often directly burned, and the primitive agricultural technology of slash-and-burn farming is very effective in reclaiming raw land.It doesn't take much effort to cut down trees, and the ash left by burning wasteland can also be used as fertilizer to nourish crops.

In the central and northern regions of Taiwan Island alone, more than 60 Han Chinese have settled down one after another—6 or [-] of them were immigrated by Zheng Zhilong when he was a pirate.

Taking into account the population who immigrated to Taiwan and the coastal port cities, there are actually only about 200 million farmers left in the vast Fujian countryside.

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

The development level of Hainan Island is much higher than that of Taiwan Island.The number of registered Han Chinese and Shu Li exceeded 100 million. Most of the Han immigrants came to the island during the Ming Dynasty.The ancestors of these Han people, about 30 to 50, were organized by the Ming government to emigrate, and many of them were military households and exiled prisoners.

This time, Zhao Han announced to the world that he used policies to encourage overseas development. In addition to many street thieves, there were also a large number of merchants who heard the news.

After they came to Luzon, they were told the principle of development when they settled down, and they were not allowed to snatch the territory of friendly indigenous tribes.

The so-called goodwill tribes are tribes that followed the Datong Army and attacked Manila together.There are also tribes that quietly accepted and protected Chinese survivors after the Tu Hua incident.

These tribes have been registered one after another.

At the same time, the coastal area on the west side of Luzon Island is divided into five administrative regions, and five magistrates are appointed to manage them.The pioneering areas of the Han people all 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 to swallow the entire Luzon Island, but in fact it can only control the western coastal area, and 80% of the island is still in the hands of the indigenous people.

Wan Zhaoan, who brought more than 2000 Chinese refugees and attacked Spanish plantations everywhere, has now become a plantation owner.He was allocated a tobacco plantation by drawing lots, and the girl he saved halfway was also taken as his concubine.

One wife, one concubine, one father-in-law, the whole family has more than 200 mu of land, and there are 13 natives as tenants for them.

They are all serfs left by the Spaniards. They are very good at growing tobacco, but no one likes to be lazy.

Wan Zhaoan called the tenants together, took out the employment contract and said: "Come and press your fingerprints. I will temporarily divide the tobacco plantation into 13 pieces of land and lease them to you for cultivation. The tobacco grown every year will be paid by us." Come and sell, [-]% of the money will go to me, and [-]% to yourselves. If you want to make more money, just farm the land honestly for me!"

The native tenants are used to working as serfs, so they don't know what tenant rent is, so they just press their fingerprints in a daze.

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

To really make them work hard, they have to harvest the tobacco.

When the time comes, call everyone 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 enough to leave [-]% to the tenants.

The real traditional landlords will not give the tenants a share at all, but directly set the rent quota.Even in the event of natural disasters and no harvests, the tenants have to pay the rent in full according to the quota.

Wan Zhaoan didn't think about exploiting the native tenants hard, because he was thinking about making the cake bigger.

There are four members of the family, and they have not yet occupied 400 mu of land. It is a waste of manpower for 13 tenants to plant more than 200 mu of land.After all, this is a tobacco plantation, unlike grain farming, it is easy for a tenant to plant 10 mu of land.

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

The first generation of Luzon Han people who settled down 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, and light taxes are levied on growing grain, etc.—Don’t think about filing taxes indiscriminately, the number of Han people is too small, and the land of Han people is also small, and officials can see everything when they go to the countryside.

Zheng Guozhong, who was sent to Nanjing and was in charge of negotiations, was promoted to the governor of Luzon, and he was promoted several levels at once.

That black buddy, Tie Hong, became the first Luzon General Soldier.

In Luzon, where trade has been cut off for more than half a year, countless merchants came to Manila with a backlog of goods.Then after hearing the news, another swarm of goods was shipped to Cebu Island, and the goods were sold to the Spaniards and shipped to the Americas for sale.

Cebu Island has become a new commercial center in Southeast Asia, while Manila has become a transit point for Chinese maritime merchants.

In the winter of that year, a news spread widely: Luzon is rich in gold!

In coastal prefectures and counties of the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang, many traditional landowners whose land had been confiscated and who had a lot of money could not sit still after hearing this news.They recruited their own people and organized a trip to the southeast of Luzon Island, occupying land while panning for gold.

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

It was not until there were more than 3000 gold diggers that Luzon Governor Zheng Guozhong requested to set up a sixth county here.

Luzon is the first gold-producing country in East Asia, and the gold mines discovered at this time are all in the southeast of the island.Moreover, mainly sands have been scoured for hundreds of years, and the output 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 news that there was not much gold produced there.

The real large-scale gold mine is still in the territory of the indigenous people, who knows when it will be discovered!

However, the Luzon copper mine was taken over by the government due to its large scale, and the governor was ordered to organize manual mining.

……

Turn back the time to June.

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

Even, this guy sent his seventh son to Taiyuan to make friends with Li Zicheng.

In a word, Gushi Khan is friendly with everyone, and he only wants to be the local emperor in Qinghai and Tibet.

Since Gushi Khan promised to surrender, Zhao Han didn't want to cause trouble, so he sent an envoy to canonize him as King of Shunyi.When he freed his hand, Gushi Khan broke out internal conflicts again, and it would not be too late to recover Qinghai and Tibet.

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

The entire Guizhou, which nominally belonged to the puppet court of Yunnan, was actually ruled by Chieftain An Rupan.

However, it is impossible for An Rupan to sweep Guizhou.His way of unifying Guizhou is to entrust the small chieftains and make the big chieftains himself.There were more than 20 chieftains in southern Guizhou, who listened to both the Yunnan court and An Rupan, but they might not listen to anyone.

Guiyang.

An Rupan was furious: "It's okay if the chieftain of Pu'an (Pan County) didn't come, after all, it's very far away. Why didn't Wolong, Dalong, Jinshifan, and Pingzhou Six Caves come? Gathering troops for a month, but still If we don't get together, the puppet bandits will almost kill Guiyang!"

The two divisions of the Datong Army in Sichuan, one led by Huang Yao, fought from Xuyong to Chishui, and the other led by Fei Yinggong, went straight from Zunyi to Guiyang.

The two divisions in Guangxi also entered the southeastern part of Guizhou.

When the puppet imperial court in Yunnan received a request for help, they adopted a strategy of holding back their troops. Mu Tianbo did not send troops at all, because he was suppressing the chieftain's rebellion.

And An Rupan, the lord of Guizhou, ordered to gather troops, and only 4 people gathered for a month.

The Yanglongkeng was easily breached by Fei Yinggong's troops, and after bombarding it with artillery for a long time, the defenders directly chose to surrender.Continuing to the south, the Daming Qianhu from the Xifeng Station watched the wind and descended, and Fei Yinggong attacked Zha Zuosi within a month.

In a certain time and space, this is Wang Yuan's hometown, and not far from it is the Longchang Station where Wang Yangming enlightened.

Zhazuosi is the territory of the Shuidong Song family, a chieftain family that has been Sinicized to the point of madly producing poets.In name, they returned to obedience like a pan, but when they met the Datong army, they surrendered in a hurry.

Continuing to the south, it is the lair of the Shuidong Song family.

An Rupan was afraid that the Song family would surrender, so he personally led the army to take down the village first, put all the elders of the Song family under house arrest, and recruited more than 3000 Song family soldiers by the way.

Finally, Fei Yinggong led his troops to kill.

[-] regular soldiers, [-] peasant soldiers, and [-] peasant troops surrounded Song's Lianhuan Village from front to back.

These are two villages, connected by a valley in the middle, they can support each other at any time, and there is also a Song family's Beiya that is built like a palace.

On the outskirts of the two stockades, each has half the troops, dragging out the artillery and starting to bombard it.

"Boom boom boom!"

When An Rupan heard the thundering cannons outside, he felt terrified. It would be over sooner or later if this bombardment continued.

He has more than 4 people in his hands, and he has pulled 2 to come here, and another [-] are guarding Guiyang.There are also more than [-] Shuixi elites. Due to the difficult mountain roads, they gathered directly in Chishui and Bijie to guard against Huang Yao's front army there.

If the Guangxi friendly army knew the situation, they would definitely envy the Sichuan soldiers, because it was so easy to fight.

An Rupan didn't drill into the mountains, but mobilized troops to defend the city. Siege warfare is much easier than guerrilla warfare.

A soldier climbed over the mountain and came down from the cliff on the east side of the stockade.

"My lord, the young master said that there will be a night attack tonight!"

"it is good!"

An Rupan was overjoyed.

The enemy went so far as to divide their troops to attack the two villages, and the defenders of the two villages could move troops at will through the valley.Coupled with his son An Kun, the army transferred from Guiyang will surely be able to respond to the night attack from inside and outside, and wipe out all the Datong army that was separated!

Fei Yinggong was sitting in the camp, and the spies who came from white soldiers also rushed in to report: "General, there are enemy troops in the south. They didn't take the official road, they went over the mountain and took the path, and they are hiding in the valley a few miles to the south. inside."

Fei Yinggong couldn't help laughing: "I was planning to leave the empty battalion and dispatch troops to surprise Guiyang. I didn't expect the enemy from Guiyang to surprise me."

Chapter 504 [Native chicken tile dog]

An Rupan's ancestor was the famous Mrs. Shexiang.

When the Shui'an clan was at its peak, it claimed to have 40 soldiers.There were two rebellions before and after, both of which were cleared up by Daming, and part of the territory was also reformed and returned.

The Song clan in Shuidong declined even more. When She Chongming rebelled, the An and Song clans could combine [-] troops to attack Guiyang.

A few days ago, An Rupan tried to lead his troops out of the village.

A total of more than 3000 people, taking advantage of Fei Yinggong's retreat, killed them unexpectedly in the evening.After a volley of guns, he collapsed directly, and almost lost the cottage because of it.

Fei Yinggong felt quite boring, let alone the soldiers of the Eight Banners, the native soldiers of Guizhou here were not even as good as the elite officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

He was too lazy to wait for the enemy to attack the camp. He continued to bombard the camp during the day, and the 2000 Datong army went out to continue besieging the city with farmers, soldiers, and peasants.The other 3000 Datong troops directly followed the trail and took the initiative to attack the enemy on the other side of the mountain.

An Kun is only in his teens this year. In history, this guy was persuaded by Hong Chengchou to surrender and became the pioneer of the Eight Banners soldiers.Wu Sangui was stuck at Qixing Pass, he hesitated to attack, and it was An Kun who took the lead in charging.An Kun also attacked the Nanming army everywhere, arrested anti-Qing righteous soldiers and escorted them to the Manchu Qing court.

Then, in order to expand the territory, Wu Sangui labeled An Kun as a rebel, and killed An Kun easily.

An Kun died, and after Mrs. Shexiang, Guizhou's second heroine came out.An Kun's widow, Rouyuan's wife, Lu Tianxiang, led the Shuixi Yi tribe to fight against Wu Sangui, and was canonized as a first-class wife by Kangxi.

"My lord, the enemy army is coming!"

An Kun, who was nestling in the ravine, waiting for the night raid, was shocked when he heard the news.

Since he planned to attack at night, he naturally sent out sentries all the way, and An Kun would definitely find out if the 3000 Datong army came to kill him.

An Kun asked, "How many enemy troops have come?"

The spy replied: "It looks like three or four thousand."

"It's really only three or four thousand?" An Kun was overjoyed after being shocked, drew his sword and shouted, "Follow me to kill the enemy, destroy the enemy army!"

He left 5000 people to guard Guiyang, and this time he brought [-] elites.

Eighteen thousand against three or four thousand, just ask how to lose?

An Kun obviously knows how to fight, and immediately issued various military orders.5000 people were separated from the left and right, and they climbed up the mountains to ambush, intending to besiege on three sides at a critical moment.

This mountain path is very narrow and can only accommodate two people standing side by side.

Three thousand Datong troops, dragged into a long snake, slowly marched forward.Of course, a search team of hundreds of people was sent to search the hillsides on both sides.

As they walked, the officer leading the troops ordered to stop, and even the search team stopped when they heard the whistle.

The terrain in front is very suitable for ambushes. Only when the general position of the enemy is known, the fool will lead the troops to continue.

When An Kun got the news, he immediately added in his mind: "These enemy troops must be going to attack Guiyang by surprise. We have been discovered, chase after them quickly, and don't let them escape!"

Eighteen thousand native soldiers, no longer hiding their tracks, rushed out of the mountains and valleys quickly.

The mountains and plains are full of enemies.