Capital Datang

After Li Yin came to Keelung, he immediately called officials from all levels of institutions and county magistrates of all counties in Taiwan to a meeting. In fact, it was not a big deal, but Li Yin wanted to learn more about the situation in various parts of Taiwan, and then make a general plan. The development plan strives to speed up the progress of Taiwan's construction. Only when Taiwan's local strength becomes stronger will it have more strength to develop outward.

Li Yin is still concurrently serving as the governor of Taiwan, but he only cares about the affairs of the governor in name only, and it is Cui Wei, who is appointed by him as the governor, who really manages Taiwan.The other party is the uncle of Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue, who can be regarded as a relative of Li Yin. In addition, he is a man of outstanding ability, who manages Taiwan in an orderly manner, and will carry out Li Yin's orders to the letter, so he is very popular. Li Yin's trust.

In addition to Cui Wei, there are also Zhu Meng, who is the chief of the police, and Chen Gong, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department. Both of them were originally Yang Yan's most trusted people. One is in charge of law and order, and the other is in charge of the conduct of the inspectorate officials. Moreover, these two departments were newly established by Li Yin, and their positions are very important.

Li Min summoned Cui Wei, Chen Gong, and Zhu Meng. In addition, some officials in charge of commerce, taxation, fishery administration, agriculture, etc., as well as officials in charge of counties, also attended the meeting.At the beginning of the meeting, Li Yin asked these officials to report to himself the work of their respective departments this year and the problems encountered in the work.

Taiwan is now divided into five counties: Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Taitung, and Penghu, which are much fewer than the counties in Taiwan Province in later generations. In addition, although the names of these five counties are the same as the names of counties in later generations of Taiwan, they are actually The area is much larger than later generations.Even apart from Penghu, the locations of the other four counties have undergone tremendous changes.Capital Datang 457

Take Taitung County as an example.Its location does not overlap with that of later generations, but includes all of Hualien County in the background.Most of Nantou County and part of Kaohsiung County.As for Taitung County in later generations, they were all included in Tainan County.

Now the number of Han Chinese in Taiwan has exceeded 50, and the number of slaves has exceeded 250 million.However, among the Han people, a considerable part of them are migrants, who are engaged in business or work, and often travel between Taiwan and the mainland. household registration.There are properties on both sides.

Today's Taiwan mainly relies on agriculture, fishery, food processing, and port trade as the main economic pillars. Among them, agriculture is mainly based on large plantations, and Tainan County is the most concentrated. There are large and small plantations and farms everywhere. It mainly grows sugarcane and rice, and also grows economic crops such as tea and stinky artemisia.According to Cui Wei's statistics, there are now more than 150 Han Chinese engaged in plantations in Taiwan, and the number of slaves in plantations is more than [-] million, making it the industry with the largest number of employees in Taiwan.

As for fishing.In Taiwan, fishing is entirely commercial. Most of the big fishers form their own fishing teams, and then carry out large-scale fishing with trawl nets. The fish obtained are directly sold to various processing factories.A very small part also flows into the fish markets in various cities in Taiwan for local people to buy and eat.

The plantation economy and commercial fishing have provided Taiwan with a large amount of industrial raw materials.Therefore, Taiwan Island is now full of various food processing factories, such as sugar factories.Brewery, fish drying factory, cannery, etc., these food processing factories range from small to large.From weak to strong, it has become one of Taiwan's major economic pillars.

As for the final port trade, Taiwan uses the natural advantages of its islands to vigorously develop the port trade in Keelung and Tainan. Countless goods are loaded and unloaded here every day, and the annual throughput of some ports is over hundreds of thousands of tons. The numbers are incomparable with those of later generations, but in the era of Datang, they are already astonishing.Therefore, port trade is also the most important economic pillar of Taiwan.

In addition to the above four economic pillars, Taiwan's textile industry is also developing very rapidly. After all, cotton cloth has become more and more accepted by overseas businessmen, and the export volume of cotton cloth has increased greatly. Taiwan is close to Nanyang, and a lot of cotton cloth passes through every day. Transit here, and at the same time, it also stimulates Taiwan's local textile industry, so it shows a thriving scene.

However, because the textile industry is an intensive industry that requires a large number of workers and is limited by the population of Taiwan, the textile industry has now reached a bottleneck. Now various textile owners are turning to the Academy of Sciences for help, hoping that they can improve the current situation. developed a new machine that reduces the manpower input of textile factories and increases work efficiency.

While the textile industry is developing rapidly, heavy industries such as shipyards, steel plants, and cement plants have also started. Especially shipyards and related industries, taking advantage of the advantages of major ports, are also developing extremely fast, but shipbuilding is a systematic project , All aspects need a certain amount of time to develop, but I believe that within a few years, Taiwan's shipbuilding industry will usher in a peak.

After learning the above situation from officials at all levels, Li Yin has a relatively comprehensive understanding of Taiwan's agriculture, commerce and industry, and generally speaking, all aspects are developing well, especially the most basic The development of agriculture in Taiwan is particularly fast. For example, 90.00% of Taiwan’s grain is already self-sufficient, and the rest can also be imported from Linyi, basically getting rid of the situation of importing from Datang.It is estimated that this is also because officials like Cui Wei are mostly Confucian children, influenced by the idea of ​​building a country with agriculture, so they pay special attention to agriculture.

"Cui Wei, I already have a general understanding of Taiwan's development. Now tell me about the difficulties Taiwan is facing, and then combine everyone's wisdom to see if you can come up with a solution." After digesting Taiwan's current situation, Li Yin said, Only then did he speak.

When Li Yin asked about the difficulties facing Taiwan, Cui Wei, Chen Gong and others all looked at each other with wry smiles, and then Cui Wei said: "His Royal Highness, there are indeed many difficulties facing Taiwan, but most of them have solutions. , but now we are facing the biggest difficulty, if this difficulty is not resolved, the development of Taiwan may stagnate, and it may even be left far behind by the major cities along the coast of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Yin heard Cui Wei's words, and looked at everyone's reaction, he had already guessed a thing or two in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Is it because of the population problem?"

"Your Highness is wise!" Cui Wei said with a wry smile, "The area of ​​Taiwan is more than half the size of Dengzhou, but the population of Dengzhou has already exceeded one million, but the population of Taiwan is less than that of Dengzhou. Half, in addition, His Royal Highness also needs to build various types of factories to meet the requirements that Taiwan can be self-sufficient in all aspects, which requires more population. However, although Datang does not prohibit us from introducing population, it is limited by various aspects. Our population growth is still too slow to meet all needs."

The population mentioned by Cui Wei refers to the Han population, and the slaves are not counted. After all, most of the slaves are concentrated in major plantations, and some are concentrated in factories. However, in the eyes of most people, these slaves are not It is considered a human being, but just a talking tool.

Li Yin nodded after hearing this. In fact, Taiwan's population growth rate is not slow now. This is mainly due to the population introduction measures implemented in various aspects of Taiwan. For example, taking agriculture as an example, as long as the people on the mainland are willing to come to Taiwan, they will immediately He can get a hundred acres of land, and if he is willing to spend some money, he can buy more land. The cheap land is like a free gift, and if any mineral deposits are found on these lands, they are all privately owned , the "government" will only collect some taxes during development.

It is also worth mentioning that Taiwan has no agricultural tax from the very beginning, that is to say, the output on the personal land belongs to the individual, but if you sell the output on the land, you have to pay a tax. It is a disguised agricultural tax. After all, Taiwan’s agriculture is a large plantation economy, and the output is sold, so almost everyone has to pay taxes.

In addition to agriculture, there are similar preferential regulations in industry and commerce. In particular, Li Yin also abolished various exorbitant taxes in industry and commerce, and at the same time separated the right to collect taxes from the "government" department, and established the A tax court specialized in tax collection has been set up to collect taxes in a unified manner. For example, the goods that leave the factory will be paid a unified tax when they leave the factory.

It is also through the above-mentioned various preferential conditions for the agricultural, industrial and commercial industries, as well as improvements in laws, public security, and the environment, that more and more people come to settle in Taiwan, but Taiwan is developing too fast. All walks of life need people, so the growth of the population still cannot meet the demand.Capital Datang 457

Thinking of the above, Li Yin smiled at Cui Wei and officials at all levels: "Now the total number of households in the country according to our Datang statistics is more than 300 million, and there are about 1000 million people. The missing households have not been counted, so according to my estimation, the total population of our Datang should be more than 2000 million, and now we have spent three years, and we have already had a population of 50. If this is placed in Datang , it’s already a place in Shangzhou, so don’t think that the current population is small, this king is very respectful of the current population growth and everyone’s efforts!”

Li Yin settled the accounts for everyone, and by the way, praised everyone present, which made Cui Wei and the others very excited. They stroked their beards and smiled complacently.

But at this time, Li Yin went on to say: "As for the population problem, everyone is also very anxious, and this king is also yiyàng, but after thinking about it for a while, I have already thought of a good way to introduce the population from the Tang Dynasty!" (To be continued.)