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Taiwan.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Taiwan was called "Daoyi";

The Qin Dynasty called Taiwan "Yingzhou";

During the Three Kingdoms period, Taiwan was called "Yizhou";

The Sui Dynasty to the present day (in fact, all the way to the Yuan Dynasty) calls Taiwan "Liuqiu".

During the Xia and Shang period, Taiwan belonged to Yangzhou in Kyushu.

Taiwan's written history dates back to 230 AD.

During the Three Kingdoms period, King Sun Quan of Wu sent generals Wei Wen and Zhuge Zhi to lead a fleet of more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 30 ships to Taiwan, which was the beginning of the development of Taiwan by the residents of Chinese mainland with advanced cultural knowledge.

Shen Ying's "Chronicles of Linhai and Soil" by Shen Ying, the Taishou of Danyang of the Eastern Wu of the Three Kingdoms, recorded in detail the production and life forms of Taiwan at that time, and is the earliest account of Taiwan in the world.

During the Sui Dynasty, contacts between the mainland and Taiwan began to increase.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent Zhu Kuan, Chen Ling and others to Taiwan three times.

In the late Tang and early Song dynasties of the ninth and tenth centuries, Han Chinese began to settle in Penghu.

Today, Taiwan is the fourth county in Shuipo Yangsan after Jeju County (Jeju Island), Lelang County, and Jinban County.

What?

If the huge Taiwan is said to be Li Yan's, it will become Li Yan's?

To be honest, Li Yan didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

Speaking of which, this incident still stems from an incident that Hu Cheng reported to Li Yan after returning from going to Fuzhou to sell glass and soap: "When we came back, we encountered a rare gale, and several boats were blown to Liuqiu, but fortunately they came back by themselves later, otherwise there would be a lot of losses." ”

After the description of Hu Cheng and others, Li Yan immediately understood that the so-called liuqiu was Taiwan, and then thought of the importance of Taiwan.

Some people may not understand, what is important about Taiwan?

Taiwan faces the mainland across the Taiwan Strait to the west.

If Li Yan occupied Taiwan, with the powerful naval army of Shuibo Liangshan, Li Yan could casually attack the southeastern coastal areas of the Song State, including Lin'anfu (later Hangzhou), the future capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Therefore, if Li Yan starts a war with the Song State in the future, the garrison on Taiwan can be regarded as a surprise soldier, a surprise soldier who directly penetrates the heart of the Song State.

At that time, Li Yan could still flank the Song State from the north and south.

When the Jin State attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou had taken refuge at sea, and if the opponent was Li Yan from Taiwan, he might be able to complete the beheading and capture of Zhao Gou at once.

In short, if Li Yan has Taiwan, then if he starts a war with the Song State, the strategic room for maneuver of the Liangshan Army will be greatly increased.

Of course, at present, Taiwan's greater role is not military, but economic.

If Li Yan wants to develop the economy, he must engage in foreign trade, because this is the most profitable.

But Li Yan's territory was too remote, only next to Goryeo and Japan, and Goryeo and Japan did not trade with Li Yan on a large scale.

Therefore, Li Yan is bound to trade with others.

But it was too far to go from Li Yan's territory to other places, including to the Song Kingdom - it would take more than a month to come and go, to say the least.

And if Li Yan has Taiwan, it will be different, not to mention, Li Yan's trade with the Great Song Dynasty is suddenly countless times closer, and Li Yan can even trade with Southeast Asia in the future.

Of course, if it really comes to that moment, Li Yan will inevitably have to occupy Hainan Island, because it will be more convenient.

But that's all for later, at present, Li Yan's biggest trading partner is still the wealthy Song State.

And as long as there is Taiwan, Li Yan can trade with the Song State casually - if it is fast, he will trade once every five or seven days.

Thinking of Taiwan's benefits, Li Yan immediately dispatched troops.

It didn't take long for the Fourth Infantry Army, the Seventh Infantry Army, the Eighth Infantry Army, the Eleventh Infantry Army, the Twelfth Infantry Army (commander Li Zong, deputy commander Xie Zhen), and the Thirteenth Infantry Army (commander Shi Xiu, deputy commander Xie Bao. Wait for 30,000 infantry troops to reach Yangkou Port.

The Twelfth Army and the Thirteenth Army are newly established mountain armies, these two armies are basically composed of excellent hunters, good at mountain warfare, reconnaissance, pathfinding, climbing mountains, arson, sneak attacks, in order to form these two armies, Li Yan ordered to select people from the entire Liangshan Army, and even selected some from the prisoners, when selecting the leader, Li Yan read the information of all the generals, and finally selected his own son Li Zong and the bold and careful Shi Xiu.

By the way, in order not to affect the deployment of troops on the Goryeo side, Li Yan set up the 14th Infantry Army, led by Luan Yanyu, the deputy leader Li Yan's righteous son Li Hu, the 15th Infantry Army, the commander Deng Yuanjue, and the deputy leader Li Yan's righteous son Li Meng, these two infantry armies were all composed of Han soldiers, and as soon as they were established, they were transferred to Goryeo to replace the position of the Seventh Infantry Army and the Eighth Infantry Army. Zou Run's uncle and nephew took the positions of Lu Fang and Guo Sheng, and became Hu Yanqing and Ou Peng's deputies.

In addition to the infantry army, Li Yan also dispatched the Ma First Army and the Ma Fifth Army, plus Li Yan's personal guards, a total of 7,500 horse troops.

Ma Wujun is Li Yan's newly established Ma Army - commander Hua Rong, deputy leader Sun Li and Li Yan's righteous son Li Chou, one of the battalions of the Ma Fifth Army is drawn from the Ma First Army, this battalion of the Ma Army is the skeleton of the Ma Fifth Army, the officers of the Ma Fifth Army are all from this battalion, and the other four battalions of the Ma Army, one battalion is a well-reformed former official army horse army selected from the official army prisoners, and one battalion is a well-reformed former Goryeo horse army selected from the Goryeo captives, and the remaining two battalions are Hua Rong, Sun Li, Li Chou carefully selected the most outstanding ones from the reserve of the 30,000 horse army, and then disorganized these four battalions of horse army to form the flesh and blood of the horse fifth army.

As for the battalion of Ma Yijun's lack, the Ma Army was also selected from the prisoners of the official army, the prisoners of the Goryeo Army and the reserves of the Liangshan Horse Army, and the deputy leader of the Ma Yijun was missing, Li Yan did not have a suitable candidate in his hands for the time being, so Li Yan did not make up for Ma Yijun.

As for the navy, Li Yan dispatched a total of 10,000 people from the Second Water Army - later, after getting the fifty large ships of the Great Song Dynasty with a load of 50,000 stones, Li Jun's manpower was really insufficient, so Li Yan asked the army trough to recruit another 5,000 sailors for Li Jun, that is to say, now Li Jun has brought half of the sailors and most of the ships in Liangshan, and similarly, Li Jun has also suffered half of the navy's tiredness, or even more than half of the tiredness, Li Jun has not rested for almost two years, and in the past two years, he has been running on the sea, it is not an exaggeration to say, Li Jun is the biggest hero behind Shuibo Liangshan.

Total: In order to capture Taiwan, the Liangshan Army dispatched a total of 47,500 men.

However, the result of this is that Li Yan is completely superfluous.

This is not to say that there is no resistance at all on the land of Taiwan.

But there is no unified resistance here, only some private forces, the largest of which is not in Taiwan, and in Penghu, but even Penghu is less than 3,000 people, not the opponent of the Liangshan Army at all, and no other troops have been used, and Ou Peng's amphibious army alone has wiped out the largest armed force in Penghu.

Later, Li Yan slowly figured it out.

Dare to love, Taiwan is still just a barren land.

Well...... It's also not a good place to describe it as barren.

There are still some aborigines on it.

These aborigines belong to the dwarf black people of the Negrita regional race and the Langqiao people who belong to the Ryukyuan race (they are the ancestors of the Gaoshan people) and belong to the Malay race.

However, this part of the people is too few, there are only more than 10,000 people in total, and those who can pick up weapons, not even 2,000 people, and there is no discipline at all, only relying on personal bravery, and they only have simple soldiers and leather armor, Hua Rong's Ma Wujun slaughtered most of them in only one round of volleys, and then slashed them to death in one round of charge, and after two more charges, except for a few who ran away, other people who dared to take weapons were slaughtered.

In addition, there are some Han people on the island, they are mainly Hokkien and Hakka, they first lived on Penghu, and then there were more and more Han people on Penghu, and the Han people began to develop to Taiwan after opening up Penghu, and there are currently 20,000 or 30,000 Han people on Taiwan Island.

plus more than 100,000 people on Penghu.

There are only 140,000 people in Taiwan.

Because the population is so small, that the Northern Song Dynasty is not in the mood to care about it at all.

(It was not until the middle of the twelfth century, a few decades later, that the Southern Song Dynasty placed Penghu under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County (later Jinjiang, Fujian) on Fujian Road and sent troops to defend it, and the contact between the mainland and Taiwan became more and more frequent.) ）

The entire Taiwan has a population of less than 150,000, how can it be the opponent of the Liangshan Army, which dispatched nearly 50,000 troops?

Therefore, Li Yan occupied Taiwan without much effort, well...... In fact, it is not so much an occupation as Li Yanbai picking up a county, because Li Yanzhen did not have much effort to occupy Taiwan.

After occupying Taiwan, Li Yan changed its name, changed "Liuqiu" to "Taiwan", and established Taiwan County, with Wang Lun as the Taishou, Xiao Jiasui as the general judge, Hua Rong as the commander of the soldiers and horses, and Lin Ren as the section level of the two courts.

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