"If you don't pay the settling-in allowance and farming cattle for the time being, and don't pay taxes, will it be too stressful?" Xia Nan hesitated, "When the land was first reclaimed, there was basically no output, and taxes were paid, didn't you want to force them to death?" ”

"Master Hou is too worried." Panda explained, "It's okay to postpone the payment, let them owe it first." In this way, they are like donkeys grinding, they can only desperately turn in circles and cannot stop, and naturally they have no energy to think about other things. ”

Xia Nan was still a little hesitant and asked: "The hungry people who came in front of them have two years of preferential treatment, and those who come later are gone, will they be unbalanced?" ”

It is to create this difference, so that the first one has a sense of superiority, and the later envy, and the estrangement is naturally formed. Otherwise, more than 100,000 people breathe out of one nostril, which is not good news for Hou Ye......"

Xia Nan and the others all realized the meaning of the words. In the past, when there were only tens of thousands of people, there was no problem, if the number of people increased by 100,000 at once, far more than the aborigines of Lingao, and even the total population of Chengmai and other three counties, then the contradiction between the immigrants and the local aborigines could not be avoided, and the local people would think that the immigrants had seized their own living space, and the immigrants would have a psychological advantage in numbers, which would inevitably cause friction and even conflict. And if immigrants have common interests among themselves, it is easy to unite against the locals and cause social unrest. Rather than suppressing it with the army afterwards, it is better to divide and disintegrate the immigrant groups and nip the contradictions in the bud.

"Well, plan ahead, have ideas." Xia Nan agreed, "Disrupting the ties between villages and clans, and then creating a gap between old immigrants and new immigrants with differentiated treatment, even if the number of immigrants is large, there will be no organized disturbances, and sporadic riots are easy to suppress, and it is much easier to govern." ”

Sima De also said: "The general is right. As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty have something to eat, they will not rebel. Life under our rule is much better than on the mainland, as long as they are scattered and disrupted, and there is no soil for collusion and trouble, the immigrants will live their own small lives in peace. ”

After receiving the affirmation, Panda was in high spirits and continued: "As for Hou Ye's concern about whether these people will be willing to go to Qiongzhou, this is not a problem at all. If it weren't for the rescue of Hou Ye, their fate would be to go to Liaodong to coat the tartars, and their status is not as good as pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep and other livestock. If the Hou Ye has a good heart and can't bear to do these things, just hand it over to the lower officials, and the lower officials will be this wicked person. ”

Xia Nan nodded again and again, a group needs all kinds of talents, and a typical official like Panda has a very good set of playing and suppressing the people, and these things are easy to do, and they are exactly the talents they lack.

He agreed to Panda's request and said, "Mr. Sima is the main one for the immigration affairs, and you are responsible for the assistance." As long as you do this well, no matter what you have done before, all of them will be written off, and I will have a place for you here in the future. ”

Panda was overjoyed and kowtowed: "Thank you Hou Ye for ignoring the past suspicions, the lower officials must do their errands with their hearts." ”

Sima De said: "Since we talked about immigration, my subordinates have to remind the general that there is not much vacant land in the three counties of Lingao, Chengmai and Danzhou. If another 100,000 people come, they will have to develop south of Qiongzhou. ”

Lin Weiye, who had not spoken on the side, reminded: "Qiongzhou Island is a terrain with high in the middle and low in all sides, and the Wuzhi Mountains in the middle, and the plain area suitable for large-scale rice cultivation is Wenchang, Wanxian and other places in addition to the three counties of Linggao, that is, Sanya, that is, Yazhou, don't think about it, surrounded by mountains on three sides, by the sea in the south, and there are too many harbors." At present, there are no conditions for fine farming, and under the existing extensive farming mode, the yield per mu is very limited, and the proportion of people who can feed is low, and the agricultural population of Wenchang and other places will reach or even exceed the saturation state of 100,000 immigrants plus local natives......"

The two have been partners for five years, and Xia Nan knows that once Lin Weiye enters the humancomputer mode, there will be more important proposals. He didn't interject and waited for Lin Weiye's conclusion.

Sure enough, Lin Weiye finally came to the conclusion: "If all 100,000 people move to Wenchang, Wanxian and other places, not only will the living space of the local aborigines be squeezed, but these immigrants will also have a very difficult time, and the future immigrants will have nowhere to go, so it is time to develop Taiwan."

"Develop Taiwan?"

"Exactly." Lin Weiye analyzed, "No matter how vast and sparsely populated Qiongzhou is, there are so many Han people in the local area after all, plus the Li people, the potential for immigration and reclamation is not as good as that of Taiwan." If you plan to use Shandong as a springboard and continue to immigrate in large numbers in the future, it is imperative to develop Taiwan. ”

Xia Nan thought about it, Lin Weiye was right, the current Qiongzhou is not the Hainan Province of the future, many places have not been developed, only about half of the more than a dozen prefectures and counties are suitable for living and can grow rice on a large scale, and the most important thing is that most of the suitable arable land is in the hands of the locals, and the scope for land reclamation is limited. Taiwan is different, after the Dutch and Spaniards were driven away, the entire island except for a small number of aborigines who can only hunt, all of them are places that can be reclaimed, and the potential is huge.

"That's a good idea." Xia Nan agreed in principle, "In the past, the development of Taiwan was not put on the agenda, first, because we did not have the energy, and second, we lacked enough manpower to manage it. Now that we are about to enter a period of relatively stable development, there is no major war for the time being, we have the energy to do this, and we have the official name to recruit manpower, so we can consider doing it. ”

He paced back and forth, thinking and saying, "Aren't we going to Shandong first?" As the management personnel of Taiwanese immigrants, the political treatment is determined according to the grade of the government, and as for the economic treatment, we will pay for it with reference to the level of the factory managers on our side. ”

Lin Weiye was a little confused: "We can guarantee high standards and high treatment for wages, but how can you guarantee the so-called political treatment?" Although the emperor made you a general, but the holy decree is written to preside over the military affairs of the three provinces and assist in managing government affairs, but he didn't say that you can be an official. ”

Xia Nan nodded at him with a smile and replied: "The mind can be liberated, the brain can be flexible, don't stick to the rules." The emperor in Taiwan is far away, and there is no local government, everything is up to us, we can engrave the seal, we can do the official uniform, we can send it to the month, there are thousands of people under the jurisdiction of the hand, there are rich people, majestic and majestic, in addition to not being promoted in the official system of the imperial court, there is no way to transfer to other state capitals as officials, and there is any difference between the official government and the official government? ”