Chapter 360: Dongfan Guard

After listening to Shen Tingyang's words, Emperor Chongzhen did not make any expression on the spot, but asked Shen Tingyang to put his own situation on Dongfan Island and the coping strategy into words, and attached it to the submission of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion as an "attachment", so that the cabinet and the important ministers of the Military Aircraft Department could read it as a reference for the draft. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For Shen Tingyang's suggestion, Emperor Chongzhen of course agreed, although it deviated from the situation he knew in later generations, but it was already very valuable in this time and space.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen wrote a comment on Shen Tingyang with a red pen on the attached piece that Shen Tingyang hurriedly sent, although he did not mention the opinions put forward by Shen Tingyang in a word, but expressed his attitude without objection.

Emperor Chongzhen wrote on it: "If the officials are as good as Shen Tingyang, how difficult is it to govern the world!" ”

Shen Tingyang took the submission of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion and the attached piece with the comments of Emperor Chongzhen's Zhu Pen, and left the Qianqing Palace very excitedly.

This comment is not the original of the current Emperor Chongzhen, but the true comment of Emperor Chongzhen on Shen Tingyang in history.

Just this comment, in exchange for Shen Tingyang's liver and brain, he died.

But it also shows that Emperor Chongzhen in history is not a faint monarch who can't know people and do his job.

At least he didn't look away at Shen Tingyang.

The day after listening to Shen Tingyang's suggestion, Emperor Chongzhen came to the Wenhua Hall and gathered several important ministers of the cabinet together to discuss the issues raised by the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Palace:

First, should Zheng Zhilong lead troops to expel the Dutch Hongmaoyi and Francophile who are entrenched on Dongfan Island.

Second, at present, the imperial court's large-scale resettlement from Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places to the east should be suspended, whether to wait for the Zheng family to expel the red-haired devils, and then restart.

These cabinet ministers are not fools, they have all read the submission of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Office before, and have a certain understanding of the situation of the Han immigrants, the indigenous people and the Hongmaoyi people on Dongfan Island, and later read the annex of the emperor's personal imperial approval, of course, they all understand the emperor's basic attitude on this issue.

The emperor with the help of the attached piece of the Chinese scholar to express his attitude, in the history of the Ming Dynasty is not unprecedented, but if there are some things that can not be put forward in the name of the emperor, there will be courtiers to do it on their behalf, and if there are no courtiers around, naturally you can only choose the Chinese scholar to write on behalf of you.

Emperor Chongzhen's Zhu criticism on the attached piece praised Shen Tingyang, a scholar in the Wuying Palace, but in fact, it was Shen Tingyang's position and suggestions that were affirmed.

Therefore, after the three cabinet ministers in Beijing came to the Wenhua Palace, they quickly reached an agreement.

Li Guowei said: "Your Majesty, the current situation on Dongfan Island is complicated, and the number of Fujian and Zhejiang disaster victims who have been resettled on the island has reached as many as 450,000.

"The ministers heard that many Han people with little or even no land continued to go deep into the island, and fought with the island's Shengfan from time to time to fight for land and mountains and forests, and they were killed and injured by the indigenous people of Shengfan, and they were even more often killed.

In addition, although Dongfan Island has a warm climate and abundant products, and there are three crops a year, after all, the newly opened land is full of jungles and swamps, poisonous snakes and mosquitoes are rampant, and the immigrants on the island lack medical treatment, epidemics are epidemic, and there are many deaths from diseases.

Therefore, the minister thought that the immigration officially arranged by the imperial court could be temporarily slowed down, and the spontaneous immigration of the people should continue to be left unchecked. This is a little bit of the minister's opinion. ”

The situation that Li Guowei said, some time ago, Emperor Chongzhen also knew about it from the many reports reported by the Fujian and Zhejiang Governors' Mansion.

At the end of March, Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, sent a secret report to the emperor about Qian Qianyi's exile in Dongfan.

The grievances between Wen Tiren and Qian Qianyi had a great impact on the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and they can be regarded as long-standing.

It stands to reason that Wen Tiren's hometown of Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang, is very close to Qian Qianyi's hometown of Nanzhili Suzhou Mansion, and he should be a natural ally in politics and career.

But in fact, on the contrary, these two people are a pair of sworn enemies in history, and they have always impeached each other and demolished each other.

In the final analysis, it is all because Wen Tiren is a "diehard" in the Zhejiang Party.

Since the beginning of the Wanli period, the Zhejiang Party has always been the sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, and in order to resist the power of the Donglin Party, it even did not hesitate to take refuge in Wei Zhongxian.

Later, the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party became the two most powerful forces in the court during the Apocalypse, and the Zhejiang Party was divided, either disappearing or defecting to the Eunuch Party.

Among them, Wen Tiren belongs to a Zhejiang party member who is dormant and waiting for an opportunity.

Historically, the reason why he continued to overturn the cases of some ministers who were condemned as eunuchs after he came to power and were called traitors was because the eunuch case in history was examined and decided by the Donglin Party members, and on the other hand, because he was exonerating the Zhejiang Party comrades before him, thus cultivating power for himself in disguise.

It is precisely because Wen Tiren was the leader of the Zhejiang Party at the beginning of Chongzhen's succession, and Qian Qianyi was the leader of Donglin at that time, so the long-standing contradiction between the two quickly intensified.

Now that Qian Qianyi has not only not been reused, but has also fallen so completely, and has been exiled to his jurisdiction by the emperor, Wen Tiren's heart is of course how happy he is.

After Qian Qianyi and his family arrived at the mouth of the Min River in Fuzhou on the fleet of the Yangtze River Sailor, Wen Tiren did not let Qian Qianyi and others go ashore at all, and was directly transferred to the Zheng family's fleet at the sea at the mouth of the Min River, and then sent to Ben Port, which greatly disappointed many Confucian children who admired Qian Qianyi's literary name and waited to visit him in advance.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't care about the grievances between Wen Tiren and Qian Qianyi, and he exiled Qian Qianyi to Dongfan Island for resettlement, not to use Wen Tiren to kill him.

In fact, there is no need for this, as long as a person like this is removed from the center of the political stage, he will not be able to afford any big storms.

Therefore, Wen Tiren made a secret twist and solemnly reported to the emperor Qian Qianyi's words and deeds after being sent to Dongfan Island, which made Emperor Chongzhen cry and laugh.

However, although Emperor Chongzhen did not care about Qian Qianyi's performance after arriving at Dongfan Island, he was very interested in the situation in Bon Hong Kong that Wen Ti Renmi talked about in his compromise.

This Ben Port, also known as Ben Port, was later renamed Beigang, near the inlet of Beigang Creek between Yunlin and Chiayi on Taiwan Island in later generations.

It is located in the middle of the west coast of Dongfan Island, not far from the Penghu Islands and Quanzhou in Fujian Province in the distance.

This place used to be a temporary stop for pirates and fishermen off the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang on Dongfan Island.

However, when Qian Qianyi and his family crossed the strait smoothly and were sent to Bengang by the Zheng family's fleet for resettlement, the sparsely populated and wild place in Qian Qianyi's imagination had long since become the Dongfan Acropolis with a prosperous population that was not inferior to Quanzhou.

Before Zheng Zhilong was annexed, in addition to Penghu, this Ben Port was already a base camp of Yan Siqi and the Zheng brothers on Dongfan Island.

Starting from Yan Siqi, he began to successively recruit many peasants from Zhangquan and other places to open up wasteland and cultivate crops, and successively established ten walled cities in the north and south plains and shallow hills and hilly areas of Bengang River, with a population of tens of thousands.

After Zheng Zhilong was attached, the imperial court not only granted him the post of Fujian Jinxia general, but also gave him the position of commander of Dongfanwei.

After the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang discussed with Zheng Zhilong, based on the ten villages in the north and south of Bengang left by Yan Siqi, on the west coast of Dongfan Island facing the Fujian Sea, five thousand households were set up, from north to south, they were Tamsui Thousand Households, Zhushu Thousand Households, Half-line Thousand Households, Bengang Thousand Households and Xiao Yong Thousand Households.

The place name of Tamsui still exists four hundred years later, while the name of Zhushu was later changed to Hsinchu, Banxian was changed to Changhua, and Xiao Yong was later in Jiali in Chiayi, Taiwan.

Before the establishment of these 5,000 households, there were already 40,000 or 50,000 people from southern Fujian who came to reclaim land from Zhangquan and other places in Fujian Province to make a living.

Most of these people were the subordinates that Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong had spent seven or eight years before and successively brought out from their hometowns in Zhangquan and other places.

When Zheng Zhilong was still a pirate, these people were the foundation of the Zheng brothers' pirate gang, and now that the Zheng family has been attached to the imperial court, these people naturally followed the household and changed their identities, and became military households and civilian households affiliated to Dongfanwei.