Taipei, once the seat of the Governor-General of Taiwan, Yamen, is now the Japanese-occupied Governor-General's Office of Taiwan, occupying Taiwan for almost 20 years, Taiwan's changes are not too big, even if it is the capital of the entire Taiwan, it has just begun to be demolished and rebuilt, but the style of Taipei, has changed from the original old-style Chinese style, and gradually turned to the European style.

In the Governor's Palace, Sakuma Zuo Matthew sat in front of the desk, as the governor of Taiwan, born in 1844, he is now over 70, starting from 1906 in Taiwan, not only among the governors of Taiwan, the longest tenure, but also the most tough one, from 1906, Goto Shinpei, who actually controlled Taiwan, left Taiwan, went to Nanman, 62 years old he sat in Taiwan as a general, did not undertake Goto Shinpei's policy of grace and power, but resolute, Brutal and harsh repression was carried out against Taiwan's most troublesome aborigines, and the military, police and Japanese troops were all over Taiwan, which was a pioneering act of his, and spared no effort to strike at any possible resistance, and achieved very good results, and because of this, he was repeatedly rewarded by Tokyo.

However, in terms of Sakuma Zuo Matthew's qualifications, these awards are nothing, he has entered 70 years old, Sakuma Zuo Matthew is still in good spirits, and the suppression of Luo Fuxing's uprising was passed under his strong pressure, not only hit Luo Fuxing's Han resistance strength, by the way, he went deep into the inland county of Nantou, in the past month, more than 120 aboriginal tribes have been eliminated, and it is expected that by the end of this year, the tribal eradication of some of the more powerful aborigines will come to an end, when the time comes. The harm of the aborigines to the coastal areas of Taiwan will be minimized.

Of course, it is impossible to completely wipe out the deep mountains. The huge and complex mountainous area of central Taiwan has reached later generations. It is also a relatively remote and backward place, but when the peripheral mountainous areas are cleared, it is not easy for the aborigines in the deep mountains to come down, which is equivalent to saying that from a certain situation, the situation in Taiwan as a whole will be cleared up.

The sugar industry, which was promoted by Sakuma Zuo Matthew, will also reduce its influence a lot. Sugar, from ancient times to the present day. They are all more expensive things, even in modern times, there are more advanced processing methods, more pressing rates, but sugar is still a more expensive thing.

The purpose of the U.S. annexation of Hawaii was definitely not because of the importance of the location of Hawaii Island, and Hawaii was isolated in the Pacific Ocean when the air force did not rise and the sea power was still in the hands of the fleet. 108,000 miles away from the continental United States, with the range of a battleship, it will be difficult for him to defend. Why the United States got it is because of sugar production. At its peak, Hawaii's sugar industry accounted for seventy or eighty percent of the world, the queen of Hawaii. Just by virtue of this, you can become one of the richest people in the world. A small island country, the king of a small country has not yet entered the modern era. It's so rich that it rivals the country.

In later generations, in the post-World War II era of peace, Hawaii would have become an independent country, even like the small oil-owned countries in the Middle East, a kingdom of the rich, repeatedly dominating the headlines of entertainment and the rich. It's a pity that they were born in the wrong era, in this era of the dark jungle, Hawaii, a small country without even an army, is simply a child in the middle of the city, holding gold ingots, in fact, the United States and Japan at that time both put their ideas on Hawaii.

In the fight for Hawaii, Japan even went one step ahead and immigrated to Hawaii in large numbers. At that time, the first arrival was not necessarily the first opportunity, it was necessary to have a strong strength as a backing, Japan was just a small country that had just embarked on the road of modernization, and compared with the United States, I don't know how much worse, so the United States took Hawaii.

They didn't get to Hawaii, which made Japan very depressed, but compared with the powerful United States, they didn't dare, when the Great White Fleet was cruising around the world, they knew the strength of the United States, the world's largest and most powerful industrial country, and it was not something that they Japan could touch, and they could only watch a few years, or even more than ten years, under a small number of US troops, be wiped out.

Hawaii did not get, the benefits of sugar, but took root in Japan. Japan is too far north to grow sugar cane, barely growing sugar beet, but the sugar yield is low, the whole world's sugar pressing machines at that time, the efficiency is not too high, the yield of growing sugar beet is not as good as ordinary crops. Just when there was nothing else to do, in 1895, the Japanese won the Sino-Japanese War and not only received huge compensation, but also Taiwan.

Compared with the Japanese mainland, Taiwan is closer to the south, the geographical conditions are suitable for planting sugarcane, even more than 100 years ago, Taiwan has a tradition of sugar extraction, during the Japanese occupation, it is developing rapidly, at the beginning of the 20th century, there are four major sugar pressing industries, and whether it is Goto Shinpei, or Sakuma Zuo Matthew, in order to add a vegetable garden to Taiwan, has been promoting the local sugar group to move here, began to occupy a large amount of land in Taiwan, open up sugar plantations, and make some basic attempts.

Once Nantou County is won, after solving the problem of the aborigines that make the Taiwan Governor's Office more headache, with Taichung as the center, the surrounding vast land, at least more than 100,000 hectares of plantations, huge harvest and a large number of sugar grouting enterprises, this is a huge number and a huge wealth.

In fact, the Inoue United went to Nantou to clear Luo Fuxing on the spot, which was specially ordered by Sakuma Zuo Matthew to lay the foundation for the sugar industry, and once the aborigines of Nantou were solved, the sugar industry could be greatly developed, which could be regarded as a satisfactory answer to him.

Sakuma Zomathew flipped through the documents in his hand, which were proposed by the four major sugar extraction companies, to further increase investment in the central region, with Tainan as the center, gradually establishing several plantations with a scale of 10,000 hectares, and building more than 200 sugar extraction enterprises of different scales, with a total investment of more than 30 million yen.

Sakuma Zomatje is very satisfied, even if it is placed in the local area, the investment of 30 million is quite a lot, so it will bring at least 8 million in taxes every year, as well as a steady stream of resources, Taiwan can finally no longer rely on minerals to generate value.

Rubbing his somewhat swollen head, Sakuma Zuoma shook his head slightly, old, since last year, his energy has been a little weak, maybe he is old, and when he was about to continue looking at the documents, there was a rush of footsteps outside, he frowned slightly, he was born in a samurai family, he has always attached importance to etiquette, and he has always paid more attention to the quiet and indifferent in Buddhism, rarely angry, and his subordinates are basically the same, who is so reckless, it shouldn't be his subordinates, but if not, How could it be possible to enter the core of the Doge's Palace.

The door was almost slammed open, and Sakuma Zuo Matta was about to get angry, but he saw that it was his adjutant, the adjutant Hanazawa Masa, who had been with him for at least 12 years, he was very familiar, and if it wasn't for something big happening, he couldn't have been so anxious and panicked.

"Zezheng, don't panic, what's going on, look at you in such a hurry."

"Your Excellency, Commander, something is wrong!" Hua Zezheng stabilized for a moment and said: "A telegram came from Taichung, the Inoue Wing suffered huge losses, two brigades were completely annihilated, and one brigade suffered more than seventy percent casualties, leaving less than 400 people. ”

"What, this can't be!" At this moment, Sakuma Zuo Matthew also sat up, he knew that Inoue's wing was a good infantry wing, and it was also in the middle of the six wings of his division, and this wing was hit hard, even if he had always been peaceful, he couldn't help but blurt out.

"Just received an urgent message from Taichung!"

"Are you sure, could it be fake?" It's no wonder that Sakuma Zuo Matthew is so surprised, since the establishment of the Taiwan Army, the turbulent Taiwan, Taiwan, where various uprisings and resistance movements are frequent, a large number of military and police officers die every year, but most of them are police and second-line troops, and the divisions that really belong to the Taiwan Army have very few losses, only a few dozen or so every year, most of these are not killed in battle, but lone soldiers go to have fun,

Sending Inoue Wing to Nantou to exterminate Luo Fuxing is just an excuse, and taking advantage of the situation to kill those aborigines is the real goal, and now, it has actually hit an iron plate, and there is less than one-tenth of a company left, and such a gap is a heavy blow to the Taiwan army.

"Luo Fuxing doesn't have such ability, is Inoue in Taichung, let him come to see me!"

"No, Inoue died, at the last moment of the breakout, even most of the officers of the wing died, and now it is a young man Kameda who leads the team, and they are in a bad state!"

Sakuma Zuo Matthew didn't pay attention at all, about Inoue's life and the current situation of Inoue's unit, Sen Ran said: "Ask by telegram about the situation, and let their main officers return to Taipei immediately!" After he finished speaking, he hesitated for a moment, looked at Hua Zezheng, and said in a deep voice: "Don't let him come, you bring someone to ask in person, and you must ask the detailed process clearly." ”

A telegram blew up everyone, including Sakuma Zuo Matthew, and after several telegram inquiries, it was found that the annihilation of the Inoue Wing was not a false alarm or something else, but a real existence, and among the telegrams on the Taichung side, not only one unit, from the civilian to the military, all sent about the encounter of the Inoue Wing, and the entire Taiwan Military Command was shaken.

A fully organized wing, a powerful army wing, in the colony of Taiwan, this overseas land, was almost completely wiped out, with more than 9 percent of the battle losses, this is not a total annihilation, it is almost the same, who did it, this is not an April Fool's joke. (To be continued......)