Chapter 897: Maritime Ban Reform
According to Li Yuntian's deployment, the Ming Army's naval division sent three detachments to recover Tamsui Port, Beigang and Dayuan Port respectively.
Each fleet consisted of a dozen ships, and the main force of each fleet's attack was five three-masted warships, and the rest were transporting supplies and soldiers to log in for battle.
Unlike when the port was recaptured, the three detachments went to sea with the three detachments and the three men of the Scarface Waiko Leader, who went to the three ports to surrender.
The Japanese in the three ports were basically attached to Aoki Mingxin and Yamakai Mitsutaka, and the subordinates sent by the three leaders of the scar-faced Japanese invaders to persuade them to surrender would definitely make many Japanese choose to surrender, and then reduce the trouble of the attacking Ming army's naval divisions.
In order to avoid delaying the fighters, after Li Yuntian had finished arranging the task, the three fleets left Jilong Harbor and sailed south along the coastal line to their respective target ports.
At the same time, Li Yuntian sent a three-masted warship to the port of Fuzhou and sent a holy decree issued by the orthodox emperor to the Yamen of the Fujian Sansi in Fuzhou City.
In the name of the orthodox emperor, the auxiliary ministers officially announced the lifting of the fishing ban along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, allowing fishing boats to go to the sea to fish, and at the same time reaffirmed the sea ban, still prohibiting ships with more than one mast from going to sea, and severely punished once found.
In addition, another thing was announced in the holy decree, that is, the Ming Dynasty had recovered Xiaoliuqiu Island, and the orthodox emperor was ready to set up a prefecture and county under the jurisdiction of Jiangwutang on Xiaoliuqiu Island, recruit people who voluntarily moved to Xiaoliuqiu Island, whether it was a civilian household or a military household, and recruit soldiers from the children of the people who migrated.
Not only Fujian, but also the Yamen of Zhejiang and Nanzhili also received the same holy decree one after another, asking them to post notices on the streets, and the lecture martial arts hall recruited people from these three places to move to Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Since Xiaoliuqiu Island is regarded as a barbarian land, Li Yuntian has adopted many preferential measures for those immigrants, the most important of which are the reclamation order like Jiaozhi, three exemptions and two halves of taxes, and the provision of interest-free loans to the people to support, these measures will enable the immigrants to gain a foothold on Xiaoliuqiu Island.
As soon as the notice of opening the fishing ban and recruiting immigrants from Xiaoliuqiu Island was posted, it immediately caused a sensation in Fujian, Zhejiang and Nanzhilifu County, and the people were overjoyed by this, and no one thought that the Ming Dynasty would reopen the fishing ban after half a century, and they did not expect that the Ming army sailors would quietly take the Xiaoliuqiu Island, where the Japanese were entrenched, and that Wutang would vigorously manage the Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Originally, Li Yuntian thought that there would be very few people who responded to this notice, and it was already thankful that he could recruit 100,000 immigrants to Xiaoliuqiu Island, first, everyone did not want to leave their hometowns, and second, life on Xiaoliuqiu Island was indeed quite hard, and it was regarded as a wild place by people.
But to his surprise, when the officials sent by Jiangwutang to the local prefectures and counties to register the number of immigrants, the registration site was surrounded by a surging crowd of people, and some people even rushed from neighboring provinces to sign up to move to Xiaoliuqiu Island.
According to later statistics, there were more than 100,000 households and more than 500,000 people who had moved to Xiaoliuqiu Island, of which half were military households.
This greatly surprised Li Yuntian's estimates, and he had to urgently change the relocation plan he had set before, and resettle according to the actual number of those people.
The reason for this is that the people are very exploited by the local officials and businessmen, so they want to change their living environment; Second, Li Yuntian has great prestige among the people and successfully manages the barbarian land of Jiaozhi, which makes them full of expectations for life on Xiaoliuqiu Island; Third, many people aspire to become military households subordinate to Jiangwutang, and compared with the north, more people in the south are aware of the generous treatment and abundant life enjoyed by military households in Jiangwutang.
It is worth mentioning that in recent years, with the increasingly close business contacts and personnel exchanges between Jiaozhi and various parts of Jiangnan, the people of Jiangnan were surprised to find that Jiaozhi is undergoing earth-shaking changes, economic prosperity, social stability, and vigorous development of all walks of life, so that the people of Jiaozhi not only solve the problem of food and clothing but also greatly improve the quality of life.
Compared with Jiaozhi, the environment on Xiaoliuqiu Island is undoubtedly much better, at least it is close to the Ming Dynasty and the products on it are relatively rich, coupled with the governance of the Jiangwutang, the people who moved to the Jiangwutang think that the Jiangwutang will definitely make them live a good life.
Li Yuntian was both pleased with this result and a little sad at the same time, he knew that no one would want to leave his hometown if it were not forced by life, and it seemed that he had a lot to do in the future.
On the afternoon of the second day after the departure of the three fleets, a group of nervous and haggard people appeared at the entrance of the town facing the inland of Jilong Town, which immediately attracted the attention of the soldiers of the Ming army who were on duty at the entrance of the town, and vigilantly stepped forward to inquire about it.
Just when those people were panicking, Zhao Siguo walked out from behind the crowd and told the soldiers that these people were all from the town, and rushed back after learning that Li Yuntian had pardoned their guilt.
When the soldiers who blocked the way heard this, they got out of the way and took the people to the place where the people of the town were housed, and they were registered and made for later management.
Although Zhao Siguo brought a lot of people this time, there were many more people who did not trust the Ming army's sailors, so they stayed in the mountains to wait and see.
Li Yuntian was not in a hurry about this, he knew that this kind of thing could not be forced, otherwise it would inevitably arouse the fear of those people who were already frightened, so he asked people to settle those who came first, register and distribute alms, and distribute the fields outside the town that originally belonged to those Japanese chieftains.
The practice of the Ming army's sailors made the people who returned all rejoice, and many of them immediately returned to the mountains to tell the good news to those relatives and friends who were still hiding in the mountains, after all, the land outside the town was limited, and the first to come was first served.
Moreover, Li Yuntian only planned to distribute half of the land outside the town to the people of the town, and the other half to the inland people who would migrate here in the future.
Knowing that the sailors of the Ming army really gave relief and distributed land as stated in the official document brought by Zhao Siguo, the people who were hiding in the mountains were full of remorse in their hearts and immediately hurried from the town.
Although there is little land in the town, Li Yuntian brought abundant materials this time, he originally wanted to distribute them to the people in the town without discrimination, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not suitable to do so, after all, he had told Zhao Siguo that the relief was limited in order to attract the people back to the town, and those who returned to the town first would get a lot of relief.
Therefore, Li Yuntian instructed the officials who distributed the relief to let them distribute them in the order of the time when the people returned.
After the Ming Army's naval division transport ship parked at Jilong Harbor unloaded the materials on board, it went to Fuzhou Port under the escort of the three-dimensional warship, and the people of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce had already transported the materials purchased by Li Yuntian to Fuzhou Port.
If the military's materials are handed over to the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to handle, Li Yuntian can save Li Yuntian a lot of trouble, and the efficiency is very high, and at the same time, the quality of the goods can be guaranteed.
Aoki Mingxin's mansion was regarded by Li Yuntian as his headquarters on Xiaoliuqiu Island, and he had to deal with a lot of affairs every day, and he was very busy.
After all, it is not easy to resettle those immigrants who came to Xiaoliuqiu Island, and it is not that he will bring them to the island and leave them alone, he must carry out long-term overall planning for those people, and set up townships on Xiaoliuqiu Island according to the actual local conditions, so as to make as many immigrants as possible spread throughout the island.
After learning that Li Yuntian was on Xiaoliuqiu Island, the chief official of the Yamen of the Fujian Third Division, the governor of Fujian, and the imperial history of Fujian Governor did not care about the Yizhou Strait separated from Xiaoliuqiu Island, and rushed to Jilong Harbor to meet Li Yuntian on the three-masted warship of the Ming army's naval division.
Although Li Yuntian was on Xiaoliuqiu Island, his duty to inspect Jiangnan was still there, so the chief officer of the Fujian Third Division naturally did not dare to slack off, and took the initiative to meet Li Yuntian in private.
Of course, it was impossible for the chief officials of the Fujian Third Division to come empty-handed, so they mobilized a batch of materials and sent them to Li Yuntian, which could be regarded as support for Li Yuntian's management of Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Li Yuntian is most concerned about the affairs of those immigrants now, and he told the officials of the Third Division of Fujian to assist the people of Jiangwutang in handling the affairs of those immigrants, and this matter is related to the future safety of Xiaoliuqiu Island.
Since Li Yuntian personally sat on Xiaoliuqiu Island, the chief officials of the Third Division of Fujian naturally did not dare to be careless, and patted their chests and promised to do so.
On the same day that the officials of the Third Division of Fujian Province left Xiaoliuqiu Island, Li Yuntian received a battle report from the fleet that had gone south to recover the port of Tamsui, and when the fleet arrived at the port of Tamsui, it found that the port had just experienced a battle.
The battle was sparked by a group of Japanese who had retreated from the port of Jilong, a subordinate of Aoki Akishin, led by a newly rising Japanese leader named Munemitsu Domoto.
When the Ming Army's sailors appeared outside the Chicken Coop Harbor, Domoto Munemitsu did not break through like the leader of the Scar-faced Wakos, but chose to flee by land to Tamsui Harbor.
After arriving at Tamsui Harbor, Domoto Munemitsu told the Wako chieftains in Tamsui Town what had happened in Chicken Coop Harbor and told them to immediately transfer with him.
The leader of the Japanese who belonged to Aoki Akishin was moved, but the leader of the Japanese under Mitsutaka Yamakai did not trust Domoto Munemitsu and refused to lend the boat to Domoto Munemitsu.
Since Domoto Munemitsu's men did not have enough ships to board, Domoto Munemitsu suddenly wanted to attack the leader of the Japanese Invaders under Yamakai Mitsutaka and hacked him to death with a knife, which also triggered a fight between the two sides.
Due to the death of the leader, coupled with the disadvantage in numbers, the Japanese of Yamakai Mitsutaka were defeated and fled from the port.
"Domoto Somitsu!" After learning the news, Li Yuntian's face couldn't help but show a look of surprise, and he muttered the name again, it seems that this person was quite alert and did not mess up when the Ming army's sailors suddenly appeared, and he was able to immediately rob the ships of the Japanese under Shanhai Guangxiao Tamsui Port, and he was also a brave and resourceful person among the Japanese invaders.