After Li Yan arrived in Keelung, he immediately convened officials from all levels of institutions and the county magistrates of all counties in Taiwan for a meeting. In fact, there was nothing big. It was just that Li Yan wanted to learn more about the situation in various parts of Taiwan, and then make an overall development plan to speed up the construction progress of Taiwan. Only when Taiwan is strong locally strong will there be more power to develop outward.

Li Yan is still the governor of Taiwan, but he is only a name but does not care about the affairs. The one who actually manages Taiwan is Cui Wei, who was appointed as a different leader. The other party is Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue's cousin, and he is also a relative of Li Yan. In addition, he is a talented person, governs Taiwan in an orderly manner, and will execute Li Yan's orders without fail, so he is trusted by Li Yan.

In addition to Cui Wei, there are Zhu Meng, who serves as the chief of police officers, and Chen Gong, the chief of the Censorate. They were originally the people Yang Hsiao trusted the most. They were later recommended to Li Yan, but were entrusted with important tasks by him, one to manage public security and the other to be responsible for the conduct of the Censorate officials. Moreover, these two departments were newly established by Li Yan, and their locations were very important.

Li Yan summoned Cui Wei, Chen Gong and Zhu Meng. Some officials at all levels in charge of business, taxation, fishery administration, agriculture, etc., as well as officials from various counties, also attended the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, Li Yan asked these officials to report to themselves the work of their respective departments over the past year and the problems they encountered in their work.

Taiwan is now divided into five counties: Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Taitung and Penghu, which is much less than those in Taiwan Province in later generations. In addition, although the names of these five counties are the same as those in later generations, their area is much larger than those in later generations. In addition to Penghu, the locations of the other four counties have also undergone great changes.

For example, take Taitung County as an example. Its location does not overlap with the location of later generations, but includes all the Hualien County in the backstage, most of Nantou County, and part of Kaohsiung County. As for the Taitung County in the later generations, it was all classified into Tainan County.

Now there are more than 500,000 Han people in Taiwan, and the number of slaves exceeds 2.5 million. However, among the Han people, a considerable number of them are migrant people, either in business or work, and often travel between Taiwan and the mainland. Many people have registered their household registration in the Tang Dynasty and obtained household registration in Taiwan. There are real estate on both sides.

Taiwan now mainly focuses on agriculture, fishery, food processing and port trade. Among them, agriculture is mainly planted with large plantations, and Tainan County is the most concentrated. Plantations and farms of all sizes are everywhere, mainly planting sugarcane and rice. In addition, there are also economic crops such as tea and stinky artemisia. According to Cui Wei's statistics, there are now more than 100,000 Han people engaged in plantations in Taiwan, and the number of slaves in the plantations exceeds 1.5 million, which is considered the industry with the largest number of people in Taiwan.

As for fisheries, Taiwan is completely commercially fished, and most of them are large fishing farmers forming their own fishing teams and then trawling them on a large scale. The obtained fish are sold directly to various processing plants. A very small part of them also flow into the fishing markets in various cities in Taiwan for locals to buy and eat.

Plantation economy and commercial fishing provide Taiwan with a large amount of industrial raw materials. Therefore, Taiwan’s island is now full of various food processing plants, such as sugar factories, wineries, dried fish factories, canning factories, etc. These food processing plants have gone from few to many, from weak to strong, and have become one of the major economic pillars of Taiwan.

As for the final port trade, Taiwan uses its natural advantages to vigorously develop port trade in Keelung and Tainan. Countless goods are loaded and unloaded here every day. Some ports have annual throughput of more than hundreds of thousands of tons. Although this number cannot be compared with those ports in later generations, it was already very amazing in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, port trade is also Taiwan’s most important economic pillar.

In addition to the above four economic pillars, Taiwan's textile industry is also developing very rapidly. After all, cotton cloth has been increasingly accepted by overseas merchants, and the export volume of cotton cloth has increased significantly. Taiwan is close to Nanyang, and there are many cotton cloths transited here every day. At the same time, this also stimulates Taiwan's local textile industry, which shows a prosperous scene.

However, because the textile industry is an intensive industry, it requires a large number of workers and is restricted by Taiwan's population, the textile industry has now developed to a bottleneck. Now all textile owners are seeking help from the Academy of Sciences, hoping that they can improve their current looms and develop a new machine that reduces the manpower investment of textile factories and increases work efficiency.

While the textile industry is developing rapidly, heavy industries such as shipyards, steel mills, cement mills, etc. have also started, especially shipyards and related industries. With the advantages of major ports, they are also developing very fast. However, shipbuilding is a systematic project and takes a certain amount of time to develop in all aspects. However, I believe that in a few years, Taiwan's shipbuilding industry will usher in a peak.

After Li Yan learned about the above situation from officials at all levels, he had a relatively comprehensive understanding of Taiwan's agriculture, commerce and industry. In general, all aspects have developed well, especially the most basic agriculture, which has developed very quickly. For example, 90% of Taiwan's grain can be self-sufficient, and the rest can also be imported from Linyi, which has basically gotten rid of the situation of importing from the Tang Dynasty. It is estimated that this is because most of the officials such as Cui Wei are children of Confucianism and are influenced by the idea of ​​establishing a country through agriculture, so they attach great importance to agriculture.

"Cui Wei, I have a rough understanding of Taiwan's development. Now tell me about the difficulties Taiwan is facing now, and then combine it with everyone's wisdom to see if we can come up with a solution?" Li Yan digested the current situation in Taiwan and then spoke.

When Li Yan asked about the difficulties faced by Taiwan, Cui Wei, Chen Gong and others looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and then Cui Wei said: "Your Highness, there are indeed many difficulties faced by Taiwan, but most of them have solutions. However, we are facing the biggest difficulty now. If this difficulty is not solved, Taiwan's development may stagnate, and may even be left far behind by major cities along the Tang Dynasty."

When Li Yan heard Cui Wei's words, he looked at everyone's reactions and had already guessed a lot in his heart, but he smiled and said, "Is it because of population?"

"Your Highness is wise!" Cui Wei said with a wry smile, "Our Taiwan's area is more than half of Dengzhou, but the population of Dengzhou has long exceeded one million, but our Taiwan's population is less than half of Dengzhou. In addition, Your Highness also needs to establish various types of factories to meet the requirement that Taiwan can be self-sufficient in all aspects, which requires more population. However, although the Tang Dynasty did not prohibit us from introducing population, due to restrictions on all aspects, our population growth is still too slow and cannot meet all aspects of demand."

The population that Cui Wei mentioned refers to the Han population. As for slaves, it is not counted. After all, most of the slaves are concentrated in major plantations, and some are concentrated in factories. However, in the eyes of most people, these slaves are not humans, but just a tool to speak.

Li Yan nodded after hearing this. In fact, Taiwan’s population growth is not slow now, which is mainly due to the population introduction measures implemented by Taiwan in all aspects. For example, taking agriculture as an example, as long as the people on the mainland are willing to come to Taiwan, they can immediately get 100 acres of land. And if he is willing to spend some money, he can buy more land. The cheap land price is like giving away for free. Moreover, if any mineral deposits are found on these lands, they are all privately owned, and the government will only charge some taxes during development.

It is also worth mentioning that Taiwan has no agricultural tax since the beginning, that is, the output on personal land belongs to the individual. However, if you sell the production on the land, you have to pay a tax. In fact, this is a disguised agricultural tax. After all, Taiwan's agriculture is a large plantation economy, and the output must be sold, so almost everyone has to pay taxes.

In addition to agriculture, there are similar preferential regulations in industry and commerce. In particular, Li Yan also abolished various taxes on industry and commerce, and at the same time separated the right to collect taxes from government departments. A special tax collection tax department was established to collect taxes. For example, the goods that were factory-made will be paid a unified tax at the factory, and then, relying on the tax bill issued by the tax department, you will not need to pay any taxes on the entire island.

It is precisely through the various preferential conditions of the agricultural, industrial and commercial industries, as well as improvements in the law, public security, environment and other aspects that more and more people come to Taiwan to settle down. However, Taiwan is developing too fast and all walks of life need people, so the population growth still cannot meet the demand.

Thinking of the above, Li Yan smiled at Cui Wei and officials at all levels and said: "Now the total number of households in the country counted by the Tang Dynasty is more than 3 million, and there are about 10 million people. However, because there are many fugitive households in various governments, and the missing households cannot be counted, so according to my estimate, the total population of our Tang Dynasty should be more than 20 million. But after three years, we have already had a population of 500,000. If this is placed in the Tang Dynasty, it will be considered a land of Shangzhou. So don't think that the population is small now. I am very satisfied with the current population growth and everyone's efforts!"

Li Yan made up the conclusion for everyone and praised everyone here, which made Cui Wei and the others very excited. They stroked their beards one by one, and their faces were full of complacent smiles.
Chapter completed!