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In fact, the sugar production within the mainland of Ming Dynasty was also relatively large. People planted sugarcane in Lingnan and Jiangnan. However, due to the relevant policies of the imperial court, the scale of these sugarcane plantations was not very large. Due to the influence of Taiwan sugar, it was difficult to sell sugar in the Ming Dynasty abroad. In domestic sales, the profits will naturally not be very good. To a certain extent, this also limits the enthusiasm for planting sugarcane.

There are many elks on Taiwan Island, which are distributed on high mountains and plains. The largest number of deer herds are even as many as thousands. When the deer wanders on the grassland, it is very spectacular. The original indigenous people of Taiwan Island live peacefully with the deer herds and rarely hunt deer herds. However, after the arrival of the Dutch colonists, they hunted elks in large quantities and obtained rare items such as deer antlers, venison and deer skin, which gradually reduced the number of elks.

Since these elks are wild, their annual breeding number is limited. The number will naturally be greatly reduced by Dutch colonists. From the perspective of animal protection, deer skin will not last long. If the Hu Ben Army continues to hunt elks, I believe this species will soon disappear on Taiwan Island.

"From now on, it is strictly forbidden to hunt elk."

This is the first order issued by Zhang Zhun after he landed on Taiwan Island.

Since you cannot hunt ready-made elks, you can only find a way from other perspectives.

The biggest advantage of Taiwan Island is that it is surrounded by the sea. If you want to develop, you have to find solutions from the sea. Among them, the most basic and most important is to vigorously develop the fishing industry. With Taiwan as a base, all the surrounding 500-mile sea areas can be included.

Zhang Zhun has gained a lot of benefits from the development of the fishing industry in Shandong and other places. The fishing industry can increase the domestic meat supply, improve people's lives, improve people's physical fitness, solve a large number of employment problems, and reserve a large number of sailors for the Hu Ben Navy, and promote the development of the civil shipbuilding industry. With so many benefits, we naturally have to try our best to encourage it.

In Zhang Zhun's memory, there are a large number of fishing grounds around Taiwan Island. As for the specific name, he can't remember it anymore. In short, Taiwan is surrounded by the sea on all sides, with a total coastline of 1,600 kilometers and is located at the intersection of cold and warm currents. The fishing resources must be very, very rich. The eastern coast is steep and deep, and the fishing period is endless all year round. The western seabed is an extension of the continental shelf, which is relatively flat, with rich benthic fish and shellfish.

In this era, the sea was not polluted at all, and the reproduction of fish was quite rapid. The development of the marine fishing industry would definitely not destroy the ecological balance, and there was no such thing as fishing moratorium. In the next hundred years, the sea would be an endless treasure house. As long as you have the ability, you can dig out wealth.

In addition, the grain production on Taiwan Island is also something that Zhang Zhun needs to focus on. Taiwan Island is particularly suitable for growing rice. Rice can be ripened twice a year or even three a year. Judging from the situation in later generations, the rice production on Taiwan Island is quite large. Even with a population of tens of millions, it seems that it does not need to import much grain, and it is basically self-sufficient.

Zhang Zhun felt it was necessary to ask the Agricultural Science and Technology Development Department led by Song Yingxing to carefully consider how to make the rice yield on Taiwan Island reach the highest level. What kind of varieties should be chosen and what kind of planning should be made to fully utilize the potential of Taiwan's land and climate.

In fact, Song Yingxing has made a lot of efforts. According to Yuan Longping's development ideas, he has bred some high-yield varieties through the hybridization of different varieties of rice. In the era without pesticides and fertilizers, the rice yield per mu of paddy field in a single season can reach 400 kilograms, which is quite good. If it can reach 500 kilograms, it is an ideal number.

The new rice varieties cultivated by Song Yingxing can reach 600 kilograms per mu under the best conditions in all aspects. If these new rice varieties can be promoted in a planned manner on Taiwan Island, in the future, the Hu Ben Army will have more grain reserves. In the era of war, grain is the most important strategic material!

Tea is also a place that Taiwan Island needs to be vigorously planted. The climate and terrain of Taiwan Island are suitable for large-scale tea cultivation. In later generations, the tea production of Taiwan Island was only second to the yield of rice. Taiwan should, together with Fujian opposite, take the development of tea as the main trunk, and create a concentrated large-scale tea production area, which will unite the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and develop together.

In the future, the Hu Ben Navy will fight everywhere, pushing the tea from the Hu Ben Empire to the whole world, so that everyone in the world will realize that they can taste China's tea. To achieve this, they must provide enough tea supply at low prices and good quality. These teas are not loaded by pounds, but by ships. Relying on Fujian alone, I am afraid that they will not be able to achieve it.

Of course, from the perspective of the shipbuilding industry, it is also very necessary to build a large shipyard on Taiwan Island. Taiwan Island has rich forest resources, which can meet the needs of shipyards on the spot. Zhang Zhun went to a brief look and found many big trees with trees over a hundred years old. These big trees can be used to build large battleships of more than 1,000 tons, and some wood can even be used as keels.

According to information, most of the trees on Taiwan Island are fir trees, red cypresses, camphor trees and nanmu. These are all good materials for shipbuilding. Especially camphor trees and nanmu, used for shipbuilding, not only guarantee the quality, but also have a very beautiful appearance. If it is used to build a cruise ship or a pleasure boat, the effect will be better. Of course, these woods are also good materials for creating furniture. Many of the furniture of serenia are made of nanmu.

Basically, Zhang Zhun has decided to build the fourth shipyard of the Hu Ben Army Navy near Jilong Port, specifically for building larger and larger warships. At the same time, restrictions on civil shipyards on Taiwan Island were lifted, and private capital was allowed to set up civil shipyards here to build more civil ships.

"Governor, all this requires labor!"

"It's not easy to immigrate a lot."

Xiong Wencan said tactfully.

Zhang Zhun's plan to develop Taiwan Island is quite grand. Industry and agriculture are moving forward together, and four carriages are starting at the same time. However, such a grand plan requires a lot of human resources. Especially the fishing industry and shipyards require a large amount of young and middle-aged labor. Relatively speaking, the investment is not a lot.

With the current population of Taiwan Island, it is impossible to support such a huge development plan. The only way to solve the labor problem is to immigrate a large number of immigrants. However, the war on the mainland has just ended, and many places have large lands and few people. In this case, ordinary people do not need to immigrate to Taiwan Island at all.

Don’t look at the only narrow Taiwan Strait between the mainland and Taiwan Island. It seems that it can be easily crossed. In fact, the climate of this strait is quite complex and changeable. The frequency of storms occurs very high. It is impossible for ships with a displacement of less than 100 tons to come. Fishermen on the coast of Fujian are afraid of the storms in the Taiwan Strait.

In other words, if you want to immigrate to Taiwan Island in large quantities, you can only be an official organization that uses large ships to transport them collectively. Encouraging people to cross the sea freely will only lead to more dead souls in the sea. However, from the perspective of immigration, they live a good life in Fujian! Why should they migrate to Taiwan Island?

However, no matter how difficult it is, the immigration problem must be solved. This is also the ability of Zhang Zhun to test Xiong Wencan. If the immigration problem cannot be solved, Xiong Wencan will not have to serve as the governor. Go home to farm. Xiong Wencan said hesitantly: "Governor, I have a suggestion from my subordinates, I don't know whether to talk about it..."

Zhang Zhun said calmly: "Speak."

Xiong Wencan said tactfully: "If the refugees in Shaanxi stayed in the local area, they might cause some unimaginable consequences. The imperial army in Jiangnan, Lingnan, Yunnan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places has not been dismissed yet..."

Zhang Zhun pondered for a moment and nodded slowly.

Xiong Wencan didn't say something clearly, but Zhang Zhun already understood it.

For the Shaanxi Uprising Army, it is a taboo thing to deal with them and where to give them a living soil. After all, a lot of these people are gangsters in military households and soldiers. These people will not farm with peace of mind. If you ask them to go back to their hometown, they will definitely continue to think of ways.

The senior leaders of the Hu Ben Army would rather migrate them to the mainland than stay in Shaanxi. There are indeed too many factors that cause unstable events in this area of ​​Shaanxi. Since they want to migrate, it is better to migrate collectively to Taiwan Island.

As long as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others were arranged to other places and not allowed to go to the island, the rioters who were forcibly migrated to Taiwan would have no possibility of rebellion. Similarly, without the support of these rioters, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others would not be able to become active.

The same is true for those remaining imperial troops. Under the escort of the Hu Ben Army, they would be established and all moved to Taiwan Island. Subsequently, their families would also be moved there. A rough estimate is that by migrating the Shaanxi Uprising Army, the imperial army, and their families, the population of Taiwan Island should be close to one million.

Taiwan Island is surrounded by the sea, and the Hu Ben Navy has strong control capabilities. It is impossible for people who come to Taiwan Island to rebel. At the beginning, Taiwan Island was a pure prison. Over time, Shaanxi refugees will gradually be assimilated. In the end, they will become permanent residents of Taiwan Island.

"good!"

"That's it!"

Zhang Zhun made the decision decisively.
Chapter completed!