Time flies like water, and January passes in the blink of an eye, and it is already midsummer.
Gao pragmatically returned to Guilin. In this month, he completed all the backlog of documents and impeached an inspector who used a private stage carriage. There were also other officials who were impeached by Gao pragmatically for being illegal and careless. Six or seven people, finally he did not have to work for a year in vain, and it will be difficult to do business when he returns.
After Huang Zhiting sent Gao Pangshi to Guilin, she stayed for a few days and then returned to Siming Mansion. After all, she was also a person with business matters and it was not good for her to stay away for a long time.
Naturally, she was extremely reluctant to leave when she left. Miss Huang, who was used to seeing life and death on the battlefield, had tears in her eyes. Looking at that look, the wolf soldiers would not be surprised even if she suddenly couldn't say goodbye.
Fortunately, the wolf soldiers he led this time knew that there was something unusual between the eldest lady and the high press platform. They lowered their heads so much that they were almost tucked into their crotches, barely maintaining the eldest lady's dignity.
Gao pragmatic didn't say too many words. Although he had good eloquence, he was reluctant to speak out at this moment. He simply said two words to Huang Zhiting: "Wait for me."
Huang Zhiting's tears were actually brought out by these two words.
Everything that needs to be done is almost done. Gao is pragmatic and unlike Zhang Ren, who is not interested in growing his own sweet potatoes. In addition to "going to work" on time every day, he also receives requests for approval from Jinghua Group from various places.
He has not made many adjustments recently, and only one thing is a new instruction: he ordered Gao Qi to use Quanzhou Port as a base and send people to gradually explore Yingang and its surrounding areas.
Jingang, also known as Beigang, is located in Butai Town, Chiayi County, later Taiwan Province, in the lower reaches of Beigang Creek in central Taiwan. During the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was once referred to as "魍agang". Jingang was also an important port for maritime merchants and fishermen traveling between Taiwan Island, the Penghu Islands, and the Zhejiang and Fujian regions.
If you start from Quanzhou, you only need to sail directly to the southeast to reach it, and you will almost pass by the Penghu Islands on the way.
For a long time in Chinese history, the island of Taiwan has been in obscurity and few people care about it. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the mainland called Taiwan Island "Daoyi", during the Qin Dynasty it was called "Yingzhou", and during the Three Kingdoms period, it was called "Yizhou".
During the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was mainly called "Ryukyu". During this period, the connection between the mainland and Taiwan was more frequent visits by private fishermen or people who went out to sea. At this time, in addition to a very small number of people from the mainland who immigrated to the island of Taiwan, there were also Some people passed through and lived here temporarily, while many more residents were indigenous residents of the island of Taiwan.
By the Ming Dynasty, various experts from later generations estimated that there were about 100,000 indigenous residents living on the island of Taiwan. They lived a primitive tribal life and lived scattered across the island's 36,000 square kilometers of land.
After the mid-Ming Dynasty, there were many folk names for Taiwan, such as "Chicken Coop", "Beigang", "Da Yuan", "Tai Yuan", "Tai Wo Wan", and the official name was "Dongfan". During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty officially The name "Taiwan" began to be used.
Although the management of Taiwan by successive mainland courts was loose, it was not completely laissez-faire. In the Song Dynasty, due to the further development of maritime trade, the mainland had more contacts with Taiwan. By the Southern Song Dynasty, the government even sent troops to garrison Penghu to manage Taiwan.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was established. At this time, the number of people immigrating to Taiwan increased again.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was still established in the early Ming Dynasty. It was not abolished due to the implementation of the maritime ban in the 20th year of Hongwu, and the residents were moved to Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. In the 42nd year of Jiajing's reign, the Penghu Inspection Department was reestablished due to factors such as coastal security.
However, in general, due to the Ming Dynasty's previous maritime ban policy, Taiwan was not effectively managed, making it a haven and activity base for some pirate and smuggling groups. The more famous ones are Lin Daoqian and Lin Feng. In the original history, there will be Later, Li Dan and Zheng Zhilong became the adopted father and son.
What Gao Qi defeated in the Fujian Sea was Lin Feng's remaining main force and the pirate alliance after his failure in Luzon.
Oh, in fact, Taiwan now has another name among Europeans, called "Formosa". This is still an old story in the 22nd year of Jiajing. At that time, the Portuguese accidentally passed through the Taiwan Strait on their way to Japan and accidentally discovered a beautiful island. They called this beautiful island "Formosa" , "Formosa" means "Beautiful Island".
However, although the Portuguese discovered the "Beautiful Island", they did not occupy the island - the Portuguese population was limited and there were very few aborigines on Taiwan Island. For them, it was actually of little value.
In subsequent history, if the little butterfly Gao Pragmatic had not appeared, the Dutch would have replaced Portugal and Spain as the new maritime overlords.
Then the Dutch would establish the "East India Company" in the city of Batavia, responsible for managing the colonies in Southeast Asia. In the fourth year of the Great Ming Dynasty, the Dutch will send some people to invade the island of Taiwan and build Fort Relanje on the island. The next year, the Dutch will build Proven on the Chican Mountain opposite Fort Relanje. Castle. The Dutch thus began their colonial rule over Taiwan.
This place was originally a safe haven for Eastern pirate smuggling groups, but was suddenly occupied by the Dutch. This, of course, directly affected the interests of the Zheng Zhilong Group, which was trading on the southeastern coast of the Ming Dynasty at that time. However, at that time, although Zheng Zhilong had negotiations with the Dutch, he was too busy fighting against the Qing Dynasty and surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, so he had no time to worry about it. Therefore, during the struggle between the Tatar Qing and Southern Ming forces, the Dutch remained steadily stationed in Taiwan for 38 years.
Until Zheng Chenggong regained Taiwan - everyone knows this, so I won’t say more.
In short, at this time, Taiwan had a small number of Ming pirates or people related to pirates living along the coast, but the population was very small. Overall, Taiwan is still a primitive desert island, a land without one.
Gao pragmatically asked Gao Qi to send people to explore Jingang. Naturally, it was not to wipe out the remnants of pirates - or this was only a very small part of the reason - he was beginning to consider occupying Taiwan.
With Gao Wushu's current maritime strength, it is not difficult to occupy Taiwan. Even Spain, Portugal, and later the Dutch will probably not consider competing with him for Taiwan.
Not to mention Portugal, decades have passed and they had plenty of opportunities to occupy Taiwan, but they did not do so because it was unprofitable.
But what happened to the Dutch? Didn’t they occupy Taiwan later?
In fact, this truth is worthless: the Portuguese rented Macau, and although it was still inconvenient, they could still trade with the Ming Dynasty. However, the Dutch have never obtained this "pass". They have always relied on Zheng Zhilong's transfer to do business with Ming Dynasty.
This was obviously not in line with the wishes of the Dutch, who were known as the "Sea Coachmen" at the time, so they came up with the idea of colonizing Taiwan, hoping that one day they could gather strength to defeat Zheng Zhilong, and then force Ming Dynasty to trade directly with them .
Therefore, to put it bluntly, everyone was not going to the island of Taiwan itself at this time, but to find a "transit station" to do business with the Ming Dynasty.
And now the Ming Dynasty does not refuse to do business with others. Although the merchant ships of gringos are not allowed to enter the port, the Ming Dynasty has allowed the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants to go to sea for trade, and since the court is making more and more profits from it, this is already a rule. National policy will not be changed easily.
So, who would have the nerve to go against the most powerful sea trade group in the Ming Dynasty over a deserted island?
Therefore, at this time, if Gao Pragmatic goes to take Taiwan Island, it is obvious that he will not encounter too much external resistance.
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