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Chapter 1347 Fighting Dogs in Taiwan

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    Once it is determined that the coconut is produced in Pingtung, the remaining inference is very simple¡ª¡ª

    When those sailors set out from Dagou Port, they would pick a ship's worth of green coconuts that could be stored for less than ten days, indicating that they had mastered the safe and fast waterway and used this to frequently travel between Xiawei and Dagou.

    This was indeed something Zhao Hao had not expected before. He had always thought that there was no contact between Ming Dynasty and Taiwan Island at the moment.

    Although looking at the map, Taiwan Island is only 150 kilometers away from the nearest point in Fujian.

    Since ancient times, Taiwan has been an integral part of our country.

    During the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Quan sent 10,000 officers and soldiers to land and declared that Taiwan was an inalienable part of Wu.

    Later, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty sent people to Taiwan three times to "visit foreign customs" and "comfort" the residents, and declared that Taiwan was an inseparable part of the Sui Dynasty.  From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, mainland coastal residents began to migrate to Taiwan to colonize and settle in order to avoid war.

    By the Southern Song Dynasty, Penghu was placed under the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Quanzhou, Fujian.  In the Yuan Dynasty, the Penghu Inspection Department was established to govern the civil affairs of Penghu and Taiwan. The Central Dynasty began to formally establish institutions and rule in Taiwan.

    ?According to common sense, Taiwan should have been developed by China into a royal land where households are established and the people are unified.

    Just like Qiongzhou, which is also a remote island, it was incorporated into counties from the Western Han Dynasty and was under the rule of Guangfu until this dynasty. It is now a land of serious kings with millions of acres of cultivated land and nearly one million residents.  .

    But the facts are contrary to common sense. Currently, the island of Taiwan is still dominated by the Buraku people. There are no imperial institutions and there are no large-scale Han immigrants The latter one was Zhao Hao's understanding before today, and it has now been smashed by a coconut.  .

    The reason why such a big step backwards has occurred is of course closely related to the maritime ban policy of Emperor Taizu of the Chinese dynasty who was stupid enough to break through the skyline.  In the seventeenth year of Hongwu's reign, due to the strict maritime ban, the Ming court abolished the Penghu Inspection Department and moved all Taiwanese residents of Penghu back to the mainland.  As a result, the development of Taiwan by the Han family since the Tang and Song Dynasties was destroyed, and the island of Taiwan once again became a paradise for the indigenous people.

    ¡°This kind of indigenous people are not the locals as mentioned in the conflict between natives and guests, but the pure natural and original ecological kind Therefore, Taiwan has regressed back to primitive society during the reign of the Republic of China.

    It was not until eight years ago that the imperial court reestablished the Penghu Inspection Department in order to prepare for the Japanese invasion.  But five years ago, the sea masters teamed up to take it back

    The great prophecy told Zhao Hao that after Yu Dayou took office, he would soon seize Penghu again and reset the inspection department.  However, the paradox is that the Ming court, the sea masters, and the coastal residents turned a blind eye to the treasure island of Taiwan, which is just a stone's throw away from Penghu.

    Is it because the land in Fujian and Guangdong is so vast that the people cannot be interested?  Obviously not. Isn't the fundamental reason for the fighting between the natives and the Hakkas that the two provinces are sparsely populated and the locals and Hakkas are fighting for land and water resources?

    In order to survive, countless people from Fujian and Guangdong took their families and traveled across the oceans to Southeast Asia to make a living.  But he turned a blind eye to the island of Taiwan right at his doorstep.

    As a result, when the Dutch colonized Taiwan decades later, they were still dealing with aborigines.  In order to build Taiwan into a self-sufficient colony like Batavia, the Dutch began to attract Han people to colonize Dayuan.  Later, Zheng Zhilong and his son ushered in the era of large-scale immigration of Han people.  Then during the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan completely completed the transformation of states into counties

    Why is this so?

    In fact, the reason is not complicated at all. Although Taiwan is close, crossing the sea from Fujian and Guangdong to Taiwan is much more dangerous than going to Ryukyu or Luzon.

    First of all, the Taiwan Strait opens to the northeast and southwest, and there are the Taiwan Mountains with a main peak of nearly 4,000 meters high on the east side, and the Fujian Mountains with an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters above sea level on the west side.  Under the confrontation between the two mountains, the strait has become a narrow pipe, and the flow of sea surface air is restricted in this pipe, thus producing a 'narrow pipe effect' - either the northeast wind blows, or the southwest wind blows, and the flow speed accelerates.  Strong winds often form.  In layman's terms, the alley wind will only blow in two opposite directions, and there will be no other wind direction.

    For example, in winter and spring, cold air from the north moves southward again and again. Regardless of whether it originally comes from the northwest region, blowing northwest winds, or comes from North China, blowing northerly winds. When they reach the Taiwan Strait, they will all abide by the rules of the strait - turn  It will be a northeasterly wind, and the wind will directly increase by one to two levels.

    Even if the cold air weakens and the wind falls elsewhere, the Taiwan Strait will still be windy and dangerous due to the narrow tube effect. How can a sailboat cross it?

    The same is true in summer, but the wind changes to southeasterly, and the waves are still the same.  And there are so many typhoons that the waves are almost reaching the sky.

    But the wind is not the main difficulty. After all, the Chinese-style sail can be driven by the wind at right angles, which is not a problem for experienced sailors.

    &n? Denied: "No, their large army did not set off from Xiawei!"

    "What my uncle said is that we have been keeping an eye on Xiawei City for some time, and the dock is the top priority. We have never seen a large-scale departure." Tang Baolu nodded hurriedly.

    "Well" Zhao Hao nodded, staring at the map and thinking.  Suddenly an idea flashed, and he pointed at Nan'ao Island, which had turned into a small dot, and said: "Focus on Nan'ao Island!"

    "That's right!" Tang Baolu slapped his forehead and said suddenly: "For so many people to gather from all directions and then set off quietly, there is no more suitable place than that!"

    "Not bad." Zhao Hao nodded, Nan'ao Island was Zheng Chenggong's base for regaining Taiwan.  When the Sui Dynasty visited Taiwan, it also started from there.

    The whole island is as big as a county, with fresh water, docks, and dense forests where you can hide and escape the heat. When it gets dark, thousands of people can go to the island at once, and no one else will notice.

    ¡°Maybe when I picked up Lin Run, there was someone hiding on the island.

    "But I was on the west side of the island at the time. They should be in the Qing'ao Bay area on the east side. They were forty miles apart. It was normal that I didn't notice them.

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