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    After Li Min came to Keelung, he immediately summoned officials from all levels of agencies and county magistrates from all counties in Taiwan for a meeting. In fact, it was not a big deal, but Li Min wanted to know more about the situation in various places in Taiwan, and then make an overall decision.  Development planning strives to speed up Taiwan's construction progress. Only when Taiwan's local strength becomes stronger will it have more power to develop outwards.

    Li Min is still serving as the governor of Taiwan, but he only acts in name only. The person who actually manages Taiwan is Cui Wei, who he appointed as his assistant.  The other party is the cousin of Cui Yu and Cui Mengxue, and can also be regarded as a relative of Li Min. In addition, he is an outstanding person, manages Taiwan in an orderly manner, and will carry out Li Min's orders to the letter, so he is quite popular.  Li Min's trust.

    In addition to Cui Wei, there are also Zhu Meng, who serves as the chief of police, and Chen Gong, the dean of the Metropolitan Police Department. Both of them were originally Yang Xun's most trusted people. Later, they were recommended to Li Min and were entrusted with important tasks by him.  One is in charge of public security, and the other is in charge of the conduct of metropolitan officials. Moreover, these two departments were newly established by Li Min, and their positions are very important.

    Li Min summoned Cui Wei, Chen Gong and Zhu Meng, as well as officials in charge of commerce, taxation, fishery, agriculture and other levels, as well as officials from various counties, who also attended the meeting.  At the beginning of the meeting, Li Min asked these officials to report to him the work of their respective departments this year and the problems they encountered during their work.

    Taiwan is now divided into five counties: Taipei, Tainan, Taichung, Taitung, and Penghu. This is much smaller than the counties in Taiwan Province in later generations. In addition, although the names of these five counties are the same as the names of counties in later Taiwan, they are actually  The area is much larger than that of later generations.  Even except for Penghu, the positions of the other four counties have also undergone great changes.

    For example, take Taitung County as an example.  Its location does not coincide with the location of later generations at all, but includes all of Hualien County in the background.  Most of Nantou County and part of Kaohsiung County.  As for Taitung County in later generations, they were all included in Tainan County.

    There are now more than 500,000 Han people in Taiwan, and the number of slaves exceeds 2.5 million.  However, a considerable part of the Han people are floating people, engaged in business or work, and often travel between Taiwan and the mainland. Many people obtained their household registration in the Tang Dynasty and then obtained their household registration in Taiwan.  Household registration.  There are properties on both sides.

    Today, Taiwan still relies on agriculture, fishery, food processing and port trade as its main economic pillars. Agriculture is mainly based on large plantations, with the highest concentration in Tainan County. There are large and small plantations and farms everywhere.  It mainly grows sugar cane and rice, but also grows tea, wormwood and other cash crops.  According to Cui Wei's statistics, there are now more than 100,000 Han people working in plantations in Taiwan, and the number of slaves in plantations exceeds 1.5 million, making it the industry with the largest population in Taiwan.

    As for fisheries.  In Taiwan, fishing is completely commercial. Most of the large fisheries companies form their own fishing teams, and then use trawl nets to carry out large-scale fishing. The fish obtained are sold directly to various processing plants.  A very small amount also flows into the fish markets in various cities in Taiwan for local people to buy and eat.

    The plantation economy and commercial fishing provide Taiwan with a large amount of industrial raw materials.  Therefore, the island of Taiwan is now full of various food processing factories, such as cane sugar factories.  Breweries, fish drying plants, canneries, etc., these food processing plants range from few to many.  From weak to strong, it has become one of Taiwan's major economic pillars.

    As for the final port trade, Taiwan takes advantage of the natural advantages of its own islands to vigorously develop port trade in Keelung and Tainan. Countless goods are loaded and unloaded here every day. The annual throughput of some ports is more than hundreds of thousands of tons. Although this  The numbers are incomparable to those of ports in later generations, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, they were already astonishing.  Therefore, port trade is also the most important economic pillar of Taiwan.

    In addition to the above four economic pillars, Taiwan's textile industry is also developing very rapidly. After all, cotton cloth has become more and more accepted by overseas businessmen, and the export volume of cotton cloth has increased significantly. Taiwan is close to Nanyang, and many cotton cloths pass through it every day.  The transfer here also stimulates Taiwan's local textile industry, so it will show a prosperous scene.

    However, because the textile industry is an intensive industry that requires a large number of workers, and is restricted by Taiwan's population, the textile industry has now reached a bottleneck. Now various textile owners are turning to the Academy of Sciences, hoping that they can improve the current weaving process.  machine, and developed a new machine that reduces the manpower input of textile factories and increases work efficiency.

    While the textile industry is developing rapidly, heavy industries such as shipyards, steel plants, and cement plants have also taken off. Especially shipyards and related industries, taking advantage of major ports, are also developing very fast. However, shipbuilding is a systematic project.  , all aspects require certainTime will develop, but I believe that within a few years, Taiwan's shipbuilding industry will reach a peak.

    After Li Min 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 were developing well, especially the most basic  Agriculture in Taiwan is developing particularly fast. For example, Taiwan is already 90% self-sufficient in food, and the rest can be imported from Linyi. It has basically got rid of the situation of importing from Datang.  This is probably because most officials like Cui Wei are Confucian disciples and are influenced by the idea of ??establishing a country based on agriculture, so they pay special attention to agriculture.

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

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

    When Li Min heard Cui Wei's words and looked at everyone's reactions, he already made some guesses in his mind, but he smiled and said, "Is it because of the population problem?"

    "Your Highness is wise!" Cui Wei said with a wry smile, "The area of ??Taiwan is more than half that of Dengzhou, but the population of Dengzhou has long exceeded one million, but the population of Taiwan is less than that of Dengzhou.  Half, in addition, Your Highness also needs to build various types of factories to meet the requirements for Taiwan to be self-sufficient in all aspects, which requires more people. However, although Datang does not prohibit us from bringing in people, it is restricted by various aspects.  Our population growth is still too slow and cannot meet all needs."

    The population mentioned by Cui Wei refers to the Han population, and slaves are not included. After all, most of those slaves are concentrated in major plantations, and some are concentrated in factories. However, in the eyes of most people, these slaves are not  It's a human being, just a talking tool.

    Li Min also nodded after hearing this. In fact, Taiwan's population growth rate is not slow now. This is mainly due to the population introduction measures implemented in various aspects of Taiwan. For example, taking agriculture as an example, as long as people from the mainland are willing to come to Taiwan, they will immediately come to Taiwan.  He can be allocated a hundred acres of land, and if he is willing to spend some money, he can buy more land. The land price is so cheap that it is like giving it away for free, and if any mineral deposits are found on these lands, they will all be privately owned.  , the government will only collect some taxes upon development.

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

    In addition to agriculture, there are similar preferential regulations in industry and commerce. In particular, Li Min also abolished various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in industry and commerce, and at the same time separated the right to collect taxes from government departments and established a special  The tax collection bureau collects taxes uniformly. For example, goods leaving the factory will pay a unified tax when they leave the factory. Then, with the tax bill issued by the tax bureau, you can travel across the island without paying any more taxes.

    It is precisely through the various preferential conditions for the agricultural, industrial and commercial industries, as well as improvements in laws, security, environment and other aspects that more and more people are settling in Taiwan. However, Taiwan is developing too fast.  People are needed in all walks of life, so population growth still cannot meet the demand.

    Thinking of the above, Li Min smiled at Cui Wei and officials at all levels: "The total number of households in the country according to data in the Tang Dynasty is more than three million, about more than 10 million people. However, because there are many fugitives from the local government,  There are no statistics on households and missing households, so according to my estimate, the total population of Datang should be more than 20 million, and now we have spent three years and have a population of 500,000. If this is  In the Tang Dynasty, it is already considered a land of Shangzhou, so don¡¯t think that the current population is small, I am very satisfied with the current population growth and everyone¡¯s efforts!¡±

    Li Min settled the accounts for everyone, and also praised everyone present. This made Cui Wei and the others very excited. They all stroked their beards and smiled with contentment on their faces.

    At this time, Li Min continued: "As for the population problem, everyone is very anxious, and so is I. But after thinking about it for a while, I have thought of a good way to introduce population from the Tang Dynasty!"
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