Yan Siqi's Character Life

In the thirty-first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1603), Siqi was bullied by an official, became angry from embarrassment, killed his servant, and fled to Japan, where he worked as a tailor and concurrently engaged in Sino-Japanese maritime trade (actually pirates). After a few years, the savings gradually became rich. In the meantime, Siqi often made friends with Yang Tiansheng, the boss of Jinjiang, Quanzhou, who was doing trade in Nagasaki, and met a group of Minnan people who lived in Japan and engaged in overseas exploration. Because he is a hero, he is famous far and wide, and the Hirado authorities in Japan appointed him as a snail (leader)

In the next four years (1624), Siqi and others are dissatisfied with the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, plotting to rebel and participating in the resistance struggle of the Japanese people. On June 15th of the lunar calendar, Yan Siqi became brothers with 28 people, including Yang Tiansheng, Chen Zhongji (from Haicheng, Zhangzhou) and Zheng Zhilong (from Nan 'an, Quanzhou), and made an oath: "Born in another day and die together". The masses elected Qi Qi as their leader. Unfortunately, the shogunate sent troops to search, and Siqi led the people to escape in thirteen ships. When we sailed to the outer island of Zhouzaiwei on the west coast of Kyushu, Chen Zhongji suggested, "I heard that Qiu Shu is a desert island at sea, which controls the southeast and has fertile land. Now, take the land first, and then invade it on all sides, so you can make a profit. "

On August 23rd of the lunar calendar, Si Qi led a fleet to the Gulf and landed in Hong Kong (now Beigang, Taiwan Province Province). Seeing that the land on the island is fertile and beautiful, and there is still a large area of uncultivated land, Siqi decided to open up territory here and do something. Is to collect logging and break the village. At the right time, the natives thought that foreign enemies were invading and gathered to attack. Qiqi left people to appease and agreed not to harass each other on the border. In Ye Ping (now Xingang) on the southeast bank of Benxi Steel, Siqi plans to build a well-shaped camp with a large platform in the middle, making it the center of organizing and directing reclamation. At the same time, Yang Tiansheng was sent to lead a fleet of more than 3,000 people to Zhang Quan's hometown to recruit immigrants.

Yan Siqi divided the farmers into ten villages, divided them into silver, cattle and farm tools, and started the earliest large-scale reclamation activities in Taiwan Province Province. Reclamation requires capital investment. Yan Siqi selected a group of people with sailing experience from Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places, and made use of the original 13 large ship and the convenience of maritime traffic to develop maritime trade with the mainland. At the same time, organize sea fishing and island hunting, develop mountain and sea economy and solve the material needs of immigrants' production and life.