When was Taiwan Province Province occupied and colonized by Holland?

With the great geographical discoveries in 15 and 16 centuries, the world entered the era of sea power, and the emerging European sea power countries expanded their power in Asia.

1624, Dutch colonists belonging to the Dutch East India Company invaded South Taiwan Province Province in order to establish a stronghold for trade with China and Japan.

Dutch colonialists occupied Taiwan Province Province for 38 years, and built two cities, Gran Castle (now Anping Castle) and Plomin Castle (now Chikanta) in Tainan City as the centers of colonial rule, recruiting residents from Fujian coastal areas and Penghu areas to move to Taiwan Province Province for reclamation, so as to increase the output of rice, sugar and other crops.

Dutch colonialists enforced compulsory rule, appropriated the land for themselves, forced people to pay various taxes, plundered rice and sugar in Taiwan Province Province, and re-exported the purchased raw silk, sugar and porcelain from China to other countries through Taiwan Province Province to obtain high profits.

The rule of Dutch colonists aroused the resistance of the people in Taiwan Province Province. 1652, Guo Huaiyi led the largest armed uprising, which was finally suppressed, but it showed that there was a crisis in Dutch colonial rule. Nine years later, they cooperated with the national hero Zheng Chenggong to expel the Dutch and recover Taiwan Province Province.

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During the colonial period from 1624 to 1662, Taiwan Province Province was also the first regime to systematically rule Taiwan Province Province. At this time, it coincided with the geographical discovery. European powers came to East Asia to trade and establish colonies, while the Dutch occupied Taiwan Province Province in 1624 in order to establish a stronghold for trade with China and Japan.

Before the Dutch came to Taiwan, there was no strict definition of Han immigrants in Taiwan Province Province, and most of them were short-term Han immigrants. Dutch colonial authorities urgently needed labor for land reclamation and lacked domestic immigrants to develop colonies, which attracted a large number of Han Chinese to immigrate to Taiwan Province Province.

At that time, the Dutch established an environment suitable for Chinese immigrants, and the Chinese provided the labor force needed for economic development, while the economy of Taiwan Province Province grew rapidly under the interdependence of the Dutch and the Chinese, so some scholars called it * * * colonization.

In terms of indigenous governance, at first, the Dutch focused on developing trade and could not expand. It was not until 1635 that the foreign trade of the Dutch colonial authorities began to stabilize, and they launched conquest, reached an agreement with the aborigines, and established the feudal relationship in which the Dutch were lords and the aborigines were vassals.

The Dutch regularly held local meetings (English: landdag) (Dutch: landdag) to maintain the feudal relationship between the two sides, and appointed aboriginal leaders to establish official leaders of aboriginal society to assist the Dutch in implementing government decrees.

Through local meetings, the Dutch also unified the indigenous tribes that originally attacked each other with a single village community as a political entity into a United village (Dutch: Verenigde Dorpen) and placed it under Dutch sovereignty. The Dutch attacked the hostile tribes in Lianhe Village and let the aborigines plant grass, which made the relationship between the two sides closer.

After 1640, the administrative expenditure of the colonies in Taiwan Province Province soared, and the income gradually shifted from entrepot trade to local taxes. For this reason, the Dutch began to increase various taxes. After 1650, the sugarcane industry on which many farmers depended began to decline, and the Han people became more and more dissatisfied with the Dutch rule, which triggered the Guo Huaiyi incident.

After the incident subsided, the Dutch did not change the structure of the whole colony, and still exploited the Han Chinese labor force as the basis of economic development. However, Zheng Chenggong's rise in Fujian coastal areas brought new variables to the Dutch-China colony. Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan Province Province in 166 1 and was defeated by the Dutch the following year and withdrew from Taiwan Province Province.

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