6/7/2023 0 Comments Moso in spanishAt that time Lin’s father and key followers were under arrest, no more clues found at their trials. When the authority couldn’t suppress chaos, the anxious Emperor ordered to excavated the tombs of Lin’s ancestors in Fujian ZhangZhou to break their spirit, but nothing found after search. However, this was a confession under torture. He was elected as the leader of rebels by the outraged crowd, because the officers burned down houses by the reason of pursuing gangsters without a proof. He confessed that he was illiterate and his family was poor. Lin Shuang-Wen had ever worked as a policeman, he often gave financial help to those who under arrest and tried to bail them out. In the name of suppressing bandits, they burned down houses causing public complaints and later the peasant uprising. He believed that officers and soldiers dispatched to Taiwan had long benefited from the people that it’s corrupting disciplines. Qianlong Emperor also put forward a review afterward. Three months later, Lin, his family and key rebels were captured alive, sent to the mainland for trial, recorded their confessions and executed by a method of torture. In addition, local people with different ethnic groups from Lin Shuang-Wen supported government’s military moves, also the people who originally joined Lin defected due to the change of situation. The uprising couldn’t been suppressed until the end of 1787, when Fuk’anggan and cavalry Hailancha led the new troops who were well equipped, disciplined and had combat experience. The Emperor decided to send the governor general Chang Qing to command the troops in Taiwan. ![]() Although Qing army had shotguns and cannons, they still couldn’t been able to capture the mountain strongholds of Lin and his followers. The troops had barely recaptured the government. But after three months, farmers in northern, central and southern Taiwan responded to the uprising attacking and occupying the government city. At first, the Emperor thought Lin Shuang-Wen was just an ordinary bandit with his followers, would collapse at the first blow. In the beginning of 1787, the general and the admiral of Fujian army presented memorials to the Emperor of rebellion in Taiwan one after another, and led troops across the sea. This incident made Qianlong Emperor change his mind and let Chia return to his position as an effective way to threat all the indigenous people by Chia’s reputation. Chia Daji led civil and military officials into the mountains to revenge twice and killed 38 indigenous people in number. Not long after the transfer order, there were officials encountered indigenous people and were beheaded, over ten people killed. The Emperor believed Chia Daji couldn’t be fit for the position overseas, so consider Chia’s transfer. The Emperor thought it would be something urgent, but later knew it’s little things that didn’t matter. ![]() After two days, he presented another one. In 1785, the chief commander of Taiwan, Chia Daji presented a memorial to Qianlong Emperor. As early as 1782, Qianlong Emperor issued an order saying that the term of officers stationed in Taiwan changed from 3 years to 5 years, because Taiwan was an important territory overseas and inhabited by people from all regions, 3-year term of officers apparently too short to manage.
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