12 ISLAND IN THE STREAM I.The Era of Global Navigation 13 the island.Koxinga deliberately chose names to reflect his Koxinga's Death relationship to the Ming regime. Formosa was called Dongdu(柬都)，that is the eastern capital Less than a year after the taking of Formosa,Koxinga died in of the Ming Regime.Zeelandia was destroyed and the area re- 1662.He had not realized his goals but a shrine was erected to him named Anping.The surrounding region(now Tainan)was called by the Chinese immigrants;he was deified and many myths about Cheng Tianfu(承天府)，which means a government connecting his life soon developed and spread throughout East Asia.In 1664, God to his people.To the north,the land was called Tianxing feeling pressure from the Manchu people and the Dutch who still 興縣，flourishing)County,.and to the south,Wannian(蒿年縣， traded with China,Zheng Jing(鄭經)，the eldest son of Koxinga long life)County.A defense bureau named“Anfu”(安撫司， who had been left in charge of Amoy,led seven thousand soldiers placating)was established in the Pescadore Islands.Koxinga had and their families to Formosa.This marked the Zheng forces used names that reflected the Ming regime's extension. complete abandonment of the mainland. An immediate problem that Koxinga had faced was Zheng Jing then proceeded to change and improve the insufficient food.The population of Formosa during the Dutch administrative districts set up by his father.He changed"Dongdu" rule was one hundred thousand people;Koxinga had brought an to“Dongning”(束寧，peaceful east);and the two counties became additional thirty thousand including the soldiers and their families. "Tianxing Prefecture'”and“Wannian Prefecture..”He further This rapid increase of population strained the food supply.To established two more“An-f”groups on Formosa.“Zheng resolve this,Koxinga confiscated all of the land previously Tianfu"was divided into four streets and twenty-four units that possessed by the Dutch East India Company and transferred it to were called the“Street Unit System.”(坊里制)With this street unit his regime.These lands were divided among his trusted staff and system,Zheng Jing established a census register,which would relatives;and in addition the development of farmland in southern become the basis of the "Bao-jia System,”(保甲制度)a system Formosa was aggressively pursued.Koxinga unwisely invaded the used for keeping local security.This system is still in use today. land that belonged to the aborigines and destroyed any oppo- Government affairs were given to Chen Yong-hua(陳永華)， rtunities of peaceful co-existence with them.With the develop- the father in law of Zheng Jing's elder son.Yong-hua established ment of the land divided among his staff and relatives,the private many policies for farmland development,education and finance, land system that has existed into the present was introduced and but he also developed a severe tax system that would make the Koxinga influence expanded from the sea to the land. people feel they were no better off than under the Dutch