1671 in China

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Events from the year 1671 in China.

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (10th year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhejiang — Zhao Tingchen
• Viceroy of Fujian — Liu Dou
• Viceroy of Chuan-Hu — Cai Yurong
• Viceroy of Shan-Shaan — Luoduo
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhou Youde, Quan Guangzu[1]
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Gan Wenkun
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Maleji

Events

• Because poor, marginal lands were exempted from the annual land tax, and the Qing court rewarded officials who could induce people to expand cultivated land. Therefore the Viceroy of Chuan-Hu, Cai Yurong, observed that “there is an abundance of cultivated land in Szechwan, but there are not enough people to cultivate it,”[2] the throne decreed that “those who were willing to settle in Szechwan were to be tax-exempt for a period of five years and that any local official who could attract three hundred immigrants would be promoted immediately. (See 湖廣填四川)
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

Deaths

• Geng Jimao, Ming-turned-Qing general

References

1. http://www.worldstatesmen.org/China_prov.html
2. 93 Ho, Studies on the population of China, 1368–1953, p. 139.

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.