Nguyễn Ánh set up a council of high officials and a tax system, conscripted half the men of Gia Định and named twelve land officials to drive reclamation. From 1790 military colonies (đồn điền) of soldiers and settlers, Khmer and Chinese among them, farmed the frontier.
Political
Nguyễn Ánh organises the Gia Định government
- 1788 – 1790
- Southeast Asia
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