When Liu Ming-chuan, the governor of Taiwan took stock of the land at the end of the 1880's, however, the cultivated area was recorded as 430,000 jia, and the figure grew to 770,000 jia ten years later when the Japanese conducted their own survey.
然而在光緒十三至十五年間劉銘傳清丈之後卻跑出了四十三萬甲地來，十年後日本人再次清丈土地，得到的結果是七十七萬甲。