The Effect of the Coast Depopulation Policy on Formosa

The amnesty created an incentive for some jobless evacuees to try and pass themselves off as Jung sailors from Formosa. They would sneak out through the no man's land, Toussi, and then come in to surrender. But they couldn't come home right away. There was one issue. It's kind of funny, they had to grow their hair,. all the subject of the Qing, right? And part of that surrender was getting a new ugly hairstyle with a shaved forehead. Very ugly.