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Suppose the Song Dynasty saw that there's a chance that they might lose the war with the Mongols in the mid-1260s and decided to settle Taiwan as a back up plan using refugees from its' northern circuits,how many people could they have realistically settled in the years between 1265 till 1279? IOTL,Zheng Chenggong was able to build up a settlement of 160,000 to 200,000 people with what meager resources he had,could the Song Dynasty have built up a more viable base with the entirety of the south at its' command?
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