Chapter 56 First Field Reconnaissance

The straight distance from Nanri Island to Taiwan Island is not far. Even if the ship catches quickly, it will take less than a day. The reason why the blackhead went there for two months is that Yu Xiaotian ordered him to drive north along the northwest of Taiwan Island. Every other period, he went ashore and went deep into the land to explore the situation, and has been surrounding it. Turn around the north to the east of Taiwan Island and explore the situation there before returning to Nanri Island.

So the blackhead faithfully fulfilled the task assigned to him by Yu Xiaotian. After arriving on Taiwan Island with a team of nearly 100 people, he began to explore the local situation along the coastline.

The painter who accompanied the boat also drew a topographic map while walking, drawing the terrain along the coast as much as possible, including reefs and estuaries, as well as marked on the map.

So they walked very slowly, stopped, and constantly sent people ashore to explore the situation, so two months was not too long for them. They just touched the northern coast of Taiwan and did not go too deep into the hinterland of Taiwan Island.

Through this time, Yu Xiaotian basically obtained the current first-hand information about northern Taiwan and a relatively detailed coastal map.

However, this painting level is limited, and I have not learned more advanced map drawing technology, so it can only be drawn subjective * terrain. The map obtained is twisted and looks very awkward, and there is no modern map regularity at all.

However, after Yu Xiaotian got this map, he was still very happy. For this painter, he has done his best to draw such a map in this era. Although the terrain drawing is out of proportion, he can probably see the terrain along the coast.

This provides an effective reference for them to go to Taiwan again in the future, which can clearly inform the traveler of where they want to go, so that they have to walk along the coastline every time, so that they can't find a designated place.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the map, and there was no text mark on the map, because no one told them the place names of these places on this trip, so they could only record the terrain.

From the map, Yu Xiaotian saw the most important river in northern Taiwan, that is, the Freshwater River, but this river is only marked with a section of the mouth of the sea, and the part deep into the island is not marked. It can be seen that when they found this freshwater river, they did not go too deep into it, but only two deep into the mouth of the mouth. About 30 miles, he turned around and returned.

Yu Xiaotian is somewhat dissatisfied with this, because what he value most is the terrain in this area, but Blackheads do not examine the situation here too deeply, but mainly focuses on the situation along the coast.

Then Yu Xiaotian saw the famous rich corner in the northeast corner of Taiwan Island on the map, from which the topographic map began to extend to the east.

Generally speaking, the whole map still draws an important landmark terrain along the northern coast of Taiwan Island. Among them, another important place is that he found the chicken cage Bay he wanted to see on the map, that is, Keelung Port in later generations. The black-headed man still made a more detailed investigation here, and the painter also drew it. A more detailed topographic map of Chickenlong wan.

Although Yu Xiaotian is a later generation, Taiwan Island is also a place in China, but for well-known reasons, it is not easy for mainlanders to go to Taiwan, so Yu Xiaotian has not been to Taiwan. The understanding of Taiwan Island is just something on paper. .

What's more, hundreds of years later, except for the terrain changes in the coastal areas that may not be too much, the inland areas are already overcrowded. Modern man-made transformation can no longer match the Taiwan islands of this era, and what they have been to is basically in vain!

Therefore, the information only obtained from the paper of later generations is not enough to support Yu Xiaotian's understanding of the current situation on Taiwan Island, which is why he sent blackheads and others to explore Taiwan Island.

Yu Xiaotian recruited Blackhead and others to his council hall and listened to their trip to Taiwan Island in detail. Blackhead and others then told Xiaotian about the process of the trip in detail.

"Speaking of which, I didn't encounter much trouble on this trip to Taiwan Island! After my subordinates set out, it only took a day to drive there. We didn't know where we landed, so we sent someone to go ashore to explore, and Brother Liu also began to draw pictures!

The island is really overgrown with weeds now. Even now, there are many mosquitoes! In addition, there are many wild animals on the island. We saw a lot of deer and beat a few. It tasted good. We also brought back the deer skin and sent it to the big owner later.

In addition, there were wild boars on the island. Some people also saw leopards, but the wild boars also hit two heads. The leopards were so refined that they ran away when they saw us!

However, when we went ashore on the island to get water again, on the shore not far from the river, we actually saw the natives. These natives seemed to be very afraid of us. As soon as they saw us, they turned around and ran away. We wanted to ask them for something!

Later, when we were playing game on the shore, some natives attacked us. I don't know where they shot a few arrows outside and injured one of our brothers. Later, the brother seemed to be poisoned and died on the boat the next day.

The angry subordinate wanted to send someone to find those natives, but the head of the family said that the main thing to go this time is to check the terrain first and not to have too much conflict with the local natives, so the subordinates can only admit their bad luck.

Because of the presence of natives, we didn't go too deep into this river, and we were afraid of being attacked by them again. These bastards ran so fast that they couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye.

It's here..."

As Blackhead said, he pointed to a place north of the Tamsui River on the map, and then said, "The big boss is here. We found a village. The people here are not local natives. At a glance, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty has passed!

There are about one or 200 people in this village, with a wall. Outside the village, they open up wasteland and farm, and open up hundreds of mu of land. In addition, they also have fishing boats, which seem to go to sea to fish.

After we landed, we found the village and wanted to inquire with them, but as soon as they saw us, they fled back to the village and couldn't hold on to the wall!

We went to shout and they didn't respond. If we had used to follow the temper of our subordinates, we would have led people to beat their village, but the big owner's instructions did not dare to forget. Seeing that you did not answer your questions, we had no choice but to leave.

Yu Xiaotian noticed a place on the map and marked a black spot, which represented the village, so he nodded and said, "Blackhead, you did a good job! That's the right thing to do! We need such people to help us now, not to provoke them! Yes, there should be a reward. I'll remember this for you! Go on! Everything else doesn't matter. Tell me about this bay!"

Yu Xiaotian put his hand on the location of Chicken Cage Bay.

As soon as the blackhead heard it, he quickly nodded and continued to say, "It turns out that the big boss saw this place. This bay is a good place!" When we walked here, we saw this bay.

Before we arrived, we saw a boat coming out of this bay. As soon as we saw it, we immediately went east. Anyway, we didn't go out to do business, so we didn't care about them and let them go!

Later, after we arrived at the mouth of the bay, we sailed into the bay. This bay is very large and can accommodate hundreds of boats. The water in the bay is also very deep. I asked someone to put a rope to explore it. The deepest part of the bay is more than ten feet, and no matter how big the boat is, it can enter and exit freely.

There is also an island at the mouth of the bay, which is a little bigger than our previous Treasure Island. It is just right to guard this bay. If anyone occupies this bay, as long as it is guarded by this island, no one will want to enter or leave this bay!

After arriving here, we found that there were boats in the bay. When they saw us, someone drove boats out to block us. Later, after we said hello, we knew that they were also working in our business, but there were not many people and the boats were not big. Usually, they mainly moved in the east of the bay and did some small work!

They saw that we were not easy to mess with and did not dare to prevent us from entering, so their subordinates took the boat into the bay and asked the six brothers to draw the terrain inside the bay.

They asked us where we were doing, and I told them that we just passed by and came in to see and replenish some water. They didn't dare to stop us and let us send someone to get water, but I saw that they didn't want us to stay in the bay for too long, so they didn't stay much.

After inquire, their subordinates learned that their surname was Zhou, and their surname was Zhou Feng, but they did not see this surnamed Zhou. They took a look. They had a small village and a small wharf in the bay, and it seemed that some of them were Japanese, talking like farting. I don't understand what they are talking about!"

When we got out of here, we went to the southeast. We walked ashore for a while to have a look. There were mountains in the east. There were nothing beautiful, but there were a lot of wild animals, and goats, which were caught by us and brought back by us!

And there are also many natives in the east, but they are not very afraid of us and shout at us from afar. I don't think they are hostile or provoke them, but they just don't understand what they say!

Later, I gave them two knives and five axes. They were very happy and sent us a few deer skins, prespied to thank us and gave us some wild animals!

It's not a short time to go out. When we walked here, we didn't continue to walk south. We turned around and came back along the shore. Next time we go again, I'll take people to look inside and think it can be clearer!"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian was very happy and said, "It's a pity! If you can get along, then we will have more guides in the future, and things will be better! However, even so, Black Head, you have done a good job this time. The loss is not big, and it is really rare for you to do such a thing for me!

Blackhead, you have recently become more and more stable, and more relieved to do things. It's very good. According to our rules, you will be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, 100 taels of silver for each ship, and 100 taels of silver for each ship. The accompanying soldiers will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver. The casualties will be doubled according to the original rules!

In addition, Liu Tang (painting) has also done a good job, with 20 taels of silver alone! You have worked hard, and you can't have a rest on the island during the holiday. I will keep everything for you. I will have a five-day holiday for you. Have a good rest. I will use you later! Go down!"

After listening to the black-headed captain and Liu Tang and the captain of the soldiers's team, they all grinned happily, quickly knelt down to thank them, and then turned down happily to rest.

Yu Xiaotian looked at this hard-won map. Although the topographic map was vulgar in his eyes, it was also his men's lives.

In fact, he still knows the general situation of Taiwan Island, especially the general terrain and landform. He knows it well. Before sending blackheads to explore, he actually basically knows it, but he needs to know more about the current situation of Taiwan Island, although this trip, blackheads and others He did not go deep into the hinterland, but he still basically reached his satisfaction.

Through this trip, Yu Xiaotian can basically be sure that so far, a considerable number of mainland immigrants have begun to expand on the island, but the spread must also be relatively wide, and it is not easy to find that these people are an opportunity for him, because these people must have I have been dealing with the local indigenous people for a long time and have a better understanding of the current situation on the island.

He stared at the coastal village marked on the map by Liu Tang. After thinking for a while, he turned his eyes to the freshwater estuary and Jilong Bay. He glanced back and forth at these two places. After a while, he stood up and walked back and forth in the house. After a cup of tea, he turned back to the table and took the ground. The picture was put away and handed over to Liu Wang for safekeeping.

(Today, two chapters are still guaranteed to be updated, and there are still many words, but I really can't hold on! I decided to take a day off tomorrow and go to the hospital for a general examination to see what's wrong! How can a viral cold be so difficult! I'm most afraid that if I smoke for a long time and have a lung problem, I will have a chest X-ray tomorrow! So I have no choice but to break the day! I'm sorry, brothers!)