Chapter 62 Village

For the above reasons, when Yu Xiaotian made the decision to run Taiwan, he had already put the location he wanted to choose in the northern part of Taiwan. This time, before he came, he had made the final choice, that is, to choose the location of his landing in Jilong Bay, that is, Keelung Port in later generations.

The reason why he chose Chicken Cage Bay is very simple. It is precisely because the terrain and terrain of Chicken Cage Bay is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. After the Dutch occupied Tainan, the Spaniards also targeted Taiwan, and the landing site chosen by the West Pluckers was also Chicken Cage Bay.

Jilong Bay is the most important, largest and best natural port in northern Taiwan. Although Taiwan Island has never been included in China's territory before, it has been a unique advantage for sea merchants and pirates as a place to park and rest after the Tang and Song Dynasties.

If Yu Xiaotian wants to get a solid nail in Taiwan Island first, there is no other place more suitable than here. As long as he can control the Chicken Cage Bay and keep it here, he will get a solid forward base in northern Taiwan, from east to south, which is Taiwan's Yilan Plain. Li is a very good place that can be used for agricultural cultivation. Although the area is not large, as long as it is expanded, there is not much problem to support his food demand.

From west to south, he can enter the hinterland of Taiwan at the mouth of the Tamsui River and operate the waters along the Tamsui River. He can also obtain a large area of reclamation.

And occupying Chicken Cage Bay, he obtained another forward base to go out to the Ryukyu Islands, which can hold the sea passage from south to north to Japan. In any way, Chicken Cage Bay is the best choice, so this time Yu Xiaotian will take out nearly one-third of his strength and bring it to Taiwan. Bay, the purpose is to take advantage of this period when Taiwan is still a power vacuum and control the chicken cage bay in its own hands.

He told Liu Laoliu the other day that the faster and slow the hitter, the earlier he entered Taiwan Island, the better it would be to him, but at the same time, this is also the biggest gamble since he came to this era. If he can stand on Taiwan and keep his territory, then he is likely to become the era. The king of Taiwan can get a broad rear base and do more.

But if he can't keep his fruit, then this bet will also bet more than half of his money, lose all, and then be beaten back to its original shape and return to the coast of the mainland to fight his little pirates.

However, the visible benefits of this gamble made Yu Xiaotian have to take out his capital and participate in it. Whether he finally succeeds or not, he must join the bet.

This is why he impatiently put down all the important things at hand and came to Taiwan with people.

But he still can't figure out what impact Zheng Yiguan will bring to him in the future. He doesn't know whether it was right or wrong to let Zheng Yiguan go this time, but one thing he thinks that Yu Xiaotian is himself. He has his principles of being a man. Since he has done it, he has nothing to regret.

After sending off Zheng Yiguan, the fleet once again adjusted its course. Under the operation of the helmsman, it used starlight and compass as navigation tools to sail towards Taiwan Island.

When a trace of fish belly turned white that day, a coastline appeared in the eyes of the people on the ship. Yu Xiaotian walked to the bow position and raised his eyes to the coastline in the distance. He couldn't help taking a deep breath. He couldn't help shouting, "Taiwan, I'm Yu Xiaotian!"

According to the map that Blackhead brought back for the first time, and Blackhead was also in the fleet this time, guiding the way for the fleet. They did not make much effort to reach the east coast of Taiwan Island, but at this time, the level of navigation was still very poor. They sailed at night and could not ensure that the direction was completely correct, so they could not go straight. They drove to the coastal village they found, but sailed a little further south. If you go further south, you will reach the mouth of the freshwater estuary.

After determining their location, Yu Xiaotian temporarily gave up the idea of going to see the scenery of the freshwater estuary and ordered the fleet to go north along the coastline to find the village they found, and then determine the next action.

The fleet immediately began to turn north along the east coast of Taiwan and began to sail north. With the map, and the first batch of people who came here led the way, they did not stop or explore along the way. After more than half a day of sailing, Yu Xiaotian walked while observing the coastline on the boat.

He ordered the man to set a table on the starboard side, spread out the first map drawn by Liu Tang on the table, and put a piece of paper next to it. While observing the coastal terrain, he revised the first map drawn by Liu Tang, corrected some inaccurate places drawn by Liu Tang, and painted it again. Make a new map.

In particular, Yu Xiaotian has re-marked the location of the unmarked highlands and hillsides on the map. At least he knows where there are mountains and how high they are. In the future, he can't find a suitable reference with the map, which is much more convenient for him to do this in the future.

When they arrived at the fishing village on the shore, it was already afternoon. Like last time, the villagers found their traces from afar and immediately began to sound gongs. Yu Xiaotian saw some people on the shore, like frightened rabbits, fleeing back to their nests in a short time. Some villagers outside the village fled into the village. Some even left their small fishing boats on the shore, and even some farm tools and two farming cattle were abandoned by them and thrown out of the village.

Such a scene made many people laugh at the sea wolf department. They felt that the villagers in this village were really too timid. They didn't come to rob this time. Did they be scared like this?

However, Yu Xiaotian can see from their performance that this fishing village may have been so timid for a long time because it is close to the sea and affected by pirates in this area. This is why many civilians who have emigrated to Taiwan now do not want to live near the sea. It is better to go deep into the hinterland and give up the advantages of fishing and subsidizing the family by the sea, and preferring to live a hard farming life inland.

So instead of laughing at the villagers, he ordered the leaders of the ships to rectify the discipline, not to shout, to find a suitable place to drop the sail and stop the boat, and then began to ferry and land with the boat.

The fleet slowly moored on the sea outside the fishing village, and the sams and boats towed behind played a role at this time. The sailors and soldiers on the big ship switched to the boats and began to land in batches and gathered on the shore.

Yu Xiaotian got to the shore and said to Li Dazui, "Restruct your subordinates, don't act without authorization, wait for orders, I'll meet the people in the village, but remember, be more serious and show me more majestic!"

"Yes, my subordinates! Please rest assured!" Li Da answered loudly with his mouth and chest and legs.

Yu Xiaotian nodded and told the other sailors who landed that they also gathered and lined up on the shore to maintain their military discipline and not move without authorization.

After explaining this, he took his guard and walked slowly to the village.

The village is not big. The periphery is all erected with logs, fixed horizontally, and deeply penetrated into the ground, erecting a strong barrier for the small village and becoming a place for villagers to rest and live.

Outside the southeast of the village is a large area of farmland reclaimed by villagers, planted with various food crops, including sweet potatoes, rice, vegetables, etc., with an area of about 200 mu. Outside the farmland are wasteland and low forests, which have not yet been developed.

It can be seen that these villagers have settled here for some time, otherwise it would have been impossible to reclaim so many such neat farmland.

In addition, there are several small samps on the beach on the shore. It must be that the villagers here are used as tools for fishing or transportation, but they don't have time to drag these sampan back into the village and can only be left on the beach by the sea.

And the size of the village can be seen that there are only 100 people here at most, and there will be no more than 200 people, at most 20 or 30 families, which indeed belong to a small village.

After approaching the village, he saw that many people's heads had been exposed on the wall of the village. He looked out. When he saw Yu Xiaotian walking to the village with several guards, these people shrank under the wall and dared not show their heads again.

Yu Xiaotian stood on his heels about 50 steps outside the village and felt a little angry and funny when he saw no one coming up. This group of villagers behaved a little like a turtle. In case of danger, he shrank his head and limbs back into the turtle shell. This reality is ridiculous.

So he asked Liu Wang to come forward and ask the person in charge of the village to answer.

Liu Wang went up and shouted, "The people in the village heard it, and our boss asked you to come out for a chat!"

But after Liu Wang's cry fell to the ground, no one appeared to answer after waiting for a while. The village was quiet, so Liu Wang was a little angry and said angrily, "Is there any living inside? If you are gasping, come out and speak with gasping!"

However, after his words fell to the ground, no one spoke. At this time, Liu Wang's nose was crooked. He turned his head and said to Xiaotian, "The boss, the people here are all deaf, and no one came out to answer!"

The black head followed and stood behind Yu Xiaotian and said helplessly, "The last time my subordinates came here, they were also like this. They didn't say a word. Finally, they shouted anxiously, and they threw out some salted fish and a few bags of grain from the stockade. A few deer skins just won't show up!"

After listening to this, Yu Xiaotian was also a little angry. Even if the steward of this village is afraid of things, at least he knows a minimum of etiquette. Now that he is so grand that he doesn't even show up a single head. Isn't it too much to look at him?

He turned his head and gave an order to the people around him. Zhao Si nodded and immediately turned around and ran back to the beach. After a while, Li Dazui shouted the command and came with a team of more than 100 soldiers, neatly arranged outside the village. After a while, the sailors carried two tiger squat guns and placed them in the village. Outside, the gun was aimed at the village.