Chapter 125 dispatching troops to the Freshwater River

In addition, after the exploration of personnel sent in the early months, there are already many immigrant villages in the area about 100 miles of the freshwater river basin, and more than 30 such immigrant villages have been found, large and small. The population is initially estimated to be between 2,000 and 3,000.

These immigrant villages are scattered on both sides of the Tamsui River and live a simple life. Their lives are not very good. In addition to facing the local climate and various natural disasters, they also have to fight against diseases on their own, and at the same time compete with the local indigenous people for living space.

The quality of life of these immigrants is worrying, and the materials are very scarce. It is said that in some villages, there are only two or three iron pots in a village. In order to eat, villagers have to retreat back to the Stone Age and chiseled stone pots for cooking rice, or as a way to burn pottery, replacing iron pots with earthenware, and farming tools are even simpler. It can't be simpler, with low production efficiency, slow population growth and high mortality.

So the current freshwater river basin needs a strong force to rule, and these pre-migration is a good foundation for him. As long as he can control these pre-migration, he can successfully establish an order belonging to his sea wolf here in the future.

And because the early immigrants have lived there for a period of time and have accumulated considerable experience. On the basis of their experience, carrying out large-scale immigration activities can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

So far, with relatively sufficient financial resources, Yu Xiaotian launched a second operation to operate Taiwan Island, and the target directly selected the mouth of the Tamsui River as their landing site.

Yu Xiaotian finally chose Fang An as the leader of the second pioneering team (the blackheads in Jilong Bay are the first pioneering team).

The reason is very simple. The development of the freshwater estuary is much more difficult and the scale will be much larger than that involved in all aspects. Ordinary people can't do it, including people like Wang Hong, who are hot-tempered, but not thoughtful enough, and sometimes they may turn good things into bad things.

So after thinking about it, Fang An is the only suitable candidate. Fang An is calm, has a city, and is good at receiving people and things. Although his temperament is a little cold, after returning to Yu Xiaotian for more than a year, he has become much more cheerful than before.

Moreover, Fang An is loyal, careful, and better at dealing with some difficult problems and fairness. Previously, when he was the deputy head of the Xingtang, he received praise from many people. Even Liu Laoliu, the head of the hall, was willing to discuss many things with him, or simply let him deal with them.

In addition, through this period of further communication with Fang An, Yu Xiaotian found that Fang An actually did not like to work in the prison hall. He preferred to do some practical things. Both times he proposed that he wanted to get off the ship, even if he took a ship as a captain.

Now that Yu Xiaotian wants to operate the freshwater river, Fang An has become the first candidate.

Fang An learned that Yu Xiaotian wanted him to lead a team to build a city in the mouth of Tamsui River on Taiwan, and be responsible for taking care of the affairs there. He immediately agreed without saying a word.

Fang An actually wanted to resign as the deputy head of the prison hall and do something he wanted to do. Although his left hand was disabled, he did not give up. He always felt that the days with his men across the sea were better than working in the prison hall, even if he was to be a captain. That's okay.

Now Yu Xiaotian wants to invite him to go to Tamsui River, which also makes him very happy, because after going there, he has more things to do, and many of the things he wants to do can also do.

And after having a deep talk with Yu Xiaotian, he felt that Yu Xiaotian had a great idea about operating the freshwater river basin, involving the construction of cities, immigration, land reclamation, fishing and hunting, logging, the establishment of new boat houses and other matters. Once the situation was opened, it would definitely be a challenge for him.

Fang An is even more satisfied with this. He is trying to have a place to show his talent. Although he only has one hand, he thinks that he is no worse than anyone. At the same time, he also feels Yu Xiaotian's trust in him. Such a big idea, Yu Xiaotian gave him to host it, which can explain everything.

After Fang An Xie was too Xiaotian, even if he agreed, he asked Yu Xiaotian to ask several people to serve as his deputy to help.

Yu Xiaotian also nodded and agreed, asking him to name someone, and let him do as long as he can.

So Fang An immediately named several people's names everywhere, including two captains in the warship fleet, the captain of a merchant fleet, and two people in the council hall. These two people are smart and capable people. In fact, they have long been among the attention of Xiaotian.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian knew that these people were not all people who followed Fang An and Wang Hong from the shark gang. They came from different paths and were not inferior to any small group. This also showed that Fang An did not hide his selfishness when he was ordering people. Yu Xiaotian immediately waved his hand and granted his request.

After careful preparation, a fleet of seven ships of various types set sail from the special wharf of Nanri Island and sailed out of Nanri Island to Taiwan Island in the east under the direction of Xiaotian.

After this period of traveling between Taiwan Island and Nanri Island, they have already found the waterway clearly and said nothing on the way. After two days and two nights of sailing, they successfully arrived at the mouth of the freshwater estuary.

The freshwater river basin is actually basically the location of Taipei, the political and economic center of Taiwan Island, but in this era, even if it is not a wild land, it is at least a virgin land that has not been developed in large quantities. Everything is basically in a primitive state, except for scattered on both sides of the Tamswater River. Small immigrant villages and some local indigenous tribes are basically a paradise for animals.

The freshwater estuary is very wide, and the estuary is nearly two kilometers wide. Even after entering the estuary, the river here is about one kilometer wide, and the water depth around the estuary can fully meet the needs of navigation. In addition to be careful of a few sandbars, there is no problem for a fleet to enter and exit the freshwater estuary.

And it is not that no one has set foot here. There is a village more than ten miles away from the estuary. After prior investigation, it is found that this village is called Majiabao. The village is surnamed Ma, and there are about 200 villagers. It is a relatively large village here.

Before the discovery of Caojia Village by sea wolves, this Majiabao has always been a place for migrant villages about 100 miles around to trade with small merchants from land here, so Majiabao is a center in this area to some extent, and also a market town.

However, recently, after the sea wolf made friends with Caojia Village, the status of Majiabao has been greatly challenged, because the price of goods operated by the Ma family is far higher than that of Caojia Village, and the price of local specialties is far lower than that of Caojia Village. Therefore, after learning the news, many immigrants began to choose to go to Caojia Village. During this period, Majiabao began to become cold during this period.

Several small businessmen sneaked here to do business. After learning the news, they felt that they were unprofitable and no longer came to Majiabao to trade this month.

And the patriarch of Majiabao was very angry about this. He felt that Caojia Village was looking for trouble for them and cut off their financial path. Last month, he personally took the clan and went to Caojia Village. Originally, he was going to argue with Caojia Village. If it really didn't work, he had a fight and forced Caojia Village to return the business to them.

However, they rushed to Caojia Village, but were left there by more than a dozen sea wolves who pointed their heads with a few birds. At the same time, they raised knives and guns and took the people of Caojia Village to meet them. Suddenly, they were scared by the patriarch of Majiabao, and then they dared to play tricks. They were taught a lesson by the sea wolf tribe. After a while, he had to run back to Majiabao in frustration.

Only then did this surnamed Ma know that Caojia Village actually found a big backer. The sea wolf was not a person they could afford to provoke at all, so although he was reluctant to come back, he had to be honest and no longer want to do business to earn black money. He honestly let the people in the village go back to farm well. It's better to make less trouble.

But Majiabao stopped, which does not mean that the sea wolf let them stop. Previously, the sea wolf department had already inquired about it clearly that the foundation of Ma Jiabao's surname was not clean. In the past, he was actually a small pirate, but his strength was too weak to be famous. Later, he inadvertently ran to the Freshwater River and saw the land here. It is fertile and is not under the jurisdiction of the government, so I built a small village here. Later, I recruited some villages from my hometown and lived a life of self-cultivation and weaving here.

In addition, with his business acumen, he recruited several small land sea merchants to do business in Majiabao, specializing in pouring various local products on both sides, from which he sought rich profits.

This is also the reason why he was angry and wanted to make trouble with Caojiacun after learning that Caojiacun had robbed his business. He thought he was the strongest in this area and could be a local bully, but he didn't expect to hit the gunpoint of the sea wolf.

After repeated investigation by the sea wolf, I finally felt that the location of Majiabao was quite good, and it was a very suitable place to land and build a village.

This is not willing to be far from the mouth of the freshwater estuary. At the beginning, it is not easy to be found by people who land here to build a bridgehead outside the estuary. When they go out of the freshwater estuary, they directly enter the Taiwan Strait and echo the other side of Nanri Island, and can jam the channel of the Taiwan Strait. At the same time, they can take advantage of the wide estuary and the terrain. Ferry and boat houses can be established around Majiabao to facilitate transportation on both sides of the Tamsui River.