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In addition, after several months of early exploration, we found that there were already many immigrant villages in the area of ​​about a hundred miles around the Tamsui River Basin, and more than 30 such immigrant villages were discovered.

, preliminary estimates of the population should be between 2,000 and 3,000 people.

These immigrant villages are dotted on both sides of the Tamsui River, and they all live a simple life of self-cultivation and self-organization. Their lives are not very good. In addition to facing the local climate and various natural disasters, they also have to fight diseases on their own.

At the same time, they also have to compete with the local indigenous people for living space.

The quality of life of these immigrants is worrying, and materials are very scarce. It is said that some villages only have two or three iron pots in each village. In order to eat, the villagers had to go back to the Stone Age and carve out stone pots for cooking or cooking.

The method of making pottery is to use earthen pottery instead of iron pots, and the farming tools are extremely simple. The production efficiency is low, the population growth is slow, and the mortality rate is high.

Therefore, the current Tamsui River Basin needs a strong force to rule, and these early immigrants are a good foundation for it. As long as these early immigrants can be controlled, it will be easier to establish a sea wolf of its own here in the future.

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Moreover, the early immigrants have accumulated considerable experience because they have lived there for a period of time. Based on their experience, large-scale immigration activities can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Therefore, with relatively sufficient financial resources so far, Yu Xiaotian launched his second operation to manage Taiwan Island, directly selecting the mouth of the Tamsui River as their landing site.

As for the leader of the second pioneering team (the blackheads from Jilongwan were considered the first pioneering team), Yu Xiaotian's staff finally chose Fang An.

The reason is very simple. The development of Tamsui River Estuary is much more difficult than that of Jilongwan, and the scale will be much larger. It involves all aspects of things. Most people cannot and cannot do it, including people like Wang Hong.

He has a fiery personality but is not thoughtful enough and may sometimes turn good things into bad things.

So after much deliberation, the most suitable candidate is Fang An. Fang An is a person with a calm temperament, a big heart, and is good at accepting people. Although his temperament is a bit cold, he has returned to his hometown in the past year or so.

After becoming Xiaotian's subordinate, he has become much more cheerful than before.

Moreover, Fang An is loyal and careful, and he is also good at handling some difficult problems and is fair in his work. When he was the deputy hall master of the punishment hall, he received praise from many people, even Liu Laoliu, the hall master

, I am willing to discuss many matters with him, or simply leave them to him to handle.

In addition, through in-depth exchanges with Fang An during this period, Yu Xiaotian discovered that Fang An actually didn't like working in the torture hall. He wanted to do some practical things. He proposed twice that he wanted to get off the boat, even if it was

You can take a boat and be the captain.

Now that Yu Xiaotian wants to manage Tamsui River, Fang An has become the first choice.

When Fang An learned that Yu Xiaotian wanted him to lead a team to build a fortress at the mouth of the Tamsui River on Taiwan Yuan Island and take care of the affairs there, he immediately agreed without saying a word.

Fang An actually wanted to resign as the deputy head of the execution hall for a long time and do something he wanted to do. Although he had a disability in his left hand, he did not admit defeat. He always felt that the days of leading his men across the sea were better than

It would be more pleasant to work in the execution hall, even if he was asked to be a captain.

Now Yu Xiaotian wants to invite him to Tamsui River, which makes him very happy, because after going there, he will have more things to take care of, and he can also use his strength to do many things he wants to do.

It's time for a fight.

And after an in-depth conversation with Yu Xiaotian, he felt that Yu Xiaotian had a big idea in managing the Tamsui River Basin, which involved city building, immigration, land reclamation, fishing and hunting, logging, building new boathouses and other matters.

It will definitely be a challenge for him if he opens his posture.

Fang An was even more satisfied with this. He wanted to have a place to showcase his talent. Even though he only had one hand, he thought he was no worse than anyone else. At the same time, he also felt that Yu Xiaotian was interested in him.

Yu Xiaotian entrusted him with such a big idea to take charge of it, which already explains everything.

After Fang An thanked Yu Xiaotian, he immediately agreed, but asked Yu Xiaotian to ask a few people to help him as his deputies.

Yu Xiaotian also nodded in agreement and asked him to name the people he wanted. As long as he could, he would be released to him.

So Fang An immediately called out the names of several people. Among them were two captains of the war fleet, a captain of the merchant fleet, and two people in the council. These people were all shrewd and capable people.

In fact, this person has already been on Xiaotian's radar.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian knew that these people were not all the people who followed Fang An and Wang Hong from the Shark Gang. They came from different backgrounds and were as good as those in any small group. This also shows that when Fang An was selecting people,

, did not hide his selfishness, Yu Xiaotian immediately waved his hand and agreed to his request.

So after some careful preparations, a fleet of seven ships of various types set sail from the Nanyue Island Sea Wolf Special Pier on September 15th and sailed away from Nanyue Island.

Under his leadership, he sailed to the east of Taiwan Island.

During this period of time, they traveled between Taiwan Island and Nanyue Island. They had already figured out the waterway clearly, and there was no conversation on the way. After two days and two nights of sailing, they successfully arrived at the mouth of Tamsui River.

The Tamsui River Basin is actually the location of Taipei City, the political and economic center of Taiwan in later generations. However, even if it cannot be called a wild land in this era, it is at least a virgin land that has not been extensively developed. Everything is still basically primitive.

Except for the small immigrant villages and some local indigenous tribes scattered on both sides of the Tamsui River, this place is basically a paradise for animals.

The Tamsui River mouth is very wide, with a width of nearly two kilometers at the entrance to the sea. Even after entering the river mouth, the river here is about one kilometer wide, and the water depth around the mouth of the river can fully meet the needs of navigation. In addition to being careful about a few sandbars,

In addition, there is no problem for a fleet of ships to enter and exit the Tamsui River Estuary.

And it is not that no one has set foot here. There is a village more than ten miles away from the mouth of the river. After preliminary investigation, it was found that this village is called Majiabao. The main surname in the village is Ma, and there are about 200 villagers.

It is a relatively large village here.

Before Hailang discovered Caojia Village, Majiapu had always been a place where the surrounding immigrant villages with a radius of about a hundred miles traded with small businessmen from the land. Therefore, Majiapu can be regarded as a center in this area to a certain extent.

It can also be considered a market town.

But recently, after Hailang made friends with Caojiacun, the status of Majiapu has been greatly challenged, because the prices of the goods sold by Majia are much higher than those of Caojiacun, but the price of purchasing local specialties is far higher than that of Caojiacun.

It was lower than that of Caojiacun, so after hearing the news, many immigrants began to choose to go to Caojiacun to trade. During this time, Majiapu began to become deserted.

Several small businessmen who secretly came here to do business, after learning the news, felt that it was unprofitable and stopped coming to Majiapu for business this month.

The Majiabao clan chief was very angry about this. He felt that Caojia Village was causing trouble for them and cutting off their financial resources. Last month, he personally took his clan members to Caojia Village.

They were going to argue with Caojiacun, and if that didn't work, they would have a fight and force Caojiacun to return the business to them.

However, they happily ran to Caojiacun, but the dozen or so Sea Wolf tribe members who stayed there pointed at their heads with several blunderbuss. At the same time, the people from Caojiacun, armed with swords and guns, met them, and immediately attacked them.

The Majiapu clan leader was so frightened that they no longer dared to act arrogant. After being taught a lesson by the Sea Wolf tribe, they had no choice but to run back to Majiapu in despair.

Only then did the man surnamed Ma realize that Caojia Village had actually found a big backer. This sea wolf was not someone they could afford to mess with, so even though they were reluctant to part with it after coming back, they had no choice but to be honest and no longer wanted to make money from business.

The evil people have money, so they can honestly let the clansmen in the village go back to farm and make less trouble in the future.

But the fact that Majiapu has stopped does not mean that Sea Wolf will let them stop. The Sea Wolf tribe had already found out clearly that the person named Ma from Majiapu did not have a clean background. He was actually a small pirate in the past, but he was too powerful.

Weak, can't get out of here

Mingtang, later accidentally ran to Tamsui River. Seeing that the land here was fertile and not under the jurisdiction of the government, he built a small village here. Later, he recruited some villagers from his hometown and started farming here.

The weaving day.

In addition, relying on his business acumen, he recruited several small land merchants to do business in Majiapu, specializing in selling various local products, from which he made huge profits.

This was also the reason why after he learned that Caojiacun was robbing him of his business, he was so angry that he wanted to go to Caojiacun to cause trouble. He thought he was the strongest in this area and could be a local bully, but he didn't expect that he bumped into the sea wolf's gun.

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After repeated surveys by the Sea Wolf tribe, they finally felt that the location of Majiapu was quite good, and it was a very suitable place to land and build a stronghold.

This place is far from the mouth of the Tamsui River. In the early days, the bridgehead established here would not be easily discovered by people passing through the river mouth. Once you leave the mouth of the Tamsui River, you will directly enter the Taiwan Strait. Echoing the Nanyue Island, you can block the waterway of the Taiwan Strait.

, and at the same time, taking advantage of the wide estuary and terrain advantages, ferries and boathouses can also be established in the Majiapu area to facilitate transportation on both sides of the Tamsui River.

So no matter whether the Ma family went to Caojia Village to cause trouble or not, they had already been noticed by Sea Wolf. On the map they drew, Majiapu was heavily marked, and when it fell on Yu Xiaotian's desk,

Then Yu Xiaotian drew a circle on it with a red pen.

When Yu Xiaotian led the fleet to the mouth of the Tamsui River, he did not stay for a long time. He first sent a small boat into the Tamsui River to explore the water depth of the river in front of him to ensure that subsequent fleets would not enter the river.

There was a grounding accident, and under the guidance of the boat in front, the fleet immediately sailed into the mouth of the Tamsui River.

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