Daming pirates

Although now if he wants to seize Yan Siqi's territory, there will be no problem in terms of strength. He does not need to use all his troops, only a small part of his troops will be enough to wipe out Yan Siqi.

But Yu Xiaotian is unwilling to do this, because Yan Siqi has now become his ally and has become an ally of his. During this time, Yan Siqi and Hailang have become very close, and they are always on the same page as Yu Xiaotian.

Shizhan never gave Yu Xiaotian any trouble, and always took the initiative to run errands for Hailang.

Overall, Yan Siqi has clearly seen the current situation and has made up his mind to form an alliance with Yu Xiaotian. At this time, it is obviously not suitable for him to go and grab Yan Siqi's territory, even if there are jungles in this world

According to the law, it is not acceptable to emphasize the law of the jungle, because doing so will make him lose his moral character, and will inevitably be regarded as a joke by the people in the world.

Yu Xiaotian is very clear about why he has developed so fast over the years. In fact, when he does things, he mainly pays attention to benevolence and justice. Everything must always be based on morality and justice, so that people cannot grasp his handle and cannot punish him.

He was criticized, so he was praised by many people in the world.

Now throughout Fujian, there are many small groups of pirates who just look at Yu Xiaotian's benevolence and righteousness. Knowing that they cannot compete with Yu Xiaotian, they either go away to find another way out, or simply join the sea wolf and join the sea.

Among the wolves, he became Yu Xiaotian's subordinate, which is one of the main reasons why Yu Xiaotian's strength has grown rapidly in the past few years.

On the other hand, Zheng Yiguan is now in disgrace. He was forced to go to Guangdong and became a group of second-rate pirates. It was precisely because Zheng Yiguan lost his moral integrity. First, he robbed the inheritance of his adoptive father Li Dan.

Then he tried to backfire on his former eldest brother Yan Siqi, wanting to put Yan Siqi to death and engulf his territory.

Such behavior, coupled with being deliberately publicized everywhere, made Zheng Yiguan become a street rat. Everyone shouted for beating him, and some people were dissatisfied with him internally. This eventually led to the collapse of his huge group, which he took over from Li Dan.

He had a large number of subordinates and ships. At this time, most of them had been either taken away by his subordinates to work alone or eliminated by Yu Xiaotian. Some of them had defected to Yu Xiaotian or other forces.

Therefore, it is impossible to act in this era without any ethics at all. Even if you are powerful now, over time, you will be ostracized by all the people in the arena, and eventually cracks will appear internally, leading to the final collapse.

Yu Xiaotian takes this point very seriously and always secretly warns himself that he cannot forget about doing whatever he wants just because of interests. Therefore, although he is dissatisfied with the farming conditions in Tamsui, he will never touch Yan Siqi's interests easily.

But although it is not convenient for him to grab Yan Siqi's territory now, it does not mean that he will give up the entire southern Taiwan, because in addition to the Chianan Plain, Taiwan also has the second largest Pingtung Plain, Yilan Plain and Huadong Rift Valley Plain.

Among them, the Huadong Rift Valley Plain and the Yilan Plain are relatively small, but the Pingtung Plain is quite large. Even if he goes all out to develop it, it may not be possible to fully develop it in decades or even hundreds of years.

What's even better is that the Pingtung Plain is located in the southernmost part of Taiwan Island. It has flat terrain, high temperatures, abundant rainfall, fertile soil, and rich underground water. It has become a famous land of fish and rice in Taiwan in later generations. It is not only suitable for large-scale rice cultivation, but also very convenient.

It is suitable for growing sugar cane, which is enough for Sea Wolf in a short period of time.

Moreover, there is a natural port, Dagougang, which will later be known as Kaohsiung Port. The port conditions are much better than the current Tamsui River.

Yu Xiaotian had not thought about going there before. Firstly, it was because it was too close to the Dutch port of Damuan, but also because it had a tropical climate. The climate was hotter and the threat of malaria outbreaks was greater, so he did not think about it at that time.

Dare to run over there and grab territory.

But things are different now. This time the Dutch sent a fleet to try to compete with him. The result was that they were defeated in the battle at the mouth of the Tamsui River. In the end, their entire army was annihilated. The Dutch could not come up with anything in a short time.

If he has enough strength, he will send a fleet that is strong enough to cause trouble for him, so now he is on Taiwan Island and can walk sideways. Even the Dutch can only stay in Dandaang if they can only rely on him.

If he hadn't wanted to completely drive the Dutch out of Taiwan Island and wanted to keep this trade route, now with his strength, he could easily drive the Dutch out of Taiwan Island.

Therefore, the Dutch are no longer a threat. In terms of military matters, he can march towards Dagou Port with confidence and boldness.

As for the problem of malaria, Sea Wolf has now been initially solved. In the past three years, small-scale malaria outbreaks have occurred in the summer, both in Tamsui and Jilong Bay. However, in Sea Wolf, strong

After implementing a sanitation system and significantly changing the local ecological environment, an unacceptable large-scale malaria outbreak did not eventually occur.

For limited outbreaks of small-scale malaria, Seawolf's medical clinic has now found some control methods. In addition, strengthening the nutrition of immigrants and improving individual resistance is also an effective method.

The most important thing is the method proposed by Yu Xiaotian to use Artemisia annua as the main medicinal material to treat malaria. After repeated tests by medical officers, it has achieved certain results. First, they used cold water soaking.

After the patient took water soaked in Artemisia annua, his condition was under certain control.

Furthermore, Sea Wolf medical officers now began to use alcohol extraction methods to obtain an Artemisia annua extract, which greatly improved the efficacy of the drug. Many malaria patients who took this new drug finally survived, which is fully

It shows that Artemisia annua is indeed effective in treating malaria and has a very good effect.

Therefore, Yu Xiaotian believes that as long as after landing at Dagou Port, he first burns large areas of wasteland, fills in stagnant ponds where various mosquitoes breed, and regularly disinfects the immigrant settlements and supplements them with drug treatment. Now he

It should be possible to control large-scale malaria infections and outbreaks.

Of course, it is still unrealistic to completely eliminate malaria here. The key is to control large-scale outbreaks, even if some people die, it is acceptable.

What's more, what he has on hand now is labor force. Among these labor forces, there are Southeast Asian monkeys that are constantly trafficked by pirates from the South China Sea, and there are also prisoners of war. Of course, these prisoners must be screened first. For simple people, they will naturally

They are left to be used as effective human resources. As for the soldiers and scum that are eliminated, they are expendable labor force.

If he develops Dagou Port, then these expendable labor forces are the best pioneers. Let them be responsible for transforming the living environment there first. Even if some people die, it is not a big deal to him.

things.

As long as there are these disposable consumables in the early stage, when the environment there is transformed, the risk of malaria outbreaks will be greatly reduced. In addition, in the rice fields, it can also be effective to start raising fish or ducks.

Preventing the breeding of mosquito larvae is also relatively green and environmentally friendly. Various measures go hand in hand, so the epidemic may not be controlled.

Based on these factors, Yu Xiaotian believed that the time was ripe to go south to occupy Dagou Port, so in the second half of last year, he continuously sent some outpost ships to Dagou Port to start surveying the terrain.

After preliminary preparations, he was now basically ready to take action, but before taking action, he believed it was still necessary to talk to the Dutch first.

This time, after he completed the occupation of Weitou Bay, he returned to Tamsui City to deal with this matter.

Waite was extremely frustrated during this period. The huge fleet sent to him by the East India Company consisted of seven warships. He thought he could easily teach the sea wolves a lesson and let them know that they, the Dutch, could not be provoked.

But what was the result? Thinking of the fierce battle that day, he still felt cold in his heart. He really underestimated the strength of these Chinese pirates.

Although Sea Wolf's warships are indeed inferior to the Western-style warships he brought, in terms of firepower and ships, the value of Sea Wolf's fleet lies in its large number. In addition, these pirates are well-trained and fearless of death.

They gave full play to their advantages, and they also used various underhanded tricks, which made him unable to parry.

His initial carelessness also led to the annihilation of his entire army. The nearly two thousand sailors he brought with him died or were captured, and they were all killed at the mouth of the Tamsui River.

His failure this time was undoubtedly an extremely heavy blow to the East India Company. In a short period of time, the East India Company may not be able to organize a fleet of such a size to come here to fight with the Sea Wolf.

Been an enemy.

As the commander, he has become the company's sinner this time. Even if Sea Wolf puts him back now and the company doesn't hang him, his future will be completely over.

When he thought of this, Waite felt that the future was bleak, but what he was worried about now was not the future, he was most worried about his life.

After these pirates caught him, they threw him into this prison. Although they did not abuse him too much or beat him severely, the quality of life was definitely not very good. Just giving him a little every day was enough.

Life-sustaining food, clear soup and little water left me half full and not even a little bit more. Before the next meal, my stomach started growling with hunger.

This is not the most uncomfortable thing. The most uncomfortable thing is the indifference of these pirates to him. Since he was captured, he has been detained alone. No one came to interrogate him, and no one told him what was going on outside.

Now that their entire army has been wiped out, I don’t know if the company has learned the news.

Waite couldn't guess whether someone would come to redeem him and these sailors. He wanted to find out, but the Sea Wolf tribe responsible for guarding him didn't understand Dutch at all, and unfortunately, he couldn't either.

I can't communicate in Chinese at all.

For such a long time, he could only look at the sky from the high dungeon skylight every day. Only for a very short time every day, a ray of sunlight would shine into the cell through the skylight, but it was only for a moment. After a while,

The sunlight disappeared.