Daming pirates

Furthermore, Hailang secretly controls the sales of private salt. Since Yu Xiaotian was adopted, Hailang has established private salt drying farms in many places along the coast. In addition, a large number of salt drying farms have also been established on Taiwan Island.

Salt drying fields secretly smuggle large quantities of private salt.

Private salt has always been a specialty of the imperial court. It can even be compared to silver. It is used as another universal currency. Sea Wolf also dealt in private salt in the past, but after all, this thing is subject to official inspections, the risk is relatively high, and it cannot be sold.

Too many.

Now that Yu Xiaotian has a lot of troops in Fujian, if he wants to engage in illegal salt trading, he is simply blessed by nature. Who dares to investigate Yu Xiaotian's army, no matter how much illegal salt they transport, whether by land or water, as long as they hang up

With Yu Xiaotian's command, I dare not say that even gods would retreat, at least ordinary officials would not dare to cause the slightest trouble.

With this layer of identity protection, it can be said that when Sea Wolf is doing private salt business, it can be said to be unfavorable. As long as someone wants it, Sea Wolf can guarantee that the private salt will be delivered directly to their designated trading place.

If there is any trouble, and the price is fair, those little salt owls are happy to do business with Sea Wolf. Although Sea Wolf requires cash payment and no default, the risk of doing business with Sea Wolf is less than that of doing business with other people.

With more, it is easier to make a profit, so salt lords everywhere are willing to take goods from Sea Wolf.

What's more, the quality of the private salt produced by Shanghai Wolf is much better than that produced by ordinary salt lords. If the price is the same and the quality is good, you can sell it at a higher price and make more profits. Who would not do it with Sea Wolf?

When it comes to buying and selling, he is definitely the kind of guy between stupid A and stupid C.

Since Xiaotian was adopted, in addition to flexing its muscles in mainland Fujian, the Sea Wolf Group has also been making rapid progress in various businesses on the island of Taiwan.

After years of hard work by Sea Wolf, Tamsui City has now become a quite large city. The city alone has a population of nearly 100,000 people. This is considered a quite large city on land, at least as large as

It is the size of a first-class county. Although it is not as good as some large prefectural cities, it is already commendable that such a city was built in just a few years on a previously barren land.

Over the past few years, the number of immigrants brought to Taiwan by Sea Wolf has reached as many as 700,000, with branches in Tamsui, Keelung, Kaohsiung, Yilan and other places.

When Yu Xiaotian began large-scale immigration from Fujian in the first year of Chongzhen, he officially changed the name of Dagou Port to Kaohsiung Port, and built a city in Kaohsiung, called Kaohsiung City, with Kaohsiung as the center, radiating to the surrounding areas, and settling

A large number of immigrants.

At the same time, Yu Xiaotian considered that with the increase in immigration, the labor force and manpower were much looser than before. In addition, he would use Taiwan as his home base in the future. Although the Yilan Plain is not large, it has fertile land and is most suitable for large-scale rice cultivation.

Most people in the south rely on rice as their staple food, and they grow rice in the Yilan area with two harvests a year, which can supply sea wolves with a large amount of rice.

Therefore, after the second year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian ordered the Sea Wolf Group to begin stationing in the Yilan Plain. They still used the old method and first sent a large number of hard laborers to burn wasteland and level the land in the Yilan Plain to improve the environment. Later, the local environment was improved.

After improvements, large numbers of immigrants began to settle in the Yilan Plain.

In the third year of Chongzhen's reign, more than 30,000 immigrants were resettled in the Yilan Plain alone, a large number of paddy fields were reclaimed, and more than 50 new immigrant villages were built to accommodate new immigrants.

The long-term resettlement operation has allowed the Sea Wolf Group to accumulate rich experience in resettlement and local environmental transformation. Although every large-scale expansion consumes a large number of hard labor and causes a large number of hard labor deaths,

Sea Wolf never begrudges these hard labors. After all, these people are either black-skinned monkeys brought by pirates from the Southeast Asia area, or some criminals, especially those who have committed serious crimes. Each of them has something to gain.

The way to die can be said to be to die without regrets.

Although this was cruel, it greatly reduced the mortality rate of the large number of immigrants who followed, and also reduced a lot of undue losses. Of course, the incidence of diseases like malaria was naturally reduced a lot.

It cannot be said that Sea Wolf's immigration has always been smooth sailing. In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, two large-scale malaria epidemics broke out in the Keelung Fort area and Kaohsiung area.

Fortunately, Yu Xiaotian was prepared in advance and organized many medical officers to use Artemisia annua as the basic medicine and have been conducting experiments on using Artemisia annua to treat malaria.

These experiments have achieved considerable results over the years. Seawolf's medical officers have basically found several more effective prescriptions for treating malaria. Although they cannot be said to be very effective, they have still saved many people infected with malaria.

In addition, under Yu Xiaotian's words and deeds, Seawolf's medical officers have a clearer understanding of the contagiousness of malaria, and have also taken more effective measures to control the epidemic, although some malaria often appears in the immigrant villages.

patients, but there has never been a large-scale malaria outbreak, and it has almost always been within a controllable and acceptable range.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian ordered local administrative officials in Taiwan to focus on encouraging farming and agriculture in various places, and launched various policies to support agricultural development. Gradually, the Yilan Plain mainly cultivated rice, Keelung Fort mainly engaged in fishery, and the Tamsui City area

Mainly dry land crops, with a small amount of sugar cane cultivation, in addition to rice, a large amount of sugar cane is also planted in the Kaohsiung area, and several large sugar factories have been opened.

In places close to the sea, fishery industries are vigorously developed to provide a relatively sufficient supply of protein for the members of the Sea Wolf. Including those rice fields, freshwater fish and ducks are also being stocked. In addition to fertilizing the fields, they can also

It can eat many harmful bugs.

In addition, Sea Wolf has always attached great importance to the issue of fertilizer accumulation and the selection of improved seeds, focusing on promoting high-yield food crop varieties, and attaching great importance to the construction of water conservancy. This has made the farmland output of Sea Wolf's various settlements on the island of Taiwan, once the original land changes.

After the land matures, the crop yield will be much higher than farmland with the same conditions on land.

Although it is far from reaching the grain output of later generations of farmland, the output of one acre of rice fields can basically reach seven or eight shi in two seasons a year. In addition, the paddy fields can be harvested twice a year.

Fish makes farmers' income levels much higher than those on land.

Although the taxes collected by the Sea Wolf Group on the land are not light, Sea Wolf does not have any random extra taxes. In addition, there are no messy exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes such as drench, fire, etc., although farmers have to pay a lot every year.

of food, but there is still a lot left over.

In this way, after the immigrants spent the initial period of discomfort and fear, they saw that their lives here were getting better day by day, so they naturally felt at ease. The people felt at ease, and naturally they had nothing to do.

There are much fewer people, the folk customs are naturally much simpler, and the society is relatively more stable than on land.

In addition, the Sea Wolf Group has always implemented a high-pressure policy against various criminals within its jurisdiction, gradually removing some restless immigrants among the immigrants and sending them to hard labor camps for so-called labor reform. In this way,

Sea Wolf is in various jurisdictions on Taiwan Island, and it is difficult to think about instability.

By the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, Seawolf had basically achieved a healthy food supply situation in several large immigration areas on Taiwan Island. The self-produced food could almost meet the needs of immigrants on the entire Taiwan Island, such as cane sugar, fishery, etc.

He also began to export a large amount of harvests and other things, in exchange for a lot of money for Sea Wolf.

So in just a few years, Taiwan Island was basically firmly controlled by the Sea Wolf Group. Although the local indigenous people did not welcome these so-called invaders, they were already helpless against them. The Sea Wolf Group

For these indigenous tribes, we also adopt a soft-handed approach and a hard-handed carrot and stick approach. On the one hand, we let them know that sea wolves cannot be provoked. On the other hand, we also make them feel that after having these outsiders, their lives will be easier, at least.

Their prey can be exchanged for many useful things from these immigration points.

Yu Xiaotian also specifically asked to export more basic daily necessities such as cloth, ironware, porcelain, tea and salt to these indigenous people, so that they can experience the benefits of these things and they will be inseparable from these things in the future.

In addition, some indigenous tribes who have maintained good relations with the sea wolves will be taught the techniques of land reclamation and gradually integrate them into the social system established by the sea wolves. This will play a role in the long-term stability of the sea wolves on Taiwan Island in the future.

to very good effect.

Although the Sea Wolf will definitely squeeze a lot of benefits from the indigenous people when trading with the indigenous people, this kind of oppression is not harsh on the whole. While making profits, the Sea Wolf also pays attention to fair transactions, making these indigenous people feel

Eventually, they were not too disadvantaged. Gradually, some indigenous tribes discovered that as long as they did not take the initiative to attack the immigrants, these outsiders were not very unreasonable. Gradually, more and more indigenous tribes gradually eliminated their strong hostility towards the sea wolves and began to

He tentatively walked out of the mountains and forests and got to know these immigrants.

Of course, the Sea Wolf will never show mercy to headhunting tribes that are fierce and easy to kill and unreasonable. They have repeatedly sent out large numbers of troops to carry out bloody attacks on these tribes that seriously threaten the safety of immigrants, killing them one after another.

To eliminate them, but generally speaking, they also caught alive whatever they could. For the captured indigenous women and children, they were placed in various immigrant villages and supervised, and gradually integrated into the social system of the Sea Wolf.

among.

After the young men were captured, they were sent to some labor camps for transformation. The adapted natives were gradually absorbed into the army and used as auxiliaries or formal soldiers.