In this era, there were tens of thousands of indigenous people on the entire Taiwan Island. They were used to the humid and tropical jungles on the island and were at ease in the rainforest. Moreover, most of them were brave and fierce. Some inland alpine tribes and headhunting traditions.
Historically, when the Dutch first landed in Tainan, they were surrounded by a large number of indigenous people on the island. However, the Dutch were treacherous and used trade and deception to now wrap up a piece of land and build a castle. The honest and honest natives of Tai Island relaxed their vigilance when they saw that the Dutch were easier to speak.
But after the completion of the city of Jelanzha, the Dutch had the ability to defend themselves, and began to expose their fangs and encroach on the territory with the city as the center. Of course, the Dutch were more cunning and even attracted some local people to help suppress the unsatisfied villages and communities, and gained a foothold on the island.
Spain was reckless during the same period, and he used tough measures to make the tough ones. As a result, he was completely blocked by indigenous soldiers and had no food source and almost starved to death. In the end, because the Spanish colonists in Keelung even rely on Manila for food supplies, the cost was too high and the trade scale did not meet expectations, they had to withdraw.
In recent years, with the help of the Han civilian army recruited, Kong Tai had already hit the area of ​​Miaoli County in later generations and controlled the small oil well that had come out of the sulfonium pit. However, if he went south, he would encounter some resistance.
To the south of Miaoli is the area of ​​Taichung in later generations. There is a tribal alliance composed of 18 villages and communities. Each of these 18 villages and communities has hundreds of people, a total of seven or eight thousand people, and two or three thousand soldiers can be gathered.
If it were on the plain, this little man would be the one who delivered vegetables to Kong Tai's colonial army. However, in this dense forest...
Therefore, Kongtai's road to southward expansion has been hindered. However, according to Marin's instructions, Kongtai has purchased the land in the Anping Ancient Castle in Tainan (that is, the City of Relanzha) by purchasing land and built a solid castle.
Of course, Marin was not as cunning as the Dutch, and made a fraudulent method of cutting a piece of cowhide into silk strips to enclose land. He directly sent people to use a large amount of cotton cloth purchased from Ningbo to exchange for a large area of ​​land in the Anping Castle from the indigenous people. Moreover, it was much larger than the Anping Castle land.
Then, Kong Tai directly ordered a bamboo-reinforced concrete castle there with cement and bamboo, designed by the castle. As for the name, Marin simply named it Anping Castle.
After that, Kong Tai did not use this castle to attack the local indigenous people. Because Kong Tai lacked manpower. Moreover, the local indigenous people were not so easy to mess with.
So, for the time being, this castle is only a large market for trade with local indigenous peoples. The market is not in the castle, but in the square outside the castle. The square is paved with cement bricks, with a large area and can carry out large-scale trade.
But the indigenous people did not have any valuable commodities in their hands, such as deer skin, venison and antler. Although it was profitable, the profit was not high.
Of course, as smart as Marin, he still thought of a solution - he asked Contai to send someone to purchase local wood in Anpingburg...
This move is rather vulgar because it is equivalent to asking the local natives to cut down the trees themselves and cut down the barriers they rely on for cover. Once the trees are almost cut, they will be the lambs to be slaughtered. At that time, Kongtai will send hundreds of people to destroy them. Unlike in the jungle, no matter how hard Kongtai's men can fight, it will be difficult to chase and kill the local natives in the dense jungle. But if the natives cut down the trees themselves...
Therefore, in order to lure the natives to cut down trees by themselves, Kongtai also used scarce commodities such as salt, cloth, sugar and wine to exchange them for wood with the natives.
In order to facilitate local indigenous people to cut down trees, Kong Tai also asked his subordinates to sell saws at a cost price...
Moreover, Kong Tai won’t lose money when purchasing those woods. Why? It’s profitable to transport those woods to Quanzhou and Fuzhou on the other side.
Although the price of wood is not high, the transportation cost is also low. Kong Tai's subordinates directly tied the logs that were cut down into huge wooden rafts, and then pulled them by sailboats and floated directly on the sea to Quanzhou Port or Fuzhou Port. Although there were also shipworms who came to chew the wood, the ship was at sea for a few days before the shipworms had finished gnawing the skin, the fleet pulled the wood to the other side. Then, the wood was dragged ashore and exposed to the sun, and all the shipworms were burping...
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Strictly speaking, this strategy is very good. When the indigenous people cut down the forest by themselves, the army under Kong Tai can easily remove the indigenous people and force them to surrender.
However, those natives are still very difficult to mess with. Keeping them here will inevitably lead to trouble. And Marin is unwilling to massacre easily, so getting them away is the best choice.
Originally, I didn't think of where to get them. However, now that I want to conquer the Philippines, Marlin immediately had an idea - to recruit indigenous soldiers from the Tainan Plain to conquer the local indigenous people in the Philippines.
There are about 40,000 indigenous people on the Tainan Plain and more than 10,000 indigenous soldiers. Moreover, they are good at fighting in tropical jungles and mountains. It is definitely the most suitable to deal with the Philippine natives.
You ask how to recruit? It's too simple! As long as you have a meal of white rice, fish, meat and wine, and give some clothes, it's okay not to pay a salary!
The natives lived in a difficult life. Although there were many sika deer on Taiwan, they did not know how to make salt and did not grow sugar cane to make sugar. Therefore, even if they hunted venison, they would just roast it and eat it directly without adding salt, which was very unpalatable.
The salt and sugar provided by Kongtai, added to venison, are delicious in the eyes of the natives. Eating meat with sufficient seasoning every meal can euthanize these indigenous soldiers.
Moreover, local meat is very cheap. Take venison for example. Local soldiers carry newly hunted deer to sell, mainly for deer skin. Generally, a small bag of salt can be exchanged for a whole sika deer. The deer skin is a big head, and the venison is just a free gift...
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Because the climate on Taiwan is hot, the local meat cannot be saved at all. But it is different to sell it to Kong Tai. Kong Tai has sufficient salt in his hand, and he can marinate all the venison and make it into bacon.
Generally, each sika deer can produce fifty or sixty kilograms of meat. In the Ming Dynasty, venison was rare. Although it was not much oil and water and could not catch up with pork, it could be compared with mutton. It would be no problem to sell 15 yuan per kilogram.
But on Taiwan, venison is very cheap. A 200-meter-old cotton cloth can be exchanged for 200 pounds of venison... In the Ming Dynasty, 200 pounds of venison can be sold for more than 3 taels of silver...
In other words, it is very cheap to give meat to the indigenous soldiers on Taiwan. A piece of cotton that costs 200 yuan can be exchanged for 200 jin of venison. Including salt marinated with shrinkage, it costs about two cents per jin of marinated venison.
If an indigenous soldier eats meat every day, it will be almost the same as one pound of pickled venison a day. The cost is less than three cents in terms of transportation and cooking. Even if there are 10,000 indigenous soldiers, each person will eat one pound of venison a day, the cost is only 30,000 cents, which is just 30 taels of silver...
In addition, it was very cheap to buy wine from the Ming Dynasty. A jar of rice wine was less than 200 yuan, and it could allow more than a dozen people to drink it for a day, and each person would cost only 10 yuan per day. Soju is more expensive, but it would not be necessary for the natives to have such high-purity wine. The rice wine is enough to save them. If sugarcane is planted on the Tainan Plain in the future and rum made with sugarcane-squeezed pulp, it would be estimated that the cost of the wine would be even cheaper. After all, the labor cost in the Ming Dynasty was too low...
In other words, although "high treatment" can be provided to the indigenous people and ensure that they drink and eat meat every day, the cost is really not high. Especially when eating meat, it is so cheap that it is so cheap that it is many times cheaper than the Ming Dynasty. There is no way, there are many sika deer on Taiwan, and there is no shortage of venison.
Chapter completed!