During the Three Kingdoms period, after the Eastern Wu fleet arrived in Taiwan, the Central Plains dynasty established nominal rule over Taiwan, but for thousands of years, Taiwan Island has been in an undeveloped state.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Han people went to the island on a large scale that they gradually developed Taiwan, which slowly ended the wilderness era in southern Taiwan.

In northern Taiwan, the Spanish built the city of San Salvador in the Chicken area in 1626. However, Spain only established a stronghold for trade with China, and their colonization was mainly plundering, and the purpose was not to develop Taiwan, so northern Taiwan was still a dangerous and wilderness.

At this time, in the Tamsui River Basin, there were dense tropical forests on both sides, a group of more than ten men, carrying large bags and small bags, trek forward against the stream and entering the depths of the forest.

The leader of a strong man with black face, sweating all over his way, squatted by the stream, washed his face, turned his head and said to everyone behind him, "Stop for a break, and it will be there for another half an hour!"

The black-faced man is nothing but the original Tianmu Mountain Village owner. Zhang Yida, one of the hundreds of village heads in Taipei guards.

After Zhang Yida and his copycats came to Taiwan Island, they found that the island was not peaceful, but it was also full of opportunities.

For the Han people, every time they arrive at a place, as long as the land is suitable for survival, the Han people will easily take root and live much better than the local people.

Zhang Yida came to Taipei last autumn and divided a large area of ​​land, but the land was full of primitive jungles covered with trees and wild grass. He led his subordinates to burn the wasteland and build the trestle. He was half tired and died. Many brothers died in the middle, and even he himself became sick.

Zhang Yida originally thought that he would die of illness in Taiwan, but was so sad that he could not do anything big, but died cowardly. When the military teacher Lao Ji was trading with the natives, he got him a white crystal, which magically cured his illness.

After he recovered, Zhang Yida was very curious about what those white crystals were, so he studied and asked about them. Finally, he learned that these crystals were called camphor, which was extracted from a camphor tree on Taiwan Island. It not only allows you to pass through the orifices, promote stagnation of qi, and ward off filth, but also kill insects and stop itching, and dehumidify.

This discovery made Zhang Yida's inspiration and discovered a business opportunity. There were hundreds of thousands of Han people on Taiwan, suffering from the torture of the island's moisture and mosquitoes, and they died of illness every day. If he could get camphor, he would use camphor to exchange for food and supplies in various villages to exchange for food and supplies. Wouldn't it be much better than farming?

Zhang Yida was not a sloppy person. In his early years, he worked as a traveler because he couldn't stand digging food in the fields and worked hard for a year and couldn't eat enough. Later, the local area was in chaos and the goods were robbed, and the merchants were not easy to do, so he became a robber.

Although the umbrella had allocated a large area of ​​land to Zhang Yida and the others, after Zhang Yida discovered the business opportunity of camphor, he resolutely decided to take some people to farm, while he went to find the primitive tribes to exchange camphor.

From the first month of the year, Zhang Yida took people through the vast jungle, looking for primitive tribe transactions, but at first his transaction was not successful, and he almost lost his life.

This is because the natives do not recognize money and have nothing to exchange. Second, most of the natives on Taiwan are fishing and hunting ethnic groups, very fierce and like to chop people's heads.

Once, Zhang Yida went deep into the hunting ground of a tribe and was ambushed by the native tribe. Fortunately, Zhang Yida was extremely brave and the natives failed to attack, and the leader was captured by Zhang Yida alive.

Zhang Yida let the native people go. Seeing that Zhang Yida had no malice, the native people became friends with Zhang Yida, and Zhang Yida's business really opened.

The natives were the son of a branch leader of the Taya tribe. Zhang Yida received his care and more than a dozen nearby native villages could pass through safely, and their business finally improved.

Zhang Yida traveled to several tribes and exchanged them with cloth, shoes and salt. He not only monopolized the camphor of several Taya tribes upstream of Tashisui, but also purchased a large number of furs and then resold them to the Han people in various villages in Wei, Taipei for food and food supplies, and also provided supply and marketing cooperatives with a lot of money.

Although the time they had been to Taiwan for a short time, they lived a better life than those who had been in the fortress for a year or two. They had all kinds of daily necessities, which led the Han people in several surrounding villages to start collecting camphor and set up business with the natives.

At this time, Zhang Yida and his group rested by the stream for a while, and then continued on their way.

They crossed mountains and ridges and came to a native tribe. The children in the tribe immediately surrounded him and shouted in unstandard Chinese language: "Uncle, uncle."

Zhang Yida showed a kind smile on his dark face. He took out some pastries from the package behind him and distributed them to every child who surrounded him.

In recent times, Zhang Yida would come to these native tribes every half a month to collect the camphor they had cooked and refined, and then bring some essential foods to these natives.

The children and Zhang Yida were already familiar with each other, and happily took the snacks from him, and then they all started eating happily.

Most of these native tribes are very poor and have low levels of civilization. Most of the children are barefoot and barefoot.

After Zhang Yida finished the snacks, he asked a subordinate to unpack the package, took out a pair of shoes from it, put them on for a teenage child, and then stroked the boy's head.

After the Qing Dynasty ban on seas and the Jiangnan smuggling trade was severely hit, Zhao Ming did not have cloth or tea to trade, and could not exchange sulfur, iron, swords, and leather goods from Japan and North Korea. He began to use existing materials to make deep-processed products such as shoes, hats, socks, and clothes for sale.

However, Zhao Ming's business was not very successful. Japan and North Korea could not accept the backlog of newly manufactured goods, so they placed them in the supply and marketing cooperative to convert them to domestic sales.

The shoes Zhang Yida took out were all mass-produced by female workers, and they were not very expensive. He often brought some things to children and poor people in native tribes for free, so as to have a good relationship with them.

Previously, the local people's process of producing camphor was very simple, and there was not even a stove in the tribe, which was very backward and primitive.

After Zhang Yida entered the tribe, he not only collected camphor, but also helped them build Chinese local stoves, greatly improving the benefits of the natives to refine camphor and also bringing more wealth to the natives.

This changed the attitude of the natives in the tribe towards Zhang Yida and his group, from being vigilant to trust and welcome.

This is like the Chinese in Africa. The Chinese cultural genes and codes of conduct are very different from the barbaric and selfish Western barbarians.

At this time, after Zhang Yida sent the children, he walked into the village. The native tribe leader had already brought a group of native men with whale-faced whale to greet him, each with a warm smile on his face.
Chapter completed!