Of course, the real owner of this Majiabao is Marin, and the future little master is Ma Yun Mario, who is still breastfeeding. Kong Tai is just a manager appointed by the Lao Ma family. After all, Marlin didn't have time to come here, and the ponies were still young.

While making lunch, the people of Jilong Village were stunned by Kong Tai's methods. Of course, it's not that Kong Tai is amazing in cooking, but in the tools of cooking......

What tools? Kong Tai took out 10 sun cookers made of white iron......

The silver glittering white iron sheet brightened the eyes of the people of Jilong Village. Liu Laogen pointed to the sun stoves and stammered and asked:

"Hole...... Master Kong, these ...... All...... It's all silver? ”

Liu Laogen thought that Kong Tai was here to show off his wealth, so he threw ten umbrellas made of silver in the sun, which looked like a trench......

Kong Tai laughed and said:

"It's not silver, it's tin-plated white iron!" Kong Tai was actually deceived, and in order to keep it secret and not let people know about zinc, Marin said to people other than insiders that the white iron sheet was tin-plated. Therefore, Kong Tai did not know that the white iron sheet was actually galvanized. However, tin plating and galvanizing are very similar in appearance, and it is difficult for everyone to tell the difference.

Liu Laogen sighed and said:

"I thought it was made of silver!"

Kong Tai laughed and said:

"It's nothing, it's just a cooking thing, it's not a rarity."

"Cooking?" Liu Laogen's brain is not enough, this silver shiny inverted umbrella can cook rice?

Soon, he saw that some sailors of the Beihai Kingdom had put the pot with a dark bottom on the stand. Then, the white tin umbrella, being turned, faces the sun.

"Don't you make a fire?" Liu Laogen was a little puzzled.

"No, the soup in the pot will be cooked when the sun shines on it!"

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, the broth in the pot began to boil. The meat in the pot is the venison that the Kongtai faction sent to exchange salt for the aborigines of the Pingpu tribe on the land under the leadership of the translator of Jilong Village.

"You can make pork without making a fire! Is this immortal? Liu Laogen was so frightened that he couldn't stand on his feet - Mom, this is a meeting with Daxian......

"It's not an immortal technique, it's just a small skill of carving insects...... Kong Tai explained lightly, invisibly pretending to be a comparison.

In fact, Kong Tai does not understand physics and does not know how to explain the principle of solar cooker. So, just fooled it around. Speaking of which, when Kong Tai saw the sun cooker for the first time, he was no less surprised than Liu Laogen.

This kind of ambiguous explanation made Liu Laogen and other villagers of Jilong Village be deterred. In their eyes, this group of foreigners knows how to do sorcery! Can't be provoked, can't be provoked......

Even, many villagers knelt down to the sun stove and bowed, as if worshipping the great immortals......

In the mouths of the villagers, these sun cookers are not ordinary pot stoves, but legendary magic weapons!

Listening to the villagers' words, Kong Tai was dumbfounded. But then, he suddenly came up with a great idea......

……

After that, Kong Tai solemnly told the villagers of Jilong Village that these 10 sun cookers were indeed magic weapons, and they were made by their great Grand Duke Marin, in order to facilitate them to make a fire at sea for cooking. After all, on a wooden boat, it is inconvenient to make a fire for cooking......

Then, in the eyes of the villagers of Jilong Village, Ma Lin was officially upgraded from a big man to a big immortal, and he was nicknamed "Ma Daxian......

When drinking venison soup, the villagers of Jilong Village almost always drink the soup with reverence. In their eyes, the venison soup made with magic weapons is fairy soup......

Since then, in the shrines enshrined by the villagers of Jilong Village, there are more tablets of Malin's "Ma Daxian", which are juxtaposed with Buddha, Sanqing and Mazu......

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Kong Tai seems to be addicted to fooling people, and next, he plans to fool the Pingpu indigenous people on the shore......

So, through the translator of Jilong Village, he invited several indigenous leaders of the Pingpu tribe near the mouth of the Keelung River to come to the banquet.

In the presence of several indigenous leaders, Conté once again performed the "miracle" of cooking soup on a solar stove. In order to fool several indigenous leaders, Kong Tai also pretended to be a model and recited a few incantations and made a gesture of "gong......

And, this time, instead of broth, seawater was boiling in the pot......

After Conté memorized a large section of the German Bible, the seawater in the pot (which had been condensed once before) turned into white sea salt......

After finishing, Kong Tai also said to the indigenous leaders in a serious manner:

"Guys, that's where the salt comes from!"

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Several indigenous leaders of the Pingpu tribe were directly frightened stupid - Nima, am I dreaming? I actually saw the spell......

The "master" named Kong Tai really knew how to do magic, and he actually used a "magic weapon" to make salt in front of them......

Then, several of the indigenous chiefs bowed and danced to the 10 silver sun cookers, looking feverish and fearful......

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At this time, Liu Laogen, as the middleman, was about to laugh and hurt in his stomach. Of course, he didn't dare to laugh. Although he knew that Kong Tai was fooling the natives, such a miraculous thing as a solar stove that could cook soup without a fire could not be faked. Out of awe of the "magic weapon", Liu Laogen held back his laughter......

In fact, Liu Laogen and other Han people must know how to boil salt. But the Pingpu natives on the land don't know, of course, there are also people who know, and the Han people tell them. For example, the Pingpu indigenous people of the Tainan generation have some indigenous villages that have mastered the technology of boiling salt. However, Keelung's generation is a remote area, and the local aborigines have little contact with the Han people, so they have little knowledge.

Moreover, the villagers of Jicoop Village are not stupid. They relied on boiling salt, exchanging salt with the indigenous people of the Pingpu tribe on land for resources such as venison, deer skins, and timber, how could they tell them the secret of boiling salt?

This time, however, Conté had told the indigenous chiefs about the process of boiling salt. However, the miracle of the solar stove being able to boil water without a fire frightened the indigenous chiefs, who naturally ignored the details of how the sea water could boil salt.

In the eyes of those chiefs, the salt was actually made by the great immortals with magic weapons, so high-end, no wonder it was expensive......

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Afterwards, Conté "cordially" had a friendly exchange with several indigenous chiefs. However, no matter how kind Kong Tai was, several of the indigenous leaders who were shocked were a little trembling. After all, Kong Tai is a ruthless person who uses the "magic weapon" in front of them...... Oh no, it's an immortal...... In the face of immortals, how dare they make mistakes?

Seeing that the fire was almost over, Kong Tai finally showed his hole card - he wanted to buy the land at the mouth of the Keelung River. The chips purchased are the salt made by the "magic weapon......

In addition, Comté sent several fine hunting bows made by European craftsmen, as well as a few barrels of arrows. With these sophisticated bows and arrows, it was more convenient for these natives to hunt sika deer.

It should be pointed out that at this time, Taiwan Island was a very low-developed primeval forest area. Although the local Pingpu people also have agriculture, the output is very low. Because they lacked agricultural technology, and they did not have ploughing cattle and iron farming tools.

Therefore, the food source of the local indigenous people still depends largely on hunting. The sika deer is the most important kind of prey. It is estimated that in this era, there were estimated millions of sika deer in the jungle of Taiwan Island. The natives, on the other hand, hunted with inferior means and relied mainly on javelins and earthen bows and arrows. However, the accuracy of the javelin is very poor, and the power and accuracy of the earthen bow and arrow are relatively poor. Therefore, although there are many sika deer in the local area, the indigenous people do not hunt much. Kong Tai gave them a good bow and arrow, which allowed them to hunt more sika deer......

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Probably intimidated by the "powerful magic weapon" of the solar stove, several indigenous chiefs finally agreed to sell a few square kilometers of riverside land on the east bank of the Keelung estuary in the south of Heping Island to Kong Tai. Originally, the village there would be moved, and the price paid by Kong Tai was 500 catties of salt, and those bows and arrows. At the same time, Kong Tai needs to promise to continue selling salt to those indigenous villages in the future......

For the requirements of these indigenous villages, Kong Tai hardly regarded it as a condition. Why? 500 pounds of salt, he can now take it out of the ship.

Of course, it would be too hasty to pay 500 catties of salt so quickly, and maybe the indigenous chiefs would regret it. Therefore, after reaching an agreement with them, Kong Tai said that in the next few days, he needs to "work" every day and use those artifacts to make salt. Therefore, it takes half a month to trade 500 catties of salt......

Several of the deceitful native chieftains went back happily, and Conté was even more happy than they were. Why? Because Marin said that the most troublesome thing about colonization is that it is difficult to gain a foothold. If you are attacked by the natives as soon as you land, it will be very troublesome. Especially in a jungle-dense place like Taijima. Even if you want to fight back against the natives, the natives hide in the forest, you can't do anything about it.

So, now get a foothold on the land, build a castle, and then you can try to get more land. The hardest part was to get through the beginning and complete the castle on land. Because, during this time, the natives may attack you. Before the castle is completed, it will be difficult to resist if it is attacked.

And now, with 500 catties of salt and a few bows, he has been exchanged for a large area of land at the mouth of the Keelung River, how can he not be happy?

And Liu Laogen is also very happy, because the place on the east bank of the Keelung River estuary is very suitable for agriculture. There are too many stones on Heping Island, and it is difficult to reclaim much fertile land. The land on the east bank of the Keelung estuary is an alluvial plain, which is very suitable for agriculture at first glance. Therefore, Liu Laogen applied for landing and farming, and Kong Tai also agreed, and the two sides hit it off.

After all, Kong Tai is active on Taiwan Island and cannot rely on the mainland to transport grain, which is 108,000 miles away from the mainland. It's best to be able to produce food locally. And Kong Tai and other colonists will not go to farming, so it is the best choice to let the villagers of Jilong Village go to farm and buy food from them when the time comes.

And Liu Laogen, as a Han man of the Ming Dynasty, naturally has a very heavy land plot, and they must be very happy to have fertile land to cultivate. And to produce grain, the surplus must also be sold. And those who have the financial resources to buy food on the island are undoubtedly Kong Tai and his group. So, it's a win-win situation, and the two sides naturally hit it off......