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During this era, there were tens of thousands of indigenous people in the entire island. They are accustomed to the tropical and subtropical humid jungles of the island and are comfortable navigating the rainforest. Moreover, most of them are brave and ruthless. Some inland alpine tribes, there is also a tradition of headhunting.

Historically, when the Dutch first landed in Tainan, they were surrounded by a large number of natives on the island. But the Dutch, treacherous, by means of trade and deception, now encircled a piece of land and built a castle. The honest aborigines of Taiwan Island relaxed their vigilance when they saw that the Dutch were easier to speak.

But after the city of Geranza was built, the Dutch began to show their fangs and began to occupy territory centered on the city. Of course, the Dutch were more cunning, and they also enlisted some locals to help suppress the unconvinced village communities, and gained a firm foothold on the island.

At the same time, Spain was more reckless, and when it came up, it used tough means to try to be tough, and as a result, it was completely blocked by the aboriginal warriors, had no food source, and was almost starved to death. In the end, because the Spanish colonists in Keelung relied on Manila for food supplies, the cost was too high, and the scale of trade did not meet expectations, so they had to withdraw.

In the past few years, with the help of the recruited Han people-only army, Kong Tai has reached the area of Miaoli County in later generations and controlled the small oil wells out of the sulfur pit. However, further south, there is some resistance.

To the south of Miaoli is the area of Taichung in later generations. There was a tribal alliance based on 18 village communities, each of which had a few hundred people, a total of seven or eight thousand people, and could make up two or three thousand warriors.

If it was on the plains, this person would have delivered food to Contai's colonial army. But in this dense forest......

Therefore, at present, Kong Tai's southward expansion path has been blocked, but according to Ma Lin's instructions, Kong Tai has already bought the land in the area of Anping Castle (that is, Geranza City) in Tainan in the later generations, and built a strong castle.

Of course, Marin was not as cunning as the Dutch, who came up with the trick of cutting a piece of cowhide into strips. He directly asked people to use a large amount of cotton cloth purchased from Ningbo in exchange for a large area of land around Anping Castle from the indigenous people. Moreover, there is a lot of land in Bianping Castle.

Then, Kong Tai directly ordered the construction of a bamboo-reinforced concrete castle with cement and bamboo, and the bastion design was built. Well, Marin simply named it Anping Fort.

After that, Conté did not use the castle to attack the local natives. Because, Kong Tai lacked manpower in his hands. Moreover, the local natives are not so easy to mess with.

So, for the time being, this castle is currently just a large bazaar used for trade with the local natives. The bazaar is not inside the castle, but in the square outside the castle. The square is paved with cement slabs and bricks, and the area is large enough to conduct large-scale trade.

But the natives did not have any valuable goods in their hands, such as deer skins, venison, and antler velvet. Although there is a profit, it is not high.

Of course, as clever as Marin, he still thought of a way - he asked Conté to send people to buy local timber at Anping Fort......

This trick is more obscene, because it is tantamount to letting the local natives cut down the trees themselves and cut down the barriers they rely on to cover. Once the trees are almost cut down, they are lambs to the slaughter. When the time comes, Kong Tai will send a few hundred people casually, and he will be able to destroy them. Unlike in the jungle, no matter how good Kong Tai's men are, it is difficult to hunt down the local natives in the dense jungle. But if the natives cut down the trees themselves......

Therefore, in order to induce the natives to cut down the trees themselves, Kong Tai also exchanged straining the natives for timber with in-demand commodities such as salt, cloth, cane sugar and wine.

In order to make it easier for the local natives to cut down trees, Conté also asked his subordinates to sell the saws at cost price......

Moreover, it is not a loss for Conté to buy those timbers. Why? It is still profitable to transport the timber to Quanzhou and Fuzhou on the other side.

Although the price of timber is not high, the cost of transportation is also low. The logs that were cut down, Kong Tai's subordinates directly tied them into huge wooden rows, and then, pulled by sailboats, floated directly on the surface of the sea and pulled to Quanzhou Port or Fuzhou Port. Although there were maggots from the ships that came to make trouble and gnaw the wood, the ship was not at sea for a few days, and the maggots had not finished gnawing the outer skin, and the fleet pulled the timber to the other side. Then, the timber was dragged ashore and exposed to the sun, and all the maggots hiccuped......

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Strictly speaking, this strategy is good. When the natives themselves have almost cut down the forest, the army under the command of Contai will be able to easily clean up the natives and force them to submit.

However, those natives are still very difficult to mess with. Leaving them here will inevitably cause trouble. And Marin is not willing to carry out the massacre easily, so getting them away is the best choice.

Originally, I hadn't thought about where to get them. However, now to conquer the Philippines, Marin suddenly had an idea - to recruit indigenous warriors from the Tainan Plain and go to the Philippines to conquer the local natives.

There are probably more than 40,000 aborigines on the Tainan Plain, and there are more than 10,000 indigenous warriors. Moreover, each is good at fighting in tropical jungles and mountains. It is definitely the most suitable thing to use against the indigenous Filipinos.

How to recruit, you ask? It's so easy! As long as you have a meal of white rice, fish, meat and wine, and some clothes, it's no problem if you don't get paid!

The indigenous people live in poverty, although there are many sika deer on the island. However, they don't know how to make salt, and they don't know how to grow sugar cane to make sugar. Therefore, even if they hunted venison, they would roast it directly, and it would be very unpalatable without salt.

The salt and cane sugar provided by Conté were added to the venison, which was a delicacy in the eyes of the aborigines. Eating well-seasoned meat can euthanize these indigenous warriors.

Moreover, the local meat is very cheap. Venison, for example, was sold by local warriors with freshly hunted deer, mainly in their skins. Generally, a small packet of salt can be exchanged for a whole sika deer, the deerskin is a big head, and the venison is just a free gift......

Because of the hot climate on Taiwan Island, the local meat cannot be preserved at all. But selling to Conté is different. Khontai had plenty of salt in his hands to marinate all the venison and make it into salted meat.

Generally, each sika deer can produce fifty or sixty catties of meat, in the Ming Dynasty, venison is relatively rare, although there is not much oil and water, can not catch up with pork, but it can also be compared with mutton, it is not a problem to sell 15 wen a catty.

But on the island of Taiwan, venison is very cheap. A 200 piece of cotton cloth can be exchanged for 200 catties of venison...... In Daming, 200 catties of venison can be sold for more than 3 taels of silver......

In other words, it is very cheap to eat meat for the aboriginal warriors on Taiwan Island. A cotton cloth that costs 200 wen can be exchanged for 200 catties of venison. Counting salting, plus shrinkage or something, a pound of pickled venison costs about two cents.

And for an indigenous warrior to eat meat every day, one pound of pickled venison a day is about the same, and the cost is less than three pennies including transportation and cooking. Even if there are 10,000 indigenous soldiers, each person eats one pound of venison per day, and the cost is only 30,000 wen, that is, 30 taels of silver......

In addition, it was also very cheap to buy wine from the Ming Dynasty. A jar of rice wine, which is less than 200 yuan, can make more than a dozen people drink it for a day, and the cost per person per day is only 10 yuan. Shochu is more expensive, but for the natives not to use such high-purity wine, rice wine is enough to send them away. In the future, if sugar cane is grown on the Tainan Plain and rum is made from the scraps of sugar cane extraction, it is estimated that the cost of the wine will be cheaper. After all, the labor cost in the Ming Dynasty was low......

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