Fang Xingtian was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Okay! ”

He doesn't talk much, and he rarely says a lot of words, often one or two words, Liu Zhi has long been used to him like this, so he doesn't care. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Soon, a small boat was released from the big boat, and more than a dozen people came down from the big boat, including Liu Zhi and Fang Xingtian.

The ship was now at sea, more than two miles from the shoreline, and the boatmen were afraid that they might encounter a reef if they went any further, so they did not dare to continue in order to prevent them from hitting the reef.

Two miles was not too far, and several people in the small boat worked together, and the oars in their hands rowed quickly, and soon they landed on the shore.

Taiwan Island is currently sparsely populated, the number of aborigines on the island is limited, and the production methods are very backward, and they have never encountered living people, so they may be very aggressive, so after landing on the shore, two people were left to take care of the boat, and the other ten people followed Liu Zhi and Fang Tianxing, so as not to be too scattered and encounter accidents.

Although Liu Zhi went to Taiwan Island once in his later life, his impression of the island had basically forgotten the light, not to mention the island of Taiwan in its original state, and he was even more unfamiliar with it.

However, he still drew a map of the island of Taiwan for the entire fleet, which was much more accurate than the official map drawn by the Sui Dynasty court in this era, after all, although the Sui Dynasty's navy was very developed, because the maritime trade was not as advanced as that of later generations, their fleet did not go around the island for detailed exploration.

The destination of Liu Zhi's fleet is the Tamsui River in Taiwan, and it is obviously unrealistic to conjure up a wharf and port out of thin air, the best way is to go upriver along the rivers on the island, these rivers are washed by the flowing water, so they must be in a place with fewer reefs at their mouth, so that it is easier for the big ships to come in, they are already on the edge of the Tamsui River at this time, but Liu Zhi They also need to figure out the hydrological situation of the Tamsui River, otherwise the draft of the big boat, It wouldn't be nice if it came in and ran aground.

The group of people cautiously moved forward, at this time Taiwan Island is full of primeval jungles, the island of many ethnic minorities at this time was not driven into the deep mountains and old forests like later generations, but lived in the coastal plains, and later, after more and more foreign people crossed the sea to the island, they gradually migrated inward and moved to the mountains in the middle of Taiwan Island.

After walking forward for about 500 meters, they had already come to the side of the Tamsui River.

The Tamsui River is the third largest river on the island of Taiwan, with a total length of about 160 kilometers and a maximum width of nearly 450 meters.

The crowd searched around the Tamsui River, but found no trace of local habitation, and it seemed that it was uninhabited.

However, it is best not to face harassment from the island's natives when they settle down.

Soon, the two people who guarded the boat rowed the boat into the Tamsui River and began to use the tools carried on the boat to measure, they mainly needed to measure the speed of the river and the depth of the river, find a place suitable for the big boat to dock, and then see where there were places to make a simple dock, and build a dock on the river, which must be much simpler than building in the sea.

Soon, the results of the exploration came out, not far from the mouth of the sea, there is a river bay, the river here is the widest, because the river water has a whirling relationship, so the erosion of the sediment on the riverbed is the cleanest, so the river water is relatively deep, more suitable as a place to stop planting.

Now that he found a suitable place to dock, Liu Zhi did not delay, and soon asked people to send a signal to the big ship moored at sea.

The boat also returned to the sea along the river, slowly leading the fleet to this place.

Soon after, most of the people on the boat went ashore from the big boat in a small boat, and everyone set up a proposed camp by the river, which is not suitable as a permanent camp, because it is too close to the river, and the time is already the end of August, and the rainy season on the island of Taiwan is generally in the three months from late April to the end of July in the lunar calendar, Taiwan belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, rainy and hot in summer, and mild in winter.

The summer rainfall was staggering, so it was certainly not safe to camp by the river, but they had to camp by the river until they could find a suitable campsite, after all, they had to build a dock, and now that the rainy season on the island had passed, it was unlikely that a flood would break out.

There were more than 1,000 people in the fleet, and so many people gathered together needed to be properly accommodated, but fortunately, they were all based on villages before, and after coming here, they still gathered according to the original village, and then set up the military tents brought over, and they could already cope with it temporarily.

Among the 1,000 people, there were about 300 young and middle-aged laborers, and most of the rest were old and weak women, Liu Zhi gathered these more than 300 people, 100 people went to cut down trees, 100 people went to dig soil, and the rest of the people loaded these felled trees and sand, transported them to the designated location, and prepared to build a wharf.

The work took about three days, and a proposed pier was ready, because the water was deep, so there was no need to desilt the riverbed, which saved a lot of time, otherwise they wouldn't have done it so quickly.

After the wharf was built, a large number of materials on the big ship were easily unloaded, otherwise it was difficult to transport a lot of heavier materials by small boats, such as the buffalo, which is a necessary thing for farming, and then there was no crane in the era, it was not easy to get it off the big ship, and after having the wharf, it would be good to pull it down directly.

These cattle are placed in the lower cabin, their performance at sea is not better than people, many cattle have seasickness imagination, and once they appear seasick, it will be manifested in appetite, many cattle have a great loss of appetite, a sick look, more than ten days of sailing, although not a single cattle died, but several cattle are sick, at this time after they were taken off the ship, they actually stood unsteady on land, a drunken look, After watching it, people can't help but laugh.

"Pavilion Master, we have found an ideal place in the upper reaches of the river that can be used to set up our camp, would you like to come and see it?"

Although Liu Zhi did not bring out all the people in Langya Pavilion on this trip, he also brought a lot of people, and this Zhao Gang in front of him at this time was one of them.

This Zhao Gang is more than Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, and he has always been in charge of foreign affairs in Langya Pavilion, he has rich social experience, and he can also manage people, so he was brought over by Liu Zhi, the purpose is to make him the main thing on the Taiwan side, and when he leaves Taiwan and returns to the mainland, there will be someone to manage the personnel on these islands.

"Oh? Are the conditions good? Take me to see it! (To be continued.) )