Keelung Harbor, where the three-way soldiers and horses of the nine-headed bird finally converged.

At this time, more than half a month has passed since the departure from the Dayuan branch, which is a few days longer than expected. However, the harvest of this trip is also very large, more than 20,000 nine-headed birds carried out an armed training, live exercises, especially Liu Jun's appearance of breaking the battalion system and mixing all arms to form a battle group, has passed a test.

This new way of fighting has made a good test for Liaodong after the nine-headed bird.

And through this march, the natives also showed the strength of the Ming Dynasty. By the way, the distribution of indigenous ethnic groups and villages, the number of populations, mineral resources, etc., were also surveyed. Along the way, the nine-headed bird also exchanged for about 300,000 pieces of deer skin, tens of thousands of catties of cane sugar, as well as thousands of catties of gold and a lot of cowhides, horns and other things, which are the most valuable local products in Taiwan.

Taiwan's deer skins were sold to Japan, and every 100 pieces of the best deer skins sold to Japan were worth 60 taels of silver, and Liu Jun exchanged cloth, iron pots and other goods from these natives at a cost of only 10 taels of silver per 100 sheets. And this ten taels of silver, in fact, still made a profit, when Liu Jun sold the low-priced cloth and iron pots shipped from Fujian and other places to the natives, he had already sold them at a high price, and he made a sum of money first, and then he could make a lot of money in exchange for the deer skin.

In addition to the profits from cloth and ironware, the deerskin trade alone can have a gross profit of 100 taels and 50 taels for every 100 pieces of deerskins, and a profit of tens of thousands of taels of silver for 300,000 pieces of deerskins, and this is only one of them. In addition, the natives also had a lot of gold, gems, etc., and Liu Jun also traded cloth and other commodities in exchange for gold in their hands, and once he changed hands, he also earned tens of thousands of taels.

In the end, Liu Jun calculated that this parade, the business they did by the way, actually made a profit of no less than 100,000 taels. It's unimaginable. And this also made Liu Jun discover that although Taiwan is all indigenous, the indigenous business is better. They were very fond of many of the goods brought from the mainland, such as cloth, clothing, and iron tools, for which they were not skilled. And they have many valuable things, such as deerskins, horns, gold, etc., which they have been difficult to trade in the past.

When the gold and silver in Europe were 1:15, and the Ming Dynasty was 1:13, the gold in the hands of the natives here was actually equivalent to the price of 1:4 for silver coins.

There are not many indigenous people on the island of Taiwan. There are not only the Bupu people who live in the plains, but also the Gaoshan people who live in the mountains, these natives live in village communities, and some of them form alliances with several villages and communities to fight against hostile tribes, and on this rich treasure island, after Liu Jun's subordinates this census statistics, there are about more than 1,000 villages and communities on the island, and the registered population is more than 300,000.

And this number must still be a little missing, after all, there are many deep mountains and old forests. The soldiers of the nine-headed bird didn't have time to investigate, but the number of 300,000 had to account for at least about seventy or eighty percent of the actual number.

With a population of three or four hundred thousand, that's a pretty big market, especially if you have it all to yourself. In particular, the nine-headed bird has also discovered many valuable minerals this time. Among them, there are gold, silver, sulfur, copper, etc., and only a few commodities need to be paid to the natives to obtain the right to mine, and many of them are completely ownerless.

After seeing these data, Liu Jun met Zheng Zhilong in Keelung. The first thing I did was to propose to him to establish a Taiwan Development Company under the Daming East India Company, with a mineral division and a reclamation division under it. The Ministry of Minerals is responsible for prospecting for valuable and easy-to-mine minerals in Taiwan. The reclamation company took advantage of Taiwan's suitable climate and plains to cultivate fertile land and grow sugarcane and grain. The sugarcane grown is directly pressed into sugar and made into granulated sugar and rock sugar, and the grain is used as a supply for more and more craftsmen and farmers who come to Taiwan after the development of Taiwan.

Sugar has always been a high-demand and high-demand product like tea, and Taiwan is the most suitable for growing sugarcane and developing a sugar industry. As long as the sugar industry develops, there will be a large demand not only in Japan, but also in the Ming Dynasty and those Europeans in the South Seas.

Taiwan's indigenous population is only 300,000 or 400,000, but it is divided into many tribes and thousands of village communities. Many of these people are still enemies for generations, and they are ready to hunt for heads at every turn. There are almost no indigenous tribes in the whole of Taiwan who do not hunt human heads. Even some tribes in the mountains have a grudge to hunt the head of the grass, even if there is no hatred, there is a happy event, they have to run to the hostile tribe to hunt the head, in short, the head hunter has become their tradition.

These tribes are completely scattered, and for so many years, there has been a slightly larger big-bellied alliance in that small place in Taichung.

This alliance, which has existed for a hundred years, is growing in strength, and if there is no interference from external forces, it may be possible to form an initial kingdom in a few hundred years. But now, Amira, the pot-bellied king, has lost her head.

His head hung on the dock of Keelung Port, fluttering in the wind, and there were hundreds of heads of the Potbelly Club next to him.

The pot-bellied king is just a frog at the bottom of a well, he doesn't know how big the Ming is, and he wants to be the king and hegemon in Taiwan, but the nine-headed bird on the left side marches all the way, and the big-bellied king also leads people to sneak attack and ambush, but the action is already the night of the nine-headed bird.

The potbelly king was killed on the spot, more than 100 warriors under his command were also killed, and the rest of the thousands of tribal warriors were captured. Subsequently, the nine-headed bird copied more than 30 villages and communities of the Potbelly Alliance, and those leaders who dared to resist were executed in public, and then the Ming army re-elected a new leader for them, and requisitioned many young people from the village community.

Keelung Port, a bigger Taiwan conference is about to be held. The nine-headed bird traveled all the way north, and everywhere they went, they had to register the village communities, and then invited their leader to take their young men north.

After the three groups of people arrived in Keelung, there were tens of thousands of natives who followed them, and a total of more than 1,700 people from the village community came to participate in the conference.

They all saw the barbarian king Alamy hanging on the docks of the port.

He Tengjiao also rushed to Keelung from Dayuan, and this meeting was also to formally establish the boundaries of various ethnic tribes and village communities, and at the same time registered, He Tengjiao divided county and village communities on behalf of the imperial court, established household registration, and appointed local officials. In addition, this is also a big trade between tribes, which can be traded with the Ming army and other tribes.

In addition, Liu Jun and He Tengjiao also took out a lot of commodities and silver coins, etc., and took this opportunity to hire local natives to assist the government in building roads and cities. In addition, Liu Jun is also ready to hire them to cultivate fields and open mines.

For Liu Jun's plans, Zheng Zhilong expressed his full support.

He arrived in Keelung a few days earlier than Liu Jun, he was more comfortable at sea than Liu Jun, and after the Dutch received Van Buron's request for help from the Japanese trading station, they immediately organized a fleet of ships and recruited a mercenary army from Japan to rush to Taiwan.

As a result, this fleet, which had eight armed merchant ships, dozens of other Japanese sailing ships, and more than 3,000 Japanese mercenaries, was intercepted by the four fleets of the Ming Dynasty as soon as they appeared in the Taiwan Strait.

Especially when the four battleships belonging to the Beiyang Fleet appeared, the makeshift fleet immediately collapsed, and seeing that the Dutch's powerful Batavia had become prisoners of the Ming army, those merchant ships quickly lowered their sails after trying to turn around and escape, and the Ming army boarded the ship and captured them.

"As soon as the Dutch saw our group of battleships, they immediately descended, hahaha, it's so cool." Zheng Zhilong was full of joy, "With no effort, we got eight merchant ships, as well as more than 50 large and small Japanese sailing ships, especially these ships are also full of goods loaded from Japan and sailed back to the big staff. Master Hou, do you know what's on it? ”

Without waiting for Liu Jun to speak, Zheng Zhilong continued with a smile, "Gold, silver, copper, lacquerware, grain. Those Dutch merchant ships were loaded with pepper and spices from Batavia, as well as raw silk, linen, tea, sugar, and deerskins purchased from the Daming maritime merchants, which were transported to Japan for trading in exchange for these ships of Japanese goods. The Dutchmen thought that the big Dutchmen would definitely win us, so they returned with a full load of goods. ”

"At least four or five million taels of silver."

Robbery is always more profitable than normal trade, but under normal circumstances, the Dutch caravan is still not easy to rob, especially whether they are armed with large merchant ships or a merchant fleet, if it was in the past, Zheng Zhilong would not rush to rob such a merchant fleet. But now, anyway, he has started a fight with the Dutch, and he is far stronger now than before.

This vote is better than Zheng Zhilong's maritime trade profits in the past two years.

When the Dutch first arrived on the coast of China, they could not get permission from China to negotiate with each other, and they often relied on the sea to rob. They once robbed a Chinese merchant ship, seized 1,200 quintals of silk, and transported it to the Netherlands for auction, where it was immediately sold out and sold for more than 2 million guilders.

"Brother Zheng, as long as Yangyi does not conclude a peace treaty with us for a day, then in the future, we can capture and rob any foreigner's ship on the sea from the South Seas to Japan."

"No problem, with these new warships and new guns, whether he is a Dutch or a Spaniard, no one wants to float on the coast of Daming without our permission!"

Liu Jun handed over the batch of goods to Zheng Zhilong for processing, and after processing, the two of them each got half.

In the end, the eight merchant ships, one and a half, Liu Jun got four, Liu Jun as usual after removing the guns on the ship, the ships were invested in the company at a price of 100,000 yuan each, and the other small ships were added to the Beiyang Fleet. Now the Beiyang Fleet does not need merchant ships, but those offshore sailing ships, on the contrary, they need more.

As for those Japanese mercenaries, they were all arranged by Liu Jun to dig gold mines on the island of Taiwan, and these people were basically the fate of digging to death. (To be continued......)

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