Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Price
This time he sent a number of captives and slaves, as well as a small number of immigrants, who had to be resettled separately, and in addition to the original village, some temporary dwellings were to be built here for these people to live in.
And when these people get here, Yu Xiaotian is not worried that they will run away, because so far, the vast majority of Taiwan Island is still a barren land, full of indigenous and cannibal people, the island is full of snakes and insects, and the water network is dense.
So he is not very worried that these people will run away, mainly worried that the weather here is humid and hot, there are a lot of mosquitoes, and a little carelessness may lead to an epidemic.
For this reason, he has already begun to prepare in advance, sending people everywhere on land to ask for prescriptions that can prevent and treat malaria, and looking for famous doctors who can treat malaria.
Originally, malaria was a disease, and if there was a cinchona tree, it was easy to solve it by extracting some quinine from it, but in this era, the cinchona tree is still hidden somewhere in the Americas, and no one has found it! So he doesn't have to think about cinchona.
So he can only find a way to solve this problem in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, and he once saw a news by chance, saying that Chinese scientists in the seventies actually found a kind of yellow artemisia containing effective ingredients for the treatment of malaria from a native plant, and later extracted a drug called artemisinin, which also has a good therapeutic effect on malaria.
He regretted that he hadn't carefully read the relevant information and figured out how to refine this thing, otherwise he would have solved the problem now.
However, he still sent people to the land and began to look for this kind of yellow artemisia everywhere, because he probably remembered that there was a very similar grass in this yellow artemisia, which was very similar to yellow artemisia, but it had no effect on treating malaria, and it was necessary to distinguish the real from the fake first, otherwise it would be useless to prepare a large number of these things, but it would cost people's lives.
The reason why the island of Taiwan was discovered very early, but it has not been taken seriously by the mainland regime for a long time, and there is no large-scale immigration to control and develop, is actually a very important reason, not because of the many indigenous people living here, but because of the climate and malaria problems here, the early migration activities often encountered the blow of malaria epidemics, forcing the immigrants to finally have to give up continuing to expand here and flee back to the land.
Therefore, no matter who is, before the problem of malaria is completely solved, a large number of immigrants here will have to pay a very heavy price, and this price is also what he is worried about, but he must also face.
When Yu Xiaotian passed by Da Huang Island a few days ago, he also felt a little sad because of the people who followed him out of Xiao Huang Island, many of them have left this world, and feel a little sad, these days, he will think of these things from time to time, these days he has figured it out, those who become big things are not informal, as long as he wants to achieve a career in this era, then he must bear what ordinary people can't bear, and pay a considerable price.
This is also the tuition he must pay on the road to success, there is a famous saying in China since ancient times, "One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither!" "The truth has already been clarified, no matter what anyone does, the road to success has to step on countless dry bones to reach the peak of success, what he has to do now is almost such a road, the development of Taiwan Island, is destined to make sacrifices, otherwise, he might as well not do well.
As for how many lives will be sacrificed, he doesn't know how to do it now, and he can't predict it, but what can be predicted is that if he wants to control the island of Taiwan and become a king of Taiwan, the price he will have to pay will definitely not be small.
Now he has just taken control of a chicken coop bay, and in only a few months, many people have died here, he first led people to kill Zhou Feng and many of his men, and then transported laborers to this side to build a fort.
In these days, there are pirates attacking, and there are natives attacking, more than a dozen people were killed, and when building forts, people had to be sent to cut wood and quarry, and several people died in accidents, and these deaths were only partial, these days, just because of the bite of snakes and insects, and the number of people who died of poisoning has exceeded more than ten people, overall, about ten people die here every month, such a number of dead people, it can be regarded as the result of careful prevention.
In the future, he will transfer more and more immigrants to this side, and after there are more people, he will definitely expand around, and the number of dead people will probably be more at that time, if he is afraid of the dead, then it is better to pat his ass and go back to the land now, and take advantage of the money now, find a place to wash his identity, buy a large piece of land, and be a landlord.
So now his heart has become cold and hard, no matter how much price he will have to pay in the future, this island of Taiwan, he will decide, unless he hangs up himself, otherwise there will be no more variables in this plan.
On the whole, the black head is still very dedicated to doing things here, but this guy's level is limited, he is a little rough in doing things, he is not very thoughtful, and some things are not done very carefully, especially in the layout of the people living on the shore is too loose, and it is easy to be exploited, otherwise he would not have been successfully attacked by a group of natives, killed a few people and captured a woman.
After Yu Xiaotian saw it, he put forward some of his suggestions, let the black head improve it, and classify and gather the various personnel who are currently transported here, on the one hand, it is easy to take care of it, and on the other hand, it is also convenient to strengthen the guards, so as not to be touched by people again.
The black head scratched his head and agreed with a smile, a little embarrassed, Yu Xiaotian didn't blame him too much, after all, this guy used to be a fisherman, and it was only less than two years to follow him out, after all, there are still too few things to learn, and his organizational skills are also lacking, so he is in charge here because this guy is his hardcore cronies, not his strongest ability.
In addition, Yu Xiaotian also deeply felt that his subordinates were still too few capable generals, and the available talents were really limited.
But this time, he selected a man named Sun Baoqiang from his subordinates (the dragon set character began to appear!). After this period of contact became more and more frequent, Yu Xiaotian found that this person was good at royal subordinates, and his mind was more careful than others, and he was very willing to use his brains more, and he brought his subordinates on the ship quite well, and his ship performed very well in all previous exercises.
So Yu Xiaotian transferred him to his Seawolf as a captain and became his personal attendant, and he has been observing his performance for the past few months.
Now he can be sure that this Sun Baoqiang does have something extraordinary, so after thinking about it, this time he decided to emphasize Sun Bao to Jilong Bay, temporarily give the black head as a deputy, and use him to make up for the lack of the black head.
Sun Baoqiang is not stupid, although he was put here by Yu Xiaotian, but he knows very well that this is not to send him down, but to put him here to test his ability, if he performs well enough, then his future will be bright in the future, and he will soon step into the high-level of the Seawolf Group, so he is very grateful for the matter that Xiaotian arranged for him, and on the way here, he asked Yu Xiaotian many times about what to do here in the future.
During this period of time with Yu Xiaotian, Sun Baoqiang has discovered that Yu Xiaotian has invested a lot of effort in the Taiwan members, and many things are leaning towards this side, although this place is not as important as Funing's side on the surface, but in essence, it will be the most important base for their sea wolves in the future.
If he can do something beautiful here now, then for him, it will determine his future position within the Seawolf, so he came over this time and prepared to do a big job.
However, Yu Xiaotian also secretly warned him, although he came here, but the person in charge here is still the black head, he is doing the work of assisting the black head, not replacing it, and he is not allowed to have any conflicts with the black head, if the black head does something wrong, and does not listen to the advice and insists on going his own way, then he can send someone back to him Yu Xiaotian to say, he Yu Xiaotian will deal with it.
After listening to it, Sun Baoqiang thought it was true, and firmly remembered Yu Xiaotian's instructions, Sun Baoqiang had already seen that Yu Xiaotian's least favorite thing was infighting, and he would never tolerate and accommodate the things that his subordinates were fighting in their nests, and Yu Xiaotian's extremely high-level things were the most taboo for his subordinates.
Therefore, Sun Baoqiang promised Yu Xiaotian that he would never have any conflict with the blackhead here, and he would definitely assist the blackhead, do a good job here, and worry about Yu Xiaotian.
Yu Xiaotian was relieved about this, and after arriving here, he told the black head about Sun Baoqiang.
The black head was a little anxious because there was no suitable helper here, and when he heard that Yu Xiaotian emphasized Sun Bao to be his deputy and share some affairs for him, he was suddenly very happy, and there was no resistance at all, and it was a lively time to pull Sun Baoqiang.
Seeing the black head pulling Sun Baoqiang to talk and laugh heartlessly, Yu Xiaotian was relieved, after the two of them cooperated with each other here, he was much more relieved about the things on the side of Jilong Bay, the courage of the black head, coupled with Sun Baoqiang's carefulness, if the two of them cooperate well, they can learn from each other's strengths, and things in Jilong Bay will become smoother in the future.
So after he arranged for Sun Baoqiang, he began to discuss with the black head what he wanted to do here in the next few days.
Although it was attacked by a group of pirates a month ago, the number of pirates in the surrounding area is still relatively limited, and the attacking pirates have basically been crippled by the black head and the people, and there is no need to seek revenge from them.
Moreover, the focus of their activities here at the moment is not to plunder the sea east of Taiwan, so this matter is not in the scope of consideration.
In the end, Yu Xiaotian still locked his eyes on the group of indigenous tribes who came here to kill people a few days ago, and decided to teach these natives a lesson before he left this time.