The straight-line distance from Nanri Island to Taiwan Island is not far, even if the direct sailing is fast, it will not take a day, the reason why the black head went for two months is because Yu Xiaotian's instructions were clear, let him drive along the northwest of Taiwan Island all the way to the north, and every other section he went ashore to go deep into the land to investigate the situation, and went around the north to the east of Taiwan Island, and roughly explored the situation there before returning to Nanri Island.

Therefore, the black head faithfully fulfilled the task assigned to him by Yu Xiaotian, and after arriving at Taiwan Island with a team of nearly 100 people in two boats, he began to explore the local situation along the coastline.

The painter who accompanied the boat also drew a topographic map as he went, drawing as much as possible the topography along the coast, including the reef and the estuary.

Therefore, they walked very slowly, stopped and stopped, and constantly sent people ashore to go deep into the hinterland to investigate the situation, so two months was not too long for them, and they only touched the northern coast of Taiwan, and did not go too deep into the hinterland of Taiwan Island.

Through this blackhead to explore northern Taiwan, Yu Xiaotian basically obtained first-hand information about northern Taiwan, and also obtained a relatively detailed coastal map.

However, the level of this painter is limited, and he has not learned the skills of drawing maps in depth, so he can only draw the terrain subjectively, and the resulting map is twisted and crooked, and it looks very unremarkable, and there is no neatness of modern maps at all.

But after Yu Xiaotian got this map, he was still very happy, this era can draw such a map, for this painter, it is already a dedication, although the terrain is out of proportion, but you can also probably see the terrain along the coast.

This provides an effective reference for them to go to Taiwan Island again in the future, which can clearly inform the travelers of the places they want to go, and they have to walk along the coastline every time, and they can't find the designated place if they can't figure it out.

Yu Xiaotian looked at the map, there were no text marks on the map, because no one told them the names of these places on their trip, so they could only record the terrain.

From the map, Yu Xiaotian saw the most important river in northern Taiwan, that is, the Tamsui River, but this river only marked a section of the estuary, and the part that went deep into the island was not marked.

Yu Xiaotian was a little dissatisfied with this, because what he valued most was the terrain in this area, but the blackheads did not investigate the situation here too deeply, but focused on the situation along the coast.

Then Yu Xiaotian saw the famous Fugui Cape in the northeast corner of Taiwan Island on the map, and from here the topographic map began to extend eastward.

Roughly speaking, the entire map still draws an important landmark terrain along the northern coast of Taiwan Island, and one of the most important places is that he found the Jilong Bay he wanted to see on the map, which is the Keelung Port in the later generations.

Although Yu Xiaotian is a person of later generations, Taiwan Island is also nominally a place in China, but for well-known reasons, it is not easy for ordinary mainlanders to go to Taiwan, so Yu Xiaotian has never been to Taiwan, and his understanding of Taiwan Island is only something on paper.

What's more, hundreds of years later, Taiwan Island, in addition to the terrain changes along the coast may not be too big, the inland area has long been overcrowded, and modern man-made transformation has not been able to fit with Taiwan Island in this era, and it is basically equivalent to going in vain!

Therefore, the information obtained only from the paper of later generations is not enough to support Yu Xiaotian's understanding of the current situation on the island of Taiwan, which is why he sent the black head and others to explore the way to the island of Taiwan.

Yu Xiaotian summoned Heitou and others to his meeting hall and listened in detail about their trip to Taiwan Island, so Heitou and others told Xiaotian in detail about the process of this trip.

"Speaking of which, I didn't encounter much trouble on this trip to Taiwan Island! After the subordinates set off, it only took a day to sail there, we didn't know where the road docked, so we sent someone ashore to investigate, and Brother Liu also began to draw!

The island is now overgrown with weeds, and even now, there are many mosquitoes! In addition, there are a lot of wild things on the island, we saw a lot of deer, and we also beat a few, the taste is good, we also brought back the deer skin, and sent it back to the big boss.

In addition, there are wild boars on the island, and some people have seen leopards, and the wild boars have also hit two of them, and the leopards are so fine that they will run away when they see us!

However, when we went ashore again on the island to get water, on the shore not far from this big river, we actually saw the natives, who seemed to be very afraid of us, and ran away when they saw us, and we tried to inquire about them to something!

Later, when we were hunting game on the shore, there were natives who attacked us, and I don't know where Lu Dao shot a few arrows outside, wounding one of our brothers, who later seemed to have been poisoned, and died on the boat the next day.

Qi's subordinates wanted to send people to find those natives, but the head said that where to go this time, the main thing is to check the terrain first, and not to have too much conflict with the local natives, so the subordinates can only consider themselves unlucky.

Because of the presence of natives, we didn't go too far into this river, for fear of being attacked by them again, and these bastards ran so fast that they couldn't see anyone in the blink of an eye.

It's ...... here."

The black head pointed to a place north of the Tamsui River on the map as he spoke, and then said: "Great boss, this is here, we found a village, the people here are not local natives, and it can be seen at a glance that it is the Ming Dynasty!"

There are about 1,200 people in this village, and there is a wall, and outside the village, they have opened up hundreds of acres of land, and they also have fishing boats, and it seems that they also go out to sea to fish.

When we landed, we found the village and wanted to inquire with them, but as soon as they saw us, they fled back to the village, and closed the gates of the village.

We should not go and shout to them, if we had followed the temper of our subordinates before, we would have led people to beat their village a long time ago, but the subordinates of the big boss did not dare to forget, and when they saw that you did not answer your questions, they had no choice but to leave.

Only then did Yu Xiaotian notice that a black dot was marked on a place on the map, which represented the village, so he nodded and said, "Black head, you did a good job!" That's it! We need people like that to help us now, not to provoke them! Yes, there should be a reward, and this matter will be credited to you! Let's move on! It doesn't matter if the rest is true, tell me about the situation in this bay! ”

Saying that, Yu Xiaotian pointed his hand at the location of Jilong Bay.

When the black head heard this, he quickly nodded and continued: "It turns out that the big boss has seen this place, and this bay is a good place!" When we walked here, we saw this bay.

Before we arrived, we saw a ship coming out of this bay, and as soon as we saw us, we immediately headed east, and we didn't go out anyway, so we didn't care about them, and let them go!

Later, after we arrived at the mouth of the bay, we sailed into the bay, this bay is very large, there is no problem for hundreds of boats, the water in the bay is also very deep, I let people put a rope to probe, the deepest place in the bay is more than ten zhang, no matter how big the boat can enter and exit freely.

There is also an island at the mouth of the bay, which is a little bigger than our previous Treasure Island, just to defend this bay, if anyone occupies this bay, as long as they hold this island, no one will want to enter or leave this bay!

After we got here, we found that there were people in the bay with boats, and when they saw us, someone drove a boat out to block us, and then we said hello, only to know that they were also doing our business, but there were not many of them, and the boat was not big, and they mainly operated in the east outside the bay on weekdays, doing some small work!

They didn't dare to let us in, so they took the boat into the bay and asked the six brothers to draw the terrain inside the bay.

They asked us where we were going, and I told them that we were just passing by, and when we saw this, we came in and had some water, and they didn't dare to stop us, so we sent someone ashore to get water, but I don't think they wanted us to stay in the bay too long, so they didn't make much of a stop.

After inquiring, the subordinates learned that their master's surname was Zhou, and the big name was Zhou Feng, but they didn't see this surnamed Zhou, and the subordinates probably took a look, they had a small village in the bay, and a small wharf, and it seemed that some of them were Japanese people, and they talked like farts, and they couldn't understand what they were talking about! ”

Out of here to the southeast, we walked a section ashore to see, the east is all mountains, nothing to see, but there are a lot of wild things, and goats, we caught a few and brought them back!

And there are a lot of natives in the east, but they are not very afraid of us, and they are shouting at us from afar, and I don't think they have any hostility, nor do they provoke them, but they just don't understand what they say!

Then I gave them two knives and five axes, and they were very happy, and gave us some deerskins, which I guess were a thank you for our appreciation, and gave us some game!

Look at the time of going out of the river is not short, we walked here, did not continue to go south, turned around and returned along the shore, next time if I go again, I will take people to touch more inside, I estimate that I can get more clear! ”

Yu Xiaotian was very happy after hearing this, and said, "It's a pity! If you can get in touch, then we'll have more guides in the future, and things will be easier! But even so, blackhead, you did a good job this time, the loss is not big, and it is really rare to do things for me to such a point!

Blackhead, your temper has become a lot lately, more and more stable, and I am more and more at ease in doing things, very good, according to our rules, remember the merit once, you yourself will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, each boat will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and the accompanying soldiers will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and the casualties will be doubled according to the original rules!

In addition, Liu Tang (painter) also did a good job this trip, and he was rewarded with twenty taels of silver alone! You have worked hard, and you have not been able to rest on the island during the holidays, so I should keep everything for you, and give you people a five-day holiday alone, take a good rest, and I will use you again! Let's go down! ”

After hearing this, the black-headed captain and Liu Tang and the captain of the battle squad grinned happily, quickly knelt down and thanked them, and then turned around happily and went down to rest.

Yu Xiaotian looked at this hard-won map, although in his eyes this topographic map was vulgar, but it was also exchanged for the lives of his subordinates.

In fact, he still has some understanding of the general situation of Taiwan Island, especially the general topography and landform, he knows it in his heart, and before sending the black-headed them to investigate, he actually basically knows it, but he needs to understand the current situation on the island of Taiwan in more detail.

Through this trip, Yu Xiaotian can basically be sure that so far in Taiwan, there have actually been a considerable number of immigrants from the mainland in the past, who have begun to expand on the island, but they must be widely dispersed, and it is not easy to find that these people are an opportunity for him, because these people must have dealt with the local aborigines for a long time and have a better understanding of the current situation on the island.

He stared at the small coastal village marked by Liu Tang on the map, and after thinking for a while, he put his eyes on the two places of Tamsui River Estuary and Jilong Bay, scanning back and forth in these two places, and after a while, he stood up and paced back and forth in the house, and after a full cup of tea, he turned around and returned to the table, put the map away, and handed it to Liu Wang for safekeeping.

(Today, I still guaranteed two chapters to be updated, and the number of words is still a lot, but I really can't hold on!) I decided to take a day off tomorrow and go to the hospital for a full body check-up to see what went wrong! How can a viral flu be so difficult! I'm most afraid that after smoking for a long time, there is something wrong with my lungs, so I will do a chest X-ray tomorrow! So I had to break it for a day! Sorry brethren! ）