Chapter 64 Taiwan

Although the Penghu matter has not been completely concluded, Zhu Houhuang does not want to stay here longer.

Zhu Houhuang awarded the Fujian Water Division. Twenty thousand taels of silver came out at once, and the four guards divided it equally, and each of them could get five thousand taels of silver.

It's not that Zhu Houhuang doesn't want to save money, it's that the soldiers don't see the money, and they won't work hard. Especially the guards in the southeast are simply rotten. When Qi Jiguang led the troops for the first time, something happened. He led his troops to encounter the Japanese invaders, he decided to take the lead and rushed over, but all the guards behind him ran away, if it wasn't for Qi Jiguang's good martial arts, he would have died on the spot.

This is also the reason why Qi Jiguang wants to train wholeheartedly.

Although the Ming Dynasty's guard has not decayed to the extent that it will be decades later, the orders from above are one thing, and what to do is another, don't sprinkle silver, let everyone obey, that's what you think is beautiful.

After Zhu Houhuang pacified the Fujian sailors, he asked them to start bringing the people who Fuzhou Sanwei wanted to follow him, as well as the families of the musketeers, to Penghu.

When Penghu was in the Song Dynasty, it was said that there were tens of thousands of people, but now there are only a few thousand people left, and it is just a large village. As a transit station between Fujian and Dongyong, Zhu Houhuang decided to build it first. Then he approached Dongyong. It's just that everything here is presided over by his uncle Wu Fengyi, with the assistance of Wu Xingzhi, by the way, Zhu Yu and others will also build an observatory here. But it's all a trifle.

Zhu Houhuang took Xu Dong as his guide, three hundred musketeers, and Xu Dong's soldiers to Dongyong to survey the terrain.

On the boat, Zhu Houhuang and Xu Dong faced the sea breeze, and Xu Dong said: "The place chosen by the minister is here." ”

Xu Dong opened his hand-drawn map, pointed to one place on it, and said, "This has seven sandbanks. They are called a kun body to seven kun bodies, distributed opposite the big people, on these seven sandbanks, only a kun body area is the largest, and the port is the best. To the north of the body is the tail island, because it is in the north of the body, so it is called the north line of the tail island. And the north of the northern line of the tail island is the Luermen. It is a long and narrow waterway, but it is the most convenient waterway. ”

"Deer Ear Gate?" It is said that when Zheng Chenggong attacked Taiwan, or when the Qing army attacked Taiwan, he borrowed the help of the tide of Luermen, saying that the Luermen channel was silted up and could not drive big ships, and he immediately asked: "What is the water depth of Luermen?" There is no siltation. ”

"The depth of the water? Silting? Xu Dong turned these two concepts in his brain and said: "Your Highness clearly sees that there is indeed sediment accumulation in this area, but Luermen is still some distance away from Dongyong, so for a while, you don't have to worry about siltation." ”

"Your Highness, please see." Xu Dong pointed out to Zhu Houhuang: "This is the first choice recommended by the minister to His Royal Highness, this place is just one more than the Penghu Sea Road, and there are several sandbanks on the periphery to cover it, which can shelter the wind and waves." There are streams flowing in, there is abundant fresh water, and the shore is flat, and the water and soil are fertile and can be cultivated. It's a treasure trove. ”

The so-called one-watch sea route is to throw wood chips from the bow of the ship into the sea, and then people go to the stern. People and wood chips are together to the stern of the boat, which is called the upper change, how people can't get the wood chips, or the wood chips can't arrive, people can't get it, it's all too much.

But how much time is a more, which needs to be calculated with an hourglass. When the hourglass is gone, it will be changed.

According to the standard upward change, generally speaking, one is sixty miles. Of course, the distance between the Taiwan Strait is too close, and some people also use a few lines of incense to calculate the time, but this is a small minority.

At this moment, the fleet also entered Luermen, bypassed the northern line of the tail island, and entered a calm bay, this bay, on one side is the Taiwan Island, which has been renamed Dongyong, and on the other hand, there are large and small sandbanks, forming a wave ladder. This bay is calm and calm, and the water is not rippling.

Xu Dong pointed here and said: "This bay is called Taiwan by the local natives. ”

"Taiwan?" Zhu Houhuang couldn't help repeating.

Xu Dong asked cautiously: "Your Highness thinks the name is not good, just change it." ”

Zhu Houhuang did not expect that this bay was called Taiwan, and when he thought about it in this way, the name Taiwan Island spread from here to the whole island. It was the center of Dutch, Ming-Zheng, and even Manchu rule in Taiwan. Only then did the entire Taiwan Province be called Taiwan.

"Are you alright?" Zhu Houhuang came back to his senses and said, "I think it's good." By the way, where did you choose to build your city? ”

Xu Dong said: "Just on the east coast, there are several places in this area that can be used as ports. As for where, I will leave it to His Highness to decide. ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "Professional things, leave them to professional people to do, don't talk nonsense, say to Lone, which port is the best." ”

"It's the big guy." Xu Dong tapped lightly on the map.

Zhu Houhuang said: "Then let's go to the big staff." ”

In fact, there is no market town in this area, and there is no fixed name, and this area on the coast can be called Dayuan, because in the speech of the Taiwanese Yi people, the Dayuan and Taiwan meet, and the Dayuan is the consciousness of Taiwan, and Taiwan is the Chinese character translated by the Han people.

Xu Dong took Zhu Houhuang to stop on the shore opposite Yikun, which is a natural port. Erect a short plank, and you can go directly to the shore. When he came to the shore, Zhu Houhuang found that this place was not a barren place, on the contrary, there were several wooden houses here, but there was a lot of dust in them, and weeds had grown into the room.

Xu Dong said: "There are often maritime merchants here who come here to take refuge from the wind. They built these wooden houses. ”

Zhu Houhuang asked, "Are there no wild people in this area?" ”

Xu Dong said: "There is a little, but I don't dare to approach here." Xu Dong was a little embarrassed and said: "These people who run the sea are not too clean under their hands. Therefore, they did not dare to approach the seashore, especially these seashores that were easy to get close to, and if they walked more than ten miles inside, they could see their tribe. This area is close to Penghu after all, and there are also many people from the Celestial Dynasty who have crossed the sea. Settle here and assemble into tribes. ”

"Oh? Can they be used by orphans? Zhu Houhuang asked.

Xu Dong said: "This ---, minister doesn't know. ”

Zhu Houhuang stood on top of a big stone and looked around, the lush vegetation extended directly to the end of the line of sight, and there were faint black-brown mountains on the horizon. It takes a lot of effort to open up the wasteland here. There was the sound of water in my ears, not the sound of the waves behind me, but the stream hidden in the woods. There is a source of water. He looked closely and saw a faint river looming in the woods. He crouched down and grabbed a handful of dirt, all of which had been accumulated over hundreds of millions of years, and although he didn't know much about farming, he could see that the land here was not too bad.

"It's a good place. But Lone felt that something was good. Zhu Houhuang turned around and pointed to the sandbar behind him and said.

Xu Dong was taken aback and said, "Do you dare to ask Your Highness why he chose a kun body?" ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "If you don't think about winning, you should lose first." The first step is to build the city on Dongyong Island, if something goes wrong, such as plague, wild attack, or even flood, storm, there is not even a place to hide, Penghu is far away dozens of nautical miles, once there is a big wind and waves on the sea, even if there is a more sea route between each other, it is also like a moat. And build a small city on a kun first, it doesn't cost much, and here to guard the horns, protect each other. In addition, once lonely in Dongyong Liji, a Kun body on this island is also the gateway to Dongyong, can not help but build a city to defend, lonely just adjust the order of a favorite. ”

"It's too much," Xu Dong thought to himself in his heart, he felt that on Dongyong Island, there was no force that could resist Zhu Houhuang and his party, but the leader wanted to be so cautious, just be a subordinate and pat himself hard, so why not say more. Xu Dong said with a smile: "What His Royal Highness said is extremely true, and the ministers can't do it." ”