Chapter 259: Thunder God Messenger

The Battle of Keelung was a complete victory, not only gaining an excellent port and a stockade with complete living facilities, but also capturing two large sea ships, 24 medium-sized sea ships and more than 40 light and fast boats. With these vessels, the company's maritime power can be quickly formed. In addition to the ships that Liao Loach valued the most, he also seized a large amount of grain, gold, silver, silk, and jewelry and jade, all of which were accumulated by the pirates for many years of robbery, and now became the first pot of gold obtained by the Perak army in Liuqiu. Of the four or five hundred pirates, most of them were taken prisoner, except for more than 100 killed in battle. In fact, if the pirates want to escape from the stockade, the Thunderbolt army can't stop them, but there is no boat and they can only flee there? Fleeing into the nearby jungle and being caught by cannibals is chilling just to think about.

After receiving the news that Liao Loach had occupied Keelung, everyone on Zhoushan Island got busy and transported personnel and supplies to Liuqiu Island. It was a difficult task to transport thousands of people and a large amount of production and living materials, including grain, salt, cloth, and tools, to the island, while paying attention to secrecy. Fortunately, Liao Loach sent more than 30 large and medium-sized sea ships back, and Li Kaipeng rented many transport ships from other firms and even from the official army and navy, so after more than half a month of busyness, the personnel and materials of the Thunderbolt Army on Zhoushan Island were basically transported to Keelung. This also made the local governor of Zhoushan breathe a sigh of relief.

In the eyes of officials in Zhoushan, these soldiers from western Sichuan held the official documents of the Sichuan Production and Construction Department and were inextricably linked with high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China. These people also recruited a large number of displaced people on the grounds that the imperial court allowed them, and they wanted to bring them back to western Sichuan. Although these unemployed displaced people have been restrained and have not caused trouble, it is a hidden danger to stay in Zhoushan after all. Now that they are gone together, they have returned the tranquility of the officials. As for whether they returned to western Sichuan or went overseas as the rumors claimed, it has little to do with the Zhoushan magistrates.

Although many preparations were made in advance, the sudden influx of thousands of people into Keelung also caused chaos. Food is not a problem, the relocation accompanied by more than a dozen ships of grain, and there is also a lot of grain in the bandit village, and there is no risk of food shortage in a few months. The biggest problem is the lack of housing, Keelung originally only accommodated a few hundred pirates, but now the number of pirates has suddenly skyrocketed by more than ten times, and there is a great shortage of housing for personnel alone, and if we add grain and material warehouses and industrial buildings such as shipyards and farm tool factories that need to start construction immediately, the houses are extremely insufficient. Yu Zhu had no choice but to order that the house be given priority to production and construction, and that craftsmen, teachers, doctors, and other technicians, including him, should all set up tents outside the village.

The winter was not cold, and there were no mosquito bites when camping. Since the cannibals on the island do not engage in agriculture but live by fishing, hunting and gathering, the village is surrounded by lush trees. These trees may not only be used to build houses, but also to select good wood for shipbuilding, and the land can be turned into extremely fertile arable land. It's just that soon after the logging began, there were cannibals who came to disturb it. Yu Zhu had to send people to guard while cutting down trees to build houses. Over the course of a few days, although he was killed and wounded by firearms, he also wounded several soldiers and workers with poisoned arrows. Fortunately, Yu Zhu also brought antidotes from Miao Jiang, although these antidotes did not completely cure the wounded and left a lot of sequelae, but they also saved their lives.

Just when the top management of the Liuqiu company had a headache for the unguardable cannibals, a pirate named Datou was brought to Yu Zhu. Since no minerals have been found on the island, and there are no mines for the pirates to do their hard work, they have to cut down trees together, and of course the location where they cut down is the outermost danger of the most. On this day, he had pain in his head and abdomen, so he applied to the guard soldier to go to the forest next to him to have diarrhea, and naturally he was also accepted. The Thunderbolts were not afraid of captives escaping, and even if there were no cannibals in the wild jungles of the island, there were fierce beasts that could not survive on their own.

The was pulling heartily, but it was suddenly thrown to the ground, and anyone was furious. Just as the big head was about to open his mouth to curse, several cannibal faces coated with tree sap and dirt appeared in front of his eyes, and several bone knives were also pressed against his neck, chest and waist, blocking the foul language in his mouth and the defecation in his lower abdomen. These students did not kill him, but gagged him and brought him back to the tribe. Just when the big head thought that he was going to turn into a human flesh stab, the sorcerer of the tribe began to talk to him. Since the pirates established a stronghold in Keelung, the main way of communication between the surrounding cannibals and the pirates has been to hunt each other and never die, but there are exceptions. For example, if a cannibal catches too many captives at a time and can't finish eating, he will be locked up like a pig or cow, and killed when there is a shortage of food. When the pirates can't hold back their loneliness, they will also take risks to rob the women of the Shengfan tribe to satisfy their animal desires. Over time, these abnormal exchanges also allowed both parties to understand a lot of each other's languages.

The wizard gestured as he spoke, his voice was obscure, and if he were a bandit, he would not understand what he meant. But Datou has been a bandit for more than ten years, and he has been in Keelung for almost ten years, and he has also "communicated" with many young women for a long time, and even guessed that he understood the meaning of the wizard. It turns out that this Shengfan tribe believes in the god of thunder, and the tribe has always had a legend that one day the god of thunder will send a messenger to come and save the tribe. A few days ago, the warriors of the tribe found that many large houses capable of thunder had drifted on the sea, and when these large houses came to the shore, many new people poured out. These newcomers also carry pipes that can make thunder when cutting trees, and the stones thrown can also make thunder, so they should be Thor's messengers. It's just that because the warriors of their clan injured the tribesmen of the Thunder God Messenger with poisoned arrows, they didn't dare to come to kneel down rashly, so they had to ask the big head to go back and report to the messenger.

Yu Zhu is a serious person, but he couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard the words of the big head. He was about to make a correction, but Xia Dagen, who was standing beside him, preemptively said: "Lord Ouyang already has the ability to predict the unknown, and he has developed these firearms, so he can naturally be called the God of Thunder, and Lord Yu is also his messenger." When Yu Zhu heard this, he knew what Xia Dagen meant. The cannibal tribe misunderstood themselves as the messengers of the god of thunder, and since they had the heart of submission, it was better to take advantage of the situation and take it for use, which was a win-win situation. These natives are not only familiar with the mountains and topography of the island, which can help them find mineral sources, but also grasp the situation of hostile tribes, which greatly reduces the resistance to development. And the advanced technology brought by the Thunderbolt Army can also greatly improve the productivity level of the naturalized tribes.

With Yu Zhu's answer, the big head came with the wizard and the clan elders—the tribe called itself Yitata. According to Xia Dagen's arrangement, when several people from the Yitahe tribe entered the hall in the village, the warships moored in the port fired three cannons. The loud noise made the wizard and several elders look frightened, and they couldn't help but kneel in front of the pillar in the middle of the high hall. According to Xia Dagen's request, Yu Zhu put on silver-white silk, and the silver light flickering on the silk was similar to lightning, which made several people from the Yita tribe more confirm the legend of the tribe and were convinced that Yu Zhu was the messenger of the Thunder God.