Chapter 1971： Good wine, good meat, low cost

In this era, there were tens of thousands of indigenous people throughout the island. They are accustomed to the tropical and subtropical wet jungles on the island, and are comfortable in the rain forest. Moreover, most of them are aggressive. Some inland alpine tribes also have the tradition of headhunting.

Historically, when the Dutch first landed in Tainan, they were surrounded by the island's soil. But the Dutch were treacherous and used trade and deception to build a castle in the local area. The honest Taiwanese aborigines relaxed their vigilance when they saw that the Dutch were better at speaking.

But after the completion of the city of Geranze, the Dutch had the ability to defend themselves, and they began to show their fangs and began to occupy the site with the city as the center. Of course, the Dutch are more cunning, and they have also attracted some locals to help suppress the disobedient villages and have a firm foothold on the island.

In the same period, Spain was more reckless, and came up with hard means to get hard. As a result, it was completely blocked by the aboriginal soldiers, without food sources, and almost starved to death. Finally, because the Spanish colonists in Keelung relied on Manila to provide food supplies, the cost was too high, and the scale of the trade did not meet expectations, so they had to withdraw.

In the past few years, with the help of the recruited Hanmin army, Kong Tai has hit the area around Miaoli County in later generations and controlled the small oil wells that went out of the sulphur pit. However, if you go further south, you will encounter some resistance.

To the south of Miaoli is the area around Taichung. There is a tribal alliance based on 18 villages. Each of these 18 villages has a few hundred people. There are a total of seven or eight thousand people. They can make up two or three thousand soldiers.

If it is on the plain, this person is to give food to the colonial army of Kongtai. However, in this jungle ...

Therefore, the current expansion of Kong Tai ’s southward road was hindered. However, according to Marin ’s instructions, Kong Tai had purchased the land by purchasing land in the area of ​​Anping Ancient Fort (that is, Jelanja City) And built a sturdy castle.

Of course, Marin is not as cunning as the Dutch, and has come up with a fraudulent method of cutting a piece of cowhide into a wire loop. He directly asked people to purchase large amounts of cotton cloth from Ningbo and exchanged large areas of land around Anping Castle from the hands of indigenous people. Moreover, the plot of Bianping Castle is much larger.

Then, Kong Tai directly ordered the use of cement and bamboo to build a bamboo reinforced concrete castle. Well, Marin simply named Anpingbao.

Later, Kong Tai did not use this castle to attack the local aborigines. Because, Kong Tai lacks manpower. Moreover, the local indigenous is not so irritating.

So, for the time being, this castle is currently just a big market for trade with local indigenous peoples. The market is not in the castle, but in the square outside the castle. The square is paved with cement slabs and has a large area, allowing large-scale trade.

But there are no valuable commodities in the hands of indigenous people, namely buckskin, venison and antler. Although there is profit, the profit is not high.

Of course, as clever as Marin, he still thought of a way-he let Kongtai send people to buy local wood in Anpingbao ...

This trick is more insignificant, because it is equivalent to let the local natives cut trees by themselves, and cut off the barrier they rely on to cover. Once the trees were almost cut, they were the lambs to be slaughtered. At that time, Kong Tai sent hundreds of people to destroy them. Unlike in the jungle, Kong Tai's men and women can fight again, and it is difficult to chase down the local indigenous in the dense jungle. But if the indigenous people cut down the trees themselves ...

Therefore, in order to entice the indigenous people to cut down the trees by themselves, Kong Tai also used salt, cloth, sugar and wine and other tight commodities to exchange wood with the indigenous people.

In order to facilitate the local indigenous felling of trees, Kong Tai also let his men sell saws at a cost price ...

Moreover, Kong Tai's acquisition of those timber is not loss. Why? It is profitable to transport the timber to Quanzhou and Fuzhou on the other side.

Although the price of wood is not high, the cost of transportation is also low. Those logs that were cut down, Kong Tai's men directly tied them into huge wooden rows, then, pulled by a sailboat, directly floated on the sea and pulled to Quanzhou Port or Fuzhou Port. Although there are also maggots to disturb and nibble the wood, but the ship was on the sea for a few days, the maggots had not nibbled the skin, the fleet pulled the wood to the opposite shore. Then, the wood dragged ashore and exposed the boat maggots to hiccups ...

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Strictly speaking, this strategy is very good. When the indigenous people cut down the forest by themselves, the army under Kong Tai's army could easily pick up the indigenous and force them to submit.

However, those indigenous people are still not easy to mess with. Keeping them here will inevitably cause trouble. And Marin is not willing to engage in massacres easily, so it is the best choice to get them away.

Originally, I hadn't thought of where to get them. However, now to conquer the Philippines, Marin had an idea-recruit indigenous warriors on the Tainan Plains and conquer the local indigenous people in the Philippines.

There are more than 40,000 indigenous people on the Tainan Plain, and more than 10,000 indigenous warriors. Moreover, each is good at fighting in tropical jungles and mountains. It is absolutely suitable for dealing with Philippine indigenous.

You ask how to recruit? It's too simple! As long as there is white rice, fish, meat and wine, then you can order some clothes and pay no salary!

Indigenous people have a hard life, although there are many sika deer on the island. However, they do n’t know how to make salt, and they do n’t grow sugar cane. Therefore, even if they hunted the venison, they cooked it directly, without salt, which was very unpalatable.

The salt and sucrose provided by Kongtai are added to the venison, which is delicious in the eyes of the indigenous people. Dunton eats meat with plenty of seasonings and can euthanize these indigenous warriors.

Moreover, local meat is very cheap. In the case of venison, local soldiers carry newly hunted deer to sell, mainly selling buckskin. Generally, a small packet of salt can change the whole sika deer, the deer skin is the big head, and the venison is just added to the head ...

Because of the hot climate on Taiwan Island, local meat simply cannot survive. But selling to Kong Tai is different. Kongtai has enough salt in his hands to marinate the venison and make it into bacon.

Generally, each sika deer can produce 50 to 60 pounds of meat. In the Ming Dynasty, deer meat is relatively rare. Although there is not much oil and water to catch up with pork, it can also be compared with lamb.

But on Taiwan Island, venison is very cheap. A 200-cotton cotton cloth can change 200 kg of venison ... And in Daming, 200 kg of venison can be sold for more than 3 two silver ...

In other words, the cost of eating meat for the aboriginal soldiers on Taiwan Island is very low. A 200-cotton cotton cloth can be exchanged for 200 pounds of venison ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Calculated with salt, plus shrinkage or something, a pound of salted venison, the cost is about two penny.

And let an indigenous warrior eat meat every day, almost a pound of marinated venison a day, the cost is not included in the cost of transportation and cooking. Even if there are 10,000 local soldiers, each person eats a pound of venison every day, the cost is only 30,000 text, which is only 30 two silver ...

In addition, buying wine from the Ming Dynasty is also very cheap. A jar of rice wine, in less than 200 words, can allow a dozen people to drink a day, each person costs only 10 words per day. Shochu is more expensive, but the indigenous people do not need such high-purity wine, and rice wine is enough to pass them. If sugarcane is planted on the Tainan Plains in the future and rum is brewed from sugarcane scraps, it is estimated that the cost of wine will be even cheaper. After all, the labor costs here are very low ...

In other words, although the “high treatment” can be provided to the indigenous people, they can be guaranteed to drink and eat meat every day, but the cost is really not high. In particular, eating meat is so cheap that it is many times cheaper than the Ming Dynasty. No way, there are many sika deer on Taiwan Island, and there is no shortage of venison.

As long as he can drink and eat meat every day, and also distribute cotton cloth and food for free, there is no worries for the Taiwanese indigenous warriors over Kong Tai. As long as there are thousands of people equipped with weapons and armor, and then carry out some necessary training to hang the natives of the Philippines, it will be easier and more enjoyable.