The Battle of Keelung was a complete victory. Not only did they obtain an excellent port and a village with complete living facilities, but they also captured two large ships, 24 medium-sized ships, and more than 40 light boats. With these ships, Liuqiu Company's maritime power can be quickly formed. In addition to the ships that were most valued by Liao Nilo, a large amount of grain, gold and silver silk, jewelry and jade were also seized. These items were accumulated by the pirates over many years of robbery. Now they have become the first pot of gold obtained by the Perak Army in Liuqiu. Among the four to five hundred pirates, except for more than a hundred who died in battle, most of them were taken prisoner. In fact, even the Perak Army couldn't stop the pirates from escaping the village, but where could they escape without a boat? Just thinking about the fate of escaping into the nearby jungle and being caught by cannibals makes one shudder.
After receiving the news that Liao Nilu had occupied Keelung, everyone on Zhoushan Island got busy transporting people and materials to Liuqiu Island. It is really a difficult task to transport thousands of people and a large number of production and living materials, including food, salt, cloth and tools, to the island while keeping it confidential. Fortunately, Liao Nilu sent more than 30 large and medium-sized ships back, and Li Kaipeng rented many transport ships from other merchants and even the navy and navy. Therefore, after more than half a month of busy work, the Pili Army personnel and supplies on Zhoushan Island were basically ready. Shipping to Keelung. This also made the local officials in Zhoushan breathe a sigh of relief.
From the perspective of officials in Zhoushan, these soldiers from western Sichuan hold official documents from the Sichuan Production and Production Department and are inextricably linked to high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China. If they can't offend them, they won't get much profit. These people also recruited a large number of refugees with the permission of the imperial court and wanted to bring them back to western Sichuan for farming. Although these unemployed refugees have been restrained and have not caused any trouble, staying in Zhoushan is still a hidden danger. Now that they left together, they restored the peace of the officials. As for whether they returned to western Sichuan or went overseas as rumored, it had nothing to do with the local officials in Zhoushan.
Although many preparations were made in advance, thousands of people suddenly poured into Keelung, causing chaos. Food is not a problem. During this relocation, more than a dozen ships of food were brought with them. There is also a lot of food in the pirate village, so there is no risk of food shortage within a few months. The biggest problem is the lack of housing. Keelung originally only accommodated a few hundred pirates, but now the number has suddenly increased tenfold. There is a lot of shortage of housing for people to live in. If you add food, material warehouses and the need to start construction immediately Shipyards, farm implement factories and other industrial buildings are extremely inadequate. Yu Zhu had no choice but to order the houses to be used first for production and construction and for technicians such as craftsmen, teachers, doctors, etc. All officers, soldiers and refugees, including him, set up tents outside the village.
The winter in Liuqiu is not cold, and there are no mosquito bites when camping outside. Since the cannibals on the island do not engage in farming, but live by fishing, hunting and gathering, the village is surrounded by lush trees. After these trees are felled, not only can they be used to build houses, but good wood can also be selected for shipbuilding, and the land can be turned into extremely fertile farmland. However, not long after the logging started, cannibals came to attack. Yu Zhu had no choice but to send people to guard and cut down wood to build houses. Over the next few days, although the cannibals were killed a lot with firearms, they also shot several soldiers and workers with poisonous arrows. Fortunately, Yu Zhu also brought antidotes obtained from Miao territory. Although these antidotes did not completely cure the wounded and left many sequelae, they still saved their lives.
Just as Liuqiu's company executives were having a headache over the unpreventable cannibalism, a pirate named Big Tou was brought to Yu Zhu. Since no minerals have been found on the island yet, and there are no mines for the pirates to do hard labor, they have to let them cut down the trees together. Of course, the location where they cut down is the most dangerous outermost area. On this day, Datou suffered from pain in his abdomen, so he asked the guarding soldier to go to the nearby forest to have diarrhea, which was naturally accepted. The Pili Army is not afraid of prisoners escaping at all. Even if there are no cannibals in the wild jungle on the island, there are still ferocious beasts. It is impossible to survive by one's own strength.
He was having a good time shitting, but he was suddenly thrown to the ground, and everyone was furious. Just when Datou was about to open his mouth to curse, several cannibal faces smeared with tree sap and mud appeared in front of his eyes, and several bone knives were pressed against his neck, chest and waist, removing the obscene words from his mouth. And the stool in the lower abdomen was suddenly blocked. These students did not kill him, but gagged him and took him back to the tribe. Just when Datou thought he was about to become a human flesh thorn, the tribe's wizard started talking to him. Since the pirates established their stronghold in Keelung, the main way of communication between the surrounding cannibals and the pirates is to hunt each other to the death, but there are exceptions. For example, if the cannibals catch too many captives at one time to eat, they will lock them up like pigs and cows, and only kill them when there is a shortage of food. When the pirates couldn't restrain their loneliness, they would also take risks to snatch women from 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 language.
The wizard was speaking and gesticulating, and his voice was obscure and incomprehensible. If it were another pirate, he would definitely not understand what he meant. But Datou has been a pirate for more than ten years, and has been in Keelung for almost ten years. He has also had long-term "communications" with many foreign-born women, and he even understood what the wizard meant by guessing. It turns out that this Shengfan tribe believes in the God of Thunder. There has always been a legend in the tribe that one day the God of Thunder will send an envoy to come and save the tribe. A few days ago, the warriors of the tribe discovered that many big houses that could make thunder floated on the sea. After these big houses docked, many new people came out. These newcomers also carry pipes that can make thunder when they chop down trees, and the stones they throw can also make thunder. They should be the messengers of the God of Thunder. However, because the warriors of the tribe injured the messenger of Thunder God with poisonous arrows, the tribesmen did not dare to come and kneel down rashly, so they had to ask the boss to go back and report to the messenger.
Yu Zhu is a serious person, but he couldn't help but laugh out loud after hearing what he said. He was about to correct him, but Xia Dagen, who was standing next to him, said first: "Master Ouyang has the ability to predict the unknown, and he has developed these firearms. Naturally, he can be called the God of Thunder, and Master Yu is his envoy." . When Yu Zhu heard this, he knew what Xia Dagen meant. The cannibal tribe misunderstood that they were the messengers of the God of Thunder. Since they wanted to surrender, they might as well take advantage of the situation and use them for their own use. This was a win-win situation. These natives are not only familiar with the island's mountains and terrain, and can help find mineral sources, but can also understand the situation of hostile tribes, greatly reducing development resistance. The advanced technology brought by the Perak Army can also greatly improve the productivity level of the naturalized tribes.
With Yu Zhu's promise, Da Tou came with the wizard and tribal elders as promised - this tribe calls itself Yi Ta Ta. According to Xia Dagen's arrangement, when several members of the Yitata tribe entered the lobby of the village, the warship parked in the port fired three cannons. The huge sound made the wizard and several elders look horrified, and they couldn't help but kneel in front of Yu Zhu in the middle of the high hall. Yu Zhu put on silver-white silk according to Xia Dagen's request. The silver light shining freely on the silk was very similar to lightning. This made several people from the Yitita tribe more confirmed the tribe's legend and believed that Yu Zhu was the God of Thunder. messenger.
