Great Song Pirate

Chapter 303 Tamsui River

Through this incident, Xu Yi discovered that he is not the material for this job, and that no one has all-round talents. He cannot be superior to others in everything. Instead of directing blindly, it is better to let competent people take responsibility. In the end, this matter still falls behind. When it came to Jia Qian, he became the chief engineer of the project, and all the people involved in this work listened to his dispatch, which completely liberated him.

Once this matter was handed over, Xu Yi became an idler again. After watching all kinds of affairs here being put into orbit, he began to think about the next step. For more than a year, even he himself did not know The reason is that there is always a sense of crisis, as if there is not enough time, and he feels slow in doing things. After thinking for a long time, he still understands this problem, and he can't help but feel that time seems to be insufficient.

So he handed over the affairs here to Jia Qian, Gao Xu and others, and left Gao Jun here, but he greeted the sailors on the Pioneer, took Li Bo, Yang Zaixing and others aboard the Pioneer, and Taking two fast boats from Jilongzhai, they set sail and sailed out of the wharf of Jilongzhai, rounded the cape, and headed west along the coast of Liuqiu Island.

His purpose this time is very clear, that is to find a place where a large number of refugees can be resettled, and the target is the plain area west of Liuqiu Island, where he wants to find a suitable place and build a place that can accommodate a large number of immigrants again. Settling in the place to develop, and he had already thought of a place in his mind, so he went to sea in such a hurry. He really didn't have enough time, and he left Dulong Island for more than a month in a blink of an eye, and in two or three months, he Yingchun was about to give birth to a son for him, and he also promised that he would go back and stay by her side, a promise he didn't want to break.

Their speed was not fast, they moved slowly along the coast, lowered the rope from time to time to measure the water depth, and stopped from time to time, lowered the sampan to the shore to check, and someone specially recorded these things, although they did not see anyone along the way , but found some traces of people staying in several places, and also saw the wreckage of a boat thrown on the beach, most of the hull was submerged in the sea water, and there were two broken masts on the water surface, And no one can be seen here, so Xu Yi sent a sampan to row over to check. The ship was not damaged here recently, it should have been there for a while. It is estimated that the ship was damaged after a storm. Floating here, people have either been rescued by other ships, or the people on board may have gone ashore to survive, but it is estimated that even if they go ashore, the current harsh environment on the island will kill them. Look at their good fortune.

Xu Yi and the others are not very worried about meeting their peers. This is because even if the pirates along the coast know this place, they still don’t like this place, because it is far away from the waterway, and they are too lazy to run so far. The Japanese pirates have not yet formed a climate in this era. Even if there are a few Japanese in twos and threes, they don't pay attention to this place. That's why he can occupy this place so calmly. Xu Yi just takes a few boats to stop and go. Stop, after rounding a few capes, finally rounded the most northwest corner of Liuqiu Island a few days later, and began to turn towards the south. They sailed as close to the shore as possible, keeping the shore within sight, Xu Yi every day He insisted on standing on the bow of the boat and kept looking at the shore with his precious binoculars. After rounding the cape, there were basically no mountains on the shore. Many places along the coast were sandy beaches, so it was easier to go ashore. go.

Every time they encountered a bay, they would go there to check to see if there was any big river nearby. Xu Yi still wanted to find a place at the mouth of a big river to build his new dock, because the current boats were all wooden boats. After a long voyage at sea, a large number of shipworms will grow on the wooden boards. These shipworms will greatly damage the wooden boards of the hull, greatly shorten the life of the ship, and cause great potential danger to sailing. The solution is either in A large number of iron nails are nailed to the bottom of the boat, or it is docked in fresh water for a few days every once in a while, so that all the shipworms can be killed, and the chicken coop village obviously does not have such conditions, which is why he came to the west. The important reason is that in his memory, many large rivers in Taiwan flow to the west, and there are enough places for him to choose.

However, they passed through six or seven river mouths along the way, but Xu Yi didn't pay attention to them. The reason was that these rivers were too small for boats to go up along the river, and they couldn't build a large enough boat yard, so they had to continue sailing south. Okay, in the early morning of this day, Xu Yi finally saw a huge estuary in the binoculars, and a smile finally appeared on his face.

"Luofan slows down, let's sail towards that estuary and have a look! If there is no accident, this is where we will build a new village in the future!" Xu Yi said to the helmsman on the boat with a smile.

The brothers on the boat cheered immediately, pulled the sails and turned the rudder, and sailed towards the mouth of the river. This river mouth was indeed much larger than those they encountered before. When approaching the mouth of the river, Xu Yi ordered a fast boat to lead the way. And put down the two sampans, use the rope tied with iron lumps to probe the water depth in front, and find the deepest point to guide the Pioneer at the back to prevent its huge hull from being stranded on the bottom of the water.

Although the estuary is wide, they don't know the water conditions here, so they drive very carefully. After entering the estuary, everyone's eyes suddenly become clearer. It turns out that the river bank at the estuary protrudes toward the center of the estuary, and goes far deeper. In the middle of the estuary, guarding the estuary like a tiger's tooth, the water surface in the estuary is much calmer, like a natural moisture-proof dam, which is very strange, and everyone on the boat is amazed.

After entering the estuary, the river became wider and the water here was deep enough for sailing, so Xu Yi ordered several boats to continue upstream and check upstream. Consisting of a large plain, some animals appeared by the river from time to time, drinking water by the river, and looked up at these uninvited guests. Xu Yi immediately ordered someone to hang down the small bucket, bring up a bucket of water, took a bowl and tasted it. It is sweet and delicious, very clear, Xu Yi laughed loudly: "Tanshui River! This river will be called Danshui River from now on!"

The people on the boat were very disapproving of the name he gave the river. Since it is a river, it must be fresh water. Why do you have to name this river Danshui River?Usually, the lord of me seems to have quite a literary talent, why does he lose all literary talent once he arrives at Liuqiu Island?The name of Jilongzhai is enough to make people laugh, and now they come up with such a vulgar name as Danshuihe, and everyone doesn't agree with it, which makes Xu Yi who is laughing loudly very embarrassing, and laughed a few times After the sound, he put away his laughter.

"Stay on the north bank, let's go ashore and have a look!" Xu Yi ordered.

The three boats turned their rudders immediately, and slowly approached the river bank. Fortunately, the water here is still relatively deep, and the boats can get close to the shore. After the sailors lowered the anchor with a potter's wheel, Xu Yi led everyone from the boat to the river bank. On the sampan, row towards the north bank.

Their landing scared away a group of sambars who were drinking by the river. Yang Zaixing felt itchy for a moment when he saw the beasts. He reached for his hard bow and shot with an arrow. Almost without aiming, he fired an arrow feather. After going out, following the sound of his bowstring, a sambar in the distance immediately fell to the ground, struggling and kicking on the ground, and gradually softened after a while.

"Good arrow skills!..." Xu Yi took the lead in applauding.

A guard immediately ran over to check and shouted from a distance: "Coach Yang is really powerful. This arrow hit the deer's eyes and passed through its head. I wonder how it died so quickly!"

Everyone smacked their tongues when they heard this, "Be good, Yang Zaixing was able to hit the eye of this running deer from a distance of dozens of steps. His arrow skills are not much better than Diao Bin's, and he is probably even better than him!"

Xu Yi envied himself secretly, he would be awesome when he also practiced such a skill in archery, but he also knew that archery is not something that can be practiced overnight, and it is not something that can be achieved only with arm strength. You have to practice your eyesight since you were young, and you have to practice continuously for many years to reach the level of a sharpshooter. Children who are not Orion families or those who have practiced martial arts since childhood don’t want to reach this level, otherwise they will not know those nomadic people. Everyone is good at archery, and the archers of the people from the Central Plains are not as good as others. This is one reason.

With Yang Zaixing's idea, those people who followed Xu Yi ashore also became interested, and they bent their bows and arrows to hunt for some wild animals and started killing them. After wandering around for a while, they actually hunted a lot of wild game. The brothers who came to the boat can improve their food today. They eat white rice, salted meat and fish every day, and there are always times when they get bored, so everyone is very happy.

It’s rare that everyone is in such a good mood today. Xu Yi let them make trouble, and found a high place and set up a pergola to look into the distance. The terrain here is flat, with vertical and horizontal waterways, mostly grassland terrain, and there are some dense forests in the distance. It really is a piece of land suitable for land reclamation What a treasure land of geomantic omen for farming!So he immediately decided on the idea of ​​building a new village again. If the terrain on both sides of the Tamsui River was used to open up wasteland and cultivate land, it might be enough for him to settle a population of 8 to [-] people, and he would no longer have to worry about insufficient land distribution!

When most of the brothers on the ship got off, everyone had a delicious barbecue. After the work was over, Xu Yi boarded a fast boat, leaving the Pioneer and the other boat and most of the people here, and the team spread out to check the radius of fifty miles. In addition, he checked whether there were people in the vicinity, and he took some people to continue upstream and continue to check the terrain upstream.

Xu Yi took the boat upstream, stopped and went, and kept going ashore to check the terrain on both sides. After walking like this for a few days, the more he looked, the more he felt that choosing this place should be a good idea. The smaller the river, the narrower the river, and the turbulent water flow. After the boat traveled for dozens of miles, it finally could no longer rely on sails to continue moving forward, and dense jungles began to appear on both sides of the bank. There are many kinds of forest plants here. There are low shrubs and tall and sturdy trees that grow very well. Among them, there are many kinds of camphor trees, nanmu, metasequoia, and sassafras that can be used for shipbuilding. They are all good shipbuilding materials. Xu Yi is very happy to see it.

He let the boat anchor on the spot, then went down to the sampan, went ashore and inspected the big trees nearby. These trees were at least over a hundred years old, and they had already matured, and they were good materials for building boats. After seeing all this, he boarded the sampan and let the sailors paddle to continue moving forward. As he went forward, the vegetation on both sides became richer, and wild animals abounded. All kinds of wild animals he had never seen before Things appear in the field of vision from time to time, which makes people dizzy. No wonder people call Taiwan a treasure island, and this place really deserves this reputation.

Finally, when the sampan arrived at a fork, Xu Yi decided to go here first this time. If he went on, he might have entered the Taipei City of later generations, but now there are some virgin forests in front of him. The vegetation is lush, and it is estimated that even if there are people living inside, they are probably some local aborigines. Now they don't need to go inside to find these people and deal with them, so Xu Yi ordered his men to turn the bow and start to return along the current.

"I really didn't expect that Liuqiu Island has such a big river, which is as big as the rivers on land. No wonder you have mentioned this Liuqiu Island many times before. Come here today and take a look. It really is It’s a treasure land of geomantic omen, we’ve been walking for so many days, but we didn’t go around this Liuqiu Island. Is this really an island? I almost thought it would meet the land!” Li Bo sat in Xu Yi sighed with emotion behind him, and Yang Zaixing nodded his head again and again. It was really good to follow this lord. It didn't take long for him to gain so much knowledge and go to so many novel places.

Xu Yi heard what he said was interesting, so he smiled and said: "You don't have to doubt, this is indeed an island, but it's a bit bigger, and we walked slowly, so we didn't go around. Next year, I will take you around this big island and let you see how big Liuqiu Island is. Now we have chosen this place, with the river as the center. If we immigrate later, we will go to Immigrants here, and the land available for reclamation and cultivation here, I am afraid we will not be able to develop it even in another ten years!"

The boat went straight down the river quite briskly, and soon they returned to the clipper boat waiting for them, boarded the clipper boat and set sail again, turned around, and they continued to sail down the river toward the Pioneer ship waiting near the mouth of the river.

When they returned to the Pioneer, it was already dark. As soon as they saw Xu Yi returning, a small leader immediately came to report: "The lord can be considered to be back, and the subordinates have brought people from here to the south bank." Thirty miles to the south, a village was found near the sea, where Han Chinese lived!"

Xu Yi was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and asked, "Did you check it out?..."

(End of this chapter)