The West Road fleet left the Taichung Basin and continued southward, and then arrived at the Changhua Plain located in central western Taiwan.

The Changhua Plain is bounded by two east-west rivers, Da'an River and Zhuoshui River, which are approximately an equilateral triangle. The area is about 900 square kilometers, the plain is flat and the soil is fertile. Because of its benefits of irrigation, it is also an important rice-producing area in Taiwan. It is known as the "Taiwan Rice Warehouse" in later generations. It is also very suitable for planting economic crops such as sugarcane, rapeseed, and flax, and is an unforgettable treasure land.

Since it is a treasure land, of course someone will occupy it. A large amount of arable land and village communities are the best proof.

What was surprising was that when the West Road Fleet stopped at a Tamsui River Estuary, the local indigenous people came to greet them enthusiastically and brought them fresh vegetables and venison as a meeting gift.

This made Tang Youde fully realize that the complexity and diversity of the positions of the indigenous people cannot be generalized.

Zhao Hao happily accepted their gifts and gave them back the cloth, salt and large barrels of wine on the boat. This kind of response also made the other party very happy. After finding a translation of Kedagran among the indigenous people, the two parties had a pleasant exchange.

When Mr. Zhao learned that they were indigenous people from the Babusa people and the pronunciation of "Lugang" in Babusa language, he couldn't help but feel moved and said softly to Fatty Tang beside him: "The Babusa people are also important members of the Eighteenth Society."

Tang Youde immediately understood and immediately launched a passionate emotional offensive against several heads. Several indigenous heads could not withstand Lao Tang's methods. After a while, they met him too late and invited them to have dinner at Lugang Club.

Mr. Zhao happily agreed that the village community was under the guns of the warship and there was nothing to worry about.

But he soon regretted it because when they came to the indigenous village community with the earthen walls of the bamboo hut and thatched hut, they were invited to sit cross-legged on the rattan mat, and there was a girl singing and dancing, who brought him and Fatty Tang a bowl of deer blood.

Tang Youde had just made good friends told them that this was a newly hunted deer and that the first bowl of blood would be dedicated to the most honorable guest.

Fatty Tang immediately put down the bowl and said, "I can't drink it anymore, our young master is the most noble."

Who knew that people said, it's okay, you're the second bowl...

Oh, Fatty Tang had to pinch his nose and drink the fishy and hot bowl of deer blood.

Mr. Zhao knew that this bowl must be drunk.

He sighed inwardly, and tilted his neck to pour this bowl of aphrodisiac deer blood.

The two of them were so hot that they were all over...

Zhao Hao was fine, but he just went back to do push-ups for an extra hour. But Fatty Tang didn’t bring the woman on the boat, he only brought a pretty follower... Although he could also respond to the emergency, he, Mr. Paul, was in the same room!

‘Oh, what should I do tonight…’ Tang Youde was secretly worried and thought that if he didn’t let the friend he just made arrange it? It would not work, it would definitely be said to be a joke.

If it really doesn't work, I can only shoot a hand gun... Old Tang never expected that after becoming a Monopoly, he would do it himself...

After drinking deer blood, eating roasted venison, and stewing venison, everyone became a family. In addition, there were Kaidagrans who showed up, the Babusa people took the initiative to sign a covenant imitating the "Ba Douzi Covenant" and said that they would help attract more villages and communities to join the group as much as possible.

Things went smoothly and Zhao Hao was a little confused, but to avoid the long dreams, he suppressed his doubts first and asked Tang Youde to represent the group to sign the "Lugang Covenant" with the Babusa people on the same day.

After the contract was made, he arranged another artillery volley as a celebration of the alliance, and also showed his muscles to his allies so that they could not think about it.

Then Zhao Hao asked the general translator to ask, are they having any difficulties?

Several Babusa heads were shocked by the earth-shaking power of the cannon volley. Finally, they were honestly in the truth. In the past two years, a group of pirates always attacked their villages and communities regularly, robbing food and deer skin. Their livelihoods were greatly affected, and many villages and communities moved to the Taichung Basin, and their strength naturally became weaker and weaker.

So they wanted to see if the "powerful allies" who specialize in fighting pirates can help them destroy this threat.

Zhao Hao and Fatty Tang looked at each other when they heard this. It seemed that the indigenous people were just uneducated, but they were not stupid at all. On the contrary, these leaders were still very smart and thought of ways to drive away tigers and swallow wolves in a blink of an eye.

However, the extermination of all maritime forces in the Taiwan Strait was originally the mission of the fleet to move south, so Mr. Zhao happily agreed and asked them where the pirates came from.

But the Babusa people only knew that those people came from the south along the west coast, and should have come from very far and far places, because they had searched the coast of the Jianan Plain, but they did not find any trace of this group of pirates.

Zhao Hao looked at Paul Tang when he heard this and remembered the coconut he bought.

Paul Tang also looked dazed, probably the group of people who beat the dog.

The fleet rested in Lugang for a night and left the Changhua Plain the next day.

Affected by the northbound Black Tide and Penghu Waterway, the slower the further south the fleet sails. The constant northeast wind between the straits continues to push the fleet away from the coast!

The dangerous black ditch is less than 20 kilometers away from the coast. In addition, the west coast of Tai Island itself is a shallow water area, and the rivers on the island have washed a large amount of mud and sand into the coast. Under the action of ocean currents, the mud and sand form a long underwater dunes belt, resulting in extremely complex underwater terrain and will be stranded if it is accidentally stranded.

Therefore, for safety reasons, the fleet must maintain navigation of more than 10 kilometers offshore.

This leaves the safe channel less than ten miles wide.

Ten miles look quite wide, but it is definitely a dangerous challenge for the ship owners who are mainly guided by coastal landmarks at this time. Basically, the Ming ships trying to move south along the west coast were either blown into the black ditch by the wind or stranded because they were too close to the coast. Therefore, ships who have always visited Taiwan will turn around when they see the turbid water stream and dare not continue to move south.

But for the Coast Guard fleet, this is not a difficult task. The officers and soldiers' assessment items in the Coast Guard School are much more demanding than this. With such a slow speed, with a wealth of navigational instruments and scientific and reasonable navigation technology, they can easily maintain safe driving without deviating.

Mr. Zhao had nothing to worry about, so he continued his coastal sightseeing trip.

After Zhuoshui River, the dividing line of the Changhua Plain in the past, we arrived at the largest Jianan Plain in Taiwan. This plain covers a vast area from Chiayi to Tainan, with an area of ​​up to 4,500 square kilometers, which is eleven times that of the Taichung Basin!

But the problem is that this place is similar to Taoyuan platform, with poor water storage capacity and few rivers on the surface, so the harvest depends entirely on God. When the rainfall is abundant, you can harvest. When there is less precipitation, the surface will directly crack under the strong sunshine. How can there be a harvest?

This is the case with the heavenly fields that can account for 60% of the Jianan Plain, and 10% are saline-alkali fields that rely on the sea, so only 30% of the land that can be irrigated can be guaranteed by drought and flood.

In later generations, it was only after the completion of Jianan Dazhen that this place became the largest barn and sweet warehouse on the island.

However, if you want to supply water to such a large plain, this project is too big and you must make a long-term plan. Fortunately, the Jianan Plain is too big, even if there is only 30% of the good fields, it is much more than elsewhere, so here is the main direction for immigration in the future.

In addition, that kind of saline-alkali field is not a bad thing. Why does large areas of saline-alkali land form along the coast of the Jianan Plain? Because the rivers inject less fresh water. Moreover, the monsoon is strong, dry and rainy in the winter for half a year, long sunshine, high temperatures, fast evaporation, and high salt content in seawater. This environment is most suitable for salt drying.

Especially the Chiayi coastal area with a wide beach and a gentle slanting terrain, it is an excellent large natural salt field. In the future, one of the three major salt fields in my country, the Budai Salt Field, known as the "Southeast Salt Warehouse", is located in this area.

Mr. Zhao’s desire for salt is no less than sugar. In addition to edible salt, the more important thing is industrial salt. Mr. Zhao’s basic chemical industry is waiting for a large amount of cheap salt to start!

Because salt is one of the most basic raw materials of the chemical industry, it is known as the "mother of the chemical industry". The main products of the basic chemical industry are mainly produced by using salt as raw materials.

There are also soap making, sodium hydroxide production, etc., and various uses.

Zhao Hao never expected that the chemical industry that he had high hopes for was stuck in his neck by salt. But it was normal. Since Guan Zhong, the ancestor of the brothel, proposed to Xiaobai, "Guanshanhai", government officials throughout the dynasties have implemented salt monopoly, monopolizing this kind of biological resources with stable sources and high demand.

Although it is not a problem to buy a large amount of low-priced salt with Mr. Zhao and Yangzhou salt merchants. However, the amount of salt used in industrial use is too large and too large, even if the salt merchant gives him an internal price, it is enough to make Mr. Zhao go bankrupt. So there is only one way before him, which is to produce salt by himself.

First of all, it is definitely not possible in mainland China. It is too exciting to the sensitive nerves of the government. Therefore, the salt field must be located overseas, but Tanluo, Japan and Ryukyu do not have suitable beaches, so for a long time, all Zhao Hao's hopes were placed in the future cloth bag salt field.

He instructed Tang Youde in a deep voice to set up a salt farm here as soon as possible and start drying salt, so as to make Xishan Island use Taiwanese salt next year.

From the Budai Salt Field to the south, the scene on the shore changed again. The dense rivers nourished the land on both sides of the shore, and the dense forests were still green and there was no autumn at all.

Zhao Hao knew that Tainan, the most important part of the Jianan Plain, arrived. There are many rivers here and the water volume is very abundant. In the future, the Jianan Dazhen will store water and divert water to irrigate other places.

Continue to sail for thirty miles and arrive at a huge bay. The mud and sand carried by many rivers accumulate a long sandbank at the entrance of the bay, and it becomes the natural breakwater of the bay.

This is Dayuan Bay.

With such an excellent harbor and such fertile land, no wonder the Dutch chose to start here. In the next few hundred years, this place will be the center of Taiwan for a long time.

"The future Dayuan City will be located here." Zhao Hao pointed to Dayuan Bay and said proudly: "It will become the most prosperous city in the entire Taiwan, no doubt about it!"

There are no pirates in Dayuan Bay. Because of the Black Shui Ditch, I have never seen any ship sailing since I passed Chiayi.

If it weren't for the green coconuts brought by Paul Tang, Zhao Hao would never have thought that the dog-beating 80 miles south of Dayuan Bay would have already had a large-scale Han immigration.
Chapter completed!