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Fang La was not willing to let him go through a lot of hardships and endure all the treasures he seized after going through thousands of difficulties and dangers.

Therefore, Fang La sent troops to attack Hangzhou Bay three times. The last time he even led the army himself to try to snatch back the thousands of ships he had thrown away. At the very least, he had to snatch back the hundreds of ships containing treasures and supplies.

But Fang La knew that when Li Bao found the hundreds of large ships, he immediately sealed them up. After discussing with Liu Qi and Yue Fei, Li Bao personally led the amphibious army general Cai Jian to send all the ships and shipwrecks that he repeatedly emphasized to the rear.

In other words, even if Fang La could regain Hangzhou Bay, it would never be possible to get back his treasures and supplies.

What's more, how could Liu Qi, Yue Fei and others let Fang La regain Hangzhou Bay?

Three battles!

Liu Qi and Yue Fei defeated Fang La Rebel Army three times, and totaled: killed, injured tens of thousands of soldiers of Fang La Rebel Army, and captured nearly 20,000 soldiers of Fang La Rebel Army.

If it weren't for defending the bridgehead of Hangzhou Bay, the result would have been greater.

After trying three times, Fang La finally gave up snatching back his treasures and supplies and stayed in Hangzhou.

With Fang La's thousands of ships, Cai Shen's more than 100,000 troops and prisoners of war could actually arrive in Hangzhou City at one time.

But Cai still did not do so. He just transferred the Jinwu Left Army, the Jinwu Right Army and the General Staff (including those whom Cai still was worried about) to reinforce Hangzhou Bay, and then brought the personal guards, amphibious troops, and the Jinwu Hou army to Zhoushan Island with prisoners of war.

On Zhoushan Island, Cai still asked Song Jiang and others to continue political education to capture prisoners and select people suitable for joining the Jinwu Army, and sent people to train them. He himself took a battalion of personal guards and an amphibious army to head straight to Taiwan.

Taiwan is still a barren land now.

Well... it is actually not appropriate to describe it as a barren land.

There are actually some indigenous people on the island.

These indigenous people belonged to the short black people of the Niglita region and the Langjiao people of the Ryukyu race (they were the ancestors of the Gaoshan tribe), and belonged to the Malay race.

However, there are too few people in this group, maybe less than a thousand.

The key is that they should not understand the means of war and will only fight bravely like wild animals with simple weapons and individuals.

Cai still believes that the two battalions of troops should be completely enough to solve their problems.

In addition, there are some Han people in Penghu.

but--

Cai Shen’s goal for this trip was not Penghu, so he didn’t have to consider the Han people in Penghu for the time being.

Moreover, there were not many Han people in Penghu, and only 10,000 or 20,000 more were said, and it was impossible to pose a threat to themselves - because the population was too small, so the Northern Song Dynasty was not in the mood to care about it.

(It was not until decades later that the Southern Song Dynasty assigned Penghu to the jurisdiction of Jinjiang County, Fujian Road (later Jinjiang, Fujian) and sent troops to defend it. The connection between the mainland and Taiwan became more and more frequent.)

The narrowest part of the Taiwan Strait - from Pingtan Island, Fujian to Hsinchu, the straight line distance is about 130 kilometers.

This seemingly not far distance, but the seaway between them is a natural danger that is difficult to cross, and is called the "Black Ditch".

Heishuigou is commonly known as Penghu waterway.

The waterway in Penghu has the fastest flow rate, deep and bottomless, and the sea water is as color as ink, so it is called black water.

If you go from Xiamen to Taiwan, you must pass the "ocean";

If you choose to transfer in Penghu and go from Penghu to Luermen in Tainan, you must go through "Xiaoyang".

The ocean and the small ocean make it very difficult to cross the strait in the east and west directions. Moreover, due to the depth of the water, the sailboat must go down the wind and move quickly. If it does not have time to pass, it will be swept away by the current and lose its direction.

Therefore, there is: "Ten go, six die, three stay, and one turn back" - in layman's terms, about the average of ten people, six will die on the sea, only three can arrive safely, and the last one will turn around and give up crossing the sea.

but--

This situation will not happen to those whom Cai still brings.

First of all, most of the ships that occur in this situation are small sampans manpower wooden boats, while Cai Shen's ships are all big boats. This era is the best, even a big boat that surpasses this era. When crossing the Black Ditch, it rushed over in one breath.

Secondly, when Cai Shen was in service, he mainly focused on the southeast coast. It can be said that with his eyes closed, Cai could still touch Taiwan.

In this way, it is not difficult for Cai and others to go to Taiwan.

The biggest trouble Cai and the others encountered was disease.

The warm and humid climate of the subtropical and tropical regions makes regional infectious diseases and terroir diseases more serious than those in the north.

Cai still led the pro-guard army and the amphibious army. Shortly after the Jinwu rear army and a group of entourage landed in Taiwan, one third of them fell ill one after another.

Fortunately, Cai still knew that Taiwan was in great malaria at this time, and brought Wang Jixian, Chen Jingu and the medical camp, and also brought a large amount of medicinal materials.

In addition, Cai still instilled the hygiene knowledge of future generations in the visitors, such as having to drink boiled water, washing hands before and after meals, etc.

In this way, Cai Jian and others barely gained a foothold on Taiwan Island.

Violence is based on the production of weapons, and the production of weapons is based on the productivity of the entire force, so economic strength is very important.

"If the country is poor and the soldiers are weak, they will not win if they fight, and the rules will not be solid."

"Therefore, when using military strategies, three surprises should be one, three successes should be one army, and three successes should be one battle."

"Therefore, the army of one period will accumulate ammunition for ten years, the cost of one battle will be exhausted."

War is very expensive in terms of materials, and the country is weak and the people are poor, so war is unsustainable.

Therefore, a strong army must first develop the economy. If you want to defeat the enemy, you must first surpass the enemy in material wealth. "The number of soldiers depends on gathering wealth... Therefore, if you want to rule the world, wealth will not overthrow the world, and you cannot rule the world."

In addition, if you want to rule the world, you must "a country with a lot of grain", "the people, strong soldiers and broaden the land, and rich the country must be born from millet", "The land is guarding the city, the city is guarding the army, the soldiers are guarding the people, and the people are guarding the millet". Only when the food is sufficient can the army defend and fight, "If there is accumulation, fight for a long time without a rat" means this. On the contrary, if the army does not have enough food, "the army is weak and the soldiers are not strong, then the battle will not be strong and the country will not be stable; if the battle cannot be defeated and the defense cannot be solid, then the country will not be stable." The role of food in war is crucial. To overcome the enemy in material wealth, the most fundamental thing is to strengthen agricultural production.

Many people think that it is not easy to want food, just grab it.

This is actually a big mistake.

Let’s not talk about it for now, it may not be able to really get it, especially during the famine. It is not easy to get enough hundreds of thousands of troops and more food for the people?

Take a step back and say that even if you can get it, it is impossible to get it all the time. The key is that it is impossible to get it all the time.

As long as a person cannot eat for one or two days, or even if he cannot eat for one or two meals, there may be riots, which will ruin the good situation.

The southern part of Taiwan has a tropical monsoon climate, which is very suitable for farming. If rice is grown here, there is no problem with two ripening a year, and it can even be ripening three ripening a year.

One of the big reasons why Cai still chose Taiwan as his base and his base is that Taiwan can become a grain production base.

After barely completing the inspection of Taiwan, Cai still made a furious move and set a fire on the vast plains in the west to burn the wasteland.

The fire burned for three days and three nights, and thousands of square kilometers of white land were burned on the island.

(The rest can be developed and burned.)

I don’t know if it was because of the fire caused by Li Yan’s fire, the miasma on the white ground was not that powerful.

Afterwards, Cai still sent Li Bao back and took all the people on Zhoushan Island to Taiwan.

During this period, Cai still personally selected a suitable place to plan a city.

A few days later, Li Bao brought the people from Zhoushan Island to Taiwan.

These people were full of curiosity about this paradise, and were even more shocked that Cai could still find such a place.

Cai still had no time to make these people curious, and even had no time to make these people adapt, so he led them to start planting the Chameng rice he had prepared long ago on the white ground he had burned.

Chamcheng rice is a high-yield, premature and drought-tolerant rice seed produced in the Indochina Peninsula. It has been introduced to the Northern Song Dynasty for some years and has been quickly promoted in the Jiangnan region.

Chameng rice is named after its origin in Chameng, which is located in later generations in southern Vietnam.

It has several characteristics:

First, drought tolerance.

Second, it is highly adaptable and is born without choice.

Third, the growth period is short, and it only lasts for more than fifty days from planting to harvest.

Fourth, Chameng rice and late rice can also become double-season rice in some areas, which greatly increases cereal yield.

Cai still believes that with Taiwan as a treasure land and Chameng rice, as long as he gives himself three to five years, he will definitely be able to save enough food to compete for the world.

In addition to letting people start farming, Cai still starts laying the foundation for the city of Hancheng (Tai is still named the first city on Taiwan Island) and building ports and docks.

Needless to say, the city will be the basis for the survival of people on Taiwan Island.

Not to mention the port, people on Taiwan Island must contact the outside world through this place in the future. Cai is still too lazy to worry about it, so he directly found a suitable place near the True Love Pier in later generations to start building a sustainable dock.

As for the dock, it goes without saying that it is Cai’s ambition and ambition, how can he not develop vigorously?

Moreover, Taiwan Island has a large number of trees suitable for shipbuilding, some of which can reach fifty or sixty meters high. The boatmen even discovered several large camphor trees that were more than 70 or 80 meters tall, and they could even build treasure ships.

only--

The keel used for shipbuilding cannot be prepared in one or two years, so Cai still wants a treasure ship and has to wait.

In short, Cai is still vigorously developing on Taiwan Island, committed to building it into its own rear, its own base, and its own way of retreat.

Unfortunately, Cai is still able to stay on Taiwan Island for a limited time, and he still has a big business in the southeast and cannot let go of it.

Cai still had to hand over Taiwan Island to his four women, Wang Sanniang, Liang Hongyu, Fang Baihua, and Chen Jingu, and helped each of the four women form an army of 5,000 troops.

In addition, Cai still left Zhao Ding, Song Jiang, Zhang Xu and a large number of scholars who were loyal to him personally selected by Cai to Wang Sanniang and the four daughters.

Just in case, Cai still left the personal guards and Jinwu rear army to Wang Sanniang and the four daughters.

At the end of March, Cai still led the amphibious army back to Hangzhou.

At this time, the situation in Hangzhou has undergone earth-shaking changes...

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Chapter completed!