Researchers and history enthusiasts of later generations can still see this "Badouzi Covenant" in the Provincial Museum of Taiwan. It stipulates:

All the properties of various communities looted by the Japanese pirates were returned.

In the future, the Jiangnan Group of the Celestial Empire would protect the Pingpu people from the invasion of Japanese pirates and pirates. Correspondingly, they would also cooperate with the Jiangnan Group to protect themselves from the invasion of the Gaoshan people.

The land within each community's territory was purchased by the Jiangnan Group at the rate of one piece of cotton cloth per acre.

Although many later researchers have used this to argue that Zhao Hao was an evil capitalist and it was impossible for him to truly care about the working class and peasant class.

In their books and papers, they denounced that during the reign of Emperor Long of the Ming Dynasty, a piece of cotton yarn was worth only two hundred coins! Gentlemen, the evil Zhao actually bought an acre of fertile land from the indigenous people for two coins!

This exposes the ignorance of some so-called historians - in fact, Mr. Zhao used cotton yarn produced by Jiangnan Textile. After adopting the new loom, the internal purchase price of a piece of cloth was only 100 wen...

But no matter what the later generations say, for a long period of history, the aborigines felt that they had gotten a great bargain. Because before the large-scale development, it was a bit too much to say that the land in Taiwan was worthless. But it is true that no one would spend a penny to buy an acre of land on the island of Taiwan, which is separated by a natural barrier and has a harsh environment. It would be a complete waste of money!

There is a very obvious example. According to the documents of the East India Company, in another time and space, the Dutch once exchanged 15 pieces of cotton yarn for 600 acres of land from the natives! Even this was regarded by the Dutch as a model of fair trade to prove that they were more civilized than the Spanish invaders.

Moreover, after selling the land to Jiangnan Group, the indigenous people can enjoy the same land policy as ordinary immigrants - they can apply to the city hall for permanent land use rights of ten acres per person.

So for the indigenous people, the land is still their own land and they can cultivate it however they want. They don’t suffer any loss. Instead, they got dozens of pieces of cloth for free. They feel that they have made a fortune, don’t they?

It was not until several hundred years later that aboriginal researchers pointed out that the Jiangnan Group was insidious and cunning, using a little petty profit to coax their simple ancestors into unknowingly giving up the ownership of the entire land, mines, and rivers in Taiwan.

Isn’t this just bullying honest people?

But no matter how future generations view this agreement, the "Badouzi Covenant" really helped the Jiangnan Group win the hearts of the Pingpu people, allowing them to enter Taiwan very smoothly, completing the transition from outsiders to local leaders with minimal friction and the most comfortable state. Soon, the Pingpu people merged into the Han Chinese family and no longer existed...

Later, when historians checked the accounts of the Taiwan Special Administrative Region, they were surprised to find that the Jiangnan Group had completed the redemption of the entire Taiwan with a total cost of less than 500,000 taels of silver.

At that time, Taiwan had 13 million mu of arable land. There were also coal mines with an annual output of one million tons, gold mines with an annual output of 80,000 taels of gold, copper mines with an annual output of one million kilograms of copper, the world's largest salt field, and countless sulfur, camphor, silver, limestone...

Mr. Zhao didn’t lose out with this move, right?

~~

After the meeting, Tang Youde, on behalf of the Jiangnan Group, hosted a banquet for the leaders of various departments and hired them as joint defense cadres for the future Keelung City, Yilan City, and Tamsui City.

This cadre does not work for nothing. He is given 50 kilograms of rice, 20 kilograms of noodles, a piece of cloth, a kilogram of salt, and a jar of oil every month. At the end of the year, he can also receive generous bonuses of varying amounts depending on the public security situation of the year.

The simple leaders immediately became excited. They didn't have to do anything, but they were the richest men in the community! They were naturally very concerned about the joint defense work, and they immediately entered the state and asked seriously what they needed to do.

Tang Youde said that he had heard that the wild people in the mountains like to hunt. Whether they are happy or angry, have a grudge or not, or during festivals and sacrifices, they like to go down the mountain to hunt heads. We are new to the land and have limited manpower, so we have to rely on you to protect us.

There was an irreconcilable conflict between the Pingpu people and the Gaoshan people. The latter lived on hunting, and their food source was unstable. They often went down the mountain to rob the Pingpu people. The Ketagalan and Kavalan people had long hated them. So the two sides hit it off and decided to unite to deal with the common enemy.

In addition, Tang Youde also followed the pyramid selling method that Mr. Zhao was good at, offering generous rewards to encourage the leaders to recruit new villages and communities to join, etc. In short, he let the leaders see the great financial prospects of cooperating with the Jiangnan Group and clarified the direction of their efforts.

So this was a successful conference, a victorious conference!

~~

On the other hand, Menan led the priestesses to hold a solemn ceremony to worship the heavens on the Baduzi Peninsula to thank the Mother Goddess for giving her people the savior.

After the ceremony, which included singing, dancing and shamanic performances, she gave an important speech to the priestesses, saying that she would build a royal temple in Keelung in the future, and that they could come to pay homage regularly and pray diligently to the Mother Goddess so that their tribe would always be safe and sound.

She also gladly accepted the invitation of the witches to go to Yilan to preside over the upcoming Sea God Festival. At that time, all tribes that believe in the goddess will send representatives to Beifang'ao, Yilan, and Mei Nan can attract a large number of villages and communities to join for Mr. Zhao.

Lin Feng stood behind Mei Nan, looking at the seemingly ignorant Lord Wende tying the witches tightly to her chariot, and couldn't help feeling a little self-mockery in her heart.

After so many days, if she still couldn't see that the innocence and naturalness displayed by Menan was just a weapon to lower the opponent's vigilance, she would be a fool.

For example, right now, she was so active in recruiting people to join the group, it was definitely not as simple as being fascinated by Mr. Zhao. It was clearly that she wanted to control the Taiwanese aborigines who had close ties with the Ryukyu Kingdom to increase her weight in front of Zhao Hao.

As long as she has enough weight, Zhao Hao will have to respect her opinions on matters concerning Ryukyu.

Think about it again, she used the beauty trap to get food back from Zhao Hao for the aborigines. Was it really a case of Madonna syndrome? She was simply trying to do the aborigines a favor and let Zhao Hao know that she was the leader of those aborigines!

Just raising your own status.

And the courage to surrender to the enemy, the determination to take the little prince away...

All these reasons are enough to prove that she is not stupid at all, but is smarter than herself.

Perhaps the reason why she admitted that she was the so-called messenger of God was that she felt that it would help stabilize the emotions of the Zhunu Group and the people at a time when people's hearts were in turmoil.

The angel from heaven shows that the Mother Goddess has not abandoned her people...

"Damn it, I got fooled!" Lin Feng felt unhappy and cursed secretly. What made her most angry was that the hot air balloon had already taken off three times, but she didn't get to sit in it.

But think about it, Prince Wen is one of the two giants of the Ryukyu Kingdom, how could he be a simple little white rabbit?

Besides, she is not young anymore...

My brother once said that people involved in politics are all dirty at heart, and we can’t beat them, so we are forced into the business.

Lin Feng was not convinced before, thinking that she was no worse than anyone else, but in fact, a seemingly naive woman could play herself around.

It’s really depressing to think that the clown is actually me…

Moreover, I heard that Mr. Zhao is going to Tamsui tomorrow, but Mei Nan is going to Yilan.

There is no point in following her anymore, so I should hurry back to Takao and make plans with my brothers...

~~

Lin Feng always does what he wants to do and never drags his feet.

When she went to bed at night, she told Menan about her plan.

"Ah, why are you leaving just like that?" Mei Nan held her hand reluctantly.

"You've been getting along well with Mr. Zhao, and have become his right-hand man in conquering Taiwan. What else do you have to worry about?" Lin Feng said expressionlessly, "As for those people in China, they can't beat you anyway, right?"

Mei Nan's heart trembled when he heard this, knowing that she had an opinion of him.

She pressed Lin Feng's hand under her cheek and whispered softly, "I have never fought with anyone before..."

After that, Mei Nan briefly told Lin Feng the history of the struggle between the kings of Zhongshan and Prince Wende, and then said: "After my aunt passed away, my brother chose me to succeed the throne not because I was smart, but because I was not smart. So I just got through these years in a daze, until that night of thunder and lightning, when the news came that my brother was defeated and captured, I realized that I had to cheer up..."

She laughed at herself and said, "But how can I cheer up a brain that has not been used for more than ten years? I thought about it day and night but it was still a mess, so I went to Mount Ontake to pray. As a result, I saw the oracle. I was desperate and tried every possible means, so I set off to Kudaka Island..."

Menan looked at Lin Feng sincerely with his big, watery eyes and said, "I will never forget the moment you came down from the sky and held me in your arms. At that moment, I was certain that you were my savior, my messenger of God..."

"I..." Lin Feng was about to say I'm just an ordinary person.

Menan put his slender, cold fingers against her lips and said softly, "If you think I have made progress during this period, if you think I have done something right, it is because you gave me courage and wisdom. Without you standing behind me, I am nothing..."

Hearing this affectionate confession, Lin Feng was stunned. What else could she say? She could only hold back all her words and said, "I know, let's go to sleep."

As she said this she blew out the oil lamp.

The two of them lay side by side in silence, listening to the rhythmic sound of the waves outside. It really was a feeling of 'there is a secret sorrow and hatred arising, at this time silence is better than words'.

It would be perfect if there wasn't a creaking sound coming from the upper floor...

At dawn, Mei Nan woke up and saw that Lin Feng's place was empty. There was a piece of paper on the neatly folded quilt.

Mei Nan picked it up and saw three crooked words on it.

'I'm leaving.'

That font is so ugly and cute, just like the six characters on the stone wall in Sankuli...

Mei Nan sat up, hugging the quilt, staring blankly at the piece of paper, her long black hair hanging down like a waterfall, just like the loss she felt at the moment.

She left after all and didn't change her mind because of what I said.

After a long period of feeling lost, Mei Nan suddenly smiled. She left a faint lip print on the paper. Then she whispered:

"The famous pirate Lin Feng, we will meet again..."