The Tahiti archipelago is a chain of islands formed by the uplift of mountains on the ocean floor, and each island is actually a rocky mountain peak in the ocean.

There isn't much land that can be cultivated here, but the warm climate is not a problem with three crops of rice a year, and the Chinese use a small amount of rice with a lot of seafood to create many delicacies that have left indigenous and European explorers jaw-dropping.

The best is the seafood porridge made by the Chinese, the soup is hot and fragrant, and the luxurious lobster meat and various shellfish, grouper fillets and a little Chinese greens are simply drooling.

After tasting it two or three times, the indigenous people can no longer do without such a delicacy, but unfortunately they do not know how to grow and cannot get various seasonings, so even if the Chinese give them some rice, they cannot make this taste.

Do you want to enjoy such a delicacy for a long time? Then exchange it for something! From that day on, the indigenous people of the Tahiti Islands learned to exchange goods.

The unique black pearls in deep-sea shells, which used to be toys in the hands of indigenous children, can no longer be played, and must be stored to exchange food with the Chinese when the time comes.

If black pearls are not enough, then the beautiful corals in the ocean can also be used to fill the number, and the Chinese also recognize this kind of thing.

If you can't get corals, then go hunting a little simpler, the shallow waters of the archipelago have crabs, shellfish, groupers, octopuses and other specialties, as long as you catch a lot, send them to the Chinese village, you can exchange some food.

Soon, the Chinese villages were piled up with countless seafood, and they could not eat them all. At first, the indigenous people did not understand what these outsiders were trying to do, and the food that they couldn't eat in their minds was a waste, and the hot weather would quickly spoil the food.

But unexpectedly, the Chinese collected so much seafood not for eating! The indigenous people watched as the Chinese boiled the crab slightly, then dried it and began to divide the corpse.

The largest crab claws are put aside, the rest of the crab legs are also cut off and put together, and the plump crab hind leg meat must of course be removed for centralized storage, and the crab roe on the crab shell is a delicious treasure that needs to be kept with beautiful porcelain.

After a few days, the ordinary-looking crab claw meat and crab legs become a semi-dry finished product, and they add a layer of salt and then store them in wooden boxes and clay pots and put them in the newly renovated storehouse.

Crab roe is the most precious delicacy, the Chinese even use blue and white porcelain altars to pickle, and those crab shells and minced meat will not be wasted, you only need to use a lot of salt, and then mash and store it for less than half a month, you can marinate a thick and fragrant ointment, these white flower ointment, the Chinese call it crab sauce.

The processing of crabs is just one of these strange Chinese behaviors, and the rest of the octopus, scallops, groupers, sea cucumbers, ...... All kinds of seafood Chinese have strange storage methods.

The natives are completely incomprehensible to the behavior of these outsiders, and in their eyes the food is stored without eating, isn't it enough to have nothing to do?

If they are too energetic, why don't they sing and dance and celebrate around the campfire?

Unfortunately, they can't resist the temptation of food, knowing that these Chinese are doing meaningless work, they can only shrug their shoulders and continue to catch crabs.

The tribes in the state of fishing and hunting civilization could not understand the way of life of agricultural civilization at all, until one day a huge clipper appeared in front of them, and these indigenous people were completely dumbfounded.

They watched as the useless things stored by the Chinese were sent to the ship, and then barrels of fine wine, tools made of steel, large bales of rice and wheat, living piglets, chickens and ducks were transported to the Chinese villages.

Of course, there are also foreign guns and steel knives that make the natives fearful, they have suffered under the foreign guns of the Europeans in the early years, and now they can't help but be terrified when they see these things.

From that moment on, the hunter-fishers learned to store and know what a commodity was, and for the first time they had the concept of surplus products in their minds, and they also knew that surplus products could be exchanged.

The Chinese, who had the tools, accelerated the pace of transforming Tahiti, they opened mountains and blew up rocks, they expanded docks, and they built permanent stone trestle bridges.

Those stonemasons carved stone tablets one after another, carved with several words of Tahiti in China, and carved Xiao Letian's great achievements on the back, and then went all over the world to find islands to erect monuments.

Build a piece on the ground and bury another piece underground, regardless of who the sovereignty of this island belongs to, anyway, in the eyes of these Chinese, these islands are theirs and belong to them.

This is also Xiao Letian's cunning, the stele is not worth a few dollars, but with these things, you will be able to fight a lawsuit with the Western powers in the future, anyway, at the moment the islands in the South Pacific are in a state of demilitarization, as long as you don't erect a stele on the land of New Zealand and Australia, then no one cares what you Chinese are doing.

Xiao Lotian laid out in the South Pacific like a thief, and under the surprised eyes of countless indigenous people, he erected the boundary monuments belonging to the Chinese on the islands one by one.

Tahiti, Cook Islands, Society Islands, Tuamotu Islands...... Even the Fiji Islands, thousands of kilometers to the west, have been buried by these Chinese.

As the days passed, the Chinese immigrants exchanged food, handicrafts, ironware, and natives for all kinds of pearls, corals, and seafood goods, which were then simply processed and sold to Chinese merchant ships that came on a regular basis, in exchange for more and more supplies.

By this time, the total number of Chinese in Tahiti had exceeded 3,000, and the fast dhows also owned six, which shows the high profits of ocean trade.

The five elders bowed down in the direction of the northwest Ryukyus and said sincerely: "It's really thanks to the blessing of the prime minister, if it weren't for the prime minister's sparing efforts to promote us, our Tahitian goods would not have been sold at such a high price!"

"I have heard from the captain of the merchant ship that the prime minister has more than once brought out Tahitian special ingredients at banquets to praise them! Our black pearls, corals, and all kinds of air-dried seafood have become indispensable delicacies on the prime minister's table!"

"If the prime minister says that something is good, it must be good, and the price of our Tahitian specialties in Ryukyu is twice as high as that of similar goods in other places, and this is still in short supply...... General, this time you must help bring some gifts to the prime minister when you return home, just say that there is a pirate thousands of miles away, and we are praying for him!"

After speaking, the five elders burst into tears of excitement.

The bland story Xiang Ying listened to extremely shockingly, the layman looked at the lively insider, and everything these Chinese immigrants in Tahiti did was actually not just as simple as survival.

This represents a completely different kind of Eastern colonial philosophy! Yes, Westerners brought knives, guns and Bibles to enslave those backward peoples, and those who did not obey were killed.

And only the Chinese will use this terrazzo-like warm rule to change these primitive peoples little by little! This is the greatness of Chengxiang, in the colonial era of ten thousand horses, at least Xiao Lotian still retains a trace of human warmth.

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