Yu Xiaotian knew very well how terrible the plague was to him, and when he ran the island of Taiwan, what he was most worried about was not the trouble that the Spaniards, the Dutch, Zheng Yiguan and the Ming government came to him, but all kinds of plagues.

Although he attached great importance to collecting all kinds of famous doctors, and cultivating all kinds of junior ambulances, and even secretly set up pharmacies on land, and secretly purchased various medicinal materials on a large scale, the medical level of this era was still in a very primitive stage, and he had no ability to control a large-scale plague, let alone any modern medicine to treat an epidemic like malaria.

Even he can't even get the most basic bleaching powder in later generations, let alone other disinfectants, and the only disinfectant he has available at the moment is quicklime.

Therefore, if he wants to avoid large-scale plagues in this era, he can only start from prevention, first transform the environment, and then pay attention to sanitary conditions, reduce the possibility of plague occurrence as much as possible, and control the source of infection, starting from the root, although this consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, but it is always more economical than controlling the large-scale outbreak of the plague.

After hearing this, Lu sometimes hurriedly said yes, promising to do this matter well within a month, and never dared to slack off again, after finishing speaking, Lu sometimes unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat all over his body.

"You can divide the work into pieces, assign these migrant villages to your subordinates to be responsible for supervising this matter, whoever is in charge of the place has problems, you can directly talk to him, if anyone is against this matter and does not take it seriously, then I will ask him to go to the hard labor camp for a period of time and enjoy the treatment of the hard labor camp!"

The other people in charge of civil affairs who came with Lu Shi were also terrified after hearing this, and quickly knelt on the ground and agreed again and again, no one dared to be careless anymore.

Seeing that these guys were already frightened, Yu Xiaotian let them get up and continued to follow him to inspect the immigrant villages, and in the next two days, Yu Xiaotian inspected about half of the immigrant villages, and he chose to inspect the immigrant villages, not letting Lu sometimes choose a place, he randomly selected the villages for inspection according to the map.

During the inspection, Yu Xiaotian found a lot of problems, and they all gave Lu Shi a little clarity, so that they could immediately write them down and rectify them on time in batches.

Regarding the current defense situation of the immigrant villages, Yu Xiaotian also put forward his opinions, although Tamsui City has been built, the number of immigrants is increasing, and the newly built immigrant villages are getting farther and farther away from Tamsui City, so it is obviously not enough to rely on the security power of Tamsui City to protect these immigrant villages.

The enemy may not be able to attack Tamsui City, but he can land in other places and attack the immigrant villages in this area in small groups, and although the problem of the local natives has been alleviated in the past six months, the natives do not like them as outsiders to invade their territory, and the conflict between the two sides always exists.

In addition, the sea wolf continues to increase the number of immigrants, open new settlements, establish new migrant villages, and constantly cut down the woods in this area, burn shrubs, level the land, and open up wasteland for farming, which really squeezes out the living space of the indigenous tribes that originally lived in this area, and it is basically impossible to get along with the indigenous tribes completely peacefully.

Therefore, the migrant village must have a certain ability to protect itself, in addition to the formation of the township Yong self-protection, for the migrant village to build the style of the village, also put forward certain requirements.

In the past, most of the migrant villages here built a wooden wall around the village after the houses were built, as the basic defense of the migrant village, but now Yu Xiaotian has put forward higher requirements.

He believed that in the future, it was likely to be attacked by opponents, and that it was obviously not enough to defend against the enemy with a simple wooden fence, and that as long as the enemy was a little stronger, he could easily break through the village, raid and plunder the village, and cause heavy losses to the immigrants here.

Therefore, the next step of the migrant village is to strengthen the defense facilities, in addition to strengthening the original wooden wall, it is best to cover the wall with soil to prevent the other side from attacking, and strengthen the resistance of the wall.

In addition, when digging a canal, a ditch can be dug around the wall to form a trench, which can be used for irrigation and drainage, and can also be used to defend against enemies.

Furthermore, between the trench and the wall, it is necessary to insert more sharpened bamboo skewers or sharpened wooden skewers, and bake them on the fire, in addition to strengthening the hardness, it can also form carbonization on the surface, which effectively plays the role of anti-corrosion and prolongs the life of bamboo skewers.

In this way, the villages of the original immigrant villages can have a strong ability to defend, and for small groups of enemies, whether they are natives, pirates, or other enemies, as long as they are not too strong and small groups of enemies attack, even if they do not get the regular men and horses of the sea wolves to defend against the enemy, the people in the village can rely on their own force to block or simply disintegrate their attacks, and repel them.

But when a large number of enemies attack, they can at least hold on to resist for a while, and they can buy time to wait for reinforcements, waiting for the sea wolf's soldiers to arrive here to support them, relieve them from the siege, and help them repel the enemy who will attack in the future.

In addition, for the newly built immigrant villages in the future, Yu Xiaotian believes that the village can be built in the tulou method commonly used by the Hakka people in Fujian, and the village can be directly built into a large tulou, and the soil will be rammed into an earth wall on the spot, as the outer wall of the tulou, and the structure should be preferably three floors, leaving only one door outside the tulou.

The first floor can be used as a place for private livestock and public toilets and private poultry to store feed and straw, and people can live above the second floor, so that the accommodation environment is drier than a family bungalow, and can also be used as a place to store grain, reducing the loss of grain mildew caused by the dampness of the ground.

The first floor of the tulou does not open the window, but the outer wall above the second floor can open the window, these windows can usually be used as the ventilation and lighting of the residents in the tulou, when encountering the enemy, can be used as a perforating gun door, with a strong defensive ability, if the outside dig a trench again, it will be more perfect, not to mention that the local natives want to attack the tulou is impossible, even if the general pirates or even the officers and soldiers of the squad, want to attack the tulou, it is also delusional.

Although the locals do not have much experience in building houses with a structure like tulou, there are still some people among the immigrants who know how to build the road, and some masons have also built tulou before.

However, for the immigrants resettled in the tulou, Yu Xiaotian ordered to have a special idea, not to concentrate a big family in the tulou, nor to concentrate the people of the same township in the tulou, so that it is easy to form a small group of clans or fellow villagers in the resettlement villages, so that the management efficiency of the sea wolf is weakened, and even when a major event occurs, these migrant villages form a small separation, and do not listen to the dispatch of the sea wolf.

The new migrant villages should adhere to a principle, that is, the migrants must be dispersed and resettled, and the head of the village should be selected by the sea wolf to manage the migrant villages, and once it is found that there is a secret association in individual migrant villages, it must be dealt with immediately, and their relatives and friends must be separated and resettled, and such a situation must not be allowed on the sea wolf territory.

The next step is to adopt the same method for the old migrant villages, and use strong means to break them up, so as to avoid the emergence of clan management methods in these migrant villages, and weaken the direct control of the sea wolf over the migrant villages.

Lu sometimes hastened to write down this matter, this matter is still easy for him to do, now the immigrant villages have all established a household registration register, as long as you check the booklet, you will be clear about the structure of the villagers, who is related to whom, who is the relationship between son and nephew, who is in-law with whom, who is the clansman, when the time comes to adjust it every once in a while, it can be completely dismantled.

For Yu Xiaotian thought of this, Lu sometimes felt that it was very reasonable, although clan management was very common on land in this era, but it had great drawbacks, many large clans formed a strong local power, on the surface to listen to the assignment of the local government, but in essence, the local government can only manage the outside of these clans, and cannot manage the internal affairs of the clan village fort.

Even some clans have replaced the local government, and in their villages, they arbitrarily dispose of those in the village who violate the clan rules or challenge the power of the patriarch, and execute them at will, or deprive them of their land.

Moreover, the ancestral villages, sometimes even resist the grain and do not pay, the government to investigate them is also a violation of the yang and the yin, if it really can't be delayed, buy some poor people to go to the top of the tank, and be sent to the county government to wear a flail to show the public or a board, and wait until the deadline for paying the grain has passed, and then spend a few small dollars to redeem the people, even if the year's grain is carried over, there is no need to pay it again.

The government could not even figure out the amount of their fields, so that in many local governments, the registered population continued to decrease, and the number of fields that needed to be paid for grain was also decreasing, making some clans richer and richer, and becoming local tyrants, while the local government could only pass on the burden to other small people, making many poor people poorer and richer and richer.

Yu Xiaotian can see such a problem, which shows that he has seen the problem quite deeply, and he has decided to completely put an end to the formation of such a clan power on the territory of the sea wolf, so as to prevent the emergence of a situation where the power of the clan on land will form a local hegemon, and the sprouts will be directly nipped in the bud.

After inspecting most of the affairs on the side of Tamsui City, Yu Xiaotian still did not leave Tamsui City immediately, but left Tamsui City and went to a remote mountain col in the north of the city.