Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 807 Conflict and Coping

With the spread of the three-year tax notice of the Ming court exempting Gaoping and Tongdeng, the negative emotions of the local original Jiaozhi people have temporarily subsided. , the first batch of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty dragged their families into their hometown, and immediately followed the plan that 1000 people would be a village, and got busy under the leadership of the officials of the Ming Dynasty who came over.

The 1 people in the Danglu camp were divided into four by Huang Zhen. A group of 3000 people camped and garrisoned on the only road leading to Gaoping and Tongdeng from the land controlled by the Zheng family, in case the Zheng group did not know when to launch a counterattack; Some were stationed in the city to prevent accidents, and some were divided into several teams to protect the Ming immigrants from building houses, digging wells and farming.

In order to make the officers and soldiers of the Danglu camp more attentive, the first batch of immigrants from Guangxi who moved here were basically the family members of the soldiers of the Danglu camp. Judging from the current situation, Li Huaipu's strategy works well. Whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Danglu camp or the family members, they all do their best in daily work and treat the resettlement site as a new hometown.

Compared with Guangxi, where there are too many mountains, little and barren arable land, and has been drought and rainless for several years, the current fields are wide and fertile, and the rivers and rivers have abundant water, which is most suitable for growing rice.After each household was divided into five mu of land, the immigrants immediately forgot the feeling of nostalgia and devoted themselves to the construction of their new home.

In order for the immigrants to quickly gain a foothold in the local area, the Ming court had already made sufficient preparations. After Li Huaipu took over the post of governor, a large number of agricultural tools, seeds, rations, cattle, medicinal materials, salt and other daily necessities were sold by the Four Seas Trading Company day and night. It was continuously transported to the official warehouse of the governor's office in Guangxi, and then allocated by the government according to the number of people to be relocated. Those who followed the first batch of more than 1 immigrants to Jiaozhi were rationed according to pre-calculated supplies.

When seeing the Ming immigrants using various iron tools to start farming, the local people in Jiaozhi were both envious and jealous.

Jiaozhi is too poor, and mineral resources and smelting methods are very scarce.

The daily work of local farmers is mainly made of wood. Only local tenant farmers use some low-quality iron farm tools. Due to the lack of advanced planting methods and tools, the average local grain yield per mu is only seven or eight buckets. Compared with the current Daming's average yield of more than one stone per mu, the gap is not small.

Thanks to the unique natural environment of the local area, three seasons of food can be harvested every year without intensive farming, and there are various fruit trees everywhere, so the people of Cochin never feel hungry.

But after all, they are all from generations of farmers, and they all understand the benefits of iron farm tools and animal power. Therefore, when the immigrants from the Ming Dynasty began to open up wasteland and farm, many local people secretly stood in the distance to watch.Seeing the iron plowshares used by the immigrants, plowing deep furrows in the fertile fields, the Jiaozhi people not only envied these immigrants, but also hoped that the new government would be merciful. Also let them use this kind of good farm tools as soon as possible.

In this era when the concept of family, country and nation has not yet been formed, even most Ming people have no sense of changing the dynasty, let alone these Jiaozhi people who are stupid and backward in thinking.

The Zheng family has been exploiting and oppressing them for a long time, and every family feels the same. The Ming court drove the Zheng family away. For the vast majority of ordinary people, it was just a change of "master". "Master" seems to be much stronger than the original one, at least it clarified that the three-year tax exemption will be exempted, but whether it will count or not will depend on when the crops mature in a few months.

Regardless of whether it was inside or outside the Ming Dynasty, conflicts between immigrants and aborigines were always inevitable.

There are many differences between the two sides in terms of language, customs, living habits, and competition for certain resources, and these differences will lead to fierce conflicts between the parties due to a small matter. the goal of.

Li Huaipu knew in his heart that if the immigrant was too honest, he would definitely be bullied when he met the arrogant aborigines. The purpose of the imperial court's immigration to Cochin was not only to expand the territory, but more importantly, to maintain Immigrants from Ming Dynasty who barely have food and clothing can live a better life, but in order to achieve their goals, the immigrants must be tough in the process of competing for resources.

The people of Guangxi have been strong since ancient times, and the wolf soldiers are the most representative. Moreover, they are a group of people who live together with the clan as the core. No matter right or wrong, they will always work together to speak out.

Sure enough, as Li Huaipu expected, in the next two months, dozens of conflicts broke out between the immigrants of Daming and the locals of Cochin due to various daily trivial matters. Under the strong intervention of the soldiers, these dozens of conflicts ended in the victory of the Daming immigrants. During the period, more than a hundred locals in Cochin were injured, and eight people died of serious injuries, while only a dozen of the Daming immigrants were slightly injured. .

The soldiers of the Danglu camp who were responsible for escorting the immigrants used cold weapons other than firearms in the ongoing conflicts.Although the Cochin people are also tough by nature, they have no power to fight back in front of the sharp blade. If the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had not received the order "not to cause too much damage" in advance, it would not have been the result of the casualties of more than a hundred Cochin people.

In how to deal with these incidents in the end, Li Huaipu took unexpected measures.

For the Jiaozhi people who did not participate in these conflicts, Li Huaipu ordered each family to give a reward of one or two silver coins, and for those who took the lead in the conflicts, their family properties were confiscated. Sent to prison camps for five years of hard labor.

Li Huaipu used this move to show the Jiaozhi people that only the docile people will eat meat, but those who are dissatisfied, the fate of these people is a precedent.

After two months, the bloody scene was in stark contrast to the heavy silver coins. After word of mouth, since the third month, there has been no conflict.

It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Seeing that sticks are no match for swords and guns, and those who stand aside and watch the excitement are rewarded heavily, who would ask for trouble?

In this series of trivial matters, the matters related to the immigration of Cochin are progressing steadily. After the first batch of immigrants stabilize, the follow-up large-scale immigration work will continue.

At the same time, there were also signs of turmoil in the country of Wa, which was across the sea from Daming, and the strategy of driving away tigers and wolves formulated by the cabinet of Daming finally paid off.

(End of this chapter)