The ethnic minorities in Dongfan (Taiwan) that readers are familiar with are the mountain tribes, but in fact, the mountain tribes are just the general term for ethnic minorities living in the mountains of Dongfan (Taiwan). In fact, there are many ethnic minorities living in Dongfan (Taiwan), including Amei, Taya, Yamei, Saixia, Bunong, Lukai, Paiwan, Beinan, Zou, Shao, Gemalan, Taroko, Sailaya, and Saidek.

The distribution of ethnic minorities in the East Bo (Taiwan) is very distinctive. The Pingpu people mainly live in the sea-bridge plains and basins. A large part of them are the major immigrants who fled from Fujian and Guangdong to Dongbo (Taiwan) for many years. Therefore, the Pingpu people have a high acceptance of Han culture and are relatively gentle in temperament. They mainly make a living by fishing and farming. For example, the Great Maitreya that Guo Zhiyuan met in the senior official was the leader of a tribe of the Pingpu people.

Of course, the mountain tribes live in the mountains, and different ethnic groups live at different altitudes. Generally speaking, the higher the altitude, the more primitive they live in. Some ethnic minorities even stay in the matriarchal clan era, with men hunting outside and women staying in the tribe to be responsible for farming. The production method is very primitive, and primitive and barbaric are often accompanied. It is conceivable how fierce the customs of these ethnic minorities are. Most of them even retain the barbaric custom of "headhunting". These tribes have their own territory. Any outsider entering their territory will be regarded as an enemy by them and are violently attacked by them!

Therefore, most of the 6 people who have been to Dongfan are afraid of dealing with these barbaric high-altitude tribes, call them "shengfan" and those of the Pingpu tribes with gentle temperament and easy to get along with "familiar". This title is actually a certain discriminatory nature, meaning that they are all foreign people who do not accept the king's transformation, and are similar to savages.

If Guo Zhiyuan wants to manage Dongba, he must have good relations with these Dongba natives. It is best to allow these Dongba natives to integrate into and become his people under his rule, so that he can obtain valuable human resources and speed up the pace of opening Dongba. However, it is quite difficult to do this. These Dongba natives have been in a closed and primitive living environment for a long time and have a strong sense of hostility and rejection towards any outsider. Not to mention integrating them, it is difficult to even live in peace with them.

It would definitely not work if these Dongfan natives blindly adopted force to suppress submission. Just like the ethnic minorities in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, the imperial court also achieved nominal rule over them at most and could not change their actual independent status. Therefore, there is a saying that "a hundred-year-old emperor and a thousand-year-old chieftain". Even so, the ethnic minorities in these areas still cause rebellion from time to time.

Moreover, from Guo Zhiyuan's perspective, he did not want to treat these East-British natives in a bloody way of suppression. When the Japanese invaders occupied Taiwan, these East-British natives resisted bravely and wrote many heroic stories. Guo Zhiyuan could not have swung the butcher knife to these bloody compatriots!

Therefore, from the very beginning, Guo Zhiyuan decided to adopt a gentle policy of gentleness against the natives of Dongfan, giving them seeds and farming tools, teaching them advanced farming knowledge, allowing them to trade cloth, salt and other materials that are very scarce for them, and told them that as long as they are willing to work at the construction site, they can earn wages, and they do not have wages, but can also exchange them for equivalent food. They even promised that when the primary school of Dongfan Academy starts, children in their tribe can read and read, hoping to use this to influence these natives of Dongfan and eliminate their hostility.

It should be said that Guo Zhiyuan's policy of care for favor is still effective. The gentle "familiar" of Pingpu people can bring benefits to them when the arrival of Guo Zhiyuan and others and infringe on their interests. So they slowly accepted the arrival of Guo Zhiyuan and others. Not only did they send the young and strong people in their tribe to the construction site for work, but they also took the initiative to serve as a guide for Guo Zhiyuan and took the envoy sent by Guo Zhiyuan to contact and negotiate with the "sheng fan" living on the mountains.

In contrast, the "shengfan" living on the mountains are not so friendly. They accepted the seeds, cloth, salt and other gifts sent by the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan, but roughly drove the Pingpu people's guide and the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan down the mountain, and warned them that if they dared to set foot in their territory, they would cut off their heads!

Guo Zhiyuan was also helpless about this. He did not enter the "shenfan" and refused to communicate after accepting gifts. It can be said that it was completely unreasonable. For a moment, he could not think of any good way to tame these savage natives like savages. In addition, the creation of Dongfan Mansion was waiting for him to make decisions and deal with all the things. He was too busy and could only maintain the status quo for the time being, thinking that when the construction of Dongfan was on track, he would free up his hands before slowly finding a way to solve the problems of these shenfan natives.

But before Guo Zhiyuan came up with a solution, the fans took the initiative to provoke him. They suddenly attacked the Yantian workshop by the sea, killed dozens of salt workers and guard soldiers, and stolen hundreds of stones of refined salt!

It is obvious that the salt gifts given to the Shengfan natives by the messenger sent by Guo Zhiyuan before had a counterproductive effect. Those Shengfan natives who only knew how to eat raw meat and drink blood had never seen such snow-white and fine salt, so they became greedy and secretly sent people down the mountain to investigate. The large salt field that Guo Zhiyuan opened on the beach was found. The more coveted, they attacked the seashore salt field and created this bloody incident!

This incident aroused great indignation among the soldiers and civilians of Dongfan, and they all asked for a fight, and wanted to retaliate against these Shengfan natives who dared to provoke them and taught them a lesson. In fact, the Shengfan natives had received gifts before but rudely drove Guo Zhiyuan's envoy down the mountain. Many people in Guo Zhiyuan's team thought that they could not reason with these barbaric Shengfan natives, and should take the initiative to attack and defeat them! But in the end, they were all suppressed by Guo Zhiyuan.

Now that this is the case, the voice of demanding war with the natives of Shengfan can no longer be suppressed. The one who is most angry is Liu Ruosi. Liu Ruosi is now the garrison of the East Bound. He has the only Dongfan armed forces recognized by the court. The Tuanlian Township Army and the Xinxin Army cannot be made public. At the same time, Guo Zhiyuan considered that the future threat of force faced by Dongfan mainly came from the sea, and the maritime combat capabilities of the Tuanlian Township Army and the Xinxin Army must be strengthened. In addition, Shen Yourong wants to crack down on smuggling, and his troops are also somewhat insufficient, so he sent some of the Xinxin Army to Shen Yourong to sweep the smuggling ships, and handed over the task of guarding the seashore salt field to Liu Ruosi.
Chapter completed!