As the Ming Dynasty court exempted Gao Ping and the three-year tax notice of Tongdeng two governments spread, the local people's negative emotions were temporarily restrained. Then, under the eyes of local people with rejection, dissatisfaction, anger and doubt, the first batch of Ming immigrants brought their families to their hometowns, and immediately formulated a plan for a village of 1,000 people, and became busy under the leadership of the Ming officials who followed him.

Ten thousand people in the Danglu camp were divided into four units by Huang Zhen. One group and three thousand people led to Gaoping in the area controlled by the Zheng family. Tongding camped on the only avenue to guard against the Zheng family group. The other two units were stationed in the city to prevent accidents. Some were divided into several teams to protect the Ming Dynasty immigrants to repair houses and build wells and farm farms.

In order to make the officers and soldiers of the Danglu Battalion more attentive, the first batch of Guangxi immigrants moved here were basically the families of the soldiers of the Danglu Battalion. Li Huaipu's move was also imitating the ward system implemented by Taizu at that time to attack the soldiers' responsibility for defending the territory. Judging from the current situation, Li Huaipu's strategy was effective. Whether it was the officers and soldiers of the Danglu Battalion or the family, they would do their best in their daily work and treat the resettlement points as a new hometown.

Compared with Guangxi, which has too many mountains, few arable land and barren, and has been drought and rainy for several years, the fields are now wide and fertile, and the rivers are abundant in water, so it is most suitable to plant rice. After each household is divided into five acres of entrances, the immigrants suddenly forgot the taste of homesickness and devote themselves to the construction of their new homes.

In order to enable immigrants to quickly gain a foothold in the local area, the Ming Dynasty court had already made sufficient preparations. After Li Huaipu took over as governor, a large number of agricultural tools, seeds, rations, oxen, medicinal materials, salt and other daily necessities were transported day and night by the Sihai Commercial Bank to the official warehouse of the Guangxi Governor's Yamen. The government then allocated the number of people preparing to relocate. Those who followed the first batch of more than 10,000 immigrants to Jiaozhi were based on the pre-calculated distribution materials.

When I saw the Ming immigrants using various iron farm tools to start farming, the locals in Jiaozhi were both envious and jealous.

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

The daily work of local farmers is basically made of wood. Only local wealthy tenants will use some low-quality iron farm tools. Due to the lack of advanced planting methods and tools, the average yield of local grain per mu is only seven or eight dollars. Compared with the average yield of more than one stone per mu in the Ming Dynasty, the gap is still quite large.

Thanks to the unique natural environment in the local area, you can harvest three seasons of food every year without meticulous cultivation, and various fruit trees that can be filled are everywhere, so the people of Jiaozhi never feel hungry.

But after all, they were all from generation to generation and knew the benefits of iron farming tools and animal farming. Therefore, when the Ming Dynasty immigrants began to open up land and farm, many locals stood secretly from afar to watch. When they saw the iron plowshares used by the immigrants plowed deep ditches in the fertile fields, the people of Jiaozhi were both jealous of these foreign households, and more or less hoped that the new government would be able to be gracious and let them use this excellent farming tool as soon as possible.

In this era when the concept of family, country and nation has not yet been formed, even most people in the Ming Dynasty were unsatisfied with changing dynasties, let alone these stubborn and backward Jiaozhi people.

The Zheng family has long exploited and abused them, and every household empathized with it. The Ming Dynasty drove away the Zheng family. For most ordinary people, it was just a "master". Moreover, the new "master" seemed to be much better than the original one, and at least it explained that it was exempted from three years of taxes. However, whether the number would be determined depends on how many months the crops matured.

Whether within or outside the Ming Dynasty, conflicts between immigrants and indigenous peoples are always inevitable.

There are many differences between the two sides in terms of language, customs, living habits, and fighting for a certain resource. These differences will lead to fierce conflicts between the parties due to a small matter. This is also the purpose of Li Huaipu's decision to set the families of the soldiers of the Danglu camp as the first batch of immigrants.

Li Huaipu knew in his heart that if the immigrants were too honest in relocation and resettlement, they would be sure to be bullied when they met arrogant indigenous people. The purpose of the imperial court immigrants to Jiaozhi was not only to expand their territory, but more importantly, to enable Ming immigrants who were originally barely able to maintain food and clothing to live a better life. In order to achieve their goals, immigrants must be tough in the process of competing for resources.

Guangxi has been strong since ancient times, and the wolf clay soldiers are the most representative. Moreover, people like them live in clans as the core, regardless of right or wrong when encountering problems, they always work together to the outside world.

As Li Huaipu expected, in the next two months, dozens of conflicts broke out between the Ming Dynasty immigrants and the locals in Jiaozhi due to various daily trivial matters. However, with the strong intervention of the wolf clay soldiers with twenty people as a team, the dozens of conflicts ended with the victory of the Ming Dynasty immigrants. During this period, more than 100 locals in Jiaozhi were injured, and eight were seriously injured, while only a dozen immigrants in the Ming Dynasty were slightly injured.

The soldiers in the Danglu Battalion were responsible for guarding the immigrants, used cold weapons other than firearms in the constant outbreak of conflicts. Although the Jiaozhi people were also fierce, they had no power to fight back in front of the sharp blade. If the Ming soldiers had not received the order of "not causing too much damage" in advance, it would have been the result of more than a hundred Jiaozhi people's casualties.

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

For the Jiaozhi people who did not participate in these conflicts, Li Huaipu ordered each family to give a reward of one tael of silver coins. For the leaders in the conflict, their property was confiscated. Except for the elderly, weak, women and children, the rest of the people were sent to the prisoner camp for five years as long as they were alive.

Li Huaipu used this move to show the Jiaozhi people that only docile people can eat meat, but if there are those who are dissatisfied, the fate of these people is the previous example.

After two months, the bloody scene formed a sharp contrast with the heavy silver coins. After word of mouth, the conflict has not happened again since the third month.

It is human nature to seek profit and avoid harm. You can see that sticks cannot resist swords and guns, but those who stand aside to watch the fun are highly rewarded. Who would ask for trouble?

Matters related to immigration to Jiaozhi are going on in a steady manner in this series of trivial matters. After the first batch of immigrants stabilize, subsequent large-scale immigration work will continue to be carried out.
Chapter completed!