Seven weak villages were the first to sign a treaty with Wangbei City, becoming part of the jurisdiction of the Wangbei City government, and also became the first group of village communities to integrate or forcibly change their habits and original structure due to the development of productive forces.

The best options for short-term benefits are to impose a poll tax, tax exemption for elders, and instigation of tribal wars. However, in the long run, it will bring about various problems and contradictions, and it is not suitable for development as a long-term base.

Assimilation and indoctrination are a long process, with the plains being the easiest in the areas suitable for cultivation and the most difficult in the mountains. The most important way to change these customs is the progress of the productive forces, and the mountainous areas are not suitable, and the problems in the mountainous areas can be controlled by economic means, and they will not be provoked for the time being.

It will only be when the number of Han Chinese immigrants in the plains reaches about 100,000 that the problem will become serious and urgent, and now is not the time to think about these things.

After the seven villages signed a treaty with Wangbei City, the Wangbei City government never gave up contact with the larger village community of more than 4,000 people upstream.

Although the two sides were in a state of hostility in the previous war, it also made the village community realize that the advanced weapons of this group of people were far from being able to resist themselves, and the strict anti-smuggling system made it difficult for the village community to contact the rest of the merchants, and the trade between the two sides was still normal.

This village is an important gateway to volcanic sulfur mines, coal mines and gold mines, and contact with this village community is also a matter of great importance to the Wangbei City government.

Constantly sending people to make contact, or to carry out trade activities in the village community, or to teach some planting techniques, or to treat some diseases.

This kind of contact also made the people of the village community have great respect for the doctors who move from village to community or those who teach planting techniques.

However, it was not long before the conflict between the two sides finally broke out.

These immigrants have brought new diseases that the village community has never experienced before, and the resistance is very weak. Those residents of Wangbei City may only have a fever for a few days, which is fatal in the village community.

According to ancient customs, when a plague breaks out, it is necessary to "get out of the grass" headhunters to obtain the protection of the ancestors, so as to quell the plague.

The elders and goddesses made the decision to "get out of the grass", and the target of the grass was the relatively weak village community or the residents of Wangbei City who had immigrated.

This is a sacred ritual, and there were still people sent by Wangbeicheng in the village community at that time, so they tried their best to persuade them, thinking that this was ineffective, and it was better to go to Wangbeicheng and ask the doctors there to help treat the conditions of these people, which was the right way.

Although the people of the village community respected this person very much, it was difficult for them to accept the long-standing customs and primitive religious ideas.

They do not sacrifice heaven and earth, wind and rain, thunder and lightning, or even all things in nature, but only believe in ancestral spirits, and consider headhunting to be a solemn ritual.

The people who got the news seized the opportunity to flee and wanted to tell the news to Wangbei City, but on the way, they were ambushed by the people of the village community, and their heads were cut off and made as sacrifices.

The news reached Wangbei City, and the people in the organization discussed it overnight, thinking that this was a great opportunity.

The next day, Wangbei City sent an envoy to the village community and explained the solution to Wangbei City with the elders of the village community.

"The village elders went to Wangbei City to apologize, and handed over the participants of the headhunting team to be executed."

"Wangbei City will send doctors to help the residents of the village. But the community had to abandon the barbaric custom of growing grass and agree with the laws of Wangbeicheng. ”

"Return the victim's head, and the members of the village community must attend the person's funeral."

Under the deterrence of Wangbei City's force, the elders, leaders, and goddesses of the village community replied.

They can apologize, but they will never hand over the members of the village community who are headhunters. At the same time, they scoff at the so-called barbarism and civilization.

They asked rhetorically:

Don't you civilized people have wars? What is the difference between your wars and ours? After there is no war in your civilized world, it is barbaric to teach us to come out of the grass. Which is civilization to use your guns and guns not to kill for any sacred sacrifice, or for us to use bows and arrows to hunt for the sake of sacrificing to the gods?

This is our land, the laws here are the laws left by our ancestors, and the customs here are the customs left by our ancestors. Is there anything wrong with us practicing our laws and habits in our land? If we do such a thing in your land, we should be punished as we deserve, but this is our land.

It is not we who have asked you to pass on "civilization", it is you who have come here to pass on "civilization" and practice the customs of our ancestors in the land of our ancestors, what right do you have to object?

This was the final reply, and the messenger returned to Wangbei City to send the news back.

But Wangbei City did not take immediate action, but waited for the plague to continue to rage. At the same time, militia groups on farms and plantations are strictly guarded and no one is allowed to travel alone in case of attack.

The seven villages and communities affiliated with Wangbei City were also prepared to prevent any drastic actions by the hostile large village community.

A month later, the plague killed many people in the village, and their faith and worldview were brutally devastated......

The seven villages that took refuge in Wangbeicheng did not suffer from the plague by forced eating habits, hygienic habits such as calcium hypochlorite disinfectant powder, and isolation systems.

Even though the village community had a ritual of grass harvesting, it still did not let the plague disperse, on the contrary, many villagers died.

The original faith was shaken and collapsed by this contrast, and this sacred ritual became part of the national custom, but it was not the basis of the worldview.

Many people in the village community wondered, did they do something wrong? Is "civilization" better than "barbarism"?

If not, why didn't too many people die in the villages and communities that took refuge in Wangbei City and did not carry out the grass ceremony; A solemn and solemn ceremony was carried out on his side, but so many people died?

The people of the village community began to re-examine the previous terms, and some people thought that if the doctors of Wangbei City were stationed in the village community to help, so many people would not have died - the heroes who originally sacrificed grass and hunted for their heads, and in the eyes of some people, it became the source of the disaster of the village community; What started as respect and praise turned into skepticism and anger.

At the same time, Wangbei City, which was estimated to be about the same time, also began military mobilization.

A military campaign to defend the "right to human life" was thus launched.

The men of the seven communes were responsible for leading the way and transporting food, and the regular army of Wangbei City, armed with guns, explosives and artillery, began to attack the united commune.

Before the attack, shout loudly for them to hand over the murderer, try them on the spot, and send a doctor to treat the illness of the village community.

Adhering to the belief that the first shot would not be fired, after the village community fired its bow and arrow, the loaded artillery blasted open the fence of the village community......

After the fall of several small villages, instead of massacres, these people were pacified and funerals were held for those who were killed.

Before the last big village, as soon as the shouting after the cannon was erected, the elders of the village community tied up several young people who had performed the grass ceremony and sent them to the army, expressing their agreement with the previous terms.

A few young people who were involved in the grass, who were ignorant and who were just doing things according to the habits of the tribe were sent to Wangbei City, and the elders, goddesses, and some people of the seven village communities and the large village community were also invited to participate.

A propaganda campaign on the right to life and a trial on murder lasted three days.

It not only popularizes the law, but also popularizes the reasons for the law, and at the same time plays a deterrent role.

Three days later, the young men involved in the headhunt were sentenced to execution, and the crowd cheered, and the concept of a legal concept based on human rights began to take root in the hearts of the people, and this three-day trial was the perfect publicity.

When people died, the original worldview collapsed, doubts arose about the customs of ancestral spirits and headhunters, and even those who believed that those killed in previous military operations should be the responsibility of the village elders rather than the Wangbei Castle army.

But that's not all, the penmen seized the opportunity to make a big publicity.

The person who was killed by a headhunter before was promoted as a model.

Originally, he just wanted to report the news, but in the propaganda he became a hero who sacrificed his life for righteousness, a warrior who struggled between trust in science and respect for the indigenous people.

The simple story has been concocted by propaganda and agitation experts, and the taste has completely changed, and the story has become like this:

That person believed in science, in civilization, in new planting methods and new ways of life could make life better for the people in the village. In order to make it possible for everyone to enjoy the benefits of civilization and scientific progress, he willingly came to the village community to teach the people here to plant, cultivate, and use herbs to treat some simple diseases.

When the plague broke out, he tried his best to save people, and at the same time discouraged the act of grass from being barbaric and meaningless to the plague. However, although the elders of the village community respected him, they did not listen to him, and chose to continue the grass ceremony.

It is an inescapable paradox that the person knows that this kind of ritual is meaningless, but he knows that without the grass ceremony, the people in the village community would not know that the grass is meaningless.

After a night of hesitation, the man was determined to bring his own death to the identity of the people of civilization, and to bring the village community to abandon the barbaric and meaningless custom of grass—he did so simply because the other party was also a human being, a man like him, a man of heaven and earth.

So he asked a member of the village community who he had saved to bring a letter to Wangbeicheng, hoping that Wangbeicheng would not punish them for the barbarism and ignorance of the village community, and needed more time to educate them.

Early the next morning, with a belief in leading "civilization" and sacrificing his life to take the righteousness in his heart, he found the ambush location of the "Out of the Grass" team, and took the initiative to let these people shoot him, and he still smiled before he died.

Practice has proved that there is no point in producing grass, and the plague still brings a large number of deaths.

On the other hand, doctors and science are relied on to guide the prevention of diseases, and there are no large numbers of deaths.

Similarly, the people of Wangbei City also gave an explanation for the letter: the dignity of the law cannot be desecrated, including even the most moral behavior must be punished by the law, the law is not morality, a person's request cannot affect the law, and the rule of law should be ruled by law rather than by man...... So after the death of that person, the Wangbei City government demanded that the murderer be handed over, but did not retaliate against the village community after handing over the murderer, but sent a nursing team to help the people of the village community rebuild ......

Thus, what was originally a very simple thing was turned into a propaganda material about human nature, law, sacrifice, civilization, barbarism, conflict, internationalism, mercy, kindness, people, hatred, love, disease prevention propaganda, and so on.

It was written into a poem of the aborigines and sung everywhere.

It was written into a drama and staged in a very formal form, which aroused many people's feelings and thoughts. The smile of dedication and sacrifice left when he saw the traces of the ambush of the grass team and the monologue before death in the play have become one of the classic episodes in the history of theater.

It has been compiled into a textbook and has become the content of the Chinese textbook of Enlightenment Education.

It was compiled into a commemorative festival and became a grand gathering attended by the aboriginal villages.

made up a reflection on the law: Is it right or wrong for that person to ask Beicheng not to punish him? Will not punishment lead to more sin?

Reflections on values: Are values universally applicable? Why does the same thing mean different things in different civilizations, even good and evil? How to choose in the face of such conflicts?

This propaganda, together with the previous question of land ownership, laid the foundation for future rule here.

It's not about grabbing the land of your aborigines, it's about the natural resource of land, which is shared by all mankind, and there is no meaning in land without labor. We immigrated here to work, we protect the fruits of labor, we respect the income of labor, but we do not recognize the private ownership of natural resources, so we don't take your land, because it is not yours at all - private ownership of land and natural resources does not make sense.

It is not that we have destroyed your culture, it is that your culture is barbaric and backward, we are only here to help you sweep away the superstitious ghosts, snakes, and gods, spread the dawn of science and civilization, and guide you to a new life, we respect your ethnic traditions and habits, but this habits and traditions cannot be conditional on the rights of others - no tribute and taxes are compulsory, and a policy of equality for all under the law of non-discrimination.

It looks the same as colonization, but it's not the same at all.

If these two items change, it is colonization.