Like other indigenous people living in the western plains of Taiwan, the Makadao are a matriarchal social system dominated by women, and most of the people who preside over important affairs in the villages based on "she" are highly respected female members. For these indigenous tribes who are still in a relatively primitive social state, everything must be done through means such as guò divination to obtain results, and the aunt who is responsible for presiding over the affairs of sacrifices, eliminating disasters and curing diseases, divination and exorcism in the society can almost be regarded as the head of the Aga society in a certain way.

However, if the matter of how to deal with the arrival of the Haihan people is left to the wizard divination to decide, the result will be uncontrollable, and this kind of risk is not something that Haihan is happy to see. But Qian Tiandun didn't want to push the other party too hard and cause unnecessary disgust when he first came into contact, so he politely sent the indigenous representative away.

The Aga Society is the closest indigenous tribe to the Tagou Coast, with a population of more than 1,000 people, and although it is nothing compared to the behemoth of the Haihan, if it can live in peace with future Haihan immigrants, Qian Tiandun does not want to use force to expel or exterminate these natives. And if it is not handled properly, it will cause a backlash from the entire Makadao and even more indigenous groups, which will bring more trouble to the establishment of the colony.

"These natives are really troublesome. Takahashinan, who watched the entire negotiation process coldly, finally complained after the end: "I promised them so many crooked, when I was on Hainan Island, the people in Li Tong Miao Village were not so difficult!"

"The people of Li Tong Miao Village are willing to obey us, not only because the conditions we offer are good enough, but also because the external environment is also beneficial to us. Qian Tiandun patiently explained to Takahashinan: "They have always obeyed the orders of the government, but when the government becomes us, the object of their obedience will naturally change. The natives here have no government to oppress them, and for them there is no command that they must obey, and we must either use force to coerce them into obedience, or we can only induce them. ”

Takahashi Nanying said: "These natives are too poorly equipped, and they have not undergone formal training, so there is nothing to fight." They seem to like glass very much, so we can hire them with glassware in the future, and we can build a glass factory here, and they can give them as much as they want!"

Qian Tiandun smiled: "Do you want to ¤♂dǐng¤♂diǎn¤♂小¤♂ say,.⌒.o※s_(); It's too simple, they are only interested in glass because they haven't seen it before, and they feel new. If this thing was everywhere, what would you think. Would you be interested in glass wine bottles?"

"Adults have taught you a lesson. Takahashi Nan thought that this was indeed the truth, scratched his head and replied embarrassedly: "But if these natives do not agree to cooperate with us as a result of divination, it will be a big trouble." ”

"We have never had contact with the natives here, nor do we have any holiday hatred, and they refuse to cooperate with us, most of them just because the conditions are not in place. The specific conditions can be discussed after they have a reply, and besides, we don't only have glass and wine in our hands, and we will always find something they can't resist. Qian Tiandun seemed full of confidence.

Gao Qiao Nan did not debate with Qian Tiandun on this issue again, but took the gift from the local people just now and looked at it: "This is obviously a pickled deer leg, why is it called meat shoots?"

The local fisherman who knew about it replied: "This military master, the meat eaten by these natives is all salted and eaten only after it has worms. ”

"Worms?" When Takahashi Nan heard this, he immediately threw the deer leg to the ground, covered his mouth and nose, stepped forward, and cut the meat with his waist knife, and sure enough, he saw maggots with white flowers wriggling among them. Rao is that he kills people on the battlefield like chopping melons and vegetables, and he almost retched when he saw this scene.

Even the well-informed Qian Tiandun couldn't help but stand up from his chair in shock at this time, it was the first time he had seen such a heavy taste in the past few years.

The fisherman was not surprised, and continued: "When we first settled here, the people of the Aga Society, as a gesture of friendship, brought a lot of pickled fish, pickled rabbits, and deer offal, all of which were made in this way. At first, I thought they were warning and expelling us, but later I found out that they actually regarded it as a delicacy. ”

Takahashi turned his head to look at the crockpot containing the wine, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva: "This wine...... There won't be either...... What's weird, right?"

The fisherman replied, "There is no difference in wine, it is made from grain." However, the natives like sourness, so the wine they make also has a sour taste. We Han people don't like this taste, so we rarely eat with these natives. ”

"I won't eat with them if I change me!" Takahashi Nan covered his mouth and nose, and handed the waist knife to his subordinates with a look of disgust: "Take it for me and scrub it well, don't leave a smell!"

"Sour rice wine under the rotten meat, I take this heavy taste. Qian Tiandun couldn't help but shake his head again and again and sighed: "This kind of eating habit will probably only be cultivated when food resources are extremely scarce. ”

The fisherman replied, "My lord, Takami! In the early years, pirates would also operate in this area, plundering the villages of the natives, and then they moved closer to the mountains. It is said that the habit of eating carrion slowly arose at that time. Later, the Dutch settled in Dayuan Port, and the pirates did not operate much in the vicinity anymore, and these natives moved back from the mountains and forests one after another, and this Aga Society has only moved back from the mountains in recent years. ”

Qian Tiandun asked, "Do these natives know how to cook cooked food?"

"Yes, yes, but they usually only cook the staple grains, and the dishes are still mainly raw food. The fisherman continued: "They don't have a kitchen stove at home, so when they need to cook food, they set up a rack on the ground and put the pot up. ”

"It's just meat, and you can eat it even if it's marinated. If all the vegetables are eaten raw, wouldn't it be the same as eating grass?" asked Takahashi Minami in disbelief.

The fisherman replied, "The natives would mash the vegetables with a stone mortar, add coarse salt, garlic and other ingredients, mix them and eat them. ”

"At the end of the day, it's salted. Gao Qiao Nan couldn't help but shake his head and said: "This can't even compare to the food in the hard labor camp, at least the hard labor camp eats cooked food every meal." ”

Gao Qiao Nan's first stop when he entered the Haihan system was the hard labor camp, and he did suffer a lot during that time, but even in the difficult environment at that time, the Haihan people did not give the prisoners spoiled food to eat.

Of course, having said that, in that environment, the traversers still counted on these laborers to complete the most difficult and dangerous labor tasks, and when conditions permitted, they would try their best to ensure that their physical condition could bear the corresponding labor intensity, and they would not use spoiled food to perfunctory these labor prisoners, after all, they had to be counted on to pay for their labor.

In contrast, the standard of living of these indigenous Makadao people is really worthy of the word "hardship", and according to the fishermen, the living habits of these indigenous people are also caused by the external environment, and they are not really born with a penchant for sour scavenging.

Qian Tiandun asked again: "Then will these natives eat the food you make?"

"Yes, of course. The fisherman replied, "As long as they come to the village to trade goods and happen to meet us for dinner, they will also ask us for some food." We didn't have much cooking, but at least the food we made was much better than what they usually eat. However, our own food is also limited, and we usually don't give them too much. ”

"This is a breakthrough!" Qian Tiandun thoughtfully diǎn diǎn head.

In the process of expanding its territory, Haihan is constantly dealing with the indigenous people in various places, offering various preferential conditions in exchange for these indigenous cooperative attitudes, while the Haihan people are also constantly using advanced social systems and lifestyles to imperceptibly influence the indigenous people. Young people of the Li nationality who have received Haihan-style education and training like Fu Li have even entered the bureaucratic system of the Haihan and become senior cadres, and their living habits and manners are more similar to those of the Haihan people, rather than the traditional Li people living in Litong.

For these indigenous people with a very low standard of living, once they have come into contact with the glamorous world outside, most of them will choose to adapt to the new environment and lifestyle, after all, human nature will seek better enjoyment. What the Haihan colonists had to do was to show these uncivilized or semi-civilized locals the living conditions they could get in the future, so that they could obey and cooperate with the arrangements and instructions of the Haihan.

In the past few years, the actual operation of this method has been quite good, the vast majority of the indigenous people in the newly expanded territory of Haihan have chosen to conform to the non-confrontation, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the military have the willingness to continue to promote and implement it, after all, the risk and cost of peacefully resolving the entanglement of interests between the colony and the aborigines are much lower than the settlement of the method of fighting through guò. A senior military general like Qian Tiandun, unless he encountered the other party and took the initiative to attack like he did in Muddy Water Creek last time, he didn't bother to use the blood of these natives to brush up his achievements.

Based on the appearance of these natives who have come into contact with the Aga Society, Qian Tiandun believes that the possibility of a peaceful settlement of differences of opinion is still very high, and if the Haihan can find the right way to contact them, there may be hope that it will gradually become a force that can be driven or hired by the Haihan, as was done in the past with the Li and Miao natives on Hainan Island.

However, this small gift from the native did ruin the appetite of the officers who witnessed this scene, and Takahashi Minami didn't even eat lunch, so he went back to his tent to rest, presumably because of the maggots wriggling in the deer's legs at that time, which left a very deep psychological shadow on him.

Originally, Qian Tiandun and the Dutch agreed to meet again in two days, and it stands to reason that they should return to Dayuangang today. However, in order to wait for the reply of the natives of the Agashe Society, Qian Tiandun decided to station the fleet here for one more day, and by the way, to collect the environmental conditions of the surrounding area more completely. When immigrants are transported to settle in Japan, the rules and regulations will not be messed up.

The natives of the Aga Society still had a sense of time and integrity, and the next morning, the three envoys came to the temporary camp of Haihan by the sea again to ask for an audience.

"In keeping with the will of Alizu, the people of the Aga Society welcome you to this beautiful land to live with us. "The representative of the Turen brought good news, apparently according to the results of the divination after their return yesterday, the sorceress of the society must have chosen Tiyì who agreed to let the Haihan settle down in the local area. Of course, it is not known whether this choice is related to the sacrifice of "Sanya Special Brew" offered to the god Alizu by the representative of the indigenous people, and it may be that the sorceress made such a decision because she was satisfied with this sacrifice.

"Believe me, the decision you have made is the wisest decision ever made by the Aga Society, and your descendants will be grateful for the decision you have made today. Qian Tiandun said unabashedly.

"On such an important occasion, we should celebrate it with a good glass of wine. Qian Tiandun raised his hand and snapped his fingers and ordered, "Bring the wine!"

The guards immediately served wine glasses full of wine, and there were also a few appetizers - this was specially prepared in advance by Qian Tiandun's specially designated cooking class. Although the cooking class equipped by the fleet does not have any powerful means, and the materials at hand are relatively limited, dishes such as seafood risotto, barbecue, and sashimi, which are very popular in Haihan, can still be made decently by relying on local materials. Although the details such as knife work, heat, and seasoning are far inferior to those of the chefs of Victory Castle, relying on Haihan's exclusive seasonings and spices, it is enough to fool these natives who have been eating ** food in the past. Compared to the seafood they used to eat in the homes of Han fishermen, I don't know how much higher the recipe is.

When the three natives had tasted the food, they couldn't stop at all. Qian Tiandun looked at the appearance of them putting their hands together and constantly stuffing food into their mouths, and knew that his trick should have worked. It may not be necessary to rely on weapons to conquer a people, and delicious food can sometimes make a big difference.

"Even if they had any precautions against us, I think it would have gone away after a meal. Taking advantage of the fact that the three of them were immersed in eating, Qian Tiandun lowered his voice and said to Gao Qiao Nan next to him.

"Your Excellency's trick is indeed clever, and my subordinates never thought that they would be able to subdue these uncivilized natives with food. Minami Takahashi gave a thumbs up and praised sincerely.