The ethnic minorities in Dongfan (Taiwan) that readers are familiar with are the Gaoshan people, but in fact, the Gaoshan people are only the collective name of the ethnic minorities living in the mountains of Dongfan (Taiwan) by mainland residents, in fact, there are many ethnic minorities living in Dongfan (Taiwan), including the Ami, Atayal, Yamei, Saixia, Bunon, Lukai, Paiwan, Beinan, Zou, Shao, Gemalan, Taroko, Saqilaiya, Saidek and other more than a dozen ethnic minorities.

The distribution of ethnic minorities in Dongbo (Taiwan) is very distinctive, living in the plains and basins near the sea is mainly the Pingpu people, and a large part of them are mainland immigrants who have fled from Fujian and Guangdong to Dongfan (Taiwan) for many years, so the Pingpu people have a relatively high acceptance of Han culture, and their temperament is relatively mild, mainly to fish and cultivate for a living, like the big Maitreya that Guo Zhiyuan met in Dayuan before is the leader of a tribe of the Pingpu tribe.

Living in the mountains is of course the mountain tribe, and different ethnic groups live at different altitudes, generally speaking, the higher the altitude of the place where they live, the more primitive they are, and even some ethnic minorities still stay in the matrilineal clan era, by the men hunting outside, women stay in the tribe to be responsible for farming, the mode of production is very primitive, primitive and barbaric are often accompanied, it is conceivable how strong these ethnic minorities are in the folk customs, they even retain the barbaric customs of "headhunting", these tribes have their own territorial scope, Any outsider who enters their territory will be treated as an enemy by them and will be violently attacked by them!

Therefore, most of the mainland people who have come to Dongfan are afraid of dealing with these barbaric Gaoshan tribes, calling them "Shengfan", and calling the Pingpu tribe and other tribes with a gentle temperament and easy to get along with "Shufan".

Guo Zhiyuan must have a good relationship with these Dongbo natives if he wants to run Dongfan, and it is best to let these Dongbo natives integrate into it and become the people under his rule, so that he can get valuable human resources and speed up the pace of developing Dongfan, but it is not easy to do this, these Dongbo natives have been in a closed and primitive living environment for a long time, and they have a strong sense of hostility and rejection towards any outsiders, not to mention integrating them, it is difficult to coexist peacefully with them.

For these Dongbo natives, if they blindly use force to suppress them, it will definitely not work, just like the ethnic minorities in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, the imperial court will at most achieve nominal rule over them, and it will not change their de facto independence. So there is a saying of "a hundred years of emperors, a thousand years of toast", even so, the ethnic minorities in these areas still rebel from time to time.

And from Guo Zhiyuan's point of view, he also didn't want to treat these Dongbo natives in a bloody way of suppression. When the invaders invaded Taiwan, these Dongbo natives resisted bravely and wrote many singing and crying stories, Guo Zhiyuan could not swing the butcher's knife at these bloody compatriots!

Therefore, from the very beginning, Guo Zhiyuan decided to adopt a gentle and gentle policy towards the indigenous people of Dongfan, presented them with seeds and agricultural tools, taught them advanced farming knowledge, allowed them to trade cloth, salt and other materials that were very scarce for them with animal skins, herbs and other local products, and told them that as long as they were willing to work at the construction site, they could earn wages, and they could exchange for equivalent food without wages, and even promised to wait for the opening of the Mengxue School of Dongfan Academy, so that the children in their tribe could read and write. It is hoped that this will influence these Dongbo natives and eliminate their hostility.

It should be said that Guo Zhiyuan's Huairou policy is still effective, and these mild-tempered "familiar fans" like the Pingpu tribe found that Guo Zhiyuan's arrival and infringed on their interests could bring them benefits, so they slowly accepted Guo Zhiyuan's arrival, not only sent the young men in their tribe to the construction site to work, but also took the initiative to be Guo Zhiyuan's guide, and took the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan to contact and negotiate with the "Shengfan" who lived in the high mountains.

In contrast, the "Shengfan" who lived in the high mountains were not so friendly, and they accepted gifts such as seeds, cloth, and salt from the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan, but brutally drove the Pingpu guides down the mountain along with the envoys sent by Guo Zhiyuan, and warned them that if they dared to set foot in their territory again, their heads would be cut off!

Guo Zhiyuan is also very helpless in this regard, these "shengfan" oil and salt do not enter, accept the gift but refuse to communicate, it can be said that it is completely unreasonable, for a while he can't think of any good way to tame this group of life-like aborigines like savages, plus the creation of Dongfan Mansion, a thousand things are waiting for him to make decisions and deal with, he is really too busy, can only maintain the status quo temporarily, thinking that when the construction of Dongfan is on the track, he will free up his hands and then slowly find a way to solve the problems of these Shengfan natives.

But without waiting for Guo Zhiyuan to come up with a way, the students took the initiative to provoke and suddenly attacked the salt pan factory by the sea, killing dozens of salt workers and guards, and robbing hundreds of stones of refined salt!

Obviously, it was the salt gift sent by the envoy sent by Guo Zhiyuan to the Shengfan aborigines that had the opposite effect, those Shengfan aborigines who only knew that Ru Mao drank blood had never seen such a snow-white and fine salt, so they became greedy, and secretly sent people down the mountain to investigate, and found a large salt pan opened up by Guo Zhiyuan on the beach, and became more and more coveted, and brazenly attacked the seaside salt field, causing this bloodshed!

This incident caused great indignation among the soldiers and civilians of Dongfan, and they asked for war, to retaliate with these Shengfan natives who dared to take the initiative to provoke, and teach them a hard lesson, in fact, those Shengfan natives accepted gifts but rudely drove Guo Zhiyuan's envoy down the mountain, and 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 subdue them! It's just that in the end, they were all suppressed by Guo Zhiyuan.

Now that such a thing has happened, the voice of the demand for war with the natives of Shengfan can no longer be suppressed, the most angry is Liu Ruosi, Liu Ruosi is now the garrison of Dongfan, he has the only Dongfan armed forces recognized by the imperial court, such as the Tuanlian Township Army and the New Army can not be made public, at the same time, Guo Zhiyuan considered that the future threat of force in Dongfan is mainly from the sea, and it is necessary to strengthen the maritime combat capability of the regimental training township army and the new army, plus Shen Yourong wants to crack down on smuggling, and the troops in his hands are also somewhat insufficient, Therefore, part of the new army was sent to Shen Yourong to sweep the smuggling boats, and the task of guarding the seaside salt works was handed over to Liu Ruosi.