Just before Mo Ming was officially appointed by Guo Sheng as the official envoy of Dashun Ninghai, on April twenty-eight (June 2), Xie Sheng, a powerful student of Dezhou, Lu Shiyu, who was resigned as Yushi, and Zhao Jiding, who was outgoing as a household servant, suddenly closed the city gate when they were acting outside the city of Dezhou and when the soldiers and civilians went out to watch, they suddenly closed the city gate and killed Yan Jie, the defense envoy of Dashun Dezhou, Wu Zhengwen and others who stayed in the city, and then hung the banner of "Zhongxing Daming" at the head of the city.

Luo Guoshi, who had already "hemorrhaged" and took out 5,000 taels of silver to bribe Guo Sheng, so as to get the promise of managing Texas, suddenly beat his chest and shouted, "Qingtou boy, it's a big thing for me." However, the main contributors who realized that Guo Sheng might counterattack at any time, Xiucai Xie Sheng, Li Siliang and others had to win over Luo Guoshi, a powerful faction, to jointly defend Texas. Luo Guoshi immediately put forward the condition of "taking over the military power", but Xie Sheng and others categorically refused, and the two sides fell into a fierce quarrel for a while.

After the quarrel was fruitless, the two sides finally had to compromise with each other, and decided to Fengming clan Zhu Shuaiqin (Fengguo Lieutenant) as the leader of the alliance, pretending to be the king of Ji, spreading the word from far and near, and immediately inviting the gentry from all over the country to rebel.

On the twenty-ninth day, the guerrilla Gao Gui rebellion in Tai'an Prefecture killed dozens of people including Guo Du, the defense envoy of Dashun, and Guo Sheng led the troops to quell the rebellion.

On the 30th, upon hearing that Li Zicheng had withdrawn from Beijing, Wei Xuelian, secretary of the Dashunhu government and a former Ming official, committed suicide in disappointment. On the same day, Dolgon's brigade arrived at Gongluodian in Jizhou, and Wu Sangui reported that Li Zicheng had withdrawn westward, and urgently ordered the kings to enter the army in pursuit.

As the news of the defeat of the Shun army gradually spread to the northern part of Shandong, the local students and gentry clamored to kill the officials appointed by the Great Shun, which was a great shock for a while, but for the time being, they still had little intersection with the people on the east coast. At this time, the people of the East Coast were also very busy. I don't have time to pay attention to more information from afar. When sending a grain convoy led by Xiao Xi to the west coast of North Korea by boat. Mo Ming himself had already arrived at Da Bo Port on a merchant ship carrying displaced people.

Back at the end of April. Sergeant Johnson, who was in charge of the work of the port of Blackwater, sent a number of relatively reliable Koreans and Ming people to this place by boat. They cut down trees, leveled the land, built wooden houses along the water source near the port of Dabor, and then set fire to a fertile wasteland on the banks of a river, clearing large fields.

The land northwest of Dabo is very fertile, these virgin lands have been undeveloped for thousands of years, and the surrounding large areas of fir, birch, and poplar trees have accumulated over the years to form a thick humus layer on the ground, and the soil is very rich in nutrients. These lands are much better than those along the Heishui River, so to speak, if you talk about agriculture and fishery resources alone. The southern half of Sakhalin is much more valuable than the northern half; Of course, if you add coal, oil, gas, or something, it's a different story. All in all, the agricultural potential of the relatively vast mountain plain stretching north from Dabo to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk is extremely great, and even if only one crop can be planted a year due to climate and other reasons, the harvest is likely not much worse than the harvest of two crops planted in Shandong in the Ming Kingdom.

Not to mention the abundant aquatic and animal resources in the local area. Hundreds of displaced people who arrived here in advance were organized by the people of the East Coast to cut down trees and burn the wasteland, while using fishing nets to catch various fish living in the nearby rivers, mainly crabs and molluscs. These aquatic products are rich in nutrients and in huge quantities, which provide great nutritional supplements to the displaced people who came to Dabo in the early stage. Among them, some residents even caught several salmon weighing hundreds of pounds. It made everyone smile.

In addition to these aquatic products, there are also a considerable number of moose and bison herds living in the mountains near Daberi. The fifty black soldiers who had escorted the displaced people to the frontier went hunting in groups. It was very much a capture of some large animals such as moose, bison, and wild boar. In particular, the moose they hunted, the weight is generally more than eight or nine hundred catties, and the slaughter meat rate even reaches 40%, plus some intestinal blood and internal organs and other water meat, each moose can obtain an average of 400-450 catties of meat, and its calorific value is equivalent to the annual yield of several acres of wheat.

"Such a good place, except for the cold, there are really no other shortcomings." Navy Lieutenant Liu Haiyang, who was newly appointed to take over Li Yi's position, stood on the dock of Dabo Port, looked at the busy crowd, and said with emotion. On the docks, a large crowd of displaced people was shouting trumpets to unload boxes of supplies from the ship's hold. These boxes contained shovels, drills, fishing nets and other tools, cloth, grain, liquor, tobacco and other consumer goods, as well as weapons, artillery and all other materials that could support their development in the area.

Lieutenant Liu Haiyang arrived in Yantai from the port of Jinshan in Australia in March. In addition to bringing a large number of troops and supplies, he also brought several letters of appointment from the home. In these letters of appointment, the Admiralty has officially transferred Lieutenant Li Yi back to the mainland, and it is said that he will be the captain of the newly built battleship "National Will"; Lieutenant Anju was appointed commander of the Australian Squadron of the Blackwater Temporary Dispatch Fleet, and may later be appointed as the deputy captain of the upcoming Blackwater Pioneer Squadron, which will be in charge of Australian affairs. It is said that the superiors originally arranged for Li Yi to take over this position, but Li Yi decided to return to his hometown after thinking about it again, so this position fell on the head of the same hard-working place. As for the newly arrived Lieutenant Liu Haiyang, he was appointed as the commander of the Blackwater Temporary Dispatch Fleet, which can be regarded as a great promotion.

"It's still quite good as a big rear here, and the potential for agriculture and fishing is not small, if all these displaced people from Daming are left here to pioneer, I am sure that in a few years, the output here will be enough to support the Yantai fortress area to feed more than 100,000 people." Mo Ming walked on the fertile and soft grass with his hands behind his back and said confidently.

In later generations, Lao Maozi only had a few hundred thousand people on this island, and it was a pity that he did not develop it well, relying on the export of fishery products, timber, coal, oil and natural gas. At this time, the permanent population near Dabo was only a few hundred, most of them were some indigenous people living here, such as the Hezhe, Oroqen, and Ainu people, who lived by fishing and hunting.

Excluding the Ainu, these people live by fishing, are short in stature, and have poor combat effectiveness; Those Hezhe and Oroqen who made a living from hunting were natural archers and warriors, and they were the key recruits of the people on the eastern coast. Originally, when the East Coasters sent the first batch of displaced people to Dabo last month, they were worried that the local aborigines would rise up against the rule of the East Coasters, because the East Coasters had undoubtedly encroached on their land, so Sergeant Johnson also sent 200 heavily armed black soldiers from Blackwater Harbor to suppress the formation.

The good news, however, was that the natives did not show much hostility towards the Frontiers, on the contrary, they were all quite excited by the fact that the Orientals bought animal fat, dried fish, hides and other items from them with the goods they had at hand, and also hired them to work in the pioneer camps. In fact, it is also very understandable that among these aborigines who live by fishing and hunting, even senior hunters with good skills cannot guarantee that they will have a full meal at every meal, because their civilization level is very low, whether it is fishing or hunting, it is extremely inefficient, so their living standards have always been poor.

After the arrival of the East Coasters, these people were not only able to trade quite useful tools and consumer goods from the East Coasters at a low price, but also many of the aborigines who went to join the army with the East Coast people made a lot of money and could eat a full meal, this temptation was not something that these aborigines who were still in the clan society could resist. Therefore, when the people of the East Coast came to pioneer the land and hired some of them to come and work, they were very happy and enthusiastically signed up.

In fact, this also shows from the side that the influence of the people on the east coast on Sakhalin is getting stronger and stronger. For example, more than 200 Hezhe people who originally lived in the mountains near Heishui Port have all moved to Heishui Port City, and a small number of people make a living by logging and working, and most of them have become "military households" of the people on the east coast, charging into battle in the Yantai area of Shandong Province for the people on the east coast. And their children were collected by the people of the East Coast, and together with those Ming and Korean children, they were taught by the only teacher sent from the mainland in the port of Heishui to cultivate their national consciousness.

In contrast to the somewhat welcoming attitude of the native natives, the Manchu government and the Japanese Matsumae Domain were probably the only ones who did not want to see the Easterners expand their influence on the island (and possibly the Russians later). Since the people from the east coast came to the island, the aborigines of Heishui and Dabo have not gone to the opposite mainland to pay taxes to the three deputy capitals stationed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a long time.

As for the Matsumae Domain, which had already opened a merchant house in Omari and even exercised the power to collect taxes, they were naturally very unhappy after seeing the local natives throw themselves one-sidedly on the East Coast. But at present, they have not even done it in Ezo, so they are naturally powerless about it, so they can only be secretly angry.

Zhou Dahe, who has been appointed as the supervisor of the Heishui Management Office of the Northwest Reclamation Bank, stands beside Mo Ming and Liu Haiyang, who is about to officially open the first financial branch of the East Coast people in the Far East here, in order to gradually infiltrate and win over the aborigines who are still in the clan society through economic means, and firmly tie these "wild people" to the chariot of the East Coast people. After living in the Blackwater region for more than a year, he was convinced that with such abundant resources and fertile land, there was no reason why Sakhalin could not be developed. Over time, this place will surely become a strong support and backing for the people of the East Coast to carry out various actions in Daming. (To be continued......)