The biggest headache of holding a conference with the aborigines of more than 100 ethnic groups is not their meeting discipline, but the language barrier between them.

In Taiwan, all the tribes together have at least thirty languages, and it is very troublesome to make these all understand the meaning that Fang Yuan wanted to express accurately.

But fortunately, these 30 languages can be divided into two major language families, namely Atayal and Paiwan. Under the same language family, if you speak pure Atayal and Paiwan languages, if the speed of speech is slower, most of the tribes can understand it. As for a small number of people who still don't understand, they can only open a small stove separately.

Because of the problem of language communication, Fang Yuan specially recruited five or six local Han people who were proficient in Atayal and Paiwan languages, and the Dutch people stood behind Fang Yuan as the interpreters for this conference.

Because these aborigines are basically in a semi-civilized state, if they are too esoteric and too awkward, Fang Yuan will not say much, and even the polite opening remarks will be waived, and he will go straight to the point.

Fang Yuan chose the strategy of sending sugar first and then making requests, so as not to coax all these aborigines with one intestine to run away.

Fang Yuan has done enough homework in the past month, and there are three main preferential policies, all of which are targeted.

The first is aimed at the forty or fifty tribes west of Taiwan's central mountain range, mainly the Atayal people, who rely on the sea to eat the sea and rely on foreign trade to make a living. The main measures are to exempt commercial taxes, raise the purchase price of sulfur and animal skins, which are native products of Taiwan, and reduce the prices of various commodities sold to the island of Taiwan. In the past, Taiwan's foreign trade was basically controlled by the Netherlands and the Spaniards.

The purpose of trading in Taiwan in the Netherlands and Spain was to obtain huge profits from Taiwan's trade, so they worked hard to lower the price of Taiwan's native products, while the daily necessities sold to Taiwan were sold at too high prices, and they made a large price difference.

Fang Yuan's purpose of recovering Taiwan was to turn Taiwan into a naval base for the Nanyang Fleet and as a springboard for the expedition to the South Seas. Therefore, commercial considerations are not the most important, Taiwan's stability, the obedience of various ministries and agencies, and the stable supply of various labor and resources to military bases are the most important considerations. He could give up the huge profits of trade and give all the profits to the natives, as long as he recovered the cost of goods and transportation, freed up the necessary profits of the merchants, and maintained the daily necessities of the naval base. It doesn't matter if you make less money, or even if you don't make money at all.

As soon as his policy was announced, he directly doubled the original buying rate. Even if the Zheng clan came to rule, it was to extract a large amount of Taiwan's resources and earn a lot of profits from foreign trade to recruit and maintain the army.

The pros and cons of this kind of trading are known to people in primitive societies, and they can better distinguish who is here to pick the skin and drink blood, and who is really good to them.

Fang Yuan threw out the first mutual radish, and the patriarch of the Atayal clan, Yaji, applauded loudly when he heard it, and the young men who came with him waved the mountain opening knife in a chaotic manner, cheering loudly.

The second preferential policy is for the three or four tribes living in the Pingtung Plain, mainly the Paiwan people.

Fang Yuan would take the land seized by the Dutch and Zheng clans into the possession of the government, recruit aborigines to plant, and compare the land with the standard of land in the north, with a tax rate of tithe. The government provided farm tools and cattle to educate these aborigines on how to farm, and gradually transformed their mountain hunting lifestyle into a plain farming lifestyle.

Taiwan's climate, agricultural cultivation can be at least twice a year, during the rule of the Dutch people, is to adopt the strategy of grabbing no food, there is no law at all. It is the condition given by Zheng Sen, and it is also compared with the field endowment standard of Nanzhili, more than 20% of the field endowment.

Zheng Sen is not ignorant of the importance of buying people's hearts, but he needs to rely on Taiwan's grain to feed an army of more than 100,000 and maintain Taiwan's independence, so he can't help but collect such a high land tax.

And Fang Yuan didn't expect Taiwan to provide much food to the Xuanjia Army at all, as long as the fields handed over could be used to support the naval base of the Nanyang Fleet. According to his estimates, this naval base is home to 10,000 naval divisions, 10,000 army units, and a total of less than 30,000 people including miscellaneous servants serving in the army. The pressure on Fang Yuan to raise the army was three times lighter than Zheng Sen's, and Tian Fu naturally had more room for concessions.

These Paiwan tribes and other ethnic groups living in the Pingtung Plain are well aware, and it is obvious that Fang Yuan's tax policy is more beneficial to them in comparison.

More than twenty small tribes shouted sparsely, but the Paiwan tribe, a big clan in the Pingtung Plain, did not say a word.

The patriarch of the Paiwan clan, Balai, stood up and said, "The Zheng clan is willing to give us all the land in the Pingtung Plain, not the government. We can hand over the land, but the land in the Pingtung Plain must belong to the Paiwan tribe. ”

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned when he heard this, he was proficient in the mysteries of these benefit distributions. One of the biggest omissions in his policy was that it did not take into account the interests of the Paiwan tribe, the largest tribe. Zheng Sen's condition was that the land in the Pingtung Plain would be distributed to the Paiwan clan, not to the government. Under the Zheng system, although the Paiwan tribe was exploited and oppressed by the Zheng clan, because they had control over the land, they could pass on this exploitation to other small tribes and turn to oppress them.

The Paiwan would rather choose this model of passing on exploitation from one level to the next, rather than choose Fang Yuan's model of treating all tribes equally.

Fang Yuan ordered the translators to convey the idea to the Paiwan people that public ownership of land was his main policy in governing Taiwan and must be strictly observed.

As soon as these words came out, the face of Balai, the patriarch of the Paiwan clan, suddenly became gloomy, and the other small clans in Pingtung were secretly happy, but they were afraid of the power of the Paiwan clan, so they could only remain silent.

Fang Yuan went on to announce a third preferential policy for tribes living in the Central Mountains, mainly the Ami people, as well as the Taitung region east of the Central Mountains.

One million taels of silver were allocated to build Taiwan, of which 500,000 taels of silver were used to build a naval base, and 500,000 taels of silver were used to build schools, medical centers, and residences on the Tainan Plain, so as to improve the local accommodation, medical care, and education standards. All the tribes living in the deep mountains and old forests of the Central Mountain Range can move to Tainan Pingyuan to live.

This measure was naturally an enthusiastic response from the small clan, while the big clan, the Ami tribe, who had been promised by Zheng Sen that they could allocate land in the Tainan Plain, was quite dissatisfied.

Fang Yuan wanted to go south from Taipei, and he needed to pass through the territory of Taixi, Atayal, Saixia and other ethnic groups, which had nothing to do with the Ami ethnic group in Taichung Mountains, Taitung, and Paiwan ethnic group in Pingtung, Tainan. As long as the Atayal tribe agrees to borrow the Tao, the Ami tribe and the Paiwan tribe will be angry, so let them go! After conquering Zheng Sen, I will come and talk to them slowly.

Fang Yuan announced preferential policies and expounded two basic guidelines for governing Taiwan.

First, from the day Fang Yuan ruled Taiwan, all ethnic groups, regardless of their number or size, were equal and treated equally;

Second, it is strictly forbidden to fight privately between tribes, and once discovered, it must be dealt with according to the law;

Third, the division of the spheres of influence of fishing and hunting of various tribes must be filed with the government, and the government will uniformly demarcate them, and it is strictly forbidden to privately seize the spheres of influence.

Fang Yuan's three policy attitudes are very clear, that is, to restrain the oppression of the big clan against the small clan, and to favor the small clan to be the master.

The small clans who understood Fang Yuan's policy shouted in unison, just like the sound of the roar of Tarzan of the apes was one after another.

Among the three major clans on the island, although the Atayal tribe also has restrictions, they have always received more benefits than before, and they can be regarded as supporting Fang Yuan's policy.

The interests of the other Ami and Paiwan clans were completely damaged, and the two patriarchs looked at each other and made a judgment almost at the same time, it was far better to follow Fang Yuan than to follow Zheng Sen, and it was necessary to unite with Zheng Sen to drive Fang Yuan out of Taiwan Island!

Fang Yuan had just announced the policy, and there was an uproar. There was a stir in the crowd, and Feng Ting, who was covered in blood, had already rushed in front of Fang Yuan and knelt on the ground, "Governor Fang, Tamsui City has been raided by the Zheng army, lost, lost!" ”