With the arrival of the two battalions of soldiers and horses of Wu Sanhe and Zheng Liuqi, who were originally stationed in Xingzhou and the Ryukyu Governor's Mansion, Xue Maoxun's available soldiers and horses increased greatly, and he was full of ambition to prepare for another southern expedition. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 If he didn't go south to acquire more land, his family's threshold would be broken by the tens of thousands of immigrants gathered in Taipei City.

The arrival of the two major immigrant fleets organized by the Anton Pioneer Group has brought more than 8,000 households and more than 40,000 immigrants.

There are also many northern tycoons, magnates, and wealthy families who were stunned by Li Yu's flickering and came to invest in land with the means of production. The construction of a 100-acre sugarcane plantation mentioned in the Royal Weekly and "Overseas Stories" can earn tens of thousands of dollars of wealth a year.

However, the Taipei Basin, the Linkou Basin, the Keelung Hills under the current control of the Taiwan Governor's Office, and the plains from Taoyuan to Hsinchu occupied during the First Southern Expedition are not enough for everyone.

In the past few days, the office in charge of handling the land purchase in Taipei City has almost been trampled by the northern immigrants who have just arrived, just because the Governor's Office cannot get enough land to distribute to everyone for a while.

There were more than 40 prayer stickers piled up on the desk every day, and Xue Maoxun had to order the secretary and others to pick out the worship stickers sent by those who came from the big ones, and choose a good day to hold a banquet in the mansion and invite these people to come to the banquet.

The people who can be picked out by the secretary in charge to invite to the banquet are either rich or expensive or famous all over the world.

Although Xue Maoxun is a martial artist, he is not purely brainless, so he doesn't dare to offend them. Behind them stands the entire ruling class of the Tang Dynasty, the group of people with the most power, fame, and wealth.

Although the energy behind these people who came to the banquet was very large, for a magistrate like Xue Maoxun, of course, it was the best policy to make friends. Everyone gave Xue Maoxun a little profit as a show of kindness.

Xue Maoxun raised his glass to toast to the guests attending the banquet, and all the guests raised their glasses in return.

During the banquet, when the guests asked when there would be land to be divided, Xue Maoxun patted his thick chest and said: "Please wait patiently, when a certain army leads the southern expedition, there will be enough good land for everyone in just one month." ”

With Xue Maoxun's assurance, everyone calmed down a little, toasted one after another, and talked about what they had seen and heard along the way, and their longing for the sugarcane plantation that was about to be built.

Three days later, under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of people temporarily gathered in Taipei City, the 2,000 soldiers and horses of the Chaos Guard, which had been prepared, were led by Xue Maoxun himself.

After returning from the last expedition to the island, Xue Maoxun sent people south to explore the terrain of the western plain of Taiwan, which had not yet been conquered, as well as the distribution of the various societies living here.

All the way to the south, after crossing the Bamboo Trench Chengdu Touqian Creek, until arriving at the Pingpu Daokas village living in the hills on the south bank.

"General, the chief of the Dawkas people has led his people to submit to Shun."

"Submitted?" Xue Maoxun was a little surprised, he had sent people to appease him before, but the Dawkas people were tough and arrogant, and they didn't expect the army to surrender as soon as it arrived.

Xue Maoxun didn't want to think about it, two thousand well-equipped soldiers dressed in Xuanyi, armed with bright knives and guns, lined up neatly in a battle formation, so that the Dawkas people who had never seen the war scene outside the island and only knew the melee group fight could have the heart to resist? What's more, the Dawkas people simply can't muster a thousand warriors who can fight.

"Do you think you're going to fight?"

Commander Wu Sanhe, who came to Taiwan to fight for the first time, was quite disappointed, saying that in the past, he had no military achievements if he was stationed in Xingzhou without war, but this time he was transferred by His Royal Highness to return to General Xue's command, and he could count on coming to Taiwan to fight and gain military merits.

Lieutenant Zheng Liuqi, who also came to Taiwan for the first time, did not care about whether there was a war, and said happily: "The Dawkas people are frightened by the military might of our army, if our army goes all the way south, it would be good if all the islands know the current affairs like the Dawkas people, so as not to cause casualties among the soldiers." ”

"Military merit is related to the number of beheadings, how can military merit report to His Highness if there is no war?" Wu Sanhe scoffed.

Dressed in clothes made of feathers and animal skins, the Dawkas chieftain came to the Tang army as if he had descended from heaven under the leadership of the sentry horseman, and greeted Xue Maoxun with the most honorable etiquette of the Dawkas people.

Xue Maoxun looked at the chief with a humble and obedient face, and looked him up and down playfully with a horse's belly.

The chieftain smiled and said all kinds of blessings to Xue Maoxun with a face that was more ugly than crying, so as not to provoke the unhappiness in front of him and cut himself with a knife.

"What is he talking about?" The chief's incessant bird language made Xue Maoxun frown and asked the interpreter on the side.

"General, he is blessing you with the highest blessings of the Daukas people, and I hope that you will live a long life and have many children and grandchildren......"

"Hahaha, how can this bird language have the same meaning as my Huaxia blessing?"

"General, that's what it translates to."

"I don't care what his bird's blessing means, you just ask him, since you want to submit, why do you make me believe in the sincerity of their Daukas?"

"Whoa."

The Dawkas people also belong to the Pingpu ethnic group in Taiwan, and they are also the ethnic group that the Tang Army has the most contact with. The interpreter spoke the Pingpu dialect and seriously asked the chief whether he was sincere in submitting to the Tang Dynasty, where was the evidence to prove his heart?

Chief Dawkas hurriedly said: "In order to show the sincere submission of my clan, I am willing to offer a hundred beautiful maidens to the soldiers of the Tang Army, and send the best warriors of the clan to guide the army." ”

After the translator translated the meaning of Chief Dawcas, the Tang soldiers laughed. It is said that the Chaos Guard soldiers have never touched a woman since they set out on the expedition, and many of them are unmarried, and the woman has never touched it. Hearing that the Dawkas people were willing to sacrifice a hundred young girls, they excitedly showed strange looks that only men could understand.

There is no shortage of women Xue Maoxun, the wife at home has just arrived in Taiwan, and she is newlywed after a long absence. Just seeing the excited looks of his subordinates, he couldn't help but scold: "A group of animals who are excited when they smell a woman." ”

Considering that the soldiers are also in demand, Xue Maoxun also accepted these 100 girls to encourage the soldiers to fight bravely, and distributed them as rewards to the soldiers who have made military achievements.

In addition, Xue Maoxun also put forward another request: "The Dawkas people must send 500 young and strong people in the clan who can fight to accompany our army to the south. Every year, it is necessary to pay taxes to the Governor's Mansion according to the land, and we must treat each other with courtesy for the upcoming people of the Tang Dynasty who are farming here. If not, it will be destroyed by the lawless island. ”

When Chief Dawkas heard this, his face became even more sad, and he couldn't make up his mind for a moment. Xue Maoxun seemed to be unhappy with this, so he immediately pulled out a horizontal knife and put it on Chief Dawcas's neck and asked: "Agree or disagree, give a happy word." ”

The sharp horizontal knife broke as soon as his neck touched the skin, and a bloody mark appeared on Chief Dawcas's neck in an instant, and his face was colorless with fright, and he nodded and shouted: "Willing, willing to ......"

Xue Maoxun put away the horizontal knife with satisfaction, and ordered the whole army to enter the village of the Daokas people, register the Dawkas people, and collect their young and strong people to march south with the army.

The frightened Chief Dawkas was carried by two soldiers at the front of the line.

With 500 Dao Kasians leading the way to play forwards, Xue Maoxun's southern expedition has undoubtedly become much easier. Along the way, he conquered and conquered the various communities of the Pingpu tribe, and occasionally encountered the martial and warlike Atayal tribe.

In just five days, it was fought from Touqian Creek to the Taichung Wuxi area in later generations, and the number of young and strong people of the Pingpu tribe who surrendered all the way reached 2,000. Two days later, it crossed the Muddy Water Creek, the longest river in Taiwan, and swept across the Tainan Plain south of the Turbid Water Creek in only ten days, crossed the Kouliao Creek, and conquered the Pingpu communities in the Pingtung Plain.

Occupying the Pingtung Plain, what appeared in front of Xue Maoxun was the sea to the south, and the mountains running through the island of Taiwan to the east, with no road leading to the eastern part of the mountain range.

Xue Maoxun, who had acquired the vast plains of western Taiwan in just over half a month, had to order a halt to the conquest and concentrate on consolidating the occupied land.

Along the way, in addition to exterminating more than 20,000 dissatisfied Pingpu and Atayal tribes, a total of 50,000 people from Pingpu and other islands were collected.

In order to consolidate the rule of the Governorate over the newly conquered areas, it was also necessary to suppress the rebellions of the islands in the future.

Xue Maoxun decided to draw young people from the surrendered islands to build an official road from the Pingtung Plain in Tainan to the Taipei Basin in the north, and built 12 cities along the way to settle more than 40,000 immigrants gathered in Taipei.

On the day of the completion of the city, the twelve cities were nailed like nails between the Taixi Plain and the hills from north to south, intimidating the local resentful Pingpu communities.