Chapter 257: The Bear Futai with a Big Head as Big as a Bucket

But when they suffered heavy blows from the sea wolf garrison one after another, they found that these outsiders were very powerful, and the firearms in their hands made them have no room for resistance at all.

Every time they attacked the docks and camps, they always left at least half of the corpses behind, and even if the natives were not afraid of death, such casualties would not be able for them to bear.

A tribe has one or two thousand people at best, which is considered a super-large tribe, and two or three hundred people died in one battle, and all of them were young warriors in the clan.

Even if they joined forces, they still suffered heavy casualties in the face of volcanic eruption-like gun shooting, and they couldn't even touch the edge of the dock and the camp, so the natives naturally did not dare to attack the dock and the camp area easily.

As the sea wolf transported more and more personnel, the number of garrisons in Dagou Harbor also increased to more than one battalion, and even the sea wolf also transferred two special operations detachments to Dagou Harbor and devoted themselves to the elimination of local natives.

The members of these special combat teams are not vegetarians, they have all undergone extremely rigorous training in mountain and jungle warfare, and their weapons are also very good, and they even have a very strong ability to fight at night.

With such a thunderous method, some local natives finally realized that it was impossible for them to drive these outsiders out of Dog Harbor again, so they could only withdraw from their original territory and find another place to live.

However, Ma Tiancheng also followed Yu Xiaotian's instructions, although he used thunderous means to deal with the natives who attacked them and their tribes, but he treated the captured natives well, and after domesticating a small number of local natives, he also sent these natives back to their tribe, gave them some gifts, and asked these natives to go back and bring a message to their patriarch, explaining that the sea wolf did not want to exterminate them, but to drive them out of the land where they lived.

As long as these indigenous tribes are willing to live in peace with the sea wolves in the future, the sea wolves can set aside some land for these tribes to live in, and are willing to teach them the skills of farming, help them open up wasteland and improve their lives.

In addition, the sea wolves are also willing to trade with them, using what they need in exchange for the skins and other local products they hunt in their hands, but the premise is that they must stop attacking the sea wolves in the future, and they are not allowed to wander around secretly, trying to hunt the heads of the sea wolves.

In addition, these native tribes must obey the orders of the sea wolf, so that the two sides can be safe, and the sea wolf will not easily use force against them and drive them out of their territory.

However, this kind of thing is obviously not something that can be done in a few months, it takes a long process to establish initial trust between the two sides, but Yu Xiaotian believes that as long as the level of civilization exceeds that of these natives, after a long time, in the subtle way, sooner or later, these natives will gradually be assimilated and tamed, but it will take a while.

In addition, for such a pioneering operation, the mortality rate of the sea wolf's slaves is also quite high, after all, the environment here is very bad when it is not improved, and the laborers must not eat very well, nutrition can not keep up, and the amount of labor is very heavy, so every day there are many hard laborers or die of illness, or die in accidents, and even a little careless, people working in the periphery may also be attacked by the natives, and their heads are cut off and hunted as trophies.

For this reason, Ma Tiancheng thought of a new way to deal with these sporadic sneak attacks, as more and more of the reclamation laborers were transported, in addition to setting aside some manpower to continue to build wharves and camps, a large number of laborers began to advance towards the land in the port, Ma Tiancheng divided these laborers into groups, a group of 100 to 200 people, respectively demarcated the reclamation area for them, set up temporary camps, each camp was only built a simple fence, and a high watchtower was built in the middle.

Each group of hard laborers sent a squad of infantry to garrison, these infantry were responsible for both guarding these hard labor and protecting them, and there were two soldiers left behind on the watchtower, both using wolf's tooth rifles, condescendingly monitoring the situation around the camp, in addition to monitoring those hard laborers, they were more to monitor the situation of the surrounding natives, once they found that the natives were attacking, they quickly sounded the gong to warn them, and the hard labor was taken back to the camp.

As long as the hard labor hears the alarm and can escape back to within 200 meters of the camp, it basically guarantees safety, and the natives often chase within 200 meters of the camp, they will be shot by the soldiers of the sea wolf with wolf tooth rifles, so that the sneak attack strategy of the natives is also curbed, for which the natives suffer a lot, so this makes the work of the camp of the camp to be carried out smoothly.

Speaking of these hard laborers as expansion of farming, in fact, it is impossible to carry out large-scale expansion operations in the early stage, and these laborers are more of a transformation of the local environment.

Considering that the climate in this area is humid, hot and rainy, the grassland and shrubs are dense, and there are many stagnant puddles in the ponds, which makes this area full of miasma and mosquitoes, and many of the hard laborers who came in the early stage died of epidemics, so in order to reduce the threat of epidemic outbreaks, Yu Xiaotian instructed Ma Tiancheng to lead the Ken Tuo Battalion to sort out the local environment first, and ordered the laborers to fill in some dead ponds and low-lying land, burn a large area, burn the wild grass and bushes, reduce the breeding environment of mosquitoes, and burn a large number of mosquitoes during the burning period.

In this way, the foundation for the arrival of a large number of immigrants in the next step has been laid in advance, and when the environment here is greatly improved, the number of mosquitoes here will be greatly reduced, and the threat of epidemic outbreaks will be reduced a lot, and there will be no need to worry too much about the outbreak of large-scale epidemics when a large number of immigrants arrive here in the future.

Some of these hard laborers died in Yu Xiaotian's heart, because he didn't want to regard these people as a stable and controllable population at all, on the contrary, these people are very unstable, and the slightest carelessness may cause chaos, so they are most suitable for doing this kind of thing, and they are completely used as consumables.

Although this is not very humane, it is indeed a very useful method, as long as they can go through this ordeal and survive, then as long as they are given a little favor in the future, these people will be much more restrained, and they will gradually become honest in the future, and the surviving talents will gradually be absorbed into the controllable population of the sea wolf, and gradually get rid of the status of hard labor.

At the end of April, the Fujian Governor Yamen, who had been idle for several months because of the arrest of Zhu Yifeng, finally ushered in its new owner.

Xiong Wencan was ordered to transfer Fujian as governor in Shandong, which made Xiong Wencan overjoyed, to know that Lu Dao from the political envoy to the governor, although it is only a step difference, but it is very difficult to sell this step, although Fujian is now an eventful place, but it is also better than Jiliao in the north, Guanshan in the northwest, Yungui and other places in the south.

Even if Fujian is very chaotic now, it is mainly concentrated in the coastal area, for the interior of Fujian, it is far stronger than several other places, in addition, Fujian because of the sea, or the distribution center of the Ming smuggling trade, this place is a treasure land with a lot of fat, staring at the person who is the governor of Fujian, but the sea has gone!

So in order to compete for the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan spent his old nose money, whether it was in the local area or in Beijing, and used a lot of manpower and material resources to lobby those who could help him speak, and in the end, he didn't bother in vain, and finally took this Fujian governor into his pocket.

When he received the holy decree delivered by the imperial court, Xiong Wencan's heart was put in his stomach, so he hurriedly handed over the affairs at hand, and immediately took his subordinates, servants and staff, under the escort of his own soldiers, from Shandong to Fujian.

The traffic of this era can not be compared with later generations, take a plane and breathe two hours to get to the place, so from Shandong to Fujian, this is a long distance, either by boat, or by car, or by sedan car, walking for a month is considered fast, walking for two months is considered normal, even if it is three months, no one says that he is not.

Xiong Wencan was not in a hurry to rush to Fujian, because a local official like him, everywhere he passed along the way, were the objects of the officials and gentry, this way, if he missed, it would be a big loss, so he did not rush along the way, from Shandong to Fujian, it took two months, and the gifts were also full of gifts along the way, and he had not yet arrived in Fujian.

Therefore, in this era, it is not possible to be an official without spending money, and it is not possible to spend less, and the money spent by an official is naturally to find a way to recover the cost and make a big profit, so that the greed for ink of the Ming Dynasty in this era is prevalent, which is the most important reason for the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.

But after Xiong Wencan arrived at the Fujian Governor's Yamen, after carefully understanding the situation here, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Although when he was in Shandong, he also heard about some situations in Fujian, but those were all news from the official face, and I don't know how much Lu Dao was whitewashed by Fujian officials before it was sent to Beijing.

For example, the number of officers and soldiers annihilated by the sea wolves this time was 30,000, but after the whitewashing of the officials, the loss of the reported Beijing division was only about 10,000 people, and the loss of as many as 300 warships was lost.

In addition, the sea wolf controlled Weitou Bay, burned the moon port, shelled Quanzhou, attacked Tong'an County, and wrapped the dumplings of thousands of officials and soldiers in Yanping Prefecture.

As for their losses, the news reported by the Fujian government either did not mention it at all, or it compressed the figures and passed them aside.

At that time, Xiong Wencan could only learn some about the situation in Fujian from the official news, but when he arrived here and asked his subordinates to secretly go out to inquire, he realized that the matter was far from being as simple as he thought, and the news that his subordinates heard here was not the same version at all as he knew before.