Before leaving, the executive committee had already held a special meeting, and Qiao Zhiya had already been advised on some precautions, so although Fu Li's persuasion seemed to have achieved certain results, Qiao Zhiya's attitude was still relatively cautious.

Qiao Zhiya advised: "We can provide them with a place to live, teach them to grow food or engage in other jobs to support themselves, but we will not directly give them silver and fields, you must make this clear to Huang Sanmu." As for other conditions, such as the supply of food, they can be appropriately relaxed. Shizitong is our primary target, and if this place is dealt with after negotiation, it will be relatively easy for us to contact other Li Tong. ”

After a few more discussions, they each returned to the tent to rest.

Over the next two days, the two sides began to negotiate some specific conditions, such as the livelihood of those who moved out of the mountains, and how to solve the problem of where everyone lived, how much food subsidies each person could receive before the harvest of the cultivated land obtained, and whether Shi Zitong should be loyal to the Ming court or to the Haihan Executive Committee in the future.

Some of these problems are very simple to solve, such as food supply, it is not too much of a burden to feed a few hundred people in Shizitong for a period of time, and there are at least thousands of new immigrants coming to Shengli Port every month, and there is no collapse of the logistics department. Once these Li people move out of the mountains and move to the territory under the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee, they will naturally become immigrants during the inspection period, and they will also be able to obtain special funds from the Executive Committee financially, and their livelihood will certainly not be a problem.

However, some things are more difficult to solve at the moment, such as the land policy implemented by the Executive Committee, which is somewhat unacceptable to Huang Sanmu. He believed that since the relocation plan of the Haihan side was to use other land to replace the existing jurisdiction of Shizitong, the new land in exchange should belong to the Li people of Shizitong, rather than still belong to the high-ranking Haihan Executive Committee.

Why does the executive committee have to engage in collective ownership of land with its neck stiff, Fu Li has also gone to relevant training courses, but the theory he has learned is too superficial, and the depth of understanding is also very limited, for a Li person like Huang Sanmu, who has never been out of the mountain several times in his life. Fu Li's propaganda is really tantamount to playing the piano to a cow, and once one of the parties admits death, it will be difficult to continue.

As a last resort, Fu Li had no choice but to change his argument, saying that as long as the Li people in Shizitong were willing to be included in the rule of the Executive Committee, then after obtaining the naturalized nationality, the cultivated land they cultivated would also be protected and recognized by the Executive Committee - of course, this recognition was not land ownership. It's the right to use. But this kind of word-picking thing is a detail that Huang Sanmu will not notice at all, as for how he will react if he finds out that something is wrong in the future. Fu Li is not worried. When these people are truly incorporated into the Haihan social system, it will soon be found that the strength of individuals or a very small number of people is simply not enough to resist this powerful system. Even if there are hundreds of people in this Shizidong, they are just a small screw on a huge machine in the Haihan social system, and they will not affect the operation of the entire system.

Whether it was persuasion or coaxing, in short, with the efforts of Fu Li, the special team finally reached a preliminary agreement with Huang Sanmu. After three months, the Haihan Chamber of Commerce will provide Shizitong with a residential land with an area of no less than 3,000 acres of cultivated land, and will build houses and basic living facilities in the local area in advance, and after the Lebanese people move to the local area. They will be taught more advanced ways of farming grain. Before the first harvest, the food and production tools of these Li people will all be supplied free of charge by the Haihan Chamber of Commerce.

What the Li people of Shizitong need to do is to cooperate with the Haihan Chamber of Commerce in the exploration and development of the nearby area within three months, and move out of this place when the agreement comes into effect, and finally the most important thing is to swear allegiance to the Haihan Executive Committee after entering the new territory and settling down.

Regarding the last point, Huang Sanmu still has some scruples. After all, the Li people have not been able to go out, and it is very important that they can't fight the Han court, and the image of the Ming court in their minds is still a giant, and it is by no means comparable to a group of people with unknown strength like the Haihan Chamber of Commerce. However, Fu Li eventually persuaded him to accept this, because Fu Li implored him to send an envoy to Yazhou under the rule of the Haihan Executive Committee to see the situation there. Let's see which side is more powerful.

Huang Sanmu thought about it for a while, and finally decided to send his most trusted nephew, Huang Que, to follow the gang to see if the legendary Haihan ruling area was really that powerful. Huang Que is now eighteen years old, one year older than Fu Li, and was sent to Changhua to study in the private school of the Han people for two years when he was a child, and he is a rare cultural person in Shizidong. Usually, Huang Que is solely responsible for organizing to go to Changhua City to sell local products and buy daily necessities.

Fu Li took a look at this candidate from the Huang Sanmu faction. You know that something big has happened. He himself is a person who has come over, and he knows that there are many fascinating places in the Haihan system, and people at the age of seventeen or eighteen are the most curious period, as long as they go to the places of the Haihan people, it is easy to indulge in the bizarre Haihan culture and find it difficult to extricate themselves. Fu Li can now conclude that after a month or two, Huang Que will return to Shizitong, and he will definitely have become a loyal fan of Haihan, and Huang Sanmu will naturally have one more lobbyist by his side.

Some words like Fu Li may not be useful when said by outsiders, but when the same words come out of the mouths of people close to Huang Sanmu, the effect should be different. After Fu Li entered the Ministry of Justice, his main work objects were the Li and Miao clans, and he could be regarded as accumulating a certain amount of work experience.

The special task force offered 300 catties of salt, 300 catties of sugar, 20 bottles of liquor, and 1,000 catties of pig iron and rice as a deposit, in exchange for the right to move freely in Shizitong in the near future. However, the special team did not carry so many supplies into the mountain, and most of the things in this transaction, Shi Zitong had to send people to Changhua Fishing Village to carry them.

After gaining freedom of movement, the team finally began to explore the veins of the Shiroku iron ore mine on the fourth day of its arrival in Shizitong. In the large database of information about Shiroku iron ore, there are not only detailed longitude and latitude records of the mining site, but also satellite images as a reference, although there is a time span of hundreds of years in the middle, but it can still reduce the difficulty of the exploration action led by Tian Yeyou.

For this operation, the executive committee also used a stock of prospecting equipment, which was used once when the Tiandu iron ore mine was developed, and then it was sealed in the warehouse. With this good thing, it is easier to determine the condition of the veins near the surface, and there is no need to dig around.

Besides. The special team also used the "high price" of 200 taels of silver to hire 20 young men of the Li nationality from Shizidong to be responsible for excavating ore samples. Originally, Liu Shanxia was still a little worried about this way, what if the Li people refused to move out after discovering the iron ore veins, but Fu Li made a package ticket, saying that the Li people were very committed to their promises, and since they had promised to move out of this area in the future. Then there is no need to worry about any major changes in the future.

The two hundred taels of silver were well spent, and the young men hired not only worked very hard when they worked. Even the heavy tasks in the process are also taken care of. Of course, this is also very directly related to their income level, like Shizitong such a Li Tong cottage, there is only a small city like Changhua County in the surrounding hundreds of miles, and don't expect to sell how many mountain goods, relying on this simple and primitive trade method, the income of the entire village in a year is only three or four hundred taels of silver, the special team's shot, is Shizidong's harvest for almost half a year, Huang Sanmu will naturally not be stingy to let his sons and daughters exert a little more strength.

In the past, Huang Sanmu had also heard rumors of the Haihan people's generous moves. However, there is no real feeling. In his opinion, it is probably better than the Han merchants in Changhua County, for example, a deer skin can be added from five cents of silver to eight cents of silver. But when the real Haihan people came to the door, he understood the meaning of the word broad, just the deposit for the agreement to Shi Zitong had far exceeded their expectations, the value of these goods. At least it is enough for all the Li people in Shizitong to struggle for several years.

After witnessing the generosity of the Haihan people, Huang Sanmu and his people also had more expectations for the various preferential treatment claimed by Fu Li. As Fu Li said, the people of Quantong can eat fragrant white rice at every meal, they can not have to serve the Han government, pay taxes, and no longer worry about being oppressed by the Han people, which is simply a longed-for and unattainable dream for the Li people. Huang Sanmu's attitude was also skeptical from the beginning. It slowly turned into cooperation, and even took the initiative to send a few old hunters in the village to act as guides for the special team to carry out activities in the field.

The time, place, and people were all right, and the task force was basically accounted for, so the prospecting work was also carried out very smoothly, and it took only five days to roughly determine the scope of the largest iron ore open-pit mining area in later generations, and to find out the most convenient foundation location for excavation. As long as the hands and tools are in place. This treasure can be mined in no time. In addition, Tian Yeyou also roughly identified the location of several high-value metals such as copper, silver and gold in the process. Of course, in the exploration work of these ore veins, Tian Yeyou deliberately avoided the young and strong laborers sent by Shi Zitong, after all, the wealth is moving, if these Li people know that there are valuable things like gold and silver mines here, it will not be cost-effective.

On 20 May, after the exploration work was almost completed, the team finally embarked on its return journey. And with them, there were more than 50 people from Shizidong, who went to the beach to carry the deposit of this agreement.

It took two days for a group of nearly 100 people to arrive in Changhua County, and the special team asked the Li people to stay in the county seat to go through the handover procedures for rice, salt, and sugar with the people in the office, and the rest of the things had to be moved to the boat by the sea.

After resting in Changhua for half a day, the group came to the seaside fishing village and delivered the last batch of goods. According to the rules of the Li people, this agreement has been officially effective since then. If the Li people want to return, then they must return these deposits twice, and if Haihan repents, then these deposits will automatically belong to Shi Zidong.

The Li people left with iron ingots and other goods on their backs, and only one of them stayed, that is, Huang Que, the messenger sent by Huang Sanmu. Although Huang Que is only eighteen years old, probably because he has been in the Han school since he was a child, Huang Que, who single-handedly followed these Han people out of the mountain, did not seem very nervous or at a loss. Of course, this is also related to the Fu Li who has been walking with him, with Fu Li, a person who is familiar with the culture and values of both the Hai Han and Li people, the work of the special team is indeed much easier, and there is no need to bother to communicate slowly with Huang Que, the representative of Shi Zitong, just leave it to Fu Li to deal with.

Although Tian Yeyou's main task has been completed, it does not mean that he can leave here immediately and go back to Heitu Port, and then he has to follow the team back to the Shengli Port base camp, first, it is a staged debriefing of the work, and secondly, the analysis of these ores and the corresponding mining plan also need to be presided over by him, if nothing else, he will have to stay on Hainan Island for at least half a year.

When Tian Yeyou received the appointment of the Executive Committee, the work arrangement had already been clearly written, so he also made some corresponding preparations when he was in Heitu Port, one was to send someone to the old man's side to deliver a letter to inform him of the transfer of the work place, and the other was to arrange for his wife to pack up his belongings and prepare to move his family to Shengli Port to live. As for the residence, there is no need to worry, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has already left him a welfare house for a core technical backbone like him, and he can move in at any time when he comes back.

On 22 May, the Special Team returned to Port Victory and was immediately summoned by the Executive Committee to report on the operation in person. The details of the mining plan need not be mentioned, after all, it will take some time to analyze the ore and make a plan. The Executive Committee's main concern was to survey the road from the coast of Changhua to Shirok and whether the local Li people in Shirok had accepted their conditions.

In the matter of reaching an agreement with the Li people, Fu Li is undoubtedly the number one hero. Seeing that Fu Li had even brought back the Li representatives of Shizidong, the executive committee members also praised him. Gu Kai expressed his stance on behalf of the Ministry of Justice on the spot, and wanted to give credit to Fu Li. On behalf of the Executive Committee, Tao Donglai also said that a special contribution award would be awarded to Fu Li in the name of the Executive Committee at an appropriate time.