The tribal village was next to a small stream, and a fence was built with logs thick with bowl mouths, which were more than one person high, and the outside of the fence was planted with thorns, and a circle of ditches was dug outside, which was not very wide.

In terms of basic structure, this is the same as the Central Plains City, but it is more rudimentary due to the level of production, and it is probably mainly used to defend against wild beasts.

The stockade is not big, less than a mile in radius, and when more than 200 Song troops entered, they couldn't help but look a little crowded.

The houses of the Turen are made of wood as the main material, and many wooden piles are erected on the ground as a base frame, and then a platform three or four feet above the ground is paved with logs, and then a squatter house is built on the platform, and the herringbone roof is covered with thatch, which is no problem to keep out the rain, but the walls are leaking everywhere.

This type of construction is very common in the humid and hot areas and islands in the south, and is collectively known as the dry stilt type, also known as the fence dwelling, nest dwelling.

However, this squatter house of the Babuza people is still relatively primitive, and there is no room separation, storage of goods, cooking food, and the whole family eating and sleeping in the meantime, there is no privacy.

The head of the family is a woman, the house and property belong to the children, and only the daughter has the right to inherit, so the form of marriage is the man to the woman.

When a young man wants to get married, he will ask his mother or other women in the family to bring a gift to the woman's house, which is also the man's 'dowry', and if the woman's parents approve of the marriage, they will leave the gift, and then there will be no wedding ceremony, and the man can go to the woman's house for the night to spend the night.

When the boys in the family reach a certain age, they do not live at home, but live in the public house.

The public hall is in the center of the village, connected by a large area of many spacious squatters, and there is a large flat in front of the public hall, which is usually used for meetings and training.

Lin Yingjia and Zeng Ba and more than a dozen others were invited into the public office, and the rest of the Song army rested on the ground.

The largest room in the public hall, even if it is the meeting place of the elders, is also a place to worship ancestral spirits.

Lin Yingjia saw some clay pots on the altar, although he felt weird, he still solemnly bowed to these altars.

This kind of behavior greatly increased the favor of the elders, and they were a little less repulsive.

At this time, it was noon, and it was not the time for the natives to eat, but it was about the common etiquette of all mankind to entertain guests with feasts, so the whole village was opened.

Lin Yingjia felt that he could quickly shorten the distance between the two sides at the banquet, so he didn't refuse, and Zeng Ba didn't care.

Speaking of which, to entertain more than 200 guests, it is enough to make the already not wealthy tribe even worse, even if it is fortunate enough to bring back a few hundred catties of fish, it still needs to use a lot of savings, it can be said that everything is exhausted.

The ingredients are quite abundant, and the four sambar deer, a sika deer, a mountain qiang, a juvenile boar, and some small prey were hunted yesterday, which were also considered mountain treasures for the Song people.

It's just that the cooking technique is not complimentary, that is, it is boiled in white water in a clay pot, or roasted on the fire, and there is no seasoning, at most sprinkled with gray-brown coarse salt.

Fresh prey and crops are also fine, but the local people's methods of preserving food are simple and simple, such as fish have not undergone any treatment, even fish scales with internal organs marinated in pottery urns, after a period of time, it is difficult to distinguish what is a fish and what is maggots or insects, and the smell is definitely not inferior to what canned herring.

The tribe regarded this feast as a major festival, and most of the people were busy preparing food in the open air around the flat, and for a time the whole village was full of smoke, and the children were laughing and running around.

The soldiers of the Song army had been instructed in advance to try their best to have a good relationship with the natives, and when they saw the natives cooking food, they came forward to help with a smile, and took out the refined salt, spices, rice, and dry food they carried with them, and handed them candy cubes and snacks when they met the children.

At first, the natives were very afraid and wary of the Song soldiers, but soon after, you could see some natives and soldiers talking together, in fact, neither side could understand it, but the atmosphere was very harmonious.

Some half-grown children even dared to touch the iron armor on the soldiers' bodies, and the soldiers were also happy to show off their equipment in addition to their weapons, and even used steel knives to cut food, chop firewood, or demonstrate bows and crossbows, which caused the natives to exclaim.

After the banquet began, all the people who fell down came to the Pingdi to sit on the ground, and the Song army was still roughly gathered in one place, and only selectively ate some of the food sent by the natives, anyway, they brought their own marching cooking utensils and made food.

It's not that I deliberately dislike it, but some of them don't know what they are, and some of them really can't accept it.

The natives didn't seem to notice the Song army's dislike, or didn't care, but behaved enthusiastically anyway, and they ate happily themselves, especially with the blessing of the Song people's spices and spices, which made them almost swallow their tongues.

Most of the food sent into the public house was actually processed by Song Jun himself, and the utensils, bowls and chopsticks used were also specially brought.

Seeing this, the elders couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, but Wan Xing was very happy, and kept saying something to the other elders, and it seemed that the food in the Song camp had completely conquered him.

After the elders tasted it in their own hands, their expressions were immediately different, and the delicacy they had never had before made them suddenly throw away all their thoughts, and even forgot to greet the guests, and they all used their hands together and gobbled up and drank heavily.

Looking at the performance of the elders, Lin Yingjia smiled smugly in his heart.

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift.

After seeing and enjoying, it is difficult to go back to the old days, and it is only a matter of time before these natives naturalize the Great Song Dynasty.

In a good mood, Lin Yingjia picked up the local wine, tasted it lightly, it was sour, astringent and a little bitter, the wine tasted very light, and I didn't know if it was a wild fruit or what it was brewed, maybe the worst village brew in the Central Plains was ten times better than this.

Immediately, he asked the wine he had brought brought, and the wine jar was opened, and the mellow aroma touched the noses of all the elders, and they were even more addicted to it after they entered it.

Just a small cup made all the elders feel high, and they opened the conversation box and talked loudly to each other.

The interpreter sitting behind Lin Yingjia struggled to analyze the content of their conversation and then translated it in a whisper.

“…… They're powerful, they're rich, and they're much, much better than us in everything......"

"It's probably not a bad thing to submit to them, maybe we'll have a better life in the future, and we won't be able to resist ...... at all."

"Many, many years ago, the Red Ya and Sila tribes in the south were no different from us, but a group of overseas people came, and they chose to submit to obedience, learned to make iron and better farming, and then there were more and more people, and they became more and more powerful......"

"Yes, if it weren't for another group of overseas people coming later, easily defeating them, and capturing all the original overseas people, maybe our tribe would have been annexed."

"Even now, the Red Ya and Sila are still the most powerful on the island, and those fierce mountain people don't dare to provoke them easily......"

"Those later overseas people, with boats as big as mountains, weapons and clothes made of iron, should be the ancestors of these Song people, but they didn't look down on this island at that time, so they didn't stay."

"I heard that on the small island opposite the Hongya tribe are the Song people, they grow dense and abundant crops, and the Pabra tribe used to go and rob a lot of things and women back, and I didn't see how powerful those people were."

"Maybe the small tribes on that island are just expelled or separated, but now these must be big tribes, fortunately not that their big ships are more than our people?"

"There are more and more people in our tribe, and it is difficult for this place to afford so many people, but there is no other place to divide the family, we have been troubled by this problem for a long time, maybe we don't have to worry about it after returning to the Song people."

"That's right, the fish we brought back are only a small part of what the three Song people caught in one night, and in the same place, the Song people can also grow more food, so they don't have to hunt and have enough food...... We have no choice but to be submissive, and we can only reap the benefits by being proactive. ”

"Fortunately, it makes sense, if these Song people come with malice, we will only have a dead end......

After listening to this, Lin Yingjia had a bottom in his heart, and after discussing it with Zeng Ba, he decided to strike while the iron was hot, otherwise he was worried that after waiting for a while, these elders would all get drunk and fall over.

He told the native elders that after the conversion, this tribe would be a village in the Great Song Dynasty, and the internal affairs would remain the same as before, and the government would not interfere too much, and would be responsible for protecting the safety of the tribe.

The land reclaimed by the tribe is still used by the tribe, and no taxes will be collected for the time being, but the government will send people to teach them more advanced farming methods, and give them good seeds, farm tools, and cattle.

The government will also set up schools in the village to teach Chinese and writing, as well as more advanced technology, in an effort to improve people's living standards.

In addition, the government will hire young men from the tribe to do work, and the reward will definitely be more generous than their hunting and fishing, and the tribe can also use the hunt, such as deer skin and antler velvet, to trade with the government.

The reason why Lin Yingjia gave such generous conditions was that he was a horse bone in the gold market, and secondly, he was also prepared to use implicit and soft means to promote the naturalization of the natives as soon as possible.

In the ears of the elders, all this is beneficial and harmless to their own family, and they are all drunk, so they all agreed without much thought, and swore in front of the ancestral spirit that they would never betray the Great Song Dynasty.

Immediately, Lin Yingjia named this tribe Lujia Village, and the village chief was elected by the elders themselves, and it was fortunate that he was finally elected.

After everything was agreed, Lin Yingjia immediately sent a bunch of gifts.

Ten steel knives, spears, simple leather armor, bows and arrows, three cattle, porcelain, cloth, tea, salt and sugar, iron pots, sickles and hoes, etc., made Lujia Village feel the benefits of surrender at the first time.

Then he didn't stay long, and returned to Lukang with thirty selected native boys.

In the following month or so, with the exemplary role and assistance and communication of Lujia Village, the remaining 20 or so tribes of Babuza also surrendered one after another.

Many of these tribes had only two or three hundred people, or even a few dozen or even hundreds, and the total number was less than five thousand, so they first merged into a total of ten villages in the vicinity in name, and then moved together when the time came.

On this basis, the first county of Liuqiu Prefecture was also established on paper, temporarily named Luding County, and the right to know the county was another forty-year-old Jinshi Fu Yixin.

Fu Yixin, a native of Xianyou County, Xinghua Army, may know that he is a little old when he ascends to the throne, and he has to find another way to do something, so he actively takes refuge in King Yan and does not hesitate to go to the wilderness to serve.

After serving as the magistrate, he was also very attentive, running around various native villages all day long, working tirelessly to improve the implementation of the naturalization policy, and even Zeng Ba was extremely impressed by his desperate efforts.

After more than three months, a wooden city with a length and width of three miles gradually took shape by the sea, called Lukang Town, and at the same time, it was also the seat of Liuqiu Prefecture and Luding County, opening up the most basic road between the villages.

After the construction of the port, it also has the ability to dock four 2,000 ships at the same time, and the sea area near the port has good fishery resources, which provides a strong supplement for the pioneer group.

It is not easy to open up the land for farming, especially in the original forest area, and it takes a long time to deal with the land after cutting down the trees, and it is estimated that the land that has been reclaimed by the natives can be cultivated in the short term, but most of them also need to improve the soil quality through composting.

Therefore, for a long time, the grain of the pioneer group still needed to be transported from the mainland.

And Lin Yingjia Zeng Ba and others understood that their task was to gain a firm foothold, so they were not radical, and the main scope of activities was still the territory of the original Babuza tribe, and they also constantly sent small-scale teams to survey around.

With the assistance of the Babuza people, it was quite smooth, but most of the surrounding tribes held a resistant attitude, and the Song army did not force this, and did not want to intensify the conflict for the time being, but only drew a line and agreed not to invade each other.

During this period, the Pabra tribe and the Babuza people on the north bank of Bird Creek had several conflicts, and after being severely taught a lesson by the Song army, they did not dare to cross the river easily.

On the whole, it was relatively calm until August, and all the affairs of the pioneer group were carried out in an orderly manner.

It wasn't until August that the situation became tense, and the surrounding natives became ready to move, often crossing the originally agreed boundaries and appearing in the territory of Luding County.

At first, although Lin Yingjia and Zeng Ba were annoyed, they only ordered the Song army to expel the natives, but the natives crossed the border more and more, and some Babuza people were attacked and killed, and their heads were cut off.

As a result, the patrol intensity of the Song army suddenly increased many times, but it was still impossible to prevent the appearance of headhunting incidents, and rumors spread among the Babuza people, saying that it was all the disaster brought by the Song people, that the Song people were demons, and that the flow of seeking was the flow of people and so on.

Moreover, the supplies that should have been sent were not seen for a long time, and ships were sent to Quanzhou three times in a row, but they were sunk in the sea, and the same was true for those sent to Pinghu Island, and no news came back.

There were few large ships left on the island, and when they realized that something was wrong, they didn't dare to send any more ships to sea.

In late August, a group of pirates suddenly attacked Lukang, and although they did not land, they robbed all the ships in the harbor that could cross the sea, and most of the small fishing boats were also destroyed.

At this time, food became increasingly scarce, and the soldiers and civilians of the pioneer regiment began to panic.