Huang Xiao stopped on his horse, while the bison was running very fast in the snow, and soon returned.
Soon, the bison and other friends had some long guns and short blunderbuss in their hands.
Huang Xiao took one, looked at it, and smiled. It was a Spanish Mushkot matchlock gun. At that time, the Spaniards used this improved matchlock gun to conquer the Inca Empire in South America and the Albanian people in the Gulf of Mexico. Kingdom of Zytec.
Huang Xiao threw it to the bison.
In addition to these matchlocks, there were also two flintlock muskets. Huang Xiao looked at them and basically had an understanding of the British combat power at this time.
European flintlock muskets were developed by French watchmaker Mahan.
Mahan's invention won the French reputation in Europe, and King Henry IV of France couldn't help but be happy.
In 1598, Henry IV summoned Mahan for this purpose. He was surprised to find that the inventor of the flintlock gun could not only invent firearms, but was also a rare genius in the fields of painting and sculpture.
Henry IV then appointed Mahan as his "valet".
Mahan's fate was rewritten, but the fate of the flintlock was not so smooth.
On May 14, 1610, Henry IV was stabbed to death on his way to visit Minister Sully in a carriage.
With the death of Henry IV, progress in equipping troops with fusiliers stalled.
Many French generals opposed equipping flintlock muskets on the grounds that "the sparks from the flint were not enough to ignite the black powder." As a result, they were not successfully fired at that time.
However, the convenience of flintlock muskets inevitably replaced matchlocks and has been used for more than two hundred years.
However, the flintlock muskets at this time had not yet been rifled. Although the function of rifling had been developed long ago, they could not be produced in large quantities due to limitations in technology and other aspects.
And to deal with the indigenous people, matchlocks were enough. However, during the rainy season or winter in America, the inconvenience of matchlocks made the colonists carry some flintlock guns.
Not to mention that the A2 in Huang Xiao's hand is the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse I-style firecracker, which is enough to crush him.
The bison put the money gained from touching the corpse in front of Huang Xiao.
These are all Spanish silver pesos. Since 1530, Spain has successively discovered many large-scale silver mines in Spanish America. Philip II ordered that all the silver produced in the Americas be made into silver pesos, and they were sold in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. It circulated in large quantities and became the world's currency at that time.
Huang Xiao was not interested in any of this, so he let the bison go and rode forward.
The bison returned to Jin Yan and followed Huang Xiao with the clansmen.
"The God of Wind is so powerful, all those devils are dead, not a single one is alive!"
Jin Yan smiled and nodded.
Huang Xiao was riding on a horse and observing this group of natives.
The total number is estimated to be more than 500 people. A small number of them are children, and the rest are women. There are no young men, and there are no men. It should be the left-behind tribe fighting with the white people, but now it seems that it is probably a bad thing. not enough.
Coming to this place was Huang Xiaojing's careful choice.
This was the future state of Virginia in the United States. Eighteen years ago (1607), British colonists landed here and established the first British colonist stronghold in the Americas near the James River they named, named Jamestown.
The monarch at that time was James I, so the colonists named it after the king.
The entire new colony was called "Virginia", which means "Virgin Land", in honor of the "Virgin King" Elizabeth I who died in 1603.
When Jamestown was first founded, there were only a hundred colonists.
This land was originally the land of the Powhatan chiefs. The arrival of the colonists triggered strong opposition from the Powhatan tribal alliance, which resulted in constant conflicts.
These 105 colonists arrived at a bad time - just in time for a severe drought.
Although it only took them 19 days to build a castle (to protect against the natives), the heat and fatigue soon claimed the lives of half of them. Fortunately, new manpower and supplies arrived in June of the next year.
In 1609, the Powhatan tribe had its first war with the colonists, cut off trade with the colonists, and besieged Jamestown.
Starvation caused many people to "die like flies." According to records, cannibalism also occurred. When the wife of a colonist in Jamestown died, her husband pickled her... The 500 settlers were once sharply reduced to only the remaining 60 people.
However, the colonists who recovered quickly quickly received support from the mainland. Later, they defeated the Powhatan tribe and set up an ambush to capture Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan, who was only eleven at the time. age.
The colonists used this to threaten Chief Powhatan, but Powhatan did not give in and continued to fight the colonists.
The colonists brainwashed Pocahontas, and she became the first native to believe in God and learned English.
Finally, she was forced to marry a tobacconist and brought back to the native land for display. This Indian princess caused a sensation in Europe at the time and attracted more colonists to Jamestown.
Later, Hontas died of an infectious disease.
Disney took this script as a script, adapted it extensively, and made the famous animated film "Pocahontas", which won an Academy Award.
The film portrays Hontas as a peacemaker between the colonizers and the natives.
She sympathized with the starving colonists and secretly brought corn to feed them.
She even rescued captured colonist leader John Smith from his execution.
This is a story about love and peace between an upright, brave and kind-hearted colonist and an indigenous princess who yearns for freedom and love.
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Of course, it also aroused the disapproval of many people. This was obviously suspected of clearing land for the colonists, which was quite controversial.
Some historians believe that after being trapped, Poca was subjected to inhuman torture and rape. Even her children were the result of the rape. She died of illness at the age of twenty-two.
Her story was widely disseminated by the colonists, and she even became the first woman to be printed on the U.S. dollar.
In 1622, Powhatan launched a large-scale attack on the colonists, resulting in the death of more than 350 colonists. The tribal alliance also suffered crazy revenge and massacre by the colonists.
Powhatan was also captured and killed.
The war lasted until this year and then gradually subsided.
In 1614, after the First Powhatan-Jusan War, the years-long drought also ended.
This year, John Rolfe, an Englishman who came to Virginia, accidentally discovered that the soil here is quite fertile and the climate is warm and rainy, which is very suitable for growing tobacco, a crop originating from the Caribbean Islands and South America.
Tobacco leaves sold for very high prices in Europe at that time and were called "cashco crops".
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Rolfe's discovery brought new vitality to the Virginia colony: If you couldn't find gold, you might as well make a fortune by growing tobacco.
This man is Pocahontas's husband.
The extensive cultivation of tobacco brought huge profits and stimulated the colonists' thirst for land. In the following time, a steady stream of colonists came to Virginia, which also made Virginia prosperous and truly prosperous. It truly became Britain's first colony in North America!
Many colonists brought black slaves and occupied a large amount of land belonging to the Powhatan tribe. This led to the Second Powhatan War.
At the end of this year and the beginning of next year (1626), the Dutch purchased cloth and glass beads from the natives, and named New Amsterdam next to Manhattan, New York, Washington and other places in Virginia.
It became the center of Dutch colonization in North America. In 1644, the Anglo-Dutch War broke out. After the British occupied New Amsterdam, it was renamed New York. Later, during the third Anglo-Dutch War, the Netherlands once regained this place, but finally ceded it in 1674. Gave it to England.
According to calculations, the Dutch glass beads and other items at that time were worth only twenty or thirty pounds.
