For the first batch of Chinese immigrants to the New World.
The New World was no peaceful place.
Although no trace of white Europeans has been found yet.
But they have already had several small-scale conflicts with local indigenous people.
The scale of the conflict was small.
But the message from these conflicts is troubling.
First of all, the local indigenous people are not primitive people who know nothing. They hold muskets and fight on horseback.
The combat effectiveness is not bad.
These New World natives can obtain muskets and war horses, which is enough to give the Jinshan Governor's Mansion a headache.
In addition, the indigenous population is quite large.
It was at least much more than the two thousand Chinese immigrants who came to the New World.
Therefore, at this time, the four large villages in the Jinshan Governor's Mansion were sufficiently vigilant about their surroundings.
and.
Zeng Ada, the military commander of Jinshan Governor's Mansion, also sent elite scouts to conduct reconnaissance in various directions and collect intelligence.
"Governor, the situation is a little tricky right now."
Zeng Ada and Lin Minghe stood in the meeting room of the Governor's Mansion in the Salmon Village. The air around them was filled with the smell of salted fish. In order to obtain enough food for the winter, the Chinese kept the salmon migrating from the river mouth as much as possible. Catch it and marinate it into salted fish for consumption.
They had to make sure they had enough food to last until the next group of immigrants arrived.
Good thing.
This New World is indeed rich in products.
Salmon, bison, elk, and all kinds of large wild animals live in groups. Even if you don't farm and just rely on hunting, you can survive for several years. Of course, when the scale of Jinshan Governor's Palace expands, you can rely on hunting. That won’t work. We must reclaim land and develop agriculture.
And this will also be Lin Minghe's main work in the next few years.
But you have to farm.
We need to grab territory.
To grab territory.
You have to know who your opponent is.
"According to the intelligence collected, we are now facing enemies from two directions. The first is the Athabasca Tribal Alliance in the northeast, which can be called the Alliance. They are a union of indigenous people in the northern part of the North American continent. The purpose of the alliance was originally to deal with the British. They once fought a seventeen-year war with the British. However, in the past ten years, the war has been affected by the independence of the United States. The relationship between the Arab League and the British has improved a little bit. , at least the war has not continued, but now their soldiers and horses have begun to appear frequently around the Jinshan Governor's Area, and it seems that they have discovered us. Although I don't know if they will launch a war in the near future, at least. We are unkind."
"There is another direction, which is in the southeast of the Golden Mountain Governorate. The Sioux tribal alliance is composed of the Coeur d'Alene, Modoc, Salish and other North American indigenous people who call themselves the Sioux. Their original opponent was the Spanish People, but now many indigenous chiefs have embraced Catholicism and have chosen to coexist peacefully with the Spanish. Now the leader of the Soviet Union is an indigenous chief who believes in Catholicism, named Seattle, and he is supported by the Governor-General of New Spain."
"Okay, there's the Arab League, there's the Soviet Union, one has Britain behind it, and the other has Spain behind it. And they're all nomadic hunting tribes. It's not easy to deal with them."
Lin Minghe said.
"There's nothing difficult to deal with. The key is to find where their main force is. If we deal with them in the old forests of the New World, our people will be dragged to death by them!"
Zeng Ada said.
"So, Old Zeng, what are you going to do?" Lin Minghe asked.
"It's better to be still than to move."
Zeng Ada spread out the map.
"Look, this is the mouth of the Jinsha River. On both sides of the river mouth, and along the river mouth inland, there are fertile river mouth plains within a radius of one or two hundred miles! There is enough room for hundreds of thousands of people here, so what we have to do now is not to Instead of spreading our people out, we shrink back and establish a defensive line in this area. As long as these indigenous people cannot break through our defense line, they will not be able to threaten the farming area of the river mouth plain." Zeng Ada's hand Click on the map.
"Just defensive? Isn't it too passive?" Lin Minghe asked with a frown, "What if the British and Spanish send a fleet from the sea?"
"So, we have to ask the court to send a few ironclad ships to guard the outer waters. Now neither the Britons nor the Spanish have the power to attack us. When they have a fleet that can sink the ironclad ships, we will be early There are tens of thousands of young people right here!”
Zeng Ada grinned.
"At that time, what do we have to fear about the Arab League and the Soviet Union?"
Lin Minghe also nodded.
"In this case, I will leave this military matter to you. I will push forward the farming of the whole people and start land reclamation this winter! Use fire to thaw the soil and plow the land deeply. Wait until next year. We can sow the seeds. ."
Lin Minghe looked out the window and saw the sun and moon flag flying high on Salmon Village.
"As long as there are a dozen or so villages like this, we will be invincible!"
"This is the territory of Soviet Chief Seattle."
Not far from a settlement with a very rough primitive tribe.
The group of people moved forward along the river. The leader, a white man, stopped his horse and pointed at the seemingly huge tribe in front of them.
That tribe did not have fixed buildings, but some tents, cattle and horses.
At the same time, there were indigenous warriors riding horses, with feathers on their heads and their faces painted red, patrolling back and forth, holding muskets in their hands.
Everyone even saw cannons next to some tents.
Indians are not fools.
After they came into contact with white people.
He soon learned to ride a horse and use a musket.
In some later American western literary and artistic works.
They all tend to portray Indians as savage, primitive, and violent cannibal tribes.
But actually.
North American Indians took the initiative to learn and integrated cultures from Europe.
Many Indians abandoned their original religious beliefs and chose to practice Catholicism or Protestantism.
Among them, many capable people with lofty ideals emerged who tried to save the fate of their own nation, trying to save the nation from extinction.
But sadly.
Their social development pattern is very different from that of Europeans.
The efforts of these indigenous heroes.
finally.
It can only become a boast of military exploits by some colonists who occupied this continent in later generations.
"Mr. John, is this Chief of Seattle really worthy of being visited by envoys from our three countries?"
Another white man frowned and said.
This group of people.
It is a tripartite joint mission sent by the Governor-General of British Canada, the United States of America, and the Governor-General of New Spain.
The British envoy was named John Gago, the American envoy was named Oliver Hazard Perry, and the envoy from the Viceroyalty of New Spain was named Sacagas Gutierrez.
The only reason that allowed the three major white forces that were attacking each other on the North American continent to jointly send a mission to pay homage to the Soviet chief Seattle.
It was a direct threat from the Ming Empire.
News that the Ming Empire had established a colonial stronghold on the west coast of the New World spread to the United States.
Those Americans who had just escaped from the rule of the British Crown were immediately anxious.
They are different from the British and Spanish.
If these two families were defeated, at most they would lose the colony.
And the Americans have now established their own country in North America.
The Ming Empire came to the New World just to compete with them for territory.
Originally, because the relationship between Ming and Britain was not harmonious, the relationship between the United States and Ming was still okay.
but now.
Core interests are at stake.
Of course, the Americans also began to take the initiative to contact the British and Spanish.
Britain and Spain were extremely afraid of the Ming Empire.
Although it is now just a colonial stronghold.
But everyone knows.
There will definitely be millions of Chinese people flooding into the New World in the future.
therefore.
The three parties hit it off immediately - put aside their differences for the time being and deal with the Chinese first.
To deal with the Chinese, we must first find where the Chinese are, and secondly, it is best to use the power of the indigenous people, because the power of the Europeans in the New World is concentrated on the east coast.
The Chinese are on the west coast.
It spans thousands of miles, is all land, and has to cross towering mountains. The cost of sending troops directly is too high.
But here's the thing.
Do the indigenous people have the strength to deal with the Ming Empire's strongholds in North America?
"Is the Soviet Union strong?"
The British envoy John Gago frowned and said.
"Strong is not strong, but the Soviet Union is a union of many large tribes. At the same time, it is also headed by Chief Seattle. They can assemble a large number of troops." Gutierrez said.
"how many?"
"At least. Nine thousand people."
"Only nine thousand?" John frowned.
"Nine thousand people is already quite a lot. This is the force that Chief Seattle can directly summon. In addition, the Soviet Union also has many peripheral tribes that can send troops to help with certain benefits. It is estimated that they can send out up to 10,000 people. More than five thousand people." Oliver took over.
"Fifteen thousand is indeed a lot." John nodded and said.
"At least, it's enough to deal with the Chinese strongholds!" Gutierrez said.
John looked at this Spaniard who was born in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and was a quarter of Indian descent, and a smile appeared on his lips unconsciously.
These stupid Spanish mulatto bastards who reigned supreme in New Spain.
How can one know how terrifying the Chinese are on land?
Fifteen thousand native Indians wanted to uproot the Chinese stronghold where there were maybe one or two thousand people.
too naive.
These Spaniards are really not taboo.
There are many mixed Spanish-Indians like Gutierrez in New Spain.
But in North America.
This kind of mixture of white people and indigenous people is much rarer.
Because the British are much more ruthless than the Spanish.
The Spanish could accept the Indians as long as they converted to Catholicism.
but.
The British methods are really to kill everyone, burn them all and rob them all.
John was despising the Spaniards.
American envoy Oliver said: "The question now is, is this Soviet Union available?"
Gutierrez hurriedly said: "It should be possible. Chief Seattle has taken the initiative to convert to God and has also shown that he is willing to live in peace with us. He is a smart man. Of course he knows that the Chinese have come to this land , it is not us who bear the brunt, but them, the indigenous people.”
The other two people also nodded.
"So, we can form an alliance with the Soviet Union." Gutierrez said.
"An alliance?"
John and Oliver both frowned and looked at each other.
"Allying with such an inferior race? Are they qualified to be equal allies with noble white people?"
"It's just a temporary alliance. If they don't form an alliance, how can they safely fight the Chinese?" Gutierrez said.
"The covenant can be broken at any time. They are just barbarians and do not apply the rules of the civilized world."
The two nodded repeatedly when they heard this.
These Indians are not qualified to form an alliance with them.
The so-called covenant.
It's just deception.
This is taking advantage of the natives.
The most common method used by Western colonists to deal with indigenous people.
It's not like he just directly committed the massacre.
Instead, they are sowing discord and inciting the natives to fight each other.
From Alaska to Argentina.
All the natives of the American continent, which spans the entire earth, are called Indians—the name itself is full of colonial tone.
In fact.
Such a huge continent.
There are so many tribes inside.
How can it be summed up by just one word "Indian"?
Just when the envoys from the three countries were preparing to contact the Seattle chief.
In Chief Seattle's tent.
He has also received the news that the white forces want to cooperate with them.
"Great Elder, the white people want to cooperate with us. They want to work with us to deal with the legendary Akito."
Seattle sat cross-legged, squinting his eyes, a bit of shrewdness flashing on his red face.
The person called the Great Elder is an old man.
He is the wise man and priest of the tribe.
Holds the power of contact with the sun.
And Seattle actually has a cross hanging on his chest.
I don’t know if the two will fall out over religious issues.
But now, at least it seems that Chief Seattle still has great respect for the tribe's chief elder.
No one knows the name of the great elder.
Because he always looks mysterious.
"The Sun God told me that Akito is a dangerous enemy."
"So, we should deal with them?"
"That's right."
"But now the white people obviously want to use us to fight with the Ming people." Chief Seattle said.
"The Ming people came from the west. Even without the instigation of the white people, we have to deal with them, because their purpose of coming here is the same as the white people, but the white people are far away and the Ming people are close. The white people and the Ming people don't know what to do. When will the fight begin, but before that we will definitely become the target of Akito’s dealings," the great elder said.
Chief Seattle mused.
"So, how will the Sun God guide us?" Chief Seattle asked piously, holding the cross.
"The Sun God told us that if the white people use us, we can also use them!" the great elder said, rubbing his forehead.
(End of chapter)
