Chapter 52: Not Counting Face
Since October 12, 1492, when Columbus discovered the American continent, the whites and Indians have been completely on opposite sides. The rich American continent is rich in minerals and a lot of prey. On top of that, it's larger than the whole of Europe. From the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the eighteenth century, the whole of Europe did not stop. In order to compete for hegemony, various countries have fought one after another. The Netherlands and Spain were fighting for the independence of the Netherlands, the long war between England and the Franks made the whole of Europe wail, and the war between England and Ireland and Finland, and the war with Spain and the Netherlands for maritime supremacy.
So, the civilians of Europe are actually not doing well. The hooligans and ruffians, bandits and bullies born from years of war are a great harm to the country. In the sixteenth century, when Western colonists first set foot on the American continent. It was found that the gold and silver they were seeking at the risk of their lives were regarded as mustard by the local natives. The Western colonists were so happy that they exchanged some of the glass ornaments that the Indians loved for a large pile of gold and silver, and returned with a load.
At this moment, the yearning of the entire European continent for the Americas has soared. After that, all kinds of ocean-going ships, carrying criminals, defeated soldiers, etc., came to the American continent. When these original inferior people achieved considerable wealth here, more colonists came. From down-and-out aristocrats to commoners who couldn't survive, all kinds of people came to America in droves.
As the whites ceased to be satisfied with trade, the settlements became more and more crowded, and the war with the Indians began. The Indian Wars were a series of conflicts between colonial Caucasian and Native American Indian groups, beginning with the Battle of Jamestown in the early 17th century and ending with the Battle of Ondeny at the end of the 19th century, ending with the slaughter of the last Indian leaders in the late 19th century, "Sitting Bull" and the Sioux in Wounded Knee Valley.
Historians generally agree that the total number of North American Indians exceeded 10 million, and by the end of the 19th century, only about 200,000 remained. This is the bad deeds of Western countries that cannot be concealed. Moreover, white people have also caused irreversible damage to the ecological environment and wildlife of the American continent, many animals are extinct or endangered, and countless forests have disappeared. By this time in 1717, the contradictions between the whites and the Indians were irreconcilable.
When the two sides meet, there is no other option than war or one side fleeing, unless you are an Indian who has been bought by a white man. Before the Great Migration in the nineteenth century, the number of whites was still very small, so many European countries bought many Indian tribes to help whites fight. However, the results of these Indians were not much better. A small number became one of the more than 200,000 survivors, most of whom died as cannon fodder, and some were killed by whites.
Xiao Lin knew that sooner or later the Eagle Tribe would clash with this group of whites, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly. On the third day after Shoren and Apache returned to the Tribe, the Eagle Tribe clashed with the pioneer colonists. The cause of this incident was that a young warrior of the tribe had the good fortune of catching a deer with a trap, enough to feed three people for two days.
As a result, the young warriors of the tribe, while collecting their prey, were robbed by the pioneers. They took the young warrior's prey and beat him so badly that, according to the young warrior, he might have been stabbed to death by the pioneers with strange spears had he not been stopped by a young man.
These pioneers are in a flat field six kilometers away from the tribe. They set up a lot of tents here, usually most of the people went to cut down trees to build houses, while some of the people with weapons searched the area for prey, so that the food they brought would not be eaten early. It's just that this five-kilometer radius is the hunting range of the Eagle Tribe, and the hunting range of their two sides overlaps. In this way, the conflict between the pioneers and the Eagle tribe cannot be avoided again.
Xiao Lin persuaded the Eagle Patriarch to know that he would not be defeated in a hundred battles, and asked Apache to enter the colonist camp with him in the middle of the night. There were only fifty or so speared infantrymen here, and Sholin secretly checked their weapon, a front-loading smoothbore gun he didn't recognize. Front-loading smoothbore guns were very limited, and the frequency of fire was not much stronger than that of bows and arrows. In particular, one side is a seasoned archer who has used bows and arrows for more than ten years, while the other side is a militia soldier.
Shoren finally determined that it seemed to be the early days of white colonization of the Americas. If it was a later period, the whites would have used rear-loading smoothbore guns. Xiao Lin knew that his ambitions were starting to swell. If it is the early days of white American colonization, then their power has not reached the point of invincibility, especially for Chaeling, who is backed by the 21st century. That being the case, then why just watch such a beautiful continent fall into the hands of these endless, rude and savage whites.
If it were a warrior of the Eagle Tribe, he would definitely want to kill all these pioneers. However, if Sholin wants to establish his own empire on the American continent, then at least some industrialization must be completed, at least, it must have the ability to manufacture the weapons that appeared in the First World War on a large scale.
The Indians were fine as warriors and farmers, but if they wanted to be workers and good merchants, the cost and effort were lost. But these Europeans are different, they are at least people who came out of civilized society, even if they were not workers before, even if most people are not even as educated as junior high school students now, but it is still possible to be a front-line worker, after all, it is impossible for Sholin to build an empire by throwing things on both sides on his own.
To succeed in defeating Europe, Sholin needs a lot of things. The main thing is the workers and fighters. However, first of all, it is necessary to have its own power. Xiao Lin is just one person now, although the Eagle Tribe is good, but he is an outsider, and if he wants to master the Eagle Tribe, it will be at least half a year. However, the white people will not wait for you to master the Eagle Tribe to continue to build their strength, and on the sea, countless ships will take wealth with them, bringing people and weapons with them.
Xiao Lin didn't dare to bet, if it dragged on for too long, it would be difficult to open up the situation in the future. And now there are white people coming here, and there will definitely be people coming later, and I don't know how much it will cost to open up the situation in the future.
The Eagle Tribe is not a tribe that swallows its anger, and although the scale of the warriors of three hundred people cannot defeat those medium-sized and large tribes, it can still be the king and dominate in the small tribes. There are only more than 300 enemies, and there are only a few dozen warriors, which can only be regarded as weak for the Eagle Tribe. Without even thinking about it, the Eagle Tribe immediately decided to declare war on these pioneers.
If it weren't for Sholin, the Eagle Tribe might not have been able to defeat the pioneers, and it only took fifty warriors armed with flintlock pistols to defeat the collapse of these primitive-armed Indians. Their bows and arrows are small in power and have a short range. To get into range, you first have to shoot a lot of people. The fear in their hearts will make them demoralized, cowardly before fighting, and can only fail.
However, the Eagle Tribe now had a powerful compound bow with an effective range of one hundred and fifty meters, and a Tang knife that could break through light and thin iron armor, Xiao Lin was already able to foresee the fate of these pioneers. The best ones escaped a little, and the worst ones were all killed by the Eagle tribesmen. Xiao Lin calculated for a while, most of the things he brought these days have been sold, and he has already made a profit. So Shawlin came up with other ideas.
In order to find out the situation, Shoren pulled the Apache into the white man's camp in the dark before the battle. The weapon they used was discovered, that is, the front-loading smoothbore gun. Shaw Lin did not know the model, but it was impossible for the effective range to reach one hundred and fifty meters. The troubles and accuracy of loading for front-loading smoothbore guns were no better than those of arquebuses.
And, as can be inferred from this, it is quite possible that this is the beginning of white colonization of the Americas. Because the further they went, the better their weapons were, and when they were armed with rear-loading muskets, it was the time when whites would migrate to the Americas en masse. In the later stages, Sholin would only trade with the natives, but this was in the early stages. In the early stage, there were few whites, and the army was small, and the combat effectiveness was not strong. Otherwise, they wouldn't have bribed some Indians to help them fight.
Compared with white Europeans, Shoren is at least backed by a technologically advanced 21st century. If you develop your forces, you won't be slower than them, and your forces will only force them to be stronger. That being the case, then why give up such a rich American continent to these rude and barbaric, sometimes worse than the Indians. Besides, no matter how profitable trade is, it is not as good as robbery. Xiao Lin always had a wish, always watching white people auction their national treasures, and it would be nice to let white people see Chinese people auction their national treasures.
So, Sholin took out everything that was left. I plan to use these things in exchange for the white people who lost the war as slaves. After all, the Eagle Tribe is not its own, and in a short period of time, it should not be able to be used by Xiao Lin. This group of whites is the first batch of team members booked by Xiao Lin. It was not that he did not know that whites were unreliable, because in their eyes he was also a savage Indian. Time waits for no one, though.
For each day of delay, the colonizer's strength increased by one point. There are already whites here now, and who can guarantee that more whites won't come soon. Shoren believed he could subdue the whites.
A war that was originally waged out of anger not only made it possible to get nothing good, but also sacrificed some soldiers. But as soon as Xiao Lin did this, as long as they stopped during the battle, they could get a good reward from Xiao Lin, and the Eagle Tribe died happily. When Xiao Lin proposed that he did not have so many people to take care of the slaves, the Eagle Patriarch even offered to provide warriors to help take care of them, as long as Xiao Lin paid for it.
After a whole day of talking, Xiao Lin negotiated the price with the Eagle Patriarch. An adult man is worth two pelts, and a grown woman is worth one pelt. Minors, whether children or young people, male or female, are worth a piece of fur for two people. In the words of the old man, three people are worth a piece of fur. The Eagle Tribe doesn't have a full-fledged currency, but fur can be exchanged for all sorts of goodies from Sholin, so it's just right to use fur as currency.
And Shawlin hired Eagle Tribal warriors to guard the slaves, and after working for three days, he could be paid for a piece of fur. Shawlin wanted to buy the food that the slaves needed, and the food for a hundred people was worth ten furs a day, and the food was not much, just to keep them from dying. In these few days, Xiao Lin will be able to afford the survival of these slaves by himself, you know, in modern society, instant noodles wholesale a piece of five-day packs, Xiao Lin can exchange a piece of beaver skin for instant noodles that can drown people.
However, Xiao Lin is not without something to do, and he can't go back for the time being. If a person goes back and someone asks him where the car went, how will Xiao Lin answer?
Moreover, he had to determine how many white slaves he could get. Now he doesn't have much money, and even if he sells the harvest of this trip, it is still not enough for him to squander it at will. The wages of the workers in the factory, the maintenance of the equipment, and the electricity and water bills all cost money. The goods for the next trade had to be prepared, so the living materials of the white slaves, as well as the weapons and armor needed to form an army in the future, had to be carefully calculated.
Besides, Shoren also wanted to see if these Indians could be a qualified soldier, and if not, he would have to give up on these people and risk using all whites to form an army. The Eagle Tribe sent a force of two hundred people, and the Eagle Patriarch was not a hot-blooded idiot, so he asked Xiao Lin to help make a detailed plan before leaving. Xiao Lin asked Pearl to help watch the store, put on his equipment and followed the army.
It was early in the morning when the Eagle tribe came, and as for night blindness, the Indians were rare. The variety of fruits and vegetables on the American continent made these Indians, who did not only eat meat, good at night warfare. The Eagle Tribe used to fight with other tribes, and many times it was also at night. At this time, the colonists were basically still asleep, and only a dozen people were keeping vigil.
Within a few days, the pioneers had erected a fence and three watchtowers. They knew what they were dealing with, and many of the Indians' bows and arrows had a range of less than eighty meters, and the robbers, even with flintlock muskets, had a range of less than a hundred meters. So, these watchtowers are built just a hundred meters from the woods. They didn't expect that in this way, the current Eagle Tribe warriors would be able to directly name them in the dark.
Even without Xiao Lin's reminder, the warriors of the Eagle Tribe knew that the first thing to do when the war started was to take out the enemy's observation post. The compound bow had only been in hand for less than three days, and these warriors who had been exposed to the bow and arrow since birth had already mastered its performance, and Xiao Lin, who was following behind the eagle, saw him wave his hand, and the sharpshooters with the strongest shooting ability of the five tribes left the large army. Xiao Lin saw that they slowly dispersed and groped their way to the various watchtowers.