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Bidding farewell to Li Mingyuan, Ye Chenglin left by boat with the thirty-four officers sent to him, arriving at his destination five days later.

In Sierra Grande, Patagonia, four or five Indians returned to the garrison with horses carrying prey.

"Ilya, where did you go hunting?"

An Indian woman walked up and asked.

"We walked a hundred miles west along Lake Negro and hunted two wild deer in the Adela forest."

"Adela is the hunting ground of the Mavida tribe, you are not in danger, are you?"

"No, the Argentine forces in the city of Villalonga have retreated to Puerto Blanca, the young men of the Mavida tribe have also retreated with the Argentines, and the Adela Forest is now unguarded."

Ilya and another Mapuche carried the slain deer off their horses and placed them in the open space in front of the hut, looking at the Indian woman whose clothes were covered with mud, and said with love in their eyes, "You have reclaimed another piece of land?" ”

"Yes, the sorghum given to us by our Han friends from the north has not been eaten, and I plan to plant the remaining part in the reclaimed land, so that when the sorghum is harvested next year, you will not have to risk going to the land of the Mavida tribe to hunt, and life in the tribe will be better."

"Thank you for your hard work." Ilya touched his wife's hair lovingly and asked, "Baker is okay these days, why haven't you seen him playing outside?" ”

"A few Han Chinese friends just came, and Baker was learning to shoot with them in the back of the cabin."

While the Indian woman was talking to Elia, several Han Chinese and a teenage Indian boy came out from behind the wooden house.

The Indian boy looked no more than twelve or thirteen years old, but he was more than 1.6 meters tall, only half a head shorter than the Han men next to him.

"Father, you're back!" When the Indian boy saw his father returning from hunting, he ran forward happily, raised the musket in his hand and showed off to his father, "Father, this is the musket given to you by that uncle, and there are seventeen muskets behind the wooden house, all of which were given to my father by my Han uncle." ”

"Beck, put the gun down and help your mother clean up the wild deer, I'm going to talk to a few Han friends."

"Yes, father."

The Indian boy did not dare to disobey his father's orders, so he carefully placed the musket on the wooden chair, walked to the creek in front of the wooden house, and cleaned up the wild deer that had been killed with his mother.

"Patriarch Iria, it's a pleasure to see you again."

Ye Chenglin walked up to each other with a few officers and greeted each other with a smile.

"Friends from afar, thank you very much for the gifts, the Volos tribe will remember your kindness."

"The Mapuche people are sincere friends of the Han people, and it is what we should do to do what we can for our friends."

Ye Chenglin and Iyali gave an Indian-style hug, and said with a smile, "Patriarch Ilya is very lucky, he hit two wild deer, it seems that we can have a rich lunch at Volos' friend today." ”

"By the favor of the god of nature, he gave the tribe two wild deer."

Ilya pointed his hands to his chest and prayed, and then said, "The Volos tribe will entertain Han Chinese friends with the most precious lunch, but in the past few years, the Argentines and the Mavida who have taken refuge in them have continued to rob our land and livestock, and the Volos tribe can not entertain friends with much food, I hope you will not blame." ”

"The Han and the Mapuche are from the same family, where would we mind for such a trivial matter, the Iriya patriarch is polite."

Before 1866, the Volos tribe was still a medium tribe with a population of five or six hundred, and later Chile and Argentina launched the government Patagonia desert movement, and the Volos tribe, like other Patagonian Indian tribes, was constantly weakened in the confrontation with the Chilean and Argentine armies, and after more than ten years, the population of the Volos tribe fell to only more than 40 people because of war and disease, and the tribe was less than 20 young and strong.

When the Patagonian Indians were facing the survival of the nation, they first elected Antoine, a French adventurer who sympathized with them, as king, and lobbied the French government to recognize the independence of the Patagonians, and then Antoine lobbied the French government to fail and Antoine himself was expelled from Argentina, and the desperate Patagonian Indians began to gather all the tribesmen and fight a war with Argentina with no hope of victory.

In 1866, the war broke out, the Mapuche and Araucanians were unwilling to give up their last land, and continued to fight against the invading forces of the two countries in the Patagonian wasteland, and in 1868 the area north of the Urquén fell into the hands of the Argentine government, and in 1869, the Argentine troops advanced to the Negro line, so far, the Patagonian Indian tribes, including the Araucanian and Mapuche people, lost more than two-thirds of the population, and some of the remaining Indian tribes were like the Mavida tribe. In order to survive, they took refuge in the Argentine whites, and according to the arrangements of the whites, they lived in barren reservations to fend for themselves, and in desperation, they retreated to the area south of the Negro River, preparing for the last battle with the Argentine troops.

When the remnants of the Patagonian Indians waited for the last battle, the Han invasion of northern Argentina broke out, and then within a few months, the main Argentine force that swept through the Patagonian wasteland was wiped out, and the tense situation in Argentina urgently dispatched the southern remaining troops to resist the Han attack, so the Patagonian Indians passed the most dangerous period, after the first Argentine war, the Patagonian Indians and the intelligence personnel sent by the Han State got in touch, and then, batches of obsolete old-fashioned weapons, Medicine, food and other materials flowed into Patagonia, and the relationship between the Han and the Indian tribes of Patagonia gradually became closer with material assistance.

Ye Chenglin, who personally took over the affairs of contacting the Patagonian Indians, knew the plight of the Volos tribe, and he generously accepted Ilya's kindness, and then enjoyed a lunch with more than 40 members of the Volos tribe near noon.

The food portion of the two wild deer was quickly eaten by everyone, and after lunch, Ye Chenglin called Ilya to the grass outside the wooden house, and explained his intention to him as he walked.

"The king Antoine you originally nominated died of illness in France, and the thirteen chieftains of the Mapuche tribe jointly invited His Royal Highness the King of Han to be the king of Patagonia, and His Royal Highness the King of Han has agreed to be the king of Patagonia, and now the Volos tribe and the Han people have become a family, I hope that the Patriarch of Ilya can join our troops to resist the possible attack of the Argentine troops on the basis of the friendship of His Royal Highness the King of Han to help the Mapuche people."

"I am very happy to see His Royal Highness Han become King of Patagonia, and as a member of the Patagonians, I am willing to defend myself against the attacks of the white Argentines for the safety of the tribe, but the Argentines signed an armistice with us last year, and the war is over.

I just want to live well with my wife Finana and Baker now, and I don't want to join the army anymore.

Friend, I'm sorry I can't agree to your request. ”

"A temporary truce will not bring eternal peace, Iriya, my friend, believe me, joining our troops will better protect your wife, children and tribe, otherwise when the Argentines recover their strength, they will tear up the agreement with the Patagonia and attack you again, as the Spaniards did."

Ye Chenglin looked at Ilya, who was in the prime of life, and persuaded him, "You are a famous warrior among the Mapuche people, in the battle with the Argentines, you and your tribe paid a lot of sacrifices to protect the safety of other tribesmen, I understand that you hate never-ending killing, but, Ilya, the white people believe in the law of the jungle, as long as the Mapuche people cannot show force to protect their own interests, the war will not disappear."

I'll give you three days, Ilya, and I want you to think carefully before making your choice. ”

"Thank you for your understanding, I will give you an answer in three days."

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