Chapter 457: The Evil Americans (2nd Watch)
No one can say how many Indians there were on the land of North America, but conservative estimates are between 30 million and 100 million, and the data that Goxinga often saw in his previous life was about 80 million. If Goxinga had not come out to make trouble, according to the trajectory of history, the number of Indians at the end of the nineteenth century would have been more than 200,000. It took 400 years for the white people to believe in God, leaving a fraction of the Indians, and although most of the Indians died from smallpox brought by the whites, nearly 20 million of them still died from direct massacres. The executioners of the massacre were the Americans, who did much cleaner than Hitler, and they were the winners.
There is a famous holiday in the United States called Thanksgiving, which mainly commemorates their foothold on North American soil. The famous Mayflower arrived in the Americas with a hundred and two Puritans who could not bear the religious persecution in England. But in the cold winter, they encountered unimaginable difficulties, all of them were in the midst of hunger and cold, and when the winter passed, only about fifty white people survived. At this time, the good-hearted Indians brought the necessities of life to the whites, and specially sent people to teach them how to hunt, fish, and grow corn and pumpkins. With the help of the Indians, the whites finally reaped a good harvest, and according to religious traditions, the whites set a day of thanksgiving to God. But thank God, the whites raised their butcher's knives against the Indians who really helped them.
In the eyes of the Caucasians, the Indians were nothing more than talking animals, they knew neither science nor democracy, they were neither literate nor civilized, and they were pagans who did not believe in God. It was such a group of animals in the barbaric era that they possessed a large amount of fertile land, which was inconceivable to the Caucasian people at that time. How to turn a large amount of fertile land into one's own ownership is a dream shared by all Caucasian people. Thus, under the conspiracy of a group of white elites, a large-scale plan to plunder the land of the Indians began.
The whites first brought large quantities of whiskey and other spirits from Europe and gave them to the Indians as gifts. The Indians, who had drunk it for the first time, took it as a precious gift from their friends, and one by one they became drunkards, and all men, women, and children began to get drunk and die. The whites took the opportunity to exchange land with them for liquor, and the simple Indians exchanged large quantities of land for liquor. After the white people acquired the land, they immigrated from Europe in large numbers to settle down, and gradually the white people became the new masters of the North American continent.
After a long time, the United States became independent, and all whites became Americans with countries, while Indians became foreigners. Unfortunately, the Indians had no concept of a nation, and they still lived a laid-back, carefree life. However, the Americans are not content with owning only a small piece of land. They wanted to have a larger territory and expand their territory, so their hands naturally reached out to the Indians, who had no concept of a state and lived only a primitive tribal life.
At first, the Americans exchanged land for the Indians in the form of gifts. Later, it was discovered that the Indians were very fond of what they gave them, and the Americans, who lacked great virtue, gave the Indians items with the smallpox virus. When the innocent Indians accepted these items, a plague soon became popular, and the lack of treatment led to a massive death of the Indians within a few years, from 80 million to 20 million. But the remaining 20 million people all have antibodies against the smallpox virus in their bodies, so smallpox can't kill them.
The resurrection of the Indians announced the failure of the American plan to destroy the Indians. But a nascent empire will not stop there, you can just show the guys if you don't die! The U.S. government issued a new decree: mass murder of the Indians. As soon as this order caused a national uproar, those young and strong Americans, in groups, began a massacre of Indians on the land of North America like prey.
The killing of Indians by the Americans was almost universally participatory, and no one had clean hands, including many well-known democrats, whose democracy and fraternity were only directed at their own people. George Washington, the first president of the United States, was the hero who founded the United States, but he also said disdainfully: "Indians and wolves are predatory beasts, differing only in shape." "The soldiers of the troops in Washington at that time even skinned the Indians, directly from the hips down, to make boots. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, said to the army*naked: "If the Indians rebel against the Americans to take their land, then we will fight back with a short axe, and they will kill some of us too, but we will kill them all!" James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, issued a decree stipulating that for every Indian scalp turned in, a reward of fifty to one hundred dollars, fifty killings of children and women, and one hundred killings of men over the age of twelve. General Sherman, a hero who was playing his mark in the Civil War, also said, "The only good Indian I have ever met is a dead man."
Abraham Lincoln, the great sage who emancipated the black slaves, was elected president, and the military campaign to massacre the Indians reached *. The regular army and militia of the United States fought more than a thousand battles, often slaughtering Indian villages overnight. While Mushun was drinking with the Raven chieftains, President Lincoln personally ordered the hanging of thirty-seven chiefs of the Su-speaking tribes. It was also a blessing in misfortune, if the crow had not met Mu Shun, he would have been the thirty-eighth chief who had been hanged.
The Indians were a brave and warlike people, and they resisted stubbornly for 400 years. But the backward weaponry, the small number of troops, the internal disunity, and the backwardness of the most lethal mode of production made them finally lose their ability to resist. When Mu Shun and the crows were drinking, less than 7 million of the 20 million Indians who survived the catastrophe remained.
Hatan's arrival on the American continent changed all that, and the influence of Gohinga's great fluttering moth changed the fate of the Indians. When there is really no way to unite a group of people, the best thing to do is to open up regional blackmail and promote nationalism. The weapons, medicines, science, etc., brought by Hatan were all urgently needed by the Indians, but they were not the most important. The sharpest weapon that Hatan brought with him was the way to unite the loose Indians.