Chapter 458: Chinese and Foreign People
Americans, or whites, have a wisdom that is incomprehensible to Orientals, that is, they are particularly fond of signing treaties and then proving their spirit of contract with their white history of fulfilling the treaties. However, when the Orientals were convinced that the white man had the spirit of contract and was brought into the rules and regulations of the white man, the white man used the treaty as a butt wipe, and then laughed and said that this was a trick to amuse the barbarians, and how could the treaty signed by man and monkey be effective.
The European and American powers were particularly fond of using this kind of treaty trick against the Orientals, and on the large part they fooled the Orientals into the rules they had made, and in small places they took advantage of the treaties to take advantage of them endlessly. The paralyzing strategy before the war, or the strategy of delaying the army when the war situation is unfavorable, the white people did not engage in this kind of little trick, and the Qing Dynasty did not suffer less in this regard.
The Americans do the same way with the Indians, if there is nothing to do, they will sign a treaty to play you out, the barbaric natives are still studying the rules, but the white gentlemen have long treated it as a piece of waste paper. One of the more famous waste paper treaties is the "Fort Laramie Treaty", a treaty with only eight paragraphs, in which the Americans have taken advantage of it, but they are still willing to abide by it only when they are not strong enough. The Indians kept retreating, exchanging land for the possibility of survival, but after the white people promised to take over the Indians' land peacefully, they immediately used force to force the Indians to continue to retreat.
The Americans also played a little trick on the identity of the Indians. In the legal theory of the United States, Indians are not Americans, and a series of treaties such as the Treaty of Fort Laramie are also the form of treaties between countries. But the United States often introduced laws against Indians, and Indians had to obey these laws or face the slaughter of whites. The identity of the Indians has been changing according to the needs of the Americans, and when you want to get your land, you are a foreigner, and when you want to control you, you are a foreigner without citizenship, and everything is done according to the wishes of the Americans. All this is when the Indians have a certain strength, if the Indians' strength declines, the Americans don't need to be so troublesome, they just show the guys and kill people.
The Indians are also extremely tough, and the reason why they are bullied like this by whites is because they are too primitive. The few remaining Indians in the east have been fooled by the whites with Christianity, and have been completely domesticated by the whites and become wolves without wildness, while the situation of the western Indians is much more complicated.
Indians are a very general term, and the white people call almost all the natives of the Americas Indians, but in fact, just like there are 56 ethnic groups in China, there are many branches within the Indians. The large ethnic groups include the Incas, Mayans, Aztecas, etc., and there are even more subdivided tribes, and there are a large number of tribes such as the Sioux and Cheyenne in the United States. There are great differences between the tribes, and there are also conflicts of interest between each other, and it is completely scattered. If all the American Indians could be united, not to mention that they still had rudimentary weapons, even if they only had wooden sticks, it would not be so easy for the Americans to carry out massacres. It was because the Indians were scattered all over the place, and all of them were in their own way, that the Americans had every opportunity to break through.
After Hatan went to North America to join the old leader Mu Shun, the two and some former senior military officers made an analysis of the situation in the United States, and found that they had made many mistakes, and even the omniscient Guoxinga had made many mistakes. The United States looks like it has nearly eight million square kilometers of land, but there is something like a country within a country, that is, there are still seven million remnants of Indians.
The Indians owned large tracts of land and their own independent organizational structures, and if they could unite to form a nation in the modern sense, they could immediately divide nearly one-third of the United States and gnaw all of the northwestern United States. The recent history of North America seems to have been marked by colonists, but the Indians have always been here, and they haven't left. It is only because these simple and honest big brothers have never had the concept of a country or territory that the white colonists are allowed to carve out a plot of land here today and plant flags there tomorrow. The primitive territory of the Indians has been neglected in the history of the white people, who counted all the places they walked as their own territory, and the local natives were nothing more than wild animals in the wilderness in their eyes.
With the help of the Raven Chieftain, Hatan brought technicians to draw the general territory of the Indians on a map of the United States. Looking at this map of the territory of the Indians, Mushun and Hatan are all in the tide, not to mention turning this place into the territory of North Manchuria, and it is here to establish a pro-Manchurian Indian regime, which is enough for Guoxing Ale for half a year. Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Kansas, and other good western lands were almost all in the hands of the Indians, and although they could barely resist the white invasion, at least the federal government, which was now busy with the civil war, had no time to deal with them.
Although the United States reached California in the 1850s, the population of the western region has always been small, and the entire western region is hundreds of thousands. The remnants of the Indians were almost all concentrated in the western region, six or seven times as numerous as the whites, and the Indians were very familiar with the local land, and they knew best what to plant and grow. As long as the Indians can be united, it is very possible for Goxinga to arm them again and drive out the whites to establish an independent state. When the Americans fought the civil war and then wanted to deal with the Indians, the Indian state supported by North Manchurian would not be so easy to slaughter.
Mu Shun and Hatan are both people who do what they say, and with a general direction, they immediately began to persuade the crow tribe. The crow was also bullied by the white people, and he didn't understand a lot of theories said by Mu Shun and others, but he understood it if he wanted to help him deal with the white people, since it was against the white people, there was nothing to say, and the crows raised their hands in approval. The crows sent men to escort the investigators for several months, firstly to establish contact with other tribes, and secondly, to see if the Indians really had that much power.
As a result, as soon as they walked down, Hatan and Mu Shun's hearts were half cold. It is true that the crows in the region did not say much, but the actual situation in various places was much worse than what Hatan and Mushun expected. Except for Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Kansas and other places where the Indians can still be covered, the Indians in other places have basically gone to the mountains and the countryside, and the good places are all in the hands of the Americans. Now it is impossible for the Indians to take these places back, and they can only unite the Indians first, and as for what will happen in the future, we can only take one step at a time.