Chapter 349: Maintain a simple heart of labor
When Lieutenant Colonel Fan Jun arrived in the Hawaiian Islands with his own fleet, they discovered three different indigenous tribes through direct observation at sea.
In fact, their arrival frightened the indigenous ...... But because the huge ships that seemed to be terrifying to them at the beginning, they seemed to be driving the white clouds in the sky and did not get too close to them, and it seemed that they only passed by, which did not cause them to collapse and escape.
The three tribes of the Hawaiian Islands are all primitive tribes with strict social hierarchies.
The highest rank in the tribe were chiefs and priests, the lowest were slaves, and the middle were commoners.
The chieftain prescribed where people of different castes fished and hunted, where they harvested, where they swam and frolicked, what kind of food they ate, and how they dressed...... Offenders are capital offenses.
They also believe in various gods and goddesses, believe in fate, and believe that the power of God is determined by the rank and age of the family of God, and therefore the status of man is also determined by the status of the family in society and the age and age of the person in the family.
The higher the seniority, the older the senior, the older the qualification.
All three of their tribes also had ambitions, and they were bent on "unifying" the other two.
Everyone wants to have more slaves.
However, the arrival of the Imperial Navy of the Federation changed everything.
They sent three assault boats to send sixty heavily armed marines to an island inhabited by a tribe...... Behind them were navy rifles with bayonets on their backs, which glistened in the sun.
Even if the natives didn't know how powerful the rifle was, they would be frightened by the bayonet.
They didn't even have bronze weapons, they all used flint knives and hardwood-sharpened spears as weapons...... The arrows of the bow and arrow are mostly made of bones.
Well, it can only be said that it can hurt people even if it is used well.
They brought with them cornmeal, cotton cloth and coarse porcelain, canned whale meat, and some steel tools for labor...... They haven't learned to plant yet, but they can pick and dig tubers, so shovels, they should be able to understand what they're used for.
They walked directly to the stockade of that tribe and laid down the gifts.
The other party also sent dozens of young men with weapons in their hands.
There is no way for the two sides to communicate in words, they can only make comparisons.
The Marine Corps meant to hire fifty laborers...... Judging from the number of these people who came out, their tribe should be able to have more than fifty young and strong.
But the other party didn't seem to understand quite something, and kept calling something.
In fact, I later learned that this is the way they express their inquiry, meaning where you came from and what you are going to change.
But the second lieutenant platoon commander who led the team at that time didn't quite understand, he thought that the other party wanted to show their strength, so he stretched out his hand wearing a white cotton glove and waved it three times in the air.
The three-masted warship docked on the surface of the sea observed this gesture with a telescope, and as agreed, began to fire at the reef on the shore!
The beautiful reef suffered, bursting with fragments of its own body in the sky under the bombardment of shells...... The second lieutenant platoon commander just wanted to scare them, but he was so frightened that the guys who had been screaming turned around and ran!
The three-masted warship immediately stopped shelling...... The second lieutenant platoon commander waited and waited with the people, and the bold of those people finally came back tremblingly, for they found that the men had not pursued them or entered their stockade to rob, and had been waiting there.
One more conversation...... The second lieutenant platoon commander shoveled the dirt with a shovel and motioned for the stuff...... Finally made a few guys understand something.
As a result, a few bold men brought back to the village what they loved so much, and then resolutely followed them.
Later, after they really helped clean up the grounds of the naval base, they got a beautiful cotton cloth that they had never seen before!
When they got back, everything was fine, and most of them came by themselves in canoes.
The languages of the three tribes are roughly the same, which is very easy to do, and once one tribe is settled, the other two are easy to discuss.
But what I didn't expect was that they couldn't cooperate with each other, and they had to use force from time to time!
Well, the Marines performed a shooting coconut in front of them...... Fifty meters away, coconuts were smashed in the gunfire!
This time they completely understood that the weapons on those people were not used to stab people, but to kill people from a long distance!
Compared to other people's weapons...... They have nothing in their weapons.
Order was restored and orders were respected...... They finally figured out that it was people who hired them to work with beautiful, useful, and delicious things, not for them to fight.
However, the second lieutenant platoon commander of the Marine Corps also learned from the experience, and he tried to separate them as much as possible.
One tribe is the main one who cultivates the fields, another tribe is the one who digs ditches, and the third tribe is the third tribe who transports soil and adds pits...... It turned out much better.
The women and children of the three tribes also did not want to leave them idle...... The Imperial Navy's ability to catch fish is the best in the world, and the three tribes can't even use fishing nets, they have never seen it!
They usually fish by the sea...... The accuracy is still good, but the exhaustion is not as much as it can be caught with a purse seine net.
After a few nets, and the fish were very cooperative, the beach soon piled up a "mountain of fish"!
At this time, women and children are hired to collect the fish, and those people are very proactive.
There is no one in them who does not eat sea fish...... And those people also signaled that after cleaning up the catch, each person will get two big fish!
So they worked in full swing, gutted the catch, and dried it on the reef, on the sand covered with palm leaves......
The entire Pearl Island immediately became an island of labor in full swing.
In order to attract them to live on Pearl Island and increase the time of labor, Lieutenant Colonel Fan Jun generously took out the slatted containers brought with the fleet to serve as their housing.
He laid the roof of the box with hay, sawed out three windows for them, taught them to use cotton cloth as curtains, and taught them to burn a yellow clay stove for charcoal...... For the time being, there is no way to have one iron pot per family, so more than a dozen families are required to share one iron pot...... Anyway, they are also primitive and have no concept of family.
The slatted containers are divided into three zones, which are also spaced apart...... Fear of starting a fire.
I didn't dare to provide them with candles for the time being, anyway, they went to bed as soon as it was dark.
Three wells were drilled in each of the three areas, gravity pressure rods were built, and a white tin bucket was provided as a public bucket.
A number of public toilets have also been built to prevent them from defecating in the open...... Other than that, nothing else is interfered with...... The power of their chieftains and priests, as well as the elders, remained.
In order to save trouble, the Marines paid for their labor according to the collective specifications, and the chiefs and priests, as well as the elderly, still had the power to distribute.
The natives immediately fell in love with the slatted containers, which were far more comfortable and sturdy than their previous grass-roofed timber-framed houses.
The Marines also taught them to grow vegetables and sugar cane, so they had to grow their own food...... Afraid that they will waste food seeds.
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Jun said to Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong: "We sent warships to look for the natives everywhere...... But it was never found in the vicinity. ”
Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Tong also briefed Lieutenant Colonel Fan Jun on the method of transforming the indigenous people in Nanyindi Anzhou.
Lieutenant Colonel Fan Jun said happily: "I heard some information from the merchants of Japan and Korea...... But I'm different here, I don't want them to know money, wouldn't it be better to keep a simple heart of labor?! ”