Chapter 10 Autonomous Committees

When a state is proclaimed, all the inhabitants of its territory, including the original inhabitants, will become citizens of the country without dispute, and the government must protect them, rescue them, and take all kinds of measures to educate and help them, no matter how backward and ignorant they may be, so that they will gradually move towards civilization.

But for the U.S. government, which has been sparing no effort to preach their universal values, it is clear that it does not have so much patience to get rid of these heavy burdens.

At the beginning of the founding of the United States, in order to rapidly develop the poor and white American economy, the US government believed that it should not educate and help these "ignorant" and "barbaric" indigenous people of the North American continent at all. Democrats in the U.S. government unanimously agreed that the Indians were a burden and a burden to their economic development, and that there was no need to waste energy on educating and helping them. So from the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and publicly declared to the world that "all men are created equal". President Jefferson began his policy of genocide against the indigenous peoples of the United States, the Indians.

1814 American James. The Madison administration re-enacted the > in reference to the 1703 Legislature of the North American colonies that provided incentives for the slaughter of Indians. The statute stipulates that the United States Government will pay a prize of $50 to $100 ($50 for killing an Indian under the age of 12 and killing a female Indian, and $100 for killing a young Indian over the age of 12) for each skull turned in.

From the day the official establishment of the U.S. government began, it ordered the army to march westward immediately. From the day it was founded, the First Regiment of the US Army has been its basic task to conquer the Indians. The brutal massacres and conscriptions carried out by the regular army and militia of the United States lasted almost a full century from 1803 (1811, when the regular army officially began fighting) and lasted until 1892.

One of the "many outstanding democratic leaders of the United States at that time" who actively participated in and promoted this "brutal expulsion of Indians" was Thomas, the main drafter of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, who put forward the theory that "all men are created equal." Jefferson. After the United States bought Louisiana from Napoleon in 1803 (i.e., the vast area from the West Bank of the Mississippi River to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains), a series of mass expulsions and massacres of Indians began during Jefferson's presidency.

According to the calculations re-made by some honest and rigorous scholars in the United States in the late 80s and early 90s of the 20th century, based on historical sources, when Columbus "discovered" the New World in the Americas in 1492, the total population of Indians living in the current United States was between 30 million and 100 million. By the 70s of the 20th century, the total population of Indians in the United States, who were forced to disperse in "reservations" in various poor rural areas of the United States, was less than 800,000.

All this is due to the naked hunting and hunting of the Americans.

The genocidal massacre carried out by the US Government against the poor and backward and vulnerable ethnic groups in its own country is absolutely a darker, more insidious, and more inhumane massacre than the Saddam or Qaddafi that they once denounced, and enabled the US Government to shake off the heavy national burden and responsibility it should have borne in one fell swoop, and to expropriate their real estate of several million square kilometers and countless natural resources without compensation, so that the United States can develop its economy without any burden, and thus can become the world's largest economic power in a short period of 1000 years. All of this is that they feel good about themselves and feel compelled to be obligated to promote their universal values to the world and to act as the driving force behind the world's police.

"The best Indians are dead Indians."

"Kill more this year, kill less next year, they should die anyway, or save it as a breed of poor eggs."

"The Indians must surrender everything, or they should be ruthlessly crushed and marching forward."

These words come from the mouths of America's heroes and greats. They have long forgotten the enthusiastic help of the Indians when the Mayflower landed, have long lost the civilized morality brought from the European continent, and have long lost the humanity and gratitude that they should have as a human being. When the Indians left their homes again and again, leaving the land to which they were attached with tears streaming down their faces, when countless killings and deceptions were sneered at by the Americans and applied to their brothers, when the Indians were dragged out of their homes like cattle and horses under bayonets and did not know where to go. This "road of tears" was built on the indifference of the Americans and the bones of the Indians.

Emerson also indignantly said: "I have never heard of a people in peacetime in dealing with their allies and wards so treacherous, and so contemptuous of justice, and so deaf to the cry of begging for mercy!" The "Road of Tears" of the Indians is only a small chapter in their displacement, and the countless Indians who died on the way to the migration can only silently become a heavy trilling of the most tragic chapter in human history.

The arrival of the Crossing only reduced the pain inflicted on the Cherokees by the Americans, but more Native Americans were still suffering from the massacre of the democratic and civilized American army.

"Your people are so smart and capable, so strong and brave, why should you be willing to be slaughtered and humiliated by the Americans, why can't you unite and take up your weapons and fight the Americans to the death." Zhao Wenli looked earnestly at the leader, who had been tortured by years of fugitive, and said sincerely.

"You're right, if we don't unite, we're still not united enough, so let the Americans slaughter us individually. Also, we only have big knives and sticks, and we can't beat the foreign guns and cannons of the Americans. A night of thinking, as well as the all-pervasive nervous style and methodical atmosphere of the traverser, all infected this man in his fifties, who had long been like ashes, but the arrival of the traverser undoubtedly aroused his vitality.

"Help us, noble benefactors, stretch out your noble hands to save this suffering people," Lodo spread his hands again reverently, and looked intently at the horizon, where there was the shrine they worshipped. And the group of guests who rescued them were not sent by the Divine Mansion.

"Help, of course we help," Zhao Wenli replied without thinking, "we not only want to help you repel the Americans, but also help you build your own homeland on this land." However, our role is limited, and the key is to rely on yourselves, on your thousands of Indians, and only when you are united and strong can you truly defeat the Yankees' attack and crush their slaughter plan. ”

Zhao Wenli's words made Xu Yongquan confused again, didn't Zhao Wenli not support them to help the Indians, why was he so enthusiastic again. But after Zhao Wenli's explanation, he suddenly realized. Although they are all helping, between the trade-offs, they used to be unconditional help, but now they are only playing the role of a golden finger, and what is more important is to give full play to the subjective ability of the Indians, find an ally and helper for themselves, and undoubtedly find a strong opponent for the Americans. Hehe, the Louisiana that the Americans bought has been stretching from the border with Canada to the sea, and if the Indians really guard this land, can the Americans still drink the Pacific Ocean?

"These weapons will be yours in the future," Zhao Wenli waved his hand, and the five hundred muskets of the captured American GIs all became the weapons of the Cherokees, and Logan and the others immediately jumped up, with these weapons, they could also compete fairly with the Americans in the future.

If it weren't for the worry of their own bullet supply, the traversers wouldn't have looked down on these weapons at all, so they only left about two hundred pieces of ammunition that were in good condition and a few ammunition, intending to keep them for backup, and the rest for the Cherokees, which could be regarded as a favor, and by the way, they also pulled a lot of younger brothers for themselves.

"But this gun can't be used by you. You have to pick out your best and brightest young men, and let us train you well, or else you will go and fight the Americans like this, and you will only be sent to death. Sun Zhengguang, the matter of training this group of people will be handed over to your team. ”

"But we don't know the language." Sun Zhengguang's face was embarrassed.

"Let them pick those who can speak English, don't you have a few college graduates in your team, let everyone learn, this little thing, it won't be difficult for you."

"Well, okay then," Sun Zhengguang reluctantly agreed.

"How to organize manpower is your business as a soldier, this, I can't interject." Zhao Wenli looked at Logan inquiringly.

"We have all discussed, we are going to set up an autonomous committee, which I will chair for the time being, and we will also send people to contact the people of the other departments to come here, and in the future, we can no longer fight on our own, this time, Encas is on his way to the Mohicans, and Otto is also on his way to the Delaware station, and before long we will gather more and more people. However, there are more of us, and now it's almost winter here, how can we live? Please also let us know from our valued guests. ”

"Don't worry, we will help you, and in the next few days, we will step up sending people to cut down trees and build houses, and strive to let everyone live in wooden houses before it snows." Zhao Wenli nodded approvingly, "You did a good job, next, you just need to select young people and prepare for training." For other things, let your people cooperate with us to build houses, pick wild vegetables, catch some fish and shrimp, and reclaim wasteland, and we will all work together to get through this winter, and I think as long as it comes this year, our life will be better. ”

Looking at Logan's respectful appearance in front of him, Zhao Wenli couldn't help but smile a little dumbly, is he some experts in Soviet and Russian aid to China, so do you have to let the Cherokee people arrange some temporary wives for their people to thank him for his enthusiastic internationalist care? However, looking at the yellow-skinned faces of the Cherokee women, I couldn't help but smile bitterly, and said in my heart, I'm afraid that the big guys won't be able to look down on it. But among the traversers, there are more than 100 singles, only five women, and there are more monks and less porridge, what can I do?

But he obviously didn't care about these things, and the most important thing in front of him was to give everyone a place to live before the first heavy snowfall came.

Oklahoma is bordered by the Ozark Plateau and the Vocito Mountains to the east, the Gulf Coast Plain extending from Texas to the south, the vast plains to the north and center, and the pot handle area to the west. The highest point is at Mt. Kurokata to the west of the pot handle area, with an altitude of 1,517 meters. It has a temperate continental climate, with an average annual temperature of 15.5 °C, increasing from northwest to southeast. Precipitation decreases from east to west, reaching 1,270 mm in the Wochita Mountains and only 380 mm in the Pot Handle area.

Although this land is still very strange in the eyes of Americans, it is not a barren land at all in the eyes of the Cherokee people who first set foot on this land, and the black land, overgrown with various weeds, and the rolling Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, bringing a large amount of rain from the upper reaches to water the land, if it is not driven here, this black land will not be long before it is reclaimed into a fertile land.

However, after all, they were only driven in, and the things they carried were very few except for intimate clothing, a small amount of food, and even pots and pans.

Even so, when Logan's self-government committee was formed, everything except their personal clothing was confiscated into public ownership, including a few bags of wheat and soybeans that had been accumulated, and dozens of rusty sickles and hoes. Although they were very reluctant, under the persuasion and coercion of the people sent by Logan, they had to hand over their belongings in pain, and then share the little food with everyone, and live a long life.

Despite this, it is still not enough, a few bags of wheat and beans are planted, but they only occupy dozens of acres of land, and a large amount of newly reclaimed land is still empty, not to mention the present, I don't know where the grain for the coming year is.

What's even more headache is that although the sun is still shining warmly, it has entered the early winter season, the cold wind is like a gust of tightness, everyone can only wrap their fur in the campfire in the field for the night, there are already many Cherokee people have caught a cold, but in this era of lack of medical treatment, there is really no way but to carry it.

It's not good, Chen Zhicheng's wounds gradually healed under the main knife of Wang Xiaojing's two knives, combined with Logan's herbal therapy. However, this knife did stab deep enough, only half a point, and it was about to stab the waist. Therefore, although the wound is gradually healing, the physical strength is still very weak. However, there was no danger to his life in the end, and the traversers did not usher in the first victim of their own people, and Xu Yongquan finally felt a lot more at ease.

Thousands of Cherokees, all looking for something to do, but there are so few tools that they can only rely on their own hands and shoulders to do some difficult work, even the sapper shovels of the traversers are used as saws, knives and hoes, what more effective way can there be?

However, this is still not enough, it has been three days, everyone has almost cut down the trees within a radius of several miles, and only a few dozen houses have been built, and it can only allow the old and young to temporarily avoid the cold wind, but seeing that it is getting colder day by day, we can't let everyone continue to wear their fur and carry it in the field.

"Zhao... Eldest brother. When Zhao Wenli was having a headache, Zhang Jianguo, a smuggler from the smuggling team, was sweating profusely and ran over with a square frame made of three wooden planks.

"Xiao Zhang, what's wrong with you?" Zhao Wenli asked curiously.

"I was afraid that there would not be so many houses to build with wood, so I made a few of these formwork with everyone, and we built walls out of clay, and we were able to build many houses." Zhang Jianguo cautiously held a sapper shovel, "What a good thing, if it weren't for this, I wouldn't be able to make it." ”

"This... Okay? Zhao Wenli leaned forward with interest.

"Well, our hometown used to build houses, and that's what we used to do," Zhang Jianguo gestured and installed a few small pieces of wood, bracketed the formwork, and then gestured and said, "Pour the clay into it, and then use the wooden gas to compact, you can build it to a height of one or two zhang, as long as you don't experience heavy wind and rain, and there is no rain leakage on the top, it will not be a problem to manage it for decades." ”

Zhao Wencheng seemed to have seen the earthen house in the countryside, but he didn't expect it to be so simple, as soon as he heard Zhang Jianguo say this, he immediately became awe-struck and said seriously: "Xiao Zhang, if I give you enough manpower, how many such houses can you build in ten days." ”

"It depends on how many people there are, and how many sets of templates," Zhang Jianguo said cautiously, "On the first day of the foundation, you can only build two stories high, and when the bottom is dry, you can add soil on it, otherwise it will collapse, so that if you count it, a group of three people, a pair of templates, you can build one in three or five days, and if there are one hundred pairs, it will be one hundred in three or five days." We have people now, as long as we organize everyone, it is not a problem to repair hundreds of them in ten days. ”

"Oh, Xiao Zhang, you know so well, what did you do before?"

"Well, I studied plastering with my father, and our family used to burn red bricks like this." Zhang Jianguo blushed and said unnaturally.

"Well, thanks to you for having this idea, otherwise so many people really don't know what to do," Zhao Wenli said sincerely approvingly, seeing that Zhang Jianguo had finally recovered his nature, he couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did you get together with the smuggling team?" ”

"No, Brother Zhao," Zhang Jianguo became nervous again, and argued, "Now it's all machines that make bricks, and you can't make money by working at home, I've been helping people build houses outside for the past few years, but the boss ran away with our money, but my father's bronchitis is still waiting for money to be cured, and there is no way to follow Brother Chen out." Really, Brother Zhao, I really haven't done anything bad. ”

"Well, I know, you're a good guy, I believe you." Zhao Wenli patted Zhang Jianguo's shoulder with some feelings, although he is a veteran and once led a large collective enterprise, but in the face of power, he is still only one of the disadvantaged groups. I wanted to say something comforting, but I was afraid that it would affect the overall situation of harmony, so I only turned into a long sigh and said, "Well, I'll go to the leader of Logan and ask him to find a way to send three hundred people to help you, and you will be responsible for this matter." ”

"Okay, Brother Zhao, don't worry, I will definitely do it with my heart." Zhang Jianguo wiped the corners of his eyes with emotion, and a sense of gratitude that he had never felt before came to his heart.

Ten days later, hundreds of adobe houses were erected, and all people, including the American prisoners, were able to huddle into the houses without having to endure the biting cold wind.

"Hell, the house can still be built like this, you don't need reinforced concrete, just the soil can be built so high," Feng Zicai, a soldier of the Airborne Forces, a former high-achieving student majoring in construction engineering, couldn't help but feel very hurt when he saw that his architectural expertise was completely useless here, and shook his head helplessly, "It seems that all the things I learned in school have been learned in vain." ”

"Xiao Feng, don't be discouraged, as long as we work together, your reinforced concrete construction project will definitely be realized," Zhao Wenli patted him on the shoulder encouragingly.

"Brother Zhao, what you said is true?" Feng Zicai said in surprise.

"Of course, you see when I've lied to someone." Zhao Wenli smiled with satisfaction, "Maybe our team was born specifically for crossing, you look at your airborne squadron, there are more than 90 people, there are actually more than 50 college students of various majors, and the rest are at least high school graduates, with such a high starting point, what else do we have to be afraid of." Go ahead, do a good job, let everyone settle down first, learn from Xiao Zhang first, maybe you will have the opportunity to continue to cooperate in the future. ”

"Okay," although he is the pride of the sky, he will have to lower his body and mingle with Zhang Jianguo, but after chatting with each other, he found that they actually graduated from the college entrance examination in the same year, Feng Zicai is a Jingshi person, scored 496 points in the exam, and went to a key architecture school, while Zhang Jianguo of Hunan scored 516 points, but he could only be reduced to a construction site and became a plasterer.

Logan looked at the houses that had been planted almost overnight, and admired the traversers even more, although these earthen houses were not so well lit, they were actually warmer than the wooden and brick houses they lived in before, what is this not a miracle?

The first snow of the winter of 1842 was finally long overdue.