Chapter 186: Against Iroquois
I want a child, you have to cooperate with me.
Little Emma's words made Zhao Hongyu's heart beat faster, but he quickly calmed down. For the little girl's words, Zhao Hongyu didn't take it to heart at all.
If Emma was older in a few years, Zhao Hongyu would still be able to cooperate, but now...... Forget it.
Zhao Hongyu coaxed Emma, and finally coaxed Emma to stop talking about this topic, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
After coaxing Emma, Zhao Hongyu and Wang Shan continued to chat.
And Emma saw that Zhao Hongyu didn't talk to her about having children at all, which made her a little helpless and discouraged.
But now that men have begun to talk about business, it is really difficult for her as a woman to interject at this time.
Therefore, little Emma now just pouts and sits helplessly on Zhao Hongyu's lap, leaning obliquely on Zhao Hongyu's arms.
When this is over, I will go back to Manhattan and ask my mother, I should have learned more about how to communicate with men.
Emma thought to herself with some regret.
When her mother wanted to teach her, Emma never wanted to.
Now she feels a little regretful, she should have learned more if she knew that Lu Dao should have learned.
Emma, who was curled up in Zhao Hongyu's arms like a kitten, looked at the two people chatting with a twinkle in her eyes.
"Your Highness, you can't go wrong with building a city structure and getting more warriors from your hometown. But have you thought about it, what will the Iroquois think if we have too many people here? ”
Because Emma was by Zhao Hongyu's side, Wang Shan did not say the word 'gene man'. He was careful, and also said a somewhat vague word 'hometown'.
In Emma's ears, what Wang Shan said must be Zhao Hongyu's hometown in the north.
And only Zhao Hongyu himself knows what the 'hometown' in Wang Shankou is.
After a deep sigh, Zhao Hongyu said: "You mean to say that if there is too much population on our side." Can the Iroquois easily develop a threatening mentality, which can lead to conflict with us? ”
At the same time, he also secretly pondered in his heart.
Is there any truth to Wang Shan's statement?
This makes sense in Zhao Hongyu's opinion.
Zhao Hongyu: There are not too many people here now, only five or six hundred, which is not dangerous in the eyes of the Iroquois.
Therefore, the Iroquois should be able to accept them as they stay, and trade with them.
Because they were nothing in the eyes of the Iroquois, and if they were a threat to the Iroquois, they would be easy to deal with.
It can be said that they are not much of a threat.
So keeping them on their own turf is not a big deal.
But all human psychology will have such a thought.
But if Zhao Hongyu has a large number of them, and they are equipped one by one, it will be difficult to say.
What will the Iroquois think?
You said that there are so many of you and you are so well equipped with weapons, Hula came to our territory all of a sudden, and you also said that you want to carry out trade.
Therefore, when the time comes, there will inevitably be conflicts.
This is something that can be thought of with an ass.
"But if I don't get soldiers from my hometown, how will we occupy the Great Lakes region in the future?"
Zhao Hongyu felt a little embarrassed.
Wang Shan thought for a while and said to Zhao Hongyu: "Your Highness, this is inevitable. But when we make the Iroquois feel threatened, we can take the opportunity to win over a few of their tribes. As long as there are people in this alliance who have their hearts set towards us, then everything will not be too much of a problem. ”
Wang Shan's face showed a wicked smile of yīnyīn.
Seeing Wang Shan with such an expression, Zhao Hongyu knew that he must have thought of some bad idea again.
This guy is like this, as long as he thinks of a bad idea, he will show such an expression, and he really knows Wang Shan's xìng grid.
"If you have any ideas in mind, you might as well tell me about them." , Zhao Hongyu hugged Emma and asked her to change her position, because the little guy was sitting on his lap and his leg was already a little numb. "Looking at the way you smile evilly, I know that you must have an idea, right."
Hearing this, the evil smile on Wang Shan's face became a little thicker.
He nodded and said to Zhao Hongyu: "Your Highness, don't forget the records in history." As he spoke, Wang Shan made a look. Zhao Hongyu knowingly raised his hand and patted Emma's little buttocks, and said to Emma: "You go and ask the kitchen to prepare some ginseng soup, and I will drink it at night." ”
Emma nodded, not thinking much about it.
After Emma left, Zhao Hongyu looked at Wang Shan and said, "Now you can say it, it's mysterious." ”
Wang Shan said: "Emma was here just now, and there are some things that she can't hear, after all, she also knows a lot of Huaxia now." Children, languages are always learned quickly, and there is no way to do it, so I always have to be careful. ”
Zhao Hongyu nodded, he knew that what Wang Shan said was right, there were some conversations between them that could not be known to outsiders.
"Tell me, what the hell are you going to do." , Zhao Hongyu waved his hand, indicating that he understood Wang Shan's caution very well.
Wang Shan then said: "Your Highness, you should know that although the Iroquois Union was a big alliance in history, this alliance of theirs was not reliable. This was fulfilled in the Seven Years' War between Britain and France, as well as in the subsequent American ** War. ”
Zhao Hongyu listened quietly to Wang Shan's narration, and at the same time recalled in his heart the information about Iroquois that he had read from books.
Wang Shan continued: "During the seven-year war between Anglo-French and America, the Iroquois was divided. While it may seem like there was no division between the six tribes helping the British, some of the smaller tribes below went to help the French. ”
Wang Shan told what would happen to the Iroquois in the future.
"And during the American War, the Iroquois were officially divided into six tribes. Among them, there are two tribes to help the **, and the four tribes help the British, and the ending must be Your Highness, you know the way. Speaking of this, Wang Shan paused.
Zhao Hongyu nodded, of course he was clear about this history.
Three of the four major tribes that helped the British were exterminated, and the remaining tribe also fled to Canada.
The two tribes that helped the Americans did not reap the benefits, and during the American Civil War, they were slaughtered for 'being on the wrong side', and the Iroquois was completely finished.
However, Zhao Hongyu was a little curious, what did Wang Shan say about the use of these for himself?
Therefore, Zhao Hongyu, who didn't understand a little, asked Wang Shandao: "What's the use of you telling me this, it's something that will happen more than a hundred years later." Besides, the leaders of that time, and the Iroquois people's lives are different now, so I can't measure them. ”
When Wang Shan heard this, he put away his evil smile and looked serious.
"Your Highness, think about it. If the Iroquois were really monolithic, then they wouldn't have such a thing in the future. But how could such a thing happen in their alliance, this is worth exploring. ”
Wang Shan's words have been said very clearly, his so-called 'exploration' is actually to find the weaknesses of Iroquois, that is, to let Zhao Hongyu and them win over some tribes.
Since the French were able to win over so many Indian tribes in the Anglo-French War, they couldn't do the same for what they wanted.
When it comes to the means and skills of winning over people, the Chinese are masters.
Zhao Hongyu slowly bowed his head, and after understanding the meaning of Wang Shan's words, he also understood.
Wang Shan is not wrong at all, Iroquois is not monolithic, if it is used well, it is somewhat unlikely that the soldiers will occupy the Great Lakes without bloodshed, but it is still possible to minimize casualties.
The six major tribes of the Iroquois, as long as they can win over two, it is also good.
If they can really win over the two big tribes, at least they can speak for themselves and let themselves encounter less trouble.
The most important thing is that if cāo does a good job and waits until there is a conflict, Zhao Hongyu and they will encounter less resistance. It is even possible that Iroquois will not have to wait for the future to be divided.
A powerful Iroquois is not in the interests of Zhao Hongyu and them, only a divided Iroquois and a constantly fighting Iroquois is in the interests of Zhao Hongyu and them.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hongyu also became serious.
He said to Wang Shan: "Isn't this simple, the system of the Iroquois is somewhat similar to the parliamentary system of later generations. Each tribe has one vote to decide, which will bog many of their decisions into endless rip-offs. Because some decisions could not accommodate the needs of all tribes, this caused some people to be dissatisfied, and this dissatisfaction would eventually explode and become the trigger for the Iroquois. ”
He answered some of Wang Shan's puzzled questions just now.
"Human beings are born with their own inferiority, even in the body of a simple Indian, without exception." , Zhao Hongyu smiled bitterly.
Wang Shan nodded, he agreed with what Zhao Hongyu said.
Where there are interests, there will always be conflicts, and this is an eternal truth.
And it is inevitable that there will be such a conflict of interest in the Iroquois.
It's just that it hasn't erupted now, it's just suppressed.
But this repression was not a solution after all, and at the end it was seen by the French and the British, and used to make the great Iroquois finally divided and annihilated in the long river of history.
"Your Highness, we can take advantage of this, and then we will be able to establish ourselves here." , Wang Shan leaned forward and said to Zhao Hongyu seriously. "And our goods will be welcomed by them, and we will be able to send health teams into their tribes to treat their people......"