Chapter XXXIV

Strengthening the tribe is the mind of every Indian, including those who are willing to be vassals under the banner of Europeans.

The problem is that the culture of fishing and hunting is the most important factor restricting the growth of Indian tribes in North America, and it is difficult to supply a large number of Indians with food obtained from fishing and hunting alone, which is why there are few Indian tribes with more than 10,000 people on the North American continent. The grizzly tribe, which numbered only 3,000 people, had to migrate away every once in a while, settling in search of more prey for the beast.

In addition, the backward level of medicine, the single food, the harsh living environment, and the constant tribal conflicts are also one of the reasons that restrict the growth of Indian tribes.

Sabur said with a wry smile: "We definitely want to strengthen the grizzly tribe, the problem is that the prey in this land is barely enough to eat, and no matter how many people there are, there will not be enough food, and the old people and newborn children may starve to death due to lack of food." ”

Ye Feiyu did bring them a lot of food, which added up to thousands of catties twice, but for the grizzly tribe with three thousand people, these foods were only enough for them to eat two meals, especially the food with salt and spices, which made the people of the grizzly tribe have a great appetite and increase their appetite a lot.

One of them, a young elder with old age spots on his face and in fact only forty years old, squinted at Ye Feiyu and continued, "Brother Ye means that he is going to provide us with weapons to kill the people of the nearby tribes and seize more territory and food?" ”

Ye Feiyu was taken aback by the words of the "old guy", he couldn't imagine that these Indians were so belligerent, and shook his head and said, "Of course not." The food problem is easy to solve, what if I provide enough food for the grizzly tribe? ”

Sabur and the others were taken aback: "What? Enough food? ”

Let the tribe grow, but it is not a matter of tens of millions of catties of food, they can't calculate how much Sabul is needed, they only know that doubling the number of people in the Grizzly Bear Tribe and doubling the hunting territory means that the Grizzly Bear Tribe has to fight with several tribes such as the nearby Biante tribe and the Black Rock tribe.

The combined warriors of these tribes were no less than the Grizzly Tribe, and unless Ye Feiyu could provide them with enough bullets and weapons, the Grizzly Tribes would not be sure of victory.

The Indians do not have the concept of territory, but their hunting territory is actually a disguised territorial concept, the battle for hunting territory is the survival battle of the tribe, to the end, regardless of men, women and children, they have to take weapons to the battlefield, even if the grizzly tribe can win, it will be a tragic victory, and I don't know how many people can be left in the end.

Ye Feiyu continued: "You have all eaten the food I brought, such as those rice and wheat, although it is not as easy to fill your stomach as meat, it is enough to meet everyone's food needs. This food can be grown here, and with the usual hunting income, it is not a problem to grow the grizzly bear tribe. ”

Like a big bad wolf luring Little Red Riding Hood, he earnestly enticed the leaders of these grizzly bear tribes: "Think about it, as long as the grizzly tribe has enough warriors, enough weapons, and enough food, those nearby tribes will naturally take the initiative to attach to it, so that they can quickly enhance the strength of the grizzly tribe and confront more and more Europeans." ”

Sabur hesitated, and asked with some confusion, "Are the seeds of those plants really enough for so many of us to eat?" ”

When they were hungry, they ate the fruit tubers of plants and the like, but many of these things are poisonous, and eating too much can even kill people, and the number of fruit tubers collected from the wild is not large, and if you hunt a bison at random, you will have thousands of catties of meat, which is not comparable to the fruit tubers of those plants.

Even if Ye Feiyu has been deified in their minds, it will be difficult for the Indians to change their living habits and cognition for thousands of years for a while.

Ye Feiyu nodded: "Naturally, I won't deceive the Sabul Patriarch and the elders, our Xijiang tribe mainly eats these plant seeds to live." ”

"Now that winter is coming, I can take out a large amount of food, not only to meet the needs of the grizzly tribe, but you can also take it out to exchange furs and other items with nearby tribes."

The Great Wizard could be said to be the wisest person in the entire tribe, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask with some puzzlement: "Brother Ye has helped us so much, how can we repay Brother Ye?" ”

Ye Feiyu didn't hide his purpose, and said directly: "I need you to help me collect items such as yellow stones, golden sand, and all kinds of furs in their hands, and I will exchange them with food and weapons." ”

He paused for a moment, then smiled: "I will exchange food, knives, etc. with everyone according to the current exchange ratio, as for how you exchange with people from other tribes, I don't care, but I suggest that you increase the exchange ratio slightly, so that it will be beneficial to me and the Grizzly Tribe, and I can't let my friends from the Grizzly Bear Tribe help me in vain." ”

Ye Feiyu's reputation is still good, the reason why Sabur and the others have a bad relationship with the white pig is that they were miserable by the white pig at the beginning, and the basic transaction income can barely be figured out, and I feel that Ye Feiyu is kind, and it is reassuring to trade with him.

Everyone discussed it in front of Ye Feiyu, without the slightest sense of secrecy, and then voted by a show of hands, and unanimously approved Ye Feiyu's proposal, but the Great Wizard cautiously raised a question: "Brother Ye, is the kind of firearm you just traded to us also according to the original proportion?" And those bullets, two hundred bullets for a firearm seem to be a bit insufficient. ”

Ye Feiyu thought for a moment, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face: "These powerful weapons are all given to our Xijiang tribe by the gods, and they need a lot of offerings to obtain. ”

"However, if the Grizzly Tribes need it in the future, I will try my best to bring you as many weapons and bullets as possible, so that other tribes and Europeans will not infringe on the interests of the Grizzly Tribe."

Everyone was relieved when they heard Ye Feiyu say this, for the Indians, promises are worth believing more than any contracts and oaths, and Sabul laughed at the moment: "Since this is the case, then when the next warm season comes, we will send it to other tribes to exchange more yellow stones and beast skins for Brother Ye." ”

Gold and fur are just Ye Feiyu's two current goals, iron ore, coal mines, timber and even oil, etc., are all one of Ye Feiyu's goals, even if they can't be sold for much money in the space-time store, they can still be brought back to the earth plane. However, at this time, he was still far away from ruling the continent, and he could not exploit these deposits, so he could only focus on the most obtainable furs and gold.

"No, winter is the best trading season, at this time, the various tribes lack food to survive the harsh winter, and the people of the grizzly tribe bring a lot of food over to better let these tribes know the strength of the grizzly tribe."

Ye Feiyu brought a large amount of food this time, and the materials of a single grizzly tribe could no longer satisfy him, and the gold had to be slowly scooped up, so naturally he would not waste a season to expand his power, and then said: "I will bring clothes that are enough to withstand the cold wind of ice and snow in the harsh winter, and then everyone can leave the Bison Valley in the harsh winter and go to other tribes to exchange supplies." ”

Having enjoyed cooking and grilling food with earth spices, handy lighters and other small items, and even toilet paper, which greatly improved the lives of the Grizzly Bear Tribe, it is not easy to return to the hard days of the past.

Take Sabur as an example, he now has to put a spoonful of salt in the barbecue every day, and it is more uncomfortable to let him eat the barbecue meat that was as light as water as before, than to kill him.

However, after a battle, they had already bought weapons and bullets with all their wealth, and they couldn't exchange supplies with Ye Feiyu for food and spices, since they had clothes to resist the cold wind to go out, therefore, Ye Feiyu's proposal was once again unanimously agreed by the leaders of the Grizzly Bear Tribe, and it was decided that the warriors of the Grizzly Bear Tribe would take Ye Feiyu's goods to the nearby tribes to sell them, and earn a part of the difference to maintain their "luxurious life".

In the end, Ye Feiyu proposed to take a few captured European soldiers.

The captives were stunned by the sound of bombs, or pushed to the ground and knocked unconscious, and the Europeans who were wounded by bullets either fled back or were killed by the Grizzly Tribesmen who cleaned up the battlefield - no one would leave these maimed enemies behind, they were not cured anyway, and bringing them back had no effect, only food was wasted.

The European soldiers who fainted were originally going to be killed according to Huya's surname, but in the end, Ye Feiyu stopped him, and the Europeans saved their surnames.

Now Ye Feiyu doesn't want the loot, and he also advances all kinds of goods for the people of the Grizzly Bear Tribe to take to other tribes to trade, and there is naturally no problem with asking for a few white-skinned pig captives, although Sabur They don't know what Ye Feiyu wants these white-skinned pigs to do.

Of course they didn't know that Ye Feiyu was on their side, purely for profit, and had nothing to do with the identity of the Indians, as long as they could bring source crystal income to Ye Feiyu, the object of the transaction would be the same as Indians or Europeans.

In fact, in Ye Feiyu's view, although these Indian tribes with inconvenient transportation and backward social structure have sufficient potential, they need to spend a lot of time to conquer and develop. The Indians can become his base camp and a stable source of income, and it is these Europeans who can really compete for quick money, but these Europeans who have crossed the sea and traveled all over the continent!

In the history of the earth plane, Europe developed by such bloody plundering of the wealth of various continents, and a large number of ships transported gold and silver and other goods to small Europe every day, which made the prices of European prices skyrocket, and the ordinary people at the lower levels had a difficult life, so they had to go to sea to make a living and fight on strange continents.

If this were not the case, who would want to risk their lives from their homeland and come from the European continent to this uncivilized and indigenous American continent, you must know that the mortality rate of navigation is extremely high, and once there is a storm or something, it is very common for the whole ship to be swallowed by the sea.

The nobles, who had profited from the seafaring trade, gradually began to make comparisons, and luxury became popular, and it was not too difficult to extract wealth from them.

For his own safety, Ye Feiyu did not plan to go to the European settlements to do business with each other in person at this time, these European soldiers were the bridge between him and the Europeans.