Justice is a very mysterious thing.

Nothing in the world dared to openly confront him.

……

After the turtledove had this meeting, no one asked any more questions, and the people left in silence.

Each was thoughtful, but it seemed to be confused.

The beaver stayed at the end, looking at the turtledove with a smirk.

"What's the matter, beaver, is there something wrong?" Turtledove asked.

"Liar! You liar! Beaver said.

"What did I lie?" Turtledove asked.

"I don't know if you went to ask Geronimo to go north, I don't know if he will listen to you, but I know that the Mexican emperor ** will definitely not go north at this time!"

"Why?"

"The threat in Texas is far greater than that of Fremont in Oregon!" "Zachary Taylor is a scheming war maniac who has amassed a huge army in Texas that Mexico can't afford to turn a blind eye!" ”

Turtledove didn't feel embarrassed at all when the scam was exposed, and just smiled profusely.

The beaver continued: "As for Russia in the north, only people like waterwheels and oxen will believe you. In their eyes, Russia may be another tribe, and the chaotic countries of Europe are no different from the tribes of the Great Plains. But if they read the information a little carefully, they will know how outrageous your lie is! ”

"As for the support of England and France, it is even far away, and not even a single hair can be seen. But the threat from Fremont is imminent - oh my God, it's a fifteen dollar fool to believe that firewood, which is only possible next year, can help us get through this coming winter! We can go to Lake Superior and carry water to extinguish the campfire burning in front of us – oh my! What a ridiculous lie! They still believe your lies! ”

"What justice, what justice, the Indians are so stupid, they have been planted on this for hundreds of years - I won't believe a word anyway!"

"Tell me honestly, turtledove! What are your real intentions? ”

……

The turtledove looked at the beaver seriously.

"Do you think I'm lying to them?"

"Isn't it?" The beaver asked rhetorically.

"You're wrong, beaver! What I said may not be true, but I definitely didn't lie to them! ”

"It doesn't really matter whether the combined forces of Jerónimo and the Mexican Empire are heading north or not, and it is the greatest threat to the enemy when an arrow has not yet been fired. Unless Flémont reaches a peace agreement with General Márquez, known as the 'Tiger of Tacuhuaa' in Mexico, he will always fear that such a force will go north at any moment! ”

"Russia's fleet certainly won't go south, and it's a big question whether the country still has a fleet in Alaska. I understand better than you that in this period, the center of the world was in Europe, and the focus of the great powers was on the Balkans, in the Crimea...... But, beavers, what do you think Fremont would think if I was willing to pay a little to let any Russian boat come and go around? ”

"What I have proposed is only one direction, and as for the specific execution, fifteen dollars will perfect it! Maybe he'll have other ideas, who knows? ”

"The big bunch of Indians gathered at the foot of Bulak Mountain, they don't have to do anything, I just need them to clamo me for a westward expedition! If I really have to rely on them to fight, how blind must I be? Can't I see that it's a rabble? ”

"The war has already begun, beaver! Many times, when you see my army and the enemy start to fight each other, it is actually the end of the war. ”

"Do you really think that fifteen dollars, a waterwheel, and a cow ride are all stupid people, and you can't see that what I'm talking about is actually a mirror?"

"Why don't they have such a question from you?"

"Why didn't they say a word when they left?"

"Because they've been growing, and they've become towering trees. They see the wider world, they open up new ideas! ”

"Why do I say this is the last time I teach them? Because they've all grown up, they're all able to take charge on their own, and they don't need me to hold them by the hand anymore! I don't need to teach them anything in the future! ”

"But what about you?"

"You are clever and constantly look for loopholes in my words, thinking that I lied to you in this place and in that place - beaver, war is not a debate!"

"You used to be the smartest man I've ever met, but now, fifteen dollars they've all grown, your cleverness seems a little out of place with theirs."

"They see the possibility of the alliance between Geronimo and Mexico going north, they see the desire of this Russian tribe for the territory of the Pacific coast, and they see the possibility of that group of tribes in Europe becoming our allies - they see this, these are our strengths, they are already thinking about how to use this power, and you are complacent about exposing my lies!"

"Your 'cleverness' is outdated, beaver!"

……

The beaver sat in a wheelchair, dumbfounded, not knowing how to respond.

The turtledove in front of him seems to be gradually becoming unfamiliar.

At the beginning, the turtledove that carried a musket and shouted in the rain of bullets, the turtledove who threw one conspiracy after another in the southern grasslands, and the turtledove who was nicknamed "Crimson Chief" in the forests of the Madre Mountains...... It once left such a deep impression on his memory, but now it is gradually disappearing.

It had become a majestic back, and it was walking briskly on the road ahead, leaving him behind and going farther and farther.

The Apache he had sworn to protect in his memory were now unable to outline them, and he merged with the Sioux and Navajo people from all over the world, and he was getting farther and farther away in his memory.

The resolute and courageous Victorio seemed to have turned into an afterimage, smiling and waving goodbye to him.

The rumbling of wheels sounded in his ears, and those familiar things were throwing him down, and he shouted at them with all his might: "Wait for me! ”

But no one answered him, only the majestic figure in the distance turned his head and beckoned to him: "Quick! Come on! Beaver! If you don't run again, you will be left behind by the train of the times! ”

……

"Everybody is growing, and no one is standing still, beaver!"

Turtledove continued: "Now, the Indians in White Rock City are no longer the Indians who can't even make a fire bow, and think that lightning is the long whip of Quetzalcoatl, and humans are the mud thrown out by the gods! ”

"They are as poor as ever, but they are different."

"Fifteen dollars is a war priest who knows better than all of us how to start a war. The only thing he lacked now was faith, he didn't know what to use to defeat the white man's cannons and megaships! ”

"The watermill is the commander of the Tonatiu Legion, and he knows better than all of us how to fight. But what he lacked was the courage to get back up, he was scared of that battle, he was fleeing the battlefield with his injuries! ”

"The Sitting Ox is our Judgment Priest, who has all the qualities of a good commander, except for vision! He only saw the vast land on the Great Plains, he had never seen the boundless sea, and the wider world beyond the sea, what he lacked was pattern and vision! ”

"From my words, they all got what they wanted!"

"I'm not teaching them how to fight, they have been pondering the art of war all day long, and they have mastered it much more than I do!"

"What I taught them was something that went beyond fighting."

"As long as we have this kind of thing, we have nothing to fear!"

"As long as there is such a thing, the weak will be full of strength, the coward will dare to swing the sword at the stronger, and the pawn and peddler will see the prince and not worship! Even if we fail a thousand times and are pressed to the ground by the enemy, we can still struggle to get up from the mud! ”

"This kind of thing is called justice!"

……

"We fight for justice, beaver!"

"As long as you firmly believe in this, many things will suddenly become clear!"

"You'll understand, why did Victorio fail? Why did White Rock rise in such a short period of time? How are we going to fight the next battle? What is the way out for the Indians? ”

"You will understand that we are not destined to fall victim to its 'manifest destiny', we are a force of light, and we will face an evil invasion. We were right! We are righteous ......"

The turtledove gently straightened the collar of the stunned beaver, softened his tone, and said, "...... We are normal! ”

……

Justice is a very mysterious thing.

All want to be on the same side as it, not on the other side of it.

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