Chapter 5 This is Oregon

"Speak!" Turtledove said.

As if waiting for the turtledove's voice, little Andre said: "-I don't care what the new king and the old king are, this is the territory of our Indians, they are making trouble here, have they asked our opinion?" ”

Little Andre looked around proudly and found that there was no one to support him.

However, this did not prevent him from continuing the story.

"Since the first white people came here 300 years ago, there have been 125 tribes and nearly 500,000 people living here! We hunt, farm, and build our civilization independently! ”

"But now? Don't ask me where those 125 tribes were! Don't ask me where those 500,000 people were! Not a single beaver could be found in the Columbia River, and even the last bison on the Snake Plains was skinned by them! ”

"I'm not here to tell you how miserable people in Oregon are. Who of us Indians is not so miserable? ”

"What I want to say is that the land of Oregon has fallen, the population of Oregon has been killed by them, and the civilization of Oregon will become human from now on - this is not to blame the white people, we all deserve it!"

Little Andrei dropped the charcoal in his hand and turned around.

In front of him sat the Supreme Commander of the Indian Union, as well as his dearest teacher.

But little Andre was as excited as an enraged rhinoceros, even if there were two black dragons standing in front of him, he dared to slap his head with his head.

"We deserve it!" Little Andrei said loudly.

"When the Mayflower landed in the east, we would not have been deceived by their hypocrisy if we had taken not steaming tortillas and precious herbs, but our javelins and ropes!"

"If Emperor Montezuma had recognized Scott's cruelty and viciousness from the beginning, he would not have been locked in a prison, and even if his subjects had taken out a gold as heavy as him, they would still not be able to satisfy Scott's endless greed!"

"Why did Tecumseh die? God, I can't imagine that this hero, who is as brave and strong, could be so naïve! Childish enough to believe a white man's lie! Naïve enough to be deceived by such a simple promise! ”

"We are kind!"

"We are simple!"

"We are naïve!"

"We're good people!"

"So, we are now on our way to perdition!"

"We deserve it!"

"You deserve it, you deserve it!"

"Now I'm going to tell you, where did the 500,000 Indians in Oregon go — I'm sorry, but Oregon never had 500,000 Indians!"

"There are only 500,000 Indian slaves here!"

Little Andre turned his head, pointed to the map on the wall, his eyes widened, and said, "This is Oregon!" ”

"This is our Oregon!"

……

Little Andrei raised his hand, but he found that he had no pen in his hand.

He looked around the ground, but he couldn't find the charcoal he had just thrown on the ground.

So he stuck out his index finger and bit it down.

Splattered with his own blood, he drew arrows on the walls.

Talk while drawing!

"This is England!"

"If you have to rank the bad guys in the world, the first place must be the United Kingdom!"

"I don't want to promote hatred here, because curses and spitting don't kill people at all!"

"But now, our best chance to kill it!"

"Europe is in the dark, and last year Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte was in a panic when he escaped from the prison of the fortress of Hamm! For a villain like Britain, a strong European country is his worst enemy! This means that his 'balance of power on the mainland' strategy is on the verge of bankruptcy. ”

"It's so busy fanning and forming factions in Europe that it doesn't have time to care about the Americas — look, this country that claims to be the largest country in the world has only one thousand-strong army in Oregon!"

"It's a lone soldier!"

"Once this army is defeated, there will be no more Britons on the North American continent—"

……

"Little Andrey!" Sekoya interrupted little Andrew's impassioned speech and asked, "The English are our enemies, but aren't the Americans?" Why don't we unite with Britain to fight the United States? ”

……

"The British cannot be united by us!" Little Andrei replied decisively!

"Teacher Sequoia, I respect your knowledge and your character. Although you, like all Indians, have experienced many hardships, you have never experienced deception, betrayal, and exhaustion in your life experience! ”

"You are a true scholar! You are a respectful elder! You're a gifted language genius! ”

"These things, even if you become a slave because of your status as an Indian, you are still a high-level slave!"

"High slave status—like Emperor Montezuma, like Chief Tecumse, like Chief John Ross, who is now wagging his tail in Zuozhia—your status is predestined, you are hesitant, you have illusions about them! That's why, for the past 300 years, under the leadership of you high-ranking slaves, we have resisted and failed! ”

"The most decisive action you can think of is to change yourself with a more benevolent master!"

"But we are human! Indians are people too! ”

"Why can't we be ourselves? Why do we have to find a master for ourselves? ”

"Three hundred years ago, we didn't refuse them!"

"Three hundred years later, can we stop being naïve and reject them once?"

"We need not bother to think about what conspiracy is hidden in the British and our covenant, and does not three hundred years of humiliation and betrayal make us understand? It was nothing more than another Hopwell Treaty or the Indian Migration Act! ”

"Trust me! In this place, Oregon, when we really had a chance to defeat Fremont, the first to betray us was definitely the British! ”

"Teacher Sequoia, Mr. Turtledove, Uncle Peso, ......Brother Crescent," called out their names, and said little Andrew, "when I came out of the shadows of the Carlisle Institute of Technology, I was no longer as naïve as I used to be!" ”

"When I was no longer naïve, I rediscovered the truth of this world - full of deception and lies!"

"I don't know why I'm here tonight, why I'm giving you this talk."

"But I know this is a rare opportunity, maybe you have your considerations in your hearts, maybe I am still young and have a lot of things to think about."

"Anyway, I want to say: let's stop being naïve!"

"Stop thinking about the United Kingdom against the United States or the United States against the United Kingdom, and we should no longer pin our hopes on anyone! We can only rely on ourselves! ”

"Now is our best chance to get our land back!"

"We should do it!"

"That's all we can do!"

"This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!"

……

"But, little Andre, you haven't told me what Oregon is!" Turtledove said surgingly.

Little Andrei paused and took a quiet breath.

He smeared the already congealed blood on his fingers above Oregon City, and replied in a calm tone, gently:

"If we choose to sit idly by, it's going to be a knot tied down our throats – this is Oregon!"

"If we don't hesitate anymore, learn to be shameless and intrigued, and fight with mountains of corpses and a sea of blood, this will be the first city we have recovered - this is also Oregon!"

I don't know if little Andre intentionally or unintentionally, when he scribbled the last bright red stroke on the map of Oregon, from Oregon in the north to Mexico in the south, it was faintly connected, across the Mississippi River, and the thirteen states on the Atlantic coast in the east.

Just like the end of the game, the failure of the qi has ended;

Suddenly, there is a clever hand to set Tianyuan, and it is necessary to break the robbery and slay the dragon again!