Browning was stunned for a moment, and then became angry again: "You said you wouldn't-"

He couldn't go on halfway through his words, because Ma Whistle said that he would not break him up with his family, and he did what he said.

Taking the whole family away is certainly not a breakup.

Ma Whistle patted him on the shoulder: "Believe me, Mr. Gunsmith, the most outstanding gunsmith within a radius of five hundred miles, it won't be long before you will adapt to and even like life in the Sleeping Bear Clan." ”

"Impossible! Even if I die, and my heart is pierced through by a gun I made, I will not become a dirty and shameless barbarian like you! Browning was obviously a violent temper, and the more he scolded, the more energetic he became, and finally he directly swore loudly, "Fake swims on the beach, son of the beach!" ”

"I don't like to kill, but my people don't have to, do you want me to translate your words to them?" ”

Browning finally shut up, but his eyes were still wide, and his beard was shaking.

It was three o'clock in the morning, and then the horse sentry arranged for the night watchman, and rested in the town, preparing to deal with the town further the next day.

During the break, some of the clansmen expressed their doubts to him.

"Chief, why are we taking in so many white kids?" The tribe basically understood the significance of the occupation of the town, but they were puzzled by the fact that white children were being taken in.

"First of all, they are hostages." "I'll send some soldiers to garrison Clark Town for a long time, and the number of soldiers stationed in Clark Town will not be too many in the short term, maybe twenty...... And there were more than four hundred whites in the town, and if they were united and resisted desperately, the garrison of twenty men would probably be defeated even with the help of the blacks. ”

"Now their children are in our hands, although they are only the children of a small number of people, but it is enough to ensure that they cannot be effectively united."

The clansman suddenly realized, and then said with admiration on his face: "I understand!" Chief, you are the wisest man in Apache! ”

Ma Whistle smiled.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, when Ma Shou woke up, he first called Thomas at the town office.

Thomas apparently had not slept all night, and probably spent the night in sorrow and even crying, looking very haggard.

And when he saw the horse whistle who went to bed late and got up early but was still full of energy, his face became even more tired and haggard.

"I'm going to write a law for Clark Town, and I need to ask for your opinion." Ma Whistle said.

"Okay...... Can you let me wash my face first? Thomas said.

"Go ahead."

After a while, Thomas came back from washing his face, he looked much better, and a stiff smile appeared on his face.

"What's your full name?" The horse whistle asked.

"Henry Thomas."

The whistle nodded, and then asked Thomas a number of questions, including some English expressions that he was not sure about, as he wrote simple laws.

The content of the law mainly includes seven items, namely: the ownership and organization of towns, the land system, the tax system, the abolition of slavery, the police and law and order, the garrison, and the control of firearms.

The town of Clark belongs to the Sleeping Bear Clan, and the supreme leader is the clan chief, who is appointed by the chief and must obey the will of the chief, and the current mayor is Henry Thomas......

The land in the town is owned by the clan, and the inhabitants have a tenure of fifty years.

A formal tax system was set up for the town, and of course, most of the money collected had to be handed over to the horse whistle.

The black slaves were permanently abolished, and the police were formed from black people, and the sheriff was the second only position to the town mayor.

The Apache garrison was stationed here, and had a higher level of policing authority, allowing the garrison to arrest the mayor even if he broke the law.

Strict gun control, no one except the police and the garrison are allowed to buy and use firearms......

"See if there's anything missing, Mr. Thomas." The horse whistle handed the law to Thomas.

Thomas took a few pages of the law, but didn't look at it closely. He knew what was written in it, after all, it was written in front of his eyes.

"I want to ...... No. He stared at the not-so-pretty handwriting and had to admit, "You're much better than those in Congress." ”

The law was somewhat rudimentary, and it was clearly directed at him, and indeed at every turn, against all the white townspeople.

But objectively speaking, the law can also be called well-organized, clear and easy to understand, and at the same time, it covers all important matters no more and no less.

Although he was squeezing white people, it didn't seem particularly excessive, and there were some innovations he had never heard of, and it was hard to imagine that it took him a morning to write.

For horse whistles, this is just part of common sense. Any modern person with a systematic education would think that these are the most basic operations.

But it seemed strange to Henry Thomas that an Indian could write such a law at the same time.

His spiritual world shook again.

As a believer, Thomas couldn't help but voice his inner doubts: "Are you sent by God to punish me?" ”

"I don't believe in God." Ma Whistle smiled, "But frankly, sometimes I suspect that I may have been sent into this world by a god. ”

"I don't want to live like this, I don't like struggles and I'm not a noble person, but I have to do something for my people, it's in my blood...... Human constancy, isn't it? ”

Thomas was silent for a moment, then nodded, "That's right. ”

The horse whistle then patted him on the shoulder and said, "You have your interests and human constancy, and I can understand your hostility and confrontation. ”

“…… But at least one thing I want you to understand is that as a chief, I am a reasonable and long-term man, and I reject fierce revenge and oppression. Even, as long as you are willing to cooperate with me and provide me with what I want, I don't mind giving you a part of the benefits, after all, so that I can make better use of you. ”

"You can choose a fierce conflict and confrontation, and that will really hurt me, maybe even the only way to hurt me. But I can assure you that you will almost certainly fail, and your failure in this scenario will result in the loss of everything. ”

Thomas bowed his head and was silent.

"Of course, nothing is absolute, if I lose in that situation, please give me a good time, at least don't cut my scalp while I'm alive." The horse whistle smiled again.

These were all his true thoughts, and he felt compelled to make them clear to the whites in order to reduce the likelihood of them engaging in irrational confrontations.

In the face of a ruler who has no natural evil tendencies, pursues long-term interests, is rational, honest, and powerful, only a fool will choose to harm others and disadvantage himself.

Why did the United States become the main victim of terrorist attacks? Because as the ruler of the world, it does not possess all of these qualities at the same time.

The horse whistle achieved its intended purpose.

Thomas didn't respond to anything, but when he returned home, his expression was much lighter.

"How's it going?" His wife's eyes, already swollen from crying, stepped forward and asked.

Thomas hugged his wife, "I'm sure our kids will be okay, and—"

"And what?"

"And that Indian was indeed sent by God to punish me." Thomas sighed and got up to find a Bible.

This was followed by some bizarre family religious activities.

If he had seen this, he might have suspected that his plan had failed, as it didn't seem rational at all.

……