Several artillerymen were silent for a long time.

"I hope your artillery skills are higher than those of physics, and if you don't even have a skill, you might as well do hard labor honestly." ”

"By the way, I'm willing to gamble and surrender the ten dollars." He held out his hand.

"......" The artillerymen were still speechless, and only after a while did they say, "How can we still have money?" ”

An Apache soldier immediately asked, "Why are you betting if you don't have money?" ”

"I ......" the artillerymen opened their mouths.

Looking up, he glanced at his companions: "Obviously, they think they have a chance to win." ”

Then he said to the whites: "If you don't have any money, then make money first, and the artillery instructor has a salary of twenty dollars a month." ”

Eventually, with mixed feelings, several artillery prisoners became artillery instructors at Fort Sutter, teaching artillery skills to the Apache soldiers.

There are naturally feelings of humiliation and confusion, but it is also inevitable that there will be some comfort and joy.

After all, a monthly salary of twenty dollars is really not low, and who can not be tempted if you earn it.

Ma Sentinel hoped that the artillery training at Sutter Fort would lay some foundation for the future artillery units of the Apache.

In addition to the technical talents such as artillerymen, there was another noteworthy group among the captives of Sutterburg.

Elves.

Fort Sutter had not only white soldiers and Indian slaves, but also a part of Indian soldiers.

They were at the mercy of John Sartre, living like whites and shooting Indians like whites.

For these puppet soldiers, Apache's handling was relatively lenient, basically treating them the same as white prisoners, without adding an additional charge of "India rape".

After all, they were somewhat coerced, and there was no self-identification with the Indians in the first place.

For them, there is not much difference between Indians and whites of other tribes or even other clans, and shooting Indians of other tribes is naturally not a betrayal.

It will still take time for them to develop a unified group identity like the residents of Sleeping Bear City.

After the settlement of Fort Sutter, the Sacramento area entered into a steady development.

The East Valley Lumber Yard continues to pan for gold, making profits at an astonishing rate, and of course also taking care of logging to provide materials for the construction of the project.

While the castle continued to improve, it continued to absorb the population, and the surrounding Indians could move to it, as well as a small number of whites and blacks.

Compared to Sleeping Bear City, East Valley City's assimilation policy is much more gentle.

After all, there are few Apache people here, and the cultural differences with Apache are also very large, and the influx of more and more foreigners will inevitably greatly increase the difficulty of assimilation.

Therefore, the assimilation practiced by Donggu City is more of an economic means, which happens to occupy the gold mines and has money, and even if there are coercive means, they will be disguised as much as possible to reduce the stimulus.

The situation at Fort Sutter, or Fort Westspring, is different.

After Fort Sutter became Fort Westspring, the horse whistle immediately arranged for the restoration and expansion of the place.

The restoration, of course, was the repair of the city gates, which had been shelled during the previous battles and needed to be repaired.

The expansion was both an expansion of size and architecture as well as an expansion of people, and Ma Sentinel intended to turn it into a more qualified military fortress in his eyes, which would require at least a few hundred soldiers from among the native Indians.

In addition to the military base, the Xiquan Fortress was also a labor camp for whites and puppet soldiers, with a more coercive policy of reform and assimilation.

In the future, all kinds of non-death row prisoners captured by Apache in California will be sent here for forced assimilation.

In early October, the Horse Whistle convened a meeting to make arrangements for the lumberyards, the city of the East Vale, and the Fort of Westsprings, and was ready to leave for Kansas.

In fact, he didn't want to go back so soon, after all, California's development was just beginning, and it needed his direct involvement more than Sleeping Bear City.

But given his next plans, he had to rush back.

Before leaving, the horse whistle repeatedly instructed the lone and the wolf, who would be his agents after he left, in charge of all things Sacramento and California.

"Remember, your priority is to protect and manage the gold mines."

"On this premise, other problems should be solved with money as much as possible...... The gold mined can be used as one-tenth of the development funds for the West Spring Fortress and the East Valley Castle, which is enough money. ”

"Remember." The sentry asked emphatically at the end.

Both the solitary and the wolf nodded in response, "Don't worry, Great Chief." ”

After instructing the two people, Ma Whistle called for the head tattoo alone: "Head tattoo, I have a secret mission to hand over to you......"

"No matter what the task, I will definitely work hard to complete it." ”

Ma Whistle muttered: "It's not a difficult and complicated task, it's just for you to secretly supervise the solitary and erect wolves." ”

He was stunned for a moment, and seemed to be a little incomprehensible: "Secret supervision? ”

Ma Whistle smiled: "I said, human nature is unreliable, no matter whose human nature it is. The gold mines contain an astonishing amount of wealth, and although both Solitary and Vertical Wolf are very loyal to the tribe, it is obvious that such an important matter depends as little as possible on human self-discipline. ”

So, in addition to overt oversight, covert oversight is also essential. You'll need to keep an eye on the gold mine to prevent someone from being consumed by lust. ”

"Of course, you also have to pay attention to things other than gold mines, such as justice, military ......"

The head tattoo nodded solemnly: "I understand." ”

Ma Sentry pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked, "Forehead Tattoo, do you think I should arrange another person to secretly supervise you?" ”

"Having a few more secret overseers and restraining each other should make oversight more effective." He raised his head and said, then as if he thought of something, he suddenly showed an expression that wanted to say something.

Ma Whistle: "What's wrong?" ”

"Great Chief, I have a question in mind......" looked up and hesitated, and did not say anything for a long time.

"If there is any problem, just say it, you are my student." Ma Whistle said.

The forehead tattoo finally made up his mind: "Great Chief...... I feel as if there is no one to supervise you. ”

Ma Whistle was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "That's right, it's true that no one can supervise me, but-"

The forehead tattoo suddenly suddenly said: "I understand, what needs to be supervised is human nature, not divinity!" ”

"No, I don't have divinity, don't say such things, you're a student I value very much." Ma Whistle said immediately, frowning slightly.

The air was quiet for a few seconds.

Ma Whistle continued slowly: "You're right, Forehead Tattoo, no one can supervise me, at least no one can strictly supervise me. And I am not a god, and I have an unreliable humanity like you. ”

"But it's an unsolvable question...... Because any system will have at least one loophole, any axiomatic system will have something that cannot be proven, and any question will eventually ask a question that is absolutely unanswerable. ”

"We can infinitely admire laws and systems and advocate procedural justice, but no matter how perfect the laws and systems are, and how strict the procedures are, they can only approach perfection, but cannot achieve them."

"In any case, there will be at least one thing, so that all rationality, laws, procedures, and systems will fail, so that we can only rely on personal factors or even unexpected factors, and there is no better way."

After a pause, Ma Whistle added: "If someone says that the edifice of physics has been completed, all that remains is some minor repairs...... He was destined to be a joke. ”

"It's not just physics, it's society."