Chapter 606: Powhatan City

They wanted to build tables and chairs that resembled those left behind by the sun god.

But this is not an easy task, don't look at just wooden tables and chairs, but the natives of the mortise and tenon structure inside don't understand!

They didn't know how the pieces of wood were put together and looked like a whole.

However, at this time, the wood of the American continent was very strong, and they chose the thickest trunks, tried their best to make a flat table with stone axes and saws, and barely managed to create some extremely rudimentary tables, as for chairs, it was even more difficult, and they were still groping.

The children, on the other hand, continued to learn the sacred language in the cave.

The snow stopped completely, and the sun that had not been seen for a long time also emerged from the clouds and shone on everyone, feeling warm.

Jin Yan led the people to bow down to the sun god.

The buffalo said, "Patriarch, can we go out of the valley to hunt for prey?" You can learn to shoot a musket, and you can also get some food. ”

Jin Yan thought for a while and nodded: "Yes, you can't go too far, you have to guard against white people!" ”

The bison disagreed: "Yesterday the sun god came, those white people must have been frightened, they did not dare to come!" ”

Jin Yan looked at the cow angrily and said slowly: "Bison, you don't obey my management, do you?" ”

More than a dozen teenagers all looked at the bison.

The bison's face turned white all of a sudden.

He just likes to act different, but he doesn't have the idea of disobedience.

"I don't, patriarch, I obey! I don't go far! ”

Jin Yan nodded: "The white people are despicable and inferior, we can't hope that they won't come, let alone be afraid of them coming!" The sun god is not there, and the one who protects our people is the musket in our hands, understand? ”

All the teenagers suddenly felt a heavy responsibility, and they all responded with serious faces.

"Go ahead, remember to come back and eat when the sun goes overhead!"

Twelve young musketeers marched majestically towards the valley mouth.

Jin Yan called a few women to help boil up the porridge, this kind of gift from the sun god, they were reluctant to put so much, but mixed some corn kernels into it.

Maybe the straw dog will bring a lot of people over today, but you need to prepare a little, but let's wait for someone to come soon, and then cook it!

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The city of Powhatan, although its name is called a city, is actually about the size of a village, and the natives did not have the concept of a city or a wall, but with the construction of Jamestown, they also imitated it.

They built a rough wooden wall around the town with huge logs and talked to comfort themselves.

Opekan was the youngest brother of the Great Chief of Powhatan, but he was also forty years old at this time, and he witnessed the establishment of Jamestown and the long war between the League of Powhatan and the whites.

A deeper understanding of the power of white people.

Although there are currently more than 30,000 whites in Jamestown, which is much smaller than the Powhatan tribe, Opekan knows that if he goes head-to-head with the whites.

Even if there are five times as many fighters as the whites, it must be themselves who will lose in the end.

Yesterday, the whites attacked the Tao tribe, and the former patriarch of the Tao tribe, the beaver, came to ask for help, but Opekan hesitated, and finally politely refused, he could feel the despair and dissatisfaction in the beaver's eyes.

Opecan said, "Don't the white people want land? We'll just sell it to them, and there's a lot of land anyway...... It's just that the white people still want to buy the clansmen, which ......"

At that time, the price of black slaves was five times that of the natives, which had a lot to do with the long distance and the high mortality rate, and the colonists did not want to completely anger the natives, so in terms of the use of slaves, black slaves were the mainstay, and there were not many natives.

But as Virginia's tobacco and cotton farming industries grew, the demand for manpower increased, and when the supply of black slaves was scarce, the colonists turned their attention to the natives.

Some people may ask, since they all use slaves, black slaves are still expensive, why not just catch the natives for use?

There are many reasons for this, one is that after the colonizers brought various viruses to the Americas, the indigenous people were extremely susceptible to infection when they concentrated their work or life, resulting in death and widespread infection.

The black slaves were generally taller than the natives, and they were not comparable to the natives in terms of strength and patience.

Blacks come from the African continent and are naturally resistant to all kinds of epidemic tropical diseases.

This is something that the Indians did not have, and when the whites exterminated the Indians, they used the method of releasing viruses to infect the Indians and kill them on their own.

If the slaves they bought back died of a disease, the losses would be too great for the slave owners, so the Indians would naturally not be able to sell them at a high price.

In addition, at that time, the African continent was very backward, and many places were still in a primitive tribal form, and most of the blacks who were captured had no sense of autonomy, and as long as they were not oppressed and could not survive, they would not choose to resist.

Comparatively speaking, the Indians were much more difficult to manage, and their enthusiasm and initiative in work were significantly inferior to those of the blacks.

Moreover, although the Indians are backward, there have been highlight moments such as the Mayan civilization in history, and more than 100 years ago, there was a powerful Inca Empire, the Aztec Kingdom...... Their consciousness and intellectual development were not comparable to those of the black slaves at that time, so they naturally did not obediently endure slavery, and their resistance was fierce.

Moreover, the colonists consciously wanted the extinction of the indigenous race, and if they all used the indigenous people as slaves in large quantities, the indigenous population would naturally not decrease too much.

Therefore, it was also colonized, and blacks were trafficked all over the world, and now they are blooming everywhere.

The Indians, with a population of tens of millions, were systematically wiped out.

"It's a pity, I knew that I promised the whites last time, and it was more than a thousand people, more than 10,000 silver pesos!" Opekan took a sip of rum with some exasperation.

It's a wonderful taste.

The more than 20 patriarchs in the house who came to discuss the matter also raised their glasses together.

And the former patriarch of the Tao tribe, the beaver, naturally did not have this treatment, he was banished from Powhatan City, and the Tao tribe also disappeared......

This is a precious gift from God, the best gift ever from white people! A loser without a tribe is not entitled to enjoy!

The wine brought by the white people is the favorite of the natives, and they exchange the wine with the white people with beaver skins, squirrel skins, mink skins, fox skins, bison skins, etc.

The indigenous people did not have the technology to make spirits in history, and the rum of the British colonists and the brandy of France were very popular in the Americas.

When the colonists came into contact with the Indians, they found that the Indians were more impatient and addicted to spirits than other peoples!

As long as the Indians are invited to drink, then the Indians can easily become addicted to spirits, but their ability to decompose alcohol is extremely poor, and they often fall into a drunken state!

The Indians, on the other hand, generally believed in the gods, and when they were drunk, they felt that they could better communicate with the gods, and of course, when trading, because they were not sober, they would also be taken advantage of by colonists and furriers.

In addition, they like spirits, the stronger the better, because in the Americas, rum sells much more than brandy, and is the favorite of the Indians!

This property continues to this day.