Lu Ming

Chapter 218 Black Earth
Primitive tribes actually had a different view of the land from the colonists.In the eyes of the colonists, acquiring land was acquiring ownership.The tribal people who have been fishing, hunting, nomadic farming, and fruit picking on a certain land for generations are actually concerned about the right to use the land, not the ownership.

This creates the superficial phenomenon that the aborigines seem to be easy to speak: Manhattan is a typical example.

Of course, outsiders don't care about the indigenous people's thoughts—as long as they are given a foothold, the indigenous people will soon lose their right to live, and who cares about ownership and the like.

What Pan Mingzhong and the others are facing today is the same situation as the Dutch back then: industrial products for land.

This question is a bit difficult.

First of all, the traversers are latecomers, so they will not dig holes for themselves.You know, in later generations, the story of the greedy, cunning Dutchman trading a box of glass balls for Manhattan has been told by teachers to children all over the world for hundreds of years, and will continue to be told-as long as Manhattan remains Most expensive place in the world.

This is where the problem lies.

People in later generations will not care that the island of Manhattan was desolate at that time, nor will they care that the Dutch are actually fair trade: the Indians voluntarily exchanged the right to use Manhattan for glass balls without coercion.However, the newspapers and textbooks of later generations will only shout: Look, these villains exchanged glass balls for tens of thousands of dollars per square meter, with a total value of more than one trillion dollars.
This question is unsolvable.No matter what kind of goods the red hair exchanged for Manhattan at that time, later generations would be attacked by the same public opinion. The Dutch are also very helpless.

Therefore, the time-traversing people cannot dig holes for themselves.So before Pan Mingzhong set off, he got a private warning from someone in the big office: In the future, exploration and development should not be done in the Manhattan model.As for how to do it, ahem. This old Pan is up to you.

So Lao Pan is scratching his head a little now.

It is necessary to exchange land from raw fans, and the model of commodity exchange cannot lead to passiveness in the future: this is tantamount to acknowledging the indigenous ownership of the land.

——The soon-to-be-established Transit Empire, although it will definitely recognize private land ownership, is aimed at the civilized world, such as explaining people. The bottom line is that the other party must have writing, a system, and a contract.

As for these bird species that don’t even have written words, the mainstream voice on the forum is still “Is it the king’s land in the world”: Migration and forced migrant workers are the only way out for these indigenous people. As for the land, please show the title deed Or a contract.No?Without you talking about Cai Guoqing.

In fact, the main target of this policy is clear to everyone: the vast Southeast Asian aborigines, the vast Pacific Islanders, and the vast North American Indians. Miaosu here is collateral damage.

This is the way the people of the time traveler treat different civilizations. Although it is hard to say, it is the truth.

In the end, when Pan Mingzhong was negotiating with the aborigines, he blurred the concepts between trade and land, and adopted delaying tactics: Although in the negotiations after the meal, everyone could see that the old chief was drawing a circle around the nearby land with his arms , and then he pointed to the iron pan.However, Pan Mingzhong temporarily rejected the old man's land trade plan on the grounds of language barrier.

When the two parties made an appointment to continue the transaction the next day, Pan Mingzhong sent the translator from Xingang Society to the indigenous village to investigate. The euphemistic name was: 24-hour intensive language training.

When the translation came back the next day, Pan Mingzhong roughly figured out the size of this group of natives.

The main ethnic group in Miaoli County in history is the Daokas ethnic group, and the communities under which they belong are the Pengshan Society and the Houlong Society.According to some scattered information brought back by the translator today, Pan Mingzhong judged that the person who came to trade with him yesterday should be a branch of the Houlong Society.

The scale of this branch community is about the same as that of Xingang Society.According to the translator, this village alliance called "Touyuan" has three or four villages nearby.This is also the reason why the natives were able to gather 200 fighters yesterday: Only with a village population base of 1000+ can there be 200 fighters.

When the two sides met again today, the atmosphere became more relaxed.From what the guide said, last night in the indigenous village, the witches even held a large worship ceremony to thank the gods for bringing salt to the village.

Pan Mingzhong nodded when he heard this: This group of people seems to be no different from those mountain people in Fujian and Guangxi, and they all belong to the population that is extremely short of salt.

And the crossing crowd has more confidence: the wall will be completed soon.Therefore, Pan Mingzhong asked the translator to tell the old man leader named "Mona" in accordance with the established policy: He needs the old man to send a guide to take him hunting so that he can use it to prepare lunch.

Hunting rights are very important rights, but the village chief Mo Na agreed without thinking too long: yesterday, several villages under the jurisdiction of Touyuan Society actually held a worship ceremony in unison.In the long life of the old man for 40 years, he can't remember the last time when a boat carrying salt and cloth came to the depths of Houlongxi.

So, these outsiders are guests who need to be looked after.

Soon, Pan Mingzhong was fully armed and prepared to set off with four exploration team members, who were guided by seven or eight indigenous warriors.

Seeing Old Pan Zai carefully strapping M9 pistols to the outside of his thighs, oil man Ning Wei was puzzled at this moment: "Can pistols be used for hunting? Why do you bring so many?"

"The pistol is used to hit the natives." Lei Jian next to him smiled and explained to him: "Old Pan's target is people. If the native guides do anything wrong, Lao Pan will kill people."

"Understood, demonstration action."

"Yes, you must show your muscles first, so that there will be peace."

The gunshots from the hunting team soon rang out in the silent river valley.People in the camp can actually know where they are without a walkie-talkie: a large number of birds will fly up from the dense forest from time to time.

Pan Mingzhong and the others set off at 9 o'clock in the morning, and by 11 o'clock, the hunting team had returned with a full load.

"This fucking species is too rich, it's all over the place." A tired and panting man said while throwing the black bear on his shoulders in front of the camp gate.

All hunting parties carry more than one game.

Sambar, Taiwanese black bear, mountain qiang, wild boar, and about 10 other vervet pheasants and blue pheasants - these are used for beggar chicken.

Unlike the cheerful prospecting team members, the eyes of the indigenous guides are generally full of fear and relatively silent.This state lasted until they began to describe the terrible iron pipe to the village chief: as soon as the outsider raised his hand, with the huge roar and smoke, the prey hundreds of meters away, including the pheasant that had already flown up the treetops , so dead
After hearing the guides' descriptions about muskets, the rest of the aborigines finally had a basic idea of ​​the force of these outsiders. As a result, the relationship between the two sides became more peaceful: the aboriginal warriors quickly put away their arrogance.

Force is useful after all.

The aborigines, who became much more honest, then watched the performance of outsiders using metal knives to skin animals, and then they got the leather.

After the outsiders gave the trophies that theoretically belonged to the aborigines, they were treated to a feast of boiled meat.

After the meal, the opera meat came.

Pan Mingzhong sat across from a group of aborigines with a smile, holding an iPad in his hand, and began to slowly move the screen in front of the aborigines.

What is displayed on the LCD screen at this moment are pictures of groups of natural oil wells.There are viscous oil pits that are constantly bubbling; there are also black sandy ground with obvious color contrast and incompatible with the surrounding environment.

In fact, without waiting for Pan Mingzhong to play the video again, several people, including the Tagan brothers and sisters, reacted on the spot when they saw one of the pictures: they screamed and pointed to the distant mountains direction.

The package agreement between the exploration team and Touyuan Society was formally reached later in the day.

After the old village head of Touyuan Club became a scapegoat, he happily agreed to the request to take outsiders to explore the "black sand" tomorrow.

At the same time, the old village head also agreed to the agreement to transfer the right to use the land on the embankment to outsiders.Of course, this agreement was verbal, and it was mixed in the labor and employment conditions of "hiring natives with iron pots to lead the exploration".

In the end, Pan Mingzhong reached an agreement on land ownership with the aborigines in a deceptive way.As for how to frame the textbooks in the future, that is beyond his control.

Another day later, the wall was completely completed, and at the same time, the exploration team made all preparations for entering the mountain.It was agreed that Pan Mingzhong would lead the team, Ning Wei would be in charge of exploration, and after Lei Jian guarded the house, a 10-person exploration team brought tools and went into the mountain with the native brigade.

In the Miaosu mountainous area of ​​later generations, most of the vegetation is secondary forest: new trees replanted after the original forest was cut down by later generations.In fact, Taiwan has embarked on a great cause of deforestation since the era of Japanese occupation. Except for a few forest parks in later generations, most of the vegetation is secondary forest.

And at this moment, Pan Mingzhong's team, who were following the brisk natives and shuttling through the dark virgin forest, would have been lost in the endless forest if it weren't for the radios carried by the team members and the positioning instruments in their hands.

The only good news is that the location of the "black sand land" is actually not far in terms of straight-line distance: it is right in front of the camp, in the col between the two mountains.

"Well, is this the place we're looking for?"

After finally reaching the end of the field, Pan Mingzhong asked nervously while looking at the black sandy land in front of him that was completely barren of grass and about 50 square meters while panting heavily.

Ning Wei didn't answer, but first knelt down and grabbed a handful of sand to look at it carefully: "There is a play, let's dig."

The simple four words are the beginning of labor: the team members began to dig in the center of the black sand with shovels in turn.

Fortunately, there are natives on the side.

When someone discovered that the natives were interested in shiny shovels, the rest of the digging was done by the enthusiastic natives.

(End of this chapter)