Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 769
"Robbing the Spaniards' horses and giving them to us? Of course you can! It's best to bring over some other large animals such as cattle and sheep. By the way, they have hounds in their team, and we also need some hound cubs. If we can find them, it's best to We need a Spaniard who understands their dialect, and we need slaves."

With war horses, the nomadic civilization of mixed fishing and hunting had the capital to compete with the more powerful farming civilization.

Spain's colonial policy caused them to not care about the development of the colonies at all, but only focused on plundering wealth from the colonies, so they were unable to make full use of the land and population they obtained.

Except for a few cities and castles mainly occupied by the Spanish in New Spain in Central America, the Spanish's control over the rest of the land was not that strong.

The Apaches, who had never seen a war horse for hundreds of thousands of years before, were able to control a war horse as soon as they saw it, so they were naturally good at plundering.

It was also from their mouths that the advance team roughly knew the distribution of forces in the southwest America where they were located.

The advance team was at the junction of the territories of the Cocopa and Chumash, the Apaches and Yavapais, and the Mojave to the east of the advance team's stronghold. In addition, there was a well-known 'King of the Plains.' Comanche.

It was the Comanches who blocked the Spanish advance northward.

It is the most powerful Indian tribe in North America today.

The Apaches are not powerful and can be considered a relatively weak tribe among many forces.

"After you get the horses, you can try to communicate with the surrounding native tribes. Just communicate with the Chumash, Cocopa, and Apache tribes first."

The situation with the natives is very good.

Sun Qin felt that the success was too much, so he hurriedly asked everyone to step up the construction of fortifications.

What if these natives seem to be loyal and honest, although they are savage and tough, but they keep their word, and tens of thousands of natives come to attack them one day?
Obviously Sun Qin didn't know what their image was in the eyes of the Indians.

Makaunu.

After everyone in the advance team camp learned the meaning of his name, they often called him "Baoma".

His tribe was placed on the edge of the advance camp and vaccinated with cowpox by the shamans. The price was that they would become the first batch of naturalized people and be driven at will.

Their chief and other tribesmen had to agree, and they were quite happy.

I originally wanted to join the Apaches, but now I have joined a tribe that is more powerful and protected by the gods. Although it is hard to say what they will face in the future, they are also outsiders, and these people are much better than the Spaniards.

In short, it is better than the extinction of the tribe.

The Apaches.

They felt that the advance team was very strong and kind at first glance, and had similarities with them in culture and appearance. In addition, they also made a deal with the advance team on the treatment of smallpox. Although they also occupied land, they still occupied the land. Not their Apache land.

On the other hand, considering that he would be stationed here for the long term, Sun Qin planned to invest in the natives.

Give the Apaches twenty of the steel spearheads they brought with them as an advance payment.

The gap in the development of civilizations is already huge.

The weapons that Zhu Youjian arranged for the advance team were extremely luxurious. These spearheads were convenient for recruiting servants to improve defense. In comparison, these twenty spearheads looked very shabby.

Fortunately, the Apaches didn't mind.

Their horse-faced leader seemed very moved when he killed the wolf: "Twenty horses, as well as Spanish cattle and hounds. We will choose the offspring of the best dogs in the tribe. We will never forget it. At most ten We will be back soon."

For this reason, I wanted to give Sun Qin an affectionate hug, but he declined.

The tribe of Makawunu on the other side looked at the spear head with salivation.

Of course, not all negotiations are so smooth.

Of the two groups of Indians we met, one was at the end of their rope and was suffering from the plague. They were about to die, so naturally they were easy to talk to.

One group was Apaches whose main activity range was not near the stronghold where the advance team took root.But the Kokopa people and Chumash people are not so easy to talk to.

After sending the Apaches away, they finally smelled it and came looking for it.

In other words, these two feuding groups originally planned to have a fight at the junction of their territories, but found that a small earth city suddenly appeared on their disputed territory.

He still looks like an outsider, an outsider like the Spaniards.

Sun Qin stood on the watchtower of the stronghold and used a telescope to observe the hundreds of Indians gathered in the distance: "Did they form an alliance under our noses?"

"The general is right. Burma said that although they have blood feuds, they have been related by marriage for generations. When they meet outsiders like us, they naturally stick together. They do this to the Apaches and the Spaniards."

Sun Qin frowned: "This is very troublesome."

It's not that I'm afraid of these natives.

After understanding the local area and analyzing the map these days, he found that the location of the stronghold was quite close to a target point designated by His Majesty.

But whether they move their base later or stay in their current base, they will still have to conflict with these natives.

Once a fight breaks out, you have to prepare for a long-term conflict.

The five boats of the advance team carried a total of 530 seven people, leaving 100 people and one boat in the Hawaiian Islands, so there are only 430 seven people here.

They are not alone overseas right now, but directly separated from the mainland by an entire ocean.

The gunpowder reserves on the ship are still sufficient, but without production capacity, it will be a matter of time before they are exhausted.

Although a fight to establish one's authority in front of the natives in this foreign country is a good choice, it would be best not to fight.

"Still can't get through?"

"No, General, even if the shaman wants to get close, he will be shot with bows and arrows. Although their stone arrows cannot penetrate our armor, it is impossible to say anything if they hit them hard."

"Hey, let's fire off the artillery to deter them."

really.

As soon as the cannon fired, the Indians on the opposite side suddenly became more awake as they watched a solid bomb hit the ground twice and shatter a large amount of vegetation.

Then we can finally negotiate.

"Leave our land! No negotiation!"

Baoma, also known as Makawunu: "The Han people, that is, they can seek protection from the god of plague through rituals."

Can cure smallpox.

One sentence silenced the two tribes.

After Baoma showed the smallpox herpes scars that had begun to scab on his body, the two tribes still didn't believe it, but when the two army shamans spoke and wrote on the paper, even if the Indians could not understand the Jurchen language or Chinese, one Everyone nodded from time to time along with the shaman's words.

Don’t say whether you understand or not, just nod your head and pretend to understand.

But one by one, everyone spread the news that the outsiders in front of them could cure smallpox, and everyone's original fierce look to scare outsiders changed.

A number of Indian groups in southwestern North America had been in contact with the Spanish for decades.

Smallpox has also been present in their community for decades.

(End of this chapter)