My son A Fei has the appearance of a sword master

Chapter 149 Taking an Aboriginal Concubine

"Tuk tuk tuk..."

In the Ming army camp, there was a continuous sound of the collision of kitchen knives and chopping boards, and the person cutting the vegetables was Li Tianxin, the person with the highest status.

He was cutting the potatoes obtained from the aboriginal people into shreds. When Li Tianxin demonstrated, the Huotou Army immediately cut them into pieces according to the instructions.

The first lesson for Huotoujun is knife skills. Although he has never cut potatoes, he often shreds radishes, so cutting potatoes into shreds will naturally be no problem.

Shen Lang, Bai Feifei and others were watching, with no strange expression on their faces.

Li Tianxin was proficient in cooking. He would occasionally cook by himself when he was at home and make new dishes for them to taste. He even brought out the chefs in the Zhu Mansion.

After Li Tianxin finished the demonstration, he stopped doing anything. After Huotoujun cut dozens or hundreds of kilograms of potatoes into shreds and soaked them in a basin of water, he was ready to stir-fry with his hand and ladle.

What we got from the aborigines this time were not only potatoes, but also dried chili peppers, which are an essential ingredient for fried potato shreds.

People who went hunting have already returned. There are not many large animals in South America, but there are still some, especially one of them called "tapir".

The American tapir is a herbivore and the most primitive of the odd-dactyl order. It appeared 5000 million years ago and its appearance has not changed much.

Its body is like a pig, and its trunk can be retracted. It is shorter than an elephant but longer than other animals. It can also use its trunk to roll up food on the ground or high places.

Although tapirs are huge, weighing up to one ton at their heaviest and 250 kilograms at their lightest, they are timid and not aggressive by nature, preferring to travel in groups or live alone.

This meat is a high-protein, low-fat, low-cholesterol food. It is rich in multiple vitamins and minerals. It has extremely high nutritional value and a very delicious taste. Therefore, it was eaten by South Americans in later generations and became an endangered animal.

But today, the number is still very large, because the weapons of the indigenous people are too backward, it is difficult to hunt such large beasts, and they can only hunt some juvenile ones.

Their usual source of meat, in addition to fish, is mainly small mammals. Large or ferocious beasts such as South American tapirs, Chakian wild boars, and jaguars are difficult for them to hunt.

But as soon as the soldiers of the Ming army came out, it was no big deal. As soon as the shuttle went down, the elephants had to lie down.

After only being out for more than an hour, the aboriginal guide came back to shake people off. Because the prey was too much and too heavy to be retrieved without people.

This is the case in this relatively primitive environment. As long as there are powerful enough weapons, there will be no shortage of prey.

In less than two hours, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of meat were brought back, mainly tapirs, wild boars, and jaguars, as well as some large birds and small mammals.

Leopard meat is also very good, not oily, almost entirely lean meat, and tastes smoother and more tender than tiger meat.

Li Tianxin thought, forget about leopards. Wild boars have a violent temper and are not suitable. But tapirs, timid and docile herbivores, can be artificially domesticated to avoid eating the wild ones into extinction.

In addition, you can also go to North America in the future to tame some wild horses and bison, and also bring them back and tame them artificially.

It is helpless to say that the indigenous people of South America have not seen horses for tens of thousands of years. Later, when Europeans came here, the horses they brought were seen by the indigenous people and they thought they were large sheep.

Since there is no industrial base here, minerals must be mined on site, and tractors cannot be popularized in a short time. Animal power can be used for farming and transportation.

After the meat was transported back, Li Tianxin and the others used Ice Palm to make an ice cellar from the cellars dug by several aboriginal people, specifically for storing meat.

After cutting the meat and placing it in the ice cellar, Li Tianxin and the others sprayed a layer of cold air on the meat and froze it directly, so that it would never go bad no matter how long it was kept.

The aborigines have seen the methods of Li Tianxin and others, and have no doubts about his identity as a god.

These tribal people do not possess any martial arts-level extraordinary power. After all, for such a power system to emerge, wise men like Yan Huang need to appear in the tribe.

Therefore, the aborigines of this tribe are just a group of relatively strong ordinary people.

If you want to see the extraordinary power of the indigenous people, you may have to go to the Mayan civilization or the other two major countries.

Before starting to cook dinner, Li Tianxin and the others had nothing to do, so they went to get a large hard stone and made a stone mill.

Then the corn brought out by the aborigines was ground into cornmeal, so that tomorrow morning, everyone would have polenta for breakfast.

For dinner, mix cornmeal with rice to make corn rice, which not only tastes better, but also saves a lot of rice.

Li Tianxin personally prepared the dishes for this dinner, and also taught the Huotou Army. The old chief and the aborigines watched the whole process.

By the end, four dishes and one soup were freshly cooked.

Tonight’s dishes include shredded potatoes in vinegar, stewed tapir meat with potatoes, braised wild boar steak, steamed sea fish, and potato slice soup.

There was a lot of food tonight, enough for not only the soldiers of the Ming army, but also the entire tribe of aborigines.

It doesn't matter if it's not enough. If it's a big deal, we'll do it again. Huotoujun is not afraid of trouble.

Li Tianxin's plan is very clear, which is to make the aborigines change from frugality to luxury, and become accustomed to and even rely on their existence.

As long as this step is achieved, even if the aborigines of this tribe are completely conquered by them, once they are gone, the aborigines will be at a loss.

Then use this tribe as the foundation and slowly develop it into a city, attracting other surrounding tribes to invest, and eventually gradually develop into a country.

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There were not so many lunch boxes this time, but the aborigines also had their own stone bowls, which were polished bit by bit with hard stones. They were a little heavy, but the aborigines had no problem carrying them.

Those aboriginals who received lunch boxes gave them to their children because the children's hands were too weak to hold the stone bowls.

This meal was the initial conquest of the aborigines of this tribe. They never dreamed that the food they had been eating or cooking since they were little could turn out to be so delicious.

The most important thing is that this is the first time for them to eat all-you-can-eat meat.

In the past, they could not hunt much prey with simple bows and arrows and stone spears and axes, and their fishing harvests were often not large. It was difficult to catch any meat all year round.

But now that these gods are here, eating meat seems to be no longer a problem. Now they just hope that these gods will not leave again.

After nightfall, in an open space among the tribes, the aborigines burned a large bonfire and danced local dances around the bonfire.

Some indigenous people also brought out some percussion instruments made of hollow tree trunks to play some unique rhythms.

The dance of the aborigines is not very beautiful, but it is very cheerful and enthusiastic.

Originally, the Ming army soldiers just sat and watched, but soon an aboriginal girl came forward to pull them away.

Out of military discipline, the soldiers smiled and waved their hands in polite refusal.

Seeing this, Li Tianxin said loudly: "Brothers, as the saying goes, do as the Romans do when in the country. You don't need to reject the local customs. Go ahead."

After hearing Li Tianxin's words, the soldiers let go and went up to have fun with the aborigines.

But after all, no one dared to come to Li Tianxin and others. After all, the women around them made them feel ashamed and they didn't dare to think about it at all.Li Tianxin knew very well that in the custom of Native Americans, entertaining guests also included giving away girls. Tonight, these soldiers will definitely spend an unforgettable night.

If there was a conflict between aboriginal tribes, the captured women would be kept to breed the population, while the men would be put to death.

The night before the tribe executes the captives, women from the tribe will be sent to send them off.

They believe that by doing so, the souls of the deceased will rest in peace and will not come for revenge.

This is also the reason why there are always more women than men in the tribe.

This tribe has a total population of about 200 people, 300% of whom are young, and more than 500 people. Among them, there are only more than 800 men and more than [-] women.

The remaining [-]% are middle-aged, elderly people and children. The elderly are a very small minority, and many people will die when they reach middle age.

The average life span of Native Americans is about three to 40 years, and few live into their sixties or seventies.

Many customs of aboriginal people are related to the worship of birth value.

Primitive people did not understand the principle of human reproduction and did not know what kind of magic could make a woman pregnant and make the baby emerge from the mother's womb, so they developed a mysterious and awe-inspiring mentality.

Seeing that a new life can be born from a woman's belly, they always think that there is a magical power in it, so that kind of thing is regarded as a sacred thing by them.

At the same time, due to the extremely low social productivity, people are all productivity. The size of the population and the strength of the body determine the rise and fall of the tribe.

Therefore, people attach great importance to women's childbirth. When a woman gives birth, she will hold a grand prayer ceremony and go to the wild to give birth, thinking that this can make the land fertile.

If a woman dies in childbirth, she is given a hero's funeral.

These are all derived from the worship of birth value.

Li Tianxin will not stop this kind of thing, and will even encourage Ming people who come here in the future to have more offspring with the aborigines.

After several generations of this, the Ming Dynasty could fully declare that the Native Americans were the Ming people.

Soon after the soldiers of the Ming Army entered the scene to have fun, they discovered something was wrong.

Because those native women not only teased them in various ways during the dance, making them angry, but they also wanted to drag them into the wilderness outside the tribe.

Judging from the attitudes of the other natives around him, not only did they have no intention of stopping it, they even looked happy to see it happen.

Zhang Qianhu was so aroused by the woman in front of him that he asked a linguist not far away: "Brother, what are they doing?"

The young linguist blushed and said, "I heard that the natives in some places have the custom of sending women from the tribe to accompany their guests when entertaining guests. Could it be that the same is true for the natives here?"

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army were greatly moved. Most of them were still unmarried singles, and many were even young children.

Even those who went out to visit the brothels during the holidays have been floating on the sea for nearly three months and are already panicking. Naturally, they are excited about such a good thing.

But they were concerned about military discipline and subconsciously looked at Li Tianxin, only to see him nodding to them with a smile on his face.

The soldiers understood, and they were all overjoyed. They no longer resisted and allowed the native woman to pull them and run outside.

More than 500 people left at once, but the venue did not become deserted, and the bonfire was still lively.

Shen Lang and Panda'er looked at each other strangely, then looked sideways at Li Tianxin.

Bai Feifei said directly: "Is this really appropriate?"

Li Tianxin smiled and said: "There is nothing inappropriate. Since this is the custom of the locals, there is nothing wrong with doing as the Romans do."

"I intend to bring the natives into the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Intermarriage with them is inevitable. These Ming army brothers should be regarded as pioneers."

"But now that the language is still blocked, there is no rush to intermarry. It won't be too late until the language is understood."

Panda'er coughed and said, "Tianxin, we can't favor one over the other. There are nearly two thousand brothers by the sea. There are only so many women in this tribe. How do you plan to arrange it?"

Li Tianxin grinned and said, "That's not easy. This tribe is short of manpower and will inevitably annex other tribes in the future."

"We don't kill people either. We can rely on our martial arts to subdue the other party by tapping their acupoints, and then subdue them."

"Those tribes that will be annexed in the future will understand that this will be of no harm to them."

Regarding his method, Shen Lang and Panda'er both nodded in agreement.

This operation is already countless times better than the cruel practice of fighting between tribes, where all the men are killed and only the women are left.

Half an hour later, Ming army soldiers came back one after another. They led the woman they had had a night with and came to Li Tianxin.

A chief flag officer said sheepishly: "Master, as a man, you have to take responsibility for certain things. I plan to marry this woman."

Li Tianxin waved his hand and said, "This is inappropriate."

The expressions of the commander-in-chief and the soldiers changed slightly, and Shen Lang and others also looked at Li Tianxin in surprise.

Just listen to Li Tianxin continue: "These women today have not yet been educated, and their ideas are completely different from those of the women of the Ming Dynasty. It is not suitable to marry as a wife, but it is okay to take a concubine."

Hearing this reversal, all the soldiers were overjoyed. Xu Faming also stroked his beard and said happily: "My Lord, what you said makes sense. Thank you very much, Lord."

All the soldiers knelt down on one knee, cupped their fists and said, "Thank you sir."

The aboriginal women beside them didn't know why, but when they saw the men beside them kneeling, they also knelt down and worshiped.

Li Tianxin said warmly: "Get up and tell the other brothers the news. I will go to the old chief to talk about this later. I don't know if I can explain it clearly to him."

"Now that we have a concubine, it is no longer suitable to live in a tent. Tomorrow you will go cut down wood and build a house."

"Yes."

The soldiers stood up happily and pulled up their women at the same time.

Panda'er suddenly laughed out loud and said to everyone: "I tell you guys, you should recognize your woman's face clearly, otherwise you won't be able to recognize her tomorrow."

All the soldiers burst into laughter. Don't mention it, this is really possible when they don't understand the language and don't know the other party's name.

A member of the household hurriedly shouted: "Go and get the hand-operated generator, turn on the light, and take a good look at the appearance of your woman."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

(End of this chapter)