Super Chief

Although the tall and thin man’s voice was small, the Stone Bear and Mr. Fernan, who were not far from them, also heard it.

　　 Especially Fernan, after hearing the name of Team Chikemon, his face suddenly became extremely pale. Obviously, he should have also heard of the mysterious team formed by the mysterious Chikmon.

　　 "You and me" Fernan whistling with an ugly face, and the faces of several other people became very respectful.

Shi Xiong looked condescendingly at the fat white man who was scared to pee, and said unceremoniously, "I said, I don’t care what your status is. Here, anyone who dares to insult our Chikmeng tribe, their only end is Use their blood to wash away this insult, so"

Shixiong expressionlessly slapped the small axe in his hand, and Fernan immediately wailed. "Dear Chief, please forgive me for being rude. I didn't know you still had these things under your hands. A brave soldier, so please give me a chance to atone for my sins."

Shi Xiong looked at this guy coldly, then glanced at the remaining four people, and then asked, "I can give you the opportunity, but you must come up with a ransom worth the value of your life, otherwise, I can forgive. You, this axe in my hand will probably not forgive you."

　　 "Food!" As if a drowning man grabbed a piece of wood, Fernan's voice suddenly became louder, "Food, I can give you a lot of food."

"Food? A joke! I originally came here for food. As residents of the fortress, it was your duty to raise food for Major Armand hundreds of miles away. Therefore, in addition to food Besides, you also need to bring out other things."

Hearing the words of the big chief, Armand's expression became extremely bitter, but he just thought for a while and immediately said, "Dear chief, I can provide you with a lot of salt, cloth, iron and even It's a horse"

Shi Xiong shook his head slightly, "Do you think we Chikmon people will be short of salt? We live by the sea all year round. When your people came to New Orleans along the Mississippi River, we still provided your people with a lot of Salt. And more than half of the salt we need in New Orleans is provided by our Chikmon. Mr. Fernan, do you still think we will be short of salt?"

　　 After a pause, Shi Xiong said again, "As for ironware, don’t you think the two throwing axes in my hand are not good enough? To tell you the truth, these throwing axes are made by ourselves, and we don’t lack ironware.”

　　 Hearing this, Fernan's face suddenly collapsed.

　　 At this time, there was a neat sound of footsteps outside. Several people looked up and found that the gate of the barracks not far away was opened. Dozens of French Army soldiers carrying guns lined up and ran out.

　　 All this just happened actually took a short time. It took only a few minutes from the time when the stone bear threw the throwing axe to just finished saying these words. The French soldiers in the barracks probably just finished their lineup, and only then came out to see who disrupted the order of the fortress.

　　 Maintaining the order of the fortress is also the responsibility of these soldiers.

　　 When these soldiers saw that there were more than forty Native American Indians aiming with guns on the square, these soldiers immediately raised their guns and aimed at these Indian soldiers as if they were approaching an enemy.

Facing the aim of the French soldiers, the soldiers brought by the stone bear did not even frown, and their hands were still as stable as a mountain. They held their rifles and aimed at the twenty or so people in front of them, as if they were held by the French soldiers. A musket is a fire stick.

Shi Xiong glanced at the French soldiers, then looked at Fernan, whose face had become ecstatic because of the presence of these soldiers, and said disdainfully, "If these soldiers dared to shoot, I promise that your head will hit me with a lead bullet. The soldiers landed before!"

　　 Fernan's ecstatic face suddenly became terrified, he shouted loudly, "Alphons, quickly order these **** soldiers to put down their guns, otherwise I will not be able to spare you."

　　 Alphonse was also a little confused. He had been receiving the Great Bear Chief, and naturally he didn't know why the soldiers in the barracks had to come out. But obviously, the reason why these soldiers left the camp is probably the order given by the **** Lieutenant Antoine.

　　 So Alfons said helplessly, "Mr. Fernan, these soldiers are now following Lieutenant Antoine's orders. I can't do anything."

　　Antoine is from Fernan, everyone knows that. If it were not for Major Armand to value Alfons very much, Alfons would not be able to suppress this lieutenant Antoine.

　　 Hearing what Alfons said, Fernan immediately shouted again, "Antoine, you watched him, hurry up and order the soldiers to put down their guns."

　　 After hearing this roar, a tall officer among the soldiers immediately seemed to have seen an eagle's quail, pale and gave the order to put down the gun.

　　 He just saw the scene on the side of the square in the barracks. When he saw that his master was abused by a native, he immediately organized the soldiers in the barracks to come out to "rescue".

　　 There are more than forty natives with guns outside. Antoine doesn't think he can save the master by going out. Only soldiers in the military camp can fight against these natives.

　　 Although the French soldiers are not very effective in combat, they still do a very good job of ordering and prohibiting them. Following the order of Lieutenant Antoine, these soldiers put down their guns obediently.

　　 Alfons immediately went up and began to severely reprimand the soldiers. After a while, these soldiers followed Lieutenant Alfons back to the barracks with guns, leaving only Lieutenant Antoine on the scene.

Shi Xiong looked at Fernan playfully, shook his head slightly and said, "Don't think that you can do whatever you want in this fortress. This has no effect on me. And because of the actions of the lieutenant officer, I decided Increase your ransom chip!"

　　 Fernan heard this and immediately looked at the Lieutenant Antoine with an angry look.

However, Shixiong will not take care of these messy things. He already understands the situation right now. There is an irreconcilable conflict between the military of the fortress and the spokespersons of these nobles. With the fortress currently losing the highest sergeant chief, If you don't make good use of this opportunity to blackmail a lot, then I'm really sorry to lead a group of people on a voyage of hundreds of miles!

　　 So he simply said, "Twenty thousand pounds of food, forty horses, thirty Apon cotton cloth, well, plus six contract slaves who know how to do alchemy!"

　　 When these noble spokespersons heard this, they all trembled. The tall and thin man even couldn't help shouting, "This is impossible, you are blackmailing!"

　　 Shixiong smiled slightly and said, "Yes, I'm blackmailing!"

　　 In the end, the six-man group headed by Fernan still pinched their noses and recognized the conditions that Ishiguma had put forward.

　　 As early as in the Gaoshu tribe, through interrogation of Armand, Pieno and others, Stone Bear knew the wealth of the six noble spokespersons in the Okron Fortress.

　　 If it is said that Major Armand is in the control of the military power of Okron Fortress, then the six people headed by Fernand control the economic lifeline of the entire fortress.

　　 Grain, cloth, salt, horses, ironware, and other groceries are the materials operated by the nobles behind these six people in this fortress.

　　 Fernan is the younger brother of Count Fernan. He is the most powerful, so he controls the entire fortress, including the food around the fortress.

Oreno, who was almost kicked to a whiteboard by the stone bear, also stood behind an earl, but Oreno was just a steward under the earl’s name, so he was not as strong as Fernan in the Alcron Fortress. However, he controls the salt trade in Okron Fortress and the surrounding area.

　　 Behind the tall and thin man stood a viscount, and cloth was his main project.

　　 The remaining three people and Fernan and the other three jointly control the transaction of ironware, horses and other groceries.

　　Since the construction of Okron Fortress, the six of them have become the actual controllers of the economic lifeline of Okron Fortress. If it were not for the French military to control the most powerful military force, this fortress would have changed its surname to another name.

This situation abounds in the New World, especially before the outbreak of the Seven Years' War. Whether it is New France or Louisiana, the economic lifelines of various military fortresses and fortresses and even most of the small colonial cities are owned by France. Those great nobles are in control. Only large immigrant cities like Quebec and New Orleans were controlled by the King of France.

　　 Therefore, the six-member group headed by Fernan is actually very rich. Any one of them has a wealth that far exceeds that of the hard-pressed Major Armand.

　　 Although I can't figure out the real wealth of these six guys, Shi Xiong has already sharpened the small knife in his hand. Originally, Shi Xiong was still worried about what excuse he could find to use this small knife, but Fernan and Oreno came to the door unconsciously. The small knife in Shi Xiong's hand still slaughtered them severely?

　　 Originally, the stone bear planned to collect 15,000 pounds of food from these guys, so that if you count the 10,000 pounds of food in the barracks, you can make up 25,000 pounds of food. But now that these guys came to the door without knowing it, Shi Xiong was about to knock them hard.

　　 The stone bear demanded more than 5,000 pounds of grain, and it won’t come out anymore. After all, whether it is soldiers in military camps or civilians in fortresses, they have to eat food every day. If they don't leave enough food for them to eat for ten days, they will definitely not hand the food to themselves obediently.

　　Since it is impossible to slaughter them more in terms of food, then just use this introduction to slaughter them in other ways.

　　 The value of forty war horses is not much lower than 20,000 pounds of grain, or even slightly more than that. The most important thing is that war horses are what Gaoshu tribe needs most at present, so the stone bear and lion open their mouths, and one mouth is forty war horses.

　　 As for the cloth, the number of 30 Apangs is quite a lot. Before the French established the "meter" as a unit of length measurement in 1791, Apon was a French unit of length measurement.

1 Arpent is approximately equal to 715 meters, and the length of a roll of cloth made by the French at this time is about half apong, that is to say, 30 arpent cloth is sixty rolls, about two thousand. Meter.

　　 If the cloth is something that Stone Bear temporarily remembered to add, then he must get the contract slave who knows alchemy.

The scientific theory of this era has not yet been fully established, and the term "scientist" has not yet become popular. In this era of Europe, the best pronoun for scientists is alchemists. Except for some crooks, almost all true alchemists are very good. Good scientist.

　　 The stone bear now needs scientists from Europe, very much. There are a lot of science and technology from the future in his mind, and he knows many technologies, but to turn these technologies into real objects of this age, they must be realized through the hands of these scientists or alchemists.

　　 Shixiong doesn't have the energy to study those technologies. He can only provide these scientists with ideas for a big topic, or occasionally open cheats. The specific research work must be done by these people.

　　 So, Stone Bear had already thought about the matter of robbing people on the voyage to Alcron Fortress, because he knew from Captain Pieno that there were indeed several alchemist contract slaves in the fortress.

　　 Compared to other materials, Shi Xiong valued these alchemists more. Even food and horse stone bears can be dispensed with, but these alchemist stone bears must be brought back to the Gaoshu tribe.

　　 Unfortunately, there are only three alchemists in the entire fortress, and one of them is a liar.

　　 The liar was kicked aside by Shixiong without hesitation, and the other two alchemists were packed and taken away by Shixiong and their family.

These two alchemists were contract slaves, and their families were also contract slaves. The slave contract was in Fernan's hands, so Shixiong easily gave these two alchemists and their families Rescued.

　　 In front of the powerful "Chikemon Chief", even if Fernan wanted to resist, he was powerless. It is true that he is rich, but he does not have enough armed forces in his hands. The strongest armed forces in the fortress are in the hands of Alfons and Pieno, while Fernan and the others have only 30 armed forces in their six hands. These people are not that group anyway. The opponent of the "Chikemeng Warrior" who looks like a wolf.

　　 In addition to the fact that the number of alchemists did not meet the requirements of the stone bear, the number of war horses was also lacking.

　　 Except for the war horses raised in the barracks, almost all the war horses in the entire fortress were searched by Fernan and the others, but even so, the number of war horses collected was only 36.

　　 But there are a lot of horses used to pull plows and carts, but why would Shi Xiong want this kind of horse? To pull the plow and the cart, how can this horse be better than those tame bison?

As for the cloth and food, it’s enough. Pieno is right. These six guys stored more than 30,000 pounds of food in the fortress. Although they were very distressed by the 20,000 pounds of food, it was compared to their lives. , The food does not matter.

　　 Cloth is one of the main materials traded by the French and the Indians, so there are also many cloth storages in the fortress, which are all cheaper now.

　　 These materials were quickly loaded onto the ship, especially the presence of the 36 horses, which made the four ships almost unable to load these materials.

　　Since everything he wanted and the extra blackmail was in his hands, Shixiong used the excuse of Major Armand's urgent need for help, and then took Captain Pieno on board and left the Alcron Fortress.

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