Forty-eight years of Qianlong

He Xiyang, a young naval lieutenant, has been very upset recently, sometimes sweet and sometimes sad.The sweet thing is because of the long-haired Indian girl with braids on the other side, and the sad thing is how she confessed to her father who is thousands of miles away.

Send a telegram to say that you have canceled the one you booked before. Your son already has someone he likes?
He Xiyang was sure that even if he dared to do this, his father, He Xiwen, would break his own leg and force him to worship that girl he had never met before.

It's the other way around!Don't want a well-educated and well-educated girl with yellow flowers, but dare to find an overseas barbarian!Besides, the divorce for no reason, what kind of behavior will the girl from the other party's family have in the future?

Even though Beihai Town has a law against taking concubines, it does not interfere with the marriage custom of "the order of the parents and the words of the matchmaker".This kind of thing can only be slowly publicized and educated, and the subtle influence must not be achieved overnight, otherwise the backlash will be very violent.

In the past few days, Bai Bai finished his training in the afternoon, so he went to find He Xiyang, and asked a few serious questions in Spanish, even making gestures.

Do you like my daughter?Is that pair of black leather boots you gave me a token of love?How many people are in your family?When are you going to marry her?
Oh my God!He Xiyang only felt numbness on the front of his forehead and a cold sweat on the back of his neck.

When he was still on the ship, Lu Qi half-jokingly talked about Indian customs to these young officers.He said that what these natives like to do most is to cut off the scalps of their opponents as trophies.Later, when cleaning the battlefield at the end of the "Battle of Mount San Bruno", He Xiyang saw with his own eyes several Miwoks scalped the killed Spaniards with daggers, and then howled like wild wolves.

If you can't do what you promise, or give up all the time, will you scalp yourself in vain?
"Cuckoo~~"

Just as He Xiyang was standing in the open space outside the gate of the fortress, thinking wildly, a pair of small hands that were somewhat rough but smelled of soap suddenly covered his eyes from behind, and a silver bell-like laughter came from his ears at the same time.

"Katata. Where did you come from? I didn't see you." He Xiyang grabbed the opponent's hand and moved away from his eyes, then turned around.

"Haha~~"

Katata raised her head and looked at He Xiyang, with a bit of complacency and joy in her clear and bright eyes.Afterwards, the two began to exchange words and gestures.

Katata: "How long have you been waiting for me?"

He Xiyang: "It didn't take long, and I only came out for a while."

Katata: "Look, I have the boots on. Do they look good?"

He Xiyang: "It looks good."

Katata: "Hee hee, now I'm only half a head behind you, and I'm about to catch up with you. By the way, I just saw that you were preoccupied. What's the matter?"

He Xiyang: "It's nothing, I'm thinking about something."

Katata: "Can you tell me?"

He Xiyang: "Business. You know, keep it secret."

"Okay, I won't ask any more." Katata pursed her lips playfully, and then changed the topic: "Let's go to see my father first, and my mother asked me to bring him some food, and you have a share too."

The two first met in the trading market outside the fortress.At that time, Katata followed her father Baibai to set up a stall here to do business, but Baibai couldn't sit still, and went to watch the Beihai Navy dig a well with a group of people, leaving her alone to watch the stall. At this time, He Xiyang came over.

He Xiyang has no interest in furs, and has already bought a few furs to bring back to his family.And because of his father He Xiwen's relationship, he has been living a life of a young master with no worries about food and clothing, even if he later went to the Junior Military Academy in Beihai Town.

It just so happened that besides the sea lion skin, there were two katata necklaces on the Baibai booth at that time, all of which were decorated with snow-white sea lion teeth, shells on the beach, obsidian and kingfisher feathers, and they were polished very beautifully.He Xiyang thought it was a good thing, so he planned to buy it.

As for Katata, because he believed deeply in the prophecy of the "Soaring Eagle", he instinctively had a good impression of the Orientals who came in the white ship.At the same time, she hoped that these people could help her find her brother who was taken away by the Spaniards, so she said she didn't want any money.However, the Beihai Navy has discipline, and transactions must be fair, and it is not acceptable to take things for free.

Katata doesn't want it, but He Xiyang doesn't give it.As a result, during the dispute between the two, He Xiyang's hand accidentally touched Katata. For a moment, the air between the two of them seemed to freeze. The young man's face turned red instantly, and he couldn't speak anymore. Then he dropped the money and turned around. Run away, and even forgot to take the jewelry I bought.

Katata was startled by He Xiyang's "escape behavior" at the time, and she didn't realize until the other person's figure disappeared, she felt that this person was really interesting, and his blushing face was very attractive.

In fact, occasional physical contact between unmarried men and women is nothing to the Indians.But He Xiyang can't do it!The education he received since he was a child was "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, and do no action." Even after studying in Beihai Town for a few years, the concept of "defense between men and women" is still deeply ingrained.

Although He Xiwen was born as a pirate, just like those warlords in later generations, he attached great importance to the education of his children.I am so poor that I have no way out to go out to sea to become a pirate, so my future generations can't be pirates, right?So He Xiyang was enlightened at the age of seven and studied both civil and martial arts. The teachers in his family were all scholars who came from Jiading to escape the war.

In the next two days, Katata would come to the trading market with his father, staring at the gate of the fort if he had nothing to do.It can't be done otherwise, the necklace is still here.Besides, she didn't know the other party's name, so she could only stare at the officers and soldiers coming in and out.

After three days like this, she finally saw He Xiyang, and grabbed the hem of his military uniform as soon as she went up.The problem is that He Xiyang didn't come out for a stroll at the time, he was going with a platoon of troops to scout the terrain to the south.Not surprisingly, Katata's move caused a collective uproar among more than 30 officers and soldiers, and He Xiyang wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.

Long story short.After He Xiyang clarified the misunderstanding, everyone was relieved.But since then, Katata seems to have identified He Xiyang, and looks for him every time he comes to Jinmen Town.Gradually, He Xiyang was also infected by the innocence of this Indian girl, leaving footprints of their walks on the seaside, in the mountains and forests.

A few months later, He Xiyang finally took a crucial step under the encouragement of Katata's eyes. Don't think about it!People just hug and hold high.Although Katata doesn't mind the relationship between men and women, He Xiyang really dare not!It took him a lot of effort to explain clearly to the other party that Chinese people attach great importance to the relationship between men and women, and they must obtain the consent of their parents and hold a formal ceremony.

Katata was dubious about this, but she really liked He Xiyang who was always shy, so she reluctantly accepted this reason.But sometimes she also wondered, if what He Xiyang said was true, why did she see a guy in a green military uniform go to the market to find a woman and mutter about it several times?
And after those guys and women whispered, they would secretly go behind the hill with the nod of the other husband's permission, and came back after a while.When my father talked to his mother in vain, he even took this as a joke, saying that he really didn't understand why the Chinese would be sneaky. Isn't this kind of thing normal?

Well, North American Indian society is different from those etiquette taboos in Eastern and Western civilized societies. It is very loose about men and women. As long as they are not close relatives, it doesn’t matter even if they have sex with outsiders before or after marriage, and they don’t need the other party to be responsible. better.Faced with the cruel natural living environment, especially the diseases brought by Europeans, which caused a sharp decline in the population, the continuation of the tribal bloodline was the first priority.

It is said that in the process of European fur trade in North America, racial discrimination was only a recessive state, and its performance was not obvious.After all, the fur traders needed the support of the Indians to acquire fur in large quantities from the latter.

Almost all fur traders in this year will associate with Indian women, and even many company employees and managers will marry local women in accordance with Indian customs.Because Indian society advocates polygamy, there are many whites who marry several wives.The most famous one was a guy named Moses Norton, who was the head of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Churchill River area of ​​Canada, and had a total of six Indian wives.

There are many advantages for fur traders to marry Indian wives.First of all, they are an important labor force in the family. In addition to taking care of the children and the family, they are also responsible for collecting and cooking food, making clothes, and carrying supplies when men hunt; second, they can act as translators, negotiators and In addition, some aboriginal women even directly participated in the fur trade and became excellent helpers.

In today's eastern North America, with the popularity of intermarriage with aboriginals, the number of mixed offspring is increasing. Among them, mixed-race women have gradually replaced indigenous women and become the first choice for white people to marry.

In the history of another time and space, with the decline of the fur trade in the [-]th century and the large-scale development of western agriculture, the white people finally showed their ferocious faces.In order to rob the Indians of their land, even marriages became "the cohabitation of civilized men and savage women". As long as they did not go through the Christian ceremony, they would not be recognized.The mixed-race descendants were also rejected by the mainstream society, so they could only hug together to keep warm, and finally evolved an independent Indian ethnic group-the Métis.

Talk too far.

Since the Overseas Corps came to Jinmen Town, there have been many cases of soldiers secretly fighting Indian married women in the field because they couldn't hold back their loneliness.Since the Beihai Navy's system requires approval to go out, and at least two people are in a company, they are all gang behaviors and take turns to look out.

Afterwards, they will also give Indian women some daily necessities, a few bars of soap, a small bottle of soju, two packs of cigarettes and so on.Afterwards, they would directly give Beihai yuan, five cents a time, which was equivalent to more than one penny.

Lu Qi was very angry when he knew this situation.I said what the fuck I brought you here to conquer and transform this continent with Chinese civilization, not to be prostitutes!Didn't you see that I came here alone?Why is I so busy all day long?It's not because he fell asleep on the bed and didn't have to think about it!

He immediately ordered the gendarmerie to investigate the matter strictly, and all those found out will be locked up for two days first, and then they will hold a meeting to educate and do self-reflection.In the terms of the Beihai Navy, it is called "a reflection that touches the depths of the soul".

As a former low-level employee, Lu Qi knows that it is definitely not enough to just punish blindly.Just like what Wang Yuanfang told him on the boat coming to Kinmen, he must be strict with the soldiers to maintain military discipline and combat effectiveness, and at the same time care about their lives like a loving mother.

And it's useless to just talk about the truth with these guys who haven't received much education.These soldiers were all prisoners of war of the Qing army before, and they served several years of hard labor on Bitter Leaf Island. They had few opportunities to meet women, and their eyes would shine when they wished to see a sow.Now that he joined the army and came to the North American continent, it would definitely not work to continue living a life without women.

After discussing with several officers under him, Lu Qi summoned the platoon leaders of each platoon, and after some advice, asked them to go back and hold a life meeting for their subordinates.At the meeting, the platoon leaders told the bachelors under them that if you want to find an Indian woman in the local area to start a family, there is no problem, and Commander Lu will even personally help you to propose marriage.After that, the media will be married, and they will divide the house and land.The land in Lushui Plain is fertile, with each family having [-] mu, and there will be machines to help fertilize the land in the future.

But those who have families should pay attention, if you marry an indigenous wife now, will your wife and children in Liaodong still take over?After all, Beihai Town's law is that there can only be one wife, and everyone is now a member of the Beihai Navy, so they must abide by it.If anyone can't bear it and wants both, they can only be forced to retire and take the next boat to go home and farm.Anyway, the life of "wife and children on the kang, fifty acres of land and one cow" can make a family rich.

As soon as this remark came out, the soldiers present were excited and contemplative.

go home?If the hard labor on Kuye Island had just ended, no one would hesitate.But now, whoever goes back is a fool!
Regardless of the thousands of miles away from home, every day is training except for training, and the captured wars must be returned to the public; but since the first batch of furs purchased from Indians were shipped to Anping Port for sale, everyone has received a considerable amount of income. .The deducted part of the profit was agreed in advance, and it only accounted for [-]%, which is really not much.Many people want to use the money they earn to continue buying furs from the Indians, so that within two years, they can earn thousands of Beihai dollars.

Most importantly, backed by the big tree of the Beihai Navy, it is really possible to catch whoever is killed in this land. Although the previous battle with the Spaniards was fought with less, the winner was called a clean and crisp, and Not many casualties.Serving as a soldier like this is really not for a landlord.

I have to say that the effect of this life meeting was quite good. Every soldier made a speech and expressed his determination, and those who made mistakes before promised that they would never violate discipline again.

While He Xiyang and Katata were looking for Bai Bai, a meeting attended by representatives of the surrounding tribes was going on in the fort.It is said to be a representative, but in fact it is to select one of the Indians in each village doing business in the market, and after explaining it clearly to them, let them go back to spread the word.

On behalf of Lu Qi was the commander of the Overseas Corps, Li Shi, a major officer; the interpreter was the best mandarin man among the tribal militiamen who were undergoing training.

It was the first time for a group of Indians to enter the fortress. They looked around curiously, and when they got to the meeting room, they chattered again. Everyone had question marks on their faces, and they didn't know why they called themselves here.However, when the tribal militiaman finished his chatter, all the Indians present were dumbfounded.

"The leader here said that he wants to find wives for hundreds of warriors under him! Because the Easterners have good relations with various tribes this year, they want to marry you. The condition is that you must be young and unmarried, and those under the age of 14 are too young. , must be over 15 years old. Yes! It is 15 years old, this is very important. Every girl’s home will give a strong horse, a musket, three blankets, and a full set of iron pots!"