Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 769 The commander who was almost captured by his own people
In fact, the fact that the Indians from various villages came to this conference room in the fort today represented their trust in the Beihai Town Overseas Corps.

In the eyes of these Indians, these outsiders with the same skin color as themselves did not bully the tribes with the terrifying weapons in their hands, and their transactions were very fair and reasonable, much better than the Spaniards.

In the past, they would get at least ten beaver skins for an iron pot from missionaries or fur traders, fifteen for a sharp dagger, and never even thought about muskets.Today they can get the same items for half or less beaver hides, but with more and better variety.

What is especially valuable is that these outsiders in Jinmen Town respect their tribal beliefs.They also enshrined the wolf god and the eagle god in their temples, which made the Miwoks feel both novel and moving.

The bad things that the Franciscan Missions have done over the years have disgusted the Miwok people. Although they have resisted, how can the bows, arrows and stone axes in their hands resist muskets, cannons and spears?

Since everyone in the tribe where Katata is located has witnessed the power of the guns of the Overseas Corps and the piles of food brought by the "Thor" and "Jaguar", after a little consideration, they collectively made a decision to stand in the Overseas Corps. On the one hand, the decision to jointly fight against the Spaniards.

For the request of the Miwok people to obtain firearms, Jinmen Town's condition is to come to participate in military training.As long as you become a tribal militia and respond to the call in wartime, each man has two muskets, one long and one short, a leather belt and leather armor made of cowhide, and a dagger; A metal breastplate.

Since defeating the invasion of the Spanish army, all kinds of hot and cold weapons are what Jinmen Town lacks most now.Thousands of flintlock guns and matchlock guns were seized by cleaning the battlefield, and there were even more piles of halberds, swords, leather breastplates, and the like.For this reason, Lu Qi had to ask people to build several warehouses on the open space on the west side of the fort to store these things.In addition, on the south side of the Lonely Mountain in later generations, a large open space was surrounded to raise captured war horses, pack horses, cattle and sheep.Those responsible for tending the animals were Spanish prisoners of war.

Several other Miwok tribes saw that the first person to eat crabs could get so many benefits, and they all decided to join, sending young and strong to participate in militia training.For them who live only by hunting and gathering, having muskets can not only better defend their homes, but also obtain prey easier; with enough food, the children and old people in the village will not be caught in the winter and spring famine. starve.

In this way, the Miwoks were completely tied to the chariots of Jinmen Town, forming a close alliance with each other.Although their main purpose is to fight against the Spaniards and obtain more supplies through trade with Jinmen Town, since they are allies, the marriage is logical.

However, when the interpreter finished speaking, the Indians present were first stunned by the bride price given by Jinmen Town.If such a condition is not agreed to, it is definitely a super fool.But when I was excited, I thought about it again, is there still a 15-year-old unmarried girl in the village?

There are 35 Indians present today, belonging to 28 villages of three tribes.The population of these villages is nearly 100, and the population is less than 100.If the age standard for girls is lowered by two or three years, it will be no problem to choose more than 15 unmarried women from thousands of people.But the [-]-year-old indigenous women are all fucking kids!

It is said that the physical development of the Indians in the state of primitive society is relatively early, and girls have reached the marriageable age at the age of twelve or thirteen.They usually enter puberty after the age of ten, and the tribe will hold a coming-of-age ceremony, allowing them to enter a special hut, live alone for 15 days, and go through the menarche period.When the solitary life is over, it means that the girl has grown up and can marry.

In fact, the increase in the age of marriage in human history is not only due to changes in ideas, but the increase in average life expectancy is a very important factor.In an ethnic group society where the average life expectancy is less than 40 years old, or even [-] years old, genes will force people to mature early in order to increase the labor force, and early marriage and early childbearing become inevitable.

Even in modern times, in some primitive tribes in Africa, it is common to get married and have children at the age of eight or ten.Since survival is precarious, reproduction of blood is the first priority.

If Beihai Town hadn’t improved productivity through the large-scale use of agricultural machinery and equipment in the past ten years in the outer northeast, and spared no effort to improve the level of education and medical security, the decree on marriage and childbirth at the age of 16 would be nothing but empty talk.

The air in the conference room seemed to freeze, and all the village representatives felt that this matter was difficult to handle.While pondering, some people looked at each other, and then whispered in a low voice.The content of these people's conversations is almost all of them simply forming a group to go to other tribes to grab a batch. The key is who is better to grab?

The Apache tribe is too numerous to beat, and even the Spaniards dare to be tough.Do you want to choose the Walapai?But everyone used to have a good relationship, so it's not easy to start!Or the Ruichenau people to the south?

Of course, some of the Indians present were thoughtful.People's thinking is ten 45, so it's not all up to them, just like my girl just turned thirteen this year, but what if I want to say fifteen?Indian girls develop early, and they can't tell if they are one or two years old.

Li Shi didn't know that these aboriginals would be thinking so much all of a sudden. Seeing that everyone was talking in small groups in low voices, he didn't express his opinion. He thought that our betrothal gift has been given very generously, so isn't that enough?
Thinking of this, he asked Su Ke, the interpreter standing beside him, "What are they talking about?"

Su Ke listened for a while, and then explained in plastic Mandarin. Li Shi was dumbfounded when he understood it. He got married at the age of twelve or thirteen. What a joke!This is not looking for a wife, it is clearly looking for a child bride!

It is said that the medical system in Beihai Town has been promoting health knowledge to the common people through the grassroots medical system over the years, and does not allow women to give birth before the age of 17.You must know that before a woman's pelvis is fully developed, childbirth is a very dangerous thing, and surgery on the stomach is simply too scary for people of this age, and it sounds infiltrating.

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.After Li Shi reported the situation to Lu Qi, Lu Qi felt that there was no need to bother about marriage, and he might as well wait until Li Chao immigrated here.If the group of North Koreans from the south bank of the Tumen River that the committee had said before hadn't arrived, he wouldn't have figured out such an idea.

However, when things got to this point, it was no longer something he would just do if he wanted to.That afternoon, Katata's tribe sent a messenger to tell Kinmen Town to pick someone tomorrow.Lu Qi was unable to get off the tiger, so he had to ask Li Shi, who reported the situation to him, to make a hard trip tomorrow, bring a team of people with him, and get some gifts.

Li Shi was very depressed. There were so many officers in the base who didn't want to find them, so he insisted on letting himself do the job of getting matchmakers.When he called Su Ke who was the translator and asked him to follow him to the other side of the strait tomorrow, Su Ke was very happy.He has been in Jinmen Town for almost a month, and he misses his family very much.But as soon as he left the barracks with his front feet, his back feet retreated again.

Seeing this, Li Shi asked casually, "What else can I do?"

Su Ke stepped forward and asked flatteringly, "Sir, do you want a woman?"

"Nonsense! I have a wife!"

Of course Li Shi has a wife, and his son is two years old. He even showed Su Ke the photo, which made him yell in shock.But from Su Ke's point of view, your wife is on the other side of the sea, wouldn't it be good to find another one.So he smiled and said: "Chief, one wife is not enough, three are not many. Our chief, four wives!"

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After seeing Li Shi, this guy squinted his eyes and looked at him silently, thinking that the other party was tempted, so he mustered up the courage to introduce: "My sister, 16 years old, just died of her husband, and has a son, do you want it? "

"Get out!" Li Shi was almost pissed off by this guy, and waved his hand to signal him to get out!
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The anchor point that Zhao Xin chose for himself is the "fortress park" located in another time and space.In order to avoid his sudden disappearance and shocking appearance, he chose the specific location on the lonely mountain more than 400 meters southeast of the fortress park.This place is said to be a mountain, but it is actually a small hill with an altitude of more than 100 meters.

At noon, when the sun is at its hottest, there are very few pedestrians or vehicles on the streets at the foot of the mountain.Zhao Xin was wearing a plaid short-sleeved shirt and jeans, a pair of tactical boots, a baseball cap and sunglasses, and a fake beard on his chin and chin.He walked to a trash can at the lower intersection of Lonely Mountain, pretended to drink up the mineral water in his hand, and then threw the empty bottle into the trash can.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhao Xin has observed the surrounding situation carefully.When a car passed by him slowly, after driving more than 200 meters, he no longer hesitated, and quickly got into a bush on the hillside behind him
"Ah~~~!"

Zhao Xin, who had just returned to the [-]th century, was still in trouble when he heard a woman's scream from beside him, followed by a big booted foot kicking firmly on his calf.Caught off guard, the guy fell forward with a muffled grunt, and rolled down the hillside for a few meters before stopping.

After eating a mouthful of dirt, Zhao Xin felt his right leg go numb. Just as he was about to get up, a hard and cold object hit the back of his head, and then he heard a male voice with a slight southern accent: " Don't move! Put your head in your hands!"

I'll fuck it!Zhao Xin's first reaction was that it was a shock.The majestic commander-in-chief of the three armies of Beihai Town, the future emperor, was captured at the fingertips of a gun!He also lost his sunglasses, and he didn't dare to look at the other person, for fear that people would recognize him, so he lowered his head and hugged his head repeatedly: "Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! It's my own! Be careful!"

Just now, a tall black figure suddenly appeared in front of him out of thin air, causing Katata to yell in fright, and He Xiyang who was beside him was also startled, but because he practiced martial arts since childhood, he instinctively raised his foot to give it away.

Katata didn't go back to the village last night, but lived in the same village's tent in the trading market with a few girls who came with her.There is a market during the day, and it becomes a campsite at night, surrounded by wooden walls and fences. There are soldiers standing guard all night on the watchtower of the nearby fortress, which is quite safe.

When lunch was served inside the fortress at noon, He Xiyang didn't go to the cafeteria, but brought it out in a lunch box.Because there were many people in the trading market, the two ran to the small mountain bun that they often come to. They had just sat down and hadn't eaten yet, when Zhao Xin came.

He Xiyang, who was holding a revolver, heard that the other party was speaking in official language, and his first reaction was to affirm that the big man was one of his own.Because whether it is a Spanish prisoner of war or an Indian, the official dialect is not so slippery, and it also has the unique accent of Beihai Town.

He Xiyang looked at Zhao Xin from head to toe, and seeing the boots on the opponent's feet, he was sure that he was not running away.Only people from Beihai Town can have this kind of boots!Katata also has a pair, which was given by himself.

He felt that the big tall man in front of him looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before, a face just appeared in his heart, and he immediately denied it instinctively.

Just kidding, how is it possible!

He Xiwen put away the revolver, and said angrily, "Get up. You are from the engineering team? Why are you here?"

"Hey, no, don't you want to find a higher place to see the sea?" Zhao Xin breathed a long sigh of relief and deliberately spoke in a hoarse voice.While he was getting up, he had already seen the military uniform on the opponent, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the frightened alien girl not far away.

Unexpectedly, when he stood up, He Xiyang and Katata were startled again, thinking that this man is really tall.He Xiyang is 1.6 meters tall, and Katata is a little over 1.5 meters.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, you two continue, I'm really sorry!" Zhao Xin didn't have time to delay, and he was afraid that He Xiyang would see his flaws. He tilted his head and raised his hands over his left shoulder, hugging the two people behind him. , enduring the pain in his leg and walked quickly towards the fortress in the north.

"Who is this? Where did he come from?" Katata looked at the back that kept going away, walked up to He Xiyang and took the other's hand.

"It should be a guy from the engineering team. I guess he just took a nap just now. Be rash!"

"He's really tall."

"Yes. It's quite tall." He Xiyang said smoothly, and began to think about who in Jinmen Town was tall.

Zhao Xin walked more than 200 meters in one breath. Seeing that the Golden Gate Fortress was getting closer and closer to him, he stopped and bent over to rub the sockets of his knees a few times, and then carefully looked at the fortress.

Different from the buildings with red tiles and white walls in another time and space, the Golden Gate Fortress in Beihai Town is almost a complete replica of the "U.S. military base in the Middle East" in the movie of another time and space.

The entire Golden Gate Fort covers an area of ​​nearly 1.2 square meters, slightly larger than four standard football fields in later generations.The outer wall of the fortress is made of "foldable explosion-proof wall" made by Beihai Town. Each unit is [-] meters high and one meter wide. There are canvas bags filled with sand and gravel, which can be stacked upwards after filling. Here is the Golden Gate Fortress. Build three layers.On the outside of the wall, silver-gray explosion-proof wall panels covering the front wall are added.

When Lu Qi and the others were making preparations before departure, they considered that the Kinmen area was covered with sandy soil, without hard stones and trees, otherwise the Spanish fortress would not be an adobe building.After some discussions, it was finally decided to follow the example of the US military base, using explosion-proof walls for the walls, and prefabricated houses for all the interiors.

From the outside, the buildings inside the fortress are very tall, and they are all gray and white square buildings.Inside each side wall, there are four ten-meter-high sentry towers, all of which are made of steel pipes and angle steel, with a hut for observation and observation on the top.

At this time, on a guard tower inside the fortress wall, Lu Qi was looking around with a telescope.According to Zhao Xin's telegram, the other party should arrive today.But what time will it arrive, and where will it come from?

After eating at noon, he couldn't sit still, so he took the guards to the guard tower for a walk.Thinking that he was condescending, if Boss Zhao came, he would be able to find out in time.

Suddenly, a figure in a plaid shirt flashed across the field of vision of the telescope.Lu Qi froze for a moment, raised his binoculars and hurriedly searched back.Finally, when he found the figure again, Zhao Xin had already walked more than 100 meters away from him, and this guy had already seen Lu Qi, so he waved his hand with a smile.

(End of this chapter)