1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 126 [Freedom for Freedom]

Chavez's actions shocked everyone in the room. No one thought that he would kill Margoffin directly.

Looking at Margofin who fell on the ground, it took several seconds for Amijo to come back to his senses, and he looked up at Chavez: "What did you do?"

"I killed the American envoy." Chavez took a deep breath, "Now we can organize our defense with peace of mind."

"God!" Amijo scurry around the room, waving his hands up and down, "I shouldn't have brought you here!"

Chavez: "Uncle, there is no need for you to be so anxious. We are not hopeless, after all, we are the defensive side, and we have better weapons."

Amijo stomped again: "It was a mistake to buy those weapons too!"

Chavez said nothing.

Archuleta said at this time: "Governor, anyway, we have only one choice now-drive the Americans back."

Amijo was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "Oh, you are right."

"Archuleta, tell the soldiers and the people that the whole city is in combat mode, ready to fight the Americans at any time!"

"Yes!"

……

8 month.

As temperatures rise, the stability of the virus is clearly weakened.

Although the prevention and control measures in Sleeping Bear City are simple, it is only a place with a few thousand people. After about half a year of isolation and control, finally on a sunny day, the epidemic was completely terminated, and there was no more infected people. .

During the whole process, Sleeping Bear City paid for the deaths of more than a hundred people.

Objectively speaking, this is not a small loss.But compared with the plagues that Indians have experienced in the past, this death is definitely a big victory.

Since ancient times, disaster management has been an important way to obtain legitimacy.

For example, in farming civilization, it is not uncommon for people to become sages and even monarchs by controlling floods.

The plague is to the Indians what floods are to farming civilization, and even worse.

After all, farming civilization always has people who control floods, but the Indians have not seen anyone who can control the plague.Facing the plague, they can only wait for death for a long time.

The horse post allowed the tribes of the plains to overcome the plague, which can be said to be the first time that the Indians opened up the world.

So naturally, no amount of prestige can be overstated.

The prisoners in the labor camps also worshiped the horse post. Many people who originally resisted reform became devout believers of the oracle after the epidemic ended, or believers of the horse post.

They have chosen to fight for parole, learn the Apache language, and let their families move to Sleeping Bear City to settle down, so as to gain conditional freedom.

They did this not only to fight for freedom for themselves, but also for the safety of their families in the future. After all, Sleeping Bear City is the only place that can resist the plague.

The horse post sent envoys and prisoner representatives to help the prisoners pass the news.

In July, the family members of the prisoners had rushed to Sleeping Bear City one after another, and some even came with the entire clan.

I heard that Sleeping Bear City is a "holy city" that can resist the plague, and some clans moved here.Not only the prisoner's clan, but also neighboring clans came after getting the news.

Thus, throughout July, the population of Sleeping Bear City increased by about 1000 people.

August is only a lot more.

Sleeping Bear City started to grow rapidly again.

With a large scale, there are many problems.

One of the more troublesome issues is the issue of slavery. Some Indian clans also have a tradition of slavery. For example, the headquarters of the forest tribe where the owl is located is a large slaveholder.

The clan of more than 200 people has more than 40 slaves, most of whom are captives captured from the Utah clan.

Of course Sleeping Bear City does not have slavery, but Horse Whistle did not forcibly release these slaves, but formulated a set of compensation plans.

First of all, slave owners cannot settle in Sleeping Bear City. If they want to live in Sleeping Bear City, they must release slaves in Sleeping Bear City.

And as long as their slaves become residents of Sleeping Bear City, they can get a compensation.

The compensation is of course not high, much lower than the market price of slaves, but Indian slavery is not serious at all. In order to live in the "Holy City", most slave owners are willing to do so.

And if the prisoner or the family member of the prisoner owns the slave, they can either choose to release the slave and receive compensation like ordinary slave owners, or they can choose "freedom for freedom".

The so-called freedom in exchange for freedom means that they give the slaves freedom, and Sleeping Bear City commutes their sentences, at least one month, and at most two years.

Obviously, this leads to some special deals.

A shed was set up at the entrance of Sleeping Bear City. Several soldiers and shamans were sitting in the shed, with various documents piled up on the table in front of them.

At this moment, a Comanche clan and several Arapaho families are gathering here to go through various procedures before entering the city.

"Slave masters can't settle in Sleeping Bear?" A Comanche slave master widened his eyes when he heard the news.

"That's right, Sleeping Bear City prohibits slavery." The soldier continued to explain while making a register for the registration.

"why?"

Soldier: "There is no reason. This is the teaching of the "Lingyu", and it is the decision of the great chief. Slavery is a barbaric system, and the slavery of compatriots is especially shameful."

"Of course, as long as you release all the slaves, you will be eligible for settlement."

"If the freed slave becomes a resident of Sleeping Bear City, you will also receive a compensation, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the market price."

The slave owner couldn't help saying: "One tenth, this is too little!"

"It would be nice to have compensation. Strictly speaking, keeping slaves is a crime," said a shaman.

The slave owner hesitated for a moment, then took out some silver coins, intending to pass them to the soldiers and the shaman: "Brother, can you..."

Seeing this, several soldiers and shaman laughed directly.

Although Sleeping Bear City has not completely eradicated corruption, there is no room for this kind of bribery in broad daylight.

In their view, this kind of retro behavior is like performance art, and only foreigners who have just arrived from other places will do it.

"This is bribery, it's a crime, understand?" the shaman said, "Considering that you don't understand the laws of Sleeping Bear City, you can be exempted this time."

At this moment, an Arapaho family next to them suddenly said something to a shaman, and then the shaman said to the Comanche slave owner: "They plan to buy some slaves to exchange for their families. Freedom, you can sell slaves to them."

"how much is it?"

"Twice the compensation is one-fifth of the slave price," said the shaman.

"One-fifth, this is still too little." The slave owner was still not satisfied.

"You can also choose to take your slaves and leave Sleeping Bear City." The shaman said lightly, "Sleeping Bear City needs warriors, shamans, farmers...but it doesn't need slave owners."

(End of this chapter)