1840 Indian Rebirth

Chapter 93 [Food]

Soon after, Sleeping Bear returned to its former peace. If not for the hard work of nearly a thousand prisoners every day, the war would have never happened.

Although Horse Whistle's ultimate goal is to make the captured Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Comanche all belong to Sleeping Bear and become Apaches, but right now he doesn't intend to be too polite to these prisoners.

These prisoners currently need to work seven days a week, about 797 hours a day, which can basically be described as "[-]", and the salary is very low, only ten cents a day.

The reason why he does this is mainly to facilitate the application of favors and rewards.

For example, in order to encourage prisoners to learn Apache, he directly stipulated that those who have a vocabulary of more than 996 Apache can work two hours less a day, those who have more than [-] have double their salary, and those who have more than [-] can have a weekly vacation. One day, the [-] working system is realized.

Those who have a vocabulary of more than a thousand can have their sentence reduced for one year, and those who can read the "Lingyu" fluently can regain their freedom in place - this is basically impossible, and the full text of the "Lingyu" has tens of thousands of words.

By squeezing the labor force of the prisoners, Sleeping Bear City's land reclamation speed has risen sharply like a rocket, and an average of nearly [-] acres of farmland can be reclaimed every day.

Ma Shao feels that the 797 working system is already ruthless enough.

But in fact, many inmates find it quite lenient.

After all, in their psychological expectation, labor is slavery, and it is the kind of slavery that is similar to abuse for pleasure. They did not expect that they were only allowed to work [-] hours a day and even get money—even though they had no concept of dollars.

In fact, in terms of working hours alone, 797 is just an ordinary level in the capital world at this time, and it is really nothing to a group of prisoners.

In the days after the war, reinforcements from several Apache tribes arrived in Sleeping Bear one after another.

There were not many of them, and the support time was not timely, and the sincerity of the support seemed doubtful, but the horse post still warmly entertained them.

These reinforcements from other tribes, including the Chiricahua tribe, stayed in Sleeping Bear for a while and then prepared to go back.

On the occasion of parting, Ma Shao held a bonfire ceremony, warmly entertained them with food, singing and dancing again, and expressed his thoughts frankly.

His idea, of course, is to hope that all tribes can join Sleeping Bear, at least live in Sleeping Bear.

"...you guys, you should know more or less what I think. In fact, I hope to form an 'Apache Tribe', which will unite all the Apaches to form a single tribe. Then use the Apaches as the core to unify all Aboriginal tribes."

"In my opinion, the conflict between the Apaches and the Arapahos or any two native tribes is not worth mentioning at all. The United States is the enemy that we need to deal with."

Oak pondered for a moment: "The United States is indeed much stronger than Arapaho, but I don't think it is necessary or realistic to integrate all tribes."

"It's very necessary, so necessary that we have to do it even if it's unrealistic." Ma Shao emphasized, "There are about 2000 million people in the United States, which is almost a thousand times that of the Apaches, and forty or fifty times that of all the aborigines. Rapid growth."

Many people heard such a specific number for the first time, or even the first time they heard such a specific order of magnitude, and they couldn't help asking: "2000 million, still growing rapidly? How did you know that?"

Horse Whistle: "Newspapers and books, of course."

He added: "There is a place in Europe, the homeland of the white man, that is facing a great famine...Because of this great famine, more and more white people are moving to the United States to inject new blood into this country."

He was talking, of course, of the Great Irish Famine.

Just a few months earlier, Irish potato crops had failed due to Phytophthora infestans, triggering the Great Famine.

The Great Famine would cause Ireland's population to drop by a quarter in a few years, and eventually cut in half, and it did not return to its peak until the 21st century.

Some of the millions of people lost in Ireland died of starvation, and some of them went to emigration, most of which went to the United States, a new immigrant country.

This disaster is both natural and man-made.During the famine, Irish landowners continued to export food and watched large numbers of civilians starve to death.

The thriving British Empire almost stood by, continuing to ship grain from Ireland to England.

Not only that, Britain even prevented others from helping. For example, when the Sultan of Ottoman Turkey announced that he would donate [-] pounds to Irish farmers, Queen Victoria asked him to donate [-] pounds-because she only donated [-] pounds.

For the British at this time, Ireland was essentially just one of many colonies and did not deserve their attention.

"The population of the United States will continue to grow, while the population of the aborigines will continue to shrink." Ma Shao continued, "In a few decades, the population of the United States will reach more than a hundred times that of all the aborigines... What will happen to ten people? Victory over a thousand men?"

"Tecumseh once organized thousands of people to fight against the United States, but in the end it failed. And this is not a major war for the United States. Look at their War of Independence 70 years ago, there were several 10 people people go to war."

Horse sentry: "We must unite as soon as possible, and build a few aboriginal cities with tens of thousands of people while there are not many white people in the Midwest."

"...Even if we don't talk about the future, the alliance of several tribes in Sleeping Bear City will provide us with unprecedented security. We will have an elite army of a thousand people, and no tribe will dare to invade. The United States The federal government will not provoke it easily."

Oak thought for a while: "Maybe you are right, Horse Whistle, but I need to think about it for a while, and I also need to ask the opinions of my tribe."

Ma Shao nodded: "Of course, I can understand. In fact, Sleeping Bear City can't accommodate so many people for the time being. Even if you want to move in, you have to wait until next year at least."

"Because of the food?" asked Oak.

Horse Whistle: "Yes. Although we currently have enough food, I don't dare to further expand the population of Sleeping Bear City until the agriculture is fully developed."

Not to mention all the Apache tribes, even just one Chiricahua tribe has a population of three to four thousand.

Coupled with the captives and the families and relatives who will soon be brought back by the captives, the population of Sleeping Bear City may even reach the scale of [-] within a few months.

With Sleeping Bear City's current agricultural level, such a population size cannot be self-sufficient no matter what, and has to buy a large amount of food from the outside world.

Horse Whistle is not sure whether the Great Irish Famine will affect the grain market in the United States.But even if it won't be affected, he won't dare to expand the population of Sleeping Bear City in a short time.

(End of this chapter)