Chapter 855 Eastern Colonists
Among the rolling hilly mountains, several Dadong Guoshou rode unloading armor and swimming by a stream.
The weather here is surprisingly bad, and the climate is too different. Even when summer is about to end, the temperature is ridiculously high.
"Hey, where did you come from? This is my hunting ground. Please leave quickly!"
A man wearing an eagle feather crown and fancy dress came to the river and shouted at the thunderbolts in the river.
Everyone was playing happily, but no one noticed that a living person jumped out around him. It was not until the living person shouted that he was shocked by the whistleblower.
"What is this chicken feather saying? Do you understand?"
"I can't hear the bird's singing!" a whistle rider quipped.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
There was a burst of laughter, and the whistle riders continued to laugh and swim and take a bath, and only a few people whistled at the native people.
The Indians used feathers as symbols of courage and honor, and were often inserted into hats to show off to others.
Having bird feathers symbolizes courage, beauty and wealth. This man wears an eagle feather crown and is naturally considered the number one major among the nearby tribes.
Looking at the strangers in front of him, unmoved and laughing, the man suddenly got angry and threw the stone into the river with unfriendly hands.
Soon, there was a dispute between the two sides, and a sentry jumped from the river naked and knocked down the indigenous man.
You can't understand me, I can't understand you, and I can't understand you, and I'm cursing and entangled in one piece.
The Indian man wearing the eagle feather crown was not alone, otherwise he would not have had such courage to provoke this group of strangers.
The language barrier makes them unable to communicate at all. As long as they speak loudly, they are likely to be considered provocative.
With the joining of more than a dozen Indians holding wooden sticks, stone axes and javelins, the situation worsened, and the whistle cavalry of the Great East Country shot and killed them directly.
The outcome of the victory or defeat was no surprise, and this group of indigenous people was tragically abused.
Not only that, the Dadongguo sai cavalry, with only a dozen people, chased all the way, drove away all the Indians from a tribe, captured many prisoners, and returned triumphantly.
After this incident, language barriers became the first problem that Hong Chengchou had to solve.
Because if you want to know more about the local situation, you must first learn the local language!
Language communication between different ethnic groups was a problem that the Qing Dynasty often had to face. As the former regent of the Qing Dynasty, these were trivial matters.
Mutual learning of language is essential, including the learning of Indian languages by the Han people and the learning of Chinese language by the Indians.
Language learning can be divided into two types according to characteristics, one is encounter-based learning and the other is systematic learning.
Under Hong Chengchou's will, many captured Indian indigenous people entered the territory of the Great East and served as servants, translators, mistresses and other roles of the Han people. These are opportunity learning.
Systematic learning is based on a specific purpose and is to learn the other party's language in an organized and planned manner.
During the exploration and even colonial conquest period, systematic learning lacks methods and scale, and encounter learning plays a key role in many places.
After a while, some people with language talents in Dadong Country have almost explored the language of the local indigenous people.
Hong Chengchou had been an official, led troops, served as the regent, served as the queen mother, bullied the emperor, and now he became the emperor himself. He was very energetic and ambitious.
When the dynasty was first established, we had to fight a few waves on the foreign battlefield. This is an old tradition.
Hong Chengchou has already made a countermeasure to how to make the Great East rise, a task of great historical significance.
At this time, there were basically no colonists on the west coast of North America. Most of the colonies of European countries were located near the east coast of Europe, and their main forces were Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain.
The closest to the Great East is the Christina Fortress under the New Swedish Company. This fortress was obtained by purchasing land. France also has a colony in Iroquois. The Spanish colony is far away in South America, and the main Indian indigenous people in North America.
In North America, there were more than 20 indigenous tribes including the Sioux people, the Argon Qin people, the Shoshone people, the Creek people, the Boni people, the Pueblo people, the Iroquois, and the number was large, about hundreds of thousands.
Over the past few months, after the continuous investigation of the Dadong State's whistle cavalry, the territory of the Dadong State had expanded to the later California area of the United States, and also reached the territory of the Shoshones.
The vanguard army of the Great East discovered that the nearby Shoshone people were divided into four branches, the West Shoshone people, the North Shoshone people, the Fenghe Shoshone people and the Comanche people.
Among them, Komanche had the strongest fighting power and the earliest branch of the Shawshauni people formed a tribe. They were good at plundering and had constant conflicts after they split from the Shawshauni people in Fenghe.
This also led to the union between the Xiaoxiaoni people in Fenghe and the Xiaoxiaoni people in the North and West.
However, the northern and western Shoshones did not have a unified tribe, and were divided into several loosely related family groups, living with wild plant seeds, small mammals, fish and insects. They only joined forces with other families during large hunting or when fighting against the Comanche.
Hong Chengchou's purpose is to unify these tribes, then continue to march eastward and southward, and continuously expand the territory of the Great Eastern Kingdom!
As for the method, it is a routine that Nurhaci and Huang Taiji often use, to catch people and be cannon fodder!
However, Hong Chengchou was a great scholar who was well-read about the books of sages. He knew that he would first be polite and then military. He first sent an envoy to various tribes of the Xiaoxiaoni people to seek local territories.
The messenger took several captured Xiaoxiaoni people as guides and read out the letter from the founding emperor of the Dadong Kingdom in public.
The content of the letter is very simple, mainly to persuade Xiaoxiaoni to surrender. Hong Chengchou said bluntly: "I am the son of God. I came to this world from heaven. I hope that all your territories can come to my Dadong Kingdom as a guest. I will treat you as friends and brothers. Come quickly, I am eager to meet you!"
If anyone who knows Hong Chengchou reads this letter, he must know that Hong Fengzi is preparing to invite someone to dinner!
In addition to being boasted and full of friendly letters, the envoys of the Great East also brought a lot of wealth to show that we are rich and are rich!
Sure enough, under the temptation of the wealth revealed by the Dadong Kingdom, some indigenous territories began to try to go to Dadong Kingdom to find out the truth, hoping to get information.
When they came to the town center of the Great East Country, everyone was stunned.
The camps in the Great East looked like a beautiful city, and their tents were so numerous that they filled the Indians with fear.
Moreover, according to the envoy who welcomed them, the army of the Great East Kingdom had tens of thousands of people!
This number is enough to make the Indians shudder. They are all wondering whether these so-called Great Eastern countries really fell from the sky?
In a puzzled and curious mentality, the lords of each tribe stepped into the "palace" of the Dadong Kingdom, a huge wooden building.
Without any surprises, Hong Chengchou's system of treating guests to dinner was still as passionate as ever, just like the suppression of enemies in Shaanxi, all the leaders who came to the banquet to accept surrender were killed at the beginning of the banquet!
After solving these indigenous territory of the Shawshauni people, the army of the Dadong Kingdom raided various Shawshauni tribes in various directions, and wiped out dozens of tribes of all sizes and captured tens of thousands of people.
Chapter completed!