The young Navy Lieutenant He Xianyang is very upset recently, sometimes sweet and sometimes sad. What is sweet is because the Indian girl with long hair and braids on the other side is worried about how she explained to her father who was thousands of miles away.

I called the telegram and said that I had returned the previous bookings. Is your son already someone he liked?

He Xianyang dared to conclude that even if he dared to do this, his father He Xiwen would break his legs and force him to celebrate with the girl he had never met.

It's a rebellion! The young girl who is well-educated and well-mannered doesn't want it, but she actually dares to find a barbarian overseas! Besides, how can the other girl retire from marriage for no reason behave in the future?

Although Beihai Town has a law that does not allow concubines to be taken, it does not interfere with the marriage custom of "parents' orders and matchmakers' words". This kind of thing can only be promoted and educated slowly, and the subtle influence cannot be achieved overnight, otherwise the backlash will be very fierce.

The first few days, I finished my training in the afternoon and found He Xianyang, and even gestured and asked a few questions seriously.

Do you like my daughter? Is the pair of black leather boots you gave me a destiny? How many people are in your family? When are you planning to marry her?

My God! He Xianyang only felt his scalp on his front forehead and his neck sweated coldly.

When he was still on the boat, Ruchi talked half-jokingly about the customs of the Indians to them. He said that the indigenous people liked to do the most was to cut off their opponents' scalp as spoils. Later, when the battlefield was cleaned up at the end of the Battle of San Bruno, He Xianyang saw several Miwaks cut off the scalp of the killed Spanish with daggers, and then howled like a wild wolf.

If you can't agree to do it, or you will give up all the time, will you cut off your scalp in vain?

“Gee~~”

Just as He Xianyang was standing in the open space outside the fort gate and was thinking about it, a pair of rough little hands that exuded the aroma of soap suddenly covered his eyes from behind, and a silver bell-like laughter came from his ears.

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

“Haha~~”

Katata looked up at He Xianyang, with a little smugness and joy in his clear and bright eyes. Then the two began to communicate with each other and gesture.

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

He Xianyang: "It's not long before I came out for a while."

Katata: "Look, I put on the boots. Does it look good?"

He Xianyang: "It looks good."

Katata: "Hehe, now I'm only half a head away from you, I'm about to catch up with you. By the way, I saw you having a lot of worries just now, what's wrong?"

He Xianyang: "It's nothing, I'm thinking about things."

Katata: "Can you tell me?"

He Xianyang: "Business. You know, keep it confidential."

"Okay, I won't ask." Katata pursed his lips playfully and said, "Let's go see my father first. My mother asked me to bring him some food, and you'll have a portion."

The two first met at a trading market outside the fortress. At that time, Katata followed her father to set up a stall here to do business, but in the end she couldn't sit still. She ran to see the Beihai Army digging wells and left her alone to look at the stall. At this time, He Xianyang came over.

He Xianyang was not interested in furs, and had bought a few of them before to take them back to his family. Moreover, due to his father He Xiwen, he has always lived a life of a young master who has no worries about food and clothing, and even later went to the Young Military Academy in Beihai Town.

It happened that in addition to sea lion skin, there were two necklaces made of Katata on the white stall, all of which were decorated with snow-white sea lion teeth, shells on the beach, obsidian and kingfisher feathers, and were polished very beautifully. He Xianyang thought this thing was good, so he planned to buy it.

As for Catata, because she believed in the prophecy of "Flying Eagle", she instinctively had a good impression of the Orientals who came on a white boat. At the same time, she hoped that these people could help her find her brother who was taken away by the Spanish, so she said she didn't want money. However, the Northern Navy is disciplined and the transaction should be fair, so it's not enough to take it for nothing.

Katata didn't want it, He Xianyang didn't give it. As a result, during the dispute between the two, He Xianyang's hand accidentally touched Katata's chest. For a moment, the air between the two seemed to solidify, and the young man's face turned red in an instant, and he couldn't even say anything. Then he threw down his money and turned around and ran away, and even forgot to take the jewelry he bought.

Katata was shocked by He Xianyang's "escape behavior". It was not until the other party's figure disappeared that she realized that this person was really interesting and her face was very blushing.

In fact, occasional contact between unmarried men and women is not a problem for Indians. But He Xianyang cannot do it! He received education since childhood: "Do not look at what is wrong, listen to what is wrong, do not speak what is wrong, do not move what is wrong." Even though he has been studying in Beihai Town for a few years, the concept of "male and women are defensive" is still deeply rooted.

Although He Xiwen was born as a pirate, he attached great importance to his children's education just like the warlords in later generations. He was so poor that he had no way to live and went out to sea to be a pirate. He could not be a pirate after all, right? He Xianyang was seven years old and was both civil and military. His teaching masters at home were scholars who came from Jiading to avoid war.

In the next two days, Katata would come to the market with her father, and stare at the gate of the fortress for no reason. This wouldn't work, the necklaces were still here. Besides, she didn't know what the other party was called, so she could only stare at the officers and soldiers coming in and out.

After three days like this, she finally saw He Xianyang, and went up and grabbed the hem of the other party's military uniform. The problem was that He Xianyang was not out for a stroll at that time, he wanted to follow a platoon to investigate the terrain south. As expected, Katata's move caused an uproar among more than 30 officers and soldiers, and He Xianyang wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in.

A long story short. After He Xianyang explained the misunderstanding clearly, everyone was relieved. However, since then, Katata seemed to have recognized He Xianyang and would look for him every time he came to Kinmen Town. Gradually, He Xianyang was also infected by the innocence of this Indian girl, and their footprints were left on the beach and in the forest.

A few months later, He Xianyang finally took a critical step with the encouragement of Katata's eyes... Don't think about it! They just kissed and hugged and raised it high. Although Katata doesn't mind things about men and women, He Xianyang really dares! He finally explained to the other party clearly that the Chinese people attach great importance to things about men and women, and they must obtain the consent of their parents and hold a formal ceremony.

Katata was skeptical about this, but she really liked He Xianyang, who was often shy, so she reluctantly accepted this reason. But she sometimes wondered, if what He Xianyang said was true, why did she see a guy in green military uniforms going to the market to find a woman and muttering?

Moreover, after those guys muttered to the woman, they would secretly go to the back of the hills with the nodding of the other husband's permission, and it took a while before they came back. Once when my father talked to his mother, he would talk about this as a joke, saying that he really didn't understand why Chinese people should sneak in. Isn't this normal?

Well, the North American Indian society is different from the etiquette taboos of civilized society in Eastern and Western society. It is very relaxed in matters between men and women. As long as it is not close relatives, it doesn’t matter if you have sex with outsiders before or after marriage, you don’t need to be responsible for the other party. It’s better to have children. Faced with the cruel natural living environment, especially the disease caused by Europeans, the population has dropped sharply, and the continuation of tribal bloodlines is the first priority.

Speaking of which, in the process of Europeans' fur trade in North America, racial discrimination is just a hidden state and is not obvious. After all, fur merchants need the support of Indians and purchase large quantities of fur from the latter.

In this year, almost all fur merchants would interact with Indian women, and even many company employees and leaders would marry local women according to Indian customs. Because Indian society advocated polygamy, there were many white people who married several wives. The most famous one was a guy named Moses Norton, who was the head of the Hudson Bay company in the Churchill River area of ​​Canada, and married a total of six Indian wives.

Fur merchants have many benefits to marrying Indian wives. First, they are an important labor force in the family. In addition to taking care of children and families, they are also responsible for collecting and cooking food, making clothes, carrying supplies when men hunting, etc.; secondly, they can act as translators, negotiators and intermediaries of fur transactions, and teach the language and culture of white indigenous society; in addition, some indigenous women even directly participate in the fur trade and become excellent virtuous men.

In today's eastern North America, with the popularity of intermarriage with indigenous people, the number of mixed-race offspring is increasing, among which mixed-race women gradually replaced indigenous women and became the preferred partner for white marriages.

In another time and space history, with the decline of fur trade in the 19th century and the large-scale development of agricultural development in the western region, white people finally showed a hideous face. In order to seize the land of Indians, even marriage became "cliented people and barbaric women". As long as they did not undergo Christian rituals, they would not be recognized. The descendants of mixed races were also rejected by mainstream society and could only join forces to keep warm, and eventually evolved an independent Indian group - the Metis.

The words are too far.

Since the overseas corps came to Kinmen Town, there have been many cases where soldiers could not hold back their loneliness and secretly fought with married Indian women while they were going out while they were resting. Since the Northern Navy system requires approval for going out, and at least two people are in a group, they are all gangs and take turns to watch the wind.

Afterwards, they would give Indian women some daily necessities, a few pieces of soap, a small bottle of soap, two boxes of cigarettes, etc. Later, they would give Beihaiyuan directly, one 500 cent at a time, which was equivalent to more than one ounce of silver.

Ruqi was so angry when he learned about this situation. He thought to himself, I brought you here to conquer and transform this continent with Chinese civilization, not to be a client! I didn’t see that I came alone? Why is I so busy all day long? I’m not just to fall asleep on the bed and don’t have to think about that!

He immediately ordered the gendarmerie to investigate the matter strictly, and those found out would be kept in confinement for two days, and then held a meeting to educate and conduct self-examination. In the words of the North Navy, it was called "a reflection that touched the depths of the soul."

As a former lower-level employee, Ruqi knew that it would be impossible to just punish him. For example, Wang Yuanfang on the ship at Kinmen once told him to be strict with the soldiers to maintain military discipline and combat effectiveness, and to care about their lives like a loving mother.

Moreover, it is useless to just talk about the big truths to these guys who have not received much education. If they have too many times, they will not hurt their skin or itchy flesh. These soldiers were previously prisoners of war in Qing army and served several years of labor on Kuye Island. They had fewer opportunities to contact women, and they would wish they would shine when they saw the sow. Now that they have joined the army and come to the North American continent, they will definitely not be able to continue living a life without women like this.

After discussing with several officers under his command, Luqi summoned the platoon leaders of each platoon and after some guidance, they asked them to go back and hold a life meeting for their subordinates. At the meeting, the platoon leaders told their subordinates that if you want to find an Indian woman to get married locally, Chief Lu will even personally go out to help you propose marriage. After that, he will marry a matchmaker in the world, and he will also divide the houses and land. The land in Lu Shuaiyuan is fertile, with each family of 200 acres, and there will be machines to help farm and fertilize in the future.

But those who have families should pay attention. If you marry an indigenous wife now, can you still accept your wife and children in Liaodong? After all, the law in Beihai Town is that you can only have one wife. Everyone is now a member of the Beihai Army and must be abide by it. If anyone can't stand it and want both ends, then they can only retire and take a boat home to farm. Anyway, the life of "wife and children are warm on the kang, and a cow is a 50 acres of land" can make the family rich.

As soon as these words were spoken, the soldiers present were excited and meditating.

Go home? If the labor service in Kuye Island had just ended, no one would hesitate. But now, whoever goes back is a fool!

Although I am thousands of miles away from home, I will not only train or train every day, and the seizures from war will be returned to the public; but since the first batch of fur purchased from the Indians were transported to Anping Port for sale, everyone has received a considerable income. The profits deducted were agreed in advance, accounting for only 30%, which is really not much. Many people want to use the money they earn to continue to purchase fur from the Indians, so that they can earn thousands of yuan in Beihai yuan in less than two years.

The most important thing is that with the back of the big tree of the Northern Navy, I really arrested and destroyed anyone on this land. Although the battle with the Spaniards before was fought with less, I won so cleanly and neatly, and there were not many casualties. This way, I would really not change the landlord and master.

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

Just as He Xianyang and Katata went to find Baibai, a meeting attended by representatives of the surrounding tribes was held in the fortress. It was said that it was a representative, but in fact it was selected from the Indians in each village who were doing business in the market, and after explaining it clearly to them, they would go back to pass the message.

Representing Ruchi was the commander of the Overseas Corps, Major Officer Li Shi; the person in charge of the translator was one of the best mentors among the tribal militias who were undergoing training.

This was the first time a group of Indians entered the fortress. They looked around curiously, and when they arrived at the conference room, they chattered again. Everyone looked at the question marks, not knowing why they called themselves here. However, when the tribal militia finished speaking, all the Indians present were stunned.
Chapter completed!