1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 262 Indian Chief (4K)

After solving Burnett, Liang Yao temporarily solved the worries of reclaiming Oregon.

Cleared the way for California forces to infiltrate the Oregon region.

Although Burnett died, the conflicts among the Indian tribes were not resolved.

In addition to conflicts and wars with the whites, there are also conflicts among the Indian tribes.

For example, the Klamath tribe, whose territory was originally in Oregon, invaded the territory belonging to the Pomo tribe after going south, and had a war with the Pomo tribe.

The Salish and Chinook tribes in northern Oregon are also at war.

Since most of the Indian tribes on the west coast elected him as the chief, Liang Yao wanted to maintain a long-term influence among the Indian tribes on the west coast and gain the approval of the leaders of these Indian tribes.It is necessary to find a way to mediate the conflicts between the various Indian tribes.

Compared with the vast territory of North America, the Indian population in North America was not large. When Columbus first arrived in North America, the Indian population in North America was estimated to be more than [-] million.

Of course, this includes the Indian population in the Caribbean and Mexico.

After the whites entered America, they brought not only guns, but also diseases and germs from the Old World.Guns and germs are deadly weapons to Indians.

Especially the germs. When the white people knew that the germs were far more lethal to the Indians than guns, they used their brains and deliberately sold blankets with germs and fleas to the Indians, which aggravated the spread of the virus among Indian tribes. Spread.

Although the population of North American Indians in the middle of the 19th century had not yet fallen to the bottom, it is an indisputable fact that the population of Indians in North America has dropped sharply.

The same is true for the West Coast, although the situation is somewhat better than that of the Eastern Frontier.

After all, after Liang Yao came to power in California, California's gentle policy towards Indian tribes can be said to be a clear stream among the frontier states.

At this time, the mainstream policies of the frontier states (close to the quasi-states and low-development states) towards the Indians can be summed up in four words as genocide.The policy of massacring Indians and reducing the living space of Indians to ensure the absolute safety of white people in the frontier areas.

Therefore, compared with other frontier areas, the population decline rate of Indians in California and the territories near California has slowed down.

Liang Yao conducted a survey of the Indian tribes in California and Oregon. There are [-] major tribes. Thirteen of the [-] major tribes came to the Indian tribe after receiving Liang Yao's invitation. Sacramento, negotiated and participated in the operation against the Burnett gang.

And there are many small tribes under the big tribe. It is much more difficult to understand the population of these small tribes than the big tribe.

After the United States occupied California, it carried out a bloody genocide against the local Indian tribes. Many small tribes escaped into the deep mountains and old forests in order to avoid the massacre.Out of prudence, these Indians not only did not deal with whites, but also did not deal with Chinese in California.

According to a rough estimate, the known Indian population on the west coast is about [-] to [-]. If these Indians can be used for themselves, they are also a considerable force.

In the California area, the biggest shortage is the population.

Before returning to California, Liang Yao summoned the chiefs of the various tribes participating in the alliance.

One is to adjust the conflicts between several tribes, and the other is to celebrate that everyone joined forces to eliminate the Burnat Gang and cleared a major cancer in the Oregon region.

By this time alcohol had become popular among the various Indian tribes.

The Indians did not have the habit of drinking alcohol. When the whites brought wine to the Indian tribes, the Indians seemed to have discovered a new world.

It is believed that wine is holy water that can communicate with the gods. As long as you drink wine and enter the state of "fugue", you can have "spiritual communication" with the gods.

Many Indians thus contracted the habit of drinking.

In fact, the so-called "divine wandering" and "divine friendship" are just nonsense. To put it bluntly, after drinking too much, people become a little drifting.

After a few drinks at the feast, these Indian chiefs were still sober.

Liang Yao took a feather arrow, broke it, and made an oath with these Indian chiefs.

"Since you elected me as the chief, as the chief, I have the obligation to mediate the disputes between your tribes."

"You are the leader sent by heaven to save us, we are willing to listen to your opinion."

Big Buffalo, the leader of the Pomo tribe who was a little drunk, said.

"Big Bison, I hope that the Pomo and Klamath tribes can live in peace." Liang Yao walked up to the big buffalo and said to the big buffalo.

Among the Indian tribes, the most conflicting ones are the Pomo and Klamath.

"Impossible! The Pomo tribe killed twenty-eight warriors of our tribe. This blood debt must be paid in blood!" When the Klamath tribe was mentioned, the big buffalo's face fell instantly.

"There is a mortal hatred between us and the Klamath tribe. If I don't avenge this hatred, I can't explain it to my tribe!"

"Big buffalo! You also killed thirty-six members of our Klamath tribe!" Marquik, the patriarch of the Klamath tribe, was not to be outdone.

"We haven't settled this account yet!"

"It's your people who entered my territory rashly!"

"What is your territory! 60 years ago, it was the territory of our Klamath tribe."

The two started arguing with each other.

Seeing that the two were caught in an endless argument and refused to give in to each other, Liang Yao had no choice but to snatch the gun from the guard at the side and fire a shot into the sky, which calmed the two of them down.

"Big buffalo! You said just now that I would listen to my opinion, what? You forgot what you just said?!" Liang Yao reprimanded sternly.

"And you, Marquik! You keep saying that you recognize me as a great leader, but you argue like no one in front of me as a great leader. In my opinion, you don't have me as a great leader in your heart! This is in name only I don't care if I'm the leader of the big boss!
I don't care about your mess!You keep arguing!keep playing!Hit the white people to destroy your whole family!The past grievances are completely wiped out!By then, there will be no more Pomos, no Klamaths! "

After finishing speaking, Liang Yao made a gesture to leave angrily.

Of course, this is just a show for the bison and Marquik.

Even if Big Buffalo and Marquik did not care about Liang Yao's departure, other Indian tribes would retain Liang Yao and would not sit back and watch Liang Yao leave.

They also hope that Liang Yao will provide them with weapons and help them train the warriors in the tribe.

As Liang Yao expected, the Indian chiefs of other tribes hurriedly dissuaded Liang Yao.

Hills and the deer hunters also blamed the bison and Marquik, complaining that they did not do the big boss any face.

"Boss, please forgive our rudeness."

Da Bison and Marquik had no choice but to apologize to Liang Yao.

Liang Yao ordered someone to serve two glasses of wine, and said to the two of them.

"Our common enemy is the white people in Portland, not the brother tribes of the same color. If you only have hatred in your heart, it will only benefit the white fisherman.

After drinking this glass of wine, the grievances between the Pomo tribe and the Klamath tribe were wiped out, and the old enmity between the tribes was not allowed to be mentioned again. "

The Indians are not united internally. The reason why the United States can drive the Indians in North America to the brink of extinction in just one century.

In addition to the crushing on the level of civilization, part of the reason is that white politicians in the United States took advantage of the contradictions between different Indian tribes to win over some Indians to deal with other Indians, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

Big Buffalo and Marquik looked at each other, and drank the wine in the glass. Although the two did not settle down, their emotions eased a lot, at least not as tense as before.

"At the beginning, I led the Klamath tribe to the south because of the survival of the tribe. Now that Burnat has been wiped out, the Klamath tribe can safely return to the territory of Oregon to continue living. It's just that our tribe is short of supplies. I hope You Pomos can give me some time to gather supplies."

After drinking a whole glass of wine, Ma Kuike felt much more at ease, and said to Big Bison.

"That's right! We are all brothers and tribes, and we should be sympathetic to each other when we have difficulties, help each other, and tide over difficulties together."

Liang Yao also took a glass of wine from Deng Yan's hand, raised his head and drank it all, then slammed the glass on the stone.

The wine glass made of glass was smashed to pieces in an instant, turning into a pile of glass slag.

Liang Yao pointed to the glass slag and said.

"Which tribe dares to provoke a war in the future, it will end up like this wine glass!"

All the Indian chiefs nodded in agreement.

After Marquik made a concession, Liang Yaohan promised to give Marquik a batch of supplies, mainly food and cloth, to help the Klamath tribe return to the territory of Oregon and rebuild their homes.

At the same time, Liang Yao also provided a batch of agricultural tools and seeds to the Indian tribe.As for cattle, Liang Yao himself was short of them, so he couldn't provide them.

In order to develop the arable land in the Central Valley, Liang Yao also purchased a large number of horses from Mexico and Central America as arable land to make up for the shortage of cattle.

Liang Yao provided Walter with a sketch of the steam tractor, and he wondered if Walter could free up the steam tractor.

The internal combustion engine cannot be developed without technical accumulation in a short period of time. Liang Yao also expected to be able to produce the internal combustion engine so early, but the steam engine technology was very mature in the middle of the 19th century.

It is still feasible to miniaturize the steam engine and invent the steam tractor. Although the utilization rate of the steam engine for fuel is low, as long as the coal is cheap enough, the steam tractor can still be popularized.

After returning to San Francisco, Liang Yao began intensive preparations for the expedition to Japan, preparing the supplies and ammunition needed for the expedition.

In order to ensure everything was safe, Liang Yao also entrusted Guangzhou merchants to raise food, grass and military supplies for him in Guangdong.

Perry also received a letter. The American East India Fleet had already arrived in Panama. When Liang Yao received the letter, he reckoned that Perry had already reached the west coast of Mexico.

The telegraph lines laid by the California Telegraph Bureau since the beginning of last year have also been connected to Houston, and Houston already has the telegraph lines directly from the First Telegraph Bureau of the United States to New York and Washington.

Liang Yao can now obtain information in the eastern region relatively quickly through telegrams, and micro-manage the companies of the American Group in the east.

Europe was not at peace during this time.

The first batch of news Liang Yao got through the telegram was about Napoleon III.

Last year, that is, in December 1851, Napoleon III launched a coup d'état and succeeded. He extended his presidential term through constitutional amendments, which caused an uproar in European countries.

Europeans were reminded of the fear of the whole of Europe being dominated by Napoleon III's uncle, Napoleon I.

The attitudes of European countries towards Napoleon III's coup d'état are complicated. On the one hand, the European countries dominated by monarchy regard the French Second Republic, a republic, as an outlier.

On the other hand, changing France from a republic to an empire is what they want to see, but they don't want the emperor of the French Empire to be a member of the Napoleon family.

Half a century ago, under the rule of Napoleon, the powerful France that swept across the continent of Europe still has lingering fears in the hearts of European countries. They do not want France to have another emperor of the Napoleon family, especially a French emperor as majestic and strategic as Napoleon I.

The rapid success of Napoleon III's coup also shows that the Napoleon family's legacy in France is still there, and the French people all miss Napoleon.

This also made France's neighbors full of vigilance.

But it's just a matter of vigilance. France's neighboring countries are still weak. Neither the first empire Spain, which has been in the west for a long time, nor the German states headed by Prussia and Austria in the east, have the ability to interfere in France's internal affairs. .

Tsarist Russia, which is complacent about the title of European Gendarmerie, is focusing on the Crimea Peninsula, trying to seize a long-awaited Black Sea outlet from the Ottoman Empire.

In general, as long as Napoleon III can handle the relationship with Britain well, the current environment in continental Europe is very beneficial to Napoleon III.

Extending the term of the presidency was just an expedient measure for Napoleon III, and Liang Yao was clear about this.

Not to mention extending the term of the presidency, even a lifetime presidency cannot satisfy Napoleon III's appetite.

Napoleon III has gone through hardships and obstacles, and the goal of returning to the French political arena is very clear, that is, with the ideals and ambitions of communism and family revival, to restore the formerly powerful French Empire, and to restore the glory of the Napoleon family in his uncle's time .

France's restoration of the empire is the end of this year.

The golden statue Liang Yao gave to Napoleon III was not in vain, and Napoleon III was also very happy after receiving Liang Yao's letter.

Especially the title at the beginning: Your Majesty Napoleon III, Napoleon III feels very useful.

Napoleon III personally wrote a reply to Liang Yao, expressing his welcome to this American gold tycoon to invest in France. If Liang Yao is willing to invest in France, he can give Liang Yao some preferential policies.

At the same time, Napoleon was so happy that he gave Liang Yao his pair of sabers as a gift.

However, these are all fictitious. The more real thing is that Liang Yao bought two thousand-ton steam frigates from France in the name of the American Group last year. Lan escorted to San Francisco.

Liang Yao was worried that he only had a [-]-ton Roland that he could take out, and his sea power was not strong enough for the trip to Asia.It can be said that the two warships ordered from France came at the right time, very timely.

(End of this chapter)