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Chapter 1086 Matriarchy
The mobilization of the Iroquois came faster than Yang Zhaolong imagined, and peace had lasted too long for them.

The last [-] warriors in the tribe who had been trained by Hei Yunlong and were organized as armor heads completed the organization after the arrival of the bird guns, armor and axes prepared by Yang Zhaolong.

Haifasa, the leader of the longhouse alliance, and Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of Makino County, completed two ceremonies on the same day. They first made an alliance under the gods' pillar in the center of the five departments. Exchange brothers to form a blood relationship.

Haifasa's youngest brother was replaced by Yang Zhaolong, who regarded Yang Zhaolong as his elder brother; Yang Zhaolong also appointed a trusted Hmong warrior as his younger brother to live by Haifasa's side.

In order to show his grandeur, he even assigned five personal soldiers with big medicine crossbows, ring knives, and poison darts to protect the safety of this brother named Ah Hei.

The five tribes of the Iroquois were almost exhausted during this expedition. The remaining men of the five tribes who could hunt were less than [-], but they had to protect the remaining nearly [-] women and children.

Followed five hundred soldiers who were equipped with old chainmail and breastplate, no pants, only red loincloth calves and leggings, and jackets ranging from cotton and linen singles to short robes. Three thousand Iroquois women, who had left their children in foster homes, boarded ships on the shores of Lake Ontario and headed to the mines of the ironworks by the lake.

Even Yang Zhaolong didn't expect that Haifasha and the other four tribal leaders would really let the women in the tribe go to mine.

Such a thing that was unimaginable to the Ming people, but the Iroquois did it very naturally. According to them, except for fighting, the women in the longhouse can do all the things that men can do, and they can do it even better. Men are better.

Even fighting, Haifasa does not mean that women cannot fight, but that women carry the mission of procreating offspring, which is much more important than men... Women can give birth to men, but men cannot give birth to women, so women cannot die.

And Yang Zhaolong has never seen anyone who has more desire to fight than the Iroquois men, so they can't be idle if they are dedicated to production, and a new war will start after a year or so of rest.

Looking at these Iroquois warriors with dye tattooed on their faces, various bone ornaments on their mouths, noses and ears, carrying rucksacks from the Eastern Army on their backs, and wearing longhouse-made Ming-style leather belts on their bodies, they watched them off. The woman boarded the ship, and then bid farewell to himself and embarked on the journey. Yang Zhaolong had mixed feelings in his heart.

This is a tribal alliance that is different from what he has seen and heard in the past. They have their own culture and technology. The Haifa Sand generation finally formed their own alliance, just like the Xiong family formed the Huaxia Alliance.

Yang Zhaolong, who was paying attention to all this, couldn't help thinking: If we hadn't come, would they have formed their own feudal country?
But that's impossible right now.

In the eyes of Yang Zhaolong, the three thousand Iroquois women who entered the mines to do the heavy physical work that men do is the price for the Iroquois to start this war, but for the Iroquois, the fact is just the opposite——Haifa Sand The [-] warriors who led the Western Expedition seemed to regard death as home. On the contrary, those women were put into production when they first arrived in the mine.

The main reason is that they don't feel the slightest distress from being forced to work in the mines for tribe expansion or other reasons.

Those men are their price.

Iron arrow clusters, French steel crossbows, Ming blunderbuss and war horses have greatly improved the efficiency of Iroquois men in hunting activities. There is a change, and the way to exchange these commodities is single, Tongbao.

There are not many sources of Tongbao, the salary of the flag army, the trade of tobacco and fur, the Ming army does not recruit female soldiers, and the Iroquois tribe does not encourage women to join the army to apply; the right to distribute the tobacco fields is given to the five war leaders by the Ming Dynasty Naturally, they are all men; and the fur trade obtained from hunting is also monopolized by men holding bird guns.

The inherent matriarchal society of the Iroquois has obviously been impacted, and the five women united to plan to elect five women who are strong enough to be the war leaders of the Longhouse Alliance in the future... The existing leaders of the Longhouse Alliance, including the sea Fasha and others felt a headache about this.

They have tried their best to balance the wealth of men and women in the tribe. The flag army is limited by the requirements of the Ming army, and military service can only be undertaken by men; there is no way to do dangerous activities such as hunting, and men can only hunt. Cloth, they are almost all given to the women in the tribe.

Muye County doesn’t need Iroquois blankets and blankets, and they don’t know how to make clothes from the Ming Dynasty; the potatoes and corn they grow can be exchanged for some money, but the price of grain in Muye is not high, because it is rich in corn and potatoes. And all kinds of beans, the five hundred Iroquois warriors brought more gunpowder than food when they set off, and they could gather food to eat casually on the march.

There are only tobacco fields that can make money, and there are not many fields due to the decree issued by the Oriental Military Government. The status of women and their desire for novelty commodities are not satisfied, and they urgently need to seek new means of livelihood.

Many people entered Muye’s paper mills and cigarette factories, but this was a drop in the bucket for the Iroquois. Compared with the local tribal workers, Li Yuxi was more willing to hire Cherokee people who migrated from the Florida Peninsula... Hei Yunlong used war To take back the land that belonged to their ancestors for them, they are more like vassals than longhouses, tribal alliances that treat you and me as equals, never accept orders, and are negotiated by everyone.

For county magistrate Yang Zhaolong, he prefers the longhouse alliance because they are more creative; but for businessman Li Yuxi, he prefers the hard work of the Cherokee.

The women of the Iroquois had long needed a new job opportunity, one that would earn thousands of Tongbao a month, feed themselves and have some money left over to buy the things they wanted.

The county magistrate Yang Zhaolong entered the mines of the Hupan Iron Works three times in half a month to visit the Iroquois women who were digging iron ore under the guidance of General Fengguo, who graduated from the Imperial Clan University.

Although he did what he thought he should do, it actually involved the thoughts of Chen Mu and many officials. He didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to allow the Iroquois to march west and the women to enter the mine.

When he entered the mine for the third time and expressed his worries to an Iroquois woman who was resting, the woman dispelled all his worries with her own words.

The Iroquois woman in a primary-colored leather skirt and Ming canvas overalls uniformly issued by the mine sat on the ground as she was used to, with her iron pick and hammer beside her, munching on potato cakes and talking to her. Yang Zhaolong showed off the hairpin he bought under his feather crown.

She said: "Potatoes, corn, fish and meat, life, children and dogs, the tribe will always belong to the tribe, but Tongbao is our own."

(End of this chapter)