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Chapter 960 Alliance
Hu Lan found that there was a difference in cognition between himself and the Taomi department.

Before the march, he thought it was the boys from the Hulan tribe who married the girls from the rice-washing tribe, but after the march began, he gradually realized that it was the girls from the rice-washing tribe who married them young men.

Although all have Mongol ancestry, there is a fundamental difference in lifestyle, Taomi and other members of the Iroquois Confederacy are matriarchal tribes... only Qulan is patriarchal.

The sons of other people have no inheritance rights and will eventually become "foreigners". If the world view of other matriarchal tribes is applied, the "Hulan tribe" he is proud of actually does not exist.

Regardless of whether it is the Han Banner Army or the Mongolian Jurchen warriors, his boys will eventually marry wives and have children in this land, and then the Hulan tribe will disappear.

For example, during the march of the Hulan tribe with [-] Ding and the Taomi tribe with [-] Ding, the two tribes had only one war leader, that is, Hulan.

Hulan is a thousand households, so it is normal for him to be the war chief of the Hulan tribe, but in the eyes of the rice washing tribe, Hulan is their son-in-law, and it is normal for him to be the chief of the rice washing tribe.

However, after discussing this issue with Hu Lan and his subordinates, they found that it was a huge advantage for them that others were matriarchal tribes, because during the marriage process, men would lose the inheritance rights of the original tribe, but they had the inheritance rights of the other tribe.

As far as the quality of men is concerned, these Chinese men have the incomparable advantages of the aborigines. The Han Banner Army and Mongolian riders have undergone rigorous training, and the Jurchen warriors have grown up in the mountains since childhood. Downwind and stronger.

And they are generally cleaner, and their studies on Kuwu Island also allowed them to master more knowledge, and they were good at using and equipped with a large number of firearms, strong bows, armor, and horses, allowing them to have superior combat effectiveness than the aborigines.

These "married" warriors will inherit other people's tribes, it seems... very promising.

From this point of view, Hulan happily accepted the fate of the Hulan tribe's imminent disappearance, and formulated his first long-term plan as a military chief after leaving Jincheng. Marry more clans.

In general, Hulan is used to living with the aborigines on this land, except for the name.

During the march across the long grasslands and the boundless lush jungle by the lake, Hulan got to know the rice washing tribe better, and also got to know more tribal soldiers summoned by the Iroquois Alliance.

The Taomi Department, which was originally a populous tribe, became a large tribe with the ability to mobilize thousands of soldiers after being joined by Hulan, which won them prestige.

Aboriginal tribes use land as their administrative division. The upper part of the tribe is an alliance based on strength, and the lower part is a clan linked by blood. Each tribe has one or more clans. Each clan is named after animals, such as wolves, bears, turtles, Beavers, deer, herons, eagles, etc., are all animals they have seen, and the names of clans are often the surnames of their tribesmen.

Each clan has several sets of names, and the aborigines can tell who is who from the same name, but not in Hulan.

His father-in-law is called Zhili, and his brother-in-law is also called this. In order to distinguish them, the Hulan tribe uniformly calls Hulan's father-in-law "wisdom big raccoon", and his brother-in-law "wisdom little raccoon".

No way, the name of the clan naturally brings people the power of the clan, so everyone refuses to change their names.

The aborigines have their own way of marching. When the tribes meet on the road, they just say hello and choose another route. No tribe marches in groups like the Hulan tribe. They all divide into small groups. Take different paths to get food to cope with the long journey.

Everything in the Iroquois Alliance is seen by Hulan. From winter to spring, their marching route has long been prescribed by the riders of the Iroquois Alliance. The tribes passing by will prepare the necessary food and supplies for them, so that Hulan feels like the situation in the counties passing through the territory of Ming Dynasty, only on a much smaller scale.

The troops they assembled made Hulan smack inwardly, only what he learned on the road, each clan under the five major tribes sent hundreds or even hundreds of people to participate in the upcoming war.

In fact the war has already begun.

Hulan and Zhili lead the army closer to the destination, and they can see many clan villages belonging to the alliance. They live in wooden longhouses. A village generally has forty or fifty longhouses. Pile fences and fields, Iroquois wearing leather blankets are working in the fields, performing fishing and hunting, or burning pottery and weaving baskets.

More tribal warriors with animal bone decorations nailed to their noses and bodies gathered in groups of seven to more than a dozen. Most of the time they sharpened their weapons and prepared for battle, and sometimes they used wooden rackets to set up nets in large open spaces to play ball.

People are not too surprised by Qulan's army, especially after knowing that they are foreign clans that the small population of the Taomi tribe has embraced in large numbers - there are often tribes that do this, and foreigners are sometimes prisoners of war, sometimes Tribes who migrated from other places are nothing special to the aborigines who are used to seeing the rise and fall of tribes.

Especially since they look alike.

They also saw horses, and they saw many horses from the French, and captured some ferocious pack animals in battle, but they were very surprised by the armor and muskets from the Ming Dynasty.

As for the fact that the accepted so-called Hulan tribe has no women, which seems very strange, it is not at all strange to the Iroquois.

After asking about the origin of the Hulan Tribe, the tribal warriors in animal skin pants, shirtless, blankets and holding axes expressed sympathy for their lack of women. With the movement of nodding, the decorative eagle feathers on their heads trembled, and said to their accomplices: "Look, women fall from the sky, not every tribe can pick them up."

In their myths and legends, the earliest women fell from the sky.

In fact, there is no Iroquois in this world who call themselves Iroquois. The name of their alliance literally means 'Longhouse Alliance', which means that the tribes live in a longhouse like a clan and love each other. The official name is Union of peace and strength.

Iroquois is a title given to them by outsiders, and is widely used for hostile or unjoined tribes.

In the longhouse where the chief and the chief were discussing, Hu Lan saw the whole picture of the conflict that had been going on for several months for the first time.

Their main opponents were not the foreigners from Europe, just as the foreigners from Ming Dynasty were just a few dozen insignificant chiefs in the Iroquois League, these outsiders were all so insignificant.

What they really had to deal with were the other two great confederations of tribes, the Hurons and the Erie.

　Today's chapter is late, sorry, I was dizzy yesterday.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)