1840Indian rebirth

Several artillerymen gathered around the topic in silence for a long time, as if they were mourning for their heirs.

The forehead lines continued: "I hope your artillery skills can be higher than the physical level. If you don't even have a skill, you might as well do hard labor."

"By the way, I'm willing to admit defeat and hand over the ten dollars." He stretched out his hand.

"..." Several artillerymen were still speechless. After a while, they said, "How can we still have money?"

An Apache soldier immediately asked: "Why do you come to bet if you don't have money?"

"I..." the artillerymen opened their mouths.

The forehead lines glanced at his companions: "Obviously, they feel that they have a chance to win."

Then he said to the white people: "You don't have money, so make money first. The artillery instructor has a monthly salary of twenty dollars."

In the end, with mixed emotions, several artillery prisoners became artillery instructors at Sutter's Fort, responsible for teaching artillery skills to Apache soldiers.

Naturally, there are feelings of humiliation and confusion, but there is also a certain amount of comfort and joy.

After all, the monthly salary of twenty US dollars is really not low. If you make enough money, who can not be tempted?

Ma Shao hopes that the artillery training at Sutter's Fort can lay some foundation for the Apache's artillery force in the near future.

In addition to technical talents such as artillery, there is another group worth noting among the prisoners at Fort Sutter.

puppet army.

Sutter's Fort not only had white soldiers and Indian slaves, but also some Indian soldiers.

They obeyed John Sutter, lived like white people, and shot at Indians like white people.

The Apache's treatment of these puppet soldiers was relatively tolerant, and they were basically treated the same as white prisoners, without adding an additional charge of "Indian traitor".

After all, they are somewhat forced, and they have no self-identity as Indians.

To them, Indians from other tribes or even other clans are not much different from white people, so shooting at Indians from other tribes is not considered betrayal.

They still need time to gradually develop a unified group identity like the residents of Sleeping Bear City.

After solving Sutter's Fort, the Sacramento area entered into steady development.

The Donggu logging camp continues to dig for gold, making profits at an astonishing rate. Of course, it also takes care of logging to provide materials for project construction.

While Donggu City continues to improve, it continues to absorb the population. The surrounding Indians can move there, as well as a small number of whites and blacks.

Compared with Sleeping Bear City, Donggu City's assimilation policy is much gentler.

After all, there are few Apaches here and the culture is very different from that of the Apaches. The influx of more and more foreigners will inevitably greatly increase the difficulty of assimilation.

Therefore, the assimilation implemented in Donggu City is more economical. It happens to be profitable if you occupy the gold mine. Even if there are coercive means, they will be disguised as much as possible to reduce stimulation.

Sutter's Fort, or Xiquan Fortress, the situation is different.

After Sutter's Fort became Xiquan Fortress, Ma Shao immediately arranged for the restoration and expansion of the place.

The repair is naturally the repair of the city gate. In the previous battle, both the south gate and the north gate were shelled and needed to be repaired.

Expansion is not only an expansion of area and buildings, but also an expansion of people. Mashao plans to turn this place into a relatively qualified military fortress in his eyes, which requires at least several hundred people from the local Indians to be recruited as soldiers.

In addition to the military base, Xiquan Fortress is also a labor reform camp for white people and puppet soldiers, implementing a more coercive reform and assimilation policy.

In the future, all non-death penalty prisoners captured by the Apache in California will be sent here for forced assimilation.

In early October, Ma Shao held a meeting and made some arrangements for the lumber camp, East Valley City and West Spring Fortress, and then prepared to return to Kansas.

In fact, he didn't want to go back so soon. After all, the development of California had just started, and his direct participation was needed more than Sleeping Bear City.

But in view of his next plan, he had to go back in a hurry.

Before leaving, Ma Shao repeatedly told Lone View and Shulang that these two people would be his agents after he left, responsible for all affairs in the Sacramento area and even California.

"Remember, your first priority is to protect and operate the gold mines."

"Under this premise, other problems should be solved with money as much as possible... From the gold mined, Xiquan Fortress and Donggu City can each receive one-tenth as development funds. This money is enough."

"Be sure to remember." Ma Shao asked emphatically at the end.

Du Tiao and Shu Lang both nodded and said, "Don't worry, Chief."

After instructing these two people, Mashao called Xuwen alone: ​​"Houwen, I have a secret mission for you..."

The forehead lines say: "No matter what the task is, I will definitely work hard to complete it."

Ma Shao muttered: "It's not a difficult and complicated task, I just want you to secretly supervise Du Wang and Shu Lang."

The wrinkles on his forehead were startled, as if he didn't quite understand: "Secret supervision?"

Ma Shao smiled: "I have said that human nature is unreliable, no matter whose humanity it is. The gold mine contains amazing wealth. Although Du Tiao and Shu Lang are both very loyal to the tribe, such an important thing

, obviously relying as little as possible on human self-discipline.”

"So, in addition to public supervision, secret supervision is also essential. You need to pay close attention to the operation of the gold mine to prevent anyone from being devoured by desire."

"Of course, you should also pay attention to things other than gold mines, such as justice, military..."

The forehead pattern nodded solemnly: "I understand."

Ma Shao pondered for a moment and suddenly asked: "Handprint, do you think I should arrange for another person to secretly supervise you?"

"A few more secret supervisors to control each other should make the supervision more effective." Qianwen said, and then as if he thought of something, he suddenly showed a hesitant expression.

Ma Shao: "What's wrong?"

"Great Chief, I thought of a question..." He hesitated and didn't say anything for a long time.

"If you have any questions, just say it. You are my student." Ma Shao said.

The forehead tattoo finally made up its mind: "Great Chief... I feel like no one can supervise you."

Ma Shao was startled for a moment, then laughed: "That's right, no one can supervise me, but -"

The forehead lines suddenly dawned: "I understand, it is human nature that needs to be supervised, not divinity!"

"No, I don't have divinity. Don't say such things. You are a student I value very much." Ma Shao said immediately, frowning slightly.

The air was quiet for a few seconds.

Ma Shao continued to say slowly: "You are right, forehead lines, no one can supervise me, at least no one can supervise me strictly. And I am not a god, and I have unreliable human nature like you."

"But this is an unsolvable question... because any system will have at least one loophole, any axiom system will have things that cannot be proven, and any question will eventually lead to an absolutely unanswerable question."

"We can admire laws and systems endlessly, but no matter how perfect the laws and systems are, they can only approach perfection, but not reach it."

"There will be at least one thing, so we can only rely on personal factors or even accidental factors. There is no better way."

After a pause, Ma Shao added: "If someone says that the building of physics has been completed, and all that is left is some minor repair work... he is destined to become a joke."