1840Indian rebirth

The two chatted for a long time, and Mashao also met Juarez's wife, Margarita, a young and beautiful white woman.

It must be said that the combination of this couple is surprising. Juarez is a short Indian from a poor background, while Margarita comes from a white upper-class family and is about 20 years younger than Juarez.

This may be even more exaggerated than the comparison between Zhu Chongba and Miss Ma. Coincidentally, Margarita is also an adopted daughter.

It's hard to imagine how they got together, but their relationship seems to be good.

The conversation between Mashao and Juarez basically involves everything.

As the communication continued, both parties became less and less restrained and gradually became able to express some of their true thoughts.

About half an hour later, the horse whistler was surprised by Juarez's radicalness.

Although he knew that Juarez was a progressive figure, he did not expect that his views were much more radical than most people of this era, and they were radical from the heart.

For example, during the conversation, Juárez cursed various church institutions more than once.

"... All the property of the church should be confiscated, and all the privileges of those who are pretending to be gods should also be revoked!" Juarez said.

"I think so too." Ma Shao liked this view. "They are not engaged in production, but they occupy a lot of wealth and a lofty social status. There is no doubt that they are the worms of society."

In fact, his ideas were much more radical than Juárez's, especially on religious issues.

But regardless of his past life or this life, many of his ideas are destined to be just ideas. He has no way to eliminate religion, neither physically nor mentally.

Juarez asked: "Are you an atheist?"

Ma Shao pondered: "Well...if someone says that I am an atheist, I generally won't refute it, but I won't admit it either. This is a misunderstanding that requires no explanation."

"But if someone said I was a religious person, I would take it as a huge insult."

"Who knows, maybe there is a transcendent existence in the universe, but it has nothing to do with religion. Those priests who wear funny clothes and pretend to be God must be worms eating our flesh and blood."

Juarez smiled and said: "That's absolutely right."

"The Apaches also have shamans, how do you deal with them?" he asked.

"The shamans of the past basically no longer exist. I put them in prison or hell." Ma Shao said.

He added: "Today's Apache shamans are just an identity, no longer a profession. Their only privilege is to stand up in disasters."

Juarez: "That's really satisfying! I've always wanted to do this, and I hope it can happen one day."

Horse whistle: "Juarez, if you want to know what the Apache shamans are like now, you might as well ask Changmao, one of my assistants."

"Oh?" Juarez didn't understand.

Ma Shao continued: "Imitating the Cherokee, the Apache opened a newspaper. I came to Oaxaca this time in the hope of establishing a branch here. Changmao is the person in charge of the branch, and he is also a new Sasha.

Full."

Juarez immediately said: "You are very welcome. I have had enough of those messy newspapers, which are smoky and annoying... I don't know if you have any experience in running a newspaper. If not, it is best not to learn from the newspapers on the market.

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Ma Shao smiled: "Don't worry, although Apache's newspaper is just getting started, I can guarantee that they are all real media warriors."

The two gradually talked about the war between the United States and Mexico.

"The war is over?" Ma Shao was a little surprised.

Juárez sighed: "Yes, Mexico lost, the president... no, bastard Santa Anna has ran away from the capital."

"American troops have entered the capital of Mexico. If the people, especially the young people, had not risen up to resist, this war in the capital would have been an unimaginable shame."

"The resistance organized by the people in the streets taught the arrogant Americans a lesson. They suffered heavy losses and thousands of casualties!"

"Despite this, Mexico still lost." Juarez, who is both an Indian and a Mexican, was deeply saddened by the country's failure. "It is foreseeable that we will lose a large area of ​​land."

"Mexico's failure today is all because of Santa Anna, this stupid and incompetent dictator!" he said bitterly.

Ma Shao also knew about Santa Anna in his previous life, but he didn't know much about him. He only thought that this person's experience was a bit strange and funny. He suffered repeated defeats and defeats, and he served as president eleven times.

As the governor of Oaxaca, Juárez obviously knows Santa Anna very well, and is undoubtedly Santa Anna's hardcore partisan.

"If he hadn't weakened the state army in order to centralize power, how could Mexico have been defeated so completely!" Juarez said.