1840Indian rebirth

Leading by example, material and spiritual rewards, and punishment and deterrence, the three are coordinated.

Ma Shao felt that this was the best solution he could think of, which should speed up the unification of the languages ​​of the indigenous peoples to the greatest extent and minimize the confrontation in the process.

Of course, the current plan can only be considered a trial implementation, and there should be a lot of room for improvement.

Mainly it's a matter of bonuses.

Ma Shao is not sure whether the strength of this reward is too big or too small.

On average, this is equivalent to a subsidy of about fifteen dollars per Comanche.

From the perspective of time cost, fifteen dollars is simply too little. To master a foreign language, even with the help of the environment, it will take at least one or two years, and it is not surprising that it will be as slow as ten years. One hour a day, several years

That's thousands of hours.

Thousands of hours. If all this time is used for work, even picking up rags, it will cost more than fifteen dollars.

But if you look at the amount alone, it doesn't seem like a small amount.

There should be between 300,000 and 500,000 aboriginal people in North America now. Calculated at 300,000, if they want to subsidize 300,000 people according to this standard, the tribes need to pay as much as four to five million US dollars.

Of course, Mashao has many ways to make money. Although most of them cannot be implemented now, when he unites hundreds of thousands of indigenous people, I believe many of them can become a reality.

After the speech ended, people dispersed one after another.

The horse whistle picked out a Comanche young man from the crowd and waved to him: "Standing Wolf, come here."

"Teacher." Standing Wolf said in Apache language, and he was more accustomed to calling Ma Shao this way.

The horse whistle listened to this Apache language without any Comanche accent and smiled: "It seems that you have a good chance of getting one hundred dollars. After you get it, don't buy wine. Do you understand?"

"I've given up drinking," said Wolf.

The horse whistle nodded: "That's good. You should know where the forest tribe is, right? I mean the Comanche forest tribe."

The vertical wolf nodded: "I know."

"In this case, I appoint you as my envoy to go to the forest tribe for me." The horse whistle said slowly, "As my envoy, you have three purposes for going here."

"The first purpose is to tell them that the tent-keeping chief of the Apache Plains tribe has died due to an accidental encounter with a rattlesnake... The current chief is me, the horse whistle of Sleeping Bear City."

"The second purpose is to inform the forest tribe of the truth about the Two Wolf clan joining the Sleeping Bear."

"I didn't know who spread rumors in the forest tribe before, claiming that you joined the Sleeping Bear not out of your own free will, but because I used force and deception."

After a pause, Ma Shao continued: "You need to tell them the truth of the matter. Tell them that the Shuanglang Clan voluntarily joined the Sleeping Bear and has no intention of leaving."

"clear."

The horse whistle nodded: "There is also a third purpose, which is to find out the source of the rumors and who is distorting the facts and trying to sow discord between Apache and Comanche."

"Maybe Fang Lian did it. He disappeared not long ago. You may be able to see him after arriving at the forest tribe. If it is confirmed that Fang Lian is a traitor, you tell the chief of the forest tribe that I hope he can hand over Fang Lian.

Square Face is now a prisoner of the Plains Tribe."

"If it is really impossible to find out, this mission can be abandoned."

"Yes." The vertical wolf responded.

…

A few days later.

Standing Wolf successfully arrived at the Comanche Forest Tribe, and almost as soon as he got off his horse, he completed the third task that the horse whistle gave him that he could give up.

In the forest tribe's camp.

"Shu Lang, why are you here?" Fang Lian looked at Shu Lang in surprise, "Did the horse whistle let you go?"

When the vertical wolf saw him, he was silent for two seconds and suddenly said: "You are such a stupid guy."

"What do you mean?" Fang Lian was confused and a little annoyed.

The vertical wolf did not answer, but was led by another Comanche into the central area of ​​the forest tribe camp, and then went straight to the largest tent.

Fang Lian, who didn't know what was going on but felt something was not good, quickly followed him. The two of them entered the tent one after another and met the owl chief.

"Chief Owl, I am the messenger of Sleeping Bear City, Standing Wolf." Standing Wolf said.

"Sleeping Bear City?" Chief Owl frowned slightly, "Sleeping Bear Clan?"

"It's now called Sleeping Bear City." Standing Wolf added.

The square-faced man next to him reacted: "Did the horse whistle send you here?"

The vertical wolf said calmly: "Yes, it was the chief who sent me here."

"Great Chief?" Owl and Fang Lian were both stunned.

Standing Wolf: "The previous chief of the Plains Tribe was bitten by a snake while guarding his tent and died. Now the leader of the Plains Tribe is Chief Mashao."

Hearing the news, everyone in the tent was a little unbelievable.

The owl couldn't help but look at the high priest beside him.

The high priest frowned: "It seems that the prophecy of the Arapaho people has come true. I didn't expect it to come true at this time..."

This result was unacceptable to the forest tribes.

What about the promised civil war?

The owl originally expected that the horse whistle would fall into a civil war with the tent guard and then reap the benefits, but unexpectedly, the Arapaho's prophecy actually came true at this juncture!

Now not only did the Apache Civil War come to nothing, Ma Shao also easily became the chief, making things even more difficult.

"What did the horse whistle send you to do?" Owl asked.

Standing Wolf: "I'm here to clarify the truth. The Shuanglang Clan joined the Plains Tribe voluntarily and was not oppressed by Mian Xiong. We also respect Chief Mashao and have no intention of leaving Mian Xiong."

"You fart!" Fang Lian yelled directly, "You traitor, you betrayed the Comanches!"

Standing Wolf looked at him: "You are the real traitor, Square Face. If it weren't for Chief Mashao, we wouldn't have survived last winter. Since you accepted the help, you should fulfill your promise and be loyal to Sleeping Bear... Now the winter is over

, you just want to get away from Sleeping Bear, what is it if it’s not betrayal?”

He looked at the owl again: "Chief Owl, Square Face is our traitor. I hope you can hand him over to Sleeping Bear."

Fang Lian said hurriedly: "Big Chief, don't listen to his nonsense! He is a traitor to the Comanche people, we should execute him!"

The owl's face looked a little ugly: "Wretched Wolf, you are originally a Comanche."

Standing Wolf said: "Indeed, but when the Two Wolf clan was in the most difficult time, no Comanche clan was willing to lend a helping hand. So I am an Apache now."

"It's not that the other Comanche clans are unwilling to help the Two Wolves, they're just helpless," Owl said.

Standing Wolf said: "If you can't do anything, you will naturally have to pay the price."

The owl's voice deepened: "The price is your betrayal?"

"This is not betrayal, this is just leaving. From then on, we no longer belong to Comanche." The Wolf said.