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"Run quickly, Long Nuo is back!"

Some of the more than a thousand indigenous men turned around and ran away, while others knelt down and worshiped.

Longnuo: the incarnation of natural force, the god of agricultural harvest, the god who was exiled by the gods.

Myth prophecy: The exiled god Long Nuo will one day ride on a big ship and lead the soldiers of the Kingdom of God to fight back to the island.

Captain Cook in history was regarded as Longnuo by the indigenous people.

This deity represents the forces of nature and at the same time has long been banished by the gods. Therefore, on the day of the Harvest Festival, we should not only thank the natural force of Dragon Nuo for bringing food, but also plead with Dragon Nuo's body not to return to the island.

Captain Cook's arrival during the Harvest Festival frightened the island's natives so much that they could only offer delicious food and drink to pray to the exiled god to leave quickly.

Unexpectedly, Captain Cook returned to Hawaii to repair the ship after being away for more than a month.

what does this mean?

He must be sent away!

Because in the legend, Longnuo wanted to compete for the position of the God King, but was exiled after failing in the battle. He also represented the exiled secular chiefs. For the chief who is now in power, Long Nuo's departure and return also implies that the chief should be replaced.

So can we speculate that a long time ago, the ancestors of the Hawaiians came here by boat to live. There was an ancestor named Long Nuo. He mastered farming technology and had a very high prestige. He even wanted to compete for the position of leader. Because he failed to seize the throne, Longnuo took the remaining troops and left by boat.

As the story was passed down from generation to generation, Longnuo became the god of nature, harvest and exile.

According to this way of understanding, the first leader of the Hawaiians should be a man named Kani. Because in mythology, Kani is the ancestral god, the ancestor of all men, and the god of sunshine, forests and fresh water.

The person who originally fought for power with Long Nuo was a man named Ku.

Ku: God of war, protector of chiefs, god of fisheries, god of handicrafts.

To sum up, the first generation leader Kani passed away, and the ancestors began to re-elect their leaders. Ku, who was in charge of fisheries and handicrafts, and Long Nuo, who was in charge of agriculture, fought for power. Ku eventually won and gathered military power to become the God of War.

Anyway, in myths and legends, Longnuo can never return, and disaster will happen if he comes back.

After fleeing for a while, the chief of Maui, Papu, suddenly picked up his weapon and turned around, shouting: "God bless Ku, follow me to expel Ronno!"

Anyone can escape, anyone can surrender, but the chief must be strong.

Ku is the chief's patron saint, while Longnuo is Ku's mortal enemy. If the chief wants to retain power, he must expel Ronnuo!

"Ku God bless, Ku God bless you!" Pappu continued to shout, trying to gather the defeated troops.

The high priest suddenly came to ask for help. He was afraid that his power would not be protected. He raised his scepter and shouted: "Ku God bless, Ku God bless you!"

The two mages nearby, inspired by the chief and the high priest, also shouted together. Singers and dancers beat drums and dance and sing at the same time. What they sing and dance are war songs and dances.

There were more than 300 indigenous soldiers in front of them, regrouping around the great chief. They boosted their morale with the blessing of songs and dances, raised their weapons and rushed forward with shouts.

At this moment, more than a hundred Chinese soldiers had landed and quickly formed a formation on the beach with guns raised.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

There was a burst of gunfire, and more than 20 natives fell.

The natives near the deceased were stunned, so frightened that they stopped charging and shouted in panic: "It's really Long Nuo, he is back with the soldiers of the Kingdom of God!"

Chinese soldiers kept coming ashore, raising their flintlock guns and shooting freely. Someone was still in the boat and didn't have time to jump out. He raised his gun and aimed to fire.

More and more natives fell down, probably thirty or forty people died, and these natives finally collapsed again. No war dances or war songs worked. The native soldiers were afraid of muskets, and they were even more afraid of Long Nuo, who came back with the soldiers of the Kingdom of God.

This is Longnuo, and it requires the cooperation of the gods to exile him.

Hawaiians' reverence for Lonno comes from hundreds of years of religious brainwashing.

Historically, after the unification of the Hawaiian Islands, the first king used Lonno's reputation to centralize power and collect taxes. The king asked the people of each island to offer food on the Harvest Festival, under the pretext that they wanted to worship the god Longnuo, and the people of each island actually paid the tax obediently.

The high priest suddenly came to tell him that he was very old. He couldn't run even if he wanted to. He was stunned and didn't know what to do.

Chief Papu looked at the completely defeated soldiers, looked up to the sky and said, "Has God Ku abandoned me?"

As a chief, Pappu feared the gods, but at the same time he did not believe in the existence of gods. But today, the mythical prophecy came true. Long Nuo really drove a big ship and led the soldiers of the Kingdom of God back to the island.

The high priest suddenly said: "Longnuo has returned, the prophecy has been fulfilled, and the god's position should be changed. From today on, Ku is no longer the protector of the chiefs, nor is he the god of war. These honors should be returned to Longnuo." ."

The high priest led the wizards, dancers, and singers to line up and walk towards the beach, and collectively knelt down to welcome Longnuo's return.

Chief Pappu felt that he had nowhere to escape, so he stepped forward and knelt in front of the high priest. Then, he quietly looked up to see what Long Nuo looked like.

"Is this going to drop?"

Li Quan felt a little surprised. He thought that even if the battle failed, the chief should flee back and continue recruiting troops.

The population of the Hawaiian Islands exceeds tens of thousands.

Historically, when the Europeans were first encountered, there were about 300,000 people in the entire archipelago (some say 500,000). The colonists did nothing but bring typhus. Over the past few decades, the population of the archipelago has dropped to less than 90,000.

The island of Hawaii, where there were "friendly exchanges" before, may have a population of more than 100,000 at this time.

Maui, which is being attacked now, has a population of at least 50,000. These more than a thousand soldiers were assembled temporarily. Even if they were scattered, the chief could gather more troops.

Li Quan landed in a small boat in person, seeing him surrounded by people, the natives regarded him as a god.

It turns out that Long Nuo, the god of exile, looks like this!

Papp glanced secretly at Li Quan, and the eyes of the two met, Papp bowed his head in fright.

"You...you don't understand, what the hell should I say?" Li Quan pointed at Papp, suddenly not knowing what to say.

Bartering is a good idea, but what should I do to occupy this place? The operation is too complicated to explain clearly.

Papp who was pointed at was taken aback. He was a little confused at first, but then realized that Long Nuo was speaking the language of God, and it was normal for him not to understand. He bowed down and said: "Great Long Nuo, welcome your return, please give me any oracle."

Unable to communicate, Li Quan said in desperation, "Arrest these people."

The soldiers rushed over and tied up the chief, the priest, the mage, the singer, and the dancer.

Papp was too frightened to move, and asked the high priest, "Is Long Nuo going to kill us?"

Suddenly Laituo replied: "If you want to kill, you don't need to tie it up."

But Papp said, "Tie it up and it might be stoning."

stoning is death with a stone, which is the prerogative of male criminals, because stones represent hardness and masculinity. Women are not worthy of stoning, they can only be hanged or strangled by hand.

"Should...probably not." Suddenly Laituo also became frightened.

After chasing those rout soldiers all the way, Li Quan soon received the news that there was a city several miles ahead.

The city is very small, and the urban population is only one or two thousand people.

The city wall is built of volcanic rocks, with a height of about three meters. There are no towers, arrow towers, parapets and other facilities. Not far from the city, there is also a temple.

The city is called Lahaina, and after hundreds of years, only a small section of the ancient city wall remains.

The chief and the high priest live in the city, and the rest of the villages are scattered all over the island, and they are not allowed to build a city. This is the only city on the island.

Perhaps because they heard that Long Nuo had returned, many residents greeted him tremblingly and came out with all kinds of food, as if offering food would send Long Nuo away.

"What should I do?" Li Quan asked.

Their original plan was to kill all the chieftains and priests, and then conquer this place by force.

However, the surrender of the chieftain and the priest Maliu seems to have other operations.

Ouyang Chun reminded: "These civilians hold melons and fruits in their hands and kowtow to us. They don't look like surrendering at all. They seem to regard us as gods. Maybe we can take advantage of this."

Li Quan nodded: "Not bad."

Ouyang Chun continued: "We do not speak the language, and the number of people is small. It is impossible to directly manage tens of thousands of islanders. It is better to retain the chiefs and priests and let them help manage the whole island. After we learn the local language, let them pay tribute. .”

Ye Yu said: "We have to have our own territory. Although it is suitable for farming, it is not conducive to anchoring large ships. I sailed around the island a few days ago, and I have found out that the most suitable place for a port is the north of the island. West. There are two rivers flowing into the sea, which are suitable for farming. There are also several rivers flowing into the sea on the far left, and they are all flat land, which is also suitable for farming. The most suitable place for building a port, there are mountains on the west side, and a castle is built at the foot of the mountain. "

Li Quan escorted the captured nobles out. At first, no one dared to move. After half an hour of stunned stupidity, their family members finally approached.

Li Quan sent people into the city again, expelled all the residents in the city, and arranged them in families.

"Those who are left by the lottery, go and choose a wife." Li Quan said.

The dress of married women on the island is different from that of unmarried women.

The soldiers who decided to stay, who only picked out noble girls, all grinned.

These aboriginals, especially the nobles, are very in line with Chinese aesthetics, and it can even be said that the average appearance is very high.

Their facial features have Caucasian features, so that some anthropologists mistakenly regard Hawaiians as Caucasian mixed-race descendants. At the same time, it has the characteristics of East Asians, and the various size data of the skull fossils are extremely similar to those of northerners.

Chinese research has found that the bones of ancestors unearthed at Dawenkou and other Shandong sites are highly similar to those of Hawaiians. Therefore, some people speculate that they are the result of Dongyi people who crossed the sea and mixed with other races.

Judging from the Y chromosome, they are also close relatives of the Chinese. Take the Indians as an example. If the Indians are distant relatives of the Chinese, then the Hawaiians can definitely be called cousins.

When these aboriginal nobles saw the Chinese picking out their young girls, they became happy after being frightened.

Although the status of women is low, there is no custom of offering sacrifices to women exclusively. The nobles speculated that it was the gods who took a fancy to their daughter and wanted to marry her and take her back to the Kingdom of God, which meant that the gods would also leave.

Li Quan ordered dozens of young girls to be brought along, escorted the captured nobles, and took a boat around the northwest corner of the island to Kahului, the largest port in the later Maui Island.

There are villages and local nobles here.

All the local nobles were expelled, Li Quan led people to occupy their houses, and did not allow local civilians and slaves to leave.

As for what to do with the expelled nobles in the future, the chief will make arrangements for them, most likely to allocate a piece of land for them in the mountains.

A lot of living supplies were given, and 50 soldiers and seriously ill people stayed behind.

Then Li Quan sent the nobles back to the city, supplied a little fresh water and fruit and left.

The chief Papp was confused and asked the high priest: "Long Nuo drove five big ships and left. Why did he leave some soldiers in the north and let those soldiers marry our daughter?"

The high priest suddenly did not answer directly, and asked the chief to escort a few slaves to the temple to hold human sacrifices.

After some psychic communication, Hu Laituo said: "I have already communicated with the Father God, and the Father God told me that God Ku has provoked public anger in the kingdom of heaven and has been expelled by the gods. The gods welcome Longnuo's return. From now on, Long Nuo is the protector of the chieftain. Long Nuo resented us for being rude to him, so he came down to the earth to admonish him. Long Nuo also left behind his own guards from the Kingdom of God, and let these guards intermarry with the daughters of nobles. From now on, he will serve as Long Nuo for generations Guard the island."

"So that's the case." Papp suddenly realized.