The young naval lieutenant He Xiyang has been very upset recently, sometimes sweet and sometimes sad. The sweet part is because of the long-braided Indian girl on the other side, and the sad part is how he will explain to his father who is thousands of miles away.
I sent a telegram saying that I have canceled the marriage I booked previously. Your son already has someone he likes?
He Xiyang dared to conclude that even if he dared to do this, his father He Xiwen would break his legs and then force him to marry the girl he had never met.
What a outrage! How dare you find an overseas barbarian if you don't want a well-educated and courteous girl! Besides, if you break off the engagement without any reason, how will that girl from the other side behave in the future?
Although there is a law in Beihai Town that prohibits concubinage, it does not interfere with the marriage custom of "parents order the matchmaker's words". This kind of thing can only be slowly publicized and educated, and the influence will be subtle, and it must not be done overnight, otherwise it will suffer backlash
It will also be very violent.
After training in the afternoon for the first few days, I went to He Xiyang and asked him a few serious questions in Spanish while gesticulating.
Do you like my daughter? Are the black leather boots you gave her a token of love? How many people are there in your family? When do you plan to marry her?
Oh my god! He Xiyang felt the scalp on the front of his forehead was numb and the back of his neck was breaking out in cold sweat.
When he was still on the ship, Rucci once half-jokingly talked about the customs of the Indians to these young officers. He said that what these indigenous people like to do most is to cut off the scalps of their opponents as trophies. Later, in "San Bruno"
When cleaning the battlefield after the "Battle of Mountain", He Xiyang once saw with his own eyes several Miwok men using daggers to cut off the scalps of the Spanish who were killed, and then howled like wild wolves.
If I promise but can't do it, or give up in the end, will I have my scalp cut off in vain?
"Giggle~~"
Just as He Xiyang was standing in the open space outside the fortress gate, thinking wildly, a pair of rough little hands exuding the scent of soap suddenly covered his eyes from behind, and at the same time, a silver bell-like laughter came from behind.
"Katata. Where did you come from? I didn't see you." He Xiyang grabbed the other person's hand and moved it away from his eyes, then turned around.
"Haha~~"
Katata raised her head and looked at He Xiyang, with a bit of pride and joy in her clear and bright eyes. Then the two began to communicate with each other through words and gestures.
Katata: "How long have you been waiting for me?"
He Xiyang: "It didn't take long, I just came out for a while."
Katata: "Look, I have my boots on. Do they look good?"
He Xiyang: "It looks good."
Katata: "Hehe, now I'm only half a head away from you, and I'm almost catching up with you. By the way, I saw you were worried just now, what's the matter?"
He Xiyang: "Nothing, just thinking about something."
Katata: "Can you tell me something?"
He Xiyang: "Official matters. You know, keep it secret."
"Okay, I won't ask anymore." Katata pursed her lips playfully and changed the topic: "Let's go see my father first. My mother asked me to bring him some food, and you can have your share."
The two first met at the trading market outside the fortress. At that time, Katata came here with her father to set up a stall for business, but Baibai couldn't sit still and ran with a group of people to watch the North Navy dig a well, leaving her alone.
While sitting at the stall, He Xiyang came over.
He Xiyang had no interest in furs and had already bought a few furs to take back to his family. And because of his father He Xiwen, he had always lived a life of a young master with no worries about food and clothing, even when he later went to the Youth Military Academy in Beihai Town.
It happened that in addition to sea lion skins, there were two Katata necklaces on the white stall. They were decorated with snow-white sea lion teeth, shells on the beach, obsidian and kingfisher feathers. They were very beautifully polished. He Xiyang
I thought this thing was good, so I planned to buy it.
As for Katata, because she believed deeply in the prophecy of the "Soaring Eagle", she instinctively had a good impression of the Orientals who came in the white ship. At the same time, she hoped that these people could help her find her brother who was taken away by the Spaniards, so she
He said he didn't want any money. But the Beihai Navy has discipline and transactions must be fair. It's not okay to just take it for free.
Katata didn't want it, but He Xiyang refused to give it. As a result, during the dispute between the two, He Xiyang's hand accidentally touched Katata... For a moment, the air between the two seemed to solidify, and the young man's face flushed instantly.
He turned red and couldn't say anything. He immediately dropped the money and ran away, even forgetting to take the jewelry he bought.
Katata was shocked by He Xiyang's "escape behavior" at the time. It wasn't until the other person disappeared that she realized that he was really interesting and his blushing face was very attractive.
In fact, the occasional physical contact between unmarried men and women is not a big deal to the Indians. But He Xiyang can't do it! The education he received since he was a child is "Don't see anything that's not polite, don't hear anything that's not polite, don't say anything that's not polite, don't move anything that's not polite." Even in this world.
Beihai Town has been studying for several years, but the concept of "male and female defense" is still deeply ingrained.
Even though He Xiwen was born a pirate, he, like those warlords of later generations, attached great importance to the education of his children. He was too poor to survive and went to sea to be a pirate, so he couldn't let all his descendants become pirates, right? So He Xiyang was enlightened at the age of seven, and was educated in both civil and military skills.
He also studied concurrently, and the teachers in his family were all scholars who came from Jiading to escape the war.
In the next two days, Katata would come to the trading market with her father, staring at the gate of the fortress if nothing happened. She couldn't do this, the necklace was still with her. Besides, she didn't know the other person's name.
Can keep an eye on the officers and soldiers coming in and out.
After three days like this, she finally saw He Xiyang. She went up and grabbed the hem of his military uniform. The problem was that He Xiyang was not just hanging out at the time. He was going to the south with a platoon to reconnoiter the terrain. No accident.
, Katata's move caused a collective uproar among more than 30 officers and soldiers, and He Xiyang wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.
To make a long story short, He Xiyang clarified the misunderstanding and everyone was relieved. But since then, Katata seemed to have identified He Xiyang and looked for him every time he came to Kinmen Town. Gradually, He Xiyang was also attracted by the innocence of this Indian girl.
Infected by innocence, they left their walking footprints on the seaside and in the mountains and forests.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! A few months later, He Xiyang finally took a crucial step with the encouragement of Katata's eyes... Don't think nonsense! They just kiss and hug
Hug Li Gao. Although Katata didn't mind the affairs between men and women, He Xiyang really didn't dare! He finally explained to the other party clearly that the Chinese people attach great importance to the affairs between men and women, and they must obtain the consent of their parents.
Only after a formal ceremony is held.
Katata was dubious about this, but she really liked the shy He Xiyang, so she reluctantly accepted this reason. But sometimes she also wondered, if what He Xiyang said was true, why did she see someone there several times?
What about guys in green military uniforms going to the market to talk to women?
And after those guys murmured with the woman, they would secretly go to the back of the hill with the other's husband's nod and permission, and then come back after a while. When my father was talking to his mother once, he even told this matter as a joke,
I really don’t understand why Chinese people are so secretive. Isn’t this kind of thing normal?
Well, North American Indian society is different from the etiquette taboos of Eastern and Western civilized societies. It is very relaxed about matters between men and women. As long as they are not close relatives, it does not matter even if they have sex with outsiders before or after marriage, and they do not need to be responsible for the other party if they have children.
Better. Faced with the cruel natural living environment, especially the diseases brought by Europeans, which caused a sharp decline in the population, the continuation of the tribal bloodline was the first priority.
It is said that in the process of Europeans conducting the North American fur trade, racial discrimination was only a hidden state and was not obvious. After all, the fur traders needed the support of the Indians and purchased large quantities of furs from the latter.
In these days, almost all fur traders would associate with Indian women, and even many company employees and managers would marry local women according to Indian customs. Since Indian society promoted polygamy, many white people married multiple wives.
The most famous one in China is a guy named Moses Norton, who was the head of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Churchill River region of Canada. He married a total of six Indian wives.
There are many benefits for fur traders to marry Indian wives. First of all, they are an important labor force in the family. In addition to taking care of the children and the family, they are also responsible for collecting and cooking food, making clothes, and carrying supplies when men hunt. Secondly, they can
Acting as translators, negotiators and middlemen in the fur trade, and teaching the language and culture of the white indigenous society; in addition, some indigenous women even directly participated in the fur trade and became excellent housekeepers.
In today's eastern North America, with the popularity of intermarriage with indigenous people, the number of mixed-race descendants is increasing. Among them, mixed-race women have gradually replaced indigenous women and become the first choice for white people to marry.
In the history of another time and space, with the decline of the fur trade in the 19th century and the large-scale agricultural development in the west, the white people finally showed their ferocious faces. In order to seize the Indians' land, even intermarriage became a "civilized people and barbarians"
"Women's cohabitation" is not recognized as long as it has not gone through Christian rituals. Because the mixed-race descendants were also rejected by mainstream society, they could only stay together for warmth, and eventually evolved into an independent Indian group - the Métis.
I've gone too far.
Since the Overseas Corps came to Kinmen Town, there have been many cases of soldiers secretly playing field games with Indian married women during their breaks because they could not suppress their loneliness. Because the system of the North Navy requires permission to go out.
, and they are together with at least two people, so it is a gang behavior, taking turns to look out.
Afterwards, they would also give the Indian women some daily necessities, a few pieces of soap, a small bottle of soju, two boxes of cigarettes, etc. Later, they would give Beihai dollars directly, one piece of 5 cents at a time, which is equivalent to more than one yuan of silver.
Lu Qi was extremely angry when he found out about this situation. He said to himself, "I brought you here to conquer and transform this continent with Chinese civilization, not to be a prostitute! Didn't you realize that I came here alone? I'm here in one day."
Why are you so busy at night? Is it because you just fall into bed and fall asleep without having to think about that?
He immediately ordered the gendarmerie to investigate the matter strictly, and those found out would be detained for two days, and then held a meeting for education and self-examination. In the words of the North Navy, it was called "an introspection that touches the depths of the soul."
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As a former low-level employee, Lu Qi knew that just punishing blindly would not work. Just as Wang Yuanfang once told him on the ship to Kinmen, he should be strict with the soldiers to maintain military discipline and combat effectiveness, and at the same time, he should care about them like a loving mother.
Life.
Moreover, it is useless to talk to these guys who have not received much education. The skin and flesh are not itchy even after many times. These soldiers were former prisoners of war of the Qing army. They served several years of hard labor on Kuye Island and had no contact with women.
There are very few opportunities, and I wish my eyes would light up when I saw a sow. Now that I have joined the army and come to the North American continent, I will definitely not be able to continue living a life without women like this.
After discussing with several of his officers, Lu Qi summoned the platoon leaders of each platoon. After some instructions, he asked them to go back and hold life meetings for their subordinates. At the meeting, the platoon leaders told their bachelors that if you want to
It is no problem to find an Indian woman locally to start a family. Chief Lu will even personally help you propose a marriage. After that, you will be married to a matchmaker, and you will be divided into houses and land. The land in the Lushui Plain is fertile, each family has 200 acres, and there will be machines in the future.
Help fertilize the land.
But those with families should pay attention. If you marry an indigenous wife now, will your wife and children in Liaodong still be able to take over? After all, the law in Beihai Town is that you can only have one wife, and everyone is now a member of the Beihai Navy.
As a member of the Communist Party of China, you must abide by it. If anyone can't bear it and still wants both, he can only be forced to retire and take a boat home to farm. Anyway, "a wife and children are on the hot kang, and a cow is worth fifty acres of land."
"The days can also make a family rich.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As soon as these words came out, the soldiers present were excited and thoughtful.
Go home? If the labor service on Bitterleaf Island had just ended, no one would hesitate. But now, whoever goes back is a fool!
Regardless of being thousands of miles away from home, every day is about training, and the war seizures must also be returned to the public; but since the first batch of furs purchased from the Indians were shipped to Anping Port and sold, everyone has received a considerable amount of income.
The part of the profit deducted was agreed in advance and only accounts for 30%, which is really not much. Many people want to use the money they earn to continue to purchase furs from the Indians. In this way, they can earn as much as they want in less than two years.
Thousands of Beihai dollars.
The most important thing is that with the big tree of the North Navy at your back, you can really catch and destroy whoever you want on this land. Although the previous battle with the Spaniards was fought with less and more, the winner was a clean one, and
There weren't many casualties. Serving as a soldier like this would be a landowner's job.
I have to say that the effect of this life meeting was quite good. Every soldier made a speech and expressed his determination. Those who had made mistakes before also promised that they would never violate discipline again.
While He Xiyang and Katata were looking for Bai Bai, a meeting attended by representatives of surrounding tribes was taking place in the fort. To be a representative, in fact, they selected one from the Indians in each village doing business in the market to follow
After they explain clearly, let them go back and pass the message.
The person who came forward on behalf of Lu Qi was the commander of the overseas corps, Major Officer Li Shi; the person in charge of the translation was a guy who had the best command of Mandarin among the tribal militiamen who were being trained.
It was the first time for a group of Indians to enter the fort. They looked around curiously. When they entered the conference room, they were chattering again. Everyone had question marks on their faces. They didn't know why they were called here. However, when the tribal militiaman was chattering.
After he finished speaking, all the Indians present were stunned.
"The leader here has said that he wants to find wives for his hundreds of warriors! Because the Easterners have had good relations with various tribes this year, they want to marry you. The conditions are that they must be young and unmarried. Those under fourteen years old are too young.
No, she must be over fifteen years old. Yes! She must be fifteen years old, this is very important. Each girl's home will give her a strong horse, a musket, three blankets, and a full set of iron pots and pans!