Chapter 45 New Era Part 6: Port of Mobile
Sorry, Georgia is about to be cut off.
Chu Feng was determined to occupy the place. He assigned ten Cherokee women to ten Xhosa soldiers, and then led a marine to station here, allowing the black slaves to continue farming according to the previous rules, and erected the banner of Truchen on the altar.
Everyone stayed here for a few days, and Zhang Henyu and others also found out the resources here. It was obvious that Atlanta-Gaddsden-Birmingham belonged to the Appalachian mine belt, with coal mines and copper and iron ore, but the transportation here is inconvenient, so they can only wait for a large-scale development to be carried out later.
A few days later, the crowd returned to Gadsden, and some people rode on a boat and some horses - they got thirty white Andalusian horses from Hokka and returned to the town of Choctaw (Montgomery).
Here, Chu Feng also left ten Xhosa soldiers and a Marine Corps member, and then left after a few days.
At this time, it had been more than a month since they left Mobile Port. When they saw them all riding back on horseback, Oliver, the British governor who guarded Alabama, was also surprised when he saw it.
After listening to Chu Feng talk about what happened in the past month (naturally I didn't say anything about the prospecting), Oliver couldn't help thinking: "The Hokka has occupied the land of the Cherokee people for several years, and the white people are helpless. Unexpectedly, the Truchen people will be resolved in just one meeting"
"The strength of the Truchens is really unfathomable"
However, the British were obviously more trustworthy than the Spanish. Although they said that they would not hand over Alabama until the war was over, since they came, Oliver just made a handover with Chu Feng immediately.
At this time, they were only stationed in Port Mobile, Port Pensacola, and there were ready-made ships at the port. Once the handover was completed, they would just go to the port of Florida.
As for the white people in Alabama, whether British or other countries, after listening to Chu Feng's statement, as long as they pay taxes according to Truchen's laws, everything will be as usual, they will leave with peace of mind.
At present, there are less than two million British people in the thirteen states of North America, but they have to protect such vast places. What they need now is to consolidate these places, rather than continue to expand their territory at any cost.
What's more, nowadays they are still fighting the so-called "Americans".
Chu Feng and his party occupied Oliver's "Governor's Palace" - a small fort built by the French.
Oliver left them some food and vegetables, and the group had a nice meal, then took a hot shower and couldn't wait to go to bed and rest.
The next day at noon, Chu Feng, Katarina and Zhang Henyu had lunch together. Halfway through, Chu Feng suddenly sighed and then put down the knife and fork.
Katarina smiled and said, "You were angry when I didn't let you into my room yesterday?"
One sentence made Zhang Henyu look slightly red, but Chu Feng didn't care, "I regret it a little, don't misunderstand it, I mean not to resign from the position of commander of the naval fleet and run to this wilderness, but to regret killing those hokkakas"
"Oh?"
Zhang Henyu looked at him with interest.
People like him are too rare in the empire. The son of a nobleman first declined the title and then resigned from his post as commander of the naval squadron. Anyone would find it incredible.
What does such a person want to do? Although Zhang Henyu also knows that he is interested in Katarina, she would not believe it if she killed her.
"Maybe he is a natural liberty and doesn't like living a kind of life that is consistent"
Chu Feng said: "The Governor gave us a task to capture Indian slaves, but you have also seen the current situation. There are many Indians in Alabama, but I estimate that there are only 20,000 to 30,000 people. Since this place is already our place, there is no need to migrate."
"Alabama is already a big state, with only 20,000 or 30,000 people in such a state. It is conceivable that other places will not exceed here, which is understandable."
"The Indians are a tribe that is more backward than the black Africans. Of course, I am talking about North American, Mexico, and Peru are obviously more advanced than Africa"
"Why do I say that? First, their language is simpler than that of African blacks. There are not many complex syllables. Most of them don't even understand the number of words, but African blacks have transitioned to the stage of knotting and remembering things"
"Also, African blacks have already raised a large amount of livestock, but the so-called nomadic tribes here do not domesticate a large number of livestock, but migrate with wild animals. Well, it can be considered a nomadic one."
"This situation makes it impossible for them to have too many people. Even if they have farming, they are extremely extensive farming. They just dig a shallow pit and plant the seeds, and then they never weed or fertilize them. It's completely a matter of harvesting."
"Once the land here cannot grow crops, they will migrate, so there will be 20,000 to 30,000 people occupying an Alabama as big as Cuba, because they need to constantly change places"
"Of course, besides their great leader, the high priests and the direct tribes that depend on them, because the people around them also have to provide them with food"
"They can't even use slaves, and the captured prisoners are killed"
"There are naturally no more people in such tribes. I originally thought that the Indians had strong resistance, which made Europeans rather use black people in large quantities than use them. Now it seems that they are really useless."
"Then what does it mean to sigh just now?"
"If you leave those Hokkakas behind and keep going south to attack the Cherokee people between Georgia and Florida, then when they are desperate, we can show up at the right time without having to catch a big tribe"
"Even if there are not as many as Choctaws, there are always ten thousand people, which is a pity"
"Is there any more?" This time, it was Zhang Henyu asking.
"Of course, I think, referring to the situation in North America, Cuba Island has a population of 600,000,000,000 Han immigrants, and 500,000 Miskitrus are enough to cope with any situation. When the jurisdiction has profits, just immigrate to the Far East. There is no need to hurry."
"Then we don't have to worry about these Indians?"
"It's not that we don't have to worry about it, we need to focus our attention on Indians with higher levels of civilization..."
Katarina's expression changed slightly, "You mean the Aztecs, Mayans, Incas?"
Chu Feng nodded, "When the Spaniards landed in Mexico hundreds of years ago, there were cities there. It can be imagined that their level of civilization is far higher than that of North Americans. Such people can farm honestly in one place without being forced, and they are not like these North Americans."
"I guess even if some Choctaws are brought to Cuba, the result will not be much better than the Miskitos"
Zhang Henyu said: "I thought of this section too, but I need to go to war with the Spaniards again"
Chapter completed!