Chapter 82 The Indian Tribal Conference
Zhou Ming and the hyena rode their horses and followed Chief Fleig toward Samel. According to Fleig's introduction, Samel was a temple that was rumored to avoid all disasters. Later, they discovered an abandoned Mayan altar in the mountains of Pansas, which called Samel, and later became the place where various Indian tribes held collective meetings.
As for Zhou Ming and his team, there is nothing they can do about riding horses. After all, in places like this without a good road, riding horses is always much more convenient than driving.
They ran in the mountains and forests for a long time, and finally arrived in Samel at noon.
This legendary Mayan altar is built on the top of a mountain, and there is only one road to go up, which has a bit of the taste of Mount Hua.
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, please don’t disclose your identity. Although we Indians are not xenophobic, we are also very careful of all outsiders due to historical reasons. Flegg warned Zhou Ming like this.
Zhou Ming expressed his understanding of this. Then they followed Flag up the mountain and encountered other Indians on the way. According to Flag, Kommel belonged to an Indian tribe named Kenhard. Kenhard is also the most powerful Indian tribe in Pansas. The entire tribe has a population of nearly 400,000, and the leader is Fox.
With Flegg at that, he naturally passed the check of the Kenhard tribe easily. Zhou Ming and the others were mistaken for Indians in Tukant. After all, the faces of Indians and East Asians are very similar, and even if the hyenas are painted with oil paint, they can't tell.
After more than half an hour of climbing, we finally arrived at the altar at the peak. At this time, many Indians had gathered here. Some of them were wearing Indians' own costumes and eagle crowns, but some were wearing ordinary shirts and jeans. Some even came over with suits.
According to Flegg's previous introduction, Zhou Ming knew that the difference in these clothes reflected the strength of these tribes. The more powerful the tribe, the closer their clothes were to modern clothes, while the more backward the tribe still retained its ancient outfits. Needless to say, the only one who attended the meeting in a suit was the Fox Chief of the Kenhard tribe.
The chiefs of these tribes were sitting around a round altar at this time, with a very round table posture, but the round table was replaced by a round table. When any chief was about to speak, they could walk on the altar to say something. Even if two chiefs disagree, they could fight directly on the altar. Whoever wins and speaks is a bit ridiculous.
Seeing Flegg arrive, Chief Fox said with a smile: My Flegg friend, this is the meeting you initiated, why are you still late?
With Chief Fox's words, the other chiefs turned their attention here and accused Flag of his late arrival.
This made Zhou Ming frown: It seems that these Indian tribes are not a monolithic one, which will make today's meeting less simple.
Zhou Ming then asked the hyena to click Flag behind the scenes, and Flag said: I was late because I made a lot of preparations for this meeting. After all, this is a tribal meeting initiated by my Tucante tribe. I must pay attention to it, so it is understandable.
Flegg's words were very relaxed, but it made the other people's faces awkward, because Flegg said this, but it didn't seem that other tribes didn't pay attention to it. Are you here to play?
Finally, Fox had to stand up and say: It turns out that there is a reason for the Tucante tribe. I am Flegg's old friend who has always abides by time and it is impossible for him to do something like being late.
Fox himself returned his words, and then asked Fleig to sit down. He said again: Now that the chief of the Tucante tribe has arrived, our tribal meeting can begin. Chief Fleig, you can tell me why you held this meeting.
As Fox said, Flegg stood up again and walked up to the altar in front: I hope all our Indian tribes can unite to form an alliance to fight against the trading company in Pansas City
One sentence suddenly caused an uproar in the scene. Everyone was very surprised by Flegg's proposal. They were discussing each other. It seemed that no one expected that Flegg would raise such an issue.
In the uproar, Fox said: Maybe I didn't understand, all our Indian tribes are always one, as for confrontation, Chief Flegg meant that we would not sell corn to them, or did we not ask them for loans or buy seeds from them, or why, why would we cooperate with them?
It was to expel trading companies from Pansas by force and to establish an order belonging to us Indians themselves. Fleig said that as long as there were no trading companies, we could sow any crops we wanted to sow on our land, and we could also sell our crops to anyone, as long as they could pay a high enough price.
By that time, our Indian tribes would not be as poor as they are now, and we could live in urban houses, rather than as they are now.
Fleger's words were so intense, but the chiefs of other tribes were not able to reach a consensus, but instead they laughed: Hey Chief of Tukant, have you not woken up yet? Otherwise, how could you say such words? We have been buying seeds from trading companies and applying for loans. If we don't cooperate with trading companies, who else can we find? Can you buy our corn? I'm afraid you can't even buy Tukant's corn.
Fox said: Chief Flag, I know your Tucante tribe has been having a hard time recently. Because there is too little rain this year, coupled with the insect storm, your tribe's corn production has been reduced a lot. I heard that you have recently had a fight with a trading company.
Fox said regretfully, shook his head and sighed: I should say you are too impulsive. Now, my Kenhard tribe still has some surplus food, and I can support you to the Tucante tribe and some money or food. Don't make trouble anymore, but you should give me double the harvest this year. How about it
I was not here to be a beggar Flegg emphasized.
However, Fleger's emphasis made other Indian chiefs tease even more happy: It turns out that they are not beggars, you don't even think that they have not thought of it. The corn production in Tukant is very serious, you all start to eat dirt. Chief Fleger is very strong, but his backbone can't support more than 10,000 people in your tribe, which will only make them starve to death. Now Chief Fox is willing to help you, but you don't want it, that's asking for death.
Faced with the ridicule of these chiefs, Flegg couldn't help but shout: It's enough, do you think I'm for the Tucante tribe? I'm for all our Indian tribes.
Flegg looked around everyone and said: Haven't you found out that we will always just borrow a little money from the trading company, and then we will pay back our harvest for almost a whole year and if we have an accident, we will not even pay it back.
Flegg's words made the boo and everyone's ridicule even more: If you can't pay it back, that's the problem of your tribe, you can't grow more corn, how can you blame the trading company? Why didn't I find that Chief Flegg is really a bad person?
Fox raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and finally he said to Flegg: My friend, it seems that you were indeed wrong this time. Haven’t we been borrowing money from trading companies to buy seeds and farming, and finally selling the corn back to the trading company? Such a transaction has lasted for hundreds of years. How can you say that this transaction is wrong?
That's right, if this kind of transaction is wrong, then have we been eating dirt for more than a hundred years? Someone followed Fox's words and said.
Fox said again: My friend, I know that the Tucante tribe is not in good condition this year, but you can’t blame the trading company just because your corn harvest is not good. This makes no sense.
Flegg shook his head and said in disbelief: I really don't understand, are you still Indians? Why are you talking to trading companies? Have you all forgotten how those damn trading companies exploit us and massacred us Indians?
I see, the person who forgot those things was Flegg, you said suddenly to Fox with a sharp tone, and there was no smile on his face, instead he was serious and serious that he had never had before.
We farm with peace of mind, at most it will be a little harder, but at least we can still live. But if we listen to you to fight the trading company, the result that will be slaughtered like a hundred years ago. Fox pointed at Flegg and said, "Have you forgotten that every generation of chiefs will tell us, that is, don't resist, as long as we don't resist, we can survive."
And more importantly, the existence of trading companies is also good for us. Fox also said that in the past, if there was a disaster in our fields, what awaited us would be hunger for a whole year, and countless people would die because of it. But now at least we can also find a loan to the trading company and buy seeds, and pray for us that there will be no disaster next year. At least we don’t have to go hungry every year, right?
Fox said at the end: But Flegg, you are just for your Tucante tribe's own self-interest, and you actually want thousands of Indians to die. What are you worried about
Under the leadership of Fox, other chiefs also questioned Flegg: Yes, Flegg, what are you thinking about, why do you want us to die?
Flegg faced everyone's doubts, he could only keep defending himself that he did not do so, but his defense was very powerless.
Chapter completed!