Chapter 240: Patagonia

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Farewell to Li Mingyuan, Ye Chenglin took the boat with 34 officers dispatched to him and arrived at his destination five days later.
In Sierra Grande, Patagonia, four or five Indians returned to the station with horses carrying prey.
"Ilia, where did you go hunting?"
An Indian woman came up and asked.
"We walked a hundred miles west along Lake Negro and hunted two wild deer in the Adela Forest."
"Adra is a Mavida hunting ground, aren't you in danger?"
"No, the Argentine troops in Villalonga City retreated to Puerto Blanca. The young Mavida tribe also retreated with the Argentines. The Adra Forest is now unguarded."
Ilya and another Mapuche lifted the killed wild deer from their horses and placed them on the open space in front of the wooden house. They looked at the Indian woman with soil on her clothes, and said with love, "You cultivate again A piece of land? "
"Yes, the sorghum that our Han friends from the north sent us was not finished. I plan to plant the remaining part of the sorghum. When sorghum is harvested next year, you don't have to risk hunting in the Maweda lands. Life in the tribe will also be better. "
"Tough work for you." Ilia touched his wife's hair lovingly, and asked, "Baker is okay these days, why haven't you seen him playing outside?"
"A few Chinese friends have just arrived, and Baker is learning to shoot with them behind the cabin."
While the Indian woman was talking to Ilia, a few Han Chinese and a teenage Indian boy came out of the cabin.
The Indian boy looked only twelve or thirteen years old, but he was one meter six or more in height, only a little shorter than the few Han men next to him.
"Father, you are back!" The Indian teenager saw his father return from hunting, ran forward happily, and raised his musket to show off to his father. "Father, this is the musket that your uncle gave you. The musket was given to his father by the Chinese uncle. "
"Baker, put down your gun and help your mother clean up the wild deer. I want to talk to a few Chinese friends."
"Okay, father."
The Indian teenager did not dare to disobey his father's order, carefully placed the musket on a wooden chair, walked to the small river in front of the cabin, and cleaned up the killed wild deer with his mother.
"Patriarch Ilia, nice to meet you again."
Ye Chenglin brought several officers to the other side and greeted him with a smile.
"Friends from afar, thank you very much for your gift. The Volos tribe will remember your kindness."
"The Mapuche people are sincere friends of the Han people, and we should do what we can for our friends."
Ye Chenglin and Iyari performed an Indian-style hug and laughed. "The Patriarch of Ilia was very lucky. He hit two wild deer. It seems we can have a good lunch here with Volos friends."
"Benefited by the of nature, two wild deer are given to the tribe."
Iria pointed his hands to his chest and prayed, and then said, "The Volos tribe will entertain Chinese friends with the most precious lunch, but in recent years, the Argentines and the Mavidans who have trusted them continue to our land and livestock. Volos tribe can There is not much food for entertaining friends, I hope you don't blame it. "
"The Han and the Mapuche are together, so where do we mind this trivial matter, the Ilia chief is polite."
Before 1866, the Volos tribe was a middle-class tribe with a population of five or six hundred. Later, Chile and Argentina initiated the government ’s Patagonian Desert Movement. Like other Patagonian Indian tribes, Volos tribe is The Argentine army's confrontation was continuously weakened. After more than ten years, due to the effects of war and disease, the population of the Volos tribe fell to only forty, and the tribe was younger than twenty.
The end of the primitive tribe's confrontation with the modern civilization is miserable. When the Patagonian Indians faced the survival of the nation, they first recommended the French adventurer Antoine who sympathized with them as the king, and lobbyed the French government to recognize the Patagonians. Independence, followed by Antoine ’s lobbying for the French government ’s failed operation, and after Antoine himself was expelled from Argentina, the desperate Patagonian Indians began to convene all the tribes to be strong, and they did not win with Argentina. War of hope.
In 1866, when the war broke out, the Mapuche and Alaucanians were unwilling to give up their last piece of land and continued to fight the invading forces of the two countries on the Patagonian wasteland. In 1868, the area north of Neuquen It fell into the hands of the Argentine government. In 1869, the Argentine troops advanced to the front line of Negro. At this point, more than two-thirds of the population of the Patagonian Indian tribes, including Alaucania and Mapuche, lost. Some of the remaining Indian tribes, like the Mavida tribes, depended on Argentine whites for survival. According to the arrangements of whites, they lived in barren reserves and died on their own. In some despair, they retreated to the Negro Binan region and prepared to join Argentina. The troops fought the final battle.
While the remaining Patagonian Indians waited for the last war, the war between the Han Dynasty and northern Argentina broke out, and then within a few months, the entire Argentine army that swept the Patagonian wasteland was wiped out, and the country was tense. Argentina urgently deployed the left-behind troops to defend against the Chinese offensive. As a result, Patagonian Indians spent the most dangerous period. After the first Argentine war, Patagonian Indians and intelligence personnel sent by the Chinese obtained After contacts were made, batches of old-fashioned weapons, medicines, food and other materials flowed into Patagonia, and the relationship between Han and Patagonian Indian tribes gradually became closer with the aid of materials.
Ye Chenglin, who took over personally to contact the Patagonian Indian affairs, knew the plight of the Volos tribe. He generously accepted the goodwill of Yilia, and then at noon, he enjoyed the hospitality with more than forty people of the Volos tribe. lunch.
The food content of the two wild deer was quickly eaten by the crowd. After lunch, Ye Chenglin called Ilya to the grass outside the cabin and explained to him as he walked.
"The king you named, Antoine, died in France. Thirteen chiefs of the Mapuche tribe have invited His Royal Highness the King of Patagonia. His Royal Highness has agreed to be the King of Patagonia. Now the Volos tribe and The Hans have become a family, and I hope that the Patriarch of Ilia will join our forces in the friendship of His Royal Highness to help the Mapuche people together to resist the possible attack of the Argentine troops. "
"I am pleased to see His Royal Highness the King of Patagonia. As a Patagonian, I am willing to resist the attack of white Argentines for the safety of the tribe, but the Argentine signed a truce agreement with us last year. , The war has ended ~ EbookFREE.me ~ I just want to accompany my wife Finina and Baker to live a good life, I don't want to join the army again.
Friend, I'm sorry I can't promise your request. "
"A temporary truce will not bring eternal peace. Ilia, my friend, believe me. Join our forces to better protect your wife and children and the tribe. Otherwise, when the Argentine strength is restored, they will be like Spain. Like that, tear up the agreement with Patagonians and attack you again. "
Ye Chenglin looked at Ilia, who was in his prime, and persuaded "You are a famous warrior among the Mapuche people. In the battle with the Argentines, you and your tribe made great sacrifices to protect the safety of other peoples. I Understand that you hate endless killings, but Ilia, whites believe in the law of the jungle, and wars will not go away as long as the Mapuche can't show the force to defend their own interests.
Ilia, I'll give you three days, and I hope you think carefully before you make your choice. "
"Thank you for your understanding. I will reply to you in three days."
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