Chapter 287: Relatives
When people meet, timing matters.
When Hulan met the Great Tanuki, he not only asked his men to get a wife, but also indirectly led him to the Iroquois Alliance, pointing out the way the Mongols would take in this land.
On the other side, the Black Cloud Dragon was in a different situation, and he met the Appalachians, the warrior tribes of northern Florida, the masters of the land.
This tribe was almost perfect to the Black Cloud Dragons, and in their customs they were indistinguishable from the Aztecs near Mexico City, and they were able to speak the language, even if they were familiar with the Aztec language, and there were a few executioners who enforced the laws who were fluent in Spanish.
In terms of combat ability, it is even higher than that of the northern tribes, with infantry and cotton armor, and the best of them wearing chain mail and a few plate armors, iron spearheads, Toledo steel swords with rusty ridges, and arquebuses that are partly used as hammers, because there is no gunpowder.
In addition, the villages had a few to a dozen cavalrymen, and some villages were home to newborn Andalusian foals and a sizable number of hounds.
The most important thing is that the two sides have a foundation of mutual trust.
The horse team of the Appalachian Black Cloud Dragon was very surprised, and when the hastily assembled dozen spear cavalry stood opposite the Black Cloud Dragon, they opened their mouths and released their suspicions.
"Who are you, and how did you end up here, Spaniards?"
"We came from Daming and beat the Spaniards."
Isn't it a coincidence that the Appalachian people are overjoyed? They said, "We have also defeated them, so let's talk about how you defeated them." ”
Like the Spaniards in southern Chile, western Peru, and northern Mexico, the Appalachian in Florida became an Indian shield against the Spaniards' northward invasion, and over the past few years the Appalachian have persistently swept away the settlements and military fortifications that the Spaniards had tried to entrench on the edge of their territory.
Although the presence of cavalry and muskets initially took a heavy toll on them, they soon acquired armor, horses, and muskets under the ancient methods of warfare such as sneak attacks, assassinations, assaults, and volleys.
Then, with its numerical superiority, it raided the Spanish settlements again and again, leaving the Spanish with little influence over the land.
The Spaniards were not an enemy to them, smallpox was.
In the past, they could easily recruit thousands of samurai, and even if they went on an expedition of hundreds of miles, they could muster five hundred, but now their tribe could not even muster five hundred decent samurai.
Fortunately, they met the simple and tiger Black Cloud Dragon, and without saying a word, they sent a fast horse to gallop back to Changsheng to get the pox vaccine made last year, and brought over several doctors from the Toyo Military Hospital who made and planted the pox vaccine.
While waiting for the pox seedlings, Heiyunlong had a clear goal, persevered in building relationships with the most well-known and elderly elders in the tribe, and finally married Jin Lan under the orange tree and successfully became the second master of the entire tribe.
In Heiyunlong's philosophy of life, as long as they are relatives, they can say anything, and this truth is still a jade law even if they are 30,000 miles away from Middle Earth.
It turns out that in the aboriginal tribes of this era, those who have mastered the medical skills of treating smallpox are fragrant even if they fart.
You say you're the second uncle, you're the second uncle? What, can you cure smallpox? Then you are indeed the second master, even if the elder is not the uncle, you are also the second master.
Not only did they plant pox for people, but they also used smallpox patients to make new seedlings.
Even if the Ming army could not free the patients who had been infected with smallpox from their misery, at least they could make the people who had not been infected for the time being no longer afraid of smallpox, which was very important for the leaders of every village.
Smallpox had killed so many people that they would have gone extinct so much that the whole tribe would cease to exist; And if the next generation no longer worries about smallpox, they will have plenty of time to multiply, and it will only take a generation for the tribe to flourish again.
Beginning with the Black Cloud Dragon making the first Appalachian child no longer have to fear smallpox, the news was learned by a Creek caravan from the north, and the Ming army was once again invited to the northern tribes.
When leaving the tribe of his eldest nephews, Black Cloud Dragon took one hundred and twelve Appalachian cavalry, exchanged some pox seedlings for grain and meat as supplies, signed a trade treaty with the tribe for the Oriental military government, and sent the first Appalachian caravan to Chang Sheng.
The news spread, and the rest of the matter was much easier, the Kree people invited Heiyunlong over to be the second master, even if they didn't understand what the 'second master' meant at first, but even if they understood, they were still willing to invite Heiyunlong over.
The tribe of the Cree was much larger than the Appalachian tribe, and they were divided into three large tribes, the Upper Cree and the Lower Cree, but the elite of the soldiers were not as capable as the Appalachian who had grown up in the war with the Spanish, but the Black Cloud Dragon had left with some warriors from their tribe to form three new hundred tribes.
He brought hope to some tribes, but intervening in tribal relations also meant accepting their rivalry and feuds, and Black Cloud Dragon's Beiyang cavalry also brought death and extinction to some tribes.
One tribe after another became immune to smallpox because of the arrival of the Black Cloud Dragon and became a relative of the second master from the Ming Dynasty, and there were also tribes that left to fend for themselves because they did not want to become a relative of the second master.
There are also some tribes who are neither willing to be relatives with the second master nor reconcile with the relatives of the second master, so there are not many options left for them.
Under the offensive of the Beiyang Cavalry, the Appalachi-Horses, and the Kree Infantry, the tribes that made the wrong choice could only be defeated by their feud and absorbed into the ranks.
The customs here are better, they are only absorbed in the social sense, not in the physical sense.
In half a year, the Black Cloud Dragon swept across the entire northern part of the East Coast like a whirlwind, appearing in the myths and legends of various tribes, and he also got two ships.
The two old Clark galleons belonged to a French colonial caravan, and since the local tribe Cherokee only used canoes in shallow waters, their two large ships were generously stranded on the beach and built their own huts next to them.
At this time, the Black Cloud Dragon, in addition to the cavalry of the headquarters, also joined the 14 aboriginal hundred-household tribes such as Appalachi, Kerry, and Cherokee, relying on strong troops to help the world on the east coast, and suddenly saw a group of colonists from Europa on the coast, you say this is the feeling?
It's like opening the French gift package!
Food, water, gunpowder, muskets, armor, Francocannons, shells, wine, and boats were all there, and it was as happy as the New Year.
This victory gave the Black Cloud Dragon great confidence that he would continue north to help the Cherokees reclaim the lands they used to have around the Great Northern Lakes that were now taken by a tribe called the Longhouse Alliance!
Things seem to have passed in an embarrassing direction.