The Iroquois mobilization came faster than Yang had imagined, and peace had lasted far too long for them.

The last 500 warriors of the tribe who had been trained by the Black Cloud Dragon and were organized as armor leaders were reorganized as soon as the birds, armor, and axes prepared by Yang Zhaolong arrived.

The leaders of the Longhouse Alliance, Haifasa, and Yang Zhaolong, the governor of Makino, completed two ceremonies on the same day, first making a blood alliance under the sacred pillar in the center of the five departments, killing pigs, fish, chickens, and three small animals, and then exchanging brothers to form a blood relationship according to the Iroquois tradition.

Haifasha's youngest brother was replaced by Yang Zhaolong, who regarded Yang Zhaolong as his brother; Yang Zhaolong also assigned a Miao warrior who was close to him as his younger brother to live with Haifasha.

Even in order to show his grandeur, he also assigned five personal soldiers with big medicine crossbows, ring knives, and poison darts to protect the safety of this brother named Ah Hei.

This expedition drained almost five Iroquois troops, and the five tribes had less than 2,000 men left to hunt, but they had to protect the remaining nearly 20,000 women and children.

He was accompanied by 500 warriors armed with old chain mail and breastplates, wearing no pants but red crotch cloth calf pads, and shirts ranging from cotton and linen to short robes, and 3,000 Iroquois women who had kept their children in other people's homes, and went to the shores of Lake Ontario to board a ship and go to the mines of the lakeside ironworks.

Even Yang Zhaolong didn't expect that Haifa Sha and the other four tribal leaders would really let the women in the ministry go to mine.

Such a thing that was unimaginable to the Ming people, but the Iroquois people did it naturally, and in their words, the women of the longhouse could do all the things that men could do, and they would do it better than men.

Even when it comes to fighting, Haifasa does not mean that women cannot fight, but that women carry the mission of reproduction and are much more important than men...... A woman can give birth to a man, but a man cannot give birth to a woman, so a woman cannot die.

And Yang Zhaolong has never seen anyone who is more combatant than an Iroquois man, so they can't be idle at all when they specialize in production, and they will start a new war after a year and a half.

Yang Zhaolong had mixed feelings in his heart as he watched these Iroquois warriors with dyes tattooed on their faces, all kinds of bone ornaments nailed to their mouths, noses and ears, a rucksack from the Oriental Military Government on their backs, and a longhouse-made Ming-style leather armed belt on their bodies, as they watched the women board the ship, and then said goodbye to themselves and embarked on the journey.

This is a tribal alliance that is different from what he has seen and heard in the past, they have their own culture, their own technology, and finally formed their own alliance in Haifasha's generation, just like the Xiong clan formed the Huaxia Alliance.

Yang Zhaolong, who was paying attention to all this, couldn't help but think: If we hadn't come, would they have formed their own feudal state?

But that's not going to happen right now.

In Yang Zhaolong's eyes, the 3,000 Iroquois women who entered the mines to do heavy physical work that only men did were the price of the Iroquois in this war, but for the Iroquois, the truth was just the opposite—the 500 warriors led by Haifa Sha on the western expedition had a look of death, but those women, who had just arrived in the mines, put into production, although they had difficulty in verbal communication with the craftsmen and were inferior to others, they were extremely hard-working and hard-working.

The main thing is that they do not perceive the slightest distress of being forced to work in the mines for the sake of tribal expansion or other reasons.

Those men are their price.

Iron arrows, French steel crossbows, Ming birds, and horses greatly improved the efficiency of Iroquois men in hunting activities, and the large influx of various commodities of the Ming Dynasty also changed the original tribal relations of the Longhouse Alliance, and the way to exchange these commodities was single, Tongbao.

There were not many sources of Tongbao, the salaries of the banner army, the trade of tobacco and furs, the Ming army did not recruit female soldiers, and the Iroquois tribe did not encourage women to join the army; The distribution of the tobacco fields was given by the Ming Dynasty to the war leaders of the five divisions, and naturally, all of them were men; The trade in furs, obtained from hunting, was also monopolized by men with birds' guns.

The matriarchal society inherent in the Iroquois was clearly in shock, and the women of the Five Ministries banded together with the intention of electing five able-bodied women to be the war leaders of the Longhouse Alliance in the future...... The current leaders of the Longhouse Alliance, including Haifa and Saudi Arabia, are troubled by this.

They had done their best to balance the wealth of men and women in the tribe, and the banner army was limited to the requirements of the Ming army, and military service could only be undertaken by men; There is no way to hunt this dangerous activity, and it can only be hunted by men; Growing and weaving, they were almost entirely given to the women of the tribe.

Muye County doesn't need Iroquois blankets and blankets, and they don't know how to make Ming people's clothes; Potatoes and corn could be exchanged for money, but the price of food was not high, because it was rich in corn, potatoes, and beans of all kinds, and five hundred Iroquois warriors went out with more gunpowder than food, and they could easily collect food to eat on the march.

There were only tobacco fields to earn money, and because the Oriental military government issued a decree to rotate the fields, there were not many of them, and the status and the ** of novelty goods were not satisfied, and they desperately needed to fight for new means of livelihood.

Many people went to Makino's paper and cigarette factories, but it was a drop in the bucket for the Iroquois, who preferred to hire Cherokees who migrated from the Florida Peninsula to large local tribal workers...... The Black Cloud Dragons used war to reclaim the land that belonged to their ancestors, and they were more like vassals than longhouses, a tribal alliance that considered you and me equal and never took orders, and everyone consulted.

For Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate, he prefers the longhouse alliance because they are more creative; But for businessman Li Yuxi, he prefers the hard-working Cherokee people.

The Iroquois woman had long needed a new job, one that could earn thousands of tons a month and support herself with some money left over to buy what she wanted.

Yang Zhaolong, the magistrate of the county, entered the mines of the lakeside iron works three times in half a month to visit the Iroquois women who were digging iron ore under the guidance of General Fengguo, who graduated from the sect university.

Although he did what he felt he should do, it actually involved the thoughts of Chen Mu and many officials, and he didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to allow the Iroquois to go west and the women to enter the mine.

When he entered the mine for the third time and expressed his worries to an Iroquois woman who was resting, the woman dispelled all his worries in her own words.

Dressed in a primary-colored leather skirt and dressed in a plain canvas uniform issued by the mines, the Iroquois woman sat on the ground as she was accustomed to, her hoe and hammer beside her, munching on potato cakes while showing Yang Zhaolong her newly purchased hairpin under the crown of feathers.

"Potatoes, corn, fish and meat, lives, children and dogs, the tribal will always be tribal, but Tongbao is our own," she said. ”