Hulan found that there was a difference in her cognition between herself and Taomibu.

Before the march began, he thought that it was the boys of their Hulan tribe who married the girls of the rice tribe, but after the march began, he gradually realized that it was the girls of the rice tribe who married these young men.

Although everyone is of Mongol ancestry, there is a fundamental difference in way of life, and the other tribesmen of the Taomi and Iroquois confederations are matriarchal...... Only Hulan is a patriarchal tribe.

Other people's sons have no inheritance rights and will eventually become 'foreigners', and if we apply the worldview of other matriarchal tribes, the 'Hulan tribe' that he is proud of actually does not exist.

His boys, regardless of whether they were Han Chinese banner soldiers or Mongol Jurchen warriors, would eventually marry wives and have children in this land, and then the Hulan tribe would disappear.

For example, in this march of 700 from the Hulan tribe and 300 from the Taomi tribe, the two tribes had only one war leader, that is, Hulan.

Hulan is a thousand households, and it is normal for him to be the war chief of the Hulan Department, but in the eyes of the Taomi Ministry, Hulan is their son-in-law, and it is normal to be the chief of the Taomi Ministry.

However, after discussing this issue with Hulan and his subordinates, it was a huge advantage for them that everyone else was a matriarchal tribe, because in the process of marrying, the man would lose the inheritance of the original tribe, but he would have the inheritance of the other tribe.

In terms of the quality of men, their group of Chinese men have an unrivaled advantage of the aborigines, the Han banner army and the Mongolian riders have undergone rigorous training, and the Jurchen warriors have also grown up in the mountains and forests since childhood, and their physique is not only inferior but also stronger than the aborigines.

They were generally cleaner, and their studies on Khuwu Island also gave them more knowledge, and they were good at using and equipping a large number of firearms, bows, armor, and horses, giving them superior combat effectiveness than the aborigines.

These 'married' warriors went to inherit other people's tribes, and it seems ...... It's very promising.

In this way, Hulan happily accepted the fate of the imminent disappearance of the Hulan tribe, and formulated a long-term plan that he proposed for the first time as a military governor after leaving Jincheng, that is, in the next march and battle, exude male charm and marry as many tribes as possible.

In general, Hulan is accustomed to living with the aborigines of this land, except for the name.

During his march through the long grasslands and the lush jungles of the endless lake, Hulan became more acquainted with the rice tribe and became acquainted with more tribal soldiers summoned by the Iroquois Alliance.

The Taomi Division, which was originally a tribe with a population, became a large tribe with the ability to mobilize thousands of soldiers in a blink of an eye after being joined by Hulan, which won them prestige.

The aboriginal tribes are divided by land, the tribe is a power-based alliance above, and the blood ties are clans below, each tribe has one or more clans, and each clan is named after animals, such as wolves, bears, turtles, beavers, deer, herons, eagles, etc., are all animals they have seen, and the names of the clans are often the surnames of the people among them.

Each clan has several sets of names, and the aborigines can tell who is who from the same name, but Hulan cannot.

His father-in-law is called Zhici, and his brother-in-law is also called this, and in order to distinguish them, the Hulan Department uniformly calls Hulan's father-in-law 'wise big raccoon' and his brother-in-law 'wise little raccoon'.

It can't be helped, the name of the clan naturally brings the power of the clan to the people, so everyone refuses to change the name.

The aborigines have their own way of marching, and the tribes of each group meet on the road just to say hello and then choose another route, no tribe will march as a group like the Hulan tribe, they are all divided into small groups, walking different roads to get food to cope with the long journey.

Everything of the Iroquois Alliance was seen by Hulan, and from winter to spring, their marching route had already been set by the riders of the Iroquois Alliance, and the tribes and tribes they passed through would prepare the necessary food and supplies for them, making Hulan feel like the situation in the counties passing through the Ming Dynasty, but on a much smaller scale.

The strength they had gathered made Hulan secretly smack his tongue, and it was only what he learned on the road that hundreds or even hundreds of people had been sent to each clan under the five major tribes to participate in the upcoming war.

In fact, the war has already begun.

As the army led by Hulan and Zhixi drew closer to their destination, the more they saw the many clan villages belonging to the Alliance, living in wooden longhouses, of which there were generally forty or fifty longhouses in a village, with stake fences and fields on the outer edge of the villages, and Iroquois clothed in leather blankets working in the fields, fishing, hunting, or burning pottery baskets.

More tribal warriors with their noses and bodies nailed with animal bones gathered in groups of seven to a dozen people, most of the time sharpening their weapons for battle, and sometimes playing with wooden rackets in a net in a large clearing.

There was little surprise to the Hulan army, especially after learning that they were an alien clan that had been heavily accepted by the small Taomi tribe – and that tribes often did so, sometimes prisoners of war, sometimes migrated from other places, which was nothing special to the aborigines who were accustomed to the rise and fall of the tribes.

Especially since they look about the same.

They had also seen horses, many of them from the French, and had captured some ferocious beasts of burden in battle, but they were very curious about the armor and muskets from the Ming dynasty.

As for the fact that there were no women in the so-called Hulan tribe that had been accepted, it seemed very strange, but it was not at all strange to the Iroquois.

The tribal warriors wearing animal skin pants, shirtless blankets, and holding axes, after asking them to understand the origin of the Hulan tribe, sympathized with their lack of women, and the eagle feathers on their heads trembled with the movement of nodding, and said to their accomplices: "Look, women fall from the sky, and not every tribe can pick them up. ”

In their myths and legends, the first women fell from the sky.

In fact, there is no Iroquois in this world who call themselves Iroquois, and the name of their alliance literally means 'alliance of longhouses', which means that the tribes live in the longhouse like a clan and love each other, and the official name is the alliance of peace and strength.

Iroquois is a title given to them by outsiders and is widely used by rival or unaffiliated tribes.

In the longhouse where the chieftain and the chief were deliberating, Hulan saw for the first time the full picture of the conflict and war that had been raging for months.

Their main opponents were not Gentiles from Europe, just as the Gentiles from the Ming Dynasty were only a few dozen chieftains in the Iroquois League.

What they really had to deal with was the other two large tribal confederations, the Hurons and the Eries.