The power of nature is miraculous, the melting snow of the icebergs turned into streams and rushed down from the Rocky Mountains, and the huge impact force was completely burst out hundreds of miles away, and a jewel-like lake was created in the upper reaches of the Snake River, where the rushing anger was released, and the water of the Snake River flowing downstream became peaceful and docile.

The water and grass here are abundant, the game is abundant, and it is also the sacred place of the Sioux people who have lived on both sides of the Rocky Mountain for generations, in the southwest corner of the lake, a totem pole with a cow's head and dry bones is inserted in a staggered manner, every summer, the seven Sioux tribes who have finished spring ploughing will gather here again, the young men and women of the lower tribe intermarry and love each other, and the chiefs of the upper clan and the clan are gathered together to elect the great chief of the entire Sioux tribe, two war chiefs, a referee chief, and divide the hunting and farming range of the seven tribes for a year.

Sometimes, major matters related to the survival of the entire tribe, such as the depletion of local prey, the degradation of the soil, the need to migrate to new territories, were also resolved at the meeting of the Seven Clans in Snake Lake.

In order to survive in the harsh natural environment, the Sioux also retain the most primitive simplicity, every year the Snake Lake Conference, will be held by the strongest tribes, to provide food to build shelters, in recent years, has been the most populous, the most powerful Payut tribe held, but this year, to all the Sioux tribes are incredible, just a few years ago just suffered a catastrophe, the tribal population died as much as two-thirds, has been marginalized Lakta tribe actually fanfare towards the Snake Lake, to hold this Snake Lake Conference.

This is surprising and even goes beyond why this year's Snake Lake Games were not held in early summer in May, but in late spring in early March.

But this time, the Dakota Department was indeed huge, more than 100 feather crest hunters, 50 sailors, and 50 New World expeditions were all dispatched, and more than 200 men and women who were squeezed out to help with the construction, a total of 300 tame bullocks, 100 horses, 600 baskets of grain, and more than 200 baskets of tools and nails, just like a herd of migrating bison, went straight to the Snake Lake.

On March 11, Mao Xingjian led his dispatch team to the Snake Lake, at this time some Su clans had already arrived here first, this dispatch team had just left the basket, and the Sioux people of other tribes had already consciously followed to help set up a gathering camp by the lake.

Standing on the edge of the lake and looking underwater, it has just been March when the ice and snow have melted, and I have seen the hungry fish flicking their tails in groups looking for food, not far from the lake, a large herd of bison drooping their heads, lazily eating the spring grass that has just emerged, the lakeside plain is flat, from here you can even directly look at the Rocky Mountain in the distance, looking at the spruce cedars that are still frozen the snow line of the mountain forest, Mao Xingjian can't help but hang a proud sneer at the corner of his mouth.

In the distance, with the logging saws in the frame, dozens of Snake City residents rode their oxen and went straight to the slopes of Loki Mountain a few miles away, arrogantly pouting their buttocks.

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The rules of the Seven Divisions Alliance are like this, one has arrived, and the remaining six have to put down what they are doing and hurry up, five or six days after Mao Xingjian arrived, the other Su tribes Nakta, Lakota, Paiute and other tribes also arrived at the Snake Lake with their clansmen one after another, and all of a sudden, the New World Plain, which was originally empty to a hundred miles of people, suddenly became lively.

More than 20 large fires burned on the edge of the lake, although some men and women needed to stay near the tribe to sow corn seeds, but the Sioux people who came to the scene still seemed elated, singing and dancing around the fire, for a year, only the Snake Lake party was regarded as their serious big festival, they could not work, eat enough, and rest and play comfortably for a few days.

This is also the season of mating, some dog men and women who look at each other, adulterers ** do not have so much affection and love, directly near the cowhide tent, firewood, and even the reeds by the lake A drill in the swing, they secretly started to do a good thing, if Mao Jue crossed over, he could be so straightforward, there would not be so many older men and women.

However, the ordinary clansmen below can be heartless, and the tribal chiefs at the upper level are not so leisurely and elegant, even if they are primitive, they are also political, right? The Dakota Department took the initiative to hold the Snake Lake Conference, and it was already going straight to the center of the Sioux power, and this time, it gave them another dismount.

More than ten meters long, more than ten meters wide, more than four meters high, a wide and spacious wooden temple replaced the simple cowhide spire tent in the past, only with more than 20 pieces of good complete cowhide as tiles to paste the spire, it is considered to maintain the style of the Sioux Indians, the whole temple is built with neat logs to cut off the branches and forks, and the two floors of the floor are also paved with logs below, but there is no nail used to join these logs, all of them are the essence of Chinese carpentry, and the intrigue and tenon are joined together.

In fact, it is strange to say that the Indians of South America can build quite fine large pyramids, and the Indians of North America have also created quite advanced civilizations, in the later Colorado Grand Canyon of the United States, there are also quite complex city ruins of the ancient Indians, but in the thirteenth century or so, which is equivalent to the rise of Genghis Khan in Europe, the Indians of North America also suffered an unknown catastrophe, a large number of crafts were lost, and the society regressed to the primitive commune, even in Mao Jue's era, Historians have not recovered the catastrophe either.

So the big wooden temple in front of me, let alone a few days, could not be built by the Su people who were in the handover of the Bronze and Black Iron Age for a year.

His mouth opened wide in shock, so that the six tribal chiefs, more than thirty clan chiefs, and the great wizards did not pay attention to the flintlock pistols and armor of the sailors standing guard at the door, and just looked at the invitation into the gate.

The house is almost more than 200 square meters, which is also divided into bedrooms, kitchens and living rooms, and even has a toilet closest to the door is the living room, according to Indian customs, there is no chair coffee table or anything, the middle imitates the Japanese Japanese style, digging a big pit in the wood, making a small stone hearth, hanging a clay pot pot, as always, a fragrant smell of rice porridge comes to the face.

In order to be solemn, this time Mao Xingjian himself was wearing a huge crown full of eagle feathers, and the long Indian linen cloak on his body simply covered his prince python robe completely, following his style, Song Yongzhong, Dongfang Meng, Nangong Bingwen, Chen Zao and his party had to paste eagle feathers on their helmets and hats, as for the other elders of Dakota, they were still dressed in the same way, and there was no change.

Now Mao Xingjian is already quite proficient in learning, and when he saw outsiders coming in, he took his subordinates, and bowed deeply with his big arms, shouting like an electric shock, and the chiefs of the opposite departments followed with the same salute, and screamed for a long time, and then sat on the animal skin mattress around the fire.

Then there is the relief of the smoke, the current big chief, Chief Paiute Black Hoof, Chief Nakta is shocked, Chief Lakota two pots of boiling water, etc., are still sitting expressionless as always, waiting for Mao Xingjian to respect the pipe, but he doesn't want Mao Xingjian Shi Ran to take out a box of the best soft China sold in Jingshi from his arms, first pretend to be one for himself, and then Dalat Dadai does the work, and in their different eyes, one of them gave one.

Seeing that Mao Xingjian took out the lighter by himself, the former chief Dalatda was full of excitement and took out his kerosene lighter, and lit it in front of the black hoof.

Not to mention, worthy of the Great Chief, except for a swarthy old face that was half white with fright, he didn't even move, let Dalatda light his cigarette, keep the fire, under the incredible gaze of a group of chieftain wizards, Dalatda lit it one by one, and after a while, the wooden house suddenly filled with cigarettes.

The fine tobacco of Jingshi Shenhe spice is obviously much easier to smoke than the original yellow tobacco leaves of the Indians, and after taking a heavy breath in his lungs, Black Hoof and the others all showed a look of enjoyment.

After the smoke ceremony was completed, there was also the etiquette of food sharing, and the "Great Witch" Han Xiaomo brought out the meat and vegetable porridge she specially developed this winter from the kitchen with great interest, but when she should be introduced as the Great Witch of the Dakota Department, the chief translator Su Yu dropped the chain, and it wasn't until Mao Xingjian poked him with his elbow that he hurriedly translated it as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"This is the Great Witch of our Dakota Department who can subdue the bison by cutting off the eggs!"

A large amount of meat porridge was sent to his hand, but Han Xiaomo's sweet smile was not pleasing here, holding the porridge, the big chief of the Rakta tribe shouted with two pots of boiling water, obviously very dissatisfied.

"Last year, I heard that the Dakota Department was annexed by the Youniu Ministry, and your chieftain and the Great Witch don't even speak our language, so why are you anxious about our Sioux Six Ministry?"

"According to the covenant of the Sioux Alliance, you have broken the alliance!"

Not to mention, the ministry is not small, and in the face of the question of the chief of the major, who has a population of more than 4,000 and is second only to the Paiute department, Dalatra not only did not have stage fright, but retorted with great momentum.

"In the Sioux tradition, there is no prohibition to absorb external members to the headquarters, Lord Han Xiaomo's witchcraft is more subtle, my great witch goddess grass passed on the witch cow bone to her, Lord Han Xiaomo is naturally the great witch of our department, the son of the lord of a thousand cows married her, and voluntarily joined our department, regardless of whether he speaks Su or not, according to tradition, he is also a member of our department, he challenged my chieftain position according to tradition, why can't Lord Feather hold a seven-department conference?"

"Two pots of boiling water, you slander my department so much, don't you want to start a war?"

Fortunately, it was said in Su language, otherwise Han Xiaomo, who was still in the dark, would have fainted, but the confrontation of this needle tip against Mai Mang suddenly made the atmosphere in the tent a lot more tense, and between the leaders of Lakta and Dakota, lightning flashed when they looked at each other.

But at this moment of tension, a grunt sounded, and he swallowed half a bowl of porridge in one gulp, but the current Sioux Grand Chief Black Hoof laughed with a smile.

"Delicious, it's not corn! What is it? ”

(End of chapter)