Chapter 348 Late but still here
Developing America requires manpower. At the beginning, the tribes or other Indians who rely solely on Tu are definitely not successful. They must also have the power to be loyal to themselves.☆→☆→, it is not that Tu is unreliable, but that Indians have their own beliefs, cultures, and living habits, which cannot be changed in a short period of time. Strictly speaking, these lepers have died once. They have suffered all kinds of discrimination, bullying, and hostility. As long as they can treat them as normal people, they will be relatively loyal to themselves. This is human nature, regardless of race, region, and principles.
With their joining, Luo Youde and Swan would have at least a relatively reliable force to trust. In addition, the slave soldiers and craftsmen left behind last time, as well as the slave soldiers, slave sailors and craftsmen brought over this time, there were more than 100 people. More than half of them could be armed as soldiers. With this armed force, Luo Youde and Swan could live a more at ease, and at the same time, it could also change the minds of Tu and her tribe elders.
As for whether there are people among them who are in the incubation period of leprosy, Hong Tao cannot guarantee that they can guarantee that one will be dealt with immediately, and that the epidemic will never spread. This is not only protecting himself, but also protecting others. Everyone will understand it. It doesn’t matter if they don’t understand, just deal with it together. Just go to the King of Hell or God to seek justice.
If these people really know how to repay kindness as they think, Hong Tao will have a stable way to replenish personnel. There are areas in Europe that exil to leper patients, and he can pretend to be an angel again, take the people who have not yet become sick on the ship and send them to America, and let Swan train them into an army and help them guard the land.
"What if they get sick?" Although Hong Tao said it easily, Luo Youde was not very relieved. He ran so far to open up the land, and he couldn't be careless about anything. He wanted to watch Luo Meizhou grow up.
"This disease is not contagious during the incubation period. After the onset, it will not be contagious. I will write down the general symptoms of this disease. Write down the preventive measures. You should check them regularly. If you find any disease, just deal with it. I will just try the effect. In two years, I will try it out again. If it works well, I will find it for you. It doesn't matter if it doesn't work well. There are only twenty people in total." Hong Tao said that speaking without back pain while standing is not painful, but it is not so easy to do. Especially with heavy mental burden. Who would like to stay with a group of people who may get sick, have terminal illness, and are infected all day long.
"I now understand why you don't even blink when you kill someone. If they are sick, I think I will kill them without blinking. I was taken away by you." Luo Youde couldn't say anything about Hong Tao, so he could only passively accept it, at most complain a few words and say something to the point.
"This is called not being in his position and not doing things, let's make a bet. I will come back in two years, and you will not kill much less than me. If I win, you have to continue killing. If I lose, you can choose to put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha. Do you dare to gamble?" Hong Tao will take the initiative to dig a hole for him for anyone who dares to mock himself.
"If you don't bet, you won't bet." Unfortunately, Luo Youde is very determined. No matter how fragrant the bait Hong Tao released, he just won't bite the hook.
The second time he crossed the Atlantic Ocean, Hong Tao's navigation level was much more accurate than the first time, because he had the chart he drew last time as a reference and knew the approximate location of the island and the laws of the ocean currents, so he didn't have to walk and explore it any longer.
However, the voyage this time is not shorter than the last time, because he would occasionally go around the sea, for no other reason, just to make Swan dizzy. Because Swan had learned navigation, even if he didn't have a mapping instrument in his hand, he would still gain some information from the changes of the sun and stars.
When passing by the Devil Triangle of Bermuda, Hong Tao deliberately spared a big circle again. This time it was not to confuse people. Instead, he was looking for the Sargasso sea. He wanted to act as a charlatan again and deceive the black people and Saracens sailors on the ship. They made them feel scared and full of awe for themselves. In this way, when they arrived at the tribe of Tu, and let them stay, there would be less trouble. If anyone dared to fight against God, he would endure it. If he had any opinions, he would have to endure it.
After two years, four months and nine days, Hong Tao returned to the river in central Mexico and saw the small Indian village on the north bank of the river again. Before the ship could stop, a big black cat rushed to the dock, raised his head and hissing and roaring at the boat, trying to get on the boat along the springboard to find the familiar feeling, but he didn't dare to go too far, so he had to turn back and ask for help from the figure running out of the village.
"Go, picture, that's your brother, maybe it's your brother, do you still remember it?" Hong Moe on the dock discovered the familiar smell, and the picture on the boat was also a little excited. It kept jumping up and down the side of the boat, not afraid of the springboard, but was not sure about the guy who looked very similar to it. I don't know if it should go down and say hello to the other party, or continue to stay on the boat for safety.
"You came back more than a hundred days late, you lied to me." The two cougars continued to test, but Hong Tao and Tu didn't have to be so troublesome. When they picked up the warm body, Tu started to accuse Hong Tao of breach of contract with tears in their eyes. He was holding the yellowed whale paper in his hand. The small grids on it were all outlined, and the blank space below was drawn in several lines.
"Oh, you learn so quickly, you will count to more than 100. Who taught you Chinese? Why do you still have a Shandong accent?" Hong Tao didn't go to explain why he was late to the picture. She should be able to understand her difficulties, otherwise she would not be worthy of being a tribal leader and her IQ was insufficient. However, the Chinese language in the picture made Hong Tao care a lot, and his words were not straight or round.
"Then teach me how to let me go, so that the elders can see that it is not good." Tu was indeed a tomboy. After only venting for less than a minute, he remembered her responsibilities. He struggled to get out of Hong Tao's arms and walked towards the village with Hong Tao's hand.
The village in the picture has changed a lot. Two small water trucks stand by the originally bare river. One is pumping water from the river to irrigate the farmland, and the other is actually a saw-wood house. It seems that the craftsmen who stayed there have not been idle for the past two years and have already brought their abilities to the extreme.
With a small sawmill, the living conditions in the village were first improved. The original small thatched huts were no longer visible, and square tall wooden houses replaced them. These wooden houses were exactly the same as those built by Hong Tao and the Dan family when they first settled in Jinhewan. They were even more particular. The bark was peeled off, and some were even carved with simple patterns on the stairs at the door.
Another obvious change is that a row of walls more than two meters high were built on the west side of the village. They were all fixed by inserting wooden stakes as thick as thighs into the ground. They were about three or four hundred meters long and connected to the edge of the forest in the north. The wall was missing every one or two meters, revealing a crack. Obviously, this is not because the craftsmen are lazy. The reason why they do this is to facilitate observation of the situation outside the wall and shoot out of these gaps.
"Thank you all, why are there two people missing in one, two, and three eighth? What about them?" Hong Tao did not go to see the elders in the village at the first time, but chatted with the ten craftsmen who left him by the river.
"They have been dead for more than a year. After a few months of his departure, they lost one person in the dense forest. The other didn't know what he had eaten, and they died after a few days of resistance. We buried them in the wasteland in the east and erected a stone tablet for them." A oldest craftsman stood up and answered Hong Tao's question instead of others. Two years later, a northern Han man completely changed his appearance. If he didn't look at the style of his clothes and listened to him, Hong Tao would definitely not recognize him ten meters away and he would definitely think he was a Han man, and he would definitely think he was an Indian.
"Let's go, take me to worship them. This time I've brought a lot of people, probably sixty or seventy people, so I'll stay here too. You have worked hard for the past two years. If you don't want to stay here, I can take you back to Carl Fort, but I can't go back to Jinhe City. You can consider how to choose. There are more than two months left, so I'm not in a hurry." When these ten craftsmen stayed, they didn't know that they could not go back, and they didn't explain it to them clearly, but they chose slaves who had no relatives and families in Jinhe City.
"If Your Majesty allows me, I don't want to go back. The people here are good. I also married a local wife, who is pregnant. People here respect me very much, and the elders are very polite when they see me. I like this here." As soon as Hong Tao finished speaking, a craftsman stood up to express his opinion, very firm.
"I want to stay, too. I will get married next month. If Your Majesty agrees, can you ask Your Majesty to preside over the wedding for us?" With the first one, there will be followers.
"If I can't go back to Jinhe City, I'll stay here too. Carl Fort is too desolate." Not every craftsman found a partner in the tribe of Tu, but when he heard Hong Tao say that he could only choose one here and Carl Fort, the remaining craftsmen also settled for the second best and chose the tribe of Tu. If Carl was present, Hong Tao wanted to see what he would say.
"Why are the wooden walls there used to be? Someone attacked here." After solving the problem of the craftsmen's stay and leave, they worshiped in front of the two lonely graves. While walking back with the craftsmen, Hong Tao asked about the situation of the Tu tribe in the past two years.
Chapter completed!