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After bidding farewell to Li Mingyuan, Ye Chenglin left by boat with the thirty-four officers assigned to him, arriving at his destination five days later.
In Sierra Grande, Patagonia, four or five Indians led the horses carrying game back to their base.
"Ilya, where did you go hunting?"
An Indian woman came up and asked.
"We walked a hundred miles west along Lake Negro and hunted two wild deer in the Adela Forest."
"Adela is the hunting ground of the Mavida tribe. You are not in danger, are you?"
"No, the Argentinian troops in Villalonga retreated to Port Blanca, and the young men of the Mavida tribe also retreated with the Argentines. There is no one guarding the Adela Forest now."
Iria and another Mapuche man lifted the killed wild deer off their horses and placed it on the open space in front of the wooden house. They looked at the Indian woman whose clothes were stained with mud and said with love in her eyes, "You have reclaimed the land again."
A piece of land?”
"Yes, the sorghum given to us by the Han friends from the north has not been eaten. I plan to plant the remaining part in the reclaimed land. When the sorghum is harvested next year, you will not have to take the risk to hunt on the Mavida land.
Life in the tribe will be easier."
"Thank you for your hard work." Ilya touched his wife's head lovingly and asked, "How is Baker these days? Why don't you see him playing outside?"
"A few Han friends just arrived, and Baker was learning shooting with them behind the wooden house."
While the Indian woman was talking to Ilya, several Han Chinese and an Indian boy in his teens came out from behind the wooden house.
The Indian boy looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old, but he was over 1.6 meters tall, only half a head shorter than the Han men next to him.
"Father, you are back!" When the Indian boy saw his father returning from hunting, he ran forward happily, raised the musket in his hand and showed off to his father, "Father, this is the musket given to you by the uncle. There are seventeen more behind the wooden house.
A musket was given to my father by my Han uncle."
"Baker, put down the gun and go help your mother clean up the wild deer. I want to talk to some Han friends."
"Okay, Father."
The Indian boy did not dare to disobey his father's order, so he carefully placed the musket on the wooden chair, walked to the creek in front of the wooden house, and cleaned up the killed wild deer with his mother.
"Chief Ilya, it's nice to see you again."
Ye Chenglin walked up to the other party with several officers and said hello with a smile.
"Friends from afar, thank you very much for the gift you sent. The Volos tribe will remember your kindness."
"The Mapuche people are sincere friends of the Han people. Doing what we can for our friends is what we should do."
Ye Chenglin and Iyari gave an Indian-style hug and said with a smile, "Chief Ilya is very lucky and has shot two wild deer. It seems that we can have a rich lunch at our friends in Volos today."
"With the blessing of the God of Nature, the tribe was given two wild deer."
Iria pointed his hands in front of his chest and prayed, and then said, "The Volos tribe will entertain Han friends with the most precious lunch. However, in recent years, the Argentines and the Mavidans who have surrendered to them have continued to rob our land and livestock. The Volos tribe can
There isn’t much food for entertaining friends, I hope you won’t blame me.”
"The Han people and the Mapuche people come from the same family. How can we mind such a trivial matter? Chief Iria is too polite."
Before 1866, the Volos tribe was still a medium-sized tribe with a population of five to six hundred. Later, Chile and Argentina launched the Patagonian Desert Movement. The Volos tribe, like other Patagonian Indian tribes, was involved in Chile and Chile.
The Argentine army was continuously weakened in the confrontation. After more than ten years, due to war and disease, the population of the Volos tribe dropped to only more than 40 people, with less than 20 young people in the tribe.
The outcome of the confrontation between primitive tribes and modern civilized regimes was tragic. When the Patagonian Indians faced the survival of their nation, they first elected the French adventurer Antoine, who sympathized with them, as their king and lobbied the French government to recognize the Patagonians.
independence, and then Antoine's attempt to lobby the French government failed. After Antoine himself was expelled from Argentina, the desperate Patagonian Indians began to gather all the young tribesmen to fight with Argentina without winning.
The war of hope.
In 1866, the war broke out. The Mapuche and Araucanians were unwilling to give up their last piece of land and continued to fight against the invading troops of the two countries in the Patagonian wilderness. In 1868, the area north of Neuquen
It fell into the hands of the Argentine government. In 1869, the Argentine troops advanced to the Negro line. At this point, the population of the Patagonian Indian tribes, including the Araucanians and the Mapuches, had lost more than two-thirds.
Some of the remaining Indian tribes, like the Mavida tribe, sought refuge with Argentine whites in order to survive. According to the white people's arrangements, they lived in barren reservations to fend for themselves. Some, in desperation, retreated to the Negro Binan region, preparing to fight with Argentina.
The troops fight for the final battle.
While the remaining Patagonian Indians were waiting for the final battle, the Han invasion of northern Argentina broke out. Within a few months, the main Argentine army that swept through the Patagonian wilderness was completely wiped out, and the country became tense.
Argentina urgently mobilized the remaining troops in the south to resist the Han attack, and the Patagonian Indians passed the most dangerous period. After the first Argentine War, the Patagonian Indians and intelligence personnel sent by the Han obtained
After establishing contact, batches of obsolete old-fashioned weapons, medicines, food and other materials flowed into Patagonia, and the relationship between the Han State and the Patagonian Indian tribes also gradually became closer with material assistance.
Ye Chenglin, who personally took over the affairs of the Patagonian Indians, was aware of the plight of the Volos tribe. He graciously accepted Iria's kindness, and then, near noon, he and more than 40 Volos tribesmen enjoyed a meal in their honor.
Lunch.
The food portions of the two wild deer were quickly eaten by everyone. After lunch, Ye Chenglin called Ilya to the grass outside the wooden house and explained his purpose to him as he walked.
"The king you originally recommended, Antoine, died of illness in France. Thirteen chiefs of the Mapuche tribe jointly invited His Highness the King of Han to be the King of Patagonia. His Highness the King of Han has agreed to be the King of Patagonia. Now the Volos Tribe and
The Han people have become a family, and I hope that Chief Iria will consider His Highness the Han Dynasty’s friendship in helping the Mapuche people and join our troops to jointly resist possible attacks by the Argentine troops.”
"I am very happy to see His Royal Highness the King of Patagonia become the King of Patagonia. As a member of the Patagonians, I am willing to resist the attack of the white Argentines for the safety of the tribe. However, the Argentines signed an armistice agreement with us last year.
, the war is over.
Now I just want to live a good life with my wives Finina and Beck, and I don't want to join the army anymore.
Friend, I'm sorry that I can't agree to your request."
"A temporary truce cannot bring permanent peace. Iria, my friend, believe me. Only by joining our army can you better protect the safety of your wife, children and tribe. Otherwise, when the Argentinians recover their strength, they will be like Spain."
People do that, tear up the agreement signed with the Patagonians, and attack you again."
Ye Chenglin looked at Iria, who was in his prime, and persuaded, "You are a famous warrior among the Mapuche people. During the battle with the Argentines, you and your tribe made great sacrifices to protect the safety of other tribesmen. I
I understand that you hate the never-ending killings, but, Iria, white people believe in the law of the jungle where the weak can eat the strong. As long as the Mapuche people cannot show force to safeguard their own interests, the war will not disappear.
Ilya, I will give you three days, and I hope you will make a choice after careful consideration."
"Thank you for your understanding. I will give you a reply in three days."