"Iron smelting, yes, that's it, the knife I gave you was made of, yes!"

In the long house, the kerosene lamp was lit up safely, and the light penetrated through the window and made a light curtain.

Haifasha, the leader of the Longhouse Alliance, still wore a feather crown on his head, a loose plain satin mid-lane, and the flat hem of his shirt was tied to the waist of his deer-skin pants. He sat in the chair and looked at the chief on the land in front of him.

Next to the chair was a long Ming-made convex gun. The kerosene lamp shone with a sad face. He grabbed the barrel of the convex bird gun with his hand and said slowly to Yang Zhaolong in unskilled Chinese language: "How should I tell you, my sir, we have known what iron is long ago."

The Iroquois learn things very quickly and it is also very practical.

Hulan let them see the power of the cavalry. Even if they only gave them sixteen horses, as long as Hulan was willing to give them, the Iroquois people were Hulan's good friends.

The Black Cloud Dragon allowed them to see the power of infantry. Even if they only gave them a few bird guns, as long as the Black Cloud Dragon was willing to give them, the Iroquois would be the good friend of the Black Cloud Dragon.

If it were Li Yuxi, they asked them to grow tobacco, and the same was true.

Yang Zhaolong's tongue pursed his lips and nodded slowly. The Iroquois had indeed known what iron was, especially as the Ming Dynasty gradually gained a foothold on the East Coast, all the troops used iron arrow clusters, iron swords, and iron hand axes. The leaders like Haifasha each had several Ming-made bird guns under their command.

He rubbed his hands and looked at Haifasha with anticipation, saying, "The court wants to smelify iron and build roads. There is not enough iron and needs people. Engineers from the royal university are building workhouses for workers to control them. How many people can the long house be recruited for two days every eight days?"

Haifasha didn't speak. As the Ming people continued to increase on the east coast, more and more people who looked similar to the indigenous people but were actually completely different. They built huge houses, brought new technologies, and brought increasingly uneasiness to the Longhouse Alliance.

When facing the Ming Dynasty people, Haifasha always thought slowly. He thought for a moment before speaking: "How many people do you need?"

"Only a long house is not enough, it requires four thousand or more people." Yang Zhaolong knew the background of the Long House Alliance. Including the tribes combined with the Hulun tribe, the six divisions had less than 10,000 soldiers, so how could they withdraw four or five thousand people to work? He smiled and said, "I will also go to other tribes to recruit, as long as the long house can send some people to work without affecting their livelihoods and not violate the farming work."

The reason for saying this is because Yang Zhaolong has inspected that there are many idle people in every tribe. They either lean under the eaves of the houses to smoke, or sit on the ground to chat, doing nothing.

"I am willing to help you, we are willing to help you, you just need to talk about how many people the government needs."

Haifasha shook his head, and his index finger with thick calluses shook it in front of him: "I will help you, but I want you to help me too."

Yang Zhaolong blinked, and this conversation made him feel complicated.

Transactions are different from help. Transactions should be equal. How many people they recruit and how much wages they pay, and they benefit from each other.

But help may not be equal sometimes. The more critical problem is that Yang Zhaolong really couldn't think of how the Iroquois, who had gathered more than 30,000 people in the tribes, provided him with such help - filling the worker gap of four or five thousand people.

Yang Zhaolong’s idea of ​​solving the problem is very simple. Since my brother-in-law doesn’t care about the cost, the biggest gap is technology and manpower. He can’t control technical matters, but he can get enough manpower first. This is a simple addition and subtraction method.

Four thousand craftsmen are equal to eight million kilograms. If four thousand craftsmen plus eight thousand apprentices, there should be 16 million kilograms? Then try every means to get eight thousand people, as long as the output is 20 million kilograms, the apprentices will be proficient and meeting the requirements of brother-in-law.

Although the fact may not be what Yang Zhaolong thought, he did think quite beautifully.

The mining area can completely become another subordinate county of Makino. The family of tens of thousands of people, the trade routes and surrounding farmland, can be managed by him as a magistrate.

"How to help?"

After Yang Zhaolong said that, he asked again: "How do you help me, how can I help you?"

Seeing that Yang Zhaolong had some intention of agreeing, Haifasha leaned forward and raised his hand and said, "The government gave the Longhouse five hundred muskets and one thousand iron axes; the Longhouse first sent 3,000 people to the iron factory to work, and then exchanged them for the Hurons within half a year."

Yang Zhaolong discovered that Haifasha used the Huron people's brain circuit, which was similar to Chen Mu's use of the Spanish as reserve for Asian currency issuance.

The most important thing is that both of them can say incredible things like saying things that are so normal that they cannot be more normal.

Yang Zhaolong widened his eyes and spread his hands, trying his best to say something but couldn't say it. After a long time organizing the language, he finally said: "The next one I plan to go to is the Huron tribe. You are no longer enemies. Huron has been defeated. Have you forgotten? Before I came, General Hei and Hu Qianhu defeated the Huron people in the long house together, and they surrendered."

"Yes, we won the last time." Haifa Shali nodded as if it were: "It's time to do it again now."

"If the magistrate cannot give me bird guns and axes, then let General Black bring the soldiers of the five thousand households to go with me." Speaking of this, Haifasha was a little distressed and reached out and said, "As the leader of the war, I can no longer command them."

The five thousand houses he mentioned were the army of the Makino Guard. The army was composed of the Iroquoi tribe. The officers and the preachers were transferred from the Heiyun Dragon Division Flag Army to the level of Shangguan, and then expanded into the five thousand houses stationed around Makino.

Almost all the young and strong who were good at fighting in the Longhouse Alliance were transferred away, and they also spread the influence of the Ming Dynasty on this land in various tribes during rest.

Yang Zhaolong lowered his head and pondered for a moment: "Do you want to completely defeat Huron?"

"You have cured all the diseases and vaccinations. They are more people than Iroquois, and there are too many people in the Argonqin people in the northwest." Haifasha nodded repeatedly and said, "I will go to attack. The long house can put three thousand women in your place, and gather five hundred soldiers. They must use five hundred bird guns and a thousand axes to burn each of their tribes. The government just needs to send people to bring the prisoners back."

"Every time you are given three prisoners, one of the long house women will come back, and another prisoner will be sent to the tribe; when I defeat them, I will continue to go west and go to a place where I can no longer walk."

"We will all get enough people for the tree of peace to grow densely on the land."

Yang Zhaolong felt happy and panicked.

Five hundred muskets and one thousand axes are not difficult to get. The difficulty is that if he told Chen Mu about Haifasha’s suggestion, Chen Mu would definitely reject it. Even if he told Zhao Shizhen, the Black Cloud Dragon would be rejected. I am afraid that the only court official on this land who is happy with such a practice is him.

Such annexation wars are not uncommon among the various Xuanwei envoys, and the court does not know that the annexation wars occur most of the time. Even if the court knows, as long as the winning Xuanwei envoy is respectful to the court and has no ambition to be independent from the court, they usually only punish something.

"As the magistrate, Yang may not be able to agree to this help."

Yang Zhaolong finally raised his head, he looked at Haifasha and said, "But as a friend, I need you to swear to the Emperor Ming and the Tree of Peace, and then I will help you."
Chapter completed!