Chapter 173

"You mean you can't get enough food from the civilians to ask for food from them?" Stone bear slanted his eyes and looked at the skinny lieutenant who was shorter than himself. He asked with a ghost on his face.

"Lieutenant Alphonse, are you sure you want me to get food? Please, I'm only here to take the grain away. That's what major Armand gave me. But you have to ask me to collect food. I don't know the people in your fortress. How can they give me food when I ask for it? "

There was a flash of embarrassment on Alphonse's face, but then he said with certainty: "chief bear, I can't help it? You know, there are not only our troops stationed in the fortress, but also some people sent by the domestic nobles. I have jurisdiction over those civilians, but for those noble people... "

Alphonse shrugged. "I have no right to rule them."

"You can't control those noble people?" The stone bear once again expressed his disbelief. "You know, in New Orleans, under general Claire's management, no one dares to violate general Claire's orders."

When Alfonso heard this, he believed in the big man again. Since governor Fran? OIS, who had been stationed in New Orleans the year before last, left New Orleans, general Claire was the highest officer in New Orleans. People who don't live in New Orleans don't know this at all.

After all, for his motherland secretly gave New Orleans to the Spaniards, even the lieutenant Alfonso is also very dissatisfied with the emperor's practice. But he was just a little lieutenant. He knew he could not change the situation.

Of course, Alphonse naturally did not know that the information about New Orleans was interrogated by the stone bear from major Armand's mouth.

Alphonse said with a wry smile, "chief bear, to tell you the truth, if the major is still there, those guys will follow the major's orders. But now that the major is away, my order is a joke to them. "

"Well, there are still such people?" The stone bear pretended to be angry. "Major Armand led his brothers to fight against the attack of the Cherokees hundreds of miles away. Now the major just wants some food. People in the rear don't support it, but dare to pull back. It's just treason! When I see major Armand, I will certainly report what happened here to the major

Alphonse shrugged again. "Chief bear, it's no use getting angry with me. There are six nobles in the fortress. The master behind them is a nobleman who even the major dare not offend. That's why they are so unscrupulous. But chief dalixiong, you have a military order for collecting grain written by the major in your hand. I think if you go to those guys with this military order, they dare not disobey your order. You can't. You can order your people to collect the grain in their hands. "

After a pause, Alphonse motioned to the stone bear to bend down, and then came up to the stone bear's ear and said softly, "as far as I know, these nobles have at least 30000 pounds of grain in their hands. If you can collect their grain... Well, I mean you can take the order signed by the major to collect the grain by force, After all, your identity is different from ours. We need to avoid the nobles behind those people, but you don't need to avoid these... "

Stone bear thought a little and asked simply, "are you sure if I take my people to collect their food, they won't resist, and the soldiers in your fortress won't attack us?"

"I don't know if they will resist, but I can guarantee that our soldiers will not." Lieutenant Alphonse looked at the big man with a smile, and then whispered: "you have so many strong soldiers, and they all have muskets. Those vampires dare not resist you..."

"Good! I'll take it! If I can collect enough food from them, then I will not pull my brothers' rations! " Shi Xiong said the word "solicitation" very seriously. Lieutenant alfonsy naturally understood what it meant, and he also laughed.

"Don't worry, chief big bear. My soldiers will never hinder your people from collecting food. I can guarantee that! "

Stone bear nodded, then put his right index finger and thumb into his mouth, and suddenly blew a very loud whistle. Then he made several gestures. At the next moment, more than 40 soldiers carrying guns came down from four ships one after another, and only five soldiers were left on each ship to watch the ship.

Looking at these tough men walking down from the boat carrying guns, although Alfonso felt that the scene of the native Indians resisting guns was not quite right, he was still happy.

As an officer stationed in the fortress for three years, and as the confidant of major Armand, Alphonse naturally knew how much the major hated those damned vampires. Those guys rely on the support of the nobles behind them to stir up the wind and rain in the fortress all day. Sometimes they even don't listen to young Xia Armand's orders, which makes the major very angry.

But there was no way to be angry. Alphonse knew that his leader could not provoke the nobles behind those guys, so sometimes the major could only bear it.

This time well, the major is not here, let this group of aborigines to deal with that group of vampires, this is undoubtedly an excellent way. The major was afraid of the nobles behind them, but the natives certainly would not be.

Although the aborigines carrying guns were a little disharmonious, and their team was askew, Alphonse could clearly feel something called "murderous" from these aboriginal men.

Obviously, these aboriginal men are cruel characters who have seen blood. And their identity means they won't be afraid of vampires.

If you can use these Aboriginal hands to clean up those damned vampires, it is undoubtedly a great thing.

Forty aboriginal men with guns just walked past him. When the big man, who was a little scary, also stepped forward, he followed him.

"Chief big bear, don't you know how things are in New Orleans?"

Stone bear tilted his head and looked at the lieutenant. He could not help sighing in his heart that this guy was worthy of being liked by major Armand. This prudence alone is enough to show the guy's military accomplishment.

"Still. Since governor Francois left New Orleans, the Spaniards have not sent a governor. So it's hard to say who New Orleans belongs to now. But there's general Claire in New Orleans. There's no chaos there. "

The big man's answer reduced the doubts in Alphonse's heart.

When it comes to New Orleans, this beautiful city of later generations is also full of tragedy.

After that, Hurricane Katrina swept the whole Gulf Coast, which made the city suffer a devastating disaster. The hurricane, which can be called the disaster of the century, not only showed Americans the power of category five hurricane, but also made people living in this city afraid of another hurricane Katrina.

As a result, the population of the city began to drain. In just a few years, the population of the city dropped from the peak of nearly 800000 to less than 400000.

Of course, this is a matter for later generations. In this era, the city is also full of tragedy.

As we all know, when the French entered the new continent of North America, they were not in the south of the new continent at the beginning, but in later Canada.

The French Empire of this era was later called "the first colonial empire of France" by historians.

The first colonial empire of France originated in the era of great navigation. At that time, the French, who always considered themselves the leader of the European continent, certainly did not watch Spain, Britain and the Netherlands play in the new world. Therefore, the French focused on the new world on the other side of the ocean.

In 1534, Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, led a fleet of explorers across the choppy Atlantic Ocean and finally sailed into St. Lawrence Bay in eastern Canada. Then, in the name of the king of France, he announced the occupation of the Bay, and a new French colony emerged.

But the French immigrants who first came to New France did not live well. The winter here is so cold that people often freeze to death. Moreover, these immigrants also had conflicts with the local Indian tribe, the Iroquois, which lasted for nearly a hundred years and aggravated the situation.

Therefore, in the 16th century, there were only a few fur merchants in New France who came and went briefly according to the seasons, and there were no permanent residents.

Throughout the 16th century, the American continent on the other side of the ocean was monopolized by the Spanish. In the late 16th century, the civil strife caused by France's defeat in the religious war made the French leaders realize that France must now establish its own colonies overseas.

So France targeted the fat Spaniards on the American continent.

The French, who always considered themselves the leader of the European continent, attempted to colonize Brazil in the early days, and invaded Rio de Janeiro and St. Louis in 1555 and 1612. However, due to the vigilance and prevention of Portugal and Spain against France, French aggression in both places and Florida in North America failed.

In desperation, French people remembered that they had built the New France in Quebec a long time ago.

So on July 27, 1605, when France established the Royal harbor in Nova Scotia, it opened the prelude of the first colonial empire of France. A few years later, the French explorer Sam de Champlain established Quebec City near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, which became a colony dominated by fur trade.

The establishment of Quebec made it the center of France and North America.

However, Quebec is in high latitude after all. For six months in a year, it is in cold winter, and there is no way to grow food in winter. Therefore, although Quebec City has been successfully established, it has always been in a situation where grandma does not care for his uncle, whether it is Louis 13 or his son, Louis XIV, in the first 20 years after he ascended the throne, Both kings were indifferent to New France and Quebec City.

It was not until 1663 that Louis XIV, the sun king, announced the establishment of New France as a province directly under the king's jurisdiction, and then sent troops to quell the hostile Indian forces and take control of the grain producing areas in the St. Lawrence River Basin.

However, Quebec City was forgotten by the French king for a long time, but the people here were not willing to sink. Among them, many explorers drove their boats upstream along the St. Lawrence River to reach the Great Lakes region, and began to explore all the way to the central and southern parts of the new world along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River.

That's how Louisiana was built by the French.

In 1682, French explorers LaSalle and carvelle went down from the upper reaches of the Mississippi River to the lower reaches of the Mississippi River Plain. They immediately declared a large area including Louisiana as French territory. Under the support of Louis XIV, the sun king, the fortress was gradually built and kept armed.

It was during this period that Fort okron was built.

At that time, after LaSalle led the expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River, he did not build a city here, but only declared that this large area belonged to France, and then returned to Quebec City with the expedition.

However, in 1718, another French explorer, Jane Baptiste Bienville, led a fleet to reach the mouth of the Mississippi River again. With the cooperation of a local Indian tribe named chickmont, a colonial city was built on the only highland at the mouth of the river.

To please the Duke of Orleans, the Regent of Louis XV, Bienville named the City New Orleans.

Because the city is close to the Gulf of Mexico in the South and the Mississippi River in the north, the waterway transportation is very convenient, so the city soon became the capital of the whole French Louisiana.

However, the composition of the first group of residents after the opening of the city was quite unbearable. Almost all of them were indentured slaves, hunters, gold miners and cleaners, while all the women were skilled women.

Although a large number of nuns poured into the city later, the wild and uninhibited character that New Orleans had established from the beginning had taken root in this land. Coupled with the extravagance of the French court from top to bottom, New Orleans became the most extravagant and corrupt North American colony of the French upstarts. The "great joy" was singing every night, eroding every day and turning a deaf ear to foreign affairs, I don't even know my own destiny.

At this time, the British expansion in North America and Europe was very fierce, and the French broke out a seven-year war with the British.

However, the decadent French were not rivals of the rising British. At the end of the seven-year war, the French had a premonition that the war might fail, so in order to curb the expansion of the British in North America, the French secretly fell in with the Spanish.

On November 3, 1762, the French gave New Orleans to Spain as a political gift in a paper called the Fontainebleau treaty. Unfortunately, the happy New Orleans were still in the dark.

However, the Spaniards also saw the weakness of the French. Although they were envious of the prosperous New Orleans, they did not take over the city at the first time. It was not until the French were completely defeated in the seven-year war that the Spanish governor arrived late.

The first Spanish governor arrived in New Orleans three years after the signing of the Fontainebleau pact.

In other words, the city of New Orleans had no parents for three years.

In addition, half of the French Louisiana in New Orleans was sold to the Americans by Napoleon in 1803 at an average price of $7 per square kilometer. After that, the city suffered two more fires. In those two fires, all the buildings built by the French were destroyed

It has to be said that this city is full of tragic color from the very beginning