Chapter 580 Thanksgiving for the Ungrateful

"Haakon, you don't need to hide it, just tell the truth." Slude ignored his brother's hint, stared at Joan, and said coldly: "The threats Haakon mentioned just now do exist, but Compared to cultists, snow monsters, and frost giants, you colonists are the biggest threat to our race!"

"One ship after another, you flocked from the old world to the new continent. On the first day you landed, you cast your greedy eyes on this land that did not belong to you. You are like a swarm of locusts, never satisfied, and keep rushing from the east coast to the prey. The Tooth Mountains are expanding, using violence and deceit to drive us Asa people out of the wilderness where they have lived for generations, fence and wall, and turn public land into private plantations!"

"sorry……"

Apart from these words, Qiao An really didn't know what to say.

"There is no need for a hypocritical apology!" Slude became more and more excited as he spoke, "It is you colonists who taught us what is hypocrisy, what is to say good things and do bad things! Even if I say 'I'm sorry' a hundred thousand times, I will not I believe you still have a little 'conscience'!"

Slude snatched the empty barrel from Joan, and jumped out of the caravan without saying a word.

"Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!"

Joan heard the sarcasm in Slude's words, but didn't understand what she meant by the last sentence, so she cast a questioning look at Haakon.

"Brother Joan, don't be angry. In fact, what Slude hates is not you, but the colonists of Midgard. She is in a bad mood today, mainly because today is a special day... Alas, you southerners But 'Thanksgiving', I'm afraid it's hard to understand what that means to us Asa people of the Volsunga Tribe."

"What does 'Thanksgiving' mean?" Joan asked curiously.

"You see, today is November 28. According to the prevailing custom in the northern colonies, every year on the fourth Thursday of November, the colonists will always hold a grand celebration ceremony, and every family will make delicious food with turkey, pumpkin and corn. dishes, and neighbors give each other gifts.”

Haakon replied with his head down, his face was a bit strange.

"Thanksgiving, does it mean giving thanks for the harvest and celebrating the New Year?" Joan asked.

"Hehe... There is indeed such a saying nowadays, but more than two hundred years ago, when the colonists first held this celebration, it was to thank us Asa people!"

"In the first winter when the colonists landed on the east coast of Wilnoa, they had no houses, no food, and were starving in the howling wind. Go to the food emergency, help them build wooden houses to resist the cold winter and wild beasts, all the colonists can't survive that harsh winter, let alone establish the Midgard colony."

Haakon sighed, and continued: "In the early years when the Midgard colony was established, our aborigines had a friendly relationship with the colonists from the Old World. It was with our help that the colonists were able to gain a firm foothold. Opening up wasteland and farming, hunting and fishing, life is gradually getting better."

"The colonists who first came to the New World were very grateful for the selfless help of our aborigines. Every year after the autumn harvest, the aborigines were always invited to participate in a grand celebration and share delicious food and wine. Later, a fixed custom was gradually formed, which is the so-called 'gratitude' Thanksgiving'... Today's colonists celebrate Thanksgiving every year at the end of autumn, but never mention whose kindness this holiday is for, and treat us former benefactors as enemies, which is really ironic."

"Since the aborigines and the colonists originally got along well and had a deep relationship, why did they turn against each other later?" Qiao An asked in surprise.

"We aborigines and colonists from another continent have great differences in concepts, beliefs and customs, which inevitably lead to conflicts, but compared to these secondary factors, the main conflict is the different attitudes towards the land. Brother Joan, have you heard of the 'Minute purchase incident'?"

Joan nodded slightly. He had seen in an old newspaper what Haakon called the "Minute Purchase Incident", the protagonist of this old story was Sir Peter Minute, the third governor of the Midgard colony. "

"As soon as this person took office, he made one of the most famous real estate transactions in history. He bought the entire Vigled Great Plain from the Asa tribe of the Volsong tribe. The vast fertile fields in square meters, the price paid is only some flashy glass beads and other small commodities that are also cheap, and the total sum is not worth ten Jin Dujia!

In books and newspapers published in the colonies, the deal has been touted as a model of merchant savvy, but the natives see it differently. After listening to Haakon's narration, Joan suddenly realized that the reason why this incredible deal was achieved was not due to Governor Minute's wit or the ignorance of the natives, as the colonial newspapers said, but because of the deal. A serious misunderstanding occurred between the two parties on the word "purchase".

The colonists, represented by Governor Minute, wanted to "purchase" this piece of land, which meant paying money to convert the land into their own private property, so that no one else could touch it.

However, in the concept of the Asa people, the concept of "buying and selling land" does not exist at all. These simple aborigines believe that land is a kind of public property. People can only use the land, but they cannot own the land, so what they sell is only The right to use the land is to allow the colonists to settle on the Vigrid Plain.

It wasn’t until Governor Minute issued an order requiring the Asa people to move out of his territory that the aborigines who had lived on the Great Plains for generations suddenly realized that the so-called “buy” by the colonists meant “exclusive”, not what they always thought. "Share".

Governor Minute and his colonists believe that this land transaction is reasonable and legal. From now on, the Vigrid Plain will belong to the colonists, and the Asa people are not allowed to settle here; the Asa people think they have been cheated He was deceived, refused to admit the ambiguous and fraudulent transaction contract, and refused to leave the home where his ancestors lived for generations.

Since the two sides could not reach an agreement, they could only resort to force in the end.

In this way, the friendly relationship between the aborigines and the colonists quickly broke down, and an inextricable hatred for the land was formed.

The Asa people living in the wilderness are inferior to the colonists from the civilized world, no matter in terms of scheming or weaponry.

Thousands of Asir warriors buried their bones on the battlefield, but they had to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat and were forced to abandon the vast land on the east coast and move to the desolate west to settle. Later, many indigenous settlements including "Shizhu Town" were established in the Fangshan Mountains, and the Northern Asa Tribal Alliance headed by the "Wolsong Family" was formed to jointly fight against the Midgard colonists step by step. press on.

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