What happens next is much simpler.

At this time, there were a large number of trees not far from the confluence of the Oregon River and the Snake River. Chen Qixin immediately sent people to take these natives out to cut down the trees.

In ten days, a wooden house that could accommodate two hundred people and two large warehouses was built. Once this wooden house appeared, the longhouse in Kennewick was no longer enough.

After the wooden house was built, Chen Qixin sent out all the shopkeepers. Although it was most convenient for the natives to spread the news, Chen Qixin made this decision when he thought of Nikan's true intention. What's more, even if he was simply doing business here

, you also need to understand the local customs and customs around you.

Antonio had stayed here for three years. Not only did he fail to develop a single believer in those miserable three years, he was almost killed by the natives. However, now that he has made a comeback, with the Great Xia Empire standing behind him, the situation is completely different.

His first target was the Kennewick tribe, and his hard work paid off. After he luckily cured an elderly, childless, and lonely old woman from the Kennewick tribe, he finally reaped the rewards.

Became the first believer since setting foot in the Oregon River Basin.

When arranging various groups of people to explore around, Chen Qixin also made arrangements for the team based on the introductions of Antonio and the people from Kennewick.

The Wang family and the Liang family went to the west bank of the upper reaches of the Oregon River to find a tribe called Colville, the Tian family and the Zhai family went to the east bank of the upper reaches to find a tribe called Spokane, and the Huang family went to the Yakima River near Kennewick.

After meeting with the Yakima tribe for a while, I, on behalf of the Sun family, went east along the Snake River to meet with the powerful Nez Pere and Shoshone people.

Chen Qixin has twenty veterans around him, plus the shopkeepers and clerks of the Sun family, there are more than thirty people in total, as well as ten "trustworthy" native soldiers headed by Texas sent by Sun Demao, and

There were fifty natives responsible for carrying things, nearly a hundred people in total. Chen Qixin thought about it and left ten veterans and ten natives to garrison here, while the rest all advanced upstream along the Snake River.

The ten veterans brought by Chen Qixin were all veterans of Han origin in Shanxi, and they were all from the Daizhou area of ​​Shanxi. Although Sun Chuanlang was the king of Yanxi County, in terms of employment, he still "appointed people from the countryside and appointed people close to him"

Due to old habits, these people don't know that Chen Qixin is now Nikan's brother-in-law, but they also know that this man was personally sent to the caravan by His Majesty the Emperor, so they respect him very much.

What's more, Chen Qixin was born in martial arts, so he can't help but speak well and have a high martial arts value, which also adds a lot of points in front of the veterans.

Poor Antonio's confidence increased greatly after recruiting his first native believer, but after many days there was no new gain. While he was hesitating, he heard that Chen Qixin was going to the Nezper tribe in the east, so he shouted to follow him.

Chen Qixin also agreed - this person may be more familiar with this place than the natives.

Antonio has been here to preach for more than six years. Originally he only brought a set of clothes, which were already worn out. But now he is wearing a set of gray robes common in the Daxia Empire, plus a big hat often worn by the Han navy.

At first sight, it makes people laugh a little.

Without further ado, the group of people walked east along the north bank of the Snake River. At this time, both sides of the Snake River were still a savanna paradise, with dogs, rattlesnakes, pronghorns, coyotes, gray wolves, bobcats, brown bears, golden

Both the white eagle and the white eagle have appeared.

Three days later, another small waterfall appeared.

In this season, there must be a large number of fishing animals in this waterfall!

Sure enough, unlike the scene with brown bears and gray wolves on one side and humans on the other, no human appeared there. There were about thirty brown bears all standing beside the waterfall or in the shallow water on the river bank.

In the distance are gray wolves and coyotes.

Golden eagles, white eagles, and buzzards circle in the sky, always ready to enjoy the leftovers of brown bears and gray wolves.

So many ferocious beasts gathered in a river, and the people in the caravan couldn't help but tremble. At this time, the only ones who could still remain calm were Chen Qixin and the ten Susilo soldiers, including Texas.

Ten Chinooks carrying things on their backs.

At this time, not far in front of them, lying in the grass beside the river, was a huge brown bear. It should be an adult male bear. It probably weighed more than a thousand kilograms.

Fortunately they were not riding horses, otherwise the horses would have been frightened and fled in all directions when they saw so many "ferocious beasts".

"ah?!"

There were no horses neighing, but human screams could be heard from under a big tree near the river.

Chen Qixin frowned and followed the sound. It turned out that there was a big gray-yellow snake coiled in the tree. If a big snake like this was hidden in the grass, you would probably not find it if you were not careful.

This exclamation quickly attracted the attention of animals large and small who were happily fishing.

For a moment, everyone present held their breath.

The tallest and strongest brown bear was the first to react. It seemed a little annoyed that someone with blind eyes had disturbed its "leisure" moment when it was napping. He suddenly stood up and walked towards the group, shouting as he walked.

A low roar.

Behind it were several slightly smaller male bears, but most of the female bears with cubs and gray wolves remained silent for the time being.

"Howling..."

The big male bear stood up and kept roaring. At this time, everyone in the group who had weapons on them took out their weapons.

Chen Qixin also took down the one-stone Kaiyuan Bow that he had prepared behind him.

It was specially given to him by the examiner when he participated in the Fengyang Prefecture martial arts examination when he was twenty years old. It was a typical Kaiyuan bow made by Ming Dynasty officers. The bow body was dark red and the string was pitch black.

The two ends of the big bow are carved with dragon heads with wide mouths.

Such a bow would take two years to make carefully.

He also attached a heavy arrow. The arrow shaft was made of oak wood, the arrow feathers were rare eagle feathers, and the arrowhead was in the shape of a typical heavy-duty armor-piercing cone.

"call out……"

The heavy arrow carried Qing Xiao straight towards the big bear, and one arrow hit its open mouth. "Whoosh!" Before it could feel the pain, Chen Qixin's other two arrows shot out like lightning.

One arrow hit the big mouth again, and the other arrow hit its throat.

"Ouch..."

The big bear let out an earth-shattering scream, and then fell to the ground with a "plop", its huge body stirred up a large amount of dust when it fell!

Several male bears behind him turned around and ran away when they saw it. It seemed that only then did they remember that these people in front of them were their real natural enemies. The big and small bears and wolves who were still fishing in the river were so frightened that they ran towards the south bank of the river.

"Boom!"

At this time, Chen Qixin pulled out the ancestral Yanling knife beside his waist. It was an Qiushui Yanling knife about four feet long. The blade was bright and shiny, the blade was slightly curved, and the handle was also made of fine iron together with the blade.

, covered with hardwood slices carved with black moiré patterns.

After a flash of cold light, the rattlesnake about ten feet long fell from the tree. When it fell to the ground, its head was gone, and its long body was still twisting.

…

In the evening, everyone lit a blazing bonfire by the river, and barbecued bear meat, snake meat, and fish meat on the bonfire. The Susilo people, including the Susilo people, couldn't help but look at Chen Qixin with a little more awe.

Chen Qixin himself was calm and composed.

I remember that when he was roaming the grasslands, Gobi and deserts outside the Great Wall with one man, one horse, one bow and one sword, he had seen dozens of wolves, a large group of horse thieves and some malicious herdsmen.

They had to flee for their lives under three arrows. Although there were many ferocious beasts this time, they had more people, and twenty of them were armed with muskets. It was the beasts that were afraid of them, not them.

At night, it was not that there were no wild animals that came to harass them, most of them were wolves that had just arrived here. In the night, "lanterns" of various sizes were patrolling around, making everyone fearful again.

However, after Chen Qixin fired a few arrows, almost all the "lanterns" disappeared, except for "one".

Chen Qixin was also a little strange. After a while, he said to everyone: "That's a wolf with an injured right hind leg."

After saying that, he picked up a piece of bear meat with a knife and went over.

Strangely, the gray wolf seemed to have no intention of leaving after eating the piece of bear meat.

"This is a wolf that made a mistake and was expelled from the pack," Chen Qixin said confidently.

In the next few days, the wolf followed the group without hesitation. When Chen Qixin saw this, he accepted it and healed its right hind leg. Now the wolf was even more reluctant to leave. Chen Qixin

Let's just name it "Oregon", which happens to be the name of the big river in front of it.

Along the way, with the figure of the big mountain (Rocky Mountains) to the east becoming faintly discernible, Chen Qixin asked Antonio about the Nez Per people.

"Oh, that's a powerful tribe"

In the past few years, Antonio quickly showed his amazing language talent in the Oregon Castle. He sorted out several native languages ​​using Latin letters in the church, and also learned Liaodong Chinese from Li Chenggong.

Not only that, he also borrowed a few books from Sun Demao, and not only learned to speak, but also learned to write Chinese characters. This shocked Sun Demao, who had been in school since he was ten years old and had only achieved a little success after graduating from school.

"It is not accurate to say it is a tribe. There is a big mountain in the east, running north to south. I heard it is thousands of miles long, and hundreds of miles east to west. There are dozens of rivers on both sides of the mountain, and local people live near each river.

, they speak roughly the same language, and they all call themselves Nez Pere, which means people."

"Each river is a tribe. Unlike the Chinooks who live in longhouses and mainly hunt fish and supplement by hunting cattle, the Nez Pere mainly hunt cattle and bears.

tribes, more than 30 rivers, and each small tribe has at least more than 100 households, which is more than 3,000 households."

"They occupy the largest part of the prairie and migrate according to the migration of the bison herds, but they cannot escape from the prairie."

"In the upper reaches of the Snake River, there are still their tribesmen in the mountains. In total, there are probably five to six thousand households, more than 20,000 people."

"Do you know their leader?"

"Haha, I don't count as knowing each other, and that person doesn't count as their leader. They only have the leaders of small tribes. They will only unite under the call of the great witch doctor when there is an invasion by foreign enemies. I am lucky enough to know that witch doctor. I know him.

She was over seventy years old when she was born, and I don’t know if she is still alive now.”

"On both sides of the Snake River near the mountains is the settlement of their largest tribe. There are about five hundred households. It is a very powerful cattle hunting tribe. There is a hunting ground not far ahead. If you are lucky, maybe

Maybe you can see them hunting cattle."
Chapter completed!