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    "When you take the heart out of the bush, when you take the language and culture out of the people, where will the birds sing? How can people continue to exist? You ask me, what is the most important thing in the world? My answer must be  Yes, that¡¯s people, that¡¯s people, that¡¯s people.¡±

    The song echoed in the camp of the native rebels, looking sad and solemn. This is a traditional song of the Maori people. The profound meaning contained in this song expresses the Maori people's love for life and life.

    If Du Rui were here, he would definitely shed tears and look at the rebellion of the natives from a different perspective. Maybe Du Rui would stand on their side and even praise their feats as a just act of resisting colonialism and fighting for national independence.

    Du Rui once lamented the unfair treatment suffered by the Australian aborigines during the Age of Discovery. He also scolded the inhumanity of the white people and applauded the unyielding spirit of resistance of the aborigines. Moreover, their tragic situation made him deeply moved.  To deplore.

    Australia, this isolated paradise, this peaceful land that has not been disturbed by people for thousands of years, before the arrival of white colonists, Australia's original inhabitants lived here peacefully and peacefully.

    In the original history, when Australia became a British colony in 1788, everything changed. The tranquility was gone, the peace was destroyed, and a large number of white immigrants came.

    ?????????In the beginning, the Australian mainland was a prison penal colony, and the immigrants who came were mainly prisoners. Therefore, what black Australians came into contact with were prisoner immigrants. The relationship between black people and white people was mainly the relationship between black tribe members and prisoners.

    Later, with the increase of free white immigrants, the relationship between blacks and whites gradually evolved into the relationship between the black race and the white race, that is, race relations.  This relationship worsened with the increase in the number of white people, social and economic development, and the expansion of colonial areas. The consequences resulted in large-scale massacres of black people by white people.

    The first governor, Colonel Philip, initially paid great attention to maintaining harmonious relations between whites and blacks, but later he found that maintaining friendly relations was extremely difficult.  Prisoners often stole from the indigenous people, often molested and insulted their wives and daughters, and the black people who were violated often retaliated.  Therefore, the governor had doubts about whether he could maintain harmonious relations with blacks in the future.  In addition, the colonists adopted discriminatory assimilation policies towards black people. These policies seriously damaged their national customs and habits, which would inevitably cause great resentment among black people.  Over time, this antipathy evolved into the psychology and emotion of hatred of white people.  For example

    In 1796, a black girl worked as a maid in a white family. This was originally a very common thing, but in the eyes of black people, she was a treason because she worked in the enemy's house.

    Several black men lured the black maid into the forest, killed her and then cut her body into pieces.  Racial hatred led to mutual fighting.  Since the whites have the advantage of advanced weapons, while the blacks are almost unarmed, every fight always ends with the blacks losing the most and sacrificing the most.

    In 1799, five white men in New South Wales brutally murdered three black youths, and the New South Wales court had to convict the white murderers.  Because the case was so shocking, Governor Hunt reported it to the British Colonial Office.  However, the Colonial Office ordered the release of these five murderers from the standpoint of colonialism and racism.  This means that black people are not protected by law in the eyes of the Colonial Ministry. Since then, incidents of killing black people have occurred frequently.

    A black tribal chief named Dalepi said something very representative to a white immigrant named Tom Pitre. He said: "Before the white people arrived, although we had no clothes to wear, we did not feel  Shame, everyone lived free and happy, there was plenty to eat, and hunting for food was fun. Then the white people came among us, and they drove us away from our land, shot our people to death with rifles, and imprisoned us  They took away our wives, daughters and sisters. If we killed the white people, could you not condemn us? The white people also did one thing, which was to teach us to drink, smoke, curse and steal.¡±

    The tribal chief talked about three issues here: first, when the white people arrived, they seized the territory of the black tribe; second, they robbed and killed a large number of black people; third, they brought the bad customs of capitalist society into  black society.

    All these will inevitably lead to the decline of black society.  Black people faced brutal massacres and social dangers, and were bound to mount strong resistance.

    Racial conflicts were deepened and intensified by the above factors. In the 1820s and 1830s, new atrocities occurred in which white colonists massacred black people on a large scale.

    In 1826, the colonial authorities promulgated a heinous decree that offered a reward of 5 pounds for every black person captured, so a large number of black people were massacred.

    Australian blacks are in the primitive social stage and do not have private ownership or the concept of private ownership based on private ownership. For them, everything on the mainland is public and can be taken and taken at will.Ranchers' livestock was also legal, so blacks often hunted whites' cattle and sheep.  In order to protect their cattle and sheep, ranchers organized armed attacks on black people.  The armed men who carried out the encirclement and suppression campaigns often went deep into the jungle to hunt down and kill people.

    In order to kill black people more effectively, the colonial authorities established the "Aboriginal Police" in Victoria in 1837, which was established by means of bribery, solicitation and deception.  The authorities instigated them to massacre their own compatriots in tribes that opposed them, and the indigenous police existed until 1853.

    The brutality of the colonists is also reflected in the killing of black people in the following ways: First, hunting "country bumpkins" on weekends.  Second, in order to seize fertile land, the indigenous residents were "dispersed" and hunted down everywhere.  Third, in areas inhabited by black people, poisons such as arsenic are put in food and drinking water to induce people to eat them, causing them to be poisoned and die.  Fourth, seducing or raping black women and then killing them.

    The most famous event in the long process of killing black Australians is the "Fraserham Massacre".  In the autumn of 1857, two white colonists raped two black girls in a village called Kungali near Fraserham, Queensland. At that time, the men in the village went out hunting.

    In order to take revenge, a group of black people rushed to Fraserham that night and killed a rapist and several white colonists.  Using the pretext of "revenge", the white people gathered a large number of white armed thugs in Fraserham. These thugs rushed to Kungali and began a massacre, killing not only the people in Kungali village, but also all the people in nearby villages.  Killed nearly 2,000 people in total.

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The remaining blacks were forced to move inland under the threat of death, most of them to inland desert areas.

    The fate of Tasmanian blacks was even more tragic. Due to massacres, 40 people were left in 1847, and only 11 were left in 1860.  In 1869 there were only two men and women left, and the last Tasmanian man died that year, leaving only the last woman.  Later, the woman named Trucanini died in 1876.  Thus, by 1876, all Tasmanians had been wiped out in seventy-three years.

    Even the early Aboriginal residents who survived in the Australian continental colonies were mostly reduced to odd jobs doing various menial jobs, and their social status was almost equivalent to that of prisoners.  Another disastrous consequence that white people brought to black Australians was that they brought a series of diseases such as smallpox, scarlet fever, dysentery, typhoid, and viruses that were common in white society to the Australian mainland.  These diseases are undoubtedly a catastrophe for the indigenous people who have no medical prevention and treatment capabilities. Many black people suffered from these diseases and died.

    The misfortune of the Australian aborigines lies in their backwardness. When the British Captain Cook arrived on the east coast of Australia in 1770, the aborigines did not know what clothes were.  They were in the Stone Age and had no agriculture or animal husbandry. They only hunted and gathered with sticks and stones.  They have more than 500 tribes, and each tribe is divided into many groups, with twenty or thirty people in each group, each moving and foraging in their own territory, which they call "home."

    There is no country, no leaders, no laws, no army, nothing that can be called an "organization".  In each small group, the elderly have considerable authority because they have rich experience.  Often a few old people come together to decide the day's actions.

    In 1788, European immigrants began to occupy Australia, gradually advancing from the coast to the inland.  At that time, British capitalism was further deepening, the crime rate was extremely high, and North America, which was originally a penal colony for criminals, had collapsed, giving birth to a country that later became a superpower.  As a result, batches of British criminals were sent to Australia.  The British found Australia suitable for raising sheep, and the British textile industry was in great need of raw materials.  Australian Aboriginal homes have been turned into pastures.  Tens of thousands of years of peace were broken, and the balance of billions of generations was lost.

    The natives tried their best to resist, but they could not compete with the rifles of "civilized people".  When the contradiction between the colonists and the natives became increasingly acute, the British government ordered that it was necessary to use violence against violence.

    In fact, this is a massacre order.  The massacre began, and the unarmed natives were treated as "vermin".  Until the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some ranchers prided themselves on shooting any native they saw.

    Under the combined attacks of white men¡¯s expulsion, massacre, and disease, the indigenous population dropped sharply, reaching its lowest point in 1911, at less than 20,000.  Some anthropologists have declared the indigenous people to be a race headed for extinction.  The massacre of natives was a "civilian behavior" carried out by farmers and ranchers and other white people, and was not a decision made by the government.

    After the arrival of the colonists, the Australian natives never found their souls or found a new balance.  This is not surprising. Two hundred years of colonial history is just a snap compared to 70,000 or 100,000 years.

    For the indigenous people, the tens of thousands of years of peace before the 18th century were both a blessing and a blessing.??Unfortunately, the imbalance of more than 200 years is both unfortunate and fortunate.

    The origins of the Australian Aboriginals remain a mystery until later generations.  Where do they come from?  When did you come to the driest continent in the world?  The answers have been lost in the long river of history.

    Du Rui once had great feelings for the aborigines living on the Australian continent. Every nation in the world loves their country, but in Du Rui's view, no nation has such a connection with the land they live in like the Australian aborigines.  Deep spiritual connection.

    People who make a living by gathering and hunting have feelings for the land and environment where they live that are difficult for outsiders to understand.  The land and environment provided them with the food they needed to survive, and they also valued and respected the land and environment.  In their minds, land, mountains, rivers, trees, and all animate and inanimate things are spiritual, alive, and sentient.  The indigenous people have no fixed residence and are constantly wandering around in search of food.

    They walk lazily and never walk much in a day. Sometimes they lie on the ground and remain motionless for a long time.  At first, the self-righteous white people thought they were lazy.

    Later, the white people discovered that they were impatient, sweating a lot and thirsty when traveling in the desert, while the natives were unhurried, like camels, but could go very far.  The natives knew where to find water and where to find food.  Knock the trunk of the tree with a stick and you will know whether there is water inside.  The kapok tree is in bloom, and we know that the fish season has arrived.

    They couldn¡¯t make bows and arrows, but they invented the boomerang.  I squatted in the bushes and imitated the chirping of birds. When the bird came, the boomerang flew out, and the bird landed on the ground.  The natives are "quiet as virgins and as mobile as rabbits", chasing kangaroos as fast as the wind.  Sometimes, in order not to alarm their prey, they can remain motionless for long periods of time in one position.

    The white people finally understood that the indigenous people had learned to adapt and how to best allocate physical energy through tens of thousands of years of experience.  Primitive life is harsh after all, and there are always times when water or food cannot be found.

    The white man will say that he is not familiar with this place.  The indigenous people will say that the land does not understand him yet and is not ready to accept him.  The natives like to be close to the land, eating in the dust, sleeping in the dust, dancing in the dust, and singing in the dust. Especially if it is not enough to express their love for the land, they also smear the soil on their faces and bodies.  .

    The natives believe that everyone¡¯s soul is in his home, either attached to a tree, attached to a stone, or attached to an animal.  He himself is just the "flesh incarnation" of his soul. After death, he has to return to his soul and wait for his "flesh incarnation" again.  Therefore, the indigenous people cannot leave their homes. If they leave, they will be in panic all day long.

    When the white people occupied their homeland, the indigenous people were devastated.  Some natives composed a song called "Poor Man, My Homeland".  When the natives are unhappy, they hum this song, which is very sad.

    Everything that happened in history will never happen again, but the Tang Dynasty replaced the British and played an extremely disgraceful role.

    Du Rui does not want to excuse his crimes. One day in the future, someone will definitely stand up and denounce what he did to the Australian natives as atrocities, and even nail him to the pillar of shame in history.  Whipping.

    Du Rui had already been prepared for all this. In fact, from the moment he decided to march into the ocean, he knew exactly what he was doing.

    History is written by the victors. The descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties in the future will only remember one sentence - During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Duke Du Rui of the Song Dynasty discovered the Australian continent and incorporated it into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

    " Du Rui is not proud of his actions. In fact, he also hates racial vendetta, but he still has to do it. Even if he is given a hundred opportunities to choose, he will still do it.

    Since God sent him to this world, he must complete the mission assigned to him by God.

    Perhaps in the eyes of the Tang people, Du Rui was a great hero because he opened up new territories, made immortal contributions to China, and opened up living space for the people of Yan and Huang.

    But in the eyes of the natives, Du Rui is a devil. The Tang army he led and the Tang immigrants are all devils with unpardonable sins.

    Although Du Rui tried his best to use gentle methods to appease the Australian natives and avoid killings in order to compensate for the sins he had committed against the Australian natives, he even repeatedly told Di Renjie when he left that he should treat the natives with kindness and kindness.  superior.

    Di Renjie did indeed do this. He worked hard to introduce the splendid civilization of China to the native people, and gave them farming, sericulture, weaving, and smelting. However, the native people did not appreciate it very much. Compared with the civilized world of the Tang Dynasty,  , they are more willing to stay in the wilderness and enjoy their own tranquility.

    They would rather be naked than accept the Tang people¡¯sSilk would rather wear hair, drink blood, and live on grass than accept the farming civilization of the Tang Dynasty. It would rather tie ropes to record events and pass them on orally than accept the writing of the Tang Dynasty.

    Even in their eyes, the so-called civilization taught to them by the Tang people was completely poisonous and evil. It was a despicable means to keep them away from the land they were attached to and the nature they were close to.

    "Those outsiders brought only evil. On our own land, we were hunted, shot, poisoned, our daughters, wives, and sisters were robbed. They took away the land we depended on for food.  . Because we were hungry, we took some grain from them or killed one of their calves to satisfy our hunger, and they shot us with guns and poisoned us with poison. They unreasonably usurped everything God gave us, but never gave it to us.  Anything in return!¡±

    At the swearing-in meeting of the indigenous army, Ou Weng, the leader of the rebel army, did not stand up and make an impassioned mobilization. Instead, he asked an old indigenous man to stand on the stage. He did not express his anger, but quietly expressed his resentment and hatred.  Bitter, like a wounded kangaroo, licking the blood all over his body and whining.

    "All the tribes have disappeared, all the spears have been broken. Here, we used to drink dew and eat flowers, but those outsiders scattered a piece of gravel."

    The accusations resonated strongly with every Aboriginal person, whether they were Australian aborigines or Maori soldiers from New Zealand.

    "Kill all the outsiders!"

    ¡°Take back our land!¡±

    ¡°Every outsider deserves to die!¡±

    It is not necessarily true that these natives suffered at the hands of the Tang immigrants. Even if they did, it was the result of evil people like Li Jin.

    They reject Tang immigrants entirely because they are outsiders. The arrival of immigrants has destroyed their once peaceful life, which they absolutely cannot tolerate.

    Speaking of which, the Australian aborigines are really a very peculiar group. Their rejection of foreign cultures is almost natural, and they are not like the many races that have been integrated by the Chinese nation. Their ability to resist assimilation is definitely second to none in the world.  of.

    Historically, white people have ruled the Australian continent for hundreds of years, but the Australian aborigines still have their own system and tenaciously inherit their own culture and customs. No matter how big the temptation from the outside world is, they can successfully resist it.

    It is undeniable that when Feng Yi was in charge of the Australian mainland, Li Jin and those evil men had committed heinous crimes against the natives. However, Di Renjie had tried his best to make up for it later. However, this rift has been formed. This is by no means more than a year.  It can be healed in time.

    Ou Weng looked at the excited natives proudly. He felt that he was about to succeed. A bright future was waiting for him. He would become the king of this land and he would get the beautiful girl of his dreams, Luna.

    Chenla, the leader of the Maori people, looked at the noisy people and was full of excitement. He said to Ou Weng: "Chief Ou Weng! Look at our warriors. They are eager to fight and expel those evil outsiders. Their  Courage defeats all evil enemies.¡±

    Ou Weng smiled at Zhenla and said: "Yes! Chief Zhenla! You are right. Thank you for your generous help. We will always remember your help to us!"

    Zhenla laughed and waved his hand, saying: "No! My friend! You don't need to thank us, and we don't need to thank you. In my opinion, helping you drive away evil outsiders is the mission given to us Maori by God.  People have brought killings, diseases, and all evil things. To protect you is to protect ourselves. Only when outsiders see our determination will they give up their greedy thoughts. Our homeland  Only then can we get eternal peace and tranquility!¡±

    When Ou Weng heard this, he couldn't help but feel moved in his heart and said: "My friend! Let us fight side by side!"

    Zhenla nodded and said: "Okay! My friend! Now say something to our warriors! Let them fight with courage and win!"

    "My compatriots!" Ou Weng finally stood up and roared loudly, "The outsiders have brought endless evil. They killed us like animals. They robbed our land and deprived us of our right to live. Now  , it¡¯s time to take revenge on them, kill all the outsiders, win freedom, and take back everything that belongs to us! We have the courage to defend our homeland, we dare to fight against all evil enemies, and we also have the help of Maori,  Friends from afar will fight side by side with us! We will win the final victory!"

    Ou Weng's roar brought the momentum of the native rebels to its peak. They were not professional warriors, but they did not lack the courage to fight.

    Zhenla is also suitableShi encouraged: "Brave Maori warriors, we came to this land for justice and integrity, to help our friends and fight against evil outsiders! Brave Maori warriors are fearless, because justice will surely defeat evil,  The axiom exists forever!¡±

    If Du Rui were here, he would definitely laugh out loud when he heard Zhenla's innocent words. Justice and justice do not exist at all in this world where the jungle prevails, because power is justice.

    The five-thousand-year history of China is a history of the victory of power over justice.  Five thousand years ago, it was Qi, the son of Dayu, who broke the axiom of the sage being king and took the throne passed down to his father by Shun as his own. From then on, the world belonged to his family.  During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Confucius was busy lobbying the princes and promoting loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.  The strong men showed off their power one by one and were busy claiming kingship and hegemony.  Finally, a "justice" that should be loyal to the Zhou Dynasty was turned into an axiom that Qin Shihuang wanted to pass on the world he had snatched to his descendants for thousands of generations.

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    No!

    This is just a change of dynasties. The essence of Chinese dynasties is exactly the same.

    The peasant uprising is a fire that burns everything, a war in which the oppressed turn a minority into oppressors at the cost of the lives of the vast majority of the people.  If you don¡¯t believe it, just take a look at the record of China¡¯s population changes and the suffering of the people in Du Fu¡¯s poems.  In history, people are always ravaged by strong men who hold open fire, and then ignored by historians, big and small.  In the end, people only saw heroes and could not see the ordinary people behind the strong men of history, so that people also forgot themselves.

    People always say that everyone should be kind, and the world should also pay attention to kindness. However, the more harsh fact before people is that honest people suffer, honest countries suffer, and the so-called justice either does not exist or is forced by hegemony.  Raped.

    The Americans of later generations are very frank, and almost openly declare to the world two "whatevers": support anything that is good for the United States; oppose anything that is not good for the Americans.

    The United States is the country that emits the most carbon dioxide in the world. The Kyoto Protocol protects the world's environment and is in line with the "axiomatic" norms that are beneficial to the whole world. The United States says that it is "good for the world but not good for the United States", so it firmly refuses to sign. Of course  This is the United States that refuses to assume obligations and is forthright and simple.

    ¡°As long as power continues to prevail in this world, the so-called axioms will be compromised. This is a truth that applies to everyone.  In a state where power politics is rampant, those who resent the discounting of "justice" are mostly mentally retarded.

    When justice marries strength, justice changes.  Historically, when Napoleon passed by the Alps, he pointed with his riding crop and said: "I am higher than the Alps!"

    In fact, Napoleon was only a little over 1.60 meters tall. Since there were millions of troops behind him, his words were not called crazy.  If he were another person, he would have to be sent to a lunatic asylum.

    "Might makes justice", this is a very popular saying in China in later generations.  Especially China¡¯s little indignation believes this sentence to be the truth.  Might is right. Who said this sentence in the first place and for what purpose? Plato's dialogues concluded: "Might is right, and justice is the interest of the stronger."

    "Might makes right."

    This sentence was particularly popular in later generations of China. Almost everyone knows that it is related to the long-term propaganda of some imperial literati. It can be said that it is also part of the wolf milk culture.

    This sentence is most commonly used in international relations, especially in matters related to the United States, the world policeman of later generations.  Because the United States is undoubtedly the largest and most powerful country in the world today.

    This is a natural hurt and knot in the nerves of China¡¯s little angry people.  Imperial literati have long promoted that the United States is the representative of power politics in the world and the embodiment of hegemonism, which has deeply influenced the thinking of many small and angry Chinese.

    "However, the actual effect of such propaganda is - you see, as the leader, the United States does this everywhere, and we must do the same, and we should strengthen ourselves to avoid being bullied by the Americans.  When China becomes stronger, Americans will no longer dare to bully us.  Its real intention and effect is to advocate that might is right. Although it dare not say it explicitly, it clearly implies this.

    ¡°Look at this world, is there any justice or justice to speak of?

    Later NATO bypassed the United Nations and bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days in the name of humanitarianism, causing 6,000 civilian casualties, destroying more than 50 bridges, and destroying all roads, railways, airports, and power stations. The losses amounted to US$200 billion.  Millions of people were displaced.

    But after the war, the "just" party was openly NATO, led by the United States. However, Yugoslavia President Mishelovic was sent to the International Court of Justice and did not even enjoy the bailout rights that a "human rights country" should have.?, died of illness in the humanitarian court of The Hague.

    Later, the United States wielded power disguised as justice and used the pretext of eradicating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to once again bypass the United Nations and launch the Iraq war to overthrow Saddam's regime by force. According to a report from a research institution in Massachusetts, the United States,  The war killed 13,000 people, 4,000 of them civilians, a ratio of 1 to 100 American soldiers killed to Iraqis.  The "just" side of the war is naturally the United States. Saddam, who was falsely accused of possessing "weapons of mass destruction", was imprisoned in prison and felt like he was in trouble.

    "Might is justice, and bombs are justice!"

    Just like in history, the British massacred the Australian aborigines, and the entire Westerners organized a group to massacre the Indians. There is no justice at all.

    There are many shameful records in history on the Indian issue.  The Americans' behavior of killing, plundering, and ravaging Indians in order to gain land, wealth, and resources is despised by all people with conscience, so that all the glory and achievements of the Americans cannot cover up the shame left by history.

    Some scholars believe that as early as more than 10,000 years ago, the ancestors of Indians set foot on the North American continent from the Bering Strait.  Although the Indians' life is primitive, as a nation, they are independent.  Indians are the masters of the American continent.  After thousands of years of labor and struggle, the Indians created a unique and charming civilization.

    Since Columbus discovered the New World, the Spanish, Portuguese, French and British invaded America.  At first, the Indians did not reject these foreign Europeans. The Indians did not understand or know that these people would endanger their own survival.  With their kindness, perseverance and hard work, they contributed to the development of the United States that was later born.

    "However, the Americans repaid the Indians with kindness and hatred.  Whether it was centuries before the founding of the United States or more than a hundred years after the founding of the United States, the Western occupiers never stopped bullying the weak Indian peoples, using cruel and shameless means such as war, immigration, deception, and massacre, using genocide,  The methods of apartheid and forced assimilation, as well as the shameless plundering of land and resources that originally belonged to the Indians, laid the bloody foundation for the development of the United States.

    The bullying of the Indians by the Americans is intolerable.  The Indians were originally the masters of the American continent, but before the 1920s, the United States did not grant citizenship rights to the Indians.  The U.S. Congress has enacted a new bill that stipulates that foreigners only need to live in the United States for 5 years to become naturalized. However, the citizenship rights that native Indians should have are still not recognized.  Later, the U.S. Congress passed the famous "Dawes Act", the core of which is to dissolve the Indian tribe as a legal entity and distribute the tribal land to individual members. The federal government retains the trusteeship for 25 years. When the trusteeship expires, the land will be handed over to the individual members.  to individuals and confer U.S. citizenship.  This bill seemed to create conditions for Indians to become American citizens. In fact, most of the land obtained by Indians was snatched away by white people in a short period of time using various despicable means. It was almost impossible to obtain citizenship based on land.

    The U.S. Constitution and laws have kept Indians in the status of aliens for a long time. Do they have even a little bit of human rights?  Indians do not have the right to vote and stand for election, which Americans believe best embodies democracy; Indians do not have the civil rights promoted and protected by the constitution and laws; the so-called freedom, equality, and fraternity mean to Indians that they are restricted, oppressed, and oppressed.  discriminate.  This system lasted for more than 200 years. It was not until 1924 that the U.S. Congress issued a decree recognizing all indigenous Indians born in the United States as U.S. citizens.

    The founding leaders of the United States never thought of living in harmony with the Indians. Therefore, there is no concept of autonomous areas in the U.S. Constitution.  The first president envisioned building a wall to separate whites and Indians.  The second president considered exchanging a purchased piece of land for the land of the eastern Indians and driving the Indians westward.  In his first State of the Union address after taking office, the third president blatantly denied that Indians had land rights to their residential areas, and then prompted Congress to pass the first Indian Removal Act in U.S. history, paving the way for the large-scale expulsion of Indians.  Provides legal basis.  The fourth president also proposed a plan to Congress, believing that the U.S. government would only have to pay no more than $30,000 to relocate nearly 100,000 Indians to the west.

    It is the consistent intention of the American rulers to drive out the Indians from rich and fertile places and occupy the lands that were originally owned by the Indians.  They legalized their shameful behavior through legislation and contracts. If they encountered resistance from the Indians during their actions, they used the army to encircle and suppress them.

    In this regard, a Frenchman, Tocqueville, who greatly praised American democracy, said in his classic "On Democracy in America" ??that one only needs to look at the tyrannical measures adopted by the legislative bodies of the southern states.  , looking at the behavior of the rulers of those states and the jurisprudence of the courts, it is not difficult to believe that the complete removal of the Indians has??The ultimate goal that these states want to achieve unanimously.

    The most typical example is the experience of the Cherokee Indian nation.  At the end of the 18th century, the Cherokees, who had lived on the American continent for generations, were forced to give up their hunting lands passed down from generation to generation and moved to the mountains of northwest Georgia. In 1791, they signed a treaty with the U.S. government, guaranteeing their permanent possession of those mountains.

    There, the Cherokees built neat houses, printed books in their own language, and even adopted a constitution.  But this does not guarantee their land rights.  In 1828, gold mines were discovered where they lived, which led to another barbaric invasion by civilized white people.

    The U.S. government shamelessly denied the treaty it had signed and used regular troops and thousands of militiamen to force the Cherokees to relocate again.  Along the way, soldiers and militiamen continued to inflict violence. Countless Cherokees died of hunger, cold, disease, and abuse. It was called the Trail of Tears by Indians and historians.

    For this ugly history, the American writer Emerson had this condemnation: Since the creation of the earth, it has never been heard of a nation being so treacherous in peacetime and in its treatment of its allies and wards.  This fell on deaf ears.

    The Americans massacred the indigenous people with incomparable cruelty. They suddenly shot and killed Indians, young and old, women and children while they were luring them across the river, and cut off the heads of the dead Indians to make ornaments and give them away. After the founding president, Washington's army, slaughtered the Indians, they took off their skins.  Make boots and lift them up from the hips, as you can make boots that are side-to-side and long.  Do Indians have any human rights when the bodies of killed Indians are trampled like this?

    Where are the so-called axioms?

    The American massacre and oppression almost wiped out the Indian nation.  During the Revolution of the United States, except for the eastern coastal areas that were occupied by colonists, other large tracts of land were where Indians multiplied and lived.

    Hundreds of years of expulsion, massacre, dismemberment, discrimination, and assimilation have caused the Indians to completely lose the opportunity for the entire nation to concentrate and live stably in one area. Their traditions have been fragmented, their culture has been dissolved, and their economy has been stagnant for a long time.  , unable to participate in American social and political life.

    So much so that 70% of the Indians no longer speak their own language. The customs and traditions of the Indian nation have been turned into museums and tourist attractions.

    "Compared with later generations of Americans, what Datang did can be called kind, although it is still the old routine of might defeating justice.

    But now, whether it is Ou Weng or Zhenla, they are all fanatical about using the justice they insist on to challenge the power of the Tang Dynasty. What is the result?

    Perhaps only the gods they believe in can answer them!

    "Let's go! March to the north!"
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