Chapter 576

The court of the Iroquois League is located on the South Bank of Lake Ontario, near Rochester.

But now Rochester is just a small military fortress, built by the French, but now it has been taken over by the British.

The scale of Rochester is not big, but there are two famous cities in this city.

One is Rochester Polytechnic University, the second oldest private Polytechnic University in the United States, and the other is the famous Erie Canal.

Rochester Polytechnic University is not familiar with that university. But the Yili canal is a canal that stone bears care about.

Although the Erie Canal was dug by later Americans from buffalo to Albany, Rochester is the most important hub of the canal.

Although the Erie Canal connects the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, Rochester is connected with the Erie Canal through the jenasi River, which runs through its urban area. Finally, ships can go directly from Lake Ontario to buffalo through Rochester, jenasi River and Erie Canal, and enter Lake Erie.

Stone bear has long had plans to build a canal similar to the Erie Canal, but he didn't plan to build it that long. If a canal is to be built along the route of the later Yili canal, it is still a bit reluctant with the current technology of the Cherokee people.

However, the canal from Rochester to buffalo is not only short in distance, but also much less difficult to excavate. Therefore, the plan of stone bear is to excavate the canal from Rochester to Buffalo first. Later, if necessary, another section of canal from Rochester to Albany via Syracuse will be excavated.

This is an important plan for the future development of Shi Xiong, but he doesn't have the energy to focus on this one.

He is now in the Royal tent of the former Iroquois League, that is, the seat of wahak, the chief of the mohak nationality, to meet the visiting British envoys.

The British ambassador here is Sir Henry coker, the deputy commander of the British army in the United States.

The 46 year old middle-aged Englishman, who fought in the seven-year war 20 years ago, returned to Britain after winning the seven-year war. Now that the war of independence broke out, he was sent to the new world of North America last year as deputy commander-in-chief of the British army.

And the stone bear also knows that in the next year, this guy will become the commander in chief of the British army. In 1794, he will be the most important governor of gibraltarian.

Henry Clinton has a very different family. His uncle was the seventh Earl of Lincoln, and his family was also related to the Duke of Newcastle. Yes, this Duke of Newcastle is the Duke of Newcastle of the Cavendish family.

This kind of family background is better than that of Colonel Alvin Osten that stone bear has seen before.

Although both of them are earls, they are different.

In any case, the middle-aged Shuaiguo, who looks pretty handsome at present, can personally lobby the stone bear, which is enough to show that the British attach great importance to the Cherokee people.

At that time, Although Henry Clinton was not a British general and governor of gibraltarian, he was promoted from a brigadier general to a British major general in 1772 four years ago.

In contrast, although Colonel Alvin Osten was more than ten years younger than Henry collinton, there was a brigadier general between them who was very difficult to cross.

In any case, Although Henry Clinton has not replaced Major General William Howe as the commander in chief of the British army in the United States, his position as deputy commander in chief is still outstanding.

Although Shi Xiong knew the information of this guy in his previous life, they exchanged greetings politely for a while after they met.

After introducing each other, Henry collinton said his intention directly.

"Dear chief, son of God, first of all, I would like to congratulate you and your army for taking back the ancestral land of the nobles. This is a very congratulatory thing."

Stone bear is very proud to say: "we have been waiting for this day for more than 300 years, and now we have realized our wish for more than 300 years, which is naturally worthy of celebration."

Henry Clinton said: "but the aristocracy defeated our ally Iroquois, which had a great impact on our military plan. So I want to ask your highness, what are your plans and your stormy bear army going to do in the future? Well, I mean, can you continue to work as intimately with our empire as you did with colonel Jones in Jamestown? "

Stone Bear looked at the serious major general Collington and said with a smile, "general Collington, I think it's best for us Cherokees to be neutral at such a sensitive time. After all, the war between you and the Americans is an internal affair between you. As the aborigines of this continent, if we rashly join in your family affairs, isn't that good? "

"No, dear chief, although the war between us and the Americans is a civil war, as the suzerain, we sincerely invite you and your army to join us. I hope we can work closely again to defeat those damned rebels. In this way, we can continue to trade and cooperate more closely. You and your people can also reap the most sincere friendship of our British Empire. "

"Is there no sincere friendship between us now?" Stone bear made a little joke.

"Oh..." major general Clinton also slightly embarrassed smile, "of course, we now have very sincere friendship."

At this time, the stone bear will not promise anything to the major general, so after laughing for a while, the stone bear said seriously: "general Clinton, I think it's better for our tribe to remain neutral at this time. After all, not only has our trade with your country been very good over the years, but also with those Americans. You let me make a choice at this time, which makes me very difficult. And as you know, we have just accepted several tribes in the five Great Lakes region. At this time, the tribes need stability most. Even if I want to get involved in this war between you and the Americans, I'm afraid my people won't agree. "

Stone bear's words made major general Henry Clinton look disappointed.

But the stone bear's next words made his face turn pale.

"But, my dear general, although our tribe will not be on your side, I will assure you that we will never be on the side of the Americans. And in the next ten years, our tribe will only develop ourselves with ease. We will never do anything to your country or the Americans. Well, another point I hope you can consider is that you have heard that the weapons used by our officers and soldiers of the stormy bear army should be very good. If your country needs some weapons and ammunition, I think we can provide them for you... "