Discovering Empires Finding War by CJ Fielding

Author:CJ Fielding [Fielding, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25 January 94 AD Texas-Congress

The days leading up to congress were very annoying for John and Onawa. Over the previous year, he and his wife went down the Red River. She showed the ladies how to make cloth armor while John and his entrepreneurs sold their stone-cutting devices. It took half of the year, so they did not make it to the other nine rivers that made up the Trade Alliance. In the days leading up to the congress, all the chiefs began nagging John and Onawa about coming to their villages as soon as they reached Texas.

Because of the annoying chiefs coming by his home at all times of day, every day leading to the congress, John had to keep reminding himself that congress was better than the alternative. Without congress, where they could discuss issues, problems, and trade opportunities, they would likely be going to war with each other. That was much worse than having to put up with irritating people a couple of weeks a year. John imagined things would be different if he was an extrovert, but he wasn’t, so he grit his teeth and tried to smooth things over with the impatient chiefs.

The day of congress came, and the chiefs, one by one, went to the field where they always met, and to their surprise, they found a stone amphitheater. Atsadi, chief of Salt Village, went to find John after seeing the stone amphitheater.

John saw him coming and asked, “Can this wait?” John could read the expression on Atsadi’s face. Of course, it couldn’t wait. None of the chiefs were used to waiting for anything. It's one of the reasons why congress was so important. It was good to put the chiefs in a place where they were constantly told no.

Atsadi ignored John and asked, “What did you do to the congress meeting area?”

“Oh, that? While Onawa and I were going around the Trade Alliance I had some of the young men build the amphitheater while we were away. Most of the stone for it comes from Texas, Tomato Vine Village, and the villages along the Red River, but I paid merchants to bring at least one rock from each of the villages in the Trade Alliance. It's meant as a nicer-looking place for us to meet at congress.” What John didn’t say was that it was also meant as an example of what could be done with stone.

“It’s very beautiful. A couple of years ago, you said I should build my salt ponds out of rock, and I turned you down, but if it's going to look that nice, I will have to reconsider.”

“You know my entrepreneurs would love to sell you stone-cutting equipment, and even if you don’t want that, Texas or Tomato Vine Village cuts enough rock that you should easily be able to trade for it.”

“Let me talk to you after congress.”

John wasn’t about to let this opportunity slip, so he said, “Why don’t we walk to congress together and talk about this there?”

And so the two men walked to congress.

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