The City of God, close to the Pacific Ocean, is a place covered with hills, woods, rivers, and meadows, with beautiful scenery and a pleasant climate all year round. It's just that there is neither God nor a city, only a small number of Chumash Indians living here for generations, living a primitive life without any dispute with the world.
The name of the City of God was not given by the Chumash people, but by the Spanish colonists who arrived here in 1542 to explore. However, those colonists did not stay in the City of God for a long time. Instead, after exploring for a while, they left in disappointment - they did not come to find God, but to find mountains of gold and silver and a certain legendary place that was everywhere. The treasures of the lost Indian cities came here. It's a pity that they didn't get any information from the local Chumash people about the Lost City of Indian Treasures... They didn't even find any artifacts from the Chumash people that could be linked to civilization.
Obviously, the rumors about mountains of gold, mountains of silver, and lost cities are all baseless rumors. In the first few decades after the Spanish arrived in America, they often explored the Americas because of some strange legends. For example, Florida has a spring of eternal life, South Carolina has a diamond mountain, Texas has the Kingdom of Gran Quivira, Arizona has seven cities full of wealth, and so on.
The exploration of the City of God organized by the Spanish was also based on some rumors.
After these European explorers left, the City of God once again fell into isolation and tranquility. It was not until more than 140 years later, in 1685, that people from the New Andalusia colony of the Kingdom of New Spain arrived. Diocese Bishop Raul Torres did not know where he heard the legend of the Gold Mountain, the Silver Mountain and the Lost City. This priest, who is about forty years old and comes from Spain, has spent a lot of money to get his current position, and of course he wants to find an opportunity to make up for it. So he was naturally particularly interested in the legends of the Golden Mountain, the Silver Mountain and the Lost City.
Of course, he is not a fool, and he also knows that such rumors are probably unreliable. But he decided to take this trip... in the name of going to the City of God to spread the gospel, so that he could use the diocese's public funds to pay for it. If he could find the Gold Mountain, the Silver Mountain and the Lost City, he would be rich. If he didn't find it, he could always get some believers who were willing to convert to Catholicism in the City of God area. For this reason, he used the diocese's funds to go to Acapulco Port (an important port on the Pacific) to buy a batch of Christians from the Pacific Ocean. The Western swords shipped from the river were given to tribal leaders who were willing to believe in religion.
His exploration of the City of God actually took place in the first half of 1685, when the Mongols in Danjin Omu had not yet entered the City of God area. Therefore, he did not encounter those murderous Mongolians... so his group was able to return to the south of the Sonora Desert to rest without any danger.
Although this exploration still found no clues related to the Lost City, we did get some pure natural gold fragments from several tribal leaders who agreed to convert!
And those people also told Raul Torres that these small yellow stones came from the Ohlon people in the north!
Raul Torres, who is particularly sensitive to gold, immediately realized that there must be a gold mine that can be mined in the open pit somewhere north of the City of God, and the reserves are amazing!
But of course, the supplies of the missionary team led by Raul Torres were almost exhausted, and the team members were very tired, so they could only temporarily return to the south of the Sonora Desert to rest, and at the same time hired a hundred or dozens of armed mestizo people ( Indo-European mixed blood), and equipped them with advanced weapons capable of crushing hundreds of Indian warriors.
After completing the rest and equipment, in January 1686, Raul Torres led an expedition team of more than 200 people across the Sonora Desert and headed north.
But when they arrived in the City of God area, they found that most of the local Indian villages were abandoned, and no one knew where they had gone? Some seemed to have been looted and burned!
Raul Torres immediately became alert. He realized that it was very likely that some powerful Indian tribes had entered the City of God - there were still some Indians who were better at fighting. The cities of San Juan and Santa Fe in the northeastern part of New Spain had both been attacked by large forces. Attack of the Plains Indian Safari Tribe!
However, Raul Torres, who had participated in several wars on the European continent, was unwilling to give up. He just asked the heavily paid mercenary captain, a Mestizo man named Perez, to be careful of Indian sneak attacks. He also asked Perez to form a circular car formation with his caravans when the expedition camped... In his opinion, the Indians were backward after all, and if they really wanted to fight, it would definitely not be possible to have match ropes. Rivals of the mestizo mercenaries of the Kingdom of New Spain with guns, breastplates, steel swords and lances.
Under the protection of these Mestizo mercenaries, Raul Torres had a smooth journey and soon penetrated deep into the hinterland of the City of God area. This area is full of fertile grassland, as well as a large number of lush forests, with rolling mountains and the vast Pacific Ocean in the distance. On the green grass, there are small white tents dotted here and there, and there are sheep like white clouds flowing on the grass... Something seems wrong! Raul Torres had just thought of this, and Perez had already shouted.
"Tents? Flocks? God...where did these come from?"
Yes, where did it come from?
Nomadic Indians?
I have never heard of such an Indian tribe!
Before Raul Torres and Perez could react, the harsh sound of chirping suddenly sounded from the nearby forest, and then they saw thousands of people wearing white robes and white snow hats riding horses. The man rushed out.
These knights in white looked quite capable, as if they were carrying muskets, bows and arrows, and some were holding charging spears. Thousands of knights galloped and adjusted their formations. When they approached Raul Torres's cavalry, they had formed a crescent-shaped half-ring, forming a semi-encirclement of Raul Torres's cavalry. .
In addition, these people also carried two flags with white and low black characters. Raul Torres did not recognize the characters on the flags, but he knew that they were square characters used by Orientals!
If he knew Chinese characters, he would probably be even more surprised.
Because these two flags are embroidered with "Dabang Yin" and "Dayi Shang" respectively!
Raul Torres took a closer look and found that those people all had oriental faces... Could they be the legendary Mongols? Aren’t the Mongolians nomads? How did you swim across the Pacific to the New World?
Thinking of this, Raul Torres asked loudly in blunt Chinese: "Who...are you? This is the Kingdom of Spain!"
It turns out he even learned Chinese! He was a Jesuit monk and once prepared to go to China as a missionary, so he learned a little Chinese in a Jesuit school. But later Zhu Heji banned the spread of Catholicism, and he did not go to China.
At this time, a white-robed knight in his fifties with a few strands of long beard and a fair complexion rode out on horseback. He answered in Chinese that was difficult to understand: "I, Grand Master Shang Fang, am on patrol under the orders of the king." Sea territory!”
