The Earl of St. Chris fell off his horse and hit his forehead hard on the mud. Although it did not break, he fainted and lost consciousness on the spot.
When he woke up again, he was wet all over, his hands and feet were tied, and he couldn't move. When he opened his eyes, a basin of salty and bitter sea water was pouring on his forehead! He subconsciously opened his mouth, and sea water rushed into his mouth and nose. Count St. Chris choked immediately and coughed violently several times.
At this moment, the Yin Shang warrior who was pouring water on his small eyes and big face, and his figure was a bit like a door panel, also noticed that Earl St. Chris was awake, so he shouted: "Hou Xibo, this foreign barbarian who deserves death is awake." coming!"
Of course Earl St. Chris didn't understand "Yin Shang dialect", but he didn't need to understand Yin Shang dialect to understand his current situation clearly.
Obviously, the troops he placed at the City of God Commercial Port have been dealt with by the enemy! The large sailing fleet on the sea has disappeared... or it may have been taken care of by others!
As for him, he fell into the hands of the Yin Shang barbarians and might become a saint.
"This is..."
This is the horrifying sound made when human skin is scorched by hot metal!
At the same time, Earl St. Chris also smelled the stench of burnt flesh.
"ah......"
The screams came as expected! This voice sounded a little familiar, as if it came from Alfonso Garcia. The Marquis of St. Chris quickly turned his head to look and found that the person being tortured was his "great boy" Alfonso Garcia. I saw that this young man had been stripped down to only a pair of underwear and was tied to a thick wooden pillar. A wealthy businessman who was also as thick as a door panel was holding a red-hot discus with a long handle. Branding him!
This is to cook people alive!
"You can't treat him like this!" Earl St. Chris immediately shouted.
The answer to him was a sharp shout: "Shut up!"
This was said in Latin, and Count St. Chris could certainly understand it. He quickly turned around and saw a man wearing Ming Dynasty clothes and a square scarf on his head pointing at him with a fan.
"Bazin, shut up. Lord Xibohou already knows about your and Archbishop Desumara's instigation of Garcia and Torres to use smallpox poison to exterminate the Yin merchants! Although the Yin Shang people are all gods, We are not afraid of smallpox at all, but hundreds of thousands of Shang savages died... You and Garcia, Torres who ran away, and Archbishop Desumara are all the most evil and will be burned. Punished!"
"Bazin" is the surname of the Count of St. Chris, and his full name is François de Bazin. There is a long-standing prince in the family, and even the Queen Mother of Spain wants to address him as "my count". Now he is actually being called by his surname by an orientalist pointing his nose at him... But he has no time to think about it now. So humiliated. Because I just heard two extremely serious questions!
First, the people of the Yin and Shang Kingdom are a race of gods who are not afraid of smallpox! How can this be? How could these barbarians be some kind of god who was not afraid of smallpox... Did they sell their souls to the devil?
Secondly, that Xibohou wanted both him and Garcia to be tortured by being burned! Is this torture of burning a living person mentioned in the book "Legend of Angels" where a living person is first tied to a bronze pillar, then the bronze pillar is heated with fire, and finally the person is roasted to death? But there are no bronze pillars here, only a red-hot discus... Is this technological progress? You know how to smelt iron, so instead of using bronze, you use discus instead? But it seems painful to have this discus branded on your body!
"Help! God, help me, those barbarians are going to burn me to death with hot irons..." Count St. Chris immediately started shouting for help.
And what he got in return for his shouting was, of course, not a manifestation of God, but a big, solid ear-scratcher, which made stars appear in his eyes, the corners of his mouth were cracked, and his mouth was filled with the smell of blood.
This scratch stunned Count St. Chris. Before he could scream again, Zhou Peigong, who was sitting high in the hall, had already spoken: "Tell that Bazin that we, the Yin Shang Clan, will not burn him alive." of."
The general manager who seemed to be from the Ming Dynasty immediately translated the words into Latin.
Upon hearing this, the Count of St. Chris quickly shouted: "Marquis, I am very rich, I can pay the ransom... I can pay one million silver pesos!"
The translator did not convey his words to Zhou Peigong at all, but sneered at Count St. Chris: "Bazin, you have no idea how wicked the things you did are? You still want to pay for your life? You I’m afraid you don’t know how severe Dashang’s torture is, right? Let me tell you clearly that if Xibohou doesn’t burn you to death, it means that you have to commit suicide!”
"Suicide? Why should I commit suicide?" Earl St. Chris shook his head repeatedly. "I am a Catholic. I cannot commit suicide. If I commit suicide, my soul will go to hell!"
"Yes, you will commit suicide!" the general said coldly, "The torture of the businessmen will force you to commit suicide! They will make you just want to die. Look at that Garcia, he will soon The request is dead! Hahaha..."
"Sizzling..." The sound of the iron grilling meat came again.
"Ah..." Garcia's heart-rending scream followed closely.
Isn't this too barbaric? Count St. Chris was so frightened that his face turned pale. Zhou Peigong took out a bottle of Ming Dynasty Royal Secret Heding Red, which was said to be prepared by Zhu Heji himself. He also took a tea bowl and a pot of water and began to brew Heding Red by hand.
He first poured Hedinghong from a Chaozhou milky white porcelain bottle into the tea bowl... That's not quite right. It's not red, but white. Oh, it's not white either, but each one. The crystals are very small and look a bit like ice crystals. I don’t know how toxic this non-red Hedinghong is? Don't poison that foreign devil to death! No, use more!
Thinking of this, he added twice as much high-purity arsenic trioxide to the bowl, and then poured it into the bowl with water. It looked colorless, and smelled like it had no smell. As for drinking...it was added It's about West Asia.
"Okay," Zhou Peigong ordered his surroundings, "send this poison to Garcia, and tell him again that this is the best poison for our Dashang! Let him drink more, and he will die faster if he drinks more. It won’t hurt anymore.”
"yes!"
A strong man dressed as a Shang Dynasty warrior very carefully held the poison and came to Garcia who was "enjoying" the teppanyaki.
When the general manager who came from tomorrow saw the poison coming, he smiled and said to Garcia in Latin: "Garcia, the poison is here. If you want to drink it, just nod your head and say... commit suicide. It's up to you." You have to do it if you are willing. We can't pour poison into you. If you don't want to, then continue to be burned until you are willing. I think you should just commit suicide and suffer less."
Looking at the poison that could be released in front of him and enduring the pain of his flesh being burned a little bit, Garcia no longer knew what to choose. Catholicism does not allow suicide. If you commit suicide, you will go to hell!
But if he doesn't commit suicide, he will have to burn people bit by bit...it hurts so much! The torture of this barbarian is terrible! What should I do?
The general of Ming Dynasty obviously knew something about Catholicism and knew what Garcia was thinking. He immediately said: "Garcia, you are destined to go to hell! You have killed so many big merchants... This is... The crime of annihilation is a heinous crime! You have committed such a big sin, how can you not go to hell after death? Besides, you can't keep your Catholic membership! The fact that you released smallpox poison has been known to the Great Shang King and Yin Jiahan. They have gathered an army of 100,000 and are preparing to attack Mexico City! If your emperor wants to keep Mexico City, then ceding territory, paying compensation, and excommunicating you and Count San Cristo are necessary.
In order to protect yourself, Emperor Leopold I will definitely agree to the terms of the Great Shang King and Yin Jiahan. When the time comes, your religious membership will be revoked. Do you still want to go to hell?
Since you are bound to go to hell, why not drink poison and commit suicide now and suffer less? Otherwise, you don’t know how long you will be burned! "
This general manager was really good at reasoning and was obviously a Confucianist. After some explanations, Garcia, who was still looking forward to going to heaven, suddenly collapsed.
Not only will he die, but his soul will have to go to hell to continue suffering after death... There is no hope at all!
This Yin Shang torture method truly lived up to its reputation. It not only killed people, but also took away their souls!
After the collapse, Garcia burst into tears. While crying, he shouted: "Give me poison, I want to commit suicide, I want to commit suicide..."
Zhou Peigong actually understood Garcia's Latin, so he ordered the Yin family knight who tortured Garcia: "Continue the torture! Brand him for five hours first, and then give him the poison. Then loosen one of his arms. Let him drink it by himself, you can’t help him...otherwise it will be suicide!”
"yes!"
After receiving the order, the Yin family knight continued to attack Garcia. No matter how much Garcia begged, he remained unmoved. In the government hall of Sea Grassland Commercial Port, screams kept ringing out.
Seeing Garcia being tortured, he almost went crazy. Count St. Chris also collapsed a little, with tears and snot running down his face. He was still yelling: "Don't kill me, don't force me to commit suicide. I have money. I Really rich!"
Seeing that Count St. Chris and Garcia both looked collapsed, Zhou Peigong felt a little relieved... just a little!
He was also a little angry now.
He was originally a "lost-all military advisor", but it was only after he arrived in the New World that his fortune as a military advisor changed, and he began to plan every strategy. After three or four years of planning, the plan was finally defeated by the ruthless Vice-King of New Spain and his men... These sons of bitches actually sent people to Xinchaoge City to release smallpox!
Fortunately, both the Han and Mongolians who were sent to the New World had been vaccinated with variola in advance. Most of the Han Chinese had been vaccinated long ago, and those who had not been vaccinated were also vaccinated with the Mongolians. Moreover, they were vaccinated by top-notch vaccinators from public hospitals. Responsible for the acne.
In addition, the Daming Public Hospital opened a branch in Xinchaoge, which provides vaccination services. Therefore, Yin Shang babies born in the New World were also vaccinated with pox.
Therefore, the smallpox released by Garcia and Torres did not pose any threat to the Yin Shang nation. But the Indians who followed the Yin and Shang tribe were in dire straits!
They have not been vaccinated against pox - there is no very safe cowpox, only the more threatening variola, which is actually a live attenuated vaccine, and only experienced pox doctors can use them safely.
Therefore, in ancient China, acne masters were a profession that was passed down from generation to generation, and the number was not very large. Although the public hospital run by Zhu Heji also had an "acne department", there were not many acne specialists trained there, and even fewer could be sent to the New World. That number of people was only enough to vaccinate the Chinese children born in the New World. There was no manpower to vaccinate the Indians.
Moreover, as long as no one in the country gets smallpox, the local Indians will be safe.
But who knew that the Spanish mission would actually administer smallpox poison during peacetime before the two sides broke up?
The result was a smallpox epidemic among the Yin Shang barbarians!
Moreover, this pandemic happened suddenly. When the pandemic happened, Zhou Peigong happened to be inspecting the gold mine in the flood valley. As a result, when he learned the news and returned to Xin Chaoge, smallpox broke out in all the savage villages outside the city.
Due to the good relationship between the savages outside Xinchaoge City and the first-generation immigrants such as Zhou Peigong, many leaders of the savage villages in Xinchaoge became officials in charge of savage affairs.
They would often walk around the various barbarian tribes in the areas controlled by the Yin Shang, taking the cloth, wine and salt given to them by the Grand Commandery to exchange for food and recruit labor.
As a result, smallpox was brought to all the savage villages under the jurisdiction of the Yin Shang Grand Commandery!
It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of people to die - there are not that many Yin Shang barbarians, but there are still ten or twenty thousand!
But for Shang Fang, whose total population is only a little, the loss of 10,000 to 20,000 is also very huge!
Thinking of this, and... there is more than one plague: smallpox!
If the Spaniards resort to plague or something else, the people of the Yin and Shang Kingdom will not be able to bear it!
No, you have to use a bluff to fool the Spaniards!
Thinking of this, Zhou Peigong said calmly: "Tell that bastard Count that I will take him and other Spanish prisoners back to Xinchaoge to be tortured with cannons!
I also let them see that our Yin Shang protoss is not afraid of smallpox and other diseases! "
The general quickly translated his words into Latin, and now Count St. Chris was even more confused.
There are actually savages in this world who are not afraid of smallpox... If this were true, wouldn't it be too barbaric?
Seeing the astonished look on Count San Cristó's face, Zhou Peigong said calmly: "Tell him again that I will leave the ten youngest captives alive and not kill them, but I will cut off their ears and noses and return them to Mexico City. Go and report the news!
Go tell the Spanish emperor who deserves death and let him wait for my Shang Heavenly Soldiers to punish him! "
