"Yes, yes," Bishop Desumagala nodded repeatedly, "There is currently a Count Montezuma de Turtengo in Mexico City. He is a descendant of Montezuma II, the last emperor of the Aztec Empire. , and the lord of Tula, the Aztec holy city northwest of Mexico City.”
There really is!
Although the Spanish exterminated most of the Aztecs, they did not kill them all. Although the Spanish colonists were evil, they still had some bottom line. Their bottom line is to worship God. Those who do not worship God are demons, have no souls, and must be exterminated. But as long as you worship God, drink the "blood wine", eat the Holy Communion, and be baptized, you are your brother or... serf.
So one son and two daughters of Montezuma II became Spanish nobles. In 1627, the grandson of that son was named Count Montezuma by King Philip IV of Spain. In the original history, the Count of Montezuma was promoted and became the Duke of Montezuma, and it has been passed down to the 21st century... Of course, this Duke of Montezuma is no longer Lao Mo, but It's Spanish.
In addition, there were descendants of the Inca dynasty, but they did not fare as well as the descendants of Montezuma. They did not become count in Spain and only inherited a few villages passed down by their ancestors. Later, they relied on this ancestral foundation to accumulate strength and launched an armed uprising. They were finally suppressed by the Spaniards and perished.
"Your Majesty," Marquis Mendoza also thought of Count Montezuma at this time. He said to the Spanish Emperor: "Although Count Montezuma is a descendant of the Aztec emperor, his family immigrated to Spain a hundred years ago. , and intermarried with the Spanish nobles, and has long since become a member of the Spanish nobles. Regardless of appearance or soul, they all belong to Spain."
"Then how come he lives in Mexico City?" Leopold I asked.
"Your Majesty," replied Bishop Desumagala, "he has come to Mexico City to serve as Vice-Chancellor of the Viceroyalty of New Spain...appointed by you!"
The Duke of Lorraine leaned into Leopold I’s ear at this time and said, “Your Majesty, after the Cologne Conference ended at the end of last year, Count Montezuma was the first Spanish nobleman to come to Cologne to meet with him...so you will Put him on the list of people you can trust.”
He is really one of his own!
Although Leopold I, who had a short memory, had long forgotten that there was such a person, the Duke of Lorraine was very clever, so since he said so, he was probably right.
"Okay...just send him." Leopold I paused, then glanced at the imperial nobles who followed him to America, and finally focused on the smallest among them. On a young man, "Eugen!"
"Your Majesty." The little young man quickly squeezed out of the crowd, bowed to the Spanish Emperor, and then stood up straight again.
When Leopold saw this little man, his face looked much better, because this little man was the number one man under his command. His full name was Eugen von Savoy. Even though he was only 26 years old, he was already Became a lieutenant general. He had been active in the imperial army since the Battle of Vienna in 1684, and had an outstanding record. He was a young general that Leopold was very optimistic about.
"Eugen," Leopold said, "you and Count Montezuma will go to the Merchant Kingdom together and nominally serve as the Count's aide-de-camp."
"As you command, my Majesty." Eugen von Savoin bowed and saluted again, accepting the important task assigned to him by the Spanish Emperor.
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Although Shang Fang and New Spain were in a state of hostility, and Shang Fang also implemented a strict isolation, communication channels between Shang Fang and New Spain were still established.
This channel was the merchant ships sent to the New World through the Dutch East India Company. After the Philippine colonies were captured by the Ming Dynasty, the trade between New Spain and the Ming Dynasty was interrupted for some time. But after the Dutch East India Company was brought under control by Zhu Heji, the originally interrupted Pacific galleon trade began to resume. Of course, the Dutch East India Company could not violate the Kingdom of Spain's trade ban and sell white silk and porcelain produced in the Ming Dynasty to the Kingdom of New Spain. Therefore, the white silk and porcelain shipped to New Spain through the Pacific Ocean are all authentic Mongolian goods!
Don’t believe it? It is clearly printed on the outer packaging of the product and on the bottom of the porcelain that the white silk is the nomadic silk of Mongolia - the silkworms that spin this silk do not eat mulberry leaves, but eat grass. They are nomadic people who live in pursuit of water and grass. silkworm.
The bottom of the porcelain has the words "Made in Shangjing Kiln in the Tongzhi Year of the Qing Dynasty"... This is not porcelain produced in Jingdezhen, Guangdong or Fujian, but Shangjing Porcelain produced in Shangjing City of the Qing Dynasty!
And these Dutch ships transporting nomadic silk and Kyocera will not sail directly to the Acapul Port in New Spain after leaving Nagoya Tenno Castle in Japan. Instead, they will dock at the New Chaoge Port in Shangfang Kingdom-Xinchao. Song is not completely open to the outside world. All ships not under the command of the Ming Navy's Eastern Fleet can only dock at the commercial port outside Xin Chaoge City. The crew and merchants on the ship are not allowed to leave the fences, trenches and soil without permission. A walled commercial port.
After accepting the diplomatic mission assigned by the emperor, Eugen immediately took a speedboat to the port of Antigua on the Gulf of Mexico, and then went straight to Mexico City, where he met Monte, who looked nothing like an Indian. Count Zuma, gave him the emperor's order. Then the two of them went to the city of Tula first, picked up a group of followers who looked more like Indians, and went to the port of Acapul together. There he rented a Dutch merchant ship called the "Flying Netherlander", and then sailed north along the west coast of North America. Finally, in November 1689, he arrived at the increasingly prosperous New Kingdom in Fugui Bay. Song City.
Today, the population of New Chaoge City is much larger than before the smallpox epidemic. It's not that there were many Indian "savage" tribes who came to seek refuge with the Yin Shang Kingdom, but that in August 1689, as many as one hundred New World-type armed merchant ships transported 12,000 immigrants from the Shenzhou continent. Along with these immigrants, there were many businessmen who came across the sea smelling the smell of gold. Xinchaoge City, which originally had a population of more than 20,000 nationalities, now has a population of almost 35,600. Thousands of people are gone.
Among these 35,000 people, at least 12,000 have put on military armor, carried rifles or mounted war horses, and they are in the large campus outside Xinchaoge City every day. Drilling, as if he was about to go south to crusade against the Spanish Emperor.
However, Eugen von Savoy and Count Montezuma were unable to observe closely because they were trapped in a small building in the Xinchaoge Commercial Port. Since they had a history of poisoning the last mission, Merchant Yin certainly had reason to treat them as thieves. As soon as the group of people landed, they were immediately "isolated"... This isolation was not a matter of fourteen days or twenty-one days, but was isolated until they left the new Chaoge.
During this period, they were not allowed to leave a small three-story brick and wood structure on the corner of the commercial port, which was surrounded by wooden fences and earthen walls. Not only were heavily armed merchant infantry watching outside the small building, but also It is very slender and is called the Roaring Dog. It was the evil dog guard of the Shang Dynasty.
If anyone dares to take even half a step without permission, he will be bitten by vicious dogs and beaten with muskets.
Therefore, Eugen von Savoy and Count Montezuma could only watch the dust on the large campus two to three thousand yards away from a distance, and then listen to the roar of musket volleys and artillery test firings. ——It sounds no different from ordinary muskets and artillery!
Why hit it so far? Is it so difficult that there really is a devil?
In addition, when the two people arrived at the commercial port, they saw many Yin Shang people and savages on the dock and on the streets in the commercial port. Among them, no matter whether they were male or female, there were no pockmarks... not a single one. ! The Savage does have some pockmarks, probably caused by the last pandemic.
Just when Eugen von Savoy and Count Montezuma were a little unsure about the devil's issue, a group of Yin family cavalry escorted the great Shang Xibo Hou Zhou Peigong, Jizhou Hou Su Zhanyang, and Wuchengbo Huang Feiyu to negotiate with them. .
Zhou Peigong, Su Zhanyang, Huang Feiyu and all the Yin family cavalry were wearing masks. Before they entered the yard where Eugen von Savoy and Montezuma were imprisoned, there were two Yin soldiers who had their heads and faces wrapped in white cloth. The house cavalry came in first to throw lime powder and sprinkle high-concentration sugar cane wine... Even Eugen von Savoy and Montezuma were stained with a lot of lime powder and sugar cane wine!
But neither of them dared to protest. Who told the envoys who visited Xinchaoge to poison themselves?
After disinfection, Zhou Peigong, Su Zhanyang, and Huang Feiyu...the indigenous Feiyu from Fugui Bay. Their tribe gave them the surname "Huang" because of their merit in offering gold, and gave it to the tribe leader, the big one. Shark granted Wu Chengbo's title. The big shark was renamed Huang Fei Shark! However, this "flying shark" did not survive the smallpox pandemic and is no longer alive. Somehow it was Feiyu, Huang Feiyu's turn to inherit his title.
And because more than half of the people in the village were killed by the Spaniards, Huang Feiyu himself became a loser, so he became a resolute anti-imperialist and patriotic (loving the great merchant country). During these days, I worked very hard among the various Indian tribes in the Shang Fang Kingdom, and raised a "savage army" for the Shang Fang people!
Because he raised an army for the Great Shang Kingdom, his status naturally increased. Although his title is still Bang Bo, his official position has been promoted to division commander...that is, the commander of a division! The army of the Shang Dynasty was organized into divisions, and the division commander was in charge of a division and was a very senior military attaché. Today, there are only three divisions in the Shangfang Kingdom. One is the Shangfang Division, and the current division commander is Su Zhanyang; one is the Yinjia Division, and the division commander is Cering Dunduobu; and the other is the Field Division, and the division commander is Wu Chengbo Huang Feiyu.
After the disinfection was completed, they followed Zhou Peigong and others to the Yin family. The cavalry brought a long table and a few chairs and placed them in the yard. Then the negotiators from both sides took their seats.
Eugen von Savoy and Count Montezuma also brought a translator who could speak Chinese and was a Jesuit priest. Zhou Peigong and the others hired a businessman who could speak Latin to act as a translator.
There's nothing to exchange on either side - they've all been disinfected by sprinkling lime powder and high-concentration liquor, so what's the point of exchanging pleasantries? Let’s get straight to the point!
"Which of you is the heir to the Aztec King?" Zhou Peigong looked at the two people in front of him and asked.
"I, I am Count Montezuma, a direct descendant of the Aztec royal family, and the lord of Tula, the holy city of the Aztecs." Count Montezuma, who looks even more European than Eugen, heard the interpreter say Zhou Peigong question, he immediately answered it in Latin with a smile.
"You?" Zhou Peigong looked suspicious, "Did you come to our Shang Fang to ask for troops to restore the country? More than a hundred years ago, when your ancestors sent people to our Shang Fang to ask for help, our Shang Fang was experiencing civil strife. Therefore, we are unable to send troops, so we have to close the country in order to protect ourselves. But now our business has been recuperating for decades, and the population has long since recovered to more than three million. We can send 100,000 elite troops to attack Spain at any time to help you regain your foundation... ..As long as you are willing to give us half of the gold and silver mines in Mexico as agreed by our ancestors."
When these words were translated into Latin, Count Montezuma was dumbfounded... Is this true or false? Why have I never heard my grandfather and father talk about it?
Eugen von Savoy was also stunned, and quickly turned to look at Count Montezuma, fearing that he would agree to become the king of the Aztecs.
"This, this is impossible now." Count Montezuma shook his head quickly, "My family has long converted to Catholicism and swore allegiance to the king and emperor of Spain, and most of the Indians have also converted He became Catholic and pledged allegiance to Spain under the command of God... No one can now take the land of New Spain away from Spain!"
His words were translated into "Shang Dynasty dialect", and then Zhou Peigong was still fine, but Huang Feiyu beside him was already angry, with a pockmarked face full of murderous intent, and slammed the table, and then said "Shang Dynasty dialect" "Reprimanded: "Count Montezuma, you have betrayed your ancestors and the Aztec people... You are a shameful traitor and should be executed and sacrificed! Unless you are willing to repent of your crimes and then reconcile with the big brother. Shang and the Aztec people stand together! Are you willing to be a sacrifice, or are you willing to repent?"
The words were translated into Spanish again, but before Count Montezuma could refuse, Zhou Peigong had already rushed to speak: "Okay, I understand... Montezuma, since you are willing to repent and do it for Aziz If we fight against the Aztecs, then I, Dashang, will fulfill the promise made more than a hundred years ago and send 100,000 reinforcements to the Aztecs!"
As he spoke, he suddenly said to Eugen von Savoy in Latin: "Go back and tell the Spanish emperor that Montezuma has asked our merchants to fulfill the promise made more than a hundred years ago...I Shang Fang will help the Aztecs regain their country! If he doesn’t want to get out of Mexico, just wait for a decisive battle with Shang Fang’s 100,000 heavenly soldiers!”
