"When King Montezuma came, he didn't pay rent. When King Montezuma came, he didn't pay taxes. When King Montezuma came, he didn't pay taxes. When King Montezuma came, he divided the fields..."
Spanish cheers rang out rhythmically on the road outside the town of Sonora, and the cheers came from the Indians living in the town of Sonora and several nearby Indian villages.
These Indians are not actually the Aztecs. The Aztecs lived in the Mexica Valley, which is the area around Mexico City. The open terrain and humid climate there are suitable for the development of agriculture and can support a larger population. Therefore, it can nourish a powerful Indian civilization like the Aztec Empire. Although the Sonora Desert is a bit too humid compared to other deserts, it is still a desert after all. There are still many Indians living in this desert and on the edge of the desert. These Indians were much less civilized than the Aztecs, and they may not have known about the Aztec Empire before the Spanish conquered them. After all, the southern edge of the Sonora Desert is still more than three thousand miles away from the Mexica Valley!
But thanks to the Spaniards, especially the Spanish priests, almost everyone in the area under the actual control of the Viceroyalty of New Spain knows about the Aztec Empire and Montezuma II!
And these Indians are the targets that Li Guangdi and Huang Feixi plan to develop - there are so many people of God now, including the Christian camp in Europe and the indigenous people in North and South America who have converted to Christianity, there are 100 million! There are more than ten million believers in God in New Spain alone!
And the devil only has a small population of 60,000 to 70,000...60,000 to 70,000 versus 10 million, the advantage is clearly on God's side! Moreover, God's advantage is too great, even if the devil has corks and rifles, he cannot reverse it.
Therefore, expanding the team of demons has become the top priority of the seven demons (Hou) of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. And "magic expansion" cannot all rely on imports... It is not easy to cross the ocean. One ship can only carry 200 "monsters". Even if there are 200 ships working back and forth, it will only take a year. Just transport 20,000 "demons" - not all of the 200 boats can carry "demons", and half of them must be used to carry livestock, cattle, sheep, horses, etc., which is necessary for the development of "nomadic devils".
When the number of "devils" is at an absolute disadvantage, the development of "nomadic devils" can pose a greater threat to God than the development of "farming devils"!
And only if the "nomadic devils" sweep away from the front, can the "farming devils" grow in the Xinchaoge, Yindu, and Shangdu areas in the rear!
Therefore, if you transport "Mos" from the mainland of Ming Dynasty, transporting 20,000 yuan a year is enough. If you rely on "Big Mo" to produce "Little Mo", the growth rate will be even slower. Usually only one child can be born in ten months of pregnancy. After birth, it takes more than ten or twenty years to raise the baby before it reaches adulthood. This is too late to help!
In desperation, the four Shang princes such as Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, Chen Tingjing and Su Zhanyang had to quietly hold an internal meeting, suspending the Yin Shang ethnic policy of "Han origin and Meng auxiliary" stipulated by Zhu Heji, and instead attracted the indigenous savages to join the army. , in order to expand the basic market as soon as possible.
The establishment of field divisions and the support of the Aztec King are all for the purpose of making a big deal as soon as possible!
And "not paying rent", "not paying taxes" and "distributing land" were used to mobilize the Indians and mixed-race Indians under Spanish rule to join... For Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi and Chen Tingjing, who were familiar with "Anti-Jing", they To put it simply, you can think of it with your heels.
However, this routine was simply unbelievable to King Montezuma, a Spanish nobleman - he was a count, a great nobleman, with his own city in the New World and a large estate in Spain. What about "not paying rent", "not paying taxes", "distributing fields"... isn't this a rebellion?
"Dong Bohou, what do you mean by not paying rent, not paying taxes, and dividing the land?"
Montezuma entered the palace amidst the cheers of thousands of Indians. As soon as he entered the palace gate on horseback, he immediately grabbed Li Guangdi and asked questions.
The so-called palace is actually a Spanish-style landlord's compound. The original owner here chose to escape when Huang Feixi led his troops to the outside of Sonora town. Because he left in a hurry, he did not have time to set fire to the house and did not take him away. Furniture and utensils, so this place became a palace for King Montezuma.
Hearing King Montezuma's question, Dongbohou Li Guangdi was stunned and thought: "Why don't you, the rebel king, even understand this? Fortunately, we have a few of us to help you, otherwise you would still dare to rebel at your level. Sooner or later, He must be captured by the Spaniards and cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.”
Thinking of this, he turned over and dismounted, and then waved to Montezuma: "King Aztec, come into the room first, and I will explain it to you slowly."
The "big devil" asked him to enter the house, so of course Montezuma had no choice but to enter the house honestly.
After sitting down in the house, Li Guangdi took out a wine gourd, bit off the stopper, and then started chatting with Montezuma while drinking tomato wine brewed in his own manor.
"King Aztec, now is the time to conquer the world! Do you know that conquering the world means using force to conquer a piece of land and become king! If you want to conquer a large piece of territory, you need someone to help conquer it... .Where do people come from? Although you are the Aztec King, there are no Aztec warriors here in Solano, right?" As he spoke, Li Guangdi got himself a large glass of bright red tomato wine, and then smiled again Then asked the Aztec king, "Would you like some?"
"No, no..." Montezuma also stayed in New Spain for a while and saw cherry tomatoes. But I’ve never seen ketchup, let alone eaten it.
But in the Yin Shang Kingdom, because Zhu Heji wanted to eat tomatoes and peppers, they began to grow tomatoes and peppers on the farm outside Xinchaoge City three years ago. The peppers are easy to dry, so it is not difficult to transport them back to the Ming Dynasty. Tomatoes are difficult, as they rot easily... So Shang Fang State used harvested cherry tomatoes to stuff them, and then transported them back to the Ming Dynasty as tribute.
Later, when tomato production increased, the senior officials of the Yin Shang Kingdom began to drink this red wine. As they drank, they fell in love with the sweet and sour taste.
"No, no, I don't drink blood..." Montezuma's heart twitched when he saw the color of the tomato wine! It turns out that the Seven Lords of the Yin and Shang Dynasties are real devils, and they drink human blood!
Li Guangdi saw the frightened look of the Aztec king, and he just wanted to laugh, but he did not clarify. Instead, he took a sip of tomato wine, and then said: "Since there are no Aztec warriors here in Sonora, then you can only mobilize the locals to follow... But Spain is a mixed-race Spaniard, and you are You can't activate it. The only ones you can activate are the bullied Indians! And what do those Indians want?
Of course, they will not pay rent, pay grain, or allocate fields! "
"But..." Montezuma shook his head repeatedly, "But are the benefits given too much?"
He is still accustomed to siding with the Spanish feudal nobles and large landowners, and he doesn't even think that he is the "Aztec king"!
"That must be given!" Li Guangdi said seriously, "Now you are looking for Spain to rebel! If there is no benefit, who will follow?"
Montezuma still shook his head, "But the land in Sonora is not worth much. This generation is on the edge of the desert. It is dry and barren, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. The land is not valuable at all."
Li Guangdi smiled: "Then give them the fields in the fertile land in the south... We can take the residents of all the Indian villages around the town of Sonora to the south, take them to Mexico City, and bring Mexica The most fertile land in the valley will be distributed to them, and then they will be exempted from taxes for five years. It can also be promised that any warrior who has made military exploits on the way south or the leader of the village community who leads the team will become a noble in the future and can live in In prosperous Mexico City, live the same life as a Spanish gentleman!”
"Take them all away? You want to take away all the Indians around Sonora Town? There are more than ten villages there, and including the people in the town, there are probably thousands of people!" Montezuma was a little confused, "And Among them, the elderly, women, and children who cannot fight account for the majority."
After hearing this question, Li Guangdi looked down upon King Montezuma even more. He actually doesn't even understand the meaning of "coercing the people" and "forcing them into danger"! Has there never been a great rebel like King Li Chuang in Europe?
"Take them all away!" Thinking of this, Li Guangdi nodded very firmly, and then said calmly, "When you leave, burn down their village and the town of Sonora... and rob the valuable money from the town. Distribute all the things you have to them, and then appoint officials in each village to the leaders who are willing to follow them. If they are not willing, say that they are the lackeys of the Spanish, and then kill them!"
Hearing the word "kill" and seeing the wine glass filled with "blood" in Li Guang's hand, Montezuma trembled. How could he dare to say "no"? Nod quickly!
"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you!"
Li Guangdi laughed, took another sip of "blood", and nodded with satisfaction: "Okay! Then in three days, you will hold a coronation ceremony in the town of Sonora... Three days later, you will be the real Ah King Zytec!"
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"Yin family! Yin family! Yin family..."
To the east of the Red Water River, in what would later be called Arizona, at an ancient ruins on the edge of a river valley, densely packed Indian natives gathered together, all of them cheering loudly. Standing on a high platform made of stones, Zhou Peigong, Cering Dunduobu and Huang Feiyu all showed proud smiles. And dozens of feet above the three of them, there was a huge white hot air balloon floating in the air, with the two characters "Yin Family" clearly written on the balloon.
Needless to say, we know that the "devils" are expanding their enrollment again!
However, unlike the bluff and coercion on the southern front, the "devil" army marching eastward is real. The main force responsible for this journey is the five Yin Family Thousand Households led by the Yin Family Division Commander Celington Dobu, a total of five thousand households. , seventeen or eight thousand mouths!
Of course, these 17,000 to 8,000 people include women and children. In fact, this is a mobile nomadic tribe. There are not only strong men, women, and children, but also tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, and horses. When driving eastward along the canyon east of the Hongshui River, it is really amazing. Woolen cloth!
In addition to these five Yin families, Huang Feiyu, the commander of the field division, also brought a thousand wild soldiers to serve as the advance guard of the army. They were not responsible for killing people, but to recruit people everywhere. The thousands of native Indians gathered in this ancient ruins were brought here by Huang Feiyu.
Zhou Peigong also came with him, and he also brought his subjects. It was said that there were 500 households, but in fact there were only 300 households. Adding children and barbarian women as concubines, the total number was only 300. Around fifteen hundred.
Because Zhou Peigong was the Marquis of Xibo, he was qualified to enclose land and build cities on the sites of Xin Chaoge, Yin Capital, and Shang Capital, and he could also occupy gold mines. But Zhou Peigong is not stupid either. He knows what benefits are hot and what benefits are biting!
So he didn't ask for the best land near Fugui Bay, or even land in Yindu or Shangdu. Instead, he chose an unknown land located more than a thousand miles east of Haiyuan City (Los Angeles area). The ancient ruins in the river valley serve as the location of their fief.
The scale of this ancient ruins is very large, including cities and hundreds of miles of irrigation canals. It was abandoned for unknown reasons! There are many Indian villages scattered around this ruins - these villages were conquered by the Spanish in the early years. However, the Spanish also looked down upon the land in this area, so they did not send troops to garrison. They just sent a group of priests to build churches, hoping to conquer the Indians in this area through religious brainwashing. But I didn't expect that the Indians here had never been exterminated, and they didn't know God's mercy. They actually rebelled against God in 1680 and drove away all the Spanish priests.
The Spaniards were not very interested in this land, and at that time they were in conflict with the hunting Indians in New Mexico, Florida, Texas and the Great Plains in later generations... These hunting parties Because the hunting Indians roamed everywhere and it was inconvenient to spread poison, the smallpox pandemic did not have a big impact on them. In addition, they also accumulated some martial virtue in the process of hunting bison, and their ability to kill people was much better than that of the Aztecs.
Due to the above reasons, the Spanish simply gave up this good territory that was favored by Zhou Peigong. So when the Yin and Shang armies came over, this area was in a state of primitive tribes dawdling.
For such unorganized, unsophisticated, and dawdling Indian savages, of course there is no need to mount Qianhu Hou on a wheel and kill them. You can just use a hot air balloon to fool them, add some corn wine, and give them some swords and guns, and you can almost kill them. They all became little brothers.
Thinking of this, Zhou Peigong suddenly raised his right hand. Seeing his raised hand, the field soldiers scattered in the crowd quickly silenced the cheering Indians around them. When the people below were silent, it was Xibo Hou Zhou Peigong who spoke. Only listen He announced loudly: "This place is the city built by our ancestors of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It was abandoned due to natural disasters hundreds of years ago. Today, by the order of the king, I have taken back this place and changed its name to Xin Xiqi... From today on, all you people in the countryside are our people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties!"
