The devil is coming!
In early 1690 AD, in the northern part of the New Andalusia colony, near the Sonora Desert, jaw-dropping news suddenly came out!
The devils who originally lived somewhere north of the Colorado River have now moved south in large numbers. They have crossed the Colorado River and are crossing the Sonora Desert. They will soon enter the hinterland of the New Andalucia Colony!
But this is not the most surprising, at least not the most surprising to the indigenous people living in Indian villages or the Indian serfs or mixed-race laborers working on white plantations. What surprised these Indians and mixed-race working people who believed in God the most was that the Catholic priests who were supposed to lead everyone to fight against the devil actually "fleeed from the devil"!
What exactly is going on?
Instead of exorcising the devil, the priests were scared away by the devil... Could it be that the devil who came this time was actually a "real devil"?
These people who have been completely conquered by the Spaniards from body to soul are the ones who believe in God and priests the most... In this era, even if you go to the Catholic countries in Europe, you may not be able to find anything better than Mexico. Indians or mixed-race Indians are more devout Catholics.
Because in most European Catholic countries, either the Catholic Church has become very secular, or it has achieved a considerable degree of separation of church and state...Give to God what is God, and to Caesar what is Caesar.
In these countries, the role that the church can play in production, life and construction of social order is constantly declining. The secular aristocracy and the government and parliament, which have absorbed a large number of bourgeois talents, have been able to overwhelm the conservative and backward Catholic Church in all aspects.
However, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru, because there are not many secular nobles, and the bureaucrats often become corrupt and incompetent due to lack of supervision, the only one that can play a role is the Catholic Church - there are still some in the church. An idealist who is willing to devote himself to God. Moreover, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother advocate equality after all. Therefore, the church system of New Spain was better able to absorb local indigenous elites than the two systems of nobility and bureaucracy.
In addition, religion also plays a very important role for people with relatively low levels of civilization - regulating people's daily behaviors and establishing the underlying order.
For example, how many wives a man can marry, how many times he has to worship God a day, whether he can eat meat and drink alcohol, whether same-sex couples can marry, whether he can place ancestral tablets at home, etc., all have to be guided by grassroots priests. ....In the two viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, the daily lives of those Indians whose civilization was relatively low and whose native civilization had been basically destroyed by the Spanish relied more on priests to regulate and guide them.
While regulating people's daily behavior, the grassroots clergy in the two viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru also had to take care of local order - serving as judges to file lawsuits for the people below, or having conflicts with white plantation owners in Indian villages. It is basically the responsibility of the clergy to make adjustments and other matters when necessary.
Because they represent God, they are more just than white-skinned nobles and corrupt officials, and they usually do not accept bribes... Of course there is a fee for making a ruling, and this fee is their own. With this extra money, Those priests who have a slightly better conscience and want to take into account their own reputation generally do not accept extra bribes and violate the law.
Therefore, in the two vast viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru, the Catholic Church and priests not only have to take care of God's affairs, but also have to take care of Caesar's affairs. Besides, except for a small number of core areas, in most places, they are the only ones who can In charge.
For example, in the colony of New Andalusia, the one who can really take charge of things is Bishop Torres, who went to New Chaoge with Garcia to spread poison... Although Mexico City also sent governors, those governors were like a revolving door. They are all officials who were bought with money. After they have made enough money, they will go back to Europe to live and drink. Who can count on them?
But even such a bishop who has great authority and a strong belief in God has to grease the soles of his feet today... He is slipping fast!
In the bishop's palace in Hermosillo, the colonial capital, it was already the scene of the most panicked escape at this time.
In the courtyard, servants, mercenaries and low-level clergymen came and went in a panic. Outside the yard, a long line of carriages had been parked, and each carriage was piled with leather boxes filled with belongings and tied tightly with rope locks. There were some fully armed mixed-race mercenaries standing beside the carriage, all of them looking panicked.
A group of large landowners from the New Andalucia colony had rushed into the courtyard noisily, and surrounded Bishop Torres as soon as they entered.
"Your Majesty Bishop, the Governor has run away..."
"Master Bishop, what's going on with so many carriages full of luggage outside the door? Do you want to run away too?"
"Bishop, I heard that the savages north of the Colorado River are as vicious as the devil. Is this true?"
Bishop Torres, wearing a black robe, stood in front of the porch and watched his servants carrying boxes filled with property out of the yard. In response to the questions raised by this group of colonial property owners, Bishop Torres just replied with a dull expression: " Those savages are not as vicious as devils, they are devils!"
"What? Just the devil?"
"Bishop, are you kidding us?"
"Is there a devil? What about God? Where's Jesus? Where's the Virgin Mary? They just don't care?"
"Impossible, this is impossible!"
"Yes, how could there really be a devil?"
There are actually people who don’t believe in the devil... If you don’t believe in the devil now, will that mean you won’t believe in God in the future?
Father Torres gave the two potential atheists a cold look, then took out two Spanish leaflets from the pocket of his black robe and handed them to the two men, "See for yourselves! Are they devils?" , see for yourselves!”
There is evidence!
The two "quasi-atheists" immediately took the flyer and read it carefully.
"Eat his mother, drink his mother...what does that mean?"
"The following is also... King Montezuma comes and doesn't pay rent, King Montezuma comes and doesn't pay taxes, King Montezuma comes and divides the fields!"
Now the big landowners of New Andalusia jumped to their feet. This large real estate system in Latin America was also famous in later generations and was considered to be one of the important reasons that hindered the industrialization of Latin America.
Of course, the United States also had a large-scale landed system when it first opened, but there were no Indian tenant farmers in the United States. The Protestants and Puritans in the United States are decisive in their affairs! The extermination work was done thoroughly, so there was no way to divide the large estate into small pieces and lease it to the Indians, so we had to bring in black slaves...
However, the Catholics in New Spain and Peru are still somewhat weak in their methods and cannot arbitrarily exterminate the Indians who have become Christians. Moreover, the Catholic Church does not allow them to do this - the souls of Indians are also souls. If you "save" one, you will have more merit. If you accumulate enough merit, you can atone for your sins, go to heaven, and become a saint.
And the church expected the Indians to pay tithes!
Therefore, in New Spain and Peru, the foreign colonists became large landowners, and the Indians (mainly mixed race) actually owned part of the land (village ownership) and at the same time served as tenants for the white people. The church protected the interests of large landowners, Indian village communities, and Indian poor and lower-middle peasants...and provided an order in which these aspects could coexist harmoniously.
The three rules of not paying rent, not paying grain, and not dividing the land will undoubtedly destroy this order! This King Montezuma is also planning to use these three principles to incite the Indians to rebel... and he also has the support of the merchant army. I am afraid that he can really fulfill these three principles to a certain extent, and he is also recognized by the Aztec royal family. Legal descendants!
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How can he do this without turning the Mexican region upside down?
This guy is not the devil, who is the devil?
The Shang people who support him are not devils, but who are the devils?
"What? Not paying rent? Are we going to divide the land? To whom?"
"Of course it's for the Indians!"
"What does Montezuma want to do? Did he really betray God and become the devil?"
"He is the devil!" Bishop Torres yelled, "So we have to get out of here... We can't sit still in New Andalusia!"
"leave?"
“Shouldn’t we find a way to defeat the devil?”
Torres glanced at the man, "That's the devil! Defeating the devil is the task of God and angels. We are human beings. As long as we protect ourselves from falling into the hands of the devil, we will win." After saying that, he looked at the big landowners in front of him. , "Let's evacuate now... We must not be captured by the devil, otherwise we will not only lose our lives, but also our noble souls!"
The devils of this generation are so powerful that they not only want human lives, but also want human souls.
So it’s better to run away quickly! Land is precious, but freedom is even more valuable. If you keep your life, you are not afraid of losing your soul!
...
At the same moment, in the south of the Sonora Desert, which looked nothing like a desert and was full of animals and plants, Montezuma, who had just become possessed, was riding a tall horse with a gloomy face, marching among an army in strange costumes.
It’s really a fancy dress! The soldiers of this army are all wearing tiger-skin coats and hats with tiger ear trimmings... It is said that this strange outfit is the military uniform of the elite Jaguar warriors of the Aztec Empire!
Montezuma himself is now wearing this outfit and has become a "devil" with ears on his hat!
Although the clothes of these Jaguar warriors are a bit "cute", their equipment is real. Everyone is carrying a rifled gun, and there are sugar grenades and bayonet holsters hanging on their belts. You can tell that they are Aziz at a glance. Turk's elite!
Looking at these Aztec elites, Montezuma couldn't help but sigh.
"King Aztec, are you sighing?" A somewhat stiff Spanish sounded in Montezuma's ears.
Hearing this question, Montezuma trembled and quickly explained: "Dong Bohou, I'm just worried that the number of troops is too small... Don't we have an army of 100,000? But now there are only two people crossing the desert with us. Thousands of jaguar warriors and a thousand merchant infantry. With only three thousand men, how can they defeat the Spaniards?"
When Dongbohou Li Guangdi heard this, he smiled noncommittally and thought to himself: "Three thousand people are still too few for you? We have only sixty or seventy thousand men and women combined... Among them, the Yin merchants Only about half. To be able to raise an army of 10,000 people is already exhausting. Now sending 3,000 people across the desert is just a lot of bluff. As for an army of 100,000 people, if we really have one, we don’t need a white-skinned guy like you. Are the Ztecs the puppet king?”
Although I think so in my heart, I still have to keep blowing on my lips!
Otherwise, this Aztec king would probably not consider himself a "devil"... and Shang Fang still needs the deterrence of the devil to scare the Spaniards!
"Three thousand people are just the vanguard," Li Guangdi, who was wearing the official uniform of the Shang Dynasty, said seriously. "The main force led by Xibohou will soon go south through the Sonora Desert. In addition, the troops led by Jizhouhou will go by sea. Go south and make a surprise attack on the port of Acapulco. That is the real main force! As long as we and Xibehou's army can attract the Spanish Emperor's army to the Sonora Desert, Jizhouhou's surprise attack will be successful. By then, the entire Mexico It’s all ours!”
This plan... doesn't seem to be successful!
After hearing what Li Guang said, Montezuma's heart almost dropped. Because he knew that Leopold I was too cowardly to go to the south of the Sonora Desert to fight the devil. If he had had such courage, he should have fought the Sudan in Vienna. Now that he can stay in Mexico City, he is worthy of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Considering that Mexico City did not have a decent wall in the past, the few standing armies they had were also defeated by the Count of San Cristo. It is estimated that the Spanish Emperor is going all out to recruit troops and buy a city wall at this moment!
Just when the Aztec king's heart felt cold, there was a rush of horse hoofbeats in front of him. When the Aztec king looked up, he found that it was a battalion commander of the Great Shangye Division, named The young man Huang Feixi came with several "Tiger Warriors" on Pegasus. This Huang Feixi led a hundred wild man cavalry to clear the way in front, and he should have left the Sonora Desert. Why is he back now?
Could it be that the governor and bishop of the new colony of Andalusia gathered a militia to prepare for resistance?
Just when he thought of this, Huang Feixi had already rode up to Li Guangdi, and saw him cupping his hands on horseback, and then said in "Shang dialect": "Bingdong Bohou, there is no trace of the Spaniards south of the desert. The church in the Sonora town near the desert was also abandoned, and the priest had long since disappeared. All the whites and mixed-race whites in the town had fled, and only some indigenous people were left, led by their elders, to greet Azit outside the town. Defeat the king’s army!”
Li Guangdi burst out laughing when he heard this, and said to Montezuma in Spanish: "King Aztec, we have captured Sonora... You can be crowned in the town of Sonora tomorrow!"
