The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
After hearing this story, the king and his beloved concubines were filled with sighs. They all felt sorry for the love tragedy of Gu Lan and Bresbitu, and were also angry at the heartless Lang Enyivaya, feeling that he was really to blame for himself.
A favorite concubine said, "But such an ending will make both Gulan and Bracebitu lose their love. In fact, it is better to let them both marry the young man named Enyiwaya at the same time."
Another princess said, "That won't work. That would be too cheap for the heartless man. He should be allowed to taste the bitter fruit of being heartless."
The king said, "Chuzkut is the god of air, responsible for persuading good people, driving away evil, and regulating the morals of the gods. He is here to bring the wind and rain gods home and return them to their pure and simple customs." Therefore, he will not allow Gulan and Bresbitu to fall in love with the mortal world again. Regardless of whether Gulan and Bresbitu still love the heartless Enyiwaya, Chuzkut will not let them anymore. Leave home and return to the world.”
Prince Pabalak said in a very appreciative tone, "Your Majesty is wise. God is God after all, not a mortal. It is impossible for him to marry and fall in love with mortals in the world. Because God controls everything of mortals in the world."
At this moment, Haya, the king's attendant, suddenly entered the chamber and reported to the king, "Supreme King, a messenger has arrived from Tumbes with urgent news."
Tumbes is a coastal town nearly a thousand kilometers away from Quito. Although the road from Tumbes to Quito is smooth and the stations are connected, the messengers have to run all the way over mountains, wades and rivers, which takes two or three days at the fastest. Therefore, if it is not very urgent and important information, the local chief executive will not send people all the way to deliver the letter to the palace in a hurry.
When Emperor Huayna Capac heard that it was Tumbes who sent a messenger to report, he couldn't help but feel startled, because whenever a hundred thousand people were sent from afar to rush to deliver news, it was usually either a disaster somewhere, or a chief had rebelled. , there are few things that make people feel joyful. Therefore, he frowned and ordered his attendant Haya to send the messenger to the palace meeting hall to wait for the summons.
The meeting hall of the palace is only a few steps away from the inner meeting hall. It is the main hall where the king summons ministers or messengers. The main hall is more than two hundred square meters and can accommodate at least two to three hundred people. Except for some gold or treasure ornaments hung on the walls of the main hall, there was only one big gold chair in the entire room. This golden chair weighs about two to three hundred pounds and requires two people to lift it. The chair was placed in the center of the room, with a solid gold base plate under each of its four legs. On both sides of the outer meeting hall there is a large shed that can accommodate thousands of people. The big shed is also decorated with golden walls and many gold sculptures and handicrafts. This kind of large shed is mainly used for large gatherings and celebrations on rainy days.
King Capac, supported by several young princesses, came from the inner chamber of the chamber to the chamber of the chamber. At this time, several palace ministers had arrived in advance and knelt down in the main hall respectfully. Emperor Kapac sat down on the chair and slightly raised his hand to Haya who was standing aside. Haya immediately shouted to the door, "The messenger has entered the temple."
As soon as Haya's shout ended, he saw a messenger in uniform, dusty and exhausted, quickly walked into the palace meeting hall from the door. When he saw Emperor Wayna Capak, he did not dare to raise his head. He got up, knelt down with a bang, and reported timidly, "The Supreme Inca King, I have been assigned by the chief executive of Tumbes, Curaca, to report important matters to the King."
The king said, "It doesn't matter." The messenger said, "A few days ago, a strange and ominous sign appeared over the bay in front of the town of Tumbes. A large ship appeared from the clouds with wings, illuminated by the sun. A bearded white man wearing a robe made of thunder and lightning was sitting on the boat and walking towards us. Chief Kuraka was puzzled by this, so he asked the priest to perform calculations. The priest said that this was a sign of great disaster. Therefore. Chief Curaca sent a servant to report this matter to King Inca.”
After listening to the messenger's story, Emperor Huayna Kapac immediately remembered a story he had heard from his elders in the past. The story goes that long before the Inca monarchs came to rule, a bearded god who called himself Contic appeared in the Huicamayo Valley from the shores of Lake Titicaca. He was tall, with snow-white complexion, noble demeanor, and extremely strong. He was wearing a white robe. When people were disrespectful to him, he would get angry and set a mountain on fire with thunder and lightning to severely punish people. The frightened people, knowing that their actions had offended the god, asked him for mercy and forgiveness. So the omnipotent gods forgave them, extinguished the fire, and walked quickly towards the distant mountains, and finally descended into the sea in the northern region. Before going down the mountain into the sea, he also told people that he would come back again.
In addition, he had also heard from his fathers that the almighty god Contic would one day emerge from the water to rule the Inca Empire. Moreover, they also said that Contic was a kind of white man who was smarter and taller than the Incas, and asked them not to fight against the gods, but to obey the rule of the gods. Therefore, upon hearing the messenger's words, Emperor Huayna Capak immediately felt a sense of despair and disillusionment that he had never experienced before, and his head immediately began to hurt violently. He weakly raised his hand towards the messenger and asked the attendant to take the messenger to eat and rest, but he covered his head with his hands and fell on the chair. The concubines beside him quickly helped him out of the meeting hall, returned to the bedroom, and placed him on the big bed covered with gorgeous red felt.
Emperor Wayna Capac was lying on the bed, thinking about what the messenger had just told him. The Incas believed in superstitions and omens, sometimes to an extreme degree. Therefore, the messenger's story gave him a sense of fear that the future was coming or that a catastrophe was imminent.
After a while, the prince and princess also came to visit the king. They stood respectfully beside the king's bed. Prince Atahualpa knew his father's mood and thoughts, so he sat beside his father's bed, thinking of ways to comfort his father. He said, "What the messenger was talking about was just a strange and abnormal celestial phenomenon. Why should my father worry about it? Besides, the Inca royal family has been in power for more than five hundred years. The world is peaceful, the great cause is unified, the territory is unlimited, and the four seas have surrendered. Why should my father worry about it?" ?”
When Prince Huascar saw that the king was still frowning and sighing in worry, he persuaded the king, "My father has been a soldier all his life, fighting in the north and south. Wherever he went, he attacked cities and fortified villages, and the people surrendered. I only heard about my father's great military exploits." , is famous far and wide, how could I ever hear that my father is frightened and worried?"
Emperor Wayna Capac felt that what Wang Er said was reasonable, so he thought: Yes, in his life, only others were afraid of him. When had he ever been afraid of others? But he still said with lingering fear, "If this person is a barbarian, my army will trample them like crickets and ants as they pass by. But this is the god Kontich. He has extraordinary strength and wisdom. It is something that ordinary people like us cannot compete with or compare to.”
But Prince Atahualpa said unconvinced, "My father has nearly a hundred thousand troops. Not to mention killing them with one shot and one knife, even one person with a mouthful of saliva can drown him."
Next to her, Princess Anna also persuaded her father, "What Brother Wang said is very reasonable. How can a strange celestial phenomenon foretell a bad omen and reveal the secret of heaven."
After listening to the persuasion of his beloved sons, Emperor Huayna Capac seemed to feel somewhat comforted, but he was still worried, so he asked Prince Atahualpa to call the most famous priest of Quito to investigate this celestial phenomenon. Calculate and decipher. Atahualpa thought for a while and asked Haya to call Chalkuchma.
About half an hour later, Chalkuch rushed over. Chalkuchma is the palace priest, the uncle of Prince Atahualpa, and the brother of the king's favorite concubine Palia. In the Inca priests were equivalent to law enforcement officers, in charge of the country's criminal laws, presiding over palace celebrations, etc., and had great power. Therefore, the palace priests are usually served by the uncles and brothers of the Inca king.
Chalkuchma came to the room of Emperor Huayna Capak, knelt respectfully beside the king's bed, and waited quietly for the king's questions. The king asked Princess Anna beside him to tell Chalkuch in detail the omens told by the messenger from Tumbes. Chalkuchma nodded and whispered to the king, "Supreme King Inca, judging from the humble ministers, this is the harbinger of a serious disaster."
Emperor Wayna Capac looked startled and asked quickly, "Why did you see him?"
Charkuchma showed fear and said to the king, "According to the signs, this person is probably the bearded god who calls himself Kontich. The god Kontich can soar into the clouds, ride on the fog, and sail ships. Feitian specializes in punishing the strong and supporting the weak, and fights against injustice. If he appears anywhere, disaster will befall the people there, and disaster will be imminent."
Emperor Huayna Capac was already frightened by the abnormal signs in Tumbes, and when he heard the words of High Priest Chalkuchma, he became even more flustered and worried. He waved Charkuchma and his family members who were guarding him to leave, and wanted to lie down quietly for a while, because he felt that he was indeed a little tired and wanted to sleep peacefully for a while. After everyone left, the room immediately became quiet. He closed his eyes and wanted to sleep for a while, but as soon as he closed his eyes, the terrible prophecies and omens that plagued the Inca Empire sounded in his ears again.
Viracocha, the eighth Inca king of the Inca Empire, once warned the subsequent Inca emperors that in two to three hundred years, a tall white man would invade the Inca Empire, break their idols, and destroy their kingdom. thereby replacing their rule. And asked future generations not to resist, but to submit to their rule and obey their mercy. In order to avoid causing panic to the royal family and the world, future Inca kings were asked not to tell their families and people the news. Viracocha's words frightened later Inca kings for a long time. However, over time, the terrible prophecies were completely forgotten by the Inca kings. Because not only did they not find any clues of the fulfillment of the prophecy, on the contrary, their empire became increasingly powerful, its territory exceeded the territory left by the previous kings, and its national power became more powerful. Therefore, not only did they begin to doubt the accuracy of the prophecies of King Viracocha, whom they had always revered as a god, they even began to doubt the divinity of Father Sun, and often showed a casual and irreverent look during sacrifices, which was exactly what all the kings of the past dynasties did. What is forbidden by the king. Because some Inca kings were increasingly disrespectful to the sun god in their sacrifices, which caused great panic among the Inca royal family. What makes them even more panicked is that along with this blasphemous behavior, ominous omens are also coming one after another. By the time of Tupac Yupanqui, the eleventh Inca king, worrying omens began to cast a shadow over the Inca people.
One day, after the ceremony of worshiping the Sun God, Tupac Yupanji looked at the Moon Palace in the Palace of the Sun God. He thoughtfully said to the priests around him, "Everyone says that the Sun God is immortal and is responsible for all things." The creator of things. When a person creates something, he should be present at the scene. However, when many things in the world were formed, the sun was not present. Therefore, he is not the creator of all things. Although he rotates all year round, he never Stop, but he is not alive. If he is alive, he will feel tired and tired just like us and need to rest and sleep. If he is free, then he can roam freely in the boundless sky, but he He has never been anywhere else. He is like a tethered animal, always spinning in a circle; or like an arrow, it flies wherever people shoot it whether they want it or not. ." After hearing the king's words, the priests felt as if they were struck by thunder. They did not dare to reply, so they politely advised the king to leave as soon as possible, fearing that he would say something more ugly and offensive again.
Fortunately, as soon as the king left, a thunderbolt with a ball of fire suddenly hit the place where he was standing, punching a big hole in the stone roof of the palace. Seeing that Father Sun was angry, the priests hurriedly sealed the place and designated it as a forbidden area, just like there were poisonous snakes and beasts there. Then, the priests returned to the Sun Palace and prayed loudly, asking the sun to forgive their son's disrespectful remarks. After that, there were no more disasters in the entire empire.
