The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
A few days later, after receiving the report that Tashi Guye had conquered Xishan Village, King Atahualpa of Quit led General Tubatu and 10,000 soldiers to the barracks outside Xishan Village. He asked the soldiers to set up the tents of the barracks along the stream and the mountainside, so that the barracks were crowded on the mountainside and roadside outside the village, and the edges could not be seen at a glance.
After the entire barracks was stationed, Atahualpa asked Tashiguye to bring the leaders of Xishan Village to the barracks as guests. So, Tashiguye took Jiawo and two soldiers into the village and invited the leader and his son to the barracks for a banquet. Along the way, Tashiguye deliberately arranged for the leader and his son to walk along the barracks stationed on the roadside and in the stream, so that they could see the incomparable power of Quito's army. When they saw rows of white tents arranged neatly and orderly, as far as the eye could see, they were amazed. Because they have never seen such a huge barracks and army.
In the middle of hundreds of tents in the barracks arranged in a long formation, there is a large and eye-catching tent. The big tent is about ten meters long, seven or eight meters wide, and four or five meters high. It is made of white cloth, surrounded by red and green colors, and the top is covered with flowers. Dozens of colorful flags surrounded the surroundings, and a large banner with the royal emblem of the golden sun stood high in front of the tent. This is the camp of Atahualpa, king of Quitah.
At this time, a sumptuous banquet had been set up in the middle of the big tent. These delicacies are all rushed from Quito and other places, including vegetables and fruits from the south, seafood from Tumbes, pig trotters from Quito, and hare and wolf meat from Ibarra.
King Atahualpa of Quit was sitting on a chair next to the dining table with his eyes closed and meditating. After receiving the report from Colonel Tashi Guye that he had conquered the Xishan Village, he rushed here day and night from the Haliya Village hundreds of miles away.
He only opened his eyes when the palace attendant Haya reported that Colonel Tashi Guye had arrived with the leader. Seeing Tashi Guye leading two naked men into the camp, his brows immediately wrinkled into a knot. I thought to myself that these tribesmen were so primitive and ancient, they were so immortal. They don't look like humans at all, they are just a bunch of animals. If the sun's rays do not shine on them and the Inca civilization does not transform them, they will always live in this stubborn state.
When the school officer Tashi Guye brought the two men to King Quida, King Quita waved to the leader gently. Tashiguye said to his leader, "This is our supreme King of Quita."
The leader immediately felt a sense of reverence when he saw the majesty and dignity of King Quito. He and his son fell on their faces on the ground, knelt down to King Kida again and again, and kissed the king's shoes.
King Quida waved his hand to him cordially and asked them to stand up. Then he pointed to the banquet next to him and asked them to sit down. The leader and his son sat at the banquet table in fear, but they kept looking at King Quida nervously.
When the leader and his son sat down, King Atahualpa said to them, "We have come to you all the way from Quito. We are not here to kill your people or rob you, nor are we here to drive you out." Home, but by the will of the Sun God, I am here to bring you the light and warmth of the Sun God."
Jiawo translated the king's words to the leader and his son. They didn't know whether they understood or not, so they nodded in agreement. Then, King Quida said, "I heard that you are still in a primitive state of filth and ignorance. Not only do you have no marriage, but you also live in groups and have promiscuous sex. This is something the Sun God absolutely does not want to see, so he sent us to change it." Your way of life requires you to know dignity, honor and disgrace, have food to eat, clothing to wear, and live the same life as people in other provinces and regions of the Kingdom of Quito."
The leader and his son listened to King Quida's words and kept leaning forward and nodding. Atahualpa was very happy to see the leader and his son nodding their heads in response to his words, and then motioned for Tashi Guye to greet the leader for dinner. Tashiguye pointed to the opponent at the banquet and said that the king wanted them to enjoy whatever they wanted. The leader and his son then turned their attention to the banquet in front of them. There are a variety of meats and other dishes on the table, at least twenty or thirty plates. They are steaming hot and have an attractive aroma, making people salivate at the sight of them.
They have never seen so many dishes and such fragrant dishes. Eating a piece of raw meat is the greatest satisfaction and enjoyment at ordinary times, because the tribal people are short of food and addicted to meat. As long as it is meat, no matter it is rotten or spoiled, they will eat it without any waste or waste. throw away. There were so many delicacies of meat on the table in front of them that they had never even thought about it.
It's just that they feel that the meat on the table has been cooked into cooked food, but they have never eaten cooked food, because the meat they eat is raw meat, especially fresh meat with blood, which is their favorite food. The meat on the table is not only free of any bloodshot or gory, but is also washed cleanly, with some spices, placed on exquisite large plates, and neatly placed on the table, not to mention very... The floor is neat and orderly, and it smells particularly good.
Seeing that Tashiguye invited them to eat, the leader grabbed a large piece of wolf meat from a plate and chewed it up. Seeing his father move his hands, the leader's son also grabbed a large piece of wolf meat and started eating it. The two of them finished the plate of wolf meat in a few clicks, and then started to grab the pig's trotters.
After finishing the plate of pig's trotters, they noticed that King Quida and the others were not eating, but were sitting and watching them eating. They asked King Quida and the others incomprehensively. He said, "Why don't you eat such delicious food?"
The king smiled politely, because the king usually did not eat with others. And Tashiguye said, "We are not hungry." In fact, it was not that they were not hungry, but seeing the dirty look of the leader and them gobbling up food, the greasy and unclean feeling really made them No appetite at all.
After finishing the plate of pig's trotters, they also finished a large plate of rabbit meat. At this time, they wiped the greasy hands on their bodies, touched their already swollen bellies, and kept snoring. Burping. But when they tasted alpaca meat again, they felt that the meat was more fragrant and more flavorful than all the meat they had just eaten, so they just finished the large plate of alpaca meat with their bellies open.
At this time, both the leader and his son were unable to move anymore and sat on the chairs panting. King Atahualpa began to say to the leader, "I heard from Tashi Guye that people here don't wear clothes and don't grow crops; men and women can have sex. This is something our Sun God does not do. It is allowed, so we are going to carry out a comprehensive transformation of the people here, let everyone wear clothes, plant crops, implement marriage arrangements between men and women, and prohibit fornication and promiscuity between men and women."
When the leader and his son heard that the king was going to reform their tribe, their faces showed great displeasure. The leader said to King Quito, "Honorable King Quito, our ethnic group has been living like this for generations. They are used to this kind of life and like to live like this. Can we continue to live like this?" "
King Atahualpa's face suddenly fell, and he said without negotiation, "Our Quito army has gone through all kinds of difficulties and traveled thousands of miles to come here, just to let you accept the light and glory of the Sun God, and to lift you from ignorance and bad habits. be rescued and become a decent and civilized ethnic group."
Tashiguye also said to the leader, "If we want you to continue to maintain your original ignorant and ugly lifestyle, why do we come here from the distant Quito? We are here just to transform you into like us. Civilized and decent people. Let you wear the same clothes as us and eat the same food as us. In this way, you don’t have to eat only one meal a day, and you no longer have to worry about whether there is food to eat every day.”
When the leader heard this, he said, "You mean, we can have meat to eat without hunting every day in the future?"
Tashiguye shook his head and said, "Inca law stipulates that the game in the mountains and forests belongs to the Inca king, and those who hunt or poach will be sentenced to death. Therefore, what is classified as the Kingdom of Quito here After the area is established, no one is allowed to hunt in the mountains anymore.”
The leader frowned and said, "If we can't go into the mountains to hunt, what will we eat?"
Tashiguye said, "The King of Quito will distribute food to everyone here, but you must learn to work and start planting corn."
The leader made a mournful face and said, "But we don't know how to grow corn."
Tashiguye said, "Don't worry, our people will teach you how to grow corn."
Seeing that there was no room for negotiation in what Kido said, the leader could only sigh and said, "As long as you can let each of us have food to eat, we will listen to you."
After speaking, the leader saw that there was still some meat left on the table and said to Tashiguye, "Can I take this meat back for my family to eat?"
Tashiguye glanced at King Atahualpa. Atahualpa waved his hand towards the leader and said, "These things cannot be eaten and must be thrown away."
When the leader heard this, he was puzzled and said, "Why should such good meat be thrown away?"
Tashi Guye said to the leader, "Because this is the leftover food, we can't eat it anymore."
However, the leader was still puzzled and asked, "Why can't we eat the leftover meat?" Because for them, any bit of meat is extremely precious and there will never be any waste. .
However, the king did not want to explain too much to the leader, so he called Haya and whispered a few words. After a while, Haya placed a basket woven with rattan in front of the leader and said, "This is a gift from the king."
When the leader saw that there were two pig's trotters, a wolf steak, a deer head and a pack of vicuña jerky in the basket, he quickly knelt on the ground to thank the king.
The king waved his hand towards him politely and said, "Take it back and give it to your family to taste."
