The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
It was afternoon this day, when the clan members in the village were having leisure time after dinner. King Atahualpa, accompanied by the leader, rode on a sedan chair lifted by eight people and led six thousand soldiers into the village. The Quito army formed two single columns in a mighty manner and walked toward the depths of the valley along the path into the village. We arrived at the large grassland where the clan members had gathered a few days ago.
All the people in the village have been ordered by the leader to come here. They knew that their village had been occupied by the Quito army and that their lives would be changed by the conquerors, so they all waited for their fate with a kind of worry and curiosity. When they saw Quito soldiers wearing red military uniforms and holding spears and hatchets walking towards here along the paths along the mountains and streams, the long queue was winding along the paths. Before the end, I felt a kind of worry and fear that I had never experienced before, and I looked at so many heavenly soldiers and generals who came from nowhere.
Because the grassland could not accommodate many people, some of the soldiers could only line up on the grassland, while more people stood on the path beside the stream.
King Atahualpa, accompanied by the chiefs and officers, came to the edge of the meadow. He got down from the sedan chair, and with a noble and arrogant attitude, he glanced carefully at the entire clan of men, women, old and young who were naked and painted in four colors on the opposite side. This was the filthiest and most ignorant tribe he had ever seen.
At this time, the leader made a noise twice and waved his hand towards everyone to quiet down the tribesmen present. Then, in a high-pitched voice, he introduced the people of the tribe and said, "Take a good look. Do you know who is standing next to me? He is the world-famous King of Quito!"
After listening to the leader's words, there was a surprising and chaotic discussion below. The leader waved his hand again and shouted loudly, "Don't make any noise, please ask King Quito to lecture you now."
After all the mountain people were quiet, King Atahualpa began to speak in a resonant and conquering voice, "People of the Xishan Village, our army from Quito has come to you, not to occupy your homes or to intrude on you. Instead, we are here to free you from your primitive living conditions according to the will of the Sun God, so that you can receive the radiance and infinite favor of the Sun God. Moreover, we will also build a road for you to Quito, allowing you to live It must be as rich and beautiful as the people of Quito.”
After Gavo translated his words, he added, "As the king of the Kingdom of Quito, I will not allow my soldiers or anyone to disobey the will of the Sun God, destroy your houses and property, and disturb your peace. . If someone violates the rules and commits a crime, you can tell me, and the laws of the Kingdom of Quito will be severely punished."
At this point, King Atahualpa paused, took a breath, and said in a very strong tone, "According to the will of the Sun God, you are now citizens of the Kingdom of Quito. As citizens of the Kingdom of Quito, you We must abandon the barbaric customs of nakedness, filth, ignorance, and promiscuity, and live in a civilized and decent manner like the citizens of Quito. Any violation will be severely punished."
Next, he announced that the local area would be named Kirianaku, a town in the Kingdom of Quito, and appointed Colonel Tashi Guye as the administrator of the town, and appointed the leader as the tribal leader of the town.
After the king finished speaking, Tashiguye began to announce the criminal laws of the Kingdom of Quito in a sacred and solemn manner and tone:
"The laws of the Kingdom of Quito stipulate that: 1. Theft, robbery, murder, unmarried adultery and married adultery will be sentenced to death by hanging; 2. Those who blaspheme the sun god and slander the king will be punished by death; 3. Moving land boundaries, Bringing water from other people's land into your own land, and setting fire to other people's houses will be punished with severe penalties; 4. Damaging public facilities, destroying roads and bridges will be punished with death; 5. No matter when and where, if there is rebellion or betrayal of the king His behavior was to kill all the local residents and raze the place to the ground."
After that, the king, accompanied by the leader and others, inspected the entire village along the path beside the stream. He told the school officials where to build temples, where to build military camps, and where to build granaries, and asked General Tubatu to spend half a year. It will take time to build the road from Ibarra to here. The general and the colonel listened carefully and nodded in response.
Afterwards, King Atahualpa left the village with his soldiers and returned to the barracks outside the village. Colonel Tashiguye entered the village with three thousand soldiers and set up camp next to the flat grassland. Hundreds of tents were lined up along the streams and in the grasslands and valleys in the mountains, stretching for several miles. The soldiers train in formation every morning, and in the afternoon they educate and transform the tribesmen in the village. The soldiers kept walking from one end of the village to the other, and from the other side of the valley to this side. The entire valley was full of soldiers in uniforms, and there were some troops that were constantly moving towards this side. Come, let this peaceful and not big valley become bustling and busy.
That afternoon, after the tribe had lunch, the school official Tashi Guye asked the leader to notify the whole village to gather on the grass. When people came to the grass, Tashiguye began to announce Quito's marriage laws and family methods to everyone. He said, “According to the laws of the Kingdom of Quito, girls must be over 18 years old, and men must be over 24 years old before they can get married and start a family. Men and women in the village must marry men and women in the village, and are not allowed to marry anyone outside the village. Miscegenation. Violators are guilty of serious crimes. Housing for newlyweds will be built and allocated by the village."
After announcing the law, he asked all women over the age of eighteen and men over the age of twenty-four to stand up and divide into two teams. However, these ignorant tribesmen do not know their true age, and girls begin living together and having promiscuous sex when they are thirteen or sixteen, and some girls even have children early.
In this regard, based on his own judgment, Tashi Guye personally selected the women over eighteen years old one by one and asked them to line up in a long row according to different age groups.
In fact, these tribesmen all appear to be much older than their actual age. Girls of fifteen or sixteen have already picked up or picked up their children, looking just like women of eighteen or nineteen. But girls who are really eighteen or nineteen years old are almost as mature as women who are twenty-four or five-year-old. By the age of thirty, women already look very old-fashioned. After the age of forty, a woman has become an old woman.
Then, he picked out the men over the age of twenty-four one by one. In fact, the eighteen or nineteen-year-old boys here already look older than the twenty-four or five-year-old men. However, Tashiguye can only make judgments based on his own feelings. He also lined up the men in a long row by age group and stood opposite the row of women.
He then asked the men and women to come forward and choose their favorites from each other. The young and strong man and the younger and more coquettish woman quickly fell in love with the person they liked. They held hands and stood happily on the other side of the line.
However, because the men here are engaged in dangerous activities such as hunting all year round, more young and strong men die and are injured, so some young women are unable to find a man who matches them. Therefore, Tashiguye had no choice but to let older men marry these women. Since then, older women have been forced to remain widowed.
Finally there are some kidnappers, mutes and disabled people. Tashi Guye asked them to ask the kidnappers to find the kidnappers, the dumb to find the dumb, and the disabled to find the disabled. As for those who really can't choose a match, they have to be widowed or single.
After the men and women who had chosen their spouses stood facing each other in a long line, Tashi Guye came over, holding the man's hand and the woman's hand, and then put their hands together. Let them hold each other tightly, which means that they are married. At this time, Tashiguye allocated a room in all the nationalized houses to the two of them, and then handed the couple over to a Quito soldier who temporarily served as the team leader for management.
In order to facilitate organization and management, the Inka kings established a law as the principle and theoretical basis for rule. They believed that the implementation of this law could prevent and stop troubles in various kingdoms. For this reason, they stipulated that in all villages, large and small, residents in the empire should be organized into a unit of ten people, called a group of ten. Appoint one of them as team leader to supervise the other nine. Five teams of ten are formed into a team, with a captain. Two teams form a company, with a company commander; five hundred-man companies form a battalion, with a battalion commander; two battalions form a regiment, with a regiment commander. The head of the regiment was the overall leader of the basic units of the Inca Empire. Because they believe that if a person can fulfill his duties, he can only supervise a thousand people at most. All regiment leaders are under the jurisdiction of local chiefs and administrators, while areas with tens of thousands of people are under the jurisdiction of senior royal officials sent by the king.
The Incas punished crime harshly, but property and office were hereditary. The Inca had no penalties such as fines and confiscation of property. They believe that punishing property while letting criminals live is tantamount to not eradicating evil but only depriving bad people of their property. This will make them more unscrupulous to do greater evil. Therefore, when a leader commits a serious crime, although he will be put to death, his heir will not be deprived of his leadership position. His heir will still be allowed to hold the position of leader, but at the same time, he will be informed of his father's crime and punishment. Lest he make the same mistake again. If a chief commits a crime, he is deprived of his status as chief. Then his son or brother will succeed him as the chief, and everyone must obey him. Even when a general was dismissed, his son or brother took over, but a man of royal blood was sent to serve as his superior.
The leader of the ten-person team has several responsibilities for the members of the team. First, he serves as the general affairs officer. When any need arises, he submits an application to the provincial governor or official responsible for supply, requesting assistance for the people in his unit. For example, if there are no seeds or People on rations asked for grain, for wool for clothing, for rebuilding houses for those whose houses had collapsed or burned down, etc. The second is to act as a prosecutor and prosecutor. No matter who commits any crime in the unit, no matter how small the crime is, they must report it to the higher-level officer responsible for the crime or skip the level and report to a higher-level officer. Judges at all levels have varying levels of authority and can judge crimes of varying severity. The criminal is punished not because he has committed a crime, nor because he has harmed others, but because he has broken the rules of King Inka, whom they worship as a god, and violated his holy decree. Prosecutors and chiefs may impose punishments such as death, flogging, or exile according to the seriousness of the crime; third, they are responsible for reporting the number of births and deaths of men and women each month, so that at the end of the year, the number of births and deaths can be reported. The number of those who took part in the campaign and those who died were reported to the king.
Originally, these ten-person leaders and hundred-person leaders were all served by the villagers and village chiefs of the village. However, these ignorant tribesmen did not understand the rules of the land at all, let alone civilized etiquette. Therefore, for the time being, it can only be done by soldiers. The soldier who served as the team leader took the five couples and their children under his charge to the houses assigned to them. The house is already equipped with some daily necessities.
