The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
After arranging marriages and allocating houses for all the men and women in the village, it got dark. After a busy day, Tashiguye felt really tired. Before it got dark, he returned to his barracks, fell down on a large camel skin and fell asleep.
However, he had just slept for a while when the guard came to report that a soldier who was the leader of a ten-man group had something to report to him. He was so sleepy that he really didn't want to get up, but he knew that the team leader must have something important to report, so he got up and sat on the chair.
The soldier who served as the team leader was a young recruit. As soon as he entered the door, he said in a tone of voice that he had made a big mistake, "Report to the school officer, this is terrible, the clan members are all in chaos."
Tashiguye said, "What happened?"
The team leader said, "Those tribesmen didn't listen to the orders at all. They couldn't live in the houses they were given, so they all ran back to where they originally lived."
When Tashi Guye heard this, he frowned and cursed, "How do you manage this? What an idiot."
However, before the words were finished, another team leader came and reported, "College officer, it's bad, a clan member has had an affair with someone else's wife." He also said, "I have sent someone to take him." They were arrested. Where should the school officer keep them?"
Tashiguye became annoyed when he heard this and asked, "Where do you think they should be kept?" Because there was no place to hold prisoners in the military camp.
At this moment, several more clan members who had committed adultery were escorted over by some soldiers. The team leaders were all asking Tashiguye the same question, "How to execute them?"
Tashiguye thought for a while and said, "Forget it, let them go first."
But the team leaders all said, "Fornication outside marriage is a capital crime."
Tashiguye said, "These tribesmen have been so ignorant and barbaric for generations. Can you educate and transform them in a day or two? If you kill them all one by one, in a few days the entire tribe will not Are you going to let us all be killed?" After that, he said to the team leaders in a commanding tone, "Let them all go, but keep them tight. Don't bother me if it's nothing important. "
After the team leaders left, Tashiguye was no longer sleepy at all. He felt that this situation must be solved, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the King of Quito. So, he took Jiawo to the place where the leader lived, hoping to use the leader to discipline these ignorant tribesmen. The chief still lived in his own home, but according to Inca law he could have fifteen wives. However, in reality he only selected seven women for himself.
However, when Tashi Guye came to the leader's house, he found that the scene in the house was the same as when he first came. He still sleeps with his sister, his son and two daughters.
Tashi Guye was very surprised and asked the leader, "Didn't King Quida ask me to form a family for you and allocate houses to you? Why are you still living together?"
However, the leader stood up and sat up. Instead of listening to this, he angrily asked Tashiguye, "Dear officer, many people have come to me to complain, saying that your soldiers arrest our people at will." , Isn’t this bad? Didn’t you and King Quida both say that you are not here to harass us or rob us, but why do your soldiers want to arrest our people? "
Tashi Guye also said rudely, "I came to you just for this matter." Then he added, "Didn't the King of Quito tell you that day that from now on, you are all members of the Kingdom of Quito?" Citizens, as citizens, must abide by the laws of the country. National laws stipulate that extramarital fornication and cohabitation are punishable by hanging. However, some of you have violated the laws and regulations and refused to live in the houses I assigned you. Your own wives and men can go out and have fornications with other men and women."
The leader said, "Those are the laws of your Quidos, not ours. Our rules are that living in groups and having fornications can not only make you happy physically and mentally, but can also lead to more children."
Tashiguye said sternly, "However, your behavior of promiscuity and fornication between men and women is a kind of debauchery and fornication, and a sinful and bad habit."
The leader said disapprovingly, "We don't understand what you are saying. Anyway, we have been here for generations, and there is nothing wrong with it? We like to live like this."
Tashi Guye said in a stern tone, "But the bright and great Sun God will not allow you to do this. Therefore, he sent us the army of Quito to conquer and discipline you. You must act in accordance with the decrees of the King of Quito." , Otherwise, the king’s sword and ax will not spare anyone.”
The leader said, "Then you kill us all."
This sentence left Tashi Guye speechless. He knew that not only he, Tashiguye, could not kill them, but even King Quida would not kill them casually. Because in the hundreds of years of Inca conquest history, no great king had ever done this. They would only point their axes at enemies who stubbornly resisted and rebelled. Tashiguye had no choice but to leave the leader's hut.
In addition to controlling the marriage, fornication and debauchery of local tribesmen, Quito soldiers also taught them to work and farm. Inca law stipulates that children from five years old to elderly women must work and are not allowed to be lazy. Any behavior that is extremely boring and does not work when there is something to do will be regarded as laziness and will be severely punished. So Tashiguye led the soldiers to measure the land and distribute the flat wasteland equally to each family. In this way, they could clear up wasteland and grow corn and cotton.
Tashiguye asked the team leader to distribute shovels, wooden plows and other working tools to each household. However, for several days, no tribesman came out to dig in the fields with tools. So, after hearing the reports from the team leaders, Tashiguye took Gawo and some soldiers to mobilize each household in the village. If persuasion failed, tough measures would be taken to force them to work in the fields.
They came to the first house in the village. There was not a man in the room, but a woman in her forties and two young women were sitting naked in the room, tearing off a piece of clothing together. They tore a coat into long strips of cloth. Every time a strip of cloth was torn off from the clothes, everyone burst into laughter. It seems that tearing clothes can bring them endless fun. A group of children around them were snatching at each other the strips of cloth that had been torn off by the adults.
Seeing this, Gavo was furious and yelled, "Stop."
A loud roar scared the women and children to huddle in the corner of the room, looking at the angry Quito soldiers with very frightened eyes. Seeing these women not only not wearing the clothes they were given properly, but tearing them into strips, Gavo was even more angry. He took a big step forward and shouted, "Put on all the clothes." .”
The women were so frightened that they trembled when they saw Gavo's angry expression and gnashing of teeth, but they still refused to put on their clothes. Gavo walked over, picked up a young woman, and put the clothes that were not completely torn on her body. However, this woman was crying and fussing, but refused to get dressed. Gavo became angry and asked two soldiers to hold the woman down before putting her clothes on.
The young woman was clothed, and then another young woman was clothed. Fortunately, this woman behaved very docilely, allowing the soldiers to put on their clothes without much effort. However, the older woman's clothes had been torn into strips, so the soldiers had to put the pants on her.
After letting the women get dressed, Tashiguye asked the team leader to lead them with tools to dig in the fields. The women refused to go, but were escorted by the soldiers and forced to a piece of grass beside the stream in front of the house. The team leader taught them to hoe the weeds on the ground first. However, within two strokes of the hoe, the young woman's foot was dug up by the hoe. There was a lot of blood. The woman was so painful that she hugged her feet and screamed, wailing, as if she was about to die. When the children saw that she was injured and bleeding so much, they were so frightened that they started crying.
The team leader quickly asked her to sit on the ground and got two leaves for her to press on the injured area. Only then did she stop crying. As a result, the other two women also threw their tools aside and sat on the ground. No matter how hard the team leader said or forced them, they refused to get up.
Seeing this situation, Tashi Guye had no choice but to let the two women help the injured woman go home. However, when they walked from the grass beside the stream to the path on the mountainside, they saw that the women had taken off all their clothes and were sitting naked on the grass, tearing off their clothes again.
Then walk forward along the path and you will reach the second house. There was an old man lying on the floor in this room. A middle-aged woman and two young girls were sitting around him, holding a bunch of gray hair and catching lice on his head. Whenever they caught a louse, they would put it in their mouths, bite it, and then rinse their mouths and tongues with relish. As if these dirty lice were a delicacy.
Gavo rushed into the house and shouted in the local dialect, "Why don't you wear clothes?" But these people had no concept of the word clothes, so they didn't understand, but spoke in a confused and frightened way. He looked at the soldiers.
Gavo used his dagger to pick up the clothes lying on the floor and shouted at them. At this time, they seemed to understand, so they took their clothes from the floor and put them on themselves. It turned out that the floor of this family only had grass and no animal skins, so they used these clothes as animal skins.
Gavo forced them to stand up with a dagger and went to dig in the fields with tools. However, they discovered that their tools were missing. After repeated questioning by Jiawo, he found out that the tools had been taken out by the children to play with and lost. When the team leader heard this, he was so angry that his eyes almost popped out. He yelled, "Why don't you go out and search for them! If you can't find them, I'll skin you."
The old man took the women and children and started to go out. However, they did not go out to find lost tools, but to catch voles using a round set made of thin wicker about half a meter long. This kind of condom only has an entrance but no exit. The entrance is larger, just big enough for a field mouse to get in, and then it gets smaller and smaller toward the other end. They put a little food in the box, and then placed the box on the edge of the grass in front of and behind the house. As soon as the vole got into the box, it would keep digging in in order to get food. After drilling to a certain extent, the elasticity of the thin wicker will trap it. At this time, it can no longer get out if it wants to go out.
The team leader was furious when he saw that they were catching voles instead of looking for things, so he forced them to look for the lost tools. But he was stopped by Tashi Guye's signal. So, everyone stood on the roadside and watched how they caught the voles.
After a while, the old man caught a little field mouse. The little field mouse was trapped in the harness and chirped. The old man picked up the cover from the ground, took the little vole out of the cover, pinched the little vole's neck with one hand, and tore off the little vole's skin with force with the other hand. Then, he brought the field mouse over and gave it to Tashi Guye to eat.
Tashi Guye knew that serving meat to guests was the highest etiquette for local people to treat guests, but he still waved his hand to express his refusal to eat. The old man gave the field mouse to Gavo again. Gavo also waved his hand and said to the old man, "You can eat it yourself. We Qui people will not eat this kind of raw meat." Then he said to the old man, "You should hurry up and find tools to open up wasteland. There is no such thing." If you don’t have tools, your land won’t be able to be cultivated and planted.”
But the old man didn't take his words seriously. When he saw that the soldiers refused to eat, he gave the field mice to the children. Several children gathered around, fighting for it, tearing and tearing, and quickly finished the little field mouse. Then, they pestered the old man to trap field mice for them again. The old man began to put the condom on the ground next to the house again.
Tashiguye knew that among the tribesmen here, the men usually went out to work, while the women just stayed at home and looked after their children. Therefore, I feel that we should urge those young and strong men to come out to work. By this time, the sun had risen above our heads, and it was time for the men to come back from hunting for dinner. Moreover, after eating, the men no longer go out to hunt. This is a good time for them to go to work in the fields. So, he led the soldiers towards the village.
