When Atahualpa was in a good mood, he went to the Leisure Hall to play with his concubines.
Xiaoyao Hall is a hall specially designed by the late King Wayna Capak when he was building the palace, where twenty or thirty concubines can gather and play together. The hall is about thirty meters long and twenty meters wide. The floor is covered with a clean red carpet. There are about a dozen pure gold tables and twenty or thirty chairs around it. In the middle of the hall, there is a table against the wall. A large bed that can sleep four or five people together.
During this inspection, he brought over some of his favorite concubines. There are Yina and Uga, the two favorite concubines left by their father, as well as the new favorites Michalika, Shishi Viraj and Gutaya selected from the Virgin Palace. In addition, there are more than a dozen young and beautiful dancers who are good at singing and dancing. These concubines and singers had almost nothing to do except sleeping with them and singing. So, we gathered in the Xiaoyao Hall to play a game called bouncing.
The game consists of two women singing cheerful songs and jumping around, and competing in different jumping postures. The winner continues to play, the loser is eliminated, and the final winner is banned by everyone. For the queen. This game was very popular among royal families and harems.
Because it was raining heavily outside, the sky was dark, and the indoor light was very dark, so there were seven or eight oil lamps hanging in the Xiaoyao Hall at this time. Under the flickering lights, fragrant pears and grapes presented by the southern governors were placed on each small table, as well as fresh peaches presented by the northern chiefs. The concubines and showgirls, dressed in bright and noble dresses, sat around the red carpet, jumping, singing carefree songs and playing cheerful games.
At this time, King Atahualpa pushed the door in from outside. Everyone quickly stopped the game and bowed to the king in a polite manner, "Greetings to the king."
Atahualpa staggered into the hall, and instead of saying "no courtesy," he pointed at a singer and asked, "Hey, what's your name?"
The singer replied, "My name is Maita."
The king said, "Maita, what game do you think we should play today?"
Maita smiled and said, "The king can play whatever he wants."
The king smiled mysteriously and subtly and said, "Well, today I will show you a new trick that you have never played before."
The concubines and singing girls looked at the king in confusion and said, "What new tricks does the king have?"
King Atahualpa said, "You must all take off your clothes."
The concubines and singing girls immediately complained in unison, saying, "It's boring to take off clothes again."
Because Atahualpa loved playing tickling games with his concubines. The gameplay of this game is to let the concubines take off their clothes and compete to win or lose by jumping around. The loser will be carried on the bed and tickled all over her body until she laughs half to death. Because Atahualpa not only liked to watch the concubines playing crazy and playing together, but also especially liked to listen to the concubines' non-stop laughter and giggles.
When the King heard someone saying it was boring, he asked in a loud voice, "Who said it was boring?"
The concubines and singing girls replied in unison, in a strange voice, "No one said anything."
Although the concubines and singers dare to talk to the king, they dare not fail to carry out the king's orders, because if the king gets really angry and loses his temper, then your fate is unknown.
Taking off clothes was not a difficult thing for Inca women, because whether in the countryside or in the palace, it was a common and natural thing for women to take off their clothes or go naked. The concubines and singers quickly took off all their clothes. Then, they sat or squatted and waited to see what kind of game the king wanted to play with them.
Suddenly, the king stretched his right hand from his back to the front, holding a huge frog in his hand. The frog may have been caught too tightly, so it opened its mouth and began to cry "quack, quack, quack". The concubines and singing girls usually lived in the palace and had never seen such a thing as a frog. When they saw such an ugly and strange thing for the first time, they immediately shrank back in fear. The king laughed proudly and asked, "Who said this game is boring just now, huh? Come on, who said that?"
The concubines and singing girls quickly begged obediently, "Your Majesty, we didn't say anything."
The king laughed proudly again and said, "Why, you don't dare to admit it now?"
The concubines and singers begged again, "Really, Your Majesty, we didn't say anything."
The king shook his head while approaching the concubine and the singer, and said, "You all said it, you all said it." After saying that, he suddenly rushed towards the concubine and the singer. The poor concubines and singers screamed and fled in all directions. The king saw that the more scared the concubines and singers were, the more exciting and interesting they became, and he chased after the singer who was closest to him. The singer was unable to dodge and was caught by the king. The king pressed the frog's mouth to her chest, which frightened the woman so much that she screamed faintly. Then she fell to the ground unconscious, screaming horribly at the top of her lungs.
The king then chased the other concubine. The concubine quickly got under the bed. Seeing that he couldn't catch the man, the king got up and saw Yina sitting at the small table in the opposite corner, eating grapes leisurely. He thought to himself, I don't believe you are not afraid of Yina. So, he rushed straight towards that corner. However, just when he was about to rush to Yina, he saw Yina suddenly blowing out the oil lamp. As soon as the lights went out, darkness fell in front of him, making him unable to see anything. The king couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and wanted to restrain Yina properly. However, at this moment, his hand was slapped hard. As soon as he loosened his hand, the frog jumped out of his hand. He wanted to catch the frog again, but all the lights in the hall were blown out and nothing could be seen.
Just when he was about to lose his temper and order someone to light the lamp, he was suddenly surrounded by the concubines, who carried him to the big bed and stripped him of his clothes three times. At this time, all the lights in the hall were lit, but he, the King of Quito, was naked and tightly surrounded by the concubines and singers on the big bed, and they were tickled vigorously.
Atahualpa was made to cry or laugh, so he struggled hard. However, no matter how strong he is, he is not as strong as everyone else. See him being subdued by everyone. Yina asked him, "Does the king admit defeat?"
It was okay not to ask, but the question made the king a little angry. He said, "I, King Atahualpa, have fought countless battles, conquered every enemy, and won every battle. When have I ever admitted defeat to others? Just you little bitches, And you want my majestic King of Quito to admit defeat? Just dream!"
Seeing that the king refused to admit defeat, everyone called Queen Anna over and asked Queen Anna to make a decision. Queen Anna looked at the embarrassed state of the king surrounded by concubines and singing girls on the big bed, and said with a smile, "There are so many of you against the king alone, how can he not lose?" After that, she asked everyone to let the king go. , to dress the king. Unexpectedly, the king was really angry. He refused to let Yina and Wuga dress him, so he angrily rushed out naked.
However, before he could run naked back to the dormitory from Xiaoyao Hall, Haya chased him and said, "My supreme king, the messenger just sent a secret message." After saying that, he put the secret message away. on Atahualpa's desk. Of course, this secret message was not written with pen and paper, because the Incas did not have writing, but used a knotted rope called "kipu" to record events or convey information. The knotted rope is usually sixty centimeters long and is made up of various threads of different colors twisted together with many tassels on the threads. These tassels are of different colors and tied into knots; different colored threads and knots represent different types of affairs and information. White represents silver, which represents peace; yellow represents gold, which represents war. But knotted text is mainly used for arithmetic operations. All upper-class Inca people who have received a certain degree of education know the information conveyed by this "kipu" knot.
While King Atahualpa asked Haya to dress him, he read the secret letter over and over again, and the more he read, the tighter his frown became. This secret letter was brought by the spy in the palace of Cusco. It means that King Huascar did not agree with Atahualpa bringing many tribal people because he brought too many people to Cusco for the meeting. It was very inconvenient, as long as he brought some important ministers and entourage, and he was asked to arrive in Cusco within a week. He also said that if Atahualpa could not arrive within a week, King Huascar would send Cusco's army north to attack.
Atahualpa had already put on his clothes and asked Haya to fetch Chalkuchma and Luminavi immediately. Chalkuchma and Ruminawi lived in Xinguan, so they immediately came to the king's court room. The king showed them the secret message. Chalkuchma read the secret message for a long time, and then gave the knotted rope to Ruminawi. Ruminawi looked at the knotted rope, then looked at King Atahualpa's worried look, and said, "How can this matter make you so worried, King Atahualpa? Isn't it because Huascar is angry again?" Are you happy? As if we are all living for him. If he is unhappy, we will be in trouble."
Atahualpa still frowned and said, "But, he is preparing to send a large army north to attack."
Luminawi said in a rough voice, "When the two armies are fighting, how can he be our opponent?"
Atahualpa said to Chalkuchma, "But didn't you say that the army and strength of our Kingdom of Quito are not as good as those of the Inca Empire?"
Chalkuchma shook his head slightly and said, "In terms of the confrontation between the two armies, our Quito army is the most elite and best-fighting force brought by the late king from the provinces of the Inca Empire. And in Cusco, except for the twenty or thirty thousand Apart from the conventional troops, there are almost no troops in other provinces and regions. Moreover, those 20,000 to 30,000 conventional troops have not fought in a war for many years. Therefore, if a war really breaks out, they may not be a match for the Quito army at all. But , this kind of battle must be fought quickly and cannot be prolonged, because once the war lasts for ten days and a half, the Inca King will be able to mobilize two to three hundred thousand troops from all provinces across the country. By then, the Quito troops with less than 100,000 troops may It’s going to be hard to win.”
Speaking of this, Chalkuchma said in an emphatic tone, "If you want to fight the Inca army, you must choose the location of the decisive battle in the city of Tumebamba. Because it is farther away from Cusco than Quito." Nearly several hundred kilometers. Once the Quito army wins, they will launch a massive attack and pursue the victory without leaving Huascar any time to breathe. He will not have enough time to recruit soldiers or send people to other provinces to bring in reinforcements. If that happens, We can quickly capture the city of Cusco and capture Huascar alive."
Atahualpa calculated with his fingers that the journey from Quito to Cusco was about 1,500 kilometers, and a normal walk would take about two weeks. It takes about ten days to get from Tumebamba to Cusco. If the news of victory or defeat was conveyed to the Inca Palace at the stations along the way, it would take three or four days at the earliest. Calculating this, after Huascar received the news of the defeat, he only had five or six days at most to prepare and mobilize. These five or six days could only mobilize citizens and farmers near Cusco, but they could not recruit and organize armies from other provinces. These newly mobilized farmers and citizens barely know how to fight and cannot be compared with the battle-hardened soldiers in Quito.
After doing this calculation, Atahualpa slammed the table excitedly and said, "That's it, then we will have a decisive battle with Cusco's army in Tumebamba. I want Huascar to really know who it is." The army is stronger." But he said regretfully, "It's just that our plan of having the soldiers dress up as people going to pay homage to the late king in order to launch a surprise attack on Cusco was scrapped."
Chalkuchma thought for a while and said, "Huascar has already said that we are not allowed to send too many people to Cusco. If we send so many people, Cusco will definitely think that we deliberately violated the rules." Huascar’s will will send troops to intercept us.”
Atahualpa nodded and said, "Then there is no need for soldiers to pretend to be civilians."
