The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
It was late afternoon and the sun had not yet completely set. Poor Huascar was brought to a gloomy and strange castle again. The castle is small and located on the outskirts of Cusco. He seemed to have visited this castle during a tour many years ago, but it had been so long that he could no longer remember it clearly. But he could still remember that this seemed to be a garrison barracks, near the valley of the Urubamba River. But he is still very familiar with the Urubamba River. The Urubamba River is called the Sacred River, and this valley is the famous Sacred Valley. In the Sacred Valley, there are many ruins such as fortresses, temples and granaries of the Inca Empire. The ruins are mostly distributed in the mountains, and some Inca villages are scattered in the valleys below the mountains.
In the evening, Huascar was escorted out of the castle by Quito soldiers and brought to a small playground. One side of the playground was surrounded by woods and the other side was an unfathomable cliff. Below the cliff was the rapid flow of the Urubamba River. river water. Huascar was taken out of the castle and saw hundreds of his nephews and uncles tied up in the playground. Many people are the legitimate or illegitimate children and grandchildren of their father, King Wayna Capak. At this time, Huascar was physically and mentally tortured and was unable to stand. He was carried out of the castle by two soldiers.
Therefore, when these relatives saw the supreme King Inka being tortured like this, they fell to the ground one by one and burst into tears. The poor king was afraid that they would be killed, and wanted to drink them down, but even though he tried his best, he could not make a sound. Under the command of an officer, the soldiers lifted Huascar up and stood in front of everyone, looking at the relatives opposite who had their hands tied and were lying on the ground, crying to death.
When he was being carried past an old man, he heard the old man calling him in pain, "My King." The voice was very familiar, so Huascar opened his eyes forcefully and looked towards him. Look at the old man. The old man was in his dying years, with white hair and a weak voice. Huascar blinked, still not recognizing the old man. Then the old man said, "Supreme King, I am Prince Hurtado Vaco, the high priest of the palace."
Prince Hurtado Huaco was the highly respected high priest of the Inca Palace. He was crowned with a crown and given a scepter at the enthronement ceremony. However, right now, he was tortured to the point of becoming emaciated, beyond recognition, and almost dying. Huascar nodded towards the high priest.
Then someone cried to him, "My king, my son!" Then they fell in front of him. This is his uncle, Prince Kalubaila, the younger brother of his father, King Wayna Capak. Back then, when his father left Cusco and led troops to Quito to fight a life-or-death battle with the Kingdom of Quito, he was still young. At that time, his father entrusted Prince Karubaila to take care of him. Therefore, Prince Karubaila almost always regarded him as his own son. Seeing Huascar being tortured and humiliated by Quito, he burst into tears.
A Quito officer yelled at him, "Don't cry." However, Prince Karubaila cried more and more painfully. The officer shouted angrily, "If you cry again, you will die!" However, the Incas present began to cry bitterly. The officer pointed at Prince Karubaila and said to the soldiers, "Push the prince who cries the most to the bottom of the cliff."
Three or four soldiers immediately rushed over, pulled Prince Karubaila from the ground, and dragged him to the edge of the cliff. Let him face the abyss on the edge of the cliff. Following the officer's order, the soldiers pushed hard from behind, pushing Prince Kalubaila under the cliff. After hearing a frightening and nightmare-like scream, Prince Kalubaila fell into the deep cliff of the river valley.
Huascar was so shocked that he screamed and fell to the ground. The officer shouted to the crying people, "I don't think any of you dare to cry anymore?" However, these Inca clansmen cried even more painfully when they saw their king suffering such humiliation.
The commander pointed to a few people who cried the most painfully, including the high priest Prince Hurtado Vaco, and asked the soldiers to bring them to the edge of the cliff. Then, with an order, he asked the soldiers to push them into the depths. In the deep cliffs of the bottomless river valley. On the spot, many people were so scared that they lost their souls and closed their eyes without daring to look.
Then, the Quito officer asked the soldiers to escort Huascar down a path next to the castle to the Urubamba River. The Urubamba River is a river with a large drop. Although the river surface is not wide, the water is very deep, the current is very fast, and the river water roars turbulently. There are many large rocks in the river. At this time, the soldiers had already escorted some young royal family members who had been tied up to the river and asked them to stand in a long row. Push them to the ground one by one, tie a big stone to their bodies, and then lift them up one by one and throw them into the river. Just listen to their desperate wailing, they rolled once or twice in the river, and then they were washed away by the rolling river. However, Huascar did not even see these scenes because he kept his eyes closed the whole time.
At some point, the sun was frightened by the ferocity and cruelty of the Quito people and hid behind the mountains, and the sky became dark with fear. However, the people of Quito did not stop their brutal atrocities just because it was getting dark. They carried the Inca king, who had fainted from fear, from the banks of the Urubamba River back to the edge of the cliffside castle.
They saw that some royal family members were crying so much that they were unconscious, so they asked the soldiers to drag and drag these people to the edge of the woods. At this time, several soldiers had already hung the rope high on the tree, and then tied the rope thrown from the tree into a slip-knot loop. The soldiers asked Huascar to stand on the edge of the woods and watched as the soldiers put the noose around the neck of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.
This boy is the child of one of his uncles, named Ilokunis. He is not only fair and handsome, but also very smart. Therefore, Huascar liked him very much and took him to the palace to feed him the grapes and peaches that the chiefs of the provinces had given him as tribute. Because the boy's hands were tied and unable to struggle, the soldiers easily put the noose around his neck. The boys were so frightened that they burst into tears. However, the soldiers laughed loudly and pulled up the rope vigorously. The boy didn't even cry out before he was hung high in the tree. At first he was still struggling desperately on the rope, but after a while, his body relaxed and his tongue stuck out.
Watching Irokunis being hung high in the sky. Many people were so frightened that they fainted. Some people were too scared to cry. However, the soldiers still brought one of Huascar's uncles to the tree. The king's uncle knew that he could not survive, so he cursed the Quito soldiers. The commanding officer saw that the old man was scolding them, so he asked the soldiers to hang the old man up quickly. However, the old man was still cursing when he was hung from the tree. But he only cursed less than twice, and then he couldn't curse anymore.
It was already dark, and more than thirty Inca clan members were being held captive on the playground between the castle and the woods. The Quito commander saw that it was already getting late, and he seemed to be a little tired, or felt that he had done all the tricks he should do, or wanted to leave here early, so he waved his hand to the more than thirty soldiers. They gathered together, chatted a few words, and then shouted. As a result, more than thirty soldiers were seen waving the short axes in their hands and rushing towards the Inca clan members who were standing or lying on the ground. They killed and hacked wildly until all the people were motionless. He fell to the ground in a pool of blood.
Huascar did not open his eyes to see this frightening and nightmare-like scene, because he was so frightened that he fainted on the ground.
After dozens of days of relentless searches and arrests across the country, almost all members of the royal family were killed. However, there were still some people who had not been eliminated, which made King Atahualpa of Quit uneasy. That is the women and children of the royal bloodline. Because members of the royal bloodline were spread throughout the empire, and it was allowed and legal for them to find any number of women, there were many children, both legitimate and illegitimate. King Wayna Capak alone left more than 200 children during his lifetime.
Originally, these women and children should have received sympathy and mercy, but King Atahualpa not only did not let them go, but also searched and arrested them from all over the country, and concentrated them in the Yahualpampa wilderness, five kilometers away from Cusco. He was held in a military camp. This place, known as the Field of Blood, was the place where the Cuzco people and the Chanca people fought bloody battles.
Speaking of Yavar Pampa, one cannot fail to mention Yavar Wakak, whose name means “the one who cries with blood and tears.” The reason why this name was chosen is because when the boy was three or four years old, blood and tears would flow from his eyes when he cried, which may be due to eye disease. But some people say that the boy cried blood when he was born, which may have been brought out from the mother's body, so he was given this name.
Indian names have no connection with the names of parents. Every Indian has at least three names in his life. The first name is a nickname, used as a birth record. For example, when an Indian is born, the midwife has to go down to the river to get some water to bathe the baby. If she came back and said she heard a wolf howling across the river, the baby's mother would say, "Let's call our baby 'Midnight Wolf'." Each Indian was to keep his nickname until he could give it to him. Until you get a name for yourself. However, his friends will also give him a name, such as "bow-legged" or "crooked nose." No matter what his parents call him, his childhood friends will always use their name. The Indians' official name was given to them after their first encounter with an enemy. An Indian's lifelong name depends on his first battle with the enemy. After returning from the battle, the entire tribe gathers together to participate in the ceremony of giving him a clan name.
However, the Incas at that time regarded the boy's crying as an ominous sign. Later, the boy grew up and became the heir to the throne. After the death of his father, Inca Roca, Crown Prince Yaval Huacac succeeded to the throne and became the seventh generation king of the Inca Empire. After he succeeded to the throne, because his name was considered unlucky, he did not dare to rashly raise foreign troops and only focused on managing domestic affairs. After about nine to ten years, the army was sent out to expand its territory and territory, but it still did not want to be conquered in person. Moreover, his crown prince Viracocha's cruel temper made him very worried, so he exiled the crown prince to herd sheep outside the capital Cusco. At that time, unrest broke out in Kipchasuyu, which had been conquered by the Inca. Although the local tribes surrendered to the Inca King during the Inca Roca period, they were only frightened by force and did not obey the rule of the Incas. When they discovered that Yawar Wakak was not good at fighting and the crown prince was exiled, they thought the time had come. Under the leadership of the Chanka people, they gathered an army of more than 40,000 soldiers and attacked the capital Cusco. The laxly guarded King Yawar Wakak was panicked by the turmoil and had no time to recruit troops, so he had to retreat to the Muina River outside the city with some of the royal families who could still follow him. When the turmoil broke out, Crown Prince Viracocha was exiled outside the city of Cusco, but when he learned that the rebels had arrived at the city gates of Cusco, he gathered the soldiers and civilians in the city, and reinforcements arrived, and successfully defeated the rebels. Viracocha led his army to quell the rebellion and gained far more support than his father, Yawar Wakak, who fled the capital. The two compromised, and Viracocha ascended the throne, while Yawar Vacak was placed in the area between Muina and Xpicancha outside Cusco, and built another palace to live in until he arrived. passed away. Later, people called this wilderness area where they defeated the Chankas the Yavarpampa Wilderness. If in that battle, the Cusco people used the Yavalpampa wilderness to defeat the rebel Chanca tribe and save the Inca Empire, then now the Yavalpampa wilderness has become a humiliation for the Inca people who were trampled and ravaged by the rebels. place.
