The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
But Hernando still didn't believe it. In order to make Supaipa tell the truth, he suddenly thought of a way. This method was used by him when dealing with a fight between two Indian soldiers in the military camp. At that time, the two Indian soldiers who were fighting each had their own opinions and argued on their own side. Hernando listened for a long time without figuring out who was responsible. Later, it was Martin who yelled at the two soldiers, "You two promise to King Inca that you are telling the truth." After hearing this, the two soldiers began to tell the truth with fear. Because they did not dare to lie to the Inca King. Lying to the Inca King would be punished, and this punishment was often the death penalty. So Hernando said to Supaipa, "General, you promise the Inca King that everything you say is the truth."
General Supaipa said very seriously and solemnly, "I swear to our supreme and respected Inca King that if anything I say is a lie, the earth will open and swallow me alive."
But Hernando still had doubts and said to General Supaipa reluctantly, "Bring the body up immediately and let me see it, otherwise I won't believe it."
General Supaipa had no choice but to say, "Yes, I will send people to salvage it immediately."
So General Supaipa immediately asked General Utahama behind him to lead the soldiers to the river to recover Huascar's body.
Usaka asked the Spaniard to go inside and rest for a while, but Hernando insisted on waiting by the river. By this time, it was getting dark. Usaka led the Spaniards out of the castle gate and followed a path to the river. The wind by the river is very strong, making people feel a little cool and chilly. The river is not very wide, but it is roaring and the waves are rumbling. If a person falls into the river, he will be swept away instantly.
Soon, some soldiers were seen following General Utahama with torches. General Utahama asked a soldier to take off his clothes, tied a rope around his waist, and asked several soldiers to pull him slowly into the water. However, the soldier lurked in the water for a long time, but did not find Huascar's body. Seeing that the soldier was shivering from the cold, Hernando waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I won't look for him anymore."
At night, Usaka arranged for five other Spanish soldiers to stay in a large room in Supaipa's house. General Supaipa first gave each Spanish soldier a silver pot. This kind of silver jar is the same one used as a lunch box and bedpan for Huascar. There are many such silver jars in many castles. Moreover, the Incas did not regard gold and silver as very precious. Then, he asked two young and beautiful concubines to carry wine bottles and pour wine for them, so that they could drink to their heart's content before resting.
Hernando was arranged by Usaka to spend the night in his own home. Usaka knew that the Spaniards liked gold, so he took out a very exquisite gold plate and gave it to Hernando. The plate is carved with a puma playing with several butterflies, which is very interesting.
Hernando had never seen such a delicate and beautiful gold plate, and was amazed at the Inca's exquisite craftsmanship. Usaka was very pleased to see Hernando like it so much. He said to Hernando in a pleading tone, "To tell you the truth, Huascar was actually sunk into the river and executed by General Supaipa and several other generals. Not only did our king not know about this in advance, , even I didn’t know about it in advance. So, please ask the captain to say something nice in front of the commander after he goes back, and don’t let the commander pursue this matter anymore. Because once the matter is investigated, not only will the king be in trouble, but I am afraid that I will be too. Life is at stake.”
While Hernando kept looking at the gold plate, he replied, "General, please don't worry too much. I will explain it clearly to the commander. I believe that after listening to my words, he will not trouble your king again." .”
Usaka said gratefully, "Thank you, Captain." Then he called his favorite concubine to come over and accompany the Captain to drink and have fun.
The next morning, Hernando got up very late. When he got up, the concubine had already prepared the face wash for her. After he washed his face, Usaka took him to the place where he had eaten yesterday afternoon and had breakfast with several other soldiers. When they had just finished breakfast, a very loud horn horn sounded on the playground. Immediately, many soldiers were seen quickly running to the playground from the houses next to the playground and inside the castle, and began to line up and assemble. Within a few minutes, the playground was filled with groups of Inca soldiers.
Usaka, Supaipa and other Inca generals took the Spaniards up to the castle and watched the Inca soldiers' formation performances and drills. Each phalanx of Inca soldiers was a battalion, with about three to four hundred people. They walked through the playground in neat rows, with neat steps and majestic military appearance. It didn't look like an army that would be arbitrarily slaughtered by the Spaniards.
After the formation drill, the soldiers demonstrated the skills of using hatchets and wooden clubs for the Spaniards. But the Spaniards were not too interested in these because these weapons were too ineffective compared to the Spanish muskets and swords. So after watching for a while, Hernando said to Usaca, "General, it's time for us to go back." Because no matter how late it was, it would be late at night when we returned to Cajamarca.
Usaka and several generals sent them out of the castle.
On the morning after Hernando returned to Cajamarca from Bambamarca with several cavalry, Usaka also went to Cajamarca to report to the king that the Spaniards had gone to Bambamarca to investigate. Case. He told the Inca king all the details of Spain's stay in Bambamarca in detail, especially the Spanish investigation into the truth about Huascar's death. The king was very satisfied after hearing this.
However, these days, Atahualpa still felt guilty and timid, fearing that Pizarro would come and become furious with him, become furious, and even want to execute him. Fortunately, Pizarro never came, and no other Spaniards came, which made him feel somewhat lucky and lucky. He thought that maybe what Prince Bescarra said made sense. The Spaniards were just trying to scare him and would not really execute him because they could not live without him.
After breakfast, the Inca King asked the prince who was guarding the door of the meeting hall to call Petera and play chess with him. Because Peter's chess skills improved greatly and he occasionally won a few games, this aroused the Inca King's desire to win. However, the two of them had just played chess for a while when the gatekeeper, Prince Bacmo, came to report that Prince Bescarra had returned from Cusco. Petya wanted to avoid it, but the Inca king waved his hand and said no. So Petya continued to sit in the chair.
Prince Beskara entered the house in a dusty manner. After kneeling down, he happily reported, "Report to your Majesty, there is really a lot of gold in Cusco. Because Kiskis doesn't know much about Cusco, so he raised The progress of gold is not very fast. This time I went there and walked around the places I was familiar with in the past. I saw that the roofs of the temples and palaces, and even the floors were covered with gold. Some of the gold was even thicker than beds. The city was large, so I asked several princes and generals to lead soldiers to carry out large-scale demolition. Whether it was the palace hall or the Cusco temple, as long as there was gold, it would be demolished. In just a few days, I looked at the gold that had been demolished It can almost fill most of the house.”
After hearing the report from Prince Bescara, the Inca hurriedly got up and walked over, helped the prince up, and excitedly took the prince's hand and said, "The one who saved me is Prince Bescara." Then, he picked up a small box from the wall. The stool made the prince sit down. The prince sat on a small stool and began to tell the king things that made him happy.
(Please pay attention to Zhang Baotong's signed work "Poetic Emotions", which includes short prose, life essays and short stories. Today's release is the life essay "The Woman Behind the Man (Part 2)")
