Inca Elegy (Novel) "The Fall of the Inca Empire" (Volume 2) by Zhang Baotong
After the officers and soldiers of the Chilean Gang completely occupied and controlled the city of Lima, Juan de Herada sent soldiers to important cities such as Cusco, Huoha, Trujillo and Arequipa to announce the recent arrival of Lima. The revolution that occurred, and claimed that the Pizarro government had been overthrown, and Almagro Jr. was now serving as the governor and government administrator of Peru, requiring people to recognize the identity of Almagro Jr.'s governor and government administrator.
Trujillo is a coastal city very close to Cajamarca. From here you can quickly reach Cajamarca by land. The city of Cajamarca is where the Spaniards defeated the 80,000 Inca army and captured the Inca King Atahualpa alive. It was also the earliest city established by the Spaniards. In order to enable Spanish immigrants and materials to reach Cajamarca quickly, Marquis Pizarro sent a cavalry team and an infantry team to the nearest seaside site to Cajamarca after the city of Lima was built. The new city was founded and named Trujillo. Trujillo is the place name of Marquis Pizarro's hometown in Spain. Currently, there are more than sixty armed soldiers and two to three hundred Spanish residents in this new city.
Juan de Herada himself arrived with a small cavalry squad. They quickly disarmed Pizarro's few dozen troops. Then, he gathered the residents and soldiers living in the city in the square in front of the city hall, and he personally addressed these citizens and soldiers.
He stood on a table and said to hundreds of citizens and soldiers, "Citizens and soldiers, the Pizarro brothers seized Marshal Almagro's territory and killed Marshal Almagro. Committed an unforgivable crime. In order to bring justice and revenge to Almagro, we killed the bully and seized power. Now we support Almagro’s son Almagro Jr. as the governor and supreme leader of Peru. Chief Executive. I ask citizens and soldiers alike to agree with this decision."
Because there were soldiers with live ammunition standing around the venue, when Juan de Herada asked everyone, "Do you agree or disagree that our little Almagro is now the governor and chief executive of Peru?" The people in the room replied impatiently, "Agreed."
"Big applause," Juan de Herrada said.
So, the people present applauded together.
Afterwards, Juan de Herada announced the dismissal of the original mayor and municipal councillors, allowing people appointed by them to serve as mayors and municipal councilors, and also took over the command of the troops.
Then, Juan de Herada led people to Arequipa. Arequipa is an ancient city in the southernmost part of Peru. It has many streets and residential buildings and is home to four to five hundred Spanish immigrants and more than one hundred armed personnel. It is about two to three hundred kilometers away from Cusco, and a spacious royal marching road closely connects the two cities.
Juan de Herada adopted the same method, asking his troops to surround Pizarro's troops, disarm them, and then summon all the soldiers and residents to the square in front of the city hall, where he personally addressed them The speech forced them to agree to let Almagro Jr. serve as the governor and chief executive of Peru, and then appoint their own appointees to replace the mayor and municipal councilors.
However, in the small town of Haoha, because a lieutenant was sent with twenty or thirty people, when little Almagro was announced as the governor and chief executive of Peru, he was treated with contempt. Instead of expressing their approval, people sneered and ignored it.
But in Cusco it’s a different story. Cusco is the most important city after Lima. Among the people living here, the Almagro Group has an overwhelming advantage, so this decision is not only easily supported, but also enthusiastically supported by the people. The army requires every government official and staff to show loyalty to Almagro. If there is any dissatisfaction, he will be immediately removed from office and replaced by those who are willing to be loyal to Almagro. Therefore, Cusco soon had a group of people loyal to Almagro holding key government positions.
However, there were also many Pizarro loyalists in the city. So someone soon reported this matter to a general named Alvarez de Holguin under Pizarro. Alvarez de Holguin was stationed in the small town of Guamanga, not far from Cusco. This is the only way to reach Cusco from Lima. Alvarez de Holguin had more than 250 men, including more than 100 cavalry and more than 150 infantry.
He learned that Almagro's Chilean gang only had a few dozen officers and soldiers in Cusco, so he decided to take the opportunity to enter Cusco. So, he led his troops to suddenly enter the city of Cusco one early morning and quickly took control of the entire city. Then, the captain, who held military power, announced to the citizens and soldiers in the Inca Plaza, "All the coercive policies adopted by Almagro are illegal, and all the officials and officials appointed by Almagro are illegal." Official positions are invalid. Therefore, I declare the abolition of all policies implemented by Almagro and the restoration of various regulations adopted during the period of Hernando Pizarro. In the current political situation, the administrative positions and official positions deprived by the Almagro Group must be restored as soon as possible."
Almost overnight, the world changed again. The position was restored to those who had been in power under Pizarro. The old order of the ancient capital was restored.
However, before that, one of Pizarro's main generals, Alonso de Alvarado, had already written to the priest, Baca de Castel, who had not yet taken office, about the murder of the Marquis of Pizarro. Luo, reported to him the serious situation in Peru and urged him to rush to the south day and night. This Alonso de Alvarado was the general who was defeated by the elder Almagro at the Bridge of Abancay. He was stationed in the north of Peru with a force of about two hundred men, as well trained as any in the country.
Baca de Castro was the judge sent by the King of Spain to Lima, Peru to investigate and supervise the Marquis Pizarro, the Governor of Peru. In the spring of 1541, he took the Mayflower sailing ship from the port of Buenaventura on the Pacific coast of Colombia to Lima. After arriving at the port of Tumbes, he was greeted by Chavez, the adjutant sent by the Marquis of Pizarro. However, two Chilean soldiers wearing mourning uniforms also came to him and cried bitterly to him. They told of the murder of their leader, General Almagro, by the Pizarro brothers and the confiscation and misappropriation of their houses and property by the Pizarro brothers. Now they have nothing and are homeless. They are bullied and suppressed by the Pizarro brothers all day long, and their lives are worse than pigs and dogs. Therefore, they have been waiting and looking forward to the judge sent by the king to investigate and... Punish the Pizarro brothers and vindicate General Almagro and his soldiers.
The judge was naturally fully aware of the murder of Almagro by the Pizarro brothers, because many returning soldiers had been surrounding the palace all day long asking the king to punish the Pizarro brothers, and the knight Diego Alvara Doya had reported Almagro's murder to the king and had filed a lawsuit against the Pizarro brothers with the Spanish Supreme Court. Because of this, the king sent him to Lima to investigate the matter and supervise and investigate the Pizarro brothers. However, for the sake of stabilizing the situation, it can only be said that he came to cooperate with Pizarro in restoring stability to the Inca Empire. After hearing the cries of the two Chilean gang soldiers, the judge with a clear stance immediately left the hotel that Chavez had found for him, insisting on being with the two soldiers. Because he was determined to investigate the Pizarro brothers in accordance with the king's will, restrict and supervise their exercise of power.
However, he ignored the dangers of doing so. On the night when he sailed out of the port of Trujillo, he passed the time gambling with two gentlemen from Spain as usual. However, when he entered the bathroom, he was suddenly attacked. Someone knocked him down with a wooden stick and threw him from the boat into the sea while he was in a semi-conscious state. He would have died if he had not been discovered by some soldiers returning from Peru. Just after he fell into the water, a small boat passed by the sea where he fell into the water and found him floating on the water. There were four or five Spanish soldiers returning from Peru on the boat. When they saw a Spaniard floating on the water, he seemed to be alive, so they rescued him on the boat.
He only woke up from his coma the next morning. Because he was seriously injured, he was cared for by people on the ship. Of course he didn't know who he was being killed by, but he could clearly remember that it was two Indians who attacked him. Therefore, he always believed that the Indians killed him out of hatred for the Spaniards. This also deepened his hatred of Indians.
After a few days, he felt better, and by then the boat had passed the port of Tumbes and arrived in the port of Guayaquil. He originally wanted to disembark here, but he hesitated again and again and did not disembark because his injury had not yet recovered. Moreover, he also lost confidence in carrying out this important task, so he decided to return home and request the king not to go to Peru again. , because it is full of dangers. However, when the boat continued to travel north to a place called Guabi. The boat will stay here for half a day. Perhaps driven by a sense of responsibility and mission, the judge suddenly had an idea and got off the boat here to complete the task assigned to him by the king.
So he disembarked from Guabi and began the tiring overland journey along the south-facing path. This area is located in the southern region of what is now Colombia, bordering the northern part of Ecuador. It was the area where King Atahualpa of Quito led the Quito army deep into the north of Quito to conquer and occupy. There is an important town called Popayan here, which is an Indian settlement area. There are also many Spanish immigrants and some troops. When he arrived in Popayan, he learned the shocking news of Pizarro's death. This made him feel that his responsibility and mission were even more arduous.
After that, he continued on the long and arduous journey. He is a stranger in this land, knows almost nothing about this country and everything about it, has no armed force to back him up, and does not even have the necessary military technology. But he had a letter of appointment from the king. This appointment letter was always in his pocket. In addition, he had firm confidence in ordering this strange continent, as well as his loyalty to the king. These seemed to be the mental strength that enabled him to overcome all difficulties. He climbed mountains and waded in rivers alone along the mountain path from Popayan to Quito, traveling day and night. After walking for about a month, the judge finally arrived in Quito, the northern capital. He learned that Almagro's officers and soldiers seized power through riots and the assassination of Governor Pizarro, and used force to begin to subvert and replace the regime established by Pizarro in various cities. Therefore, he decided to use Pizarro's armed forces to suppress Almagro's group in the name of the governor.
