Chapter 675, Tian Erniu's troubles
Liu Jin was chattering that he had not received news from Tian Erniu in Tianjin, but Tian Erniu at this time was in trouble in the Central Golden Continent and the South Golden Continent.
After Tian Erniu arrived at the Golden Continent, he began to build a colonial base from the north to the south from the North Golden Continent to the south along the west coast of the Golden Continent according to Liu Jin's instructions.
From the Qianhe City built at the mouth of the Qianhe River in the northernmost part to the Golden City built here in Golden Bay, from north to south, more than a dozen large and small colonial strongholds were built in just a few months.
Larger ones like Qianhe City and Golden City have already settled in tens of thousands of people, and these people from major trading houses, like bandits and robbers, began to look for gold and silver in all directions as soon as they settled down, and a large number of gold and silver mines were found, and began to frantically mine gold and silver.
The smaller colonial strongholds also had thousands of people settled, relying on these more than a dozen large and small strongholds, plus thousands of large ships, the 100,000 people who followed Tian Erniu to the Golden Continent quickly spread across the west coast of the North Golden Continent.
On the one hand, a large number of gold and silver mines were discovered and quickly mined, and on the other hand, a large number of local Yin Shang descendants and aborigines began to have a deeper understanding of this vast land.
Most of the descendants of Yin Shang are still in the very primitive and backward tribal stage, especially in the North Golden Continent, they are all in the tribal stage.
Large and small tribes are all over the Northern Golden Continent, and these descendants of Yin Shang are full of curiosity about the arrival of the Ming people, and they are also very friendly.
Tian Erniu and the others are also based on the principle of peaceful coexistence with these Yin Shang descendants, so they have a good relationship with these Yin Shang tribes, and they have friendly exchanges with each other.
Even if there are a few tribes that are more xenophobic, they are not Tian Erniu's opponents.
The society of the descendants of Yin Shang was extremely backward, and each tribe was in the Stone Age, and the weapons used were spears, wooden sticks, stone axes, slingshots, and the like.
The Ming people led by Tian Erniu were armed to the teeth, muskets, artillery, swords, and armor, and for some unfriendly Yin Shang tribes, it didn't take many people to easily conquer them.
On the side of the Golden Continent, Tian Erniu and their lives were very chic.
While building a colonial stronghold, while starting to reclaim land near the colonial stronghold, preparing to grow food here, many ships that were not built by Tianjin Shipyard were of serious quality, and there was no way for everyone to return to Daming, so many people knew that they needed to stay here in the Golden Continent for a few years.
Naturally, the nature of this kind of field had to be brought into play, and a large amount of land was reclaimed around the colonial strongholds, and at the same time, it was also used to exchange various things for grain hoarding from the surrounding tribes of the descendants of the Yin Shang.
Either way, the question of eating first is the most important.
Relying on the colonial strongholds, large-scale mining of gold and silver began, and the people of each trading house hoarded a large amount of gold and silver, waiting for Tian Erniu to return to Daming and bring back these huge wealth.
As for the specific huge number, no one knows now, everyone keeps it secret from each other, but everyone laughs from ear to ear to know that everyone who came to the Golden Continent this time has made a fortune.
It was smooth sailing on the side of the North Golden Continent, and then trouble began to appear after arriving in the Middle Golden Continent.
The Central Golden Continent, which later became the Mesoamerican region.
Here they met the Aztecs who believed in the sun god, and the Aztec kingdom was full of hostility to Tian Erniu's arrival, and they did not allow Tian Erniu to establish a colony on the territory of the Aztec kingdom.
But the Middle Golden Continent is so important, it is the middle area between the north and the south Golden Continent, and more importantly, you can easily reach the east coast of the Golden Continent through here.
Of course, we all know that Mexico was the world's largest silver producer, and the most famous silver mine in Saucito was the Iwami silver mine in the Wa Kingdom.
Among the ten largest silver mines in the world, this area accounted for more than half, which shows how high the silver production in this area is.
Chasing wealth, the silver here naturally cannot be let go.
In addition to the Aztec kingdom in the Golden Continent region did not allow Tian Erniu and them to establish a colonial base, the South Golden Continent further south was also the Inca Empire located on the west coast of South America in later generations, and they were also hostile to the arrival of the Ming people.
Like the Aztec kingdom, the Inca Empire worshipped the sun god and claimed to be a descendant of the sun god.
At this time, the Inca Empire was at its peak, and their territory was very vast, from the North to the Middle Golden Continent, almost connected with the Aztec Kingdom, to the southernmost point to the location of later Argentina, and to the east beyond the Andes, touching the edge of the Amazon rainforest, and distributing over the entire Andes Mountains.
Like the Aztec kingdom, the Inca Empire was extremely wealthy, and the Andes Mountains also contained extremely rich gold and silver.
Historically, the Spaniards invaded the Inca Empire, captured the Emperor of the Inca Empire, and had the Inca Emperors exchange a room of gold and two rooms of silver for their emperor.
In the end, the Inca Empire did so, but the Inca Emperor was still killed by the Spaniards, and you can know the wealth of the Inca Empire from here.
Both the Aztec kingdom and the Inca Empire were hostile to the Ming people who did not believe in the sun god, and did not allow Tian Erniu to establish colonial bases along the way, which seriously affected Tian Erniu's implementation of what Liu Jin had explained.
Liu Jin asked Tian Erniu to establish a colonial base from north to south, so as to facilitate the colonization and development of the entire Golden Continent in the future.
The location of these two places is important, and the key is that both gold and silver are very abundant, and the silver and gold of the entire Golden Continent are almost concentrated in two regions.
The gold and silver here in the North Golden Continent are nothing compared to here.
Historically, the Spaniards have plundered countless silver and gold from these two places, and as for the gold on the west coast of the North Golden Continent, it was slowly developed after Uncle Sam's founding and the westward expansion movement, almost two or three hundred years later.
In the 16th century, it was mainly the Spanish who plundered gold and silver in the two regions of the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire.
Golden Bay Golden City here.
Tian Erniu called all the people in charge of Tianjin Ocean Trade Bank over to discuss the next action.
"Everyone already knows the situation, neither the Aztec kingdom nor the Inca empire will allow us to build a colony on the coast, and there is great hostility towards us, although we have sent them a lot of gifts."
"According to the information we have now, the gold and silver in these two places are the most places in the entire Golden Continent, as long as we can take these two places, we will not worry about no gold and silver in the future."
"In addition, everyone knows Liu Gongzi's order, he wants us to establish a stronghold line connecting the north and south from north to south on the west coast of the Golden Continent, and now we are not allowed to build strongholds in these two places, and we will have no way to explain to Liu Gongzi when we go back."
"It's February of the fourteenth year of Hongzhi now, and it is estimated that the childe's side has already begun to send people to the Golden Continent, and then we will know that we can't do anything."
"Another point, the major trading houses that came to the Golden Continent have made a fortune, and all the trading houses have dug up boxes and boxes of gold and silver, but our Tianjin Ocean Trading Company has been building a colonial stronghold all along, and we have no energy and time to mine gold and silver."
"Although Childe also said in advance that he didn't ask us to bring back much gold and silver, the brothers followed thousands of miles to the Golden Continent, and they couldn't watch others eat and drink spicy food, but we didn't even drink any soup."
Tian Erniu looked at these people in front of him, Zhao Monkey, Silly Bear, Big Tiger, Jiang Liang, and Gao Shan...... These people are the heads of Tianjin Ocean Trade Company on the Golden Continent side.
"Erniu, just say it directly, what should we do?"
"We all listen to you."
Jiang Liang looked at everyone and said directly.
"Yes, Erniu, just say it, we all listen to you, we will do what you say."
Silly Bear, Big Tiger and others also nodded their heads.
"It's very simple, then use force against the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire!"
"If they don't want to, let's fight until they are willing, and let them give us gold and silver, so that we don't have to work hard to mine and smelt, and just pick up ready-made."
Tian Er Niu Jian everyone looked at themselves, thought about it, and said very domineeringly.
"Use of force against the Aztec kingdom and the Inca Empire?"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but open their mouths slightly.
They were well aware of these two empires, which were very large empires with populations of millions and were far from comparable to the Yin Shang tribes they had encountered before.
How could they have just a few people in their hands, how could they be able to fight such two empires?
"Yes, it is to use force against these two countries and let them know that our Ming people are powerful."
"Humph!"
"We went to talk to them in a good voice, they didn't want to pay attention to us, we regarded them as the descendants of Yin Shang, as our own people, but they said that we didn't believe in any sun god, and tried their best to reject us and be hostile to us."
"Then we just need to use force to conquer them, and let them know what our Ming people understand."
Tian Erniu nodded solemnly and said.
"But can we win?"