"But can we win?"

As soon as Tian Erniu's words fell, someone asked very weakly.

There is no way, they are just Tianjin Ocean Trade Company, not the Ming Dynasty, although everyone knows that these descendants of Yin Shang have low combat effectiveness, and their weapons are still wooden sticks, stone axes and the like, and they can't even smelt iron tools.

But after all, it was an attack on a kingdom, and the Aztec kingdom was also a country with millions of people, and the population of the Inca Empire was more than eight million, so they had this little power in their hands.

Combined, it is estimated that they can gather 10,000 people, and they are all people who have not undergone strict military training, expecting them to be able to win against these two countries?

"How do you know you can't win if you don't give it a try?"

Tian Erniu is quite confident in this.

The reason why he proposed to attack these two Yin Shang kingdoms was not nonsense, but a conclusion reached after careful consideration and careful study.

"Whether it's this Aztec kingdom or this Inca Empire, although they are numerous, with a population of millions, they are scattered over a vast land."

"And they don't even have horses, so they can only walk, which means that their forces are very dispersed, and it takes a long time to get together."

"In the case of the Aztec kingdom, we only need to take down their royal capital of Tenochtitlan with a very fast speed, and the population of this royal capital is less than 300,000, and the army responsible for guarding it is less than 30,000."

"We have Miyun cannons, muskets, war horses, and armor weapons, and I don't think it's difficult to attack these 30,000 people with 10,000 people."

"What's more, our purpose is not to destroy these two kingdoms, but only to get them to agree to our construction of a colonial base in the coastal areas."

"Once they know how good we are, the rest will be easy."

Tian Erniu opened a map, pointed to the Aztec kingdom on the map, and said.

"Let's see, this Tenochtitlan is not too far from the sea, let's transport the troops to the sea first, and then go straight to their royal capital."

"This Tenochtitlan is built on an artificial island in a large lake, surrounded by water on three sides, and only one side is connected to the land, and when the time comes, we will only need to block the connected places and keep bombarding them with artillery, which will be enough to easily defeat them."

Coming to the Golden Continent, Tian Erniu is not only building a colonial stronghold, but also has a clear understanding of the situation of the descendants of Yin Shang in various places on the east coast of the Golden Continent.

"As long as we can win the war, we will not only have the right to build a colony in the coastal area, but also the right to mine here, and we can also let them dig for gold and silver for us."

"Let them hand us 10 million taels of silver a year, I don't think there is a problem at all, think about it, other commercial houses are working hard in various places to pan for gold and refine silver, we only need to fight a battle, they are afraid, and wait for them to send us silver every year in the future."

"Whether it's this Aztec kingdom or the Inca Empire to the south, they have the most gold and silver in the entire Golden Continent, so let them dig gold and silver for us in the future."

Hearing Tian Erniu's words, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up.

"It's done~ Isn't it the kingdom of the descendants of Yin Shang, what's so scary, they don't even have swords, just some wooden sticks, stone axes and the like, afraid of a hammer, do a battle, win, and you can sit and collect cash every year in the future."

The big tiger gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes, I'm afraid of an egg~"

"People from other trading houses come to the Golden Continent to eat and drink spicy, but when we arrive at us, we are working hard to build a colonial base, and our Tianjin Ocean Trading Company should eat large pieces of meat, eat ready-made meat, and let them obediently put the silver and gold for us."

Gao Shan also nodded.

Very exciting, very exciting.

After Tian Erniu's analysis, everyone was immediately full of confidence.

Although the descendants of Yin Shang are very smart and extremely fierce in battle, their weapons and equipment are really poor, and most of the descendants of Yin Shang are still in the tribal stage.

Even the productivity of the Aztec kingdom is very backward, and even iron tools cannot be smelted, so it is not difficult to defeat them.

"It's done~"

Jiang Liang's eyes were slightly red and said: "When the time comes, extort tens of millions of taels of silver from them, let them buy houses in Tianjin and Beijing, make installment payments, and dig gold and silver for us every year." ”

Everyone nodded one by one, the gold and silver were moving.

The wealth of the Aztec kingdom and the Inca empire has been heard from other Yin Shang tribes, and it is said that the king of the Aztec kingdom had houses built of gold and vast squares paved with silver, and the production of gold and silver was very large.

Du Mingen led the fleet to the Golden Continent for the first time, that is, in the Aztec kingdom, through some goods exchanged for gold and silver worth 30 million taels of silver, from here you know the wealth of the Aztec kingdom.

It is not an exaggeration to say that they were full of gold and silver, and even the people of the Aztec kingdom did not mine gold and silver very much, because they did not have much utility for them.

But even so, the Aztec kingdom still had an extremely large amount of gold and silver.

"Since everyone has no opinion, then this matter is settled."

Tian Erniu immediately laughed when he saw that everyone was opening their mouths to express their support.

Then he thought about it and said: "Actually, this matter was not something I thought of, long before coming to the Golden Continent, Liu Gongzi explained it to me like this. ”

"Liu Gongzi confessed?"

When everyone heard this, they were slightly stunned.

"Yes, Liu Gongzi had already told me before I came, other trading houses will let them mine gold and silver mines, and our Tianjin Ocean Trading Company only needs to eat large pieces of meat, occupy large gold and silver mines, and build a colonial base first, and then slowly mine them."

"But the brothers finally went to the Golden Continent, and naturally they couldn't go back empty-handed, so Liu Gongzi confessed that when necessary, they could attack these kingdoms, and let these descendants of Yin Shang take the initiative to send gold and silver to us, which not only saves time and effort, but more importantly, they will come to collect cash every year in the future."

Tian Erniu nodded solemnly and said.

This matter was really explained by Liu Jin, and the European colonizers in history relied on this method to easily plunder a steady stream of gold and silver from the Golden Continent.

And with a small number of people, it is easy to plunder back unimaginably huge wealth.

In the case of this Aztec kingdom, in February 1519, that is, eighteen years later, the Spanish colonizer Hernán ~ Cortés gathered more than 600 Spaniards and traveled to Mexico on 11 ships.

In addition to more than 100 sailors and first mates, he had a total of 508 soldiers, 16 horses, 32 crossbowmen, 13 musketeers, and 14 artillery pieces.

Moreover, these people are unemployed vagrants, drunkards, bankrupts, and some even ruffians who have no access to land, and they are not regular troops.

With just a few people, they conquered the vast Aztec kingdom and eventually destroyed it in the long river of history.

Liu Jin felt that the weapons and equipment of these people under his command were many times better than those of the Spanish colonists, and the number of people was much more.

There is no reason why you can't conquer the kingdom of these descendants of Yin Shang.

What the Spaniards can do, they can do the same, and that's what it was like in the colonial era, even if you don't go today, soon in a few years, the Spaniards will flock to the Golden Continent in large numbers, and they will do the same.

When the time comes, the Spaniards, who have tasted the sweetness, will quickly occupy the entire Golden Continent, and gold and silver are the strongest driving force.

Other trading houses followed to make a fortune on the Golden Continent, and there was no reason for them to salivate and watch them eat and drink spicy, even if they didn't care, the brothers under their hands would not think like this.

Therefore, no matter what the reason, it is necessary to conquer the kingdoms of these descendants of Yin Shang, make them submit to the Ming Dynasty, and pay enough gold and silver to the Ming side every year.

Only in this way can more people be stimulated to go to the Golden Continent and promote the development of the colonial era.

As for the death or tragic fate of the descendants of Yin Shang, Liu Jin felt that even if he didn't do it, their fate would be very tragic.

The Spaniards were even more greedy and murderous than the Ming people.

The Ming people at least regarded them as descendants of Yin Shang, preaching that they had a common ancestor before, so in the expansion of the Golden Continent, they generally rarely went to large-scale killings.

As long as the Yin Shang tribes are willing to surrender and surrender, they basically will not kill indiscriminately, and many times they are friendly and cooperative.

At least Liu Jin would not think of deliberately spreading smallpox, plague and other diseases to exterminate these descendants of Yin Shang, but the Europeans could do it, and there was nothing they couldn't do.

Therefore, it is better to let these countries of the descendants of Yin Shang submit to the Ming Dynasty than to destroy the Spaniards, at least in a few years, when the Europeans arrive in the Golden Continent, these places will already belong to the colonies of the Ming Dynasty, and they can also be protected by the Ming Dynasty.

"Since it was confessed by Liu Gongzi, there is nothing to say, even if you can't win, you have to fight a war and give it a try."

"These Aztecs, they, like the Incas, don't know the heavens and the earth, they must be taught a lesson, and they will be obedient in the future."

"Yes, yes, they must be taught a lesson, and if we win them, we can also go to the east coast of the Golden Continent."

When the others heard this, they all nodded their heads one after another, Liu Jin's words would definitely not be wrong.