In the distant Dongzhou Continent, Hou Xian led the fleet, like an explorer, to find out the places marked on the map one by one.

From Mexico to Panama, from Ecuador to Peru, the fleet sent a team of about 1,000 men to investigate the local area.

The current fleet found out that a large desert area had been reached ahead, and Hou Xian knew that his final destination had been reached.

As the commander of the expedition fleet, Hou Xian knew that his main task was not to conquer, but to understand the situation and prepare for future conquests.

But as the commander of an expedition fleet, Hou Xian wanted to really leave his name in history rather than a passerby.

In the past ten years, he has served as Zheng He's deputy commander several times and traveled to the West together.

But Zheng He alone attracted all the attention, whether it was him or Wang Jinghong, he was unknown.

As the coach this time, when he set off, he had already secretly made up his mind that he would not be willing to be just a passerby.

During his time in the Aztec Empire, the vice-marshal Yi Xin landed on the mainland and would conduct a year-long exploration on the mainland.

He knew his chance had come.

The fleet kept moving slowly along the long coastline, and many of the tribes that passed through were pitifully small.

The people here are poor and pitiful, but they are rich and enviable.

They don't know how to smelt, they can't farm, they can only hunt and gather, and many tribes are very similar to those primitive tribes in Nanzhou.

Their life is to rely on the sky for food, and they don't have the gold and silver in their hands that the Ming wants.

He had no interest in these tribes, and now he had only one goal, and that was the Kingdom of Cusco.

Judging by the strength of those tribes, even the Kingdom of Cusco is not worth mentioning in his eyes.

Not to mention that he still had nearly 10,000 soldiers and craftsmen under his command, even if only half of them were enough for him to conquer the country.

Of course, before that, he had to fulfill His Highness's instructions first, and obtain the kind of tree that can flow white slurry, as well as the cinchona tree, which is called a sacred tree by the local natives.

Corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and peppers have been obtained in previous trips.

Many of the old farmers have gone ashore to study the habits of these crops in the local area, learn how to plant them, and obtain seeds.

However, rubber trees are only found in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Cusco, in the rainforests after the mountains.

Because the rubber tree is the most important, then the cinchona tree, then the pure saltpeter mine in the desert mentioned by His Highness, and finally the crops.

So the current fleet retains at least half of the agronomists and craftsmen who are good at planting, and more than half of the soldiers.

There was an island in the open sea, a continental triangle, on the bank of a river, and Hou Xian let the army come to the shore and set up camp on the south side of the river, ready to be the base camp of the army.

This is actually the city of Lima in later generations, although this place is known as a city without rain and is very arid. But it's home to some of the Andes' rivers.

In addition to the river, there is also an abundance of groundwater, and even the cities of millions of people in later generations have not damaged the environment here, and there is no problem with it as a base camp in this era.

Although it is not the best base camp, Guayaquil, Ecuador, is more suitable for climate, water and farmland.

But let's not forget that in Peru and Chile to the south of Peru, there are some of the richest mineral belts in the world.

Chile is home to the world's largest natural saltpeter mine and is a country built on copper mines. Peru and Bolivia also have some of the world's top mineral resources.

Bolivia's silver mines are not much less than those in Mexico, where they have been dug for hundreds of years without being hollowed out.

Not to mention, there are countless gold mines in the Andes.

Moreover, from Lake Titicaca, through Bolivia, into the eastern part of South America, it is tens of thousands of kilometers closer than bypassing Tierra del Fuego.

Therefore, the Viceroyalty Palace was located here in Spain in history, because it directly radiates most of Central and South America.

While building the city defense, Hou Xian began to encircle the surrounding tribes with small favors.

The Native Americans of this era were even more backward than the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period in China, they could not make wheels, they would not have vehicles, and without vehicles, they could not transport long distances.

Moreover, there are no horses in South America, not even cattle, so they can only rely on their feet and alpacas for transportation.

Therefore, the development of many tribes in hundreds of years is only a few hundred miles of influence. No matter how far they go, they simply can't rule.

Their weapons were also very backward, with few iron tools, and their weapons were wooden clubs, stone axes, javelins, spears, bows and arrows, and slingshots to catapult small stones.

That's why more than 100 years later, 169 Spains wiped out a country of millions of people.

This is not fiction, not myth, but reality. It's just that this reality is more absurd than the myth seems.

In 1531, the Inca army was torn apart by civil war, and this chaotic situation played into the hands of the colonists.

With the permission of the King of Spain, Francisco Pizarro set sail from Spanish ports with less than 200 men and began his journey to conquer an empire of six million people.

On November 16, 1532, the day after the Spaniards arrived in Cajamarca, a messenger from the Inca king Atahualpa arrived among the Spaniards.

Pizarro said to the messenger: "Tell your sovereign that he is welcome." When and how to come, do as he wishes. Whatever way he comes, I will treat him as a friend and brother. I begged him to come quickly, for I longed to meet him. He will not be hurt or insulted in any way. ”

After the messenger left, Pizarro quickly set up a defense around Piazza Cajamarca. He divided one hundred and six infantry into two, led by him and his brother Juan; Sixty-two cavalrymen were also divided into two parts, commanded by his other brothers, Hernando and De Soto.

At noon that day, Atahualpa concentrated his forces and marched towards the square where the Spaniards were stationed. At the forefront were 2,000 Indians sweeping the road, dressed in colorful checkerboard patterns, picking up stones and grass on the side of the road as they went.

Behind them were three groups of Native Americans dressed in different colors, singing and dancing.

Further on that came a large number of Inca warriors, who carried huge metal plates, crowns made of gold and silver, and many gold and silver objects.

Surrounded by everyone, the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, who was sitting on his shoulder, appeared. The wooden bracket on the shoulder, wrapped in silver skin, is surrounded by colorful parrot feathers and decorated with gold and silver ornaments, and is carried on the shoulders of eighty Inca lords.

Atahualpa himself was dressed in brocade and embroidered, with a crown on his head, and a huge necklace made of emeralds around his neck, and sat on a small, richly decorated saddle stool in the middle of his shoulder. In palanquins and hammocks on either side of the shoulder, high lords sat decorated with a large number of gold and silver ornaments, followed by Inca warriors carrying gold and silver items.

The Indians entered the Cajamarca Square singing loudly, filling every corner of the square. The Spaniards who were lying in ambush around the square were so frightened that many peed their pants.

With more than 100 people fighting against a huge empire with 80,000 soldiers, it is normal for them to pee their pants, but if they dare to do it, it can be called crazy.

In the middle of the square, Atahualpa was talking to Vincent de Valverde, a dervishes sent by Pizarro. With a Bible in hand, de Valverde declared that he had asked Atahualpa to convert to Christianity "in the name of God and the King of Spain."

Atahualpa asked Brother De Valverde for the Bible in his hand to see what mystical power the pamphlet really had. The Incas didn't know how to make paper, let alone print books, so the emperor didn't know how to open them.

Brother De Balverde reached out to help, and Atahualpa, feeling contempt, punched the monk in the arm.

Attahualpa then opened the book, found nothing magical in it, and in a fit of rage threw it a few meters away, saying, "We believe only in the sun, not in God and in Christ." ”

Atahualpa's actions gave the Spaniards a reason to do so, and in the name of blasphemy, they ordered the cavalry to launch a charge.

There were no horses in the Americas, and the Spaniards had only rudimentary breech guns, which were difficult to load and fire.

But these had a great deterrent effect on the Incas, whose wooden clubs could not kill anyone, but the swords of the Spaniards could kill them, and the loud sound of muskets made them panic, and the Indo-Ca troops fell into confusion, trampling on each other, and many suffocated to death.

Dozens of Spanish cavalry continued to pursue, tens of thousands of troops fled in panic, and the valley was filled with the wails of the Incas.

If it weren't for the Spaniards' retreat due to nightfall, I'm afraid that the 80,000 Indo-Canadian troops would have been wiped out.

According to statistics, about 7,000 Incas were killed in Cajamarca, but the Spaniards suffered very little losses.

What's more, they captured Atahualpa, the unwieldy emperor of the Inca Empire. The high-ranking lords and ministers around the emperor were all killed in this massacre.

Pizarro had the Incas fill a room 22 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 8 feet high with gold. Filling the other two rooms with silver, Atahualpa's subjects obeyed his orders from prison despite being imprisoned.

When a steady stream of gold from all over the empire filled the treasury of the Spaniards, the spoils of thirteen thousand pounds of gold, nearly thirty thousand pounds of silver, did not satisfy the Spanish colonists, who treacherously killed Atahualpa.

In the end, the Incas fought four large-scale revolts, and the Spaniards, relying on their superiority in steel and cavalry, defeated the Inca army in four battles, namely Hauha, Vilca Suaman, Bilca Kanga, and Cusco, in which the Spaniards were only 80, 30, 110, and 40 respectively, and the Inca army was often routed in the tens of thousands in each battle.

This asymmetrical war lasted for forty years, until 1572, when the Inca Empire was completely destroyed.

From this history, it is clear how scummy the fighting power of the Incas was. They are not comparable to the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was at its weakest.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji also made up a history, and he told Hou Xian. "Magellan" They were forty people, and they once expelled a tribe of tens of thousands into the mountains.

Although Hou Xian's "ambitions" and ambitions were not explicitly supported by Zhu Zhanji, they were also deliberately provoked.

He doesn't want everyone to be like Zheng He, with the idea that the world is one family and the world is for the public.

In this class society, even the people in the Ming Dynasty have to be divided into three, six, nine and so on, how can they treat overseas Yi people equally.

Assimilation when it is time to assimilate, and when it is time to use the knife, we must not be soft.

In the city of Lima, Hou Xian'an divided into two months, not because of kindness, but to learn the local language, and to use iron tools to attract the surrounding tribes to join, help the Ming fleet explore the way, cut firewood.

Yang Dao's steam sailing ship is now out of coal, and when there is no coal mine nearby, they can only use firewood to burn the fire and drive the steam engine.

Compared to coal, firewood is not resistant to burning, so it is necessary to prepare a little more, and the fleet of the Ming Dynasty should also be familiar with the surrounding environment.

Yang Dao's remaining six first-class warships and twenty-four second-class battleships were all steam sailing ships.

This time, they traveled lightly, no longer exploring the depths of the continent, but only global positioning and mapping the coast of the Americas.

Because whether it is South America or North America, the east is a plain area. Even the swamps are much easier to conquer than the mountains in the west.

They would gather coal in northern Colombia, then join EasySum along the Gulf of Mexico, then travel from Cuba to what would become New York, and then pick up Dippingxia, who had first crossed the North American continent, and return home.

After sending Yang Dao and the others away, Hou Xian couldn't wait to arrange for the navy and craftsmen to stay behind, and he took the army and began to march to the southeast.

Their goal was not elsewhere, but the kingdom of Cusco, which later became the Inca Empire.

There was no Inca Empire yet, and it was not until a few decades later that the Kingdom of Cusco grew rapidly, transforming from a small regional state to a large country that radiated northwestern South America.

Hou Xian's purpose is to conquer this country and make this land rightfully belong to the Ming Dynasty.

Just as they were showing their ambitions, the old farmers had already discovered rubber trees in the wild, and although there were few rubber trees in the area, they already knew what rubber trees looked like.

The cinchona tree has actually been used in South America for a long time.

Malaria is one of the four major infectious diseases along with plague, smallpox, and influenza. The Black Death, which was heard in Europe, was actually a type of plague.

Cinchona is nature's most effective cure for malaria, and it is something that can be extracted by today's technology.

Around the 1,000th century AD, the Indians of South America discovered the bark of the cinchona tree, which was effective in treating malaria, but they only processed it and did not extract it at all.

This is the same as Chinese traditional Chinese medicine, which is an applied science.

When Hou Xian arrived in South America, it didn't take much trouble to learn about the cinchona tree from a nearby tribe, and it had been researched, ready to be transplanted, and planted.

Unlike food, trees can survive as long as they have an environment to adapt to and know how to grow them.

If you want to transplant a large number of plants, you must conduct long-term observation, research, and try to plant.

But Hou Xian's first conquest ended in failure, not because of the strength of the enemy, in fact, the 5,000 men he brought with him were enough to level the large power of the whole of South America.

Their failure was to underestimate the harsh natural environment of western South America.

South America is bounded by the Andes Mountains, and the east is forested, grassland, with a suitable climate, fertile land.

But in the west, most of them are barren wastelands, mountains, and only along rivers, there are some oases.

There were not enough horses, and the warriors had to rely on their legs to move forward, and these were nothing, mainly the lack of water.

If it is in Daming, crossing the northwest, there will be a large number of horse-drawn carts, ox carts, which can bring enough water.

But here, without even a car, how can you carry enough water?

He had to let the spies continue to search for water along the way, looking for other ways to travel east.

Hou Xian is struggling in South America, and it is a little difficult to even enter the interior, but in North America, after a rough start, they have established a huge force in the area of Veracruz.

Compared to the weakness of the Incas, the Aztec civilization was originally a history of war.

Although they have not yet developed and the Aztec civilization is still in its infancy, a belligerent style has been formed.

easyMarkets didn't march directly into Mexico City at first, and of course there is no Mexico City now, there is only Tenochtitlan.

As soon as they came ashore, more than 10 percent of nearly 1,000 soldiers fell ill, and more than 50 died.

But when most people recovered, they became a source of the virus for the locals.

They discovered that they could bring disease to the locals, and they discovered it when La Venta had built up enough power to be recognized by the locals and prepare to head north.

At the junction of the mountains and plains of southern Mexico, there is a large tribe that calls itself the Tehuacans.

They could not stand the heat and humidity of the plains, and lived in the middle of the mountains all the time, making a living by hunting and robbing the tribes of the plains.

When the Ming soldiers went north, they were the first to encounter them.

In a battle that was not considered a war, they did not hurt a single Ming soldier, and they were killed by the Ming people more than fifty people, and then they proposed peace.

Yi Xin didn't want to kill them all, and his attention didn't fall on this medium-sized tribe and accepted the peace.

But when the leaders of the two sides negotiated, the Ming people had walked less than a hundred miles when they heard that there was a plague in their tribe.

To Yixin's surprise, the twenty soldiers he had left behind were unscathed, but more than half of the tribe had contracted the plague.

Most of them were saved by the military doctors, but they still lost more than a tenth of their population.

Then there was a second tribe, a third tribe, all of which was the case.

Don't say easy-to-believe, even the doctors who accompanied the army couldn't tell what this was.

However, this has given Yixin another way of thinking about warfare. If you can destroy the enemy without using knives and guns, why use knives and guns?

Later, Yixin did not go to the other tribes on the road, and advanced directly to Tenochtitlan in the mode of rapid march.

The territory of the original country of Tepanix was divided into three parts, which belonged to Tenochtitlan, Descoco, and Tlacopan.

These three alliances are not only the largest tribes here, but they have also been intimidating the surrounding tribes.

As long as Da Ming directly takes these three tribes, the other tribes will not be a problem.

In the primitive state of communication, Tenochtitlan and they did not know about the plague brought by the Ming soldiers, so when the Ming people came to Tenochtitlan and were willing to trade with them on an equal footing, they were still very happy.

At the request of Yi Xin, they divided an area outside the city for the Ming people to trade, but the scattered Ming soldiers entered the city, and they did not stop them.

Within three days, the plague began to spread, but this time, the doctors of the Ming Dynasty no longer used precious Chinese medicine, but boiled water from grassroots roots to treat them.

Only young women can be cured by real Chinese medicine.

During this period, Yixin began to propagate in the name of God, believing that this was the punishment of Tenochtitlan from heaven, and that the punishment would only end if the emperor truly believed in the Ming Dynasty.

The panic spread not only to the city of Tenochtitlan, but also to their entire tribe and two other allies.

These people clearly saw that most of the clansmen who surrendered to the Ming people survived, while the warriors died one by one.

When the plague spread, no one could count how many people were infected and how many died.

The plague, which began in October of the 19th year of Yongle, did not subside until March of the 20th year of Yongle.

In the end, only half of the 100,000-strong city of Tenochtitlan remained, and most of them were women.

And in the entire valley of Mexico, most of the remaining three million people here also consider themselves to be the children of the Ming Emperor and have begun to learn the Ming language.

It didn't take a single soldier to accomplish such a great cause, not to mention how proud Yixin was in his heart.

But in addition to pride, he often thinks about whether he wants to return to the Ming Dynasty if millions of people here regard him as the emperor's spokesman and let him do whatever he wants.

Back to the Ming Dynasty, he is nothing as an earl, but here, he is the king of millions of people!

But he also knows that everything he has now is given by His Royal Highness. Without these soldiers, his orders would not have been conveyed at all.

For a long time while waiting for the fleets to converge, he was hesitating, and, of course, he was recklessly looting for gold and silver.

Although several of Mexico's major gold mines, including super silver mines, have yet to be discovered, it is a major source of gold and silver.

The Indians have been collecting gold since ancient times, and they can exchange the same weight of gold for just an iron pot. A tea brick can be exchanged for the same weight of silver.

Truckloads of gold and silver were brought back to the ships on the southern coast, and there were four parties supervising each other, including the internal superintendents, the civil servants, the army, and the navy, and no one dared to embezzle them on a large scale.

They don't need it, because of these gains, they can get thirty percent, and now they have a million taels of gold, and a million taels of silver are recovered, and thirty percent also have three million silver.

And in total, there are less than 6,000 people to divide this silver, and at least one or two hundred taels, a coach like Yi Xin, divide 200,000 taels, and no one will complain.

These are not just money, but innocent extras, rewards from the imperial court.

No one knows how many soldiers will be inspired to fight because of such war profits.

It took hundreds of words to talk about history, and if there is something to do today, tomorrow it will make up for everyone a little more.

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