Chapter 264 Establishment of diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom of Maya

"This is the information you worked so hard to get from the Mayan region? You don't even have the exact number of people to the tens of thousands, and you dare to use the materials for the Senate to do a foreign intelligence analysis meeting, and look for scolding? ”

"It's not that I don't want to do it, it's that these numbers are too difficult to determine, many tribes are hiding in the inaccessible primeval jungle, and we can't go up the river like the Malays to find those tribes who want water to drink, there are no rivers there, and if you want to find specific location statistics, you have to pull a net to investigate, and many large cities and states don't have detailed statistics and the ability to control deep into the rainforest, let alone those small city-states. City-states with a population of no more than 5,000 are not eligible to trade directly with us, and they rely on the resale of the big city-states to get the goods we export. ”

Now the Senate is debating whether to grant equal diplomatic rights to the Mayan city-states or to urge them to form alliances as a subject after unification. The number you count is only 3.9 million to 5 million, which is too much of a discrepancy, and all the 'cities' with large buildings, let's call those settlements that don't even have sewers, are only 1 million people, and the overall urbanization rate of this recent southern urban area is about 18%, so this civilization has at least 18 million people with a unified written language and cultural background, which is enough to meet the standards of the allies. ”

"This number is absolutely impossible, and the local ecology has been destroyed in the eyes. I have carefully observed the situation in this area, and most of the cities have abandoned and vacant houses, and residents simply do not have enough to fill all the urban dwellings. Since ancient times. Mayan farmers used a very primitive method of "milpa" farming: all the trees were cut down, dried for a period of time, and then set on fire before the rainy season arrived, and the plant ash was used as fertilizer to cover the poor rainforest soil (slash-and-burn). Burn one crop at a time, and then fallow for 1-3 years, and in some places even up to 6 years. After the grass and trees grow more lushly, burn and replant.

When the civilization flourished and the population increased greatly during the classical period, the pressure on agriculture increased, and people destroyed more forests to clear the land. At the same time, the fallow time is kept as short as possible, but as a result, the soil fertility decreases and the corn yield becomes less and less. The Mayan civilization after a great demographic development. It is facing the serious problem of deterioration of the ecological environment and depletion of living resources. The peasants, who are the main body of the population, do not have enough to eat, and their social situation has plummeted.

The soil samples we are now collecting locally and blood samples from local city dwellers tell us that the Maya are on the eve of a megafamine. The soil fertility of the rainforest has fallen to the brink of rocky desertification, and chronic famine has caused the Maya to decline to their lowest physical level. Without improved farming practices and the application of fertilizer, the bureau's experts estimate that within 100 years, the Maya will experience a massive famine and the resulting civil strife that will cause a sudden population decline, and this civilization is likely to dissipate like Loulan. The population and density here are definitely not more than twice the level of rainforest hunting civilization, and at most it is between primitive tribal agriculture and hunting civilization. It is unlikely that the population will exceed 5 million. ”

"This comprehensive report is still something missing, let me see. Population, male-to-female ratio, age structure, food structure, health report, productivity assessment, military level report, centralization level, legal system, aristocratic privilege report, religious analysis report, agriculture and handicraft report, trade dependence, pro-Chinese polls, ......, how is it that there are no Maya key figures list and infrastructure analysis report? ”

"The list needs to be done by linguists who have a detailed understanding of the phonetic semantics of the Mayan language, although the number of nobles in each city is small, but it is difficult for outsiders to contact, and the small people in the city-state have limited cultural level and cannot access the cultural knowledge that can only be mastered by the written and sacrificial nobles, and we still need at least three months to analyze the cultural content of the Maya. As for the technical analysis of infrastructure, it is even more difficult to do, the local water conservancy and irrigation facilities are extremely developed, roads and public facilities only exist in the city, it can be said that they are highly concentrated in the city, the roads between the cities are all dirt roads at the level of sheep intestines, each city is an isolated island of civilization, and some distant city-states near the northeast have no intelligence. These are errors caused by uncertain intelligence, and these untouched data on distant cities are merely the collection of gossip and word of mouth. Because the cultural identity of this civilization is strong, and most tribes and cities use the same script, language, currency, weights and measures, religion, and mode of production, it is absolutely fine to see it as a du li civilization. And because the area is not large (compared to the area of tens of millions of square kilometers of the empire, the area of the Maya is pitifully small, only equivalent to the area of 2 Henan provinces), the environmental climate is close, the population density gap is not too large, and the deviation of the whole according to the local situation will not be as outrageous as other civilizations. ”

"Okay, this report can barely fool around in the Senate, urging the political unification of the Mayan city-states seems to be a difficult problem, there is no canal and road network, it is too difficult to establish economic ties, and it seems that political unification cannot be relied on economic unification, which one or several of these known southern cities have shown goodwill towards China, and the Chizhou Intelligence Department has not yet selected a good agent?"

"As a result of the pandemic, many local Mayan tribes have suffered casualties, and many tribes and cities have begun to change from friendship to fear and suspicion, believing that we have brought death with us. It is difficult to determine whether most of those in power in those cities and large tribes are still friendly to China. ”

"Are there any deaths among the local agents and commercial compradors we have fostered?"

"There are no deaths, thanks to vaccines and medicines, the life expectancy of these agents has increased to more than 50 years, and our preferential treatment for them is still very guaranteed. However, two compradors died in robbers on the way to transport goods, this was purely accidental, it seems that we have to apply for more cold weapons export quotas, first of all, to ensure the safety of these partners. ”

"These are not problems, the city-states of the south are easy to buy. After all, the population is there, and it doesn't cost much. We only need to export agricultural equipment and fertilizers to unify the Maya in a few city-states, which will take too long. It seems that some bloodthirsty sacrifices and anti-civilization ignorance of the times need to become the cornerstone of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia. ”

Half a year after crossing the coastline of the Chizhou continent, in the months after crossing the Zhongzhong and being rescued back to China, the empire zhèng fu, who had collected enough information, finally pushed the Senate to pass the "Mayapan Treaty", which was the most preferential among many foreign treaties, and the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia became a son remembered by the Mayans for generations, just like the neon country remembered the black ship incident when the rice country opened the country and served as a statutory holiday.

Mayapan is also a semi-modern industrial city built by Traders, located on the Atlantic side of the sea, not far south of Mamen Port. The city of Merida, which is equivalent to the old time and space, is not far from Chichen Itza, the largest urban civilization center of the Maya at this time, and is just a small town. The main industries were timber processing and primary mineral processing, and it was a commodity distribution center for imperial merchants in the northern Yucatan Peninsula, but it became the fastest-growing Mayan city after it was designated as a legal capital and political center.

Building roads and canals in the middle of the rainforest is obviously a deadly task. The Empire could only find a very small fishing port on the smooth coastline on the Pacific side, and the plan to establish a beachhead on the Pacific side failed, so in order to speed up the Empire's penetration and control the lifeblood of the Maya, the only option was to establish an open port on the distant Atlantic side.

Then this new port in the northeast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Tulum, and the port of Mammun in the north of Mayapan, are the two windows between the Maya and the world. The Kokcum family is supported by the Empire. Became the sole royal family of the Maya. Relying on strong foreign armaments and newly built technical guidance, the more than 4,000 Mayapan troops led by Prince Coco Muratu conquered seven disobedient city-states, becoming the largest military and secular feudal lords of the Maya, and the large and small nobles soon changed from slave owners to feudal lords throughout the new Mayan United Kingdom, and the Maya transformed from a loose confederation of slave city-states to a feudal state similar to France in a few months. The religious and military aristocracy of the various city-states and tribes abandoned slavery and transformed into feudal manor owners with astonishing speed.

Outside the stick of military terror, the carrot was naturally the result of an unprecedented super-increase in the productivity of the freed slaves and the increase in corn and other crops imported from the Empire's agricultural implements, fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides, and the slow suicide of the long-suffering ecological degradation - the Mayan strata who had been tormented by famine soon submitted to the Kokam family, who had monopolized imports.

Propagating the Maya from a loose tribal confederation to a feudal state would not have been an easy task, if it had not been for the fact that the Maya themselves had a highly developed culture and a sufficiently strong cultural background. It is absolutely impossible to unite the Cocum family and a few thousand rabbles armed by the Empire.

This nascent state was very far behind the world's major countries (several of the great powers of the Old World) in terms of military and political diplomacy, but at least more than half of the world's civilizations and regions in terms of academic and cultural knowledge. du li's writing system. The system and judicial system of du li, the large-scale intensive agricultural system of du li, and the industrial and commercial system of du li are far superior to many regions and civilizations in the old world that have not yet been feudalized. Tibet, Mongolia, North Asia and Northern Europe could not keep up with the development level of Mayan civilization, let alone the entire sub-Saharan Xuanzhou.

This dark land on the edge of civilization, the only civilization surrounded by many barbaric tribes in Chizhou, was naturally far more attractive to the merchants and travelers from other old continents than other tribes who did not even have writing. The principle of the eyeball economy is naturally understood by a businessman, and it attracted the vast majority of the investment and trade of the empire and the old continent to Chizhou for a while, so naturally, the empire would have to invest more effort in this area to operate.

After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia, the Maya pattern is very similar to that of China after the signing of the Sino-US Friendship Maritime and Trade Treaty, and the all-round opening will naturally be directly involved in the world division of labor and the provision of low-end goods and services for a period of time, but it will inevitably be built as a window to show the imperial civilization in Chizhou, and the people's living standards will still be significantly improved. )