Mingzhou, outside Jinshan City.

The sun and moon are waving their flags, and hot air balloons are flying high. On an open flat land, tigers are like forests.

The 3,200 Indian warriors, all wearing Chinese hair buns, Chinese war jackets sewn from animal skins, straw sandals on their feet, spears, bows and arrows, and shields in their hands, stood silently. Ten battalion phalanxes, thirty company columns. formed the most powerful army on the continent of Mingzhou.

Although the number is still a bit small, only 3,200 people. The formation also seemed arbitrary, and the discipline of the Indians was really poor, and no matter how strict the training was, there was still no way for them to discharge a strict formation like the Ming army. However, these Indian hunter-born guys all have a strong body, great strength, and quick reactions, not much worse than the wild Jurchens in the old forests of the Northeast.

Moreover, they were also equipped with iron weapons and longbows, which were unique in the continent at the moment, which were similar to the yew longbows used by the English, and were not advanced, but they were a substitute for when it was too late to make compound bows. It is very easy to produce by cutting a giant cedar into a bow shape and then attaching the strings. Because the bow body is very long, the elasticity of the giant cedar is also good, and the kinetic energy stored is relatively large. Therefore, the effective range of the longbow projectile can reach about 150 steps. Far exceeded the range of any other projection weapon on the Mingzhou Continent at this time!

In addition, these Indian soldiers, who had been trained by the Great Ming Soldiers, also knew about organized combat. Will be in fairly orderly formation, will be directed by drums, banners, and orders to advance, retreat, charge, and fire a salvo of feathered arrows. Simple fortifications and camps were also built under the command of Ming officers. Moreover, there are also written military discipline constraints in the army, with rewards (usually wine) and punishments, and strict orders.

In a word. These armies were pulled up to Eurasia, that is, to the level of the grass robbers and the rebellious old peasants. But in the Mingzhou Continent, which is still in the Stone Age, it definitely has the power to sweep everything.

The problem now is that the army is too small in number. Moreover, the Jinshan Indians, who provided logistics and military resources for this army, had a backward and primitive degree of social development.

Therefore, it is necessary to let the Jinshan Indians run into a slave society that represents the advanced productive forces!

The bugle suddenly sounded like a whimper. I saw the gate of Jinshan Castle open, and a group of "god men" wearing leather armor or various silk robes (this is what the Jinshan Indians now call the Daming colonists) and dozens of Indian chiefs wearing animal skin robes, combing their hair in buns, and dressed as Chinese, poured out together.

The three Indian Confucian scholars, Shark Tonghai, Shrimp Xuedao, and Caviar, also came out with these indigenous chieftains and Ming army officers, who now served as translators and would be part of the Indian elite in the future.

Today, the three men will also be responsible for delivering the latest oracle to all Indian soldiers and indigenous chiefs - the establishment of the Indian Eight Banners, the practice of private ownership and slavery. The 55 tribes of Jinshan were reorganized according to the model of the Eight Banners.

The chiefs took their positions in front of the phalanx of Indian soldiers, led by Shrimp and Roe. Most of the "gods" stood under a wooden platform opposite them, and only Yang Aguo, who was dressed in a white robe, and Shark Tonghai, who served as an interpreter, stood on the high platform.

Yang A, who has only one arm, can only rank third among the powerful people in Jinshan City, but in the eyes of the Jinshan Indians, he represents divine power. Now it was only a stop on the heights, and the Indians below bowed their heads, not daring to look directly at his face.

At this time, Shark Tonghai suddenly opened his throat and shouted in Hoka: "Kneel! ”

The Yang Dao people were going to announce the oracle, and of course the Indians had to kneel down and listen. Neither an Indian chief nor an Indian warrior did not hesitate at this moment. He threw himself on his knees, and everyone had a pious expression on their faces. The power of the feudal superstition of the Heavenly Daoist Sect was undoubtedly revealed at this moment. Religious superstition does not have much of a demagogic effect on highly civilized humans, but it is simply a special medicine for barbarians who are not enlightened-cannons to heat balloons (loaded with gods) and alcoholic beverages. It is the three magic weapons of the Ming colonists!

Yang Aguo began to preach in a sacred and solemn tone: "The Taiyi God descended to the king of the Ming Dynasty in the world, and ordered the king to save the world and spread the truth. Build a bright world, so that everyone can enjoy peace and happiness. The Mingzhou continent is the most barren in the world. It is also the darkest of the earths. The northern part of Mingzhou is barren, and the people are ignorant. Only the truth of the One God can make people wise and yearn for the light. The southern part of Mingzhou is shrouded in darkness, the truth is covered with dust, and cults are rampant, only the savage people who have taken refuge in the One God can sweep away the darkness there under the guidance of the Sun and Moon Sacred Banner, so that the wealth of the dark city-state can be used by the people of the One God, and the people of darkness will become your slaves, so that the light will shine on the whole of Mingzhou......"

Yang Ah Guo spoke very slowly, and when he said a word, he stopped, and Shark Tonghai immediately translated it into Hoka. The chieftains and warriors below listened intently - the faith of the Taiyi God and the Ming King had been established, and the original faith of the Jinshan Indians had been abandoned...... Primitive beliefs can never be defeated by systematic religions spread by blood and fire. Moreover, the more ignorant the savage, the more religious they tend to be after converting to religion.

“…… For this reason, the Taiyi oracle instructed that the light should be made to illuminate the continent, so that the holy flag of the sun and the moon would be planted in every corner of the continent. It is necessary to break the original tribes among the Chumash and Tongwa people in Jinshan and implement the Eight Banners system! The warriors of King Ming must be rewarded for their bravery and exploits. Let the warriors have property, women, slaves, and superiority. Let the best warriors be leaders. Let the descendants of the warriors also be noble and rich! ”

Most of the indigenous Indians of Jinshan still can't understand the meaning of Yang Aguo's words, and they are just boiling for the gods they worship. All they knew was that God wanted them to fight, to conquer, to destroy the legendary rich Mayan city-states, to seize their wealth, and to enslave their people......

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Quanzhou, Anhai Port.

The northwest wind rose, and the misty autumn rain also fell. In the wind and rain, the neat Ming army and the warriors of the spring were silently getting on the boat. Among them, Quan Yong was dressed very specially, everyone was wearing sackcloth outside the battle jacket, and the head was tied with a strip of cloth of Baise - this is to go out with filial piety! 12,000 soldiers, all with filial piety, all dressed in linen!

They are bringing filial piety to their relatives and fellow villagers who died in the Quanzhou Revolution before, and of course, with full of anger and hatred, they are going to take revenge!

The waves in the harbor are not small. Push the ups and downs of the temporary requisitioned fortune ships in the port. The warships on the escort mission have all pulled anchor and left the port, forming a formation outside the port, waiting for the flotilla to carry troops to go to sea.

The 12,000 Quan Yong and the 8,000 Ming Expeditionary Force had already assembled three days earlier than planned and were ready to set off.

On the dock, Chen Dexing was walking with Chen Huaiqing, who had just arrived in Quanzhou, and beside the two of them, in addition to the steel-armored guards in charge of vigilance, the Daming battleship that had lowered the gangway.

This time, Chen Dexing will personally go to the south. The matter of rectifying the three counties of Quanzhou Prefecture will be entrusted to Chen Huaiqing -- he is no longer the prefect of Taiwan but the prefect of Quanzhou.

The father and son walked in the rain. I was wet with rain, but I didn't care. Looking at the spectacular mobilization scene at the port, the brows of both of them were slightly twisted.

"Dexing, Nanfan is not Liaodong, although its people are lazy and ignorant, but its land has always been the center of Buddhism, Brahmanism and Tianfangism. Therefore, it is easy to capture the Three Buddhas, and it is difficult to educate the Three Buddhas......"

Chen Huaiqing has obviously paid close attention to the situation in the southern countries these days. Liaodong is barbaric and barren, and its geographical location is remote, so it is naturally not the focus of the spread of all religions, and it is also slaughtered by the Mongols. So the wild Jurchens there are in a state of lack of faith, and the Heavenly Taoism can easily occupy their minds. Moreover, those so-called wild Jurchens are actually a mixture of Han Chinese, Jurchens, Khitans and remnants of the Bohai Kingdom, and they look similar to the Han people, and now they have no own culture, beliefs, and upper class society (a few wild chieftains are not really upper-class) are naturally easier to assimilate.

But the situation in Nanban is completely different, Buddhism and Brahmanism have been spreading there for at least hundreds or even thousands of years, and they have long been deeply rooted. It was the later Celestial Sect, which also had a history of propagation for hundreds of years, and already had a considerable number of believers, as well as communities belonging to the Celestial Sect, and also had their spokesmen in the courts of the Srivijaya and Java countries.

The Heavenly Taoism has no roots there, and it does not even have the support of the Manichaeans - the overseas Manichaeans are obviously more serious about religion than the Ming Christians in China. They do not agree with the Heavenly Taoism, which combines Chinese Taoist ideas and has an additional king.

Therefore, the Heavenly Daoist Sect that entered Nanfan is now very isolated, and most countries have adopted a strategy of superficially pandering (in order to get the Heavenly Thunder Arrow) and secretly resisting. Although all allowed the Celestial Daoist Sect to start a Taoist temple, and some kings and ministers pretended to convert, they did not actually support the spread of the Celestial Daoist Sect, let alone elevate it to the status of the state religion.

The only exception is the emerging kingdom of Sukhothai. Although there are many Buddhists in this country, because the country is freshly baked, there were still a bunch of tribes attached to the Khmer kingdom more than ten years ago. As a result, there were no strong traditional forces, so it was easier for them to accept the Celestial Daoism - their King Baan Muwang and Prince Ramkhamhang not only joined the Khmer in order to obtain more weapons against the Khmer, but also put the Celestial Daoism on the throne of Sukhothai.

However, Sukhothai is just a special case, and if the Heavenly Daoist Sect wants to occupy the entire southern fan, it is still indispensable for a bloody battle! (To be continued......)