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Zama is a city made of huge boulders perched on cliffs several feet high on the Caribbean coast. Standing at the top of the magnificent Grand Temple, you can look out at the blue Caribbean Sea and imagine what the other side of the sea will look like.

In the Mayan language, "Zama" means "tomorrow" because it is the first land where the sun rises, and it is said that standing on the cliff face of Zama City, the Mayan priests could see the Mayan tomorrow...... Or can they see the end of Maya? Didn't the Spanish sailboats come from the sea to the east to put an end to the Mayan civilization in transition?

However, for now, Spain is still only a geographical term, and most of the native land of the future glorious and prosperous world empire has fallen to the iron heel of the Heavenly Sect. Only in the mountains of the north and west, there are some small states founded by Catholics, there is Aragon, there is Castile, there is Portugal. These small nations, with the support of the Catholic Knights, are engaged in a war that has never been more difficult than ever - the Reconquista!

The war had been going on for hundreds of years, and would continue for more than 200 years in history, until January 6, 1492, when the armies of the Kingdom of Spain, formed by the marriage of Castile and Aragon, captured Granada, the last stronghold of the Celestial Cult in Spain. And on October 12 of the same year, Christopher Columbus, sent by the Queen of Spain, arrived in the Caribbean and ushered in the Age of Discovery!

And in this time and space, the order of the great geographical discoveries seems to be reversed. The starting point changed from Spain to Jiangnan in China, and the first was the discovery of the Mingzhou continent. Then set off from the coast of the Maya Sea on the continent of Mingzhou to discover Europe. Traveling from the Mayan coast to Europe was not Tran's plan. It was the arbitrary decision of Wen Tianxiang, the envoy of the Maya coastal control and the governor of Zama Prefecture.

Although Wen Tianxiang has been working for the Ming Ming Continent expedition team for the past two years, he has never considered himself a Ming courtier. He was a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty. In order to make himself more like a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang did not use the name of "Governor of Zama" after taking over Zama City, but used the name of "Mayan Coastal Envoy and Governor of Zama Prefecture".

Then he felt that as a loyal minister, it was wrong to appoint himself a system envoy without being appointed by the imperial court. So he added the word "right" before "Maya coastal envoy and governor of Zama State". It means "authority" and "agency". However, the word "right" is actually meaningless, because the Great Song Dynasty is almost gone. And even if the Song Dynasty did not die, it would not send any envoys to the Mingzhou Continent to collect the "god's stool".

Wen Tianxiang's Zhisi is now in an original great temple. The stone palace is very magnificent. Looking around from a platform built on the edge of a cliff, in addition to the sun, the sand, and the sea, there are countless Mayan houses lined up on the beach below the cliffs. There was also a Mayan harbor with many small wooden boats coming in and out, and the boats were filled with all sorts of goods and supplies in addition to the oarsmen.

Wen Tianxiang stood by the low stone wall, holding a stack of handwritten manuscripts in one hand. His eyes were fixed on the harbor, he wore a cotton cardigan with soft feet, and said lightly: "You say." Where do these little wooden boats go? ”

Behind him, there were two monks, one fat and one thin. The fat monk is the Yongxin master of the Shaolin Temple, and the thin monk is the master of the nine lights of the Lingyin Temple. They are all eminent monks. They had all just arrived from Silver Mountain Harbor.

Now, the Ming Dynasty's strongholds in Mingzhou have increased to four. The cities of Jinshan, Shenzhou, Zama, and the port of Silver Mountain on the Pacific coast near the Mexika Valley - the expedition discovered several large silver mines in the Mexica Valley. So a harbor near the Pacific Ocean was named Silver Mountain Harbor.

The great monk Yongxin smiled: "With such a small boat, you can't go to Tianzhu if you want to." If we want to set off from this Zama City, I'm afraid we'll have to build a big ship again, right? ”

Monk Jiudeng said: "Not only to build ships, but also to train sailors...... It took a year to train two or three hundred people in Jinshan City, and they could only fight. ”

Wen Tianxiang said: "I really don't know when I will be able to go to Flynn and return to the Great Song Dynasty......

"Great Song ......"

The great monk of Yongxin smiled bitterly and sighed: "The Tang Dynasty has become a subordinate of the Ming Dynasty. ”

This is the news brought back by the 2nd Mingzhou expedition. The great monk Yongxin was sent by the master of the sect extermination, and now that the Tang Dynasty is almost finished, his "Tang envoy" is naturally gone. The ups and downs along the way, I really don't know who to count on?

Looking at the monk's slightly locked brows, Wen Tianxiang's eyebrows were also slowly raised, and finally frowned, and said helplessly: "I shouldn't come this time...... If you don't come, you can still leave a name in history. ”

The Nine Lights Monk shook his head. Wen Tianxiang didn't come out, he stayed in the Great Song Dynasty, and Dingtian was a state group practice. What can you do in the face of the Ming army that is invincible all over the world?

"In fact, educating Maya and preaching the holy way in Mingzhou can also leave a name in history." Nine Lights said slowly. "In the past, in Jinshan, Yinshan and Shenzhou, there were many elbows, and it was difficult to stretch out ambitions, but now this Zama City ...... But it's Brother Wenshan's world, shouldn't he do a lot? ”

Wen Tianxiang nodded slightly, these days, he has an in-depth understanding of the "horror culture" of the Mayans. It was found that they were all addicted to cults, superstitious in murderous bloodstains, and self-mutilated themselves, making themselves unseemly and ghosts, which was really unseemly and must be properly civilized!

"It's time for something to happen!" Wen Tianxiang said, "Master Yongxin, Master Nine Lights, I might as well prepare to travel eastward, and at the same time open a Buddhist hall in Zama City, teach people to interpret the Confucian righteous path, and pass on the Taoist system of the saints and the Buddha." ”

When the two monks heard this, they were immediately overjoyed. Using Buddhism to purify the Indians, Mexicans, and Mayans has long been their long-cherished wish. However, Zhou Xiaoqi, Meng Qi, and Yang Aguo did not allow them to do so, believing that this would be detrimental to the spread of the Heavenly Dao Sect.

But Zama's "Zhizhou" here is Wen Tianxiang, and Zhou Xiaoqi and Mengqi did not send an army under the command of Ming soldiers to Zama. Instead, a few thousand Aztecs under the command of Shrimp and Roe were sent, along with a few other Indian Eight Banner officers. They were one of the Chichimec people, originally attached to the kingdom of Kulva in the Mexika Valley, but a while ago, the Aztecs suddenly turned against the Kulva country, and there was a war between the two sides.

The cause is said to have been a misunderstanding between the Aztecs and the king of Kurva about a princess - the Aztecs wanted the princess of Kurva to sacrifice, and the king of Kurva mistakenly thought that the Aztec king was going to marry his daughter, so he happily married her off. As a result, I found out that my baby daughter had been skinned...... Then there was a great chaos, and many of the city-states of Mexica, which were originally preparing to start a war with the "Shenzhou people", were involved, and even the city of Shenzhou itself was involved. The more than 10,000 Indian banners commanding him were another crusade to the east and west, and the Mexica states were defeated without difficulty.

In the end, all parties can only obediently obey the ruling of Shenzhou City: the Aztecs will destroy the country! Their women, elderly, and children were all left hostage in Shenzhou City, and their warriors were exiled to Zama City to form the Aztec Green Banner Army (which sounds a bit like the Green Battalion, but it was a Mengqi original), with Wen Tianxiang in charge of indoctrination.

With Zama City and thousands of Aztec Green Banner soldiers, Wen Tianxiang can be regarded as having a certain strength. He can carry out his ideal of indoctrination on a larger scale -- this time it is not the indoctrination of Heavenly Taoism, but the indoctrination of Buddhism and Confucianism!

Maybe you can educate the Aztecs who eat fasting and pray Buddha......

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"Fast, fast, all on the ship......"

Wen Tianxiang and two monks were pondering how to use the teachings of Shakyamuni and Confucius to educate the Aztecs while on the docks of Yinshan Harbor on the Pacific coast. The soldiers of the Eight Banners of India are transporting "stool" to the three sailing boats, and God's stool is a lot, a lot, a full 100,000 catties!

Of course, the purity of this gold is not too high. The metallurgical technology of the Mexica Valley and the Maya was still relatively backward. But 100,000 catties of gold, even if it is only 60% pure, is an astonishing fortune. Converted into copper coins, it will almost cost tens of millions! With such an astonishing wealth, if it had been transported back to Zhoushan a few months earlier, Chen Dexing probably wouldn't have to worry about military expenses, but it was not too late to transport it back.

Watching baskets of glittering "poop" being carried onto the sailboat by the Indians, the smile on his face brightened.

"Admiral, with so much gold, you and I always have the hope of becoming a prince, right?"

Meng Qi is talking about "Junhou", he has already studied the "Chen Li" brought by Liu Minzhong from the Ming Dynasty, and knows the difference between Hou and Junhou. Hou is just a big nobleman with 10,000 acres of grange, and the prince is the king of the Hou country!

"A prince will definitely have it......" Zhou Xiaoqi nodded with a smile, "100,000 catties of gold!" Brother Meng, which city do you want? ”

"The three cities of Jinshan, Yinshan, and Shenzhou will definitely not give it to us." Hooded his arms and said to Zhou Xiaoqi, "The ones who can give us both are Zama and Chichen Itza." Zama is a city by the sea, so I'll give it to you. ”

"Zama Hou Guojun......" Zhou Xiaoqi touched his beard and laughed. Good, good, good...... When a certain family saw the saint, they went to ask for a prince of Zama, and asked for a prince of Qichen Itza for you! ”

This time, Zhou Xiaoqi will personally lead three sailboats, loaded with 100,000 catties of "stool", as well as cocoa beans, peppers, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other Mingzhou specialties, as well as some handicrafts from the Mingzhou continent and books of indigenous men and women and Mayans, and return to Daming together. (To be continued......)