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The current owner of the city of Tenochtitlan, the current Aztec Emperor Kuauchtmoc, pressed his sword at his waist in high spirits, and watched the bloody scene in front of him with great pleasure, listening to the dying wails of the "Cortés Gang" and its local accomplices.

-- The taste of revenge is always as sweet as honey and mellow as fine wine.

However, the happy times will eventually come to an end, and the moments of frustration and loss will eventually come.

When Kuauchtmok saw the "man of the West" who had married Princess Maca, and His Excellency Wendehei, who was also the prince of the kingdom of Hungyutizgan, walking towards him in a bright yellow dress, he immediately understood that he had to say zaijian to the throne that had just arrived.

Although emotionally resistant to what was about to happen, reason drove him to keep his promise.

In order for his fellow people to survive in this cruel shijie, he must abandon some unrealistic delusions and false names.

So, in full view of everyone, Kuauchtmock obediently took off his crown of noble feathers, took off his feathers, raised his golden scepter, and respectfully handed them into the hands of Wendehei, and bowed to him as a sign of submission and obedience.

Then, the monarchs of the cities of Texcoco and Tracopan presented their crowns and tokens to Wendesi, indicating that they would henceforth become his vassals.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Hongshutizgan Expeditionary Force and the allied forces of various ethnic groups who had gathered in the square immediately brandished their weapons again, and there was another burst of joy and thunder. The citizens of Tenochtitlan, who were watching the ceremony, wept and sighed, their faces sad, but helpless.

-- The Aztec Empire, which had dominated Central America for nearly a hundred years, was marked by the submission of Kuochtmoc, and came to an end on this day.

From then on, Kuauchtmok was no longer the emperor with a large empire, but only the chief who ruled the city of Tenochtitlan.

The "Triple Alliance" of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlakopan, which formed the core of the Aztec Empire, officially collapsed and became three separate city-states, all of which fell at the feet of the new conquerors, the Expeditionary Force of the Kingdom of Honshutizgan, or the Traversers.

The supreme agent, Comrade Vandesi, was immediately crowned at the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan with the deafening cheers and the support of almost all the tribal chieftains throughout the valley of Mexico, and was proclaimed the supreme emperor of all Mexicans.

An American empire that theoretically encompassed a vast territory of millions of square kilometers has thus stepped onto the stage of history.

Of course, this country is still only a prototype, an idea, and there is still a long way to go before it becomes a real country.

However, relying on the advanced jishu and ideas of modern Shijie, the time-travelers are all confident that they will succeed in building this political entity, and that they will eliminate all interference and make the entire 16th-century Mesoamerica serve the motherland on the other side of the gate of time and space, and become a resource exporter.

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As the sun set, the crowd gathered in the square gradually dispersed, and the Zuihou Aztec Emperor Kuauchtmoc, who had just surrendered the throne to the conquerors, returned to his palace in a tired state, surrounded by guards, and then collapsed weakly on a reed mat.

War, plague, civil strife, coup d'état...... For him, all terrible disasters are over.

But at the same time, it also ended with the glorious dream of the Aztecs to conquer the Quartet and establish a great empire.

This time, although Kuauchtmok recaptured the city of Tenochtitlan, where it had lived for generations, it lost the hegemony that the emperors had fought for a hundred years...... Seriously, he didn't know if what he did was right or wrong, and whether he would be reprimanded by the spirits of his ancestors after death. …,

In an irritated mood, Kuauchtmock casually took a bottle of soju from the servant, and poured the bottle into his throat instead of a cup. A cold, fiery sensation immediately permeated his cheeks. He stirred it with his slightly numb tongue and swallowed it gently. A flaming flame suddenly rushed from the throat to the chest and abdomen, and the entire body seemed to be injected with a flame, burning every organ and muscle.

When he was drunk, his mind calmed down, and he began to look at the palace, which had just been regained from the Spaniards—the walls were crumbling and rubble, the walls were splattered with blood and dirt, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds, the corners of the walls were faintly visible in the garbage and bones that had not had time to be cleaned up, and the exquisite frescoes and sculptures were almost destroyed or smeared, like abandoned ruins.

After the coalition forces recaptured the city of Tenochtitlan, the palace that had undergone some emergency repair and maintenance was still like this, and the ruins of the inner city blocks outside could be imagined. According to Kuohetmok's own eyes, layers of corpses can be seen in every neighborhood, and it is too late to bury them all. More than half of the houses in the city have collapsed or been burned, but many of the buildings remain unused because no one can live in them.

-- After devastating wars and plagues, the city of Tenochtitlan, which at its peak had a population of nearly 300,000, now has only 6,000 inhabitants, and only one in every 50 people survives.

Among these survivors, there are also some seriously ill patients who are under treatment and may die at any time.

War and plague are the most effective ways for any country to reduce its surplus population. And the killing efficiency of the latter is far better than the former......

Thinking of the tragic state of the city beneath his feet, and the hundreds of thousands of his compatriots who died in just a few months, Kuauchtmok burst into tears as he gently sang a poem that his childhood mother used to read to him:

Are we really alive on earth?

will not live forever; Just a short stay.

Even jade, it will be crushed,

Even gold, crushed,

Even the feathers of the god Ketezar were torn to pieces.

will not live forever; Just a short stay......

……

As the song continued, the eyes of the last Aztec emperor gradually became clearer and more resolute.

So, a few days later, when he gathered the remnants of the Aztec nobles in the city to discuss the future development and construction strategy, Kuauchtmok, who had been demoted from emperor to chieftain, said to his discouraged subjects with great emotion:

“…… Please don't lose your will and lose heart, the most desperate time has passed! What is needed next is persistence and patience! Although we have now fallen to the extreme, and have to surrender to the new strong; Though home to 300,000 Aztecs, the great city of Tenochtitlan is in ruins, and the vast territory we once possessed has crumbled...... However, our people are not dead yet, the city under our feet is still standing, and our descendants will continue to thrive and grow! Since our ancestors built this city on a desert island, we are now able to complete it again and build our new home! ”

He waved his arms vigorously and made a firm vow, "...... Give me twenty years, and I will give you a new kingdom! ”

And in the same city, our protagonist Comrade Wang Qiu also ushered in a severe test.

- He wants to risk 50% of the mortality rate to let Yukihime Dailan pass through the wormhole and bring his own sister back to modern Shijie.