Eighty-two, whips and candy
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When dealing with the Native American Indians and the Spanish colonists, Wang Qiu basically adopted two diametrically opposed attitudes.
The former is treated as friendly as possible, mainly using various modern products to induce them to work for themselves, and trying not to fight if they can.
The latter is treated with complete simplicity and rudeness, as well as an undisguised show of force, and the slightest conflict, it will immediately be beaten and served.
Because, Wang Qiu, Professor Yang, and Wen Desi once discussed in private that in their attitude towards the Spaniards, especially CortΓ©s' expedition, they must be unabashedly simple and rude, and they must not be half-reasoned.
-- According to the study and summary of historical records, in the course of the Spanish Empire's conquest of the Americas in the 16th century, all the Indian tribes that were friendly and hospitable to the Spaniards were secretly collected by these greedy and shameless Caucasians, and they were divided and disintegrated...... The zuihou of these tribes generally ended up with the brutal slaughter of the chiefs and nobles, and the enslavement of the common people, who then worked day and night for the Spaniards in the plantations and mines until they died of plague and hard labor.
On the other hand, all the Indian tribes who were unceremonious to these colonists from the beginning have made these immoral and undisciplined villains who only want to make a fortune run into disgrace. Even though they still can't escape the fate of destruction, they can at least survive longer.
For example, when Emperor Montezuma II lured the wolf into the house, so that the Aztec Empire was easily destroyed by CortΓ©s in just two or three years, the Maya, who were far less powerful than the Aztec Empire, took decades for the Spaniards to basically destroy the Maya resistance because of the strategy of resolute resistance from the beginning. Zuihou, a Mayan city-state, did not fall until 1697.
To give another example, when the Spanish army in Peru continued south to Chile after the Inca Empire was overthrown, only to encounter resolute resistance from a small state in the Andes. No matter how sweet the Spaniards are and how they threaten and lure, the other party's attitude is only one word: "fight"!
It took three hundred years, from the desert to the mountains to the rainforests, before the tenacious indigenous state was finally wiped out by the Spanish army in Peru β by which time BolΓvar and San MartΓn were on the verge of independence across South America.
If the Indian state had had been more fortunate and had been able to hold out for a few more years, it might have been able to survive the final victory.
In the light of the above historical records, the travelers finally came to the conclusion that when encountering Europeans in the Age of Discovery, it was important to speak with cannons, muskets, and swords as much as possible, and to "hospitalize" them with cannonballs and bombs when they had nothing to do. The harder you beat them, the more you abuse them to a climax, the more polite and respectful they will be to you; And on the other hand, the more polite and respectful you are to them, the harder they will beat you and abuse you to a climax...... Well, how does it sound so much like a bunch of psychopathic masochists shaking M?
In short, under the rough whipping of the Chinese of another time and space, the Spaniards who were trapped in the temple finally became a small victim......
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That night, in order to induce the Spaniards on the pyramid to submit as soon as possible, Wang Qiu ordered the rocket troops to fire a round of "cupola" at the Temple of Quetzalcoatl at the top of the tower every half hour...... The brilliant fireworks shone from dusk until the early hours of the morning, which frightened the Spaniards hiding in the temple, and the Tlaxcala people who were in such a scene for the first time regarded this as a god descending to earth, and did not dare to offend the "god men" in the slightest. β¦,
In fact, if people from other European countries in this era saw Chinese coming to sell silk, spices and other oriental specialties, they would have been happy to jump three feet high, and they would not want any frugality. But the problem is that CortΓ©s are Spaniards...... If the Dutch in the Age of Discovery were pure merchants, the Portuguese and English were half-merchants and half-thieves, and the French were ambitious conquerors, then the Spaniards were outright bandits, willing to fight and plunder rather than do business, or even to run the colonies that were already in their possession. Even if they found a trade route to East Asia, their first instinct was to rob in the past, rather than to do business with East Asians in peace.
Of course, all national character is scum in the face of bombs. Even if you are a natural robber, you will be forced to do business only according to the law; Even if you are a sadist with a heavy taste, you can only obediently develop a masochistic joy.
The next morning, Cortez, who had not slept all night listening to firecrackers, walked out of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl again with a vague face, and announced with a bitter face that he accepted all the demands of the "Chinese envoys" and was willing to give all the gold and silver belongings around him in exchange for the friendship and cooperation of the Chinese.
Then, baskets of gold, silver, and jewelry, which had not dried up on the blood, were carried out of the Temple of Quetzalcoatl like flowing water, and placed in the square exposed to the scorching sun, and for a time it was really brilliant and shining. Among them, most of the gold and silver jewelry looted from the city had been melted into palm-sized gold and silver ingots by the Spaniards to facilitate carrying and weighing, and it happened to be cheaper for the travelers at this time......
In total, Cortez's expedition took out about 50 kilograms of gold, 300 kilograms of silver, more than 1,000 gems of various colors, and two baskets of scattered jade pendants, and roughly estimated that the total value should be about 40 million yuan.
Of course, these cunning Spaniards must have hidden some of their most valuable treasures. But seeing that the harvest in hand has far exceeded expectations, enough to make up for the military expenses of this expedition, the traversers are not too concerned about themselves, and put away this batch of treasures and give up.
However, although the travelers harvested a lot of gold, silver and precious stones from the Spaniards this time, none of the more valuable ancient relics, especially the Mayan prophecy books that are of most interest to modern people, were found-because the overly diligent missionary of the Spanish expedition burned all the ancient books, book collections, and painting scrolls in all the temples and palaces in the city in just two or three days, and most of the statues were smashed and destroyed, and the speed of destruction was really staggering...... Only two palm-sized jade carved plates engraved with Mayan characters remained, and because they seemed to be valuable, they were hidden by a Spanish soldier, and they had not yet been poisoned by missionaries.
Alas, the fanatical missionaries of the Catholic Church are unsurpassed in their enthusiasm for the destruction of pagan antiquities!
On the other hand, all the Spaniards were distressed and entangled in the sight that these treasures of gold and silver, which had not yet been hot in their hands, were gone, and after a long and arduous expedition, they had managed to break into a rich city and grab a dazzling fortune. As a result, a group of fierce men suddenly sprang out at this juncture and moved away all the loot they had looted......
This is really depressing~!!
Damn the Chinese! Let's remember this hatred! Although I can't beat you now, I will crush you into scum in the future!
-- Almost every Spanish adventurer had tears in his heart and swore through gritted teeth.
Fortunately, the traversers treated this useful Spanish expedition with a simple and crude attitude, but they also used whips and candy alternately. Now that you've whipped so many loud whips, it's time to throw a few pieces of candy to make them happy. β¦,
So, to the exclamation of the Spaniards, boxes of silk, porcelain, tea and spices were carried to them by the laborers and opened one by one...... In an instant, it was like the most miraculous special medicine, which soothed the distress and depression of these robbers extremely quickly.
-- In the wholesale market of modern China, ordinary silk costs only 70 or 80 yuan per meter, and even Huzhou silk with a relatively colorful color is almost enough for more than 100 yuan per meter. The white and delicate, beautiful pattern of bone china wine glasses, the wholesale price is only five yuan each. Even if it is a half-person-high colored porcelain vase, if you don't pick any famous brand, you can buy a pair for more than 300 yuan.
As for other goods, such as authentic Longjing tea, Wuyi Mountain Dahongpao and other excellent tea, although in modern society is also a first-class luxury, idlers simply can't afford to drink, but the price of most ordinary tea, in modern society is also very cheap, especially those pressed at the bottom of the box, yellowish old tea, can be bought basket by basket with the price of cabbage. There are also edible spices such as pepper, cumin, and Sichuan pepper, which are sold in bags and boxes in any supermarket, and I have never heard of anyone who can't afford to eat them.
In addition, the travelers also came with some colorful plastic jewelry and Erguotou soju as an add-on, with a total cost of less than 300,000 yuan.
Among the treasures handed over by the Spaniards, a gram of gold is worth more than 400 yuan, a gram of silver can be sold for more than 30 yuan, and an average gold ingot can buy a cart of silk in modern Shijie...... But the traverser gave the Spaniards a total of more than 600 meters of silk, which can be called a huge profit.
However, because of the vastly different prices between the two planes, or the huge scissors gap between industrial and agricultural societies, the end result of this deal was that both sides thought they had made a lot of money.
As for the groans and bloody tears of the citizens of Chorula, the original owners of the above-mentioned treasures of gold and silver, they can only be ignored - who told you to first hold the wrong thigh, and then surrender to the wrong man? If they had been able to hold out in front of the Spanish expedition for a few more days, and wait for the arrival of the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Hunghutizgan before opening the city and surrendering, although the extortion of the victors was probably inevitable, at least the city would not have been slaughtered.
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After the completion of this transaction, in order to avoid the plague, the expeditionary force of the kingdom of Hungshutizgan quickly withdrew from the city of Chorula, which was full of rotting corpses, and moved to the suburbs to rest, only to open a few granaries that the Spaniards had not had time to spoil, and took out some of the corn and beans in them as military rations. Then, after a short rest, they once again set off towards the city of Tenochtitlan.
Two thousand Tlaxcala warriors and more than two hundred Spaniards also followed the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Hunsutizgan.
According to the original historical record, CortΓ©s should have stayed here for half a month after slaughtering the city of Chorula, and set up a puppet regime to stabilize his rear passage, and then continued to advance with peace of mind.
However, the self-confident and powerful traversers obviously did not have this superfluous thought, and for the city of Chorula, which had been reduced to ruins, Wen Deji only sent a messenger to the capital of the Tlaxcala people to deliver a message, asking them to send someone to receive it as soon as possible, which was considered a greeting gift.
The distance from the city of Chorula to the city of Tenochtitlan is only about 80 kilometers in a straight line, but the road is densely populated and prosperous, and the purchasing power is second to none in all of Central America. As a result, the expeditionary force of the kingdom of Hunghiutizgan stopped and went, doing business as it went, selling countless matches, iodized salt, and industrial products, and the eighty-kilometer journey took half a month. β¦,
Along the way, many chiefs of the city-states came to pay their respects, offering meat, fruits, and valuable gifts, and trying to test the intentions of the expeditionary force of the kingdom of Hungyutizgan - was it ready to compete with the Aztec Empire again for Mexican supremacy? He was vague in his response, but gave them some silk, cloth, glass, and porcelain, and sent them away.
Seeing that the front of these Chinese tents was full of people, almost stealing all the limelight, so Cortez, who was seriously neglected, felt a little lost and jealous in his heart, well, it seems that it can also be described as "empty, lonely and cold"?
- Their role as the protagonist of the era has been robbed!
Fortunately, the silk and porcelain spices obtained from these "Chinese envoys" could somewhat soothe CortΓ©s' empty heart, and if he returned to Spain with these things, he would not only quickly become a rich man, but also gain a reputation no less than that of Columbus for being the first to find the "envoy of the Chinese emperor" in the New World.
However, if Cortez, who was forced to stand aside at the moment but also got a lot of silk and porcelain, only felt a little "empty, lonely and cold", then Emperor Montezuma II, who was sitting in the city of Tenochtitlan at the moment, was almost about to have a nervous breakdown.