Chapter 23 Harbor of Hope

Time flies, and there is no going back.

In the modern time and space of the 21st century, only half a month has passed, while in the time and space of the 16th century, more than a year has passed.

In the past year or so since the arrival of visitors from other worlds, the changes that have taken place in the kingdom of Hongshutizgan can be described as "earth-shaking".

A new port city rose from the location of the original small fishing village of Moonson and became the new capital of the kingdom.

The city is a difficult name in the local Aboriginal language, but when you translate it, it becomes very simple.

-- Port Hope, that's what Moon-deok gave to the new city.

He hoped that the city would be able to resist the coming Spanish conquistadors and become the hope for the continuation of his family and Mesoamerican civilization.

In a sense, it's a very eerie port city.

Although this city in the Americas was built under the auspices of the travelers, it is located on the location of Puerto Acapulco, a famous port and tourist city in the southern part of the United Mexican States, with a 6-kilometer-long half-moon-shaped deep-water bay, which is a good port on the Pacific coast of Mexico and one of the best natural anchorages in Shijie. But at this moment, there are no lighthouses, no trestles, or even shipyards in the port of hope, and there are no masts in the bay, but many large canoes and ocean-going rafts are scattered on the beach.

This is because the city's economic activities do not rely on seafaring transportation, but mainly revolve around trade across time and space.

Standing on a small pyramid about the size of a three-story building, which has not yet been completely completed, Wang Qiu overlooks the vibrant and prosperous city at his feet, and can't help but have the illusion in his mind as if he is playing a computer game called Total War.

-- For him, who has spent most of his time traveling back and forth in modern times, procuring and transporting goods, it feels like less than a month has passed since his first landing. But what started as a small fishing village with thatched huts has become a thriving port for tens of thousands of people.

It's like magic!

To the north and west of the city are lush green foothills, where countless lush tropical plants grow wildly under the scorching sun. They generally appear to be fat and leafy, with a dark green color, but the shade is covered with a rusty moss. A variety of shrubs, ferns and vines fill the gaps between the tall trees. Countless colorful tropical flowers exude their own fragrance in this sea of green.

At the end of this reckless jungle, near the coastal plains, has been carved out by industrious Indian farmers into fertile farmland, growing traditional American crops such as corn, potatoes, beans, zucchini, tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, sweet potatoes, and tobacco, as well as new varieties such as onions, turnips, cabbage, greens, watermelons, eggplants, sugar cane, cucumbers, grapes, and other new varieties from modern shijie.

In order to improve the disease resistance of these indigenous people, Professor Yang also specially instructed them to plant a lot of "bactericidal food" such as green onions, garlic, ginger, etc., but only God knows how much effect these things can exert in the face of disease.

Clear streams, flowing down from the foothills, nourish the land, flowing happily in the dense cobweb-like irrigation canals. In the wetland paddy fields next to the river, there is a wonderful golden light - a few rice fields that have been sown with pest-resistant hybrids from the later seed company and planted here experimentally are now ready for another harvest.

Thousands of sweaty Indians, shouting trumpets in hoarse throats and dragging thick logs, slowly marched toward the city on the avenues that crossed the fields from all directions. …,

According to the chief, the "gods and men" planned to build the most magnificent palace in the heavens, and they needed a lot of wood from the people on earth, so they came to this shijie and rewarded them with many rare treasures and new crops that were only available in the god realm. In gratitude for the generosity of the "men of the gods", they should have worked hard to cut down trees for the gods and collect gold and silver to decorate the palaces of the gods.

At the end of these avenues is the new capital of the kingdom of Hungshutizgan, Port of Hope.

According to modern people, this so-called "city" is actually more like a refugee camp, or a king-sized construction site.

The city had no walls or moats, and was directly on the outskirts of the city with rows of round and square thatched huts, inhabited by tens of thousands of civilians and slaves, as well as indigenous traders who had come from outside the city to purchase and set up tents. From afar, it looks like a huge slum.

In the center of the city, there are two huge squares. The larger one was the size of four football fields in later generations, and the smaller one was equivalent to a football field. An unfinished pyramid stands in between, separating the two squares – and the only pyramid in the city is where Wang Qiu currently stands.

The entire economic activity of the Port of Hope revolves around these two squares – the large square, which is piled up with layers of timber and brought in by countless indigenous labourers every day. There were also native-tasseled aristocrats who made their daily rounds of the timber yards, and with their fiery eyes, they picked out exactly some of the woods that were not large enough in diameter, too twisted in shape, or too badly moth-eaten, and used them to chop up the wood and build the houses of the Indians themselves.

Only the finest woods that have been inspected are stacked in triangular stacks according to the type, waiting for the "gods" to exert their power when they descend here every few days, and transport them to another shijie through the space-time gate.

As for the small square on the other side of the pyramid, it is the unloading place of goods from another time and space. When Wang Qiu and the others finished harvesting the wood in this shijie and returned to the modern shijie, they would move the wormhole to the small square on this side, and then send all kinds of goods from the modern shijie.

However, due to the huge difference of 24 times the speed of time flow between the two sides, the arrival time of modern goods in ancient Mesoamerica Shijie is always completely irregular, and often even occurs in the middle of the night and at dawn. As a result, the traversers had to install solar street lamps in the small square, and the warriors of Hungshutizgan, who were in charge of guarding the place, were forced to work three shifts day and night to ensure that there were enough people stationed in the square at all times to carry the goods into the warehouse in time without being stolen by thieves, wet by rain, or gnawed by rats.

However, these samurai did not feel that it was hard work at all, and instead claimed that it was a great honor to be able to serve the gods.

However, according to Comrade Wang Qiu's slightly malicious speculation, they simply coveted the generous benefits of standing guard here -- because of the hard work and heavy responsibility of guarding the goods on duty day and night, every samurai who was in charge of guarding the square was given an additional reward of two packs of refined salt, one bag of sugar, and 30 fruit candies every month......

This may not be a big deal in the afterlife, but in this extremely underdeveloped Shijie, the empty bottle left after the Red Star Erguotou was drunk alone was enough for this samurai to exchange for enough high-quality cornmeal for him to eat for half a month. …,

Around these two squares, there is a circle of two-story movable simple houses with blue roofs and white walls. In modern Shijie, this kind of blue-and-white mobile simple house is usually just a temporary dormitory for migrant workers, or a shed, built on a construction site.

However, when they were teleported to this wild Shijie by Wang Qiu's ability, and equipped with simple solar lighting equipment, these sheds became the finest aristocratic mansions - well, after all, this kind of house has a neat appearance, bright colors, good sealing, never leaks, equipped with sewers and glass windows, and the structure is also very strong, except that it is inconvenient to make a fire indoors, no matter how you look at it, it is much stronger than a stone house with a thatched roof!

In fact, the reason why Wen Desi spent a lot of money to let Wang Qiu get these many simple houses for color steel activities from modern shijie was also a last resort.

Because, after the port of hope bought a large number of foreign slaves through human trade, many nobles of the kingdom who were unwilling to continue to live in thatched huts clamored for the construction of stone palaces with these laborers.

However, Wen Desi insisted that all this precious labor force should be used for logging, so as to raise more abundant funds for the cruel war that would inevitably break out in the future--in case the capital chain was broken, he would not be able to let the over-the-time city managers go to the People's Bank of China to get war loans!

As a result, both sides had to take a step back, and the noble chiefs no longer occupied the labor, but Wendeji also had to provide them with more houses.

As a result, more than 50 simple mobile houses have sprung up - these mobile houses can be put together like building blocks, and only very simple tools are needed to complete the assembly in just a day or two, even the local indigenous people can make do with this work after a period of training. In addition, this kind of simple mobile house can be disassembled and reused many times, so it is convenient to move even if you want to move.

Soon after the completion of these movable houses, the walls and roofs of each house were painstakingly painted with various patterns and large hideous statues...... It seems to have some of the mystery of ancient America.

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Outside these "aristocratic mansions", separated by a tall wooden fence, is a bustling and bustling bazaar. Indigenous traders from all over Central America could buy sweet sweets, snow-white refined salt, silky cloth, handy matches, fine porcelain, clear glass, mellow soju, seeds of exotic crops, silver stainless steel and aluminum cutlery, and modern small jewelry with stunning visual effects. If you go through some secret channels, you can also get sharp steel axes and knives.

In order to obtain these things, chiefs and nobles of various tribes near and far within a radius of thousands of miles sent people to come in canoes and rafts to purchase them.

Every day, heavily armed Indian warriors carry bone-pounding carts from the small square on the other side of the fence to bring all sorts of strange goods that cannot be named. The local merchants of Hunghiutizgan then explained the goods one by one, explaining their efficacy and use, and Zuihou began bidding for the auction. The scene of hundreds of people competing for quotations is very, very hot every time.

Of course, in order to buy these magical goods, one had to dig out gold and silver, or sturdy slaves who could be used as labor, because the merchants of Hungshutizgan refused to accept obsidian and cocoa beans.

However, for those poor tribes who were short of money and had no extra slaves to transfer, the kingdom of Honshutizgan also thoughtfully offered the opportunity to use their labor in exchange for something - in short, to follow the logging team of the Hungshutizgans and cut down trees with the iron axes given by the "men of God". As long as a certain number of qualified logs are chopped, the iron axe belongs to the user. Or you can use the merit of these labors to receive the candy, cloth, refined salt, porcelain, and shochu that make people drool. …,

As soon as this policy was introduced, the number of "migrant workers" in Port Hope began to increase dramatically – because maize and cassava are high-yielding crops in tropical Central America, farmers have a lot of spare time. In a year, ordinary people only need to spend 70 or 80 days in the field to cultivate the land, and they can harvest enough food to make ends meet. Even with heavy taxes to support the priests and nobles who did not work hard, the Indians of Mexico still had a lot of leisure time every year, which was used by the nobles to organize labor and build countless magnificent pyramids.

At this time, in order to obtain those eye-catching rare goods, and also to please the "gods" who stepped through the void, it seemed very logical to order the clansmen to temporarily stop the construction of the pyramids and go to cut down trees for the kingdom of Hongshutizgan.

As a result, at first, it was only a few idle poor people who came to do odd jobs, but when they returned with refined salt, shochu, and iron tools, the people who came to Port Hope to work as temporary lumberjacks became hordes. Later, slowly, some nimble chiefs and chiefs began to take the initiative to organize a large number of clansmen, taking advantage of the slack season, rushing here to cut wood and make extra money.

Due to the poor exchange of information in recent years, there were even many misunderstandings in the recruitment process -- not long ago, thousands of Chichimeks who once lived in the northern desert suddenly went south, one by one, carrying bows and arrows and stone spears, and slaughtered towards Hope Harbor, looking as if they were going to fight. When the kingdom of Hongshutizgan received the alarm and gathered its troops to prepare for battle, they found that they had already laid down their weapons and went to cut down trees with the local logging team.

Taking advantage of the vast wealth amassed in Harbor Hope, and the novelties offered by visitors from another time and space, Chief Avaha had been sending troops on a series of expeditions since a year ago to defeat the surrounding tribes of the Hunghyutizgans who remained independent, and luring the upper nobles of those tribes into submission to him with large profits. Under such a combination of soft and hard measures, the various tribes in the kingdom of Honshutizgan that had been scattered by the war finally gathered again and gradually. And the Great Chief of Avaha finally officially ascended the throne half a month ago, announcing the official revival of this ancient kingdom!

In short, after the remnants of the Hongshutizgans, together with some slaves of various ethnic groups who had been sold, as well as the newly converted small foreign tribes, the permanent population of this kingdom or city-state has recovered to about 80,000, and the number of "migrant workers" who help cut down trees in the logging team has also remained at more than 10,000 for a long time. And there are more and more people who choose to settle in this place and become "permanent residents".

Such a population and strength, in Central America in this era, although it cannot be compared with giants such as the Aztec Empire, and it is also an order of magnitude worse than the allies Tlaxcala with a population of 500,000, but compared with other Mayan city-states hidden in the reckless jungle and generally only 10,000 or even a few thousand people, the Honshutizgan Kingdom at this time is already a very powerful first-class shili.

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After a cool sea breeze blowing on the pyramid for a while, Wang Qiu slowly walked down from the top of the tower. Immediately in the square, four samurai respectfully brought a palanquin and invited the "gods" to get into the palanquin, and they carried it to the palace.

Speaking of which, the Indian samurai living in Port Hope are basically dressed as outright goofy boys - beach pants, small tank tops, large slippers, watermelon knives and sharpened stainless steel pipes, plus bizarre hairstyles and hideous patterns all over their faces...... Although this outfit looks rather strange and always gives you the illusion that you are the boss of the black, it is very suitable for the hot and humid climate of the local area. …,

Therefore, at present, the main force of the traditional army of the Hongshutizgan Kingdom is such a group of old boys wielding watermelon knives and stainless steel water pipes.

As for the natives and nobles of higher status, their costumes were even more bizarre.

-- In the warehouse of the Chengguan Building, Wang Qiu once dug out a batch of samba ornaments that had been seized from nowhere, and then sent them to Mexico along with other seized goods that did not cost money. It's not the well-toned and graceful Indian girls who wear these samba suits, but a group of old men and fat uncles!

That feels...... It's like one of those disgusting bar shemales in American movies with heavy makeup and rings on JJ, breasts and nostrils!

Well, as can be seen from the murals and sculptures left behind by later generations, the Indian aristocracy seems to have liked to be covered in feathers and make holes in their bodies, hanging heavy earrings, collars, bracelets and even nose rings, similar to modern Thai ladyboy actors.

What's even worse is that after these guys finally got the aristocratic costumes (samba girl costumes) that matched their status, in order to thank the "gods" for their generous gifts and celebrate various happy events, they had to dance a group dance in front of the traversers almost every few days!

To add another point, the kind of sacrificial dance that is very sacred in their eyes, Wang Qiu looks similar to the samba dance.

Imagine a group of muscular, sweaty old men, bare-chested, dangling their buttocks, painted with colorful oil paint, and then wearing colorful feathers to do the samba dance...... The locals may think it's normal, but the traversers feel like vomiting - you should get a bunch of half-naked girls out for hula dancing, about the same!

In short, the current traditional army of the Hongshutizgan Kingdom is a group of middle-aged ladyboy samba dancers under the command of the ancient boys.

Such a strange army, no matter how you look at it, is very unreliable.

Therefore, Wen Deji put his main hopes on another new army

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