“…… Bang-pop-click-"

With a string of cacophony noises and a splash of sparks, another obsidian machete was scrapped in an instant as it collided with the stainless steel axe.

“…… Hehe, the victory and defeat have been divided, and I have conceded! ”

Ignoring the middle-aged craftsman who was holding a completely collapsed blade and half-kneeling on the ground and lost his soul, Wang Qiu threw the axe in his hand to the stall like an ancient knight, and then a large number of warriors rushed up, vying to buy these "divine weapons......

- Although dozens of flavors of rock candy, fruit candy, chocolate candy and milk candy make children salivate with their fingers in their mouths; The brightly coloured modern fibres, cotton, and silks, the brilliant porcelain and glass, and the snow-white salt and monosodium glutamate, made the housewives who gathered around the stove all day very curious; There are also cheap modern jewellery made of plastic, aluminium and stained glass, but the appearance is extremely bright and shining, and the gold bracelets on the hands of local girls are also eclipsed; And the mellow and heart-warming distilled liquor is also very popular with highland men...... However, for the Aztecs, who were militant and warlike, only the glittering steel knives and axes were their true favorites.

Before the arrival of the envoys of the Kingdom of Hungshutizgan, although there were some sporadic steel axes flowing into the Valley of Mexico from Hope Port, the number of sales was very limited due to the bumpy and winding road, and the market was not seriously affected for the time being.

However, as soon as the envoys of the kingdom of Hungshutizgan arrived, the situation was turned upside down - from all kinds of long-handled fire axes, rubber tappers, and fishing forks to small shaving blades that were so sharp that they could bleed the skin with a single stroke in a waxed paper bag the size of two fingernails. Kitchen knives and watermelon knives are as simple as those mass-produced by small hardware factories, as well as Tibetan knives sold as handicrafts, Japanese swords, Longquan swords, imitation Damascus knives with ornate moire patterns, and luxurious Western swords with large pieces of red and blue glass inlaid on the hilt and scabbard of the sword...... There are almost all kinds of cold weapons in their booths, covering every aspect of the local arms market demand.

Moreover, this time, the amount of steel products sold in the valley of Mexico was extremely sufficient, and the large rubber tapping knives that were originally destined to be exported to West Africa were transported through the time and space channel - of course, at this time, Mexico did not have rubber trees, and rubber tapping knives could only be used to cut people's heads......

In any case, the arrival of the Spaniards in a few months, and the bloody storm will inevitably turn the Valley of Mexico into a sea of corpses, and neither side will have the strength to invade the kingdom of Hunsutizgan on the Pacific coast until the victory is decided.

Therefore, when Wang Qiu, Wen Desi and others were "dumping arms", they did not worry at all that these things would hurt themselves in turn - with the gold exchanged from the valley of Mexico, they could get more and more weapons of mass destruction from modern times, so why worry about a few steel knives and axes?

But in this way, it is tantamount to stealing the business of local knife makers, or even smashing their jobs - this is the power of dumping!

The local swordsmiths first encouraged some samurai to make trouble in the past, but under the extremely generous bribery offensive of the envoys of the Hunghitizgan Kingdom and the intimidation of the blades of the "Iron Women's Guard", these samurai with sharp watermelon knives and intoxicating red star two-pot heads soon died down.

Next, there were some stunned green knife makers who were not angry, holding their proudest "fine stone knives", and came to this bazaar to ask for a competition on the spot. It just so happened that Wang Qiu saw that others were busy doing business, but he couldn't get into it and was bored, so he picked up a thick wood-chopping axe and cut them one by one with great interest, and the result was naturally one-sided-how can the hand-polished products of the Stone Age be compared with the alloy steel of the later industrial era? …,

The more fragile sticks (with stone blades stuck in sticks) and bone knives (sharpened from whole leg or arm bones) naturally shattered at the touch of a heavy wood-chopping axe, crackling into several pieces. Even if there were some high-grade sticks with particularly strong wood, they were not directly split by Wang Qiu's axe, at least they had become real sticks—the row of stone blades embedded in them were all shocked and flew out!

- Since the Aztecs could not smelt bronze and steel, and the stone knives used for chopping could not be made very large, otherwise they would easily shatter. Therefore, whether it is the most famous "Macquawit" or other less famous weapons, they are basically made of stone blades inlaid on wooden sticks, the difference is only in the stone and wood used, and the quality is slightly different.

In short, the highest-grade "Macquawit" uses an obsidian blade, which is a natural volcanic glass, and turtle feces as a binder. The worse ones had to be sharpened with animal teeth and sharp flint and glued to sticks. As for the cheapest gear, it is a knife made entirely of animal bones, and then a so-so wooden handle is inserted into the hole of the bone - the material of this thing is very brittle, and it is okay to stab someone, but it is also very likely that the blade will fall off as soon as it is inserted, and only the stick is still in the hand, and once it hits the steel sword and armor, the iron must be torn apart without negotiation.

Therefore, no matter what kind of "stick knife" it is, the probability of destruction in every battle is very large, not only in terms of the number of uses and efficiency, it is far less than the metal sword of the old continent, the weight of the obsidian blade is also slightly too heavy, and more importantly, there are serious safety hazards - the blade made of stone and animal bone is not one with the stick after all, and the adhesive performance of the Stone Age is also a tragedy, in the fierce fighting, these blades inserted in the stick, often fly out after hitting......

In addition, the Aztecs had a small number of weapons made of brass (the kind we now use to make wires), but brass was too soft to be used against stainless steel blades. And the price is still very high, and it is still not competitive in front of stainless steel tools.

However, just as the knifesmiths were about to leave in despair, Wang Qiu stopped them again, exchanged a steel knife for the price of five stone tools, and bought some stone knives in their hands that were beautiful, small in size, and ornate in their patterns—he planned to take them back and put them on Taobao to see if they could be sold as hanging ornaments.

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The camp of the envoys of the Kingdom of Hunghietizgan was originally just a barren beach by the lake near the road. However, under the influx of massive modern industrial products, it soon became crowded, noisy, and a bustling scene.

-- The valley of Mexico, ruled by the Aztec Empire, was the most densely populated place in Shijie in the 16th century, with at least 5 million people living in less than 10,000 square kilometers of land, and the population density even exceeded that of the Ming Dynasty in the same period...... In the 21st century, the settled population in this valley will swell to more than 22 million, and Mexico City is the largest city in Shijie.

Although the territory of Mexico in later generations was millions of square kilometers, the real essence of the land was only a small piece of Mexico City.

As a result, the market quickly attracted a large number of merchants, not only the Hungshuitizgans who were selling all kinds of modern products, and the middlemen who bought them in large quantities to resell, but also some local vendors from the Valley of Mexico, who came to sell all kinds of local products. …,

Of course, the goods of these local vendors are usually just simple handicrafts and crude food, plus some locally produced cactus fruits, and a lot of special insect dishes with a Mexican flavor. However, you can occasionally see something that makes your eyes shine.

For example, Wang Qiu was somewhat surprised to see a primitive version of a health food - spirulina.

In later generations, spirulina has been praised as a major new discovery in medicine, with a variety of miraculous effects, can prevent a variety of diseases of nutritional health products, is made into a variety of health food widely sold, it seems that the content of jishu is quite high. But in fact, as early as the 16th century, the Aztecs picked spirulina from Lake Descoco, grinded it into crepes, and sold it at the market.

After trying to taste it a little, Wang Qiu felt that the spirulina pancake seemed to taste good, a bit like the ready-to-eat seaweed of later generations, but the name was unpleasant - the Aztecs called it "Tebri Terratuer", which means the excrement of stones......

Speaking of which, whether it is the Aztecs, Tlaxcalas, and Cholula people of the Mexican highlands, or the Hunsuitzgans on the Pacific beaches, or the Totonacs of the Atlantic coast, these rivals who have fought in Mexico for hundreds of years actually all use the same Navajo language, and although the accents are not small, they are not to the point where they are completely uncommunicative.

After Wang Qiu stayed here for a while, he barely learned some of the words, but he couldn't speak them coherently.

As for the Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula to the south, they spoke a completely different language - before the Europeans landed and invaded, the entire civilization of Mesoamerica was basically divided equally between the Navajo and Mayan languages.

With the exception of the Maya, who have a different heritage, these Mexican communities are also similar in terms of cultural traditions, as they all claim to be descendants of the "seven tribes" who migrated from the northern swan land of the Aztlán, and share a common origin. It feels a bit like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, all of which claimed to be the descendants of Yan and Huang, such as the Qin people, the Zhao people, the Qi people, the Chu people, and so on.

It's just that the long-term division and brutal conquest have already destroyed their national feelings for each other. Just as the Six Kwantung Kingdoms regarded the Qin people as barbarians, the Aztecs who arrived in the Mexican Valley at the latest, because of their rough and barbaric customs, were also unanimously despised by other tribes who considered themselves more civilized, and never regarded them as compatriots - just as the Qi people of the Warring States period would not regard the Qin people as brothers connected to their own blood.

If the Aztec Empire could succeed in unifying all of Mexico through brutal warfare, just as Qin Shi Huang unified China, and change some of the unbearable repressive policies and abolish some of the outdated customs that were too cruel and bloodthirsty. Then, perhaps, in a few hundred years, the millions of people in this land can be truly integrated...... The Spanish invasion, however, extinguished this possibility forever.

Just as he was thinking so wildly, he suddenly noticed a commotion in the crowd around him, and when he looked up into the distance, he saw a small group of Aztec warriors in gorgeous costumes and arrogant attitudes, walking out of the city of Tenochtitlan along the wide embankment across the lake. It was still a long way from here, and they beat the drum loudly, as if they were afraid that others would not know.

Belch? Could it be that Emperor Montezuma finally reacted and sent a guard of honor to welcome the envoys of the Hunghiutizgan Kingdom into the city?