96. Six-Party Talks on Mexico

When the headline "the discovery of Chinese in the New World" caused a sensation and heated discussion in distant Spain and even the whole of Europe, the Chinese butterflies who caused this hurricane did not know anything about it and still carried out their jihua step by step.

On November 15, 1519, after completing military deterrence and diplomatic negotiations with the Aztec Empire, the Honshutizgan Expeditionary Force, led by the Travelers, once again set out and left the imperial capital of Tenochtitlan and headed east.

At the end of November, the expeditionary force returned to the ruined city of Cholula and encountered the Tlaxcala army, which had come to take over. In December, the expeditionary force entered the city of Tlaxcala in the Zutara Valley, preparing to welcome back its people who had been separated from the area.

Around 1513, when the old capital of the Honshutizgan Kingdom was breached by the Aztec expeditionary force, some of the most stubborn Honshutizgans would rather die than give in to the strong enemy, and they had to go all the way over the mountains and mountains to the territory of their allies, the Tlaxcalas, to persist in the battle.

As a result, along with the Tlaxcala, they were besieged by the Aztec army in the Zutara Valley, and were largely cut off from the outside world. The exiled Honshitizgans were largely ignorant of the series of earth-shaking upheavals that had taken place in their distant homeland after the arrival of the "men of God", and only recently had they broken through the blockade with the help of the Spaniards, and had only recently heard a few words.

Therefore, when the Honshutizgan expeditionary force arrived in the Zutara Valley, they saw a group of down-and-out compatriots in ragged clothes, unkempt, and gray hair - because the Zutala Valley was so blockaded by the Aztecs that caravans from other places could not enter at all, and this place was not close to the sea, and there were no salt pools or other mineral salts, and the Tlaxcalans themselves could not eat salt for many years, let alone the Honshutizgans who sent people to eat under the fence...... So after a few years of hard work without salt, most of these hard-working people have become white-haired women and white-haired men.

All of a sudden, there were cries on both sides, and many of the more than 1,000 Hongshu Tizgan warriors in the "Crazy Boy Light Infantry" and the thousands of female soldiers in the "RPG Women's Army" found their brothers, fathers, sisters and even husbands here. The tens of thousands of Hongshutizgans who were stranded here also found many of their relatives in the expeditionary force, and were glad to learn of the revival and prosperity of their homeland.

After seeing a myriad of steel swords, bright cloths, fine porcelain, and fine bread and "mysterious meat" that filled every meal, these destitute Hongshutizgans, with little hesitation, expressed their willingness to go home with the expeditionary force, and one by one they rushed to kneel and kowtow to the new prince of the kingdom, the "archangel", and swore allegiance - everyone hated the poor and loved the rich, not to mention the fact that the days under the fence were really sad, and they had already been thinking about their hometown all day and night. As for making a foreigner who married a princess a king, it is a common thing, and modern Europeans do not think so, let alone the Indians of this era.

On the other hand, the Tlaxcala people, who have lived here for generations, also showed a warm welcome to the arrival of the Honshutizgan expeditionary force. For this expeditionary force was also a large caravan, bringing with it a wide variety and dazzling array of fine goods, especially salt and cloth, which were most lacking, as well as fine porcelain that women liked, sweets and sweets that children loved, and soju which men loved.

Unfortunately, because the country was not rich in the first place, and was blockaded by foreign enemies for a long time, trade routes and financial resources were cut off, and the Tlaxcalas had very little gold and silver in their hands, and there were not many high-quality timber produced locally, and the means of payment were seriously lacking. …,

In order to maintain the friendship between the two tribes, and to thank the Tlaxcalas for holding back the main force of the Aztecs in the past few years, and giving the defeated Honshutizgans a chance to breathe, they distributed a lot of salt, cloth, and shochu half-sold and half-sent, and distributed a lot of food to the returning Honshutzgan compatriots, and held another thank-you banquet, which was warm for a while, and everyone was happy.

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However, in contrast to the warm welcome of the lower classes, the chieftains of the Tlaxcala were generally cold and even slightly hostile.

- Tlaxcala is an alliance of four tribes, with four chiefs, who can take the leadership depends on the talent and physical condition of each chief. Initially, it was the two chiefs of Sicato the Old and Masicato who formed an alliance to control the leadership of Tlaxcala, leaving the remaining two chieftains on the sidelines. Later, however, when the elder Sicato was old and blind, Masicato took the opportunity to achieve supreme status.

However, the elder Sicato has long been training his son Sicato Jr. to serve as the commander of the tribal alliance. Sicato Jr. also lived up to expectations, defeating the Aztec Empire four times in a row, especially in 1515 with an unprecedented victory over the Emperor of Montezuma, which gradually established his prestige in Tlaxcala and became the peerless leader of the Tlaxcala League and the entire Mesoamerican civilization.

After Cortés' Spanish expedition arrived, the Tlaxcalas split into the main peace faction and the main war faction. The former, led by Masicato, advocated uniting the Spaniards against the Aztec Empire, while the latter, led by Sicato the Younger, stubbornly excluded all foreigners.

At first, the leader of the main battle faction, Sioiscottato Jr., led his troops to fight the Spaniards for several days, but suffered heavy losses and gained nothing, and Zuihou caused the army to almost mutinied. Massisicato, the leader of the Lord's Peace faction, took the opportunity to negotiate an alliance with the Spaniards, and with Cortés' support, he succeeded in taking the leadership of Tlaxcala. And Sicato Jr., who is the general of the defeated army, is also helpless about this.

However, whether it is the main war faction or the main peace faction, they are all in agreement on the issue of dealing with their old enemies, the Aztecs - the Tlaxcala and the Aztecs have an irreconcilable feud, either you die or I live! can only fight to the end, there is no negotiation!

However, although the people of Hungshutizgan are the traditional allies of the Tlaxcalas, it can be said that they have a "friendship cemented with blood". This time, beating the Spaniards to the ground in the city of Chorula was tantamount to a slap in the face to the Lords led by Masisicato. And the leader of the main war faction, Sicato Jr., as a hardcore xenophobia, was extremely hostile to the Spaniards, and at the same time had little affection for the "godmen" who had descended on the kingdom of Hunsutizgan and gained great power - of course, because this was an internal affair of foreigners, that is, Hunsutizgans, he was not hostile.

And the next thing that happened after that made all the Tlaxcala magnates explode their lungs:

This time, the people of Honshutizgan actually meowed to make peace with the Aztecs!

It was as if the Soviet Union had just regained all the lost territory at the end of World War II, and was gearing up to strike the border and plant the red flag in the Berlin Chancellery, only to suddenly learn that the American and British allies had abandoned themselves and made peace with Nazi Germany alone -- it was simply a naked betrayal!

So, naturally, don't expect the Tlaxcala nobles to have a good face when facing traitors.

Thanks to the previous traversers borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, the city of Chorura was ceded to the Tlaxcals, which made the Tlaxcals embarrassed to turn their faces immediately after receiving the generous gifts, and the power of the legendary "gods", as well as the steel knives and axes equipped by the expeditionary force, as well as the fireworks and firecrackers that were used many times to show off their strength, also made them who were still using obsidian knives and axes jealous, and did not dare to act rashly and make enemies in vain...... Otherwise, when the expeditionary force of the Hungshutizgan Kingdom visits and greets their compatriots this time, God knows if the Tlaxcalas will directly serve with swords and guns! …,

In order to maintain the most basic friendly relations, but also to be able to smoothly take away the people, and open the way to the east coast, and at the same time drive a wedge between the Spaniards and the Tlaxcala, Wendeji gave full play to his former expertise as a sales manager, and carried out public relations with the chiefs of Tlaxcala, repeatedly explaining the helplessness of his side to negotiate peace with the Aztecs - although the country on his side has been revived, the population is still too small, and it is not easy to recover his homeland, and he wants to continue fighting, Defeating the Aztec Empire in one breath is really beyond its strength, so you have to plan for the long term...... I said this many times, and gave a lot of gifts, and finally managed to get things done. While it is no longer possible to restore the original close alliances, at least most of the hostility has been resolved.

Then, just after the New Year, from the eastern Gulf Coast, the latest news of the Aztecs fighting the Spaniards arrived.

It turned out that the cunning Emperor Montezuma used diplomatic negotiations to stabilize the enemies on all sides, and at the same time sent his own close general, Kakama, with about 4,000 Aztec royal guards, to travel from the Valley of Mexico to the sea, in an attempt to attack the port of Veracruz, cut off the Spanish rear, and at the same time crush the Totonacs in the coastal area and restore the Aztec Empire's rule over this runaway area.

But the problem is that this army was drawn from the front line of the civil war in the city of Tetkos, and it had just lost the battle in front of the rebels, and then before it could rest and replenish, it had to march hundreds of kilometers over the mountains and mountains, making everyone exhausted and their combat effectiveness greatly reduced. As a result, after arriving at the Gulf of Mexico Theater, not only did he fail to conquer the port of Veracruz, where only about 100 Spaniards and more than 200 natives were stationed, but was defeated by a sneak attack by the remaining Spaniards, and the whole army was scattered, and it escaped a long way before retracting.

Although the Spaniards won easily, they did not suffer many casualties, and the difference in strength between the two sides was still huge. Therefore, after repelling the first attack, the defenders of Puerto Veracruz sent envoys to ask for help from the Tlaxcalas, hoping that the two sides could work together to completely annihilate the Aztec army.

This letter of request for help immediately caused an uproar among the Tlaxcalans - the Lords and factions, led by Massisicato, naturally advocated the immediate observance of the covenant and the sending of troops to help; The main battle faction, led by Sicautcato Jr., advocated sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, believing that both the Spaniards and the Aztecs were enemies, and it was really best to see them killing each other, and there was no need to participate more.

However, God did not seem to think that the situation was chaotic enough, and the results of the plea for help from the port of Veracruz had not yet been discussed, and from the Totonac tribe to the east, news came that a second group of "white-skinned gods" had landed on the coast in large ships.

And, according to these later "white-skinned gods", they were not reinforcements from the previous batch of "white-skinned gods", but a crusade team that came to exterminate Cortez's gang! They also announced to the local Totonac tribe that Cortés and the others, who had come here before, were traitors wanted by the King of Spain, and that anyone who dared to cooperate with him was an enemy of the Kingdom of Spain!

In addition, the Aztec army seems to have joined the latter group of Spaniards and is planning a joint attack on the port of La Cruz.

At this time, even the lords and factions led by Masisicatto felt that their minds were a little confused, and they did not know which group of Spaniards they should cooperate with—even if they were hardcore foreign slaves, they could not serve several foreign masters who were incompatible at the same time—and Wen Deji and the travelers took the opportunity to throw out a proposal: instead of sitting here and pondering, everyone should go to the beach and have a look together, and meet the leader of the new group of white people, and then talk about it, anyway, the road is not too far. The leader of the main battle faction, Sicato Jr., also agreed, and set off as a representative in person.

A few days later, the Tlaxcala, the Aztecs, the Hunsutizgans, the Spaniards, the indigenous Totonacs, and the official representatives of the "Great Tomorrow Dynasty" gathered in the village of Semboyar, not far from Puerto Veracruz, to hold a "harmonious" and friendly, six-party talks on the Mexican question, and a "fruitful" consensus was reached......