After nightfall, sitting around the roaring bonfire, Wen Desi briefed Ma Tong and Wang Qiu on the current state of the country.

At present, the exiled regime of the Hungshutizgan kingdom, which is under the rule of the Awaha chieftain, has about 20,000 people and thousands of square kilometers of control remaining. Nominally, it is a kingdom, but if it is put into modern China in later generations, it is just the population size of a township. The number of students at the university where Wang Qiu attended alone is more than the total population of the country!

-- After hearing Wen Desi's introduction, Wang Qiu immediately gave Chief Awaha, whom he had not yet met, the title of "Honshutizgan Township Chief" in his mind, and Wen Desi, the son-in-law of the door, was the next "Hongshutizgan Township Chief" who was internally designated......

Among them, the Awaha chieftain and nearly 10,000 men lived near a small lake in the interior, and built a relatively modest central city-state (the size of an ordinary village in modern times) with timber obtained from deforestation.

As for the remaining six villages, they are all distributed in a belt along the coastline, stretching for nearly 50 kilometers. The city-states and villages are connected by sand-paved paths, which are dotted with newly cultivated farmland growing corn, cotton, and other fruits and vegetables.

The village where he lived was the largest of the six fishing villages, second only to his father-in-law's central city-state, with about 3,000 inhabitants. The villagers mostly make a living by growing corn and fishing, and occasionally organize themselves to go into the mountains and forests to hunt with stone spears and knives. At the same time, by exporting sea salt and salted fish, they can also exchange some necessities from other tribes through caravans organized by the tribe itself.

Since the history of this village is not long, it was only established more than two years ago. Relying on the moisture of the grass and wood ash at the time of burning, the fertility of the cultivated land is quite good, so although the labor force is somewhat insufficient, the corn yield in these two years is basically enough to sustain a living.

About two years ago, in the northern part of the exiled regime, near the ruins of the old royal capital of the Hungyutizgan Kingdom, there was a 1,000-strong Aztec expeditionary force tasked with extorting tribute from the surrounding tribes on behalf of the Aztec Empire. Although this enemy army was small in number and not an elite main force, it was still able to pose a serious threat to the unstable regime in exile.

However, with the crushing defeat of the Aztec Empire's fourth attack on the Tlaxcalas and rebellions raging in the Valley of Mexico, this army was transferred back to Gyeonggi by Emperor Montezuma II to quell the rebellion, and there were no enemies left in the kingdom of Hun Hutizgan.

At present, the biggest problem within the kingdom of Honshutizgan is the serious imbalance in the sex ratio of the population.

To be more precise, there is a huge imbalance between men and women, with too few men and too many women.

-- As mentioned earlier, at this time there were seven villages and towns in the kingdom of Hungyutizgan with a population of 20,000. But 17,000 were women and only 3,000 men. Moreover, even among the three thousand men, more than half of them are young boys or old men, and there are only about a thousand real young and middle-aged men. Both the strong labor for ploughing and fishing, and the warriors capable of going into battle, were seriously insufficient.

Therefore, in the current situation, it is very common for a young man to marry even ten wives.

Although the Avaha chieftains had been trying to recoup those who had been separated by the war for the past two years, the total number of Honshutizgans was small in the first place—long before the invasion of the Aztec Empire, the kingdom of Honshutizgan was a vast and sparsely populated remote country. …,

In temperate regions, early human civilizations generally appeared on the alluvial plains of the coastal areas of the lower reaches of the Great River, because it was most suitable for the development of agricultural production, such as the Chinese civilization, the Egyptian civilization, and the Mesopotamian civilization. However, in the tropics, compared with the cool climate of the plateau and mountainous areas, the coastal plains, which are hot and humid all year round, and the land is barren and acidic, are not very suitable for human settlement.

Thus, in Central and South America, the Aztec and Inca empires were largely located between plateaus and mountains, but they were dismissive of the humid and sultry rainforests - the Aztec empire never wanted to conquer Panama, and the Inca empire was also obsessed with expanding northward along the Andes, stretching its territory into thin strips, but never conquering the vast Amazon jungle to the east.

In short, in the ancient tropics, the plateaus and mountains were densely populated, while the coastal plains were desolate and remote.

For example, the Aztec Empire, located in the southern valley of the Mexican Plateau at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, was at its peak with an area of only 10 to 150,000 square kilometers, roughly one-third the size of Japan, and similar in size to modern Korea. The only core of the most fertile area in the Mexican Valley is the tens of thousands of square kilometers of land that can be effectively ruled.

But such a small "empire" had a population of 15 million in the Stone Age! It's about the same as China in the time of Qin Shi Huang!

The kingdom of Hunghutizgan, located on the Pacific coast, was not as vast as the Aztec Empire, but it also had 30,000 to 50,000 square kilometers of land, equivalent to half of Zhejiang Province. Unfortunately, due to the country's low-lying terrain and barren land between tropical rainforests, the country's total population never reached 1 million...... It's no wonder that the densely populated and large-scale Aztec Empire can't be defeated.

However, on the other hand, there are advantages to having fewer people. Due to the vast territory of the kingdom of Hungshutizgan, it is sparsely populated. Therefore, all the potential enemies in the surrounding area are spatially distant from this exile regime - the capital of the Aztec Empire in what will become Mexico City, a full 300 kilometers away; The Chichimeks, a nomadic tribe that roams the desert to the northwest, generally operate up to 500 kilometers away. And to the south, by the sea, the city of Tehuantepec, the closest to the kingdom of Hunsutizgan, is also five days away.

Although there was a lot of trade between the city of Tehuantepec and the kingdom of Hun Stizgan - Mayan traders in large canoes appeared on the surface of the sea almost every month - it was basically impossible to launch a cross-sea expedition under the conditions of Jishu in this era.

What's more, the current city of Tevantepec has also been conquered by the Aztec Empire and reduced to a vassal city-state of the Aztecs. Without the permission of Emperor Montezuma, the Mayans in the city had no right to wage foreign wars unless they rebelled.

Therefore, after the Aztec expeditionary force withdrew and the Emperor Montezuma agreed to negotiate peace, the country was temporarily free of external troubles.

And within this ruined kingdom, the Avaha chieftains, who currently control a population of 20,000, are also the most powerful Shili. The rest of the small tribes that were scattered, generally no more than two or three thousand in size, were politically motivated at best to remain independent, and refused to listen to the Awaha chieftain, but they had no liliang or ambition at all to rebel and replace the Avaha chieftain, a rightful royal descendant.

However, in order to avoid irritating the Aztecs, and also in view of the fact that there are still many shili in the country that have not yet been subdued, Avaha has not dared to officially inherit the throne, and only orders his people in the name of "great chief" or "great general".

Overall, unless the Aztec Empire's army returns to the kingdom, there is no existential crisis in the kingdom for the time being.

And in real history, it is true that the army of the Aztec Empire never set foot on this land again - because it was the Spaniards!