Cheng Jingming stayed in the rainforest for more than two months, until all the paper he carried with him was written and painted, and then he left with rubber saplings and fruits. 2_

If you want to return to China, you have to wait for the trade fleet to come over next year.

Don't be in a hurry to go back to Mexico, first go to Gracias to live for a while and learn more about the customs of Central America.

Gracias, the city of Central America, was located in what was later the state of Honduras. The governor is often referred to as the Governor, and the Chinese translation also has the Admiralty, but the real name is "Commander-in-Chief of the Military District of Guatemala", directly under the orders of the Governor of New Spain (the capital is in Mexico City). ,1_

They had already visited them once, and the Governor (Commander-in-Chief) had given them two guides. This time, I went back to thank you, and while returning the guide, I made an appointment to come back next year, promising to bring some cloud brocade to the governor.

Yunjin is a thing that has a low output, and in Europe and the Americas, many times money can't buy it.

When he heard that he would be given a brocade next year, the governor became more enthusiastic, and kept them in the city for a little longer, and arranged for servants and maids according to the special arrangement.

The maid can go to bed, and all the Chinese in the expedition have a share. Gas 6

Cheng Jingming, who had barely learned Spanish, put his arms around the maid and asked, "What's your name?", 4■"Erin." The maid replied.

Cheng Jingming asked: "Looking at your appearance, you don't look like a European, and you don't look like a local native." Are you half-blooded?" Yes, I'm Mestizo. Inka said. 1

Cheng Jingmingsuo, also translated as Mastizo and Mastizo, specifically refers to the mixed generation of Europeans and Native Americans. Similar to "Nyonya" in Southeast Asia, it refers specifically to the mixed descent of Chinese and Southeast Asian natives.

Xiang Meilu understood, and then asked, "Is there less Cheng Jingming outside?"

"Very little," Inka said.

The population composition of Latin America ranges from few to large: Native Americans, European-Turkish, native-born whites, white slaves, European colonizers, and Asian immigrants. 8 and social status, from low to high: European colonizers, native whites, European-Turkish mestizos, Asian immigrants, Native Americans, white slaves. ,1

Of course, there is no fixed death in social status, and even white people can redeem themselves and do business.

That kind of white man is very rare, first of all, he must be stupid and capable, and he must meet a vicious master. Through long-term labor, we have accumulated enough ransom money to serve the original owner in the form of employment before we get free. Gradually, the accumulation of family property, a generation or two ago, white merchants appeared. ，4

We are young merchants, craftsmen, big businessmen, labor intermediaries (white slave distribution), short-distance freight carriers...... The kind of white people who have no money, are discriminated against, and are allowed to get land, but our social status is indeed lower than that of the indigenous Indians, and even lower than that of a few Europeans. 1

"Your mother is an indigenous slave, and your father knows who. You were never a slave on a plantation, sold by your master to the governor as a handmaiden. ”1

It was a beautiful man of mixed Latino race, with a low and slender body, who could have participated in a beauty pageant hundreds of years ago. It's a pity that it's too thin, it's in line with the European aesthetics of the time, and because it's too low, it's in line with the Chinese aesthetics of the time. If you are shorter and have a slender body, you will be lovely in the eyes of Chinese literati. 8

The Incas were very curious and asked, "What country and tribe does he think of himself?"

Inka replied, "You're Xiang Meiluso."

The Incas instantly had a voice.

As a collective term for European-Turkish mixed race, the Xiangmei Luso people clearly have no discrimination. A number of half-breeds have been weakly called so, and have even been classified as a new race. 3

We know which country we are succumbing to, and we only know that we are Cheng Jingmingsuo. After staying in the city for a few days, suddenly no guests came to visit.

The visitor is also of mixed European and Turkish descent, but obviously of lower social status, well-dressed, elegant manners, and uneducated and unwealthy at first glance. "Your name is Xiang Meilu Inca Garcilaso de la Vega." The man took off his hat and saluted, holding a book in his right hand. 1 Wang Lian, the leader of the expedition, exchanged a few words with this person, and learned that it was a literati, so he threw it to the Incas to receive him.

Mesti continued to introduce herself: "Your grandfather is the small writer Xiang Mei."

Incas, not Irene.

When translating into Chinese, the distinction between Inca and Irene was deliberately made purely because the writer was too awesome.

Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the founder of Latin American literature. My works are a must-read for the leaders of the Latin American independence movement, and it is also the theoretical source of the Latin American independence movement, and it has no irreplaceable cohesive effect on the entire Latin American nation. At the same time, Voltaire, Montesquieu and others were also greatly influenced by the Incas under their thoughts. The theoretical source of the liberal trend in Europe came from the works of the Incas.

The Incas were also of mixed European and Turkish descent, half Spanish colonizer and half Irene royalty.

On the title page of her masterpiece "The Royal Review," Xiang Mei wrote: "I dedicate this book to the Indians, Indo-European mestizos, and native whites of the kingdoms and provinces of the small and extremely rich Peruvian Empire -- their brothers, compatriots, and fellow Incas, the Incas Garcilaso."

As I write that, Irene's empire has only been dismantled for a few decades, and even a few white slaves have been found.

That sentence came to be the guiding ideology of the Latin American independence movement. It's not that Indians, Indo-Europeans, native-born whites, those eight types of people are all siblings, and the European colonists are the little villains, and the European colonizers must be driven out!

Of course, if this was not the case with the Inca's intentions, I would have tended to be Spanish, and I had participated in the suppression of indigenous revolts. But carrying the royal blood of the Irene Empire, I don't have a deep affection for Xiang Mei's history and culture, and Xiang Mei's land.

In the book "Royal Review", there is not a lot of content that criticizes colonial atrocities, and calls on all sectors of Europe, and generally the Spanish king, to face up to the suffering of Latin American people and improve the living conditions of Latin American people.

That book, seventy or eighty years later, was grinding down Europe. Countries that are accustomed to Spain have supported its spread. These adventurers who want to go to sea to pan for gold also use that book as a popular science book. But the real popularity will have to wait for another hundred years, and there will be fewer interpretations of that book one after another, and ideological emancipators and independence movements will use it as a theoretical weapon.

"It's Peruvian in the pavilion, why are you here?" Xiang Meilu asked.

"Your grandfather, the Incas, the noble royal family of the Irene Empire, was exiled for angering the King of Spain. Your father and uncles, though not exiled, had their property seized by the colonists. We only got 500 copies of the Royal Review, and we were scattered all over the place. You were born out there, and your current position is Clerk of the Governor's House. ”

The Royal Review, published by the Incas in Spain at their own expense, was almost half sold and half delivered, and even then it was so popular that it had to return to Peru with the remaining 500 books. I had the idea that before I was exiled to death, my work suddenly became popular in Europe. 1

Mesti handed over an old copy of the Royal Review.."Dear Mr. China, that book is popular in the Americas, but you hope he will bring it back to China." It was your grandfather's lifelong wish to let fewer people read it, let fewer people know about the colonial atrocities, and let even fewer people know about the long and bleak history and culture of the Irene Empire. ”

"It's an honor." The Incas gladly took it.

Mesti ended her chatter: "Dear Mr. China, the Spanish thieves have robbed Carlos of his land and destroyed your civilization, and he also said that Carlos is a civilized barbarian. That's right, it's extremely accurate, and hopefully you're going to give but. You don't have your own writing, you don't have your own calendar, you create a bleak ......"7

The goods probably held back their mouths, and usually found someone to say, and when they met the Chinese, they immediately said that they stopped.

On the Central American side, there are no Asian immigrants for the time being, and Mesti chattered for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Dear Mr. China, they are Chinese, you Carlos, seem to be of the same race." You have the same hair, skin color, and physiognomy as Europeans. When they just left the city, you were very surprised. Will the Chinese and Xiang Meilu be the same ancestors?" 13

The Incas glanced at Xiang Meilu again, that old man, obviously without European characteristics, where did he look alike?

It can only be said that Mesti thinks of himself as a Carlos under the spiritual belonging. And it's a special Carlos, and I have the blood of the royal family of Erin flowing under me!

Xiang Meilu replied using official rhetoric: "Thousands of years later, there is no dynasty of stock traders in China. Before the defeat of the Stockshang Dynasty, legend has it that the royal family took their people and sailed to the east by boat. To the east of China by ship is what is now America. Perhaps, they are the royal descendants of China's Yin Shang dynasty. ”

"Isn't there really such a legend?" Mesti said happily.

The dude, desperate for recognition. But Carlos has not yet been conquered, I know where the way out is, and when I see a Chinese who looks similar to Carlos, I see a beggar who is rich and responsible for his relatives.

The Incas suddenly had no idea and asked, "If the cabinet is curious, I can't go to China with you, there are people who look like that." He also couldn't learn to speak Chinese or write Chinese characters, and perhaps he could find Carlos's origin in ancient Chinese books. ”

"Really? That's great!"

Although Mesti is a clerk in the governor's palace, there are only one or two such clerks, and I cannot resign at any time.

After a while, Mesti came to visit when she went to work, told Xiang Meilu about the customs and history of Carlos, and asked the Incas about everything about China.

When the Chinese expedition departed, Mesti also resigned to the governor and followed us north, waiting for Li Quan's trading fleet to dock.

Xiang Meilu has always instilled thoughts, saying that China and Erin are of the same ancestry, and the more Mesti listens, the more she recognizes it. Because I heard that China defeated the weak Spain, and the Chinese brothers are so powerful, if they are distant relatives of Carlos.