In the seventh year of Hongye, Emperor Zhao Kuanghuan was 59 years old, and his health was not very good.

Cheng Jingming, a traveler, explorer, naturalist, and anthropologist, is also a handful of years old, and was specially appointed as an honorary doctor by the Hanlin Academy, and enjoys the regular allowance of a Hanlin doctor.

Of course, Cheng Jingming could not take any more risks himself, but he had a son who inherited his ambition.

Mixed-race bastards, to be exact!

When this cargo was adventuring in Mexico, he settled for two years to sort out animal and plant materials, and accidentally enlarged the belly of a Mayan maid. It was also inconvenient to run around with it, so I bought a house to settle down, and opened a small shop for the maid to run, and entrusted a local friend to help take care of it.

The illegitimate son is named Cheng Mo in Chinese, Thiago in Spain, and Lei Ting in Maya.

After his biological mother died of illness, Cheng Mo followed his father to adventure all over the world. Now in his thirties, he still hasn't married a wife, but he has left a lot of illegitimate children.

This time back to China, Cheng Mo brought a few Yama people to face the saint.

"This is the crown prince of the Mayan kingdom?" Zhao Kuanghuan dragged the sick body to summon him, and the person standing in front of him was a teenager.

Cheng Mo said: "Your Majesty, Maya means corn, and Maya people belong to a nation. But this people, in turn, has different branches, and is now mainly divided into the Highland Maya and the Lowland Maya. The Highland Maya had been conquered by the Spanish, and the Lowland Maya were still resisting. Just two years ago, the last Mayan nation, the Kingdom of Itza, was destroyed by the Spanish army. The young man in front of His Majesty is the only descendant of the Mayan royal family of Itza. In order to remember his hatred, he gave up his former name and changed his name to Itza."

"Bring the globe." Zhao Kuanghuan said.

The guards moved the globe, and the emperor asked Cheng Mo to explain the specific situation.

Cheng Mo pointed to the Guatemalan area and said, "This is the Highland Maya, completely subservient to Spain, although there is a slight resistance, but it has never been a climate."

He also pointed to the Yucatan Peninsula: "Here are the lowland Mayans, the rainforests are everywhere, and muskets and horses are useless. The Mayan kingdom of Itza, founded around a large lake, has resisted Spain for nearly two hundred years. Two years ago, the Spaniards sent more than 200 troops, but gathered tens of thousands of Mayan servants. Almost all the materials of the Guatemalan Governor's Military Region were used, and tens of thousands of Mayan servants were sent to attack the Itza Mayan Kingdom, and even set up a fortress across the lake to besiege the capital of the Itza Maya Kingdom for a long time."

"Eventually, the kingdom of Itza fell, the library was burned, and the statues of the gods in the temple were destroyed. I was doing research in the Mayan Library at the time, translating and preserving some of the Mayan books. The king entrusted the prince to me, and together with a dozen palace guards, he fled disguised as my hired retinue. I am a Chinese, and the Spanish army is not embarrassed, so I fled all the way to Mexico."

Zhao Kuanghuan was very interested in the Itza Kingdom and asked, "Did the Mayans have writing? They actually built a library, and they allowed foreigners to do research."

Cheng Mo replied, "There are writings, and the king is very open-minded, even allowing the Spaniards to preach. This time, the capital of the Kingdom of Itza was breached, and it was only four Spanish missionaries who found out the information during the mission, and the Spanish army and the servant army destroyed the country."

"Grace will take revenge, and so will the real beast!" Zhao Kuanghuan had great contempt for the Spaniards.

Cheng Mo said, "This foreign prince asks the Celestial Empire to borrow troops to restore the country."

Zhao Kuanghuan shook his head: "It's too far away, it's impossible to mobilize the imperial army, and the people of the Americas themselves are too useless."

During the reign of Zhao Han in China, there was also a descendant of the Inca royal family who tried to restore the kingdom and compiled books to spread the idea of rebellion.

As a result, Zhao Han financed 2,000 muskets, and the descendants of the Inca royal family revolted. At the beginning, the fighting was vigorous, and there was infighting in the fight, which was divided and disintegrated by the Spanish army, and several rebel leaders fled to China in a hurry.

When Prince Itza saw Zhao Kuanghuan shaking his head, he immediately knelt on the ground and said in unfamiliar Chinese: "Your Majesty, the Mayans and the Chinese are of the same origin, as long as Your Majesty helps the Mayans to restore the country, the Itza Kingdom will regard China as its suzerainty in the future." Your Majesty the Emperor, the Emperor of all the Mayans!"

Zhao Kuanghuan was quite surprised: "You can still speak Chinese?"

"I can also write Chinese characters." Prince Itza said.

Cheng Mo explained beside him: "Your Majesty, the King of Itza is very open-minded, he allowed the Spanish to preach, and he also personally met with the Spanish missionaries. When I went on an adventure in the kingdom of Itza, I was also received by the king. When the king heard that I was a scholar from China, he personally discussed the calendar with me and distinguished the similarities and differences between the astronomical calendars of the two countries. The king, knowing that I was not a missionary, but a mere scholar, asked the prince to learn Chinese knowledge under my name. Kings and princes, and even speak Spanish."

Zhao Kuanghuan said regretfully: "It's a pity that he is also a foreign virtuous monarch."

Prince Itza said, "If Your Majesty is unwilling to send troops, please lend me weapons and armor. I don't want muskets and horses, those things don't work in the rainforest. I need swords and crossbows, as well as some light armor. Although the Spaniards occupied the Kingdom of Itza, they were only able to control the capital and a few villages. I will go back with my armor, and I can gather many Mayans and fight the Spaniards in the rainforest."

This is a guerrilla war in the rainforest.

Historically, the Itza Maya fought guerrilla warfare until the Spanish colonists were driven out of Mexico. Until the 90s of the 20th century, there was a great revolt of Mayan peasants, and the declaration of the uprising was published through the Internet.

Zhao Kuanghuan said, "I can provide the armor, but how can you transport it back?"

Cheng Mo said: "You can go to Central America and let local merchants help with transportation. As long as they give enough money, those merchants will dare to carry anything, and the Spanish colonial officials will not check it."

Zhao Kuanghuan has been on the throne for ten years, and China certainly has its own territory in the Americas.

From Alaska to the Baja California Peninsula, all are claimed by China. Several of the coastal emigration towns, mostly in the form of purchases, obtained from the natives, and used trade to maintain relations with the natives - mainly because they were too lazy to send troops, it was not worth conquering by force, and the profits from robbing the tribes were not enough for military expenses.

Of course, there was also the use of force, but not in person.

Instead, he took advantage of the inter-tribal war to support some close tribes and sell them iron tools to expand. The proviso was that some of the territory of the tribe's expansion had to be given to Chinese immigrants. Furs and other local products close to the tribe can only be sold to the Chinese, and are not allowed to be sold to other countries.

At the same time, intermarriage is encouraged.

Most of the Chinese immigrants were exiled prisoners (men), who gave gifts as dowry gifts and married women close to the tribe, so as to bring the two sides closer together through marriage.

When schools are set up in immigrant villages and towns, the children of tribal nobles are also invited to study, and little by little cultural infiltration.

China has colonized the west coast of North America for decades, and there have been no major wars, only occasional minor armed conflicts. There are even a few indigenous villages, which are already in a semi-Sinicized state, who can communicate with immigrants in Chinese, and who have worn Han civilian clothes.

Such colonization is only possible in North America, because the Indians of North America are not highly developed, and it is impossible to put them in Mexico, Central America, and Peru (where there are already states, cultures, and laws).

Moreover, it only applies to the early colonial period, when the immigrants and their descendants reach a sufficient number, there will inevitably be fierce conflicts with the local natives.

Prince Itza took the armor given by the Emperor of China and sailed to the Americas on a merchant ship the following year. In addition to more than a dozen Itza palace guards, there was also Cheng Mo by his side, and Cheng Mo had been appointed as the national teacher of Itza.

They landed in Central America, bribed officials and merchants with silver, and shipped armor to the east coast of Central America in batches and then smuggled to Belize.

Belize, a British colony.

It was precisely because the British occupied Belize, next to the territory of the Low Yamas, that Spain was afraid that the Kingdom of Itza would fall to the British, so they exhausted their human and financial resources to destroy the Kingdom of Itza.

Sure enough, when Cheng Mo accompanied Prince Itza to Belize and brought a letter from the Chinese emperor, the British colonial officials immediately received him warmly.

British officials also promised that although they could not support the Mayan recovery, they would welcome Prince Itza to flee at any time. Guerrilla warfare is fought casually, and if it loses, it flees to Belize, accumulates strength, and then goes back to fighting guerrillas. As long as you can give Spain eye medicine, Britain will mention it

Support for everything but supplies.

Taking advantage of the British colonies, Prince Itza returned from land to the rainforests of the Yucatan Peninsula, using his status as a prince to recruit Mayans as soldiers along the way.

In fact, when the kingdom of Itza still existed, it was a refuge for all the Mayans. The Mayans outside the rainforest, including the highland Mayans of Guatemala, were oppressed by the Spanish colonizers and fled in droves to the kingdom of Itza.

The identity of the prince of Itza is very appealing!

After raiding several Spaniard-controlled villages, Cheng Mo discovered that all the Mayan sacrifices in the village had been killed. The lands of the Mayan nobility and commoners had been occupied by the colonists as plantations, and the Mayans played the role of plantation slaves.

There were even many Highland Maya who, as Spanish servant military leaders, were additionally granted haciendas in lieu of the rule of the local Mayan nobility.

"Your Highness," Cheng Mo reminded, "the Mayan traditions have been destroyed, the priests have been killed, and the nobles have mostly lost their land. You should issue a new decree announcing the abolition of slavery. Let all the Mayans, including the Mayan slaves, come together to overthrow the tyranny of Spain. If the restoration of the country is successful, it should trade with Britain while obeying China as its suzerain. After all, China's territory is too far away, and the UK's territory is right next to it."

Prince Itza said, "Teacher, you are a sage, and you must be right."

Under Cheng Mo's advice, instead of attacking the city, Prince Itza continued to recruit soldiers and raid the plantations of the Spaniards and Highland Yamas.

These plantations have no force to speak of, and only a few plantations are armed, almost a dozen at a time.

Lay down the plantation, kill the lord of the manor and the missionary, and free the Mayan slaves there. And part of the seized land was given to the meritorious ones, and part was distributed to the freed slaves.

In just half a year, Prince Itza has laid down a large territory.

The Mexican Overseers and the Guatemalan Overseers joined forces to mobilize troops to suppress them. There were only a few hundred Spanish soldiers, but there were several thousand Mayan servants.

At the suggestion of Cheng Mo, Prince Itza divided his troops into pieces and went into the rainforest to fight guerrillas. Although no favorable results were achieved, the form was very good.

The Spanish and their servant armies reoccupied the village community and once again occupied the village community's land. The Mayans, who had finally gained land, not only lost their land, but also became slaves again, and one by one they simply hated the colonists to the bitter end.

As soon as the colonial army left, Prince Itza led his troops back, and the slaves on the plantation revolted and cooperated.

Even the few black slaves joined the uprising!

In the following years, Spanish plantation owners voluntarily abandoned their estates. Because they are so scared of being killed, there are often plantation owners who are attacked in their sleep and lose their lives in their sleep, who the wants to stay here and be afraid?

The entire Petten Basin, which stretched all the way to the British colony of Belize, became the territory of Prince Itza except for Lake Petten and the surrounding area.

The city of Itza, in the middle of Lake Petten, is the ruling core of the Yucatan Peninsula. However, the trade routes to the outside world were often attacked by guerrillas, and for several years in a row, even the Japanese dart masters refused to accept the work, because the death rate of the dart trade was too high.

And because Spain's finances had already collapsed, two consecutive troop transfers and suppression, resulting in the American colonies running out of money, and Spanish colonial officials were unable to send troops anymore.

Prince Itza decided to launch a general offensive to recapture the capital city of Itza.

As a result, a big defeat!

The Spaniards built a fortress in the city of Itza, and there were also two fortresses on the shore of the lake, and the Mayans, with only cold weapons, could not break through the strong fortress at all.

The situation was a bit awkward, the Spaniards could only occupy a few fortress cities, and they were simply unable to rule the vast countryside. And the prince of Itza can control the countryside, but he can't break through the city. The two sides are staring at each other, and neither has anything to do with the other.

Cheng Mo changed his route according to the situation and resolutely did not touch the castle.

Constantly attack the plantations around Lake Peten, kill the plantation owners there and run, and burn everything you can. The Spaniards could not be

Be on guard at any time, and when the army is mobilized, the Mayans will have already run away.

After two years of tossing and turning, the rich farming area of Lake Petaln was almost wiped out by Prince Itza.

The city of Itza in the center of the lake, and the Spanish fortress on the shores of the lake, could only transport food supplies from the outside world. However, transport roads were often attacked, and heavy troops had to be sent to escort them, and continuing to occupy the area was a loss-making deal.

Gradually, the colonial officials reduced the volume of transportation, and the Spaniards in the city of Itza went hungry from time to time and had to rely on fishing in the lake to make a living.

The Spaniards were the first to hold on, more and more civilians left, and the plantation owners were left with nothing left. In the city of Itza and the fortress by the lake, there were almost only soldiers and officials left, and even the soldiers had to cast their nets themselves to fish.

In desperation, the Mexican Overseers redeployed their troops and promised the Mayan servants that they would become the lord of the manor as long as they secured their territory.

However, the colonial government did not have enough food and grass, and the Mayan servants needed to solve the problem of military rations by themselves......

There are really many highland Mayans, who brought their own dry food to help Spain fight, and gathered thousands of troops to come to the rainforest to conquer the Mayan compatriots. The result was to be predicted, when the army was gathered, Prince Itza led his troops into the forest. Once the servant army disperses the search, it is easy to be attacked by the guerrillas.

Within two months of fighting, the Mayan servant army picked on their picks, grabbed some goods in the villages along the way and retreated, and the expedition ended in a tiger's end.

Immediately, the Spanish defenders of Lake Itza, unable to bear the days of fishing all day, took the initiative to abandon the city and fortress, and all of them slipped away, and the colonial officials could not stop it at all.

After seven years of guerrilla warfare, Prince Itza finally succeeded in recovering the country and returning to the capital of Itza with his troops.

The Spanish colonial government acquiesced in this, but still claimed that the Yucatan Peninsula was Spanish territory.

Cheng Mo was appointed as the High Priest of Itza, and since the Mayan clergy, they were the preferred targets of the colonists, and they had already been killed to the ground. Cheng Mo, a Chinese scholar who studied in the Mayan Library, is really the most qualified to serve as a high priest!

Cheng Mo took the local Mayan religion as the main body, mixed a lot of Chinese customs and culture, and almost rebuilt the Mayan religious system.

A meritorious soldier in guerrilla warfare, he became the new aristocratic class of the Maya. However, slavery, which had been abolished, could no longer be used again, so landlord ownership was introduced. Of course, it is necessary to cooperate with the introduction of advanced agricultural technology and agricultural tools, otherwise the productive forces will not be able to keep up with the advanced landlord system.

Counting the guerrilla warfare, Cheng Mo stayed in Maya for twelve years.

After he divided the Kingdom of Itza into administrative regions and established an aristocratic bureaucratic system, he actually sealed the seal and resigned and ran away.

This product inherited his father's adventurous genes, and he was not used to living a peaceful life, so he always liked to play something exciting.

Prince Itza...... It should be called the king of Itza, and after many attempts to keep it to no avail, he could only transfer twenty warriors to protect his safety as Cheng Mo's personal guard.

By the way, he sent envoys and students to follow Cheng Mo to China to ask for the official canonization of the Chinese emperor.

Cheng Mo set off with a group of people and arrived in Danzhou (Hawaii) halfway, which was a different scene.