Aztec Republic, Presidency.

"President Geng, let me ask you about something. Just ask casually, ask casually, if you don't want to answer, don't take it to heart. ”

Wu Shijue, who was talking to President Geng Da, who had only come down from the battleship Liaodong the day before yesterday, was young and strong, and had strong adaptability, and had been adrift on the sea for two or three months, and was still alive and well after getting off the ship, and after a day of rest, he and his father Wu Guogui went to President Geng's presidential palace to attend a banquet.

After enjoying some Aztec-style delicacies, such as Aztec roast duck, Aztec shabu-shabu, Aztec elbow, Aztec pickles, and a few cups of Aztec two-pot head, his conversation box was opened.

"Shuangyu, you say this a lot, your father and I have already changed posts, and now we are sworn brothers!"

Geng Juyi is also quite proud now, although he asked Li Zhongshan to get out of China and become an "Aztec", there is probably no possibility of counterattacking back in this life, but he can still make up for it, such as swearing to Wu Guogui who has a request for him.

Wu Guogui is Li Zhongshan's father-in-law, Li Fuchen's sworn brother, and Geng Jingzhong's father Geng Zhongming's generation. Now that they are married, won't Geng Juyi (Jingzhong) grow up to Li Yat-sen for a lifetime?

"Ouch, then I have to call you Uncle Geng!" Wu Shijue doesn't care about the matter of seniority, and his father can recognize him when necessary, let alone his uncle?

"Hahaha, it's all your own people, Shuangyu, if you have anything to say, just ask!" Geng Juyi is also quite proud in his heart, this is not to take advantage of his mouth, but to show that the father and son of the Wu family, or the entire Ming Dynasty, really have a request for him and the Aztec Republic on the issue of the Americas!

"Okay, Uncle Geng, then I'll ask," Wu Shijue said with a smile, "When you enter Mexico City, shouldn't you be in a yellow robe?" ”

Geng Juyi glanced at Wu Shijue, who seemed to be half-drunk and had no words to hide, as if he was looking into a mirror in his heart, this was finding out the bottom for Li Zhongshan!

Thinking of this, he smiled bitterly and said to Wu Shijue: "Shuangyu, this emperor. I've been there, I'm tired of it, it's really nothing good. I think when I wasn't the emperor, I was nine thousand years old! Who can drive me out of the city of Nanjing? Will I fall to the point where there is no place in the Chinese world? How many people have died in my family for my dream of being an emperor? With me, there are not many brothers, even my best friend Brother Shang is gone, this pit man's emperor, can I be again? Again, my loved ones will not die? ”

As he spoke, his tears fell, and he really didn't look like he was pretending.

In fact, "not being the emperor" is not his will alone, but the collective will of the elders of the Jing Domain who fled to the New World with him - Geng Jingzhong wants not to be the emperor, will everyone suffer so much and die so many people?

Besides, the procedures for being the emperor here in the New World are different from those on the Ming side. If you can't add a yellow robe, you have the support of the Catholic Church! It would be better to get the approval of the Pope of Rome and then be crowned by the Archbishop of Mexico.

But this is not possible for Geng Juyi, who is not a Catholic at all!

Of course, Geng Juyi will not say this explicitly.

He then said with a straight face: "Besides, why did I, the Aztec Republic, rise in just five years? There are two ways to rely on it, one is that the world is for the public; The second is that as soon as the two tricks of equal land rights came out, the natives, mixed races, and even some native whites who were oppressed by the Spaniards believed it to be true, thinking that I was sent by God to save them, so they came to vote one after another to help me fight the Spaniards. Otherwise, with the few people I brought from Shenzhou, I would be able to occupy Acapulco to the top, and there would be no situation of a republic of twelve city-states at all.

In fact, I didn't do anything myself, but I put into practice the ideas on "The World is Public" and "The Heavenly Dynasty System of Fields and Mu". The bulls in the world have blown up their double jade, do you think I can still be the emperor now? ”

Geng Jingzhong (Juyi): This is setting people up!

keeps saying that "the world is for the public", criticizes the Spanish royal government every day, and turns around and becomes the emperor himself, is this reasonable?

"Uncle Geng," Wu Shijue continued to "consult," "Do you want to be the emperor. So what will happen to the people below you, old brother, in the future? Without the emperor, what would happen to their prince Wandai? ”

"Then give more land!" Geng Juyi said with a smile, "There are also gold and silver mines in the "Tianchao Tianmu System", which can clearly stipulate that if you have military merits, you can still divide more land!" I'll add the shares in the gold and silver mines in the Aztec territory!

In the future, if you run away from Spain, you will set up an Aztec Mining Co., Ltd. and reward half of the shares to the meritorious people! In addition, the heroes who have made great contributions can also be that or something. The senator of the Senate.

When the victory is won in the future, everyone will be the landlord, eat dividends, and be a patriarch. Isn't that better than being a lord? ”

Not to mention, Geng Juyi now has this system that can probably be called a "republican military meritorious knight", it seems to be really fragrant!

Wu Guogui, who was on the side, had already observed all aspects of this Aztec Republic, and said in an envious tone at this time: "Brother Geng, you have studied "The World is Public" and "The Heavenly Dynasty Tianmu System" thoroughly!" Brother, my West America is not good at all, although I am also the president, but my president is not the president of the world, but a feudal president! ”

Geng Juyi smiled: "Brother, you are really joking. Your Western America doesn't even have a few people, so what can you do without feudalism? Only by building a feudal state can people be brought in! ”

"That's right!" Wu Guogui said to Geng Juyi again, "Brother Geng, I, the West American, want to pull people from the Ming Dynasty, but I can't do without the assistance of your Aztec Republic!" Otherwise, tens of thousands of people come here every year, and they have to settle down and feed, and everything is a big problem! ”

"Don't worry, rest assured, it's on me!"

When Geng Juyi was lining up his chest and assuring Wu Guogui with a righteous face, his Minister of Military Affairs Zeng Yangxing suddenly came to the door, hugged his fists, and then said loudly: "President, there is a report from Malay ahead, and the Spanish soldiers have arrived again!" ”

"What?" Wu Shijue was a little nervous, after all, the more than 12,000 people he brought have not recovered yet, "How many people came?" ”

"About 10,000." Zeng Yangxing replied.

"Only 10,000?" Geng Juyi smiled contemptuously, "The Spaniards really don't know how to fight, they have sent their heads three times, and now they are sending them a fourth time."

"President," Zeng Yangxing saw that Geng Juyi was a little floating, and quickly reminded, "2,000 of the 10,000 people this time are cavalry. ”

"It doesn't matter." Geng Juyi waved his hand and said, "Isn't it 2,000 cavalry?" We also have 1,000 cavalry veterans, you go and mobilize 16,000 elite soldiers immediately, and I will personally take them to beat the Spaniards! ”

"Yes!"

Zeng Yangxing heard that Geng Juyi was going to transfer 16,000 people, and he also felt relieved, agreed, and then stepped forward to take a token that Geng Juyi took out from his body, and took the order.

Then Geng Juyi turned back to Wu Shijue and said, "Virtuous nephew, can you go to war with me?" ”

"Yes!" Wu Shijue nodded hurriedly.

"Good!" Geng Juyi said, "I'll take you to see how weak the Spanish soldiers in the New World are, and they are not vulnerable at all!" When your army of 12,000 is rested, let's go to Mexico City! ”

"Okay," Wu Shijue patted his chest, "When the time comes, Mexico City will be handed over to me to fight!" ”

Wu Shijue's mouth is full of words, but he is still a little drumming in his heart, and the Spaniards are so weak? Although he had not fought again in these years, he had studied several times in the Jinling Lecture Hall, and most recently, a military expert from France explained the important battles of the Franco-Dutch War, many of which were fought by the Spaniards.

The Spanish army doesn't seem to be weak!

They really can't even deal with Geng Jingzhong, and can they still fight back and forth with the French?

This Geng Jingzhong. It's not going to be bragging, is it?

However, his little suspicion had been almost dispelled by reality in the early morning of the next day.

Because he saw a republican army with exceptionally high morale on the school field under the fortress of San Diego!

Early in the morning, under the fortress.

The banner of the red background and the black cross was unfurled, and in the school field, bayonets were like a forest.

Three brigades plus a cavalry regiment, a total of 16,000 Aztec warriors, dressed in Aztec-style "tiger hats", khaki robes, with crosses on their chests, and flintlock pistols with bayonets on their shoulders, stood silently. 14 battalion phalanx (12 infantry battalions, 2 cavalry battalions) and 56 squad horizontal formations formed a magnificent lineup.

Although their formation cannot be compared with the elite of the Ming army, looking horizontally, vertically, and obliquely, it is not a straight line.

But the morale of these 16,000 officers and soldiers is visibly high!

Whether it is the Chinese, Japanese, Ryukyuan, or Indians, Indo-European mixed-race, and whites with East Asian faces, they all have their chests and bellies. The scorching Acapulco sun shone on them, and drops of sweat fell down their faces, and there were already traces of water on their faces, but they did not move.

This solemnity is the embodiment of morale and willpower!

Wu Shijue could even feel that every officer and soldier of the Aztec Republic knew exactly who they were fighting for and why—of course, fighting for a brand new Aztec Republic, fighting for their estates and shares in gold and silver mining companies!

These people, indeed, are the masters of the Aztec Republic, and even if they die in the next battle, their souls will ascend to heaven, and their families will get the Grange, and they will get shares in the future.

In a word, their sacrifice is worthwhile, and it is high!

Between these 14 phalanxes, there is a square platform made of wood, on which stands Geng Juyi, who is also wearing an earthy yellow robe and an iron hat, and next to him are Wu Shijue, Yu Renying, Gonzalez, and Juan. López, Zeng Yangxing, Kiyohisa of the Tune Office, Hisashi Kashiyama and others, except for Wu Shijue, are all republican fathers of the Aztec Republic.

Geng Juyi opened his throat violently and spoke fluent Spanish: "Aztec warriors, heroes of the Republic, the insidious Spanish enemy who has been defeated by you three times, has launched a war against the Republic for the fourth time. More than 10,000 mercenaries from New Spain have arrived less than 20 miles from the city of Acapulco. They obviously wanted to seek a decisive battle while our Ming reinforcements had not yet recovered from the fatigue of the journey.

But they forgot that the Aztec Republic still had you. Jaguar-like warriors, defenders of the republic! Now, I, the President of the Republic, will join you in striking a fatal blow to these vile, cowardly, shameless Spanish mercenaries who can only ride on the heads of the people of the New World! ”

Speaking of this, Geng Juyi raised his arms and shouted: "God bless us. Slay the West Demon (Spanish Demon) and go to heaven! ”

The citizens of the Aztec Republic below also cheered: "Kill the West Devil and go to heaven!" ”

This morale. I'm afraid that the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow will be nothing more than that!

Seeing that these soldiers of the Aztec Republic were all in high spirits, Geng Juyi raised his right hand high, and the people below saw it, and immediately quieted down, Zeng Yangxing behind Geng Juyi picked up a red background and white cross flag on the high platform and handed it to Geng Juyi, Geng Juyi raised the banner and waved it a few times, and then pointed sharply to the north: "Send troops. Kill the West Devil! ”

With his order, the 16,000 officers and soldiers of the Aztec Republic under the high platform began to change their formation in the sound of commands and military drums, and changed from a phalanx to a marching column, still in battalions, battalion after battalion, heading towards the plain north of Fort Santiago.

The footsteps of more than 10,000 soldiers knocked on the ground and surged forward like a tide. The fortress of Santiago was built on a hill, just guarding a mountain pass, which was about two or three miles wide, through which a large road was passed, and the road was also fenced and wooden gates, which were originally guarded by the officers and soldiers of the Aztec Republic, but now they were replaced by the Ming army in better condition, who would defend the capital of the Aztec Republic under the command of Wu Guogui when the Aztec army attacked.

The expedition marched along the main road, and soon drove out of the city of Acapulco. Outside the city of Acapulco, the main coastal plain is the larger hills that begin to appear after a few dozen miles away, but the plain is still the main terrain.

This area is probably the wetter part of New Spain, which is ideal for agriculture. After Geng Juyi arrived, he distributed the land that was originally concentrated in the hands of white landlords to Indians, Indo-European people of mixed descent, who were willing to support the republic, and of course, Han Chinese, Ryukyuan, and Japanese who followed Geng Juyi.

However, the land allocated to the Han, Ryukyuan, and Japanese was not well maintained, and most of it was just planted with pasture and became a pasture for sheep and horses, and this area is just north of the city of Acapulco, covering a fairly large area, with a radius of hundreds of miles, all of which are undulating meadows, during which there are also large forests, streams, and some small hills, as well as a few abandoned manors.

Duke Villahermosa deployed his army of more than 10,000 men in a large estate called the Carmen Manor - this estate occupies an astonishing area, the owner of which was originally a "white N" living in Mexico City, who did not come several times a year, and the actual cultivation of the land was made by Indian farmers.

The Indian peasants of New Spain had some land, but it did not belong to individuals, but to village communities. However, in the area around Acapulco, because of the strength of the big merchants and nobles, most of the land that belonged to the Indians has been lost, and a large number of Indians have become tenants.

This is probably why the Indians in the Acapulco area are so easily incited?

But Duke Villahermosa would not have considered these issues, and in his opinion, his German mercenaries were strong enough to deal with all the Indians, Eucausans and native whites.

Perhaps the 12,000 Ming troops in the city of Acapulco who are resting are a problem, but it is not necessary to think about it now.

The only thing the Spanish duke cared about was whether the enemy would go out of the city to face him. While it's unlikely they'll be able to shrink their defenses, who knows?

"Duke, they're coming!"

An adjutant, who had followed Duke Villahermosa through a hundred battles, suddenly pointed to the smoke and dust rising in the distance, and said to the duke, who was standing on the balcony of a two-story building: "It seems that there are quite a few people, around 15,000!" ”

Duke Villahermosa smiled coldly: "What about a large number of people? It's just some Americans, who have given me orders, and the whole army is marching south, and we are going to fight them! ”

"Yes, Duke!"

(End of chapter)