"Chirp...... Chirp ......"

In July, when the autumn weather was crisp, there were fine footsteps in a dense rainforest.

In a path that has been trampled out by man, a large team is slowly advancing.

On the periphery, a group of shirtless and cloth-wrapped bodies painted red and black with colorful feathers on their heads, holding stone spears and crude bows and arrows.

There were more than 2,000 of them, and in the middle of the team were a team dressed in bright armor and armed with spears and muskets, which was very different from the surroundings.

"Wang Qianhu, you said that if the matter of us deceiving the imperial court is passed back, then will we be connected......

"Don't crow's mouth, as long as you don't say it, who will know if this is the Yin family or the Yu family."

On the not wide rainforest road, a scribe asked nervously, and Wang Ren, who was standing beside him and was wearing armor, interrupted him.

Behind them, Hong Bao looked around curiously, as did the more than 400 Ming soldiers in the team.

As Wang Ren said, there was indeed a problem with the news they sent back, because according to the original route, they should have arrived at the islands of the Middle Sea (Caribbean Sea), and then along the southern coastline, they would meet the natives in the south, and then go to the west to go ashore and find a way to search for the Yin family.

However, the reality is that they deviated from the course and passed by the archipelago to the south, arriving directly on an unnamed large island on the map.

On the island, after they came into contact with the local natives and clashed, they were immediately worshipped as gods by the large tribe of more than 2,000 people.

As for Wang Ren, the reason why they knew why they were enshrined was mainly because they saw that group of natives kowtowing and worshipping to their group.

After resolving the crisis without danger, they exchanged some badly worn weapons and iron pots, old clothes and local natives for a lot of supplies, and continued to embark on the journey to the west.

A few days later, they entered a large bay (Gulf of Mexico).

After their southward corrections, they thought they had arrived in an area not far from the Yin family, only to find that the words and habits of the local people were different from those they knew about the Yin family.

When drawing the map of Beizhou and Dongzhou, Zhu Gaoxu divided them from north to south into the Yu family, the Yu family, and the Yin family according to the habits of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca empires.

Therefore, when Wang allowed them to land on the shore and met a group of natives who had been watching the jade pendant on their waist, they knew that this was the territory of the jade family.

They followed the locals to their tribe's city-states, and exchanged weapons, jade pendants, and other items for many supplies, while learning their language locally.

It's just that as time went by, Wang Ren was worried that the imperial court would think that his party was buried in the sea, so he could only take the lead in sending 300 people back to Kunlunjiao on three ships, and let them lie that the advance team had met the Yin family and conceal that they had met the Yu family.

This is naturally a deceptive practice, but as long as they can find the Yin family natives before the fleet begins to sail to the West for the third time and arrives in Dongzhou, then everything will have room for redemption.

Just like now, the reason why they appeared in this rainforest at this moment was on the way to the capital of the Jade Family.

The Jade family called the place "Mayapan", a qualification they had only obtained after they had been inspected and approved by the lord of the city-state over the past few months.

If they can travel to Mayapan and have the support of the Mayapan nobles, then they can use the power of the Jade family to search for the Yin family by land in the south.

"Anyway, why did His Highness name these natives the Yu family, the Yu family and the Yin family?"

The scribe Meng Xun asked about Wang Ren and Hong Bao next to him, Wang Ren was silent when he heard this, and Hong Bao said:

"According to the books printed by the Inner Court before the departure, the natives of these three families are actually made by migrating to Beizhou one after another from the Suiren period."

"There are many fragments in the Ancient Classics Museum, which say that during the Suiren period, many glaciers gathered in the north and south of the world, and the sea water fell, and the Beihai Strait (Bering Strait) in the north was a large river at that time, and there were aquatic plants and trees growing in some places."

"The Yin family is from Yindi, and because of the defeat, they were driven away by other tribes in Yindi."

"At that time, the Suiren clan had already invented the means of igniting fires, so with this method, the expelled Yin family began to hunt northeast from the area of present-day Beiping, and continued to go north."

"Due to the abundance of water and grass in Beihai Daze, many animals have come here to forage, and the Yin family, who make a living from hunting, followed the animals through Beihai Daze and came to the land of Beizhou."

"They chased the animals all the way south, and many of the tribes that followed them also came to the Northcontinent."

"In the fragments of ancient books, these tribes are divided into three groups, the first batch is collectively called the Yin family, the second group is the Yu family, and the third group is the Yu family."

"With the passage of time, more and more tribes entered Beizhou, gradually spreading throughout the Beizhou and Dongzhou continents, and at this time, due to natural disasters, the glaciers in the north and south of heaven and earth began to melt, turning into floods that washed away Beihai Daze and rushed out of the Beihai Strait."

"At this point, Middle Earth has completely cut off contact with Beizhou and Dongzhou."

"Because of the large number of prey, the three local families are not short of food, so the scale of the war and conflict has been very small, and the connection with Middle-earth has been severed, so they are the way they are now."

Hong Bao said, Meng Xun and Wang Ren also looked at the Jade family warriors who were "protecting" them on the periphery.

In their hands were only crude stone axes, spears, and crudely made bows and arrows, and there was no armor at all.

Because of this, Wang Ren and them were almost all worshipped as messengers of the gods along the way, and Wang Ren always regarded himself as a messenger sent by the Son of Heaven.

Although many did not believe them, their thick armor and muskets and artillery told all the lords of the city-states who met them that they did not belong to the land.

"Oracle Ones, we are about to arrive in Mayapan, and we hope that the Kuhaaga (city lords) will accept you and receive the oracles of the gods."

Just as Wang Ren was communicating with Meng Xun and the others, a person dressed as a priest walked up to Wang Ren and them and tried to communicate with them.

Although he had been studying in the coastal city-state for nearly half a year, any member of Wang and his party could only understand and understand the general meaning of the Yu family.

They nodded in response in the language they had learned: "You can rest assured that we are here to save you and to defuse the disaster that has come." ”

Wang Ren's words received the priests' grateful eyes, and the so-called disaster in their mouths was a problem that Wang Ren only discovered after coming to this continent.

Although the Yu family has entered the era of city-states, there are hundreds of large and small city-states with a population of millions.

But all of this is based on a weak agricultural foundation.

Unlike the Central Plains, the Jade family did not live in large river basins, but rose in the midst of barren volcanic highlands and dense tropical rainforests.

Although the tropical rainforest is rich in rain, heavy rain can easily wash away the nutrients of the land, so the Yu family has always adopted a very primitive farming method.

They cut down all the trees, dried them for a while, and then set them on fire before the rainy season arrived, and used plant ash as fertilizer to cover the barren rainforest soil.

Burn one stubble at a time, then fallow for one to three years, and in some places even up to six years, and then burn and replant after the grass and trees have grown relatively lush.

Their civilization has developed for thousands of years, but agriculture has not developed further, and they have not thought of going to other regions, so in the face of the gradual increase in population, the pressure on agriculture and food has begun to increase.

There is no new way to do this, so people can only continue to deforest, and at the same time keep the fallow time as short as possible, but in this way, the rain is more likely to wash away the fertile soil, resulting in a decline in soil fertility, and the yield of crops such as corn is decreasing.

What is more serious is that under the system of theocracy, the royal family and priests of the Jade family attributed all these "signs of decay" to the dissatisfaction of the gods.

They built more temples and prayed more frequently and ceremoniously, hoping to turn things around with divine power.

The result, of course, is a waste of more manpower and already scarce resources, leading to an incorrigible vicious circle.

If this continues, the city-state of the Yu family will undoubtedly decline, and the reason why Wang Ren and them can gain the trust of the Yu family is not only because of their strong force, but because they have a way to solve certain problems.

Because of this, they were brought to Mayapan, and now they are not far from Mayapan.

In their communication with the priests, they passed through a short stretch of jungle, and their vision suddenly opened up.

They came to an artificially opened valley and were greeted by lush cultivated land.

The cultivated land is planted with sweet potatoes, corn and other crops that Wang Ren and the others were looking for at the beginning, and they are full of green.

Among the crops, there are many peasants, men wrapped around loincloths, women dressed in loose garments like smocks.

They looked curiously at Wang Ren and them, and the priest led Wang Ren and them through the cultivated fields to the outskirts of Mayapan.

On the outskirts of Mayapan are many wooden houses and many peasants.

Like their fellow people in the cultivated fields, they looked at these shining people with curiosity.

Beyond their low room, a city-state was visible in the rear.

Since he has been in the Yujia area for almost half a year, Wang Ren knows the local situation very well.

The city-state of the Jade family was built primarily for the purposes of the Holy Spirit and served as a center of trade and entertainment, with the inhabitants of the city-state being mostly officials, priests, merchants, and artisans, and the commoners living on small farms and villages outside the city-state.

Roughly speaking, Mayapan should have a population of about 50,000 to 100,000, which is a very large area.

After Wang Ren and them came here, no one tried to collect their weapons, because the current Yu family thought that they were invulnerable and that they were messengers sent by the Holy Spirit to help them in the mortal world.

Although they did not collect weapons, there were more soldiers and horses sent to supervise them, although their army was inferior to the robbers in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty in front of Wang Ren and others.

After passing through the village of about two miles, they came to the gate of Mayapan and walked into it with the guidance of the priest.

Compared to the simple commoners living outside the city-state, the nobles living in Mayapanne were a bit extravagant.

Mayapan is not a small area, it has a wall seven feet high, five feet thick, and a circumference of more than ten miles, and the outer ring of the city wall is a wooden fence.

The entire urban area is five or six thousand acres, but because of the unreasonable design, thousands of buildings are closely connected.

According to the priests, after the fall of the city-state of Chichen Itza that year, King Toltec, who had the title of "Quetzalcoatl", led the Yucatan nobles to establish the new city of Mayapan and divided the territory.

When he left, the nobles elected the head of the Kocomb family as the ruler of the city.

Mayapan, who ruled the House of Cocombe, took control of the surrounding cities by force, placed many of the Yucatan's noble chieftains under house arrest, and established a powerful city alliance.

Walking around the city, many small shrines stand out, and their presence adds to the crowding in the city.

Even the places where the nobles lived were so crowded that they had to crowd the main roads in the city to watch the arrival of the Ming army.

Most of them wore jewels strung with small pieces of jade and shells, as well as hair ornaments made of multicolored feathers to show their status.

Some people also wear gold necklaces, gold waist cards and other ornaments, making the whole city more prosperous.

All these things about them, the king and them have seen in other city-states, so they are not cold.

Led by the priests, they made their way through the crowded residential quarters to the ceremonial areas that separated the city.

Here, the four-cornered towers made of stone blocks stand out as they stand out, and the warriors lining the road also keep an eye on Wang Ren and his party.

The tower was the temple and the place where the Kocomb family received the king's so-called oracles.

"You can only bring two people up."

Coming to the steps of the temple, the priest humbly explained to Wang Ren, and Wang Ren chose Meng Xun and Hong Bao without thinking, and at the same time informed the accompanying deputy Qianhu, once something happened to them, they immediately led troops to rescue.

Although Mayapan had tens of thousands of men, with their rudimentary equipment, Wang Ren was confident that he would lead these hundreds of brothers to break through with ease.

After getting a response, Wang Ren, Meng Xun, and Hong Bao followed the priest up the steps and walked towards the height of the temple step by step.

When they arrived at the gate of the temple, they easily saw the lords of the various city-states sitting in it, wearing many gold and jade ornaments, and the lords of the Kokom family who were sitting on the throne and waiting for them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, these three are oracles."

After the priest walked into the temple with Wang Ren and the others, he took the initiative to introduce their identities.

The dozens of city-state lords here didn't know Wang Ren and them, and their eyes were full of suspicion when they looked at them.

Seeing their suspicions, Wang Ren stepped forward and took out the stone knife from the priest's waist and stabbed him in the chest.

This scene frightened everyone, but when the stone knife was blocked by the armor, the eyes of all the city-state city lords widened, and the city lord of the Kocomb family couldn't sit still.

"We are from the Celestial Empire, and the master of the Celestial Empire is the Son of Heaven, that is, the Son of Heaven."

Wang Ren introduced Da Ming in the broken Yujia language, and at the same time said: "We have mastered the power of volcanoes, as well as the power of various metals. ”

"The Son of Heaven has flipped through the books and learned of your existence, and sent me to communicate with you and solve your current problems."

Wang Ren's words are half-true and half-false, at least the current situation of the Yu family, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't know anything about it.

"I'm not invulnerable, I'm just wearing armor made with divine skills."

Wang Ren said as he lifted his armor, revealing his skin, and at the same time pulled out the waist knife at his waist, threw the stone knife on the ground and slashed it down.

In an instant, the weakly polished stone knife was split in half, and Wang Ren put the waist knife back into the sheath and continued to say to everyone:

"We have more than 600 people, but it is only an advance team, the Son of Heaven will send a heavenly army in a few years, and their strength is enough to wipe out all the city-states, but we will not do this."

"The purpose of our visit is to rescue you from continuing to be driven away by natural disasters."

As he spoke, Wang Ren also began to explain why the Yu family's grain production was getting smaller and smaller, and the rainy season was getting shorter and shorter.

When the Yu family chose the place to live, they ignored the production conditions of agriculture, the land was not fertile, and they were in a tropical rainforest, and the heavy rain washed away the cultivated land due to insufficient nutrients and soil fertility, so not only was it not suitable for growing grains and rice, but even the yield would be lower and lower.

Such an environment is doomed to make it impossible for them to solve the food problem of hundreds of thousands of people, and it will inevitably form a crisis for society.

As the saying goes, "the people take food as the sky", and in the face of long-term food shortages, it will inevitably cause social instability.

In order to solve this dilemma once and for all, it is possible that decision-makers made new choices and went to new worlds to open up new worlds, which led to the great migration of the Mayans, which led to the decay of the Maya settlements as people went to empty buildings.

If you want to change this problem, you can either move to a suitable place to live in one go, or you can use the method of accepting the king's appointment to learn how to make manure and build reservoirs and granaries.

In addition, the farms and city-states had to rely on manpower to transport food between each other, which was too inefficient, and it was possible to learn from the Celestial Empire's techniques to build carts to transport grain more easily.

In addition, the area where they lived, according to the "historical records" of the Celestial Empire, experienced droughts every 200 years.

This severe drought, which came very suddenly, often without warning, hit the area where the Yu family lived, leaving them by surprise and had to flee the city, leaving behind patches of ruins.

In addition to these, there were many problems in their lives, and the king and the heavenly army that would come in the future were there to solve them.

"Can you solve these problems?"

Ah Cha, the leader of the Kocomb family, asked Wang Ren, and Wang Ren looked at Hong Bao when he heard this, but Hong Bao shook his head: "We can't solve all the problems, maybe only our Royal Highness the Crown Prince can solve them." ”

"Prince?" Ah Cha was puzzled, he didn't understand what it meant.

"The crown prince is the son of the Son of Heaven, that is, the grandson of God." Wang Ren's unabashed explanation made Hong Bao embarrassed for a while.

"Can he solve our problems?"

Ah Cha and some city lords were in a daze, and Hong Bao was afraid that Wang Ren would brag, so he stepped forward and shook his head: "We don't dare to guarantee it, because even we may not be able to fight against the heavens." ”

"But isn't your Kuhaaga a a child of the gods?" Ah Cha showed a dissatisfied expression, but Hong Bao spread his hands:

"Heaven meant to let this area suffer a great drought, and the Son of Heaven did not want a great drought to come."

"As for the Son of Heaven not being able to solve the meaning of Heaven, this is very normal, can your child completely obey your words?"

Hong Bao's words made many city lords nod their heads, and Ah Cha was silent for a moment before continuing: "What should we do? ”

"We'll help you." Hong Bao explained, "Since you are the Kuhaaga recommended by all the city-states, then we have chosen you to rule this area and fight against natural disasters. ”

"We will teach you how to store food, how to store water, and how to make soil and fertilizer to increase food production."

"There's a lot more to it than that, and we're going to pass it on to you."

"But while teaching, we also need to explore the south and north, and many of your people escort and help us communicate with them."

Hong Bao said that, Ah Cha frowned and said, "But they are our enemies." ”

He naturally knew who Hong Bao was talking about, but Ah Cha didn't want to be strong against these opponents.

"In the sight of the Son of Heaven, you are all His people." Hong Bao spread his hands, and then waited for Ah Cha's answer.

Hearing this, Ah Cha could only choose to nod after the silence.

"We can help you, but it's not up to us to believe it or not."

Seeing that Ah Cha agreed, Hong Bao also said:

"Then please gather all the city-state's workers who make things, and let them come to Mayapan to learn the techniques of resisting natural disasters."

"In addition to this, we need to build city-states on the seashore in the west and east in order to obtain the blessing of the Son of Heaven."

After all, he was dealing with a religious city-state, and Hong Bao naturally spoke like a god.

The reason why he wanted to build two city-states was not for officialdom, but to protect himself.

Use the power of the Jade family to collect raw materials and craft them into gunpowder.

In this way, as long as they are on the coast, where the fleet can operate, then no force can pose a threat to them.

"Yes!" Acha nodded in agreement, and at the same time spoke to the priests and all the city lords, "We will cooperate with the oracles and learn the techniques of the gods from them. ”

"Yes!" Everyone was happy in their hearts, they didn't expect that they would be able to learn the techniques of the gods.

"Is this armor also a technique of the gods?"

Some of the city lords began to ask, and this also aroused the curiosity of many city lords.

Mayapan and its surrounding city-states were undoubtedly a militaristic alliance of city-states.

They often raided other city-states and tribes that were not part of the Alliance, plundering their supplies and enslaving their populations.

Therefore, the appearance of armor undoubtedly opened the door to a new world for them.

Once they had these things, they didn't dare to imagine how powerful they would become.

"Of course!" Hong Bao smiled and nodded, but at the same time added:

"However, we have not brought this technology, and we will need to wait until the Celestial Empire team arrives to teach you."

Seeing him say this, the city lords of the city-states all laughed, and although Ah Cha was also laughing, he was more vigilant in his heart.

It didn't matter to him, as long as they could learn the technique, they could expel the so-called oracles at that time.

As for the armor technology, he didn't believe that this group of oracles really didn't bring it, but he just didn't want to give it to them for the time being.

But it's okay, he'll find a way to get these techniques......

(End of chapter)