My Daming New Empire

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In addition to rivers, there is also abundant groundwater here. Even cities with millions of people in later generations have not damaged the environment here. In this era, as a base camp, there is no problem.

Although this is not the best base camp location, speaking of it, Guayaquil, Ecuador's climate, water source, and farmland are more suitable than here.

But don't forget that in Peru and Chile in the south of Peru, there are the richest mineral belts in the world.

Chile has the largest natural saltpeter mine in the world and is a country built on copper mines.Peru and Bolivia also have world-leading mineral resources.

Bolivia's silver mines are not much less than Mexico's. The silver mines here have been dug for hundreds of years without being hollowed out.

Not to mention, there are countless gold mines in the Andes Mountains.

Moreover, from Lake Titicaca to the east of South America through Bolivia, it is tens of thousands of kilometers closer than bypassing Tierra del Fuego.

Therefore, Spain in history will set up the Governor's Palace here, because it can directly radiate most of Central and South America.

While building the city defense, Hou Xian began to win over the surrounding tribes with small favors.

Native Americans in this era were even more backward than China’s Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. They could not make wheels, so they would not have vehicles, and without vehicles, they would not be able to transport long distances.

Moreover, there are no horses in South America, and even few cattle. They can only rely on their feet and alpacas for transportation.

Therefore, the development of many tribes for hundreds of years is only a few hundred miles of sphere of influence.No matter how far away, they can't rule at all.

Their weapons are also very backward, with almost no iron. Their weapons are wooden clubs, stone axes, javelins, spears, bows and arrows, and catapults (catapulting small stones).

That's why more than 100 years later, 160 nine Spains destroyed a country with millions of people.

This is not fiction, not myth, but reality.It's just that reality looks more ridiculous than myth.

In 1531, the Inca army was torn apart by the civil war, and this chaos played into the hands of the colonists.

With the Spanish king's permission, Francisco Pizarro set sail from Spanish ports with less than 200 men on his quest to conquer an empire of six million people.

On November 1532, 11, the day after the Spaniards arrived in Cajamarca, a messenger from the Inca king Atahualpa arrived among the Spaniards.

Pizarro said to the messenger: "Please tell the monarch of your country that he is welcome. As for when and how to come, you can follow his wishes. No matter how he comes, I will treat him as a friend and brother. Reception. I beg him to come quickly, for I long to see him. He shall not be harmed or insulted."

After the messenger left, Pizarro quickly deployed his defenses around Cajamarca Square.He divided the 62 infantry into two, commanded by himself and his brother Juan, and the [-] cavalry, commanded by his other brothers, Hernando and de Soto.

At noon that day Atahualpa concentrated his troops and marched towards the square where the Spaniards were stationed.At the forefront were two thousand Indians sweeping the road, dressed in colorful checkerboard patterns, picking up stones and grass from the side of the road as they marched.

Behind them are three groups of Indians dressed in different colored costumes, singing and dancing.

Further behind are a large number of Inca warriors, who carried huge metal plates, crowns made of gold and silver, and many gold and silver products.

Surrounded by the crowd, the Inca emperor Atahualpa, sitting on his shoulders, appeared.The wooden support of the shoulder car is wrapped in silver leather, surrounded by colorful parrot feathers, and decorated with gold and silver ornaments. It is carried on the shoulders by eighty Inca lords.

Atahualpa himself is dressed in brocade clothes, with a crown on his head and a huge necklace made of emeralds around his neck, sitting on a small ornate saddle-shaped stool in his shoulders.On the sedan chairs and hammocks on both sides of the shoulder, sat senior lords decorated with a large number of gold and silver ornaments, and behind them were Inca warriors carrying gold and silver products.

The Indians entered Cajamarca Square with loud songs and filled every corner of the square.The Spaniards ambushing around the square were full of fear, and many of them peed their pants.

With more than 100 people fighting against a huge empire with [-] soldiers, it is normal for them to pee their pants, but if they dare to fight, they can be called crazy.

In the middle of the square, Atahualpa was conversing with Vincent de Valverde, a beggar monk sent by Pizarro.Holding a Bible in hand, de Valverde declared that "in the name of God and the King of Spain" he asked Atahualpa to convert to Christianity.

Atahualpa took the "Bible" in the hands of Brother De Valverde, and wanted to see what mysterious power was in this booklet.The Incas didn't know how to make paper at that time, let alone print books, so the emperor didn't know how to open the book.

Friar de Valverde reached out to help, and Atahualpa, feeling slighted, punched the monk on the arm.

Afterwards, Atahualpa opened the book and found that there was nothing magical in it. He threw the book a few meters away in a rage and said, "We only believe in the sun, not in God and Christ."

Atahualpa's move gave the Spaniards a reason to do it. In the name of blasphemy, they ordered the cavalry to launch an attack.

America had no horses, and the Spaniards had only crude muzzle-loading guns, which were difficult to load and fire.

But these had a great deterrent effect on the Incas. Their wooden clubs could not kill people, but the Spanish swords could kill them, and the loud sound of muskets made them panic. The Inca army fell into chaos and stepped on each other. Many suffocated to death.

Dozens of Spanish cavalry continued to chase and kill, tens of thousands of troops fled in panic, and the valley was full of the wailing of the Incas.

If the Spaniards hadn't withdrawn their troops due to nightfall, I am afraid that the 8 Inca troops would have been wiped out.

According to statistics, about 7000 Incas were killed in the First Battle of Cajamarca, but the Spanish lost very little.

More importantly, they captured Atahualpa, the mighty emperor of the Inca Empire.All the senior lords and ministers around the emperor were killed in this massacre.

Pizarro had the Incas fill a room 22 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 8 feet high with gold.Filling the other two chambers with silver, Atahualpa's subjects obeyed his orders from prison despite his imprisonment.

When the gold from all over the empire filled the Spanish treasury, the trophies of [-] pounds of gold and nearly [-] pounds of silver did not satisfy these Spanish colonists. They treacherously killed Atta. Valpa.

In the end, the Incas staged four large-scale resistances. Relying on the advantages of steel and cavalry, the Spaniards defeated the Inca troops successively in the four battles of Jauja, Vilcasuaman, Vilcaconga and Cusco. There were only 80, 30, 110, and 40 Spaniards in the battle, and the defeated Inca army in each battle was often tens of thousands.

This asymmetric war lasted for 40 years until 1572, when the Inca Empire was completely destroyed.

From this period of history, we can clearly know how scumbag the Inca's combat effectiveness is.Compared with the late Manchu Qing Dynasty in the weakest period, they are not comparable.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji also compiled a history, he told Hou Xian. "Magellan" had 40 people at the beginning, and they once expelled a tribe of tens of thousands of people into the mountains.

Hou Xian's "ambition" and ambition, although not explicitly supported by Zhu Zhanji, were deliberately provoked.

He doesn't want everyone to be like Zheng He, holding the idea that the world is one family and the world is one.

In this class society, even the common people in the Ming Dynasty were divided into different classes, how could it be possible to treat the foreigners equally.

Assimilate when it is time to assimilate, and when it is time to use a knife, you must not be soft.

In Wangxi City (Lima), Hou Xian lived peacefully for two months, not because of kindness, but because he wanted to learn the local language, use iron tools to attract the surrounding tribes to join him, help the Ming fleet explore the way, and cut firewood.

Yang Dao's steam sailboat has no coal now, and when there are no coal mines nearby, they can only use firewood to light the fire and drive the steam engine.

Compared with coal, firewood is not resistant to burning, so more preparations should be made, and the Ming fleet should also be familiar with the surrounding environment.

Yang Dao and their remaining six first-class warships and 24 second-class warships are all steam sailing ships.

This time, they traveled lightly and no longer explored the depths of the continent, but only carried out global positioning and mapped the coast of America.

Because whether it is South America or North America, the east is a plain.Even the swamps are much easier to conquer than the mountains in the west.

They will collect coal in northern Colombia, then meet Yixin along the Gulf of Mexico, then travel from Cuba to New York, and then pick up Di Pingxia, who first crossed the North American continent, and return on their return voyage.

After sending Yang Dao and the others away, Hou Xian couldn't wait to arrange for the navy and craftsmen to stay behind, and led the army to start marching southeast.

Their goal is not elsewhere, but the Kingdom of Cusco, which later became the Inca Empire.

There is no Inca Empire yet, and it will not be until decades later that the Kingdom of Cusco will develop rapidly, from a small regional country to a large country that radiates northwestern South America.

Hou Xian's purpose is to conquer this country and let this piece of land belong to Ming Dynasty.

Just when Hou Xian was so ambitious, those old farmers had discovered rubber trees in the wild. Although there were few rubber trees in this area, they already knew what rubber trees looked like.