My Daming New Empire

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The cinchona tree has actually been used in South America.

Malaria is one of the four major infectious diseases together with plague, smallpox and influenza.The Black Death, which has become so popular in Europe, is actually a type of plague.

Cinchona tree is nature's miracle medicine that can effectively treat malaria, and it can also be extracted with today's technology.

Around 1000 AD, the Indians in South America discovered the bark of the cinchona tree, which can effectively treat malaria, but they only processed it briefly and did not extract it at all.

This, like Chinese medicine, is a science that can only be applied.

When Hou Xian arrived in South America, he learned about the cinchona tree from a nearby tribe without much trouble, and people are already studying it, preparing to transplant it and plant it.

Trees are not like food, as long as there is an adapted environment and they know how to grow them, they can survive.

If you want to transplant in large quantities, you must conduct long-term observation, research, and try to plant.

But Hou Xian's first conquest ended in failure. They were not because of the strength of the enemy. In fact, the 5000 people he brought were enough to push down the large forces in South America.

Their failure was to underestimate the harsh natural environment of western South America.

South America is bounded by the Andes Mountains, and the east is forests, grasslands, suitable climate, and fertile land.

But in the west, most of them are barren wilderness, mountains, and only along the rivers, there are some oases.

There are not enough horses, and the soldiers need to rely on their legs to move forward. These are nothing, mainly because of the lack of water.

If it is in Daming, crossing the northwest, there will be a lot of horse-drawn carts and ox carts, which can bring enough water.

But here, there is not even a car, how can we carry enough water?

He could only let the spies continue to search for water sources along the way, and find other ways to travel eastward.

Hou Xian struggled in South America, even entering the inland, but Yixin in North America experienced a rough start, and they have established a huge force in the Veracruz area.

Compared with the weakness of the Incas, the Aztec civilization was originally a history of war.

Although they are not yet developed, the Aztec civilization is still in its infancy, but the combative style has been formed.

Yixin did not march directly to Mexico City at the beginning. Of course, there is no Mexico City now, only Tenochtitlan there.

As soon as they landed, more than 50% of nearly a thousand soldiers fell ill, and more than [-] died.

But when most people recovered, they became the source of the virus for the locals.

They discovered that they could bring diseases to the locals when La Venta had established a large enough force, was recognized by the locals, and was about to go north.

In the junction of the mountains and plains in southern Mexico, there is a large tribe who call themselves the Tehuacans.

They couldn't stand the heat and humidity of the plains, so they lived in the middle of the mountains, hunting and robbing the tribes in the plains for a living.

They were the first soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to meet when they went north.

In a battle that wasn't considered a war, they didn't hurt a single soldier of the Ming Dynasty, and they were killed by the Ming people more than 50 people, and then they proposed a peace.

Yi Xin didn't want to kill them all, and he didn't pay attention to this medium-sized tribe, so he accepted the peace negotiation.

But after the leaders of the two sides negotiated, the people of Daming heard that a plague had occurred in their tribe within less than a hundred miles.

What surprised Yi Xin was that the twenty soldiers he stayed there were unscathed, but more than half of the tribe was infected with the plague.

Under the treatment of the military doctors, most of them were saved, but they still lost more than one-tenth of their population.

Then there was a second tribe, and a third tribe, and all of them were like that.

Not to mention Yi Xin, even the doctors accompanying the army couldn't explain why.

However, this brought Yi Xin another way of thinking about war.Since the enemy can be wiped out without using a knife or gun, why use a knife or gun?

Afterwards, Yixin no longer went to control other tribes on the road, and directly advanced to Tenochtitlan in the mode of rapid march.

The territory of the original Tepanix country was divided into three parts, belonging to Tenochtitlan, Descoco, and Tlacopan respectively.

Their three alliances are not only the largest tribe here, but also have been deterring the surrounding tribes.

As long as Da Ming takes these three tribes directly, the other tribes will be no problem.

In the original state of communication, Tenochtitlan and the others did not know about the plague brought by the Ming soldiers, so when the Ming people came to Tenochtitlan and were willing to trade with them on an equal footing, they were extremely happy.

At Yi Xin's request, they set aside an area outside the city for the Ming people to conduct transactions, but they did not stop the scattered Ming soldiers from entering the city.

Within three days, the plague began to spread, but this time, the doctors of Daming no longer used precious traditional Chinese medicine, but boiled water with grass roots to treat them.

Only young women can get real Chinese medicine treatment.

During this period, Yi Xin began to publicize in the name of God, thinking that this was God's punishment for Tenochtitlan, and that the punishment would only end if the emperor truly believed in Ming Dynasty.

The spread of this panic is not just a city of Tenochtitlan, including their entire tribe, and the other two allies.

These people clearly saw that most of the clansmen who surrendered to the Ming people survived, while the soldiers died one by one.

When the plague spread, no one could count how many people were infected and how many died.

The plague that started in October of the 19th year of Yongle did not subside until March of the 20th year of Yongle.

In Tenochtitlan, a city of 10 people, only half of the population remained, and most of them were women.

And in the entire Mexico Valley, most of the remaining 300 million people here consider themselves the subjects of the Ming Emperor, and they have begun to learn the Ming dialect.

Not to mention how proud Yi Xin was of accomplishing such a great undertaking without a single soldier.

But apart from being proud, he also often thinks about it. Now that millions of people here regard him as the spokesperson of the emperor and let him do whatever he wants, should he go back to Daming?

Back in Daming, he is nothing like an earl, but here, he is the king of millions of people!

But he also knows that everything he has now is bestowed by His Highness.Without these soldiers, his orders would not have been communicated at all.

He had been hesitating for a long time while waiting for the confluence of the fleet. Of course, he was also searching for gold and silver recklessly.

Although several large gold mines and super silver mines in Mexico have not yet been discovered, this is the main producing area of ​​gold and silver.

Indians have had the habit of collecting gold since ancient times. Just using an iron pot can exchange for the same weight of gold.A piece of tea brick can be exchanged for silver of the same weight.

Carloads of gold and silver were continuously transported back to the ships on the southern coast. There were internal prisons, civil servants, the army, and the navy to supervise each other, and no one dared to embezzle.

They don't need it either, because of these harvests, they can get 300% of it. Now that they have a million taels of gold and a million taels of silver back, [-]% of them also have [-] million silver.

And they have a total of less than 6000 people to distribute the money, and at least one or two hundred taels can be distributed. For a coach like Yi Xin, no one will complain about 200 taels.

These are not salaries, but innocent extra money, rewards from the court.