My Daming New Empire

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He was born in Tibetan areas, and he has been sent to the Western Regions many times, and he is very familiar with marching in plateaus and deserts.

This time, he directly dispatched multiple fleets to search for the mouth of the sea. He found five river mouths in total. After scouting, he finally chose to march along a river four hundred miles south of the base camp.

This river is the Inginio River of later generations, and it is also the north side of the famous Nazca Lines.

The reason for choosing this place is not only because the terrain here is slightly flatter, but also because the native tribes here are full of friendliness to the Ming people.

Not even friendliness, but adoration.

The local natives are not like the natives in the north, they look almost the same as the Ming people, but with darker complexion and high cheekbones.

But they were full of worship for the Ming people, and even treated a group of Ming soldiers who appeared as gods.

After difficult communication, they were very willing to take the Ming people to the eastern plateau, and were even willing to fight for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

This tribe, which calls themselves the Ventillas, is not a small tribe. They have more than 400 people, occupying an entire river basin and stretching for more than [-] miles.

After receiving the news, the time seemed to give them all the food looted from several disobedient tribes.

Then, Hou Xian decided to deal with a batch of cloth for them cheaply, and promised that all the soldiers sent would get knives and arrows from Ming Dynasty.

In the entire East Continent, apart from bronze weapons, most of them still use wooden sticks as weapons. Even if there are some bows and arrows, they are all poor long wooden bows with low power.

The power of these bows and arrows is not even comparable to their homemade blowing arrows.

Hou Xian's promise immediately aroused their enthusiasm. A tribe of 3 people actually selected nearly [-] soldiers at once, and wanted to accompany the Ming soldiers to fight together.

At this time, Hou Xian was a little bit embarrassed, because although they had brought a lot of iron, sickles, hoes, and swords on this trip, they were not many.

Now that the family property has been searched, they can't find [-] iron artifacts.

But even so, they are still willing to fight for Daming, and they don't want the people of Ming to give them food.

Afterwards, Hou Xian learned through communication that when they saw the ships and weapons of the Ming people, they had already regarded the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty as gods.

Don't talk about giving them iron weapons, even if they don't give them, they are willing to fight for Ming Dynasty.

This made Hou Xian very unaccustomed, he originally wanted to conquer this land, why did the other party not resist at all, but was joyful instead!

However, this also made him very optimistic about his next actions. Although he had never been to Nanzhou, he knew many tribes in Nanzhou, but he truly enshrined the Ming people as gods.

And this Ventila tribe is also like this.

With their guidance, this time the march was much easier.

All the carts are pulled by these Ventila people. They are hardworking and have low requirements. Although they will not rely on them to fight, it is still very good to serve as auxiliary troops.

Although there are no roads in many places on the Southern Continent, it is not difficult to walk.Because this is all wasteland, the river is very small and shallow.And except for some grass on the ground, not even trees grow.

Along the way, the army always walked along the water source, marching sixty miles a day, and then rested.Because it almost never rains here, even the time to set up a tent is saved.

Three days later, the army entered the plateau.The Pugio tribe living here is the feud of the Ventilla people. They occupy the most fertile land on the plateau, and they have a large number of people.

But when these people faced Daming's musket, it was only a round of gunshots, and everyone fell to the ground and dared not do anything again.

The war ended before it even started. They dominated the Puggio people for thousands of miles and fought against the Ventilla people for hundreds of years. Neither side would accept the other, but they only killed less than 100 people in the face of muskets. Throw in the towel.

They were not afraid of Daming's firepower, but because of the shock of the gunshots.

Accepting the surrender of the Puggio people, they provided the army with sufficient corn and potatoes, replaced the coolies of the Ventilla people, followed the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and continued to advance eastward.

The further east he walked, the more surprised Hou Xian became.In the coastal wilderness area, he had already discovered that the people here were very similar to the Ming people, but because of the hot weather here, the aborigines looked darker.

But after entering the plateau, the temperature drops, the temperature here is not as hot as the coast, and the people are much fairer.

Seeing them is like seeing the people in the village of Daming.Especially children, almost no different from Daming's children.

Hou Xian has another interest. Every time he marches, he likes to call the elders of several tribes, and starts to communicate with them, asking about their history.

They can no longer tell the history of their tribe, and there is no written record.But in the pronunciation of some sentences and living customs, they are exactly the same as the Ming people.

Are they really descendants of Shang Dynasty?

Thinking of Zhu Zhanji's explanation when he set off, Hou Xian now has no idea of ​​killing the Quartet.

Since they regard people like themselves as ancestor gods, then, let's act as their ancestor gods for once!

After conveying the order, the soldiers of Daming were dumbfounded.

They couldn't figure it out, they thought they were going to fight, but now the chief soldier actually asked them to take off their military uniforms and put on ordinary clothes, and they wanted to come here as they looked good.

However, since it was a military order, when these soldiers set up camp at night, they took out their most glamorous clothes from the baggage on the cart and changed them.

And for the next itinerary, with these two tribes leading the way and serving as thugs, there was indeed no chance for Ming soldiers to do anything.

Wherever they went, the Ming soldiers only needed to send a small group of people to roam around on tall horses, and then killed a few prey with muskets, and then everyone offered gold and food.

The trolley transporting the luggage has never been empty since it left the Pujiao tribe.

Moreover, these tribes did not have the idea of ​​asking the Ming people for anything in return. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty really had the enjoyment of being gods when they called out the ancestor gods.

It took them half a month to complete the [-]-mile journey. When they arrived at the Cusco tribe, the number of soldiers behind them had exceeded [-].

The tribes in the entire East Continent are still in slavery today.The victor can have everything, including women from other tribes.The loser loses everything, not to mention human rights, even life may be deprived at any time.

Most tribes are headed by multiple tribal elders and a patriarch.But in Cusco, there is already a rudimentary form of the ruling class, and even different official positions.

Slaves can be seen working in the fields everywhere, but the officials here do not engage in production and exploit slaves at will.

When Ming soldiers entered the range of Cusco City, the other party only came out to stop them once, and when they heard the gunshots, they did not resist again.

When Hou Xian appeared in front of them on a tall horse, seeing the imposing and beardless Hou Xian, they prostrated themselves on the ground one by one, calling Baishen, the ancestor god.

There are no horses here, and Hou Xian, who is riding a horse, is a god in their eyes.

The current king of Cuzco is called Viracocha, which is the same name as their creator god.Under the leadership of Viracocha, the Cusco tribe has been developing rapidly outwards, and today's sphere of influence is thousands of miles away.

They also look very similar to the people of Ming Dynasty, they all have black hair, and their facial contours are not far from each other.

In the past half a month, Hou Xian seriously considered the issue of arranging an ancestor for these natives that His Highness had confessed at the beginning.

Although His Highness only mentioned in the north at that time, it seems that it can also be implemented in the south.

It is easier to win over these natives with culture than Tibetans.Tibetans already have their own culture and believe in Buddhism, so they have always been at odds with Daming.

But the natives here don't even have their own writing, and they still use knotted ropes to keep track of things. It would be much easier for them to accept the culture of Ming Dynasty.

As an eunuch, Hou Xian has never been the kind of general who can only fight and kill, but is better at using his brain.