Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 412 The Grandson of the God

"Chirp...chirp..."

In July, when the Ming Dynasty autumn was clear and crisp, the sound of thin footsteps appeared in a dense rain forest.

On a man-made road, a large team was slowly advancing.

On the periphery, a group of people were shirtless and wrapped in cloth. Their bodies were painted with red and black paint, their heads were braided with colorful feathers, and they were holding stone spears and crude bows and arrows.

There are more than 2,000 of them, and among them are teams wearing bright armor, holding spears and muskets, and they are very different from the surrounding environment.

"Wang Qianhu, if the news that you said we deceived the court was reported back, would we be implicated..."

"Don't be so talkative. As long as you and I don't tell, who will know whether 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 next to him and wearing armor, interrupted him.

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

They first cut down all the trees, let them dry for a period of time, and then set them on fire before the rainy season. They used plant ash as fertilizer to cover the barren rainforest soil.

Therefore, when Wang Ren and the others landed on the shore and met a group of natives who had been looking at the jade pendants around their waists, they knew that this was the territory of the Yu family.

"There are many fragments in the ancient classics library. It is said that during the Sui Ren clan, many glaciers gathered in the north and south of the world, and the sea water dropped. The Beihai Strait (Bering Strait) in the north was a large swamp at that time, with aquatic plants and trees growing in some places. ”

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

One crop is planted at a time, and then it must be left fallow for one to three years. In some places, it even takes up to six years. After the grass and trees have grown more lush, they can be burned again and planted again.

They followed the local people to their tribal city-states, exchanged weapons, jade pendants and other items for many supplies, and at the same time learned their language there.

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

Just like now, the reason why they appear in this rain forest at this moment is that they are on the way to the capital of the Yu family.

However, the reality is that they deviated from the waterway, passed the southern archipelago, and directly arrived at an unknown large island on the map.

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

Meng Xun, the scribe, asked Wang Ren and Hong Bao who were standing next to him. Wang Ren was silent when he heard this, while Hong Bao said:
"According to the books printed by the inner court before departure, the natives of these three families are actually distinguished by their migration to Beizhou since the Suiren clan period."

As for Wang Ren and the others, the main reason they knew what they were being enshrined was because they saw the group of natives kowtow and worship them.

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

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

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

However, as time went by, Wang Ren was worried that the court thought that his party would be buried in the sea, so he could only send 300 people on three ships back to Cape Kunlun, and asked them to lie that the advance team had met the Yin family and concealed the truth from them. What we encountered was about the Yu family.

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

This approach is naturally deceiving the emperor, but as long as they can find the Yin family natives before the fleet starts its third voyage to the West and arrives in Dongzhou, there will be room for redemption.

"With the passage of time, more and more tribes entered Beizhou, and gradually spread throughout Beizhou and Dongzhou continent. At this time, due to natural disasters, the glaciers in the north and south of the world began to melt, turning into floods and washing away the great swamps of the Beihai Sea. Out of the North Sea Strait.”

After their correction to the south, they thought they had arrived in an area not far from the Yin family. However, when they landed, they discovered that the words and habits of the local natives were different from the Yin family they knew.

Although many people did not believe them, their thick armor, sharp swords, muskets and artillery told all the city-state lords who met them that they did not belong to this land.

As Hong Bao said, Meng Xun and Wang Ren also looked at the Yu family soldiers who were "protecting" them on the outside.

They only had rough stone axes, spears, and crudely made bows and arrows in their hands, and they had no armor at all.

"Due to the abundance of prey, the three local families are not short of food, so the scale of wars and conflicts has always been small. In addition, they have lost contact with Middle-earth, so they are like this now."

After successfully resolving the crisis, they exchanged some badly worn weapons, iron pots, old clothes and local natives for a lot of supplies, and continued their journey westward.

"The Yin family came from the Yin region, but were driven out by other Yin tribes due to their defeat in the war."

"Oracle, we are about to arrive in Mayapan. I hope the Kuhaaga (city lords) will accept you and accept God's oracle."

If they can go to Mayapan and get the support of the Mayapan nobles, then they can use the power of the Yu family to search southward for the Yin family by land.

"At this point, China-Earth has completely lost contact with Beizhou and Dongzhou."

When drawing the maps of Beizhou and Dongzhou, Zhu Gaoxu divided them into the Yu family, Yu family and Yin family from north to south based on the habits of the Aztec, Mayan and Inca empires.

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

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

"They chased the animals all the way south, and at the same time, many tribes who followed them also came to Beizhou."

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

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

The Yu family called that place "Mayapan", a qualification they obtained only after being inspected and approved by the Lord of the city-state in the past few months.

They nodded and responded in the language they learned: "You can rest assured that we are here to save you and resolve the disaster that has already arrived."

The Yu family is different from the Central Plains. They do not live in large river basins, but rise in barren volcanic highlands and dense tropical rain forests.

On the island, after they came into contact and had conflicts with the local natives, they were immediately regarded as gods by the large tribe of more than 2,000 people, who were "invulnerable" in the eyes of the natives.

Even though they had been studying in the coastal city-state for nearly half a year, Wang Ren and his party could only understand the general meaning of the Yu family.

"Because the Beihai Daze is rich in water and grass, many animals come here to look for food. The Yin family, who make a living by hunting, followed the animals through the Beihai Daze and came to Beizhou."

Their civilization has been developing for thousands of years, but agriculture has not developed further, and they have never thought of going to other areas. Therefore, in the face of an increasing population, the pressure on agriculture and food has begun to increase.

Without new methods, people can only continue to destroy forests and open up wasteland, and at the same time shorten the fallow period as much as possible. However, in this way, the rain will more easily wash away the fertile soil, resulting in a decrease in soil fertility, and the yield of crops such as corn will also decrease. , the farmers, who are the majority of the population, do not have enough to eat, and their social conditions plummet.

What is even more serious is that under the theocratic system, the Yu family royal family and priests attributed all these "decline phenomena" to the dissatisfaction of the gods.

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

Of course, the result of this is to waste more manpower and already very scarce resources, until it falls into an irredeemable vicious circle.

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

That was why they were brought to Mayapan, and now they are not far from Mayapan.

During the exchange with the priest, they passed through a small section of jungle, and the view ahead suddenly opened up.

They came to a valley that had been developed by humans, and what they saw was lush cultivated land.

The cultivated land is planted with sweet potatoes, corn and other crops that Wang Ren and the others were looking for, and it is lush green.

Among the crops, there were many farmers, the men wearing loincloths, and the women wearing loose clothes like blouses.

They looked at Wang Ren and the others curiously, while the priest led Wang Ren and the others through the cultivated land to the outskirts of Mayapan.

On the outskirts of Mayapan are many wooden houses, and there are many farmers coming and going.

Like their fellow tribesmen in the cultivated fields, they looked curiously at these shining people.

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

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

The city-state of the Yu family was mainly built for the purpose of the Holy Spirit and became a center of trade and entertainment. Most of the residents living in the city-state were officials, priests, merchants and craftsmen, while civilians lived in small farms and villages outside the city-state. .

At a rough glance, the population of Mayapan should be around five to one hundred thousand, and the area is very vast.

After Wang Ren and the others came here, no one tried to collect their weapons, because the Yu family now believed that they were invulnerable and that they were messengers sent by the Holy God to the mortal world to help them.

Although no weapons were collected, more soldiers and horses were sent to supervise them, although their army was not as good as the bandits in the southwestern region of the Ming Dynasty in front of Wang Ren and others.

After passing through the village for about two miles, they arrived at the gate of Mayapan and walked in under the leadership of the priest.

Compared with the simple commoners living outside the city-state, the nobles living in Mayapan seem a bit extravagant.

The area of ​​Mayapan is not small. It has a city wall that is seven feet high, five feet thick, and more than ten miles in circumference. The outer wall is surrounded by a wooden fence of about ten feet.

The entire city covers an area of ​​five to six thousand acres, but due to unreasonable design, more than thousands of buildings are closely connected together.

According to the priest's introduction, after the fall of the city-state of Chichen Itza, the Toltec king with the title of "Feathered Serpent" led the Yucatan nobles to establish the new city of Mayapan and divided the territory.

After his departure, the nobles elected the head of the Corcombe family as ruler of the city.

Mayapan, governed by the Cocom family, controlled surrounding cities by force, placed many noble leaders of Yucatan under house arrest, and established a powerful urban alliance.

When walking in the city, many small shrines are very conspicuous, and their existence makes the city more crowded. Even the place where the nobles lived was so crowded that they had to crowd the main roads in the city to watch the Ming army arrive.

Most of them wear jewelry made of small pieces of jade and shells strung together, and hair accessories made of colorful feathers to highlight their status.

Some people also wear various decorations such as gold necklaces and gold waist medals to make the whole city look more prosperous.

Wang Ren and the others had seen all this in other city-states, so they were not cold to it.

Led by the priest, they passed through the crowded residential area and arrived at the ceremonial area that separated the city.

Here, the four-cornered tower made of stones is particularly eye-catching, and the soldiers lined up on both sides of the road are also warily staring at Wang Ren and his party.

This high tower is the temple, and it is also the place where the Kokom family receives Wang Ren and his group of so-called divine envoys.

"You can only bring two people up there."

Arriving at the steps of the temple, the priest humbly explained to Wang Ren. Wang Ren chose Meng Xun and Hong Bao without hesitation. At the same time, he informed the deputy Qianhu who was accompanying them that if something happened to them, he would immediately lead troops to rescue them. .

Although there were tens of thousands of men in Mayapan, with their crude equipment, Wang Ren was confident that he could lead these hundreds of brothers to easily break through.

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

When they came to the entrance of the temple, they easily saw the city lords of various city-states sitting there, wearing many gold and jade ornaments, as well as the city lord of the Kokom family sitting on the main seat, waiting for them.

"Dear Kuhaaga, these three are the oracles."

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

The dozens of city-state lords here did not know Wang Ren and the others, and looked at them with eyes full of suspicion.

Seeing their suspicion, Wang Ren stepped forward, 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, all the city lords of the city-state widened their eyes, and the lord of the Kokom family could not sit still.

"We come from the Celestial Dynasty, and the master of the Celestial Dynasty is the Emperor, the son of Heaven."

Wang Ren introduced Daming in broken Yujia dialect and said at the same time: "We have mastered the power of volcanoes and the power of various metals."

"The Emperor read through the books and learned of your existence, so he sent me to communicate with you and solve your current problems."

Wang Ren's words were half true and half false. At least Zhu Gaoxu didn't know anything about the current situation of the Yu family.

"I'm not invulnerable, I just wear armor made with magical skills."

As Wang Ren said this, he opened his armor and exposed his skin. At the same time, he also pulled out the sword from his waist, threw the stone sword to the ground and slashed it down.

In an instant, the weakly polished stone knife was split in half, and Wang Ren sheathed the knife and continued to talk to everyone:

"We have more than six hundred people, but we are just an advance team. The emperor will send out the heavenly army in a few years. Their power is enough to wipe out all the city-states, but we will not do that."

"The purpose of our coming is to rescue you and prevent you from being driven away by natural disasters again."

As Wang Ren talked, he also began to explain why the Yu family's food production was getting less and less, and the rainy season was getting shorter and shorter.

When the Yu family chose the area to live, they ignored the agricultural production conditions. The land they were located in was not fertile. In addition, they were in a tropical rain forest. Heavy rains washed away the cultivated land, which resulted in insufficient nutrition and poor fertility. Therefore, it was not only unsuitable for growing grains and rice, but also the yield. It will also get lower and lower.

Such an environment is destined to make them unable to solve the dietary problems of hundreds of thousands of people, which will inevitably pose a crisis to society.

As the saying goes, "Food is the first priority for the people." Facing long-term food shortages, it will inevitably lead to social instability.

In order to fundamentally solve this problem, policymakers may have made new choices to open up new territories in the new world, which led to the great migration of the Mayans. As people left the buildings empty, the areas where the Mayans lived led to the decline.

If they want to change this problem, they must either migrate to a place suitable for living in one fell swoop, or accept the method of accepting the king's appointment and learn how to fertilize and build reservoirs and granaries.

In addition, each farm and city-state can only rely on manpower to transport food, which is too inefficient. We can learn from the technology of the Chinese dynasty to build carts to transport food more easily.

In addition, according to the "historical data" records of the Celestial Dynasty, the area where they live will suffer from drought every two hundred years.

This severe drought often strikes the area where the Yu family lives without warning, leaving them unprepared and forced to flee the city, leaving behind pieces of ruins.

In addition to these, there are many problems in their lives, and Wang Ren and the heavenly army who will come in the future are here to solve these problems.

"Can you solve these problems?"

Acha, the leader of the Kokom family, asked Wang Ren. Wang Ren looked at Hong Bao after hearing this, but Hong Bao shook his head: "We cannot solve all the problems. Perhaps only our Crown Prince can solve them."

"Prince?" Ah Cha was confused, he didn't understand what this meant.

"The prince is the son of the emperor, the grandson of God." Wang Ren explained unabashedly, which made Hong Bao feel ashamed.

"Can he solve our problems?"

Ah Cha and some city lords' eyes lit up. Hong Bao was afraid that Wang Ren would brag, so he stepped forward and shook his head: "We can't guarantee it, because even we may not be able to fight against God."

"But isn't your Kuha Aga a child of the gods?" Ah Cha showed a dissatisfied expression, but Hong Bao spread his hands and said:
"God's intention is to cause a severe drought in this area, but the emperor does not want a severe drought to come."

"As for the emperor's inability to deal with God's wishes, this is completely normal. Do your children completely obey your words?"

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

"We will help you." Hong Bao explained: "Since you are the Kuha Aga recommended by all city-states, we will choose 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 fertilizer to increase food production."

"In addition to these, there are many, many more things that we will teach you."

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

After Hong Bao finished speaking, Ah Cha frowned and said, "But they are our enemies."

He naturally knew who Hong Bao was talking about, but Acha didn't want to strengthen these opponents.

"In the eyes of the Emperor, you are all his subjects." Hong Bao spread his hands and waited for Ah Cha's answer.

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

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

Seeing Ah Cha's agreement, Hong Bao also bowed and said:

"Then please summon workers who make things in all city-states and let them come to Mayapan to learn techniques to resist natural disasters."

"In addition, we also need to build city-states on the west and east coasts to seek the emperor's blessing."

After all, he was dealing with a religious city-state, so Hong Bao was naturally very talkative.

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

Use the power of the Yu family to collect raw materials and then make gunpowder.

In this way, as long as the fleet can be deployed along the coast, no force can pose a threat to them.

"Okay!" Ah Cha nodded in agreement and said to the priests and all the city lords at the same time: "We must cooperate with the oracles and learn the techniques of the gods from them."

"Yes!" Everyone was happy. They didn't expect that they could learn the skills of the gods.

"Is this armor also the technology 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 militant and 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 have these things, they never dare to think how powerful they will become.

"Of course!" Hong Bao nodded with a smile, but at the same time added:

"But we didn't bring this technology. We need to wait until the Chinese team arrives before we can teach it to you."

Seeing what he said, the city lords of each city-state laughed. Although Ah Cha was also laughing, he was more wary in his heart.

But in his opinion, it doesn't matter. As long as they can learn the technology, they can expel this group of so-called oracles by then.

As for the armor's technology, he didn't believe that these oracles really didn't bring it with them, but he just didn't want to hand it over to them yet.

But it’s okay, he will find a way to get these technologies...

(End of this chapter)