Invincible urban management

One hundred and two, Pandora's box

ps: To celebrate the soaring collection, we will add a new chapter today to reveal the truth of auspiciousness!

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All good things come to an end.

There is no united front that never disintegrates.

Almost at the same time that the Fort Veracruz built by the Cortez expedition was boarded on a soil plane and was completely destroyed by an explosion and a sea of ​​fire, the mighty 3-strong Indian coalition forces besieging this place also ended. its historical mission,

The Aztecs and the Tlaxcalans, who have been enemies for generations, quickly withdrew from the battlefield while guarding each other closely. Emperor Montezuma II returned to his mission; the Tlaxcala army, under the command of the famous general Xikao Tecato, returned to his hometown to suppress the Lord Peace nobles and seize the power of the tribal alliance; Naturally, the Totonac people, who are indigenous to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, hurriedly returned home as if they had been pardoned.

Next, it was the turn of the "Emissary of Ming Dynasty" to bid farewell to Navaez, the commander of the Spanish crusade.

"...Although I really hope that I can rush to Tenochtitlan as soon as possible to arrest the traitor leader Cortez, but my soldiers still need to rest for a period of time before they can fully recover, and many of the supplies and ordnance are not available. They were all crushed in the bilge of the battleship, and they couldn't be unloaded to the shore in time."

Navaez rubbed his hands in embarrassment, lowered his head and said with apologetic expression, "...In addition, I also plan to take advantage of this time to build some temporary buildings in the Port of Veracruz, at least to allow the fleet to At the same time, we are planning to send several ships back to Cuba to report to the Governor... So, can you please wait patiently for more than ten days before setting off with me?"

Behind him, the mutilated corpses on the battlefield have been cleared and buried. The Spaniards from Cuba and the Indians temporarily hired from nearby are cutting wood around the port and repairing the trestle that was damaged in the war.And began to measure the foundation, it seems to be preparing to build a new stronghold.Other Spanish soldiers who were not assigned tasks and had nothing to do were wandering around the ruins of the old fortress, trying to unearth some slightly valuable gadgets from the scorched earth to make a little extra money-whether it was the wreckage of distorted rockets, charred Molten swords and guns, or scattered fragments of metal utensils, gave them a whoop of joy.

There is no way, the world's metal output is pitifully low in this era. Gold and silver are precious, but the price of copper and iron is also not cheap, no matter whether it is the East or the West.The price of a short sword is enough for a European mercenary to work for several months without eating or drinking, and the price of a set of full body armor can even exceed a small manor.

Even in the East, there are many dignitaries who store pig iron bars in their cellars instead of gold nuggets.For example, Yi Sun-shin, the most famous naval general in the ancient East, the commander-in-chief of the Korean Navy, should also be regarded as a high-ranking and powerful person.However, once a colleague borrowed sixteen catties of pig iron from him for nailing nails and repairing a ship, but he didn't return it in time, so he was so angry that he sent people over to pursue it again and again, and wrote many complaints in his diary.

Glancing around these Spaniards who were busy with construction and picking up junk, Director Ma nodded with a smile, expressing that he didn't mind at all: "...it's okay, it just so happens that our army is going to hang around for a while, so let's go Propagate the tribes in the north, let them know how to respect the majesty of our kingdom. But... since your Excellency plans to send part of the fleet back to Cuba, can you help us with something?"

"...Uh...please just give orders." Narvaez immediately responded readily.

Immediately afterwards, Director Ma turned around and ordered Wang Qiu and Wen Desi, who were trembling slightly for some reason, to work together to lift up a large wooden box tightly wrapped in layers of oilcloth, and then stuffed it with cotton and From the straw box, I took out a brass box inlaid with countless colored artificial gemstones, which looked extremely dazzling, and solemnly handed it to Narvaez.

"...Your Excellency Narvaez, here is a letter written by the emperor of our country. I hope you can pass it on to the king of your country. In order to prevent chao and fading, I specially sealed it with wax and wax, please. Your Excellency, please don't open it on the way!"

Regarding this, Narvaez only thought for a while before agreeing.Director Ma was also very happy when he saw this, and asked someone to take out a bunch of tightly wrapped oak barrels, as well as a beautifully framed gift list, saying that these were gifts from the Chinese emperor to the King of Spain and the Governor of Cuba. , mainly all kinds of fine spices, silk, tea, porcelain, and some easy-to-preserve candied fruit, cakes, dried meat and other foods.Of course, there is also a share belonging to Navaez... which made the Spanish nobleman so happy from ear to ear.

However, what Narvaez didn't notice was that the two Chinese people standing behind Director Ma both gave him sympathetic eyes as if they were looking at the dead.

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Seeing the two mighty Spanish galleons sailing away carrying "letters and gifts from the Emperor of China", Wang Qiu and Wen Desi couldn't help but wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, glanced at each other, and then joined hands. sighed.

This pile of "Pandora's Boxes" that can almost break people's nerves has finally been sent out.

And this Director Ma's integrity in the eyes of everyone seems to have been completely lost.

——These so-called "gifts from the Chinese emperor" are actually all harmful things with added ingredients.For example, silk and porcelain were coated with a variety of pathogenic sources of influenza, tea and candied fruit were mixed with highly contagious Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and the cotton used to wrap porcelain was infected by typhoid, cholera, and plague The bacteria culture solution of a severe infectious disease has been soaked repeatedly-this kind of thing can be obtained in any infectious disease hospital!

As for the heavily sealed brass box, the virus weapon hidden inside is even more serious--Director Ma didn't tell them clearly, but according to Wang Qiu's private guess, it may be anthrax virus, or it may be Even more terrifying ** or Ebola...

In short, these seemingly gorgeous gifts will spread countless highly drug-resistant infectious bacteria that do not exist in this era, and bring endless disasters to the human beings who get them—just like the legendary Pandora's box!

Only the gift given to Navaez, in order to prevent him from opening and using it on the coast of Mexico, thereby spreading the virus and harming Indians with weaker resistance, was not secretly stolen by the black-hearted Director Ma. feed.

It is conceivable that once these terrible things arrive in Cuba and Spain, they will inevitably cause an extremely terrible plague, and its lethality may not be less than that of the Black Death in previous years!If the outbreak is violent, it is not impossible to turn the island of Cuba into an island of death, and the Kingdom of Spain, which has taken a large number of lives from the plague, may not dare to squeeze out a large number of precious people to explore the sea for the time being when the labor force is scarce. up.

However, although this terrifying bacterial tactic is very effective, it also broke through the moral lower limit of many people.Therefore, Director Ma secretly kept this matter from Head Cai Rong and Political Commissar Yang Wenli, while Wang Qiu and Wen Desi, who were in charge of the actual operation, were quite hesitant after hearing about this matter.

After all, they still have to save some modesty.

However, Director Ma's eloquent words smashed all their integrity.

"... Morality? Conscience? Human rights? Saving money? What's the use of keeping such things? Please, this is not a safe apartment community, but a cold-blooded butcher known as a church saint, and a despicable pirate can become a country The cruel age of heroes! Especially in this new continent without laws and morals, law-abiding idiots will die here without even knowing how to die! If you don’t kill people, they will kill you!”

Director Ma, who has traveled through many miserable worlds, immediately scoffed at the naive doubts of the juniors:

"...Take the history of the establishment of the United States by the British colonists as an example! Do you know what the early North American colonists on the 'Mayflower' did after they were rescued by the Indians? They first thanked God for giving them Sending such a bunch of careless people, even set up a special Thanksgiving Day for this, and then killed all the Chinese Indians who saved them, as a sacrifice to the merciful God!

Don't think that this Narvaez seems to be more friendly, so you mistakenly think that he is a good person!Do you still remember the day when we negotiated the terms and held a banquet to celebrate?I sat next to this guy for a while at the time, and all I heard was him thanking God drunkenly, but not him thanking us!Heh heh, if it weren't for our strong troops, he wouldn't be able to gnaw at all with his troops, and fighting with us would mean cutting off the trade routes for spices and silk... Do you think this guy would be polite to us? business, instead of arresting us with whips and branding irons, and extorting all the spices and silks without paying a penny?The Spaniards who colonized America were much more brutal than the British!

Comrade Wen Desi, President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States once said a famous saying that only dead Indians are good Indians!For your little kingdom, only dead Europeans are good Europeans!So we must act first!These days, it's not about being kind and civilized, but being cruel and anti-human!Only the most evil and immoral scum can win the final victory! "

Regarding Director Ma's defense statement, Wang Qiu and others were surprised by its blatantness, but also had to admit its correctness and rationality.

——Indeed, the Spaniards of this era, almost since Columbus discovered the New World, have been adopting the most cruel method of colonization by force, enslaving and slaughtering Americans in every corner of the New World, and never even looking for any reason.

Batch after batch of Spanish adventurers flocked into this new world frantically, committing countless unspeakable atrocities with peace of mind, and their methods were cruel and despicable, even more terrifying than the Japanese invaders in the future: cutting pregnant women with swords Pick out the baby from the belly, chop it up, and feed it to the hunting dogs; compete with whoever kills with enough skills, such as beheading the head quickly, chopping the body evenly; lifting the child's feet upside down and hitting the rock, tying the child to the stone and throwing it Go into the sea and ask them to dive... All kinds of cruel games that humans can imagine have become reality in the hands of these butchers without the slightest morality.

And their most common killing method is to hang the Indians alive on the rack or the mast of the sailboat, or tie the Indians to the stakes and set fire to them - anyway, in the end, the Catholic priests will supersede them to go to heaven , Butchers don't have to have half a psychological burden.

When Columbus first arrived in the Caribbean Islands, the total population of the various islands there was about several million, and Hispaniola alone (later Haiti Island) had 100 million people.By 1518, the population of Hispaniola had dropped sharply to around 1000—note that this was before the Spaniards brought disease to the Caribbean!Therefore, these Indians basically did not die from the plague, but were directly slaughtered!If there really is a God, with such a rapid speed of massacre, I am afraid that even the heavens will be filled to the brim.

Therefore, in order to ensure that Spanish adventurers are temporarily unable to invade on a large scale, the most direct way is to appropriately reduce the population of this country...

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However, even though they were not afraid to use the most despicable ideas to speculate on the actions of the Spaniards, the traversers still overestimated Navaez's integrity.

In fact, when the two galleons that returned to Cuba to report to the governor gradually disappeared into the sky on the horizon, Narvaez, who re-entered the commander's tent, immediately called his personal servant: " How is it? Have you packed all the things?"

"...It's all packed, my lord! I hid them in the most secret place on your ship!"

The servant quickly replied, and at the same time asked with some worry, "...but, my lord, you just cut off more than half of the gifts that the Chinese gave to the governor and the king so casually, in case there is any Whoever carefully compares the gift list, isn't it going to be exposed soon?!"

"...Uh, gift list? Are you talking about this? Hehe, thank you for reminding me, but I've already thought of it."

Narvaez nonchalantly took out a beautifully framed document from his bosom, shook it close to the nose of his personal servant, and then put it on the flame of the candle, watching the beautifully framed paper roll being gradually burned to ashes , and then clapped his hands as if nothing had happened, "...Okay, there is no problem now! Whether it is the governor or His Majesty the king, it is obviously impossible to go to such a remote place to reconcile with the Chinese! And these Chinese emperors All the precious gifts sent are my property! Alas, just thinking about it makes me happy!"

"... Your honor, my lord!"

In short, on the second day, the traversers who did not know that a certain time bomb had not been sent here left the Port of Veracruz with a mighty group of people, intending to go to a nearby place to investigate a very important place in the historical records of later generations. A high-quality silver mine that is easy to mine, let's see if it can be occupied.

Navaez stayed here with his subordinates and continued to step up the construction of the port camp.The two sides agreed to meet again in fifteen days, and then marched together to Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, to arrest Cortez and bring the turmoil to an end.

It is a pity that certain things in this world will always undergo some shocking changes when it seems that everything is under control... Well, maybe there is only such a derailment and collapse , is the wonderful life that will accelerate the secretion of adrenaline!