Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1083 Due Honor

Chapter 1093 Due Honor
"I don't know, I don't understand their bird language anyway!"

"I understand, they seem to be talking about Yin Di'an."

"Yeah, I understand, but do you know what Yin Di'an means?"

"I don't know. Look at their pitiful appearance, they should have encountered a storm, maybe they need help!"

Negotiating with the Aztecs was actually a very painful thing.In fact, this has no head with words, it's just human nature.The problem of customs is formed by thousands of years of habits, and it is very difficult for them to change.The Ming Dynasty died, and the Han people didn't mind who was the emperor on their heads.However, as the barbaric and inhuman "hair shaving order" was opposed by the majority of the Han people, it triggered the anti-Qing struggles in Jiangyin, Jiading, Suzhou, Sichuan and other places in the south of the Yangtze River.More than [-] million people were massacred just because of this.

In particular, the whole of Sichuan was wiped out, and the debt of Sichuan's 2000 million innocent souls was placed on Zhang Xianzhong's head. The more than [-] people who died of starvation were all attributed to Zhang Xianzhong, and the lives of Zhang Xianzhong's hands were not half of what Xiaoxiao slaughtered the Han people.In fact, it is not too difficult for Wang Ding to rely on his own strength to defeat the Aztec Empire, because the Aztecs are too bad at fighting.People with poor equipment and no bloody courage are born to be fat on other people's plates.

However, the Aztecs were actually unwilling to become Chinese, because the Aztecs, who advocated the supremacy of the gods, believed that if they betrayed the gods, they would be punished by the gods and would fall into eternal hell.

Aztec said firmly: "We cannot betray the gods!"

Wang Ding said with a smile: "As a member of Wei, we are responsible for protecting your safety and keeping you away from the threat of war forever."

The high priest of the Feathered Serpent God said: "We believe in the Feathered Serpent God. If we believe in other gods, in the eyes of the gods, we are betrayal and will be punished by the gods. The entire Aztec Empire and everyone will be punished by the gods." roaring fire destroys."

Wang Ding continued: "If you become a member of Wei, you will not be threatened by starvation, you will have endless food, you will have gorgeous clothes, and you will be able to live in a beautiful and strong house, which will protect you from the wind and rain."

Hearing this, the High Priest of the Sun God opened his mouth and said nothing.If we talk about the threat of war, they can barely bear it, because there is only one aggressive Tikal Empire around the Aztec Empire, and some other tribes and city-states are not a concern at all.What's more, as neighbors, these Aztecs are very aware of the true strength of the Tikal Empire. Although the Tikal Empire is expanding, their fighters are only more than 5000, and they need to defend such a large place. No more than [-] troops.However, it was difficult for the Tikal, who had the protection of the city wall and lacked siege equipment, to conquer the Aztec city-state.This time was just an exception. It was only because of the betrayal of Yaxing Aim that the Tikal army was able to drive straight into the city.

There are too many accidental factors in this kind of thing, and the Aztecs are not fools. They will definitely guard against the surprise attack of the Tikal people in the future. That is to say, the Tikal people have only one chance to make a surprise attack. Because it is not easy to gather so many accidental factors.

But hearing that there was enough food, these priests had to be cautious.The Aztecs owned corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, which are native to the Americas.However, due to backward planting technology and lack of preservation technology, potatoes and sweet potatoes have a shelf life of only three months.Although corn can be preserved for a long time, the yield is too low.Everyone, don't think that corn is a panacea. With corn, the food threat can be eliminated.In fact, this is a very absurd view. The high yield of maize in later generations is due to generations of human breeding and scientific planting, which has a higher yield.If anyone doesn't believe it, you can do a preliminary test. After the same seed is planted continuously for seven or eight years, the seed gene will degenerate, and the yield will drop to about [-] to [-] catties per mu.As for sweet potatoes and potatoes, in fact, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, these seeds had been slowly planted in the Ming Dynasty because of the Spaniards, but they were not really popularized because of limited production at that time.However, the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the Ming Dynasty people, because the seeds had been cultivated for a hundred years, and the seeds were almost cultivated.

Although the potatoes and sweet potatoes of the Aztec empire were one of their food sources, they did not learn how to plant them. They could grow corn, but the farming methods were still in the era of slash-and-burn farming.Despite the abundance of natural gifts from the American continent, the threat of starvation is still a sharp knife hanging over their heads.

The high priest of the sun god softened his tone: "We cannot betray the gods!"

Wang Ding said: "Your gods will not blame you, because your gods are actually one with our gods. You migrated from China, and the gods are also far away from their homeland. Even the gods want to go home. Do you just Don’t you want to go back to your homeland and visit our common hometown?”

Wang Ding believed that the Great Wei at this time had an inexplicable attraction to the Aztecs who were in slavery.The more primitive the group civilization is, the more attractive it is.As long as these people are willing to follow Wang Ding back to Wei State, they will definitely be integrated by Wei State's Chinese civilization.

Things in the world are nothing more than a word of profit.The Aztec Empire was merged into the Great Wei, and it was obvious that they would lose their autonomy. The reason why they would rather be the head of a chicken than the queen made Tlaloc and others very reluctant.However, the price of antagonizing Wei Guo is also very high.According to Wang Ding, the state of Wei was as big as the [-] Aztec Empire, and its population was [-] times larger than theirs.Now they can come over three ships with hundreds of people, and they will definitely come over hundreds of ships in the future, which is not impossible.Once the Wei people come in large numbers, they will definitely not be so polite.

Moreover, the benefits of merging into Wei State are obvious.Wei Guo is strong and can protect them from being bullied.The state of Wei is rich enough to allow them to live a good life.The state of Wei is advanced, and can make exquisite vessels and armor, as well as exquisite clothes and delicious food.

Tlaloc is also thinking about it repeatedly. In the abdication system before the hereditary system, every leader, without exception, was a highly respected generation.As a person of high moral character, they are usually not too selfish.Even if it harms the interests of a few of them, it can benefit all the people in the entire empire.Ripe light cooked heavy, in fact, very good choice.

Under the deterrence of Wei Guo's carrot and stick, Tlaloc chose to compromise.In the end, it was the appearance of the Yinfubu people who overwhelmed him. The Yinfubu people repeatedly asked whether Wang Ding and others came from the kingdom of heaven.Wang Ding told him, "They come from the great kingdom of Wei!" The people from Yin Fubu told Wang Ding that they were from Yin.Tlaloc became anxious when he heard this. The reason why the Wei people came so far was to find their people and lead them to live a good life.He has also heard of the Yinfubu tribe, which is a very small tribe.The whole clan, old and weak, is less than a thousand people.If the Wei people gave all the benefits to the Yinfubu people, they would have nothing to do with the Aztecs.

Tlaloc said: "We are also descended from the Yin people!"

Hearing Tlaloc's confession, Wang Ding burst into laughter.Next, Wang Ding carried out household registration work in the Aztec Empire and the Yinfubu people.At this time, the Aztec Empire actually adopted a very extensive management method. They established cities and only cared about everything in the city, and they hardly cared about the outside of the city-state.The Aztec Empire and the Texcoco and Tlacopan tribes gradually formed a unified culture and values, which can also be regarded as part of the Aztec Empire.The nominal territory of the Aztec Empire is not too small, with almost the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific coast on the east and west sides.

The issue of territory is actually easy to solve. What Wang Ding means is that as long as the Aztecs, Texcocos, and Tlacopans have visited, they are all their territories.I don't have the ability to take it back now, so I'll talk about it later.Anyway, the most important thing Wei Guo lacks is fierce warriors.As for the population, the Aztec Empire has 59 large and small city-states with a population of more than two million.After investigation, Wang Ding found sadly that the Aztecs didn't care about blood at all, especially the phenomenon of intermarriage with Texcocos and Tlacopans was very common.

To put it in a bad way, the Aztecs are a mixed race, and almost [-]% of the people have two or more bloodlines.He himself was an Aztec, his grandfather was a Coracopan, and his great-grandfather was a Tecoco.Many people can't even tell what bloodline they are.

It was only then that Wang Ding discovered that the Aztecs were actually just like the late Qin and early Han. People from Qin, Yan, or Chu could all be collectively called Han people.In order to save trouble, when Wang Ding reorganized his household registration, he uniformly defined them as descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties of the Feiying tribe.

The Yinfubu people were changed to Wutu people.With Wang Ding's activities in the Aztec Empire and the Yucatan Peninsula, the unusually generous Wang Ding took Wei Guo on an expedition and preached everywhere that "the Aztecs and Yinfubu people are the survivors of the Great Wei and the Shang Dynasty, and they are the people of the Great Wei Dynasty." People of the same ancestry, any attempt to attack the Yinfubu or Aztecs will be regarded as the enemy of the Great Wei Empire."

However, there are really people who are not open-eyed. The Chichimeks, who have a good relationship with the Tikal Empire, the southern overlord of the Aztec Empire, are not confident. The territory of the Racopans, and the battle with their Koracopans.

After Wang Ding heard the news, he didn't say anything else. More than 150 Aztec and Yinfubu warriors, led by [-] people from the Wei State Expedition Guard, marched more than [-] miles in a hurry, and entered the Qiqi Mountain. Mac's territory.This tribe with more than [-] people was directly wiped out.According to the tradition of the Aztecs, all prisoners of war were used to worship the gods, and women and children became spoils of war and were quickly divided up.

After the Chichimek incident, the tribes around the Aztecs were shocked.The forest of nations in the world has always been selected by nature, and the strong are respected.With the help of the Wei State expedition team, the Aztec Empire formed an alliance with the Yinfubu tribe.There is a posture of beating whoever dares to refuse to accept.Even the people of Tikal, who suffered a modest loss, pretended to be deaf and dumb.This makes these small tribes also claim that they are also descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and have the same origin as the Wei people.

This kind of superficial ethnicity has a characteristic, that is, no matter what kind of ethnicity the ruling class claims, its people will also be named by the name of a certain ethnicity, and after one or two generations, they will form self-identity, but this self-identity is different. It is very fragile. If there is another more powerful conqueror, after decades of rule, people of the same blood will become another nation.Wang Ding ignored these problems, and these ethnic groups who were willing to belong to them were collectively referred to as the Huaxia Yin Shang adherents.

In June 39, Huangdi Era, Wang Ding carried a large amount of American crop seeds, loaded 180 three representatives of [-] tribes including Aztec, Yinfubu, and Coracopan, and returned with a full load.

It is a slow process for any new thing to be accepted by people.In particular, the steam locomotive in Wei State was once considered a monster in Wei State.However, gradually this steam engine train with the title of "monster" began to be accepted and recognized by people.

The first railway in Wei State was opened to traffic from Buqi to Yecheng, and the total length of this railway is 680 kilometers.Even the six-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with the largest load capacity in Wei State can transport [-] catties or [-] tons when fully loaded.However, it would take six and a half days for such a carriage to reach Yecheng.It is also a six-wheeled passenger carriage, which can carry sixteen people and arrive in Yecheng in three days.

But the train is very different. The steam engine train with the highest output power in Wei State can pull 25 super-standard carriages, and each carriage can carry forty tons.That's a full thousand tons.One thousand tons is equivalent to the transportation volume of more than 600 six-wheeled carriages, the largest in Wei State.As for the speed, it is even faster. In addition to adding water and burning coal along the way, the freight train needs to carry out necessary maintenance, and it can reach Yecheng in up to ten hours.

The advantage of the train shocked all Wei people who knew about the train, and now both officials and merchants favored the train.A locomotive can pull a thousand tons of goods. If it is used to transport grain, one train can transport 20 shi of grain at a time. Even if Yecheng has a population of one million, it is enough for the people of Yecheng to eat for 20 days.The use of train transportation can also reduce the consumption along the way. It must be known that if more than 600 heavy-duty horse-drawn carriages are used, nearly 3000 coachmen, more than 2 horses, and more than [-] spare horses are needed.In fact, after one transportation, the food and grass consumed by the horse alone is a small amount.

But trains don’t have to worry about this problem. A train only needs more than 160 people, of which 120 are huge equipment maintenance workers. If Wei’s train equipment technology matures, this huge number of maintenance and technical workers can be greatly reduced.The transportation cost is less than [-]% of that carried by horse-drawn carriages, but the transportation efficiency can be increased hundreds of times.

Since the opening of the train in Yecheng, whether it is rice from Jiangnan or Indochina Peninsula, or spices from Nanyang, they have all been transshipped through Buqigang. Now Buqigang is more than [-] miles away from the railway station. There are very high voices calling for the railway to be repaired directly to the port.

Originally, the ruling and opposition parties of Wei State had taken an indifferent attitude towards Ran Ming's vigorous construction of the railway.Now Ran Ming, the emperor's prestige in the court and the public is too high, and those who oppose Ran Ming, without exception, are labeled as traitors.So whether these ministers of the Wei state or the gentry and common people, they neither opposed nor supported it.

But seeing the benefits of trains and railways, Wei Guo suddenly became more enthusiastic about building railways.When Ran Ming was building the expressway, he adopted the model of public-private partnership to enter into road construction, which is considered to be familiar with the road.We must know that railways are much more invested than highways. The first railway in Wei State is only 680 three kilometers, and more than [-] million yuan was invested in it.

If it is converted into nearly 20 gold per kilometer, and converted into copper coins, it is 120 million yuan, [-] guan, and the weight of copper coins alone is more than [-] million catties.This is the real golden road worthy of the name. Although the Wei court has money, it has no way to fill the big gold-consuming hole of the railway.

It is expected that the Sanjing Railway, which will be fully opened to traffic in the year 3000 of the Yellow Emperor's Era, will connect Yecheng, Luoyang, and Chang'an, the capital of the Wei State, and the two accompanying capitals. The total length of this railway is [-] Yu Li, this longitudinal railway is the most important part of Wei's railway artery strategy plan.However, the total investment has exceeded [-] million gold, and almost half of Wei's colonial income has been invested in the construction of the railway.

Of course, the strategic artery of Wei State is not only a three-Beijing railway, but also from Yecheng to the northeast through Jizhou Plain County, Youzhou Beiping County and then eastward through Liaoxi, Liaodong, Changli, and Longcheng to Lelang County. Pyongyang.Starting from Yecheng, go west via Shangdang, then turn north, pass through Leping and Taiyuan County, and continue northward through Shengle into the desert.Of course, there is also the western main artery starting from Chang'an, passing through the five counties of Hexi along the Silk Road, entering Beiting, continuing westward, passing through Shule, passing through Geluoling, passing through Julan, Taluosi and going directly to Suiye City.The follow-up plan is also to connect Chang'an and enter Sichuan via Hanzhong.

(End of this chapter)