Chapter 36 Naturalists

It's hard to have people in this world who can't be found by the Ming Dynasty.

The expected large-scale military conflict did not take place as scheduled, and even the South Asian rebels who were gearing up sighed because of this.

After Operation 'A Gift to the Emperor', the Long-Legged Bear followed the Mine Pickaxe as it marched southwest along the ridge like an untold band of small South Asian rebels.

They bypassed the smoky coal fields, passed the ruins of villages and towns, traversed dense mountain forests, saluted the dragon-studded flags fluttering at the head of the city of Cali, chased down the Spanish mixed-race merchants who had no time to escape in the port of Guabi, and even followed the Beiyang Banner Army into the equatorial city of Quito before the end of the New Year.

Ecuador means equator in Spanish, and it is now understood by the Ming army as a province of the Viceroyalty of Peru, but in fact this province does not exist, the Spaniards just call it the equator, it just looks like a province in the eyes of the Ming Banner Army, and what really exists is the nineteen Inca settlements under it.

There are more than 10 indigenous villages in each settlement, with the largest village having 1,700 people and the smallest being 23.

Thanks to the Governor of Peru, Toledo, the data on population changes in the various settlements over the years have been well preserved, and there are only about 77,000 indigenous people in the entire Equateur Province.

At its peak, 600,000 people lived here, and since the second year of Wanli, that is, when Governor Toledo took office, the Viceroyalty of Peru creatively set up a conscription called the Mita system for the indigenous people, allowing them to enter the villages of the settlement to facilitate management, and every year one-seventh of the young people were conscripted to participate in mining, bridge building, and plantation labor, working nine to ten hours a day.

The time is not mistaken, it is nine to ten hours.

The Spaniards did not kill people on a large scale, but fatigue, hunger, and sickness caused laborers to die in patches.

Year after year of death loomed over Peru's indigenous people, and now it was difficult for the Spaniards to get a new servitude.

It was also in Quito that many of the leaders of the South Asian rebels thought they had fulfilled their mission, and the rebels sang and danced outside the city, overthrew the towers in the city, and led their men on the way home to the cheers of the South Asian natives outside the city.

The Beiyang Banner Army stayed in Quito for four more days than planned, and then left 500 Banner Troops before the army continued to sweep southwest with the remaining rebels.

As an important city in the Inca era, the city of Quito was established on the basis of the city, Chen Mu found that there were still many monuments in the ancient city that had not been destroyed by the Spaniards, and the four days he stayed longer than planned was used to count these monuments, considering which ones to take away and which ones to leave here.

Even when he looked at it with the worst of eyes, there was nothing to be done about the Aboriginal monuments – the Spaniards had done everything they could, what they had to do, and what they didn't have to do.

He only needs to pick out a few things, not only the monuments of the Inca era, but also the sculptures, paintings and other works of art left here by the Spaniards, which are all monuments, and the flag army left here is responsible for dismantling and cutting the most exquisite parts of them completely, and transporting them back to Beijing.

Together with the repatriated items, he would send a letter to the emperor proposing to open museums in Beijing, Nanjing, and Youjing, and then the less beautiful of the selected artifacts would be sent to the Youjing Museum.

The Aztecs, the Inca, and the relics left by Spain on this land are all sent to the museum.

In his mind, this move was so important that it seemed that only after it was done could Asia truly complete its farewell ceremony to Spain.

Although he drafted an inscription, he finally decided not to write the inscription himself, but to give it to the deputy Qianhu who stayed in Quito City, waiting for the third-generation Lautaro, the guerrilla general Lin Xiao, to do this.

"You also said yesterday that Lautaro's long-cherished wish will be fulfilled by you, and his courage and spirit will live on forever, and now you are saying that you want the entire Asian Chinese Literature Hall to translate Lautaro as Lin Xiao from now on?"

"It's getting too fast, isn't it?"

Deng Zilong couldn't see through Chen Mu's hypocrisy, and complained on the march, which attracted Chen Mu, who was sitting on a horse, squinting and sneering: "It's not wise for the two main generals to get together on the way to the enemy city, Deng Dashuai, why don't you go to the front?" ”

"I'll go to the front, and I'll come back and tell you how many coal mines in Colombia are still smoking?"

Deng Zilong, who was slightly behind and neck to go, had long been accustomed to Chen Mu's threat, which was not lethal to him, just as Chen Mu's ridicule of him had long been accustomed to: "Although the guerrillas have driven 180 miles forward to scout, it must be worry-free, but it is still too risky for Lin Huer to be in the Chinese army." ”

"I'll press him in the back, and I'll talk about it in case of trouble...... Tell me, what do you think, why do you want to erase Lautaro's exploits? ”

Chen Mu looked at the undulating mountains in the distance and shook his head, and said: "I didn't erase Lautaro's exploits, nor did I erase Lautaro's existence, I just erased a guerrilla general under my command, General Lin Xiao shed blood and contributed to the empire, but in the future, when others mention his name, they will not think of his exploits, at least in this land, people think of the great achievements of the liberators of South Asia." ”

"In my understanding, Lautaro's long-cherished wish is to liberate South Asia and restore peace to South Asia, maybe his wish is that the people of South Asia are like when the Westerners did not come, but that is impossible, it is too long, the old people with memories of the past have long since died, and the South Asian rebels are counted as one, can you see from them how the Incas lived in the past?"

"Their politics is not the Mita system prescribed by the Spaniards; Their military was not to charge with a Spanish horse on a pixel; Their culture is not to go into a mine and chew coca leaves; Their sacrifices are not even in churches. ”

"The imprint of the Western Kingdom on their bodies has been erased at this moment, and the old Inca memories are gone, what can fill their emptiness and make them no longer confused? Our culture is not a colonial culture, Euroi is good at state-to-state diplomacy, we are not good at that, we are good at making international diplomacy domestic politics. ”

"How can the indigenous people of South Asia, or the indigenous people of Asia as a whole, survive? Listen to edification, don't mess around. ”

"At this point, I believe that the result of Lautaro's wish is the same as mine, I help him to achieve his wish, and the explanation of this name is naturally explained by me, and people will always remember his deeds and his spirit, but with a different name."

Speaking of this, Chen Mu turned his horse's head and turned to the low dirt slope next to the road, and turned his horse, watching the Beiyang Army neatly line up on the official road on his side and drive southwest, he said: "He is a great man, but I am not. ”

"When I go to sea, I will bear the fortune of the country, and the slightest negligence will lay the groundwork for the situation in the world a hundred years later, and I can't be a great person." /14_14088/