South Asia Melica, Peru, Lima.

Forty-five years ago, when the Spanish pirate Francisco Pizarro invaded with a fleet, he sent a message to the Inca king Atahualpa: "Please convey to your monarch and welcome him." When and how to come, do as he wishes. Whatever way he comes, I will treat him as a friend and brother. I begged him to come quickly, for I longed to meet him. He will not be hurt or insulted in any way. ”

What happened next?

During the meeting, Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca king in a surprise attack and demanded a ransom for a room of gold and two rooms of silver.

The real problem was that the Incas actually handed over a room of gold and two rooms of silver.

After extorting a large amount of treasure, Francesco Pizarro treacherously hanged him, and in the months leading up to the death of the Inca king, the Spaniards called in reinforcements from Panama, and the real war began after the death of King Atahualpa, but by then the Incas were powerless and the vast empire was destroyed.

Today, the Spaniards have established a viceroyalty in Lima, which governs all the surrounding lands, and although they still retain the title of Sapa Inca, Sapa has been a puppet of the Spaniards for generations.

In the port of Lima, three large ships that are different from Western-style ships are slowly setting sail, on the black and red hulls, there are a fish-eye mark on the left and right sides, and the three Ming ships are not large compared to the Spanish warships docked in the port, and even the armed merchant ships are larger than them, with double masts and hard sails, slowly rising to a relatively low position, and slowly setting sail in the northwest direction.

About three lucky ships, prepared by Tang Juan for the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, an escort fleet composed of two large Galen and four small Galen, this fleet has an unrivaled deterrent power at sea.

The Jesuit missionary José de Acosta, in the shape of a priest's robe, took a deep look at the fleet that was fading away from the exotic style, buckled up his hood and slowly left with his attendants from the crowd gathered in the harbor.

"Get back to work, you filthy Mita! The is over! ”

It was not uncommon for a group of Indians, both men and women, stripped of their robes and tied to their ankles, led by a Spanish soldier with four Inca mestizos in chained armor, because there were not many Incas gathered in the port, but more Spanish and Portuguese, and even Italians and French.

In this city, which symbolizes the source of European wealth, there are no English.

The conflict between Queen Elizabeth of England and King Philip had intensified, and the English would only hide at sea and plan attacks on their fleet again and again, just as the stillborn plan of the Viceroyalty of Peru had planned to attack the Ming fleet.

"It's been a tough time, isn't it?"

Father Acosta looked at the soldiers escorting the Inca slaves with disgust, and whispered to the monk beside him.

Half an hour earlier, a small number of Incas were dressed in luxurious cloth and joined the procession of the Ming envoys, because at the banquet in Lima, the ostentatious Ming people were rude to say that they were tired of seeing the faces of the Xiyi, so they not only prepared two chiefs who did not need to practice the Mita system to accompany the wine, but also selected a group of people from among the slaves to wash and put on their clothes, just to get these rude Ming people away.

The Mita system was a system of forced labor tailored by the Spaniards to the Indians who accepted the rule, and all adult men in each village, except for the children of the chiefs and the sick and disabled, must be executed for four months of compulsory labor at a rate of one out of seven each year, and perform the labor assigned by the colonists.

The vast majority of them were sent to mines, where plantations, paving roads, building houses, and moving goods were also necessary.

In this era, from the suffering experienced by this land, the blood that flowed was silver, the mutilated flesh and bones were gold, and a great wealth was added to the world's circulating trade, and all the countries of the world were affected by this wealth, not to mention the Spaniards.

The wise friars had realized that their ideology was being challenged, and at the time of the emergence and peak of the Salamanca school, which had an ethical stance on the conquest of the Indians, the Jesuits had replaced the Dominicans as the First Catholic Order, and the political crisis erupted at the same time as the religious crisis.

The conscience of the Spaniards tortured themselves: Is the war just? Should the Indians be compensated?

Especially at the beginning of this year, when all the bases they had established along the coast of Mexico were swept away by the Indians of North America, the clergy could not help but ask themselves: Has evangelization failed?

There were also the warlike factions in Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru who were fighting against the unjust treaties with the Ming in various strata, trying to counteract their frustration and crisis by agitating for a complete war of conquest against the Ming Kingdom.

The consequences of the Battle of Guam were too tragic for the Spaniards, the large number of troops assembled in the small area of the operation, the intensive and intense fighting, the language barrier and the great contradictions made the war a war of annihilation, although less than 6,000 Spaniards participated in the battle, and almost every colonist family in the Viceroyalty of Peru lost one or more relatives.

More than 2,000 orphans who have lost their fathers wander around the cities with nothing to do, making every inch of land seem so shocking.

Perhaps the aristocracy living in Madrid did not need to see this, and they were able to sign a peace treaty with the Ming state, but in the Viceroyalty of Peru, where the war was carried out, the aggressive Spanish conquistadors were not so easy to forget the humiliation of the war.

People are caught in the extremes of great frustration, and there are two distinct factions among the people of the same country.

On the one hand, from the king down to the people, the whole country was preparing for a new war, and in the letters sent back from the kingdom across the sea, the Lord's forest was cut down and used to make the vast fleet of the East for the king's expedition.

On the other hand, the Salamanca School, centered on ethics, morality, natural law, and human rights, ushered in a new spring, and since the Battle of Guam, more and more monks have embraced their doctrine that all human beings have a common essence and that they all have common rights, such as the right to freedom.

It is even asserted that the 'people' themselves are the medium of divine sovereignty, and that it is only in various circumstances that power flows into the hands of the king, and that it is unjust to be a king, and that the 'people' can disobey or even overthrow him.

The West does not have Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and naturally it does not have the soul of democracy rooted in the blood of East Asia to fight tyranny.

But at this moment, a different kind of democracy is growing like weeds on this land, and one day it will become a raging fire that will consume everything.

Father Acosta, who was a member of this school, whispered to his companions: "Let's go, the general assembly of the monks is about to begin." ”