Chapter 633: El Dorado
In late August of the Jiazi year of the Ming Dynasty, Mingzhou, Mexika Valley, Shenzhou City.
The valley where the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon are located is now known as the City of God. As the name suggests, it is a city that belongs to God. This god is too one!
According to the joint research of the one-armed Taoist Yang Aguo and the champion Kumon Tianxiang, these two pyramids and the surrounding temples were not built by the natives of the Mexica Valley. Such a magnificent stone building, even the people of China may not be able to build it, let alone the natives of the Mexica Valley? They didn't even have bronze vessels, they didn't even have wheels, they were all uncivilized natives. How is it possible to build a pyramid as huge as this?
Therefore, these two pyramids must belong to the Chinese civilization!
Wen Tianxiang believes that the construction of these two pyramids should be left over from the ancient civilization established after Xu Fu led 500 boys and girls across the sea to Mingzhou. Yang Aguo believes that one of these two pyramids represents the sun and the other represents the moon, which is in line with the symbol of the Taiyi God - the emblem of the sun and the moon, so it must have been built by the Taiyi God with divine power......
Although the statements of the two people are almost the same nonsense, Meng Qi thinks that he should use these two pyramids to install gods, so he named the castle built on the pyramids Shenzhou City. He also asked Wen Tianxiang and Yang A to go over and tell the natives of the Mexica Valley. These two pyramids were built by the ancestors of the Chinese gods in accordance with the oracle of the Taiyi God!
And Meng Qi and the others returned to this place by the will of the One God and became the rulers of this place! So the natives of the Mexica Valley had to be obedient and give up corn, turkeys, and "the stool of God."
Oh. "God's stool" is gold! The Nahua word for gold means "god's stool." The city-states of the Mexica Valley used this most readily available (gold was probably the first metal to be exploited by humans) metal for sacrificial vessels rather than currency (cocoa beans were the hard currency of the Mexica Valley and the Mayan city-states). Therefore, they were all concentrated in the hands of the upper echelons of the city-states. Because there are many years of accumulation, probably from the time of the Olmec civilization more than 2,000 years ago, there are also some of them.
Just Jia Rudao, a traitor of the Song Dynasty, was planning to use the method of squeezing Tiandaozhuang to prevent Chen Dexing from raising war funds. In order to prolong the time of the Great Song Dynasty. The loyal and good Wen Tianxiang of the Great Song Dynasty was searching for "God's stool" for Chen Dexing everywhere.
Under the mild autumn sun, a team of people and vehicles is slowly moving forward.
The wheel, a high-tech thing, has been brought to Mingzhou by the "Huaxia Protoss", but the livestock pulling the cart doesn't know where it is? The bison are still free to roam the prairies, and no one has tamed them. The Grass Mud Horse was bred by the people of Southern Mingzhou, but there was no such animal in the Mexika Valley. The only two animals domesticated by the people of Mexica were dogs and turkeys.
So now only the able-bodied Indian Eight Banners could pull the cart - the number of the Eight Banners had increased to 20,000. In addition, 10,000 female slaves from the city-states of Mexika were assigned to the "Old Eight Banners" who went south from Jinshan City and became their wives. Of course. The women were likewise trained in military affairs and were armed with obsidian spears with bows and arrows. When their husbands went on the march, they were the warriors of the One God.
Wen Tianxiang's protégé Shrimp Xuedao now has a fixed wife, but at this time he did not work hard with his new daughter-in-law to make the Little Eight Banners, but accompanied Wen Tianxiang to search for gold and silver.
"Sir, this time the harvest is quite fruitful, King Ming will definitely be happy, right?" Shrimp Xuedao looked at the long convoy around him, and on each cart was stacked with gold and silver vessels or statues of gods of low purity, all of which had been donated by the city-states in the Mexica Valley—dedicated to Chen Dexing, the king of Ming, the representative of the Taiyi God on earth.
Wen Tianxiang, who was sitting on a slider carried by four people, nodded slightly. Said disdainfully: "He will be happy, he sent people across the sea, isn't it just for these yellow and white things?" ”
The yellow and white thing was not in Wen Zhuangyuan's eyes, but it stumbled his actions. After helping to "civilize" twenty thousand slaves in the Mexica Valley. He went to the city-states of the Mexica Valley under the protection of 8,000 Indian soldiers. Go and ask for gold and silver.
At this time, there were many city-states in the Mexica Valley, but they were not large. The population is also not large, the average city-state is tens of thousands. The forty or so city-states add up to two or three million, which is really not a small number. But each city-state alone had no strength against the 8,000 Indian Bannermen. In addition to obediently handing over gold and silver. There is no way around it. Therefore, Wen Zhuangyuan's journey is indeed very smooth, and the gold and silver extorted are enough to reach the gold and silver mountains.
But making a fortune is not Wen Tianxiang's ideal. One of his thoughts was to spread the way of Confucius and Mencius to the barbarian land of Mingzhou. That's why the seventy-two sages of the Indians were taught. But now that the seventy-two sages have only learned a little, they have no interest in continuing to study the Confucian classics. They either became the officers of the Eight Banners of India, or they followed Yang Aguo and began to learn to be gods.
As for the new disciples, although some were accepted. But now he is busy being an envoy to Meng, and he doesn't have much time to impart knowledge. This Confucian Taoism is still a bit difficult to spread in Mingzhou.
In addition to spreading Confucianism, another thing Wen Tianxiang wanted to do was to complete a trip around the world. Go to Maya first, then see the Atlantic Ocean with your own eyes, and then find your way to Flynn and Tianzhu...... If you have the opportunity, you can also spread the sage's Taoism to the lands of Flynn and Tianzhu.
However, judging by the meaning of Mengqi, he wanted to conquer the surroundings of Mexika first, and then send troops to Maya.
Wen Tianxiang sighed and looked up at the tall pyramid in the distance. Shenzhou City is almost here, I hope I can stay in Shenzhou City for more time this time, if I can teach a few disciples who are familiar with Confucianism, I can go west to Flynn with peace of mind.
In addition, you can't go to Flynn alone, if possible, it's best to bring some Indian scholars and a few hundred Indian Eight Banner soldiers.
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"Mr. Wenshan! You're back! ”
Wen Tianxiang sat on the slide bar when he arrived at the gate of Shenzhou City, and saw Meng Qi and a few Han people dressed in Taoist costumes striding up to greet him. Seeing these Han people dressed in Taoist costumes, Wen Tianxiang was slightly stunned, because these people did not arrive at the Mingzhou Continent with him.
"Good news, Mr. Wenshan...... His Royal Highness King Ming has recovered the Central Plains! ”
Before Wen Tianxiang could react, Meng Qi threw out the second bombshell news. "In December last year, Kublai Khan was defeated in the Battle of Julu and withdrew from the Central Plains and fled to the Western Regions! Today's Central Plains is already a big tomorrow! ”
Daming has won the Central Plains! When Wen Tianxiang heard the news, he was bittersweet, happy that the Central Plains was restored, Hu Lu went west, and the Han family was preserved. The worry is ...... The Ming Dynasty has won the Central Plains, and those who have won the Central Plains since ancient times have won the world! After all, the Ming Dynasty is a Han Chinese, and the Ming Dynasty has won the Central Plains, is it still necessary for the Great Song Dynasty to survive?
"Liu Daoren, this is Wen Wenshan, the champion of the Song Kingdom! He was determined to promote Confucianism in Mingzhou, and set up academies in Jinshan City and Shenzhou City. He taught Indian scholars to read the scriptures of Confucius and Mencius, and now he has more than 100 disciples. ”
Meng was touted for a while at first, and introduced Wen Tianxiang to a leading Taoist. Then he pointed to the Taoist and said to Wen Tianxiang: "Mr. Wenshan, this Taoist is surnamed Liu, the upper and lower middle, and the words are duanfu." They arrived at Jinshan in June, and they encountered a typhoon on the way, which broke a ship and lost dozens of people. But it's finally here...... Admiral Zhou sent three expedition ships to the eastern coast. They walked for a few more days, and only arrived in China yesterday. ”
Liu Minzhong and his entourage were obviously not as lucky as the first expedition team, and they encountered a typhoon on the way, which blew over an expedition ship with a load of 3,000 stones. However, the other ship arrived safely in Mingzhou, walked along the coastline for a few days, and found Jinshan Castle built on the Jinshan Peninsula.
At this time, the person sent back by Meng Qi to report the news had already arrived in Jinshan. Zhou Xiaoqi knew that Meng Qi had made a big name in the south, and was about to lead the fleet south to join him. So they brought Liu Min and others together. However, Zhou Xiaoqi himself did not come, he still stayed on the ship and sat down, waiting for Meng Qi to send gold and silver over - after Zhou Xiaoqi learned of the intention of the Second Mingzhou Expedition, he immediately decided to return to Huaxia. But you can't go back empty-handed, Chen Dexing can stretch his neck and wait for the gold and silver of the New World! In the past few days in Jinshan, Zhou Xiaoqi has been organizing people to pan for gold, and he has already obtained more than 30,000 taels of gold. However, it is not comparable to the gains of the Hood. Even the gold rush that is making money every day can't be compared to robbing a wealthy city-state.
"I went out this time, and I got a lot of gold and silver!" Wen Tianxiang pointed to the "people's cars" that drove into the city one after another, "The whole two hundred cars are full!" There are always tens of thousands of catties, right? ”
Tens of thousands of catties? Liu Minzhong gasped when he heard this number, this Mingzhou Continent really has gold and silver mountains! Just scrape it casually for tens of thousands of catties......
He looked at the carts that were being pulled into the city, and sure enough, they were all loaded with various utensils and statues of people and beasts that were dazzling with gold and silver light.
Seeing Liu Minzhong's surprised expression, he smiled in his heart and said loudly: "There are three big ships to go back this time, which can hold at least 100,000 catties of gold and silver...... There are mountains of gold and silver in Mingzhou, these things are nothing! We can always get it. Duanfu, why don't you wait a few more days and wait for Mr. Wenshan to come back from Maya? This Maya is the legendary land of gold! How can you get another 100,000 catties of gold and silver? (To be continued......)