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Chapter 78 Lima

South Asia Melica, Peru, Lima.

Forty-five years ago, the Spanish pirate Francisco Pizarro led his fleet to invade. In his oral letter to the Inca king Atavalpa, he said: "Please tell the monarch of your country and welcome him to come. As for when and how to come, you can do whatever he wants. No matter what way he does, I will treat him as a friend and brother. I beg him to come quickly, because I long to meet him. He will not be hurt or insulted."

What happened later?

During the meeting, Francisco Pizarro captured the Inca king by surprise and blackmailed a room of gold and two rooms of silver.

The real problem arises when the Incas really hand over a room of gold and two rooms of silver.

After extorting a large amount of treasures, Francesco Pizarro treasoned and hanged him. In the months before the death of the Inca king, the Spaniards summoned reinforcements from Panama. The real war started after the death of King Atavalpa, but at that time the Incas were powerless to return to heaven and the huge empire was declared destroyed.

Today, the Spaniards set up a Governor's district in Lima, governing all the surrounding lands. Although the title of Sapa Inca is still retained, Sapa has been only a puppet of the Spanish since then.

At the port of Lima, three large ships, different from the Western-style large ships, are slowly setting sail. On the hull, dominated by black and red, there is a fisheye mark on the left and right sides. The three plain ships are not large compared to the Spanish warships docked in the port. Even even armed merchant ships are larger than them. The ship has a brigged hard sail, slowly rising to a relatively low position, and slowly setting sail in the northwest direction.

About three lucky ships were Tang Juan prepared for the envoys of the Ming Dynasty. It was an escort fleet composed of two Great Garen and four Small Garen. This fleet had an unparalleled deterrence at sea.

The Jesuit missionary Josed Acosta, covered his priest's robe, looked deeply at the fleet that was gradually moving away from the exotic style, and slowly left with his hood with his servants from the crowd gathered at the port.

"Get back and work, you dirty Mita! The carnival is over!"

A group of Indians, regardless of gender, were stripped naked and their ankles were tied to ropes. They were led by a Spanish soldier with four Inca mixed-race men and women, leaving the port. This was rare because there were not many Incas gathered in the port, and there were more Spanish and Portuguese here, and even Italians and French who came here to make a living.

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

The conflict between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip had intensified. The Englishmen would only hide at sea to plan attacks on their fleet again and again, just as the plan to attack the Ming fleet in the Peruvian Governor's womb.

"This is really hard time, right?"

Father Acosta looked at the soldiers who were escorting the Inca slaves with disgust and whispered to the monks beside him.

Half an hour ago, a few Incas were dressed in luxury cloth clothes and joined the Ming envoys to see off the trip. Because at the banquet in Lima, the Ming people who were showing off their might rudely said that they were tired of the Western Russian faces. For this reason, they not only prepared two chiefs who did not need to implement the Mita system to accompany them, but also selected a group of people from the slaves to wash and put on their clothes, hoping to get these rude Ming people away.

The Mita system is a corvee service system tailored by the Spanish for the Indians who were ruled. In each village, except for the chieftain's children and sick and disabled, all adult men must implement it. They perform mandatory corvee service for four months at a rate of seven or one per year, and engage in labor assigned by the colonists.

Most of them were sent to mines, plantation parks, paving roads and building houses, and moving goods.

In this era, from the sufferings experienced by this land, the blood flowing out of silver, the dismembered flesh and blood are gold, and huge amounts of wealth have joined the world's circulating trade. All countries in the world are affected by this wealth, let alone the Spanish.

The wise monks have realized that their ideology is being challenged, and at the time when the Salamanca school, which had an ethical stance on the conquering Indians, appeared and reached its peak, the Jesus had replaced Domingo as the first Catholic denomination, with political and religious crises breaking out at the same time.

The Spanish conscience was asking themselves: Is the war fair? Should the Indians be compensated?

Especially at the beginning of this year, all the strongholds they set up along the Mexican coast were swept away by the Indians in North America, and the priests couldn't help asking themselves: Have the evangelical means failed?

There are also war factions in Spain and the Peruvian Governor's District who are rampant in fighting against the unfair treaties with the Ming State, who are trying to incite a complete war of conquest against the Ming State in all classes to offset their frustration and crisis.

The consequences of the Battle of Guam to the Spaniards were too tragic. A large number of troops gathered in a small combat range and intensive and intense battles occurred. The speech improper and huge contradictions made the war an annihilation battle. Although less than 6,000 Spaniards participated in the battle, they lost one or even more relatives to almost every colonist family in the Peru Governor's District.

More than two thousand orphans who lost their fathers wandered idle in every corner of the city, making every inch of land seem so shocking.

Perhaps the nobles living in Madrid did not need to see such a situation, allowing them to sign peace treaties with the Ming Dynasty, but in the Peruvian Governor-General where the war was carried out, the fighting Spanish conquerors did not easily forget the shame brought to them by the war.

People are trapped in the extreme caused by huge setbacks, and two factions will be clearly divided among the people in the same country.

On one hand, from the king to the people, the whole country was preparing for a new war. In the letters sent back from the country, the Lord's forest was cut down and used to make the huge fleet of the East that the king had expeditioned.

But on the other hand, the Salamanca school centered on ethics, morality, natural law and human rights ushered in a new spring. Since the Battle of Guam, more and more monks have agreed with their doctrine that all human beings have common essences and that they also have common rights, such as the right to freedom.

He even advocated that the ‘people’ itself is a medium of God’s sovereignty, but under various circumstances, the power flowed into the hands of the king. It is unjust to be a king, and the ‘people’ can disobey or even overthrow him.

There is no Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the West, and naturally there is no democratic soul rooted in East Asian bloodline to fight tyranny.

But at this moment, another different democracy is growing wildly on this land like wild grass, and one day it will become a raging fire that will devour everything.
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