Compared with before departure, Zhu Hai had lost a lot of weight, even so thin that he looked a little out of shape.
At this time, in the Leopard Room Garden, there were not only the emperor and Zhu Hai, but also a strangely dressed guy - an Indian!
"Erlang is here, sit down quickly!" Zhu Houzhao smiled and waved.
Wang Yuan said: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhu Hai also bowed quickly: "I have met Wang Shilang."
Wang Yuan cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, Duke Zhu, for your hard work."
The Indian was very smart and realized that Wang Yuan was a big shot. He immediately knelt down and worshiped with his bare feet. It was not because he couldn't wear shoes, but it was their tradition that those who worshiped the nobles must go barefoot. This guy even had gold ornaments on his body. Look. He seems to have a high status and a certain level of education.
What's even more ridiculous is that the Indian actually said in Chinese: "Nice to meet you."
Wang Yuan felt very strange and returned the favor with his hands, then asked Zhu Hai: "Can he also speak Chinese?"
Zhu Hai said with a smile: "This man has been floating on the sea with us for a few months and lived in Nanyang for a month. He can already speak some simple Chinese. But his Chinese is very poor. He probably thinks it's a pleasure to meet him." It means 'to meet'."
Wang Yuan asked: "Can Duke Zhu tell us in detail?"
Zhu Hai said: "The nautical charts of the Westerners (Magellan) are of no use at all. We just started following the nautical charts, but ended up going against the wind and the current, so we had to go back to the South China Sea, and the next year we headed north via Japan. We drifted on the sea. After a few months, we saw the Far East. The climate where we landed is very good, with only 20 degrees in summer and several degrees in winter. It can be said that it is like spring all year round. Therefore, I will name this place 'Fushan' , and discovered gold deposits northwest of Fushan."
Wang Yuan still remembered some high school geography knowledge, and he immediately knew that it was a Mediterranean climate, and the Mediterranean climate in America radiated from San Francisco Bay as the center.
The navigation team led by Zhu Hai probably discovered San Francisco!
Zhu Hai added: "This spring, I led my team back and wanted to go south to find the route of the Thai and Westerners. But I couldn't find the route, but I met the Thai and Spanish army on the way!"
"Taiwan army?" Wang Yuan was very surprised.
"To be precise, it's the Spanish army," Zhu Hai explained. "There is a big indigenous country there with a huge population and a vast territory. It has been conquered by Spain. Some of the indigenous people can even speak Spanish. It just so happens that I have a Franco machine on the ship. He also speaks Spanish, so he probably knows something about it.”
The so-called indigenous power, the Aztec Empire, was probably located in Mexico in later generations.
In the fourteenth year of Zhengde, the Spaniards came to the Aztec Empire and were warmly received by the indigenous emperor. Because they were tall and fair, and very similar to the legendary Quetzalcoatl, the indigenous people regarded the Spaniards as descendants of the god.
For the purpose of ruling, the Aztec emperor claimed that he was favored by Quetzalcoatl, and that the god sent descendants to help him rule the country.
The Spaniards thus became a privileged race. They raped women and robbed property, and were gradually hated by the indigenous people. However, the emperor was unable to stand and could not slap himself in the face, so he chose to defend the Spaniards and instead suppressed his own subjects.
The Spaniards went so far as to kidnap the emperor and torture him to force him to hand over all his treasures.
There has been a riot in the city. The Spaniards took the emperor as a hostage and wanted to escape the city first. In the chaos, the emperor died unexpectedly. The Spaniards brought too much treasure and completely lost their organization. They fell into the lake at night and drowned a group of people, and were chased again. The soldiers killed a group of them.
The remaining Spanish soldiers who fled back to the colony, with the support of the Governor of Cuba, summoned the army to carry out revenge.
They brought war horses, artillery and muskets, and gathered tribes dissatisfied with the emperor's rule to form a Spanish and indigenous coalition to counterattack.
The Aztec Empire was destroyed!
Wang Yuan asked: "Did you fight the Spanish?"
Zhu Hai nodded and said: "After a few battles, we went ashore to investigate the situation and saw a group of Spaniards looting the indigenous tribes. We didn't want to help, but those Spaniards suddenly fired at us. There are many of us.
The battle was won, and two Spanish gangsters were captured for interrogation. When they learned that the country had been occupied, they immediately collected fresh water and left, fearing that Spanish reinforcements would arrive."
"Then what?" Wang Yuan asked.
Zhu Hai said: "There are larger indigenous countries in the south, and the Spaniards are at war with this country. The enemy of our enemy is our friend. Let us seize the opportunity of fighting between the two sides and immediately launch an attack on the Spaniards. Beat the Spaniards
After we ran away, the natives were very grateful to us and took us to see the king there."
What a coincidence!
After the Spaniards conquered the Aztecs, they didn't know how to govern. They only knew how to rob all day long. They robbed this tribe today and that tribe tomorrow. In three years, they almost robbed everything there. So they sent a fleet south, thinking
Looking for new countries to continue to rob, we soon encountered the Inca Empire, and fought with the Inca Empire along the way.
Zhu Hai's fleet happened to be following the Spanish fleet and helped the Inca natives beat up the Spaniards. The Spanish expedition fleet going south had only two ships and more than a hundred crew members. They were directly manipulated by Zhu Hai.
Dozens of people died and a Spanish ship was sunk.
Wang Yuan asked: "What is the situation in the indigenous countries further south?"
Zhu Hai replied: "The name of this country is 'Tawanting Sulong'. Their king is called 'Inca'. He mainly worships the sun, but also worships the moon and stars. There are nobles and priests below the king. They will
They smelted gold, silver, copper and tin, but they didn't know how to smelt iron, and their weapons were all made of copper. They had tall cities, and built Chidao and inns. The whole country was connected by Chidao. They also planted many crops. This time
Let’s bring some back. There is a kind of livestock that is particularly strange. It looks like a sheep but not a sheep, and looks like a horse but not a horse.”
The real name of the Inca Empire is "Tawanting Sulong" in transliteration. "Inca" is just a title, similar to "emperor", "king", and "dictator".
The Inca Empire was very developed, had its own written language, and could smelt metal (but not iron). Its construction technology was also very advanced. It not only built canals and terraces, but also built roads in the mountainous areas to connect the country. The longest road was 3,200 kilometers long.
At this moment, it was the heyday of the Inca Empire.
Historically, the reason why Spain was destroyed by Spain was because after the death of the old emperor, two princes competed for the throne. The two sides fought fiercely and had serious internal strife. Coupled with the plague brought by the Spaniards, the Inca Empire fell into complete chaos and was destroyed by the Spaniards No. 100.
Each one was defeated.
"After we gave congratulatory gifts to the indigenous king, the king also gave many gifts in return," Zhu Hai pointed to the Indians beside him and said, "This is the envoy they sent, the son of a priest."
Let me go and the Inca Empire sends envoys to the Ming Dynasty?
Wang Yuan asked: "How did you come back?"
Zhu Hai said: "I didn't follow the Taixi navigation chart. All the way south from Fushan, it was smooth wind and water. When I got to the south, the wind and water direction changed, and I could come back with smooth wind and water. But there was not enough fresh water, and there were few channels back.
When there was a storm, we only changed the water once at sea. Many crew members got sick from drinking rotten water. There were 568 people when we left, but only 317 people were left when we came back, including 5 indigenous people."
In other words, a total of 246 people died during this trip to America.
There were originally eight people in the Inca mission, but three of them died during the journey. There was enough fresh water, but unfortunately it had deteriorated. Whether they could survive or not depended on their physical strength.
Take Magellan's fleet in history as an example. Few of them died when they returned to Europe, but they managed to bring back four Indians.
Zhu Houzhao remained silent until he suddenly said: "Erlang, I brought back gold from this sea exploration. How much do you think the gold is?"