After the war, Lu Fang led a fleet south, loaded with various Shengzhou products.
There are furs, tobacco, sisal, cotton, brown sugar, rosin gum and rum. Especially sisal and rosin gum are in short supply and are unique products of Shengzhou. The quantity of rosin gum is small and it is mainly used as a luxury product;
However, sisal can be exported in large quantities and can be used to make machine conveyor belts, ship cables and port pulleys. It is also used in the inner layers of tires for later aircraft and cars.
Sisal was introduced from Mexico. In addition to growing food, Chen Li asked immigrants to grow sisal and cotton in large quantities.
As for the furs, they were tribute items from the indigenous people. At the same time, the indigenous people also collected rosin gum as tribute.
Naturalized Spanish prisoners of war, they like to grow sugar cane and brew rum. Rum is a good thing. It can be used as ballast in bilges at ordinary times. It can be used as a substitute for fresh water when there is a shortage of water. It can also be sold for money when transported to Nanyang.
The fleet soon arrived at Mazu Bay in Nanyinzhou, which is the Bay of Guayaquil in another time and space.
Dongping Island in the bay has been fully developed and is covered with houses and farmland. There are more than 3,000 Han residents and their families on the island alone.
The city area of Mazu Port on the other side of the island has expanded again. There are two thousand residents in the city alone, and they radiate to the outside in a fan shape. The surrounding areas are farmland cultivated by Han people. More than ten miles north of the city, a town has even sprung up, Mazu.
There are two villages between the city and the town.
The territory of Zhu Hai, the Marquis of Tanhai, was far less large than that of Chen Li, but the number of Han immigrants was more than three times that of Chen Li.
This eunuch-turned-marquis never fought with the Inca natives and relied on trade, diplomacy and religious means to develop. His territory was either given as a gift by the Inca king or bought with his own money.
The Inca king was also happy to see Zhuhai grow, because Mazu Port was the only sea trade window in the northern Inca, and he could obtain weapons, cloth and various luxury goods from here.
After Lu Fang's fleet docked at Mazu Port for supplies, it continued sailing south, and soon arrived at Lin Shiyi's Poyang Port.
The Inca Empire was completely divided into two, with Zhu Hai supporting the Northern Inca and Lin Shiyi supporting the Southern Inca. Each provided iron weapons and cowpox vaccines to the two Inca kings, gradually draining the wealth of the Inca Empire.
Both of them regarded themselves as nobles of the Ming Dynasty and accused the other of being a traitor to the Ming Dynasty. In fact, they were just putting on a show for the two Inca kings.
Now, the two Inca kings have reached a truce, because they can no longer fight, and they cannot quickly destroy each other under repeated battles. This situation gives Zhu Hai and Lin Shiyi a headache, and they are thinking about how to provoke a war, otherwise
They can't continue the arms trade.
The territory of the Northern Incas was roughly equivalent to northern Peru, Ecuador and Colombia in later generations.
The territory of the Southern Incas was roughly equivalent to the central and southern parts of Peru and the central and northern parts of Chile in later generations.
Under the corrosion of luxury goods such as silk, porcelain, glass, spices, etc., both Inca kings lost their ambitions. Fighting seemed to have become a routine matter, and they were left to their subordinates to enjoy themselves in the royal city.
Under the bloody exploitation of the two kings, the Inca natives fled to the Ming colonial territories.
There is even a tribal leader who is secretly in contact with Zhu Hai. They want to betray the Northern Inca King, and the entire tribe collectively surrenders to Zhu Hai, promising to believe in Mazu, learn the Chinese language, and pay taxes to Zhu Hai honestly. The tribal leader also
He took his whole family and changed their names to Chinese, and gave his daughter to Zhu Hai as a concubine.
Zhu Hai looked at the daughter of the tribal leader and felt helpless to complain. He couldn't move at all, so he betrothed her to a soldier who was not yet married.
As for Pizarro, who conquered the Inca Empire in history, he no longer knows where he is hiding.
This guy led the colonists and initially invaded from Panama and attacked the border fortresses of the Northern Incas. They fought several times without success. After learning about the civil war in the Inca Empire, they secretly sold weapons to the Southern Incas by ship. The fleet was directly captured by Zhu.
Most of them were sunk by the sea.
Pizarro returned to Spain to seek help from the king. The king funded some of his troops, provided him with many artillery pieces, and ordered the governor of Panama to help fight the war.
Relying on muskets, artillery and cavalry, Pizarro successfully captured the northern Inca border fortress.
The King of the Northern Incas urgently asked for help, and Zhu Hai personally led the Han army to support him, nearly annihilating Pizarro's army (only a few hundred people).
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"Master Marquis, the army of King Sulong (King of the Northern Incas) has assembled at the northern border!"
"set sail!"
Zhu Hai has been stable for many years, and finally he is going to war. He is going to attack Panama City.
The Spaniards were making small moves in the north, which made Zhu Hai very unhappy. This time he had to pull out the nails.
Well, the root cause of the war was profit. Spain built a shipyard in Panama. Pizarro's ships came from that shipyard, and Zhu Hai wanted to steal it together with the craftsmen and the shipyard.
Eighteen armed merchant ships set off from Mazu Port and sailed northward against the current in a few days.
Panama City was not built on the Atlantic coast, but on the Pacific coast. The Spanish fleet could not support it because it had to bypass the entire Nanyin Prefecture, but Zhu Hai's fleet could directly bombard Panama City.
Zhu Hai first blocked the entire bay. In fact, there was no need to block it. All the Spanish ships here had been sunk by him long ago.
"Fire two cannons and listen to the sound." Zhu Hai ordered.
"Boom boom boom!"
Eighteen armed merchant ships, each fired two cannons at Panama, frightening the Spanish colonists in the city and running away in panic.
In order to prepare for the Ming Dynasty, Panama not only built a shipyard, but also built a strong fortress.
Under the cover of fire from the warships, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty successfully landed and quickly entered the walled Panama City.
Spanish soldiers and civilians fled into the castle one after another. But the castle was too small to accommodate so many people, and the rest were all captured by Zhu Hai.
There was no way, the attack was too sudden, and there was no time to gather troops in the city.
Zhu Hai personally led 1,500 riflemen to besiege the castle, and asked the rest of the troops to sweep the colonies and capture Spanish plantation owners and their slaves.
In the entire Panama region, only Panama City on the Pacific coast and Port of Colon on the Atlantic coast are covered by Spanish plantations.
"Master Marquis, all the shipbuilders have been captured."
"How's the shipyard?"
"We can only build small boats with two hundred materials, and the shipyards there can't build big ships."
"Mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are. Let's expand the shipyard and get some craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty to build at least 400 sea-going ships."
A few days later, the army of the Northern Inca King arrived. They were the main force attacking the castle, but Zhu Hai did not want to use the Han army to attack the strong city.
In order for the Northern Inca king to send troops, Zhu Hai paid 300 muskets.
The Northern Inca king had long been jealous of muskets and did not understand the difference between smoothbore guns and rifled guns. When he heard that Zhu Hai was willing to donate 300 guns, he immediately agreed to send 10,000 troops to help the Ming attack the Spanish castle.
Of course, the Northern Inca king did not want his troops to die, so he arrested Panamanian natives along the way.
The siege battle began, and thousands of natives were forced to attack first, consuming the ammunition and physical strength in the castle. After five consecutive days of attack, more than half of the natives were killed or injured, and they would rather die than attack the city again.
There was no other way, the North Inca army had no choice but to go into battle in person.
Every day, the Ming warships fired a bombardment first, and the North Inca troops attacked the castle desperately. Occasionally, the Ming warships also fired a few cannons at night.
The Spaniards in the castle were exhausted by this. Moreover, the ammunition was consumed too quickly. The commander ordered them to move closer and then fight again. They were not allowed to fire randomly and waste ammunition.
After sixteen days, the ammunition in the castle was exhausted, and the Spanish defenders were so tired that they could fall asleep standing up.
So, the city gates were opened wide, and the governor raised the white flag to surrender, but he only wanted to surrender to Zhu Hai, because they were afraid of being killed by the Inca army.
Zhu Hai asked in Spanish: "Who is the Governor of Panama?"
A nobleman stepped forward, saluted very elegantly and said: "Dear Chinese Commander, I am the Spanish Governor of Panama..."
"Cut it down!"
Before the governor of Panama could even tell his name, he was dragged to the beach and beheaded, making the surrendering Spaniards tremble with fear.
Zhu Hai also ordered: "Interrogate and screen, keep the craftsmen, keep the women, and behead all the others."
"Where are the children?" the man asked.
Zhu Hai said: "The girls are kept and all the boys are castrated!"
This damn eunuch has a dark and perverted mentality. Even the Mongols would not do anything to children, but would take them back and train them slowly as slaves.
Not long after, the soldiers sent out by the Ming Dynasty came back and reported that the Port of Cologne had been captured.
Later, the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal were captured by Zhu Hai. These two ports were also the only Spanish cities in Panama, which was equivalent to completely driving the Spanish out of the Panama region.
If Zhu Hai builds a shipyard in the Port of Colon, then his ships can directly attack Cuba.
Coupled with Chen Li's actions in the north, Spain's only American colonies were Mexico, Cuba and Haiti. The Portuguese, on the other hand, were exploring Brazil and had already established a colonial stronghold.