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"Marquis," Eugen von Savoy had no choice but to bite the bullet, "can you really not consider accepting the sincere apology and compensation from the Spanish Empire? In fact, the evil deed of inflicting smallpox was not ordered by His Majesty the Emperor, but It is the personal act of the Earl of St. Chris. He has gone to hell now, and there is no need for you to continue to expand the situation... I think you should know that the Spanish Empire is a world-wide power, and it has many powerful allies, and your business side You are alone and alone. Even if you have any special relationship with the Ming Empire, it is impossible for Ming to provide you with much help across the Pacific Ocean."

Big Devil Zhou's answer was just a disdainful smile, he waved his hands and said to the left and right: "Bring the future Aztec king... let's go!"

After saying this, he led his men with the angry Huang Feiyu and escorted Count Montezuma away first.However, after Jizhou, Su Zhanyang did not leave. He also took a few Yin family cavalry and looked at Eugen von Savoy coldly. The businessman who acted as a messenger did not leave either, but smiled and said to Eugen: "General, in order to prevent you from being killed by angry savages in the commercial port, the Marquis of Jizhou will personally escort you aboard the Flying Netherlander."

Su Zhanyang waited for him to finish speaking, then turned around and made a solemn gesture, and said, "Please!"

Eugen von Savoy thought to himself: "Be driven away? That's fine, let's go, or don't go... In case that devil thinks that the King of Aztec still lacks a general and wants to keep me, That would be troublesome!"

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Song of the New Dynasty, the Grand Commander's Mansion.

Zhou Peigong, the great devil of Zhou, has ordered Montezuma to be escorted into the Grand Commander's lobby, and he was asked to stand there without being given a seat.Wu Chengbo and Huang Feiyu led a few "savage warriors" with pockmarked faces to rub their hands, ready to teach people how to behave.

Count Montezuma really wants to die!

Although he still has the title of "Montezuma", he is not an Aztec at all... His ancestors have lived in Spain for several generations, and they all married the Spanish white noble ancestors.So the Aztec blood in his veins is already very thin, basically a Spanish nobleman!

And he doesn't look down on the Aztecs at all, including his own ancestors!

In his view, the ancestors were cruel, stupid, cowardly, ignorant... and soulless!

He and his Aztec subjects deserved to be extinct. Only when they were extinct could the remaining Aztecs who were worth saving be rescued and become part of the civilized world.

Although in the civilized world, they also belong to the lowest level, but at least they believe in God and have souls...

"Montezuma!" Zhou Peigong had already spoken, and he didn't ask anyone to translate, and he spoke directly in Latin, "Now there are two ways for you to choose, one is to voluntarily betray God and become the king of Aztec; Tortured to the point of committing suicide by our top ten torture methods, and then go to hell!"

This multiple choice question is quite easy!

If you betray God and become the Aztec king, you will definitely go to hell after death!

Tortured to the point of committing suicide by Shangfang's top ten torture methods... still going to hell!

Since they are going to hell anyway, why not betray God and turn to the devil to be king, so that they can go to hell for a few more years to suffer?

Once he had the freedom of hell, the Earl of Montezuma, who loved God and was extremely loyal to Spain, suddenly thought about it.

He swallowed his saliva, looked at the devil who could bring him the throne, and would also send him to hell, and asked, "Marquis, can you really make me the king of the Aztecs?"

"Of course!" Devil Zhou nodded with certainty, "I am an invincible merchant, and it is easy to seize the Mexica Valley. Now there is only one person who can be the king of the Aztecs to help rule there."

What he said was a confidence, but in fact he was deceiving Montezuma and Leopold I.

It's not a complete lie, Montezuma can still get the title of King of the Aztecs.

But all it can get is a bear king.The Aztec Kingdom will not be restored, and Zhou Peigong will not recover the Mexica Valley and hand it over to some Aztec king to rule.

In fact, he has no plans to attack the Mexica Valley where Mexico City is located.

Because the current Shangfang Kingdom has a total population of [-] to [-] to death.With such a small number of people, it is impossible to take down the densely populated Mexico area.Even if it is barely won, it is impossible to hold it... and Mexico has never been the goal of Zhu and Qi.

In Zhu Heqi's decree to the seven princes of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the goal of the Shang Fang King has always been the mountains, highlands and coastal areas north of Mexico.

The goal of Yin Jiahan has always been the Great Plains east of the "Shangtang Mountain" (Rocky Mountains).

If it wasn't for New Mexico's first eyeing on Shangfang, Zhou Peigong would be willing to continue to develop insignificantly for another 20 years... When the number of people in Yin and Shang exceeds 50, and the total population exceeds 100 million after counting the aborigines, then go to fight with New Spain , New France broke the wrist.

But things backfired. Since New Spain came to make trouble first, and the attack was so ruthless, then Zhou Peigong must retaliate.

Otherwise, Shang Fangguo will never have peace in the future!

If the Spaniards find out the details of Shang Fangguo... the consequences will be disastrous!

Therefore, Shangfang Kingdom, which has a population of only 7 to 1000 and has at most [-] troops, must now take the initiative to attack New Spain (including the Viceroyalty of Peru) with a population of more than [-] million.Moreover, satisfactory results must be achieved without paying a high price.

This difficulty is indeed a bit high!

Fortunately, Shangfang State-owned is a devil... If you say you are a devil, you better really be!

"Montezuma," Zhou Peigong made up his mind, smiled and said to the "Spanish Aztec" in front of him, "The Great Merchant Heavenly Soldiers will soon cross the Sonoran Desert...by then you will be the king of Mexico! "

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"Eugen, where is Count Montezuma? Why didn't he come back with you?"

Mexico City, the original Governor's Palace, and now the Spanish Imperial Palace, has been the emperor of the New World for a while, and started to be Leopold I with a little taste, looking at Eugen von Savoy who came back in a hurry , asked about the whereabouts of Count Montezuma.

"Your Majesty, I think he has betrayed the Spanish motherland and God!" Eugene said helplessly, "Those merchants seem to want to attack Mexico. So after learning that Count Montezuma is the heir to the Aztec royal family After that, he was detained, and he was going to be supported to restore the Aztec country after conquering Mexico."

"What?" The Spanish emperor was stunned for a while before he realized, "Then Count Montezuma was detained? Or did he take the initiative to seek refuge with the merchants?"

"Your Majesty, I don't think there is any difference between the two." Eugen von Savoy said a little dejectedly, "The merchants are all devils! Count Montezuma can't resist the temptation and coercion of the devil."

"Are they really the devil? Can the devil force the believers of God?" The Spanish emperor had only heard of the temptation of the devil, but he never thought that the devil could force the believers of God to submit!

"Yes!" Eugen said, "Xi Bohou of Shangfang Kingdom himself admitted that he is a devil..."

Eugene added: "And their behavior, the military technology they possess, and their lack of fear of smallpox all make them look like real devils! Now that the Count of Montezuma has fallen into their hands, it is only a matter of time before they surrender. "

"My God!" The Spanish emperor quickly made a sign of the cross on his chest, "So, they will come to Mexico City soon?"

"I think... yes!" Eugen von Savoy was also fooled. "If it wasn't for controlling Mexico City and the Mexica Valley, why did they detain Count Montezuma?"

"Then can we hold Mexico City?" The Spanish emperor no longer cares about whether Count Montezuma will betray God. What he is most worried about now is losing Mexico City!

He has already lost a Vienna and must not lose Mexico City again!

"I don't know," Eugen said, "Your Majesty, we haven't actually started defending Mexico City yet! The current Mexico City doesn't have a decent city defense, doesn't have enough troops, and doesn't have the supplies needed for a long-term defense. If those The Merchant Devil will be outside the city tomorrow. So no one can hold Mexico City unless God shows up."

"No, I can't lose another capital of the empire!" The Spanish emperor shouted, "Come on, hurry up and get me the Duke of Lorraine, the Marquis of Mendoza, and the cardinal... A council of war is called, and I want to defend Mexico!"

Chapter 831 Eat his mother, drink his mother, the devil will not pay when he comes!

The devil is coming!

At the beginning of 1690 in the Western calendar, in the northern part of the New Andalusian colony, near the Sonoran Desert, there was a shocking news!

The devil who originally lived in an unknown place north of the Colorado River has now marched southward, has crossed the Colorado River, is crossing the Sonoran Desert, and will soon enter the hinterland of the New Andalusian Colony!

But this is not the most surprising thing, at least not the most surprising thing to the aborigines living in Indian villages or the Indian serfs or mixed-race laborers working in white plantations.What surprised these Indians and mixed-race working people who believed in God the most was that the Catholic priests who were supposed to lead everyone to fight against the devil actually "fleeed from the devil"!

What exactly is going on?

The priests did not go to exorcise the demons, but were scared away by the demons... Could it be that the demons who came this time were "real demons"?

These people who have been completely conquered by the Spaniards from body to soul are the ones who believe in God and priests the most... In this era, even if you go around in the Catholic countries in Europe, you may not be able to find Indians or Indians in Mexico. Mixed-race Indians are more devout Catholics.

Because in most European Catholic countries, either the Catholic Church has become very secular, or a considerable degree of separation of church and state has been achieved...God's to God, Caesar's to Caesar.

In these countries, the role that the church can play in production, life and the construction of social order is constantly declining.The secular aristocracy and the government and parliament that have absorbed a large number of bourgeois talents have been able to overwhelm the conservative and backward Catholic Church in all aspects.

However, in the Governorate of New Spain and the Governorate of Peru, because there are not many secular nobles, and the bureaucrats often become corrupt and incompetent due to lack of supervision, the only thing that can play a role is the Catholic Church—there are still some churches. Idealists who are willing to devote themselves to God.Moreover, Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother advocate equality after all.Therefore, the church system of New Spain can absorb the local indigenous elite better than the two systems of nobility and bureaucracy.

In addition, religion also plays a very important role for those people with a relatively low level of civilization-regulating people's daily behavior and building an underlying order.

For example, how many wives a man can marry, how many times a day he has to pray to God, whether he can eat meat and drink alcohol, whether same-sex people can get married, whether they can have ancestral tablets in their homes, etc., all have to be guided by the grassroots gods... In the two governorships of New Spain and Peru, the daily life of those Indians whose civilization level was relatively low and whose native civilization was basically destroyed by the Spaniards relied more on the priests to regulate and guide them.

While regulating people's daily behavior, the grassroots clergy in the two viceroyalty districts of New Spain and Peru also have to take care of the local order—play a guest role as a judge to bring a lawsuit against the people below, or have conflicts with the white manor owners in the Indian village community It is basically the job of the clergy to adjust things and so on.

Because they represent God, they are more just than white-skinned nobles and corrupt officials, and they usually do not accept bribes... Of course, there is a fee for making a ruling, and this fee is their own. With this extra money, those consciences are slightly better One point, priests who have to take care of their own signs generally don't take extra bribes to pervert the law.

Therefore, in the two vast governorships of New Spain and Peru, the Catholic Church and priests not only manage God’s affairs, but also Caesar’s affairs, and except for a small number of core areas, in most places, they are the only ones who can in charge.

For example, in the colony of New Andalusia, the one who can really manage things is the Bishop Torres who went to Xinchaoge with Garcia to release poison...Although Mexico City also sent governors, those governors are like revolving doors and spend money Officials who buy, masters who go back to Europe to spend time and wine after making enough money, who can count on them?

But such a prestige bishop, who believes in God, wants to oil the soles of his feet today... slip away quickly!

In the bishop's mansion in Hermosillo, the capital of the colony, this time is already the scene of the most hasty escape day.

In the courtyard, servants, mercenaries, and low-level clergymen came and went, their footsteps flustered.Outside the yard, a long line of carriages had already been parked, and leather boxes full of belongings were piled up on each carriage, fastened tightly with rope locks.There were also some fully armed mixed-race mercenaries standing beside the carriage, all of them looked panic-stricken.

A group of big landowners from the new Andalusian colony rushed into the yard noisily, and surrounded Bishop Torres as soon as they entered.

"My lord bishop, the governor has already escaped..."

"My lord bishop, why are there so many carriages full of luggage outside the door? Do you want to run too?"

"Bishop, I heard that the savages north of the Colorado River are as vicious as devils. Is it true?"

Bishop Torres, wearing a black robe, stood in front of the porch and watched his servants carrying boxes full of belongings out of the yard. To the questioning of these colonial landowners, Bishop Torres just replied with a blank expression: " Those savages are not as vicious as devils, they are devils at all!"

"What? The devil at all?"

"Bishop, are you kidding us?"

"The devil? What about God? What about Jesus? What about the Virgin Mary? They don't care?"

"Impossible, it's impossible!"

"Yes, how could there really be a devil?"

There are some people who don't believe in the devil... If you don't believe in the devil now, will you stop believing in God in the future?

Father Torres gave the two potential atheists a cold look, then took out two leaflets in Spanish from the pocket of the black robe, and handed them to them, "See for yourself! Are they devils?" , see for yourself!"

There is evidence!

Two "quasi-atheists" immediately took the flyer and read it carefully.

"Eat his mother's, drink his mother's... what does this mean?"

"There are still... King Montezuma came and didn't pay rent, King Montezuma came and didn't pay taxes, King Montezuma came and divided the land!"

Now the great landowners of New Andalusia jumped to their feet.This Latin American landownership system is also well-known in later generations, and it is considered to be one of the important reasons for dragging down the industrialization of Latin America.

Of course, the United States also had large estates when it first opened, but there were no Indian tenants in the United States.Protestants and Puritans in the United States can be decisive in doing things!Extermination was done so thoroughly that there was no way to subdivide large estates and rent them out to Indians, so negroes had to be brought in. . . .

However, the Catholics in New Spain and Peru are not as good as they are, and the Indians who have joined the religion cannot be eliminated casually.And the Catholic Church doesn’t allow them to do this either—the souls of Indians are also souls, and if you “save” one, you will get more merit. If you accumulate enough merit, you can redeem your sins, go to heaven, and become a saint.

And the church expects Indians to pay tithes!

Therefore, in New Spain and Peru, the foreign colonists became big landowners, while the Indians (mainly of mixed blood) actually owned part of the land (communal ownership), and at the same time served as tenants to the whites.The church protects the interests of the big landowners, the Indian village communities, and the Indian poor and lower-middle peasants... and provides an order in which these aspects can coexist harmoniously.

Non-payment of rent, non-payment of food, and distribution of land are undoubtedly aimed at smashing this order!This King Montezuma is going to use these three items to incite the Indians to rebel... And he has the support of the merchant army. I am afraid that he can really fulfill these three items to a certain extent, and he is also a legal descendant recognized by the Aztec royal family!

How can he do it so that he can't turn Mexico upside down?

This guy is not the devil, who is the devil?

The merchants who support him are not the devil, who is the devil?

"What? Don't pay the rent? Still need to divide the land? To whom?"

"Of course it was given to the Indians!"

"What does this Montezuma want? Did he really betray God and become a devil?"

"He's the devil!" roared Bishop Torres, "so we have to get out of here... We can't just sit around in Nueva Andalusia!"

"leave?"

"Shouldn't we find a way to defeat the devil?"

Torres glanced at the man, "That's the devil! Defeating the devil is the task of God and the angels. We are human beings. As long as we protect ourselves from falling into the hands of the devil, we will be victorious." After finishing speaking, he looked at the big landowners in front of him. , "We evacuate now...we must not be caught by the devil, otherwise we will not only lose our lives, but also lose our noble souls!"

This year's devils are too powerful, not only wanting human life, but also killing people's souls.

So run away now!The land is precious, and the price of freedom is higher. If you keep your life, you are not afraid of losing your soul!

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At the same time, in the south of the Sonoran Desert, which does not look like a desert at all, and is full of animals and plants, Montezuma, who has just been enchanted, is riding a tall horse with a gloomy face, and is marching among an army in strange costumes .

It's really a fancy dress!The soldiers of this army are all wearing tiger-skin pattern jackets and hats with tiger ear trim... It is said that this strange outfit is the military uniform of the elite jaguar warriors of the Aztec Empire!

Montezuma himself now puts on this suit and becomes a "devil" with ears on his hat!

Although the clothes of these jaguar fighters are a bit "cute", their equipment is real. Everyone is carrying rifled guns, and there are sugar grenades and bayonet holsters hanging on their belts. It is Az at a glance. Turk's elite!

Looking at these Aztec elites, Montezuma couldn't help but sigh.

"King of Aztec, are you sighing?" The somewhat blunt Spanish sounded in Montezuma's ear.

Hearing this question, Montezuma shuddered, and quickly explained: "Dong Bohou, I'm just worried that there are too few troops... Don't we have a hundred thousand troops? But now there are only two thousand jaguar warriors and One thousand merchant infantry. There are only 3000 soldiers, how can they beat the Spaniards?"

Upon hearing this, Dong Bohou Li Guangdi smiled noncommittally, thinking: "Three thousand people are too small for you? We have only sixty to seventy thousand men and women in our hands...Among them, there are only about half of Yin merchants. I have tried my best to pull out an army of tens of thousands of people. Now sending 3000 people across the desert is a lot of bluff. As for the 3000-strong army, you really need you, a white-skinned Aztec, as a puppet. king?"

Although I thought so in my heart, I still had to keep blowing on my mouth!

Otherwise, the Aztec king probably wouldn't think of being a "devil"...and Shang Fangguo still needs the deterrent power of the devil to frighten the Spaniards!

"The 3000 people are just the vanguard," said Li Guangdi, who was wearing the official uniform of the merchants, solemnly. "The main force led by Lord Xibo will soon go south through the Sonoran Desert. In addition, the troops led by Lord Jizhou will go south by sea." , surprise the port of Acapulco. That is the real main force! As long as we and the army of Xibohou can attract the army of the Spanish emperor to the Sonora Desert, the surprise attack of the Marquis of Jizhou will be successful. By then the whole of Mexico will be It's all ours!"

This plan...doesn't seem to work!