Aztec Eternals

The mighty cold wave in December blows south from the Great Plains of North America to the winter end of the Granada River, and continues southward for more than a thousand miles, turning into a cool autumn wind outside Otter City.

This core city-state of the northern Huastec tribes, this fertile land at the mouth of the Tampen River, has become completely dead, deserted and desolate during the long period of plundering and fighting that lasted for five or six years. Only caravans from the kingdom carry out trade in this desolate seaside city-state, and they also become a rare link between the fighting tribes around them.

The plundering of the canine descendants made no distinction between high and low, and the life-and-death fights were extremely cruel. The revered northern Huastec gods, priests and nobles in the past have either become corpses buried in the swamps, or have become skulls collected by the Red Crow tribes, or they have been deliberately attacked by the canine battalions of the Qingqiu tribes. , died inexplicably.

Only some of the Wastek-heads who were keen and decisive, or who were close to the southern jungle, abandoned their original camps, walled cities and even city-states in time, and led their tribes to move south smoothly. They had to move at least three hundred miles south through jungles, swamps and seashores before they could reach Pantepec, the ancient ruins of the city by the river, "the hill with the waving flag." Then, the tribe had to cross the Pantepec Qiu River, a tributary of the Tampen River system, and join the Huastec Alliance in the south, so that they could completely escape the terrifying front of the wilderness dog descendants.

So far, at least 40,000 of the 300,000 Huastec tribes in the north have died in the war. Nearly 100,000 tribesmen have fled south and migrated. 80,000 to 90,000 tribesmen have fallen into the hands of the Red Crow tribes. 40,000 to 50,000 have been killed. Qiu Zhubu took him away by force. The alliance of Huastec tribes in the north, which was once large in number but not good at fighting, completely collapsed, leaving only the last tens of thousands of tribes scattered on both sides of the vast Tampen River, paying food and taxes to the Red Crow or Qingqiu Dog descendants. tribute.

After this brutal war that lasted for several years, the situation in the humble northeastern corner of Central America has become completely clear. Various large tribes formed an alliance, and many small tribes were either subordinate or divided, gradually forming a three-party separatist regime, the "Three Kingdoms".

North of the Tampen River, the vast jungles, seashores and grasslands belong to the Red Crow Tribal Alliance. The old chief Amosi was in the south, farming and managing the land. The young chief Alan went north to the prairie and conquered and conquered everywhere. The focus of the entire Red Crow Tribe Alliance has gradually shifted from the south to the north, from increasingly costly plunder to harvesting more and more farmland.

The six hundred miles from Otter City to Huanggu City, from the mouth of the Tampeng River to the source of the upper reaches of the tributaries, this east-west, fast-flowing connected river is surrounded by the growing enclave of the kingdom and the Qing Dynasty with a population of more than 200,000. The Qiu tribes are firmly in control!

In fact, the Qingqiu tribes in the wasteland, although nominally loyal to the Alliance, actually surrendered to the kingdom, and had a strong canine background. They were the secret helpers of the Red Crow's raids southward. Qingqiu Jiedu, the poet chief Paramo, not only sent Guakili messengers for a long time, but also exchanged the kingdom's bronze weapons and tools, pottery and salt for the captives in the hands of Red Crow. He even personally mobilized and sent thousands of heavily armed canine battalions, under the banner of the Red Crow, to attack and plunder the Huastec tribes many times and drive the Huastecs southward.

After the Huastec tribes in the north were almost destroyed, the Qingqiu tribes even more brazenly sent out the settled dog-born flag troops, leading the surrendered Huastec tribes to settle and expand along the long tributary of the Tampeng River, occupying the Gas The old land of the Turk tribes.

The direction of the entire Qingqiu "County" has officially shifted from the impoverished, barren and desolate northern and western wastelands to the eastern river valleys and coastal plains that are warmer, rainier and more suitable for farming. After all, precipitation in the wasteland is scarce and the land is barren, making it almost impossible to grow food. No matter how much gold and silver there is in the depths of the wasteland, it can't feed the more and more wasteland tribes that are gathering!

This spring, following the memories of Guakili scouts, the Qingqiu tribes explored the kingdom's caravan in the wasteland, and finally found the name pointed out by the great chief of Death seven hundred miles northwest of Huanggu City, deep in the Sacascart Wasteland. The "giant silver mine hills" and "open-pit silver mine veins stretching into hills" are what we are looking for.

This large open-pit silver mining area, later known as Zacatecas-Fresnillo, has giant silver-rich veins that stretch for dozens or hundreds of miles, storing more than one-tenth of the world's silver, allowing The emperors of Ming Dynasty cried and fainted because they were short of money!

In fact, this area with the highest silver reserves in the world has been continuously exploited for more than 500 years with an annual output of more than 10 million taels or tens of millions of taels! Until the modern era of the 21st century, the Saucito Silver Mine, the largest in the entire mining area, can still produce 22 million ounces per year (approximately 20 million ounces in the old system). At present, the official fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty during the Hongzhi period is only 300 to 4 million taels of silver a year, which is only a fraction of the silver mine output in this large silver mining area! …

Of course, although the Qingqiu tribes discovered the prophesied "giant silver mine", they had absolutely no interest in mining, excavating, and refining silver in the bitter cold and barren wasteland.

Silver, this kind of beautiful and heavy "white silver stone", to the canine tribes from the wilderness, is just an ordinary decoration that cannot be eaten or drunk, and is everywhere. The "poor" Qingqiu tribes are still thinking about continuing to expand eastward, seizing both sides of the Tampen River tributaries that the Huastec people abandoned after moving south, and occupying more fertile land along the river that has been developed by the Huastec people. , grow more food!

At this moment, the first batch of cassava stems was also transported from the port of Jinwan City to Otter City where the Tampeng River flows into the sea, and was handed over to the vanguard flag teams of the Qingqiu tribes. The first cassava field in the Qingqiu tribe will gradually grow new seedlings on the homeland of the Huastec people...

Three hundred miles south from the mouth of the Tampeng River, across the Qiqiu River, is the increasingly prosperous Southern Huastec Alliance, or it can also be called the "Silver Crow Tribe Alliance"! With the more than 100,000 Silver Crow tribe in Crow City as the core, and the 300,000 to 400,000 tribes in Huastek in the south, they have all nominally joined the "Silver Crow Tribe Alliance" to face the increasingly strong threats from all parties.

As the Mexicans continued to launch wars of conquest, the wars in the world became more and more intense, and the scale of the fighting became larger and larger. The originally loose tribes in the world were forced to form closer tribal alliances amid this continuous confrontation. The same was true for the Huastec tribes in the south, and they had to form the Silver Crow Alliance.

Surrounding the Silver Crow Alliance, the Red Crow Tribe Alliance is "as fierce as a bison" to the north, the Qingqiu Tribes are "as ruthless as a coyote" to the west, the Totonak Alliance is "powerful as a python" to the southeast, and the Totonak Alliance is "as powerful as a python" to the southwest. It is the suzerain state that pays tribute to the Huastec people. It "devours like a crocodile monster of chaos". It is conquering the tribes in the clouds and has no time to pay attention to the Mexica Alliance in the northeast. Among the four directions, the only force that the Silver Crow tribes can trust a little bit is actually the southeast...

"O Lord God of the Supreme Sun! O Wind God who controls hurricanes... I hope this mission can be completed safely and not offend the increasingly powerful Totonak tribes!... For the purpose of my coming here this time, to rule Totonak Ke’s snake mother should also be happy...right?..."

After more than 400 miles of sailing, Silver Crow Elder Cao Baiya finally arrived at Golden Bay on the banks of the Adobe River, the central capital of the Totonak Alliance, with more than a hundred Silver Crow warriors in ten tribal war boats. city. And when he stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the still densely populated port of Jinwan City, he could no longer see the prosperous trade of more than ten years ago, nor the descendants of the priests and gods from chatting and laughing, nor the descendants from Caravans and merchant ships from all parts of the world.

By the side of the more neatly built and wider port, there are only the Totonak civilians who are hunched like ants carrying grain on their backs, only the fierce-looking grain-collecting warriors wearing armor and holding axes, and only the solemn-looking priests who are inspecting the grain...still There is a heavily fortified Mexican navy fleet that is loading food and preparing to go to the Mayan coast!

"O Lord God! Ancestor! Is this?!..."

When Elder Silver Crow looked at it more carefully for a while, he couldn't help but tremble all over, and felt a bone-chilling chill from his heart...

"Witness the Lord God! The balance tilted to the right!... The grain transportation in this village has reached a weight of 2,400 kilograms and 12 standard stones! The leader of the team has taken the bamboo sticks and is ready to go!..."

"Yes, yes!...Thank you, priest!..."

"Witness the Lord God! The balance tilted to the left! ... The food transportation in this village is only ten standard stones, which is four hundred kilograms less!"

"Ah! Lord Priest! Please! Please!... We will return to the flag team right now to make up for the missing food!..."

"The balance is tilted to the left, and the food transportation is not enough! ...According to the teachings of the Gods during the war...The leader of the team will be beheaded, and the food transportation team will be killed on May Day! Someone!..."

"Ah! Lord Samurai of the Plateau! Please! My uncle is a nobleman in the city...ah! No!..."

The screams stopped, and an old head with a feather crest was quickly inserted into a tall Mexica spear and stood on the outside of the port, still dripping with blood. Then, there were several short screams, and four or five red-stained civilian heads were piled up at the bottom of the spear, as if they were the real "cornerstone" supporting the Mexica spear...

At this moment, the crowded Jinwan Port fell silent for an instant. The grain transport teams from various farming flag brigades were silent, and some were even trembling, but no one dared to cause trouble, and they could only become more obedient. Likewise, the kingdom's warriors transporting food did not stop busy. Baskets of tortillas and beans were piled into the cabins of the galleys and catamarans, like anteaters devouring ants. At the port, the chief priest who inspected and accepted the items looked indifferent and continued to weigh the items on the giant scale of stone and wood. He then recorded the accounts with a wild goose brush and continued the inspection without a smile.

Seeing such a cold and chilling scene, the few leaders of the flag team who were looking for Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com turned pale at the same time. They quickly lowered their voices and asked for help from the familiar grain transport flag teams around them. They took out the kingdom gems as currency and bought the surplus grain at a high price. However, there were only a few flag teams, and they seemed to be well prepared. They brought in a lot of extra grain and traded at a tenfold increase in price. If you look closely, you will see that these flag teams with plenty of food supplies all come from nearby Tuntian farms, and they all have a former Jinwan tribe background...

"Hiss! After being conquered by the Mexica, the Totonac tribe on the seaside seemed to have been completely changed from bones to skin, and they looked more like the Mexica!... Ah ! They were burned by the blue fire of the volcano demon from loose clay into solid pottery... and became as powerful, cold and terrifying as the Mexica people!... Compared with them, our Silver Crow tribe's strength…"

After looking into the distance for a moment, Silver Crow, Elder Grass and White Crow sighed deeply. He thought about it silently for a while, then stepped onto the shore with a worried expression. Then, escorted by a group of seaside warriors wearing armor and holding spears, the envoys of the Silver Crow Tribe finally headed to the main temple at the highest point in Golden Bay City.

Note: The easter egg chapter is a map of Northeast China, which cannot be seen until the review is completed.

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