Aztec Eternals

LATEST WEBSITE: Tropical April is the end of the dry season. The cloudy weather is gradually increasing, and the wind is more humid. As the top event of the year, the busy spring ploughing is just around the corner.

Waves of messengers are running in the kingdom of the lake. They went all the way to the north, through the fields full of life, through the lake where the fishing boats shuttled, and finally reached the estuary fortress, and sent the reports from all over the kingdom to the hands of the king.

In the mansion in the center of the fortress, Shulot sat cross-legged and read documents from various places.

It is said that it is a document, but it is actually a bit like an illustration with words. On the tough bark paper, small figures with different movements are drawn, some holding weapons, some holding farm implements, some holding cotton cloth, some holding corn, some mining stones, some smelting metals, and others is praying. Next to the villain are different counting symbols and local pseudonyms, and a few Chinese characters marked with squares. The kingdom's writing has been popular for less than two years. Even the simplified local pseudonyms are only mastered by some priests, and even fewer are familiar with Chinese characters.

The text has not yet become popular, and the "illustration book" is somewhat lengthy. The large volumes of documents were piled up on the two desks in front of the king. One was already read, and the other was waiting to be viewed.

The two bookcases are short and flat solid wooden piers with a hard texture and black and green background. The wood surface has a unique natural texture, and the color changes with the wood grain. At a glance, the two solid bookcases are like dark jade, with a thick and simple. In fact, because the wood is so hard, the kingdom's artisans polished them exactly the same way they did with jade. This is the priceless high-grade treasure wood in later generations, the cherished Mexican ebony and black persimmon.

In this era, black persimmon is also a relatively valuable tree. Because of its peculiar fragrance, it is endowed with religious significance and is often planted near temples. The texture of black persimmon wood is changeable, with dark gradation, like the surface of silk and satin, and like a natural ink landscape painting.

Shulot liked the texture of this wood, so he asked the craftsmen to make some furniture in his memory and put them in the living palace. These reminded him of his distant homeland. After reading the meeting document, he stretched out his hand and picked up a dark purple teacup from the small table of Heishimu beside him.

The dark purple teacup is the latest firing of the official kiln in the capital. To supply the royal family, artisans used heated coke to burn a stoneware, a sort of intermediate between pottery and porcelain. Although Shulot pointed out the direction, the craftsmanship of porcelain is still far away, and even the glazing technology is still being explored, but occasionally some exquisite fine stoneware will be produced.

"The delicate stoneware without glaze is somewhat like the purple sand pottery of Yixing."

Shiroute looked at the beautiful graininess on the surface of the teacup, and the faint purple luster, and smiled. Under the guidance of divine priests, the kingdom's pottery craftsmanship is slowly progressing, just like any other handicraft industry. Afterwards, he lowered his head and took a sip of the hibiscus tea, a specialty of the kingdom. The sour taste suddenly reverberated in the mouth, with some faint floral fragrance, which was shocking.

Hibiscus flower, or Florde Jamaica, is mainly produced in tropical Africa, but it also has native plants in the Americas, especially the Jamaican variety. It was a popular drink in later Mexico, and dried hibiscus tea could be seen in any market. It also has a slightly refreshing effect, and the king uses it to relieve fatigue.

Two steps away, Bertard was also sitting cross-legged, with a bronze sword beside his leg. There is a table in front of him, and a paper and pen seal is placed on the table. The government structure of the kingdom is sparse and streamlined, and important matters are decided by the king.

"Bottard, the documents from all over the country have arrived one by one, reporting the number of small mouths and the preparation for spring ploughing. Only the report from Zicao County in the south is ambiguous."

Shirot frowned, and threw the wooden atlas in his hand on the table. This atlas is still in the traditional style of alliances and kingdoms, with thick wooden boards and abstract drawings, with several ancient graphic texts marked next to them, with no specific numbers or descriptions at all. The king was displeased when he checked it out.

"His Royal Highness, Etalic, who sits in Kuramo City, said in a letter that the great nobles in Zicao County are obedient on the surface, but they actually hinder the administration of the kingdom. The nobles, led by the honorable nobles Guramo and Zotor, secretly form a group. .Under their prevention, the spread of the main god's belief was extremely slow, the priests could not control the village, and were often attacked by bandits..."

Bertard's expression was calm, and he brought the details of the south one by one.

"Last year when the army marched north, the southern nobles had changes and frequent gatherings. They reduced the tribute after the autumn harvest in the name of the flood in Tulsa. Fortunately, Ezpan's Second Spear Legion was stationed in In the south of Gyeonggi, the nobles in the south dare not make a big move.”

"Gulamo of the Lilac family, Zotor of the Palm family... are all glorious nobles who returned after the Western Expedition?"

Hearing this, Shulot asked in a deep voice, his eyes cold.

In the Nahua language, "zotor" is palm and "gulamo" is comfrey rag wood. The southern town of Zicao is named after Kuramo, which shows the long history of these families.

"Exactly, they are all the great nobles of the frontier who were enfeoffed in the early days of the Tarasco Kingdom. After more than two hundred years of inheritance, the two families are deeply rooted in the southern Zicao County, and have married many nobles."

Bertard took out a volume of atlas and opened it up.

"Your Highness, after the autumn harvest last year, with a population of more than 200,000 people in Shicao County, the tribute paid to the kingdom was only a quarter of that of Gyeonggi. The great nobles only paid some symbolic tribute. It is said that in Tarasco, In the era of the kingdom, they were like this. They didn't pay tribute, they controlled the mouth and the land, and they just did some military service."

"Well, I see."

Shirot lowered his eyes, nodded, and stopped talking. The aristocratic forces in the south have always been in his heart, but the sudden incident of the Northern Expedition, which has been going for nearly a year, delayed the previous plan.

After drinking and adding hibiscus tea, all the documents have been reviewed. The king unfolded a new volume of the kingdom map, patiently marking the reports from various places on the map one by one.

The Lake Kingdom has been established for two years, and the situation of each county has been sorted out.

Hekou County in the north has a population of about 210,000 after the placement of 60,000 canine descendants, all under the firm control of missionary priests. The aristocratic power of this land has been cleaned most completely, so the vast majority of the population has been divided into Qimin households and incorporated into the kingdom's Minton system. The peasants paid 30% of the tax each year and obeyed the dispatch of corvée.

The belief in the main **** spread rapidly in Hekou County, and composting and new agricultural tools became popular. Last year's autumn harvest increased by 20%, and the yield per mu of milpa increased to nearly 100 catties of corn and kidney beans, and 200-250 catties of pumpkin. In this way, as long as 3 acres of land can support about one Ding Zhuang. With the current land production, if the kingdom reduces the tax from 30% to 25%, each household can raise one more child.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiuluot marked Hekou County with "210,000 mouth, 50,000 Ding, directly under the kingdom, large grain county, Leman River Shipyard".

Next is Gyeonggi in the Patzcuaro Lake District, with a population of around 280,000. With the participation of the sage Jatiri, more and more elites of Prepecha joined the kingdom's rule, managing all aspects of Gyeonggi. As a prerequisite for the participation of the Prepecha elites, the belief in the Lord God has completely covered the upper layers of the kingdom.

A large number of military camps were placed in the Gyeonggi area, where the best craftsmen of various kingdoms were concentrated, and they vigorously exploited the copper and coal mines of Chingambat in the southwest, and even established the kingdom's first university.

King Qincongcan City is the political and religious center, as well as the workshop and cultural center. The city of Ivacio in the south of Gyeonggi is an important business center and the largest copper mine and precious stone trading place in the world. It can be said that the output of Gyeonggi supplies almost the entire kingdom's standing army, and provides the best bronze equipment.

Xiulote drew a few circles, and then marked "mouth 280,000, Ding 70,000, directly under the kingdom, copper mines, coal mines, bronzes, gems, workshops, markets, universities."

Later, the southern county of Zicao was vast, rich in rainfall, and stored copper and silver, but it was the weakest place in the kingdom's rule. The southern boundary of Zicao County is the Tulsa River. The bifurcation of the river irrigates the land along the way. The agricultural conditions are good, and the fishery and mining resources are also very rich, but they have not been developed. The county seat of Kuramo City, along the Tulsa River, is an important trade center in the world, and exchanges with the southern ministries are very frequent.

Seirot recalled the data estimated by Etalic, and wrote down "200,000 for the mouth, 40,000 for the Ding, the aristocratic autonomy, the details are unknown. The foreign trade center, the sea outlet."

The west side of the Tulsa River leads to the estuary that flows into the Pacific Ocean, which is only more than 300 miles away from the city of Kuramo in Lithospermum County, and is the closest way to the ocean. Thinking of this, many exploration plans flashed in his mind, and there was a person who passed by. After a while ~www.readwn.com~ the king raised his head slightly and turned his eyes to the north.

The three states of Otomi in the north have already been marked. Otto Pangbang has a population of 200,000, Ding 30,000, aristocratic self-governance, and the ancestral land of a mountain city. Guamare state has a population of 140,000 and Ding 20,000. Maltese." The northernmost state of Palms is "80,000 people, 15,000 people, semi-autonomous, wasteland outpost."

Although these data are only estimates, they can show the kingdom's ability to control the local area. After all, if the Otomi forces of the servants are also included in the Lake Kingdom, then the newly born kingdom has a population of more than 1.1 million, more than 200,000 people, five hundred miles from east to west, and nearly a thousand miles from north to south!

The king's heart is burning with wild hopes. His expression changed, and he couldn't help but stretch out his hand and touch the eastern capital of the lake, Tenochtitlan, which has the largest population, the most fertile valley, and the most powerful alliance in the world.

Then, his hand gradually moved westward, stroking the area of ​​the Chapala Lake District, where the same fertile land is the "River of Stones" and "Valley of Fortresses" in later generations, where the Guadalajara metropolitan area is located. . In the end, the king finally drew a red circle on the city of Kuramo.

"After the autumn harvest, come here for a visit!"