The clattering horse hooves trampled across the stream, and the first few horses had already set foot on the north bank. Then two to three hundred knights followed and rushed over. Half of the people on the horses were wearing tops and lower skirts, with their hair tied in right knots, long swords hanging from their waists, and

Wearing breastplates, carrying flintlock pistols and feathered helmets. The other half are mostly dressed like Western knights, wearing cloaks, breastplates, and carrying long swords and flintlock pistols.

The knights dressed in this way were followed by the Yin Shang Xibo Marquis Zhou Peigong and the envoys of the Vice King of New Spain, as well as the regional bishop Raul Torres who "discovered the Shang Fang".

The two foreign adults frowned and didn't speak much along the way. They just looked back from time to time to look at the merchant knights following them. These merchant knights looked a bit more like Mongolians than the ones Raul Torres saw four years ago.

The Shang knights looked much more formal. Not only did they have uniform uniforms - blue tops and lower skirts, but they were also equipped with breastplates and helmets. Regardless of the armor, they were all polished, and you could tell at a glance that they were made of high-quality iron.

It is made of high-quality materials, and I don’t know if it is made of Ming Dynasty’s “Foshan Iron”?

In addition, the "Fuifa Bang" they carry on their backs looks very powerful. It has a simple shape, the "Hang" tube is slender, and the workmanship is exquisite. It is obviously a high-end product.

The horses they were riding also looked very majestic. They looked a bit like horses with Iberian blood. I don’t know if they obtained the lost Spanish Iberian horses through trade with the Indians and bred them.

kind.

Of course, after careful observation these days, these two foreigners discovered a phenomenon that surprised them. All the merchants they saw - including the merchant guards and soldiers they saw at Hongshui Pass and Sea Grassland Fortress

, as well as the merchants who welcomed them north, none of them were pockmarked!

What does this mean? This means that these Shang people have probably never been exposed to the terrible smallpox!

This seems to be a matter of course. The Shang people left China 2,600 years ago and fled across the sea to the New World. At that time, smallpox probably had not appeared in China... Even if it had, as long as you follow Lu

If no one among the people who fled from my father got smallpox, then they would have no chance of being exposed to smallpox after they arrived in the New World. Moreover, for the next two thousand years, they only maintained indirect contact with China through the small country of North Korea in Northeast Asia.

North Korea in Northeast Asia is located in a cold zone, which is not prone to smallpox epidemics. Moreover, the trip back from North Korea is likely to take several months, and you may also rest on some small islands in the North Pacific along the way.

.In this way, even if someone is infected with smallpox, it is unlikely that they will bring it back to the New World.

This means that, like other Indians, they have no resistance to smallpox... This is really a blessing from God!

When the Spaniards first arrived in America, they cleverly made use of smallpox, a plague weapon given by God. Unintentionally or deliberately, they spread clothes, shrouds, and blankets contaminated by the pus and scabs of smallpox patients.

Indians who had not been exposed to smallpox fell ill and died in large numbers. This not only greatly weakened the resistance of the Indians, but also shook their faith, causing them to doubt their gods and convert to God.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the help of smallpox, it would be difficult for the Spanish to conquer so many Indians with such a small force and easily disintegrate the Aztec and Inca empires.

And when the Spanish encountered the scattered hunting Plains Indians and could no longer carry out targeted poisoning, their conquest became very difficult... In fact, after the Spanish penetrated deep into New Mexico and Arizona,

Facing the erratic Indian hunting tribes, the Spaniards, who had gunpowder weapons and steel weapons, could only adopt the method of building fortifications.

After the new vice-king, Count San Cristóbal and Archbishop de Zumarraga arrived in Mexico City, these two devout Christians who were familiar with the history of Spain's conquest of the New World immediately proposed the idea of ​​using smallpox to conquer the merchants.

The mission of Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres actually carried the mission of poisoning... Among the gifts they carried for the Shang King and Yin Jiahan,

There were blankets contaminated by the pus and scabs of smallpox patients! The accompanying Spanish knights all carried the same contaminated blankets, ready to be exchanged with merchants from the Shang Kingdom!

In addition, Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres will also request trade from the merchant country... As long as the other party agrees, the Spaniards can continue to spread poison through port trade.

Once a smallpox epidemic broke out in the merchant country, the Spanish's opportunity would come!

Of course, before poisoning, Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres still need to confirm that there is really no smallpox in the merchant country.

Thinking of this, Raul Torres drove his horse to Zhou Peigong, and then said to test: "Xibohou, I learned from an ancient book introducing the history of Shangfang Kingdom that your Shangfang Kingdom has many magical medicines that can cure all diseases.

?”

He had practiced Chinese hard in the past two years and could speak it very fluently. Therefore, Zhou Peigong could understand it without a translator.

"Introducing the ancient books of Shang Fang Kingdom?" Zhou Peigong was stunned and said to himself: "This foreign devil will not know how to read "Shangshu". He has probably read "The Romance of the Gods", right? The medicine in "The Romance of the Gods"

, but there is no place to look for it. But why does this foreign devil ask this? Does he have some incurable disease?"

Thinking of this, he pretended to be concerned and asked: "Priest, are you sick?"

"No, it's not me." Torres shook his head, "It's the smallpox epidemic in Mexico City recently...also called acne. People with the disease will have scary bean-like lesions on their faces, arms, and thighs.

The stuff will scab and suppurate, and some people will die of the disease, while those who survive will have scars on their faces after they recover. Do you have any medicine to treat this disease?"

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Zhou Peigong was overjoyed, this is good news! It would be great if you foreign devils all died from smallpox! Even if not that many people die, if a few die, they will not send troops to attack us for the time being. However, the Spaniards

Smallpox, a good thing, can be reused.

Zhou Peigong said: "Father Torres, we businessmen have always respected ghosts and gods and have been blessed by God. We have never suffered from such a serious disease, so there is no good medicine to cure it."

What he said was conclusive, not like a lie, and Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres did not see any businessmen with pockmarked faces along the way - pockmarked faces were very common in Western Europe in those days, even King Louis X of France

Si and King James II of England are both pockmarked!

Therefore, Zhou Peigong's words and the fact that the merchants he saw along the way were all pockmarked made Father Raul Torres believe that these merchants had really never seen smallpox... What a blessing from God!

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Song of the New Dynasty, early winter of 1688 AD.

The gongs sounded loudly and the horses' hooves clattered. With the solemn "Shang Yu", the sound of avoidance rang out everywhere. Zhou Peigong, the great Shang Xibohou, led the Spanish envoy team and marched through the commercial city of Shang Fang.

Passing through the city, there are "squares" surrounded by high walls on both sides. Both sides of the street, which seemed a bit deserted, were filled with Shangfang people wearing cross-collar commoners, carrying swords, and wearing buns.

Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres looked curiously at this ancient city with a history of two thousand years - although this city looks new, its antiquity can be seen everywhere.

For example, there was a large stone tablet erected inside the south gate of Xinchaoge when they entered the city. On the front of the stone tablet were engraved the words "Simu Daji Tomb", and on the back there was an inscription. Xibohou

Zhou Peigong told the two foreign devils that the so-called "Si Mu" is the title of the king's wife. Simu Daji is the wife of Lu Fu's father, Emperor Xin. She has the surname Su, her surname, and her courtesy name Da. Chao Ge after the Battle of Makino

He was defeated and martyred in the battle to defend the city.

Later, after Father Lu moved eastward to America, he named the area on the inner seaside of Fugui Bay Xin Chaoge. However, no city was built at that time. He only built a tomb here for Simu Daji who died in the old Chaoge battle.

Every square in Xinchaoge City has a story. At the gate of almost every square, there is a dilapidated stone tablet full of history. The stone tablets are engraved with ancient words, which record the growth of this "square" in the city.

Important events that occurred in the two thousand years of history.

However, Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres were not very interested in these things that happened a long time ago. Their attention soon shifted from the city to the people, or to be more precise, to the "face".

Each face was very "clean" and had obviously never had smallpox.

As for the number of "merchants" on both sides of the street, there are of course a lot of them, both men and women, probably no less than 20,000, and they are all young and strong Yin Shang people - the descendants of the Shang people who migrated from China. Zhou Peigong

Tell those two foreign adults that in today's Shang country, there are "distinctions between nationalities and wild peoples". The descendants of the foreign Shang people are called "Guoren", while the natives who arrived earlier than the Shang people are called "Chinese people".

Savage".

Most of the Chinese people live in the city, while the savages live in the countryside. Although the country and the wild people have lived in harmony for more than two thousand years, they are still clearly distinct... But when smallpox arrives, there is a scene of hell inside and outside the city.

I don’t know how many people there are in the entire Shang Fang Kingdom? I heard Zhou Peigong say that this Xin Chaoge is only the third largest city in the Shang Fang Kingdom, and there are two cities above it, Yindu and Shangdu, which are twice as big.

There are 20,000 to 30,000 young people in this city of Shangfang. If you include the old and the young, it is estimated that there are 50,000 residents. The population of Yindu and Shangdu is doubled, and the total population is 200,000. Including the new

Chaoge has a population of 250,000...counting other small towns, there are at most 400,000 to 500,000 Chinese. It is about the same size as the white population of New Spain...and they have no less than

As for the Westerners' muskets, they might also get the support of the Ming Dynasty. If they had to fight openly and openly, New Spain might not be able to win.

Well now, none of them have had smallpox!

Just when he was thinking of this, Zhou Peigong had already led the Spanish delegation to a stop outside a square in the north of the city. The gate of the square was open, and it was deserted inside. There seemed to be no residents. Outside the open gate, there were some people.

When a group of people who looked like musicians saw them coming, they started playing and playing, and some people were holding a "three-eye bomb" and setting off cannons there, which looked very lively.

The two wore the same style as Zhou Peigong, and also wore "bird feather" hats. They looked at the very young Shang officials leading a group of Shang warriors, standing grandly at the gate. When they saw the foreign devils coming, they all said in Chinese in unison

Shouted: "The ministers of Yin and Shang welcome the envoys of Spain from the ghost side!"

Zhou Peigong turned back to the two foreign devils and said: "It is said that the Guifang Kingdom comes from the west. Its people have white skin, high noses, red hair and blue eyes, and they are very similar to you. So the Marquis of Jizhou and the Marquis of Celing Qianhu call you Guifang."

As he spoke, he pointed to the Fangshi gate in front and said to the two foreign envoys: "Please...this is the Sifangfang of Xinchaoge, which is also the Embassy Square. Originally there was Aziz.

The embassies of the Turk Country and the Inca Country are permanently stationed in Chaoge. Unfortunately, these two countries were destroyed by the Kingdom of Evil more than a hundred years ago, so the embassy building has been vacant for more than a hundred years."

"What?" Raul Torres was stunned, "You guys still have diplomatic relations with the Aztecs and Incas?"

This thing is so new that it can almost change the history of the New World!

In previous records, the influence of the two so-called empires of the Aztecs and Incas was limited to their own surrounding areas. I have never heard of any official diplomacy between the two major indigenous American countries. Moreover, the Inca Empire did not even have written words.

If not, how can this diplomacy be carried out?

"Of course! Although our country of Shang Fang is closed to the outside world, it is not completely without diplomacy. We have had diplomatic relations with the Aztecs and Incas for hundreds of years!" Zhou Peigong said seriously, "But we people in Shang Fang know that although our country is large,

, the truth that war will lead to death. Therefore, the late king Lu Fu passed down the message to the people, asking us to close the country and not annex other people's lands just because we are strong... But I didn't expect that some countries were greedy and did not know how to restrain themselves.

It's not enough for the Croats and Incas to destroy their country and their species, and now they come to plot against our Shang side, and we're not afraid of the wrath of our Shang king and the destruction of your country!"

Zhou Peigong's words were very unpleasant and full of warning, but the two envoys, Alfonso Garcia and Raul Torres, were not angry at all (Garcia could also understand some Chinese), but were full of satisfaction.

He made a promise to Zhou Peigong with a smile on his face.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! We, the Kingdom of New Spain, have no ill intentions towards the Shang Fang Kingdom."

"Yes, we are here just for friendship and trade... To prove our sincerity in pursuing friendship, we have prepared a generous gift for the merchant king! I hope you will not refuse our kindness."

"Marquis, we know that you have established a special friendship with the Ming Empire... We in the Kingdom of New Spain are not willing to be enemies of the Ming Dynasty. We also hope to resume trade with the Ming Dynasty through your merchant country. We need the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!