Chapter 2037 Don't Fight, Change to Flicker

[Net] The Rise of the European Emperor Marin was right in thinking. At the beginning, he sent silver miners into the Aztec Empire to help the Aztecs open silver mines. Today, the Aztec Empire has indeed ushered in a major explosion in silver production.

With the help of Suk, an artisan sent by Marin, the Aztec Empire discovered a large silver mine in Sutipico near the capital Tenochtitlan (Mexico City). The Aztec emperor Montezuma II was also brave enough. He directly launched a war and plundered 100,000 young men from surrounding countries to help him mine the Sutipico silver mine. In just two or three years, tens of thousands of pounds of silver were produced. With silver mining on the right track, it is estimated that the silver mine output will reach more than 100,000 pounds this year.

Kohler went to the Overseas Intelligence Department to check the archives and found that the newly sent intelligence mentioned these.

"100,000 pounds of silver!" Marin's eyes narrowed...

That's 45.3 tons! Equivalent to 1,216,000 taels of silver, it can mint 10,000 standard Finny small silver coins! This counts to more than 1 million gold coins!

Not only that, the silver mine engineer (also a special agent) sent to Tenochtitlan also reported a news that shocked Marin-the Aztec Empire has a lot of gold, and the city of Tenochtitlan alone Here, the gold owned by the palaces, temples, and chieftains amounted to twenty to thirty thousand pounds.

Among them, the gold in the palace and the pyramid temple is the most. In addition to being worn by nobles, another important occasion for gold is temples. The high priests of the Aztec Empire, like Indian women, like to be covered with gold ornaments all over their bodies, which are extremely dazzling and jingle.

Aristocrats also like gold ornaments, but they are not as concentrated as in palaces and temples. Of course, the number of nobles is large, and the total number is considerable.

With so much gold and silver, Marin was almost so excited that he wanted to learn from Cortes, start a war, and grab all the gold and silver! And, he has the ability to do that too.

According to the original history, Cortes would start the war three years later. Don't look at Cortes only brought more than 600 people ashore, but later the colonial army sent by the Cuban governor to arrest him was incorporated by him, making his men reach as many as 2,000. In addition, some local chiefs who opposed the emperor Montezuma II were also deceived by him and attacked Tenochtitlan with him, with a total of tens of thousands.

In addition, there is a very important point, that is, religious issues!

The unlucky Aztecs circulated the myth of the "White God", and mistakenly believed that Cortez and his party were envoys sent by the so-called "White God", and believed that they were the god Curtis in the Aztec mythology. An envoy from Quesar. Therefore, at the beginning, Emperor Montezuma II was not hostile to their group.

It was only later that the Spaniard exposed his ugly face,

The wanton plundering of gold and silver, and even forced buying and selling, aroused the resistance of the Aztecs, and the so-called "Night of Sorrow" appeared.

Regarding this religious issue, in fact, Clive, the silver mine engineer and spy sent by the North Sea State, was initially regarded by the Aztecs as the envoy of Curtis Quessac. At that time, Clive was stunned and explained that he was not an angel, because he was not a member of the church and could not communicate with the gods.

But in the past few years, Clive helped the Aztec Empire find the Sutipico silver mine, and guided the craftsmen of the Aztec Empire to establish a large-scale mine and introduce the blast furnace for smelting silver in the North Sea. In this way, the output of the Suti Pico Silver Mine exploded.

Montezuma II was very satisfied with Clive's work, thinking that even if Clive was not an envoy, he was sent by the White God to help the Aztec Empire. Clive had an idea at the time, and he didn't admit it, but he didn't deny it either. He only said that it was God's guidance...

Having said that, Marin suddenly had a new idea...

"Perhaps, we can send someone pretending to be an envoy to influence this country. In this way, we don't need to send out a large army to conquer. At least, there is no need for now..."

There is a reason for Marin to think this way. The Aztec Empire has a large territory. It is easy to defeat the Aztec Empire alone, but it is troublesome to stay there for a long time afterwards. Then, people will also resist, okay?

For a strong monarch, he is never afraid of confrontation, but he is afraid of endless rebellions. For example, the mighty Qin Dynasty had just lost the Six Kingdoms head-on, but in the end it fell into the hands of the Six Kingdoms uprising army.

Marin didn't think that the Aztecs, who didn't even have steel weapons, could defeat the North Sea army, but now is really not the time!

Before defeating France, it is not suitable for the North Sea country to send troops to America on a large scale. Not only is it easy to leak secrets, but it is also easy to cause emptiness in the country. If it is given the lair by France and the German princes, it will not be worth the loss.

Therefore, at least until the situation in Europe is stable, troops cannot be sent.

Originally, Marin planned to learn from Cortes and send a small number of troops to perform this task. However, Clive's report gave Marin a reminder—maybe, religious means can be used...

The so-called religious means, of course, is to use tricks to pretend to be an envoy, and then influence the Aztec Empire to get gold and silver smoothly...

Moreover, Marin is not a novice in this field, and his rank is relatively high. You know, he has already used Taylor, the archbishop of the North Sea Kingdom, to help him fool the soldiers and the people of the whole country. Now, the churches all over Beihai are full of disciples and grandchildren of Taylor's big fool, trying to fool people into believing in God, and... allegiance to Marin and Marin's heirs...

Obviously, in terms of pretending to be gods and fooling people, Taylor is the master, and Marin is the master of the master...

Therefore, Marin gave Kohler a task-to choose a disciple of Taylor who has a strong ability to fool, a good language talent, and a less fanatical and firm belief, who knows how to adapt. Of course, to be reliable...

Then, the person would first learn the Aztec language, which had to be a Tenochtitlan accent. After learning the language, pretend to be an envoy and go to Tenochtitlan to perform tasks...

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Reliability is easy to understand, and strong ability and language talent are also easy to understand. But Kohler is a little doubtful about his unsteady faith.

You know, many big fools, because they are too powerful, fooled and fooled, not only fooled others, but also got fooled into it. A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth. I've said the foolish man's words thousands of times, and I'm a little bit convinced...

Therefore, many disciples and grandchildren of Archbishop Taylor did fool people, but they themselves were fooled into it. After all, if he pretended too much and the atmosphere was too good, it was inevitable that he would be tricked.

There is another problem, those big fools with great acting skills and strong professional ability, even an intelligence leader like Kohler, can't tell whether he is really fanatical in believing in God...

In this regard, Marin has a way to distinguish:

"It's simple. According to the rules, Catholic priests are not allowed to have women, nor should they be greedy for money. You only need to check which of Taylor's disciples like women and money first, and you will find a large number of big fool priests who are not firm in their beliefs! "

Kohler was right when he thought about it, but he suddenly thought of Marin's father-in-law, that is, Pope Julius II. He also loves women and money, but he is also very superstitious...

Kohler pointed out tactfully...

Marin was right when he thought about it, but he was not helpless:

"That's a problem, let's do this. After you find a talented descendant of Taylor who loves women and money, try again, and send a spy to question the gods in front of him on purpose to see if he reacts violently. The person who is sent to test must have a It looks very fierce, and ordinary people can't provoke that kind of person. If the other party is angry and defends the gods, then he is a fanatic. If he swallows his anger and only cares about his own safety...you can use..."

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Why did Marin choose a flickering priest with an unsteady belief? The reason is simple, he intends to learn Matteo Ricci!

Matteo Ricci was sent by the Roman Holy See to preach in China during the Ming Dynasty, but his predecessors and companions did not know how to adapt. They only allowed believers to believe in God, and did not allow them to worship heaven, ancestors and Confucius, which touched the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty people. , making preaching difficult.

Therefore, the flexible Matteo Ricci put on Confucian clothing, respected the traditions of the Han people, and combined Chinese and Western cultures, and the results were not bad. No, Xu Guangqi and other bosses were fooled into it.

Of course, Matteo Ricci cannot say that he is not firm in his beliefs, but he is indeed very flexible.

But Marin's mission was different from Matteo Ricci's simple missionary work. Marin didn't want to spread any Catholicism at all. At least, not currently planning to preach.

He sent Taylor's sons and grandchildren to fool, simply to fool the Aztecs into giving him gold and silver. In order to cater to the Aztecs, Marin even planned to let the missionary priest pretend to be the messenger of the gods believed by the Aztecs. Then, using the "instructions of the gods" as an excuse, the Aztecs took the initiative to give the gold and silver to Marin... Of course, it was a transaction, not a free one. The Aztecs were not fools, and Bai Qi would definitely not be happy. But, just ask them to trade, and that's fine...

However, the pricing power is with Marin, and Marin has the final say on how to trade...

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