The camp was built with simple wooden houses, and the one Ling Qingyu lived in was located in the middle. At this moment, Zhu Weili, Shi Fang, Zhou Tan, Huang Jing and others were drinking tea around the firepit, with a pile of shiny silver bars next to them. .
In the middle of the night, the people waiting by the firepit were already sound asleep, Yan San stood up, raised his middle finger at Ye Shishi who opened his eyes at the same time, and shushed.
Ling Qingyu, who was sleeping soundly on the chair, hummed and continued to sleep soundly.
Gently opening the corner of the window, a cold wind blew in. Except for the main house with lights on, the rest of the camp was pitch black.
The grass outside the fence in the camp shook and rippled, and Yan San's mouth curled into a sneer.
The fence gate of the camp was wide open, behind the fence was an open space, and the bags piled up all around were silent under the cold moonlight.
"No, why is there no movement inside?" an Inca warrior lying in the grass whispered.
"Slept to death," another Inca warrior wiped the bronze long sword in his hand, and said with a little disdain: "They are all a group of timid aliens, only Gulu and the others listen to them. This is where our sun god The place where the children and grandchildren, what kind of messenger of the sun god, I bah."
"Actually, that envoy is really kind to people." The Inca warrior said with a bit of regret.
"Don't think about it, the patriarch said, she will be captured and sacrificed to the gods." The Inca warrior with the bronze long sword sneered at him.
"Stop talking." An Inca warrior with feathers crawled over, waved his hand, and shouted in a low voice, "Go."
Hundreds of figures jumped out of the grass and rushed towards the wide open fence gate. Some of them rushed in through the gate, some jumped over the fence, and some of them lit the torches in their hands and headed into the camp. Throw it on the wooden house.
The flames burst into flames.
"Aren't we going out?" said a tribal warrior who had made friends with Gulu, and the spear in his hand tapped the ground lightly.
"Wait." Gulu waved him to be quiet. Although he said he wanted to cooperate with Ling Qingyu, he also wanted to see her strength. The Incas admired force and obeyed the brave. This is a test. If she can't show the messenger of the sun god strength, then he doesn't mind taking a bite.
The flames jumped on several wooden houses, making the camp red. The Incas rushed quickly. After entering the camp, they began to search around. The group in the middle rushed to the lighted house in the middle of the camp. .
Their footsteps were tens of meters away from the house. From the roofs of the surrounding wooden houses, behind the wooden houses, and behind some wood piles around the camp, many people in black clothes appeared, and the black clothes blended into the night. But the arrowhead in his hand was shining brightly.
"Shoot!" Song Yu ordered, and arrows rained down on the Incas.
After three rounds of arrow rain, a pile of corpses had already fallen on the ground.
"Brothers, kill!" Ram yelled, swooping down from the roof, and slashed the neck of an Incas with a machete flashing coldly.
Song Yu, Chucheng, Ram, and Shen Zhan led people to defend the four directions. Seeing that most of the Incas had entered the open space in front of the camp, they threw away their bows and arrows, drew their long knives out of their sheaths, and went up to meet them.
This is a one-sided killing. The bronze weapons of the Incas can't stop their blows, and these aliens have a well-founded way to advance and retreat. They are surrounded by groups of three and five, and the light of flying knives is like ground meat. Like a machine, the Incas were forced into the open space in the middle of the camp.
Some Incas who escaped from the outside ran out with pale faces, but were directly headed by a few black shadows flying over.
But in just a moment, the Incas in the camp were strangled.
Gulu's face was also pale, and the hand that was about to push the door trembled unknowingly. Did I open the door of God or the door of demons
"Gulu, you are right, they are real warriors! The messengers of the sun god!" The Incas from other tribes patted Gulu on the shoulder and laughed loudly.
Yes, they met the enemy upright, without any conspiracy, absolute force, this is the real warrior and the real strong, and how could the person who can command such a group of strong men not be the messenger of the sun god!
Gulu pushed open the door, seeing the tall alien looking over coldly, he hurriedly put down the weapon in his hand to show his submission. The murderous alien showed a sincere smile.
When Ling Qingyu woke up in the morning, the outside had been cleaned up, and the representatives of those rebellious ethnic groups also rushed over. Originally, they came to discuss how to carve up the silver mountain, but who knew that what they were facing was actually a group of nearly a thousand people united by several tribes. The troops are all wiped out, and now they are identifying the dead bodies outside and waiting to obey the judgment of the Sun God's messenger.
There are more than ten tribes around the Cerro Rico Mountain. The Gulu tribe is actually far away. There are five tribes who resisted this time, and five tribes are willing to submit to the messenger of the sun god like Gulu. Seeing this situation, he immediately notified the clan to show his submission.
Ling Qingyu didn't see that battle, but judging from the result, he knew that the night's battle must have been one-sided, otherwise these proud Incas would not have surrendered so thoroughly.
The remaining members of the five rebellious tribes were made slaves of the five tribes of Gulu. For the other tribes, Ling Qingyu accepted their surrender and oath and became their nominal leader.
If you don’t take the wrong road, it will take less than ten days to travel from Cerro Rico Mountain to the place where they landed. The construction technology of the Incas is actually very superb. Ling Qingyu asked Gulu to arrange for people to build a road to the seaside and build a In the simple port, the already packed refining tools were disassembled again, and the refinery was rebuilt.
"Is it really okay?" Huang Jing still asked worriedly.
"Their admiration for God is absolute. I think at least these patriarchs will not betray when they are alive. However, when Mr. Huang and Mr. Zhou taught them, the language is not easy to communicate. It is enough for them to refine it. "Ling Qingyu looked at those busy Incas and said.
"Heads, the few of us are willing to stay here." A few tall men walked out from behind Song Yu, cupping their hands.
Ling Qingyu recognized these people, they were Haizhou refugees who came with Song Yu and the others, and asked suspiciously, "Stay here?"
"They are furnace owners, and they have been with us for so long. With them here, I am afraid that we cannot refine high-purity silver." Zhou Tan nodded.
"The head of the family remembers to send a boat to pick us up in the future." Seeing that Ling Qingyu still had hesitation on his face, the leader said with a smile. They had never heard of the abundance of silver deposits here. If they relied solely on these Incas, the refining speed would be very slow. It can also solve the problem of being in charge here, not to mention.
"They fell in love with the girl in that village, and they want to start a family here." Song Yu said with a smile.
That's it, Ling Qingyu nodded and said: "Then it will be hard for you, I will send a boat over regularly, and whenever you want to go home, you can go back with the boat."
He appointed the man named Lin Dan and Gulu as his spokesperson in front of the tribal chiefs, and negotiated with all the tribes on the number of days and remuneration for sending laborers to Yinshan to work, and Ling Qingyu replaced the few remaining men. They proposed to their sweethearts and made dowry gifts of the silk and porcelain they brought with them.
The house in the camp became their new house. Looking at the couples standing there, Ling Qingyu said sincerely: "Congratulations, I hope that I will come over next time. This place can become your own village." And then it will become a city , the largest silver capital in the world.
Since it is already a long-term stronghold and there are people there, it is necessary to have a long-term plan. Ling Qingyu did not take the troops back immediately, but started to make a detailed refinery plan, because the mercury refining method mostly relies on water conservancy to operate , Ling Qingyu racked his brains to draw the layout he saw when he visited the world.
In the next few days, the refinery started to be in full swing again. Huang Jing took people to explore the feasibility and implementation plan of the water conservancy layout drawn by Ling Qingyu, and Zhou Tan took people to look for ore veins. Now all the mines are open-pit mines, but in the future they will definitely To go deep into the Yinshan mountain, Zhou Tan is going to do the layout of the mine at one time.
After those tribes surrendered, their enthusiasm was much higher, and the people on Ling Qingyu's side did things much faster because there was no threat. The cooperation between the two parties accelerated the refining speed of silver several times.
When the plans of Huang Jing and Zhou Tan came out, Ling Qingyu frowned unknowingly. This was not a small project. Of course, the Silver Capital in the previous life was built by the Spaniards for decades, but it was just such a rough calculation. Down, a lot of manpower is needed.
"Envoy," Gulu said next to him, "There are many tribes in the Andes. If the envoy is willing, I am willing to represent the envoy to discuss labor matters with them."
After getting along for a while, Gulu's language ability has been fully utilized. Basically, he can communicate with Ling Qingyu in Inca language plus Zhou language plus gestures. When he is free, he even learns Dazhou characters.
"Oh?" Ling Qingyu raised his eyebrows. Although the tribes in the Andes Mountains in this period were scattered and had not yet become a large unified country, the population was indeed quite large. There were only a dozen or so tribes. There are hundreds of people in the tribe, and there are tens of thousands of people in such a small area.
"The envoy's cloth can be used as a reward. A tribe can work for two months with a hundred labors, and can give a piece of cloth and a hundred pieces of porcelain as a reward." Gulu said. He understood now that the piece of cloth was cut from one piece of cloth, and one piece of cloth was a lot.
so cheap? There are thousands of bolts of silk and tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain on the Fengshen, so how much labor can be paid? Ling Qingyu made some calculations and said, "I remember that there is a tribe in Cusco, which is very powerful?"
"There are quite a lot of them." Gulu laughed. By the way, the emissary likes shiny things, whether silver or gold, and said with a smile: "They have a lot of gold there. You can take cloth to trade with them."
Ling Qingyu immediately beamed with joy, and the joyful appearance made several people around her blush for her. Master, can you stop acting like a slave to money!