I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 475: End of the Expedition
The emperor of the Inca Empire quickly came to his senses and rewarded Chen Lang with a bunch of things, including various gold-cast items that were piled up at his feet like garbage.
Chen Lang accepted the reward and took out a few drawings. These drawings showed a series of plants, including corn, potatoes, rubber trees, cinchona trees, tomatoes, tobacco leaves, and the peppers that Zhu Houxuan had been thinking about for a long time.
He loved spicy food in his previous life, so he hasn't had any spicy food for a long time.
Obtaining these plants is the third mission of the expedition.

The emperor immediately understood what Chen Lang meant and immediately sent people to look for those plants.
These plants were quite common in South America. With the order from the Inca emperor, Chen Lang collected all the plants within one day and completed the task.
While the Incas were fascinated by the gifts from the Ming Dynasty, Chen Lang was also constantly recording his experiences in the Inca Empire.

What surprised him the most was the cheapness and commonness of gold and silver in Inca society. He instantly understood why His Royal Highness the King of Jing wanted to establish trade relations with this place. Gold and silver were abundant here, and the Inca Empire, with a population of tens of millions, had been founded for more than 300 years. The gold and silver accumulated over these 300 years was a huge fortune. Any Ming merchant ship carrying the most ordinary Ming goods could earn hundreds or even thousands of times the profit.
In real history, all the gold and silver accumulated by the Incas over three hundred years fell into the hands of the Spaniards. It is impossible to verify how much gold and silver this amount was, but it is estimated that there were at least hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

After the fall of the Inca Empire, Spain established colonies in the Inca Empire and forced the Incas to mine gold and silver for them, which were then continuously shipped to the Americas. According to final statistics, during the 300 years of Spanish colonial rule in Latin America, Spain plundered about million kilograms of gold and million kilograms of silver from Latin America.

Who wouldn't be envious of so much gold and silver? That's why Zhu Houxun wanted to change history to see if he could get a share of it.

After all, the waves in the Pacific Ocean are much smaller than those in the Atlantic Ocean. Although both are across the ocean, it is much easier to travel from the Ming Dynasty to the Inca Empire than from Europe to the Inca Empire. In this regard, the Ming Dynasty is already ahead.

The arrival of the expedition fleet had an impact on the Inca Empire that was more than just some goods. The civilization and technology of the Ming Dynasty were completely overwhelming compared to the Inca Empire. Things that Chen Lang was accustomed to in his daily life did not exist in the Inca Empire, such as the wheel. The Native Americans did not invent the wheel.
Such exchanges had a profound impact on the Inca Empire.
Almost every Inca who came into contact with the Ming people developed curiosity, admiration and respect for that great country.
Chen Lang stayed in Cusco for half a month and then decided to go back because all his tasks had been completed. Although the Inca emperor tried to keep him, Chen Lang was determined to leave.

Finally, the emperor of the Inca Empire decided to send a group of envoys to accompany the expedition fleet back to the Ming Dynasty with gifts to express his respect and desire to make friends with the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Chen Lang used various body language to remind people that this voyage would cause many deaths, the nobles of the Inca Empire did not care about this at all and all of them flocked to it.
In the end, the size of the Inca delegation was set at 9 people. This was the number decided by Chen Lang because he didn't know whether the Incas could adapt to the seafaring life, and having more people wouldn't make much sense.

The leader of the Inca delegation was named Huaku, which means pottery.

Huaku's father was the high priest of Coyasuron - the original name of the Inca Empire was "Tawantinsuron", which had four major administrative regions, namely Chinchasuron, Kutisuron, Antisuron and Coyasuron, with the capital located in Coyasuron.

Waku was the fourth son of his father. He was born into the ruling class, but he could not inherit the position of high priest. At most, he could be appointed as a priest of some small and medium-sized tribes. Waku liked astronomy, painting, mathematics and music. He often looked up at the stars and wondered if there were humans living in the sky. When the great god Welacoca created humans, why didn't he give them wings? That way they could fly into the sky.

The Incas did believe in a sun god, but above the sun god was the creator god Pilagoncha.

Below the Creator Pilagocha, there is the Great God Welacoca, who created the earth, humans, and all gods, including the sun god. He is the source of everything in the world, so there is no need to mark out holy places or build temples, just pray to him sincerely.

The composition of Inca mythology is very similar to that of ancient Chinese mythology, because of the similar construction process, the main Inca tribe constantly conquered other tribes and absorbed the beliefs and legends of each tribe. The gods of the conquered tribes were gradually added to the Inca mythology, forming a unique mythological system together with the ancestors and gods of the Inca people.

Waku was full of curiosity and yearning for the outside world. He signed up enthusiastically to go on a diplomatic mission to the Ming Dynasty and was finally appointed as the leader of the diplomatic delegation.

Chen Lang left 20 young people from the Royal Group in Cusco. This was also one of the plans. These young people were gifted in languages. They would learn the language of the Inca Empire here to prepare for subsequent large-scale exchanges.
By the way, we also guarded the various gifts given by the Inca emperor, because there were too many of them, and most of them were precious metals, which could not be transported back at all, so we had to wait for the next ship to transport them back.
In March of the 16th year of the Zhengde reign, Chen Lang boarded the Ming Dynasty's expedition ship with a delegation of Inca envoys, various native American animals and plants, and gifts from the Inca emperor.

Before setting sail, Chen Lang emptied all the fresh water on the ship and filled it with corn wine produced in the Inca Empire, just like when they set out from Dalian, they filled it with sugarcane wine produced in Dongfan Island. This was a common practice in navigation at that time. Using wine instead of fresh water could preserve it for a longer time.
The alcohol content of these undistilled wines is not high, and you won’t get drunk even if you drink a bottle.

Under the guidance of the navigator and the nautical chart, the fleet soon found the South Equatorial Current and set out on the journey back to Ming Dynasty.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's Zhu Houzhao was preparing for the final blow to the Tatars who had retreated to the northern desert.
In the 15th year of Zhengde, the Ming Dynasty's military and propaganda offensive against the Tatar tribes was extremely effective. About 500,000 Tatars either actively or passively went south to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and became naturalized Mongols.

The number of naturalized Mongols controlled by the Ming Dynasty has exceeded 800,000, which is more than the Tatars who have retreated to the northern desert.
Zhu Houzhao did not give the Tatars any chance to catch their breath and prepared to continue attacking the remaining Tatars in the spring of the 16th year of Zhengde.
(End of this chapter)