Aztec Eternals

"Good, very good!"

The remnant dream frightened, like summer rain, like autumn wind, drifting in the distant sky of time. Time changes, the sea recedes, and the epic of the lost kingdom is like a sudden shower, beating on the heart of the king, and also beating vigilance and enlightenment. It wasn't until Jadiri's voice sounded like thunder that Shulot recovered from the contemplation of the kingdom change. He looked at the knowledgeable elder with a smile, and held him up with both hands kindly.

"Only by using the kingdom's epic as a bronze mirror can we see the rise and fall of the future clearly! I also ask the sages to speak freely and give me advice and enlightenment!"

Jadiri paused slightly, a look of admiration flashed across his face. Afterwards, he stood up and walked towards the fourth stone slab again.

"Please look, Your Highness!"

Xiulot looked carefully, and the fourth board was also a group of three patterns.

The panel painting in the middle is a picture of Hajj. Under the supreme sun, a king with a condor helmet looked majestic and tall, sitting on the throne in the middle. With a spear in one hand and a scepter in the other, he was accepting the pilgrimage from everyone. Below him, followed by the courtiers who saluted. The ministers are divided into two distinct halves. The left half is holding a weapon, wearing an animal skin battle suit, wearing various animal helmets, and carrying spears, bows and arrows on its back. The half on the right is holding a scepter, wearing gorgeous robes, wearing a traditional broad hat in the lake area, and carrying a shield with family crests on its back. And a circle further outside is Wanmin kneeling on the pilgrimage. Tens of thousands of people are densely packed and small in size, like countless ants lying on the ground.

The young king looked at it for a moment, and the warriors on the left were obviously closer to the Condor King. In this serious political panel painting, different distances and sizes symbolize the size of power and status. He thought for a while and whispered to himself.

"This situation is very similar to the current situation of the closed country!"

Jatiri nodded with a smile.

"Your Highness, the one in the middle is the enthronement ceremony of the first generation of Condor King, Tarasco's first Kasongqi, Talia Kuri. After more than ten years, the chief of the Condor, Talia Kuri, finally won peace. He conquered the ministries of the land of the lake, controlled the Patzcuaro and Chapala lake areas, and established a country here, with the capital in Chin Tsung Chan.

Not long after the kingdom was first established, there were two groups of nobles under the command of the king Talia Kuri. One group is the Nahua military nobles who followed him all the way south, and the other group is the Urihiu traditional nobles who surrendered one after another. Both sides own tribes, warriors and lands. The Nahua military nobles are good at fighting, they have been following them longer, they have made more military exploits, and their status is obviously higher, but their number is smaller. In contrast, the traditional aristocrats in the Lake District are numerous and powerful. Although they belonged late, they have a deep foundation in the Lake District.

After Talia Kuri ascended the throne, the first important thing was the enfeoffment of land. The Nahua military aristocrats longed for the rich lands of the Lake District, and hoped to be divided near the prosperous capital. Half of these lands are directly under the royal family, and half are controlled by the traditional nobles of the Lake District. No one can match the prestige of the first emperor, and no one dares to covet the territory directly under the royal family. The Nahua nobles had conflicts with the lake district nobles and began to fight for land. Soon, the two sides hugged each other, and the contradictions gradually intensified. The Nahua nobles are accustomed to speaking with force, and soon mobilized their respective tribal warriors. "

Hearing this, Xiulot nodded and remained silent. Military aristocrats have an innate desire for land. If the king wants to drive a powerful army, he must satisfy the land needs of the warriors.

After the Mexica Legion conquered the land in the lake, the first thing they did was to seek the enfeoffment of the land. This Western Expedition only lasted for more than a year, and the military achievements of the nobles and warriors have not accumulated enough to be rewarded. Relying on authority, the young king intentionally suppressed the number of enfeoffed nobles and the size of their fiefs. Even so, there are nearly 2 million mu of land to be divided, accounting for 15-20% of the existing cultivated land in the entire sealed country.

Talia Kuri has fought for more than ten years, and the number of military nobles under his command must be several times that of the Northern Mexican Army. He does not have the strength of the Mexica Alliance, so he cannot plan to cleanse the old nobles on a large scale in the national war. Then the situation he faced at that time must be much more difficult than the present himself.

Thinking of this, Xiulot looked at the two panels on the left and right.

The panel painting on the left is a wedding scene, and the king of the condor is at the top of the picture. Under the witness of the Condor King, a newlyweds were standing side by side, clasping their hands. The groom on the left is a male Nahua hunter with a short bow. He was wearing a warrior's battle clothes, and he was holding a wild deer in his arms. The bride on the right is a female lake fisherman with a net. She was wearing noble clothes and holding a big fish in her arms. If you observe carefully, you can see that the groom is larger and taller, showing a slightly higher status.

"How to integrate the new ethnic group with the native ethnic group is the first problem that every conqueror king must face."

The knowledgeable elder looked at Xiulot with a smile in his eyes.

"The first emperor of Tarasco, in order to deal with this problem, personally arranged and presided over a large-scale intermarriage between the two races to eliminate the gap between the two sides. Almost all Nahua nobles were required to marry the native Urixiu nobles. Marriage, and the requirement is to have the right to inherit, and the outstanding children born! And ordinary Nahua warriors are also required to marry a commoner woman from the lake area."

"In this ancient panel painting, the wild deer is the symbol of the nobles of the Nahua, and the big fish is the representative of the nobles of the lake area. The combination of the two gave birth to the first batch of Prepecha elites, the backbone of the new kingdom! It is rumored that Talia Kuri, the first king, was blessed by the gods and lived to be 80 years old. He ruled the newly emerging kingdom for decades, and with his outstanding prestige and firm patience, he achieved The redistribution of noble fiefs and the establishment of a solid faction balance.

And venison is always rarer and more precious than fish. During the two hundred years of succession, the integrated Prepeca people no longer distinguished the ethnic groups of the two sides, and gradually evolved a new cognition, that is, "nobles eat venison" and "common people eat river fish". This board painting with profound meaning is no longer mentioned. "

After listening to this narration, Xiulot sincerely admired it.

It is often more difficult to effectively rule a piece of land than to occupy it. As the leader of the Nahua tribe who migrated to the south, Talia Kuri has enough courage to actively promote the integration of the two ethnic groups. He spent his whole life kneading new Prepeca people, which showed a bit of long-term vision and vision compared with some kings who insisted on ethnic differences.

"The ethnic group of Preepecha is hundreds of thousands in the lake area, and the number of conquered Mexica legions is only 20,000. In order to establish a stable kingdom rule, the large-scale intermarriage between the Mexica warriors and the people of Preepecha , must also be implemented as a national policy!"

Xiulot pondered for a moment, and secretly made up his mind. He nodded slowly, and looked at the pattern on the right again.

The pattern on the right depicts groups of traveling nobles and warriors. In the center is still the radiant King Condor. At the foot of the king is the magnificent capital, and his eyes are parted like eagles, scanning the four lands. There, the nobles went in different directions and carried different banners.

The young king looked at the family crest on the flag. There are "crocodile" and "turkey" on the noble flags in the north, "feather", "sky" and "silver" in the west, "comfrey" and "palm" in the south, and "kestrel" and "black" in the east. Leopard". Shulot pondered for a few breaths and asked affirmatively.

"Enfeoff tribal leaders and guard the four frontiers?"

Jadiri smiled, eyes deep.

"Exactly! The new kingdom can be established, and the Nahua military nobles made the greatest contribution. Those powerful nobles each own tribes and control hundreds to thousands of tribal warriors. They yearn for a vast and fertile land. However, the first emperor did not want to follow the old path of the strong and weak Ulixiu Kingdom, and decided to take the entire Patzcuaro Lake area under his direct control. He relied on his own prestige and the resourcefulness of the Hummingbird family , entrusted the powerful military nobles to the borders of the kingdom."

"The crocodile nobles guard the vast northern estuary, the purple grass nobles suppress the prosperous southern river banks, and the kestrel nobles from the royal family control the steep eastern forests. Then, the distant and rich Chapala Lake area ancestral land was handed over to the three Nahua nobles. Governance and co-management. These powerful military aristocrats went to the frontier to entrust them, so they no longer threatened the central royal power. The great aristocrats obtained a vast territory for free development, and used their force to attack border tribes that did not want to surrender, but they also faced Facing constant military challenges, it is inseparable from the strong support of the center of the lake area. In the past two hundred years, the frontier nobles have continuously expanded the living space of the kingdom and spread the influence of the kingdom to the four directions."

The knowledgeable elder paused. He looked at the young king who shook his head slightly, and said with a smile.

"Your Highness, the messenger's running speed is limited, and there is no fast walking road outside the city. The direct control of the center can only be limited to the lake area with fast transportation within hundreds of miles. It has always been the practice of all ministries in the world to divide the frontier. Many Nahua nobles who are looking for comfort are actually unwilling to leave the fertile core lake area and go to the border where fighting is constant.

In the process of enfeoffment, in order to urge the powerful nobles to leave, the first head of the Hummingbird family made great efforts. He showed a rare wisdom among the Nahua nobles, and also became the chief minister of the first kingdom. Since then, the chief ministers of all dynasties have been held by outstanding members of the hummingbird family. The hummingbird is accompanied by the condor, like a vine attached to a big tree, like a withered and prosperous one.

With the development of the kingdom, the strength of the frontier nobles began to expand. The responsibilities of the chief ministers have also expanded from integrating the directly subordinate Patzcuaro Lake District, supporting military operations on the frontier, to balancing the aristocratic forces on the frontier. This chief Jinjinni has assisted three generations of kings. He not only assisted in controlling ninety large villages and towns in the lake area, personally presided over the decades-long crusade against the Tekos, but also effectively suppressed the crocodile family in the north, maintaining the balance of power among the three Chapala families."

Shulot raised his head and looked at the enfeoffment pattern, but the vast North and South American continents flashed in his heart.

With enough cheap metal tools available, road building on a large scale was possible. With the upgrading of ships and the introduction of horses from the old continent in the future, the area directly under the ruling center's effective control will increase several times or even ten times. The entire world of Central America can be included in the direct category of the future empire. However, the increased speed of this messenger communication is far from enough to cover the vast North American continent, let alone reach the distant land of South America.

If you want to expand the influence of the empire as much as possible, struggle with the colonists from all over Europe, and compete for the dominance of the New World, you must do your best to integrate the native tribes of the entire Americas. The military enfeoffment of the frontier is naturally inevitable, and the intermarriage of various ethnic groups is imperative. And farther away, the faith must be spread as soon as possible, the local chiefs canonized, and incorporated into the tribute system similar to the Celestial Dynasty!

"With the world in mind, it's like having a thousand weights on your shoulders. Every step a king takes seems to be watched by all people, changing the pace of the times. A true king must be as firm as steel and jade, cautious as walking on thin ice! "

The young king sighed lightly. On his face, there was a dignifiedness different from his age.

"My future path is not only to shine in the world, but also a long way to go!"

Note: The last few chapters are introducing the history of the ancient kingdom while combing the current national conditions to sort out the future governance.