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Chapter 1572 The mouse fell into the rice vat

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    Peru is the Inca kingdom that Pizarro conquered.  After the Inca king was captured by Pizarro, he promised to give the Spaniards a room full of gold in exchange for his freedom.

    ¡°And he really did it One can imagine how rich the precious metal deposits are here.

    Naturally, the Spaniards were even less likely to let him go. After wiping out the Inca Kingdom, Spain turned Peru into a colony and began frantically searching for minerals there, enslaving Indians to mine for them using the 'mida system'.

    The Mida system sounds nice and means rotational service, but in fact it is a cruel enslavement of the Indians.

    The forcibly recruited Indians were driven down the mines every Monday and had to work in the worst conditions until Saturday before they were allowed to see the light of day again.  Under this inhumane and cruel slavery, the one-year mortality rate of Indian miners was as high as 80%!

    The Spaniards also lamented, why are the vitality of these Indians so fragile?  There's no way he can compare with a hard-working black slave.

    Such inhumane slavery naturally aroused fierce resistance from the Indians.  But the more they did this, the more determined the colonists were to implement the 'mida system'.  Otherwise, how could the eight million people of the Inca Kingdom be consumed?

    The cruel methods of the colonists did achieve their goals. In another time and space, Spain colonized the Americas for three hundred years and seized more than 2.5 billion pesos of silver from Peru alone.

    They didn¡¯t have to pay anything, but the bones of 8.9 million Incas were piled in the mines

    This has to make people doubt that God probably does not exist, and even if he does exist, he is an evil god.

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    In order to prevent the Indians who insist on resisting from taking away the gold and silver that the Indians have worked hard to mine, Spain also has a strange rule that after purification, the gold and silver cannot be stored in warehouses on the ground overnight, and must be transported to the seaside port for shipment as soon as possible.  .  Once filled, it is shipped to Panama, where it is transported overland to the Caribbean and back to the Americas.

    This method is correct. Peru¡¯s precious metals are all in the Andes Mountains. Transporting them out of the mountains is to the Pacific Ocean, which is much more convenient than transporting them overland to the east coast.  Moreover, the sea has been peaceful for a long time, and there is no threat at all. The Spanish have been shipping for decades, and there has never been an accident.

    ¡°It turns out something serious will happen

    The privateer fleet went all the way north and found that the situation on the coast of South America was exactly what the Portuguese in Brazil said, because there were no other European colonists competing on the Pacific coast, no pirates could come across the ocean, and the Indians never went to sea.  Therefore, the Spaniards' level of armament at sea is very low, and all their forces are concentrated on land They are mainly used in mines in various places and to escort transportation teams.

    The Spaniards are almost undefended on the sea, just like the alpacas, a local specialty, which makes people feel sorry for them if they don't bully them.

    When Lin Feng led the fleet and effortlessly broke through the Port of Matarani in southern Peru and captured all the Spanish ships on the dock, she and her friends were shocked.

    Although in order not to reveal their identity and make the action more sudden, all the warships took down the sun and moon flags and painted big red crosses on the sails, but the Spaniard was too unprepared, wasn't he?

    Is there such an easy business in the world?  Is there actually a place in Haiphong that¡¯s better than Ming Dynasty?  And it was like before the Japanese pirates broke out.

    Several crew members who were old pirates couldn't help but recall the good old days.  At that time, they encountered a lot of weak-minded officers and soldiers, so they thought being a pirate was the most promising career

    What¡¯s more surprising is yet to come. Although the Spaniards are very good at sea control, the cargo on the ship is not good at all!

    "Get rich, get rich!" After a rough inventory, Ma Jishan reported to Lin Feng with a slobbery voice: "There is half a ton of gold and fifty tons of silver on one ship! There are two hundred tons of pure copper on one ship! There is also a ship  The hair and skin of a grass and mud horse!¡±

    "It's so ugly to call a grass-mud horse an alpaca!" Lin Feng scolded and couldn't help but swallowed: "Alpacas, are they so fat?"

    "This is normal. The output of precious metals in the Viceroyalty of Peru is so amazing. The output of Potosi Silver City alone accounts for nearly half of the world's production. I heard that the population there at this time exceeded 150,000, and there were 4,000 silver-smelting furnaces.  Yeah. Besides, it¡¯s been a year since your last robbery. I must have accumulated some wealth again and are preparing to transport it to Panama, right?"

    Zhang Xiaojing teased the newly caught alpaca with vegetable leaves and said with a teasing smile:

    "Now here comes the difficult question. Should you follow the example of a blind bear and break off the corn, or should you eat it and wipe it clean before moving on to the next place? This is not the lesser of two evils, right?"

    It takes many days to transfer so much cargo, but after a long delay, the cities in the north will get the news and the ships in the harbor will escape.Close the city gate and dare not go out again.

    In fact, the people of the Ming Dynasty had no intention of attacking the city at all. They were only interested in the ships on the dock.

    Lima is different. There are hundreds of ships, large and small, parked, including eleven cargo ships over 300 tons, and a luxurious Spanish galleon!

    Judging from the flag, it should be the ship of the Vice-President of Peru. Judging from the size, it is larger than the Tianbao that sank in Linfeng Strait.

    The crew members were still worried about the sinking of the Tianbao, but now they saw the upgraded replacement, and they were all happy.

    Lin Feng was also very happy, but besides being happy, she was also very puzzled, don¡¯t the Spaniards communicate with each other?  As long as there is a little bit of dedication, it won't end up like this.

    "Instead of worrying about them," Ma Jishan reminded her, "we might as well think about ourselves, how can we sail back after we have robbed so many ships?"

    After this success, the fleet expanded to twenty-seven ships.  Although a thousand people on board now know how to operate a boat, they can barely sail these boats.  But it¡¯s impossible to make a shift, and trying to cross the Pacific is a complete joke.

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