Chapter 54: The founding of the New Normans
When Marshal Walter received a reply from Emperor Norman, it was the second year, that is, in February 1015 AD. This reply, and the reply, a total of thousands of Norman officials, solved General Walter's urgent need.
The emperor's reply was not very polite. It was very simple and very tough. He did not want Marshal Walter to re-establish a country in the New World. What Egil wanted was not a high consciousness. He would eventually break away from the colony under his control. What he wanted was the emerging empire and overseas provinces on the American continent.
This time, the emperor named all the territory captured by Marshal Walter as the Central and American Isthmus Province, which ruled the junction between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and North and South America. He also appointed a new provincial governor, as well as a group of talents and other officials who were sufficient to be county governors, mayors, and subordinate officials. These thousands of people, under the guarantee of powerful force, were enough to undertake the administrative tasks of the territory captured by Marshal Walter.
At the same time, the emperor also accused Marshal Walter of his mistakes in his letter. It was indeed correct to accommodate the Aztecs to a certain extent. But in the long run, such compromise is actually not conducive to the rule implemented by the empire here. The emperor asked Marshal Walter to increase the pressure on the Aztecs, asking them to convert to the Catholic faith faster, accept the Norman culture and lifestyle faster, and completely integrate into the Norman life.
In terms of specific implementation, the emperor mentioned Marshal Walter. When marshalling the Aztec army, he only used the performance of the converted Aztecs. He claimed that this was a very good method, inequality, tilted the balance, allowing the converted Aztecs to obtain greater benefits, and imposed certain restrictions on non-Catholics. Such measures would be of great help.
Egil mentioned several points in his mind, such as limiting non-Christians to become officials, restricting them from buying and selling land, restricting them from doing business, restricting them from obtaining military merits, etc., etc., and more importantly, raising their tax rates! A poll tax is imposed on all non-Christians until they are willing to convert!
Of course, the emperor also knew that such measures would probably cause a big rebound. There might even be riots - no, not possible. But it would definitely be. It seemed that it was because he was very excited to write this, and the emperor realized the problem. Marshal Walter was frightened and then read it down. He was relieved.
This policy can only be implemented after the Aztec Empire is completely conquered.
In addition to these tough measures, Egil also had other means of cultural invasion. As the fleet crossed the ocean, there were also a large number of Norman scholars and teachers. They would open colleges in Central America to impart knowledge. At the same time, they would also impart the language, writing, and Europa history to the Aztecs, especially the Aztec children.
At the same time, Egil also promised to speed up the transport of immigrants to Central America. Of course, the number would not be too large. After all, the empire would also open up Siberian areas that were more important to the empire. The vast and sparsely populated places also required a large number of immigrants.
The biggest source of empire immigration is the slaves they bought through legal reforms and some of them cannot afford their own redemption fees. Therefore, they have to participate in immigration activities in exchange for free serfs. However, in fact, the population of the empire is less than 100 million in Europa, which is far from saturated. Therefore, the manpower needed to colonize Central America cannot be completely supported by Europa immigrants.
"Spread your hands. So it's the black slave trade, the black slave trade." At that time, after considering this problem and coming up with a solution, Emperor Norman was so proud. Although in the historical records of the previous world, one was sinful and the other was inhumane on the left. But what did Egil do? A bad profession with pus on his head and sores under his feet - he is the emperor! All emperors in the world want to do bad things! The bigger they do, the more successful the emperor is.
Egil was not ashamed of this idea but proud. He soon began to think about it: "Transfer goods from Europa to black Africa, catch slaves and go to the New World of America, and then bring the New World's products back to Europa. The profits generated by such triangular trade are not only 300%. Even the beheading transactions have been done!
As an emperor, I must have a good deal and take the big head. At the same time, as a supplement, I also need to promote this trading method to merchants to speed up the transportation of black slaves to the New Continent of the Americas and provide sufficient human resources to the colonies."
Thinking of this, Egil contacted Aurora through spiritual connections. Then he told her his plan. After a conversation of mocking, sarcasm and words, this national policy that was enough to lead to a change in the world pattern was formulated by Emperor Egil.
In this way, manpower was established and the structure of the New World colony was also established. The emperor asked General Walter to let go and pacify the entire Central America as quickly as possible. Then, the emperor wanted to establish two or three new provinces there.
General Walter obediently followed. He handed over all the territory he had run for more than a year to the governors and officials appointed by Emperor Norman. Then he led his army and the Aztec army to attack the Aztec Empire in the north.
At this time, almost all cities in the north of Aztec were occupied by the Chichimeks and Apaches. The remaining Aztecs hurried in the city of Tenochitilan. They could do nothing to face the natives of North America who were more than ten times more than they were.
Although they destroyed the bridge leading to the shore and installed a large number of wooden stakes in Lake Descoco to prevent the other party's canoe from approaching the city. They held on for several months, leaving the indigenous people of North America with no choice. But how to say, the unbreakable cities are prone to starvation. At the beginning, they could still use the stock in the city and secretly transport food from the villages around the lake at night.
But soon, the natives of North America discovered the secret. They either threatened or slaughtered them and swept all the villages around Lake Descoco. In this way, Tenochitilan could not get help from outside.
After a few more months, the city of Tenochitiran was running out. The Aztecs began to despair.
Marshal Walter's army launched an attack at this time - when Tenochtilan was about to be captured, the indigenous people of North America were most happy and their security was the most relaxed.
He first sent a small group of troops to sneak into the messy camps of the native North Americans in the dark and set fire to create chaos. When the natives were panicked, they launched a fierce attack! Defeat the coalition forces of the Apaches and the Chichimeks.
With the experience of the last time, Marshal Walter made every effort this time! It is necessary to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible as possible as possible as possible, and organize a tight encirclement to leave the enemy with no way out.
Although such tactics will make the enemy unable to escape, and thus will fight to trap beasts in despair, causing greater losses to his own army. However, Marshal Walter doesn't care. Because all those arranged in the most dangerous places are Aztec troops. He won't feel too heartbroken if he dies too much.
So, after this battle, Marshal Walter killed more than 100,000 North American Native Alliance forces. His own casualties exceeded 20,000. A large number of corpses were thrown into Lake Descoco, and even silted a lake. The Normans finally entered Tenochitilan with such corpses!
After hearing about the defeat of the natives of North America and receiving letters of persuasion from the Aztecs, Kuytravak finally made the decision to surrender - a few days ago, his uncle Montesuma II died. He became the emperor of the Aztec Empire. Of course, the empire is now only a ruined capital, and less than 50,000 soldiers and civilians are in a very embarrassing capital.
If the city does not surrender, the city will not be able to continue to support it.
In this way, the Norman Empire entered the city. Despite some destruction, the main building of Tenochitilan was still intact. The strange style of Central America, the magnificent palaces, temples and pyramids also amaze the Norman soldiers.
Of course, these are not the most important. The most important thing is gold. The unimaginable amount of gold that can fill a whole warehouse. The treasures obtained by the Aztec Empire's war and mining for hundreds of years!
These strange Aztecs value obsidian and feathers more than gold. Although gold is a relatively high-value item in the hearts of the Aztecs, they did not regard gold as the most general equivalent like the civilizations of the Eurasian continent. Instead, they used obsidian, a hard and brittle crystal. Therefore, their gold was stored but not spent. They only made some jewelry and statues occasionally.
"The wealth of the entire country is here now." When General Walter walked to the city of Tenochitilan, a warehouse dedicated to reserve gold, opened its door. The light emitted by the sun shone on the gold made the Norman officers gasp.
"This is, this is simply..." Someone insisted on saying a word to describe this scene. However, his brain seemed to be short-circuited. He just stuttered and couldn't say a complete sentence...!~!
Chapter completed!