Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Xie Qian is ready to surround the point and call for reinforcements!

He even set up his headquarters in the north of Lima City, on a high ground near the sea.

Standing here, you can overlook the entire city of Lima.

The Ming army had already guarded the traffic arteries outside Lima, and Juma was stationed not far outside the city.

The trenches dug one mile away from the city wall have formed a "匚" shape, surrounding the city of Lima on three sides.

The open side leads directly to the beach.

Encircling three towers and one tower is the essence of the art of war.

The side that Xie Qian deliberately moved out of the way happened to be the soft beach.

After the Ming army blocked both sides, if the Spaniards dared to leave the city, they would be greeted with just judgment!

No one can escape!

In the distance is the Lima River, which supplies water to the city of Lima.

The river has been artificially cut off and the water has gathered into a small lake.

An aqueduct dug by the Ming army led the silted river water to the sea.

Although he had asked Huang Degong for help, Xie Qian was still prepared.

If most of Huang Degong was held back by other Western bandits, he would adopt a siege policy and drag the Westerners to death!

Fortunately, this worst situation did not occur.

On the evening of the fourth day after Xie Qian sent someone to deliver the letter, a large group of warships sailed into the Bay of Lima.

A rough count showed that there were more than eighty ships.

Obviously, Huang Degong only left twenty ships to look after his house.

Xie Qian hurriedly let people release fireworks to indicate his position.

Sure enough, the flagship began to slow down and lowered the landing craft.

Huang Degong landed in a small boat and joined Xie Qian.

"General!"

Xie Qian stepped forward and saluted.

"well done!"

Huang Degong reached out and hit Xie Qian on the shoulder.

"General, I finally found the local indigenous people.

In our Siyi Museum, there are still people who specialize in American language.

After being asked by the translator, the general learned about the normal conditions of this place.

According to locals:

This place is called the Land of Heavenly Punishment. The climate is very dry and it hardly rains. "

Xie Qian's face was full of joy.

But he didn't know how difficult it was to obtain these translations.

After Emperor Yongle's power over Blue Star, in the fifth year of Yongle's reign, he opened the Seyi Museum in Nanjing, specifically to cultivate foreign language talents.

The function of the Siyi Pavilion is mainly to train diplomats who understand the Yi language. Therefore, it is affiliated to the Hanlin Academy.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Hanlin Academy was engaged in the work of checking for omissions and filling them.

Ming Dynasty is too vast.

There are more than two hundred small foreign vassal countries!

The emperor's external edicts are the face of a country.

After all, if a country is like Lao Zhu—

"Damn it, if you don't surrender, I will let the army kill you!"

"Hurry up and send me the messenger, otherwise, my soldiers in the Western Regions will come to collect them!"

"Tell the common people that when those who deserve to be killed come, I have sharpened their knives to kill their mother!"

……

Isn’t this a matter of losing one’s status?

It must be beautified and beautified by a group of people from the Hanlin Academy who are "literary and artistic"!

This was the purpose of Emperor Yongle's establishment of the Siyi Pavilion.

Later, foreigners were hired to teach foreign languages ​​to their country’s diplomats.

Initially there were only eight halls, namely: Tatar, Nvzhi, Xifan, Xitian, Huihui, Baiyi, Gaochang, and Myanmar.

In the sixth year of Zhengde, it increased to 800 pavilions.

……

Zhu Youjian had already set his sights on the Americas, so he specifically asked Fang Zhenghua to look for the old people of Siyi Pavilion.

After many setbacks, we found several translators who were not very proficient in American native languages.

Zhu Youjian did some research and found that these people had only learned American language for their ancestors, and they could no longer communicate with each other in daily conversations.

Zhu Youjian had no choice but to ask Zheng Sen to tell the Zheng family and pay attention to a translator who was proficient in American language.

Official exchanges between the Ming Dynasty and the Americas have been cut off for too long.

Fortunately, after Longqing, even though the power of foreign trade was transferred by civil servants, it led to the rise of private cross-border trade.

The Zheng family, which dominates the China Sea, is the "highway intersection and toll station" in the foreign trade chain.

Except for Guangdong and Guangxi and the northern land border, if you want to trade overseas, you have to pay "member money" to the Zheng family.

With the ability of the Zheng family, as long as there are translators who are proficient in American, they should be able to find them.

On the New Year's Eve the year before last, Zheng Sen took the steam car that Zhu Youjin had given him and went home to show off.

He remembered what the emperor told him.

Therefore, the wealthy families who cooperated with Zheng were ordered to pay attention to translators who were proficient in American dialects.

With Zheng Sen's status, it is much easier to find these people than Zhu Youjian.

The next day, Zheng Sen learned that someone in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was still doing business in maritime trade in the Americas.

Later, more news came together.

There were several crew members in that fleet, all of whom were proficient in Inca.

However, that wealthy family was from Zhejiang and had close relations with Westerners.

People's travels all come through Japan.

The Zheng family's hands couldn't reach out.

Of course, if Zheng Sen passes his teacher Qian Qianyi...

It’s just a few translations, so it’s easy to go.

but!

At that time, Nanming was discussing the implementation of the "donation of swallows" in the name of "borrowing captives to defeat the bandits"!

His teacher Qian Qianyi actually wanted to force Zhu Yousong to cede the land of Yan and Zhao?

This is what Your Majesty calls a traitor!

How could Zheng Sen, a young and successful young man, be willing to have a half-cent relationship with Qian Qianyi?

When he knew the news, he immediately took his fleet and prepared to "stab" Qiu Ju, "My Holy Qing".

How could Zheng Sen be willing to have anything to do with Qian Qianyi!

Without saying a word, he secretly inquired about the news. Taking advantage of the opportunity to return to Handu after the New Year, he took a fleet deep into Hangzhou Bay, pulled artillery to the door, and destroyed thirteen manors.

Abruptly, dozens of foreign language talents were snatched away from the wealthy families in Hangzhou.

Plus…

I got a New Year's gift for Zhu Youjian - filling a boat with gold and silver.

Xie Qian naturally didn't know that these translations were hard-won.

And the translators did not dare to say anything when they were bombarded with cannons in the capital of Han Dynasty!

If you really pissed off that boy from the Zheng family, you would arrive in a warship, tie them to the cannon and "gun them to death"...

Where can I go to reason?

Huang Degong didn't know the twists and turns.

He looked at his feet, which were all sparse and thorny tropical plants.

He immediately believed Xie Qian's news.

(Although Lima is close to the Pacific Ocean, it has a tropical desert climate.

Most areas are located on the eastern edge of the South Pacific subtropical high.

Because the airflow sinks significantly, the climate is dry.

In addition, the prevailing wind direction here is the southeast trade wind, and the air flow is basically parallel to the sea level, making it difficult for water vapor to rise.

Off the coast of the continent, there is a powerful Peruvian cold current flowing through it. The coastal air comes into contact with the water surface of the cold current, and the lower layer cools, forming a stable temperature inversion layer.

Therefore, the water vapor here can only form fog and is difficult to transport upward to form clouds and cause rain.

Lima is a world-famous rainless city. There is no thunder and lightning, no violent storms all year round, and ice and snow are unheard of.

There is no rain in Lima. It does not mean that it rains all year round, but the annual rainfall is only about 15 millimeters.

Therefore, Lima has the title of "the city without rain")