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Chapter 1247 Black Market
Recognizing Da Ming's father, this is the most difficult thing that Du Tong, the commander-in-chief of the garrison in Lima City, has encountered.

Now the city of Lima is separated into two worlds. On one side is the northwestern city where the Ming army was stationed. The shops have reopened. The fields outside the city are also being plowed in spring by the civilians led by the Ming army. Fishing grounds, forest farms, and mines along the coast and rivers They all started to work, and it was a scene of waste waiting to be done.

The food is still not self-sufficient, but with the aid of the turtle island fishing ground and the Panama grain ship, people can still survive.

On the other side of Armed Forces Square, it was like a hell on earth. After the neighbors robbed, the rioters robbed, the rioters robbed and the soldiers wanted to leave the city, but they couldn't.

Under the order of the Chilean warlord Shao Tingda, the northern Chilean frontier guards both land and sea broke through the customs and captured another big city in Peru, Cuzco, which was once the capital of the Inca. After Jiaxiang led his army to the northwest and stationed in Lima City, this ancient capital relied on the self-government defense of the nobles to be vulnerable.

Sixteen light and heavy General Zhenshuo cannons roared outside the city, and Chile's siege troops, composed of samurai, ashigaru, and native archers, entered the city along the gap. The battle lasted less than an hour, and it was not Jurchen's turn at all. Dressed up as infantry, the Jurchen leader sent hunters outside the city to catch Shao Bianjiao's sheep, and the defenders had already surrendered.

In fact, if Shao Bianjiao was willing to surrender before the battle, he might have surrendered without siege.

In the Spanish population, the city is called Cusco, and in the native population, the city is also called Cusco, but the same pronunciation is called Navel City in the ears of the Ming army who can understand the native language.

The navel is the center of the human body, and the name of the city means that the Incas believed it was the center of the world.

Shao Bianjiao laughed off the name and what it represented.

"Why do so many people in this world think they are the center of the world? There are so many centers in the world, and only the most powerful is the center."

At sea, the main task of Shao Tingda's fleet was not to attack Lima City, but to escort a new batch of nitrate to Changsheng. The Ministry stationed outside the city to assist Du Tong in blocking the city, and the fleet continued to sail north with the nitrate transport ship.

Shao Dingzhong originally thought that this was an ordinary garrison mission, and the overall situation of the entire South Asia had been decided, and if he knew the general situation, a mere city of Lima would not be able to cause any disturbances.

Everyone, including his Six Hundred Banners Army, thought that they came out of the desert, and this was an excellent opportunity to show off.

But I didn't expect that the tiredness of the garrison here was far better than that of the Chilean desert.

Before their camp was set up, three groups of people ran out of the city and were driven back three times by them.

It is impossible to tell who is a soldier and who is a civilian. The soldiers have the same armor and the same clothes. The only difference is that some want to escape after being robbed in the city;

No matter how capable veterans are, they will degenerate into beasts in the chaotic city of Lima, and people's minds will be complicated. If they are allowed to fight, they will not be able to use one-third of their original abilities.

Let's go, the Spanish Legion's equipment is not bad, and its tactics are quite good. The short board is just that the training is not in place and the supplies of the troops can't keep up.

Not only gunpowder and material supplies relying on caravans can't keep up with the intense battles, but the most important thing is that the personnel can't keep up.

In the eyes of the Ming Siyang Army Mansion, a qualified flag army must first have two years of service experience. They have not fought a single battle in these two years, and have been training in Beiyang until they have perfected the military quality that training can improve, and then stationed everywhere.

In the eyes of every legionary commander in Spain, a qualified phalanx soldier must have two years of service experience, but they have no training system. These two years of experience are fighting in various places controlled by Spain. After two years, those who are still alive must be Qualified fighter.

Beiyang trains ten bannermen, and in the end, nine or even ten of them can become qualified bannermen. They have a high chance of surviving their first battle. Only [-] full-time soldiers are needed to complete the training of [-] veterans. change.

If Spain wants to achieve the same number, among them, disabled, dead, retired, and missing, none of the ten will survive, and [-] full-time soldiers may not be able to leave this number.

The entire population of Spain is only 800 million, and it is impossible to reach such a level. Subsequent supplementary soldiers will inevitably cause the army's combat power to drop precipitously.

After the looting of Lima, many soldiers knew that they might never return to Spain alive, and the king's arrears of their military salaries would never be paid. However, they are very easy to break up in battle, and everyone only cares about running for their lives.

For Shao Dingzhong stationed in the south of the city, such a battle is as easy as a game, but tiring.

The reason why Du Tong did not allow anyone to leave Lima City was because of the amazing wealth of Lima City.

They had registered the properties of the Spanish evacuated nobles, and they generally carried a large amount of gold, silver and jewels, which was enough to tempt anyone.

Previously, the military government promised to allow the Spanish nobles to evacuate, and Du Tong could not interfere, but after the Spaniards who asked for surrender brought the news that Spain was infecting the plague, everything changed.

Money touches people's hearts. Faced with these nobles who often carry hundreds of taels of gold and silver or even thousands of taels, since they can't leave and they are asking the Ming army, Du Tong thinks it is unnecessary to let them leave Peru with money.

It doesn't matter if the money goes into anyone's pocket, even if it is all handed over to the military government in the end, wouldn't it be better than letting the Spaniards take it away?

The name of the first Spaniard who brought the plague to Spain was Xiao Zuo, by the way, because his nephew Ren Yuer was from Ming Dynasty, so this uncle took his nephew’s surname as Ren Xiaozuo, and his sister was named Ren Xiaoyou Well, it was because of this nephew that Ren Xiaozuo was lucky enough to meet Du Tong, the commander in chief.

On this side, he was allowed to walk out of Daming District under the protection of two small flag troops, and opened a black market in Lima City.

The business scope of the black market is relatively wide. Gold and silver treasures, firearms and armor, horses and hounds, sheepskin blankets, etc., and even decorative objects, ancient paintings, literature and toys are all purchased at low prices by Wanli Asia Tongbao.

Wanli Tongbao has only one use in Lima City. In the center of Lima City, Armed Forces Square, the back door of the demolished cathedral is connected to the Daming District, and the front door has a relief porridge shed set up by the Ming Army.

In this place, corn noodles and sweet potato noodles made by farmers outside the city are sold. If the amount is huge, you can even buy a ticket to enter Daming District.

The only problem is that they do not accept gold and silver treasures, nor do they accept barter. They only accept Asian Wanli Tongbao from Ming Dynasty, because only when the Asian Wanli Tongbao is used and there is still Tongbao on their body during the catastrophe, it means that this person is at least Ming Dynasty. The merchants in the Western Trade may have something to do with the Ming Western Trade, otherwise why would the Ming Banner Army protect you?

(End of this chapter)