Science Fiction Selection: History of the Mayan Conquest of Ma Boyong's Merchant Fleet · Preface · Section 1 ·

preface

History is like Schrödinger's poor cat, forever in a paradoxical superposition in time and space. Only when the historian opens the scriptures and begins to study them, will the true state of history finally condense. However, this condensation is not constant and cannot be verified by repeating the test. An ancient Greek physicist pointed out: "One cannot study the same period of history twice. ”

Therefore, if the reader mistakenly compares the history, geography, humanities, sciences, and all other natural and unnatural disciplines involved in this article with the time and space in which the reader himself is located,, even if only because they seem so similar—and believes that it is true, the author will never be responsible for the catastrophic consequences of such an action, nor will he admit that he is wrong. You know, this article doesn't have any central ideas, and it doesn't want to express any ideological content.

Session 1: The War Between Two Civilizations

When Yin Shang's expeditionary fleet brought the west coast of Mexico into range, the Maya remained ignorant of the fate they were about to face.

- Only Cowardly Concubine Constantino, The Lost Civilization of Indean

In the summer of 205 BC in the Republican calendar (note: this book follows the Zhou zhao republican chronology, with 841 BC in the Jesus calendar as the first year of the republic), the monsoon that swept across the Pacific Ocean had just ended its journey, and several unnamed hurricanes swept across the coast of Central America and destroyed beaches in some areas. Fortunately, these hurricanes did not cause any loss of people, property, or insurance companies, because the areas they passed through were uncivilized wilderness, sparsely populated, and the insurance industry did not wait until more than a thousand years before it was invented.

During this hot season, the west coast of Mexico has always been considered the most suitable place to live. The circular warm current meets the equatorial warm current, forming a protective circle of hot air, and any hurricane that approaches will be castrated into a tropical storm and eventually disappear. So the sea surface in this area is silky smooth, with an average wave height of no more than two meters, which is very suitable for surfing, windsurfing competitions, diving sightseeing, and invasion.

On July 13, or a near date, a fleet of twenty large ships suddenly appeared in the waters off the west coast of Mexico. The ships of this fleet were quite large, ranging in length from one hundred to one hundred and thirty meters, and the smallest tonnage was more than ten tons. Twenty ships were all painted white, and their flag was unabashedly hung: Yin Shang.

At this time, the entire military force of the Maya in the western harbor consisted of only twelve canoes three meters long and 0.5 meters wide. They were drifting in the shallow sea three hundred meters away from the Yin Merchant Fleet.

They are known in official records as the "Mayan United Marine Police Force." This force was the product of mutual blame between coastal tribes and inland city-states. Coastal tribes insisted that the entire Mayan cultural community had an unshirkable responsibility for coastal defense, while inland city-states flatly declared that they were not interested in things they had never seen, such as the sea. After a lengthy quarrel, the two sides finally reached a politically perfect compromise: the coastal tribes provided canoes, and the inland city-states provided personnel, both of which were worthless in their eyes anyway.

The Mayan United Marine Police force has very limited responsibilities, and it is only able to "provide limited service for a certain stretch of beach at a certain time, except on Saturdays and Sundays." (Quoted from a statement by a spokesman for the United Marine Police at a joint meeting of Mayan elders.) The Marine Police's canoes are made of bark and have a capacity of two people, but are often overloaded because the inland marine police who have never seen the sea like to get together out of fear to increase their sense of security. This habit has led to frequent overturning accidents, and falling water police often drown because they cannot swim, which in turn prompts the water police to lean closer on the next voyage.

Now these heavily overloaded canoes are doing monthly routine sea drills designed to get the Mayan sailors to overcome their fears of the sea. At least three sailors sat on each canoe, curled up like frightened rabbits, allowing the crumbling canoe to drift with the current. Some also got sick with the boat.

The first to discover the Mayan Combined Marine Police was the reconnaissance ship of the Yin Shang Ocean Fleet, and this situation was immediately reported to the fleet commander, You Houxi.

Commander Youhouxi was an East Asian male who could be called handsome by any era, and the distance between his nose and eyes showed that the Mongol race genes had not yet shown any signs of invading the Central Plains civilization. Hearing the report, he cautiously asked, "Has the other side shown any hostility?" "This is the first standard question to be asked when the two civilizations make their first contact.

The reconnaissance ship's answer to this was: "This will not be known until they are all killed." This is the standard answer to the first standard question when the two civilizations make their first contact.

Commander Yu Houxi then made up his mind, he flicked his finger and issued a brief instruction: "Disperse them with naval guns, and then build a landing field." ”

At the same time, he asked the ship's wizard to burn a tortoiseshell shell with fire, which the fleet had obtained from the local natives when the fleet sailed to the Solomon Islands, at the cost of three sailors, and the local natives lost six tribes and all their fruit.

Twenty ships of the Yin Merchant Fleet, which had received the order, pulled up their sails and began to adjust their posture. Lined up on the surface of the sea, these well-trained troops quickly seized the T-shaped horizontal position, giving way to the bronze trebuchet on the starboard side of the ship to the Mayan canoe group three hundred meters away.

The Marines of the United Marine Police finally noticed the presence of the Grand Fleet, but they were unaware of their danger. Some later historians believe that this cannot be blamed on the water police, because the Maya civilization did not have a T in the alphabet, but the problem is that it is not in the Yinshang Oracle.

After a brief prevarication, a Mayan sailor stood up from his canoe in a trembling voice and shouted in the dialect of his tribe to the massive Yin merchant fleet: "Who are you?" Where are you from? What are you here for? ”

Whether it was out of contempt or simply without an interpreter, the Yin Merchant Fleet remained silent on this question. So the sailor came to the typical Mayan conclusion: "They can't understand me, so there is no threat." ”

The alarm was lifted, and all the Mayan sailors refocused their attention on the canoe beneath them, secretly hoping that they would reach land before it capsized.

At the same time, the Yin Merchant Fleet was silent and busy making final preparations before the start of the war. The warriors of the Merchant Army carried many stone sculptures of various shapes from the cabins and placed them in the spoon of the trebuchet. The shells, which they had collected on the islands along the way, were originally in the form of giddy irregular stones, and during the long voyages of the sea, they were carved into various elaborate works of art by bored sailors: drum figurines, river pigs, orangutans, and even the head of King Pan Geng—the last shell was stopped in time before it was projected, and instead enshrined in the captain's room.

Other stone shells carved into human form were so large that the fleet had to abandon them on an isolated island in the South Pacific. The lazy sailors discarded the legless busts on the beach and left, before they could even name the island.

At the same time as the shells were loaded, the wizard's work was just over, and the tortoiseshell shell cracked three or four obvious cracks in the high temperature. Through the observation of these fissures, the wizard declared that the result was "the fifth power of the great auspiciousness".

This result obviously satisfied You Houxi, who raised his hands and then waved them violently. In this short second, the fate of the entire Mayan civilization was decided.

With several loud ejections, nearly forty fine stone sculptures were thrown out, and they whistled through the air to draw a carefully calculated parabola track before falling into the canoe group of the United Marine Police. The vast majority of these stone sculptures did not touch any valuable targets, but simply splashed a huge splash and sank to the bottom of the sea.

A very small number of shells destroyed most of the canoe swarms, mercilessly smashing the canoe keels into pieces, making a loud noise, and then sinking to the bottom of the sea with the panicked sailors. Several geological years later, archaeologists examined the wreckage at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and found that the shells that hit the canoes were of a wide range of shapes: from the Four-Gon Fangzun to the Coloradora monitor lizard. This illustrates the diversity of the Yin Shang civilization from one side.

The surviving Mayan sailors realized the threat of the enemy, and they panicked, but did not know which direction to flee. Some thought they were going north, some thought they were going south, and some insisted on going back to shore, but unfortunately the sailors who held all three opinions were in the same boat, so the canoes could only spin in place and caused small seasickness.

After the sun had moved a fifth of a millimeter in the direction of the zenith, the second salvo of the Yin Merchant Fleet began. This time the hit rate is lower than the first, because there are not many ships worth hitting. According to statistics, only two canoes were directly hit, and all the other boats capsized on their own in the quarrel of the marine police.

The Yin merchant fleet fired a total of ten salvos that morning, the Mayan Combined Marine Police completely disappeared after the second salvo, and the next eight salvoes were to fill a suitable landing dock on the inner side of the bay with stone shells. The mission was so well accomplished that the sailors had to sail carefully to avoid the ship being destroyed by these new reefs.

When all was said and done, the flagship, the Wine Pond Meat Forest, first dropped its anchor chain at the makeshift dock, and the sailors hurriedly laid a narrow plank of wood between the ship's side and the land, and laid a bright red carpet. Commander Youhouxi, armed with a bronze short sword in his hand, could not wait to be the first to set foot on the beach in South America.

"Oh! Damn bell snail shellfish! ”

Commander Youhouxi suddenly cried out in pain that his foot had been punctured by a fragment of a coronal snail of the family Bell Snail after taking the first step. Out of professionalism, he classified the shell in time while suffering pain—Commander Youhouxi was also a naturalist.

The shellfish were the lunch scraps that the mariners had discarded on the beach that day, the only counterattack by the Mayan Combined Marine Police during the Yin landings — unofficial.

In other versions of the history books, Commander Youhou Xi, after taking the first step, said, "This is a small personal step, but it is a big step in the great Yin Shang civilization under the leadership of His Majesty Di Xin." "No one can prove this claim, and no one can overturn it, unless archaeologists actually find the conch snail in the family Cyprinidae and find the Mayan sailor who threw it on the beach and ask him to put his hand on the "Return to Tibet" and swear an oath.

In any case, Commander Yuhouxi was the first human in history to set foot on the American continent. At that time, Columbus's immediate ancestors also painted bison in the caves of Altamira, Spain, and beat their distant cousin, the Nedeans, with a humble stick.

According to some biased Western historians, Commander Youhouxi must have been white, and the first to set foot on the American continent was only Caucasian. But this claim does not stand up to scrutiny, and it is well known that Commander Yuhouxi neither carried any black slaves, nor did he like potatoes, did not eat potatoes or keep slaves, which was inconceivable for an Anglo-Saxon white man who emigrated to the New World.

After Commander Youhouxi, other ships of the Yin Army also approached the docks. With the rhythmic sound of trumpets, the ships unloaded in batches of sailors, warriors, wizards, craftsmen, and public relations specialists. Commander Yu Houxi firmly believed that if His Majesty Di Xin had enough experts under his command at that time, there would be no tragedy of the rebellion of the Battle of Makino. The wise commander was acutely aware of the importance of controlling public opinion, so at his request the fleet was equipped with two hundred specialists in this specialized field.

The collaboration between these public experts and wizards was very pleasant, the wizard was responsible for divination, and the public expert was responsible for explaining tomorrow why the wizard's divination yesterday was not realized today. So during the long voyage, everyone maintained a reverence for the authority of the wizard, a classic case of management.

The landing of the Yin merchant fleet lasted about an entire afternoon, and the total number of Yin people who finally stood on the west coast of Mexico reached 10,000, carrying a large number of bronze weapons, tools, grain seeds and bamboo sticks, and even an elaborate two-wheeled carriage. Compared to these broad-minded people, the first white colonists more than a thousand years later were ridiculously cold.

After the entire landing, the craftsmen began to methodically build camps on the spot, and the soldiers sneaked into the jungle with bows and arrows, and they hunted colorful parrots, jaguars, and monk-hat monkeys. Commander Youhouxi discussed the next steps with wizards and public relations experts. Commander Yuhouxi pointed out that there must be a Mayan military base near the beach, otherwise it would not be possible to explain the canoes with extremely short navigation capabilities.

At the same time, he expressed concern about the reaction of the Mayans, who would be aware of the collapse of the canoe troops and organize all possible forces to counterattack. He did not want to clash head-on with the main forces of the Mayan army until the fortifications of the Yin Shang army were repaired.

In fact, commander Youhouxi's worries are superfluous, the speed of the spread of the Mayan civilization circle to the surrounding area is completely random, the spread trend and direction of this civilization is non-linear, interlaced, and disorganized. Therefore, the communication system between the tribal city-states is extremely imperfect, and the average information dissemination speed is 10,000 times slower than the speed of sound, that is, 3 km / day.

In other words, it took about 66 days from the beginning of the landings of the Yin Merchant Legion on the West Coast to the time other Mayan communities learned of the incident. If the propagator is sacrificed to the ancestors by wild beasts or other hostile tribes halfway, the propagation time is even more delayed.

In fact, for a long time thereafter, when merchant armies attacked different Mayan tribes, local historians would describe their shock as "when the enemy appeared, the Maya were still ignorant of the fate they were about to face." Because of this, the exact date of the war between the Yin Shang Ocean Fleet and the Maya is difficult to determine, and each tribe has its own version, each tribe insists that they are the first victims of the attack, and grievances claim that they have never received any kind of alarm before.

But at least on the day of the arrival of the Legion of Merchants, all the Mayan tribes—with the exception of the unfortunate Water Guard—enjoyed their final peace: the priests sunbathed at the top of the pyramids, the nobles admired the gems with interest, the commoners and slaves huddled in the stadium watching the bloody ball game, and the Mayan mathematicians were still struggling with the twenty-seat borrowing problem.

By the time evening came, the makeshift palace in the style of pilgrimage had stood on the beaches of mexico's west coast, and Commander Yuhouxi and one of his concubines sat in a two-wheeled carriage, and four warriors took the reins to carry them into the palace, while the others calmly gathered around the palace and ate their first dinner on the American continent, with the staples of braised jaguar, pretzel, and garnish with the simmered papaya of the monk's hat monkey and macaw soup.

The entanglement between commander Youhouxi and his concubine ended quickly, because they had made love too many times during their voyage. When his concubine was asleep, he ascended to the top of the palace, where he could overlook the entire bay.

At this time, the sun only had a trace of residual red, and the calm sea was dyed a charming blood red, showing infinite loneliness. Middle-earth is far away, out of reach. Commander Youhou Xi pulled out his bronze short sword and looked up at the fiery sunset at an angle of 45 degrees, and a sad mood characteristic of a poet emerged in his heart.

A few minutes later, the sun sank completely below the horizon, and the day of July 13, 205 BC ended.