Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 1225 Postscript 81: Mayan Messenger Enters Beijing

"Okay, today's class ends here. There are still a few minutes left. If you have any questions, you can ask them on the spot."

Xie Yan closed the lecture notes, and the teaching assistant was packing up the experimental equipment.

Li Dunshi was very active and raised his hand and asked: "Sir, is there any rule in the order of writing molecular formulas?"

Xie Yan shook his head: "There is no rule. The scholars decided it in a meeting. The oxygen element is written at the end and the metal element is written at the beginning. After everyone agreed, it is easier to read, write and remember. If all chemists agree, this set of rules can also be reversed."

"Oh." Li Dunshi sat down.

Another student asked: "Sir, how do atoms of different elements form molecules? What rules can be followed for the change of the number of atoms?"

"This is still to be studied, maybe you can solve the mystery." Xie Yan certainly knew, but he couldn't talk about electrons.

He didn't know how to make cathode rays, through which electrons could be discovered.

Valence and so on, of course, couldn't be talked about.

Even the molecular formulas of many common compounds are still being studied by scholars today, because the number of atoms of each element is not clear for the time being.

After answering two more students' questions, Xie Yan left the classroom with his teaching assistant.

It was only mid-afternoon, and the time was quite early.

Xie Yan took a carriage back to the East City Gate. When passing through the streets and alleys of the Dongcheng District in the suburbs, he found that many people were shouting and running towards the dock.

He asked the driver to stop and sent his entourage to inquire about the situation. Only then did he know that a fleet had returned from America and brought some foreign envoys back to Beijing.

Ordinary foreign envoys would hardly cause a sensation in Luoyang.

And these American foreign envoys were said to be dressed up in fancy clothes.

Xie Yan parked the carriage on the only way to enter the city, and soon saw a group of soldiers bringing Americans over.

The American walking in front had a hat with two layers, each with a long nose mask. Behind the hat were a large number of colorful feathers, similar to the feather crown of an Indian chief.

He was not naked, but was dressed all over, and even had pants under his short leather skirt.

Holding a snake-shaped scepter in his hand, his feet were wearing wooden-soled leather sandals.

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While Xie Yan was observing these Americans, the American envoys were also curiously looking around.

At this time, the Mayan civilization was in a short period of revival.

Internal decay, invasion by surrounding foreign enemies, and perhaps the influence of the Little Ice Age led to the decline of the Mayan civilization during the Northern Song Dynasty. Many cities were burned and looted, and even turned into ghost towns in the jungle.

For example, the famous Mayan city-state "Chichen Itza" was killed by the Toltec civilization, and the newly built temple enshrined the feathered serpent god.

Thirty years ago, the enslaved Mayans launched an uprising to recapture Chichen Itza, which was occupied by foreign races.

It has a bit of the flavor of King Wu's attack on King Zhou.

The city-state that led the uprising was called "Mayapan", and its leader was elected as the king of all Mayans.

The declining Toltec civilization not only faced the uprising of the Mayans, but also the invasion of the northern barbarians.

The Chichimecs from the US-Mexico border killed the Toltec city-state alliance and replaced it, similar to the Qing Dynasty entering the pass. They have accepted the advanced culture of the Mexican region and quickly changed from a fishing and hunting nation to an agricultural nation.

Soon, they will be invaded by another barbarian tribe-the Aztecs!

And Manco Capac, the founder of the Inca Empire, also led his people to migrate to Cusco and settle down ten years ago. They will use Cusco as the capital and establish the famous Inca Empire.

Coco Kaba held a snake-shaped scepter and looked around curiously.

He arrived in Luoyang all the way and had long passed the shock period.

Or, he was shocked to the point of numbness.

Coco Kaba came from the Mayan royal family (Coco family) at this time. He was the nephew of the current Mayan king (second generation) and also a relatively young priest.

The snake-shaped scepter in his hand was not a feathered serpent god, but the Mayan "phantom snake".

The Mayan priests may have lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss or may have taken some kind of hallucinogenic food through the bloodletting ceremony. Anyway, they can use the "illusion snake" to cross multiple layers of space and time to communicate with gods or ancestors.

As early as four years ago, when the Ming Dynasty's global fleet was looking for rubber on the east coast of Central America, it had already contacted the Mayans in the Yucatan Peninsula - the current ruling core of the Mayan civilization is in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Coco Kaba still clearly remembers the scene when he first met these Ming people.

The other party came to Mayapan City to meet the king in strange clothes, holding swords and sticks in their hands. They gave the Mayans many gifts and asked the Mayans to take in two patients.

One of the patients died, and the other patient lived for two years and insisted on going west to find his fellow tribesmen.

Since the Toltec city-state alliance was overthrown, the Mayans gradually resumed trade with the western and northern city-states. A Mayan trade team set off with the surviving Ming person. After more than two months of trekking, they actually found out about the Ming people's tribe.

It was originally a Mayan coastal city-state, which was burned and looted by foreigners two hundred years ago. The Mayans either fled or were taken as slaves.

The entire city became empty.

Hundreds of Ming death row prisoners were exiled there. When they found that the land was fertile (volcanic ash), they chose to settle down and form a village, and intermarried with two Mayan tribes dozens of miles away.

The two Mayan tribes had been enslaved by the Toltecs and had to offer food and human sacrifices regularly.

The Ming people not only intermarried with them, but also taught them how to smelt iron and make iron farm tools and weapons.

Decades ago, the Toltecs fought against the Chichimecs in the north and the Mayans in the east. Their dominance on the west coast declined rapidly, and the Ming people and the two Mayan tribes took the opportunity to rebel.

Two Mayan tribes in one Ming village actually established an alliance.

And through trade and war, the members of this alliance have increased to seven tribes.

It is still expanding because iron tools can be made by themselves!

A few months ago, the surviving Ming patient came to Mayapan City again with many of his people.

He claimed to be an envoy of the Ming Emperor and invited the Mayan envoys to visit the Ming.

In Coco Kaba's understanding, the Ming should be a city-state alliance. And the Ming Emperor should be the king elected by those city-states.

The Ming envoy brought many gifts, and the Maya king was very happy about it. He even asked his nephew to lead a team to visit the Ming.

The Ming envoy said: "Dear King Maya, the Ming is far away from Mayapan, and it takes a full year to go back and forth. I hope you can wait patiently."

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The Maya king said: "Your king is very sincere and brought me rich gifts. I also prepared the best gifts and asked my nephew to take my gratitude. I can wait for one or two years."

In this way, Coco Kaba followed the Ming people, crossed the mountains and jungles to the west coast, and boarded the incredible giant ship.

They sailed on the sea for three months.

Coco Kaba came to a place called Luzon and landed in a huge seaside city. He thought he had arrived at the leader city of the Ming Alliance, but the people traveling with him told him that this was just a small city under the rule of the Ming Emperor.

Soon, they came to Taiwan Prefecture, but it turned out to be just a small city here.

Then there was a huge city called Quanzhou. Before Koko Kaba got off the ship, he knelt on the deck and prayed. He thought he had come to the residence of Komu Kamempus, the king of the gods.

But then one huge city after another appeared in front of him.

The initial shock gradually became a habit, and a deep sense of awe surged in his heart.

"This is the Sifang Pavilion. You move in first and wait for the emperor's summons." The surviving patient, at this moment, served as an interpreter to convey information to the Americans.

Some people do not need an interpreter, such as Xue Shan.

Xue Shan is a second-generation native American. His father is a death row prisoner who was exiled to the west coast of Central America decades ago. Because he can write and count, his father became one of the leaders of the village.

And Xue Shan's mother is a Mayan woman.

Xue Shan can read and speak Chinese.

However, his father's Chinese has a strong Shandong accent. Living in Central America for decades, his accent has changed even more, and occasionally mixed with some Mayan words.

When Xue Shan came to Luoyang, he could only guess what he could understand.

"Xue, is this the city-state of your ancestors?" Coco Kaba asked in Mayan.

Xue Shan replied: "This is my first time here too."

Xue Shan was very proud, but also a little inferior.

He had heard from his father and many elders in the village since he was a child that there was a greatest country in the far west, on the other side of the sea. The cities there were much larger than Mayan cities. There were countless grains and endless clothes.

For this, Xue Shan could only rely on fantasy.

When he really returned to the country of his ancestors, he realized how ridiculous his fantasy was.

...

"Did you really bring back rubber?" Queen Mother Ye was a little excited.

Others didn't know what rubber was used for, but she knew it. Because the secret book left by Taizu Taizong had already written very clearly that the outer layer of the BMW wheel was made of rubber.

Zeng Jiuyou said: "Rubber is a kind of tree sap, just like rosin, it will solidify quickly when it encounters air. This time I brought back 200 rubber saplings, many rubber seeds, and some solidified rubber. Dozens of saplings died on the ship. I am afraid that the night will be long and there will be more dreams, so I planted all the living ones in Luzon."

Queen Dowager Ye quickly got a rubber ball, which was soft and not like a BMW tire at all.

She went back to the harem and took out the secret book of Taizu and Taizong. After careful review, she found that rubber needs to be vulcanized.

But how to vulcanize it?

Queen Dowager Ye summoned the old president: "Rubber needs to be vulcanized, and a group of chemists must be summoned."

The old president said: "Gather five people first and try it."

Queen Dowager Ye said: "Although Prince Consort Xie is young, he is a top scholar in chemistry. Let's call Prince Consort Xie as well."

The old president asked: "Do you want them to see the magic car?"

Queen Dowager Ye shook her head: "Not for the time being."

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