Marin was actually right. At the beginning, he sent silver miners to the Aztec Empire to help the Aztec people open silver mines. Now, the Aztec Empire has indeed ushered in a major explosion in silver production.

With the help of the craftsman Suk sent by Marin, the Aztec Empire discovered a large silver mine in Sutipico near the capital Tenochtitran (Mexico City). The Aztec Emperor Montezuma II was also rich enough. He directly launched a war and plundered 100,000 young and strong people from the surrounding countries to help him mine Sutipico silver mine. In just two or three years, he actually produced tens of thousands of pounds of silver. As silver mining was on track, the estimated output of silver mines this year can reach more than 100,000 pounds.

Kohler went to the Overseas Intelligence Department to check the archives and found that the newly sent information mentioned these.

"100,000 pounds of silver!" Marin's eyes narrowed...

That's 45.3 tons! It's equivalent to 1.216 million taels of silver, which can mint 60.479 million standard small Finney silver coins! In this way, it's more than 1 million gold coins!

Not only that, the silver mine engineer (also a special spy) sent to Tenochtitlan also reported a news that shocked Marin - the Aztec Empire had a large amount of gold, and the gold owned by the city of Tenochtitlan, the palaces, temples and wealthy chiefs alone was 20,000 to 30,000 pounds.

Among them, there is the most gold in the palace and the pyramid temple. In addition to being a noble ornament, another important use of gold is the temple. The high priests of the Aztec Empire often like Indian women to hang their bodies full of gold ornaments, which are extremely dazzling and jingling.

The nobles also like gold jewelry, but they are not as numerous as royal palaces and temples. Of course, there are many nobles, and the number of them together is considerable.

With so much gold and silver, Marin was almost excited to learn from Cortez, launch a war, and grab all the gold and silver! Moreover, he had the ability to do this.

According to the original history, Cortez would launch a war in three years. Although Cortez only brought more than 600 people to the shore, the colonial army sent to capture him to be incorporated by him, making his subordinates as many as 2,000. In addition, some local chiefs who opposed Emperor Montezuma II were also deceived by him and attacked Tenochtitlan with him, with a total of tens of thousands.

In addition, there is another very important point, that is, the issue of religion!

The unlucky Aztecs spread the myth of "White God", mistakenly thinking that Cortes and his party were the messengers sent by the so-called "White God", and believed that their party was the messenger sent by the god Kodisquesak in the Aztec mythology. Therefore, at the beginning, the emperor Montezuma II was not hostile to their group.

It was only later that the Spaniards exposed their ugly faces, snatched gold and silver, and even forced to buy and sell, which aroused the resistance of the Aztecs and the so-called "Sad Night" appeared.

Regarding this religious issue, in fact, Clive, a silver mine engineer and spy sent by the North Sea Kingdom, was initially regarded by the Aztecs as the messenger of Kodithuzak. At that time, Clive was confused and explained that he was not a messenger of God, because he was not from the church and could not communicate with the gods.

But in recent years, Clive helped the Aztec Empire find the Sutipiko silver mine, and guided the Aztec Empire craftsmen to establish a large mine and introduce a blast furnace for the Beihai Kingdom to smelter silver. In this way, the output of the Sutipiko silver mine exploded.

Montezuma II was very satisfied with Clive's work and believed that even if Clive was not a messenger, he was sent by the White God to help the Aztec Empire. Clive had a sudden idea at that time and did not admit it, but did not deny it, only saying that this was God's guidance...

Speaking of this, Marin suddenly had a new idea...

"Maybe, we can send people to pretend to be God's envoy to influence this country. In this way, there is no need to send troops to conquer. At least, there is no need to..."

There is a reason why Marin thought about this. The Aztec Empire is very large. It is easy to defeat the Aztec Empire alone, but it will be troublesome to stay for a long time afterwards. Then, people will resist.

For a strong monarch, he was never afraid of being in a head-on manner, but he was afraid of endless rebellion and uprising. For example, the powerful Qin Dynasty had just lost the six countries, but in the end he fell into the hands of the uprising army of the six countries.

Marin didn't think that he would be able to defeat the Beihai Army by the Aztecs who didn't even have steel weapons, but now is not the time!

Before defeating France, the North Sea Kingdom was not suitable for sending troops to the Americas on a large scale. It was not only easy to leak secrets, but also easily caused domestic emptiness. If it was brought to the old lair by France and the German vassal states, it would be more than worth the loss.

Therefore, at least until the situation in Europe is stable, troops cannot be sent.

Originally, Marin planned to learn from Cortez and sent a small number of troops to carry out this mission. However, Clive's report gave Marin a reminder - perhaps, religious means can be used...

The so-called religious means are naturally to use deception methods, pretend to be a messenger, and then influence the Aztec Empire, and successfully get gold and silver...

Moreover, Marin is not a novice in this field, and his rank is relatively high. You should know that he had long used the Archbishop of Beihai State Taylor to help him deceive soldiers and the people of the whole country. Now, churches in various parts of Beihai State are filled with disciples who are Taylor's great foolings, and are striving to deceive people to believe in God and... loyal to Marin and Marin's descendants...

Obviously, in pretending to be a god and fooling others, Taylor is the grandmaster, while Marin is the master of the grandmaster...

So Marin assigned a task to Kohler - to choose a disciple with a strong deception ability, good language talent, and not so fanatical and firm beliefs, and know how to adapt. Of course, it must be reliable...

Then, this person will first learn the Aztec language, which must be a Tenochitelan accent. After learning the language well, he will pretend to be a messenger and go to Tenochitelan to perform a mission...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! It is easy to understand that reliability is easy to understand, and it is also easy to understand that strong ability and good language talent are good. But Kohler is a little confused about his lack of firm belief.

You should know that many big fools, because of their strong ability, not only fool others, but also fool themselves. After saying lies a thousand times, they became the truth. After saying things that fool people thousands of times, they believed them a little...

Therefore, many Archbishop Taylor's disciples do fool people, but they are also fooled. After all, they pretend to be too similar and the atmosphere is too good, so they will inevitably get into some trouble.

There is another question. Those big fools with such good acting skills and strong business ability, even if an intelligence leader like Kohler cannot tell whether he really believes in God in a fanatical way...

Marin has a way to distinguish this:

"This is simple. Catholic priests cannot have women according to the rules, and they should not be greedy for money. Just check which disciples and grandchildren of Taylor like women and money first, and you can find a large number of great fools who are not firm in their faith!"

Kohler was right when he thought about it, but he suddenly thought of Marin's father-in-law, Pope Julius II. He also loved women and money, but he was also very superstitious...

Kohler tactfully came out...

Marin thought it was right, but he didn't have any tricks:

"This is a problem, let's do it. After finding Taylor's disciple who is capable but loves women and money, try it again, and send a spy to question the gods in front of him to see if his reaction is fierce. The person sent to test will be very fierce at first glance, and ordinary people cannot afford to offend that kind. If the other party is angry and protects the gods, it is a crazy believer. If you swallow your anger and only care about your own safety...you can use it..."

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Why did Marin choose a fooling priest who has no firm beliefs? The reason is very simple. He plans to learn from Matteo Ricci!

Matteo Ricci was sent to China to preach mission during the Ming Dynasty, but his predecessors and companions were unrestrained and allowed believers to believe in God, not to worship heaven, ancestors and Confucius, which touched the bottom line of the people of the Ming Dynasty, making missionary difficulties.

So, the flexible Matteo Ricci wore Confucian clothes, respected the traditions of the Han people, and combined Chinese and Western cultures, and the results were quite good. So, Xu Guangqi and other big guys were fooled into it.

Of course, Matteo Ricci cannot say that his beliefs are not firm, but he is indeed very flexible and flexible.

But Marin's mission was different from Matteo Ricci's simple missionary. Marin did not want to spread any Catholicism at all. At least, he did not plan to preach at the moment.

He sent the disciples of Taylor to fool him, purely to fool the Aztecs to give him gold and silver. In order to cater to the Aztecs, Marin even planned to let the priest who was carrying out the mission pretend to be the messenger of the gods believed in by the Aztecs. Then, using the "instructions of the gods" as an excuse, the Aztecs took the initiative to take the gold and silver to Marin... Of course, it was a transaction, not for free. The Aztecs were not fools, so they would definitely not be happy to give it for free. However, if they just asked them to trade, then there would be no problem...
Chapter completed!