The heroine of this book, Anna Maya, is of mixed race, so her appearance is also different from that of ordinary Indian girls.She has dark blue eyes, fair skin, a flat forehead, a slender nose, and small, thin lips.The author uses the character of Anna Maya to describe the process of Spain's invasion of the American colonies. The Inca Empire began to expand outward in the middle of the fifteenth century, and during this century, it experienced four generations of kings.By the time of Huayna-Capac, the territory of the Inca Empire had expanded to central Peru.Peru (Peru) is not the original name of the Inca Empire, but a new name given to the Inca Empire after the arrival of the Spaniards. "Peru" is a common noun, which is a general term for "river".The Spaniards asked the Indians where they had come, and the Indians replied with the word "Peru".In fact, what the Indians wanted to explain was the "river" where they were, but the Spaniards thought they had come to "Peru", and the name "Peru" was introduced to the West.

Anna Maya was a "strange-looking" little girl captured by King Kapak when he was expanding outwards. When the Inca officer walked towards her slowly and raised her face for a closer look, he was startled, because the Inca officer saw the brilliance of the girl's blue pupils.Because of this peculiar appearance, Anna Maya naturally became the guest of King Capak. Although the king was dying at this time, he regarded Anna Maya as a savior, so he said to her: "Help me! Girl, save me." Help me!" The king stretched out his stiff and trembling arms, hoping to pass through her body.It can be understood from this that Anna Maya's position in the Inca court will become more and more important in the future.

The Incas believed that the king was the incarnation of the sun god. In order to maintain the purity of the royal bloodline, the queen must be the king's half-brother and half-sibling.They firmly believe that the king is the son of the sun and therefore must be revered as a god. In December 1527, when King Kapak was about to die, he shouted: "Anamaya, my daughter-the daughter of the lake, the daughter of Kira (the moon god)! I hope you can live a long life in the world! Because, when I will remember you when I reach my father, the sun god!" However, the king did not designate an heir to the throne before his death, so the court ministers believed that Annamaya must know who the real heir was.When the wise man Vera Omar asked: "Are you a girl without brains? The one and only King Kapac talked to you all night and you didn't understand him?" Annamaya always replied: "I don't know, my lord, I can't remember anything. I can't understand... He goes on and on and I can't understand what he's saying."

The inheritance law of the Inca Empire adopts the system of eldest son succession, so the person who inherits the throne should be Capac's eldest son Huascar, but the survivors of King Capac hope that Atahualpa will inherit the throne.The wise man Vera Oma said: "From now on, the Inca Empire will have no leader, and the descendants of the sun god will no longer be able to rule the people! Atahualpa, you could have become the only king..." However, Atahuallpa is not pure in blood , he is the son of King Capac who conquered the Kingdom of Quito and Princess Quito.Atahualpa's queen mother, the daughter of the last king of Quito, died of grief and indignation after the fall of the Quito kingdom.King Capac loved Atahualpa very much. In his later years, he even moved to live in the palace of Quito. In this way, Atahualpa grew up in front of his father. Whenever King Capak went on an expedition, he would always Take him with you; Atahualpa's intelligence and bravery comforted Capac too.

Atahualpa was very clear about his identity, so of course he rejected Vera Omar's request.He believes that his "brother" Huascar is the real heir to the throne, because Huascar was born by King Capak and his sister, and the purity of his blood is beyond doubt.He said: "Huaskar should wear the 'Borla headscarf', because this is the wish of my father, Wanya Kapac." Hearing this, Vera Omar stamped his feet on the ground angrily, scaring Anna Maya from Jump on the ground.Vera Omar thought that King Kapak wanted to pass the throne to Atahualpa and told the girl all the truth, but she forgot everything, how unreasonable!In the dim night sky, Vera Omar pointed her finger at Anna Maya, threatening to skin her.

While Huascar was fighting for the throne with the Atahualpa brothers, a religious heretic was sentenced to death in the distant Spanish region of Seville, but was also miraculously released.Seeing his chains being removed, Jia Boye asked the jailer foolishly, "Is it time?" The jailer replied, "It should be. Let's go, stand up!" "Where are you taking me?" The jailer replied: "Don't you know?" Jia Boye murmured to himself, saying that he was going to die... A dog trotted past him, and then urinated by the prison gate indifferently.Afterwards, the puppy walks across the square.Jia Boye looked at it all the way, and found a four-wheeled carriage parked in the square.He was dumbfounded, it turned out that the luxurious four-wheeled carriage belonged to his father, the Marquis of Talavhar!At this point he believed that he was truly free.

After he was released from prison, Jia Boye met Francisco Pizarro, the later demise of the Inca Empire, in an inn.This man was of humble origin, the bastard son of a soldier, illiterate but adventurous.In 1510 AD, at the age of thirty-five, he decided to go to the New World, and later discovered the Pacific Ocean with the Balboa expedition; when Avila became the governor of Panama, he made many achievements in the war against the indigenous people .During Cortes' conquest of Mexico, Pizarro became one of his most capable generals and assisted Cortes in his conquest of Mexico. In 1530 AD, Pizarro persuaded the King of Spain to let him organize a huge expedition and gave him a letter of commission.When Jia Boye read the content of the letter from the king to Pizarro: "...you have been appointed as the governor of Peru and the commander-in-chief of New Castile, with a salary of 725,000 copper coins...", Pizarro It felt as if every word had soaked into his blood and warmed his soul anew—as if he had already traveled through the jungle, climbed those steep slopes, and discovered the cities whose walls were plastered with gold.

After reading the letter, Jia Boye dared not raise his eyes to look at Pizarro.After a while, Jia Boye raised his eyes and found that Pizarro was already in tears; the former was silent, but Pizarro finally turned to face him, his eyes sparkling: "Everything belongs to us, child, everything! " Despite these favorable conditions, they encountered difficulties in recruiting companions.Because Mexico had been conquered at that time, people were happy to go to this city instead of Peru with an uncertain future, so there were not many people who responded to Pizarro.In addition to his four half-brothers, his followers also included Jia Boye, the black Sai Batian, and the Greek Bedo. In 1530, they set off from Spain to Panama.In January of the following year, an expedition of 280 men in three ships set off for Tumbes.

After arriving in Tumbes, Pizarro learned that the Inca Empire had just ended an infighting for the throne.The two brothers Huascar and Atahuallpa fought fiercely near Cusco in April 1532, and Atahuallpa finally seized the throne.In order to exclude dissidents, he killed a large number of Huaskar's supporters.With the Inca Empire decimated by civil war, Pizarro saw an opportunity. At this time, Pizarro ordered his subordinate Su Tuo to lead a team over the Andes Mountains and enter the designated village as an ambassador. Jia Boye also followed him into a large square. The flattened part of the pyramid just forms a platform, which can be reached by stairs.After reaching the top of the tower, he proudly said to the strange but well-dressed person standing in front of him: "We are from the other side of the ocean, and we are the diplomatic mission of King Charles V of Spain. We bear the goodwill of His Majesty the King, God will of..."

The man said a few words in a hasty and low voice, which made Jia Boye uneasy. The translator replied: "He said he was waiting for your visit." The man who spoke was the patriarch of the Inca Empire, and his manner was extremely friendly and cordial.Atahualpa did nothing against the men sent by Pizarro, because he had an army of 40,000 men stationed near Cajamar, and he believed that his army was strong, so he did not deploy military guards.When Jia Boye and his party went to meet Atahualpa at the designated place, they were frightened by the Inca army on the way. "Thousands of white tents are lined up closely together like feathers on a big wing, some of which are still shining with golden light and shadow, and several military flags are hung high on the flagpoles, against the backdrop of white snow, emitting Dazzling brilliance." After careful inspection, they found that the tents were not set up casually like ordinary military camps, but neatly arranged in a square or rectangle.The temporary city erected before their eyes was stronger than a wall, forming an insurmountable barrier.

Jia Boye thought to himself, there were only a few of them, but they were sent by Pizarro to see Atahualpa, and everyone was so frightened that they didn't know what to do.In fact, this is a grand feast set by Pizarro.When Atahualpa agreed to Jaboye's request for a meeting, the Inca Empire also quietly embarked on the road to destruction. And when Anna Maya saw Jia Boye, she suddenly understood why she had incredible blue eyes, why she was taller than ordinary Indians, and why her hair was different from Indian girls.The meeting between the two made Jia Boye fall in love with her at first sight, as if he had come all the way from Seville to this unknown valley just to meet her!Whether it is fate or coincidence, the various checkpoints set by God on the road of life seem to be for this purpose.At this moment, he has fallen deeply in love with this strange girl, and also planted the seeds of their elopement. After receiving permission from Atahualpa to meet, Pizarro made a careful plan.He led one hundred and seventy infantry and cavalry, waiting for the arrival of the Inca king.Sure enough, the king proceeded to the place he had agreed upon, and walked half a mile away from Cajamar, intending to stay here overnight before entering the city.However, under Pizarro's repeated requests, he left most of the royal army in the suburbs, and only led a few courtiers and 5,000 disarmed Inca soldiers to Cajamar Square. Atahualpa entered Pizarro without knowing it. Salo's ambush circle, after the two sides met, Brother Wei Shengde of the Dominican Order walked in front of the Inca king, and Filipino acted as an interpreter.The monks preached to him and persuaded him to convert to Christianity and serve the King of Spain.After listening to this sermon, Atahualpa replied: "The land here and everything on it belonged to my grandfather and my father, and passed to my elder brother Huascar, and now everything belongs to me." He also told The other party said: "I only respect the sun god and my ancestors." Atahualpa asked the other party where the words came from, and Brother Wei Shengde took out the "Bible" to the Inca king.Atahualpa flipped it over and dropped it on the ground casually.The frantic friar indicated that it was time to act, at which point Pizarro shouted the signal "Saint Jacob!"The Spanish cavalry and infantry ambushed around the square rushed out together and brutally killed the unarmed Incas.The Incas swarmed around Atahualpa to protect their king.In the fierce battle, many Inca soldiers sacrificed their lives.Due to the large number of Inca soldiers, Pizarro saw that he could not win immediately, so he dragged Atahualpa off the golden sedan chair and captured him alive.When the soldiers saw that the Inca king was captured, they began to panic. Many people gave up resistance and flocked to the exit of the square. On the chaotic battlefield, Anna Maya quietly looked straight ahead.She was not looking at Atahualpa, but Jaboye.She looked at him, the blond foreigner, and walked towards him while the slaughter was in progress. All the women around her began screaming, stumbling to escape amid pools of blood and shattered corpses.She saw a foreigner raise a knife to kill Atahualpa.She saw him—he, wriggling, trying to push the executioner away; he, who hadn't attacked the Indian like the others.She heard him screaming in anger, desperate to protect the Inca king.After that, he raised his eyes to look at her.She said to Jia Boye in a high-decibel voice: "Take me away! Don't leave me in this horrible bloody violence." Jia Boye was dizzy, and he walked in front of Pizarro and Atahualpa, trying to cut a passage through the frenzied fighting crowd.Pizarro continued to yell: "Whoever dares to touch him, I will call for his life!" They finally put the Inca king in a prison cell, and Pizarro promised Atahualpa that as long as he put the prison cell Fill them all with gold, and fill the other two smaller rooms with silver, and you will free him.However, after his elder brother Huaskar knew about the incident, he also planned to seize power.Knowing the conflicts between their brothers, Pizarro invited Huascar to Cajamar, and after asking about the grievances between their brothers, he decided to support Huascar as the puppet king of the Inca.When Atahualpa heard the news, he sent someone to assassinate his brother Huascal.Pizarro also took advantage of Huascal's murder to accuse Atahualpa of murdering his brother, and burned him on August 29, 1532.Atahualpa accused Pizarro of treachery, but in the end he was hanged because of the Incas' belief that the soul could be immortal only if the body was preserved.Before his execution, Atahualpa converted to Catholicism. Seeing such a scene, Jia Boye thought that this unique war not only violated common sense, but also violated the will of God and the Inca king.And in this battle without a declaration of war, there should have been two teams of troops, but in fact the other side did not fight back at all.This can only be regarded as massacre. Without a word, he took the rein, kicked the horse's rump, reached out to Anna Maya, picked her up from under his arm, and walked away from this place full of people who were screaming and dying. The demise of the Inca Empire is sad.A big country with an army of tens of thousands surrendered to an army of less than two hundred!Of course there are various factors involved, but the enemy is present and the country is in ruins. Instead of uniting and conspiring to save the country and survive, the brothers are focused on fighting for power and position.The Spaniards' greed for gold brought them strong excitement and stimulation, which made adventurers like Pizarro maintain a strong will after many setbacks... The above factors have created countless rewritten history , although it is unbelievable, it is a fact-the huge Inca Empire, after hundreds of years of constant victories in the war, was surprised to find that it had become a subjugated slave overnight. (Professor Liu Zengquan, the author of this article, is the head of the History Department of Tamkang University, a Ph.D. in cultural history from the French National Academy of Social Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Western history from the University of Paris, France. His research fields include Roman history, French history, Western ancient history, and Western medieval history.)