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Starting with a hundred colonists? Where are your mathematics?" The Co-ordinator said, "The proof is there. We estimate that each of Rigel's planets now supports a population of nearly one billion." "To be more exact," Plekhanov rumbled, "some nine hundred million on Genoa, seven and a half on Texcoco." Mayer smiled wryly. "I wonder what the residents of each of these planets call their worlds.
The big potatoes coming to the top." Watson flushed. "What do you mean by that, Kennedy?" "Oh, come off it, Barry," Kennedy laughed. "Just because you're in a position to push these people around doesn't make you the prize stud on Texcoco." Watson elbowed Dick Hawkins to one side in his attempt to get around the table at the other. Chessman rapped, "Watson! That's enough.
Half a dozen teenaged Tulans brought a cool drink similar to cocoa; it seemed to give a slight lift. Taller had not become Khan of the most progressive nation on Texcoco by other than his own abilities. He felt his way carefully now. He had no manner of assessing the powers wielded by these strangers from space.
"These two lousy planets don't count that much." He succeeded in snapping them this time. "Not that much." Barry Watson said, "You're stoned, Kennedy." "Why not?" Kennedy grinned. "Finally perfected a decent brandy. I'll have to send you a few cases, Barry." "How would you go about that, Jerry?" Watson said softly. "Shucks, man, our space lighter makes a trip to Texcoco every month or so.
Barry Watson, Natt Roberts, Dick Hawkins, of the Texcocan team. Martin Gunther, Peter MacDonald, Fredric Buchwald, of the Genoese. The gathering wasn't so large as the one before. Only Taller and the scientist Wiss attended from Texcoco; only Baron Leonar and the son of Honorable Russ from Genoa. From the beginning they stared with hostility across the conference table.
It is true this road would have brought troops in by Guadalupe a town, church and detached spur of mountain about two miles north of the capital, all bearing the same general name and at this point Lake Texcoco comes near to the mountain, which was fortified both at the base and on the sides: but troops could have passed north of the mountain and come in only a few miles to the north-west, and so flanked the position, as they actually did on the south.
Part of this preparation consisted in building a number of small, flat-bottomed boats in pieces, so that they could be transported over a mountainous district, and put together on the shore of Lake Texcoco, thus enabling him to complete the investment of the water-begirt city. It sounds ludicrous in our times to read of the force with which the invading Spaniards laid siege to a nation's capital.
The site of the national capital was formerly an island, only a trifle above the level of Lake Texcoco; hence there are no cellars possible beneath the dwelling-houses of the populace. Herein lies the secret of the want of drainage, and of the unpleasant and unwholesome odors which are constantly saluting the senses and challenging the remarks of strangers.
"The thing about a benevolent tyranny, though, is that it's up to the tyrants to decide what's benevolent. I'm not so sure there's a great basic difference between your governing of Genoa and ours of Texcoco." "Don't be an ass," Mayer snapped. "We are granting the Genoese political freedoms as fast as they can assimilate them."
Peter MacDonald said, "And do you all realize that here we have a unique situation that might be exploited for the benefit of the whole race?" They looked to him, questioningly. "The dynamic we find in Genoa and Texcoco, too, for that matter, though we disagree on so many fundamentals is beyond that in the Solar System. These are new planets, new ambitions are alive.
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