After a brief period of chaos, the Aztec Empire soon returned to peace.

When dealing with the priests, Liu Zheng did not follow the advice of Quedos to be secretly executed, but chose the method of a public trial.

All the priests were placed with wooden plaques with their names and the number of times they performed the living sacrifices.

The public assembly was held in the temple district, and each Aztec household had to send a representative to watch, and some representatives from the Ramakats and Tlasscans were also present.

When the people were almost there, Liu Zheng was standing behind the kneeling priest and nodded at Sitara.

Sitara understood, took out a conch-shaped treasure, and shouted to the audience: "Now I announce that the Aztec Evil God Priests' Public Trial Conference begins now. ”

This conch is a treasure of the temple of the god of wind, Aecotel, and its function is to amplify people's voices, but it is not a prop and cannot be taken away.

In the process of clearing the priests, a lot of similar treasures were seized, but unfortunately they were not props, and I don't know how the "secret keeper" was determined.

After Sitara finished shouting, he handed the conch to Liu Zheng and retreated to the back.

He felt uncomfortable watching these former colleagues tied to a high platform and tried in front of everyone.

Not to mention that many of the people in the audience were not aristocrats, but commoners and even slaves, and seeing the shameful or sad looks of those priests, he had to have a kind of empathetic pain, which was class sympathy.

Liu Zheng did not persecute them, and the arrest of the priests and the announcement of the beginning of the public trial had already made them mortal enemies of the original priestly class.

There are only individuals who betray the class, and there is no class that betrays interests, and this sentence is apt to be used in this struggle.

"Let me ask you first, who created and saved this world several times?" Liu Zheng asked everyone in the audience.

Even a ten-year-old child knew about the creation myth, and everyone replied in unison, "It's you and the god of darkness." ”

"Then let me ask you, who risked his life to steal back the bones of the human and create a new human with his own blood?" He asked again.

"It's you, the great Quetzalcoatl." The crowd replied loudly.

"And who taught you how to make tools and use fire so that you can thrive in a world infested with wild beasts?" Liu Zheng asked in a deep voice.

"It's you, the great Quetzalcoatl." The crowd replied firmly.

"I ask you, then, who is the most exalted, besides Ometyotto, the father of the gods?" He stared at the audience with blazing eyes.

"Of course you, the noblest of the gods, the Quetzalkoatl of the Quetzalcoatl." The crowd replied with a loud voice, especially the Ramacat, who almost shouted out his lungs.

This is not sycophancy, but a fact beyond doubt.

Whether it is in terms of merit or strength, Quetzalcoatl is a well-deserved god among gods, and the god of darkness, who is the god of creation, does not dare to confront it head-on, so he can only pull the god of war and the demon god to stimulate him with intrigues and tricks, so that he can give up the throne of the sun god himself.

In fact, it's just because the three of them can't beat him together.

"Why, then, did I forbid living sacrifices, while the other gods dared to accept them with dignity?" Liu Zheng sneered.

Everyone in the audience suddenly got stuck, and a few mouths opened and closed.

Quetzalcoatl could spray those gods without hesitation, they didn't have the guts.

"Are they qualified to devour my flesh and blood, and if they dare to accept your living sacrifices, they will devour my flesh and blood?" He asked.

"Nope!" The Ramakats were the first to shout, and the Tlaxcalas and some of the Aztecs responded.

"Without the living sacrifices, the rain would not fall on time, the soil would lose its fertility, all the fields would not have a good harvest, and the warriors would lose their God-given strength." The high priest also went out and retorted loudly.

"Joke, wouldn't a warrior train harder without God-given strength to build pools and ditches, and when the soil is not fertile and sprinkled with dung, plant ashes, and animal bones? I have forbidden living sacrifices in my reign, but have there been famines? Has there ever been a plague? Have there ever been senseless killings? ”

Liu Zheng retorted one by one, his voice getting louder and louder, and under the double stimulation of sound waves and spirit, the high priest fainted.

His fainting was seen as an inability to refute the gods' reasoning, and Ramacat and Tlaxcalas immediately cheered and mocked the priests on the stage, many of the Aztecs with expressions of approval on their faces.

"You are slaying your own flesh and blood brothers, squandering your precious manpower to sow terror and hatred, and reigning supremacy on this continent, not knowing that your doom is coming." He said with a sneer.

"God, we are ignorant, please tell us the truth." Quetzalcoatl and the priests of Shulotel acted as praisers.

"Far away, there are several continents. The people of one of the continents, with a high nose bridge and colorful eyes, are as tall as me, have the same white skin, and have a developed civilization and powerful weapons. Liu Zheng said.

"God, are those God-men like you?" The priests asked again.

"No, they were created by another god named Yahweh. They are actively looking for ways to come to this continent, to rob your treasures with their powerful weapons, and to sell your captives as slaves to their merchants. They will also bring you sickness, and at least a third of you will die of the plague. The dead sea that has sealed this continent is about to disappear, and you will have to face this pack of hungry wolves like babies in the cradle. He describes the history of what happened in another world.

"God, what are we going to do? Can you shelter us? When everyone heard this doomsday prophecy, they panicked and fell to their knees and prayed.

"Only by uniting all the tribes, obeying my orders, and resisting resolutely, will you have a chance to resist this catastrophe." With that, he pointed sharply at the rows of kneeling priests.

"And they and those evil gods are the stumbling blocks to unity, do you say, should they be killed?"

"Damn it! Damn it! All the people roared together.

As the Quetzalcoatl and the priests of Shulotel executed them one by one, the atmosphere reached a climax.

Everyone understands that the era of the god of war and the gods has passed, and from now on, it will be the era of the reign of the single god of Quetzalcoatl.

Just when Liu Zheng was silently watching the execution, two system prompts quietly came.

"Players complete the 'Prehistoric Island', one of the eight nautical legends, and are rewarded with the blessing of the 'giant'. 5/8 is currently complete. ”

"Giant: Can make the body huge, and the duration depends on the player's physical fitness."

"Players who complete the 'Forest of Tranquility', one of the Eight Legends of Navigation, will be rewarded with the blessing of 'Silence'. Currently 6/8 complete. ”

"Silence: The player is immune to all sonic damage."

He smiled, it seems that the "Legend" is still mixed without him.

But thinking about it this way, Liu Zheng is a little lonely, without Jack's gag and Anna's broth, there is always something missing in life.

He shook his head and sank his thoughts to the bottom of the lake, the mission world is the mission world after all, you can pay attention to it, but you can't indulge it.

After the public trial, there was a reckoning of the king and the nobility.

Liu Zheng fulfilled his previous promise, except for a small number of people who were pointed out to be executed, all the royal families and nobles saved their lives, and only contributed a part of their wealth according to their net worth to compensate the Ramakat and Tlaxcalas.

The nobles were all reduced to commoners, and those with excellent abilities were retained and continued to assume their original duties, and if they performed well, they could be restored to their status as nobles.

The royal family was reduced to a hereditary aristocracy, protected by Liu Zheng, and no one was allowed to harm anyone as long as they did not violate the laws of the new empire or Liu Zheng's orders.

However, there are also conditions that no one is allowed to hold imperial office for three generations.

The new empire was named the Mexican Empire by Liu Zheng, with Sitara as king and Doya Tarrera as the Aztec provincial commissioner.

He himself was a Aztec nobleman, and the next generation of Quetzalcoatl's high priest, and he was still relatively prestigious among the Aztecs, and the Ramakats and Tlaxcalas were also acceptable.

The original kingdom of Ramaquat was given a portion of it to the Ramakats as the new province of Ramakat, along with the jungle and coastal areas they had occupied.

The Tlaxcala were allowed to open up to the east as the new province of Tlaxcala.

The White Clay clan, as a family, was incorporated into the Quetzalcoatl temple system, and its status was transcendent.

At the inauguration ceremony of the new empire, Liu Zheng issued a new imperial code, which mainly established the following principles:

In addition to Liu Zheng's orders, the Imperial Code had supreme power.

Every three years, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl can hold a citizens' assembly to discuss the need to change the code.

All persons present in the Mexican Empire, and those hereafter born in the territory of the Empire or citizens of Messican, are citizens of the Empire if they recognize themselves under the protection of the Empire's legal code and assume corresponding obligations.

The king has the supreme executive power and military power other than Liu Zheng and the legal code, and no one may disobey the king's orders without violating the principles of the legal code and Liu Zheng's orders.

All provinces have the same rights and the same obligations.

All citizens enjoy the right to life and liberty, which no one may arbitrarily deprive of them.

All bloody sacrifices are prohibited, and other gods except Quetzalcoatl and Shulotel are not allowed to build temples and make public sacrifices, and can only be sacrificed at home.

The empire has absolute sovereignty over its own territory, laws, citizens, and property, and must fight to the end against any foreign enemy who dares to infringe on the power of the empire.

What would later become known as the "Constitution of Mexico" was the world's first written constitution, and was described by historians and jurists as groundbreaking.

When all the people were prostrate under the big stone monument and shouted long live to Liu Zhengkou, the system prompt also came as promised.

"Story Mission: God of Prophecy completed, reward the Navigator faction reputation 5000, current faction reputation: 5500/10000 (respect), reward a certificate of overlord (only available to quest scroll users)."

Sure enough, the evidence of the overlord was useless to him, although he had already guessed it, but he was still a little disappointed, if the "martial arts wizard" trait could be upgraded again, then he didn't know how powerful it was.

"The next stage of the story mission begins: defend your homeland and protect the cities of the Mexican Empire from being breached for at least three months in the face of invasion by various countries."