The specific connection between the inner and outer worlds, as well as the difference between trunk and branch, legitimacy and legitimacy, this series of intricate issues did give Ivan a headache for a while. On a practical level, if the El Dorado is really a continuation of the ancient Menes civilization, and they also have a pair of Sun Kings, it will undoubtedly dilute the legitimacy of the empire.

When the time comes, the Federation will make a fuss about this kind of thing, and the Empire's already embarrassing situation will undoubtedly be even more passive.

In this case, the cost of directly starting a war to annex El Dorado may be smaller...... As for how much Swire Technology will be lost, and how much negative impact it will have on the outside world...... Faced with this situation, Evan can't care so much anymore.

The anxiety didn't last long, though.

As the investigation deepened, Evan gradually discovered that the country's system was very deformed, and the administrative organs, judicial organs, legislatures, and even the civilian medical and education systems were full of religious forces. The temple is also independent of the regional administrative system, and can even interfere with the judicial system and pardon wanted criminals for serious crimes.

Through the perspective of an invisible robot, Evan witnesses the case of a wealthy businessman who murdered his neighbor and was directly pardoned by donating money to the temple and thus being spared punishment.

Similar things did exist in previous empires, and it was indeed not news that the temple harbored criminals and harbored evildoers in the name of the gods, but it was outrageous to directly issue an amnesty decree - the power of the priest sacrifice group was so great, where did the royal power be placed?

With this suspicion in mind, Ivan suppressed his previous uneasiness and anxiety and began a series of investigations around the regional temple. As the investigation deepened, the various privileges of the priestly sacrifice group in the El Dorado gradually unfolded a veil of mystery under the camera.

Through the camera, he was able to understand that within the territory of El Dorado, temples were not just religious systems, but independent self-governing systems, and their tentacles even extended to all parts of the state apparatus. The temple functions as a collection of local schools, banks, and post offices. The land owned by the priests even occupied 70 percent of the available arable land in the 'New World', and the rest was divided equally between the army and the people, and the land belonging to the crown was almost non-existent.

The highest center of power of the clerical priesthood group, the pivotal body, can not only control the appointment and dismissal of officials, but even have the huge power to depose the throne.

Being able to depose the Sun King at will means that religious power has completely overwhelmed the royal power, forming a kind of republican system of clerical power in which the sacrificial group jointly governs the country. It also means that within the El Dorado, the degree of control of the sacrificial priest group has even exceeded that of the Ozmandis period of the empire.

For a unified country, it is really abnormal for the royal power to languish like this.

The results of this series of investigations surprised Ivan - with the golden bloodline of the two holy scriptures, no matter how incompetent, he would not be hollowed out like this by the priest sacrifice group.

And also...... What about the royal family?

Is the royal family so weakened that it doesn't even have the strength to consolidate royal power!?

......

Why is the royal power of El Dorado languishing?

Why have religious groups been able to swell to such an extent?

Is this country the rightful successor of the ancient Menes civilization......

As the stealth robot crossed the 'New World', it came to the far west of the Inner World, which is the western continent where the royal capital is located. This series of abnormalities has finally been reasonably explained.

In the massive palace known to the inhabitants of the royal capital as Millennium City, Evan meets his distant relatives, the titular rulers of El Dorado, the couple Hexiser and Thutmose.

It's not easy to meet them once.

The two sun kings have lived in the deep palace for a long time, and they will never show up unless they are on major festivals, and only the inner servants and priests can witness their true faces on weekdays.

The reason why I met with the people in the outer court today was because it happened to be the founding day of the El Dorado, which was also what they called the Millennium Good Friday, which gave the stealth robot the opportunity to observe in secret.

As the lens extended, the images of the two sun kings gradually zoomed in, and after Evan saw each other's specific appearances, his first impression of them was 'ordinary'.

Yes, very ordinary - two men of medium stature, with pale and rough skin, slightly curly hair and a withered grass texture. The facial features are quite distinctive, with high eyebrows, deep eye sockets and a big nose, but they are not good-looking, and they can even be said to be unattractive.

Are these two people really the blood of the sun god?

Looking at the obvious white-skinned features on the two people, Evan suddenly frowned, doubting their identities. Not only that, but their unsightly appearance really can't match the royal family of Menes.

As the bloodline of the sun god, the appearance of the royal family has always been high, and the federation with extremely mature genetic adjustment technology is also very competitive, and the probability of giving birth to this kind of ugly ratio is estimated to be lower than winning the lottery jackpot.

Because of this, from the first time he saw them, Evan suspected that they were Xibei goods, or that they had been forcibly crossed and genetically deteriorated.

As the festival rituals progressed, the results of the stealth robot's detection of the two further confirmed his suspicion - there were no power fluctuations on the bodies of Heckasse and Thutmose, not even the most sensitive light energy fluctuations of mechanical lifeforms!

Sure enough, it's an imposter!

Evan got up from his chair in excitement and nearly toppled the desk.

"That's easy...... Since they are two puppet kings, I have a legal basis for claiming to have dominion over El Dorado. At least within the territory of the Menes Empire, public opinion will not be an obstacle to me...... In this way, the subject of the investigation should be turned to the group of priests and priests who really control the El Dorado!"

At this moment, he only felt refreshed, and the troubles he had been entangled for a long time finally disappeared.

......

Like the Menes Empire, the El Dorado worshipped many gods, with a total of 2,000 gods. Because the people believed that there were different gods in the world, such as the earth, the air, the rivers, the sky, the sun, the moon, animals and plants, and that these gods were tangible, or natural phenomena, or animals, or plants, or animal heads and human beings.

The most powerful and authoritative of them all, the Nine-Pillar God, is revered by the El Dorado and is not much different from the Imperial religious system.

The Nine Pillar Gods are still the official ones of the Empire:

Atum, the sun god.

Osiris, the god of the underworld.

Nutt, the god of the sky.

Luna Thoth.

Tephnut, the rain god.

Gaibu, the god of the earth.

Isis, the guardian god of the dead.

Seth, the god of fire and drought.

Shu, the god of war.

In addition to the first time, Ihel, the god of plants and metallurgy, and Obeliske, the god of heavenly punishment, also occupy an extremely important place in the belief system of the El Dorado. Within the hub, the worship of the Heavenly Punishment God is even higher than that of the Nine Pillars God, which is very different from the belief system of the empire.

Because in the official belief of the Menes Empire, there is no god of heavenly punishment, not even among the people.

In addition, the priests and priests of the El Dorado Kingdom possess extraordinary powers that are not limited to divine spells.

In addition to the spiritual power-driven spells, they also have another more powerful power system - the Divine Descent Technique.

Within the El Dorado Kingdom, the priests and priests were able to gradually gain the trust of the gods by communicating with the gods, and thus receive the power bestowed by the gods. Among them, the most devout and closest to the gods can even summon the gods themselves to descend into the world and bring divine punishment to their enemies.

This is also the reason why the priest sacrifice group has ruled for so long, and its position is still as stable as Mount Tai - they have the overwhelming force of force!

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The city of Ekhtadon, the study of the royal court.

Ptolemy, the chief of the Cabinet Senid, the chief of the Commandment Yuan, the director of the Conquest Yuan, Persibson, the chief of the Survey Yuan, the chief of the Survey, the chief of the Buzhen Yuan, the chief of the French Palace, Andyèb, and the chief of the Judicial Yuan, Ninetiere, gathered together and sat across from the desks, watching the materials that Ivan had compiled during this time.

In the process of watching the materials, the expressions on the faces of these high-ranking officials of the empire were joyful and sad - it was joy to see that the etiquette, customs and culture of the El Dorado were so close to the empire, it was sad to see the religious group of priests and priests, and after seeing the two Sibei Sun King couple, Hegaser and Thutmose, their faces completely collapsed.

Obviously, with the notion that the will of God manifests kingship in the world, they could not accept the domination of the El Dorado by these two impostors. Since the royal power is all fake, the legitimacy of the El Dorado is also in question...... In other words, it is impossible for the existence of El Dorado to shake the legitimacy of the empire!

Aware of this scene, Evan's confidence was even stronger, and then he calmly took the newspaper and read his own news. Patiently waited until the senior officials had finished reading all the information and began to talk in a whispered voice, and then he coughed and attracted everyone's attention:

"Ahem, ahem, this is the information that the spy organization has searched for for a long time, what do you think of the ministers?"

"Your Majesty!"

Senid, the chief officer of the Discipline Academy, was the first to stand up and said indignantly: "According to the information you investigated, the El Dorado is indeed a living fossil of history, and it has also inherited a lot of the legacy of the golden civilization. But their political system and religion have completely gone astray, and it is nonsense to let religious forces interfere with the executive power!"

"yes, yes, it's child's play!"

"That's right! How can a theologian interfere in government affairs, isn't this a layman in charge of an insider?"

"This is a violation of power! We should also learn from it!"

The high-ranking officials were filled with righteous indignation and sympathy—as bureaucrats of the secular regime, none of them could accept the interference of religious organizations in the executive power, and of course they would sneer at the swelling religious power of the El Dorado.

Seeing that he had been recognized by everyone, Senid became more imposing, and said with his head held high:

"And what's the matter with those two Sun Kings? How can the royal family have that kind of look? They are clearly puppets pushed out by the clique of priests! I don't think they are the blood of the sun god at all, but a mixed blood out of garbage, which is a complete transgression! The El Dorado may be from the same origin as the Empire, but they are obviously crooked. Case...... As brothers, we have a reason to help El Dorado cut off the crooked branches, straighten the trunks, and return them to the rule of the Sun God!"

Returning to the rule of the sun god is a classic pun: one can be interpreted as restoring the religious group to its original form. Second, it can be understood that the El Dorado will return to the rule of the descendants of the sun god.

"As it should be!"

"The people of El Dorado have been blinded by lies for too long, and it's time for them to see the truth. ”

"We should wage a surgical war to destroy the old ruling group of El Dorado and return the people to the glory of the Sun King. ”

All the high-ranking officials present are people who have been in the officialdom for many years, how can they not guess Evan's thoughts.

From the moment they saw the two puppet kings highlighted in the video materials, they knew that Evan had already moved to kill and found a suitable reason to start the war. In that case, let's go with the flow...... Anyway, the rulers of El Dorado are fakes, just use war to destroy their deformed form of government, and then treat the rest of the people well.

This kind of thinking is a subtle ideology, and this is true for high-ranking officials and people.

In the traditional Menes view, since the Sun King of the Empire is orthodox, and the El Dorado is of the same origin as the Empire, then they should abandon the false king and obey the real Sun King.

If they can't do it themselves, just help each other.

No one can feel guilty about such a war, because in the eyes of the subjects of the empire it is a war of correction of wrongs, a war of unification that is sacrosanct.

"Your Majesty......"

In an impassioned declaration of war, Ptolemy hesitantly raised his head and looked at the Sun King behind his desk: "Your Majesty is the sun that never sets on the empire, and destroying the small El Dorado is naturally a trivial matter. I just don't know if the El Dorado will have the means to counteract...... Their countermeasures may not be stronger than Your Majesty's, but as long as they can destroy the planet Hyperion, it is enough. ”

"Reasonable...... What did Ptolemy think?" Ivan met his gaze.

Looking at the sharp and restrained, but still dazzling eyes, Ptolemy couldn't help but squint his eyes, and replied in a deep voice:

"In order to prevent the people of El Dorado from being cornered and destroying the planet Hyperion, we should not expose our existence in front of them. The external war should be transformed into an internal war that can minimize popular resistance. Your Majesty will be responsible for this matter...... You are the true Sun King, and with unrivaled strength, it will not be difficult to wrest power from the Pseudo-Kings and the Religious Collective. ”

"As long as Your Majesty abolishes the puppet king and takes power, and after a period of time, when the rule is stable, you can directly merge the El Dorado with the Empire! The Empire and the El Dorado come from the same source, and we don't need to spend much effort to digest the local people. In this way, not only can the resistance and losses be reduced to the lowest point, but also the Swire technology of the Golden Kingdom can be absorbed to the greatest extent!"