If Xidaomen really wants to make up his mind to change the situation of the blood sacrifice, can it be changed?

The answer is yes, but the cost is too high, the cost is too high. It boils down to three words, it's not worth it.

Qi Xuansu couldn't help but think of the old past of killing Wan Xiuwu and sending Yue Liuli into a secret prison. At that time, he was still very young and immature, and he was still struggling with procedural justice and de facto justice.

Later, as his status became higher and higher, he saw more and more, and his position was different, which also made his thinking change a lot.

The law itself has something to do with justice, but it cannot be said that the law fully represents justice.

If a law is in line with the consensus of the people, then it is righteous to some extent, and it has a sanctity, and even the practitioners have a part of the sacredness. But if a law violates this consensus, then it is difficult to say, if the world does not recognize it, how can we talk about justice? Not to mention sacredness.

The law is essentially a tool to safeguard the interests of the ruling class. It can also be said that the role of the law is to define what justice is, and whose justice is it that is defined? If it is in the interests of the vast majority of the people, it is the justice of the vast majority of the people. On the contrary, it is not the justice of the vast majority of people.

Qi Xuansu realized that Daomen didn't really care about procedural justice, nor did it care about factual justice, what Daomen cared about was cost, that is, maintaining order at the lowest cost.

Justice is not important, stability is the most important.

Under the premise of stability, the cost is minimized.

Therefore, a series of practices such as the child who will make trouble have milk to eat, and the mud, and the dead are the greatest, and the essence of the core is around the cost, many things that cannot be understood, things that are incredible, and things that are absurd, as long as you change the angle, you can see it at a glance.

How to maintain a stable order at the lowest cost, how to do it.

Xidaomen undoubtedly inherited the idea of Daomen very well, they want to maintain stability, abolishing the blood sacrifice will lead to great instability, the crazy ancient gods and priest class will definitely not agree, it will lead to rebellion and infighting, the cost is too big for Xidaomen to bear, then the blood sacrifice will not be abolished.

So the logic is simple, justice has to give way to stability and cost.

In other words, justice is also divided into large and small, order and stability are the greatest justice, and other small justices must be premised on this great justice.

This is not a fallacy, because if order is lost, the number of deaths will probably be in the millions. Even the loss of even part of the order is equally unbearable.

Think about it, if the ancient gods and the priestly class rebelled, how many people would die? The Holy Court took advantage of the weakness, how many people will die?

By that time, most people only

If you want to live, who cares about blood sacrifice or not, let alone this trivial justice.

It may be cold, but it is true. To operate a place or a country, we must always be careful in our calculations, spend what we should spend, and don't spend what we shouldn't spend, and use the cost on the cutting edge.

For individuals, especially small people, there will always be someone to pay for.

As far as the ruling class is concerned, there will always be people who take the opportunity to mix their personal will with their own personal will and use public weapons for personal gain.

Because of this, Qi Xuansu did not go to anger over the blood sacrifice or declare war on the ancient gods with righteous indignation.

If you want to abolish the blood sacrifice, the most realistic way is to give the old gods an alternative method, the old gods do not take pleasure in blood sacrifices, they still want to live. No one wants to be entangled in karmic fire and drink to quench their thirst.

The reason why these gods are so weak should be the after-effects of the last divine war, although the gods led by Kukulkan survived with difficulty and were not destroyed by the apostles of the Holy Court, but they also paid a considerable price and have not fully recovered so far.

It can be said that if it weren't for the appearance of the West Daomen, they would definitely die in the follow-up attack of the Holy Court.

This reminded Qi Xuansu of a noun, the twilight of the gods.

This word has appeared many times, and many of the ancient gods of the Western Continent, the ancient gods of Misil, have entered the twilight and even died out. For example, the hammer in Alex's hand belonged to a certain ancient god of the Western Continent, but this ancient god had fallen and died under the divine power of the supreme will. His artifact

and it became the spoils of the Holy Court, which were given to the believers.

In fact, the ancient witch cult can also be regarded as a god system, which also died out.

From a certain point of view, it is inevitable that the ancient gods, Gu immortals, and ancient witches will withdraw from the stage of history, but they are not willing to accept it.

Qi Xuansu visited several more pyramids and found that the level of these priests was still stuck in the era before the ancestral dragon, that is, the level of the witch cult. Even if the Holy See did not do it directly, but fought fairly, competing in proselytizing and demagoguery, these ancient gods would have lost badly.

If it weren't for the fact that Xidaomen needed to unite some high-end combat power to resist the steam gospel, if the entire New World was dominated by the Xidaomen family, then these ancient gods would have been swept into the *** ditch by Xidaomen, where could they still be allowed to stand tall, and the Gu Immortals of the Central Plains were a lesson from the past.

Thinking of these, Qi Xuansu found a hotel in the business district that was quite Central Plains style. Of course, the price of such a hotel is not

Filipino is specially used to receive those guests who are deeply centralized, or simply guests from the East. After all, in Tawanting, the Central Plains represents the advanced, and being able to be Central Plains often means that the status is not low.

After following the check-in process, Qi Xuansu began to read a travelogue about the indigenous civilization of the New World, written by a missionary of the Goddess Society, a well-known man named Andres, who discovered the existence of Payiti and submitted it to the Holy See in the form of a written report.

One of the points that Andres makes in his travelogue is the issue of land carrying ceilings and populations.

When he was young, he traveled to the East, in the last years of the Great Wei Dynasty, and he saw the scene of thousands of miles of red land, ten rooms and nine emptiness. He believed that every time the East faced the problem of population ceiling, it would launch a large-scale peasant uprising to eliminate the surplus population by changing the dynasty.

Because of land problems and farming technology problems, this cycle is usually around 200 to 300 years.

This view is very common, and many Confucian and Taoist people of the same period have put forward similar views, and Xu Zu, one of them, has proposed the solution of "making the pie bigger" on this basis, so as to break the cyclical law.

The key point is that Andres deduced the periodic law of the aborigines of the southern continent through the experience of the East.

In Andres's view, the southern continent is rich in rainforests, with strong organic matter decomposition and nutrient recycling, and the soil lacks nutrient accumulation and replenishment, so the land is poor, far less than the arable land in the east. Therefore, the agricultural ecology of the rainforest is more fragile, and the indigenous people of the southern continent are still using very backward farming techniques, which makes the southern continent simply unable to last for more than 200 years. Often in less than a hundred years, it is already overwhelmed.

In the past 100 years, social contradictions have not yet reached the point where it is difficult to return, and it is difficult to set off such a large-scale uprising. So the Southern Continent took another path, which was sacrifice. Eliminate the surplus population through non-stop small-scale blood sacrifices.

To use an inappropriate analogy, the East is to accumulate all the work and wait until the last sexual settlement, but it will be half exhausted. In the Southern Continent, today's business is finished today, and the daily workload is very small.

There is also an element of the Old Gods, who can benefit from blood sacrifices and naturally support and condone this behavior.

In fact, in Qi Xuansu's view, these ancient gods are unqualified, and they simply regard believers as slaves, sacrificing at will, acting recklessly, and pleasing gods at every turn. In the Central Plains, such a person who does not do anything is to be regarded as an evil god, but here he has become a righteous god.

In a sense, it is condemnable

The extermination and enslavement of the Holy Court must also admit that the backward and ignorant behavior of blood sacrifice and cannibalism is not in line with the trend of the world.

Although Tawantine excelled in many aspects, such as observing celestial phenomena, formulating calendars, sculptures, faience, murals, etc., if it could not break through in key technologies, the entire civilization would come to a standstill and eventually perish when it encountered a foreign enemy.

The East has also faced this kind of predicament, but fortunately, the volume of the East is large enough, and it has finally completed a difficult, painful, heavy and great transformation.

Now Tawantine is still in the process of transformation, at a turning point of alternating the old and the new, and the whole process will inevitably be accompanied by a lot of pains, and all kinds of contradictions are very acute, but that's all

The contradictions are now overshadowed by a larger contradiction – the steaming gospel of the North.

The Holy See wants to exterminate the aborigines, and the Daomen wants to cure the sick and save people for transformation, but one thing is the same, both sides do not recognize this civilization.

There is a simple truth in this, face is not given by others, it is earned by yourself, and you are eating people and blood sacrifices on your side, and you are still engaging in the same set that others have long abandoned, and it is no wonder that others look down on you.

Qi Xuansu closed the travelogue in his hand and fell into a brief contemplation.

The future of the Southern Continent, this proposition is a bit too grandiose, and it is not something that Qi Xuansu should consider, at least not now.

Qi Xuansu opened another book of relevant research documents written by the old man of the West Daomen.

In the book, the deceased predecessor of Xidaomen put forward a point of view, Misil and the New World are both gods dominated by the sun god, and both have built a large number of pyramids, is there any connection between this?

This Xidaomen senior made a bold guess, is it possible that these two ancient gods have a relationship similar to that of "senior brothers"? For example, the Buddhism Gate of Middle Earth and the Buddhism Gate of the Western Regions originate from the same source, and because of the different environments, they have embarked on different development paths.

Kukulkan's theft of the priesthood of the Misil sun god is a testament to this.

At this moment, Qi Xuansu suddenly heard a faint calling voice, like a whisper ringing in his ears.

Qi Xuansu was stunned, he was very sure that there was no one around him, so this kind of whispering came from a higher-level existence.

For example, gods.

This is not a coincidence, when Qi Xuansu was weak, this situation could be explained by coincidence and chance. The current Qi Xuansu is not a small person, as the plenipotentiary envoy of the Daomen, even if he is not an immortal, he should not be underestimated, because behind Qi Xuansu stands a powerful Daomen.

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