Quiet all around.

Ying Zheng did not speak again.

He just stared at Ji Heng with his eyes fixed.

How did he not know that Ji Heng deliberately said the existence of Dayu and Emperor Zhuan, in order to provoke himself, so that he could choose the second choice.

In the past, he boasted of being both a virtuous and a third emperor and a meritorious five emperors.

What the three emperors and five emperors can do right now, can't he do?

If he can't do it, won't he prove that he is inferior to the Five Emperors?

And Ji Heng is right.

He is the lord of the world, if he chooses to 'believe' that there are gods in the world, whether he really believes or not, in the eyes of the people of the world, he believes in it, under this subtle influence, the world will only become more and more in awe of the gods, because he is the emperor, and every word and deed will have a great impact on the world.

If you choose not to believe it.

Now there is a terrifying celestial phenomenon in the world, once Daqin handles it properly, not only does it not send disasters to the sky, but it makes Daqin thriving, coupled with the deliberate promotion of the concept that man will conquer the sky, the world's subconscious fear of the gods will deteriorate, although superstition still exists, but it is difficult to return to the madness of the past.

These two choices, in the end, lead to the opposite of each other.

This is also the reason why Ji Heng insists on making his own choice.

Ji Heng did not speak.

He stood quietly aside, waiting for Yingzheng to make his final decision.

Ying Zheng was the emperor of Great Qin.

His appeal to the world is terrifying.

His words and deeds will have a great impact on future generations, at least for the time being, it will have a great impact on the Qin people, and now in the eyes of the Qin people, Yingzheng is a god, once Qin begins to step past God, or even above God, it also means that since ancient times, the 'monarchy' and 'divine power' that have been constantly entangled in the Xia and Shang dynasties have completely appeared.

Under this consciousness that man will conquer the sky, new ideas will be born in the world.

A materialistic thought that is divorced from theocracy.

The sky does not change, and the Tao does not change!

Heaven naturally does nothing.

Long.

Ying Zheng took his eyes off Ji Heng, looked at the falling snow outside the house, and said in a deep voice: "This is what you have been advocating since you were in prison to change the people and the country?" ”

Ji Heng nodded.

"That's true," he said calmly. ”

"However, the so-called change of the people, change the country, after all, is too ambitious, maybe I may not be able to achieve it in my lifetime, I still have a kind of respect for Daqin, the world of great controversy for hundreds of years, and experienced the baptism of hundreds of schools, if it is not limited to war, the past hundreds of years are actually a magnificent world."

"Fruitful."

"However, if the first emperor still chooses to believe in heaven and gods, it is actually back to the old path of the Shang Dynasty, and the result of the Shang Dynasty, the first emperor is actually clear, doomed to failure, even if the historical God Xin is affected in many ways, but the fall of the Shang Dynasty is actually inevitable, because no matter how much the emperor is deified, the ultimate interpretation of the gods is actually not on the emperor."

"And in that group of wizards, witches."

"And once the emperor is deified, the emperor cannot make mistakes, and there is no turning back, which is also destined to make the path that an empire can take will become narrower and narrower, and eventually be completely blocked, and then let a more relaxed 'god' replace it."

"Isn't this a repetition of the Battle of Shang and Zhou?!"

Ji Heng's eyes were clear.

He actually saw that Yingzheng was more willing to deify himself, because it was a great temptation for the ruler, but this method was actually done by the last two emperors of the Shang Dynasty.

That is, Di Yi, Di Xin!

Come to think of this.

Ji Heng raised his head and looked at the sky from afar, as if his eyes had passed through the long river of time and fell into the era at the turn of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

This concept has had a profound impact on mankind since the dawn of life.

At that time, for the reproduction and inheritance of the race, the ancients began to try to interpret this 'divine will', so they gave birth to the group of 'witches', the so-called 'witches' refer to the oracles that communicate heaven and earth and convey heaven to people.

Over time, the shamans came up with two ways to connect with the gods.

The first is called yarrow divination.

The second type is called tortoiseshell divination.

Compared with yarrow divination, the complex ritual of tortoiseshell divination, the sound of burning tortoiseshell by fire, and those unexplained cracks can better reflect the mystery of communication with the gods, so in the Shang Dynasty, tortoiseshell divination gradually replaced yarrow divination.

However, to the surprise of many people, in the era of Yao Shunyu, the world's dependence on the 'oracle' was not high.

It's actually quite easy to understand.

The more a civilization that relies on the sky for food, the more it is in awe of the gods.

In the era of Yao Shunyu, because the population was small, and the productivity was greatly improved, the tribe was relatively stable, and it did not rely entirely on the sky for food, and the people at that time did not rely on the oracle very much, and they trusted the leader of the tribe more.

However, this kind of 'ruling the world' is destined to be short-lived, and with the development of the times, human beings have gradually developed a set of relatively standard and more systematic tortoise shell divination methods, whether it is the steps of cleaning tortoise shells, the method of burning tortoise shells, and how to explain cracks, how to distinguish sounds, etc., have set up quite strict regulations.

It also started from the Shang Dynasty.

Even if the people at the bottom knew tortoiseshell divination, they could not explain the will of the 'heavenly gods', which was the way the Shang Dynasty monarchs ruled the world.

The final interpretation of the oracle is in your hands.

Since then, he has completely incarnated as a true messenger of the gods.

Xia Dao respects his life, the ghost respects God and is far away, close to people and loyal, first Lu and then mighty.

Reward first and then punish, kiss but not respect. Its people are governed, stupid and stupid, Qiao and wild, simple and uncivilized.

Yin people respect God, lead the people to serve God, first ghosts and then salutes, first punish and then reward, respect but not kiss.

The defeat of its people is unstable and unstable, victorious and shameless.

Merchants believed that there was a supreme god in the sky, the emperor, and that this supreme god would not directly intervene in human affairs, but that the real role was the ancestral god, and the so-called "ancestral god" referred to a kind of god incarnated after the death of the royal family and noble members of the Shang Dynasty.

In the concept set up by merchants for the world, even if other princes and kingdoms can learn this method of communicating with the gods, there will still be a situation of 'no gods to ask', because the gods who can intervene in the world are all the incarnations of the ancestors of the merchants.

It was also during the Shang Dynasty that the merchants' reverence for the gods reached a state of near-madness.

In almost everything, the Divine opinion is asked.

As the saying goes, after the merchant's fear of the gods reached the extreme, the monarchs of the Shang Dynasty noticed the abnormality, they were keenly aware of their power, stolen by the sorcerer, the status of the sorcerer has been beyond the signs of royal power, and it is also from the beginning of Emperor Yi, the Shang Dynasty has carried out a series of reforms against the divine power.

In the form of replacing divine power with royal power, the influence of aristocratic wizards on the royal power of the Shang Dynasty was weakened.

This is also why, the Shang Dynasty clearly admired 'human sacrifice', but in the era of Emperor Yi and Emperor Xin, the number of 'human sacrifices' was greatly reduced, in fact, the purpose was to weaken the strength of witches and improve the royal power.

It was also from this time that the Shang Dynasty officially abolished the worship of the gods of other districts, and only allowed the worship of ancestral gods, and compared the current monarch of the Shang Dynasty to become the 'emperor'.

At this time, the king of Shang was no longer a messenger of the gods.

Rather, he became a god directly.

However, neither Di Yi nor Di Xin thought of directly denying the divine power, but only wanted to deliberately weaken the influence of the gods and improve the rule and rationality of the Shang Dynasty's royal power through this law.

Internal reforms, the rebellion of Yifang, and the rise of the Zhou state eventually led to the failure of the Shang Dynasty's reforms, which led to the fall of the Zhou state.

However, although the Zhou State later destroyed the Shang Dynasty, it still inherited the right to interpret the gods, and Ji Chang, the king of Zhou Wen, also reformed the divination method of the Fuxi era, overlapping the original gossip and deducing it into sixty-four hexagrams, and in the Zhou Yi system at that time, there were only hexagrams, and there were no hexagrams, which also meant that no one else could explain the meaning of the sixty-four hexagrams except Ji Chang.

Since then, the 'sage' of Zhou has completely replaced Emperor Shang.

Deified himself, Qi Qi is only King Wen of Zhou, but the Zhou Dynasty can destroy Shang with a 'saint', and there will also be a new 'saint' to destroy Qin in the future, and the Zhou people can do this because only the Zhou royal family can explain Zhou Yi, but Qin does not have this condition, Qin did not create a divination method like 'Zhou Yi', which also means that the right of interpretation will fall into the hands of wizards again.

And there have always been only two types of solutions to the disasters of the world by sorcerers, one is to pray to the gods, and the other is to sacrifice.

They will never allow anyone to save themselves.

This is a lesson of blood obtained from ancient times, and this lesson is still the same even in the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a great drought in the sky, and some people thought that a well should be drilled to solve a certain drought situation, and some people thought that the drought was a vision of the sky, so it should be sacrificed for rain, so as to determine the dominance of the royal power.

In the end, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty chose to sacrifice for rain.

However, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty did not pray for rain to the slightest, which directly led to countless starvations in the place.

Even so.

Emperor Zhang of Han still did not change his mind.

And this situation will continue in China.

Lasts for nearly two millennia.

Many people in the world know the solution, but in order to maintain the so-called royal power and maintain the so-called divine power, they regard human life as a mustard, and let the lives and livelihoods wither, which is a great sorrow for Ji Heng.

He reincarnated in the ninth life.

I've seen too many of these scenes.

He really didn't want to let ridiculous theocratic ideas run wild in the world anymore.

I don't want the world to continue to maintain 'the world knows that beauty is beauty, and it is evil. Everyone knows that the good is good, and the state of not being good is not good, which is irresponsible to the world, and it is also a trampling on human life.

He thought he needed to turn it all around.

However, in the past nine lifetimes, he has tried, and all of them have failed.

After Dong Zhongshu's 'heaven and man induction' in the Han Dynasty, the theocratic idea was completely deeply rooted in the marrow of the world, deep-rooted, and it was not something that ordinary reforms could change, and he had no way to persuade the ministers and monarchs of the Manchu Dynasty, plus he was in troubled times, and he really had no energy to reverse it.

It's still too late!

"If I listen to your advice, I can't guarantee that I won't become Dixin." Ying Zheng said indifferently.

Ji Heng chuckled lightly and said lightly: "Di Xin's Shang Dynasty is different from Qin, Shang itself made his fortune by believing in God, so in the end, Di Yi Di Xin tried to weaken the influence of divine power on royal power, and centralized power, which was met with great resistance, while Great Qin was based on the law, and the law was about seeking truth from facts, and there was an essential difference between the two." ”

"Admittedly."

"The deification of emperors has a strong temptation for most monarchs."

"However, what Daqin took was the road of breaking and then standing, what was broken was the accumulation of defects in the Zhou Dynasty, what was broken was the shackles of the aristocratic system, and what was broken was the destiny of heaven in the past.

"If Great Qin does not establish its own ideological system, it means that Great Qin will gradually be eaten away by the remnants of the Zhou Dynasty, and eventually it will be stolen step by step by the remnants of the Zhou Dynasty, and when it really comes, Great Qin will exist in name only."

"And"

Ji Heng paused for a moment and said in a condensed voice: "Da Qin won't live until then. ”

"The confusion of the mind means the collapse of the will."

"The thinking of the Qin people is different from that of the six regions of the Kanto region, once the mainstream ideology of the Qin State becomes the ideological trend of the Kanto region, the ideas that the Qin people used to stick to will also collapse in an instant, and the Qin people at that time will not have any combat effectiveness, and they will no longer be the army of tigers and wolves."

"The collapse of the empire was also in that instant."

"First Emperor, you have disappointed me a little." For the first time, Ji Heng had a little disappointment in this towering emperor, and he said coldly: "As an emperor, you must have both the interests of the world, and you can't have the indecision of ordinary people, how majestic and proud you were in the past?" Even if you will bear the infamy of the ages, you are willing to do something that you don't know the way forward, but as your body gets older, you are more and more hesitant and more concerned about the transmission of imperial power. ”

"This shouldn't be you!"

Ying Zheng was silent.

His eyes were fixed on Ji Heng, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.

But in the end.

Ying Zheng still held back.

He also realized that he had indeed changed his mind, from a majestic emperor to a narrow-minded and stubborn now, and even a little forward-looking.

He knows why.

Because I have it, I am more afraid of losing.

Ying Zheng was stunned for a while, and finally turned around and walked out of Ji Heng's lobby, he stood in the courtyard, his voice was a little cold, and said lightly: "It's not that I don't dare to try, but I have a lot of things to consider, if I am like you, alone, how can I be so hesitant?" ”

"But you're right."

"I'm getting old."

"Without the ambition of the past, I have gradually become conservative, this is not me, it should not be me, and it should not be me."

"I am the Emperor."

"The Emperor of the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors of Merit!!"

After speaking.

Ying Zheng resolutely left.

(End of chapter)