Chapter 11: The Gods of the City-State
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Thinking of this, Master Wen suddenly understood. Why did the abolition of the blood sacrifice lead to the rebound of the sea of vitality of the sky.
Just as Master Wen Da felt at the beginning, the blood sacrifice system in the American continent is actually an effective population regulation. So that the population will not expand too much, and the balance of the natural ecology will be destroyed.
In particular, the tropical rainforests of Central and South America are extremely fragile. Master Wen even remembered all the news he had heard in modern time and space, as well as the boat he hired to pull wood when he went deep into the rainforest.
The moisture over the rainforest is mainly due to evapotranspiration by plants, and if the rainforest disappears in large numbers, the amount of precipitation will be greatly reduced, and the climate will become dry.
Even some precipitation will only wash away the bare land, and will not be absorbed by the trees, and as a result, areas that were originally tropical rainforests may become grasslands, and eventually even deserts, making the species that inhabit tropical rainforests endangered.
That's not all, the key is to reclaim the land from the rainforest, which can only be cultivated for a few years, and the fertility will be lost. Turned into a barren desert.
Every year, more than 100,000 square kilometres of tropical rainforest are cut down for timber, burned or cleared for agriculture. The frontier of deforestation is reportedly advancing at an alarming rate of more than four football fields per minute.
A large number of deforestation has led to the destruction of the local ecological environment, soil erosion, and the land is becoming more and more barren, and large-scale deforestation will lead to regional climate anomalies. Natural disasters are also frequent.
When we think of the blood sacrifice system, it is clear that there is a balance between nature and the population and the environment. It's not like China, over a long period of thousands of years. Damage too much of the environment.
In many places, the destruction of the natural environment did not even begin in modern times. For example, the land of Gansu and Shaanxi, which was originally the so-called Jincheng Qianli, the country of abundance, but Sichuan, but it was a name that was used later.
After the prosperity and development of the Tang Dynasty, at this time in the Northern Song Dynasty. The environment has been destroyed, and the land has become barren.
And the land of Yanyun is still a relatively wealthy place at this time. It is the richest place in the territory of the Great Liao Kingdom and the source of wealth. In modern times, I had to go out with a mask every day, first a sandstorm. Then came the smog. The desert is only a few dozen kilometers from the capital, and it has become an uninhabitable environment.
This horizontal and vertical comparison has made Master Wen have a deeper understanding of the relationship between the environment and people. I have become more and more aware of why there are extreme environmental organizations such as the Earth Protection Movement.
But this does not mean that Master Wen is convinced of their philosophy. It's just too extreme.
At the same time, the Heavenly Master of Wenda also had a deep understanding. Why did he say that he wanted to stop the blood sacrifice, and he was almost swallowed by the sea of Haotian Yuan Qi immediately. This is to destroy the foundations of the existence of civilization throughout the Americas, to upset this balance. No wonder it almost caused a catastrophe.
It's just that from the perspective of the Celestial Master of Wenda to the eyes of the latecomers, this balance is equivalent to a dead knot. It's as if the civilization of ancient Middle-earth was stuck in a dead knot of chaos and chaos. Then the civilization of the Americas has always fallen into a dead knot of using blood sacrifices to balance the population and environment.
If there had been no foreign invasion, this balance would have persisted. But Master Wen Da knew very well that this was impossible. Whether it is the Westerners four or five hundred years later, or the current Wenda Heavenly Master, they are all eyeing this big fat meat.
It's just that this kind of blood sacrifice is constantly bleeding yourself. If there is no strong foreign invasion, it is fine, but if there is a strong foreign invasion, this civilization mode is simply not resistant.
"You are all my brave warriors, and you will give me constant conquest of the land and help me gain more believers. Only on the battlefield is where you belong. Only those who spread glory for me on the battlefield can be protected by me and enter my kingdom after death!"
Wen Fei's words continued to reach the hearts of every student. Let every young student get excited, this is the expectation and entrustment of the gods themselves for them.
"You will make my way go over all the earth, and I will take refuge your souls with my glory." Wen Fei announced again.
"Roar, roar, roar, ......" Everyone suddenly became excited and excited, waving the weapons in their hands and shouting.
The corners of Wenda's mouth were a little cramped, and each of these students was wearing clothes similar to animal fur and straw skirts, and they all had tattoos on their faces. The constant wielding of wooden knives did not add much momentum to them, and in the eyes of Wen Da Tianshi, who had commanded thousands of troops and horses, these were simply inferior to the peasant rebels of the Great Song Dynasty.
"Great Sun God, we will soon start a new war for you. Get more slaves and sacrifices for you!" said the High Priest.
"I don't need sacrifices right now, I need the land right now, it's believers. What I need now is to bring the whole continent under my command! Gather my warriors and show me how mighty my warriors are!"
"Yes, great sun god!" said the high priest humbly.
Soon the warriors of the entire city-state were summoned, and these warriors with colorful feathers on their heads numbered seventeen or eight hundred. It is the most powerful force in the jungle, even more than the total population of most tribes.
But look at these warriors, most of whom are naked, with weapons such as wooden knives and stone knives in their hands.
But it made Master Wen deeply feel that he seemed to have traveled to the era of the flood and famine. Leading a group of primitive people, to play the game of dominating the world. This suddenly made the Wenda Heavenly Master under a lot of pressure!
Nima. The Great Heavenly Master of Wen had forgotten that this American civilization not only did not invent the wheel, not to mention it, but also did not even have the process of metal smelting, not even iron tools. Not to mention iron weapons!
It would be nice if the jade pendant was in your hand now. At this moment, Master Wen suddenly deeply missed his jade pendant.
Returning to their shrine with a calm face, it seemed that those holy maidens all sensed the displeasure of Master Wenda, and tried to accompany the gods who were smiling and singing and dancing to please them.
Wenda Heavenly Master turned a blind eye to these, and watched these girls dance every day, and he should have been tired of seeing too much.
He walked to the middle of the main hall, where the whole building was made of stone barricades of incompleteness. Based on the productivity of such a small city-state of twenty or thirty thousand people, building such a huge building is simply an overdraft.
It took 20,000 people more than ten years to build it. Let the huge resources in the city-state be consumed in it.
The population of ten to one, completely out of production and production, in order to build such a huge palace with no practical use. If it had been elsewhere, maybe all the people would have rebelled a long time ago, but in the civilization of the Americas, it seems to be a matter of course.
Of course, it would be impossible to further decorate this palace in terms of the aesthetics that would be expected to conform to the aesthetics of the Great Master of Wen. Only the place where the Heavenly Master of Wenda slept could be covered with a thick carpet and some brightly colored murals painted on the walls.
Wen Fei kicked the carpet open and gently turned over a few stones, revealing a deep dark hole.
This is the secret passage that corresponds to the modern time and space. The temple he lives in now is supposed to be the huge building that has long been abandoned in the later generations and is surrounded by countless vines.
The scale of buildings on this island in modern time and space is much larger than that in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is conceivable that this city-state will continue to build more palace buildings in the future............
When Ouyang Shilang walked into the Tokyo city of the Great Song Dynasty again, he was already full of feelings. This was the third time he had come to Tokyo City as an envoy, and the first time he had looked down with a sense of superiority.
At that time, the national strength of the Liao State was in its prime, and he took the psychological advantage of the Liao State over the Song State and aggressively faced the Great Song monarchs and ministers. That time he made a fuss!
The second time, it was the chaos of the Liao Kingdom. However, the Great Song Dynasty is in full swing, and has just conquered Tubo, and even destroyed the Western Xia under the protection of the Khitan, which is like a rainbow.
When he came back, he was already at a psychological disadvantage. Although Master Wen swore that the millions of iron horsemen of Daliao could not defeat those barbarians who came out of the old forests in the deep mountains of western Liaoning. But this was not enough for Ouyang Shilang to fully believe it.
But this time, the prophecy of Master Wen Da came true. This made Ouyang Shilang completely depressed. It is not only that the Liao State was defeated and the country's situation collapsed, but also because Wen Fei was like a god. It was as if everything in the world had always been in the palm of his hand.
This feeling is actually the most terrifying.
The person sent out by Da Song to receive Ouyang Shilang this time was just a small outsider, and his treatment was very slow, but he didn't care about these at all. He is now like a man who is about to drown, desperately trying to grasp a life-saving straw.
"Envoy, please come with me to stay at the inn. "Qin Hui is polite and personable. But in Ouyang Shilang's eyes, it looked so hateful.
"I want to see your emperor, I want to see Shang's father!" shouted Ouyang Shilang.
A contemptuous smile appeared on Qin Hui's lips, which disappeared in the blink of an eye. He still smiled gently: "The official monk father is busy, and he has every opportunity. There is no time to receive envoys for the time being!"
The anger in Ouyang Shilang's heart had just arisen, if there were no Jurchen barbarians before, how could the Great Song Junchen dare to be like this...... But then he realized that the Great Liao Kingdom was no longer the Great Liao Kingdom.
He had no choice but to say with a smile: "I really have an urgent matter to ask to see the official family, and I want to see Father Shang." Trouble the outside to help report. (To be continued......)