Chapter Eleven: The Gods of the City-State
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Thinking of this, Master Wen Datian suddenly understood why the abolition of the Blood Sacrifice led to the rebound of the Haotian Yuanqi Sea.
Just like Master Wen Datian felt at first, the blood sacrifice system in the American continent is actually an effective population regulation, which prevents the population from expanding too much and destroys the balance of the natural ecology.
Especially the ecological environment of tropical rainforests in Central America and South America is extremely fragile. Master Wen Da even remembered the various news he heard in modern time and space, as well as the wood-pulling ship he hired when he went deep into the rainforest.
The moisture above the tropical rainforest mainly comes from the evaporation of plants. If the tropical rainforest disappears in large quantities, the precipitation will be greatly reduced and the climate will become dry.
Even some precipitation will only wash away the exposed land and cannot be absorbed by the forest. As a result, areas that were originally tropical rainforests may turn into grasslands and eventually even deserts, leaving the species living in tropical rainforests on the verge of extinction.
This is not counting. The key is that the land that comes from the rainforest can only be cultivated for a few years and will be exhausted and become a barren desert.
More than 100,000 square kilometers of tropical rainforests are cut down for wood, burned down, or cleared for agriculture every year. It is reported that the frontier of deforestation is moving forward at an astonishing speed of more than four football fields per minute.
A large number of forest deforestation has caused serious damage to the local ecological environment, serious soil erosion, and increasingly barren land. In addition, large-scale forest deforestation will lead to regional climate abnormalities. Natural disasters will also occur frequently.
Thinking of the blood sacrifice system, it is clearly a natural balance between population and environment. Unlike China, it is not like China, which damages too much environment over a long period of thousands of years.
In many places, the damage to the natural environment did not even begin in modern times. For example, the land of Gansu and Shaanxi was originally called Jincheng Qianli and Tianfu Country, but Sichuan was a name that was later used.
After the prosperity and development of the Tang Dynasty, at this time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the environment was destroyed and the land was already barren.
The Yanyun Land was a relatively rich place at this time. It was the richest place among the thousands of miles of territory of the Great Liao Kingdom, and the source of wealth. In modern times, I had to go out every day with a mask, first with a sandstorm and then with a haze. The desert is only a few dozen kilometers away from the capital, and it has become an inadequate environment.
This horizontal and vertical comparison made Master Wen’s understanding of the relationship between the environment and humans more and more deeply understand why extreme environmental protection organizations such as Earth Protection Movement appeared.
But this does not mean that Master Wen Da believed in their ideas. It was really too extreme.
At the same time, Master Wen also had a deep understanding of why he almost was retaliated by the Haotian Sea of Energy when he said he wanted to stop all blood sacrifices. This was to destroy the foundation of the existence of civilization in the entire America and to destroy this balance. No wonder it almost caused the heavenly tribulation.
However, from the perspective of the later generations of Wenda Tianshi, this balance is equivalent to a dead knot. Just as the ancient Middle Earth civilization fell into a dead knot that could not be opened. Then the American civilization has been trapped in a dead knot that uses blood sacrifice to balance the population environment.
If there were no foreign invasion, this balance might have continued. However, Master Wen knew clearly that this was impossible. Whether it was Westerners four or five hundred years later, or Master Wen now, they were eyeing this big fat piece of meat.
But this kind of blood sacrifice is constantly bleeding itself. It would be fine if there is no powerful foreign enemy invasion. If there is a powerful foreign enemy invasion, this civilization mode will simply have no resistance.
"You are my brave warriors. You must conquer the land for me and help me gain more believers. Only on the battlefield is your destination. Only those who spread glory for me on the battlefield can you get my shelter and enter my kingdom of God after death!"
Wen Fei's words kept coming to the hearts of every student, making every young student excited. This was the God's personal expectation and instruction for them.
"You shall make my way walk on the whole earth! I will protect your souls with my glory." Wen Fei announced again.
"Ho huh huh..." Everyone suddenly became excited and shouted, waving the weapons in their hands.
Master Wen’s mouth was a little cramped. Each of these students wore clothes similar to animal fur skirts and had tattoos on his face and body. He kept waving his wooden knife, but did not add much momentum to them. In the eyes of Master Wen, who had commanded thousands of troops, these were simply inferior to the peasant and righteous army of the Song Dynasty.
"Great Sun God, we will start a new war for you soon. Get more slaves and sacrifices for you!" said the high priest.
"I don't need sacrifices now. The land I need now is a believer. What I need now is to take this entire continent under my command! Go and summon my warriors and let me see how powerful my warriors are!"
"As for the order, the great sun god!" said the high priest humbly.
Soon the warriors of the entire city-state were summoned. These warriors with colorful feathers on their heads were 1,700. They were the most powerful force in this jungle, and even more than the total population of most tribes.
But looking at these soldiers with their upper bodies naked and holding weapons such as wooden swords and stone swords in their hands.
However, it made Master Wen deeply feel that he seemed to have traveled to the prehistoric era. He led a group of primitive people to play the game of dominating the world. This put Master Wen so much pressure on him!
Dama Master Wen had forgotten that this American civilization not only did not invent the wheel, but also did not even have the technology of metal smelting, and even iron tools. Not to mention iron weapons!
If it would be great if the jade pendant is in your hand now. At this moment, Master Wen Da was suddenly deeply missing his jade pendant.
After returning to his temple with a calm face, it seemed that the saints felt the unhappiness of Master Wen and tried hard to smile and sing and dance the gods who wanted to please them.
Master Wen turned a blind eye to these girls and watched them dance every day. He should have been tired of them after watching them too much.
When he walked to the middle of the hall, the entire building was built with incompletely shaped stones. According to the productivity of a small city-state of 20,000 to 30,000 people, building such a huge building was simply overdrawn.
It took 20,000 people to build it for more than ten years, and the huge resources in the city-state were consumed.
The population of 10 to 1 is completely out of work and production, just to build such a huge palace that is useless. If it were changed to another place, all the people might have rebelled long ago, but in the American civilization, everything seems to be natural.
Of course, it is impossible to further decorate the palace in order to meet the aesthetic view of Master Wen Da. Only where Master Wen Da can sleep can a thick carpet and paint some brightly colored murals on the wall.
Wen Fei kicked the carpet open and gently turned over a few stones, revealing a dark hole.
This is the secret passage corresponding to modern time and space. The temple he lives in now is supposed to be the huge building that has long been abandoned in later generations and surrounded by countless vines.
The scale of buildings on this island in modern time and space is much larger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty. You can imagine that this city-state will continue to build more palace buildings in the future...
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When Mr. Ouyang walked into the Tokyo City of Song Dynasty again, he was already deeply moved. This was his third time to come to Tokyo City as an envoy, and the first time he looked down with a sense of superiority.
At that time, the Liao Kingdom was in full swing. He took the psychological advantages of Liao Kingdom over the Song Kingdom and faced the Song monarch and ministers aggressively. That time he was in a mess!
The second time, chaos in the Liao Kingdom had already arisen. However, the Song Dynasty was at its peak. It had just conquered Tubo and even destroyed the capital of Xixia under the protection of the Khitan. It was its momentum.
When he came again, he was already at a psychological disadvantage. Although Master Wen was confident that the millions of cavalry of the Great Liao could not defeat the barbarians who emerged from the old forests in the deep mountains of western Liaoning. However, this was not enough to make Mr. Ouyang completely believe it.
But this time, Master Wen's prophecy was fully realized. This made Mr. Ouyang completely lose his soul. Not only was the Liao Kingdom defeated and the country's power was in a slump, but it was also because Wen Fei predicted things like a god. It seemed that everything in the world was always in his palm.
This feeling is actually the most terrifying.
The Song Dynasty sent a small minister to receive Mr. Ouyang this time, and his treatment was very slow, but he no longer cared about this. He was like a man who was about to drown, desperately trying to catch a life-saving straw.
"Enterprise please stay with me at the inn." Qin Hui said in a gentle and graceful manner. But in the eyes of Mr. Ouyang, it looked so hateful.
"I want to see your emperor, I want to see Shangfu!" shouted Mr. Ouyang.
Qin Hui showed a contemptuous smile on his lips and disappeared in a blink of an eye. He still smiled gently and said, "The official monk is busy and he is busy every day. He has no time to receive the envoys!"
The anger in the heart of Mr. Ouyang had just aroused. If there were no Jurchen barbarians before, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty would not dare to do this... But he then realized that the Great Liao Kingdom was no longer the Great Liao Kingdom.
He had no choice but to smile and said, "I really have an urgent matter to ask the official family to meet Shang's father. Please help me report it." (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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