In the face of natural disasters, should we protect the core cities or these small border towns?
Reasonable people will choose Baodacheng.
As long as you go back and forth a few times, even with the strength of modern organizations, you will find that small city-states are just a drag.
So they will give up, or choose to only charge protection fees, not provide protection services, and only promise not to hit you.
If others hit you, they won't care.
When Wen Rensheng saw this, he understood that this was equivalent to the future generations.
In later generations, everyone began to use financial means to obtain benefits.
Rarely do they go directly to occupy territory.
Directly occupying the territory will also have to bear the welfare of those people, regardless of the fact that it will easily cause rumors and pressure.
Might as well just use financial scraping.
Most people can't understand it, and those who do understand won't say much.
There is no problem.
Ni Heng quickly understood this.
Then he began to wonder again.
Asked the captured general: "Then why don't the gods take care of these small towns?"
"Since the great city is protected by the Son of God, and there will be many sons of God, but the great city is limited, there will always be sons who cannot get a share of the great city, right?"
What he said is correct.
In fact, he learned that there are only a dozen or so big cities.
Some city-states have only one, and some have two.
"It's simple. Small city-states are poor." The general also wanted to live a little longer, "because building a temple is very expensive."
"It will take decades to build."
"And even after they built it, they couldn't afford to maintain the temple."
"Only through temples can the Son of God communicate with God, organize sacrifices, and obtain divine power."
Hearing this, you are a modern person after all.
I read many novels.
He keenly guessed that the temple was the key!
Sacrifice should be related to faith. The five key elements of the Son of God, the temple, faith, gods, and divine power form a closed loop.
The son of God is the anchor of the god’s bloodline in this world. The temple is the place where the god is in this world. He organizes the people and generates faith. After the god extracts the divine power, he shares it with the son of god!
To put it bluntly, it is still a business.
When he realized this, Wen Rensheng also laughed.
This is the benefit of modern people.
There is a lot of information and a big imagination. They could guess the truths that the ancients could not imagine or dare not think about with just one or two clues.
Of course you know that this is just a guess and needs evidence to prove it.
Otherwise, it is just your own fantasy and cannot be used directly.
Applying speculations and fantasies directly to reality is courting death.
"Then when you attack other big city-states, aren't you afraid of offending the gods?" You then asked the fundamental question.
The captured general showed fear on his face, and then whispered: "Of course I am afraid."
"But we are attacking a city that is hostile to God."
"And there is an agreement between the gods that they will not punish us directly, but those who dare to blaspheme the gods will definitely be marked with death."
"He will always die by some coincidence."
"For example, there was a hungry peasant king who was the son of a certain god in the Golden Age. He was disgusted by a god because he often liked to eat the hearts of farmers, so he declared that he would be stuck to death by fish bones while eating fish."
"But his father loved him very much and forbade him to eat fish."
The story told by the general immediately attracted your attention.
Wen Rensheng also found it interesting.
"However, one day, his father went to war with the Lord God. Without his father's attention, someone deliberately made a delicious plate of grilled fish."
"He couldn't help but eat it, and as expected, the fish bone got stuck in his throat. Then the tiny fish bone pierced the throat of the son of God who had killed hundreds of elites in a row, causing him to suffocate to death."
You Heng knew that this was probably because the fishbone had pierced the major blood vessels and then pierced the trachea.
Blood flows into the trachea and into the lungs, which can cause suffocation in a short time.
In modern times, the first aid time is only 5 minutes.
Let alone this era.
"Isn't there any magical healing power?" Ni Heng asked again.
"Yes, but the high priest in charge of the sacrifice also went out to pray to the gods that day and won."
"They also went to find the priests from other city-states, but before they arrived, they announced that he had returned to his father's arms."
"That's it." You Heng understood.
The gods rely on prophecies to easily kill the Son of God.
There is no battle between gods and gods in the human world.
Neither will divine punishment come directly.
The so-called "divine punishment" is probably a natural disaster predicted by the gods.
Let natural disasters destroy cities.
this is very simple.
Earthquakes, floods and even fires can easily destroy current city-states.
This is also the reason why those people did not dare to take action against him after he showed great power before.
It seems that if you want to kill the Son of God, you can only rely on God’s prophecy.
If someone kills someone, his father or mother is qualified to take revenge.
It was predicted that a natural disaster would destroy the city-state.
Of course prophecies can also be countered.
Just like the previous one, if his father keeps watching him and not letting him eat fish, he may die of old age.
The same is true for natural disasters.
As long as there is a stronger divine protection, it can be avoided.
All in all, this is the city-state era with the background of Greek mythology.
Mortals don't have a stage to perform on, they just provide food, cattle, sheep and faith.
The real stage is prepared for the Son of God, who is the director, screenwriter, and photographer behind the scenes.
He asked the general again: "What is the benefit of attacking the big city?"
The general suddenly showed a look of yearning.
"The first thing is to break down their temple, and you can get huge divine favor."
"You will even be chosen by the gods and then be favored by the gods..."
Hearing this, you felt a chill.
He doesn't think that all gods are goddesses.
"Then you can become a divine warrior and have a status similar to that of a son of God."
"You can plunder the divine power they accumulated in the temple."
"These divine powers can transform ordinary people into as powerful as a son of God like you, but there is a time limit."
You nodded, strength is the best way to get ahead in this era.
No wonder he said this was the biggest benefit.
"A small town cannot maintain its temples and accumulate divine power."
"The temple must reach a certain scale before it can gather divine power."
After hearing this, Mi Heng suddenly realized that if you want to change the whole world, you must make the world feel pain!
Let the people in the big city-states also understand that having gods does not mean they can do whatever they want!
He will become a god!
A true, just God with the strongest power!
Moreover, he wants to make everyone useful.
It doesn't take that much trouble to accumulate divine power.
Don’t let big city-states monopolize the way to obtain divine power.
He wants everyone to be able to easily gather their divine power.
"I want to become a god!"
"I want you people from the big city and all the sons of God to understand the suffering of the common people!"
Hearing this, Wen Rensheng felt a bit like a black line.
Good guy.
Sure enough, those who are willing to take on the mission of saving the world are somewhat middle-of-the-road.
But it is this second grade that has the possibility to change the world.
Just like the Great Xia of the past, what changed it was not those smooth, sophisticated people who were well versed in ancient and modern times, but a group of seemingly innocent and passionate teenagers who spoke full of ideals.
"Let the world feel the pain!"
You suddenly broke the captured general's neck...
"I..." Although the general couldn't speak after his neck was broken, he still had more than ten seconds to go around.
If you cut off the head, you can still live for a dozen or so years.
"If I had known, I wouldn't have told you so much."
Afterwards, you searched everywhere in this world.
Looking around.
He discovered that the world is not big.
At best, it is the size of an island.
Of course, for human beings, it is actually not small.
10 million square kilometers of land, plus 40 million square kilometers of ocean.
If no major changes occur, humans should still be able to reproduce for millions of years.
After all, primitive humans lived for more than two million years.
As long as there are no drastic changes, there is no reason why people in feudal city-states cannot outlive primitive people.
Ten years later.
Ni Heng traveled all over the north, south, east and west, and with the help of a few plug-ins and his modern knowledge, he gradually mastered the mysteries of the gods.
All gods believe in mixed nature.
They are formed by three factors.
One is the temple, the second is the believers, and the third is the mountains or rivers.
In other words, only a big mountain or a big river can have a god.
This may be a limitation of the world.
"The world of mountain gods and river gods?" Wen Rensheng nodded.
You Heng, this guy's exploration ability is pretty good.
Indeed, you discovered that people worshiped mountains and rivers because they were the basis for early human survival.
Where there are mountains, there is food, and where there are rivers, there is development and growth.
In the beginning, people did not live in the plains.
It was only after descending from the tree that we entered the plain.
In the natural environment, plain areas are often forest areas, and forests can also be regarded as another kind of mountain... uneven trees are called tree mountains.
Primitive people lived in trees early on.
You Heng have already grasped this.
These gods are, in the final analysis, the evolution of totem gods.
They rely on extraordinary strength and divine power to evolve faster than humans.
Of course, they fall faster than humans.
Now they have everything they need, all they have left is how to please themselves.
Basically, except for a few main gods who are interested in exploring the world, the other gods just want to eat, drink, have fun, and seek various stimulations every day.
Playing chess with city-states and making up stories about mortals and heroes are what they like to do most.
It is similar to how modern people play simulation games, RPG games, and online games.
And this is a real simulation, so you can imagine how attractive it will be.
Among modern young people, at least half of ten people have played games.
This is undeniable.
The proportion of gods is even higher.
Besides, God still has a way to fast forward.
That is, if you sleep by yourself, you will grow up.
Time is worthless to these gods.
Unless there are big changes in the world's ley lines and rivers, they won't be doomed.
Under normal circumstances, people in feudal city-states did not have the ability to transform large rivers.
Suddenly, you understand why you stayed in the city-state era.
Why do natural disasters frequently attack city-states without the Son of God?
If there is true unification, it is impossible to move mountains, but it is possible to change a big river and make it disappear.
For example, the Yellow River has changed its course many times, hasn't it?
If the Yellow River is a god, then the lower part of the god has changed back and forth several times.
The locations of many big cities can be seen.
Some are where mountains and rivers meet.
Some are at the bends of the river.
Natural disasters are the means used by gods to restrict human unity.
As long as they are not unified, how can a single city change the river?
One is that there is not enough manpower, and the other is that the river passes through your territory and other people's territory.
At most, minor changes were made and trenches and canals were dug.
There are many kinds of disasters.
A gathering place without God's protection will always suffer from these disasters.
As for how the small city-state came about?
Small city-states came from people exiled from big cities.
Although they are multiplying, the population of big cities will be increasing.
There will come a time when there will not be enough food.
And because of the existence of God and His Son, it is impossible for the common people to successfully resist and divide the land.
At this time, some people will be kicked out due to insufficient resources, insufficient positions, and inability to earn living expenses.
Bankrupt vagrants, beggars, and the elderly, weak, sick, and disabled who are left unattended will all be kicked out.
They have nowhere to go but to run into the wild.
Then a gathering point is formed.
Natural disasters also have an upside.
That is an uninhabited resource area that is easy to form...
This is the redistribution of natural resources under natural disasters.
These people make use of the abundant resources in the wild and survive.
They are like weeds.
Some small city-states are more lucky.
Not destroyed by the gods.
The natural disaster did not come.
One hundred years is enough for a small city-state to prosper.
In fact, a dynasty can reach its peak period in two generations within 30 to 50 years.
And the frequency of natural disasters is not that high.
Once in ten years or twenty years.
But once it comes, it will be a disaster.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! These lucky towns are trying to obtain the protection of the Son of God.
But a temple must be built before the Son of God can move in.
Otherwise, it is better to hang out with the favored brothers and sisters and get some leftovers.
After all, it is the bloodline of God, and it still has value.
The prerequisite is to be humble.
Just like in a big family, a favored child will get good food to eat and let his sisters and brothers surround him.
But they are destined to only deal with some ordinary bandits.
It can't deal with natural disasters, it can't deal with the invasion of big cities.
Every natural disaster and every battle in a big city is a time of fear for a small city.
Therefore, many small towns choose to seek refuge in big cities.
Not asking for any protection, just asking not to kill.
That means paying protection fees.
The more you see him, the angrier he becomes.
He suppressed these anger.
For those people, it must be said that this is a very miserable world.
If you are lucky, you can live a stable life for most of your life, which is 30 years.
Unlucky, he died just after birth.
After Wen Rensheng saw this, he wanted to know what would you do?
Soon, You Heng was motivated by enough anger and he decided to study those gods.
He secretly disguised himself as a businessman from a small town and came to a big city.
As long as you have enough money and are guaranteed by someone with status in the big city, you can live in the big city.
There are also some large cities that can obtain more food through trade and river transportation, so they can support a larger population.
In fact, for feudal city-states, if they can support themselves, they hope that the city's population will increase.
This means that more people will go out to fight, more divine power will be obtained from sacrifices, and the price of hard labor will be cheaper.
This big city is close to the sea and is the mouth of a large river.
There is sea transportation and river transportation.
If this is not developed, it can only mean that there are too many disasters.
In fact, there has been no disaster here for hundreds of years.
