After you entered this sea city and settled down as a merchant, you then went to spy on the temple.

I saw that this temple was very spectacular.

He suddenly understood why the small city-state could not build a temple.

This temple alone is equivalent to the size of the Forbidden City!

Yes, he measured it carefully with his feet. It was as big as the Forbidden City.

Good guy, think about how much manpower it takes to maintain a Forbidden City?

At least 3,000 people are needed, which should be the minimum.

If there are too few, even the most basic fire prevention cleaning will not be possible.

In fact, every dynasty in the history of the Forbidden City had at least tens of thousands of maids and eunuchs to maintain it.

A small city-state may have a total population of only ten or twenty thousand people.

Can you spend thousands of people to maintain this temple?

Of course, this may also be because this harbor city is very wealthy, so the specifications have been improved.

After all, in a place like this that has practical value and can show off its strength, it is very worthwhile to spend more money.

Then he found out again.

The temple must be well maintained so that it can efficiently produce divine power.

If the temple is damaged, if any part is broken or dirty, it will affect the efficiency of generating divine power.

Then, he discovered that the daily consumption of the temple was also very high.

Incense candles, spices, even burning fragrant sandalwood as a brazier...

Candles made of whale blubber.

As for the people inside, the food requirements are even more stringent.

Don't eat anything that produces a taste.

Garlic and onions are strictly prohibited.

You must eat all kinds of light things.

Meat is forbidden, mainly because it tends to produce taste.

In addition, precious silk is needed for decoration.

These things simply cannot be supported by a small city-state.

It must be a large city-state with at least 500,000 people to sustain this kind of consumption.

It is also a big city with commerce and handicraft industry, and is located on the transportation thoroughfare.

Not even ordinary big cities.

You must know that the Forbidden City relies on the power of a country to maintain it.

There is almost no upper limit to the consumption of this kind of temple.

Any expenditure can be reimbursed openly as long as it is in the name of God.

As long as God's name is on any account book, no one will dare to check it.

Just by seeing this, the merchant You Heng knows how much people's fat and anointing this temple has to swallow.

No wonder the soldiers in those big cities often go out to plunder!

Only by plundering the surrounding small cities can we sustain this huge consumption.

Suppose this city-state wants to maintain 500,000 people.

One person needs 20 acres of land to support himself.

The output rate in this era is so low.

Coupled with other messy needs, 100 acres of land is relatively stable.

There will be 50 million acres of land around it.

Fifty million acres of land is a lot.

One square kilometer, 1 million square meters, is equivalent to more than 1,300 acres of land.

50 million acres of land means more than 50,000 square kilometers.

However, can a city-state cover 50,000 square kilometers?

Obviously impossible.

At most, it covers the surrounding area of ​​2,000 square kilometers.

Just a city-state.

After seeing this, you will understand.

He needs to streamline the temple, simplify the rituals, and then find the most cost-effective way to condense divine power.

He wants to secretly obtain more divine power, and finally defeat the gods in one fell swoop!

Let them understand the pain of the people at the bottom!

Only then will they know how to cherish peace.

Then you will know that you cannot trigger natural disasters at will!

Then he saw another sacrifice, which required at least 1,000 people to participate.

Only after participating for a week can you develop magical power.

This price/performance ratio is too low.

1,000 people are off work for a week.

This was too wasteful for ancient labor force.

So can the temple be smaller, can the number of people be reduced, and can the rituals be simplified?

These are all topics that can be studied.

However, no one studied it.

Because once everything meets God or fanatics, it becomes unreasonable and cannot be explained by reason.

Are you blaspheming God by doing this?

Is it disrespectful to God?

Therefore, once it involves these mysterious fields, science will fail.

Because science is supported by people.

And people are fragile.

But you are so bold.

He is brave enough.

He decided to create God himself!

God comes from mountains and rivers.

He decided to build a mountain of dirt.

Wen Rensheng watched him pile up the mounds of earth.

Then he discovered that doing so was very slow.

So you started making money, and then you spent money to hire people to pile soil in the wild.

He only built a 20-meter-high mound at the beginning.

Then on this mound, he built a small temple.

Then imitate the sacrificial process in the temple.

He found some more people.

In short, I just paid these people to worship.

He tried to give them divine power.

As for how to reserve divine power, he discovered that in the temple, those divine powers need to be contained in some expensive jade objects.

Especially fine jade to contain divine power.

At this moment, Wen Rensheng naturally wanted to help him.

Otherwise, if he is allowed to commit suicide like this, it will take at least dozens of reincarnations before he can find an opportunity.

Because this kind of thing cannot be hidden from others.

Apart from anything else, there was too much noise during the sacrifice.
To be continued...