Law has always been an extension of morality, and morality must be the embodiment of the will of God.
God knows what you did.
There is a god three feet above your head.
It is in reverence for the existence of these wills that transcend cognition that people can always be vigilant and restrain their own behavior.
Using the will of the gods as an excuse to build a moral system for human survival and life, and then using the moral system to build a legal system based on it, everyone can spontaneously obey and respect it from the bottom of their hearts, and dare not cross these red lines.
The so-called punishment from the gods will naturally fall on the moral and legal levels. You need to change your mind and start a new life before you can be forgiven by the gods.
Although this chaos had nothing to do with Xu Chen, he announced that he would take all responsibilities and mistakes and punished his mistakes by not eating salt, hoping to be forgiven by the gods.
This made everyone even more unable to forgive themselves.
Especially the little witch who is the high priest felt like the sky was falling.
And a group of hunters who participated in the fight, even if they were awesome and coaxed, and even beat each other with bruises and swollen faces if they were not convinced, they still felt the fear from their souls in the face of Xu Chen's self-punishment.
and self-blame.
Because of my own selfishness and mistakes, I want His Majesty the Witch King to bear the blame.
This will leave a lifelong shadow on everyone.
Xu Chen's influence is so great that he is as great and inviolable as a god in everyone's hearts. They can only respect and look up to him.
The gods guided all the tribes to build the royal palace and the royal city together.
His Majesty the Witch King lives in the royal city and leads the nine tribes, guiding all tribes to prosper and develop. He represents the will of the gods, and no one can violate or disobey it.
Every word he spoke had a divine aura.
Everything he did represented the guidance of the gods.
And these salts were found by him not long ago from the primeval forests where there were few people and wild beasts roaming around.
It is said that this salt mine produces enough salt for all the tribes to consume.
So what's the point of this fight?
And it will offend the gods.
Is what we are doing too stupid?
Many people began to regret and were filled with shame.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, we, the Uzbek people, have done something wrong. Please don't punish yourself. We are willing to accept any punishment!"
The little witch sister moved forward on her knees, holding the scepter in both hands, and then lay down under the flag stand.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, I, I shouldn't have selfish motives. I should arrest the Uzbek people who are causing trouble and fight and be punished!"
At this time, Long knelt down on one knee and lowered his head with a face filled with shame.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, we were all wrong. Please punish us. Don't let the gods bring disasters!"
A group of witches were lying on the ground with their hands holding their scepters, and the crowd was also lying down in pieces.
Xu Chen stood on the flag stand in silence for a long time before speaking.
"Since everyone knows that we are wrong, we must take action. In order to let the gods see our actions to correct the mistakes, we must do a major thing that is beneficial to the royal city and let the gods feel our sincerity. Only in this way will we be more sincere.
To take care of and protect us, I wonder if you have the courage and confidence?"
"Your Majesty the Witch King, tell us, what can we do to correct our mistakes and not be punished by the gods?" An officer from the Uzbek tribe got up excitedly and asked loudly, clasping his fists.
"Everyone knows that since I came back from finding the salt mine, I have been planning to build river embankments and cross-river bridges. Why should I do this? Because I have received revelation from the gods that there may be heavy rains in the future and the Jicang River will flood.
Flooding, if we do not build river embankments, the houses we build on the river beaches, the farmland we reclaim, and even our royal city and palace may be destroyed by floods..."
"Hey, Your Majesty the Witch King, we need to build the river embankment quickly!"
As soon as Xu Chen said these words, the entire square went into panic. Not only did a group of witches sit up in fear, but the remaining men, women, and children even let out one after another exclamations of surprise.
Many hunter officers jumped up directly.
"It is not certain that the revelation of the gods will appear, but if we are not united and continue to cause chaos and fights over selfish little things, especially large-scale riots in the royal city, the gods may be unhappy even more.
This disaster will really befall us."
"The scale of the river embankment is very large, requiring a lot of manpower and a lot of time. Because there are not enough manpower, I originally planned to slowly complete the river embankment in three or even five years, but now it seems that we have to pay more.
We must work harder to complete this project as quickly as possible. Since everyone is willing to correct their mistakes, I will not punish anyone. Instead, I will ask everyone to participate in building the embankment and bridge and try their best to complete this task. In the future, we will be able to
Avoid this disaster, and..."
Xu Chen's eyes scanned all the people below who had faces that were either frightened or excited.
"Everyone knows the benefits of building the bridge, but the benefits will be even greater after the river embankment is repaired. We will have more safe areas on both sides of the Jicang River, where we can build more houses and reclaim more farmland."
"The revelation of the gods is both a disaster and a guide. As long as we work hard, we can gain greater benefits while resisting the disaster. This is the care and protection of the gods for us."
“The gods never tell us what to do, they only tell us what will happen, just like wild beasts will not die in front of us, fish will not jump into our fishing nets, and food will not appear in my granary.
, clothes will not appear on us out of thin air, everything is created by our own hands according to the guidance of the gods."
"I always believe that everyone who participated in the fight to grab salt today is the most hard-working and brave person. On weekdays, it is you who maintain the safety of the tribe, hunting and fishing to obtain food for survival for the tribe, but you only protect your own tribe
It is not enough, because you are still the people of Pakistan. You have responsibilities and obligations to maintain the security of Pakistan, support the development of Pakistan, promote the prosperity of Pakistan, and protect our common royal city. Only when all tribes live in peace, there will be no
Hostility and fighting, so that all our tribes can truly be protected by the gods and enjoy long-term peace, prosperity and happiness."
"Therefore, I have now decided to cancel the hunting competition and reduce the scale of transactions in this witchcraft conference. All people who come to participate in the conference, regardless of their status, men, women, old and young, will join in the construction of river embankments and bridges from tomorrow on.
In addition, after the witchcraft conference is over, the leaders of each tribe will also try to mobilize as many people as possible to participate in this unprecedented labor. We must build the river embankments as soon as possible, so as to avoid a major disaster.
disaster."
"In addition, in view of the serious shortage of salt in various tribes, I decided to give away this batch of salt for free. There is no need to compete for it, and it will be distributed evenly according to the population size, because this is a gift from the gods. I originally wanted to provide it for free for a long time, but
It's a pity that it can't be done, because the development of salt mines and transportation require a lot of manpower, material resources and time, and all those who put in this labor are Yu Gong Dasha and their tribesmen. For this, all the tribes in Ba must be grateful.
The Yugong clan is grateful to the Mongolian people, to the neighboring tribes who have been mining and transporting salt in the wild forests for a long time, and even to the barbarians conquered by us. If not for their hard work, how could we have eaten these gods?
The delicious food given.”
At this point Xu Chen knelt down on his knees and raised his hands high.
"Goddess Mother, we will definitely cherish your gift, and we will use our own actions to prove our determination to admit and correct our mistakes. Please also protect our country of Ba from generation to generation, Wu Ga~"
"Please protect us from the First Mother Goddess, Wu Ga~"
"Wuga~~"
Thousands of people in the audience knelt down and worshiped the sky at the same time, shouting in unison.
The panic and nervousness all turned into immense joy and excitement.
Regardless of the hunters who were fighting, the angry clan leaders, or the shamans who were ashamed, all of them had pious faces at this time. When they stood up to worship, they all looked at the young man on the flag stand, their hearts filled with respect and awe.
This man really looked like a god at this time, so high that people couldn't help but fall to the ground to worship him, and they will never forget it.
…
A huge commotion disappeared.
A storm of salt grabbing also turned into gratitude to His Majesty the Witch King amid cheers for the free gift.
All the tribes that participated in the fight and watched took the initiative to help pick up the scattered goods and salt crystals and put them away. Then, led by the group of witches and the leaders of each tribe, they were directly distributed according to the population.
Not a kilogram of this batch of salt was kept in the royal city, and the Ba people also had to line up to distribute it.
There was no crowding, no fighting, no yelling, and apart from laughter, there was no discordant sound.
Xu Chen did not host this salt distribution meeting.
Because he has summoned all hunters and forbidden troops to go to the river beach to assign the task of building the river embankment.
Originally, he wanted to wait until the witchcraft conference was over to build the bridge first. If there was enough time, he would recruit a small number of people from each tribe to participate in the construction of the river embankment, and repair the simple retaining dams on both sides of the upstream side of the bridge before the beginning of spring.
, wait until the second round of large-scale housing construction and rice field construction in tribal settlements near the royal city is completed next year before starting large-scale construction of river embankments.
But this salt-grabbing controversy made him decide to change his plan.
In the name of punishment, using the gods to punish sins as an excuse, the importance of the river embankment is raised to an unprecedented level. Only by making all tribes willing or even proactively help build it can the project be completed faster.
The river embankment was so large that Xu Chen probably wouldn't have been able to complete it in five years if he had relied entirely on corvee labor.
But what if it takes too long and a major flood does occur?
The Gonghuo Basin is flat and the possibility of flooding is too high.
Although the climate has been relatively stable and safe in the past seven or eight years, flood disasters that occur once in ten years or even once in a century will always occur from time to time.