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.
After a few experiments, the priests in the surrounding big cities will discover it.
Private sacrifices were punished.
It will never be allowed.
Because this directly violates the fundamental interests of the priests.
With Wen Rensheng's direct movement of his eyes, he blocked other people's observation of this place.
In the eyes of others, you are just doing ordinary things.
At the same time, he can also prevent the gods from sensing your existence.
You will not be found spying on divine power.
With the help of Wen Rensheng.
Soon Ni Heng discovered that when the mountain is piled 100 meters high, it should be 99 meters to be precise, and then he puts jade on the top of the mountain.
Then when he found 99 people to worship the jade together, he finally felt a special energy appearing on the jade.
"I didn't expect energy in this world to be so easy to obtain!"
“So easy to control!”
"Actually, isn't this just like making a fire through friction?"
It suddenly dawned on him.
Before it was discovered, no one understood that flames could be controlled.
But once you understand it, you can actually control the flame by following fixed steps and using certain procedures.
This is the law of different worlds.
Thinking of this, you are very excited.
These are the rules of this city-state world of gods!
Temples, sacrifices, jade, and mountains all have divine power.
Flames appear from friction.
Then he touched his hand on the jade.
Then he found that power entered his body smoothly.
Finally, he discovered that this power could easily transform his body.
It turns out that this is how the world is.
In fact, there is nothing mysterious about it.
Just by worshiping the hills, you can generate divine power.
But the divine power generated in this way is really a bit too little.
It cannot be used to resist natural disasters.
Now he understands again.
Why do big cities build big temples?
In fact, it is to gain more divine power and make the gods more powerful.
From this aspect.
It wasn't a complete waste when they built the Great God Meow.
but.
The original intention of building the big temple was good.
But later on, with the decline of their priests, this is certain.
It can be said that 50% to 70% of the money is wasted on the priests' own luxury.
This is how many big cities declined.
Of course, these sacrifices did not dare to blatantly deceive the gods.
They choose to purchase some very flashy things.
It seems that there is an explanation to the gods.
In fact, it is to meet their own needs.
Many gods are also relatively stupid.
This is another characteristic discovered by Mi Heng.
Most gods have little culture.
To say it is a god, it is better to say it is a barbaric spirit that possesses divine power.
They just rely on instinct and feel that a big temple means it is good and pious.
They will feel that the people below are loyal and loyal.
But they never expected it.
True loyalty is actually to use the minimum investment in the temple to obtain the most divine power, and then help the gods to expand continuously.
Then with the support of Wen Rensheng.
You gradually acquire more and more divine power.
And at this time.
Good times don't last long.
After Ni Heng gained divine power, he began to build his own small city-state.
In fact, it is easy to establish a small city-state because there are too many refugees and there is a lot of wild land.
The key is that you must be able to withstand natural disasters.
Now for Wen Rensheng, it is naturally very simple.
Wen Rensheng blocked him directly.
As the following decades passed, the city-state expanded rapidly in a safe environment.
You are a modern person and very wise.
At least he won't do things that would destroy the Great Wall.
As a result, the city developed all the way, and immediately there were more than 300,000 people.
It is already close to the population of those big cities.
At this time, the five big city-states around it wanted to launch a war against it.
The lords of the five cities gathered together to discuss.
Five people are located on the top of a mountain.
City Lord No. 1 said: "The new city near us is very lucky."
"Have you noticed that it has not been found in these dozens of major natural disasters?"
At this time, City Lord No. 2 said: "Can't you see it?"
"That's right, they are really indifferent and don't know how to take the initiative to pay tribute. I want to snatch it in advance!" City Lord No. 1 said.
"This won't work."
Number 1 thinks that everyone else will support them.
However, City Lords No. 3 and 4 clearly expressed their opposition.
"Why?" No. 1 said angrily.
"Because there are many things produced in their new city that are needed by the priests."
"If you destroy them, who will produce them?"
"Can't we produce it ourselves?"
"No," No. 3 shook his head. "First of all, we can't make it without technology. Those things require a lot of technology..."
No. 1 rushed to speak: "Can't we just attack directly and snatch away the craftsmen?"
No. 3 said: "It still doesn't work, because there is only one specialty in their place."
"It's necessary to make those things."
"Even if we plunder it, who will occupy that land to produce special products?"
No. 1 was silent.
The other person is right.
You know, each of them can only own one city.
The remaining cities will be destroyed by natural disasters.
Whoever occupies that place will not be able to withstand natural disasters at all.
If you can't withstand natural disasters, there will be no point in occupying it.
After hearing this.
No. 1 had no choice but to say: "If this is the case, then we might as well issue an order to limit their population growth."
"If they have a large population, we will reduce them."
No. 3 then smiled: "Very good, yes, reduce their population so that they cannot pose a threat."
"Then how much should we limit the population now?" asked No. 4.
"Limit it to 300,000 people. With 300,000 people, we can not only ensure that they will not exceed us, but also ensure that they can provide us with enough goods. This is what they said." No. 3 said.
After hearing this, several other city lords nodded.
So these five city lords decided on countermeasures first.
They did not start a war right away.
Mainly because this new city provides them with so many good things.
The priests were very happy.
So they were reluctant to destroy and plunder it directly.
If it was a small city-state with no special products, they would usually destroy it directly after plundering it.
There were some good-looking young people there who were captured and castrated as slaves.
It's as simple as that, craftsmen become official slaves.
At the same time, every time they came back from a war, they would drive out all the old, weak, sick, homeless, and beggars in the city.
To achieve this very cruel metabolism in this way is completely inhumane.
They have always done this and never thought it was wrong to do so.
all in all.
They chose to do this, and they will continue to do so.
After they made their decision, they sent someone directly to inform you.
When you heard about their decision, you were very angry.
"These people actually want to limit their own population and limit their own size."
“I don’t want to let myself develop.”
The visitor also said: "You must offer sacrifices regularly, and each year you must offer 100 beautiful women and 100 beautiful men."
This is equivalent to removing his talent.
"In addition, you have to turn over 100 craftsmen."
Seeing this, he still can't understand that the other party is blatantly prohibiting his development.
If he agrees to this condition, the city will not be able to develop in the future.
And its city lord will also completely lose hope.
A city lord who is forced to donate his people to obtain peace and stability cannot have any centripetal force.
Once he encounters a crisis, no one will truly support him.
The other party is asking for people and craftsmen every year. If this is the case, it will be impossible for him to develop.
He gritted his teeth and decided to go to war directly with other big cities.
Don't look at it, it only has 300,000 people.
However, he found that the efficiency of his temple in producing divine power was at least 30 times that of others.
This 30 times seems exaggerated.
In fact, it is not an exaggeration.
Because in other cities they waste too much.
Moreover, their authority mainly rests on those sacrifices.
The gods don't know much about the efficiency of obtaining divine power.
They are too lazy to understand these things and only know how to eat, drink and have fun.
Therefore, as long as the gods are not angry and the gods are happy, the sacrifices can be made as desired.
They actually got ten cents of money and only exerted two or three points of effect.
Therefore, your horizontal improvement efficiency is actually not an exaggeration.
He just used the money wasted by others to improve his own conversion rate of divine power.
