In an empty plain on the outskirts of Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, the annual day of atonement to the Sun God soon came, and the entire Inca Empire began to pay close attention to this matter.
On the roads that connect Cusco to the Inca Empire, four-wheeled carriages loaded with gold and silver bricks are heading towards the city of Cusco.
They must build the sacrificial pyramid before the sacrificial day (the 30th day of the Ming Empire). This is related to whether the Sun God will forgive their sins and let them become Ming people again and become the children of the god.
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For the people of the Inca Empire, nothing is more important than this. God has the supreme status in their hearts, and any disrespect to God will be severely punished by the people of the Inca Empire.
Therefore, the pyramid must be built, once a year, and every time it must be built as bigger, grander, more imposing, and higher as possible, so as to show their piety.
Four-wheeled carriages were transporting gold or silver ore. The heavy gold ore and silver ore weighed on the four-wheeled carriages made a sound like toothache.
Thanks to becoming a vassal state of the Ming Empire, the Inca Empire also enjoyed many conveniences of the development of the times.
Not only did they use carriages, but cattle and horses were widely promoted and used in the Inca Empire. Even the people of the Inca Empire now began to wear the same clothes as the Ming people.
Moreover, the rich people and rulers of the Inca Empire now began to live the same life as the Ming Dynasty people, wearing silk, drinking tea, eating rice and noodles, etc.
Some even live in reinforced concrete houses like the Ming Dynasty people, with whitewashed walls, inlaid ceramic tiles, and carpets.
For the upper class people in the Inca Empire, everything was on par with the Ming Empire.
Here, Roca, the high priest of the Inca Empire who was responsible for the construction of the pyramid, was slowly drinking tea while watching the construction of the pyramid.
This magical leaf from the Ming Empire was called the leaf of the sacred tree by the people of the Inca Empire. Drinking more tea is good for the body. The people of the Ming Dynasty drank it almost every day, so the people of the Ming Dynasty got sick less often and were healthier.
As a result, tea spread among the Inca Empire, the Aztec Kingdom and the indigenous tribes throughout the Golden Continent, becoming their favorite drink.
After you get used to drinking it, you can't live without tea, because drinking tea is indeed good for your body, and the taste of tea is really good.
"hurry up!"
"If the notice continues, we must speed up. If the sacrifice is delayed, everyone will be punished."
After taking a sip of tea, Luo Ka yelled at the busy crowd.
Four-wheeled carriages were transporting gold and silver bricks, and a hill-like pyramid was being piled up. The middle and lower floors were all made of silver bricks.
The smelted silver bricks shine with silver light under the sunlight, making them look shiny.
The top part of the pyramid is built with gold bricks. There is already a pile of gold bricks next to it. The gold bricks smelted using Ming technology are shining with golden light and exude a charming light.
"Mountains of gold and silver!"
Liu Jin looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but sigh.
Emperor Hongzhi on the side also laughed. The Inca Empire and the Aztec Kingdom built pyramids for sacrifices every year. After the sacrifices were completed, these gold and silver bricks would be transported away by the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.
So far, the area in the middle of the Golden Continent that contains the most gold and silver belongs to the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company. The gold and silver bricks used by these two empires to build the pyramids each year are worth 40 million taels of silver. It is owned by the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company.
The most important thing has always been income.
Moreover, it is still a net income that does not require any investment. You can just sit back and collect wealth every year.
Under the huge influence of religion, neither the Aztec Kingdom nor the Inca Empire has any dissatisfaction with this. For them, they know that the Ming people are robbing their wealth.
But they are willing to do it, even to the point of not wanting to do it.
Because in their view, this is atonement to God. The more they contribute, the lighter their sins will be, and they can become real Ming people in the future. The Ming people have their gold and silver, which is a good thing, because the Ming people are
The descendants of the Sun God, and they were exiled to the Golden Continent because they blasphemed the gods.
If you want to return to the embrace of God, you must atone for your sins. Contributing wealth to the people of Ming Dynasty is a way of atonement.
"It's really spectacular. I'm looking forward to the day when it's completed."
"The silver base and the golden spire are so huge and majestic. It's really amazing!"
Emperor Hongzhi also nodded.
This time, knowing that the annual sacrificial day was coming soon, Emperor Hongzhi ignored his objections and came to Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, with Liu Jin to see the pyramid.
At this glance, there is really no hope.
The pyramid is really not small, just like a hill. Look at the base in front of you, and then look at the mountains of gold nuggets and silver mines next to it. When such a huge wealth is placed directly in front of you, this feeling is quite...
shocking.
Although both Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin had far more wealth than these gold and silver bricks, when they saw the hills of gold and silver, the feeling and visual impact were still very shocking.
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"The power of religion is really terrible!"
Liu Jin watched these pious descendants of the Yin Shang smelting the gold and silver they had worked so hard to mine, and then transported them here to build the pyramids piously, but in the end they took advantage of the Ming people.
But they are happy to do this, willingly, without any regrets, and even think that everything is natural.
The reason for this is not because of religious heroes.
If Du Mingen had not come up with this set of religious theories and things when he conquered the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire, they would never have been able to silently contribute wealth to the Ming Dynasty.
Even the rule of the Ming Empire in Golden Continent will be under huge threat.
The Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire were both huge empires with vast territories and large populations. Although their equipment and technology were backward, their populations were here. Once they became hostile to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empire wanted to firmly rule the entire Golden Kingdom.
Zhou Zhou will probably have to have a good fight with them.
It is very likely that they will follow the old path of Europeans in history, start a long war, and eventually eliminate these indigenous people through war to achieve the purpose of ruling this place.
The people of Ming Dynasty are different. They told them from the beginning that we are a family, but you have blasphemed the gods, so you were exiled to this continent.
We Ming people are different. We did not blaspheme the gods, so we were favored by the gods and became powerful and wealthy.
If you want to be like the people of the Ming Dynasty, return to the embrace of God and become the heirs of God, then you must atone for your sins, so that you can become a person of the Ming Dynasty again.
The Ming Dynasty's strategy and method of ruling this continent have been based on the banner of one family from the very beginning.
There is no doubt that this flag is very useful.
Because the people of the Ming Dynasty also regard them as their own tribe. They are descendants of the Yin and Shang Dynasties and share the same ancestors with the people of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, there is not much difference in appearance between them, which further proves this point.
It is conducive to Ming's rule on this continent.
All the local indigenous people recognized what the Ming people said, and they also felt that they were the same as the Ming people and had a common ancestor.
I also feel that I must have blasphemed the gods, otherwise why would the Ming people be so rich and powerful, while they are so poor and backward.
Therefore, you must atone for your sins, and only then can you become a true Ming Dynasty person.
The ideological recognition, coupled with the strength and advancement of the Ming Empire, naturally made the Ming Dynasty's rule here extremely strong, and the Ming people were also prosperous in this ancient land.
"It's really scary!"
When Emperor Hongzhi heard Liu Jin's sigh, he also nodded solemnly.
Look at these descendants of the Shang Dynasty in front of you, and then think about the history of the West, the history of the Middle East and the history of Tianzhu that you have seen. Under the guidance of religion, people's thoughts have been greatly imprisoned, and they dare to endure oppression and exploitation.
Place your hopes on the so-called afterlife.
The most terrifying thing about this is Tianzhu. Under the caste system combined with the religious system, low-caste people even feel that the reason why they are low-caste is because they did not endure hardship or suffer in the previous life. They made a big mistake and blasphemed.
God, so he was reincarnated into a lower caste family.
Therefore, all of this requires hardship and hardship. Only those who endure the most hardship and fatigue can be reborn into a high-caste family in the next life.
People of high castes can be domineering and carefree, and that is what they should do, because they are high castes and suffered hardships in their previous lives, so they can enjoy it in this life and be reincarnated into high caste families.
Under the control of this caste system and religious system, the cruel contradictions of exploitation and oppression are completely transferred, which also makes their rule extremely stable and allows their descendants to enjoy all the benefits of the high caste for generations to come.
Everything, and the people of the lower caste have been of the lower caste for generations, and they are the cows and horses of the upper caste, working as cows and horses, working hard without complaining, and there is no need to worry about them resisting or anything.
This is such a terrible thing. Thousands of years have passed from generation to generation. The invaders Aryans relied on this method to rule the vast continent of Tianzhu and enslaved the local indigenous people.
Now the people of Ming Dynasty are doing the same here. They use religious methods to control their thoughts. Only the control of thoughts is the strongest control. (To be continued)