After Qi Xuansu left St. York, Qi Xuansu's true form and incarnation did not meet in one place. From capturing the "ape god" to presiding over intelligence work, Qi Xuansu's Bingjie incarnation was in charge, and his true form never showed up.
What did Qi Xuansu's true self do?
Qi Xuansu went to New Paititi, which was regarded as a private visit incognito. The purpose of Qi Xuansu's trip to St. York was similar to that of Qi Xuansu, which was mainly to understand the situation. Although it is described in detail in the Daomen's files, as the old saying goes, it is impossible to tell on paper.
After all, you will feel shallow. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.
Because preventing Xidaomen from expanding the situation and ending the war between the north and the south is only a phased task of Qi Xuansu, which can be regarded as a temporary solution. His other task is to mediate the situation in the southern continent, which can be regarded as a permanent solution.
To be fair, this task is a bit too difficult for Qi Xuansu. This is an arduous and important task to meet the level of Daren Pingzhang. Let a Taoist immortal hold Gong Fu with his left hand and Tantai Zhenxiao with his right hand, so that the two of them can do it.
Reconciliation, or meeting the ancient gods of the Southern Continent, chatting and laughing, all seem natural and reasonable. After all, the people involved also depend on their strength and status.
Now due to various factors, it seems a bit weird to give this task to Qi Xuansu. There is a status gap between Qi Xuansu and these immortals. It would be ridiculous to ask him to hold Gong Fu with his left hand and Tantai Zhenxiao with his right hand.
It's like a child pulling two men. It's weightless, so it's not surprising.
But no matter how difficult it was, Qi Xuansu had to do it.
So Qi Xuansu launched a two-front battle. On one side, Bingjie Jianying and Huangfu Ji started working on the hidden front. On the other side, since he could not catch up with Jianying, he simply refused to join and went directly to New Paititi.
On the way to New Paititi, Qi Xuansu saw the most temples. The temples here are also called "pyramids", but they are different from Misir's triangular pyramids. Strictly speaking, the pyramids here are more like a trapezoid.
, the top of the pyramid is flat ground, and the temple is built on this place.
Most of the temples Qi Xuansu saw were abandoned, dilapidated and covered in dust. The corresponding ancient gods may have encountered unexpected events, either entering the first level of death or the second level of death, or being asleep.
This is not surprising. When the Holy Court attacked the New World, in addition to conventional wars on land, there were also divine wars specifically targeting the local ancient gods. The three holy apostles of the Holy Court, Seraphim, Toronus, and Cherubim,
As the Lord, with the Apostles Tominius, Pavas, and Vertes of the Son, and the Apostles of the Holy Spirit Punsbalitis, Archangel, and Angel as the auxiliaries, a full-scale war begins. These ancient gods belong to the three major empires respectively.
Ancient gods from different pantheons, and even within the same pantheon, fought with each other and were eventually defeated one by one.
There are many who have fallen.
Qi Xuansu simply surveyed the ruins of these temples, then left and continued on his way.
The rainforest climate here is very different from that of the Central Plains, and is somewhat similar to that of Nanyang, but not exactly the same. For example, the main food crop in Nanyang is rice, while the main food crop in the southern continent is corn.
In terms of institutions, it is even more incomparable with the Central Plains.
As early as the founding of Daxuan, under the promotion of Xuan Sheng and Emperor Gaozu, all lowly statuses were completely abolished, including women from prostitutes, who did not belong to lowly status. Although in the world outside the Taoist sect, slaves still exist, and even
There are also people within the Taoist sect, but it is essentially an employment relationship, and from a legal perspective they cannot be killed at will.
But here, not to mention lowly status, there are still de facto slaves, and it is common to bury people to death and to sacrifice people.
From this point of view, the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent can be regarded as the eldest brother but not the second brother, an excellent New Continent matching mechanism.
Why didn’t Xidaomen abolish slavery?
The reason is simple. The foundation cannot be reached. For the aborigines of the Southern Continent, this is an ancient tradition. If you want to abolish the tradition, you must develop it to a certain extent. The change of ideas always lags behind the change of material things.
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Just like at the beginning of the establishment of Daxuan, Xuan Sheng and Emperor Gaozu seriously discussed the possibility of abolishing the emperor and completely breaking the Confucian system. In the end, they decided that it was not feasible because the resistance was too great and the people could not accept it. The country could not live without a king for a day.
The idea of the emperor has been infiltrated into everyone's bones, and it may take hundreds of years for the people to become wise enough to abolish the emperor's position.
There is still a war going on here in Xidaomen, and the material problems cannot be solved yet, so of course we cannot talk about ideological problems.
Therefore, Daomen often criticizes the slavery issue of the Holy Court. In this regard, Daomen is relatively confident. One of Wang Jiaohe's crimes is slave trading. Xidaomen keeps silent, although Xidaomen does not deal with slaves.
thing, but Tawanting also did it, and Tawanting’s bottom is also unclean. The only difference is that the Holy Court does not use its own people as slaves, but captures the barbarians in their eyes as slaves. Tawanting uses its own people
When slaves and a small number of Western slaves, mainly from prisoners of war, owed money, violated the law and were demoted as slaves.
There is no need to compare the two. I can only say that each has its own merits and is a matter of opinion.
Xidaomen general accusation
Regarding the issue of the Holy Court's aggression and the massacre of indigenous people, Tawanting, as the victim, occupies the absolute moral high ground.
All in all, this is a semi-slavery country.
Its system is also very complex. Under the Taoist system, it is only generally divided into four classes, but here there are seven classes, namely Taoist priests, priests, nobles, officials, warriors, free people, and slaves.
Logically speaking, Taoist priests and priests actually hold divine power. In fact, Taoist priests have perfectly inherited the Confucian tradition, and both divine power and political power are indispensable. Taoist priests directly intervene in military and political power, and do not let go of the ideological and spiritual world, which makes priests
, nobles, officials, and warriors all essentially became vassals of Taoist priests, and could only be attached to a certain faction in the Taoist priest group.
Soon, the new Paititi was in sight.
Before Qi Xuansu entered the city, he could see the rich divine light in the city from a long distance away.
According to the archive records given by Daomen and Xidaomen, there is a special temple area in New Paititi, with a total of nine pyramids of different sizes. This symbolizes the nine gods recognized by Xidaomen.
However, according to the standards of Taoism, some gods are not at the level of immortals, but at the level of pseudo-immortals. They happen to still have "godhead", just like the incarnations of the ancient immortals. They only have the realm of pseudo-immortals, but have the insights of gods.
understand.
This reminded Qi Xuansu of a special situation.
If this guess is correct, it means that the ancient gods are already very weak.
Although the ancient gods headed by Kukulkan repelled the apostles of the Holy Court, they themselves also suffered heavy losses. Especially when the divine power is insufficient, the golden body will enter a slow state of decay, and the borders of the Kingdom of God will gradually collapse.
, causing the Kingdom of God to become smaller and smaller, many gods have nothing more than two methods to avoid entering the first level of death, namely, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.
Open source is to find new sources of divine power, which is not a simple matter. If there are new sources of divine power, it will not be insufficient. The second step is to reduce expenditures, actively maintain a relatively small divine kingdom, give up unnecessary priesthood, and reduce divine power.
Expenditures will also cause the gods to lose some of their magical powers and powers, or even fall to their current level.
This is the unique fall of the gods.
On the other hand, gods steal and plunder other people's priesthoods to increase their cultivation. For example, Kukulkan and Lord Siming have done this kind of thing. However, this will increase the expenditure of divine power, and you must have enough income to do so.
Do this.
From this point of view
, most of the ancient gods cannot compare with the ancient immortals who wreaked havoc in the Central Plains. After all, the ancient immortals "have no worries about food and clothing". They are not satisfied with the status quo and want to seek more divine power to seek transcendence.
One wants to eat well, the other wants to eat well and live longer.
There is still a big difference.
When Qi Xuansu entered the city, he saw many warriors wearing feather crowns and masks.
It is worth mentioning that these people cannot be regarded as the samurai class. The current samurai class has been transformed by Xidaomen and has become the most Central Plains-oriented group. They are completely Central Plains-oriented.
These warriors wearing feather crowns and masks should belong to nobles and priests respectively. Among them, the dark gold masks and black feathers are the warriors of the royal family. They are the lowest nobles themselves, similar to the knight class of Westerners. The green masks and white feathers are
The priest's warriors can also be regarded as preliminary priests, similar to the battle priests of the holy court. In addition to praying mass, they can also put on armor, set up shields, pick up maces, and go into battle directly.
There are also feather crowns and masks in other colors, representing warriors of nobles, or some traditional warriors who refuse to accept change.
Qi Xuansu is dressed as an ordinary Central Plains person, with a sword on his waist. Others will know at a glance that he is a samurai—a warrior of the Taoist priests.
Compared with royal warriors and priest warriors, the biggest characteristic of Taoist warriors is domineering, because they have the strongest fighting power and can fight head-on with the Holy Court's steam army.
You must know that the Holy Court defeated the three great empires of the New World and massacred countless people. Although it laid a blood feud, it also scared many people out of their courage and feared the Holy Court's "celestial soldiers" from the bottom of their hearts. In this case, dare to fight against the Holy Court
Fighting directly against the imperial court, or even winning the battle, became something to be proud of.
Needless to say, Taoist priests indeed dominate Tawanting’s supreme power. There is no way, without Taoist priests, there would be no integrated Tawanting; without Taoist priests, it would be impossible to obtain assistance from the far east; without Taoist priests, it would be impossible to resist
The army of the Holy Court.
After all, Xidaomen is not here to do chivalry. They have spent more than a hundred years and paid such a high price, and of course they are not asking for nothing in return. It is inevitable for Taoist priests to hold the highest power.
With the Taoist priests as their backs, these warriors naturally dared to be arrogant. They considered themselves to be one of the triangles parallel to the royal family and priests.
To put it bluntly, we are all under the eaves of Xidaomen, who is higher than who?