If Xidaomen really wants to make up its mind to change the situation of blood sacrifice, can it be changed?
The answer is yes, but the cost is too high. It boils down to three words, it’s not worth it.
Qi Xuansu couldn't help but think of the old story of killing Wan Xiuwu and throwing Yue Liuli into a dark prison. At that time, he was still very young and immature, and he was still struggling with procedural justice and factual justice.
Later, as his status became higher and higher, he gained more knowledge and different positions, which also caused a great change in his ideas.
The law itself is related to justice, but it cannot be said that the law completely represents justice.
If a law conforms to the consensus of the people, then it is righteous to a certain extent and possesses sanctity, and even the people involved in the relevant profession also possess part of the sanctity. But if a law violates this consensus, then it will
It’s hard to say. If the world doesn’t recognize it, how can we talk about justice? Let alone sanctity.
The law is essentially a tool to safeguard the interests of the ruling class. It can also be said that the role of the law is to define what justice is, and whose justice is defined justice? It is in the interests of the vast majority of people, that is, the vast majority.
Human justice. On the contrary, it is not justice for the vast majority of people.
Qi Xuansu realized that Taoism did not care about procedural justice or factual justice. What Taoism cared about was cost, that is, maintaining order at the lowest cost.
Justice is not important, stability is the most important.
On the premise of stability, costs are reduced to a minimum.
Therefore, a series of practices such as feeding the troubled children with milk, making mud with them, and treating the deceased as the greatest child were derived. Their essence and core are all based on cost. There are many things that are incomprehensible, unbelievable, and absurd.
Things can become clear at a glance as long as you change the angle.
Do whatever you can to maintain a stable order at the lowest cost.
Xidaomen undoubtedly inherited the ideas of Daomen very well. They want to maintain stability. Abolition of blood sacrifice will lead to great instability. The crazy ancient gods and priests will definitely not agree. It will lead to rebellion and internal fighting, and the cost will be as high as the West
If the Taoist sect cannot bear it, then the blood sacrifice will not be abolished.
So the logic is very simple, justice must give way to stability and cost.
In other words, justice can also be divided into small and large ones. Order and stability are the greatest justice, and other small justices must be based on this great justice.
This is not unreasonable, because after the order is lost, the number of people dying may be millions. Even if it is only a partial loss of order, it is also unbearable.
Just imagine, if the ancient gods and the priest class rebelled, how many people would die? If the Holy Court took advantage of the situation, how many people would die?
By then, most people will only
If you want to live, who cares about blood sacrifice or not, let alone this trivial justice.
It may be cold, but it is the fact. To run a place or a country, one must be careful in budgeting, spend what should be spent, and do not spend what should not be spent, and use the cost wisely.
For individuals, especially small people, there will always be someone at the expense.
For the ruling class, there will always be people who take the opportunity to mix their own personal will into it and use public weapons for personal gain.
Because of this, Qi Xuansu did not get angry with the blood sacrifice or declare war on the ancient gods.
If you want to abolish blood sacrifice, the most realistic way is to give the ancient god an alternative method. The ancient god does not take pleasure in blood sacrifice. In essence, he still wants to live. No one wants to be riddled with karma and drink poison to quench their thirst.
The reason why these gods are so weak should be the sequelae of the last divine war. Although the divine system headed by Kukulkan survived with difficulty and was not destroyed by the apostles of the Holy Court, it also paid a considerable price.
, and has not yet been able to fully recover.
It can be said that if it were not for the appearance of Xidaomen, they would definitely have died in the subsequent attack of the Holy Court.
This reminded Qi Xuansu of the term Twilight of the Gods.
This word has appeared many times. Many ancient gods in the Western Continent, including the ancient gods of Missil, have entered the dusk or even disappeared. For example, the hammer in Alex’s hand belongs to a certain ancient god in the Western Continent.
However, this ancient god has fallen and died under the power of the Supreme Will. His artifacts became trophies of the Holy Court and were given to believers.
In fact, the ancient witch religion can also be regarded as a divine system, which also died out.
From a certain perspective, it is inevitable that the ancient gods, ancient immortals, and ancient witches will withdraw from the stage of history, but they are just unwilling to accept it.
Qi Xuansu visited several more pyramids and found that the level of these priests was still at the level of the era before Zulong, that is, the level of witchcraft. Even if the Holy Court did not take action directly, but competed fairly to preach and confuse people, these ancient gods would
They will also lose miserably.
If it weren't for Xidaomen needing to unite some high-end combat forces to resist the Steam Gospel, and if the entire New World was dominated by the Xidaomen family, then these ancient gods would have been swept into the Yinshui ditch by Xidaomen long ago. How could they be allowed to be aloof? The Central Plains people
The ancient immortals serve as a warning to others.
Thinking about this, Qi Xuansu found a hotel with a Central Plains style in the business district. Of course, such a hotel is affordable.
Fei is specially used to receive guests who are deeply Centralized, or simply guests from the East. After all, in Tawanting, being Centralized means advanced, and being able to be Centralized often means a high status.
After checking in according to the fixed procedure, Qi Xuansu began to read a travel diary about the aboriginal civilization of the New World. This travel diary was written by a missionary of the Goddess Society. This man was very famous, his name was Andres, and it was he who discovered
The existence of Paititi was revealed and submitted to the Holy See in the form of a written report.
Andres raised a point in his travel notes, which is the issue of land carrying capacity limit and population.
When he was young, he traveled to the East. At the end of the Wei Dynasty, he saw the scene of thousands of miles of red land and nine empty houses. He believed that every time the East faced the problem of population ceiling, a large-scale peasant uprising would be launched to
Eliminate excess population by changing dynasties.
Because of land issues and farming technology issues, this cycle is usually around two to three hundred years.
This view is very common. Many Confucian and Taoist people at the same time also put forward similar views. On this basis, the leader Xu Zu proposed the solution of "making the pie bigger".
to break the periodic law.
The key is that Andres deduced the periodic law of the indigenous people of the southern continent through the experience of the East.
According to Andres, there are many rainforests in the southern continent, with strong organic matter decomposition and nutrient recycling. The soil lacks nutrient accumulation and replenishment, so the land is barren and far inferior to the cultivated land in the east. Therefore, the agricultural ecology of the rainforest is more fragile, plus
The aboriginal people of the Southern Continent are still using very backward farming techniques, which means that the Southern Continent cannot persist for more than two hundred years. Often it is already overwhelmed in less than a hundred years.
After a hundred years, social conflicts have not yet reached the point where they are irreversible, and it is difficult to launch such a large-scale uprising. So the Southern Continent took another path, which was to sacrifice. It eliminated the excess population through continuous small-scale blood sacrifices.
To use an inappropriate analogy, in the East, all the work is accumulated and solved at once, but it will be exhausted to death. In the Southern Continent, today's things are completed today, and the daily workload is very small.
There are also elements of ancient gods in this. Ancient gods can benefit from blood sacrifices, so they naturally support and condone this behavior.
In fact, in Qi Xuansu's view, these ancient gods are unqualified. They simply regard believers as slaves, sacrifice themselves at will, act wantonly, and want to please the gods at every turn. In the Central Plains, such indifferent people will be regarded as evil gods. Here,
But he became a righteous god.
In a sense, it is certainly necessary to condemn
The Holy Court's act of extermination and enslavement must also admit that the backward and ignorant behavior of blood sacrifice and cannibalism is not in line with the world trend.
Although Tawanting is excellent in many aspects, such as observing astronomical phenomena, formulating calendars, sculptures, painted pottery, murals, etc., if it cannot break through in key technologies, the entire civilization will stagnate and eventually perish when encountering foreign enemies.
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Dongfang has also faced this kind of dilemma. Fortunately, Dongfang is large enough and finally completed a difficult, painful, heavy, and great transformation.
Today, Tawanting is still in the process of transformation, at a turning point between the old and the new. The whole process will inevitably be accompanied by a lot of pain, and various contradictions are very sharp, but these contradictions are now covered up by a bigger contradiction——
Steam Gospel of the North.
The Holy Court wants to exterminate the indigenous people, and the Taoist sect wants to cure diseases, save people and transform them, but one thing is the same, both sides do not recognize this civilization.
There is a simple truth here, face is not given by others, it is earned by oneself. If you are cannibalizing and making blood sacrifices, and you are still doing the same thing that others have abandoned long ago, it is no wonder that others look down on you.
Qi Xuansu closed the travel diary in his hand and fell into deep thought.
The future of the Southern Continent is a bit too grand a proposition. It is not something Qi Xuansu should consider, at least not now.
Qi Xuansu opened another book of relevant textual research written by Mr. Su of Xidaomen.
This deceased Xidaomen senior put forward a point in the book. Misir and the New World are both pantheons dominated by the sun god, and both have built a large number of pyramids. Is there any connection between this?
This senior of Xidaomen made a bold guess. Is it possible that these two ancient gods have a relationship similar to "brothers"? For example, Buddhism in the Middle Earth and Buddhism in the Western Regions come from the same source, because
Different environments lead to different development paths.
Kukulkan stole the priesthood of Misir Sun God, which is a proof.
At this moment, Qi Xuansu suddenly heard a weak calling voice, like a whisper in his ears.
Qi Xuansu was startled. He was very sure that there was no one around him, so this whisper came from a higher level of existence.
Such as gods.
This is not a coincidence. When Qi Xuansu was weak, this situation can be explained by coincidence and chance. Now Qi Xuansu is not a small person. As the plenipotentiary envoy of the Taoist sect, even if he is not an immortal, he cannot be underestimated, because Qi Xuansu’s background