After you entered this sea city and settled down as a businessman, you then went to spy on the temple.
This temple is very spectacular.
He immediately 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 Forbidden City had at least tens of thousands of maids and eunuchs to maintain it.
A small city-state may only have a total population of 10,000 or 20,000 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 increased.
After all, in a place like this that has value and can show off your strength, it is very worthwhile to spend more money.
Then he knew 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 high.
Incense candles, spices, and even burning fragrant sandalwood as a brazier...
Candles made of whale blubber.
As for the people inside, the food requirements are even more stringent.
Can't eat anything that produces a taste.
Garlic and onions are strictly prohibited.
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 are simply not something that a small city-state can support.
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 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.
50 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, that is more than 50,000 square kilometers.
However, can a city-state cover 50,000 square kilometers?
Obviously impossible.
Covering at most 2000 square kilometers around.
Just a city-state.
After seeing this, Mi Heng understood.
He needs to streamline the temple, streamline 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.
Only then will you know that you cannot trigger natural disasters at will!
Then he saw another sacrifice, which required at least 1,000 people to participate.
It takes a week to participate to produce divine power.
This price/performance ratio is too low.
1,000 people are off work for a week.
This was too wasteful for the ancient labor force.
Then 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 bold enough.
He decided to create God himself!
God comes from mountains and rivers.
He decided to pile up dirt into a mountain.
Wen Rensheng watched him pile up the mounds of earth.
Then he discovered that doing so was very slow.
So you started to make money, and then spent money to hire people to pile soil in the wild.
He only built a 20-meter-high mound at first.
Then on this mound, he built a small temple.
Imitate the sacrificial process of the temple.
He found some more people.
In short, just pay these people to worship.
He tried to give them divine power.
As for how to reserve divine power, he discovered that in the temple, the divine power must be contained in some expensive jade objects.
Especially the best jade to contain the 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.
If nothing else, the sacrifices made too much noise.
After a few experiments, the priests in the surrounding cities will discover it.
Private sacrifices were punished.
It will never be allowed.
Because this directly violates the fundamental interests of the priests.
Yong Wenrensheng blocked other people's observation of this place with just a movement of his eyes.
In the eyes of others, Mi Heng is just doing ordinary things.
At the same time, he can also prevent the gods from sensing the existence of you.
You will not be found spying on divine power.
With the help of Wen Rensheng.
Soon Mi Heng discovered that when the mountain is piled 100 meters high, it should be 99 meters to be precise, and then jade is placed 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!"
"In fact, isn't this just like making a fire by friction?"
He suddenly realized.
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.
You are very excited when you think of this.
This is the rule of this city-state world of gods!
Temple, sacrifice, jade, mountain, have divine power.
Flame appears from friction.
Then he put 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 what the world is like.
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 does Ayutthaya build a big temple?
In fact, it is to gain more divine power and make the gods more powerful.
From this aspect.
It was not a complete waste when they built the Great God Meow.
But.
The original intention of building the big temple was good.
But later, with the fall of their priests, this is certain.
It can be said that 50% to 70% of the money is wasted on the priests' own luxury.
Many big cities declined like this.
Of course, these sacrifices did not dare to blatantly deceive the gods.
They chose 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.
It is better to say that it is a god than 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.
Ni Heng gradually acquires more and more divine power.
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 have to survive 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 I won’t do things that would destroy the Great Wall.
So the city developed all the way, and immediately there were more than 300,000 people.
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 city 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 the dozens of major natural disasters have not found it?"< br>
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.”
No. 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 the priests need."
"If they are destroyed, who will produce these things?"
"We produce them ourselves. Isn’t it possible?”
“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 He said: "Can't we just attack directly and snatch away the craftsmen?"
No. 3 said: "It still doesn't work, because there is only a specialty in their place."
"It is 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 party is right.
You know, each of them can only own one city.
Excessive cities will be destroyed by natural disasters.
Whoever occupies that place will not be able to withstand natural disasters at all.
If you cannot withstand the natural disaster, there will be no point in occupying it.
After hearing this.
No. 1 had no choice but to say: "In that case, we might as well issue an order to limit their population growth."
"If their population is large, we will reduce their population."
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?" No. 4 asked.
"Limit it to 300,000 people. If it is 300,000, it will not only ensure that they will not surpass 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 the five city lords decided on their 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 happy.
So they were reluctant to destroy and plunder it directly.
If it is a small city-state with no special products, they usually destroy it directly after plundering it.
There are some good-looking young people who have been captured and castrated as slaves.
It’s that simple, craftsmen become official slaves.
At the same time, every time they come back from the war, they will drive out the old, weak, sick, homeless, and beggars in the city.
There is absolutely nothing humane about achieving this very cruel metabolism in this way.
They have always done this and never thought it was wrong to do so.
In short.
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 knew their decision, you were very angry.
“These people actually want to limit their own population and scale.”
“They don’t want to allow themselves to develop.”
The visitor also said: “You must regularly He must sacrifice 100 beautiful women and 100 beautiful men every year."
This is equivalent to taking away his talents.
"In addition, you have to turn over 100 craftsmen."
Seeing this, he still didn't understand that the other party was 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 completely lose hope.
A city lord who is forced to donate his people to obtain peace and stability cannot have any centripetal force.
Once faced with a crisis, no one will truly support him.
The other party is asking for population and craftsmen every year. In this case, it is impossible for him to develop.
He gritted his teeth and decided to go to war directly with other big cities.
Don’t look at the fact that he 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.
And their authority mainly rests on those sacrifices.
The gods don’t know much about the efficiency of obtaining divine power.
They don't bother to understand these things, they just eat, drink and have fun.
So 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 the money and only had two or three points of effect.
So the efficiency of your horizontal improvement is actually not an exaggeration.
He just used the money wasted by others to improve his own conversion rate of divine power.
(End of this chapter)