Chapter 118: New Trends in the Capital and Alliance Government
Everyone walked along the long white stone bridge and entered the magnificent capital city in the lake.
At Xiulote's suggestion, neatly planted pines and cypresses in the water have been planted on the earth embankments on both sides of the long bridge for aesthetics and reinforcement. Along the way, pedestrians retreated to the embankment and knelt under the trees to salute. The breeze by the lake
When it comes, the young Avevit trees sway in the wind, exuding the fragrance of pine and cypress.
Shulot looked around, and saw pines and cypresses lined up on both sides of the water, stretching for miles. The trees were beautiful and slender, with green branches hanging down slantingly, and new buds green. They were between the Pinghu Lake and the White Bridge, in front of the temples and palaces, accompanied by the sunshine.
With the breeze, the flowing vitality is swaying, beautiful and refined, leaving people disappointed.
The young man thought about the grand scene of growing pines and cypresses, and missed the small bridges in the water town of his hometown. Then he thought of the name of the Avivit tree again, and his mind wandered far away.
"Entering the divine capital, inheriting the great power, the new king Yazheng."
Thinking of this, he smiled slightly and continued to move forward.
Tenochtitlan has wide streets, criss-crossed waterways, neat and orderly houses. The city in the lake is strictly managed and attaches great importance to hygiene. Those who pollute the lake water will be severely punished or even executed. Hundreds of thousands of people gather here
On the island in the middle of the lake, there is no mess like European cities of the same period. Instead, it is more like an ancient Roman city with a reasonable layout and cleanliness.
The capital has special water diversion channels, drainage channels, and public toilets.
Two special aqueducts are more than a hundred miles long, diverting water directly from the western plateau, passing through the center of the city, separating the northern city and the main city, and then flowing into different urban areas. These are specialized drinking water routes. And in
Next to the houses and streets, there are special drainage channels that guide urban sewage to the nearest floating field, Chinampa. Near various communities and main roads, there are special public toilets used to collect fertilizer and replenish the nutrients of the floating field.
Consumption.
The purification of lake water relies on soil filtration and floating fields in the water. In Lake Texcoco around the capital, there are nine thousand hectares of chinampa. Crops grown all year round absorb nutrients from the water and decompose accumulated fertilizers.
Constantly purifying the water quality. Between Chinampa, there are also schools of farmed fish, large and small, swallowing floating fields and organic particles in the water. The continuous floating fields and the huge capital are interdependent, forming a clean and efficient giant ecological agriculture.
Shulot stopped. His eyes rested on the shade outside the public toilet hut, where there was slightly moist purple-red soil.
The young man pondered for a moment and recalled a lot yesterday. This should be another important source of nitrate, namely excrement nitrate and urine nitrate. In his memory, it was very difficult to extract excrement and urine nitrate, and the product was mixed and impure, requiring more
Delicate processing. Obviously, he had never memorized the specific steps, so he could only fumble around slowly.
Shulot secretly made a note and assigned everyone here: the guard Hervé led the temple guards to go to the priest temple to report to his grandfather. The old carpenter Kuaud returned to the craftsmanship center to work hard on making long bows. There were also guards to lead the salt workers.
The leader, Moreno, went to the high priest's mansion to store the saltpeter soil and continue research on making saltpetre.
The young man thought for a while, asked Bertard to bring the dried saltpeter, and then went directly to the administrative center in the south of the palace area.
Seeing Shulot's solemn entry, the nobles were stunned for a moment, and then swarmed in. They either hugged enthusiastically, bowed their heads respectfully, or watched silently with cold eyes, with different postures and intentions.
The cover-up is unpredictable.
In general, the Mexica Federation is still in the late tribal era with rough governance. The administrative system is simple and independent, much like the tribal alliances in the Eurasian steppes, or the Duoyin Group of the Shang Dynasty.
The king is at the top of the alliance. Next are the "female snake" commander-in-chief and four political ministers, usually from the royal family and big nobles with close blood ties. Important military and political matters in the alliance are decided by the king and the five-person political group.
It is the absolute political core.
Further down, there is the Alliance Council composed of powerful nobles at all levels, which has both military and administrative functions. With the third-level honorable nobles as the core, the large and small nobles are closer together according to grade, region and degree of proximity, forming a stable but divided
small group.
The great nobles control a varying number of private soldiers, have the taxation power of the fiefdom, and hold different official positions at the same time, responsible for specific affairs of the alliance. When broken down into details, these positions can be divided into central officials, local officials and clan officials.
The position of central officer comes from the appointment of the king. Common responsibilities include taxation, construction, reclamation, mining, salt mining, training, armaments, patrols, diplomacy, deterrence... and the most important responsibility is to accompany the army in battle and ensure logistics.
The alliance has been fighting for more than thirty years. War has become the daily instinct of the kingdom. Only strong warriors can be recognized by everyone.
Local officials are the enfeoffments of various places, usually from hereditary. Non-hereditary military nobles are controlled by the central government, and their titles and lands cannot be passed down completely. Mines in various places sometimes belong to the central government and sometimes to local places, depending on the distance.
The distance and the degree of treasure of the minerals. For example, the important obsidian mines are all managed by the central government, while the gold and silver mines that can be seen everywhere are mostly left to the discretion of local officials.
Clan officials are actually the grassroots officials of the dynasty. Village settlements in various places gather together to elect local village leaders, and then form grassroots management groups with the participation of priests and warriors. The one hundred communities in the lake capital are
Clan officials and central officials were mixed. Important communities of craftsmen and warriors were directly controlled by central officials, while ordinary civilian communities were still elected by clan officials.
The alliance's affairs officers are intertwined with three types of official positions, including the capital court, local tax officers, agricultural officers, warehouse officers and military academy instructors. The proportion of central officers depends on the central government's control over the local area. Outside the Texcoco Lake area, all officers
They are autonomous local officials and clan officials.
Thinking of this, Shulot shook his head slightly. The road to centralization is still long. The first thing to do is to control more armies, enhance the central military strength, and carry out effective military reforms!
Under the protection of Bertard, the young man squeezed out with difficulty from the enthusiastic nobles. He adjusted his black priest's robes, put on his solemn feather crown, and solemnly opened the door of the Government Palace.
In the deep hall, Avitt looked majestic, standing high on the throne. The king's clothes were dark red and black, just like the deep gaze he cast. Gilliam sat cross-legged at the bottom seriously, smiling silently at the young man. Stanley
The burly body sat upright, like a giant bear restraining its wild nature, nodding towards the boy in a friendly manner. On the left and right, two equally strong middle-aged nobles heard the sound and looked at him, one with a smile on his face and the other with indifferent eyes.
On the table in front of everyone, the sacred cocoa drink glowed bright red in the pottery cup, like standing holy blood, with a faint cold light.
Under the king's deep and calm eyes, Shulot knelt down respectfully. The young man's face was solemn, his head touched the ground, and he solemnly paid homage. Behind him, Bertard bowed and retreated, closing the door of the palace, and there was a silence everywhere.
You can hear the drop of a needle. On the cold ground, there is only a simple clay pot filled with crystal clear saltpeter.
