Chapter One Thousand Two Hundred and Eight: King Wen was forced to perform the Book of Changes, and Xiulote’s yarrow divination!
The sky is bright, the sun sets from the wasteland and rises from the plateau. The confrontations and plots of various parts of the northeastern part of the world are hidden in the endless swamps. And the capital city in the lake in the center of the world has just completed the New Year's Festival, using Mist
The blood of the Keshen descendants completely dyed the 60 to 70-meter-high Great Temple Pyramid red.
Amidst the cheers of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, the high priest of Ugel sat peacefully in the large temple like a wooden statue. The priests and elders of the three factions of the main god, the god of war and the god of the sun were secretly fighting with each other.
Undercurrents under Lake Texcoco are turbulent, and no one can gain the upper hand.
Kalmykak University in the capital of the lake is full of stone tablets of Ali Sutra and teachings. This alliance's priestly university, under the suggestion of Shulot and the request of the God King, is continuously cultivating students with proficiency in writing and teaching.
The chief priest of calculation. And the female snake Gillim took charge of the alliance's government affairs, organized a large number of civilian priests into the war priest group, and then sent out to transport the logistics and grain to the three-way alliance army marching south.
The purpose of the Divine War's southern expedition to the people of the clouds was not to make the Mixtecs and Zapotecs surrender, but to sacrifice and destroy the country, convert them to other faiths, and enfeoff the royal bloodline for complete conquest. The three armies
The crusade was met with desperate resistance by the people in the clouds, and the fighting was extremely cruel. Not even a city-state with descendants of the gods in the clouds surrendered.
The turmoil of the times has been triggered by the Mexica conquest, and violent collisions have impacted the entire world. And Shulot spreads new ideas, rewards civilian warriors for their military exploits, promotes talented low-level priests, and continues to break class boundaries.
The upper and lower barriers. The heroes of the era are coming one after another and emerging and growing. It is the era of great struggle in the Central American world!
Follow the militia team that was struggling to transport food all the way south, along the widest plateau valley, passing the almost abandoned holy city of Cholula, and then three hundred miles southeast, you will find the main force of the east road led by the God King, Mis
The Holy Stone City, the northern ancestral land of the Turk Alliance. This important town of the Mixtec people on the plateau has now set up the flag of the main god and the alliance. And on the city wall, knives and axes were chopped, arrows were inserted, stone bullets were deeply sunk, and even bombardments
The traces of the conquest that collapsed a section of the wall are silently telling the blood and cruelty of the recent siege of the city.
Not far to the east from the city wall of Shenshi City, there are two large and small tomb mounds with newly excavated soil and a faint red color. The large tomb mounds are huge, and they may be able to bury tens of thousands of people, but the mounds are almost clean.
Only the wooden emblem of the main god is erected on it. The small tomb mound is about the size of thousands of people. On the mound are erected wooden statues of many gods, with the image of the main god the most, followed by the black wolf of the god of death. Abstract and strange wood carvings surround the room.
There are many Mexica-style wooden talismans, bone talismans, and even obsidian ornaments of nobles and priests to commemorate the noble dead.
The long wind blew, bringing a touch of blood. The bones of those killed in battle were buried in the soil, but the sacrifices were exposed on the pyramid. A few miles away from the two tombs is the Mixtec people's sacred place for rain.
The 30-meter-high Pyramid Temple in the Clouds!
At this moment, the golden statue of the Rain God in the Yunzhong Temple has been torn down, and the new statue of the main god has not yet been completed, but has only been replaced by the golden emblem of the main god. From the highest temple down, the entire pyramid is glowing with a deep dark red.
, waiting for the heavy rains in the rainy season to wash away all traces of sacrifice.
In front of the temple gate, at the highest point of the pyramid, hundreds of heads of the Gods of the Clouds were built for public display, shocking the hearts of every Mixtec tribesman. This was not an ordinary tribesman or
Warriors, all of them are descendants of the gods in the clouds, nobles who have ruled for generations! Normally, they would kneel down to worship every one they see, but now they are all dead here, in the Rain Temple that is supposed to protect the descendants of the gods...
The blood and fire of war, the blood and skulls of sacrifices, seem to be the background of the Mexica people. A few miles further north from the Yunzhong Temple is the company camp of the Mexica East Road Army. Tens of thousands of warriors and soldiers
There are a large number of militiamen scattered among the companies and camps of more than ten or twenty miles, and all kinds of flags are flying. From a distance, they look like a creeping long-haired beast. They have just had a meal and are preparing for the next time.
The "pounce" of hunting.
In the most open center of the company camp is the main tent of the God King of Mexica, and another smaller tent next to it. On the main tent of the God King, there are four flags, namely: Hui Ke
The main god's flag of the statue, the alliance flag with a snake ring, the commander's flag of the skeleton warrior, and the divine king's flag of blood and sun.
On the smaller king's tent next to it, there are only two flags: one is the black wolf god of death with a blood tongue, and the other is extremely complicated, looks very divine, and is very scary!
The center of the flag is the mysterious inner circle of black and white Pisces, followed by the first circle of eight mysterious words and strange runes from all directions that are extremely difficult to understand, and then the second circle of traditional sacrificial Mexica graphics and characters, "Tianze Fire Thunder"
"Earth, Mountains, Waters and Winds" can be understood by most nobles and priests. The last one is incomprehensible to everyone. The third circle of densely packed small runes has a total of sixty-four!
This strange and neat flag, with mysterious divinity and seemingly hidden mysteries, but which is always difficult to understand, made the Mexica nobles who were devout in gods shocked and awed when they saw it. If they looked at it for a long time, they would even feel dizzy.
It seems to have great magical power and can suck souls into the kingdom of God in the sky! And what is even more frightening is...
"The sun of the Lord God is watching us! The Lord God's divine war will conquer the land in the clouds! All nobles and warriors will fight for the Lord God, and they will ascend to the kingdom of God after death! Those who dare to flee in fear and cannot fight to the end
, we must accept the Lord God’s judgment and seek a glimmer of life from the Lord God’s mercy from the doomed death!…”
The god king Avit wore bronze armor and royal robes, and stood expressionlessly on the altar. Three thousand cut-haired guards, all wearing armor and holding spears, surrounded the altar to worship the gods. And hundreds of soldiers led the way.
The Mexica nobles and warrior battalion commanders gathered under the altar with serious expressions, respectfully listening to the divine king's will.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The East Army is about to go south again, along the narrow Yunzhong Valley, to conquer the more solid and dangerous Southern Mixtec ancestral land, blessed by the gods.
Yunshan City. In the days before the expedition, the God King summoned the generals and set up this kind of sacrifice to the gods... The generals all guessed the reason, and their hearts suddenly shivered, and they even lowered their heads in awe.
"Witness the Lord God! Come and bring all the generals who are having trouble attacking the city!"
Following a sharp shout from God King Avit, a group of twenty cut-haired guards with indifferent expressions brought up eight unarmed military nobles of the alliance. When they saw the formation in front of the altar clearly, these eight
The military nobles were all shocked, with obvious shame and fear on their faces.
"Ah! Dear God King, please give us another chance to make meritorious deeds..."
God King Avit waved his hand, but did not give these nobles a chance to speak and defend themselves. He turned his head majestically, looked at Xiulote, who was wearing a priest's garb under the altar and carrying a basket of sunflower stalks on his back, and ordered in a deep voice.
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"The Lord God judges everything! The chief priest of the Xiulote Sect performs divination and judgment, asks the Lord God for his decree, and determines their life and death!..."
"I obey you, God King!"
"The Lord God bless you! Burn the God's smoke and pray, and ask the Lord God to pay attention to what you see!..."
Shulot nodded respectfully, and then with a solemn expression, he climbed onto the small altar next to him. He first lit the sacred smoke and prayed to the main god. Then, he took out the carefully painted, mysterious and scary "Tai Chi Liang Yi Xiantian Bagua and Sixty-Four Hexagrams"
, unfolded and hung high on the altar, so that all the Mexica nobles could see it.
"The Lord God bless you! Give me divine pictures, and use hexagrams to foretell the future of people and events!..."
Shulot prayed twice, then turned his head and glanced at the eight pale military nobles. He sighed secretly in his heart. He actually recognized these eight people, five of them were from various city-state legions, and three were from the royal legion.
, he is usually regarded as a brave and capable alliance noble.
However, as the northern ancestral homeland of the Mixtec people, the Holy Stone City was built quite solidly. The Yunzhong Goddess and warriors in the city also defended extremely resolutely, and almost all of them fought to the end. The alliance army besieged the Holy Stone City for several months.
, repeated forcible attacks failed, and more than 4,000 alliance warriors were killed in the battle, and the militiamen who filled the trenches were even more difficult to estimate! It was not until the kingdom's thunder cannons collapsed the city wall, and Commander Avitt cut off his guards to hold down the front line,
Destroyed this big city in one fell swoop!
As for these eight military nobles, it was during the previous storms that they invaded the city with their respective tribes, and suffered heavy losses before they could no longer hold on and retreated. God King Avit sent out guards to drive these defeated nobles away.
They were all kept in their hands, and they were not taken out until they went south again. At this moment, they were going to sacrifice the flags of these nobles in front of the three armies. So that when the army attacks Yunshan City next, the nobles and warriors of all departments will try their best, even if
Even if you die in battle on the siege of a city, you won't be able to retreat at all!
"Fight for the city, and kill the city! Completely destroy the descendants of the Cloud Gods, wipe out the upper echelons of Mixtec and Zapotec rule, wash all the ministries into a blank piece of paper, and then force tens of millions of clouds to rely on them.
The Central Tribe was forced to convert to the Lord God, and finally allowed the Mexica royal family and nobles to take over the Clouds... This war of conquest in the Land of the Clouds was much more cruel and difficult than the historical southern expedition of Avit collecting vassals and paying tribute, and even more brutal than the
The Spanish conquest would be even more difficult! If it weren’t for the alliance’s extraordinarily powerful force, and if it weren’t for the destruction of the city by the Thunder God’s mortars, we wouldn’t even be able to think about this kind of unified conquest in the form of extermination of nobles, centralization of power and conversion!…”
Thinking of this, Shulot lowered his eyes slightly and glanced at the two large tombs in the distance. He actually understood in his heart that the reason why this southern expedition was so cruel was precisely because of the centralization concept he told Avitt, which made him
The God King knew in his heart what a truly stable and long-lasting conquest looked like!
This war of conquest by the god king is not just as simple as asking the other city-state to pay tribute, hand over protons and sacrifices, and burn down the old temple to convert! It is to completely erase the ruling body and legal system of the descendants of the gods.
, turn all the stubborn nobles and warriors into sacrifices and corpses of the old era, destroy the faith of the lower-class tribesmen, and re-brand the mark of the Lord God! Only in this way can we fight for a long time and allow the Mexican nobles to move in.
Assimilate these long-standing, conservative and stubborn southern tribes...
"The Lord God bless me! Give me sunflower grass and divination to get the Lord God's will!"
Shulot prayed three times, took off the straw basket behind his back, and took out the 50 sunflower stalks inside.
In the Nahua language, the sunflower chasing the sun is also called "Chilamacatl" and is regarded as a "long grass with the divine nature of the sun." This herbaceous crop cultivated in Mesoamerica was still very small at this time, and was similar to the Celestial Dynasty, Shang and Zhou dynasties.
The divination yarrow is very similar. And they were originally cultivated, and they do have important religious symbolic meanings, and were used in Aztec medicine to treat fever, "absorbing excess solar heat." There is no doubt that
Using this religious plant as a tool for divination can better express the sacredness of divination and "communicate with the sun god"!
"Take one and don't use it, and offer it to the Lord God of the Sun! Hold the left and right hands separately, with the left hand as the sky and the right hand as the earth. Take one from the earth to bear witness to your life..."
Under the awe-inspiring gaze of hundreds of Mexica nobles, Hulot muttered words that no one could understand, and played with "Sunflower Grass" in his hand. He first took out one empty straw, and then put out the remaining 49 straws.
He randomly divided them into two groups and held them in his left and right hands. Then he took out another one from his right hand and sandwiched it between his little finger and ring finger to symbolize people's destiny.
This set has a sense of ritual and looks very "divine", "high-end", and "bluffing". After a moment, he paused for a moment, thought of eight times of divination, and decided to use simplified yarrow divination.
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"Eight roots...eight roots..."
Shulot used his right hand to count the sunflower stalks in his left hand, and took out every eight stalks. In the end, only three stalks were left. Then he handed the remaining three stalks to his right hand and combined them with the one on his little finger to get the divination result.
"Four".
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The Lord God bless you! The number obtained from divination is four! Zhen Gua!"
Shulot looked solemn, holding the four sunflower seeds that were the first divination results, and showed them first to the God King, and then to many Mexica nobles. The God King nodded slightly, and many Mexica nobles took a breath of air.
.Everyone stared intently at the patterns and words on the "Bagua Shen Flag" and saw that "four" corresponded to the "Zhen Gua", and the traditional sacrificial graphics and characters painted on the back turned out to be a twisted thunder and lightning.
"The Sun of the Lord God gives His will!"
On the altar, God King Avit had an expressionless face, waved his hand again, and declared in a low voice.
"Come here! Give him a thunderbolt! Send him to the kingdom of God to purify all sins and enjoy the beauty of peace forever!..."
"Yes! God King!"
"ah!…"
The first military noble to be tried was about thirty years old, with gorgeous uniforms, and was obviously a hereditary noble. When he saw the results of the divination trial, his face turned pale instantly, his knees suddenly softened, and he fell to his knees on the ground.
.But as a Mexica noble who devoutly believes in the gods, faced with such a sacred and mysterious set of priestly rituals, faced with this solemnly divined "divine will", he really has no fighting spirit in his heart, even more so than when faced with
You must obey strict military laws.
"O Lord God! Will you use the thunder of the sky to lead my soul to the kingdom of the Lord God?... Praise my god... Huitziloppo..."
At this moment, the middle-aged military noble just knelt on the ground blankly, muttering something in his mouth. Then without any struggle, he was dragged by two cut-haired guards in front of a squatting tiger cannon. Then, many nobles were frightened.
I lowered my head and heard a "bang" of a cannon! The Lord God's thunderous punishment came, but there was no more sound at the execution place...
