The end of the year, December comes to an end, is the five evil days (Nemontemi) at the end of the year. According to the common traditions of the Nahua tribes and the Mayan tribes, this is the time when the gods stop protecting humans, and the world becomes fragile and
Full of uncertainty. This is a day of chaos, danger and emptiness. It is also a suitable time to hold sacrifices, rewards and punishments, and to demonstrate the divinity of the king.
"The Lord God witnesses! Quacohu, you besieged Yunzhong City, ambushed the Zapotec Army, and made great achievements in the southern expedition! I, the God King of Mexica, in the name of the Lord God, canonize you as a glorious noble of the alliance!..."
"I am willing to die for the God King!..."
A three-story altar was built outside Yunshan City. Tens of thousands of alliance legions were surrounding the valley outside the city. God King Avit, wearing the complex costumes of the God King and a feather crown as bright as the sun, sat high
At the highest point of the altar. And the king
The commander of the chamber army, Kua Kehu, knelt down and saluted on the second floor. At this moment, he was excited as he listened to the canonization of the God King. With his military merits, he jumped up and entered the alliance from an ordinary hereditary noble.
The top of the pyramid!
"Kuakohu! Your fiefdom is right here, in the Yunzhong Valley! The fiefdom covers an area of 20,000 acres of Yunzhong fertile land, and is awarded to a thousand Mixtec tribesmen!..."
"The Lord God witnesses your bravery and your loyalty! Right now, the Southern Expedition is still going on. The royal army of the alliance cannot do without your outstanding army commander... and the newly conquered Yunshan Valley also needs to relocate civilians.
Set up priests, organize farming and sacrifices... Therefore, the center of the alliance will
Temporarily dispatch people to take care of the affairs of the fief for you. However, half of the various outputs in the fief will still be retained as your family's income as per the ancient 'custom'. Moreover, the alliance can convert the harvested grain for you.
into more valuable spices, cocoa, cotton and gold and silver…”
"...?"
Hearing the words of the God King, the legion commander Kua Kehu was stunned. The alliance center sent people to help him manage the fiefdom, manage taxes for him, and then directly distribute "money" to him? Is there such a practice in the history of the alliance?
He praised Kehu for not having read the inheritance board and knowing little... Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at the great nobles and high-ranking priests not far away.
Following the announcement of the God King, no matter whether it was the nobles of the royal family or the nobles of the local city-states, their faces showed surprise and disbelief. Afterwards, many people lowered their heads and could not see the expressions on their faces.
Changed. The expressions of the high-ranking priests flashed and they made eye contact with each other. If a big noble who did not know life or death jumped out and asked, is there such a "custom for the royal family to act as a fief for the big nobles"? Then the priests recalled the "Inheritance Board"
, and it must be well-founded...
"Huh? Kua Kehu?!"
"Ah! Praise the supreme God King! I praise Kehu and am willing to die for the God King!"
The voice of the God King came again. The legion commander Kua Kehu was stunned for a few breaths and then immediately lowered his head. He fell to the ground and saluted heavily, the loyalty on his face remained.
No matter what, as the beloved general who controls the army of the God King, and as a small nobleman promoted by the God King himself, the God King will not treat him badly! His promotion from a hereditary nobleman to a glorious nobleman directly spanned the efforts of several generations and reached military merit.
The culmination of the reward is the right to participate in the alliance's political meetings. This improvement in status is his biggest gain!
As for the fiefdoms and income of the glorious nobles, they are all newly acquired. Even if they are handed over to the central management of the alliance, it is not a big deal. After all, compared to the 20,000 acres of land in the clouds, a thousand households still control the royal army.
Eight thousand warriors are more important in real power!
"The blessing of the Lord God! In the name of military merit rewards, the newly promoted honorary noble fiefdoms are managed by the alliance center, and the actual fiefdoms are transformed into virtual fiefdoms to a certain extent... This is the alliance's treatment of the great nobles.
Another major breakthrough in fiefdom governance! And, through this 'convention' and 'precedent', it will be gradually fixed and expanded until a new political balance is reached..."
On the left side of the second floor of the altar, a half-story altar was erected, and a divination flag with sixty-four hexagrams was hung. And Shulot, wearing sacrificial clothes and carrying divination tools, stood quietly on the second-and-a-half-story altar.
. He wore the mask of a god and did not show any expression. Similarly, he could also see the reactions of the great nobles of the alliance and see that.
Zhang Zhang was either covering up, or showing a confused, shocked, uneasy or even angry side face. He lowered his eyes silently, smelling the turmoil of people's hearts, and once again witnessed Avitt's fearless determination to carry out centralization reforms relying on the sacred war! Even if it is
When he saw this scene, he couldn't help but sigh in admiration.
"Lord God! More than ten years ago, the great nobles of the Alliance were still able to control all the power in their family fiefdoms, from the army, taxation to religion! But as the Alliance continued to promote centralization of power, they first lost their religious rights.
Then many armies were cut off, various fiefdoms were reduced, and inheritances were intervened... Until now, even the governance of fiefdoms has a precedent of alliance interference!..."
"Although I once personally told Avitt about the direction and end point of centralization. When we were enfeoffing the country in the lake, I also strictly enforced centralization for a time... But after all, Avitt's starting point was different from mine! I was burned by the war and was completely white.
The kingdom of paper in the lake
, established a brand-new system without many constraints from the old aristocracy. And he was based on the Mexica alliance, which had deep roots in the aristocracy and was entangled with each other, like a thorny jungle. He carried out drastic reforms and made vigorous progress all the time!..."
"If you put me in his position...I'm afraid, I can't be like him, 'burning you and me with raging fire'... It's just such extreme pressure, even with my help and the endorsement of divine authority.
, can the great nobles from the central to the local governments really accept it?... You must know that this breakthrough in centralization does not only affect the great nobles of the city-state. Even the great nobles of the royal family can see the impact...
And next, there will be…”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Shulot's face was expressionless, but his thoughts were sweeping across his heart like waves. And the voice that kept coming to his ears was the God King's further reward to the royal legion. In addition to the legion
In addition to Chang Kua Kehu being promoted to the honorary noble, a full twenty military nobles of the legion were also given fiefs, rising from the bottom of the noble ranks and promoted to hereditary nobles!
"...consecrated hereditary nobles! Granted two thousand acres of fiefdom and one hundred households!...The management of the fiefdom will be temporarily managed by the Alliance Central Committee!..."
"Praise the supreme God King! I am willing to die for the God King!..."
The cheers of the military nobles were like the giant claws of thunder, frightening the birds flying in the mountains and forests, and slapped the old nobles in the face. Fortunately, this time the canonizations were all in the newly conquered land in the clouds.
There was indeed a reason for the escrow, and it did not directly push the old nobles to a dead end. Under the eyes of the God King, no big noble dared to stand up and oppose. The alliance's military merit awards were promoted to the end with cheers.
"Witness the Lord God! Turquoise, the captain of the imperial guard, led five hundred imperial guards to make a surprise attack on Sheyao Village. He desperately cut off the Yunzhong Valley Road and blocked the retreat of the Zapotec Army, which was a great achievement..."
"I, the God King of Mexico, in the name of the main god, canonize you as a hereditary noble of the alliance, and grant you two thousand acres of fiefdom, which will be managed by the alliance central government! In addition, I will grant you two boxes of gold and silver, two boxes of gems, and twenty bags of spices.
A piece of royal feather uniform!…”
Following this generous royal order, Captain Turquoise of the Imperial Guard strode onto the altar, and then knelt down heavily on the altar like a toppled boulder. His expression was calm, his face was honest and simple, and he knelt down hard.
He raised three heads and said in a muffled voice.
"Praise the God King! Turquoise, I am willing to die for the God King!..."
"Haha! Okay!"
On the altar, God King Avit raised the corner of his mouth, showing great satisfaction with this simple and brave guard officer who dared to fight, was brave and loyal. And such a small noble with military merit who came from various local states was also promoted by him during the centralization of power.
The key point is to balance the power of the old nobles in each state by benefiting a large number of classes from the reform.
"Turquoise, the Lord God has witnessed your bravery, and the God King is satisfied with your loyalty! From today on, you will be promoted from the Deputy Battalion Commander of the Broken Hair Guards to the Commander of the Guards Battalion, officially in charge of thousands of people, and become the only
One of the four battalion commanders!…”
"Yes! Praise the God King! Turquoise, I am willing to die for the God King!..."
"Haha! Come here!"
God King Avit laughed boldly and stood up with a smile. Then, he took two steps down and shook the turquoise hair with his own hands, and then asked the loyal warrior to step back. Yes, he was confident enough,
With this kind of power, fiefdom and benefit, the other party will be loyal to him until death, just like the other party who sacrificed his life in every battle!
"Okay, Lord God bless you! Military merit awards have ended! Next, there are the punishments and sacrifices that must be included in the 'unfortunate day'!..."
"Shulote!"
"exist!"
"In front of the Lord God, punish the fleeing ambush generals and divine the outcome of the prison!"