Chapter 34 Understanding
After the destruction of Nangang, the gods of Barron did not move for several consecutive days, and Wang Yue temporarily stayed in the West Sea with the gods Dragon Lord and others.
Since the new projection spell of the West Sea Dragon Lord, there are many divine bodies that can be projected in the equipment test field at any time, and there are also intelligent divine positions. For a moment, there will be no delay in the affairs of various territories. As a landlord, the West Sea Dragon Lord has done his best to serve.
Xihai is located in the West but has moved from the East to maintain connection with the Eastern world, including clothing, food, drinks, poetry, drama, etc., forming a unique cultural atmosphere at the intersection of East and West. It is impressive and eye-opening.
However, Wang Yue was most interested in the system of power born on Western soil that was different from the East and the history of the Barron Empire.
Many of the West Sea Dragon Lords who have been to the West for nearly three thousand years have been collected one after another, especially after fighting with Barron in the past century, they have obtained more targetedly.
Wang Yue ordered all kinds of book scrolls to be collected on Wang Yue's desk, hundreds of black sheepskin covers and hardcover books with special craftsmanship, including some classics from Barron's Magic Academy, War Academy, major theological colleges, and the history of Barron.
The text in the book is Babylonian cuneiform, but it is slightly different from the cuneiform discovered in Wang Yue's memory. It should have been simplified several times to better adapt to actual needs. After simplification, it looks a bit like Chinese characters but is completely different.
Wang Yue opened it and looked... he didn't recognize a single word.
So in order to allow Wang Yue to understand the words in the book, Longjun sent a clerk who was proficient in the East and West to translate for him.
However, the translation assistance is only a few hours.
Wang Yue quickly learned this foreign text using the super computing power of the God Position.
To understand a civilization, first start with history.
Looking back at the history of the Barron Empire, Wang Yue can see that its progress began in 1920.
One thousand nine hundred and twenty years ago, Enlier, the supreme god of Barron, came and saved a village enslaved by the orc tribe migrated from the east and then drove away the local orcs. The forces formed in this area were later named Barron by Enlier.
The day of Enlier is the grandest festival of the Barron Empire every year.
The historical ambition of Balun civilization expansion also unfolded from this, gradually developing from a village to a huge empire today.
In the history of human civilization, the development of a civilization always has various twists and turns.
As the saying goes, spiral rises and progresses in twists and turns, but these are not seen in Barron's history.
Thanks to a period from the late Eastern Han Dynasty on Earth... the period of the decline of the Roman Empire... the lessons and essence of Babylon's destruction... with the powerful will and power of ancient Greek civilization and the Roman Empire lasted for about two thousand years, Baron's growth and growth were almost smooth. There was no rise and fall of dynasty in the past two thousand years. Even if there were any problems within it, it was easily solved. At most, it delayed the development and growth of the empire but did not affect the fundamental development of civilization.
However, under the extremely prosperous theocratic rule of extraordinary power, natural science is in a weak position and it is difficult to achieve breakthrough development.
Because as long as science and technology go further, the old order of the Barron Kingdom will be greatly impacted.
Among them, not only the development of productivity will lead to changes in production relations, but also the growth of mortal power inevitably brought about by science.
It is said that in ancient Europe, aristocrats banned the use of crossbows.
Because ordinary people spent half a day learning to use crossbows to kill knights who had been trained and trained for decades to master various combat abilities and have powerful power far beyond ordinary people. Knights were the lowest-level nobles in Europe at that time, and were the cornerstone and sharp blade of the aristocratic system governance.
The Qing emperors during the Qing Dynasty in China were not unaware of the power of firearms.
No matter how powerful the deep open firearms were, they unanimously chose to suppress the firearms.
Because firearms are more powerful than crossbows, they fear that most Han people who armed the firearms no longer fear them and overturn their rule.
Similarly, the growth of mortal power in the Barron Empire would threaten the extraordinary power owner who dominated Barron. To the extent that he developed to the earth, he was even better than God or even better than the whole. How would Barron's ruler allow him to appear in this situation?
However, although natural science was suppressed, a flower growing in the other direction grew out of the Barron civilization.
Alchemy originated from ancient Greece was once the main force in the earth civilization to break through the dark cage of theology. Natural science was born and grown and grew on it. However, Barron's alchemy did not advance to natural science, but still maintained its original style. The combination of extraordinary power and certain scientific knowledge gave birth to an alchemy creation that was almost black technology... It is in the hands of a few people, and it is no essential difference from the powers such as warriors and mages.
But aside from the various battlefield killers applied to the battlefield, the power of the alchemist was used to create to a certain extent. In addition, the existence of the god of agriculture and the god of knowledge made the Barrons' productivity level not much below the first industrial revolution.
This is the Barrons' scientific, technical and productivity level.
At the national system level, the Barron Empire is a hodgepodge.
It was copied from Rome and improved, and it may also refer to the provinces (counties) and official systems of the Eastern Qin and Han Dynasties. Principalities with relative status were also retained in the empire, such as the Principality of Ennath, the Principality of Hodion, etc., which were mostly the basic plates among the Barron gods.
All of this was mixed together, and the Barron Empire became a four-dimensional figure, giving Wang Yue a strange feeling.
Is the Barron Empire really a unified empire?
Are the Barron gods, who have their own private countries in the empire, the same as each?
From a historical perspective, this is a sequelae left in the early stages of the development of the Barron Empire. Enlil in the early stages of the Barron Empire was far from as powerful as it is today. During the development process, compromised the gods who joined the gods in order to expand or for other reasons, leading to the birth of the Principality.
These principalities have also grown with the expansion of the Barron Empire to this day, and their population and territory have been combined to measure nearly half of the current huge Barron Empire.
This is undoubtedly a nearly indelible cancer within the Barron Empire.
Through scenes of Barron's historical events, Enlil thought of solving them. He tried several times to integrate the empire into a real iron piece, intending to absorb all the powers of each principality to the central part of the empire, but was jointly boycotted by the principality.
There is no way... It involves the interests of many countries, the struggle between people's faith and the lifeblood of the gods is related to the lifeblood of the gods. Who would be willing to compromise?
If you have your own territory, you will have autonomy in the Barron God system.
Without its own territory, the relationship between the gods and Enlier is related to the relationship between the emperors and gods in ancient China. The official position and the god position are all within the emperor's thoughts.
No one of the gods of Barron is a fool. Enlil can bring benefits to everyone. It is no problem to lead Barron to a better future. Everyone is willing to listen and follow. If you want to reduce the vassal states, you can only hehe... go cool down.
Judging from the situation of the Baron Empire, it is similar to the period of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty. The same empire center was the same as the same feudal states, but the central empire of Emperor Jing not only has nominal advantages but also strength advantages compared with the feudal states.
Emperor Jing reduced the vassals and triggered the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms and suppressed them with strong strength.
What about Enlil... The princes not only had their own territory, but also gave their positions in the central empire to the central government as unshakable minister of national defense, prime minister of state, and minister of agriculture. How should they be cut off in this situation?
After following the historical documents of the Barron Empire, Wang Yue had a rough idea of the Barron Empire and the Barron Gods.
If you face the gods Barron and each have destructive power, you may not have to face it with real swords and guns, and just follow the many flaws and cut them down with a soft knife.
It took less time for Wang Yue to read Barron's history, and then he opened up books and textbooks related to Barron's power system.
In the Barron Empire, elite education such as extraordinary power and professional system are far more complete than the current Eastern world, where private schools of thought emerged.
Modern archaeological discoveries on Earth show that as early as the ancient Babylonian period, ancient Babylon had extremely formal education on aristocrats, scholars and other elites.
At that time, the paper was not yet born, and the Babylonians carried and inherited knowledge with clay plates. The source of fantasy artifacts such as the so-called "cup plates of destiny" in many modern fantasy worlds is here. After this world, the elite education system of Babylon became more perfect.
In all the principalities and provinces of the Barron Empire, there are scholar colleges to train officials for the empire, priest colleges to train generals, war colleges to train mages, alchemists, etc. However, under such a large-scale and mature education system, there are books, textbooks, textbooks, and contents that carry corresponding knowledge are not so high-end, and have a foundation that is enough for Wang Yue to understand it.
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Chapter completed!