Faith is an eternal remains, and the gods are towering mountains on the plain of faith. Each god has a legend, which is the collective unconscious of the ancestors, engraving all the past and building the core of civilization.

If you want to destroy a country, you must go through history, but if you want to destroy a ethnic group or nation, you must erase her gods and destroy her faith. Conversely, whether a ethnic group is strong and tenacious can be used to examine whether their faith is pious and whether the gods are alive.

Hasdruba knew this logic very well - Carthage was a branch of the Phoenicians, and the Phoenicians were a branch of the Semites. The Phoenicians first lived in Canaan (meaning plains, that is, later Israel) and called themselves Canaanites, but the Greeks gave Canaan another name: 'phoenike', meaning 'purple land' or 'red land'.

The Semites seem to have unique talents for religion. Judaism, Christianity, and ***ism are all products of the Semites. As a Carthaginian, Hasdruba inherited the characteristics of the Semites and was curious about the commercial nation. He liked to explore alien religions and hoped to understand the most core secrets of aliens from this exploration.

The Bifang and the Ghost Car were sailing on the Mediterranean at this time. After leaving Timiatrione, two sailboats passed the Dahracles stone pillars more than 30 miles wide under the escort of the Carthage Five-Pearl Battleship and entered the Western Mediterranean. The Carthaginians did not go directly to Carthage, but went to Iberia first. Accompanied by Hamilka Baka's son-in-law and Hannibal Baka's brother-in-law Hasdruba, the fleet headed to Carthage.

Even by Eastern standards, Hasdruba is a handsome man. He has a thick and curly beard, a handsome appearance and a friendly smile. Although the two people speak differently, he still talks everything between him and Wulong. On the afternoon of that day, the two talked about each other's religion and gods.

The most important gods of the Carthaginians were Baal Hammon and the wife of Baal Hammon. This goddess had a bad hobby, which was that she liked to eat babies. The Carthaginians sacrificed babies to the god of Tanit every year, but it was limited to the descendants of the nobles, especially the most noble nobles. Only babies of noble origins can please Tanit.

It was not surprising that the living people sacrificed their sacrifices without Gou Chang. Most of the sacrificial items of the Shang Dynasty were living people. Among these living people sacrificed were Qiang people, Guifang, Chu people, and Yin people's own nobles, who voluntarily offered sacrifices.

"The Chu people had Taiyi, Taishui; there were Dashiming and Shaoshiming, and of course there were also Sifu. There were the gods of spring, summer, autumn, and winter, as well as the gods of sun, moon, clouds, and thunder..." The Chu people's residence could be said to be for three days and three nights in detail, but the Chu State did not have the purpose of preaching to the outside world, and did not want others to understand their religion, so they did not go to the end. Instead, he said, "I once heard that the Greeks had twelve main gods, the most respected one was Zeus, and the second was his wife Hera, who did not know the Guibang gods..."

The translation is a Persian, and the world is known to be the Hellenistic world. The Persians in this world are just second-class nations. The problem of no hooks is actually black Greeks, so his translation is very happy.

"It was the Greeks who stole our gods." As expected, Hasdruba said. "They constructed their gods according to our gods, such as Zeus and Hera. Any gods we have, the Greeks also have them. They just changed their Greek names, and this practice will be punished by the true god."

Hasdruba also wanted to say that the same was true for the Romans, but Wu Goucheng was an alien with an unknown position. He could not rashly accuse the Romans of what they were like, so he had to give up.

Hasdruba's words made Wu Gouchang feel that he was a pious person. He asked carefully: "Carthage believes in God, and I don't know what taboos are there for going to Carthage? If so, please tell me."

Carthage's warships had to sail along the coast - it is said that the Roman generals in the last war did not obey the advice of the captains and insisted on crossing the Mediterranean, so they encountered storms and almost all of them sank. The Bifang, who was traveling with them, could only sail along the coast and could not be full of sails.

"There are no taboos," Hasdruba looked at the head of the hook. Perhaps he had a great time talking along the way. After hesitating, he still solemnly suggested, "Don't tell the Senate that you will go to Rome."

"Why?" Rome was a country that the fleet had to go to. If it were not for the Daheracles' stone pillars being controlled by the Carthaginians, they might have gone to Rome first and then to Carthaginian. "The war between your country and the Romans has been completed."

"It's better not to tell." Hasdruba once again reminded him without explaining the reason.

Wu Gou Chang had to remember this, but he felt that this matter was not important. He did not come to explore the Mediterranean, and he would definitely come again after returning. The Dahracles stone pillar is only more than thirty miles wide, no more than thirty-four miles. With such a short distance and the endless city of Carthage inside and outside the stone pillar, it is impossible to pass through the strait without disturbing the Carthage people.

The Carthaginians were merchants and themselves, and a series of conflicts would inevitably arise between merchants and merchants. The correct way should be to form an alliance with the Romans. Once they formed an alliance with the Romans, the Chu merchant ships could freely pass through the Daheracles stone pillars controlled by the Carthaginians. The Romans did not have many merchant ships, did not pay much attention to business, and there was no conflict of interest in alliance with them.

Wu Gouchang's idea at this time was like this. He could not take the initiative to say that he would go to Rome, nor do he take the initiative to say that he would still do business in the Mediterranean in the future. However, if the Carthaginians asked, he would not deliberately conceal it. Because there was no need to conceal it, when the Chu merchant ship passed through the Daheracles stone pillar two years later, he could not conceal it, so he simply told him to see the Carthaginians' reaction.

According to Hasdruba, Carthage has more than 300 cities on the coast of Libya, with these cities of about 700,000. The largest city is Carthage, which is about 80 miles around and has more than 700,000 people.

This number made Wu Gouchang think of Xianyang naturally. Xianyang has the most populous city in the world. However, Xianyang has only 120,000 households, or 600,000 people. It is hard for him to imagine how the eighty-mile city has more than 700,000 people living in the eighty-mile city. However, when he saw Carthage City in Lu Li's mirror, the answer was clear at a glance.

The entire Carthage city stands steeply on a peninsula that extends from the west to the east. The north of the island is a tall cape and a gentle slope to the south. The dense olive forest can see the city wall about six feet high, as well as the temples at the highest point of the city and some houses below the temples. Unlike the cities in East Asia that are mostly one-story buildings, some houses in Carthage are as high as six floors. This may be because this city with only 80 miles in radius can accommodate 700,000 people.

The bay north of the city is the Shang port of Carthage City, which is full of Mediterranean-style Sailing Merchant Ships. However, it is obvious that the Carthages did not allow the Bifang and the Ghost Car to dock this port. Under the guidance of the Wuji warship, the sailboat slowly sailed past the Shang port, passed the high cape, and headed to a harbor south of the cape, where someone was standing on the dock to greet him.

The king of the world's most eastern kingdom sent his envoys to find the Dahracles stone pillars. The whole process took two years, sailing 150,000 Steadia, passing through India, Seleucid, and bypassing the vast southern continent. When Wu Gang Chang was still on the Ilibyan Peninsula, this matter spread like wings throughout the Carthage Senate.

About three hundred years ago, a Carthage navigator in Hannover led a fleet out of the Dahracles stone pillar, and sailed fearlessly southward, just sailing to Liberia - the whole of Africa is like a small pistol with a muzzle facing down and a stock westward. The Arabian Peninsula is the hammer of this gun, South Africa is the muzzle, Nigeria (Guinea Gulf) is the trigger, Liberia is the front of the buttstock, and Dahracles stone pillar is the back of the stock,

——In the front of the butt of the pistol, he was frightened by the sound of flutes, gongs and the fire on the island. Even so, people still regard Hanno as the hero of Carthage. Now, bypassing the entire southern continent and connecting Seleucid, the envoys of the Eastern Kingdom of India arrived at Carthage, and the king and all the elders were waiting for their arrival.

"Their ships do not have oarsmen..." The half-sailed Bifang and the ghost car slowly entered the port with one after another, following the Carthage warship. On the tall walls, a group of veterans in Carthage were not greeted by the docks, but most of them stood on the walls to watch. After all, they were merchants, and the veterans were very interested in sailing boats that did not use oarsmen. This would save those indispensable paddling slaves, and raising these slaves would require a lot of money.

"They came from the east of the southern continent, where there were countless frankincense and myrrh..." Someone said. Spices are the most valuable commodity, but because of geographical reasons, it is very difficult for Carthage to obtain Arab frankincense, and Somalia's myrrh, especially now that the Egyptians have occupied Canaan and Syria.

"Their king actually knows Hannibal?" The elders discussed the issues that had been discussed countless times. King Sifax Margo said as he looked at Hamilka Baka in front of him.

Like the Spartans, Carthage also had a senate of thirty people, including two kings and twenty-eight senators. As a king, Sifax Margo cared about impossible only business, but the king whom the most eastern kingdom claimed to be omniscient.
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