Aztec Eternals

The candlelight flickered in unpredictable shapes, as did the shadow under the candlelight, only more elongated and darker. With only slight changes in the upper reaches of religion and law, the future of nations and societies will be turbulent.

At this moment, Shiroute thought a lot. For example, at the Pope's order, 100,000 Holy Legions responded and marched to the east. For example, arresting the cross missionaries and prohibiting the spread of Ability God. For example, the priests monitor the alliance, and spies are pervasive. There are also devout believers who come from all over the Americas, and the lights of thousands of homes praying every day are accompanied by the common bell...

Furthermore, if someone becomes king and pope in the future, he will have the supreme authority of the unity of political power and religious authority. He even remembered the millennium confrontation between green and red, the civil war between the crescent nobles and the clergy group...

But this is a long time in the future. The Reformation cannot be accomplished overnight, it always takes generations and decades to evolve gradually.

Scholot pondered for a long time, but only briefly described: "After a few decades, the Mexicans will have a cohesive religious belief, and a unified world will form a multi-ethnic country with combined beliefs. Firing at high temperature and agglomeration of time can finally be formed.

The world has common writings and laws, and society operates under the guidance of religious laws and regulations. After a long period of precipitation, repeated twists and turns, and changes in ethnic groups, a unified conceptual nation was formed, and the real unity was completed. "

Shulot sighed with emotion about the past of the Celestial Dynasty. The unification of China has gone through the **** reforms of the Qin Dynasty, and the grammar construction of the Han Dynasty took hundreds of years to form completely. Among them, the first emperor was indispensable. He has laid all the foundations and deserves to be the ancestor of China.

"In the future country, it is necessary to carefully maintain the balance of power among all strata. The influence of the priest group will expand rapidly, but a limit must be set to maintain power constraints. This constraint mainly comes from the emerging samurai groups, mainly military aristocrats. and commoner warriors. There should also be two factions within the priests that focus on faith and focus on administration.

The royal family must not only become the leader of priests and warriors, but also carefully maintain the balance between priests and warriors and suppress the influence of one party. At the same time, the priests and samurai groups have to open up the ascending channel of the commoners, promote selection from the commoners, and maintain fresh blood within the ruling class. In particular, it is necessary to reduce the generational inheritance of priests.

To put it simply, it is class balance and power constraints. Civilians are promoted, weakening the bloodline. A sword in one hand and a scripture in the other. "

In Scholot's design, the development of the priesthood group should be similar to that of the Huaxia scholar-officials, divided into the school of governance and the school of administration. While controlling people's hearts, they must also limit power. The samurai group represented the emerging squatter landowners and provided a solid guarantee of force. And when the economy develops enough, there will also be checks and balances between the citizens and the merchant class. A certain class cannot be made too large and rigid to hinder the ever-emerging demand for reform.

Of course, in order to suppress the priesthood, the king must have enough prestige and skill.

The silent elder finally turned around. He looked at the boy again.

"My child, you seem to have forgotten a group of people."

Shiloh shook his head, gritted his teeth slightly, and declared solemnly.

"Prince is a hidden danger of the alliance. They are not loyal to the royal family at all, and they must be eradicated! The great aristocracy occupies too much wealth and manpower, and must be weakened and suppressed as much as possible! At least within the range of ten days' journey from the capital, we can Directly administer the cities rather than self-government.”

Seirot recalled the historical rebellion of Tracopan and Prince Texcoco when the Spaniards arrived. They directly contained most of the alliance's forces. Foreign princes must not stay! Similarly, weakening the hereditary great nobles and cultivating common landowners and commoner priests are also the core of the reform.

The elder was silent for a moment and shook his head slightly. Skilled rulers will make a lot of preparations in advance, and then take advantage of the situation to insert a sharp knife into the gap of the bone, so that the blade can slaughter the target flexibly.

As the elder walked slowly forward, he taught lightly.

"My child, don't be in a hurry. You need to eat bite by bite, and you need to walk step by step. The mice in the fields must be eliminated one by one. Tell me about your new priesthood."

Shuluo nodded and followed slowly. He only knew the general direction of the reform, and for the time being he had no way to start.

"The priesthood needs to establish a strict hierarchy. At the lowest level are the city community priests and the village priests. They have the right to interpret scriptures and laws, to judge day-to-day disputes, to mobilize warriors and militias, and to collect religious taxes. Responsible for the education of commoners and peasants, holding ten days of great ceremonies, it is the root system of the towering sacred tree."

The elder pondered slightly. Tax manpower, legal education. These local priests need to compete with the great nobles who own the villages for grassroots control.

"Further up is the city priest, responsible for a city and nearby villages. The parish priest is responsible for a complete area, including multiple cities and villages. The establishment of a parish requires the consent of the center. The parish priest can be called the priest, corresponding to the specific The Eleven States of Mexica can have eleven priests.

Several dioceses are united as the archdiocese, and the archdiocesan priest is the chief priest. If there is a large and important city, it can also be set aside to establish a level chief priest to prevent the power of the chief priest from being too large. At present, the Eleven states of Mexica can establish an archdiocese chief priest.

And the archdiocese is the highest regional unit, the Ecclesiastical Province. The leader of the Ecclesiastical Province is the suzerain, fully controlling the religious authority of a certain area. In the future, when the Tarrascos are conquered, a higher province of Mexica can be established above the Archdiocese of Mexica and the Archdiocese of Tarrasco. "

Village and community priests, city priests, parish priests, chief priests and metropolitan priests, suzerain priests. The five-level executive agencies in the region are basically from the cross structure in the memory of Shulot, and have withstood the test of thousands of years of history.

The elder nodded slightly, the regional division of religion will also be the national division in the future. Although the alliance has not yet established a country with a clear hierarchy, similar plans have been pondered in his mind many times. This child's plan is even more grand and bold.

"Starting with the priest of the diocese, the power of appointment and removal will be determined by the central church. Therefore, three levels of central priests are set up in the central church, corresponding to the candidates for the priest, the chief priest and the suzerain. The outstanding city priests will be selected into the lowest level of the center. The priesthood, after being cultivated in the center, is released to run the parish.

The highest-level central priests group corresponds to the current chief priests and high priests, namely the twelve elder priests, equal to the suzerain. "In Crucifixion, cardinals and patriarchs are candidates for the Pope.

Shilote pondered for a moment, but did not mention the higher-level Pope. There is no doubt that the highest religious authority now rests in the hands of the elders. He just emphasized the promotion mechanism again.

"God's eyes do not discriminate. The five-level priesthood should be promoted in sequence, and all the priests must have experience in pastoring the village and the community. The priesthood is open to outstanding commoners, and try to maintain a balance in promotion."

For the common people, it is the most important means to maintain the vitality of the priest group. In the Middle Ages in Europe, the church was almost the only place where the children of the commoners could stand out and change their class. Of course, now there are more big sailing adventures.

"According to the priesthood of Mexica, priests should fully consecrate themselves to God. Priests at all levels forbid formal marriages. The descendants of priests do not have the right to inherit religious status."

Sherlot knew that no matter which religion in the world, for the high priest who really held the power, the laws prohibiting marriage and inheritance of status were usually useless. Ten years later, Alexander VI will succeed Pope in Rome. The Borgias would completely destroy the reputation of the church and ignite the Reformation movement.

However, such clauses still need to be written into the priestly regulations, try to restrain the corruption of the priesthood group as much as possible, and also leave a basis for further reforms in future generations.

The elder fell into a long thought. The present and the future are constantly deducing and intersecting in his mind.

"After I die, there will be a Pope who will rule the religion."

Thinking of this, the elder looked at Shiloh with deep eyes. After a long while, he spoke calmly.

"Son, everything you said requires a code of words. I want to hear you say the code again."

With a faint murderous intent on the face, Shiloh's heart was awe-inspiring. He pondered for a long time before replying carefully.

"Mexican society needs a religious code. The source of the code is divine revelation, not accumulated precedent. The characteristic of the code is that it integrates moral requirements and regulates the life of believers."

"The content of the religious code is three-fold: it defines the order between man and God, the order between man and society and the natural order, and the order between man and himself.

Humans and gods are the rituals of worshiping gods, the reverence and devotion to gods. This needs to revise the current religious rituals that are too **** and violent, and retain the good parts.

People and society are the laws that guide society. Criminal law revenge, prisoners of war, food life, loan interest, marriage relationship, property inheritance, and the prevailing social and moral norms.

There are too many death sentences in Mexica society, and perhaps the sentence can be appropriately commuted. The jurisdiction of the market should also be withdrawn from the hands of merchants, especially the autonomy of foreign merchants. Property laws can be further refined by incorporating existing regulations.

Man and nature are regulations for fishing, hunting and gathering, gardens and zoos, holy mountains and holy lakes.

People and themselves are self-cultivation and keeping precepts, which is similar to the tradition of our Mexica's indifference. But **** gambling should be banned. "

From the perspective of Shirlot, the people of Mexica are simple and simple, attach great importance to life, and the commandments are extremely strict, and the people are always shrouded in the shadow of death. The laws and customs of the death sentence are numerous: the adulterer, the thief, the one who violates the rank in clothing, the second public drunk, the judge who takes bribes, the merchant who cheats, the slave who rebels, the one who destroys religious ceremonies, and the illegal Those who enter the holy mountain and the holy lake die... all kinds of things are very similar to the severe punishments of the Qin Dynasty.

And gambling under the supervision of a judge is orderly and unrestrained. Whether it is a ball game or a dice made of beans, once the two sides start a bet, they often bet all their property and life, and regard death as a game. All of this shows the splendor and cruelty of the nascent civilization.

On the other hand, slaves in Mexica have sufficient personal and property rights, and they also have the opportunity to rely on the master's family to develop. Similar to servants, they are not completely consumables.

"In general, religious laws are characterized by their sanctity, breadth, and flexibility. It has a supreme status, it regulates all aspects of life, and it is constantly adjusted and changed with the development of regional customs and times."

The elder pondered slightly. He chewed on the three concepts of sacredness, breadth and flexibility, and thought about God, society, nature and people. After a while, he nodded slowly.

"My child, we need a book of fundamental teachings, both as a guide for religion and as a basis for law."

Shilot nodded earnestly, but this was clearly beyond his ability. He could only add.

"The fundamental doctrine is divine revelation, which can be used as a summary of principles. This is a towering tree trunk pointing to the sky. It does not need to be too detailed, but leaves room for play.

In addition to the fundamentals, three specific sources of law can be added: the precepts of the saints, the derivations of scholars, and the decisions of the priesthood. This is the large and flexible branch of leaves, the specifics that guide the enforcement of regulations. "

The elder pondered the religious laws mentioned by Shulot. He needs a specific executive editor. The two figures kept rising and falling on the scales in his mind. Eventually, the two figures became three. The elder finally made a decision.

In front of me, I came to a stone house deep underground again. The sculptural captain of the guard relaxed, and after a loud bang, the heavy stone door opened, and a small blue snake rushed into the corner as if frightened~www.wuxiax.com~ and dropped a frog in its mouth.

"My child, you are here." The elder was expressionless.

Shilot silently walked into the snake house and touched the frog on the ground with his foot. The frog moved slightly, but it was clear that he was not far from death.

With a bang, the heavy stone door closed again, and the snake house was pitch black. After a while, the little green snake swam to the side of the boy. It hissed softly, expressing its dissatisfaction with the door. Judging from the performance of the little green snake, the elder has gone far.

Sherlot leaned against the wall and mused. The smooth and soft touch came from the wrist again, swaying, wrapping, slowly following the arm, drilling into his warm chest, and then comfortably motionless. The young man sighed and fell asleep together with the little green snake.

When the elder returned to the top floor of the palace, the sun had already set in the west. The setting sun is like blood, dyeing the distant sky and the palace of the gods. The elder looked at the setting sun, and his heart was slightly ups and downs. He sat on the stone seat of the gods, quietly waiting for the darkness. Behind him, the sculptural captain of the guard holds the clay pot of fate.

On the Great Temple, the priest chant that lasted for a day finally ended. The chief priests stepped on the solidified bright red and walked down the stone steps with a calm expression. The priests and elders said goodbye to each other and went back to rest. A day's sacrifice is enough to make you tired and your arms sore. Uger saluted Kechar slightly, then swayed away.

Kechar smiled, admiring the sunset on the horizon, and longing for the rise of tomorrow. He waited a moment. Soon a loyal priest came from the north, holding a **** wooden box in his hands.

Kechar opened it and saw a big head with a majestic and unwilling face, and a lifelike expression. Seeing the old man, the chief priest's smile became more and more cordial. He closed the wooden box and went straight to the east, surrounded by the war priests.