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The ancestor of China¡ª
"Come on, talk about the systems of those countries outside, let us study it carefully."
Shihuang said while flipping through the information sent by Su Xi.
He was going to listen to Su Xi's insights two thousand years later.
Different people and people in different environments have different perspectives on things. The first emperor wanted to hear the views of people across the ages.
Su Xi chuckled, what could she think
"Time goes by, the world changes, and there have been many prosperous empires in the world."
"The most famous of these is the ancient Roman Empire. They turned the entire Mediterranean Sea into a national bath."
"Three generations of the Persian Empire came down in one continuous line and ruled Central Asia for thousands of years."
"Then it is to use faith to control the religion of the empire and the entire European continent."
"Attila in the group of the third religion should have faced it, it was terrifying."
Attila's complexion sank
God's Whip¡ª
"I fought with the Pope. It was terrifying. They can no longer be said to be believers who serve the gods. They are just politicians and generals one after another."
"These religions attach themselves to the state and override the state. They can collect taxes from believers and extract state taxes. They imitate the citizenship system of ancient Rome and turn their followers into people who are similar to citizens. , and then separated from the poor at the bottom through the worship of believers and the means of extracting national taxes."
Attila said that he still has a little research.
"Religion then uses the money collected to cultivate an army, an army of faith formed by believers. These army are professional troops that are only responsible for fighting."
"In this way, because of the blood sucked by religion, the country became weaker and weaker, and the army became more and more useless. It was once reduced to a religious tax collector to bear the infamy."
Attila became more and more disdainful.
Those religions are silly and sweet.
Shihuang and others have understood these operations.
Religion overrides the European countries and is enshrined by countless small countries controlled by them. Then the main source of religion is the offerings of believers and the taxes handed over by the country.
Religion uses the money to expand its power, such as training professional troops and expanding the size of the church.
Because with enough force, those countries can be suppressed, so that those nobles are reduced to tax collectors, bearing the ancient notoriety of tax collectors.
Gradually, in the eyes of the common people, religion is a good person, a white lotus flower, and a country that collects taxes is an evil person. They want to join religion more and more, taking the glory of being a congregation and the shame of being a nobleman of the country.
This is the reflected view
"not only that."
Su Xi sneered.
"In order to prevent the country from abusing their reputation, those religions set up bishops in various places, and sorted out a reasonable and legal administrative system in the church."
"Just like the Zhou royal family, religion is the Zhou royal family, a huge suzerain state, and those small countries that are enshrined are vassal states."
"The suzerain state is extremely powerful and has the right to recruit vassal states at will. What's even more outstanding is that the vassal state will be destroyed by the people. The suzerain state will not, and the suzerain state can still collect taxes from newly rising countries."
"Because they are spiritual countries where beliefs gather."
"Moreover, this spiritual suzerainty country has a complete system. They set up bishops and priests at all levels in various princely states, that is, cities in European countries. They have the right to monitor various places. They will also use their status supported by nobles to exercise some executive power."
"Basically speaking, bishops are equivalent to county magistrates in various places, and they are caught by the military and government, and those nobles are equivalent to aristocratic families."
"It's worth mentioning that the advantage is that the blame is on the nobles, and the bishop has nothing to do with it."
"In the eyes of the people, the bishop is the messenger of God, and the nobles are evil tax collectors. The bishop's wrong decisions are all manipulated by the nobles. The sad bishop must be in pain."
Su Xi said with a cold heart.
It was hard for others to hear.
They already understand how this works.
In general, the relationship between the state and religion is like the relationship between the emperor and the family. They compete for power and profit, and whoever is the best can control more power
The only loving wife¡ª
"Are there no restrictions on these religions?? "
"Did they just pop up out of nowhere?"
"Also, why do they believe in religion? I don't quite understand."
Others also have this doubt
"Of course not. When religion was at its worst, it was massacred several times by an ancient Roman emperor. Each time, hundreds of thousands of congregants came, so that the king named Nero was called the devil of hell. Got hit in the book."
Take a breath.
Really cruel.
"During the ancient Roman period, those powerful Romans did not believe in God, they only believed in themselves."
"But the religion was also clever, spreading among the non-citizen barbarians of Rome."
"You know, there were as many as 30 million barbarians at the peak of the ancient Roman Empire."
"The rise of religion relies on these 30 million barbarians."
Prime Minister of Shu¡ª
"The ancient Roman Empire is crazy, it raised 30 million barbarians."
"With 30 million barbarians, the main ethnic group may collapse if it is less than 30 million."
"If you want to maintain the status of the main ethnic group, then the main ethnic group must be maintained at around 50 million, which can only be high or low."
Zhuge Liang's evaluation of Rome is crazy.
Su Xi curled her lips, it would be great if ancient Rome had a population of 30 million subjects.
"No, the main ethnic group in ancient Rome was only 20 million, and they still had the habit of eating lead, so that half of the Romans were soft goods."
Waiting for other people to react, Su Xi continued.
"The demise of Rome is inevitable. When Caracalla gave citizenship to all people, barbarians began to break out, and the country began to enter instability. Then the founding emperor of Sasanian Persia, Al, dealt them a fatal blow and let Rome eat lost the battle."
"Later, Rome, which lost its invincible image, was counterattacked by barbarians and died."
"I suspect there are religious means in it."
"Religion also began to rise at this time."
Su Xi thinks Rome is really miserable.
Of course, it is mainly Caracalla idiots.
If Caracalla sticks to his father's line, Rome will not have a problem living another hundred years. Unfortunately, this fool gave citizenship to all the barbarians, and everyone went crazy at once. Citizens are worthless, and they ran into Ardaci This big guy, religion started to counterattack again, and the barbarians also started to counterattack, it deserves to be bad luck
God's dear son¡ª
"That shouldn't be the case. Even so, they collapsed from a peak empire. What about the soldiers?"
"What about the soldiers at the peak of national strength?"
"Where are those veterans?"
"Just look at Wang Mang. He has messed up a series of messes, and the soldiers of the country are still there, so he can press the surrounding hammers."
Guangwu raised doubts
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