It's scary, the group is actually full of ancient bigwigs

Chapter 229 Chapter 220 Eight Religion Not Bad

The ancestor of China—

"Come on, tell me about the systems of those countries outside, let's study it carefully."

Shihuang said while flipping through the information sent by Su Xi.

He was going to listen to Su Xi's insights after 2000.

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.

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"Time goes by, the world changes, and there have been many prosperous empires in the world."

"The most famous of these was the ancient Roman Empire, who turned an entire stretch of the Mediterranean into a national bath."

"Three generations of Persian empires have been in the same line, ruling Central Asia for thousands of years."

"Then there is the use of 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 expression sank.

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God's Whip—

"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 country and override the country. They can collect taxes from believers and extract taxes from the country. 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, and these armies are professional armies that are only responsible for fighting."

"In this way, because of the blood sucked by religion, the country is getting weaker and weaker, and the army is becoming 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 already understood these operations.

Religion overrides the European countries and is enshrined by countless small countries controlled by them, and the main source of religion is the offerings of believers and the taxes handed over by the country.

Religions use the money to expand their influence, 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 and bear 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.

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"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 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 will not, and the suzerain can still collect taxes from newly rising countries."

"Because they are spiritual nations 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 common 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 most powerful can control more power.

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Loving Wife—

"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 have the same doubts.

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"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 ruthless.

"In ancient Rome, those tough Romans didn't 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 3000 million barbarians at the peak of the ancient Roman Empire."

"The rise of religion relies on these 3000 million barbarians."

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Prime Minister of Shu—

"The ancient Roman Empire is crazy, it has raised 3000 million barbarians."

"There are 3000 million barbarians, and there is a possibility of collapse if the main ethnic group is less than 3000 million."

"If you want to maintain the status of the main ethnic group, then the main ethnic group must be maintained at about 5000 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 3000 million.

"No, the main ethnic group in ancient Rome was only 2000 million, and they still had the habit of eating lead, so that half of the Romans were soft goods."

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Waiting for others to react, Su Xi continued.

"The demise of Rome is inevitable. When Caracalla gave citizenship to all people, the 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 was a religious device involved."

"Religion also started to rise at this time."

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Su Xi thinks that Rome is really miserable.

Of course, it's mainly Caracalla idiots.

If Caracalla insists on following his father's line, Rome will live another 100 years. It's a pity that this fool gave citizenship to all the barbarians, and everyone went crazy at once. Citizens are worthless, and they hit Ardasil again. This big guy, the religion started to fight back again, and the barbarians also started to fight back, he deserved it.

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Son of God—

"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 power?"

"What about 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 crush the surrounding hammers."

Guangwu raised doubts.

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Chapter 2

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