Aztec Eternals Chapter 118

Everyone walked along the long bridge of Baishi and entered the magnificent capital city in the lake.

Under the suggestion of Shulot, neat pine and cypresses in the water have been planted on the soil embankments on both sides of the long bridge for beauty and reinforcement. Along the way, pedestrians retreated to the embankment, kneeling under the tree and salute. The breeze by the lake came, and the young Avivit trees swayed with the wind, exuding the fragrance of pine and cypress.

Shulot looked around, and the pine and cypresses in the water were lined up on both sides, extending for several miles. The body of the tree is beautiful and slender, the green branches are sloping down, and the new shoots are green and dripping. They are between Pinghu and Baiqiao, in front of temples and palaces, accompanied by sunshine and breeze, swaying with flowing vitality, beautiful and refined, making people disappointed.

The young man thinks about the grand scene of pines and cypresses, and misses the small bridge in the water town of his home country. In a second, he remembered the name of the Avivit tree again, and his mind drifted away.

"Enter the capital of the gods, inherit the great power, and become a new king."

Thinking of this, he smiled slightly and continued to move forward.

Tenochtitlan has wide streets, criss-crossing waterways, and neat and orderly houses. The capital city in the lake is strictly managed, attaches great importance to hygiene, and those who pollute the lake will be severely punished and even executed. Hundreds of thousands of people gather on the island in the center of the lake, but they are not as messy as European cities at the same time. They are somewhat rational and clean like ancient Roman cities.

The capital has special diversion channels, drainage channels, and public toilets.

The two special diversion canals are more than 100 miles long. They directly divert water from the western plateau, pass through the city center, separate the northern city from the main city, and then disperse into different urban areas. This is a dedicated drinking water route. Next to the houses and streets, there are also special drainage channels to guide the urban sewage to the nearest floating field, Chinampa. In each community and near the main road, there are special public toilets used to collect fertilizers and supplement the nutrient consumption of floating fields.

The purification of lake water relies on soil filtration and floating fields in water. Nine thousand hectares of chinampa are spread across the Texcoco Lake around the capital. Crops grown all year round absorb nutrients in water, decompose accumulated fertilizers, and purify water constantly. In the chinampa, there are also large and small schools of farmed fish that devour organic particles in the floating fields and water. The continuous floating fields and the huge capital are interdependent, forming a clean and efficient giant ecological agriculture.

Shilot stopped. His eyes stayed on the shade outside the hut of the public toilet, where there was slightly damp purple-red soil.

The young man pondered slightly, and recalled a lot yesterday. This should be another important source of nitrate, **** nitrate and urine nitrate. In his memory, it was very difficult to extract feces, urine and nitrates, and the products were mixed and impure, requiring more careful processing. Obviously, he has never memorized the specific steps, and all this can only be explored slowly.

Scholot made a secret note, so he dispatched everyone here: Guard Elvi took the temple guards to the temple of priests to report back to his grandfather. The old carpenter Kuod returned to the crafting center and stepped up to make longbows. Another guard led Moreno, the chief salt worker, to the high priest's mansion, where he stored the nitrate and continued to study the production of nitrate.

The boy pondered for a while, and asked Bertard to bring the dried soil nitrate, and then went directly to the administrative center in the south of the palace district.

The administrative center is located on the south side of the central square of the capital, covering a large area. Among them, there are more than 100 houses with white stones and red roofs, surrounded by blooming gardens and gurgling water.

On the east side of the administrative center is the sacred and noble ancestor memorial square, where many vicissitudes of stone pillars and simple statues depicting graphics are erected.

Sherlot stopped for a while to check. It is being remodeled and it seems that more ancestral columns and statues are being built. After thinking for a moment, the young man remembered that this was also one of the reform plans. The ancestral lineage of the Mexica originally more than 100 years ago is constantly being added, until it is perfectly connected to the myth and legend, the Olmec civilization 3,000 years ago.

"It's passed down from generation to generation, and it's a family for all generations, that's how it came."

Shilott laughed at himself and moved on.

On the west side of the Administrative Palace is the Capital Court, with white walls and black lines and a base several meters high, responsible for adjudicating civil conflicts in the Texcoco Lake District. The young man looked away, and saw the high priest in the deep robe with a feather crown standing on the high platform, reading something aloud. Under the high platform, there are many big businessmen in gorgeous clothes, with servants and warriors, bowing or kneeling.

The big businessmen were talking a lot, and a vague noise drifted from afar. The high priest waved his hand indifferently, and the hundreds of temple guards took a few steps forward, tapping their shields with battle sticks, and letting out a deterrent howl of hyenas. The distant voice suddenly disappeared. After a while, a huge wooden sign was erected in front of the courthouse, and the big businessmen walked out dejectedly, leaving in a hurry with the important bad news.

Shuluote nodded, the commercial law was being promulgated and implemented. The government will control prices, strictly control strategic materials, restrict the use of luxury goods, levy heavy taxes, ban Shenyan on a large scale, and step up unification of weights and measures. Even if the means are flexible and can circumvent many restrictions, the profits of big businessmen will be significantly reduced, especially foreign businessmen.

However, even if the big businessmen are dissatisfied, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. In the eyes of teenagers, commercial law and civilian law will not have too many waves. The most important key to the new law is to implement the nobility law and compete for the management right of the village!

Shulot stepped into the administrative palace, and at the center was the King's Palace of the Alliance, a magnificent and rare two-story building.

The upper level of the King's Palace is the throne of the Three Kings of Tenochitlan, Texcoco and Tracopan, and is also the most lofty main hall, used for large conferences. At first the three kings were at the top, and then it became Texcoco and Tracopan at the bottom. At this time, the teenager looked inward from the open window, and there was only one supreme throne.

The lower floor of the King's Palace is divided into different side halls, the most important being the government affairs hall and the military affairs hall. When the boy stepped into the king's palace, he saw dozens of nobles waiting in the vast outer hall. They are grouped into groups by region and rank, with vague and changing affiliations to each other. Or to be more precise, with an internal tribal alliance.

Sherlot observed carefully. These nobles were all warriors, with strong bodies and wearing colorful war clothes. They gestured with bare hands, arguing with each other in loud voices from time to time, and the martial arts competition where fists and feet intersected fiercely. There was a lot of discussion in the outer hall, it was noisy, the order was clear and fierce and savage.

The nobles were stunned for a moment when they saw Shulot walk in solemnly, and then swarmed in. They either embraced passionately, bowed their heads respectfully, or watched silently with cold eyes, with different postures and unpredictable intentions.

In general, the Mexica Alliance is still in the late stage of the tribal era with rough governance. The administrative system is simple and autonomous, much like the tribal alliance of the Eurasian steppe, or the Doyin group of the Shang Dynasty.

The king is at the top of the alliance. Next is the commander-in-chief of the "Female Snake" and four ministers, usually from the royal family and the great nobles who are close by blood. The important military and political affairs of the alliance are negotiated by the king and the five-member political group, which is the absolute political core.

Further down is the alliance council composed of real power nobles at all levels, which has both military and administrative functions. With the third-level honorable nobles as the core, the large and small nobles are grouped together according to rank, region and closeness, and become a small group that is stable and divided.

The great nobles have private soldiers of varying numbers, have the taxation power of fiefs, and hold different positions at the same time, and are responsible for the specific affairs of the alliance. Subdivided, these positions can be divided into central officials, local officials and clan officials.

The position of the central officer comes from the appointment of the king. Common responsibilities include taxation, construction, reclamation, mining, salt mining, training, armament, patrol, diplomacy, deterrence... and the most important responsibility is to go to war with the army and ensure logistics. . The alliance has been fighting for more than 30 years, and war has become the daily instinct of the kingdom. Only powerful warriors can be recognized by everyone.

The magistrate is the enfeoffment of each place, usually from hereditary origin. The non-hereditary military nobles are controlled by the central government, and their titles and lands cannot be fully inherited. The mines in various places sometimes belong to the center, and sometimes belong to the locality, depending on the distance and the degree of preservation of the minerals. For example, the important obsidian mines are all managed by the central officials, and the gold mines and silver mines that can be seen everywhere are mostly left to the local officials' self-determination.

The clan officials were actually the lower-level officials of the dynasty. The village settlements in various places are all living together. UU reading www.uukanshu.com elects local village leaders, and then forms grass-roots management groups with the participation of priests and samurai. The 100 communities in the capital city in the lake are a mixture of clan officials and central officials. Important artisan and warrior communities are directly controlled by the central officials, and ordinary civilian communities are still elected by the clan officials.

The affairs officer of the alliance is alternated with three official positions, including the capital court, the local tax officer, the agricultural officer, the storage officer and the military academy instructor. The proportion of central officials depends on the strength of the central government's control over the local area. Outside the Texcoco Lake District, there are all autonomous local officials and clan officials.

Thinking of this, Shulot shook his head slightly, the road to centralization is still very long. The first thing to do is to control more troops, enhance the military strength of the center, and carry out effective military reforms!

Under the **** of Bertard, the boy struggled to squeeze out of the passionate nobles. He sorted out the black priest's uniform, put on the solemn feather crest, and solemnly pushed open the door of the government affairs hall.

In the deep hall, Avit looked dignified and sat high on the throne. The king's attire is dark red and black, just like the deep gaze he casts. Gilliam sat cross-legged solemnly, smiling silently at the boy. Stanley's burly body sat upright, like a giant bear restraining the wild, and nodded friendly to the boy. On the left and right, two equally strong middle-aged nobles heard the sound, one with a smile, the other with a cold look.

On the table in front of everyone, the sacred cocoa drink glowed bright red in the clay cup, like the holy blood standing still, flickering faintly with cold light.

Under the king's deep and calm gaze, Sherlot kneeled respectfully. The young man's face was stern, his head touched the ground, and he paid homage in a solemn manner. Behind him, Bertard saluted and stepped back, closed the door of the hall, and fell silent. On the ground where the needles could be heard, there was only a simple and unadorned pottery pot filled with crystal clear earth salt.

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