mechanical court

"No, I don't want to! I, I'm guilty." Kabbah softened completely - he is a character who dares to stand up to anyone if he is reasonable, and is a weak chicken when he is unreasonable.

Now that His Majesty the Sun King has explained the truth clearly, he naturally understands what the other party means:

The increase in food production and the increase in currency in circulation will not only not plunder the wealth of the people, but also allow the people to fully obtain the benefits of increased food production-why not do such a thing that benefits the country and the people?

Your Majesty is indeed a virtuous king with far-sightedness, I am really stupid and arrogant, I should be punished!

"It's a good thing that you care about the people's livelihood, and I won't blame you." Ivan pressed his left hand to signal him to sit down, and then looked around again: "If there are any officials who have objections, you might as well speak up."

"Your Majesty is wise!" The ministers shouted in mixed respectful voices.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Kaba finally realized it at this time, and sat back in his seat gratefully, and Yiwen's image of being wise and mighty in his heart grew a bit taller.

"In this case, the new money will be released from tomorrow. As for the samples I showed you..." Ivan smiled when he saw that they all looked like they couldn't put it down, but they were restrained:

"Take it all. It's my reward for you. These coins are numbered and will definitely increase in value in the future."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The ministers quickly expressed their thanks.

"One more thing, even if new money is issued, it won't do to let the price of food continue to drop." Ivan handed the money in his hand to the waiter, and said in a deep voice: "Since the empire's vegetables, fruits and grains are about to be too much for me to digest, How about opening up trade and exchanging precious metals and valuable materials from the barbarians, what do you think?"

"Your Majesty! You can't do this!"

The chief officer of the Garrison, Percybson, stood up quickly, and said anxiously and quickly:

"It has not been a day or two for the barbarians to covet the empire's land and wealth. If trade is opened up and they are given sufficient food, it will undoubtedly allow the barbarians to grow stronger. If this continues, the barbarian army that will attack the empire in the future may no longer be a small force, but It's a large army! Now that the catastrophe of the empire is not over, if there is a barbarian attack, I don't know how much blood will be shed. From my point of view, even if the food is rotten in the warehouse, fed to pigs and dogs, or burned with fire, it can't be done. Sell ​​it to the barbarians!"

"I can't sell it! I'd rather burn it than sell it!"

"Your Majesty, please consider carefully!"

"Your Excellency Percybson is right, you can't feed those walking beasts."

Many officials echoed it one after another, and they are rare in the face of the barbarian issue.

Chapter 32 Judgment Day

"What are you afraid of!?"

Seeing them all looking so nervous, Yiwen only felt angry and funny, so he raised his face and scolded loudly:

"Now the Imperial Legion is also undergoing a comprehensive upgrade. It is a time when money is short. They use our food to grow and grow, and we are also using their money to complete the upgrade of armaments. Do you know the tank? It is the kind with a huge body and scales. A sturdy steel dragon that can be used by people! As long as there are a thousand such weapons, what are the barbarians? Even if they are crushed, they can be crushed to death!"

"...Even if it is open to trade, please treat it differently." Percybsen rolled his eyes, and at the same time he let go, he offered a poisonous strategy: "Using the priority level of food trade, treat all kinds of barbarian beasts Human beings are treated differently. Win over those who keep their own place, suppress the forces that oppose the empire, and let them kill each other and consume each other!"

"That's fine, just do as you said." Ivan thought deeply.

"Your Majesty is wise." Percybson was overjoyed, bowed and saluted immediately, and then sat back in his seat.

"Your Majesty, there is something to report from the Temple of Hades."

Xia Li tensed her face, and stood up gracefully, acting like a religious leader.She took a step forward, and after saluting the courtiers with one hand on her chest, she held up a scroll sealed with sheepskin:

"After the demon hunting groups from all over the country cooperated with the local army to excavate the land where the evoking monument is located, they found that these steles were not piled up by manpower, but were arched upwards from the depths of the ground like trees. Our people dug down More than 50 meters away, the source of the summoning tablet is still not found... Moreover, the overall distribution of the summoning tablet is also very strange. This is the distribution map drawn by the temple, and the red dot is the symbol of the summoning tablet, please take a look at it."

"And this..."

Yiwen's eyes turned cold, and he grasped forward with his left hand, and took the scroll into his hand from the air.With a light shake, the cover immediately shattered into slag, and the scroll was automatically pulled horizontally to the right, revealing a topographical map of the Menesian Empire.

On this map at this time, the distribution of the evoking monuments is marked with red dots. They range from the Canaan area to the Memphis area, from the Fayon area to the Southern Desert, and from the Balkal Mountains to the Kahingsh Highlands—— Pulled into six intersecting straight lines, and finally formed a huge hexagram pattern.

And the highest mountain in the Sinai Peninsula is the center of the hexagram pattern.

"The Canaan Plain, the city of Memphis, the Balkal Mountains...these are all places where large-scale demonic disasters erupted!" Ivan put away the scroll in an instant, turned his gaze to the dignified Xia Li, and asked in a deep voice:

"What does this inexplicable six-pointed star pattern mean? Is there any specific record in the temple?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, this hexagram pattern comes from a slave rebellion 900 years ago. At that time, the slave leader claimed to be the prophet of the God of Fire and Thorns. This is the imprint left by that evil god."

Xia Li seemed to be fully prepared. As soon as Ivan asked, she answered eloquently and in detail:

"The story began in the time of the chaotic Hyksos, when Canaan was still the territory of the Gorgons. These ignorant monsters were similar in appearance to the Menesians, but had long hair like snakes. The females of the Gorgons could be compared with Males of any race give birth to offspring, and these offspring will only be snake-haired people. Therefore, the reproductive ability of these savages is extremely strong, causing the rich Canaan area to be unable to supply, and then triggering a great famine."

"When there was a great famine in them, the empire happened to be the reign of Amenhotep II, a benevolent but short-sighted king. He took the fleeing snakes and placed them in the land. Fertile Goshen region, and given preferential treatment.

There were only more than 700 snake-haired people who first arrived in the empire.As a result, it only took a few decades for them to multiply to overcrowding, almost occupying the entire Goshen area.And do not pay taxes, do not serve, and do not submit to the management of the empire.Later, when His Majesty Ramese II came to the throne, he changed his attitude towards the snake-haired people, requiring them to pay taxes, serve corvee, and obey the management of the empire..."

According to Xia Li's statement, Ivan gradually understood the tragedy that happened in that dark history:

First of all, at that time, the sphere of influence of the empire had not yet touched the Canaan region, which was ruled by a barbarian called the snake-haired people.The assimilation ability of this barbarian is extremely terrifying. Their females can give birth to offspring with the males of any creature. Although they have to conceive for nine months, they often have one litter all their lives, and they spend most of their lives giving birth, so they reproduce The speed is insane.

Such frenzied breeding, if no one pays for it, it will either export war to the outside world, or sit and wait for the great famine.It's a pity that the snake-haired man is the five scum of the war, and he can't hate anyone, and then the great famine broke out as a matter of course.During this process, many snake-haired people died of starvation, but there were still small groups of clans who left the Canaan region and started a wandering career fleeing famine.

At the time when the famine broke out, Menes happened to be in the reign of Amenhotep II. The Sun King was also stupider than the Virgin. He felt that the snake-haired people were pitiful, so he accepted a clan of snake-haired people.At that time, the snake-haired clan had a small population of just over 700 people. Amenhotep II placed them in the fertile Goshen area and gave them preferential treatment.

Later, the sun king with the attributes of the Virgin died, and Ahmose I ascended the throne, and found that the snake-haired people in the Goshen area had grown into cancerous tumors.The terrifying reproduction speed of the snake-haired people made them quickly occupy the Goshen area, causing the local Menes to lose their land. At the same time, the large number also made Ramess II afraid that they would be connected with the rest of the barbarians, so he began to persecute them.

But Ahmose I was also stupid. He didn't know that the reproduction of the Gorgon depended entirely on females. Instead, he gave a ridiculous order - if it was a male, kill it; if it was a female, keep it alive.

So they were persecuted even more, and their numbers increased and spread more and more.

In this context, a snake-haired man named Musa was born.After Musa was born, Musa's parents saw that it was beautiful, so they ignored the order of the Sun King and secretly hid it for three months.Later, it was no longer possible to hide, because the cub’s cries became louder and could be detected easily. Not only would the cub be thrown into the holy river and drown, but the lives of the parents might be in danger, and the neighbors would be affected.

In order to save his life, his mother took a straw box, smeared it with stone paint and oil, and put the cub inside.Secretly put the box in the reeds by the river where the Sun King's daughter used to swim; ordered the child's sister to watch from a distance, to know what happened to the child.

At that time, no one dared to rescue and raise a male cub of a gorgon, because it was against the royal order—unless the person was a member of the royal family!

Just like this, Musa was discovered by the princess who came to take a bath under the careful arrangement of his mother.Probably because it is cute, or the princess is a shotacon, even though she recognizes it as a child of the Gorgon, she still decides to adopt it as her own child.

Musa's sister stood up and said to the princess: "I'll call a nurse among the snake-haired people to nurse the child for you. Is it okay?" The queen said: "Yes."The elder sister went and called Musa's mother, and Musa's mother became Musa's nurse until she grew up and was sent to the sun king's daughter, who became the son of the prince's daughter and named him Musa, which means that he was born It means pulled out of the water.

Since Musa was influenced by his mother since he was a child, he instilled a lot of snake hair concepts, so he didn't feel any gratitude to the princess who saved him.After receiving the education and inheritance of the royal family, he became a member of the royal family with high quality and evil intentions.

One day, it came to visit its own kind and observe their living conditions.

Because the sun king's decree against the snake-haired man when Musa was born has not yet been revoked. When Musa saw a Menesian bullying a snake-haired man, he was so angry that he killed the Menesian and buried him secretly. up.

He thought no one knew about it, but the next day, when he tried to mediate the dispute between the two snakes, he learned that it had been revealed.The two snake-haired men turned against him, calling it a murderer, and said, "Who made you our leader and judge? Are you going to kill me as you killed the Menes?"

Musa knew that the facts had been exposed. Although he was a member of the royal family, he could not escape the punishment due to murder, so he fled to the Midian area.

Not long after he came to the Midian region, one day he finished herding the sheep and sat by the well to rest.The seven daughters of the priest of Midian were seen coming out to draw water for the sheep; other shepherds approached and were about to drive them away.When Mu Salu saw the injustice, he intervened and helped the priest's daughter drink the sheep.When the priest of Midian knew this, he asked Moses to live with them, and gave him one of his daughters as his wife.While Musa was in Midian, the priest's daughter bore him two children who were also snake-haired.

……

After that, more than 40 years passed.

One day when he was grazing on Mount Sinai, God appeared to Musa from the flames in the bushes. Although the bushes were burned by fire, they were not burned. Musa wanted to move around to see what happened, but he heard God calling him from the bushes. .This god may have taken a fancy to the reproductive ability of the snake-haired man, or was confused by Musa's invincible appearance, and promised it that as long as Musa respected himself as the master and spread his reputation, he would be able to kill the snake. Delivered people from slavery.