Chapter 4695 4698 [The Past Spans Thousands of Years]
After Xiang Nan succeeded Ansuna and took office as Pharaoh again, the first thing he did was to dig the Suez Canal to connect the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
He was seen flying in the air, looking down from a high place, and directly performing Taoist and magic. Those hard rocks became like tofu, and he easily dug a huge trench one kilometer wide and forty meters deep.
When everyone present saw this scene, they all knelt on the ground and shouted "God is supreme!"
In the beginning, in order to dig the Suez Canal, France mobilized hundreds of thousands of laborers, spent nearly 20 million pounds, and took eleven years to finally dig the canal.
In comparison, Xiang Nan had it much easier.
It only took him one day to dig the Suez Canal.
From then on, the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were connected, and European merchant ships could go directly to Asia through the canal, without having to unload ships from Mazarah and then hire camel caravans to go to Suez Port to reload ships.
It saved both time and cost.
Therefore, since the Suez Canal was opened, there has been a constant flow of ships, and the tolls alone are not enough to make money.
In order to facilitate the travel of people on both sides of the strait, Xiang Nan also specially built an elevated iron bridge across the river, which runs from east to west. It does not hinder ships under the bridge, nor does it hinder cars and people on the bridge.
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The second thing Xiang Nan did was to make a large number of rosters, asking believers to write their names and press their handprints.
But in fact, the rosters were enchanted, and believers would be punished as long as they violated the rules.
This is what he used in the world of "Pirates of the Caribbean", and the effect was very good.
It is said that doing good is like climbing, and doing evil is like collapsing.
Everyone has a lazy heart, not to mention believers, even priests will have a lazy heart and violate the rules and regulations. If you can't wake up in time, you may make mistakes again and again.
And such believers are naturally not pious, and of course they can't contribute the power of faith.
So Xiang Nan nominally has 180 million believers, but the number of truly devout people is probably less than one tenth. That's why Xiang Nan thought of this way to teach them a lesson.
As long as they violate traffic rules, they will be punished.
At the least, they will have a headache or a fever, and at the worst, they will have broken bones and muscles. Let's see if they dare to disobey.
Then, Xiang Nan sent out the roster.
He claimed that this roster was called "Deng Zhen Lu". Only believers who signed their names and pressed their fingerprints could ascend to his kingdom of God after death and enjoy eternal bliss.
Therefore, the priests and believers naturally couldn't wait to sign their names and press their fingerprints.
After all, even the most impious people hope to enjoy happiness in the kingdom of God after they die.
As a result, after the roster was signed, most believers began to have headaches and fevers, and some had scabies on their bodies, which were itchy and painful. What's worse, some broke bones and muscles, and even vomited three liters of blood and died of blood loss.
For a time, people were shocked and didn't understand why.
Then Xiang Nan told the believers through the priests that all those who were sick were not pious to God. If they wanted to get rid of the disease, they must abide by the rules and believe in God devoutly.
After the believers did it one by one, the disease really subsided quickly. Since then, naturally no one dared to violate the rules easily, and they became more and more pious to the gods.
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Nearly a thousand years later, the time came to 221 BC.
This year, Xiang Nan finally refined the Eye of Destruction through hard practice.
For a time, the third eye between his eyebrows was completely opened, and he had incredible power.
One is to see everything in the world, even invisible and intangible things, such as people's talents, skills, etc.; the second is to release the fire of destruction and burn everything.
Xiang Nan personally tested it and found that the fire of destruction is not only extremely hot, but also highly destructive.
Even if his body, which was struck by lightning and was indestructible, was touched by a little bit of fire of destruction, it would immediately burn and collapse, which was quite terrifying.
In addition, his golden elixir had reached a new level, and was as big as a football.
However, the golden elixir was a tangible and intangible thing, so he didn't have to be like the birthday man, with a big monument on his head.
In the past thousand years, the population of Egypt has also increased greatly, and has risen to nearly 800 million people, nearly three times more than a thousand years ago. Such a large population has reached the limit that the land can bear.
After all, the ancient times were not like the modern times, and there were not so many fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural machinery and equipment. The output per unit of land was still limited, so those lands could not support more people.
So in order to make a living, some people had to go to the cold places of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the East European Plain, and Western Siberia, or to the barren land of the Middle East, the grasslands of Central Asia, or the wild land of southern Barat...
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Their footprints began to expand far away, and even contacted people in Middle-earth.
The governor of the easternmost Central Asian province of Egypt wrote to Xiang Nan, hoping to invade Middle-earth, but was severely stopped by Xiang Nan, who firmly prohibited all aggressive activities, but could consider trade and exchange.
After all, Middle-earth has a special meaning to him, and he doesn't want to lead a group of foreigners to invade Middle-earth. Although he also knows that this Middle-earth is not that Middle-earth, he always feels bad emotionally.
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During this thousand years, the grievances between the gods and Xiang Nan have become increasingly greater.
Because Xiang Nan's roster successfully bound the believers, forcing them to follow the rules of the church, to be pious, and to believe in only him as a god.
This made other gods lose a lot of incense.
Because in the past, many believers were shallow believers, going to this temple to worship today, and going to that temple to make contributions tomorrow...
Just like people nowadays, they say they don't believe in gods, but when they go out to play, they may burn a stick of incense and kowtow in any Taoist temple or temple they enter.
Therefore, although Xiangnan has the most believers, other gods can also get a share. Even with the increase in population, their incense has increased.
However, since Xiangnan implemented the roster and strictly restricted believers, those gods have been in trouble.
Because believers can no longer be fickle, they must strictly abide by the rules of the church and can only believe in one god, which has caused these gods to lose a lot of incense.
Moreover, as Xiangnan's believers are further purified, the centripetal force and cohesion of the sect are greatly strengthened, which brings an invisible pressure to the believers of other gods.
As the saying goes, "People follow the crowd and are not scolded, and sheep follow the flock and are not beaten." Humans are group animals, and no one can survive independently without the collective, so following the crowd has become an instinct.
When more than 90% of people are loyal believers of Xiang Nan, others who believe in other gods will inevitably be excluded, discriminated against, and even suppressed.
In order to avoid this from happening, people can only choose to change their beliefs. This has led to a large loss of believers of those gods. There were tens of millions of people originally, but after thousands of years of development, there are now less than 100,000 people.
Therefore, all kinds of gods have great opinions about Xiang Nan.