Chapter 1511 Red and White, Fate's Reward

At the end of the year, December is coming to an end, and it is the five evil days (Nemontemi) at the end of the year. According to the common tradition of the Nahua and Maya tribes, this is the time when the gods stop protecting humans, and the world becomes fragile and full of uncertainty. This is a day of chaos, danger and emptiness, and it is also a suitable time to hold sacrifices and rewards and punishments to show the divinity of the king.

"The Lord God is witnessing! Kuakohu, you besieged Yunzhong City, ambushed the Zapotec Legion, and made meritorious contributions in the southern expedition! I, the Mexica God King, in the name of the Lord God, confers you as a glorious noble of the alliance!..."

"I am willing to die for the God King!..."

The three-story altar was built outside Yunshan City. Tens of thousands of alliance legions surrounded the valley outside the city. The God King Avit, wearing the complicated costumes of the God King and a feather crown as bright as the sun, sat high on the highest point of the altar. And the head of the royal legion, Kuakohu, knelt down and saluted at the second level. At this moment, he was excited, listening to the canonization of the God King. With his military merits, he jumped up from an ordinary hereditary noble to the top of the alliance pyramid!

"Kuakehu! Your fiefdom is here, in the Yunshan Valley! The area of ​​the fiefdom is 20,000 acres of fertile land in the clouds, granted to 1,000 Mixtec tribesmen!..."

"The Lord God witnessed your bravery and your loyalty! At present, the southern expedition is still going on, and the royal army of the alliance cannot do without you, the outstanding legion commander... and the newly conquered Yunshan Valley also needs to relocate civilians, set up priests, organize farming and sacrifices... Therefore, the central government of the alliance will temporarily send people to manage the affairs of the fiefdom for you. And the various outputs in the fiefdom will still be kept as the ancient "custom" as half of your family's income. In addition, the alliance can convert the harvested grain into more valuable spices, cocoa, cotton cloth and gold and silver for you..."

"...?"

Hearing the words of the God King, the legion commander Kuakehu was stunned. The central government of the alliance sent people to help him manage his fiefdom and taxes, and then directly give him "money"? Is there such a practice in the history of the alliance? He Kua Kehu had never read the inheritance board and knew little... Thinking of this, he raised his head and looked at the nobles and senior priests not far away.

With the announcement of the God King, both the nobles of the royal family and the nobles of the local city-states showed surprise and disbelief on their faces. Then, many people lowered their heads, and the changes in their expressions could not be seen. The senior priests' expressions flickered and they exchanged glances with each other. If there were nobles who didn't know how to live or die and jumped out to ask if there was such a "royal family acting on behalf of the nobles' fiefdom"? The priests' recollection of the "inheritance board" must have a basis...

"Huh? Kua Kehu?!"

"Ah! Praise the Supreme God King! I, Kua Kehu, am willing to die for the God King!"

The voice of the God King came again, and the legion leader Kua Kehu was stunned for a few breaths, and immediately lowered his head. He prostrated himself on the ground, bowed deeply, and his face was full of loyalty.

No matter what, as the favorite general of the God King's army, as a small noble promoted by the God King himself, the God King would not treat him unfairly! He was promoted from a hereditary noble to a glorious noble, directly skipping the efforts of several generations, reaching the pinnacle of military merit and rewards, and having the power to participate in the alliance's political meetings. This improvement in status is his greatest gain!

As for the fiefdom and income of the glorious nobles, they are all newly acquired, and even if they are handed over to the central management of the alliance, it is no big deal. After all, compared with the 20,000 acres of land and 1,000 households in the clouds, it is more important to control the 8,000 warriors of the royal army!

"Lord God bless! This is to use the name of military merit to reward the newly promoted noble fiefdoms, and to transform the actual fiefdoms into virtual fiefdoms to some extent... This is another major breakthrough of the alliance in the fiefdom governance of the nobles! Moreover, through this "convention" and "precedent", it must be gradually fixed and expanded until a new political balance is reached..."

On the left side of the second floor of the altar, a half-story altar was set up, and the divination flags of the sixty-four hexagrams were hung. And Xiu Luote, wearing sacrificial clothes and carrying divination tools, stood quietly on the second and a half-story altar. He wore a mask of the gods and showed no expression. Similarly, he could see the reactions of the nobles of the alliance, and saw the side faces that were either concealed, or confused, shocked, uneasy, or even angry. He silently lowered his eyes, smelled the turmoil in people's hearts, and once again witnessed Avit's fearless determination to carry out centralized reforms based on the Holy War! Even he, seeing this scene, couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

"Lord God! More than ten years ago, the nobles of the alliance could still control all the power in their family fiefdoms, from the army, taxation to religion! But when the alliance continued to promote centralization, they first lost their religious rights, then many of their armies were cut, their fiefdoms were reduced, and their inheritance was interfered with... Until now, even the governance of the fiefdom has seen a precedent of the alliance interfering!..."

"Although I once told Avite the direction and end point of centralization. In the lake kingdom, I also once implemented centralization... But Avite's starting point was different from mine after all! I established a brand new system in the lake kingdom, which was burned by war and was a blank sheet of paper, without much restraint from the old nobles. He carried out drastic reforms in the Mexica Alliance, where the nobles had deep roots, were entangled with each other, and were like a thorny jungle, and he made drastic progress without stopping!..."

"If I were in his position... I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to do what he did, 'burn you and me with a raging fire'... But even with my help and the endorsement of theocracy, can the nobles from the central government to the local governments really accept this kind of extreme pressure?... You know, this time the centralization breakthrough is not just aimed at the nobles of the city-states. Even the nobles of the royal family can see the impact... And next, there is still..."

Xuluot had a blank expression on his face, but his thoughts were like waves. The voice that kept coming to his ears was the further reward of the God King to the royal legion. In addition to the promotion of the legion commander Kua Kehu to the honorary noble, a full twenty nobles of the legion were also granted fiefs, jumping from the bottom of the nobility to the hereditary nobles!

"…Confer titles on hereditary nobles! Grant two thousand acres of fiefdom and one hundred households!… The management of the fiefdom will be temporarily managed by the Alliance Central Committee!…"

"Praise the Supreme God King! I am willing to die for the God King!…"

The cheers of the nobles with military merits were like the claws of thunder, startling the birds in the mountains and forests, and slapping the faces of the old nobles. Fortunately, this time the titles were all in the newly conquered land in the clouds, so there was indeed a reason for the management, and the old nobles were not directly forced into a dead end. Under the eyes of the God King, no great noble dared to stand up and oppose. The military merit awards of the Alliance were also cheered and pushed to the end.

"The Lord God bears witness! Captain Turquoise, the captain of the Royal Guard, led 500 Royal Guards to attack Sheyao Village. They cut off the Cloud Valley Road and blocked the retreat of the Zapotec Legion, making great contributions..."

"I, the God King of Mexica, in the name of the Lord God, confers you as a hereditary noble of the alliance and grants you 2,000 acres of fiefdom, which will be managed by the central government of the alliance! In addition, I grant you two boxes of gold and silver, two boxes of gems, 20 bags of spices, and a royal feathered robe!..."

With this generous royal order, Captain Turquoise of the Royal Guard strode onto the altar, and then knelt heavily on the altar like a knocked-down boulder. He looked calm, with a simple and honest face. He kowtowed three times and said in a muffled voice.

"Praise the God King! Turquoise, I am willing to die for the God King!..."

"Haha! Good!"

On the altar, the corner of the mouth of the God King Avit raised, showing great satisfaction with this simple, brave, and loyal Royal Guard officer. And such military nobles from local states are also the focus of his promotion in the centralized reform. They are the class that benefits a lot from the reform, and they are used to balance the power of the old nobles in various states.

"Turquoise, the Lord God has witnessed your bravery, and the God King is satisfied with your loyalty! From today, you will be promoted from the deputy battalion commander of the Broken Hair Guard to the commander of the Guard Battalion, officially in charge of a thousand people, and become one of the only four battalion commanders!..."

"Yes! Praise the God King! Turquoise, I am willing to die for the God King!..."

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"Haha! Come here!"

The God King Avit laughed loudly and stood up with a smile. Then, he took two steps down and shook Turquoise's hair in person, and then let this loyal and brave general retreat. Yes, he was confident enough that with the gift of such power, fiefdom and interests, the other party would be loyal to him until death, just like the other party's life-and-death fights!

"Okay, God bless you! The military merit reward has ended! Next, it's the punishment and sacrifice that must be done on the 'Day of Evil'!..."

"Xuluot!"

"Yes!"

"In front of the God, punish the fleeing ambush generals and tell divinations!"

"Yes!!..."

I wish you all a happy new year!