Counting with fingers, thousands of years have passed since the time when the world changed.
During these thousands of years, the outside world has changed with each passing day, and new changes will occur rapidly almost every few decades.
After just a few thousand years, the earth has changed a lot.
In the outside world, productivity has exploded. Although people are still oppressed, their lives have undergone drastic changes.
The increase in productivity has brought about changes in all aspects.
This also transformed the outside world into another appearance.
At this moment, most areas of the Ancestral World already have a familiar look to Chen Heng.
Thinking about it in a few more years, the world will continue to develop, and it will become what Chen Heng is familiar with.
But within the territory of the two gods, the God of Shadow and the Lord of Nature, everything is still stagnant.
This showed a similar appearance to when the ancestor of the bloodline still existed.
Within the Kado Empire, people still lived in the old way, with nobles ruling everything. If they were born as commoners, there were only two ways out, either fleeing the Kado Empire, or relying on faith to become a priest of a god.
From then on, there is no other way.
At the beginning, the arrival of the God of Shadows brought changes to this country, allowing people who could only rely on blood to have a second path to go, and to become stronger by relying on the power of faith.
But after so many years, the bloodline nobles have already disintegrated and disappeared under Chen Heng's means.
However, the church, which used to be the way out for people, has now become another mountain that weighs on people, directly replacing the status of the blood nobles.
Although the outside world has changed rapidly, everything within the Kado Empire remains the same without any change.
Why
Regarding this question, the God of Shadow and the Lord of Nature remained silent, but after watching the whole process, they both understood the reason.
It has been said before that the reason why the order of the bloodline nobles is unbreakable is because at the top of the bloodline nobles, there is also the existence of the ancestors.
Ordinary civilians initiating changes may be able to change the lives of monarchs and emperors, but it is absolutely impossible to shake the high-level ancestors.
Not to mention the ancestors, even if a fourth-order existence is placed in front of them, unless they have an equivalent existence, or just rely on ordinary people, no matter how many they are, they are just ants.
Correspondingly, the situation within the Cardo Empire is the same.
After thousands of years of evolution, there are priests everywhere in the Kado Empire, and there are churches everywhere.
These priests adhered to the teachings of the God of Shadows and were very devout to the God of Shadows, but they still hindered the reform of the lower classes.
Because of their existence, the upper layer of the entire Cardo Empire is unbreakable.
This is no ordinary world.
In an ordinary world, conflicts would inevitably erupt between kingship and theocracy, and the so-called faith was just a banner, which would intensify the conflict.
But in a world where gods actually exist, this conflict becomes digestion.
When the theocracy is so strong that all forces are unable to resist, there is no way to talk about change.
Of course, the two shadow gods did give the believers a way out.
Theoretically speaking, within the Cardo Empire, as long as the faith is sufficiently pious, even a person born as a commoner can rise to the top, even becoming the pope is not impossible.
Compared with the past, this is indeed an improvement.
But it doesn't help the general form.
What is screened out through this path is the ability to be devout to the faith, and what competes with it is the devotion to the God of Shadows, which does not help the production of the entire society.
The priests screened out through this path may have powerful power, but this power itself will not be used in production, but will be used to suppress changes at the bottom.
This is completely different from the outside world.
Over time, everything changes.
The God of Shadow looked at his kingdom on the ground, feeling a little complicated in his heart.
During these thousands of years of observation, he watched the changes in the Kado Empire with his own eyes.
In the Kado Empire, when the notification of the bloodline nobles was broken, everything was so prosperous.
The old order was broken and the people were liberated. As long as ordinary mortals had enough piety, they could also elevate their ranks and become superior rulers.
Because of the existence of gods, these promoted priests must be pious, so they will also devoutly enshrine the teachings of the gods, so they are more friendly to the people at the bottom, and they are much softer than the blood nobles in the past.
But over time, everything changed.
With the promotion of each priest, a new ruling class began to rise.
Priests themselves do make devout contributions to the gods, but that doesn't mean they won't benefit themselves.
Even if they themselves don't care, what about their relatives and children
The gods are high above, but mortals always have concerns that they cannot give up.
No matter how devoutly you contribute to the gods, your love for children is always engraved in your bones.
And the relatives of these priests will inevitably occupy a lot of resources and control the channels of ascension.
The road for ordinary people to advance is getting narrower and narrower.
Of course, priests who worship devoutly can stand out at any time.
But what does this have to do with the masses at large
In addition, do priests really only need to be devout
not necessarily.
In fact, piety is only a prerequisite for becoming a priest.
But with only piety, one can only feel the presence of gods, but cannot receive divine power.
To truly absorb divine power and become a priest, one still needs sufficient aptitude.
This is doomed to be a small number of people who are in the early years, and the majority of people are still under the mountains and are constantly being squeezed.
It was okay at the beginning, because the bloodline nobles had just been eliminated at that time, the population was not multiplying, and the space occupied by the priests was not too large, so it was naturally a thriving scene.
But as time passed, the population at the bottom continued to multiply, the conflict between man and land became more and more acute, and the priests at the top occupied more and more promotion channels, and the people at the bottom could not see any hope.
All kinds of contradictions became acute, and turmoil occurred almost every moment in the entire Kado Empire.
At this time, the priests of the God of Shadows replaced the blood nobles in the past and became the executors of suppressing the turmoil.
Compared with the blood nobles in the past, what they did could not be said to be exactly the same, but it could also be said to be almost the same.
The only difference may be that they are God's shepherds after all. Considering the sustainable development of faith, they may be less aggressive
I guess so.
As far as the God of Shadows could see, there had been almost no major changes within the Kado Empire over the course of thousands of years.
Because all the changes were suppressed by the priests of the God of Shadow who possessed absolute power, and they disappeared without even a spark bursting out.
Without these changes and the explosion of productivity, all kinds of contradictions cannot be solved at the root. We can only take a palliative and not a permanent solution, killing part of the population on a regular basis, so as to delay the relationship between poor productivity and overpopulation. contradictions between.
After a turmoil, the population that seemed to be flooding dropped a lot, and the conflict was temporarily covered up until decades later when it broke out again.
When this is not the way to go after all, it leads to many problems.
One problem is that social contradictions have always been sharp, and they exist in all aspects of the Kado Empire. People in the upper class are drunk and dreamy, and they only know to pray and enjoy life all day long.
The eyes of the people at the bottom have lost their light, and they can't see any road ahead for them to walk, so they can only live in a daze.
Another problem is that the priests of the gods gradually no longer regard the people at the bottom as part of themselves.
Perhaps the priests of the first generation could still see themselves as the same people as the people at the bottom, but as time went by, the priests continued to suppress the people at the bottom, and their hands were stained with blood, so their mentality would naturally change.
Priests are also extraordinary, and powerful priests also have a long lifespan.
During their long life force, a massacre would start almost every once in a while.
Over time, it is normal for mentality to change.
The God of Shadow watched this happen helplessly.
It's ironic to say the least.
The power of the gods needs faith as a supplement, so the lower-level people who are the source of faith, the more the better.
At the same time, they also require their priests to treat the people like shepherds and manage believers well for the gods.
But in the end, it gradually evolved into this.
Because of the power given by the gods, the priests as shepherds eventually became accomplices in suppressing the people.
And those people, under the strong faith of the Kado Empire, are actually believers of the God of Shadow himself.
If one's own priest suppresses one's own believers, this operation is no one's thing.
If the other gods in the world of the gods knew about it, they would all laugh out loud.
For a god, the more followers the better.
However, the priests of the God of Shadows have to regularly suppress riots and suppress their believers in a near-massacre method, resulting in the number of believers being maintained within a certain range.
The most important thing is that this is not impossible.
Only a few changes are needed to change the current production method and increase productivity to solve the problem from the root.
But precisely because of the existence of the priest class, this kind of change couldn't happen at all.
And it is none other than the God of Shadow himself who single-handedly created the class of priests and gave them a dominant position.
The emergence of this situation made the mood of the God of Shadows extremely complicated.
Some people may think that since the Cardo Empire cannot produce enough changes to increase productivity, it is okay to actively absorb the results of changes from the outside world, right
Neither.
Change sometimes refers not only to technology, but also to a sensational revolution.
Just like a normal world, in order to achieve a substantial increase in productivity, in addition to technological reforms, the more important thing is to eliminate the classes that are behind the times and completely throw them into the garbage dump of history.
The so-called aristocratic class, isn't that how the feudal society ended.
Otherwise, the situation will change, but it will never really change.
And within the Kado Empire, the class that hindered the development of the times was none other than the priest class left behind by the God of Shadow.
So here comes the problem.
For ordinary people, who has the ability to revolutionize their lives
What a joke.
Even if it is an ordinary priest, as long as he has a level of power, he is enough to rival an army of thousands of people.
Not to mention those high-level priests.
With this level of power, no matter how you look at it, it is impossible for ordinary people to defeat it.
Ordinary people will never be able to resist them no matter how much they jump around.
This is also the reason why the God of Shadow is silent.
During these thousands of years, he also wanted to change this situation.
But even he, the god himself, was also powerless when he wanted to change this situation, and he didn't know where to start.
At this time, he finally understood a little bit.
"I see."
Standing beside Chen Heng, he sighed deeply.
If he still didn't quite understand Chen Heng's previous actions before, then he can fully understand now.
A class that cannot be defeated and cannot be eliminated is simply a nightmare existence.
If there is no comparison, it may be acceptable, but after looking at the prosperity of the outside world, all the changes in the right direction, and then looking at the lifeless Kaduo Empire, which seems to be unchanged for thousands of years, there is a kind of Inexplicably complicated feelings.
The Lord of Nature also remained silent.
What she rules is the site occupied by the ancestor of the ancient tree in the past. At the moment, it is just like the Kado Empire of the Shadow God, and it is also in stagnation, completely different from the outside world.
Most areas of the ancestor world have begun to enter the industrial age, but the territory of the two of them still stays in the past, as if nothing has changed.
This can't help but make the Lord of Nature think of the world of gods.
The same is true for everything in the world of the gods. After hundreds of thousands of years, nothing in the world has changed much.
In the past, because they did not see the wider world, everyone felt that everything was as it should be.
But now, after seeing all this in front of him, it makes people feel particularly twisted.
Perhaps the reason why the world of the gods has become like this is also rooted in the gods.
The same is true of this world.
Thinking about it now, if Chen Heng and the God of Shadows hadn't divided their territory and firmly confined their power to the Kaduo Empire and other areas, I am afraid that the current world structure will become like the world of the gods. Average.
Of course, it could also be different.
Because Chen Heng has done a lot in this world.
Strictly speaking, any class that cannot be changed for a long time will play a role similar to that of blood nobles, but not so thoroughly.
(end of this chapter)