Chapter 1548: Sacrifice and Power

The current cement plant has yet to produce anything; the preliminary preparation work truly takes a long time. Ce's idea is to choose a better location after the cement is produced to build an entirely new residential area. Their current residential area is also very good, but those houses are still quite functional and of high quality.

If they were to tear them down and rebuild on the original site, it would be too wasteful; he truly cannot bear to do it. It would be better to build a city in a new location. In any case, the location does not affect the operation of the Western Development Group. Currently, the most important thing for the Western Development Group is grazing, but the grazing locations are already moving further and further away from their residential area, and they cannot manage them anyway.

The only thing that will become inconvenient to manage is the Slaves; they will be somewhat out of control. However, without food, it is unlikely they would run away at will. Furthermore, having left Huaxia, where else would they go to obtain food?

As for whether the lives of the Slaves in the Western Development Group are guaranteed, this matter has already received a definitive answer: Huaxia will not kill Slaves casually. Their lives are very safe because they have not even seen the Western Development Group perform a single sacrifice, regardless of size; no sacrifices have been performed at all.

It is just that as Slaves, they are not qualified to ask. Otherwise, they would really like to know why Huaxia does not perform sacrifices. Could it be that they do not believe in the gods of Heaven and their ancestors? Sacrifices usually require the use of Slaves. They do not want Huaxia to perform sacrifices for fear of dying themselves, but they also hope Huaxia performs sacrifices; otherwise, if the gods of Heaven do not protect them, what will they do if they suddenly perish in the future, and what will happen to their good lives?

It is not that Ce does not want to perform sacrifices; he also wants to hold a few grand ceremonies in the Western Development Group, but there is nothing worth him taking action for, and there is no Ministry of Rites here. He does not understand the procedures for sacrifice at all.

As for those in the Western Development Group who originally understood sacrifice, it is impossible for Ce to let them intervene now. What needs to be sacrificed to now is the god of Huaxia, the Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher, not their so-called wild gods; the methods of sacrifice are vastly different.

Without the permission of Huaxia City, Ce does not dare to let anyone perform a sacrifice. No matter how much his subordinates hope that Ce can perform a sacrifice, Ce is simply unwilling. It is precisely because of this one thing that some people think Ce is incompetent, as he has not performed a single sacrifice in these few years.

Ce is, of course, aware of the situation; he knows what the people below think of him, but he is just too lazy to care. If at some point they push him too hard, he will wait until Huaxia is about to perform a sacrifice and arrange for some of them to go to Huaxia City to observe the ceremony, to take a good look at what a real sacrifice should be like, and whether this tiny Western Development Group can afford it and can organize it. If they cannot organize it, then it is better not to perform sacrifices.

Huaxia is not one of those small tribes; Huaxia disdains to perform those kinds of casual, boring sacrifices. If they are to do it, they will perform a sufficiently dignified and grand sacrifice.

There is one more point: ever since the Suiren clan was incorporated into Huaxia, the object of Huaxia's sacrifice has added one more, the ancestors of the Suiren clan, because Huaxia considers itself a descendant of the Suiren clan and has also received the recognition of Baoxi, the legitimate successor of the Suiren clan.

Of course, as it stands now, this is still in doubt. After all, at the beginning, Huaxia was just that small group of people, a tribe of savages. Now, the sources of Huaxia's population are many and complex; it is impossible to determine exactly who is related to the Suiren clan, but Baoxi must acknowledge it regardless.

After another few decades, no one will consider the authenticity of this ancestor anymore; everyone will believe that they are the legitimate descendants of the Suiren clan. Such things are common in history.

Before the Song Dynasty, many people liked to find a relative from a world-renowned clan for themselves, trying their best to pull connections from the past, even those that were completely unrelated. For example, most famous people during the Tang Dynasty were from the Longxi Li Clan, believing themselves to be from Longxi, even if they were born and raised in the Shaanxi region. Li Bai also claimed to be from the Longxi Li Clan, but the authenticity is in doubt. However, in later generations, no one cares about the truth or falsehood; instead, they use this to argue about where Li Bai is actually from.

Suiye City, Jiangyou, Longxi—Li Bai has many hometowns.

During the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to find a reason for the legitimacy of his rule, so he kept "searching" his genealogy upward. Finally, he claimed to be a descendant of the Tianshui Zhao Clan, making himself a Noble and finding a reasonable excuse for his origin. Thus, this person who had been born and raised in the Central Plains for generations transformed into a prominent family of Tianshui.

As time went on, no one considered the truth or falsehood of this matter anymore. The existence of this matter had become reasonable. Generation after generation, they all said that Tianshui was their ancestral land; the truth or falsehood no longer mattered. Therefore, a Central Plains dynasty called itself the Tianshui Dynasty.

Huaxia will be the same, because Baifeng knows history and understands human nature. As long as their lives are better under his rule, then everyone will be eager to believe that Huaxia is a descendant of the Suiren clan and sacrifice to the same ancestor. Of course, there is no problem with that. Perhaps in another hundred years, they will even say that Baifeng's branch is more orthodox than Baoxi's branch.

During the sacrifice, ensuring that no one from the Xuanyuan Tribe is present, when sacrificing to the large stone inscribed with "Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher," they will simultaneously sacrifice to a wooden tablet inscribed with "The Position of the Successive Ancestors of the Suiren Clan." This is even more detailed than the Suiren clan's own sacrifices.

Added to this, they transported a large number of large-scale Ritual Vessels from the Suiren clan. After merging the Suiren clan's sacrifice methods with the sacrifice methods of the Huaxia Ministry of Rites, the scale and form of Huaxia's sacrifices became even more complex and grand.

Troublesome, complex, and resource-consuming—Huaxia is naturally unwilling to perform too many sacrifices. Baifeng also knows that excessive sacrifices are meaningless. He believes that there must be something in this world that transcends his own cognition; otherwise, he would not have come here.

But he does not know who "it" is—whether it is the gods in the traditional sense that he is familiar with, or a more rational, mathematical, or physical "god." He does not know who to sacrifice to, so he sacrifices to the Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher he is most familiar with, though it seems he has included himself in the sacrifice as well.

When he performs the sacrifice, he also thinks in his heart about simultaneously sacrificing to the gods of Mathematics and Physics, and even considers whether to offer them some rulers or weights to cater to their preferences. He cannot offer a particle collider, but offering a few rulers and compasses is still possible.