gnovel Chapter 1874 1354: Constructing Unified Culture: Chronicles of Time and Gummy People's Poetry
Chapter 1874 1354: Constructing Unified Culture: Chronicles of Time and Gummy People's Poetry
"Seven groups of Gummy People, and the ancestors across the Western Sea? Constructing an integrated world order for the Gummy People!..."Avit held the "Gummy Ren History," pondering silently for a long time. Just as he hadn't anticipated before, the world would be so vast... Even now he did not expect the grandiosity of the "Integrated Gummy People" vision, extending from the Central American realm to the entire Northern Continent, Southern Continent, and even to the legendary lands beyond the Western Sea!
However, he could understand the significance of this cultural construction, which is to expand the foundation of the tribes, broaden the realm, to construct a common world order! The religious belief of this order is the Chief Divine. The cultural identity of this order is the Gummy People. And without doubt, the political center of the order is the most central Mexican Plateau and Jungle, the Lake Region of Texcoco!
At this moment, an ultimate political goal has been proposed in this thick "Gummy Ren History." As for the future of the North and South continents, how many Gummy People Kingdoms will emerge, and how many Royal Fiefs will be enfeoffed? This is something Avit could not imagine nor know.
"In search of the divinity of the Chief Divine, the seven Gummy Tribes scattered during the Third Era, developing different kingdoms and civilizations. However, all tribes are destined to become one! Therefore, in the Fourth Era, with the awakening of the Chief Divine, the Divine Eagle returns with the Divine Serpent! And the inception of the Fourth Era was eight cycles of fifty-two years, four hundred sixteen years ago…"
"After a prolonged search, the Divine Eagle, carrying the Divine Serpent, stopped on the small island in the center of Lake Texcoco! It followed the will of the Chief Divine, passing on the Sun's divinity to the chosen Mexica Tribes. Henceforth, the Mexica Tribes received the divine mandate: to conquer the tribes of the world, to unify the faiths of all tribes, to integrate all tribes back into one!..."
"Today, the divine mandate of the Fourth Era has been revealed. The divine serpents of all tribes will be taken up and subdued by the divine eagle, allowing the blue serpent's divinity to fully return! This is 'Eagle and Serpent as One!'…"
"The clear divine mandate falls from the peak of the Divine Mountain. The Mexica Alliance is destined to sweep across the tribes, unifying the entire realm! Everyone conquered, along with the Mexica themselves, are ancient brothers of the same clan. There is no hierarchy between them, no difference in divine respect or inferiority. They belong to the branches of the Gummy Ancestors and are destined to merge back into one!..."
"The Golden Eagle symbolizes the Sun, incarnating as the successive Mexica Predecessor Monarchs. The final generation of the Golden Eagle is none other than the great Divine King Avit of the Alliance. The Divine King will sweep across the tribes to complete the unification of the Fourth Era!... As for the divine mandate of the Fifth Era, it will be completed by the final divine object, brought back from the earth by the Black Wolf..."
Seeing this last segment, Avit's expression flickered slightly, a subtle nuance appeared on his face. But soon, he managed his expression, looking at his somewhat "mysteriously unfathomable" student Xiulote and seriously inquired.
"Xiulote, this divine prophecy in the 'Gummy Ren History'… Has the Chief Divine ever granted you a clear divine revelation?"
"Under the Chief Divine's blessing! Not only did it leave the prophecy tablets of the Ancient Saint but indeed allowed me a glimpse into the future… The divine prophecy in this history is indeed real and true!…"
"Hmm…"
Avit crossed his hands behind his back, paced hesitantly for a moment, then turned to ask.
"Xiulote, this 'divine prophecy,' has substantial benefits for the governance of our Mexica Royal Family… But, how should we make all tribes believe in it?"
"Honored Divine King Master! For the conquered tribes, only by choosing to believe can their lives improve… And the next generation will be willing to believe, believe that they are not some subjugated tribe, but inherently the same Gummy People as us Mexica… As for the following generation, they will regard all this as indisputable reality!…"
Xiulote respectfully performed a salute, solemnly articulating his ideals and concerns.
"Witnessed by the Chief Divine! In fact, I'm not worried that the conquered tribes unwillingly accept this theory of Gummy People unification… My concern is rather with our Mexica Alliance itself! Worried about those hoping to enslave tribes, hoping to completely occupy all benefits from conquest—the middle nobility and priests… This theory of Gummy People unification actually obstructs them, obstructs their exploitation of conquered tribes, obstructs their bottomless acquisition of benefits…"
"However, for truly supreme you, only expanding the range of Mexica Main Body, transforming the Mexica Alliance into the Gummy People Alliance, constructing a concept of equal integration among tribes… is the pathway to enduring peace! And our descendants in the Mexica Royal Family will also become the Gummy People Royal Family, becoming more stable, enduring, and sacred…"
"Oh? Constructing Gummy People unification, from the Mexica Alliance to the Gummy People Alliance? From the Mexica Royal Family to the Gummy People Royal Family?... Hmm… Xiulote, you truly pose an enticing challenge to me! Let me think carefully, think thoroughly, on how to balance the voices within the Alliance to conduct such fundamental reform…"
Avit pondered for a long time, a helpless smile appearing on his face. Governance is like that; a policy beneficial for the future might not align with the interests of the current ruling group, inevitably harming certain privileged classes. Only a truly powerful monarch can scheme for the long-term future, carrying out long-term reforms, suppressing the opposition from vested interests. In this process, prestige and capability are indispensable, and iron-fisted suppression must be coordinated with conciliatory appeasement! Otherwise, it will either lead to the "Six-Town Rebellion" causing internal strife, resulting in the "Great Split of Northern Wei," or the collapse of "Manchu-Han Unity," turning into "Manchu First," until the "overthrow of the Qing"…
Fortunately, as long as Avit's main royal line and Xiulote's Holy City branch unite, relying on absolute military power, prestige, and divine advantage, all the pains of reform, all the voices of opposition, can be suppressed. However, it is unknown whether the response from the alliance nobles will be helpless endurance and acceptance or a hidden sharp blade in the dark…
"Xiulote, this 'Gummy Ren History' you're holding is really too heavy! Put down this book and have a look at the others… Hmm, 'Gummy People's Poetry,' 'Gummy People's Music Office'? These are collections of sung poems and chanted melodies, are they? Let me take a look at them…"
"Hmm? 'Cloud Hymn'? This storytelling style, is it poetry from the Mixteco Tribes, recounted from the perspective of the Mixteco people? Let me read it closely…"
"The ancient Gummy Ancestors moved south from the Olmec land, establishing Divine Stone City and the Rain God Temple in the clouds. Yet they longed for the homeland they couldn't return to, standing atop high peaks, singing ancient hymns…"
"Clouds came forth from beneath the Divine Tree, transforming into a myriad of raindrops, falling in the mountain valley, sprouting plots of cornfields… The Cloud People drifted by, plowing and singing, asking the Heavenly Divine Spirit when they could return to their homeland, back to the Ancient Sacred land of their ancestors?…"
"All Gods descended from the sky to answer, the long road stretched far and long, the tribes of the clouds sought up and down, flourishing and living in the valley. They would enjoy beauty and peace until blood and fire came from the North, smelting the brass and stone of all tribes into a cauldron again!…"
"There is no greater sorrow than the parting of the living after death! No greater joy than the deceased being acquainted in the Divine Kingdom… Drinking tea with hibiscus flowers in the morning, with cloud raindrops, eating seeds of sunflowers with ant eggs in the evening…"
"This is life among the clouds! But the roots of the flower tea are on the Northern Divine Trees. The brothers of sunflower seeds are in distant lands… Before the final reunion, brothers will turn against one another, boiling bean stems and leaves with beans themselves! Only the tears of the clouds, the beauty pursued in her heart, even if facing a thousand deaths, will never be regretted!…"
"Ah! High in the cloud sky, eagles from the plateau fly by. On the cloud earth, the sunset's blood fire ignites… This fate was known long ago to the ancestors, hope lying beyond the great fire… Blackened withered wood will reside hummingbirds, the cloud gods will merge into the Chief Divine! And the separated Gummy Ancestors, like rivers flowing into the sea, no matter how many firefields they pass, how many reefs they skirt, how many tears they shed, will eventually become one!… In the end, the sea water will rise, transforming into clouds, flying into the tranquil Nine Heavens~"
After reading this beautiful Mixteco-style hymn, Avit felt wistful and was lost in thought for a long time. But as he recalled the contents of the psalm, his expression became somewhat peculiar. He looked into Xiulote's eyes and asked with a smile.
"Xiulote! This Mixteco 'Cloud Hymn' is indeed beautifully moving, in the style of the Mixteco Tribes, and is a top-notch masterpiece… But the hidden meaning and the idea of Gummy unification within, is it really written by the Mixteco people?…"
"The Chief Divine as witness! This is indeed a poem of the Mixteco Tribes and written by the Mixteco people!"
Xiulote smiled slightly and confidently replied.
"This poem originates from the most ancient traditions of the Cloud Tribes. It was merely embellished and rewritten by the Mixteco Divine Descendants who converted to the Chief Divine, Andiwei Cloud Sky Main Priest, and then reviewed and revised by me… Subsequently, this 'Cloud Hymn' will be officially included in the 'Gummy People's Poetry,' to be chanted in temples everywhere!…"
"Chief Divine! Are you saying that this entire 'Gummy People's Poetry' consists of such top-tier, revised songs from each tribe? They will become songs circulated throughout the world, replacing the original tribal versions?…"
"Yes! Divine King teacher, exactly so! These beautifully revised songs are to replace the original old songs of each tribe… This preliminary version of the 'Gummy People's Poetry' will first be sent to the Chief Divine Temple and the hands of each tribe's nobles, accompanied by story illustrations created by painters, ensuring an absolute advantage in dissemination over the original tribal heritage…"
"The printing workshops owned by the Alliance and Kingdom have already set the scale of the first batch of printing! Not too many, not too few, printing ten thousand copies to start, so that every City-State Temple, every village sacrificial altar, and every enfeoffed noble family, can have at least one copy!…"
"It won't be long before the new songs will replace old tribal memories. All stubborn elders who dare to obstruct will be severely punished or even disappear. The grand consensus of Gummy unification will be passed down from these 'ancestor's poems,' permeating all tribes, nurturing every newborn child!"