Aztec Civilization: Destiny to Conquer America!

Chapter 1875 1355: Gummy People's Music Office, [Cloud Snake Butterfly]

"From new verses being sung, replacing old tribal memories, establishing a new Gummy People consensus? Then, cultivating a new generation that identifies with the unified identity of the Gummy People?..."In the great tent, Aweit gazed at the "Gummy People's Poetry" in his hands, once again lost in thought. He had always adhered to Mexica traditions, treating the Warrior Corps as the foundation of governance, but unlike Xiulote, he could not place the same importance on the so-called "cultural consensus." And this intricate and diverse cultural approach, aiming for the long-term, happened to be his blind spot, a weakness that most Mexica nobility were not adept at.

Of course, after Xiulote's detailed explanations, he could also understand the value of these methods. All these actions were aimed at gathering the people's hearts!

The ruling Mexica Divine Tree extended its roots into the earth, growing into the Gummy People's Divine Tree. And the connections of these roots to the people's hearts were not just for the current generation, but for a lasting future! Seeing Xiulote focus on such long-term cultural and educational affairs instead of the Warrior Corps indeed reassured Aweit greatly...

"Chief Divine bless! Xiulote, you are a prophet blessed by the Chief Divine, always able to see further than ordinary people. And you are young enough to consistently advance these cultural policies over the long term... I'm reassured to leave these affairs in your capable hands!"

After granting him the promise of vested authority, Aweit extended his hand, warmly patting Xiulote's shoulder. Xiulote nodded sincerely, holding many unspoken plans and considerations.

The Alliance wielding an absolute machine of violence establishes temple after temple of the Chief Divine, inherently holding a cultural dissemination advantage, able to decisively silence divisive murmurings. Under Xiulote's arrangement, the Alliance and the Kingdom also took in numerous tribal priests, tribal sages, bonfire inheritors who sought allegiance, and possessed papermaking books, engraving for printing, distributing tens of thousands of illustrations, completely burying the old traditions with a great weapon!

And the opponents faced by the Alliance, the obstacles in establishing cultural consensus, were merely a few surviving tribal elders, scattered escaped Divine Descendant Nobility! They were still in the tribal cultural stage of recording with diagrams, having very few who truly grasped culture. Most tribes conquered by the Alliance didn't even have written language, relying on oral chorales to narrate independent tribal memories, to recount some ancestor or old deity...

Hence, the deliberate, large-scale cultural reconstruction led by Xiulote was almost delivering a dimensional strike against these residual tribal opponents! The identities of the Tlaxcalans, the Totonac people, the Mixteco people, were becoming blurred in the cultural reconstruction, beginning to be gradually replaced by the understanding of the Gummy People! Like the Coastal Priests of the Totonac Coast, they had obediently stood on the side of the Kingdom, while most old-fashioned priests, out of touch with the times, had been sent up to the altar...

At this moment, these submissive Seaside Priests were fully utilizing their wisdom and resourcefulness, swiftly guiding the memory recognition of the seaside tribes towards the recognition of the Gummy tribes! Their sole expression of self-interest perhaps lay in compiling the "Gummy Ren History," granting themselves extra divinity, claiming a false legacy of guarding the ancient saint's relics, protecting the prophecy of the Gummy People...

"Hmm, I basically understand what kind of content this 'Gummy People's Poetry' is about. Now let me look at this 'Gummy People's Music Office'... Oh! It's a collection of folk stories being sung? It seems like 'Poetry' is more formal, mainly aimed at the upper-middle class. 'Music Office' is lighter, inclined towards the lower-middle class... Hmm, or not necessarily?..."

Aweit raised an eyebrow, looking at the first piece he flipped to in the "Music Office." It turned out to be a song of storytelling about Mexica's traditional rival, the Tlaxcalans.

"Cloud Snake Butterfly"? What is this? A tragic love story between a Tlaxcala top-level Divine Descendant and a lower-class maiden, ultimately leading to the demise of the Cloud Snake Divine Descendant? Haha! This narrative... interesting, truly interesting!..."

"A young Dark Snake of the Cloud Snake Divine Descendant fell in love with a maiden of the lakeside ant people, Bai Ou? The Divine Descendant possessed the blood of the cloud snake, with the most handsome countenance. The maiden, a bottom-class fisherwoman, had a beauty as pure as the water lily. They met in the lake, forgetting their differences in status. They fell in love, playing like fish in the lake water..."

Aweit chuckled, skimming over the long sections of detailed romantic descriptions. Although these were the most popular content among ordinary tribespeople, they did not catch his attention at all. Until the subsequent progression of the story, the unexpected turns, and some hidden ideologies therein, gradually made his expression solemn.

"However, the high and mighty Cloud Snake Divine Descendants brutally ruled over the Cloud Snake tribes! They indulged in the wealth and beauties of the entire tribe, exploiting and oppressing the bottom-level tribespeople... Their lives were so extravagant, especially those who called themselves Toltec Divine Descendants of Cholula... They were gluttonous anteaters, indulgent monkey groups, greedy jaguars, cunning coyotes! Their lives were like beautiful flowers on the water, but buried beneath the mud under the water, lay the corpses of lower ant people sucked dry!..."

Reading this, Aweit slightly furrowed his brow. The description of the Cloud Snake Divine Descendants' luxurious lives always managed to let him see shades of some Mexica Great Nobility. However, he and Xiulote alike belonged to the monarchs with restrained material desires, so they would not feel offended by such descriptions and criticisms.