Starting From The Stone Age And Becoming Extraordinary After Constructing Stonehenge - Chapter 33

Chapter 33 Sekeheim’s New Deal

In the 21st century, where Tan Wei’s motherland was established, the China materialists generally pursued a maxim: ‘Science and technology are the first productivity.’

Therefore, in China transmigration novels, as long as many transmigrators stabilized themselves and established their own regime they would try to solve the problems in front of them through two means, to promote the development of science and technology and to build industries!

Under the influence of this culture, Tan Weili couldn’t help but think in this way.

However, after much consideration, Tan Weili gave up the idea of solving the current problem by climbing up the ladder of technology and developing the industry.

After all, as a historical materialist, Tan Weili knew very well that every change in productivity would inevitably lead to a reshuffling of vested interest groups, and social unrest.

War, coup d’état, power-seizing, conspiracies, and all sorts of conflicts were almost impossible to stop.

And these things were contrary to Tan Weili’s demands!

What was Tan Weili’s request?

As a god, he had experienced a great adventure in the Divine Realm of Egypt, won the heart of the goddess, and had his own family.

However, every time he closed his eyes, the system’s words would appear in front of him.

He would never forget that he was a time traveler, a time traveler who was looking forward to returning to the 21st century!

In order to return to the 21st century, the primary purpose of his visit to Egypt was, and could only be, to build the pyramid!

In order to build the pyramid, he had to complete the unification of Egypt at the human level and defeat Set, who was coveting his position as the pharaoh at the divine level!

Therefore, he would not allow too much turmoil to happen in Egypt.

Stability was very important to Tan Weili.

Since he didn’t intend to solve the current problem through productivity reform, Tan Weili could only use political reform to distribute the existing resources and achieve his goal.

And if Tan Weili wanted to do that, he had to accurately understand the details of the Egypt problem.

Fortunately, the current Ancient Egypt civilization had only been born less than 500 years ago, and they were quite young.

Therefore, in this young civilization, there were not too many complicated conflicts of interest. There were also no complicated causes for social problems. If one wanted to solve problems, they did not need too complicated methods.

In some sense, the problem Tan Weili was facing was quite simple.

At this time, the reason why Egypt was in turmoil due to foreign enemies and wars was that the Ancient Egyptian civilization, which had just entered the Ancient Era, had chosen a theocracy system.

Of course, Tan Weili did not mean to say that the theocracy was bad.

However, the existence of each system needed to consider the current environment according to local conditions and whether it could adapt to solve the difficulties encountered in people’s production and life.

Obviously, because the group of priests occupied a large number of social resources and took these social resources for their own enjoyment in the name of worshipping the gods, they were not afraid of death.

The Egyptian army, which had a certain combat power before the Ancient Era, had already begun to show signs of overusing its weapons due to the lack of resources.

The weakening of their military strength had also made Egypt lose the ability to suppress the threat of the barbarians around them.

This gave Set an opportunity.

If Tan Weili wanted to get rid of Set, there was only one thing he had to do. He had to plunder a copy of the priest group’s interests and hand it over to the secular military aristocrats!

Then, with the support of the military aristocrats, the barbarians, wars, and foreigners would no longer be a threat to the royal power!

“No!”

In the Pharaoh’s Palace, when the priest of Tefnut heard that Tan Weili was going to reduce the offerings of the priests and invest resources in the military field, he was the first to stand up and raise an objection.

The priest was promoted by Tan Weili after the original priest of Tefnut was killed.

As such, he still had a good impression of the pharaoh.

However, the favor of support was ultimately no match for the faith of the gods and their own interests.

Today, before Tan Weili summoned the priests of the temple to the Pharaoh’s Palace for a meeting, Tefnut had already given an oracle to her priests to do everything they could to hinder the new policies implemented by the new pharaoh!

In addition, Tan Weili’s reform had indeed violated the interests of the priest group.

So, even though Tan Weili had helped the priest of Tefnut a lot, he still stood up and opposed Tan Weili’s new policies!

Seeing that they were about to transfer the interests of the priest group to the military nobles who had no divinity and could not listen to the gods’ teachings, the priest of Tefnut said coldly,”Great Pharaoh, I can understand your thoughts.”

“It’s true that Egypt is in imminent danger under the threat of Ethiopia and other barbarian kingdoms. The plan to improve our military strength does need to be put on the agenda.”

“But please don’t forget that the soldiers of the temple also need people to support them!”

“What’s the meaning of this?”

The priest in front of Tan Weili was a tall and thin man.

His face was painted with white paint made of lime, making him look like a charlatan.

But it was said that this guy had a good reputation among the priests of the gods, and was called a handsome man.

Tan Weili looked at the priest and asked, “Are you threatening me?”

At the same time, since Tan Weili was ready to seek benefits for his group, many military nobles naturally returned the favor and stood up for Tan Weili.

A middle-aged general, who was about 1.8 meters tall and could definitely be called a giant in this era where productivity was backward and the per capita nutrition intake was far less than that of the 21st century, stood up, and said to the priest of Tefnut sternly, “You want to threaten the Pharaoh? You guys are really bold!”

As he spoke, his face turned dark and murderous, as if he was ready to kill the priest.

Seeing the military nobles’ fierce looks, the priest of Tefnut certainly did not dare to admit to the accusation of threatening the Pharaoh.

He immediately said, “I’m not trying to threaten the Pharaoh. I’m just stating a fact.”

“That is, whether it is us priests who serve the gods or the soldiers who help you bathe in blood on the battlefield, everyone needs to

eat!”

“And where did this food come from? The farming of the farmers? This is, of course, an indispensable part of the food production process, but more importantly, it is a gift from the gods.”

“If the Pharaoh cuts down on the religious expenses in the country, it will only cause the food and clothing of us priests to be reduced. Of course, we will gladly accept it… However, whether the gods who gave us food will continue to be kind to the Egyptians is something that even we, the priests who serve the gods, don’t know!”

“So, I hope that the Pharaoh will not ignore the big picture for the small and save on expenses that should not be saved!”

Tan Weili narrowed his eyes when he heard that.

He asked the priest of Tefnut, “The god, Tefnut, is in charge of humidity and rainfall. If I cut your expenses, will Tefnut stop this year’s rainfall?”

Hearing Tan Weili’s question, the priest put on a fake smile and said, “That’s hard to say. Maybe, maybe not! After all, even us servants cannot be sure about the gods!”

As a servant of Tefnut, the priest was not only familiar with the rituals of worshiping the gods, but also the twists and turns of political struggles.

If he agreed with Tan Weili’s statement, he would undoubtedly be accused of ‘scaring the Pharaoh’ by the military nobles.

He wasn’t stupid, so he naturally wouldn’t make a dead end.

However, even though he had already avoided the charge of ‘scaring the Pharaoh,’ everyone could still hear the threat in his words.

Thus, at this moment, the priests and military nobles on the scene stood on both sides unnoticeably.

The atmosphere started to get tense!