When facing natural disasters, should they protect the core great cities or these small border cities?
Any rational person would choose to protect the great cities.
After going back and forth like this a few times, even with modern organizational capabilities, they would still discover that small city-states were nothing but a burden.
So they would abandon them, or choose only to collect protection fees without providing protection services, merely guaranteeing that they themselves would not attack them.
If someone else attacked them, they would not care either.
Seeing this, Wenren Sheng understood. This was equivalent to the later generations.
In later generations, everyone began using financial means to obtain profits.
They rarely directly occupied territory.
Directly occupying territory meant having to bear responsibility for those people's welfare, while neglecting them easily created pressure from rumors.
It was better to simply use finance to plunder them.
Ordinary people could not understand it, and those who did would not say much.
There was nothing wrong with it.
Mi Heng quickly understood this point.
Then he began to wonder again.
He asked the captured general, "Then why do my gods not look after these small cities?"
"Since great cities have Children of God protecting them, and gods can have many children while great cities are limited, surely some sons cannot be assigned a great city?"
He was not wrong.
In fact, he had learned that there were only a dozen or so great cities.
Some city-states had one, while some had two.
"It's simple. Small city-states are poor," the general said, hoping to live a little longer. "Because building a temple is very expensive."
"It takes decades to build one."
"And even after building one, they simply cannot afford to maintain it."
"Children of God can only communicate with gods through temples,