Leaving aside how the Qin people of the Immortal Qin Empire used their first-mover advantage to achieve class advancement one after another, Qin Shi Huang, Ye Ting, as the ruler, finally turned Qin's national strength toward other matters after largely winning over the people's hearts.
Besides continuing to increase investment in extraterrestrial exploration and the colonization of Mars, he officially launched several grand plans.
The first was to eradicate all remaining faith in gods from the world.
As mentioned before, even after losing the environment of True Ether, the gods still had a way to survive: by relying on the power of faith.
After the Age of Gods ended, the faith of humanity became the gods' last lifeline.
Although Ye Ting had long since wiped out every god standing in his path during the unification of the world, and the Spear of Longinus had cut off any chance of the gods' resurrection, Ye Ting knew that one or two fish were bound to slip through the net.
To prevent those escapees from causing any major trouble, he went all the way and directly ordered a complete ban within Qin on faith in any gods other than himself and the goddesses by his side. All other gods were demoted to false gods, and their corresponding religions were treated as heretical cults.
Of course, simply issuing such a ban was not enough. To ensure its enforcement, he introduced several measures.
All former priests of the gods were placed under close surveillance by Qin's state apparatus. At the same time, all books, artifacts, and other items related to faith in the gods on the market were cataloged in Qin's libraries, then gathered together and completely destroyed.
All fanatics who attempted to spread their faith were arrested by Qin's judicial authorities and subjected to