Chapter 34 - The Threat of Tefnut's Priest

Chapter 34 The Threat of Tefnut’s Priest

If the military nobles’ hostility and offense to the priests group were tacitly approved by Tan Weili, then the priests group would be in a bad mood.

As the supreme ruler of the entire kingdom, Tan Weili’s position as the Pharaoh would be damaged if he were to get into a fight with his subordinates.

Therefore, when he saw the atmosphere become tense, Tan Weili suddenly laughed and said, “What are you guys doing? I know you’re all doing this for the good of this country.”

“The priests are worried that without gods’ protection, Egypt will not be able to maintain its stability. This is normal.”

“Nobles need to consider more secular things, and this part of the matter is equivalent to serving the gods. This is also understandable.”

“So, stop quarreling!”

What?

Although Tan Weili’s words seemed to be fair and didn’t offend either side, however, as a country with a tradition of theocracy for two to three hundred years, even though Egypt had already had a new dynasty, the idea that gods were superior to others had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Therefore, when Tan Weili said that ‘the things of the secular world and the things of serving the gods are equal,’ all the priests present were shocked.

This Pharaoh was going against the heavens!

The priests who realized this all showed serious expressions.

Seeing this, the priest of Tefnut immediately started another round of pressure on Tan Weili.

The priest, whose face was painted with white paint and looked rather strange to Tan Weili, said to him, “Although what the Pharaoh said makes sense, I think that even if there are equal things, there should be a hierarchy of priority, right?”

“Food security is the foundation of the entire country, and food is something that the gods have given us. I hope that the Pharaoh will understand that without food, the army will not be able to develop!”

Upon hearing the threat, Tan Weili said with a fake smile,”Oh? Do you mean that Tefnut will cause a famine in Egypt?”

The priest of Tefnut fell silent for a moment.

He couldn’t admit to Tan Weili’s words in a direct and affirmative tone, or he would fall into the political trap that the other party had set up.

Hence, he could only say to Tan Weili,”Pharaoh, even as a priest of the gods, I can only barely guess the actions of the gods. As for whether it’s right or wrong… How can we mortals completely understand the matters of the gods?”

“You can ask the other priests if they can completely guess what their god is thinking.”

Hearing his words, all the priests’ expressions became even more serious.

The priest of Tefnut was trying to drag them down!

However, Tan Weili didn’t care about the priest of Tefnut’s words.

He was not in a hurry to get the priests present to take a stand.

Instead, he said, “If Tefnut really wants Egypt to fall into a famine, then come!”

“It’s fine if you don’t believe in a god that will drag Egypt down when it’s in danger!”

V

What?

Hearing Tan Weili’s words, the priest was dumbfounded!

Blasphemy!

What kind of blasphemy was this!?

Was he really not afraid of being punished by the gods for saying such things?

Since things had come to this, the priest of Tefnut had nothing to say.

He could only use the excuse that Tan Weili’s words were serious and that he needed to return to the temple to communicate with the gods and then leave the palace first.

Tan Weili did not make things difficult for the priest as he watched him leave.

He advocated for stability in this reform and did not intend to be enemies with the entire priest group.

The most preferred way for him to reform was to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys and establish his authority through the struggle with the priest of Tefnut.

Therefore, he told the priests that the reform would be carried out slowly in one or two years, giving them enough buffer time to prepare.

When the priests heard Tan Weili’s words, they understood what he meant and calmly watched.

If the young Pharaoh could really resist the punishment of the Great God, Tefnut, and bring Egypt to peace and stability, and the gods behind them chose to compromise, the priests would naturally not be like the priest of Tefnut, who stood out and directly clashed with the Pharaoh.

And if Tan Weili showed weakness in this battle…

Then, sorry! These priests would work together to teach the young Pharaoh a lesson, to tell him how cruel political struggles were!

With the departure of the priests, the battle between Tan Weili and Tefnut began.

In order to win this political struggle, Tan Weili still needed to prepare a few things.

Late at night, while Tan Weili was still working at his desk, he suddenly smelled a fragrance like milk and honey.

He looked around and found no one in front of him.

Only the two maids behind him were gently fanning him with feather fans.

However, they had obviously been here for quite some time.

Thus, Tan Weili understood tacitly and switched to the perspective of the Divine Realm.

Sure enough, there, he saw a beautiful girl with delicate features and long ears, as beautiful and charming as a legendary elf.

It was Hathor!

Hathor walked up to Tan Weili with a plate and said, “I saw that you’ve been here for so long, as if you were in a daze, so I guessed that you must be working in the human world.”

“I’ve specially prepared some desserts for you… Although the one who’s really tired is you in the human world, eating desserts in the Divine Realm can also have a certain soothing effect.”

As she spoke, she placed a plate of cheese in front of Tan Weili.

“Thank you!”

Tan Weili didn’t stand on ceremony with his fiancée’s kindness.

He asked Hathor to sit down and began to eat the cheese that was carefully prepared by him.

Looking at her fiancé’s expression of enjoyment the moment he ate the cheese, Hathor asked softly, “I heard that you had a conflict with Tefnut. Are you alright? Do you need me to mobilize my own priests to stand on your side?” Hearing this, Tan Weili chuckled and said, “There’s no hurry. At this stage, I hope to deal with the pressure from Tefnut by myself.”

“En!”

After learning of Tan Weili’s choice, Hathor didn’t object.

She said to Tan Weili, “As your wife, I will support you no matter what you do!”

Tan Weili smiled when he saw how serious Hathor was.

He said to Hathor,”In fact, the pressure that Tefnut can exert is very limited.”

“As gods, we know our own abilities very well. We know that we can only play some small tricks in the field of the collective consciousness of human beings.”

“We can’t really cause a famine in Egypt!”

Hearing this, Hathor nodded in agreement.

As a god, Tefnut did not have the ability to interfere with the human world, so it was impossible for her to cause a drought and flood in Egypt.

The only thing she could do was to tamper with the collective consciousness of human beings and make people have the illusion that the weather was not good this year when the weather was obviously good.

Under the influence of this illusion, people would judge that this year’s grain harvest would have serious problems.

Then, some merchants who smelled the food crisis would hype up the price of food and hoard it!

Such behavior did not change the fact that Egypt had had enough food in the past.

However, this kind of behavior that destroyed the order of the market would indeed affect the food supply in Egypt from the distribution side, which would cause some trouble for Tan Weili.

However, Tefnut was not everywhere. She would not be able to control the food market very well.

As long as Tan Weili wanted to, he had a hundred ways to solve the problem that Tefnut had caused in the food market!