In fact, the Pyramid of Nitocris is a magic workshop built by Nitocris for himself, or it is equivalent to the existence of the mage tower. The pyramid is built on the largest spiritual vein in Egypt, and can still be relied on. The special structure of the pyramid and the magic system in it collect the energy from the sun.

For this reason, in addition to being famous among mortals, the Pyramid of Nitocris is also regarded as a holy place in the minds of future magicians. Every year, thousands of magicians from all over the world come to the Pyramid of Nitocris. , Pay tribute to the miracle of the predecessor-the magic queen Nitocris.

Chapter 0858 Encyclopedia: Eternal Empress-Nitocris I (Part 1)

Female Pharaoh Nitocris: about June 21, 2200 BC-September 2113 BC) Pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, an outstanding politician, military strategist, artist, and poet of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. His ruling period announced the end of the ancient Egyptian period and the beginning of the Middle Kingdom period.

The era under the rule of Nitocris was the strongest era in the history of the Egyptian Kingdom.

Perhaps it can be said that the female pharaoh Nitocris is the most famous pharaoh in the history of ancient Egypt and the most legendary female ruler in the world.

She has a life full of legends.

She is a powerful queen, an invincible general, a politician respected by all people, and a tireless builder.

With these auras on her head, Nitocris I (Nitocris I, Nitocris the Great) reigned for about 69 years, and she still enjoys these reputations to this day.

Her enemies are afraid of her, her subjects love her, and her gods bless her.

Nitocris I, who lived in the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, not only left an indelible mark in the history of Egypt, but also in the history of mankind.

She took over the throne from her husband and brother Melaran II at the age of eighteen.

During her reign, she did not have any royal husband or heirs, and she was truly a chaste queen.

There are rumors that although the female pharaoh Nitocris at that time did not choose her husband in her life, she had a lover, a yellow race from the East. This kind of saying is more common in wild history, but in most history In the eyes of scientists, this is just a nonsense. There is no evidence that the race from the East had crossed the continents and oceans to Egypt in Africa.

Nitocris's life span is long enough, when the average life expectancy of ancient Egyptians was only over 40 years old, she lived to be 86 or 7 years old. Her subjects and successors witnessed her legend, and boasted of her experience and carved them on buildings, and even deified statues were erected all over Egypt, alongside the gods.

In fact, after Nitocris died, because of her legendary experience and the glory that she brought to Egypt, she was worshipped as a **** by the Egyptians and became a member of the Heliopolis family until thousands of Years later, it is still one of the main gods that many Egyptians worship. This is also the only one among the ancient Egyptian pharaohs who can achieve this step.

The war of unification of Egypt made her a general in the eyes of her subjects; she used her economic talent to annex the Hittites without blood; as a famous architect in ancient Egypt, she kept the glory of the times for the world. These legendary experiences and distinctive personality are all concentrated on him.

During the reign of Nitocris I, he carried out a genius transformation of Egypt, which established Egypt's glory for the next millennium in one fell swoop. However, in fact, when she first reigned, it was the period of decline of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt.

Pepi II ascended the throne at the age of 6 and reigned for 94 years. However, his long-term rule is not the gospel of the country, and his unprogressive management policy of being content with the status quo has brought many contradictions to the surface. Due to the weakness of the king, the power of the monarchy began to collapse, the ministers were dictating power, and the governors of the states competed for power with each other, and the political edifice was facing a crisis of overturning.

After Pepi II's death, his son, Nitocris I's husband and brother, Melaran II, succeeded him.

They married because of Egyptian tradition when Melaran II succeeded to the throne, but the actual age gap between the two is very large. Melaran II was the heir of Pharaoh Pepi when he was young, but Nitocris was the offspring of Pepifa when he was old.

However, despite such a large age gap, Nitocris and Mylaran II still have a deep relationship.

When Merella II came to the throne, the throne was already very serious. After only one year in office, he clashed with officials who controlled the real power. The ensuing political murder ended the political career of Meranla II and made Nitocris a widow queen.

The sudden political murder plunged Nitocris into anguish. But this did not knock her down, perhaps for revenge, she calmly concealed her feelings, kept a clear head, and cleverly dealt with the officials, finally gained trust, was pushed to the throne, and became the king of upper and lower Egypt. This is the first female pharaoh in Egyptian history to exercise political power throughout Egypt.

During her tenure as Queen, Nitokris paid close attention to the national economy and people's livelihood and worked hard to develop her own economy. After the annual flooding of the Nile River, she would personally come to the fields to sow grains, lead the people to develop production, and become a very affinity queen who enjoys high prestige among the people.

"Propaganda is her best weapon, which played an important role in her promotion of her kingdom and mission, and it also allowed her to gain support from the Egyptian people." Edda Brescia, professor of Egyptology at the University of Pisa, Italy Edda Bresciani (Edda Bresciani) recounted, “A large number of statues and inscriptions tell people about the feat and courage of this female pharaoh. Her actions have allowed her to gain an advantage in the future against the ministers and made his image spread. Through the ages, and can still stand the test of time."

(In fact, only Ye Ting knows, this is just a false rumor. The original Nitocris did not have the mind to get the support of the people. It was just a beautiful accident to get this result.)

According to legend, in the third year of Nitocris’s succession, the gods gave the heavenly punishment and killed the ministers who murdered Melaran II. However, according to the research of historians, it may be this female pharaoh. This goal was achieved through assassination.

After that, she gathered the Egyptian officials on the square in front of the palace by publicly announcing the successor to the official post, and invited the people to come and observe the ceremony. However, this was just a trap. In the square, she took advantage of the people's support for her and their dissatisfaction with the chaotic situation in Egypt to arrest all Egyptian officials and put them on trial in public.

It was not until this time that she was truly avenging her husband.

Without the constraints of the bureaucracy, Nitocris I began to select bureaucrats among the common people and among the basic-level officials, and truly mastered the power.

When Nitocris was in power, due to a long period of corrupt rule in Egypt, the court lost control of the place and fell into division. Nitocris worked hard to govern, build water conservancy, and develop agriculture.

In fact, Nitocris is not only an excellent ruler, but also a genius who actively promotes technological progress. During her reign, Egypt developed "drip irrigation" and other advanced agricultural technologies at the time, and improved the originally backward smelting technology and bow and arrow manufacturing technology.

Through these technologies, Nitocris I used this to accumulate powerful forces and form an invincible army.

So, after six years of succession, Nitocris launched a war to unify Egypt.

Compared with the rebels of Egypt at that time, Nitocris I's army had sharper blades and armor, longer range bows and arrows, and more abundant food and grass. At the same time, she also pioneered the transformation of the trebuchet and applied it in the field. With these, Nitocris reunified Egypt within a year.

In fact, many battles have been deified by later generations in the process of Nittokris's unification of Egypt.

For example, in the Battle of Heracles Oplis, people said that Nitocris had summoned the **** thunder of Horus, the kamikaze of Shu and the scorching sun of Ra, and defeated her greatest enemy without any damage to the army. Nowadays, many murals in Egypt describe such scenes.

Because of the war, the population of the originally powerful Egypt dropped sharply and the country became weaker than ever. So Nitocris worked hard to reform Egypt’s political system at that time, enacted laws, built water conservancy projects, promoted commercial development, and even invented the earliest officials. The education and selection system, many of her pioneering works have set unprecedented precedents in the entire history of mankind, and are worthy of the name "the greatest female emperor in history." Be on the list.

Until the year of her death, the population of Egypt had quadrupled, the territory of Egypt had doubled, and the Sixth Dynasty entered its heyday.

Chapter 0859 Encyclopedia: Eternal Empress-Nitocris I (Part 2)

Politically, Nitocris established a centralized system and power institutions, abolished the governor system, changed to a state and county system, and local administrative agencies were divided into counties and counties. The chief officials of counties and counties are appointed and removed by the central government, and the generals, governors, and county chiefs are not under the control of each other, which strengthens the central government's control over the localities and reduces the risk of division.

Nitocris was also the world’s first author of a relatively complete statutory law. The establishment of this statutory law further weakened the rights of the nobility and protected the interests of the common people, which contributed to the later establishment of the Greek, Roman and even the entire Western legal system. Had a far-reaching impact.

Nitocris knows people well and employs people on their merits, regardless of their origin. In order to let more talented people from the common people be able to use her, Nitocris created a bureaucratic examination system instead of selecting officials from the nobility. Old case. And it requires all talented people to become officials only by passing certain exams.

At the same time, she also specially compiled many textbooks for bureaucrats to learn from, and established a school for teaching.

The content of these textbooks included theology, mathematics, astronomy, geography, agriculture, engineering, etc. Both the bureaucratic examination system and the works themselves had a profound impact on later Egypt.

Economically, Nitocris used a series of measures to promote the development of commerce, making Egypt at that time a commercial center in nearby areas.

She re-minted gold coins with her head, and established a bank-like financial institution for people to save property and borrow money.

By building roads, borrowing loans from small merchants and other means, Nitocris made Egypt's business peak at that time, and merchants from nearby countries came to Egypt to carry out various business activities.

In addition, she even issued a series of paper substitutes called "golden notes" instead of gold coins, which were actually the earliest bank and paper money.

And Nitocris’ greatest economic achievement is to use economic means to annex Hittites from neighboring countries.

Due to the great power of Nitocris I and Egypt, Nitocris’ banks and gold bills have a good reputation in nearby countries, and even the kings and nobles of these countries deposited their wealth in her bank, and Using her golden ticket, she soon controlled the business and wealth of nearby countries.

So Nitocris, on the pretext of the Hittite king being disrespectful to her, announced that he would not pay the Hittite gold ticket. So the Hittite gold ticket became waste paper, and the whole country fell into chaos, and she took the opportunity The generals and officials among the Hittites were bought, and the country was annexed without blood.

Culturally, various works written by Nitocris for officials are cultural treasures that record the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians, which show the ancient Egyptians' attainments in astronomy, geography, mathematics, and agriculture.

The buildings she left behind are also human treasures.

After Nitocris, it has always existed in Egyptian legends. The legend of Nitocris has been widely talked about by her descendants throughout her life, and it has repeatedly appeared in ancient Egyptian literary works. , Can be called the enduring cultural motif.

Because of Nitocris’ reform of Egypt, historians have unanimously divided Nitocris I and later Egypt into the "Middle Kingdom" period, or the "Egyptian Empire" period, which is different from the "Egyptian Empire" period. In the period of the ancient kingdom", because Nitocris established a new system, these things were never before him. They were created by her and have been used for thousands of years;

In her later pharaohs, the governance of the country was all achieved through the management of the country under his institutional framework. The great cause they created was largely due to the benefits laid by Nitocris I. Base;

How much work is needed to complete so many institutional changes and cultural changes, as well as numerous construction projects, under the premise that no one had done before?

Facts have proved that Nitocris was successful. After her, the newly born Egypt was extremely powerful. Although it had experienced several terrible civil disturbances, it has maintained its strong position even after a thousand years. Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Ancient Persia could not raise their heads-Nitocris I was undoubtedly the greatest pharaoh who laid all this.

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