Chapter 541: A Hundred Ghosts Walk at Night
In the vast land of Kyushu, there are countless Fang countries and tribes scattered all over the country.
Fang Guo means "city-state" in Kyushu, and the large Fang State is equivalent to a combination of one or more city-states and multiple villages, such as the Yi clan and the poor clan in the north, and the small Fang country simply has only one city-state or even village and town, such as the Luofeng Chen family.
Xia Zi can command all the countries of the world, but the territory under the actual direct jurisdiction is less than one-fifth of Kyushu.
Even Yuzhou, where the capital of the Xia Dynasty was located, also had Cheng State, Tushan Clan and other Fang States in the northern region.
However, most of these Fang countries belong to the closest forces of the Xia Dynasty, and they are trustworthy barriers, such as the Tu Shan clan is the Fang country controlled by the wife clan of the Holy Emperor of Dayu, who is good at illusion, believes in the nine-tailed sky fox, has strong military strength, and is the most trusted Fang country force in the Xia Dynasty.
This kind of system is the so-called "internal and external service system", which has begun to take shape in the form of a separate system.
It's just that Xia Zi set up a state capital in each state of Kyushu, and recruited local people as soldiers, with the Xia people as feudal monarchs, leading local soldiers, and supervising a state is not in the history of the "internal and external service system".
Li Bai likes to observe the customs and customs of this world very much, because any complete civilization has its shining brilliance, even if he sometimes seems quite ignorant and backward, but if you look carefully at the context of the formation of civilization, everything will have traces to follow, and you can imagine its future development trajectory, and then spontaneously have a magnificent feeling, as if witnessing an epic.
And Tu Shan's ...... Dayu's wife is said to be a nine-tailed fox.
He wanted to know what kind of connection the Tu Shan clan had with the Qingqiu foxes, and the difference
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North of Yuzhou, Cheng State.
Cheng State is a boxy rammed earth city, the area is not small, there are 8,000 people (citizens), and tens of thousands of slaves, it is a very strong country in the north of Yuzhou.
It was night, the weather was drowsy, the streets were deserted early, the low houses on both sides were shadowed in the night, and the darkness was a little scary, and there was no doubt that there was no nightlife in this era.
Silence reigned over the city, and the emaciated slaves huddled in their shacks like shriveled corpses, numb to the fleas and mosquitoes, and when it was dawn they were driven to work again by their masters with whips.
The life expectancy of slaves is generally very short, and the mortality rate of hunger and heavy labor makes their mortality rate quite alarming, but this does not affect the slave owners' harsh treatment of them, the Cheng people have a team of 1,000 "countrymen" composed of armor soldiers, every time the generals who follow the Xia Dynasty go out to fight against the earth, dogs and other states, they can capture countless slaves, in the Cheng country, a slave is not even worth a sheep, let alone compared with the ploughing ox.
Ear was awakened by a cold wind, and his mother gave him this name, hoping that he would become a good hunter with good ears and eyes, but one day, his tribe suddenly fell into the hands of those Xia people wearing armor, and the flames ignited the village, and the guardian spirit was easily broken to pieces by the monks.
Since then, there are no forests and mountains, no hunting and no passionate girls in the rainforest, only the heavy labor of day after day, and now he only wants to live, even if it is to survive.
The black light blinded him, but he vaguely saw that on the tribute platform placed in the courtyard, the blue-faced fanged Dharma Protector Statue with a glimmer of light was staring at him coldly.
Ears were startled, and there was some hair in his heart, and he tried to pull the thin straw mat, shrunk his body and wanted to continue sleeping, the protector god of the Xia people was not a devil for "barbarians" like them?
But at this moment, he saw a faint face smiling at him on the wall of the courtyard, and the person's face was fluffy and unreal.
He was startled, and when he looked closer, the wall was empty.
He was so frightened that he forcibly controlled himself and closed his eyes, so he didn't notice that the blue-faced fanged Dharma Protector Statue had a crack in the center, and from inside, a gurgling black and red liquid flowed out.
Soon, the liquid spread to the shacks where the slaves lived.
The tired ears gradually fell asleep.
Suddenly, a low call sounded, the voice was clear and pleasant, like a woman he had been amazed by at a glance, especially when she looked at him with no disdain, but like a pool of autumn water, gentle to the extreme.
Er woke up from sleep again, he stared at the roof of the shack with a wry smile, that Xia woman is really longing, even if he hates Xia Ren deeply, he still can't suppress the love in his heart.
"Ears. ”
He heard the call again, and he subconsciously looked at the wall, but what he saw was not the picturesque eyebrows and eyes he imagined, but a pale and wrinkled old woman's face.
The old woman smiled sneeringly, like a poisonous snake.
She called softly, soft as water: "Ear, you're awake." ”
A scream was held in his throat.
At this time, in the quiet and silent streets of Cheng Guo, the monster wearing or covering black robes, with no human shape visible from top to bottom, was slowly moving forward, and the land he passed through turned into deep black.
From under his black robes, a steady stream of all sorts of ghosts emerged.
Human heads flying in the air, white-haired old women carrying kitchen knives, headless warriors wielding stone axes, and walking corpses covered in scarlet bodies and covered with mosquitoes and flies......
No screams, no wailing.
The ghosts silently devoured the souls of the living, and then became more powerful.
Er was dragged by the old woman to the side of the black-robed monster, and surprisingly, the black-robed monster did not hurt him, but just let the old woman drag him and follow him quietly.
At this time, in the mansion in the center of the city, Liu Ruyan woke up from her sleep suddenly, she looked out of the dark window, and for some reason, she was a little confused at this time.
She is the flower of Cheng Guo, known as the first beauty of Cheng Guo, last year the Holy Emperor of Juao personally issued an order, asking Cheng Guojun to send Liu Ruyan to Yangcheng and dedicate it to him as a concubine.
It stands to reason that this is an excellent opportunity to please the Holy Emperor and gain more political assets for himself, but Cheng Guojun actually refused......
For a woman.
He said: "Liu Ruyan has only turned thirteen years old, and she has parents to serve, so she can only be dedicated to His Majesty when she is sixteen years old. ”
This is already a very direct refusal, after all, three years is long enough for the Holy Emperor to forget about this woman.
The Holy Emperor is not a mediocre monarch, since the courtiers are unwilling, he will not force it, for a qualified king, because a woman is angry with important courtiers, that is something that can only be done by later generations.
Darkness approached the mansion.
The image of the door god engraved on the door quickly dimmed, and the little incense inside instantly collapsed.
A mud-like hand poked out of the black robe and pushed the door open.
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