Chapter 435: A Thousand Years of Things
Liu Xi and Qiu Changsheng glanced at each other, and the national teacher thousands of years ago was indeed Cao Jinyang.
Cao Jinyang didn't pay attention to the eyebrows between the two, and he didn't see it. After all, the tiger doesn't care about the communication between two rabbits that are about to become food, because no matter what, both rabbits are food for the tiger.
In Jingzhou a thousand years ago, Gao Baorong, the lord of Nanping, issued a notice that due to the severe drought in the country, the people were famine, and the national strength was unbearable. Gao Baorong sincerely asks for the world's masters, is willing to treat the national teacher with courtesy, and only asks for the master's practice, rainfall to alleviate the drought.
For a month in a row, notices were plastered all over the capital, but no one ever unveiled them.
Just when the lord of Nanping and the hundred officials were not hopeful, an old Taoist priest with immortal wind bones appeared in Jingzhou and stretched out his hand to take off the notice.
On the same day, the old Taoist priest opened the altar on the highest rooftop in Jingzhou.
An hour later, dark clouds obscured the sun and a torrential rain fell from the sky.
The people sang and danced in the rain, shouted with joy, threw themselves to the ground of Cao Jinyang on the high platform, and bowed down.
Gao Baorong, the lord of Nanping, as the king of a country, gave a great gift to Cao Jinyang and officially canonized Cao Jinyang as the national teacher of Nanping.
All of a sudden, the entire Nanping Kingdom was full of legends of the national teacher Cao Jinyang.
The rain continued to fall, and after a week of continuous rain, the people were not a little dumbfounded. If it continues like this, it may be time for a flood.
This has just gone through the drought, and then the flood, where can the feudal society, which is dominated by agriculture, withstand such a series of blows.
What's more, Nanping is just a small country, and if you make such a fuss, you don't need others to attack, and Nanping itself will die.
As a last resort, the lord of Nanping found Cao Jinyang and expressed euphemistically to Cao Jinyang: Meng Mengda's national teacher, can you stop the rain, it has been raining for more than a week, it is enough.
Cao Jinyang suddenly let out an "oh" like a big realization, and hurriedly reopened the altar on the high platform.
An hour later, the clouds in Nanping were raining and the sun was shining.
As a result, the people of Nanping were completely convinced of Cao Jinyang, and the whole country, regardless of men, women, and children, worshiped Cao Jinyang.
Naturally, the lord of Nanping and the relatives of the emperor respected Cao Jinyang even more. Cao Jinyang's request was almost impossible not to agree.
One day, Gao Baorong was seriously ill, and the soup did not enter, only the outlet air did not enter the air.
Seeing that Gao Baorong was about to drive the crane to the west and was buried in the place where those ghosts and wild ghosts traveled, at this time, Cao Jinyang came.
He casually burned a talisman, soaked it in water, and then poured it into the mouth of the lord of Nanping, and the lord miraculously healed.
As a result, the lord of Nanping was very grateful to Cao Jinyang, and never regarded him as a courtier, but only called him an immortal master.
The immortal master is both an immortal and a teacher.
Since then, the lord of Nanping has obeyed Cao Jinyang's words, and even asked Cao Jinyang for advice on important national affairs.
Cao Jinyang did not have the slightest nostalgia for government affairs and rights, saying that he was originally a monk, and he did not want to be mortal anymore, but only wanted to live forever.
If there is anything that is the most lethal to the emperor, it is undoubtedly the four words "immortality".
No matter which dynasty or generation, helpless is a big country or a small country, no matter whether the emperor is a man or a woman, they are full of desire for immortality.
Because they hold boundless wealth and power, they naturally want to live forever and enjoy the life of an emperor forever.
So, Gao Baorong, the lord of Nanping, knelt down to Cao Jinyang, wept bitterly and begged Cao Jinyang to accept him as an apprentice and teach him the art of immortality.
Cao Jinyang resolutely rejected him, saying that he had no immortal fate, and if he wanted to live forever, he had to go against the sky.
If you go against the sky, you will need to work the people and lose money, and you will have to slaughter the lives of tens of thousands of people to renew the life of the lord of Nanping.
If it is too hurtful and peaceful, if it is too hurtful, then the heavens will be angry and resentful, and it will provoke God's punishment.
Who knew that Cao Jinyang said this, but it aroused the idea of Gao Baorong, the lord of Nanping, wanting to live forever. In his opinion, immortality is originally against the sky, since he wants to go against the sky, how can he succeed without paying a huge price?
In some ways, Gao Baorong is a very adventurous person.
Unfortunately, he met a liar.
The liar Cao Jinyang refused repeatedly, and even escaped in the middle of the night several times, but was invited back by the Imperial Forest Army sent by the lord of Nanping to be responsible for security protection in the National Teacher's Mansion.
Gao Baorong, the lord of Nanping, even went to the National Teacher's Mansion three times a day to meet him, and bowed to Cao Jinyang's disciples, looking very respectful.
After more than half a year like this, Cao Jinyang finally relented, and the reason was to help the lord of Nanping change his life against the sky and become an immortal existence.
This is Cao Jinyang's cleverness, he rejected the lord of Nanping several times, not to provoke the lord of Nanping, but to make the lord of Nanping really feel that it is just a treasure, and I don't tell him about ordinary people.
Later, he bluntly said that the lord of Nanping had no immortal fate, and directly gave the lord of Nanping a blow to the head. Tell the Lord of Nanping again, in fact, I have a way to change your life, but the price is a bit high.
When the lord of Nanping heard this, the price was really high. But the higher the cost, the higher the benefit, if you want to live forever, how can you not pay a heavy price?
After the lord of Nanping officially became Cao Jinyang's disciple, the first thing he did was to hollow out a mountain peak about a kilometer high.
This place was chosen by Cao Jinyang, and in the entire rolling mountain range, this hill is inconspicuous and not very noticeable.
There is no need to repeat the process during this period, in short, in the past ten years, the ancient tomb project has been carried out non-stop.
All the migrant workers worked in two shifts, and the construction was stopped for a moment throughout the day, and countless people died of exhaustion during this period. The entire country's tax revenue, except for the distribution of the money and the harem, was almost entirely invested in this ancient tomb.
In the end, at the cost of tens of thousands of people, the underground mausoleum was successfully built.
And then there was even more bloody, all the people and craftsmen were surrounded by the army that had already surrounded them outside. With bows and arrows in their hands and swords on their waists, they fired thousands of arrows at the people and craftsmen.
There is no need to repeat the process during this period, in short, in the past ten years, the ancient tomb project has been carried out non-stop.
All the migrant workers worked in two shifts, and the construction was stopped for a moment throughout the day, and countless people died of exhaustion during this period. The entire country's tax revenue, except for the distribution of the money and the harem, was almost entirely invested in this ancient tomb.
In the end, at the cost of tens of thousands of people, the underground mausoleum was successfully built.
And then there was even more bloody, all the people and craftsmen were surrounded by the army that had already surrounded them outside. With bows and arrows in their hands and swords on their waists, they fired thousands of arrows at the people and craftsmen.