Article 371 The kingdom of the sages and saints
371 The kingdom of the sages and saints
Baifeng Mountain winds for hundreds of miles, and fierce beasts are rampant in the mountains, even mountain hunters dare not go deep.
In recent years, the climate has been abnormal, with successive droughts, insufficient land harvests, and the inability of civilians to pay harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and reduced them to slavery, and slaves need to be used as food when food is scarce, resulting in a large number of refugees fleeing to the mountains.
The refugees know very well that although entering Baifeng Mountain can escape the disaster of becoming a slave, it will become the ration of the beast, and in the case of being eaten by people or being eaten by beasts, the refugees choose the latter, because there is still a chance of life when entering the deep mountains.
- I heard that there is a kingdom opened up by sages and sages in the mountains, and there are no slaves, everyone can be fed, clothed, and educated.
This rumor has been around for several months, but at that time the disaster was not serious, and the commoners could still live, and everyone thought that it was a nobleman who had released a lie, and when they found it, they would be turned into slaves.
However, the previous aristocratic lies only said how much land each person tolerate, collect less than one percent of the tax, eat enough and dress warmly, and don't dare to think about it, reading and literacy are even more exaggerated, even if they are nobles, only those big nobles in the imperial city have the opportunity to read, and the average nobleman can know the points is very powerful.
But this time was different.
There are people who have been there who have appeared to say, not only have noses and eyes, but also can only farm for a few months, but after coming back, they are literate, not only literate, but also can write, and can count and calculate addition and subtraction, which caused a sensation in the local area, and then the civilians in the vicinity of more than ten miles disappeared, and the slaves of the surrounding small nobles also lost a large number.
"I didn't know that so many of us had passed, and the Galactic Country could not tolerate it. ”
Among the refugees, there is an elderly man named Qingzhi who is very worried, he is actually a nobleman, but he is relatively poor, he can't afford to buy slaves, fortunately, he has a large family, and he doesn't need to pay taxes like civilians, and he can still solve the problem of food and clothing after a year of hard work.
He believed that there were sages and saints in Baifeng Mountain, because one of his sons, who had left home as a ranger, gave him an artifact mirror, which was countless times clearer than the bronze mirror and the water surface, and could illuminate people so that his eyebrows could be counted, and he wrote him a letter to his family.
Although he didn't know the words on the family letter, he could recognize the paintings, so he made the decision and led the family to move, but he didn't expect that because of identity problems, the refugees he met along the way followed him, resulting in a larger and larger team.
In this era, it takes a lot of courage to leave their homeland, and the displaced people will become slaves when they enter the territory of the nobility, and the refugee group led by Aozhi is overwhelming, and the nobles along the way do not dare to provoke, and they reach the foot of Baifeng Mountain safely.
Speaking of peace, in fact, it is only for the Qingzhi family.
I don't know how many of the refugees who came along the way died, some died by man, some died from hunger and thirst, but without exception, these people ended up as food, even the bones were broken and sucked dry, and most of them were eaten raw.
In the Baifeng Mountain, the sage and sage kingdom named after the Milky Way was naturally established by Jun Huan Anjou, Jun is still idle, and Anjou is a saint.
Anjou saw the calamity of this man's cannibalism, and saw the numb, dry faces, the first to disappear were the old men and children, and then the women became fewer and fewer, and only the young men remained, and their eyes were red, like man-eating ghosts.
"Ah Huan, why is there no fluctuation in my heart about this kind of scene, the father eats his son, and I want to see the wolf eat the rabbit as calmly. ”
Anjou held her heart, she thought that she had not lost her humanity because of her practice, but the reality told her that her heart was as cold and hard as cold iron.
Jun also glanced at Anru strangely: "The drought and locust plague are not caused by us, why should there be fluctuations?"
Anjou frowned: "But we are fully capable of exterminating locusts and rainfall, and even making the fields full of rice. ”
"Then our reunification plan will be postponed. In fact, according to his idea, it is easier to manifest directly and take a kingdom, and then govern from the top down, and the reason why he is willing to follow Anjou's advice is because it can avoid legal risks, and it is more in line with Grandpa's philosophy.
"On the winter solstice, the law of the jungle is actually common everywhere, but what you see is more bloody, while the empire's are hidden in the shadows, and the gods of the upper realm are still devouring each other, and the difference between eating people and eating other creatures is not very big. Jun also thought for a moment: "We set up a magic circle in the village at the foot of the mountain to mark those who have eaten the same kind of flesh and blood. ”
Anjou shook his head and refused: "Don't accommodate me, I'm just your assistant, and your will is in charge of this country." ”
There is no need for the formation to be stimulated, Anjou can see that more than 90% of the refugees have eaten human flesh and drank human blood, and the rest of those who have not eaten are not of noble character, they just can't grab it.
When the refugee team arrived at the foot of Baifeng Mountain, they were surprised to find that the village, which was originally just inhabited by mountain people, had turned into a city.
The tall stone city walls, the wide and flat stone roads, and the similar stone houses, clean and tidy, better than the places where the nobles lived, there is a square in the distance, you can see the smoke curling in the square, a row of large iron pots, hot porridge is boiling in the pot, even if the eyes are spent, you can smell the fragrant smell of food.
The refugee, who had only his last breath left, burst out and wanted to rush forward, but was stopped as soon as he took a few steps, the other party was neatly dressed and gorgeous, wearing leather armor with a sword weapon that was shinier than a bronze sword, his back was very straight, and he had never done farm work at a glance, and his face was full of pride.
It's a nobleman, and a big nobleman.
More than one, there are many, as many as the houses on both sides.
Qingzhi was still sensible, and hurriedly stopped his family, and when the refugees who rushed out were swept back by the sword, they could only scream and shout, and then stepped forward and saluted and asked.
The great nobleman with the sword pointed to the house next to him and said something, and then two wooden boards with written words and drawings of men and women came running in front of him, and they were also saying something loudly.
Their pronunciation is very good, Qingzhi can't hear where the dialect is, some like the official dialect of Wangcheng that his grandfather once taught him, but it seems to be more elegant, but Bibi can still understand what the other party means.
"Just do it. ”
Qingzhi took the lead, the refugees followed, and those lying on the ground were also helped up at the signal of the other party, divided into two teams according to gender, the old, weak, sick and disabled were given priority, and entered the stone houses on both sides in groups of twenty people.
The house was filled with white mist, with a deep breath, the heat in the body disappeared, there were people in the house, according to the instructions through the house, the refugees were surprised to find that the body had become clean, the swarthy old man did not look obvious, but the young woman's original yellow and black skin turned a pale wheat color, and everyone's hair was no longer a strand of hair, and there was no odor.