Then, Xiong Huai hesitated and said: "However, the widow has already informed Taibu that he will personally go to sacrifice Nuwa in four days, so do you have to deceive the heavens without believing in his words?" Moreover, many people already know about the five-color stone. ”

Xiong Huai is not worried about the ghosts and gods, but worried about causing criticism among the people.

Zhao Ju shook his head and said: "King, Nuwa is Nuwa, the five-color stone is the five-color stone, Nuwa is the legendary god, and there have long been sacrifices in various parts of the Chu Kingdom, so it is natural for the king to go to sacrifice now." But if the five-color stone is born, then the meaning is extraordinary. ”

"Therefore, the minister asked the king to hide the five-color stone, as long as the five-color stone is not displayed publicly, other countries will naturally not believe that my Chu country has obtained the five-color stone, and will only regard this as a rumor."

"And in this era of rumors, the ministers can't see the five-color stone, and it will only be regarded as a new rumor."

"Therefore, the minister means that rumors are not spread and rumors are not refuted."

Seeing that the King of Chu nodded, Zhao Ju continued: "Great King, although the deeds of Nuwa mending the heavens have spread all over the world, and the story of Nuwa creating people has also been spread in various countries, Nuwa's status among the gods is not high. In addition to the official sacrifices to Nuwa in the southern countries, Qin Zhaoyan and other countries in the north have never held official sacrifices for Nuwa, let alone the monarch himself to sacrifice. ”

"Therefore, the minister thinks that it is the right time to sacrifice Nuwa at this time, and it is the right time to improve Nuwa's status among the countries in the world, if Nuwa's status can be equal to that of the gods of the four directions, then, when the time comes, my Chu State will take out the five-color stone, and the effect will be more significant."

Xiong Huai bowed slightly, and said silently in his heart: It seems that the white, green, yellow, and red gods are going to be turned into five gods.

It just so happens that there is a god in all directions in the southeast, west, and middle, but the Black Emperor who belongs to the north is nowhere to be seen, and Nuwa's exploits in creating people to make up for the sky are more than the other four emperors, and Nuwa can be pushed to the throne.

In this way, there is no need to spend an extra cow when sacrificing the Eastern Emperor Taiyi and the Four Emperors in the future...

Just when Xiong Huai and Zhaoju were discussing how to improve Nuwa's status, Li Qiu, who was accompanying him, saluted and said, "King, Ling Yin asks to see!" ”

Xiong Huai smiled when he heard this: "It's just right to come, please let Yin in!" ”

"No!"

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Four days later, Xiong Huai led hundreds of officials out of Yingdu, passed through Yunmeng Daze, arrived at the river, and sacrificed Nuwa in the ether prison.

After the sacrifice, Xiong Huai officially ordered Sikong Zhaoyu and Taibu to build a temple for Nuwa.

Then, Chen Zhen planted spies in various countries and began to sing the praises of Nuwa's deeds in various countries, intending to enhance Nuwa's status among the gods.

Soon, the legend of Nuwa was the Black Emperor of the North, which quickly spread from Chu to other countries.

Most of the countries laughed at this matter, except for the Heaven and Earth Society, which is a common sacrifice of all countries, other gods, each country has its own sacrifice object, Chu State wants to sacrifice to a certain god, and other countries are all watching the excitement.

Although countries don't care, Nuwa's influence among the people has begun to rise gradually.

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Qi country Linzi.

The king of Qi was overjoyed and said to Chu Zi: "Xiangguo, the news from the Chu State is that after harvesting the corn, the Chu State has begun to recruit the people of Jianghan to prepare for the construction of the canal. ”

"If the construction of the canal is true, then this year, the widow will not worry about the entanglement of Chu and Yue and the joint army again."

Chu Zi arched his hand and said: "King, now the Chu people in Jianghan are gathering, and the movement of Chu is still unknown at this time. Therefore, the minister thought that he still needed to wait and see for a while. ”

"It just so happens that we can also take advantage of this opportunity to let the crown prince marry Princess Wei and officially marry Wei State. After the marriage, whether it is the construction of a canal by the Chu State or the other plans of the Chu State, there should already be results. ”

"If the State of Chu is building a canal, then the State of Chu will definitely consume a lot of manpower and material resources, and then the State of Chu will definitely have no time to take care of anything else, which will be extremely beneficial to our actions in the State of Song."

King Qi nodded and said, "Good! ”

While speaking, the waiter came to report: "King, Ji Zi asks to see." ”

King Qi bowed slightly, and responded: "Pass!" ”

"No."

Soon after, Ji Zi walked in and saluted: "Chen Ji really greets the king!" ”

"Excuse me!" King Qi looked at Ji Zi and asked, "I don't know what Ji Zi wants to see the widow?" ”

Ji Zi arched his hand and said: "King, the minister is here for Maimi this time." ”

"Maimie?" King Qi was stunned and said strangely: "What does Ji Zi mean?" ”

"To be exact, my lord, the ministers are here for the flour." Ji Zi paused, organized his language, and said: "A few months ago, there was an incident in my Qi country, a small village with more than 20 households and hundreds of people near Linzi has rapidly become rich from an ordinary small village in the past year. ”

"The minister was ordered to monitor the trade in various parts of the Qi country, and a few months ago he noticed this strange village and wanted to explore the secret of this village's wealth, and it turned out that the secret of this village's wealth was the sale of flour."

"Selling flour?" King Qi and Prince Zi were stunned at the same time.

Since the news of flour came out in the Chu State, all countries have made it, but because of the difficulty in production, except for the Qi State, all other countries have not encouraged the use of flour.

King Qi naturally knows that it is difficult to make flour, and it is feasible for ordinary people to make flour to supplement their families while they are free, but if they want to get rich, this...

Unless, find an easy way to make flour quickly.

Thinking about it, King Qi's face changed, and he immediately asked, "Jizi, are you saying that this village discovered a way to get flour quickly more than a year ago!" ”

Ji Zi nodded when he heard this, and responded: "King, that's exactly the case." After the minister got rich from selling flour in this village, he immediately sent people to investigate, and as expected, in this village, there was a tool that could quickly make flour. ”

Saying that, Ji Zi wanted to bow to the king: "King, we have all been misled by the Chu State, the flour is not made at all, but made with other tools, and this tool is a stone mill composed of boulders." ”

"Stone grinding?" Chu Zi opened his mouth and asked, "Jizi, what is this stone mill?" ”

After the prince asked, King Qi also looked at Ji Zi curiously.

Ji Zi said when he heard this: "King, Xiangguo, this stone mill is composed of two boulders, one up and one down, the lower stone is a flat stone, and the upper stone is a stone wheel, relying on the stone wheel to roll, you can make flour." ”

After speaking, seeing that the crown prince of Qi seemed to understand whether he understood or not, he looked ignorant, and said: "The king, Xiangguo, it has really made a stone mill, please go and have a look." ”

The crown prince of Qi glanced at each other, all of them looked solemn, and the king of Qi responded: "Please lead the way!" ”

"Yui."

Not long after, Ji Zi took the crown prince of Qi to a workshop.

The king of Qi saw a stone mill pulled by an ox, a boulder in the shape of a large stone wheel, under the pull of the ox, constantly rolling on the stone platform, and after a while, the wheat on the stone platform was crushed into flour by the stone wheel.

Seeing this, King Qi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Skillful, compared to making flour with stones, the effect is a hundred times greater!" ”