Chapter Sixty-Eight: Water Dropping!

"Tongzhi Clan Strategy" said: Three generations ago (Xia, Shang and Zhou), the surname was divided into two, the man was called the name, and the pregnant person (woman) was called the surname.

So don't be noble and cheap, the noble have a clan, and the cheap have a name without a clan.

A slave with a surname, must not be an ordinary person, plus he is from Qiancheng, Wang Xu only knows a little about Qiancheng, but is not proficient, when the Ruins of Feizi Kingdom were excavated and unearthed, he was not born, and later because the Ruins of Feiziguo did not leave too many important cultural relics, so it was not taken too seriously.

So what does this surname represent, Wang Xu can only find Mo Kui.

Although it has been four or five hundred years since the Feizi Kingdom was destroyed and integrated into the Donghu Division, with the importance of the Feizi Country to the Guzhu Country, the Guzhu Country should have a lot of records about the Feizi Country.

"Zhai surname? If I'm not mistaken, it should be a descendant of the Fat King, the royal family of the Fat Country. Mo Kui knelt in front of Wang Xu, thought about it seriously and replied, "The Fat Country is indeed an important country of the Lonely Bamboo Country, not because the Fat Country is prosperous, but because they are good at animal husbandry, fishing and hunting, and they have brought a lot of advanced technology in the Central Plains, so they have always been the main country of the Lonely Bamboo Country." ”

"Wait a minute, if this Fat Country has always been under the jurisdiction of the Guzhu Country, then who is the Fat Man who later established the Zhongshan Kingdom?" Wang Xu frowned and asked.

"The Zhongshan Kingdom was not established by the fat son, but the descendants of the Yi clan who were destroyed by the Yin Shang that year, and later took refuge in the Zhou Dynasty, they changed to Xianyu, and later integrated into a number of Gu clans, and the nomadic tribe of the Qiu clan was changed to Bai Di, after the Zhongshan Kingdom was destroyed, they fled to the Yan Kingdom again, and there is no record after that." Mo Kui frowned and said, "But if it is said that Bai Dibu has anything to do with the Fat Country, the minister does not know, the only thing that can be determined is that they are all after the Yi clan, by the way, mentioning this minister thought of a rumor." ”

Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Let's hear it." ”

"After the seven generations of ancestors of Yin Shang were killed in Youyi, after the eight generations of ancestors wiped out Youyi, they exiled Yishui and gave Yishi to the Hebo Department of the accompanying tribe, which established the Republic of China and gave the surname of the country to Zhai. Mo Kui paused and said, "So later, because of the defection to the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhongshan royal family who was given the surname Ji should also be surnamed Zhai, and the Yi clan was our ally tribe before betraying our Yin Shang, so their customs and culture are all Yin Shang, they like to wear white clothes, and they have a heart for their homeland, so they call themselves Bai Zhai, which is also Bai Dibu." ”

"But Zhai Qiu said, now the king of the Bai Di Department is the Sang clan, where did this clan come from?" Wang Xu frowned.

"Surname San?" Mo Kui's face changed, and his kneeling posture stiffened a lot: "Can the minister meet this Zhai Qiu?" ”

Wang Xu nodded, and asked Mo Lian to call Zhai Qiu.

After a while, Tu Tan came in with Zhai Qiu.

The animal skin clothes covered his skinny, scarred body, and although the long hair that was washed and cleaned was frizzy, it looked refreshing to be tied behind his head, and it could be seen that he should want to cover the terrible scars on his face, but the scars were too big to cover at all.

After Mo Kui saw Zhai Qiu, his face changed again, his eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Drip punishment?!" What did you do to be tortured like this!? ”

Hearing Mo Kui's words, Wang Xu subconsciously frowned.

Waterdrop is a kind of torture researched by Emperor Xin on a whim, in order to punish a slave who accidentally dripped water drops on his clothes.

It is to tie the slave to a wooden bench, and let the water droplets continue to drip on the slave's face day and night, and after ten days, the face may cause the skin to ulcerate due to the weight of the water droplets, and finally until it drip through the head or rot to death.

But usually not many people are able to persist in dripping through their heads and die, and most of them die because of mental breakdowns and collapses.

This is a criminal law that sounds extremely cruel, but it is unknown whether it was invented by Di Xin, and more people think that it is a crime that was pressed on his head by later generations in order to slander Di Xin.

But now that he heard Mo Kui say this, and looked at the terrible rotten scar on Zhai Qiu's face, Wang Xu was a little convinced, it might really be some kind of torture by Yin Shang.

Zhai Qiu knelt on the ground and looked blankly at the old man with a somewhat collapsed expression.

"He only understands Dong nonsense." Tu Tan reminded.

Mo Kui, who had recovered from the shock, half-knelt in front of Zhai Qiu, held his shoulders and said in a deep voice, "Are you really a descendant of the Zhai family?" ”

Zhai Qiu blinked, nodded, and his hoarse voice like a broken gong was very harsh, "My mother told me so." ”

"The king of Bai Dibu, surnamed Sang?" Mo Kui's voice trembled nervously.

Zhai Qiu nodded stiffly.

Mo Kui took a deep breath, stood up and knelt in front of Wang Xu, his voice was full of murderous aura, "Returning to the Emperor, the minister implores that if you catch the people of the Bai Di Sang clan, please leave it to the minister to deal with." ”

"Tell me why." Wang Xu held his chin and asked curiously.

"The Sang clan is the great witch of the Zhai clan and assists the king, since the Zhai clan has suffered a drip punishment, then it must be the Sang clan who committed the crime and usurped the royal power of the Zhai clan! Sin is not punishable! Since the minister is a great witch, he will never allow such a wind of disobedience to prevail! ”

Wang Xu narrowed his eyes, understanding why Mo Kui was so out of shape, and his eyes were looking at usurping the throne, this is a felony of disobedience, but the usurpation of the throne by the Great Witch is another concept.

From the perspective of the Yin Shang system, there have been several changes of power in history, all of which have come at a heavy cost.

The first time is Shang Yuan Shengyi Yin because of the merit of assisting Shang Tang, was named Yin (Prime Minister), after Shang Tang's death, he leaned towards the government and the opposition, assisted three generations of Shang Emperors, when assisting Emperor Taijia, he tried to usurp the throne and exiled Emperor Taijia, but in the end he failed, welcomed Taijia back, and gave up usurpation.

After the usurpation of Yiyin, the royal family of the Shang Dynasty began to be wary of the ministers, and in order to prevent the ministers from becoming bigger, they began to assist another faction of rights to check and balance the ministers, that is, the divine power, that is, the witch.

Although Wu was spread in the period of the ancient emperors, Wu Peng was the ancestor of Wu, but Wu Peng was only a medical officer who was responsible for teaching the medical Tao to hang the pot to help the world, and did not have any real power.

It was not until the Shang Dynasty that Wu was elevated to the same position as the Zai, and the status was equal to that of the princes, which was a method that the Yin Shang royal family came up with to elevate the power of the ministers, using divine power and feudal feuds to decompose the real power of the ministers and prime ministers to stabilize the political balance.

The thirteenth emperor of Yin Shang, Zu Yi granted his prime minister Wu Xian the position of the great witch, so that he was no longer in charge of real power, but was responsible for divination, and also divided the power of the prime minister into four parts, divination, blessing, history, and Wu.

So the power of the emperor is highlighted, originally the emperor needs the assistance of the prime minister to administer, now there are four prime ministers, and the final decision-making power in the four proposals falls into the hands of the emperor.

Later, the divine power of Wu prevailed in Yin Shang, and the Shang emperor regarded himself as the incarnation of the Emperor of Heaven to weigh the divine power, this process was to prevent usurpation.

Therefore, the great witches of the past generations have attached great importance to this.

Now that there is a great witch usurping the throne under his nose, Mo Kui is naturally very nervous.

Seeing that the old man's nervous face turned blue, Wang Xu smiled and waved his hand, "If the Sang family's usurpation is true, it will naturally be handled by you, after all, it is a matter of your witch lineage." ”

Mo Kui let out a sigh of relief.

"I've heard of this dripping, but where did it origin?" Wang Xu asked suspiciously.

"Drip punishment is a criminal law used by the Great Witch to punish disloyal ministers." Mo Kui pursed his lips, "Anyone who intends to rebel will be personally presided over by the Great Witch, because after the dripping punishment, the deceased has a hideous face like an evil ghost, so it is the heaviest kind of torture." ”

Wang Xu looked at Zhai Qiu, a little curious, could it be that this slave really rebelled and was captured by Lin Hu and used drip torture?

But it's a bit unreasonable, slaves are no different from animals, so why should the Linhu people bother with drip punishment?

"The drip punishment on Zhai Qiu's body may have been the result of Sang's revenge." Mo Kui hesitated for a moment, "I think it shouldn't be long before the Sang clan usurped the throne, otherwise Zhai Qiu wouldn't know that he had a surname." ”

Wang Xu raised his eyebrows slightly, "It makes sense, ask him, what other clansmen besides him?" ”

Tu Tan interrogated Zhai Qiu.

It can be clearly found that Zhai Qiu's originally vigilant eyes have gradually become vicious, and he should have mentioned some great hatred.

"Indeed, as the monarch said, it has only been more than ten years since the Bai Di Sang clan usurped the throne, and all the men of the Zhai clan have been subjected to drip execution, and most of them have died at the time of the execution, and the remaining men have also been divided by various tribes and lost contact, but the women of the Zhai clan have been bought by the Lin Hu Department." Tu Tan stared at Zhai Qiu with shining eyes, "At that time, he was still an infant baby, and after he grew up and became sensible, he was also subjected to water dripping, and his identity may not be simple." ”

Wang Xu sighed lightly: "Is he suitable?" ”

"Perfect fit." Tu Tan grinned and said, "He is a natural wolf cub, even now, he has not clearly expressed his desire for revenge, but unfortunately his eyes can't deceive people, and after a few years of cultivation, he is definitely a highly poisonous dagger." ”

Wang Xu frowned and looked at Tu Tan: "No one is born to live for revenge. ”

Tu Tan smiled disapprovingly and did not refute, but obviously did not agree with Wang Xu's point of view.

Because he knows that he lives for revenge, and he believes that this child named Zhai Qiu is too.

"If you are wallowing in the haze of revenge, what about when you are done?" Wang Xu stared at Tu Tan's eyes and asked.

Tu Tan subconsciously avoided Wang Xu's eyes, his heart sank, and he frowned.

"I won't tell you that it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, nor will I tell you to laugh and grudge, I just hope that when you are taking revenge, don't forget that living is not just for revenge,." Wang Xu's voice was soft, like a warm breeze blowing in everyone's ears, "People's eyes are black, their hearts are red, and when their eyes turn red, their hearts will turn black." ”

Tu Tan's body shook suddenly.

"You will succeed in your revenge, but I hope that your hearts will never turn black." Wang Xu raised the corners of his mouth and showed a warm smile.

But behind this smile, Tu Tan sensed a creepy sense of fear.

This is an exhortation, and it is an emperor's command!