Chapter 33: Oniyasha
After the temple blessing of the local Chenghuang Temple in Taiping Town, according to the instructions of the Chenghuang Ye Yumo, the wooden door of the meditation room was so dry that it was about to be weathered, Lu Yu and Chenghuang Yumo sat face to face on the two yellow satin futons in the innermost part of the meditation room.
As soon as he sat down, Lu Yu cautiously opened his mouth and asked Chenghuang Yumo: "Dare to ask Chenghuang what is the matter with Lord Chenghuang?" ”
When asking this sentence, Lu Yu mobilized his brain power and began to recall the information about the city god in the depths of his memory, and after a moment, Lu Yu frowned slightly, obviously, about the city god lord, Lu Yu could recall too little information, so little that there was almost nothing.
The only thing Lu Yu knows is that the god Chenghuang is the most basic magistrate stationed in the human world in the underworld, and his official position is probably equivalent to the county order of the human world.
As the name suggests, since this god is named Chenghuang, then, their main duty must be to protect the city, as for how they use to protect it, Lu Yu is completely unclear.
"Young Master Lu doesn't have to be so polite, although my Yumo is a city god, but it's just a small god in a small county, I am a low-power and small god, not a big god, so I think that the dialogue between you and me, don't be too polite, you don't need to use honorific titles for each other, just treat it as a casual chat between friends......" Although Chenghuang Yumo is a person in the underworld, he is worthy of being a brilliant person in the officialdom, and he is also discerning when he plays an official tone.
"It's you who are polite, you are the god who guards our Taiping Town, boy, I am just an ordinary man, how dare I be on an equal footing with you......" As soon as he heard that Chenghuang Yumo was playing with him, Lu Yu, who was also a veteran in this, immediately cooperated with Yumo and also started.
"Hehe......" After listening to Lu Yu's old official words, he felt that it was quite magical, and raised his eyebrows slightly, and after smiling lightly, he opened his mouth to praise Lu Yu and said: "Young Master Lu is not an ordinary man, you have such a great cultivation at a young age, it is really amazing, besides, Young Master Lu, you have a merit, and you will also be a fairy in the future, think about it, we will definitely be colleagues who are officials in the same dynasty in the future......
"My lord, you have won the prize......" After nodding his head and making a gesture towards Chenghuang Yumo, Lu Yu said politely in a low voice.
"This time, I'm looking for Young Master Lu to come over, there are two things to discuss with you......" After bowing back to Lu Yu slightly, Chenghuang Yumo, who finished playing the official tone, finally began to get down to business.
"...... you say" After hearing that Chenghuang Yumo finally stopped being verbose, Lu Yu hurriedly replied to him, and straightened his ears, ready to listen carefully to what he said.
"The first thing is this," after narrowing his eyes first, Chenghuang Yumo continued: "As the city god of our Taiping Town, my duty is to protect our Taiping Town from being eroded by the evil spirit, but recently, we are being disturbed by an evil qi here, and that evil qi has caused several murders, which has made the people of Taiping Town panic, so I want Young Master Lu and me to work together to expel the evil qi that invaded our Taiping Town, to be honest, that evil qi is very strong, and I am alone...... Besides, if you can really get rid of that demon, it will be a great merit......"
"I know about this matter, and I also know who the murderer is, he is Chang Hua, the son of Chang Ye, the protector of the Guang'an Army, I think, you don't have to think about expelling him, because, Zhou Fang, the only son of Zhou Yanchen, the former governor of Guozhou, is about to kill Chang Hua and eliminate harm for the people, so ......" After hearing the words "immeasurable merit", Lu Yu, who was a little tempted, responded after shaking his head slightly.
But before Lu Yu could finish speaking, Chenghuang Yumo interrupted Lu Yu, and sighed worriedly: "Young Master Lu, you only know one thing but you don't know the other......"
"How do you ...... this?" After hearing a little "treacherous" sound from Chenghuang's sigh, Lu Yu asked curiously.
"Although those murders were all done by Chang Hua, killing people was not Chang Hua's original intention, so Chang Hua ...... has been controlled by the evil spirit......" To Lu Yu's question, Chenghuang Yumo replied with an answer that made Lu Yu completely stunned.
"My lord, what kind of evil qi are you talking about......" Lu Yu, who was startled, asked Chenghuang Yumo in a loud voice.
"Demons! The evil spirit I am talking about is the evil spirit! That Chang Hua was possessed by an evil ghost! After hesitating for a moment, Chenghuang Yumo raised his eyes and explained to Lu Yu: "And the evil ghost that entangles Chang Hua is Li Shun!" ”
Li Shun...... Who is he...... Oh...... It's him! After hearing the word "Li Shun", Lu Yu thought that there was no such person in his memory, however, after a flash of inspiration, Lu Yu suddenly remembered who Li Shun was.
About 130 years ago, during the Chunhua period of Taizong, that is, more than 30 years after the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty, in a certain month, there was a great drought in Shudi, and Wang Xiaobo, a tea farmer in Qingcheng County, was unable to pay taxes after being affected by the drought and went bankrupt, and was punished and persecuted by the tax collectors.
Therefore, under the slogan of "equal wealth and poverty," Wang Xiaobo accepted hundreds of peasants and small businessmen who had been devastated by the drought in just a few days, and launched a small peasant uprising.
Subsequently, under the encirclement and suppression of the Great Song Xiang Army, in less than a year, Wang Xiaobo, the boss of the rebel army, was killed in battle.
Although the boss died, the rebel army led by him was not completely defeated, and the rebel army at this time, in terms of scale, had "accumulated" more than 10,000 people, and after smashing and looting several county seats, the rebel army was gradually full-fledged.
Just when the rebel army was panicking because of the loss of its leader, Li Shun, the brother-in-law of the former leader Wang Xiaobo, stood up and took over the rebel army left by Wang Xiaobo.
Under his leadership, the number of rebel troops swelled again, and soon reached the scale of 100,000 people, and at this time, the total population of the entire Shu region was less than two million.
Due to the increase in numbers, the combat power of the rebel army became more fierce, so the next year, the rebel army led by Li Shun captured Shuzhou.
At this time, Li Shun, who only laid down one state, his heart swelled, he founded the country in Shuzhou he had just occupied, the country name was "Shu", the year name was "Yingyun", and he also called himself the King of Shu, this name sounds very similar to the "Rat King", that is, the king of the rats.
Sure enough, the "Rat King" Li Shun is just a clown who jumps off the beam, after Song Taizong moved seriously and sent the forbidden army, less than four months, the "Shu Kingdom" that had just been established was destroyed by the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army, and the "Rat King" Li Shun also ended up being executed by Ling Chi.
What's even worse is that the rebels who followed Li Shun were all slaughtered by the forbidden army, and many people were still wiped out, with a total of more than 100,000 deaths.
In addition to the rebels, there were many people who were implicated in that disaster and died unjustly, and the number of unjust deaths was more than 100,000.
For Shudi, which had a population of less than 2 million in the early years of the Song Dynasty, the death of more than 300,000 people at one time was equivalent to the death of one in six people, which was simply an apocalyptic catastrophe.
And the people of Shu blamed Li Shun for this catastrophe, calling it a ghost yaksha.
After recalling the story of Li Shun's "scourge" of Shudi, Lu Yu, who frowned, pouted slightly and asked Chenghuang Yumo: "Li Shun has been dead for more than a hundred years, and he ......"