Chapter 5 Men of the Song Kingdom
"What, Ziyan actually wants to use his body to bear the power of thunder with you in five days to accept the test of the gods?"
In Le Xin's mansion, the young nobleman Le Xin looked at Bu Xian, who was pale in front of him, with a look of surprise, as if he couldn't believe it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Yes, Childe, Ziyan, he's crazy. He had endured the power of the thunder once and did not die, so he thought that he could withstand the blow of the thunder forever, and the villain was definitely not as crazy as him. For the sake of the villain, save the villain. Bu Xian didn't dare to hold it up in front of Le Xin, and said to Le Xin with a pleading look.
"You have to say yes to this." In a blink of an eye, Le Xin thought about the powerful relationship.
He is a native of Fengyi, and their family and the main clan of the Le clan have been separated for a long time, and they have not heard from each other for a long time. Maybe if it takes a little longer, their family may be completely separated from the main clan of the Le clan. It wasn't until a year ago that Le Cheng, the ruler of the Song State and the head of the Le family, suddenly summoned him, which flattered Le Xin at that time. He rushed to Suiyang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, to meet this powerful faction in the Song Kingdom, the head of the Le clan of the Gong family, his face was full of excitement. The Le family is one of the oldest and most famous clans in the Song Kingdom, and it is the descendant of the Song Dai Gong with the Huang family, which is also known as the Dai family. The Le clan spread throughout the Song Kingdom, and there were countless small sects, which small sects could have a close relationship with the big ones, and their status immediately rose. Now that he has been personally summoned by the head of the Le family, wouldn't the development of him and his family be expected immediately?
Le Cheng didn't say anything when he summoned him, but just instructed him: Be sure not to let Fengyi fall into the hands of the Huang family.
At that time, he still didn't know what the situation was, their family had many people in Fengyi, and as the declining clan of the Song Kingdom, they had always had a very big say in the local area, and the Huang family did not have any power in Fengyi, how could Fengyi fall into the hands of the Huang family?
But when Fengyi became the fief of Gongzi Ziyan, everything was understood, and it turned out that this was what the head of the family ordered. He immediately began to take action, and rallied other nobles and wizards in the local area to collectively oppose Ziyan's policy. Ziyan's later administrative difficulties in this place were actually due to the stumbling blocks that Le Cheng made privately behind his back.
When Ziyan was killed by lightning, Le Xin was really happy for a while, so he could be regarded as having completed the task given to him by the head of the family perfectly, right? Although Childe died, it was impossible for the punishment of the gods to be counted on his head. After getting the news that Ziyan was not dead, he was still thinking about how to deal with him again, and now that Ziyan has died by himself, it is really an old man who is helping him. Although he wants to take the life of a god stick he is very optimistic about, this is not a trivial matter compared to the expectations of the head of the family for him.
"Childe, how can you abandon the villain?" Bu Xian's face was full of grief.
"Hehe, how could I abandon you? As long as you can pass God's test, I will definitely use you again. You also know that I have something to do with the current ruling party, and if you pass this test, I will definitely recommend to the ruling government to let you enter the door of the Suiyang Great Witch and Witchcraft. Le Xin said calmly.
Bu Xian wanted to say more, but seeing the resoluteness in Le Xin's eyes, he knew that no matter what he did, he couldn't change Le Xin's will, so he had to resign.
"Go, find someone to keep an eye on him, don't let him escape, I still have to watch this good show in five days." Lexin called left and right and commanded.
"No."
It was not just one person who ordered to keep an eye on Bu Xian, when Tang Ying informed Quanyi that Gongzi Yan and the wizard Bu Xian would directly bear the thunder and lightning outside the east gate of Fengyi outside the east gate of Fengyi to see who could pass the test of the gods, the entire Fengyi forces, large and small, began to stare at Bu Xian, and paid close attention to the development of things.
"Childe, the villain is here to bid you farewell. The eldest brother in the villain's family died suddenly, so the villain must return to his hometown and can no longer serve his son. ”
In Dai Yan's main mansion, Wei Meng said to Dai Yan with a sad face.
"If you want to go back, then you can go back, and I didn't stop you." Dai Yan has never had a good impression of this guy who likes to release empty cannons with his mouth, so he said politely.
"Childe, but the villain's pledge is still with you." Wei Meng said to Dai Yan with a stupid look. Really speaking, he actually didn't want to leave here, after all, Gongziyan had always been good to him before, but since Tang Yan wanted him to be buried with death after Ziyan's death last time, he has always had a pimple in his heart. Now Ziyan is going to die again, and he has to accept a lightning strike at the same time as a villain. He didn't want to be buried later, so he had better run away early. When a scholar swears allegiance to the sovereign, he has to sign a pledge, and if he does not return his pledge, how can he find the next lord after he returns?
"Tang Ying, go and bring him his pledge book." Dai Yan commanded.
Then he summoned the people who had signed a letter of hostage with him, and there were six other people besides Tang Ying and Wei Meng. Dai Yan said to these people: "Everyone, you will not give up, and you will always follow the boy. I won't say more, five days later I will be struck by thunder with the sorcerer Buham, and at the same time tested by the gods, and I am not sure that I will survive. Although I am also against human martyrdom, if I die, I guess you will not be able to live alone. Therefore, I am here to ask you, if you want to leave me now, I will immediately return his pledge. ”
The six of them looked at each other, you looked at me, I looked at you, and none of them spoke.
"Why, does everyone want to die so much?" Dai Yan asked with some surprise.
"Childe, you look down on us too much. We are all Song people, and all the countries call Song a country of gentlemen, and the Song people have the style of gentlemen. But what does it mean to be a gentleman? The kid doesn't understand anything else, but only knows one thing: the promise is an oath with the ghosts and gods, and the ghosts and gods will punish those who violate the promise, so the words of a promise are more important than a thousand gold. If you follow your ruler when he is prosperous, and turn your back on him when he is down, how is this different from a villain? Dai Yan knew that this unattractive young man was named Tian Buli, a native of Fengyi, and he had followed him for no more than two months, but he didn't expect to have such a determination.
"Do you think so?" Dai Yan asked weakly.
"We all think so, and swear to follow Childe to the death." Everyone responded in unison.
Dai Yan was silent, in the face of this situation, he really didn't know how he felt. Astonished? Move? For the first time after traveling to this era, he was completely shocked by the spirit of this era. He is familiar with history, and he is very clear about the impression of the Song Kingdom among various countries in history. Is the Song Kingdom a country of gentlemen? Do the Song people have the style of a gentleman?
If you look at the records and idioms about the Song people in the history books of the pre-Qin period, you can find that the Song State and the Song people are a joke at all.
The nations all say that the Song State is a deaf Song Dynasty, and the dignified and powerful countries only know that they are conservative, and they don't know the changes at all, so they have to stick to the rules. said that the people of the Song Kingdom were stupid and couldn't grow grain, but they wanted the seedlings to grow faster, so they pulled out the seedlings to help them grow, and as a result, all the seedlings died. It is said that the people of the Song Dynasty wanted to get something for nothing, and they happened to see a rabbit hit and died on a tree stump in the field, so they waited for the rabbit every day, hoping that more rabbits would be killed. It is said that the people of the Song Kingdom have no knowledge, there is a Song peasant who does not know that there are tall, comfortable and warm houses in the world, and he does not know that there are good clothes such as silk cotton, and he only feels that the sun is very comfortable on him when he does things in the field every day, so he dedicates this discovery to the king, which means to expose the savages, and he also believes that he can be rewarded by the king. It is said that the merchants of the Song Kingdom will not do business, and the Song people went to the south to sell clothes and hats, but they found that others were all tattooed, and the clothes and hats were useless at all, so they lost money.
In short, regarding the Song people, the pre-Qin people all felt that the Song people were two forces, regardless of race, class, or composition.
Dai Yan once had a small study on the interesting story of the "Black Song Dynasty" of the countries, and he felt that the reason for the Black Song Dynasty of the countries was nothing more than that the Song Kingdom was a principality with the highest status, but its strength was not enough, and everyone had to find a balance. The other reason is nothing more than the Yin Shang civilization inherited by the Song Dynasty and the ritual and music civilization of the Zhou Dynasty are two completely different civilizations.
Are the people of the Song Kingdom really all second-handed? Dai Yan knew that this kind of thing was of course unfounded. In fact, such a country as the Song State was simply a big country with exclusive thinkers in the pre-Qin era. In such a wonderful country, the descendants have produced the ancestor of Confucianism, Confucius, the ancestor of the Mo family, the ancestor of the Mo family, the Zhuangzi of Taoism, the famous Hui Shi, the Song Yin school of Song Yu, and the study of business Ji Ran. These people can be regarded as a generation of masters. However, the Song Kingdom has never had a Jixia Academy like the Qi Kingdom, it has always been a lonely master, and then it went to the world alone.
Looking at the six Song people in front of him who wanted to die to protect their promises, Dai Yan had a little realization in his heart. Maybe Sima Qian later commented that there was a gentleman's style between Liang and Song, maybe he was referring to these. It is a principled primitive people with a deep and proud history, and its people keep their promises.
Like the fief under his feet - Fengyi, in the original history, more than 100 years after the fall of the Song State, the whole world was unified by the Qin State. When the whole world was in turmoil, a commoner named Liu Laosi (Liu Ji) led 3,000 soldiers from here, and in the end, he seized the whole world and established the famous Han Empire! Since then, the words written by people in the world are called Chinese characters, and the words spoken are called Chinese, and the people of the world have a unified name - Han people.
What is the power of this not fertile land? Looking at the six lonely young scholars in front of him, Dai Yan had an answer in his heart, the powerful power of this land was on these stupid and stupid Song people who didn't know how to be flexible.