The exam week is coming, and there is less time for coding words, so today is a big chapter, and tomorrow is two more

"Zhao's son, there is a saying in the book: Doctor Qing has his own territory, Ru'an dares to invade my territory, and it will be bad for me to use people!"

Doctor Suju is a fat middle-aged man, although he has the name of the Duke of Lu, but he has no temperament of the Prince, he is full of fat, he still shakes his face fat, and viciously asks Zhao Wuxian about the purpose of this trip.

Zhao Wuxian didn't answer him immediately, just glanced at the person coldly, and then turned back to look at the scene of "employing people", the tips of his fingers were still trembling slightly.

It's cruel, it's too much!

The so-called "ritual of employing people", that is, the so-called human sacrifice in later generations, is a primitive religious ritual in which living people are used as sacrifices to please God. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, human sacrifice was flourishing, and its use of many people included burning, drowning, burying alive, dissecting the heart, stabbing the throat and draining blood, and cutting off the head, etc., and even chopping people into meat and steaming them into meat soup.

After the Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou, known as the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, still took a large number of Yin Shang nobles as sacrifices, killed hundreds of them, and sacrificed them to Haotian. Until the reign of the Duke of Zhou, he seemed to find this method too brutal, so the mainstream of the Zhou family began to condemn this kind of ritual.

Therefore, the phenomenon of human sacrifice in the Spring and Autumn Period is not as shocking and cruel as that of the Yin Dynasty, but it is not uncommon. Although Zhao Wuxian had heard of it for a long time, it was not until today that he could see his true face, and its heinous degree was even more heinous than the burial of a living person who had been ordered by Wuxian in his territory.

When listening to the report of the scout Yu Xi, saying that today Dr. Suju gathered nearly 10,000 people to hold a human sacrifice in the suburbs of the city. He knew it was not a trivial matter. So he hurried with the whole division, but saw that the black outside the city was pressing 10,000 people to gather. He was watching the sorcerer and the Suju Doctor perform a blood sacrifice ceremony, kneeling to the sky and cheering as the blood dripped. Pray that the Lord will be satisfied with these offerings so that the typhoid epidemic will pass sooner.

Zhao Wuxian immediately asked hundreds of his subordinates to open bows and arrows, forcibly opened a road, and asked the soldiers to maintain order, isolating the onlookers from the altar, and walked in to take a look, but it was a moment too late.

Of the nine "sacrifices" tied to the pillars, seven people have already been killed like livestock, and the methods are extremely cruel.

Five of them died. They are all handsome men and beautiful women selected from several towns around Suku. But the other two turned out to be the envoys sent by Zhao Wuxian before! They had been imprisoned, and preferably poisoned, and by the time they arrived, only one of them had his wrist cut off and was dying in a coma!

There were also the messy stumps on the ground, the charred internal organs that had been pulled out by the wizards, and the pools of black and red congealed blood, which were reflected in the dull and fearful eyes of the onlookers. It's so dazzling!

……

Zhao Wuxian was immediately furious, and immediately ordered the ceremony to be terminated, and Yu Xi and the others were already indignant when they saw that their colleagues were killed. So after Zhao Wuxian gave an order, he dragged down the wizard who was going to continue to commit violence and pressed him to the ground.

The move has sparked a flurry of complaints from the public. For the doctor in Chinese costumes, the soldiers did not dare to do it. It can only be surrounded by a spear.

At this moment, Dr. Suju is still unconvinced. He kept saying that Zhao Wuxian had no right to interfere in the affairs of his territory, and it was a great disrespect to the gods to interrupt the sacrifice.

Zhao Wuxian sneered: "Why did you enter the sentence? Just because I am the little secretary of the Lu country, the head of the doctors of Xilu, I am in charge of the lawsuits of the ministers, the officials, and the people, and I will correct the illegal acts! ”

"What is wrong with me being a doctor in this place, offering sacrifices to the gods and praying for an early end to the plague? If you destroy the sacrifice, and if the plague continues to run rampant, it will be your sin! Doctor Suju declared without changing his face, he arranged his clothes with a big grin, frowned, and regarded Zhao Wuxian as nothing.

The crowd of onlookers began to stir up, and it was clear that Dr. Suku was stirring up the mood of the people.

So Zhao Wuxian glanced at Kan Zhi, who could speak well, Kan Zhi was clear, and stood up and refuted loudly:

"When Song Xianggong asked the Duke of Yi Wen to use the captured Yan Zi in the Sui Society, he wanted to belong to Dongyi, his brother Sima Muyi once said that in ancient times, six kinds of livestock could not be used to sacrifice each other, and small sacrifices did not kill large animals, not to mention dare to use people as sacrifices? Sacrifices are for people. Man is the Lord of God. Murder and sacrifice, the gods will only be angry, where can they enjoy it with peace of mind? ”

The doctor was short of words, but the wizard who was pressed to the ground by the military guards loudly defended: "Thirty years ago, Ji Pingzi cut down Ju, took Yunyi, and when he returned to offer prisoners, he used people in Boshe!" The doctor and I are just following suit, and the little priest wants to ask about the crime, why don't you ask Ji! ”

Kan Zhi spat at the wizard and said, "You dare to mention it!" The bad habit of using people to sacrifice in Lu began here, when Zang Wuzhong was in Qi, and after hearing about this, he said that Zhou Gong probably didn't want to enjoy the sacrifice of Lu anymore! The Duke of Zhou enjoyed the sacrifice that was in line with morality, and the State of Lu sacrificed with living people, which was not in line with morality. "Poetry" said: Deyin Kong Zhao, depending on the people. Zang Wuzhong is right, what you are doing now is too frivolous and casual, and you actually use people like livestock, how can God bless you! ”

Zhao Wuxian also said: "However, the heavens have the virtue of a good life, and the earth has the thickness of loads, how can heaven and earth be happy if people are sacrificed?" What's more, you actually killed the messengers and soldiers I sent to help Suju prevent the epidemic! The second and third sons, after collecting the corpses of the two, carry them up, and let Dr. Suju and his Yiwu see what they have done! ”

The atmosphere that had been frozen for a long time by the soldiers suddenly boiled, and with anger, they assigned people to take care of the unconscious wounded, and carried the bodies of the two on their shoulders and carried them to the bottom of the high platform.

One of them, Zhao Wuxian, also recognized that he was also an old man in Chengxiang, a hairy young man of the Sang clan in the past, who had accompanied him as a rider, and grew into a messenger who could be trusted, and he might be able to establish a meritorious career in the future, but he died in an ordinary mission.

Death at the hands of a wizard!

At this moment, his eyes were hollow, and he must have been whipped before he died, so he was scarred. There was not a trace of life in the drenched cold bodies of the two, and the red liquid still slowly flowed out from the cuts in the chest, lower abdomen, and back, as if many toothless mouths were spitting all over the body.

There was silence all around, except for half a mile away, the dogs in Sujuyi were barking loudly. Through the brick walls and wooden doors, through the ice and rain. It's nerve-wracking.

"Employing people for sacrifice is already a great sin for the remnants of the people. Killing the messenger I sent is even more unforgivable, the three of them were sent by me to assist in the prevention of the epidemic, how did they offend the doctor, and they ended up like this!? ”

Zhao Wuxian's words were cold, and the soldiers also held their spears and pressed forward step by step, unloading the arms of the Xuju Yi soldiers, and surrounding the Xuju doctors, but still no one dared to touch him at will.

He can't be punished by a doctor. This concept is deep-rooted, not to mention that the doctor is still a nobleman in the office, and Zhao Wuxian is a middle doctor. According to the inherent etiquette of the Lu State, with Zhao Wuxian's status, he could not make any judgment against Dr. Suju, at most he would be sent to Lu City, and Lu Hou, Sanhuan, and Zong Bo would be invited.

So this fat doctor with a fat head and big ears turned out to be a little fearless.

"Because this plague was brought by the people of the Jin Dynasty!" He reached out and pointed at Zhao Wuxian heavily, as if he was the culprit. This is from the time of typhoid fever to the present day. What Yi Wu had been emphasizing, he himself was convinced of it out of his disgust with Zhao Wuxian.

This rhetoric has deceived some people and led to today's tragedy. Ten thousand people gathered at the scene, and in addition to the sick who were still reezing at home, almost the entire city came. They wanted it to be just as the lord and the wizard had said. Sacrifice your life and the pandemic will stop.

And among them. The three pawns are the top priority!

Therefore, after Dr. Suju brought up the old matter, almost everyone looked at Zhao Wuxian with dissatisfaction and fear. Looking at the warriors, some even prayed loudly for Zhao Wuxian to release the Doctor and the wizard and let the ritual continue. The wizard who had been pressed to the ground grinned and grinned triumphantly.

Once 10,000 people boil, it will cause a serious riot, and Zhao Wuxian will not suppress it, nor will it be a ruin and collapse, it is really a good idea for Doctor Suju to fight, Kan Zhi's palms began to sweat, and he desperately thought about countermeasures.

But in the end, Zhao Wuxian was just a simple rhetorical question, which made this rhetoric self-defeating.

……

"False!"

He shook everyone by making a loud noise, and randomly ordered a crowd of onlookers to ask him: "In the beginning, where did typhoid fever come from, east, south, west, and north?" ”

The man timidly replied, "From the north." "However, during those days the west side of our country was completely cordoned off, and no one was allowed to enter or leave. The typhoid patients came from the north, and the north was the country of Qi, and it was the Qi people who brought the epidemic, and it had nothing to do with us. ”

In an uproar, the people started talking again for a while, but the doctor and the wizard couldn't think of how to respond for a while.

"In the final analysis, it is the reason why the doctors of your rank refuse to block Tu Dao and refuse outsiders." These words were spread by the Lu people in dialect one by one, and Zhao Wuxian only hated that there was no megaphone at hand.

"Besides, Xilu's typhoid fever has been cured, and we are here to help everyone expel the epidemic!"

"What?"

"That's true!"

The people of Suju seemed to be holding on to the straw, and they all raised their heads and tiptoed, if it weren't for the soldiers who were blocking them with spears horizontally, they would definitely pounce at Zhao Wuxian's feet and ask for an understanding.

"I am the small secretary of the Lu country, in charge of the defense and epidemic control of the Xilu provinces, how can I have a fake? And they looked at the west. ”

Ten thousand people turn their heads, what is there to the west? Except for the bloody sunset that is about to end.

"In half a day, there will be a spirit magpie flying to Zhaoxi, and the divine doctor Bian Que will be in the rear of the army, and when the time comes, he will rejuvenate himself, and the typhoid fever epidemic will naturally be completely eliminated."

"Bian Que?"

"Divine Doctor Bian Que?"

"We are truly saved!"

Bian Que is famous all over the world. He once went to Handan, and when he heard the noble lady, he took the doctor with him; After passing through Luoyang, hearing that the people of Zhou love the elderly, that is, the doctor of ear and eye paralysis; When he entered Xianyang, he heard that the Qin people loved children, that is, he was a pediatric doctor. With the change of customs, there are also many legends left in Qilu and other places, with great influence, Zhao Wuxian reported the word Bian Que, which is more effective than his mouth.

Kan Zhi saw that Zhao Wuxian's persuasion had an effect, and also assisted in the Lu dialect: "Today's matter is over, you and the others will go home separately and wait for the doctor to come to help and administer medicine!" Think about it, if Dr. Suju could have accepted Xiao Sikou's help earlier and prevented the epidemic and treated it earlier, how could typhoid fever not be eliminated by now, and how could your relatives die unjustly? ”

The simple people are the easiest to fool and agitate, and under the persuasion of Kan Zhi, the typhoid fever epidemic began to become the sin of Dr. Suju.

As the leader of this human sacrifice, the Yiren wizard, who was extremely prestigious in the local area, saw that the situation was not good, and desperately wanted to break free from the soldiers. He shouted loudly: "Although the epidemic was not brought by the Jin people, it is really the wrath of the ghosts and gods. This is the punishment for the battle of Jin Qi, and it is just a matter of harming the sentence. If the people go home. If the sacrifice is not continued, if the epidemic is not eliminated, but becomes more intense, what is the good!? ”

……

Ghosts and gods cause illness, which is something that everyone believes in, and they are always afraid of the unknown. As soon as these words fell, they became entangled again, yes, no one can say what will happen tomorrow. Even if the divine doctor Bian Que really came, could he really defeat the wrath of the ghosts and gods?

The soldiers were furious, three of their colleagues had already been killed, wasn't it enough? But without Zhao Wuxian's order, they would not have used the tip of their spears to poke these blinded people awake.

Zhao Wuxian was angry but also a little helpless, the people refused to leave, so that Doctor Suju and the wizard could rely on it, which could not be explained for a while.

He pondered for a moment and then said, "Since you really think that you don't continue the ritual, then the local ghosts and gods are angry. So that's it...... Bring that witch up! ”

"Do what you want, do what you want!"

Terrified, Yiwu tugged at the hem of his shirt and smelled a disgusting smell of spices. Sticky sweetness mixed with blood. He seemed to see the shadow of a witch in this person, but that wizard didn't have the courage to kill people and do evil under his transformation.

"I've heard. You have great powers and can communicate with the gods? ”

"Yes. So don't hurt me, or you'll ......."

"I don't hurt you. I just want you to help me continue this sacrifice...... But man is the spirit of all things, and he should not be killed lightly, so it is better to replace him with me. ”

Wuxian pushed him to the ground heavily, and then pulled out the hair-picking Shaoyu sword at his waist, and raised his hand, but it was not aimed at Yiwu, but at himself.

"Lord!"

"Sikou!"

Everyone around was shocked and rushed forward to stop him, only to see that Zhao Wuxian just cut off a strand of his dark sideburns and threw it in front of Na Yiwu.

"Pick it up!"

Yi Wu thought that he was going to be killed, and he was so frightened that he trembled, and then he came back to his senses, holding those few strands of black hair, and he didn't know what to do.

The tall Wuxian stood in front of him and announced: "I am the descendant of the Heavenly Destiny Xuanniao, the nobles of the Zhao clan, the middle doctor of the Sanyi who was personally canonized by the king, and the little priest of the Lu country, who used my skin and hair as a sacrifice to complete this final ceremony, but what?" ”

The body is skinned, the parents who receive it, dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety, although this concept of Confucianism has not yet become popular in the world, but it has had a certain influence in the country of Lu. Chinese people wear their hair in a bun and take care of their skin, which is regarded as the beginning of ritual and pleasure, so as to distinguish them from the barbarians who cut off their hair and tattoo their bodies, and shaving their hair is also regarded as a "torture" of great shame.

Therefore, as a nobleman, Zhao Wuxian raised his hair, and everyone present seemed to be a great move, so Yiwu was also dumbfounded, and said in a thin voice: "But ......"

Zhao Wuxian was silently mourning for the two soldiers who died and those sacrifices who died unjustly, so his face was solemn, and he looked as if he had been possessed by divine power, completely dominating this interrupted sacrifice.

"The mountain ghost and water lord of the sentence, the spirit of the Yijun of the past dynasties is above, listen to my congratulations, if there is a punishment, not all the people are guilty, but the kid is unscrupulous!"

"Virtuous Sikou!" The people present who could hear this prayer fell to their knees, and they were so moved that Zhao Wuxian wanted the ghosts and gods to spare all the people and only blame him! In comparison, Dr. Suju is so selfish and ugly.

After Zhao Wuxian finished speaking, he looked indifferently at the overwhelmed Yiwu, the soldiers and the sacrifices must have been desperate before they died, and soon, they would soon be able to see it in the eyes of this person.

"This prayer has to be passed on, since you, the witch, claim to be able to travel through the realm of humans and ghosts and communicate with the gods. The second and third sons, find firewood, set up a pillar of fire, kill the white horse and black dog, and then burn him and my skin and hair, and let him take the sacrifice to the abode of the ghosts and gods! ”

PS: (King Wu is abolished in the hundreds of evil ministers, and the master of the right Turk boy Ding.) The forty husbands of the war are the kings of the family, and Situ and Sima Chu are in the suburbs. King Wu was caught at the south gate with prisoners, all of whom were dressed in clothes and entered first. ——Yi Zhoushu. The world captive, the so-called teacher of benevolence and righteousness is fake, and the wanton killing of the loser nobles by the victor is the real one) (To be continued......)

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