Chapter 53: Undercurrents Surge III

After the investigation and interrogation of the Yulin Army, a total of 13,000 people were arrested in China, including more than 5,000 officials and security troops, and more than 3,000 pirates were captured on the deserted island of Donghai County in Han China, and nearly 10,000 fishermen were rescued. Ouyang Xuan had a headache about how to deal with these people, if they were all killed, some people would not be guilty of death, and if they were not killed, it would not be enough to deter bandits. Ouyang Xuan stood on the deck of the yacht all night, and at breakfast, Ouyang Xuan finally made up his mind to kill them all, and moved their families to the North American land that Ouyang Xuan planned to develop, which would not exist as a national territory, but only a place of exile for criminals. Later, according to the situation, Ouyang Xuan has seen the power of space-time potential energy in the past hundred years, if there is no space-time cliff, the huge space-time potential energy will quickly repair the original changes. This is also the reason why Ouyang Xuan has not interfered too much with the Han Court, firstly, in order to repay Liu Qi's kindness in that year, secondly, he kept his promise to Liu Che, thirdly, the ability to repair the potential energy of this time and space is strong, Ouyang Xuan has already understood, and fourthly, because Ouyang Xuan still remembers Shi Xian's words back then (see the previous twenty-eight chapters for details): how to be held accountable for unborn things.

On the port wharf, Ouyang Xuan planned to erect a tower, a tower built with a graupel energy carrier. These prisoners who participated in the piracy were all hanged in the tower, allowing the carrier to absorb their graupel energy mass and serve as a beacon for the harbor. It is also erected here as a monument to deter the most heinous.

After breakfast, Ouyang Xuan and his generals put forward their own ideas, and after the improvement of the Yulin Army, they finally determined the plan to build the tower, as for the exile of their families, they didn't have too many opinions, because they had been there with Ouyang Xuan, and they knew the richness there, and it was also the most appropriate way to send these sinners' families to develop them first.

After determining the plan, Ouyang Xuan went to ask the Duliba people to assist, and manually filled a small island outside the harbor overnight, and built a tower up to 100 meters high. An empty chamber ten meters deep was built under the tower, and it was also used as a carrier, which was connected to the tower body. According to the calculations of the Duliba people, the energy mass of these people is enough for the tower body to shine for more than a thousand years.

After more than ten nights of construction, this tower finally stood on the sea five miles away from the harbor, and Ouyang Xuan personally inscribed a plaque: Suppressing Evil Tower. On the day of the completion of the tower, more than 10,000 people arrived under the tower through a temporary bridge under the escort of the Yulin Army. Ouyang Xuan stood on the high platform, looking at these prisoners who were covered in bruises and described as withered, a cruel smile flashed across his face, he took an iron amplified barrel, and said loudly: "You have been on the evil side for more than decades, and the most hated thing in my life is the evil people and corrupt officials. Why did I build this tower today? Because your leader Xue Tong once told me to be a good person in the next life, but I don't allow him to have another life, and so will you, and the next life will be an impossible dream for you. I know better what happens in the next life, and today is the time for your soul to be gone. and make a break for the evil things that you have done in this life." After speaking, he turned his head and said to the guards next to him, "Bring the first people up, and throw them into the tower after punishing me, and the rest will do the same." "No!".

A moment later, nearly 100 members of Xue Tong and Han Wubi's Hou clan were pressed under the tower gate, and the thousands of soldiers of Yulin with big shoulders and round waists were waiting by the door with leather whips and sticks. More than 100 people were constantly beaten by leather whips and sticks on the way to the tower gate, and a miserable scream sounded, Ouyang Xuan ignored it at all, and with a wave of his hand, the other prisoners also walked into the tower in the same whip forest stick array, and the screams lasted for a whole day, before these people all entered the tower, and when the night was shrouded, Ouyang Xuan ordered the tower door to be closed. While these people were still suffering from pain and hunger in their bodies, they felt extreme fear as the tower door closed. The struggle began, and for a while the shouts and screams in the tower suddenly sounded, and they could be heard clearly outside, and the families of these people not far away were being driven onto several 50,000-ton freighters, leaving them with the course of human suffering, which was also the punishment they deserved after enjoying the glory. The people in the tower are unarmed, and the walls of the tower are as solid as steel, and trying to escape from the tower is comparable to climbing to the sky. There was no water, no food, and nothing but death awaited them.

The tower door is very tightly closed, once closed, it takes a lot of trouble to open it again, and the tower door of this tower is opened twice in the next two thousand years, counting this time. After seven days, no other sound came from the tower, but at night the entire tower began to glow blue, and the special navigation lights on the spire of the tower were constantly glowing yellow all year round under the supply of this graupel energy? The light of color lasted until the next time the tower gate was opened in 1,400 years.

Some of the families who had been exiled in batches saw the miraculous changes in the tower, and they were terrified. also hated Ouyang Xuan to the core, which also led to the refusal of the Americas to be incorporated into China after a thousand years, and then colonized by Europeans, and even to the immigrants in the later period? The United Europeans resorted to violence, forcing Ouyang Xuan to abandon the idea of America. However, it gave a psychological deterrent to those who tried to make a fortune by plundering, so that no local pirates appeared in the vicinity of China for 2,000 years, and it also deterred Chinese officials. But this also became an important crime for Ouyang Xuan to be overthrown 1,900 years later, but it became one of the seven wonders of China and one of the most popular tourist attractions. One day two thousand years later, Ouyang Xuan has been out of people's field of vision for more than forty years, and his face has returned to normal growth, walking alone on the stone bridge leading to this tower, the tour guide behind him is explaining the origin of this tower to tourists, "Tourists, according to historical records, this tower was the Chinese Holy Emperor who encountered pirates when he went out on patrol again, and after extermination, the bandits were imprisoned here. After closing the tower gate, 13,000 pirates and their associated personnel starved to death, and the tower body and navigation lights began to shine from then on, and it is still difficult to understand the mystery, which is rumored to be because of the light emitted by the souls of these people. Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly, turned around and asked, "It has also been recorded in the history books that from now on, bandits are no longer in the country, and the people call them sacred. There was a holy temple next to the tower, which was destroyed two hundred years ago." The tour guide replied embarrassedly: "This gentleman, there is a record in the history books, but it is just limited to the rumors that were known at the time", and then there was a boo below, Ouyang Xuan smiled faintly, and did not speak.

It took two full months to deal with the pirates in Wanghai, Tai Shuxuan and Ouyang Duo still have a fanatical preference for beaches and sea water, Buick and Gu Li have long been accustomed to sea water, and they will swim in the sea every day. After Ouyang Xuan finished dealing with the matter here, it was already September, and it was the time when the crabs were the fattest, Ouyang Xuan wrote a letter to Emperor Ouyang Dan, telling in detail about the things here, and bought a hundred high-quality crabs in the market and returned to the cruise ship and handed them over to the cook to cook.

In the cabin of the study, Uncle Tai Xuan was teaching Ouyang Duo to write, and when he saw Ouyang Xuan coming in, Ouyang Duo immediately got up and saluted: "Ancestor, do those people have to die?" Some of them are good people, and there is nothing wrong with them. Why starve to death in the tower? The little guy looked at Ouyang Xuan with big eyes.

"In order to solve future troubles, these people have been operating here for a hundred years, and all kinds of networks are intertwined, and a little relaxation will make a comeback. And with this lesson, it will be more subtle and more ferocious. Remember what I said: If you fight a snake, you will not die, but you will be bitten by it. Therefore these people must die, and they must die a miserable death, in order to shock those who still think of it."

"Ancestor, isn't it a little too cruel to do this, and it is better to behead the market than to trap and die in the tower. and reincarnation as a human being in the next life."

"Since it's a warning to people, it's natural to be cruel. The reason why man is different from things is that something that we can't see provides us with independent thinking, so that we can be creatures."

"What is that ancestor thinking independently?" Why did the little guy's 100,000 come up again? Ouyang Xuan had to tell him the difference between a creature and a machine to satisfy this guy's curiosity.

"Ancestor, won't these people have an afterlife?" Well, those who are evil do not deserve an afterlife. There is a sect in Yinzhou and Qiuzi, called Buddhism, and their teachings talk about the cycle of cause and effect, and those who are born evil go to hell, and those who are born good go to the realm of bliss. Hell is divided into eighteen levels, and depending on the consequences, you can enter different hells. Those with high good karma enter the Elysium and are free from the suffering of samsara, and those who are happy and virtuous will have good results in the next life. I have only sent them to hell."

"How can Your Majesty know the truth of the family teacher?" Tai Shuxuan, who had been dealing with live crabs all the time on the side, said suddenly, and kept staring at Ouyang Xuan again. Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly and said: "This is the principle of Buddhism, I have a relationship with the high monks of Qiuzi, and it is not impossible to know this principle."

"You just are". Ouyang Xuan smiled slightly, stopped her from talking with his hand, and just nodded.

Waiting for the crabs to be served, this time these two people followed Ouyang Xuan's example and ate with scissors, toothpicks and other tools, and they were still very happy, one person ate more than ten crabs, which frightened Ouyang Xuan, quickly asked you to stop and change some other seafood for them to eat, otherwise Ouyang Xuan didn't dare to guarantee that there would be no problems.

After a few days in Wanghai City, after settling everything, under the escort of three warships, out of the Bohai Bay, across the strait, four ships that were the most advanced in this era and even in later generations, slowly moved south along the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea on the sea far from the coastline. At this time, the ocean was still a desert for human beings and a paradise for creatures.

On the entire cruise ship, except for the people brought by Ouyang Xuan, there are less than twenty people from the Yulin Army, the whole yacht seems empty, Tai Shuxuan likes this feeling, there are a total of five floors on the deck of this cruise ship, the first floor is where the Yulin guards and crew live, the second floor is the fitness and training place, the wheelhouse of the cruise ship is also on this floor, the third floor is the dining room and kitchen, and there is also a cabin where female soldiers live, Ouyang Xuan does not like to put the kitchen below the deck. The fourth floor is where Ouyang Xuan and his wife live, of course, Ouyang Duo also has a special cabin here, and there is a fifty-meter-long open-air swimming pool in front. In front of the fifth floor is an open-air platform, and behind it is a watchtower. There are four more floors below deck, the first of which is a liftable artillery system. The second layer is material storage, the third layer is water supply and power supply systems, and the bottom layer is energy storage and power systems.

For this ship and the 200,000-ton cruise ship that is also driven by hail energy to be replaced at the Qiongzhou base, it took Ouyang Xuan a lot of thought and carefully designed, this ship is suitable for sailing in big rivers and rivers, and can accommodate thousands of people with a full load. The whole ship is made of special alloy metal, which is a cruise ship in peacetime, and can be used as a warship in wartime or as a command ship. There is a complete communication and command system and an all-round holographic imaging system purchased from the Duliba people.

Stop and go along the way, and there is no rush to go. When Ouyang Xuan was in high spirits, he took the Yulin guards to fish on the deck, watching the Phoenix Emperor flying in the air bully those seabirds. Tai Shuxuan only focuses on the result of fishing, and is very bored with the process. Whenever a fish is hooked, it is very excited, and when there is no fish, it is constantly urging the rod to check. Ouyang Xuan was also confused by her, so he had to give her a pair of fishing rods.

The fleet was moving slowly all the way, docking at Quanzhou to replenish supplies during the winter moon, and Ouyang Xuan ordered the fleet to anchor at a naval base hundreds of miles away from Quanzhou. Ouyang Xuan took Taishu Xuan, Ouyang Duo and the guards to get off the ship at the port and enter Quanzhou City. It is an important trade hub in the north and south of China, east and west, and is more prosperous than Wanghai City, and is one of the few cities with a population of 10 million in China. It is also a city that Ouyang Xuan must come to every year, which is far away from the capital and belongs to a city far away from the emperor. There is a palace annex of Ouyang Xuan in the city, and a battalion of Yulin Army is stationed in charge of the daily maintenance of the courtyard.

The harbor is just outside the city walls, next to the Water Gate. Ouyang Xuan was dressed in a cyan cotton robe, wearing a square scarf, a sword across his waist, and black leather boots on his footstool. The Yulin guards behind him were all dressed in gray linen and green robes, with long knives across their waists, and each had a leather pistol holster on their left side. Tai Shuxuan and Ouyang Duo are also dressed as rich and nobles. Especially Ouyang Duo, dressed as a little boy in the south, and holding a jade flute in his hand. The two scabbards on Tai Shuxuan's waist were carefully dressed up with Ouyang Duo, colored and carved decorations, making the cold weapons look extremely beautiful.

The group did not attract much attention in Quanzhou, in this era, it is normal for wealthy families to travel with sword guards, especially in Quanzhou, where merchants gather, it is common to see groups of heavily armed caravans entering and leaving the city gates. The reason why it is called the water gate is because the ** that passes through the city flows out and into the sea. There is a large artificially constructed road that leads along the river bank to the wharf. The whole Quanzhou and the later Quanzhou that Ouyang Xuan knew were very different, whether it was the location and pattern of the city center. Bridges are also more than those of later generations, with more bridges, but the height is enough to pass through a giant ship tens of meters high.

Ouyang Xuan and his party walked slowly along the road on the shore to the city gate, admiring the busy waterway passage of this era. Greeting each other on the shore, on the bridge, and on the boat makes the city even more vibrant. Along the way, in addition to the Chinese, there were also Romans, Han caravans, Europeans, and the Sabbatarians of West Asia, and Ouyang Xuan even heard English that he had never heard in nearly a hundred and fifty years. Although there is still a gap between it and the second English, the familiar words make Ouyang Xuan feel very kind. These people came from far and wide for the silk, glass and ceramics of China. There were also those who came to study abroad, but they were all rejected by Ouyang Xuan. It's not that Ouyang Xuan is stingy or hiding his secrets, it's because in this barbaric era, if highly developed technology is used by barbarians or those in power, it is the most terrifying. Ouyang Xuan always remembered the words of the elder of the Duliba people: if people's culture cannot keep up with technology, it will bring about a devastating disaster, which may be self-destruction, or it may be destroyed by others, or it will destroy others. Just like now, after 150 years of development, China can no longer distinguish ethnic differences, and the Chinese language is universal. Intermarriage between each other, the distinct national character has disappeared. In addition to the Cypriot race of Wusun and Yue, who still retain their traditions, other Huang? Except for the Xianbei and Murwei people, the colored people are not divided into ethnic groups, and they are collectively referred to as the Chinese people. This is the demise of culture, and it is also what Ouyang Xuan has been doing his best for the past hundred years.

The high development of culture has led to the emergence of many trends of thought in society, and even the concept of citizenship that only appeared in the late later generations, and the person who put forward this concept is Wu Zhao, the son of Momen, and the word Hongliang. There are also folk tunes with beautiful tunes, pop music with fresh lyrics. With the increasing number of people imitating Ouyang Xuan, various musical instruments in society have also emerged, and masterpieces of seven-character poems and five-character poems have emerged in endlessly. Without Ouyang Xuan's guidance, newspapers, magazines and other carriers of dissemination of culture spontaneously appeared in society. Ouyang Xuan's role in it is to open his own mastery of movable type printing and papermaking to the public, through the improvement of the folk masters, coupled with Ouyang Xuan's measures to plant trees for arable land, now paper has long ceased to use trees, but instead of using a kind of reed introduced in the Americas and found in the near Arctic a very fast-growing shrub, after domestication and improvement for papermaking, in order to prevent the occurrence of environmental pollution, Ouyang Xuan formulated the law is extremely strict, the light is the death penalty, the heavy is extermination. This made the papermaking workshop and the family constantly improve the production method, and even Ouyang Xuan once saw the shopkeeper of a workshop actually drinking the wastewater produced by papermaking. Later, it was learned that they actually used the most primitive and effective column chromatography method to treat wastewater. Since then, Ouyang Xuan has also attached great importance to the wisdom of the people, and has widely solicited the wisdom of the people and promised the highest reward. Until Ouyang Xuan abdicated for the second time, when Ouyang Xuan received a ceramic utensil improved by a farmer, Ouyang Xuan almost cried, this is transparent ceramics. Ouyang Xuan didn't say a word directly, and rewarded him with ten thousand taels of gold from his pocket. The production process is simple and simple, difficult to say, as long as you understand the truth, it is easy. Transparent ceramics were made at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty in China, but they were overwhelmed by the Mongol army in small quantities, and none of the craftsmen survived (the source is from a wild history of the Chinese in Vietnam).

Ouyang Xuan was very excited about the scenery along the way, and when he was about to reach the city gate, Ouyang Xuan noticed that there was a group of people surrounding a group of ragged Europeans, pointing and pointing, as if something was wrong