It's wrong, it's wrong!

The Yongle Hall was silent, and the three of them had serious expressions, looking down to think about the meaning behind this matter.

If it weren't for Ji Le's intention to create the Death Authority, and Cangjie's suggestion to create the Underworld, they wouldn't have noticed the difference. After all, there are too many dead souls returning to Ji Le's arms, and hundreds of thousands of souls are condensed together, and Ji Le usually doesn't check carefully, and he doesn't notice the abnormalities inside.

The young man thought for a while and made a guess: "Maybe the national spirit was born too late, and the original ancestors did not belong to you?"

"No way. It's only been a month since I was born, but even the soul of more than ten years ago is still there. Wait-" Ji Le sensed carefully, condensed his eyebrows and said: "It's not all here, Yang Ke's father's soul is not there." In other words, the Yang family is not in the same vein. ”

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, Yang Ke has a single lineage, and his grandfather and father have no brothers. Their descendants are too thin, right?"

Shi Huang's family figured out that something was wrong: "Their family's bloodline breeding ability is so poor? Hongnong Yang has existed for so long, it should be quite capable of giving birth, right? And he also married four wives...... Could it be that the impact of soil and water adaptation is so severe?"

"It should be said that he only married four wives. Perhaps it is because they know that they will not be able to have too many children, so they deliberately do this. ”

Yang Ke's father made a rule back then, not allowing the monarch to expand the harem without restraint. Jun has four wives, scholars have one wife and one concubine, and ordinary citizens have one wife.

If it is because of the restrictions made because they know that it is difficult for their families to have children, so as not to delay the female people......

The more Ji Le thought about it, the more crooked he became: Yang Ke's father is really a good person, and he seems to respect women. not only restricts sons from opening harems, but also leaves rules that facilitate women to start a family independently, such as the marriage system. In the end, it's all about encouraging childbearing.

Youth: "Now is not the time to study Yang Ke. Whether he can live or not, he is still young and can't die anyway. Or are you sure you don't have a soul about those ancestors?"

"Not a single one. ”

The young man closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then stretched out his finger to the ground: "Then maybe here." ”

"Mother Earth?"

"It's possible, but I'm talking about the cemetery. That is—"

"Lingshan!" Ji Le woke up and said: "It is possible, according to our Chinese customs, 'enter the soil for peace'." If it is said that the souls of the ancestors are sleeping in the cemetery, it is reasonable. Coincidentally, tonight we are going to Lingshan to descend the spirit, and you and I will go to explore it together. ”

......

Fenggong is a slave place for guarding and disciplining slaves. There are many houses here, but there is only one official residence in the palace, and the rest are all small wooden houses with messy displays. Several slaves were crammed into a wooden room, barely a place to sleep.

Gu Yan is a slave of the Ayang tribe. Living in a wooden house with his mother and several younger siblings, because he works hard on weekdays, he is also favored by the chief, and can get a lot of rewards to subsidize the family.

Today, his mother was born prematurely, so she hurried to the Fenggong Mansion to seek medical treatment.

In the official residence, an officer surnamed Chen was reading a military book.

After hearing Gu Yan's cry for help, the officer was surprised and said, "Your mother has given birth, she is only seven months old, don't lie to me!"

"According to the rules, I was not allowed to move into the delivery room until eight months later. It's about to give birth in seven months?" The officer looked at Gu Yan with a suspicious gaze: "Your family, it's not planning to be lazy, right?"

"My lord!" Gu Yan quickly knelt down and swore in a panic: "It's true! In the morning, my mother accidentally fell, and after we helped her up, we felt that her lower body was wrong, and her amniotic water had broken. ”

When the officer heard this, he finally got up from his seat, walked to the gate of Fenggong, and looked at the wooden house of the Guyan family in the distance. Faintly, you can hear the crying over there.

"It seems that not only your aunt, but also your younger siblings are not worried. ”

Gu Yan hurriedly said: "Please ask the adults to ask someone from the delivery room to rescue." ”

The officer glanced at Gu Yan, didn't say anything more, returned to the mansion, and woke up his sleeping companion.

"Xiao Zhang, hurry up, go to the Ming Palace and find two nurses. ”

The companion was dazed, yawning, and a little unconscious: "Milk doctor, my brother can't give birth, what do you do to find a milk doctor? Isn't it my sister-in-law? No, my sister-in-law is only five months old." ”

"Bastard, let you go, hurry up! Hang out in the women's house all day long, and sleep in the mansion in broad daylight. If something happens, can you take responsibility?"

The young officer was kicked awake by his seniors, and a bone fell to the ground. When he sobered up, he asked about the situation, and hurriedly dressed and went to the Ming Palace to find someone.

But in his mouth, he muttered: "It's just a slave, I need to go to the Ming Palace to find someone?" ”

The Xia Kingdom had two completely different concepts of national fertility and slave fertility.

When the people give birth to children, they must be invited to the Ming Palace a few months in advance, and there will be a special nurse doctor to take care of them. Until the baby is born, he will recuperate in the Ming Palace for more than a month, and he will be released to return home after passing various examinations.

And slaves give birth to children without such treatment. Regardless of the fact that many people castrate their slaves, even if they maintain their fertility, if they want to really use their abilities, they must also go through the palace to select partners for breeding.

When the pregnancy is confirmed, it will be transferred from heavy labor to light labor. Eight months later, he was sent to the delivery room attached to the palace. That place, in terms of the sanitary environment and medical standards, is far from comparable to the doctors in the Ming Palace.

"Let you go, you will go, what so much nonsense!" After a pause, the officer scolded: "The delivery room is in the high growth period these days, and there is no manpower at all." And this kind of premature birth, those mothers-in-law won't get it at all!"

Seeing that his predecessors were angry, the junior officer hurriedly ran to the Ming Palace. But on the way, he still scolded and scolded: "What a bunch of brutes, so capable of giving birth!

That's right, compared with the fertility rate of the people of the Xia Kingdom, the fertility of slaves is too strong. Their ability to reproduce, one litter a year is no problem at all.

When the officer surnamed Chen heard his companion's words, his eyes flashed and he didn't say anything.

This is the general attitude of the people towards slaves.

At the same time of contempt, there is also some jealousy.

Why do we have to face the pain of losing children so many times, while you slaves can have a large family?

Therefore, many citizens have taken certain measures to suppress the birth of children from their slaves. There are even people who deliberately impregnate slaves and then force them to have abortions, enjoying this sadistic process.

Although the royal court explicitly forbade the people to persecute slaves on a large scale and do inhumane things, such things were repeatedly forbidden. It is said that there are also several elderly shrine maidens who have castrated all the slaves around them because of the pain of losing their children to vent their anger.

"Don't worry, the doctors over there in the Ming Palace are superb, and it is not difficult to save your mother. ”

"And what about my little brother?"

Chen Li looked at Gu Yan with obscure eyes, and Gu Yan suddenly understood: "Protect ...... Mother-in-law!"

"Let's take a look first, maybe we can save them all. Chen Li thought of his own mouth, and sighed: "The right is to accumulate yin virtue." ”

His wife is also pregnant, and I just hope that this baby can be born safely.

Think of the son that they have been looking forward to for many years, and then think of the strange jealousy of the people towards the slaves. Chen Li suddenly understood. If you have a child who dies and a group of slaves around you keep giving birth to their children. Chen Li couldn't stand it in his heart. With his authority as the head of the palace, he secretly moved his hands and feet......

"No, no, you can't think like that. Chen Li abandoned his evil thoughts and kept shaking his head and reciting the art of war.

I only heard Gu Yan say: "My lord, you help my mother today, and my life will be yours in the future." ”

Facing the slave he valued, Chen Li smiled and said: "You are all slaves belonging to the palace, and they are the property of the public, how can you count it as mine?"

Bony face looked gloomy, yes. In the Xia Kingdom, these slaves were not human beings at all, they were only appendages of the Nine Palace City. Where are the so-called human rights, and where can the owner be chosen?

"But you have great strength and work hard, and if I look back, my family is really short of slaves. It's a big deal to spend a sum of money and buy all of your family. Chen Li's expression was faint, and he looked at the wooden house of the Guyan family: "Speaking of which, it is also the witchcraft of your Ayang tribe that has been cut off. Otherwise, if you have witchcraft, you can deliver the baby by yourself. Managers like me also don't have to worry about it. ”

"That'...... It's long gone. Gu Yan suddenly showed a frightened expression, intending to explain to Chen Li.

Chen Li smiled: "I'll just say it, look at what scares you." ”

Can you not be afraid? That is a great sin of hiding witchcraft!

One of the several major precepts of the palace, it is strictly forbidden for slaves to learn witchcraft secretly, and these slaves are not allowed to retain the civilization inheritance of their homeland. If anything is really found, let alone Guyan's own family, I'm afraid that even the neighbors on the left and right will be hanged.

"Senior, I'm back!" Officer Xiao Zhang ran back from the gate, followed by a witch.

"Are you back? so fast? I asked you to go to the Ming Palace to find someone, not to let you go to the Spirit Palace!" After seeing the witch, Chen Li's expression changed: "Sister, why are you here?"

"There is an edict from the Spirit Palace, send me over to spread the word. I heard there's someone here ready to give birth, let me come!"

The shrine maidens are in charge of the birth ceremony of the newborn, and Chen Lan is very experienced in this. She walked up to Gu Yan: "Remember that you are from the Ayang tribe?"

"Yes. Facing this witch who exuded spiritual power from top to bottom, Gu Yan shrank his head and whispered, "Yes." ”

Chen Lan glanced at him meaningfully, turned his head to Chen Li and said, "Brother, the order of the Spirit Palace, you go and find all the slaves of the Ayang tribe, I will go to save people first, and I will take them away when I turn back." ”

"All?"

"That's right. All. ”

After speaking, Chen Lan tied the sleeves of the witch dress up and followed Gu Yan to save people.

Although Chen Li didn't understand what his sister was doing, when it came to the order of the Spirit Palace, he sent people to report to the royal court while sending people to gather all the slaves of the Ayang tribe in the palace.

An hour later, Chen Lan walked over with a bony face again.

Looking at the three thousand people in front of him, Chen Lan said, "His Royal Highness of the Yongle Hall ordered that all the slaves of the Ayang tribe should be brought to the Spirit Palace. ”

Chen Li: "Take them all to the Spirit Palace......?" What did the royal court say?"

"One-on-one slave exchange. Brother is regarded as an ordinary shift change, but this time the workload is larger. There is Lord Wu Cheng on the royal court's side to explain. ”

In order to prevent the slaves from finding out the situation, the palace plotted to rebel. Every once in a while, a reorganization of the slaves takes place, forcing them to be unable to collude.

"But exchanging three thousand people in one go, the Spirit Palace is also troublesome, right?"

"Your Highness's meaning, Lord Wu Cheng wrote an edict, and Brother Wu just did it. Sister Yu also knew that His Royal Highness would not say anything. ”

The Spirit Palace and the Royal Court were the two places where the most slaves were raised in the Xia Kingdom, each in charge of 50,000 slaves. The exchange of three thousand people is not very stressful.

Chen Lan walked to Gu Yan's side: "Your aunt gave birth today, so I won't take your family with me for the time being." But yourself, follow me honestly. ”

Suddenly, she leaned forward and whispered in Gu Yan's ear, "Don't try to escape, even if you get all the witchcraft under your hands, it will be impossible to escape from my palm." ”

Gu Yan's face turned pale, and he subconsciously took a few steps back.

She...... She actually saw it?

Chen Lan sneered.

The witchcraft of the Ayang tribe has long been thoroughly eaten by the Spirit Palace, and she has studied a lot of it herself. And why did he instruct his brother to take care of the Guyan family in the first place? Isn't it because their family has the blood of Zongbu God and is the inheritor of the priest line?

"Okay, hurry up, we're still waiting in the Spirit Palace!"

Chen Lan said goodbye to her brother, stepped on the calf cart and slowly drove towards the Spirit Palace.