It's another year, mid-spring (February), the beginning of the year.

The steep spring cold has not faded, and the concubines and palace people in King Zhao's palace have already changed out of thick winter clothes and put on deep clothes that can show their graceful posture to the greatest extent.

They tried their best to dress themselves, hoping to attract Yin Changying's attention.

The ministers, guards and temple people saw that these amorous concubines and palace people were forever chasing the king, and it became a delusion for them to even find one or two palace maids as lovers, so some people joked in private: "Although the women in the palace love the king, but now this king is really extraordinary." If the king conceals his identity and walks around Lulong City, I am afraid that the men in the city will have no way to live. ”

The other nodded: "However, the king is diligent in political affairs, and with the existing beauties, few of them can enter the eyes of the king." ”

Speaking of this, both sighed at the same time.

If the king has one or two favorite concubines, it is also a good thing to be able to blow the wind on the pillow. Those who want to go through the door naturally know who to turn to; If you don't want to go the way, you can't offend the favorite concubine, and you have to prepare the etiquette.

It's just that the king has been fortunate a lot of beauties in the past year, but he doesn't remember the appearance of these women at all.

This led to the appearance of a wonder in the palace of King Zhao that had not been seen for hundreds of years - the position of the harem concubines, and even the arrangement of the beauties who served the beauties every night, were all decided by a temple person like Zheng Gao.

Why does Zheng Gao have so much power? Because Yin Changying didn't go to the harem at all, he called people to come to the front court.

The harem and the previous dynasty have always been distinct, and the people of the previous dynasty may be able to enter the harem, but the harem women are not allowed to enter the former dynasty without an edict - except for the queen mother.

The former dynasty was divided into three dynasties, namely, outside, inside, and Yan, and the Yan Dynasty was the palace group where Yin Changying lived, and Zheng Gao would arrange for dozens, or even more beauties, to stay in a palace in the Yan Dynasty every day, so that they could freshen up and dress up. If Yin Changying remembered, he would immediately arrange for someone to come over, stay if he likes it, and change people if he doesn't like it; If Yin Changying didn't think about it, these women could only wait all night.

Then Yin Changying didn't remember who these women were at all, for him, there was not much difference between the coming and going of beauties. So he won't take the initiative to say that whoever served her well last time will announce her again this time. He doesn't even care about the rewards and examples, and the people around him will take care of them anyway.

This led to the harem concubines desperately giving gifts to Zheng Gao in order to see the king. I only asked Zheng Gao to bring them to the Yan Dynasty, and then send them to Yin Changying.

But when the ministers found out about it, they simply blew up!

Outrageous!

The ministers do not refuse to give gifts to their favorite concubines, because they are the king's pillow people, and they may be able to mix up with the queen and the queen mother. flattered them, and the family members could also give priority to the future son, and if they could become the companions of the son, it would be a profitable business.

But it would be too embarrassing for them to curry favor with a mere temple person, and it would not be cost-effective.

They curry favor with their favorite concubines, and they have a promising future in the future. The status of the temple people depends on the royal power, if the king has three long and two short, the temple people around him will be the first to suffer.

It's not pleasing to be, let alone not, you can't afford to offend this kind of king's confidant!

Of course, more people speculated, why didn't Yin Changying take the initiative to go to the harem? There are so many generations of kings in Zhaoguo, and there are many diligent politicians, and I haven't seen this kind of person who doesn't go to the harem at all, but only calls people to come to the Yan Dynasty!

Some people speculate that the reason why Yin Changying didn't go to the harem was because he was going to see the Empress Dowager Song, and this Empress Dowager Dazhao was really debauched. It is not impossible for the king to be bored when he sees his biological mother like this.

Everyone's eyes flew wildly, thinking that this guess should be very close to the truth, but they didn't know that the reason why Yin Changying didn't take the initiative to go to the harem was very simple - it was too much of a waste of time.

The palace of King Zhao is magnificent and magnificent, and it takes about three quarters of an hour to go to the core of the harem from the Yan Dynasty alone. With this time, how many books can Yin Changying read and how many folds can he criticize?

Even if you're idle, it's better to cultivate than to spend time on the road! Although he also cultivated when he was in the car, there were all the differences.

Yin Changying didn't know the speculation of the government and the opposition about his strange behavior, and at this time, he had just finished reading Yin Changying's new letter and fell into deep thought.

In the letter, Yin Cheng mainly said a few things to him.

In the first few letters (the time span was about four months ago to a week ago), Yin Cheng mentioned that in order to solve the problem of the Qiangshui water god, she not only traveled all over the tributaries of the Qiangshui, but also caught several weaker "water gods". Two months ago, I entered the depths of Minshan Mountain and found that in the endless peaks of Minshan, there were several mountains where "mountain gods" or "mountain spirits" or "mountain ghosts" existed.

After researching, she found a common denominator, that is, these places that gave birth to "water gods" and "mountain gods" all have traces of human activity, even if it is just an uncivilized savage tribe.

In this process, Yin Ji also discovered the existence of ancient ruins.

So Yin Cheng has a guess - do these mountain gods and water gods take the essence or "concept" of a certain place as the core, and then because of the catalysis of "popularity" or "civilization", they can be born?

This speculation made Yin Changying more vigilant.

Yin Ji didn't participate in the sacrifice of Zhaoguo, so she didn't know the overall process, so she naturally didn't think there was any problem. But Yin Changying knew that every year the king of Zhao led his courtiers to worship gods such as Taiyi God (Sun God, Supreme God) and Dongjun (Spring God), which has been passed down since ancient times.

People pray that the sun will always be bright and that the spring will be good so that people can live.

As for other gods, such as the moon god, the great priest, the young priest, etc., they all belong to local beliefs and are not within the scope of sacrifices.

If the existence of the savage tribe can give birth to the mountain god and the water god, then the sacrifice of the country as a unit will not really breed a more powerful existence?

At the same time, Yin Ji also wrote that she found that there may be a special existence around the mountain god and water god.

That is, "ghosts".

The so-called ghosts are that after human beings die, their souls are bound to a certain place for some reason, and they cannot leave, they can only rely on the strong, and they need their strength to continue to exist.

For example, the ghost next to this mountain god, he claims to have been dead for hundreds of years, and even forgot his former name. I only remember that he came into contact with a strange stone, and then died in the mountains, watching his body being eaten by jackals, but he couldn't leave, and then he saw his soul getting weaker and weaker.

And that mountain just happened to have a living mountain god, the image of a deer, with a relatively gentle personality, and when he saw that this guy's soul was about to dissipate, he gave it power.

Since then, the fate of this ghost has been bound by the deer-shaped mountain god, and once the mountain god dies, he will definitely die. But when the ghost is dead, the mountain god will be fine.

Although Yin Changying didn't say it explicitly, Yin Changying had already thought about it.

He gave his strength to hundreds of distant relatives of the Yin family, but only Zheng Gao survived, does this mean that although Zheng Gao is still a living person, from the perspective of "Wu", he has become his slave, or rather, "Ling"?