Chapter 164: Traitor
It's the white-faced ghost helping me again.
The time is almost a quarter of an hour, I and the Taoist priest Xiao Qiang went around the high platform from the side, the black corpse centipede has survived here for so long and knows the characteristics of the Black Death River, and began to retreat frantically, but the corpse baby took the first step to form a wall around the high platform, and only a few hundred of the fierce attacks of those black corpse centipedes rushed over.
The corpse babies were killed and injured and there were only a dozen left, and the rest were eaten by the black corpse centipedes, the three of us stood on the high platform and desperately prevented the black corpse centipedes from climbing up, a quarter of an hour passed, and thousands of black corpse centipedes were finally left with only fifty or sixty, and we could deal with these even if we didn't have the five thunder fire talismans, as long as we hit them into the black death river and didn't let them come up, they could be eliminated.
The white-faced ghost disappeared, and although there were only fifty or sixty left, the scope of the high platform was not small, and I was too busy to look at it.
As time passed, the black corpse centipede felt the threat of life, and made a terrible and sharp cry, like a knife cutting through the glass, which made me feel like my eardrum was about to burst, and I was ruthless in my heart, these damn things died early, and I was relieved to die.
A quarter of an hour has finally arrived, and those bodies that are constantly twisting in the water suddenly and inexplicably disappear, the Black Death River is really terrifying, silent but can make all living things disappear, is this water really from hell?
At this time, a black corpse centipede that was the last to enter the water actually climbed up to the high platform and saw that its body was about to leave the water, I kicked it fiercely at the head of the black corpse centipede, and the black corpse centipede crossed a gorgeous arc and fell into the water more than a foot away.
A corpse baby opened its mouth on the water and bit the black corpse centipede, and ate it like chewing beans, and the black corpse centipede let out an extremely sharp cry, which was the last roar before death.
Finally solved, I sat down on the ground, it really exhausted me, these black corpse centipedes are too difficult to deal with, if it weren't for the help of the white-faced ghost, it is estimated that they would have been eaten by the black corpse centipede by now.
The corpse baby ate the black corpse centipede and opened his mouth excitedly, but he couldn't make a sound, according to the Taoist priest, these corpse babies were strangled to death as soon as they were born, and they didn't cry, so they couldn't make a sound when they died.
Roar.
A loud roar suddenly came from the stone wall above, and the bloody mouth swallowed the corpse baby into its mouth, chewed it in a few bites, and smashed it in a few bites, bright red blood splashed everywhere at the corners of its mouth, it turned out to be a big centipede more than ten meters long, and it also had a human face.
The face on the giant centipede is very long, the eyes are small, and there are black spots on the nose, I have some impressions of this appearance, and I suddenly remembered, isn't this exactly the same as the statue enshrined in the ancestral hall?
Wei Zhongxian.
My heart was full of shock, according to the history books, didn't Wei Zhongxian already hang himself? How did it turn into a centipede now.
"Are you Wei Zhongxian?" I couldn't help but blurt it out.
The big centipede stood in the river with a condescending look on his face, "Yes, I'm nine thousand years old, why don't you kneel down and say goodbye." ”
"You traitor, you become such an ugly appearance and make me kneel, it's really a dream." I pursed my lips, this Wei Zhongxian still thought that he was nine thousand years old when he was the Emperor of Xianqi, what age did he still kneel.
"The Great Traitor." The big centipede's whole body trembled suddenly, and the human face was distorted, "You, you actually said that I am a traitor, I am Wei Zhongxian, loyal, righteous, benevolent, and unparalleled in political virtue, and I have done my best for the Ming Dynasty, and the people have built a shrine to worship, I am not a traitor." ”
I laughed: "You are not a traitor, who is, you are greedy and corrupt the court, so that the Ming Dynasty declined and fell." ”
Nonsense, the big centipede Wei Zhongxian roared angrily, and hundreds of paws pointed at me at the same time, "What do you know? Although I, Wei Zhongxian, am a eunuch, and I admit to accepting bribes, but this is my means of employing people, do you know who is the most trustworthy? It is those who have greed and common interests, and when I was 9,000 years old, I only needed to say a word, even at the border gates, and I could immediately implement it. ”
"It's not just your corrupt clique, it's not the people who suffer." I waved my hand, this is a fallacy at all, and the really good officials should use the law to control, instead of using the handle to do bad things together and the greed for profit.
"It's the people who suffer." The big centipede Wei Zhongxian laughed louder, "You actually said that it was the common people who suffered when I was in power, it seems that you were really brainwashed by the fabrications of those historians." ”
Wei Zhongxian snorted coldly: "When Emperor Xianqi reigned, I was nine thousand years old, and there was not a peasant uprising during this period, do you know why?" It's because I never focused on the common people, I just squeezed those profiteers, do you know why the Donglin Party wants me to die early? That's because the Donglin Party was basically organized by those profiteers. ”
"Or Emperor Xianqi is wise, he knows how to use me to collect taxes, and he also uses the Donglin Party to restrict my rights, where is like that Emperor Chongzhen, he is simply a guy who doesn't go out of the house and talks on paper, thinking that the world will be peaceful if he kills me, but he fell into the trap of the Donglin Party, Jiangnan taxes I collect 200,000 taels from the treasury every year, but how much Emperor Chongzhen collected, twelve taels, hahaha, this money is too little for those profiteers to call Huazi, but it was given to Chongzhen."
I was dizzy to hear it, I really didn't know these things, just when I was stunned, the big centipede Wei Zhongxian continued: "The Donglin Party is the minions of those profiteers, and they will definitely not collect their own taxes, and from then on, the heavy taxes will fall on the people, and the peasant uprising will break out, and the internal and external troubles will be extremely empty, and it is no wonder that the Ming Dynasty is not destroyed." ”
"Now can you still say that I am a traitor?" Wei Zhongxian looked at me coldly, and I also remembered the inscription on the obsidian tablet I saw when I first came in.
I snorted coldly, "Is it a traitor who you know in your own heart, this is not something I can conclude, no matter what you do, but I know at least one thing, you are already disloyal to corruption and control the government, you are ashamed of your parents after you judge yourself, and you use a living person to refine a woman's corpse as unkind, as for righteousness, do you have any friends?" ”
"You, you, you." Wei Zhongxian said three words in a row, and then said: "You don't understand anything, you are just a little person in a few hundred years, where do you understand the thoughts of a high-ranking person." ”
I laughed: "What kind of high-ranking people's thoughts, in the final analysis, it is just selfishness, you are conceited and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, but these just coincide with your selfish plan, I don't read history books and don't listen to legends, I just look at now, you killed so many people, you deserve to die." ”
"But I'm really curious, are you really Wei Zhongxian?"