Chapter 30: The Scourge of War Affects People
Zhang Huansheng's voice landed, and before the old man could speak, a timid Nuo Nuo, a four-foot boy standing behind the old man, suddenly said loudly: "My grandfather is a character who is like a 'public loser' and is reborn, and the person who can deceive us has not yet been born!" ”
Gong Yi is one of the ancient saints of the human race, and he is the most powerful arm of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan Youxiong among the two emperors of Yan and Huang.
Legend has it that he has seven tricks in his heart, his hands are nine fingers, and he is good at making tools, such as the logging saws used by the Yanhuang people, building houses and bricks, grinding stones... and other utensils, all of which were created by him.
In addition, it is said that "there are bears refining a hundred gold, and making killing weapons" is also presided over by the Gongyi Institute, so the prototype of blades such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows, arrows, ballistas, etc., which is still prevalent today, is also made by him, and is called the "ancestor of all weapons".
Comparing such an immortal ancestor and sage with a thin old man who was trapped in the slave trader's cabin, covered in feces and urine, and unkempt, is so scornful that even a madman would not believe it.
But although the boy was so frightened that he hid behind the old man after he finished speaking, his serious expression and shining eyes seemed to be convinced.
On the contrary, the old man shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Idiot, idiot, don't tell such jokes."
didn't say anything about making people laugh, and he also lost his grandfather's old face. ”
After that, the old man looked Zhang Huansheng up and down a few times with the faint light emitted by the fluorite above his head, and said with a sigh: "Young man, I see that you are in trouble calmly, and you don't look like an ordinary person, so I won't hide it from you."
In the past 100 years, the neighboring foreign barbarian country 'forest' has risen, and has repeatedly violated the border, treating our country as a granary and heap, and it will inevitably be plundered every harsh winter.
At first, they only robbed some food and property, and slowly took people into slavery, but now the slaves are not used up, so they simply sell them to those unscrupulous maritime merchants and sell them to other continents, and we are some poor people who have been implicated in the scourge of war and become slaves. ”
Zhang Huansheng set foot on the fertile soil of Yanhuang, and lived in the relatively rich and peaceful Yinhai County of Xuguo, although the life was not rich, but there was no shortage of food and clothing, and the days were peaceful. was bullied by a foreign country to the point that the people were taken into slavery, and couldn't help but say: "If there is such a thing, then the government and the court don't care?" ”
The old man said with a wry smile when he heard this: "When my power country was enshrined by the emperor of Chu, although it was the most prominent prince among the five feudal lords of 'duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male', the country has been declining in the past seven hundred years, and it has long lost the national strength to compete with the barbarian country.
And now that the princes are rising in the territory of Great Chu, most of the strong ones do not obey the emperor's orders, and the Son of Heaven can neither gather the princes' armies to join forces to conquer the injustice;
I didn't dare to take the risk of losing my strength after using swords and soldiers, and being taken advantage of by the powerful feudal monarchs, and independently crusading against the 'forest' and standing up for the country, so, hey..."
When Zhang Huansheng heard this, he showed such an expression, nodded, and then asked strangely: "Is the barbarian country in the forest so strong that it is so frightened that Chu Tianzi is so frightened that he does not dare to act rashly?" ”
Although the Great Chu is declining day by day, and the internal cannot fully subdue the princes, and the external cannot subdue the foreign states, after all, the dynasty has been established for more than 700 years, and although the emperors of the past dynasties have occasionally lost their virtues, they have never given birth to the monarch who has lost the hearts of the people, so it is still the orthodox dynasty recognized by most of the Yanhuang people in their hearts and on behalf of the herdsmen.
If ordinary people heard Zhang Huansheng use 'fear' to describe the Son of Great Chu, they would be afraid that they would have already changed color.
But the country can't protect the people, the people are not afraid of the country, at this time, the cabin is all captured by the barbarians, sold slaves, the Great Chu has long lost the awe, but there is nothing unusual, only the old man showed a sad look, muttered to himself: "Think of how strong my Yanhuang ancestors are, civilization to subdue Dongzhou, Weijia Wanguo!"
But I didn't expect that the descendants of later generations would be bullied by the barbarians, and the might of the Son of Heaven would not come out of the land of Gyeonggi, what a shame on the ancestors..."
After sighing for a while, he regained his feelings, looked at Zhang Huansheng and said softly: "The Chinese of Nalin are divided into three parts, and the name of one clan is 'Lu Zhu Arm Hutu', which means 'people in the forest';
One clan is called 'Gagain', which means 'son of the wolf', in which the people of the forest are the main and the son of the wolf is the minister.
With the exception, the rest of the miscellaneous tribes were called 'Vasri', which means 'servants of the nobles'.
The people in the forest originally lived on the bitter cold plateau in the southwest of Dongzhou.
According to legend, there are only two seasons in a year, winter and spring, of which the winter lasts for more than nine months, and there is snow every day;
In spring, it lasts only forty or fifty days, and the water still drips into ice at night.
In such a cold climate, there is no grass growing naturally, only an unusually tall and thick pine tree, which densely covers the earth, and the people in the forest have lived in this pine forest since ancient times. ”
"Can people live in such a place," Zhang Huansheng, who has been living on the warm and humid seashore since he was born, and the coldest thing is that he has seen a few heavy snowfalls, and he couldn't help blurting out in surprise: "Could it be that the people in the forest are born to be cultivators and martial artists?" ”
"Legend has it that it's true." The old man sighed, frowned deeply and replied, "The people in this forest are the most barbarian among the barbarians, and there is no one to be humane.
They are born without farming, grazing, only hunting for a living, Ru Mao drinking blood is just normal, after the birth of young children, no matter how cold the weather, will be wrapped in animal skins, thrown on the roof of their bark house, day and night do not die, before they have to be raised, so that the natural innate is strong, brave.
Since ancient times, the law and martial arts in its tribe have not been limited to one family and one surname, but can be cultivated by all clans.
In addition, although the place where the people live in the forest is extremely cruel, they can naturally temper their bodies day by day, and feel the power of heaven and earth. ”
"I see," Zhang Huansheng couldn't help but sigh when he heard this: "Use the method of refining Gu to educate the people, teach the survivors the method, and then survive by cultivating!"
Although the survival of the people in this forest is cruel, it also has its own reason for the reincarnation of heaven. ”
"That's it." Hearing this, the old man sighed bitterly and said, "Later, the people in the forest were like ores that were constantly tempered by fire, and they became more and more like ores, and they slowly grew stronger.
When the harsh environment of the tundra plateau could no longer stop their tribes from reproducing and feeding more and more powerful people, the people of the forest left the dense forest, descended the high mountains, and embarked on the road of raiding and killing.
In the past few hundred years, countless small states have been destroyed, and later they have conquered the Ega Gayin people, known as the 'sons of the blue wolf' in the Qingmeng grassland, and finally become a big disaster in the southwest of my Yanhuang region. ”