Chapter 51: The Great Qin Empire
Therefore, Qin Zhen didn't have much feeling about Li Si's waist cut. But when he looked at the skeleton in front of him, he felt a shudder.
What else is inside this stone besides the mountain whip? Or rather, what is guarding the mountain whip? It is worth Qin Shi Huang to sacrifice so many living or dead people in different forms to it so brutally??
No matter what it was, Qin Zhen always felt that that thing would eventually become their fierce rival! Having seen so many strange and incomprehensible things, even if there were monsters that had lived for two thousand two hundred years, Qin Zhen would not feel a fuss.
It's just that this means that they will be in great danger...... The mountain whip is not so easy to get.
At this time, Yu Dong stood in front of another white bone, and sighed softly.
This attracted Qin Zhen's attention, because there were mountains of bones here, and the way of death was so tragic, but Yudong never sighed like this from beginning to end. What's different about that white bone? Can he, who has always been unfazed, suddenly sigh deeply?
"What's wrong?" Qin Zhen walked to Yudong's side and asked.
Yu Dong shook his head slightly, frowned lightly and said, "This is a pregnant woman, and the way to die is to pick ......."
Qin Zhen couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: "That's a tyrannical thing that only King Yin can do, what happened to Qin Shi Huang??" How could he do such a thing for the sake of a mountain whip?! ”
The so-called pick-up is to disemboweling the child in the womb when the pregnant woman is alive. This kind of killing sacrifice is the most evil. It is also the most effective.
Mozi once said: In the past, King Yin was the son of heaven, rich in the world, criticized the heavens for insulting ghosts, and pride all the people in the world, sowed and abandoned Li Lao, thieves punished children, Chu poison was not guilty, pregnant women were eliminated, and old widows and widows were ......
Qin Zhen felt that Qin Shi Huang had even been tyrannical. But it will definitely not be as mediocre as King Yin's "Nine Marquis and Marquis of Hubei".
At this time, Mo Sheng whispered on the side: "This is not necessarily Emperor Qin's original intention. I don't know where the thing that guards the mountain whip here came from, but since it is a divine object, it must be in the hands of those warlocks. To be honest, I don't think Qin Shi Huang had to do this at all. And you should be able to see it from the stone path and the walls of this road. If this is a burial pit. Then you shouldn't have paved roads and built walls. A burial pit should look like a burial pit. ”
"That is to say......" Qin Zhen seemed to understand the meaning of Mosheng, Qin Shi Huang mistakenly believed in Fangshi, as if he asked Xu Fu to go to find immortals. Here's the thing. He doesn't really know everything.
"That is to say, some monks should be killed in a pit." Mo Sheng said coldly.
According to Yuto, the sacrifice here is a very strange way. It seems that after the completion of the whole project, all the living people were killed and thrown here in different ways, and finally a group of living people were sealed here.
This cruel and terrible form can be said to be completely unprecedented.
Since the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, a large number of oracle bone inscriptions in Yinxu have records about killing sacrifices, and large-scale killing sacrifices may kill three or five hundred people at a time, and those miserable "patterns and types" are very numerous.
Among them, the more representative methods are: "cutting" is the simplest and most enjoyable beheading; "刿" (Yingui) is a cutting and killing such as gouging out eyes and cutting off tongues; "Shi" is the disembowelment and intestines, as well as the removal of the white bones of the pregnant woman just now; "磔" (Yinzhe) Zhang cracks the living person, and the car crack belongs to this category. The most typical example of "fire" is the cannon brand made by the king of Xu.
"Nai" (Yinnai) is to cook a living person with a large ding...... "burning" is to burn at the stake. "Scooping" is buried alive, and these hard laborers who are sealed here are counted as this way of death.
In addition, there is also "figurine" is to chop people into meat sauce, and before Bo Yikao, the son of King Wen of Zhou, was cooked and killed by King Zhou to make meat cakes, he was meat sauce. "Yi" roughly means to kill and display the corpse.
The list goes on and on......
But in this mountain of white bones, it seems that all the ways to die are gathered. It's an incredible thing! Unless Qin Shi Huang was doing a torture tutorial, he had absolutely no reason to do such a thing.
Therefore, Yudong's speculation is that this is a kind of evil art used by the magicians to confuse the public, and in this way, they can guard the Jieshi and the mountain whip and not be taken back by the sea god.
Such a ridiculous reason has made thousands of bones pay for it.
Yudong seemed to have recovered from the cruel history, and said to everyone very rationally and calmly: "There will be countless lives in every era that have become victims, and now is not the time for us to sigh about history." It doesn't matter if Qin Shi Huang knew it back then, what matters is our present. Such a solemn and large-scale killing sacrifice here must be something extraordinary. We have to be ready, if we want to get the mountain whip, we will probably have to pass it first. ”
After hearing this, Lao Gu said with luck: "Even if there is a watchdog here, it should have died for more than two thousand years, right?" I'm starving to death! This is Lao Gu, no matter what problem he analyzes, he can start from the perspective of "eating".
But Yu Dong shook his head and said, "Generally speaking, the spiritual creatures that can guard a certain place will always be in a state of suspended death and sleep. Until, someone woke it up. That's why this heterogeneity is used to protect important places. And I think that thing here must have something to do with the sea. ”
"There is no water here, how can there be anything in the sea?" Qin Zhen asked.
Yu Dong raised his guard and continued to walk inside, while answering Qin Zhen: "If you want to have water in this place, you can have it." Don't forget, the stone is in the sea. And where we're now, we're definitely below sea level. Don't you feel cold? ”
If Yudong didn't say it, Qin Zhen really didn't care. But as soon as he reminded him, he really felt the coldness in the air. Qin Zhen had always thought that this was due to being in the dark space at the bottom of the mountain, but now that he thought about it, it was probably because their outside was full of cold seawater......
The corridor was quiet, and their footsteps were exceptionally clear. Fear began to creep in everyone's heart. It was the fear of the darkness, and even more so the fear of the unknown in the darkness.
Thinking of this, Qin Zhen couldn't help but shudder and said, "What do you think they are sacrificing?" If it was really something in the sea, then how did they catch it in the first place? This is also too terrifying, could it be that the soldiers under Qin Shi Huang are all dead soldiers who are not afraid of death? ”
Yu Dong seemed to laugh softly in front of him, and then suddenly asked a very strange question: "Have you ever seen a terracotta warrior with a helmet?" ”
"......" This seemed to have some unanswered words, which made Qin Zhen surprised. However, he carefully recalled the large-scale and vivid terracotta warriors and horses he had visited...... It seems that none of them really wear helmets!
Judging from the terracotta warriors, the officers of the Qin army wore board hats or scarves made of cowhide, while the soldiers wore their hair coiled on their heads and pulled into a bun. This is a very dangerous outfit on the battlefield! Are they really not afraid of being beheaded or dying?!
Lao Gu touched his neck at this time and said, "Qin Shi Huang in history is not short of money. He was able to unify the six countries. Can't even afford a helmet for a soldier? If there is a fight, won't everyone have to wait to be opened? ”
Mo Sheng smiled on the side and said: "In the "Historical Records", it is said that Qin has a million. It's A. But there is no helmet. The Qin army did not wear helmets. It's because they're a martial artist. A brave and warlike nation. Think of it as a national spirit. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they are not afraid of death. ”
Under the questioning of Qin Zhen and Gu Jie, in the long and cold road. Yu Dong explained to them the general reason why the Qin army was not afraid of life and death.
The Qin State advocated military force and was famous in history. Han Feizi, a great thinker of the Warring States period, once recorded his feelings about his first contact with the Qin people in his writings. In Han Feizi's words, as soon as the Qin people heard that there was going to be a war, they would immediately be shirtless and impatient, and they didn't care about life or death at all. They will carry the head of the enemy while continuing to hunt down the opponent. Injury or death, they never seem to think about it.
This kind of personality sounds ...... It seems to be a bit similar to Lao Gu's two hundred and five...... A fight is like a chicken blood. However, the reason why Qin was able to unify the six countries, in addition to the general direction and leadership role of Qin Shi Huang, was naturally inseparable from the merits of every soldier on the battlefield.
Originally a small state, the Qin State was often squeezed by other countries, and finally had to migrate to the west. However, the countries of the Central Plains have always treated the Qin people as the Rong people, that is, ethnic minorities, and everyone looks down on them, thinking that the Qin State is a small and remote country without civilization.
The state of Qin definitely survived and thrived in an extremely difficult environment.
Moreover, the Qin State is located in the west, relatively close to the nomads, and they have developed and survived the encirclement and attack of these fierce nomads. The nomadic people are all good at riding horses and hunting, and the perennial battles have created the Qin people to be good at fighting and brave and fearless.
Therefore, because they fought day after day in contempt, oppression, and danger to survive, over time they formed that kind of national spirit of advocating force. They are not afraid of death because they want to live.
It is also this remote and small country that is despised by all countries and nationalities, which successively destroyed 12 countries of the Rong nationality in the West during the reign of Qin Mugong, opened up more than 1,000 miles of territory, and laid the foundation for it as one of the four great powers of the Spring and Autumn Period.
By the time of Qin Xiaogong, Shang Ying was appointed to change the law, and the Qin State became stronger and stronger, becoming the most powerful country in the middle and late Warring States period.
Later, King Huiwen of Qin became king and destroyed the Shu State in 316 BC, and since then, the Qin State has officially become the largest country in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States.
In the end, after the first emperor Yingzheng ascended the throne, he annexed the six countries in one fell swoop, unified China, and became China's first real great dynasty. (To be continued......)
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