Chapter 202: Strange Disease
At the beginning of May, Changyang Mountain is verdant, wooded, birds singing and fragrant, especially just experienced the baptism of a rainstorm, the whole Changyang Mountain exudes a charming atmosphere and attractive fragrance.
After making up his mind, Qianhao, Rou'er and Ji Fa, who were disguised as men, set off towards Chaoge City, with an unknown sword still hanging from Qianhao's waist, and the ten heavenly gods and the heavenly soul with greatly increased spiritual wisdom hidden in the scabbard.
In order to have a clear understanding of the current situation of the Great Shang Dynasty, and to get a closer understanding of the living conditions of the Li people, Qianhao chose to move forward on foot.
If they encounter a crowded place, they will stay for a longer time, and if they pass through a deserted area, Qianhao will have wings and soar in the air with Rou'er and Ji Fa.
Along the way, Qianhao witnessed the miserable situation of those poor people, and also became more aware of the tyrannical desolation & prostitution & excess!
After chatting and communicating with the people, Qianhao learned a lot about the cruelty and tyranny of the king......
First, the king was extravagant and wasteful, and he built a large number of wine ponds and meat forests, and wantonly cut down civil engineering to build palaces.
Wine ponds, where wine is filled with wine and boated and played in them, and meat groves, where meat is hung from every tree in the woods.
The king often let those who accompanied him play wildly in the meat forest naked, and when he felt hungry, he would start eating, and when he was full, he would continue to play.
Moreover, on the whims of this king, he would order some people to drink in the wine pool without stopping, and never stop drinking until these people were drunk or drowned in the wine pool, so as to satisfy his perverted pleasures.
The king of the Emperor built a lot of buildings for eating, drinking and playing, the most famous of which is Lutai.
The foundation of this Lutai is three miles square, up to more than 100 zhang, the king will gather the gold, silver and jewelry from the courtiers and the people, and the stunning beauties are gathered on the Lutai, Beijing and Hangzhou feast and drink carnival, once it was as long as seven days and seven nights, and finally let the monarchs and beauties all forget the sun, moon and stars, and even can't figure out the day and night.
Second, the king was tyrannical and murderous, using cannon burning and torture, digging out Bigan's heart, and throwing people into a pit full of poisonous insects to be tortured to death.
The king has always liked to use heavy punishment for his subordinates, and if he does not like him, he will use the heavy punishment to torture those subordinates to death.
Daji, the favorite concubine of the King of Zhou, helped him invent a unique torture instrument called cannon branding, which was absolutely cruel and cruel once it was used.
This cannon torture instrument is made of copper pillars, more than five feet long, more than three feet wide, at the time of torture, the Xiangjiang copper pillar is roasted on the fire until it is red, and then the prisoner is tied to the copper pillar, the prisoner's body just touches, the flesh on the body will be burned to squeak, the party is in unbearable pain, the ghost cries wolf howl, and it will not take long to die and whimper!
Once, the king of Xu's uncle, also known as Cheng Bigan, once said: "As a courtier, if you can't risk your life to persuade the king to do something that benefits the country and the people, then how can you become a loyal minister?"
Therefore, Bigan has always insisted on a tough attitude and exhorted the king to do good deeds and be virtuous, but in the end he angered the king.
The unbearable King of Xuan was furious and said: "Bigan, don't you just want to be a loyal minister or a saint when you take the trouble to meet and admonish like this? However, I have heard that the heart of any saint has seven holes, I want to see if you have such a heart, and if you do, I will listen to your advice in the future!"
The king said that he was not allowed to talk more than Gan, so he immediately ordered Bigan to be disemboweled, and then took Bigan's heart in his hand to watch and play!
However, some people said that the king was instigated by the demon concubine Daji, and that Daji had already regarded Bigan as a thorn in the flesh and wanted to get rid of Bigan as soon as possible, so he made this decision, and the king was indiscriminate, which led to Bigan's tragic death.
Third, if the king treats the ministers around him so cruelly, he treats the people even more unscrupulously and rampantly.
When Lutai was first built, due to the lack of manpower, the king forced the common people to go to labor, and if there was the slightest resistance, there was only a dead end.
If the king wanted to drink alcohol, he ordered the common people to be deprived of their rations and used to make wine.
If the king wanted to eat meat, he forced the common people to go to the mountains and forests day and night to hunt those wild beasts for him.
Because Daji, the favorite concubine of the king of Xu, likes to watch the scene of killing, he did not hesitate to bring a few ordinary people at random, and then beheaded, chopped pepper, disemboweled, etc., which was miserable.
It is said that on another occasion when the king was drinking and having fun with his favorite concubine, he saw from afar an old man and a young man crossing the river, and the child walked in front of him, and soon crossed the river, while the old one hesitated.
The king smiled and explained to Daji that children generally have strong bone marrow, so they are not afraid of cold, while old people have empty bone marrow, so they are afraid of cold!
In order to win the favor of his concubine, the king ordered the soldiers to catch the old man and the young man closer, and then smashed their leg bones with an axe for Daji to see.
According to legend, Daji boasted that she had the ability to distinguish whether the fetus in her womb was male or female, so in order to make her concubine have some fun, the king sent someone to capture a hundred pregnant women for Daji to test.
So Daji told the pregnant women to sit down first, then to stand up again, and then she said to the king that the one who lifted the left leg first was a man, and the one who lifted the right leg first was a woman.
Suspicious, the king ordered the pregnant women to be disemboweled, and the results proved that what he said was true.
Qianhao scolded in his heart: "This damn fox demon Daji, she is clearly a goblin, so she can use the magic perspective to see the sex of the fetus, I didn't expect to be happy with this, it is simply a loss of nature, and the crime cannot be punished!"
Since then, the common people have been unable to live normally, let alone live and work in peace and contentment, helping the old and the young one by one, wailing and complaining about leaving their hometowns and fleeing in all directions.
Fourth, for the outside of the Shang Dynasty, the king also adhered to the belief that those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will perish, and his nature will not change.
The Zhou tribe where Xibohou Ji Chang belonged became increasingly powerful, which caused the uneasiness and suspicion of the king of Zhou, so he clearly detained Ji Chang in Jinli.
Later, Ji Chang's eldest son, Bo Yi Kao, came to Chaoge City with gold, silver, jewelry, and beauties, ready to redeem his father.
Although Ji Chang was imprisoned in the Yili, the king still felt uneasy, because many people said that Ji Chang was a saint, and he still devoted himself to studying the Book of Changes in prison, and they all said that this Ji Chang was indeed a rare talent, and persuaded the king not to harm such a saint.
After hearing the praise of Ji Chang from others, the king became more and more jealous and hateful in his heart, but he did not dare to kill Ji Chang easily.
When he was worried that he had nowhere to vent his anger, Ji Chang's eldest son Bo Yi came to the exam, which made him come out of the bad water, and he temporarily came up with a cruel way to punish Ji Chang.
The king ordered others to kill Bo Yi Kao, chop him into meat sauce, wrap it into dumplings and give it to Ji Chang to eat, and also put forward a tempting condition, as long as Ji Chang ate all the dumplings and drank the soup, he would be released back to the Zhou tribe.
Although Ji Chang was suspicious in his heart, in order to get out of the clutches of the king as soon as possible, he ate and drank it all hard.
When the king learned about it, he stroked his palms and laughed, and sneered: "I think who will dare to say that this Ji Chang is a saint in the future, because he has already eaten dumplings made of his son's meat!"
When Ji Fa heard the common people say that his father ate the meat of his eldest brother, his face was bruised, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, but Qianhao's eyes told him not to act rashly, let alone reveal his identity.
Ji Fa was originally a thoughtful and steady person, so he resisted the anger in his heart and listened to the stories of the common people as if he were listening to stories.
After walking for about ten days, it seemed that he was about to arrive at Chaoge City, but Qianhao suddenly felt restless, and his head began to ache faintly.
Qianhao doesn't remember how long it has been since he has been sick, although people in the world often have a headache and brain fever, but Qianhao is not an ordinary person.
Although he was unwell, in order not to delay the trip, Qianhao did not tell others, let alone stop to rest.
It was another moonlit night with sparse stars, and Qianhao's headache symptoms were obviously getting worse and worse, and even began to hurt until the headache was splitting.
I tried everything, but it didn't seem to be useful, and finally Qianhao rolled out of bed in pain and rolled on the ground.
"Dry boy, what's wrong with you, why are you acting so painfully?" the ten gods in the scabbard all appeared and asked anxiously.
"I have a headache and a splitting headache, but this pain is uncontrollable for me, and I still don't know the cause of this pain!" Qian Hao gritted his teeth and responded, the muscles in his face began to twist, which showed what a strong pain it was.
"This ...... What is this to be? What do we need to do, just say, we can't do without you!" the gods said worriedly.
"Don't worry, I, Qianhao, didn't die so easily, don't forget that I'm Pangu reincarnated! I'm just too tired during this time, I should take a good rest and get a good night's sleep!" Qianhao said softly, as if talking to himself, as if he was comforting these gods.
Of course, the gods don't want Qianhao to have three longs and two shorts, because their resurrection and rebirth are all thanks to Qianhao's blood, and if the master dies, it means that their time is short.
"Yes, yes, my master, you have given us so much blood, it must have done great damage to your vitality!
Because your blood is different from the blood of ordinary people, and it is the blood that can resurrect us and regenerate us in the middle of your left hand.
Needless to say, we can also think that the blood of your middle finger must contain a huge amount of energy, otherwise it would not have been possible to resurrect us so quickly.
Coupled with the fact that you have been running around with us for several days, you must be too tired, you hurry up and go to bed and rest!
It's already very close to Asaga City now, not a day or two!" the gods persuaded.
"Okay, I'm really tired now, I'm going to get some sleep!" As he spoke, Qianhao stopped rolling, and his eyes quickly closed together.
Maybe Qian Hao's headache symptoms have been greatly reduced at this moment, or maybe he is so tired that he can't feel such a deep pain.
The gods didn't speak, and tacitly helped Qian Hao gently onto the bed, and then covered him with a thin blanket and waited quietly aside......