Gao Fuzi told a story to Song Ciwan.

In the last years of Yunguo, natural disasters continued, and in the eight thousand miles of mountains and rivers, droughts, floods, insect plagues, and plagues ...... All kinds of hardships occupy most of the land of the Cloud Country.

Gao Fuzi said: "I am in the capital, Daddy took me out, and on the streets of the capital, only the royal street is clean." Out of the royal street, there were ragged people everywhere, some of them lay on the ground and broke their hands and feet, some of them had a straw mark on their heads to sell themselves, and some dragged their wives and children to the mutton shop crying......"

"Do you know what a lamb shop is?"

"Hehehe, you won't want to know." Master Gao sat on the ground, and with a movement of his fingers, the red clouds in the sky changed.

In the deep shade of red, human figures ran and were slashed from behind by a butcher's knife, and after a few moments, those shadows turned into sheep, into pigs, into strange food that I don't know how to describe.

Wine and meat hung high, and Rakshasa smiled.

"This is still the capital, what will it be like after leaving Beijing, my father said, he didn't dare to think about it!"

"But Kyori is not without good places."

"Some people have to wear silk on their bodies, drink jade dew when they drink water, and even the cloth on the floor must be cloud brocade wherever they pass. They also have a small banquet on three days and a big banquet on the fifth day, rewarding new hunts and curiosities every day, singing and dancing. ”

"Sitting at home, as soon as the bell rings, the maid will go to the kitchen with a car to bring the food box."

"If you want to eat in the house, you can eat in the house, if you want to go to the water pavilion, there is a water pavilion at home, if you want to go to the rockery, there is a rockery at home, and you can also gather with the same clan, and meet in the flower hall......"

Speaking of this, Master Gao's little face unexpectedly showed a trace of confusion.

He didn't say it explicitly, but in fact, he also showed that when Yunguo was still there and the Gao family was still prosperous, Master Gao actually lived a rich life of fine clothes and jade food.

The people were suffering, and Master Gao at that time also saw it, but at a young age, he was sympathetic and sympathetic, but if he wanted him to give up his rich life for the suffering of the people, in fact, was he really willing?

It's hard to say, Song Ciwan saw a deep complexity on Gao Fuzi's face.

All the changes originated from a dispute in the court.

In the fourteenth year of the great prosperity, just after the flood in the southern part of the Yun Kingdom, a sect called the Afterlife Religion suddenly spread among the displaced people.

The teachings of the Afterlife Religion are simple and crude, and as the name suggests, they just don't cultivate the present, but only the future.

The harder you live now, the better you will live in the future.

If you endure purgatory on earth in this life, you will enjoy the riches of heaven in the next life.

At first glance, the existence of the Afterlife Sect actually seemed to be beneficial to the imperial court.

Because the people who have been baptized by the teachings of the past life can forget the sufferings of this life and are willing to be cattle and horses in the most difficult environment.

Even if they give up their bodies and treat themselves as cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs for human meat, they will often shout, "There will be a hundred hardships in this life, and there will be bliss in the next life", and then they will die in anger.

This kind of doctrine is simply a weapon to stabilize the hearts of the people for the upper echelons of the Yun Kingdom who are only willing to enjoy the wealth in front of them and are too lazy to pay attention to the sufferings of the real people.

When the Afterlife Sect first appeared, the emperor was even overjoyed, and he also praised the self-proclaimed Sect Master, calling her the humerus of the country, and the implication was to summon the Afterlife Sect Master into Beijing, and make her the imperial concubine or national teacher, and then promote the Afterlife Sect in the entire Cloud Country!

The old man of the Gao family, who was the left minister of the Yun State at that time, commanded a hundred officials, and he took the lead in opposing the emperor's ridiculous idea.

Prime Minister Gao bluntly said that the Afterlife Sect was a disaster for the country, saying that the day was to cut off the foundation of the country, and asked the emperor to send troops to crusade against the Afterlife Religion on the one hand, and on the other hand, immediately open a warehouse for disaster relief, stabilize the people, and resettle the displaced people.

It's a pity that although Prime Minister Gao is loyal to the country, his two proposals were strongly reprimanded by the emperor.

Rebellion is treason, and disaster relief is treason! Since ancient times, how could there have been such an absurd court?

Master Gao said: "On that day, my great-grandfather came home with shackles. It is said that he angered the emperor in the court, and he took off his official hat, and the emperor gave him a pair of shackles, heh......"

"When the great-grandfather came home, he only said one word."

Gao Fuzi looked up at the burning clouds in the sky, and said in a tone that barely fluctuated: "The country is about to die, and demons will be born, this is the will of heaven, not my sin." ”

Then he changed his face again in an instant and laughed: "Hahaha! Providence! Is it the will of heaven that all the 1,800 members of my Gao family will be buried for this faint king? ”

In the sky, the wind is galloping.

"Wuling Pass is in an emergency, 300,000 border soldiers are cut off from grain and grass, General Chen sent an urgent report to Beijing, great-grandfather tried his best to mobilize grain and grass, but the emperor wanted to transfer household resources to build a palace for his concubine, and the prince wanted to collect the world's treasures to win the favor of his mother and concubine......"

"The Ministry of Rites wants to repair the ceremony, to sacrifice to the heavens and gods, it takes countless manpower and material resources, the Ministry of Engineering complains bitterly, the river bursts the embankment everywhere, and a cart of materials is dialed down, but it is like filling a bottomless pit. Tobe really couldn't allocate any money, and Tobe Shangshu hanged himself with a rope that night. ”

"That night, my great-grandfather wore shackles and received a bloody letter from General Chen."

"My great-grandfather sat in the study all night, and I sharpened the ink and lit the lamp for him next to him, and asked him if he would no longer be an official from now on."

"He took the ink strip from my hand and pressed a stamp on the rice paper."

"It seems that nothing has happened, but half a month later, there is news from Wuling Pass, saying that my Gao family is hiding a private army of 100,000 people, intending to seize Wuling Pass and cut off the Yun Kingdom."

"Wuling Pass was broken by the Yan State next door, and the 300,000 troops guarding the pass, including General Chen, were all killed in battle, and the 100,000 private troops of our Gao family also died in this battle."

"The whole Yunguo has placed the sin of the loss of Wuling Pass on our Gao family."

"My great-grandfather has been an official for forty-five years, and at the end of the day, he was convicted of treason!"

The wind and clouds in the sky are changing, thousands of troops and horses are crying and neighing, how can the 100,000 private troops of the Gao family ever commit treason?

In fact, they are not a private army, they are the old tribes of the Gao family scattered all over the place, including men and women, old and young, some are old farmers in the Gao family's farm, some are the porters in the Gao family's shop, and even the embroidery girls in the embroidery village, and the children in the good hall......

They came from far and wide because they heard a message and had a common goal.

Not for anything else, they just don't want to be slaves to the country!

The Gao family sent out 1,300 people, so they took these 1,300 people as the leader, and 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers rushed to the border pass.

They brought their own grain and grass, prepared their own weapons, and supported Wuling Pass wholeheartedly.

But it didn't work, the ending was that there was a spy in Wuling Pass!

In this tattered cloud country, some people want to try their best to save it, some people don't care about themselves, and some people want it to die immediately.

The army of Yan drove straight in, and on the second day when the news came, the emperor issued an order to punish the nine clans of the Gao family!

"We escaped, and it was arranged in advance by our great-grandfather. But uncles, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers...... They didn't run away. It was only us, only ten brothers and sisters of our generation, who were carried by our cousins and escaped......"

Gao Fuzi's voice trembled slightly, and then he laughed again: "How did we escape, do you know? You certainly don't know, you can't think of it, and I won't tell you, hehehe......"

"Then we came to Huaixi Village and lived in the village. In the beginning, everything was fine here, calm and peaceful, away from the war, it was like the last pure land in the world. ”

"Until later ......"

Gao Fuzi's eyes that had been looking at the clouds suddenly turned, and he turned his head to look at Song Ciwan, with an indescribable coldness in his eyes.