Chapter 2 The Best

After Shi Hu became emperor, he appointed his son Shi Di as the crown prince and began the life of shamelessness and extravagance that he dreamed of.

The first is that the suppressed hormones are fully released unrestrained, which is probably one of the motivations for most men to chase supreme power. Before Shi Le's bones were cold, Shi Hu took the uncle's original concubines and palace maids to himself. After moving the capital to Yecheng, it was even more spent on drinking and building a lot of buildings.

If there are only these performances, there is only one more desolate emperor in history, anyway, there has never been a shortage of this in Chinese history, and it is not surprising that this one is not bad. However, Shi Hu's destructive power to human society is far more than that.

Shi Le's own degree of sinicization is not deep, although until his death, there are few Chinese characters he knows, and his favorite Han culture textbooks are all found to read to him, but the Han Shu intellectuals under his rule, such as Zhang Bin, can make the best use of their talents and be able to rank among the top of the empire. After Shi Hu came to power, the status of the Han people changed dramatically.

Everyone knows that the Yuan Dynasty divided the people under its rule into four classes, namely the Mongols, the Semu people, the Han people, and the Nan people. But few people know that as early as the Later Zhao ruled by Shi Hu, there was a division of ethnic hierarchies, and the divisions were more, more detailed, and more cruel.

The first group of people, of course, is the Caucasian people, called the "Guoren group".

The second group of people, the Qiang people, the Di people and the Duanbu Xianbei people and other yellow Hu people. Because, the chiefs of these clansmen, Yao Yizhong, Fu Hong, Duan Gong, etc., had a very good personal relationship with Shi Hu, and they were grateful to Shi Hu for his kindness, and Shi Hu naturally reciprocated the favor.

The third group of people, the Xiongnu, and in addition to Yao Yizhong, Fu Hong, and Duan Gongsuo, the Qiang, Di, Xianbei and other scattered tribes.

Fourth-class people, the rest of the yellow species are mixed.

The fifth class of people, the Jin people, that is, the Han people of the Central Plains in the former Western Jin Dynasty.

The Han people in the Central Plains suddenly changed from the heart of the country to the broken drum of the country, and anyone can beat it a few times. It is not surprising that Hu and Han have the idea that "if they are not of my race, their hearts must be different", but why did Shi Hu belittle and toss the Han people in particular?

Because this tiger is forced to believe in Buddhism. Of course, he is not a Buddhist who eats fasting and recites Buddha, but only believes in a living Buddha monk.

This person is Shi Le's confidant before his death, the high (demon) monk and Buddha Tucheng of the Western Regions. Shi Hu is brutal and murderous by nature, but he has great respect for this person. Because, he experienced a terrifying supernatural event.

Once, Buddha Tucheng and Shi Hu talked about the scriptures together in Xiangguo. Buddha Tucheng, who was sitting and listening with his eyes closed, suddenly changed color, and said: Change! Change! There was a fire in Youzhou.

Immediately, the wine was continuously sprayed in the direction of Youzhou. A quarter of an hour later, Buddha Tucheng got up with relief: the fire in Youzhou has been extinguished.

Isn't that too mysterious? Shi Hu was a little unconvinced, and sent someone to Youzhou to verify. After the envoy's field investigation, he came back from Youzhou and reported truthfully: On that day, Youzhou City did catch fire, burning from the four city gates, and the fire was very fierce. Suddenly, a layer of black clouds drifted from the south, and then heavy rain fell from the sky, extinguishing the fire, and the people of Youzhou City could still smell the wine from the rain.

Shi Hu was dumbfounded!

Since then, this demon king of the mixed world has regarded the demon monk Buddha Tucheng as a living Buddha, and specially made a silk brocade robe for the Buddha Tucheng, equipped with a special car (carving).

During the court meeting, Shi Hu ordered the prince and the ministers to help the Buddha Tucheng go to the hall, and then the person in charge of the court called the name: "Great Monk". The people of the Manchu Dynasty, whether they are sitting or standing, or those who have a bad lumbar spine, must immediately stand solemnly. Similar to today's students meeting the teacher before class, the class leader shouts to stand up collectively.

Shi Hu also set a rule, ordering Sikong Li Nong to greet Buddha Tucheng in the morning and evening, and the prince and the princess would see Buddha Tucheng once every five days.

No matter how godly he is, he doesn't have the ability to ask Yama for leave. In 348 A.D., the monk Buddha Tucheng from the Western Regions passed away in Yecheng in the Central Plains, and the history records that he was born in 232 years, so he died at the age of 116. True or false? At that time, there was no medical certificate of birth, who knows.

Shi Hu did not believe in Buddhism because of his faith, but because of supernatural events, and in addition, behind his claim to revere Buddhism, there was an extremely terrifying motive. This motivation comes from a Buddhist teaching.

Forbear. Water is forbearing, pure, tolerant, always low, round, but able to penetrate the hardest stones, that is where his forbearance lies; The earth is forbearing, broad and deep, silently carrying the reproduction and growth of life, nourishing all things, and giving all things selfless gifts; Life, like a lotus, everyone will have their own bloom, in the season of the lotus to feel the changes of the world, the impermanence of life - the lotus withering, the flower falling into a lotus is also a kind of forbearance...... Broad forbearance produces infinite softness and compassion......

Such a kind of teaching, after being discovered by Shi Hu, showed a hideous smile.

The supreme ruler of the empire founded by the white Caucasian race, which has now successfully ruled the entire Yellow River Valley, has changed from the Sinicized Shile to the orc Shihu. Unlike his uncle, Shi Hu was determined to treat the Han people with an iron-blooded policy, and he and the core "Guoren group" believed in Zoroastrianism from their homeland in Central Asia, but tried to use Buddhist forbearance to paralyze the Han people, so as to change the proportion of the northern peoples, so that the flame of Ahura Mazda (the god of the good world in Persian mythology) would shine brightly in the Central Plains, replacing Han culture as the mainstream of Central Plains culture, and realizing the dream of the dove occupying the magpie's nest.

At this juncture, a monk named Wu Jin said to Shi Hujin: The qi of the Hu people has declined, while the qi of the Jin people has begun to recover, and the Jin people must be forced to suppress their qi.

I feel close to each other. The Han people are weak and forbearing, and as long as they give their mouths of gruel to drink, they will not easily rebel. Not only to enslave the Han people, control the fertility rate of the Han people, but also to be able to create value for his own enjoyment, Shi Hu suddenly had his own idea.

Soon, a Zhao Decree flew out from the Yecheng Imperial Palace: the Han people (more than 160,000 people) in all parts of the vicinity of Yecheng were all dispatched to provide voluntary labor, and the content of the labor:

The first is to repair the Hualin Garden in the east of Yecheng, and build a long wall for dozens of miles around the garden, and the offender will be beheaded.

The second is to build Sangzi Garden in the west of Yecheng three miles, and build a number of luxurious palaces in Linzhangshui.

The third is to build a line of palaces every 40 miles from Xiangguo to Yecheng within 200 miles.

Fourth, in each palace, dozens of beauties are raised. In this way, when Shi Hu went from Xiangguo to Yecheng, he could go all the way and sow seeds all the way to play.

As soon as this decree came out, beauties suddenly became a scarce material in the Later Zhao Empire. Shortage? If there is a shortage, grab it. Shi Hu ordered that more than 30,000 women between the ages of 13 and 20 be forcibly selected from the people and distributed to the harem, the east palace and the favored ministers.

After all, the number of young girls is limited, and in order to make a difference, the officials of the counties and counties have no choice but to rob the beautiful married women, and cut off all the men who can not bear the humiliation of taking their wives and resist. At one time, more than 3,000 women were forced to commit suicide, and a large number of families were separated, and families were destroyed.

This reminds us of many managers in today's organizations, who believe that setting a goal that allows you to jump is indulgence. If you don't set a goal that makes you vomit three liters of blood, it doesn't seem to show his level and leadership skills.

In order to seize the throne, Shi Hu killed the descendants of his uncle Shi Le. As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children, but for Shi Hu, this sentence is at most an idiom in Han culture.

After Shi Hu became emperor, the general affairs of the court, such as the minister's performance, were handed over to the crown prince Shi Di, and he was only responsible for major affairs, such as the selection and appointment of important officials, sacrifices to suburban temples, military operations, and major judicial affairs.

Shi Hu has strong genes, Shi Di has perfect inheritance, and he is also a fierce and violent master. Sometimes, when the ministers were entertained, they even ordered to cut off Mei Ji's head, wash it, and put it on a plate, so that the attendants could hold the plate and show it to the ministers one by one.

I love to play, but you can't play, just like today's parents who scroll through TikTok headlines all day long but often snatch their children's phones. Since taking charge of the affairs of the DPRK and China, Shi Hu has been indulging in wine, hunting, and arrogance all day long, and Shi Hu is very dissatisfied with this, and often scolds and corporal punishment against him. Shi Hu felt that it was natural for Lao Tzu to beat his son. Shi Di didn't think so, he felt that he was beaten by his father, which was quite embarrassing and aggrieved.

Also, Shi Di is the prince after all, a small head catcher has long been praised as a hero in the fight against the underworld, he was slapped in front of his subordinates, and he ran to Chengdu in a fit of rage to break the net. A famous marshal in the northwest in modern times, accustomed to the rule of law by his family, often ordered to kneel, beat and scold, his subordinates as guards and grooms are fashionable and tolerable, when promoted to the general of his own army, you can easily go to the family law, no one can stand it. As a result, during the Anti-Japanese War, the marshal served as the commander of a certain theater, and many of his subordinates did not want to be under his command anymore. This is human nature.

If you become an emperor as soon as possible, you won't have to be beaten. The Shi family, who has less groove on the surface of the brain, has always been so direct in thinking about problems, and Shi Di can't wait.

Shi Hu had many eyes and ears, and soon discovered Shi Di's abnormality. Warm communication between father and son? Warm communication, if it doesn't exist, it will never be warm communication in this life. It's simple and crude, and it's clear if you find someone to verify it.

As a result, Shi Di's subordinate and concubine Li Yan became unlucky, and Shi Hu arrested him for interrogation. As soon as Li Yan saw Shi Hu, hot and hot urine flew together, his face was full of bile, and he trembled and prepared Shi Hu to rebel and seize the throne, and poured beans into Shi Hu's bamboo tube, and there was not a single grain left.

This little rabbit cub, Lao Tzu is not dead yet! Shi Hu was furious, first beheaded Li Yan and his entire family of more than 30 people, and then put Shi Di under house arrest in the East Palace.

People with a choleric temperament type have anger that comes and goes quickly. After a few days, Shi Hu's anger subsided, and he released Shi Di, wanting to have a good relationship with this son.

However, Shi Di not only has a violent personality, but also has a bit of two hundred and five, and in the face of a great opportunity to beg for mercy, he does not give his father a step. When this guy saw Shi Hu, he still wanted to play with his personality, so he didn't say a word, and walked away, Shi Hu couldn't stop screaming.

This thing is tougher than me, is you the only son?! Shi Hu's anger gauge pointer exploded to twelve o'clock, and immediately announced: Waste Stone is a concubine.

This is not a solution to hatred.

That night, Shi Hu ordered that more than 20 people, including Shi Di, his wife, children, and relatives, be physically exterminated and stuffed into a large coffin and buried indiscriminately. At the same time, more than 200 of Shi Di's cronies were beheaded.

Hate Wu and Wu.

Shi Di's mother, the beautiful acrobat and queen Zheng Cherry, was also deposed as the concubine of the East China Sea.

abolished and killed Shi Xuan, Shi Hu established Shi Xuan as the crown prince, and Shi Xuan's mother Du Zhaoyi was the queen of heaven.

That's it? It's not over, the situation of the Shi family's cannibalism is far from over.

In 348, Shi Hu ordered the crown prince Shi Xuan to go to the famous mountains and rivers to pray for his blessings. Shi Xuan traveled with a total of 180,000 troops and honor guards. sent the crown prince, Shi Hu still felt that it was not enough, and arranged for another son, Shi Tao, to also go.

Those in power act inconsiderately, and if they do not think about it, it will create a situation of artificial contradictions. Shi Tao is also interested in competing for the position of successor, why are you sending him there? Sure enough, Shi Tao was also in the tiger, and he intended to compete with his brother for the limelight, and the pomp and circumstance of the trip was no less than Shi Xuan.

Are there any rules?! Shi Xuan was very dissatisfied with this and wanted to give his younger brother some colo

see see。

One day, Shi Tao's family was building a new house, and he was in full swing, when suddenly a group of people came, and the craftsmen who beat them scurried and smashed the project under construction.

Without investigating, you know that this was done by someone sent by my brother Shi Xuan. Shi Tao did not show weakness, scolded his brother, and then rebuilt the palace and expanded the scale.

Dare to compete with the crown prince? but you will be physically exterminated.

Finally, the opportunity came.

In the autumn and August of 348, Shi Tao and his subordinates had a night banquet in Dongmingguan and stayed at the Buddha's monastery. In the middle of the night, when the moon was dark and the wind was high, a team of black-clothed masked killers with steel knives in their mouths climbed ladders to sneak into the Buddha Monastery. After finding Shi Tao's room, he slashed with knives, flesh and blood flew sideways, and screamed like a pig......

Shi Tao's hair was scattered, his hands and feet were chopped off, his eyes were stabbed, and his stomach was disemboweled, and his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys flowed to the ground, a proper black dahlias.

Dongming Temple, in the southeast of Yecheng. Keep this address in mind, and we'll get to that later.

After Shi Hu heard the news of Shi Tao's death, he was shocked and fainted, and everyone hurriedly patted his back and pinched people. When Shi Hu woke up, he was going to attend Shi Tao's funeral. Sikong Li Nong, a proper Han person, has a slightly more cerebral sulcus, and dissuades: The murderer who killed Shi Tao does not know who it is, he should still be in the Beijing Division, and His Majesty should not act rashly.

Shi Hu thought about it, canceled the plan to attend the funeral in person, and ordered the soldiers to be on strict alert.

This black dahlia murder case of the royal family of the Zhao Empire was solved shortly after the crime. The location of the case was at the scene of Shi Tao's funeral.

At Shi Tao's funeral, there was a person who not only didn't howl a few times, but also couldn't help but be happy. First, the continuous snickering of "hehe", and then let people uncover the quilt covering Shi Tao's corpse, admired it for a while, and then laughed and left.

That's right, this two hundred and five is the second generation of Shi Xuan.

Shi Hu listened to his subordinates report Shi Xuan's performance at the funeral, and the number one suspect in the "Black Dahlia Mystery Case of Prince Houzhao" was officially locked.

The verdict and execution process of this case:

Shi Xuan was arrested. Shi Hu asked Shi Xuan to use an iron ring to penetrate Shi Xuan's two cheeks, lock them with locks, and pour the food into a large wooden trough for this son to eat. Treat your son like a pig, then what are you?

Shi Hu didn't think about it so much, anyway, he not only knew how to fight and kill, but also had a lot of mechanical design talents, and personally designed a set of pulley devices.

He ordered a pyre to be piled up in the north of Yecheng City and a wooden pole to be erected. Then a roller was installed on the wooden pole, what was it for?

Tie up his son Shi Xuan, pass the rope through the top pole, and then fix it on the roller, order someone to turn the roller to twist Shi Xuan, and then suddenly let go of the roller, Shi Xuan exclaimed and fell from the sky.

It turned out to be playing free fall.

After repeating this repeatedly, it is estimated that after ten days and a half months of training like this, Shi Xuan will definitely be able to pass the physical test of modern pilots.

Shi Xuan, who was engaged in free fall training subjects, ushered in a more severe examination subject, which was even more terrible than subject 2.

Shi Hu found two of Shi Tao's most trusted eunuchs, one was called Hao Zhi (good persistence?). The other is called Liu Ba (pulling hair?). The two of them dragged Shi Xuan's tongue and hair respectively, pulled Shi Xuan up the pyre along the ladder, and then twisted Shi Xuan into the air with a wheel.

Looking at this posture, Shi Xuan knew that he would not let him train in free fall anymore, and suddenly his soul was scattered, the hot urine and yellow in his crotch flew together, and his face was full of bile, shouting that I would not take the test, and I would not take the subject three, and my father would spare his life.

Shi Hu didn't care about this, and ordered someone to cut off Shi Xuan's hands and feet in mid-air, gouge out his eyes, disembowel, and his long black hair hung in the air, and he got rid of a black dahlias.

This dahlia, except that it blooms in the air, the rest of the shape is exactly the same as when Shi Tao was killed. Shi Hu is playing a way to repay the other.

The last procedure. Shi Hu had people set the pyre on fire, burned his own son Shi Xuan to ashes, and then scattered the ashes everywhere, allowing people, horses, and carriages to trample on them, truly breaking the bones and scattering ashes. Hundreds of people, including the guards and eunuchs of the prince's palace, were also unlucky, were torn apart, and their bodies were thrown into the Zhanghe River near Yecheng.

Follow the prince, the ending may be a lifetime of glory, or it may be two-eyed, or it may be fucking you, and you will be crushed and scattered together.

Shi Xuan's wife and children were also executed. Shi Xuan's youngest son, who was 9 years old at the time, pulled his grandfather's trouser leg and cried. Shi Hu turned around, broke free, and ordered someone to drag him away, and killed him as such.

Among the onlookers, several people couldn't help but cry bitterly. Is the record of Shi Hu false? I believe that history does not tell lies.

How is human behavior influenced? People who are also controlled by the brain and hormones, why do some people have high emotions, some people pretend to be deep, some people dare to act, some people are greasy, some people are curious about new things, and some people follow the rules everywhere?

Stanford University professor Robert . Saposky (Robe

The book "Behavior" by t Sapolsky gives this explanation - our behavior is almost always the product of hormones and environmental influences:

A second ago, the brain's nervous system was dominated by some kind of chemical reaction, and the behavior was a chemical reaction.

A day earlier, a certain hormone, which had taken effect, acted as a hormonal stimulus.

A few decades ago, it was the environment in which I was growing up and the genes at birth, and the behavior was the environment and genes.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, both animals and humans were products of evolution, and behavior was governed by natural evolution.

Hundreds of millions of years ago are too far away for us to control, but in a few decades, we may be able to refer to it.

People have to talk about right and wrong, and they have to talk about meaning, so talents are not animals, but this needs to be nourished by culture and environment. Shi Hu, who has been displaced in the war since he was a child, was already a teenager when he was found by his uncle Shi Le, enlightenment education is a sword and sword, growth education is a bloody storm, he is used to hearing the howl of horses, and he is used to seeing flesh and blood flying, Shi Hu treats killing more detached than ordinary people. After grasping the supreme power, once the repressed animal nature of lack of cultural literacy breaks out, the projection to the outside world is naturally alcoholism, fornication and killing.

Most of the various aggressions are derived from damage. Because their living environment is unfriendly and unsafe, people who grow up in an environment that is often subjected to denial, mental and physical attacks will be more likely to be in a state of confrontation at all times, always ready to meet challenges and protect themselves. It's like a feral cat is more vigilant and more likely to be provoked and then attack than a domestic cat. For people, this is called "impulsive personality disorder". Shi Hu certainly belongs to this type of personality disorder, and the next person to talk about is also.