Chapter 443: The Prince's Return to China
The Yoru region, where the father of Jesang, Shangjiezan Nezan, is located in the Yalong River valley area, which is the land of the rejuvenation of Tibet, with a long history and rich products. As the head of the tribe, Shangjiezanezan was the leading slave owner in the Yoru region and one of the most powerful contenders for the Sihu royal family. And all of them called him king within Joru. His children even directly called him their father, which shows his ambition.
Jaysang Zannezan was the most capable child in Shang Jie Zan's hands, and his capture also made Shang Jie Zannezan bitter, because he lost his most beloved child and the most warlike general at the same time, which was a double blow to him.
After the old king of Zampu returned to China, he repeatedly contacted the heads of the nobles of various tribes and asked the old king to allow them to pay the ransom and save the children who had fallen into the Zhangye River. However, on the grounds that his illness had not yet recovered, Lao Wang did not see each other, delaying their plan to contact the Tang Dynasty to save his son.
This made Shang Jiezan Neizan angry, and he became more and more dissatisfied with the royal court.
On this day, he was smashing things in the palace built by the family to vent his inner depression, and a close attendant pushed the door into the palace and bowed to him happily: "The king is very happy." ”
"Bold! "What a joy!" Shang Jiezan Neizan's liver was on fire, and when he heard the words of this servant, he was so angry that he pulled out his Shangma knife and was about to cut him.
"Your Highness, Your Highness Jaysang has fled from the Tang people!" said the attendant as he fell to the ground in fright, kowtowing his head.
"Phew, you thief slave, you must be lying to me, how can there be such a good thing!" Shang Jiezan stepped on the top of the head of the servant, and raised his knife to chop.
"It's true, the king hears the cheers outside the palace!" the attendant cried out in fright.
"Huh, ......" Shang Jiezan listened attentively, and there were rumbling cheers from outside the palace, including many cries from his slaves. These slaves are cunning and slippery on weekdays, and the yin and yang monsters are so angry that they are resentful, and they are cheering today, is there really a joy from heaven?
"Get out!" Shang Jiezan Neizan kicked away the attendant at his feet, put the knife into the sheath, and walked out of the palace quickly. His palace was located in Zedang, and at this moment the people of the city had gathered around the largest street in the city, scrambling to see what was happening.
Seeing Shang Jiezan Neizan leaving the palace, the guards outside the palace immediately automatically guarded him, rudely pushed away the people standing in the way on the street, and opened a man-wide avenue for him. He strode through the alley of the guards, came to the edge of Zedang Street, and looked out.
At the end of the street, there was a tall beast with twenty-four legs, shaking its head.
This giant beast was densely packed with thousands of sharp arrows, and the manufacturing style of each arrow feather and shaft was filled with the breath of Tang soldiers. On the back of the giant beast, stood firmly in Jaisan Zanezan, who was following the footwork of the giant beast's swaying, his body swinging rhythmically, and waving to the people on the side of the street as he swayed, with a triumphant face.
The crowd on both sides was also amazed by the strange appearance of this mechanical beast and the sharp arrows inserted in the giant beast's body, and subconsciously talked loudly and screamed, which made the scene extremely enthusiastic.
The soldiers guarding the palace in Zedang City let out bursts of cheers. Although they did not go to the battlefield to fight in person, the Buddhist soldiers who fled from the defeat of Zhangye River already knew the power of the Datang camel cart. Now that His Royal Highness the prince saw them actually driving a camel cart of Tang soldiers back majestically, he immediately worshipped him as a god.
"Father!" When Jaysang saw Shang Jiezan's figure, he quickly shrank back from the camel cart and rushed out through the side door.
"My son!" Shang Jiezan Nezan was surprised and delighted, and the old tears flowed, he hugged Jaisang Zannezan, and the father and son hugged and wept bitterly. Shang Jiezan Neizan was sad to find that this stocky son was much lighter, and he could pick him up.
"Father, this time my son has gone through a lot of hardships, nine deaths, and he has broken through the barriers along the way, crisscrossing the battlefield, and I don't know how many interceptions of Tang soldiers have broken through before he finally came back to his father alive. Jaysang Zannezan hugged his father tightly, weeping bitterly and choking and hissing.
Jia Xu and Wang Mang, who stepped down from the camel cart behind him, glanced at each other, and both showed tacit smiles. They all knew that Jaysang Zanezan was about to start his show.
During the whole process of Wang Mang and Jia Xu fleeing with Jaysang Zannezan, Lei Changye made arrangements. When they first rushed out of the Shazhou prison camp, they were pursued by the Qihu cavalry of the Guiyi Army, shooting bows and crossbows. After the camel cart escaped the pursuit of the Qihu cavalry with its long-lasting galloping speed, Lei Changye arranged for the pursuit of the Flying Fish Lady's boat.
However, he didn't really drive a big boat and ride a camel cart in the face of a crazy strafing, let alone a camel cart, even the golden body enchantment composed of six thousand Buddha soldiers of Wanzang Temple couldn't protect Jaisangzan Nezan, he just drove the Flying Fish Lady Boat to make a head on the distant horizon. The rest depends on the performances of Jia Xu and Wang Mang.
Jia Xu and Wang Mang all showed amazing acting skills at this time, when they saw the Flying Fish Lady's boat, they first pointed to the horizon and exclaimed, and then manipulated the camel cart to rush into the woodland at the edge of the Yalong Valley, dodging left and right in the forest, and kept staging Lei Changye-style tactical hip throwing fancy operation.
The last memory of Jaisan Zannezan only stayed at the magical moment when the Flying Fish Lady's ship slowly rose from the horizon, and then he was thrown dizzy, foaming at the mouth, only feeling that the world was spinning, his heart was broken, what was happening around him, he couldn't see or feel it at all, he knew that he was being chased and killed by the Ouroboros of the Sky Boat, and the rest of the things were either Wang Mang and Jia Xu's brainwashing, or his own brain supplement.
After walking all the way for seven or eight days, he finally returned to Zedang City, and Jaysang Zannezan was already used to it. When you get out of the camel cart, you will be shaken when you walk by yourself.
When he saw Shang Jiezan Neizan, all the things that had been constantly brainwashed and made up by his own brain along the way came out. At this moment, thrilling, nervous, exciting, trembling, and glad all kinds of emotions used his heart, and he couldn't help crying, crying while choking up and telling his father about the experience along the way.
At the beginning, his narrative was more in line with reality, because it involved Jia Xu and Wang Mang's rescue of him, but the next experience was completely Jia Xu and Wang Mang's brainwashing of him, plus the absurd plot of his own brain.
When Jia Xu and Wang Mang were about to enter the Yoru region as a dead person, Lei Changye taught them face-to-face before they left. One of them is to ask them to brainwash them to make Jaisan Zannezan have cognitive biases about his escape experience.
How strong the power of brainwashing is, Jia Xu and Wang Mang have seen it with their own eyes in Bai Yinyi's military camp and know it well. Through repeated brainwashing, people can even develop the stubborn spiritual beliefs of religious people.
Lei Changye analyzed the rescue experience of Jaisan and Nezan, and felt that the fact that Jia Xu and Wang Mang came to rescue him at the same time was too bizarre and could easily arouse the suspicion of people of insight. However, if Jaisangzan Nezan can be packaged as a son of destiny, born with the spirit of a king, and can attract virtuous people to work for him, then Jia Xu and Wang Mang's contribution will not seem abrupt, but logical.
Moreover, Jaisan Zanezan was trapped in the prison camp and had no way out, and now he suddenly escaped, and there must have been a dreamlike feeling. Coupled with Wang Mang's tactical hip flicking to forcibly blur his escape experience, which made him have all kinds of illusions, with the brainwashing routine formulated by Lei Changye and the two, he would subconsciously regard himself as a hero who escaped from the mouth of the demon king.
So the fantasy story of Prince Xihu escaping from the encirclement and suppression of the demon Tang soldiers was grandly born under the joint efforts of all parties.
Jesang Zannezan told from the streets of Zedang to the Shangjie Palace, from the noon when he came to Zedang until the third watch. Not only Shang Jiezan listened attentively, but even the attendants, maids and tribal magnates on the side listened to it with relish, and did not feel the passage of time at all.
Even Jia Xu and Wang Mang were fascinated by it. Jaisan Zannezan's imagination was much more than they expected, and they were caught off guard by its fantastical magnificence and splendor.
The escape story told from his mouth not only closely matches his actual escape route, giving the story a real and credible texture, but also all the Tang soldiers who chased him have a one-to-one correspondence with the specific gods and demons in the Western Regions culture, which is impregnated with the breath of ancient mythology and primitive religion, giving people a heavy sense of fate.
Halfway through the story, Jaysang Zannezan held the wine offered by the ministers in one hand and pressed his chest with the other, and began to rap in a melodious and rhythmic tone, as if he were singing a magnificent epic poem of King Gesar.
In his chanting, the brave son of Yoru held a Shangma sword and wore flaming armor, and launched an epic battle with the Tang soldiers' firebirds, two-headed snakes, giant clawed beasts, tusked elephants, blue-faced demons, white-robed generals with silver helmets and silver horses, mysterious assassins in black hats and black hats, bewitching and beautiful soul witches, and fierce and vicious giant spirit war gods.
Of course, Jia Xu and Wang Mang also acted as heroes in it, but they basically only had a few lines.
"Your Highness, sword!"
"Your Highness, sword!"
"Your Highness...... Mighty!"
However, Jia Xu and Wang Mang didn't care at all, but nodded frequently throughout the whole process, saying to everyone that what His Royal Highness Prince Jesang Zanezan said was true, and that was how things were.
When Jaisan Zannezan said that on the third watch, Jia Xu interrupted his rap as if he had just woken up from a dream.
"Your Royal Highness, Lord Zedang, King of Yoru, Your Royal Highness has not eaten for a day......" Jia Xu said respectfully in Western Hu.
"Oh!oh!" Shang Jiezan Nezan was fascinated by what he heard, and after Jia Xu's reminder, he finally broke free from the magical story of Jaisan Zannezan, "Son, you must be hungry!
The maids and attendants in the palace reluctantly left the room, and put the dishes that had been prepared in the kitchen with great dexterity.
"Come, son, eat the meat first. Shang Jiezan Nezan personally reached out and tore off a large piece of yak meat for Jaisang Nezan, and watched him eat it with a sigh.
"That'...... What about later?" he asked, winking.