"Didn't I say it, military advisor, your strategy can't work at all, how can anyone in this world be willing to be a slave?" Outside the Xiqi tent, Ji Fa was wearing an animal skin coat and looked in the direction of Chaoge, he had been standing here for two hours.

Jiang Shang smiled, he took out a birdcage and asked, "Do you know what this is?"

"It's a birdcage, Strategist, you're answering my question. The second monk Ji Fazhang was puzzled, looking at this birdcage with a puzzled expression.

"Hehe, of course it's a birdcage, did the king ever remember that the old minister raised a very good-looking colorful lark?" Jiang Shang said something unclear, which made Ji Fa even more confused.

Ji Fa simply asked directly: "Strategist, what do you mean? ”

Jiang Shang laughed, opened the empty birdcage, and said with a smile: "Since the king can't wait, then the old minister won't sell this pass." I have raised that colorful lark for many years, but a month ago, I couldn't bear it, so I finally opened the cage and released it back into the mountains and forests. ”

"It's a pity, it's a pity, that lark is a rare species, very rare. Ji Fa was very sorry, but then asked, "What does this have to do with our affairs?"

Jiang Shang ordered his subordinates to take out a golden cage, and there was a colorful lark in it.

"Is this ........? Could it be, the military advisor was too lonely because the colorful lark was gone, so he ordered his subordinates to catch another one?" Ji Fa saw the colorful lark in the golden cage, and his heart suddenly became playful and teased. "Don't say it, this colorful lark is really exactly the same as the previous one!"

Hearing Ji Fa's words, Jiang Shang smiled again and said: The king's eyes are like baking, this colorful lark is the one from before.

"What?"

"Could it be that you repented and sent someone to arrest it yourself?"

Looking at Ji Fa with a question mark on his face, Jiang Shang explained: "This colorful lark came back by itself, not by the old minister. ”

"It's impossible, isn't it? "The lark that was locked in a cage, after being let go, flew back by itself, how is this possible? Ji Fa said something, he wouldn't believe it.

"King, don't you believe it?" Jiang Shang asked with a smile.

Ji Fa rolled his eyes helplessly and said: "How can you believe that both humans and animals pursue freedom. How is it possible to burrow into the cage that binds you again?

"Hahaha, don't you believe it? I didn't believe it at first. Jiang Shang opened the golden birdcage, grabbed the colorful lark in his hand, and said to Ji Fa: "Childe, do you want to make a bet with Lao Chen?"

Ji smiled and said, "Hahaha, do you bet?

"Bet on the colorful lark in the hands of the old minister, will it escape. Jiang Shang put the colorful lark on the palm of his hand, and with the other hand, he restrained its wings.

Ji said: "Bet on it, I don't believe that in this world, there will be birds who like their cages." ”

"Hehehe, king, then you have to watch it. I saw Jiang Shang let go of the bird wings in his hand and threw the colorful lark into the air.

The colorful lark was stunned for a moment, then spread its wings and flew away from the Xiqi military camp.

Looking at the fleeing colorful lark, Ji Fa laughed and pointed to its distant back and said. "Hahaha, Strategist, you lost. ”

"Is this really the case?" Jiang Shang was not discouraged, he trusted his own judgment very much.

After about a stick of incense, the colorful lark really went and returned, and in the amazed eyes of everyone, it flew back to the camp in Xiqi.

"It's ........ How is this possible, why is it flying back, isn't it stupid?"

"Why, is this really a stupid bird?"

"Oh my God, the military advisor is really a god, and he knows things like a god!"

Ji Fa was also in disbelief, he watched the colorful lark that flew back rub against Jiang Shang's face, and actually took the initiative to fly back to the birdcage. "It's like, it's like a legend, it's incredible, it's incredible. ”

"It's nothing unbelievable, it's just that flying back is the choice of the colorful lark. Jiang Shang began to explain the reason for the incident.

It turned out that after Jiang Shang let go of the colorful lark, he couldn't sleep a little, and he missed him day and night. But he knew that this old friend of his, said that what could not be in return. Because, every life longs for freedom and does not like to be bound and controlled.

Until that night........

That night, Jiang Shang still had no intention of sleeping, he lay on the bed, thinking about tomorrow's battle plan. At this time, he felt something and walked out of the military tent.

The bright moon hung in the night sky, and he looked around again, but there was nothing but the soldiers who were patrolling the night.

"Alas, it must be that I miss Xiaocai too much that I have such a hallucination. Jiang Shang was in the camp before, and when he heard the crisp birdsong, he rushed out. Alas, nothing.

Just when Jiang Shang was about to go back, a black shadow rolled in front of him, covered in blood, and his stomach was opened with a big opening, if it was deeper, his intestines would flow out. The body is also covered in mud, and the colorful feathers are glued together one by one, which looks extremely embarrassing.

"Xiaocai, Xiaocai, why are you back. Jiang Shang was overjoyed and picked up the colorful lark on the ground.

The eyes of the colorful lark kept changing, first surprise, then fear, then sadness, and finally decadence.

Jiang Shang brought the colorful lark back to the camp and found that it had many more scars on its body, and even its mouth was a little cracked. The feathers on his body were all dirt.

Regardless of his own injuries, the colorful lark desperately wanted to get close to Jiang Shang, and the bird's beak kept rubbing against Jiang Shang's gray beard, reflecting the infinite sense of closeness.

Jiang Shang was thoughtful, he understood why the colorful lark went and returned, and returned to find him.

"So, why did this colorful lark come back?" At this point, Ji Fa still didn't understand why the colorful lark that had originally flown to the mountains and forests would return to this cage by itself.

Jiang Shang said: "This is because although Xiaocai came out of the cage outside the body, its heart is still imprisoned by the cage. ”

"The inner cage, and what is it?" Ji Fa asked.

Jiang Shang explained: "The so-called inner cage is a kind of habit and dependence, Xiaocai has followed me since she was a child, and has never left my side. It has not been taught hunting techniques by other colorful larks, does not know what it can eat, and does not hide from predators. All it knows from a young age is to chirp to please us, and then in the birdcage, to accept the food we give it. It has a strong sense of dependence on me, on this birdcage. It has become a habit to live in a birdcage and beg for food from me. These things constitute the birdcage in its heart, imprisoning its heart. So that even if it is not a prisoner in a birdcage, it is still a prisoner in a spiritual cage. Because it can't do without me at all, it can't help this attachment, and it can't change this habit of opening its mouth with rice. ”

In the same way, these slaves in the Yin Kingdom are the same. They have also been slaves since childhood, and have never been exposed to freedom at all, and their parents are also slaves, not to mention any yearning for freedom. ”

Under Jiang Shang's analysis and explanation, Ji Fa and the others listened to it, and it seemed that there was really no problem, but it still didn't feel right, after all, people are people, and there is no way to mix them with beasts.

"What the military advisor said is extremely true, but it's just ......." Just when Ji Fa wanted to say what he thought, a personal soldier came to report.

The soldier reported: "Prince Qiyu, in the direction of Song City, a large number of slaves without any armor have come out, and they want to surrender to us. ”

"Huh? How is that possible?"

"I'll go, the military advisor is really like a god!"

"God, really God, I didn't expect that as the military advisor said, those lowly slaves really came to surrender. ”

Even Ji Fa was moved, and he said tremblingly: "It's really as the military advisor said." Quick, slap me in the face, let me see if this is a dream. ”

The soldiers had to slap Ji Fa lightly.

"You have no food!"

"Okay, Childe. ”

Smack-

A red palm print was imprinted on Ji Fa's face, and he screamed in pain, shouting: "Fight so hard, do you want to beat me to death, do you want to rebel?"

"No, no......." The pro-soldier knelt on the ground in fright.

"Okay, okay, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, hurry up and take me over. ”

"Okay, Childe. ”

Under the leadership of the soldiers, Ji Fa and Jiang Shang and his party came to the outermost part of the Xiqi camp. There, there are already more than 100,000 slaves, waiting for a long time.

"What do you mean by that?" Ji Fa asked deliberately, pretending to be confused.

"Prince Qiyu, we are here to surrender, we don't want to be soldiers of the Yin Kingdom, we want to be the slaves of the king. I hope the king will accept us. Jiang Shangpai's undercover agent said righteously.

Ji Fa was stunned for a moment, and he asked again: "This son didn't hear clearly just now, you repeat it again." Do you want to be a slave of my son? Are you sure? Then tell me, why do you want to be a slave of my son?"

"Yes Childe, you heard it right, we really want to be the king's slaves. ”

"We really don't want to be free people anymore, freedom is really not a human sin, and we really can't bear the pain of freedom anymore. ”

"Yes, why would anyone like to be a free man? How good it is to be a slave, a slave does not have to think about war, life and death, and victory, but a free man has to endure this kind of suffering. Childe, please, please let us be slaves. ”

"Yes, Childe, I heard that it is really good to be a slave with you and have meat to eat. ”

After the slaves finished speaking, they all knelt down and said again: "Please, Son, you will accept us as your slaves." ”