For the next two days, perhaps because of the shadow left by the Cannibal Creek, the people did not want to drink the water of the stream, but only sought some water from the mountain spring to quench their thirst. The Mujia southbound group arrived at the first important town in southern Xinjiang, Shu is like a bowl, this place is located in the north of Shu, so it is called Wanbei. In the same way, there is still a bowl in Shudi, and a bowl in the south.

Wanbei is the largest town in the north of Shudi, in Zhen Zheng's view, but the size of Yichuan Town, Yichuan Town is a larger town on the 64th Trail, and the 64th Trail is a desperate road in the land of Wangji. The small population of Shu can be seen.

The Mujia southbound group also saw other southbound groups in Wanbei, all of which were southbound groups of more than ten people, and the teams were in competition with each other, and they rarely walked back and forth, so the behavior of the Xiling southbound group was indeed suspicious.

Bowl North Dokiwood. The cloud pine is more than ten zhang high, the trunk is thick and sharp, and the top branches are sparse and sparse; the canghua only has a trunk, no branches and leaves, its trunk is extremely hard, corrosion-resistant, and it is a good wood; the vines of the snake vine are meandering, coiling on other plants and taking root in other plants, absorbing each other's nutrients. There is also a kind of strange grass in the north of the bowl, the name is called the lotus grass, this grass is like a lotus, can exude a strange fragrance, if people smell this fragrance, they will fall into the realm of psychedelia, there are seven days for a long time, there is no way to crack it.

The living habits and lifestyle of the people of Wanbei are very similar to those of the Central Plains, it is said that thousands of years ago Wanbei was suddenly robbed, and the lives were devastated, fortunately, after the Emperor Kaizu conquered the south, he left a large number of troops stationed in the land of Wanbei to prevent the southern Xinjiang tribes from launching a rebellion. These armies got married, had children, and multiplied in Wanbei, forming Wanbei City, so that Wanbei survived and did not become a historical relic. Therefore, the people of Wanbei do not exclude the people of the Central Plains, and they respect the Emperor of Kaizu very much, and the people of Wanbei have built a temple in the center of the city of Wanbei for a hundred years, which enshrines the statue of the Emperor of Kaizu. When the temple was built, the Third Emperor had just ascended the throne and sent an envoy to congratulate him.

Wanbei Temple has always been the peak of incense, worshippers continuously, including many worshippers from the depths of southern Xinjiang, although southern Xinjiang has been out of the Central Plains control for hundreds of years, but the status of the Emperor Kaizu in the minds of southern Xinjiang people is very respectful.

As a big family in the northern part of the Central Plains, the Mu family was favored by the emperor, and the Mu family's southbound group naturally wanted to worship the temple when they came to Wanbei to thank the emperor.

The temple is magnificent, and the statue of the Emperor Kaizu is enshrined in the nine-story iron tower. The nine-story iron tower is nine floors high, each floor is five meters high, in line with the number of supreme, the statue of the god is equal to the height of the tower, that is to say, each floor of the tower is built around the statue of the god, if you want to see the complete appearance of the emperor, you must climb to the ninth floor. The body of the tower is eight-edged, and there are eight doors at the bottom, corresponding to the eight iron pillars supported in the tower, and the eight iron pillars are also around the statue of the Great Emperor. Mu Lian led everyone into the tower to worship, was required to go to the south main gate, indicating that the people in the south of the land came to worship, the original eight doors correspond to the eight directions, and the people from the eight directions must correspond to the doors of the eight directions to enter, indicating that the eight directions worship, the emperor shocked the eight directions.

Everyone entered the tower, the area is quite large, there are many worshippers, Zhen Zheng found that eight iron pillars go straight to the top of the tower, and the life of the emperor is written on the iron pillars:

Emperor Min Gong, Ming'en. His mother, Shao Hua's daughter, is called Jiang Gu. Jiang Gu was pregnant for three years and gave birth to Min Gong. Born as a god, weak and able to speak, young and neat, long and sensitive, mature and intelligent. When Min Gong was a child, he was like a giant. At the time of Min Gong, the ancient school was in decline. The tribes invaded each other and tyrannized the people, and the ancient school clan was able to conquer. So Min Gong is accustomed to fighting, in order to levy not to enjoy, the tribe salty guests from. Gu Xiu is the younger brother of Gu Xue, the most violent, and he can't be killed. The ancient Xiu wanted to invade the Lingling tribes, and the tribes returned to Mingong. Min Gong is to cultivate virtue and revitalize the army, govern the five qi, soothe the people, measure the Quartet, repair the soldiers of the boulder, and give the gods, in order to fight with the ancient Xiu in Yecheng, three battles, and then kill the ancient Xiu. And the Xianzun Min Gong of all ethnic groups is the Son of Heaven, the ancient school clan, and the Emperor of the Founding Ancestors.

It turned out that the Emperor Kaizu was called Min Gongen, and Zhen Zheng didn't know before that the Emperor Kaizu was the most legendary emperor of the Divine Dynasty, and it was said that he had the power of immortals. Zhen Zhengxin said, if it is true, then how cruel was the war between the Great Emperor and Gu Xiu back then. Zhen Zheng has seen the stone giant slaughter mortals, and he was completely crushed to death with his feet.

After reading the text on the iron pillar on the first floor, Zhen Zheng ran to the second floor to continue reading.

The emperor won the Central Plains, wanted to conquer the southern Xinjiang, merge the north and the south in one dynasty, and the west and east in Shenzhou. Since ancient times, there have been many foolish people in southern Xinjiang, who drink blood, drill wood to make fire, and live in the den of beasts. The Great Emperor commanded 100,000 soldiers, with the soldiers of the boulder, through the Sichuan Pass, swept the [***] Eight Wilderness, and unified the Shu land. All the ethnic groups in the southern Guangyue, all the German and Jiangxi tribes surrendered, and sent envoys to Shu to worship the Son of Heaven. The emperor gave the divine seal, and southern Xinjiang was incorporated into the divine dynasty.

The iron pillar on the second floor is only a hundred words, and nothing else, it seems that the emperor is very simple to unify southern Xinjiang. Zhen Zheng wanted to go up to the third floor but was called down by Mu Lian, and everyone had finished worshipping the statue and was ready to stay in the temple for one night. Zhen Zheng is very interested in the life of the emperor and wants to come here in the evening to continue reading.

There are quite few monks in the temple, but there are many fasting rooms, and the southbound group has a room for two people, and Zhen Zheng and An Guqi live together. After eating at night, Zhen Zheng wanted to go to the nine-story iron tower, but was stopped by An Guqi: "This tower is forbidden to enter at night, the doors and windows on each floor are locked, and there are monks in front of the door on the first floor in turn." ”

Zhen Zheng was disappointed, and An Guqi said again: "But I heard that there is a window on the ninth floor of the iron tower, which is never locked, and you can enter from there." Zhen Zhenggang wanted to thank An Guqi, and almost didn't scold after listening to him, "Brother Guqi, don't make fun of me, I won't even be allowed to enter the first floor, let alone the ninth-floor skylight." "Don't forget that you have the Black Wood Ring, and you have to explore its magic. An Guqi said, "You can make it turn into a vine, order the vine to spread and grow, grow to nine floors and climb the spire, and then order it to slowly turn back, and you can climb up with the trend." "Is this okay?" Zhen Zheng said in surprise, it seems that there are really many uses for the black wood ring, and the key is to use it skillfully.

Zhen Zheng followed what An Guqi said, and really easily climbed to the ninth floor and found the skylight, which was just enough for one person to sneak in.

At night, the tower is lit with sesame oil, which is offered by worshippers. As soon as Zhen Zheng entered the tower, he was frightened by the huge emperor's head, and the golden giant was staring at him majestically, and it turned out that the skylight was facing the emperor's head. Zhen Zheng seemed to hear the cry of pain, thought it was an illusion, and didn't think much about it, and continued to look at the history on the iron pillar.

The ninth to fifth floors of the tower mainly record the governing strategy of Emperor Kaizu and the major events that occurred during the emperor's tenure. The fourth layer records the Emperor's Northern Expedition to the Snowy Regions, and the third layer records the Emperor's expedition to the Western Desert. Each layer records a lot more things than the second layer. Zhen Zheng benefited a lot from reading it. Emperor Kaizu conquered the north in the west, and ruled for a very short time in the court, and it is said that he later went to the eastern islands to seek immortals, hoping to seek the elixir of immortality, and finally disappeared.

What made Zhen Zheng feel weird was that the sound of pain was stronger at each level, and Zhen Zheng felt uneasy in his heart, feeling that this matter was strange. Zhen Zheng guessed that there must have been sounds on the two floors below. Zhen Zheng was bold and walked to the second floor, and sure enough, the voice was louder, Zhen Zheng felt that this was not a person's cry, but many people were screaming. Zhen Zheng came to the first floor, and his voice was almost audible, full of cursing. To Zhen Zheng's surprise, the person they scolded seemed to be called Min Gongen.

Zhen Zheng stood beside the statue of the Great Emperor on the first floor for a long time, and felt that the sound was coming from the foot of the statue, he bowed his head to the ground, listened attentively, frowned, and the sound really came from the ground.

At this time, the ground behind the statue's right foot shook, and a secret door was opened, Zhen Zheng hurriedly hid, no matter who it was, it was always bad to find that he broke into the temple at night. I saw two old monks crawling out of the underground secret door, and the candlelight shone on the two monks, the reflection was long, and the body was rickety, like a devil. The second monk turned the mechanism, closed the secret door, spat at the idol, and finally went out through the main entrance.

Zhen Zheng was curious, it turned out that there was a mystery hidden in the tower, and it must be related to the sound of sorrow. Zhen Zheng found the mechanism, opened the secret door, and a dark path appeared underground, and a cold wind rushed towards him.

Zhen Zheng took a deep breath and walked in. The trail is a winding road, lit by torches, and Zhen Zheng walked around and came to the underground.

Zhen Zheng was stunned. A bloody head was facing him, and Zhen Zheng felt that he was being stared at by a demon, and he was creepy. If you look closely, it turned out to be the Kaizu Emperor, exactly the same as the head of the Emperor in the nine-story tower, except that the eyes were gouged out and blood gushed out. The emperor's avatar is miserable.

There is a cave underground, which is the same area as the first floor above ground, and eight iron pillars are impressively connected to the ground. The walls are surrounded by white bones, human skulls, hand bones, shoulder blades can be found, white bones exude strange colors in the faint candlelight, Zhen Zheng roughly estimated, I am afraid that nearly 10,000 people sleep here.

What the hell is this place, why are there so many wreckage? These people were obviously buried together after death, and Zhen Zheng couldn't imagine who had killed so many people. Zhen Zheng found the stairs leading to the underground, and in order to solve his confusion, Zhen Zheng continued to walk down despite the trembling of his body.

Zhen Zheng came to the second floor of the basement, and sure enough, it was very similar to the second floor on the ground, eight iron pillars were connected to several thick iron locks, and the iron locks were wrapped around the statues, and some directly pierced the statues, and the blood flowed out of the holes, and Zhen Zheng felt his scalp tingle. There are three floors below the second floor, and finally Zhen Zheng came to the ninth floor underground in one breath, only to the end, the underground nine-story tower is opposite to the ground, and the walls of each layer are made of white bones. The underground idol was imprisoned, tortured, and tortured, and it was hard to imagine that there was an equally devastated idol at the foot of the glorious and majestic idol on the ground.

"Bullshit Emperor Kaizu, you can't die a good death!" "Min Gongen, you kill innocents indiscriminately, and beasts are not as good!" "Min Gongen, after you die, you will definitely go to hell and suffer from purgatory forever." "Despicable villain, give me my life!" ...... Zhen Zheng heard these white bones cursing angrily, and all kinds of vicious words were endless.

Zhen Zheng suddenly thought that there was a written record on the iron pillar in the tower on the ground, and there should also be a record between the underground and the underground. Zhen Zheng really found a written record on the iron pillar, the rust and blood stains on the surface of the iron pillar were mixed, but the handwriting was vaguely legible. Zhen Zheng browsed from bottom to top, all of which recorded the great sins committed by Emperor Kaizu in the southern expedition that year, and the Emperor Kaizu, who was revered by the people of the Central Plains, was difficult to write in the eyes of the people of Shu.

It turned out that when Emperor Kaizu went on a southern expedition, the terrain of southern Xinjiang was complicated, and fierce beasts were rampant. Emperor Kaizu can be described as ruthless, and decided to deter by force, so that southern Xinjiang was defeated without a fight, so he slaughtered the city and the north, and 100,000 people were slaughtered. The underground prison tower is the mass grave that the Emperor Kaizu ordered people to dig back then! The Emperor sent an envoy to lobby southern Xinjiang, if any tribe does not respect the emperor, Wanbeicheng is their example. Sure enough, all the tribes of southern Xinjiang surrendered one after another, and soon the entire southern Xinjiang surrendered to the emperor.

"It is rumored that thousands of years ago, Wanbei was suddenly robbed, and the lives were ruined, but it turned out to be the Emperor Kaizu. The people of southern Xinjiang also thanked the emperor for rebuilding the northern city of Wanbei, which is really a great irony. ”

Emperor Kaizu slaughtered the north of the city in that year, the means were quite despicable, he in order to reduce the casualties of the soldiers, a large number of picking seven lotus grass, throwing the city, the people are in a psychedelic realm, facing the emperor soldiers holding white blades, like children, there is no power to fight back. This is why some unjust souls curse the emperor for being despicable. Zhen Zheng seems to be the case, Emperor Kaizu led 100,000 soldiers and horses to the south, and took the bowl of the north as if he was exploring the bag to get things, and he still used such a method, Zhen Zheng couldn't help but despise the emperor.

One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, let alone one emperor?

The iron pillar also recorded a period of the emperor's love history in southern Xinjiang, saying that the emperor Kaizu, in a dense forest in Shuzhong, met a woman, the two fell in love at first sight, and lived in the forest for several days. After the emperor got the woman's body, he resolutely abandoned the woman, and the woman died with hatred. Zhen Zheng didn't believe in this story, and guessed that this was a Wanbei person deliberately smearing the emperor, who was the Emperor Kaizu, how could he play with a woman's feelings.

Now that he had found out the reality of the temple, Zhen Zheng no longer stayed, hurriedly left the underground prison tower, turned the mechanism, closed the secret door, climbed the nine-story iron tower, and left the temple with the help of the black wood ring.

Back at his residence, Zhen Zheng told An Guqi what he had seen tonight, and he regarded An Guqi as a friend, so he didn't shy away from it.

"Emperor Kaizu used the means of slaughtering the city to unify southern Xinjiang, although cruel, but prevented many wars in the future, although the means were despicable, but reduced the casualties of soldiers, in the eyes of the Central Plains people, the emperor made merits, but in the eyes of the people of southern Xinjiang, the emperor is undoubtedly the embodiment of the devil. History is always written by the victors, just like the history inside the nine-story tower, which is brilliant. On the contrary, the history in the underground prison tower is closer to the truth, but it is an unsightly history of barnyard officials. After a long time, An Guqi said slowly, he could see it through.

The next day, the southbound group of the Mu family left the Wanbei Temple, and the pilgrims on the road were still endless, if they knew about the crimes committed by the emperor in Wanbei, I don't know what the mood was.