###42 His death, my life

"The endowment of the state capital is waiting to be sacrificed", "Worship, the major event of the country." "The taxes levied by the state are all used for sacrifice, which is a major event of the state.

The state of Qi pays attention to the sacrifice of heaven and the earth, and the sacrifice of the "earth" is equivalent to the sacrifice of the sky. In particular, it is important to worship the gods of the mountains and the gods of water.

It is often infused with blood and wine. When sacrificing to the mountain god, the method of burial and hanging is used, and the method of sinking is used to worship the god of water, imitating Yao to sink the jade in the water to worship the god of Luo.

The imperial court was in charge of local sacrifices, and according to the law, it was strictly forbidden for the people to sacrifice to ghosts and gods privately, and the people were not allowed to offer incense, wine, food, jade silk and livestock in private.

Whoever sacrifices to the living, and is confirmed, will be exiled or beheaded immediately.

However, there is no wind and no waves, and there are reasons why it is necessary to sacrifice alive, so that the people are willing to risk death.

The Lin Mansion of Jinling City, which used sacrifices to make profits between the court and the people.

The two generations of the Lin family have dedicated to the sacrifice matters, and the emperor has no doubt about the Lin family. It is rumored that when the emperor was still a prince, Lin Lichi helped him obtain the crown prince, which led to today's emperor.

The prince of that year was in the middle of the ranking, his talent was not as good as that of the eldest prince, and his martial arts were not as good as the second prince, and the princes who were younger than him watched him grow up day by day.

If you want to become the emperor, it is a distant and ethereal dream from any point of view.

At that time, it was when Houshu captured three cities in a row and 200,000 troops pressed into Suishan. Lin Li asked the prince to come to the palace to talk, it is said that the emperor left the house with a heavy face, two days later he took the initiative to ask for his life, persuaded the Hou Shu army.

How could the prince of Qin, who was in the middle of the day, easily return to the state of Qi with an army of 200,000 troops? It's just that the mountains of Suishan are steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the prince of Qin in those days has been in the northern veins of Suishan for three months, but he has not had a good plan for a long time. It is said that after the emperor arrived in Suishan, it rained heavily in Suishan, and the boulders of the northern vein mountain slipped down, which forcibly intercepted the retreat of the prince of Qin. Half a moon later, the grain and grass were exhausted, and the cold night was cloudy and rainy. The horses and grain were submerged in the water, and the prince of Qin was about to become trapped beasts in the water, and the soldiers were even more hungry and cold.

But the prince of Qin is not a person who gives up easily, he is hard and resolute, he uses soldiers like a god, and the soldiers are even more loyal to him. One day the moon was full, and the troops were gathered overnight, preparing to attack Suishan Mountain from the North Vein Ziyun Peak by moonlight.

Who knew that the soldiers suddenly heard the sound of the piano in the mountains, and the sound of the piano jumped and struck each other, like a high mountain, mighty.

The soldiers continued to move forward, the sound of the piano continued, and the rhythm changed, and the soldiers saw the grass and trees in front of them like thousands of troops and horses, whistling and rushing.

Lord Qin ordered all the soldiers to cover their ears, but he seemed to have entered a void where light and darkness overlapped. In this void, he saw that the pianist was calm and unhurried, sitting quietly in the void, but he could feel everything in the world, and the number of tones was not more than palace, business, horn, sign, and feather, but it could generate five flavors and five colors.

The palace tune has been established, and it is unshakable all over the world.

As the so-called harmonious sound of the piano sounds, the listeners are happy, and the sound of the piano is sad, and the listeners weep. Lord Qin's trip to the virtual realm, but what he smelled was the meaning of a bosom friend. If the teacher knows the defeat of the Chu master, Zhong Ziqi will clearly distinguish the ambition of Boya.

When the prince of Qin returned to Ziyun Peak, the soldiers had fallen to the ground in a rout, more than half of them were killed or wounded, and when they looked around, they did not find a single shadow of the enemy.

The soldiers were wounded by the weapons of their comrades.

The grass and trees are all soldiers, the mountains and rocks are all soldiers, and even the rain in the mountains is full of soldiers.

It is precisely because of this achievement and the people's hype about this matter that there is now the emperor. It is precisely because of this that the Lin Mansion has always been deeply favored by the emperor.

It's just that Yan Wangfu has always disliked the Lin Mansion, and there is not much contact between the Sui Mountain area and the Lin Mansion in Jinling City.

Decades have passed, and it is unknown whether the current Qin prince still holds a grudge against Lin Lichi for the art of using plants and trees as soldiers.

Ze Zhu rushed to Suishan with the eldest prince for only an hour, and the hummingbird had already passed the news to Ye Xiaolou. He looked at the three princes with unchanged faces, and the three princes held the tea cup and coughed softly a few times.

"Xiaolou, I can't stop the eldest brother, it's really incompetent. The third prince coughed again after speaking.

"You can't blame you for this, I'm afraid they'll do it tonight, and there's no point in trying to stop it now. ”

Ye Xiaolou turned around and was about to leave, Wei Bing took a step forward and said, "In this way, won't His Highness lose every step of the way?"

"Isn't it always that way?"

Seeing that Ye Xiaolou's answer was so rash, Wei Bing was furious, and he couldn't wait to draw his sword and try it a few times. "I said how much the emperor loves His Highness and left you in His Highness's palace, so many years, when have you said a clear word? When have you gone to the soup for Your Highness? Or you are a scholar, you can come up with some good methods. But if there is chaos today, and the Third Highness doesn't even have a place to contribute, wouldn't it be a cheap deal for the eldest prince?"

"So what, what is the eldest prince inferior to your highness?"

As soon as the smoke of gunpowder broke out, Xiao Jin could only hold his chest and continue to cough a few times. Seeing that Wei Bing was still unwilling to give up, he deliberately knocked over the water again.

"Your Highness, why do you want to disperse all the palace people, these things shouldn't have been done by you yourself, look at Xiao Yu, there are a lot of eating, drinking and having fun, the emperor still values him, and the officials also support him. You are so elegant and lonely, I am afraid that you will be bent and ......," Wei Bing complained in annoyance as he wiped the water stains.

"It's high and low. The voice was as moist as water, without reproach.

"In that case, let's continue with the last unfinished game. Xiao Jin proposed.

"No, I have something to do. ”

Xiao Jin slowly rubbed the chess game, confidently waiting for Ye Xiaolou to take a seat. Unexpectedly, he was poured a bowl of cold water in front of him.

"If you can win the world by playing chess, you will become a chess player. After Wei Bing finished speaking, he left the hall with a teacup.

"I said, you are so accustomed to being a subordinate, you are really not fit to be an emperor. But Wei Bing is a bit more interesting than the generals outside. ”

"I'll tell you the truth, I never really thought about it, I just ......" Xiao Jin stopped talking.

"I don't need to know, Jing Xianglou has reserved some strength in various places in recent years, and if you are ready, I will definitely do it to help you become a prince. ”

"I thought you only did fun things. ”

"It's not fun to help you become a prince, but there's something interesting about you. ”

Xiao Jin smiled slightly, "Should I be happy or wry?" Xiaolou, you should understand that I don't want you to do anything, this is not a gentleman's friendship." It doesn't have to be that way between you and me. ”

Ye Xiaolou left a son, Xiao Jin pondered for a moment and slowly put down a son.

"That's all for today, I'll retire first. ”

"Why is Xiaolou so anxious? Could it be that he is a master, and he only thinks about raising his protégé, and he can't even play chess to interest you?"

The third prince smiled, and seemed to be light and casually.

"Exactly. Ye Xiaolou did not deny it.

The spring light flashed on the chessboard between the two, reflected in the eyes of the two, each bright.