In the early spring when Henry and his party were waiting for the weapons to be completed, something happened in Fuso that almost caused a sensation from the nobles to the common people.
Fuso, located southeast of Xingjing, is the old capital of the Moon Country. To the west are the mountains surrounding the entire territory by the city gates, while the part facing the sea is a seaport and fishing port controlled by the Kazuto Chinese.
There are three major tribes in Fuso. The He tribe and the Hayabusa tribe account for 40% and 50% respectively, and the remaining 10% is the ghost tribe with a sparse population.
The Hayato clan, which is internally divided into numerous tribes, is engaged in various industries from commerce to industry in Fuso. They are excellent craftsmen or shopkeepers. In addition to a large number of ashigaru and samurai, the population of Kazuto consisted of ordinary workers who ate, lived and worked with them.
The remaining ghosts live in the mountains within Fuso, in a place called "Oni's Sato". They generally do not eat or live with humans except for serving as laborers and soldiers in forging workshops.
The situation in Fuso was intentional and cleverly designed with the wisdom of the doctors from the Grand Academy.
Some tribes in the Hayato clan and the Oni clan are very different from Kazuto in appearance. These foreign races that were difficult to assimilate were gathered into Fuso territory and then ruled by the Kazuto Chinese. Divide and conquer them, deliberately creating a competitive situation where "Only the Oni clan or Hayato can be responsible" for some things, causing the two clans to suppress each other and often cause friction, thereby maintaining the stability of Kazuto's rule.
The balance point of this delicate situation is based on the unity of Kazuto nobles and Kazuto commoners, so Kazuto can occupy the vast majority of the voice in Fuso. And on the premise that although the Oni clan and the Hayato clan were suppressed, they were not unduly treated.
"The former emperor's nickname was "Ghost Tamer", and he treated ghosts like humans and treated them as equals. Some foreign envoys were puzzled and asked, 'These barbarians are cannibals and bloodthirsty, why not get rid of them and then get rid of them?'"
"The late emperor replied, 'I teach you with rituals, respect ghosts as gods, let them put down butcher knives, hold paper and pen to write calligraphy and painting, and turn enemies into friends. This is also the way to defeat enemies.'"
This period of history is also clearly recorded in Kazuto's "The Myth of the Founding of the Nation".
It was through the cultural contagion comparable to Raman poison that Kazuto made both the Oni and Hayato clans more or less accept Kazuto's values and lifestyle. Let them speak the same language and eat the same meals, creating a sense of cultural commonality and identity, thus gaining the loyalty of these alien races and avoiding war.
Like many other things, the thousands of years of peaceful unity of the Moon Country are not inherent.
It is the result of the wisdom, understanding and respect of many ancestors.
It is precisely because of the countless wise men of Tiange Academy who work day and night to discover and raise problems, coupled with the implementation and solutions of generations of outstanding Chinese people, that this unique stability that the Ligar people are very envious of can exist. .
But this stability isn't all good.
It will give people the illusion that this is the world order itself, which cannot be destroyed. It will not be destroyed no matter how careless it is, and will exist forever.
And once you believe this illusion, you will lose your ability to judge crises.
The greater the influence of "you", the greater the crisis caused.
No privilege is immune from abuse.
Children who are pampered never feel that they should be restrained, that they should stop crying, fussing, hanging, and rolling around in order to get what they want.
They were always unscrupulous because even then they were never punished.
Perfect protection coupled with unbridled privileges can easily lead to the illusion that they are some kind of human gods.
And there are indeed many among the nobles and nobles who consider themselves this way.
The dark blue hair is the proof of their noble blood. They are different from all those humble, barbaric, and vulgar civilians. They do not need to do dirty work. As the blood of eight million gods, they are born noble and deserve to be born. He came to rule this world.
The person who perfectly wrote the word "do whatever you want" is the son of the Ji Xiaoji family who is said to have a noble bloodline second only to the feudal lord. As one of the four major families in Xinjing, he controls the army in Fuso.
When the common people at the bottom imagine the hateful nobles, they always imagine the image of being dandy and incompetent. However, the top nobles have enjoyed the best educational conditions since birth. In human terms, even a monkey can teach piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Proficient in everything - so incompetence is often not associated with them.
This is the case for the young master of the Ji Xiaoji family. He has become famous in many fields at a young age. But being capable and talented is not necessarily linked to being handsome. As the heir to the powerful Fuso family, he has a quirk that is almost universally known to everyone in the country, and that is his preference for strange women.
Fuso is not theoretically a new capital. If it were not for people like Henry and his party who hold honorary warrior titles, it would be difficult for ordinary Nanman people to enter. However, there are rumors that caravans of Laman slave merchants have often entered and exited Himikoji's mansion since he was a boy. It is said that the young master has collected over a hundred slave girls from Rigar.
He doesn't like gentle women, but prefers foreigners with different skin colors and hair colors, and he has the strength and privilege to realize such a dream. He has been living in the wine pool and the meat forest for more than ten years. Now that he is over 27, he has become boring even to humans. After a series of coercion and inducement, he even managed to marry the three daughters of the ghost clan leader as concubines half a year ago.
Although she is a princess of the ghost clan, she can only serve as the concubine of the Kazuto Chinese clan. This kind of unequal and barbaric behavior is also a major proof of the overwhelming power of the Ji Xiaolu family. After all, they control Fuso, the largest iron production place in the Crescent Continent. They supply and control most of the armors and weapons of the warriors in the entire Crescent Continent. Even though in name, the Himekokoji clan still has to submit to the imperial family. Reporting, the oil and water involved and the influence it brings are also very amazing.
If political opponents offend them, they can find various reasons to withhold arms or supply them with poor quality.
"Two samurai from the Kitakōji and Ayanokōji families were dueling, and the swords they pulled out were engraved with Himekokoji's family inscriptions." Such a saying among the people more or less shows the special identity of the Himekokōji family.
This stable and powerful position has created Master Ji Xiaolu's overbearing and do-anything character. Even the princess of the Ghost Clan is just another plaything to him.
——But what he probably never expected was that this ordinary "play" would eventually lead to his death.
There is destined to be a lot of friction between the huge ghost clan and humans. Even if both parties try their best to get along, the prospect of this marriage is worrying. After some of the already rare ghost women had to join the miko army, the rest were regarded as treasures by the tribe.
Therefore, unlike the Kazuto nobles who were so complacent that they felt so powerful that they even crowned Prince Ji Xiaoji as the "ghost tamer" of the first emperor, the ghost clan was extremely dissatisfied with this matter. Some Hayato and even Kazuto craftsmen who were closer to the Oni clan also complained.
But the Himekokoji family was powerful, so they just complained in private.
The princess herself has accepted her fate, and in order to avoid conflicts, the clan leader also worked hard to suppress the restless clan members. In addition, after the princess married into Himekokouji's family, she wrote a letter every week saying that her life was stable and that she was being treated favorably. This matter should have passed smoothly like this.
It was not until a few days before the arrival of Henry and his party that the regular letter home from the ghost princess had not arrived, and inquiries were unsuccessful. Later, a ghost craftsman who admired the princess broke into Himekokoji's mansion at night and discovered that the princess had been imprisoned in the stables. He ate and lived with the beasts and died of exhaustion after being abused for a long time.
The princess, who did not want conflict between her tribe and Kazuto, always reported good news but not bad news in her family letters. But when her body with only withered bones and no one to take care of it was taken out by the craftsmen, this incident caused a great stir in the ghost. conflict.
The extremely tenacious ghost tribe was tortured to death. No one knows what she has experienced in the past six months.
The extremely angry ghost tribe members wanted to seek revenge on the spot, but the patriarch once again suppressed the situation and still tried to have a dialogue.
This request for dialogue was repeatedly ignored until the day before Henry and others arrived. The young master, who was still arrogantly showing up on the street with his foreign slave girl, said this to the ghost tribesman who desperately stopped his car:
"What's wrong with animals living with animals?"
"Rather, living with a noble horse is a compliment."
He never had any love or even pity. His eyes didn't even show the slightest emotion when he looked directly at the grief-stricken ghost tribesmen.
He does it just because he can.
Because he is God.
The extremely angry ghost craftsmen taught him a few days later that he was just a mortal.
He cried and cursed, but still refused to beg for mercy from the humble beast. The guards were afraid of the extremely angry and bloodthirsty ghosts and did not dare to step forward. They could only watch helplessly as Mr. Ji Xiaolu was torn to pieces.
When he was dying, the eldest young master finally realized the fact that he was a mortal body and not invulnerable. The huge Kazuto power and family privileges behind him gave him the illusion that he was a god.
But he is just a mortal body, even an extremely fragile mortal body in the face of existences like the ghost clan that can easily tear down human walls.
On the spot of the bloodbath, the perpetrator himself was torn into pieces. The ghost tribesmen bathed in human blood briefly regained the majesty they had been revered as ghosts and gods thousands of years ago.
But it was only for a brief moment.
This happened the night Henry and his party arrived at the workshop to place the order, and while they were observing the production process the next day, this incident reached the ears of the Himekokoji family.
It is said that the head of the family, who was so doting on his son because of his old age, was so angry on the spot that he smashed the two-thousand-year-old jade teacup.
The guards who were poorly guarded were first killed by the Nine Clans.
Immediately afterwards, the ghost craftsmen and soldiers who thought they were avenging the princess were captured and beheaded in public within the next three days. However, even so, the head of the family who held the most powerful power in the Moon Country was not satisfied. Under his overwhelming power, , this scene is now displayed in front of everyone:
The two daughters and the only son of the ghost clan leader were tied up on the stage to show off.
The executioner held an extra-long tachi, and the makeshift terrace was deliberately filled with people of all colors from all directions.
"You kill my son, and I want you to pay back double the amount."
He still felt that just killing the part of the guilty ghost clan was not enough to relieve his anger - that was his only son, his only precious little sweetheart. How could the other party understand the pain of a parent losing a child if he did not experience it personally?
Wasn't that what the other party did? ——As the leader of a clan, if he cannot effectively control his subordinates, he must make compensation!
Was it his son who killed the other party's daughter first? ——Anyone who dares to say this in front of the head of the family, who has white hair and hair and is known as the White Lion of Ji Xiaolu, will probably be dead.
Not a single ghost clan member appeared at the scene, and others whispered that the ghost clan leader had planned to start a war, but it was these two noble princesses and their highness who voluntarily sacrificed their lives to avoid the sacrifice of more clan members.
But despite this, having learned from the past, thousands of heavily armored samurai and ashigaru were still densely arranged in the venue to guard against the attack of the ghost tribe.
The proud white lion loudly preached on the stage about the bloodless and tearless savage evil deeds of the ghost clan and the price they had to pay for it. He used extremely gorgeous rhetoric to promote his son's great achievements, and even talked about it emotionally. Tears flowed freely. He repeated loudly that his actions were correct, just and glorious. From time to time, there were cheers and approvals among the crowd of onlookers. Mira frowned and glanced around - she found that most of them were luxuriously dressed Kazuto nobles, a small number of Kazuto commoners, and some people who were obviously dressed as Laman businessmen. .
The vast majority of Kazuto civilians and the Hayato clan remained silent.
The nobles themselves, the most noble ones who identify with the Kazuto nobles are probably the common people who have conflicts with the Hayato clan ghost clan, and the Laman merchants who still want to continue doing business with the Himekokoji family.
90% of the people chose silence, but the voices of only 10% of those who agreed were the only ones that the other party could hear.
The uniformed samurai troops surrounded the head of the family and the center of the execution ground in full formation.
The Luoan girl stared closely at the ghost princess in the center of the field, her face covered with white hair pale and her lips clenched tightly. She could not agree with all of this no matter what. The other party seemed to notice her. The face that looked up was very similar to that of Teruyue. After noticing Mira's expression, he showed a somewhat reluctant and comforting smile even though he was already in danger.
Even if they have never met.
The ghost princess, who was degraded to a beast, was silent and quiet, while the Kazuto Chinese, who was luxuriously dressed and protected by a large army, had an excited expression.
"Is there nothing we can do?" Mira lowered her head and clenched her fists.
A smile may be fake, but the kindness you choose to show to someone you have never met even when you are about to die cannot be fake.
With just a smile and a rough understanding of the incident from the low-pitched discussions of the people around her, she already had much more respect for the princess than the white lion on the stage who loudly proclaimed his correctness.
But even if Henry didn't answer this question, she already had an answer.
What can they do.
Even the sage could not match the thousands of samurai, and this was the home ground of the Himekokoji family and Kazuto, and they would have endless reinforcements.
Even if the Tribulation Field rescues these two His Highnesses, as long as the Ji Xiaolu family puts pressure again, they will have to be handed over again.
As outsiders, they made a sudden move just because of hearsay. Even if they were escorted back to the ghost, it would only force the leader of the ghost clan to make another choice.
Do you want to protect your own children or your tribe?
Want to abandon this hometown and move away with the entire ghost tribe? Or stay and start an all-out war with countless casualties?
These two respectable Oni Highnesses made their own choices. They put the lives of their clansmen and more Kazuto civilians and soldiers above their own lives.
And she wasn't the only one who noticed this.
If Onisato launches an all-out war with the Ji Xiaoji family, no one in the entire Fuso territory will be able to avoid it.
Even though Kazuto and the commoners of the Hayato clan are considered ignorant by the nobles, they are still clearly aware of this simple fact.
No voice, no power.
Watching unfair things happen, but being unable or unable to take action - because insisting on going your own way may only lead to more serious consequences, putting the cart before the horse, and causing the situation to take a turn for the worse that should not have expanded.
This is his own teacher. As a sage, can he still feel the powerlessness - or can he feel it even more?
Why was Placia able to set off a movement to suppress the superior in the Crescent Continent, and why did this kind of thing become more and more intense?
Today's scene gives the best answer.
"——At this point, in the name of the heirs of eight million gods and the orthodox nobles of Dayue Kingdom, I make this judgment——"
"Two things, death penalty!"
"good!!"
"Your Excellency is wise!"
"Revenge for the young master!"
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