In early summer, the light rain is refreshing.
A large ship passed by on the channel leading to the Southern Wilderness. The boatman's shouts echoed between the cliffs on both sides of the bank. The water was clear and the mountains were high. There was an endless stream of ships coming and going. Flags were hung high on the mast of the big ship, and a folded letter was written on it.
On the second floor of the building, I had a bent body and was coughing non-stop. My throat was wheezing and my spirit was very low.
"Ahem~ When will we arrive at Demon City?"
"Sir, the ship has passed Gushanji in Qutang Gorge and will arrive in another two hours."
People in the Central Plains are accustomed to calling Jiangcheng, the territory of snake demons, Demon City, which means the city of ten thousand demons. However, there are also many humans of all races in it, but they are too lazy to change the name because they are used to it. Moreover, calling it Demon City has a sense of mystery.
Zhe Changgong saw vitality and hope in the merchants who came and went on the ships in the Southern Wilderness Channel. Although the capital was more prosperous, there was only numbness and lifelessness on the people's faces, like a pool of stagnant water that could not be stirred.
According to rumors, Snake Demon City will undergo small reforms every few years and major changes every few decades.
The system is perfect, the laws are strict, but there is great freedom.
And this is the thing that the powerful people in the Central Plains are most afraid of. The ruling class and many supporters are accustomed to emotion, reason, and law. Emotion comes first, and everything is decided by emotion. Emotion is the rational basis. To put it bluntly, no matter what, everything is decided by those with power. The final say.
However, Demon City is completely the opposite. It encourages merchants to do business and provides convenience for them. It is also said that scholars do not receive any preferential treatment in Demon City and have to seek employment from merchants to support themselves.
All kinds of behavior are regarded as treason.
However, the actual situation is contrary to the conclusion of many elites. They believed that the demon city would be defeated because of this, but it became more prosperous.
The world is governed by emotions and laws, and the country is governed by the teachings of sages. Is it right or wrong?
Although Zhe Changgong is old, he is not stale because he has experienced too many things. When he was under house arrest, he thought about it every day. He felt that there were many good measures in Yaocheng and many shortcomings, but he was always improving and perfecting, full of vitality.
"Alas... Monsters are prosperous and human race is declining. What should we do..."
Years of fighting abroad caused physical damage. After standing for a while, the wind in the river caused pain in my knees.
A sigh of confusion.
The Central Plains is once again in chaos, and the rebels in the southwest are expanding rapidly. The reason is that the local powerful families have squeezed them too hard and the people are deeply resentful.
But there is also a rebellion in the north, and Zhe Changgong, who is leading the border troops, is unable to do anything at all. Thinking of the ancient covenant, he might be able to use the demon soldiers.
However, the Demon Emperor was not seen. It was rumored that the Demon Emperor was sleeping and would not wake up until a few years or a hundred or two hundred years. Qiao Jin refused to send troops to the Central Plains and persuaded Chang Qiang to lead the remaining elites in the world-destroying war to choose a place to protect themselves.
The old man had no choice but to leave the demon city...
half year later.
Qiao Jin held the information and sighed.
Old man Zhe was still too stubborn. He chopped off the heads of the noble men in the fortress and there was no way out. Especially when the capital was besieged and all the emperor and officials fled, leaving only two old men. Everyone was fooling around together. Suddenly, if you are serious, what will happen to the rest of the people in the future? Play? The emperor and the wealthy families decided to get rid of him in a tacit agreement.
However, things are unpredictable, and good luck encounters rebellions everywhere. Although the children of aristocratic families are highly educated and familiar with the art of war, the art of war is not omnipotent, and what is needed is bravery and fearlessness.
After many years of peace, there was no bloody courage left. He was beaten to pieces by the rebels and his head was sent back to the capital. However, the old man, who was aging, was resurrected again to lead the border troops to suppress the rebellion.
A veteran general who is not afraid of death leads a group of border troops who are not afraid of death to fight everywhere.
The 40,000 elite frontier troops often defeated twice or even ten times the rebel army, and the enemies were frightened by the news.
The intelligence listed the old man's achievements in detail, and the rebels were quickly destroyed like chickens and dogs. However, you can never understand the royal family and many powerful people with a normal person's mind. The fear that the old man's self-respect will become another worry. In the battle against the last one During the rebellion, they cut off the logistical supplies of food and fodder in order to weaken and defeat Changgong.
The rebels seized the opportunity and surrounded 40,000 hungry and exhausted elite border troops by the river, with no way to retreat.
One hundred thousand imperial reinforcements were watching from the sidelines. They watched the border soldiers fight with the rebels for two days and two nights. No one surrendered. They ate the enemy's flesh and blood to replenish their strength and fought bravely. It was as cruel as hell. In the end, there was no food and no reinforcements outside. They ran out of arrows and were defeated, and they fought madly until dawn...
Blood dyed the river red, and corpses blocked the river!
The bloody morning glow illuminated the earth. The 40,000 border troops were almost wiped out, and the rebels also suffered heavy losses.
Seeing the tragic situation, the weak and weak officials of the 100,000-strong imperial army nearby were so frightened that they vomited their breakfast and hurriedly ordered to break camp and escape. The rebels took advantage of the situation and followed and defeated the 100,000-strong army. After this battle, the rebels gained momentum.
However, Zhe Changgong was sent across the river by more than 3,000 of his subordinates, shouting that the court was pedantic and immoral. He was heartbroken that the elite frontier soldiers died tragically. His eyes were bleeding and he was blinded by tears.
He resolutely abandoned his official position and rushed to the north to find the remaining more than 100,000 elite border troops. He shouted loudly for the support of the soldiers, occupied several states, angrily raised the flag and rebelled to become the emperor...
The eyes are blind, but some people are blind even though their eyes can see things and their souls.
Bai Yujun wakes up.
Secretly sent two demon commanders to the north to protect old man Zhe from being assassinated. They printed and distributed the encounter of Zhe Changgong into newspapers, and then stopped paying attention to the Central Plains. Iron Ball went south and had already opened up the southern border and reached the southern sea. The Chimang people either surrendered or surrendered. To escape, several large fortresses were built along the waterway to garrison troops, but Bai Yujun did not intend to enter the sea at this time.
When a dragon enters the sea, it has to walk through large rivers, which is commonly known as walking on the dragon.
When the opportunity is ripe, on a thunderstorm night, we go down the river to the sea. The road to walk on the flood dragons is full of dangers. There are strong winds and rains, lightning and thunder, causing floods. The people are afraid. They hang swords under the ancient bridge to prevent the flood dragons from walking. It is unclear who Right or wrong.
Bai Yujun had a secret feeling that walking on a dragon must be done when he transforms into a dragon, carrying the flood water along the largest river and descending into the sea, and then leaping over the dragon gate to become a real dragon.
Of course, it is inevitable that fields will be flooded and houses destroyed. Sometimes the floods are too great to control.
In fact, it is more purely due to human fear. Whenever there is any natural disaster or flood, they will think that the dragon is doing evil. Bai Yujun said that he is innocent...
There is no need to ask for canonization from the human race. Being offered in the Dragon King Temple, offering incense and kowtow, and being conferred by two prosperous imperial courts, saves a lot of trouble.
In fact, Fengzheng also has an influence on people. If you see a giant dragon and say it is a snake, you will offend the giant dragon.
If you call it a dragon, the giant dragon will be grateful, and your luck will become better. Getting rich is not difficult, and your luck will not be damaged. If you call it a snake, you will be retaliated. If you call it a dragon, you will damage yourself. Luck, this is a bit unlucky, not to mention that not everyone is lucky enough to see a dragon with his own eyes.
Many people who were rumored to have seen the giant snake and had it sealed were blessed with good luck.
Flowers and trees are in full bloom on the cliffs on both sides of the tiankeng deep pool. Purple vines are like curtains. Colorful butterflies flutter and birds chirp. The mountain is even more secluded. Huge beasts lurk in the clear pool water, and occasionally half of the head of a dragon is exposed to breathe.
The dragon turned over, causing ripples in the water, and continued to sleep...
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