Sitting in the boat of friendship, we headed north along the rushing water. We came to the vicinity of Yueshan Mountain. Once here, we went slightly northward to the east and followed the Luoshui River eastward to reach Dushan. From Dushan to Zheng About three hundred miles from the northern area is Gao's Mountain.
"What kind of place is Gao's Mountain?"
On the way, Emperor E asked Yuzai, hoping to know the situation in the ancestral land of the Akafang clan. Yuzai searched for the situation in his memory, considered some words, and spoke with a slightly nostalgic tone:
It is indeed a memory. For Yu Zai, Gao's Mountain is a familiar yet strange place....
Gao's Mountain only exists in memory, and Yu Zai has never been there.
But many memories of the ancestral land come from the soul that originally dissipated.
"In the mountains of Dongciyi, the mountain gods are human bodies with dragon heads, but the fields of Xiang at the foot of Gaoshi Mountain are governed by the gods of Dongcisan, who are gods with human bodies and ram's horns... Our old god's name is It’s called Xian... He’s very old, and it’s said that he already existed when our ancestors came there.”
"Rongguang's name was Jinyun, and his son was Boling. Boling gave birth to Shu. Shu had five sons, one of whom was named Dawang. He left the area of Dahe and came to the southeast. He lived in the mountains of Zhongshan. He gave birth to a son named Fangshan, and Fangshan’s son was named Naiming. Naiming moved his people to the north of Huai River. His son was born in a rainy month, so he was named Meng.”
"Meng means light rain. When he gets old, people will call him Weng Meng. His son means never resting."
"The ancestor of the Chifang clan is not resting. He led the people to migrate across the Huaihe River and came to the vicinity of Gao clan's mountain in the south. They lived in the fertile land of Xiangye and thrived. The part he brought with him The clan members settled here, and this is our Akafata clan.”
"Red means red? It is the color of fire, because our ancestors were once officials of Jinyun? We are the descendants of the God of Fire? So when we came to this fertile land and burned mountains and reclaimed wasteland, we were called the Chifang clan."
"Gao's Mountain is a very good land. Its riverside produces a kind of stone needle. It is polished into stone needles in the hands of the witch doctor. It can be used to treat diseases. When I was a child, I was pricked by the old wizard with this kind of needle... ..But later when I was crossing the river, I became seriously ill, and this kind of injection had no effect..."
Zhen stone is a stone specially used to make stone needles, and stone needles are an ancient medical instrument. They are ground from stones and can treat carbuncles, ulcers, and blisters and eliminate pus and blood.
"There are many beautiful jade on Gao's Mountain. Near the riverbed of Zhushengshui? There are many mines, such as copper, iron, gold and stone..."
The ancient land of the Akagata Clan is a fertile land. The land on the Hōnoye is very fertile. It can support tens of thousands of people, and they only need to move short distances every two or three years on average. And the vicinity of the Gao Clan is rich in many metal minerals. Long Di It was precisely because of these two points that the clan launched an aggressive war against the Akakata clan.
"So if you fall behind, you will be beaten. The Akafang clan, which does not have high-level copper smelting technology and only has elementary copper smelting skills, quickly lost to the Longdi clan who had more people and better equipment when coppers were scarce. .”
"At that time, the Long Di clan came over with their affiliated tribes. I remember that the old wizard summoned all the beasts to fight, so the Long Di clan set off wildfires. They surrounded and suppressed them, and the beasts fought against the flames. Of course, There were also more people who ran away when they encountered the flames..."
"I have been studying with the old wizard since I was very young. The old wizard always said that my blood was impure and I was weak and sick, but I could barely be considered a wizard candidate, so I studied with him... I have three senior brothers, and they all He is a very good person..."
"The eldest brother was called Yu Yuan. He was burned to death in the raging flames. The second brother was called Yu Yu. He was a very stingy person. He often hid his property after accumulating it. He was poisoned by the wizard of Long Di clan. Curse, he bleeds from his seven orifices and dies..."
"The third senior brother is called Yubu. He is good at divination, but he is timid. He is very afraid of death. However, after we were defeated, he swallowed the oracle bones and cut his throat and committed suicide."
When Yu Zai said all this, there was no pity or anger in his tone, only endless memories and remembrances, as if he was telling some trivial stories in history, but it made Ehuang, Wen Ming and others feel heavy.
To be able to talk about the tragic events of his tribe's past so lightly, even as if he were a bystander, is exactly what shows that Yu Zai's heart is filled with the unquenchable fire of revenge...
Azai, everyone understands you!
Ruanzai was chattering for a long time, and suddenly she felt a bunch of eyes. Looking at the boat again, everyone was looking at her with pity and sympathy.
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Chonghua: "Azai, it turns out your life experience is so miserable..."
Yu Zai: "No, I said a lot of things, don't just listen to the second half..."
Xiu: "No, this will only make you more miserable."
Yuzai waved his hand: "Hey! You are all listening randomly! You don't understand the meaning of my words! Am I saying this to express the misery we have experienced?"
"Erhuang and Wenming are both from big tribes and have a halo with them since they were born. Chonghua is from a small tribe and should be able to understand my descriptions, but it's not important. Everything in the past has passed. Hatred is not I will forget, but I can’t always be driven by hatred.”
"In the mountains and seas, situations like the Chifang annihilation are not uncommon. Erhuang, when you were in the south, did you see some people with wooden limbs on their hands and feet? That was made for them by your eldest brother Ahong. , they are the Ganpan clan, and their hands and feet were chopped off by the Diyou clan before. They were asked to dig mountains and dig rocks to be slaves. If their hands and feet were chopped off, they would not have the strength to escape."
Ehuang didn't speak and kept silent.
"When a big tribe gives an order, everyone in the world will obey it, but what about the small tribes? They are bullied on the road, intercepted by others to steal food, and recruited by other tribes to serve as vanguards and laborers..."
"You all know the Shandu God, but do you know how he became a god? A Shandu ate a dying cow god. This god was Fei. His tribe had already been transformed after the migration. They were all dead, so he was going to die too, but he didn’t die because of his unwillingness. The Shandu God ate him and became a god.”
"In the mountains and seas, defeated tribes were exiled or became slaves. The tribes that became slaves could survive, and maybe they could become vassals in the future, or get a chance to break away. The exiled tribes might be able to survive, but more importantly Those who have more will perish.”
"The exiled tribe does not have a large population and almost no tools. Most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. They will soon fend for themselves in the mountains and seas."
"There are countless tribes like this from the time of the Three Ancient Emperors to the present. The people of the world have been displaced. But in the eyes of the big tribes, the death of hundreds of people can be called something that shakes the world. ? It's just like throwing a stone into the sea. Although there are waves, it will calm down in an instant."
"Wherever there are people, there will be desire, and where there is desire, there will be fights. What is not available will always be in commotion, and what is used will be discarded like worn-out clogs."
"Then, they were forgotten by history and buried forever in the mountains. Thousands of years later, no one will know their names because they had nothing to leave behind."
"Naked life, naked death."
"As for those large tribes, they can leave stone tablets, inscriptions, and pottery to tell their stories to people thousands of years later..."
Everyone fell silent after what Yu Zai said. No one bubbled up or played tricks. All the previous saucy words seemed to be forgotten. However, the ones who were most affected were not Ehuang and Wen Ming, but Chonghua.
He suddenly remembered the hardships of the past, but he also thought that his previous hardships and these nameless tribes that had perished and no longer even had names were not worth mentioning at all.
At least he is still alive and well, his parents are here, Lishan's life can meet his needs, he is also valued by Lei Zeshen and a Qi practitioner, and now he is surrounded by friends, and he has become the emperor Candidate…..
But what are emperors and kings?
The people at the upper level praised the virtues of the Emperor of Heaven and the Ancient Emperor, while the nameless tribes at the lower level were disappearing every moment.
“The superiors never tire of their pleasures, and the inferiors cannot endure the hardships... The upper-class nobility are dissatisfied with the existing happiness, the lower-class people cannot endure the painful life, the big tribes are worried that their lives cannot become better, while the weak and poor tribes They are starving, freezing... or even homeless and dying!"
Chonghua suddenly had huge doubts about the location of the Emperor of Heaven.
What is the era of great governance?
"The emperor has ruled the world for fifty years, but he doesn't know whether to rule or not."
Although the social atmosphere was good during the third generation, tribal strife certainly existed, and this is not a contradiction.
It exists in any era, but it changed from a tribe to a state, and in the Zhou Dynasty it evolved into the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period... Everyone likes to bully the weak, the weak hope to become strong, and the strong suppress the weak, and this naked wildness is Suppression of morals and etiquette is civilization.
Just like Duke Huan of Qi, everyone knew that he was the overlord in the name of the Emperor, but no one could say anything wrong about him, because he really respected the Emperor, never overstepped his bounds, and even helped those who were weak. Restore the country, protect the Chinese people, and expel the enemies in the north.
So all the countries in the world were willing to obey him.
Now, the Central Plains is the largest tribal alliance, but it does not bully the weak, so everyone hopes to defect to the Central Plains, but what about the more remote areas?
For those that cannot be taken care of, Dongyi has Dongyi's rules, Baiyue has Baiyue's rules, and Hongzhou also has Hongzhou's own system. Many tribes in the southwest even maintain their original style, and the three Kunlun tribes under the Qilian Mountains, They were even more shameless representatives. There were so many tribes that they were driven to annex, and even the Queen Mother of the West did not dare to fully provoke them.
Chonghua suddenly understood what Di Fangxun meant when he asked himself, "The world is under great rule. How big is this world?"
It turns out that in today's world, the dead sleep on each other's backs, those who push against each other's shoulders, and those who kill each other look at each other!
(The beheaded people are holding each other down, the shackled people are next to each other, and the murdered people are looking at each other)
