Deep mountains, rivers, clouds and mists.
The sky is overcast and there will be thunderstorms.
The Jingzhe is coming.
Located south of the river, deep in the mountains, the people of Cangwu live here after leaving Bashan.
Around, there are people from "Luren", "Dazhu", "Changsha" and "Manyang", all called tribes. In the north of the river, under the Wushan Mountains, there is also "Yufu".
There are Pu people, Liang people, E people, and also the Heyi branch.
Most ancient people believed that the Cangwu Wilderness included the later Nanchu area, that is, the south and northwest of Hunan.
A young man with a ferocious face and numerous scars on his face was carrying a bow and arrow and a bronze sword.
Beside the young man, there were more than a dozen warriors lying in a pool of blood. Most of the warriors had an arrow stuck in their bodies. The arrows killed them with one strike and even embedded themselves in their flesh and bone marrow, which is enough to show the accuracy and power of the archers.
On the other side, there were more than a dozen slaves. They were unkempt, scarred, and numb. Every soldier who died there was their master.
They all have whip scars on their faces, left by thorns and canes. Some slaves are missing ears, and some are missing fingers.
A soldier's legs were cut off, and he was struggling in the bloody water. He looked at the ferocious young man, his whole body trembling and whining.
"Please, don't kill me, I still have a child, he is not old..."
The young man knelt down and whispered to the soldier in front of him.
"My name is Chu Xun. Xun means mountain mulberry. Chu means thorns and pain. What about you? What is your name?"
The soldier with the broken leg had chattering teeth. He seemed to see hope of survival and said hurriedly: "My name is horn, horn of horn!"
"Oh...why not the antlers of a deer? Do you look down on deer?"
Chu Xuan spoke softly. The soldier with the broken leg turned pale, and Chu Xuan shook his head.
He swung the copper sword, like cutting through wood with a saw, gently and slowly cutting off the warrior's arm. The screams made in the process were vague in his ears. If not heard.
The slaves on the side watched all this. Some of the slaves spoke and thought that the soldier should be saved, but others thought that if they saved him anyway, he would be tortured to death by him, so it would be better to watch him die here.
At least I feel better.
It seemed that thanks to the blessing of the young hunter in front of him, some expressions appeared on the numb faces of the slaves.
Many people's masters are dead, and there is a high probability that they will be executed by the Cangwu clan when they return. However, some people believe that this kind of unilateral massacre is force majeure and is simply a dimensionality reduction blow. They did not see what happened. Their The owner fell off the backs of cattle and deer, or was shot dead on the ground.
The man in front of him has incredible archery skills. He shoots arrows under the dim sky, and the arrows cannot be seen.
Therefore, those slaves thought that as long as they made it clear when they went back, they might still be able to survive.
The Cangwu family needed slaves, they needed Jian, Xi, and Pan. Without them, where would the Cangwu family find such strong and simple slaves as them.
Chu Xun's voice came from not far away and reached the ears of the slaves:
"...I was born in a small tribe. There is a hill to the north of the tribe, with a water vein, a mulberry forest, and flowers and weeds..."
"There is also a hill to the south, and there are mountains further away. There are many animals in the mountains. This was the whole world when I was a child. My father would bring me wild fruits and meat when I was a child. He was very strong and brave. He was a An experienced old hunter, there is no better hunter in the tribe than him, he can catch a lot of prey every time he goes hunting.”
"Every year, the harvest from the land is very good, and the rice is growing well. My mother and sister will be busy in the land. When the rice comes into my mouth, I feel uncomfortable in my mouth, but at that time, I feel that being able to eat every meal is the happiest thing in the world. thing."
"But then, you came, bringing these slaves with you..."
"You say that we are descendants of Jin and should be slaves for life, but we have no idea who that Jin is in your mouth."
"Of course, I found out later...but before that..."
"On that night, there was nothing but blazing fire in my eyes. From then on, I became afraid of fire. I saw my sister crawling out, and her back and stomach were torn apart. I saw The blood marks on my mother's back extended, and the exposed body was already rotten."
"I saw the head of our clan leader cut off by you and placed on the flag. You shouted loudly and tried to subjugate us with this behavior."
"I saw my brothers curled up in the flames and turned into blackened carbon. I saw someone with a big wound on his head..."
"That's where I was born and raised, and it's not like this."
Chu Yan's voice gradually became louder when he spoke to the soldier with the broken leg, and his tone became cold and forbidding.
"Jiao, are you right? It shouldn't be like that."
"My family members were lying in the dirt, their bodies covered with white, wriggling maggots. Wild beasts were wandering around, picking them up and dragging them back to their lairs."
"And your family will wish in their hearts. They feel that you men will go back soon, and all of us will be killed soon..."
"So I'm going to cut off your head and tell your relatives that you are back, how are you? Are you happy, although the way you go back is different..."
"But at least I left you with a head."
"I chopped off your feet with a copper sword, split your knees with a stone axe, and the blood flowed out and pooled on the ground, and then I slowly cut your arms open with the edge of the sword."
Chu Xuan thought in his mind that his people were like this when they were killed by the Cangwu clan in the past, helpless and scared. It turns out that the smell of blood is so good, and it turns out that their blood will flow out like this, and it will also be bright red.
Chu Yan penetrated the warrior's skull with his sword, and then cut off his head with his backhand.
The surrounding slaves stood there, seemingly paralyzed by this scene...
Chu Xuan looked at them:
"These people are dead, they deserve to die. Now, you people, I will give you two choices, come here or go back. I can let you go."
The slaves were silent for a long time. Only some of them stood up and walked towards him, while more people left backwards.
And Yan laughed.
He took off his bow and arrows and took four arrows in one bow.
"I'll let you go, but whether you can leave or not remains to be seen."
He shot the arrow very quickly and killed many people. Then, Chu Xuan looked at the four slaves standing beside him.
"Very good. Now you are no longer slaves. Tie your hair up and don't let it hang down. We are not slaves, we are Chu people."
Chu means thorns.
"Go and cut off the heads of those slaves."
This is a surrender. Cutting off the heads of your former companions is the real break with the past. Otherwise, if you are afraid of death one day and run back to be followed by others, you will be harming yourself and killing your companions. , then you are also escaped slaves, and those slave owners will not let you go, nor will they let your family go.
Although your family members are still slaves.
But how can anyone who does great things not sacrifice?
Chu Xuan looked at the four people in front of him. There was still sparkle in these four people's eyes, not as numb as those before. Chu Xuan thought in his heart that this is right. Some people's hearts are rotten, while some people's hearts can still be repaired.
He clenched the bow and arrow in his hand, thinking about the person he once apprenticed to. His teacher was called Pang Meng. He was not a good person. This teacher once came here and seemed to want to practice archery with "He", the leader of Heyi. He risked his life in a duel, but failed in the end and went back halfway.
It was also that opportunity that allowed me to meet my teacher and understand that good people do not live long.
People from the Cangwu clan came to find him. He had killed too many people of Cangwu these days. These stupid warriors thought they could easily kill themselves and then go back with their heads to promote their bravery. But after they came, they Most of them were silent, and a few were cursing, crawling on the ground, no longer wanting to show their bravery, but wanting to put their heads back.
Chu Xuan knew that he was crazy, but that didn't matter. A lunatic was interesting. He could scare the cruel guys of the Cangwu clan, so a lunatic was needed.
He took the four slaves with him, leaving corpses and heads on the ground. He rowed a broken wooden boat, pushed aside the wormwood, and entered the vast depths of the vast swamp. The sound of the river could be vaguely heard in the distance.
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Chu Yan killed another group of Cangwu warriors, which made the leaders of the Cangwu clan go crazy. This damn fugitive slave escaped from here seven years ago and was not caught. Unexpectedly, he came back now and actually dared to Provoke them and keep killing their warriors.
The leaders of the Cangwu clan saw the situation and found that most of the corpses had their heads cut off. Whether they were slaves or warriors, they were all the same, and the number of slaves was always a few less. This showed that someone was related to the escaped person. The slave left together.
So the Cangwu family would find the families or relatives of the escaped slaves and tell them their sins. When the slaves confessed in fear, they would kill their whole families and tell other slave tribes that they had rashly This is the outcome of contact with the escaped slave who returned.
The people of the Cangwu clan like those who have fear in their eyes, because after these people have seen this kind of execution, they will be afraid, and if slaves escape next time, they want to take them with them. , even if they were relatives of that slave, they would probably expose him or break off the relationship with him.
What makes a good slave.
Non-resistance, diligence, hard work, planting, fishing, working as a cow or a horse, loyalty, thinking that oneself is an animal, or even worse than an animal, one must understand one's own status and not think about beating the master at any time, so the master wants him to go He should die happily.
A slave should show his master that he is useful and a strong man in order to win his favor.
And there is another point, that is fear, you must always maintain fear of the master.
The Cangwu family believed that the slavery system was a good system. As for the Central Plains, Dongyi and other regions, they could not understand the so-called commune system and the alliance parliamentary system.
In this world, there is a relationship between oppression and the oppressed. Isn't it to embezzle other tribes to make one's own life better?
As for the emperor and the king, what those people did was that they even heard that they would help those poor and weak tribes, just to get the praise and love of those tribes?
Praise, love, is this worth half the productivity?
Talking about virtue and the like, where do those monarchs want to lead the world? It's too absurd and useless!
Since I am strong, why should I negotiate with others? Since I am strong, they should come and lick my heels as a matter of course. This is love.
Therefore, the Cangwu people naturally thought that maybe Zhongyuan and Dongyi were not strong enough, so they were very happy.
Although they have never seen Central Plains people or Dongyi people.
They are the tribe of Emperor Nuze and are the descendants of Zize's branch. Although they are descendants, they have nothing to do with Zize. They are the descendants of the tribal leader whom Zize married.
But that leader didn't marry Zize, and he didn't even touch her, let alone go to home base. After all, Zize believed that he was a descendant of Emperor Kuang, the leader of a remote and barbaric tribe. Want to get your hands on the emperor's woman?
But even so, Zize still gave Cangwu a certain amount of respect, that is, letting them restrain and control the three tribes "缧, 西, and 殿". These three tribes can also be regarded as Pu people, and even Cangwu himself can be regarded as one. A kind of Pu people.
The ancestors of these three tribes were the three slaves of the emperor Nuze. One went to the east to marry a fox and gave birth to a child called Pan; one went to the south to marry a monkey and gave birth to a child named Xi; one went to the north and married a 玃猳 ( A kind of ape) combines, and the child born is called 伧.
Zize once told Huandou that the people of these three tribes should be her slaves for generations to come.
The slave must be whipped at all times and kept in fear.
In this regard, the people of the Cangwu clan can best distinguish what is fear and what is resentment, but they will not kill those who are angry, because people with fear in their hearts can be used as cattle and horses, but People with resentment cannot be used as cattle and horses, because they will try their best to cause some damage, so they will drag these people to build the palace of the emperor's daughter Ze until they die of exhaustion.
The big leader of the Cangwu clan is called Cuiyu, because the most beautiful feathers in Cangwu are this kind, so the leaders are all named after Cuiyu.
They have a high priest named Jing, who used to be the chief but later retired. This high priest has six great wizards and twelve brave leaders who are responsible for external warfare. The leader is called Xi. , and there are four leaders in charge of internal affairs, responsible for land, population, labor, and hunting.
These leaders gathered together. They said that Chu Huan must be killed. If he did not die, there would be someone among those slaves who was ready to take action. Not long ago, Emperor Nu Ze had sent a wild monkey over to deliver Hong's message. The news from the state requires the people here to march to the east and cooperate with the Ba people to attack Hongzhou. This matter cannot be delayed.
