"No matter what Zhao Ming is planning secretly, we must prevent and stop it."
Chen Danqiu said: "The Supervision Department needs to collect as many bronzes as possible from the Yin and Shang Dynasties in various countries, especially those with inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions. It also needs to find out the alienated objects related to the Yin and Shang bronzes in the Dongjun Tower.
Tantai Siye, please organize the doctors to conduct research to see if we have missed any key information.
Cui Siye, please take a trip to Hedong Road - there are many bronze utensils left by the aristocratic family, and the Academy is willing to buy, rent, and exchange them..."
When the mountain chief went out, he would drink wine and talk about it in the academy.
After receiving the order, everyone turned around and left the office, except Xi Yangyu who was called down.
"Xi Siye, please stay."
Xi Yangyu paused, turned around, and asked calmly: "What's the matter with the wine sacrifice?"
Chen Danqiu sat back in his seat, his eyes lingering on Xi Yangyu's long left arm sleeve, "Is your hand okay?"
"It's okay. Although I still have headaches every three days, I can't die yet."
Xi Yangyu smiled slightly and sat down.
"I know you are a little dissatisfied with Pu Liuxuan's return to the academy, but we need someone who understands Jun Qianzi and his way of thinking to stay in Chang'an."
Chen Danqiu summoned a hot water kettle with a wave of his hand, brewed two cups of hot tea, and said, "This is also what the mountain chief meant."
"I understand, everything is for Yu State."
Xi Yangyu tried his best to hide the stiffness in his smile, "Is there anything else?"
"Well..."
Chen Danqiu took a sip of hot tea and said slowly: "Have you heard of the mind demon seed?"
"Mind Demon Seed?"
Xi Yangyu frowned, "Isn't that a legend from the former Sui Dynasty?"
During the heyday of the pre-Sui Dynasty, there was a rumor circulating in the southern part of the empire that a certain demon sect had invented a special method that could tamper with and distort people's minds.
Its name is "Demon Seed".
There is no abnormality in the appearance of those who have been affected by the demon seed, but their temperament has undergone tremendous changes, and their living habits, ways of thinking, and usual language, etc., seem to have changed as a person.
Once a demon seed begins to transform, it will slowly wither and die as time goes by. It can take as short as three months and as long as half a year.
During this process, anyone who has close contact with a demon seeder will run the risk of being assimilated.
Many people claimed that people they knew had suffered from demon seeds. This rumor quickly spread to the entire south and north of the Yangtze River, sweeping half of the Sui Kingdom. Even the Sui Emperor heard about it and ordered the court to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The people were panic-stricken and worried about the appearance of demons around them. They spontaneously organized themselves to expel the local unidentified beggars and monks, and even abused lynching and executed them.
Some people took this opportunity to report that their enemies had been attacked by demons, which immediately triggered widespread retribution.
Neighbors, husband and wife, father and son, master and apprentice...all turned against each other.
For a time, people's hearts were in turmoil and society was stagnant.
Finally, a minister of the Yu State stepped forward and led his troops to annihilate a demon sect entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River. He claimed that the source of the demon seed was dead and stopped the incident.
Later investigations found that there was no so-called demon species at all, and it was all a collective panic caused by false rumors. As a result, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured in the Sui Dynasty, dozens of court officials were demoted and dismissed, and the annual tax revenue was reduced by 10%.
The secondary disasters caused by the national shutdown are even more difficult to calculate.
Emperor Sui issued the Edict of Sin and learned from the pain, and decided to establish an institution to educate the people of Yu State - that institution was the Academy.
Any academic doctor knows this history.
Chen Danqiu asked: "Do you think, from the perspective of philosophy, is it theoretically possible to realize mental demon seeds?"
"This..."
Xi Yangyu thought carefully and said slowly: "Nianxue originated from the era when humans and gods coexisted older than the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
Tribal shamans drink the decoction to put themselves into a drowsy state and communicate with the will of heaven and earth in their dreams.
Foresee future weather changes and guide tribesmen’s relocation, farming and animal husbandry.
In essence, it is based on one's own heart and the heart of heaven.
It’s the same as studying now.
As for whether you can use your own mind to understand people's hearts, change other people's will, modify other people's personalities, and even influence millions of people with the help of mental demon seeds as rumored...
I don't know."
Xi Yangyu said calmly: "Even if it is possible, it must be done by Linyuan or even a higher level."
"Is this so..."
Chen Danqiu nodded thoughtfully, seeing the slightly curious expression on Xi Yangyu's face, he smiled and turned over the unfinished manuscript on the table, and said: "I have been writing an article about the origin of the establishment of the Academy recently.
It talks about the section on mental demons, so I want to ask you.
By the way, I heard that your eldest husband is getting engaged soon?"
"Well, with the girl from the Zheng family."
Mentioning this, Xi Yangyu showed a smile on his face. His eldest son has been pursuing a female classmate from the Zheng family in Xingyang, and has reached the stage of marriage.
Xi Yangyu was born into a poor family, while the Zheng family in Xingyang belonged to the Five Surnames and Qiwang. If the marriage contract is established, it will be regarded as a glorious family. Maybe in the next hundred years, the Xi family will also become a wealthy family.
Xi Yangyu and Chen Danqiu exchanged a few words, and after drinking a cup of tea, they stood up and left.
After he completely walked away and the door closed automatically, Chen Danqiu sat alone in the room, his smile slowly fading.
He picked up the unfinished article on the table, covered it on his knees, and murmured to himself: "The devil of the mind, the devil of the mind..."
As a scholar of the Academy, he can see far more information than the historians of Yu State or the folk scholars who study this historical event.
The mental demon seed is not simply collective delirium. It is true that some people were affected by the demon seed, their minds were changed, their personalities were modified, and they died in groups three months later. However, the final harm was not as widespread as the rumors.<
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Since this change is real, will there be any monks who have mastered this technique?
When life is about to come to an end, you can inflict magic seeds on others and replace their minds with your own, thereby achieving...a certain sense of immortality?
Is the sudden dissipation of rumors of mental demon seeds not related to the Sui court's measures to appease people?
Is it because the monks who secretly spread the demon seeds have obtained the desired results and stopped the experiment on their own initiative?
This chapter has been completed!