The blood that flowed out of the bright flame and was then smeared on the chest by Di Xin to heal the wounds in the chest and abdomen also disappeared without a trace when the flame was extinguished.
The blood stains smeared on Di Xin's chest gradually disappeared.
But Di Xin exuded an ancient and distant aura. He put the blood-stained clothes on his body to cover his chest, but it could not cover up the ancient, distant, and origin-like aura.
. He glanced at the empty hall, and then said in a deep voice: "Here comes someone."
Shortly after the words were spoken, the soldiers waiting outside the door walked into the hall and knelt down and worshiped Emperor Xin at the entrance of the hall.
"My old illness has recurred and I need a period of time to recuperate.
You go and invite General Evil to come to the palace and guard the sleeping quarters for me." Emperor Xin said to the soldier.
The soldier also saw the pools of blood that were gradually drying up on the ground. He raised his head slightly and saw that Emperor Xin's face was pale. He also knew that the king's injury was absolutely extraordinary, so he couldn't help but said: "Do you want to kill Tian Chennuo?"
Invite us too and ask her to heal your injuries?"
At present, there is only one "Tianchen Nuo" as the soldiers call him.
That is the woman ‘Daji’ who has left the palace.
Xin slowly shook his head and closed his eyes: "There is no need to work for Tianchen Nuo."
"Then please go back to the palace to rest, your Majesty. I will go and invite General Evil to enter the palace." The soldier said again with a worried look on his face.
"Evil will not enter the palace, and I will not rest." Xin shook his head again.
When the soldier saw this, he had no choice but to respond respectfully and hurriedly walked out of the hall. He did not reveal any information to other colleagues. After leaving the palace all the way, he found Xi Lai and brought him back to the palace.
Evil Lai is nine feet tall, clad in golden armor and equipped with a pair of yellow axes.
He led hundreds of soldiers straight into the palace. Soon after, he escorted Emperor Xin to the palace to rest. At the same time, he sealed off the surrounding areas of the palace to prevent anyone from approaching.
The red sun is scorching.
A forest of warriors surrounded the king's palace. They were equipped with armored soldiers. The aura steaming from their bodies almost gathered into balls of flames, ready to set the earth on fire.
On the small altar in front of the palace, the evil figure stands with his head held high.
The aura of man and god wrapped around his body, boiling, turning into lions, tigers, dragons, and elephants, and all kinds of ferocious beasts. The calamity flowing between heaven and earth covered his body, and in a blink of an eye, he seemed to be swallowed up.
It turned into a black majestic statue on the altar.
At the end of the road in front of the dormitory, Daji walked through the trees and walked slowly.
She saw that the Shang King's palace was surrounded by soldiers who practiced the "Human King Method". The air behind her was suddenly thick, and strips of colorful fox tails were immersed in the void of heaven and earth, approaching the palace from all directions.
Trying to find out the true situation of King Shang inside——
Suddenly there is a gust of wind!
Evilai opened his eyes, and his bell-like eyes seemed to have turned into a pair of lanterns in an instant, hanging high above the dormitory, looking down at the colorful fox tails parading from all directions!
Faces of lions, tigers, dragons, elephants and other evil beasts spread out from under the pair of lanterns, squeezing the colorful fox tails in all directions!
The nine fox tails did not have any contact with the evil beasts' faces that were filled with strong fragrant and pleasant auras, and suddenly retreated behind Daji. Daji's face seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and she was separated from the long road.
Evil looked at each other with mocking eyes for a moment, then changed his mind about coming to 'visit' the king, turned around and left.
…
Next to the Dashang Ancestral Temple, there are several thatched cottages in a courtyard.
Bigan, the grand master of the Yin Shang Dynasty, who held all the power in the government, was wearing casual clothes. He held a brush made of pig hair in one hand and held a rope around the neck of a goat that was almost taller than him in the other hand. He was dipping water from a wooden basin.
, brushing the goat with snow-white fur without a stray hair.
The goat held its head high, and the beard on its chin swayed in the wind.
It narrowed its pupils slightly, looking leisurely and contented.
After Bi Gan's brushing, the goat's hair has not become whiter at all. It is already a pile of snow or a cloud. How can it be white and smooth?
On the contrary, if you are not careful, even if it is only contaminated with a little dust, it will damage this dirt-free cleanliness.
Bigan always looked after the Dashang Ancestral Temple and paid little attention to worldly affairs. Apart from cleaning the temple and offering sacrifices to his ancestors, his favorite thing to do every day was to wash the male goat that was born with him and has been with him to this day.
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In the eyes of businessmen, goats like this are also a genus of mythical beasts, and are known as the 'Xie Bo' that can recognize loyalty and evil, and judge good and evil. Nowadays, when businessmen encounter difficult and unresolved cases and need to distinguish right from wrong, they often bring both parties together.
In front of a male goat, if the goat nods to one of the parties, it means that the other party has made a big mistake and should be punished.
Isn’t it child’s play to place a person’s right and wrong, good and evil, on a goat?
How could the goat really be the arbiter of right and wrong?
Bigan felt that this matter was very ridiculous, so he spent more than ten years, from etiquette to folk customs, to completely overturn this tradition of using goats to decide cases.
It was just a tradition of "goat deciding cases". It took him more than ten years to completely overthrow it, not to mention other things?
Therefore, Bigan knew better how great the resistance was to the king's desire to abolish human sacrifice.
There was almost no possibility of achieving this matter, but the king decided to do this, which put Bigan at odds with the current King of Shang. From then on, he gradually shifted his focus to the sacrifices in the ancestral temple, and rarely interfered with major national affairs.
Now I went into the palace to see the king and had an argument with the king. From the current point of view, it seems that the information he received was insufficient and he was temporarily deceived.
Bigan threw the bristle brush into the basin and tied the rope in his hand to the stone pillar.
He patted the billy goat on the back and smiled silently.
In the past, great merchants relied on the nod of a male goat to decide cases. How is it different from today's merchants, who now entirely rely on the sacrifices in the temple to make the destiny of the great merchant nation?
When people divine a "unfortunate" divination, does the actual result have to be "unfortunate"?
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Now, Bigan himself has collected a lot of information, and after knowing the whole story of the "Nine Kingdoms Offering Sons", he has already started to doubt this so-called witchcraft divination.
He heard a sound of footsteps outside the door, and turned to sit on the stone pier next to him, watching the ram grazing leisurely. He was in a daze for a while, until the owner of the footsteps walked into the thatched cottage.
He bowed to him and said, "Uncle."
At this time, Bigan finally came to his senses.
The white-haired old man looked up and saw a tall and handsome man standing three steps in front of him.
The man was dressed in rich attire, followed by many soldiers and servants. With a modest and courteous smile on his face, he saluted Bigan and then bowed to the old goat.
Seeing this action, the old goat directly bent its forelimbs towards the man in rich clothes and knelt down.
The man in fine clothes suddenly looked surprised, and turned to look at Bigan sitting on the stone pier - the hidden pride in his eyes could be seen by Bigan at this time.
Bigan shook his head and laughed inwardly.
It was probably because I had been blinded by the fog in the past, and I had never noticed that my nephew, whom I had always regarded as respectful and polite, had such rich and vivid expressions on his face.
"The pig actually saluted me?
This is really frustrating to me - this mythical beast that my uncle has raised since he was a child has become more and more psychic. If it is placed in the Yindu sacrificial temple according to ancient rituals, the common people who are burdened with unjust cases will
When people come to worship it, they will definitely be able to judge many grievances by it.
There will be fewer unsolved cases in the world and more grievances will be appeased." The man in fine clothes - the eldest son of Di Yishu, 'Wei', bowed to the Xie Zhi again, and then the so-called Xie Zhi knelt down and worshiped him, his eyes were filled with admiration
, said to Bigan.
In the past, if Bigan had heard his nephew's words, he would have laughed heartily and debated with him whether it was really feasible to put Xie Bo in a sacrificial temple and attract common people to come and worship, so as to judge the case.
He praised his nephew as a truly virtuous person, so he could make all the pigs and pigs bow down to him.
But now that he saw Wei Wei acting like this, he just felt that the other party was being pretentious and boring in his heart, so he smiled and said: "It saluted you, could it be because you gave it a lot of good food everywhere?"
If you kiss it, it will naturally kiss you.
If this is the case for humans, how much more so for animals?”
After hearing this, he immediately realized that there was something in his uncle Bigan's words. His mind was racing, and at the same time he smiled freely and dropped the topic: "Is that so?
But I made a fuss out of a molehill.
Why did my uncle ask me to come here now? I come here every morning to pay homage to the ancestral temple and worship my ancestors. Isn’t my uncle tired of seeing me every day? He also specially invites someone to come to me so that we, uncle and nephew, can reminisce about old times?"
He has a handsome face and is somewhat similar to Di Xin, Wei said.
There was a hint of coquettishness and joking in his words.
Although Wei was the son of Emperor Yi, he had grown up under Bigan's knees since he was a child. He was not brought back to the palace until he was ten years old, so he had a deep relationship with Bigan.
In comparison, Di Xin's appearance is softer and more beautiful. Di Xin has a lot of hair on his body. Although the two are about the same height, due to the fact that Di Xin is better at practicing the King's Dharma, he is slightly more masculine and burly than Di Xin, which makes him appear more muscular.
Being a bit softer makes Bigan love her even more.
Bigan looked at this nephew who was acting coquettishly towards him, as if he was seeing his beloved son who had died young.
He calmed down, suppressed those distracting thoughts, turned around and straightened his expression, and said to Wei Wei: "I have gone to the palace to pay homage to the king today and asked about the 'Nine Kingdoms Presenting Sons' matter."
When Wei listened to the words, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
He looked calm on the surface and said: "I guess my brother must have had a quarrel with you. I want to ask you, who advised you to come and stop him from doing whatever he wants?
Does your Majesty know that I did this?
You want to ask me how much benefit I received from the Kingdom of Zhou?"
Wei's words went straight to the point. As he spoke, he waved the servants behind him to come forward and open the several large boxes that came with the team - in those large boxes, there were piles of
He collected a large amount of shell coins, jade, gold and other treasures.
Wei continued: "I did accept the treasure presented by Zhou Guo, but I never had any intention of using the treasure for my own use.
I want to reward these treasures to all the Ahengs in the court, so as to bridge the gap between them and the king, so that they can continue to be used by the Great Shang, and the people of the Great Shang court will not be separated, and eventually fall apart!"
In Bigan's opinion, Wei's words and response were truly perfect.
If he hadn't launched an investigation immediately after leaving the palace, Wei would have been fooled.
He walked to the large boxes, casually inserted his palm into the piles of shell coins, gold and jade, and took out a piece of jade.
The patterns carved on the jade biscuit glow faintly in the sunlight.
The "Long Shao Shi" oracle bone inscriptions left between the patterns are also clearly visible in the sunlight.
"Double spoons surround the jade, with the words Changshao in between. This is the jade of Changshao." Bigan put down the jade and walked to the next box while talking, "Dayi merchant Changshao"
Shi, when did you collude with Zhou Guo?
He actually helped the Zhou Kingdom gather wealth and flattered the king's concubine brother, asking him to release Zhou Fangbo's eldest son?"
The Changshao family was a large clan in the Shang territory of today's Dayi. They were descended from Aheng and were now Shang nobles. The Changshao family settled in the south of the Yin capital.
Wei's face froze, and then he immediately said: "The Changshao clan was at war with the Zhou State when they were in Xushui. These jade stones should have been captured by the Zhou State from the Changshao clan, and are now offered to me. I
In collecting the money and silk, I was not motivated by the desire for wealth, but wanted to use this matter to bridge the hearts of the people who were separated in the court. The envoy of the Zhou Dynasty also said that he only offered the money and silk because he respected and loved my wise man, and hoped that I could facilitate this matter.
If they can't make this happen, they won't have any complaints."
The implication is that the large amount of treasures sent to the door by the Zhou Kingdom are free of charge, and there will be no bad consequences in taking them by yourself - and since I am public-minded, I can use these treasures to bridge the hearts of Ah Heng in the court.
However, Bigan then took out a piece of jade from the next box and handed it to Wei: "On this piece of jade, there is the clan crest of the Suo family."
"Inside this bronze tripod is recorded the year and month when the Kongxiang family made the tripod, and the reason why the tripod was built."
"This piece of gold is engraved with..."
Bigan took out treasures one after another from the wooden box. On those treasures, there were the clan crests, inscriptions and other marks of the nobles of the dynasty and the Aheng clan.
At the beginning, Wei could still explain a few things. They were called the Changshao clan, Kongxiang clan, etc., who may have been at war with the Zhou state, or were from the same family, so the treasures presented by the Zhou state had their imprints.
, but as Bigan took out more and more marked treasures, he became increasingly unable to explain them, and in the end he could only look gloomy and stop talking!
"My uncle doesn't know that the Zhou Dynasty has made more concessions than me, and is already so tyrannical.
Are they actually at war with, joining forces with, or coming from the same lineage as 80% of the merchant nobles in Dayi?
Then Zhou Fangguo, shouldn't he be a merchant in Dayi today?" Bigan turned around and looked at Wei with a sullen face. After a few words, he changed the subject and asked him directly, "The treasures Zhou presented to you have been
Was it all spent by you, Wei?
You temporarily borrowed these from the nobles of the Great Shang Dynasty, and you use their treasures to bribe them and ease the situation in the court?"