Xiqi is such a place. The wind is always extremely cold and the snow is always extremely abundant. There are three seasons of winter in the year. There are many giant beasts hidden in the heavy snow. Most of them cannibalize people, but there are also some.
, hunted and eaten by humans.
According to Jichang's hexagram, this place will be a place with a pleasant climate in thousands of years.
But now I really can't see it at all.
In such a bitter and cold place, no noble descendants of gods would come, not even nobles. This place only has the lowest level of human beings, the purest human beings.
Compared with other princes, Jichang should be a special case. He is a newly-confessed prince who was recently recruited by the great merchants and is responsible for guarding the border for the imperial court.
His subjects were called Zhou people, but Chaoge people used to call them Di people or savages. Ji Chang knew that in fact, the merchants looked down on them~~
Because he had just surrendered to the Great Shang, he did not have any divine blood in him. He was just an ordinary human being, so he did not have any prominent relatives.
Unlike other princes, their relationship with the imperial court was always closer.
As a prince, his wife must be from the God Clan, that is, the woman from the Fox Clan who is now in power. Ji Chang is no exception to this.
The nature of the Fox clan is always luxurious and chaotic. This kind of bitter and cold place cannot satisfy that kind of life, so people with a noble status like his wife rarely live here. The only one who stays here is Ji Chang.
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Ji Chang was in a very bad mood this morning because he had just received a file from the imperial court.
He was asked to send no more humans for the fox tribe to eat.
And this time the number was twice as much as last time.
Ji Chang is not a soft-hearted person, but he is not an insensitive person either.
He no longer knew how many familiar faces he had sent away, some of which he even liked very much, which made his heart ache.
But this is of no use, because this is an era where humans and gods coexist.
Rather than coexistence, it is better to say that under the authority of God, human beings survive.
in other words:
"This is an era when humans are treated like pigs and dogs."
In this world, the hierarchy is extremely clear: gods, sons of gods, demigods, human nobles, humans, and slaves.
As long as the gods with higher status want to eat people.
They believe that eating animal meat is a symbol of inferior status.
And eating human flesh is regarded as an elegant and noble act.
After all, humans are very expensive. Those humans sold in cages can always command a much higher price than cattle and horses.
There are few nobles among humans who can hold a special status, but they don't seem to care about the miserable plight of their kind. What they care more about is getting a marriage with a blood relative of a god, and they are proud of being stained with the blood of the god.
Many wealthy nobles will eventually buy a position as a virtual god through their family relationships.
For this purpose, they will even find some young babies and cook them into delicacies to please their divine blood relatives.
No one blames them for their behavior.
In this era, human life is ridiculously insignificant.
Although Xiqi is bitter and cold, it does not only produce warriors, it also produced two gentlemen.
There was a man who was born good at calculations and had a very clear mind. He could see ten lines at a glance, and the finances of a country were all in his mind. He was a talent for calculation.
The other one is a wise and sage who is quite accomplished in governing the country and has many ideas and talents.
When Ji Chang sent these two gentlemen to Chaoge, he actually had high hopes.
The two gentlemen vowed that they had prepared a set of advice and that they would persuade the King and Queen of Shang to be kind to human beings during this trip.
Select wise and benevolent people among human beings, comfort them and give them opportunities, so that they will not all be sent to the slaughterhouse like pigs, horses, cattle and sheep.
However, a few months later, what arrived was a sealed jar.
After opening it, there were two portions of stinky meat inside.
The envoy said that after these two human gentlemen entered the palace, they started talking nonsense and making arrogant remarks. Queen Su was so angry that she immediately cooked and fried these two gentlemen.
Afterwards, he sent these two pieces of meat back to Xiqi to warn Ji Chang about his identity.
Ji Chang collapsed at that time. These two pieces of stinking human flesh made him burst into tears and his heart was twisted like a knife.
It was also from that time that he understood a truth.
It is never possible for one race to treat another race well out of compassion~~
The world of gods only cares about power!!
And the power of the gods is invincible!!
After that, Ji Chang no longer had such a dream.
He let everyone know that he was a stupid and weak person, and he obeyed all Chaoge's orders.
Gradually, Chao Ge's huge fox eyes gradually forgot about him...
But Ji Chang himself knew that he had an ability that could make him rival the God Emperor as long as he used it properly.
But he can't let this ability be exposed easily, otherwise it will be his death.
Because in this era, the God Emperor is everything!!
Suddenly there was a noise outside, which disturbed Ji Chang's thoughts.
The noise of armor and swords clashing made him even more upset.
He looked out from the stone window. The window was small and perfectly round.
There are no prosperous palaces in Xiqi, only an old palace built of black stone.
The place where Ji Chang is standing is the tower in the palace. This tower is very high and can overlook everything in the back mountain.
It's still cold and windy outside, there's frost everywhere, and the ground is covered with thick snow.
But in the open space, there were several young men wearing heavy furs and some soldiers wearing armor.
One of the boys got into a fight with a soldier.
The young man was only thirteen or fourteen years old. He still had a childish look on his face, but he was very brave. He even knocked down several adult soldiers by himself.
The other teenagers were also inspired by him and rolled together with a few soldiers, having a great time fighting on the snow.
As the shouting became louder and louder, Ji Chang finally understood.
It turned out that the soldiers below were capturing slaves, and the young man below was preventing his companions from being captured.
The young man had been stabbed several times and was bleeding profusely, but he seemed not to be afraid of the pain and was still fighting for his life.
Ji Chang has not seen such a child for a long time, and it seems that he can see the shadow of his own youth in him.
So Ji Chang pointed to the young man under the tower with great interest and asked the old retainers around him.
"Whose child is that?
Can you live under the tower?"
"That's your concubine~~", the old retainer said with a smile beside him.
"What?",
Ji Chang frowned after hearing this and looked at the young man again.
I saw that the young man's body was very strong, like a small animal, but his face was relatively delicate, a typical human face, and some parts of his eyebrows did indeed look like him.
"That's really your son!",
The kind-hearted old retainer continued to smile:
"You have forgotten that his mother's name is Taisi, and she is a daughter!"
"Tai Si?",
Ji Chang actually couldn't remember this name for a long time. There are always many such human women, and there are many such bastards.
He has a low status and no future. He has been living outside since birth and has no chance to enter the palace. His fate is similar to that of ordinary people.
"A very interesting kid.",
Ji Chang looked at the boy who continued to wrestle with the soldiers in the snow and pointed:
"Find someone to go down and call them away!!
There’s no need to say what I said, just tell them so those kids don’t need to be arrested.”
"yes!!",
The old retainer folded his hands and obeyed the order, then stretched out his head and clapped his hands vigorously.
The soldiers below immediately gathered around and listened to his orders.
The matter was resolved, and the young man no longer had to fight so hard. However, he did not leave. Instead, he looked at the top of the stone tower for a while, covered in blood.
He seems to want to know who gave the order.
But he didn't see Ji Chang's face in the end. After a while, he covered his wounds and limped out of the city with his friends...