Translator Song winked and asked his son Adagu to pull the sad and angry A Mozai out of the big house.
Because the "gift" brought by the Qin envoy to Ouyue was actually two heads pickled with lime, which were currently placed in the big house, with their faces not yet corrupted.
Translator Song could recognize that these were the princes of the Gui Kingdom with whom he had a blood alliance, Mona, Amozai's Tebo (father), and a younger person, Amozai's brother (eldest brother).
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Through the door and the wall, Yi Xusong could still hear the cry of the child. The Yue people believed that the soul of a person whose head was beheaded could not cross the Rainbow Bridge and return to the ancestral spirit. This was very important to them.
, is undoubtedly the cruelest way to die.
He moved his eyes away from the dead man's head and looked at the Qin official who was wrapped in fine cloth and had shoes on his feet.
This person was arrogant all the way into the settlement. He was invited into the big house by the elders to discuss matters. He frowned and looked at it for a long time, as if he was not satisfied with being received in such a "simple" building. At this moment, he looked around and looked around.
The Ouyue people have bare feet and tattoos, and their faces are full of contempt. From time to time, they say something in Qin dialect to the short Yue translator.
"What does it mean?"
Translator Xu Song pointed to the two heads and asked the translator that he was from Yangyue who had come to Ouyue with merchants. Although they were both Yue people, they were not the same ancestors as the twelve Lingnan tribes, but they only spoke similar languages.
The translator knew the bravery of the translator Song, but did not dare to be arrogant, and said quickly: "The superior said that the king of Gui State had donated land to the Qin Dynasty, and the people made it Cangwu County, but he betrayed the Qin Dynasty. Now he has been executed, but
The remnants of the Gui Kingdom fled to Ouyue, and the governor of Changsha hoped that Ouyue could return them to Daqin, otherwise..."
The Qin official became serious, his lips under his mustache opened and closed, and his words sounded very sharp. The translator could only follow suit and said: "The superior said, otherwise, these two people will end up with Lord Ouyue!"
As soon as this statement came out, several "old men" wearing feather crowns in the big room looked at each other and began to discuss.
In Ouyue, although the rulers are hereditary, the daily affairs are all managed by the elders, because they are not only elders, but also wizards, responsible for communicating with ancestors and gods.
The elders also heard about the powerful Qin Dynasty in the north, and they were a little worried about the threat from Qin officials.
When the Qin official saw this, he started talking again.
The translator continued to paraphrase: "His Majesty, the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, is like the sun, shining in all directions. Everyone will obey wherever the boat goes."
"Gui Guo tried to rebel and was exterminated. I hope Ouyue can make the right choice and hand over the fugitives! Otherwise, the next time Ouyue comes to ask for people, it will be the army! They will be like a herd of wild elephants trampling down huts.
Destroy Ouyue!"
The threats were loud and the timid elders looked pale. They were unwilling to accept the remnants of the Gui Kingdom in the first place. Now that the Qin Dynasty has come to ask for people, it is better to hand them over to avoid the tribe being implicated.
But at this moment, Yi Xusong, who had been patient for a long time, spoke.
"Why don't you ask the ancestors about such an important matter?"
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"Don't worry, I, Tebo, will definitely protect you."
Adagu comforted the good brother he had just met. The current situation was like a deer running into the cow pen, and the evil wolf followed its footsteps and wandered outside the pen.
"revenge."
Amozai's eyes were bloodshot: "They killed my Tebo and Brother, I must take revenge!"
Just then, the door of the big house opened!
The big house is a round stilt-style building, where the Ouyue tribe holds discussions. Yi Xusong was the first to walk out. He was barefoot, but covered with white ramie cloth. He would only wear this for important ceremonies.
The three of them were always following behind, whispering something.
Following closely behind him were the Qin officials who looked arrogant as envoys of a great power with every step they took, and next to them were the translators who nodded and bowed.
The enemies were extremely jealous when they saw each other. A Mo Zai touched the stone knife at his waist and was about to rush forward, but was stopped by Ou Yue's tribesmen.
Amozai was so angry that he shouted: "Has the Lord of Ouyue, the bravest warrior of the Twelve Kingdoms, also turned into a coward?"
"Tepo, this..."
Adagu punched him to stop him from screaming, and when he was about to speak, Yi Xusong was not angry. He just asked his son to come over, staring at the soldiers and merchants brought by the Qin officials, doing this and that in his ears, and then
Then he took the Qin officials and passed through the settlement.
The tattooed woman stopped pounding rice and stuck her head out. The hunter who had just returned was shaving the wild boar while looking at the Qin envoy coldly. The naked children also looked at the group of outsiders with hostility.
Uninvited guests spit on them.
The direction that Yi Xusong took them to was the holy land of the Ouyue people, located in the deep valley behind the settlement. Yi Xusong said that they must ask the ancestors for instructions in person and ask Qin officials to watch and wait.
Except for one side of the valley facing the settlement, the other three sides are either steep cliffs or primeval forests. Everything you can see is thousand-year-old trees with twin roots hanging upside down, long vines that are entangled and difficult to break, and slippery green moss.
As soon as the Qin official approached the mouth of the valley, he suddenly saw dozens or hundreds of buffalo skulls hanging up and down the rock wall. Some had completely turned into white bones, and some were still slowly decaying, making strange noises.
Stink.
The Qin official pinched his nose and didn't want to go into the valley, but he couldn't help it at this time. The Ouyue people suddenly became rough and pushed him and the translator in.
The three old men wanted to stop them, but were stopped by the hunters who only listened to the translator Song dialect.
"Yi Xusong, you will bring disaster to Ouyue!"
The old men shouted at the mouth of the valley.
Translator Song turned around and his face became serious.
"Yi Xusong will never betray his friends, let alone make his people slaves."
He showed a cruel smile: "And I think the ancestral spirits will like this new sacrifice!"
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After entering the valley, skulls were still nailed to the wooden piles on both sides, but they were no longer bull heads, but... human heads! Looking all the way, there were hundreds of them in the dense white!
The Qin officials tried their best to calm down, but the Yue translator was trembling with fear. Although he was from Yangyue in the north of Lingbei, he had also heard about the customs in the south of the Lingnan.
The further south you go, the more barbaric it becomes.
"The South Vietnamese believe that through headhunting, the strength and courage of the deceased will be absorbed into their own bodies, making them more powerful. Although Ouyue is not as keen on blood sacrifices as South Vietnam, it will also headhunt from time to time to offer sacrifices to the gods."
When the place arrived, Yi Xusong touched the stone knife on his waist and stared at the rough murals of Ouyue warriors headhunting and offering sacrifices on the stone wall, his words were cold.
He is also a warrior who has been stained with blood and hunted heads too much. The time for headhunting in Ouyue is usually during the annual grain sowing or harvesting season, or when crops fail, to chop off the heads of hostile tribes, or those who kill without permission.
The head of an outsider who broke into the hunting ground.
Before sowing, the seeds are taken to the place where human heads are sacrificed and mixed with some ashes of human heads. It is believed that this can protect the millet from growing well. After hunting the human heads, they are often inserted on bamboo poles outside the house and placed under the heads.
A basket of fire charcoal, the blood of a human head is dropped on the charcoal, and then the charcoal ash is distributed to every household in the village and spread in the fields.
After the sowing season, the heads will be brought here and placed on the top of the wooden pillars as offerings to the ancestral spirits.
"Ouyue sacrificed hundreds of human heads to the ancestral spirits. Now, you want to scare me with two heads?"
Translator Song showed a contemptuous smile and raised his hands.
"The ancestor spirit, the frog god, this Qin man, broke into the Ou people's settlement without permission, and in front of me, he wanted to take away the guests who had eaten my rice and salt. Finally, he threatened slavery and death.
Ou people!"
"The dry season is coming to an end, frogs are about to lay eggs, trees are about to sprout, and the day of planting millet is coming! He is the best sacrifice!"
The tribesmen held down the Qin official, tore off his crown and belt, exposing the fair skin on his neck, and pinned him to the ground, while Yi Xusong drew his bronze sword and approached step by step.
The Qin official was not frightened and kept talking.
Translator Song asked translator Yang Yue, who was trembling against the rock wall, "Is he begging for mercy?"
"Not begging for mercy..."
The translator stammered: "He said that the territory of the Qin Dynasty is larger than a hundred Ouyue combined. The Qin army has many generals. Wherever the army goes, the earth trembles and the mountains shake. They are so huge that they can drink
drain the rivers of Ouyue. Even if he is killed, His Majesty the Emperor and the county governor will avenge him, flatten Ouyue, destroy your ancestor worship place, chop off your and your son’s heads, and turn everyone into
Cheng Lichen’s concubine..."
The sword of the translator Song stopped just above the neck of the Qin official. He seemed to be hesitating.
The Yue translator said in a pleading tone: "Jun Xiou, the Qin people cannot kill you. You will bring disaster to Xiou and all the Yue people in Lingnan!"
"The buffalo dare not challenge the tiger, so the tiger won't eat the cow?"
"If a buffalo sacrifices its companions to let a tiger satisfy its hunger, can it keep its life safe?"
The war is at the doorstep, and it will break out sooner or later. Instead of groveling, it is better to prepare early and let the Vietnamese people make up their minds early.
Yi Xusong asked two questions in succession, and then raised his sword high.
His voice made Adagu and Amozai, who came carrying the heads of Qin soldiers, get excited.
"Even though the soldiers of the Qin people are denser than the leaves of the forest! They are more numerous than the stones in the Li River! But my determination to resist is stronger than a hundred thousand mountains!!"
Yi Xusong's sword slashed hard!
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In the 33rd year of Qin Shi Huang's reign, in the second month of February, after personally inspecting "Agriculture" and returning to the palace, Qin Shi Huang received an urgent report from Changsha County!
This is the third memorial in the past two months.
The earliest memorial was that the Yue tribe in Cangwu County was instigated by Xiou and rebelled.
But Tu Sui still had some skills, and the rebellion was put down quickly. The second memorial became "The rebellion has been decided, and the rebel chief and the leader are the leaders." The fly in the ointment was that a small number of tribesmen fled to Xiou, and Tu Sui had already sent
A suitable candidate. In the past, he used force and intimidation to gain advantage and tried to get Xiou to return the fugitive. This third memorial should be about this matter.
But after Qin Shihuang finished studying in Kaifeng, he discovered that this was indeed the case, but it was not a good thing.
"The Lord of Xiou refused to return the rebels and actually killed Qin Xingren. Five of his soldiers beheaded him, and only the translator was released. The merchants returned and returned with their corpses!"
With a click, the memorial was closed, and His Majesty the Emperor's eyes narrowed, anger flowing in them.
"How dare a little Barbarian Yue disrespect a big country? Since the Yue people want war, then I will give them war!"