Chapter 1497 Evil Comes

Chapter 1497 Evil Comes

The blood that flowed out of the bright flames and was then smeared on Emperor Xin's chest to heal the chest and abdominal injuries also disappeared as the flames went out.

The bloodstains smeared on Emperor Xin's chest also gradually disappeared.

But Emperor Xin exuded an ancient and distant aura. He put on the clothes stained with mottled blood and covered his chest, but it was difficult to cover up the ancient, distant, and original aura. He looked at the empty hall, and then said in a deep voice: "Come here."

Soon after the voice fell, the armored soldiers waiting outside the door walked into the hall and knelt down to Emperor Xin at the door of the hall.

"My old illness has relapsed, and I need some time to recuperate.

Go and invite General E Lai to the palace to guard the bedroom for me." Emperor Xin said to the armored soldier.

The soldier also saw the pools of blood drying up on the ground. He raised his head slightly and saw that Emperor Xin was pale. He knew that the king's injury was definitely unusual, so he couldn't help but say: "Should we invite Tianchen Nuo to come and ask her to treat your injury?"

The 'Tianchen Nuo' mentioned by the soldier is only one now.

That is the woman 'Da Ji' who has left the palace.

Xin shook his head slowly and closed his eyes: "No need to trouble Tianchen Nuo."

"Then please go back to the bedroom to rest first, I will go and invite General E Lai to the palace." The soldier said again with a worried look on his face.

"I will not rest until E Lai enters the palace." Xin shook his head again.

Seeing this, the soldier had to respond respectfully and hurried out of the hall. He did not reveal any news to other colleagues. After leaving the palace, he found E Lai and brought him back to the palace.

E Lai, nine feet tall, covered with golden armor and equipped with a pair of yellow axes.

He led hundreds of soldiers into the palace. Soon after, he escorted Emperor Xin to the bedroom to rest. At the same time, he blocked the four sides of the bedroom and prohibited any palace people from approaching.

The sun was scorching.

The warriors surrounded the king's bedroom like a forest. They were fully equipped with armor and weapons. The steaming breath on their bodies almost gathered into a group of flames, ready to ignite the earth.

On the small altar in front of the bedroom, E Lai stood with his head held high.

The aura of the human god was entwined and boiling on his body, turning into a variety of fierce beasts such as lions, tigers, dragons and elephants. The calamity flowing between heaven and earth covered his body, and in a moment, it seemed to turn him into a dark and majestic statue on the altar.

At the end of the road in front of the bedroom, Daji walked through the shade of the trees.

She saw that the King of Shang's bedroom had been surrounded by the soldiers who practiced the 'Human King Law'. The air behind her suddenly became hazy, and colorful fox tails immersed in the void of heaven and earth, approaching the bedroom from all directions, trying to find out the real situation of the King of Shang inside -

Suddenly there was a gust of wind!

E Lai opened his eyes, and his copper bell-like eyes seemed to turn into a pair of lanterns in an instant, hanging high above the bedroom, overlooking the colorful fox tails parading from all directions!

Masks of lions, tigers, dragons, elephants and other evil beasts spread out from under the pair of lanterns, pressing towards the colorful fox tails in all directions!

The nine fox tails did not have any contact with the evil beast masks that were stained with the strong smell of incense and human will, and suddenly retreated behind Daji. Daji's face seemed to be covered with a layer of mist. She looked at E Lai's mocking eyes across the long road for a moment, then changed her mind about coming to "visit" the king and turned around and left.

...

Beside the Great Shang Temple, in a courtyard made up of several thatched huts.

The Shang Dynasty's Grand Master, Bi Gan, who was powerful in the court, was wearing casual clothes at this time. He held a brush made of pig hair in one hand and a rope on the neck of a goat that was almost taller than him in the other hand. He was dipping water from a wooden basin and brushing the goat with snow-white fur without a single stray hair.

The goat held its head high, and the beard on its lower jaw swayed in the wind.

It narrowed its pupils slightly, looking leisurely and contented.

After Bi Gan's brushing, the goat's fur did not become any whiter. It was already a pile of snow and a cloud. How white could it be?

On the contrary, if one is not careful, even if it is only stained with a little dust, it will damage this purity.

Bigan usually takes care of the ancestral temple of the Shang Dynasty and almost does not care about worldly affairs. In addition to sweeping the ancestral temple and offering sacrifices to ancestors every day, his favorite thing to do is to wash the male goat that was born with him and has been with him ever since.

In the eyes of merchants, such goats are also mythical beasts, and are called "xiezhi" that can recognize loyalty and treachery, and judge good and evil. When the merchants encounter difficult cases and need to judge right and wrong, they often bring both parties to a male goat. If the male goat nods to one of them, it means that the other party has made a big mistake and should be punished.

Isn't it a joke to entrust the right and wrong of people to a goat?

How can a goat really be a Xiezhi that judges right and wrong?

Bigan felt that this was ridiculous, so he spent more than ten years, from the ritual system to the folk customs, to completely overturn the tradition of using goats to judge cases.

It took him more than ten years to completely overturn just the tradition of "using goats to judge cases", let alone other things?

So Bigan knew how much resistance the king would encounter if he wanted to abolish human sacrifice.

There was almost no possibility of achieving this, but the king insisted on doing so, which made Bigan disagree with the current King of Shang. He gradually shifted his focus to the sacrifice of the ancestral temple and rarely asked about the major affairs of state.

Now he went to the palace to see the king and had an argument with the king. From the current point of view, it seems that he did not receive enough information and 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 and themselves, who completely rely on the sacrifices in the temple to make decisions about the fate of the great merchants?

If people divine a "unfortunate" divination, does the actual result have to be "unfortunate"?

People believe that if someone ascends to great power, it will bring good fortune to the world. Will everything go as planned in the end?

Now, Bigan has collected a lot of information himself, and after knowing the whole story of the "Nine Kingdoms Offering Sons", he has already begun to doubt this so-called witchcraft divination.

He heard footsteps outside the door and sat down on the stone pier next to him, watching the rams grazing leisurely. He was in a daze for a moment, 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 away from him.

The man was dressed in rich attire, followed by many soldiers and servants. With a modest and humble smile on his face, he saluted Bigan and then bowed to the old goat.

When the old goat saw his action, he directly bent his forelimbs towards the man in fine 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 is becoming more and more psychic now. If it is placed in the Yindu 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 innocent souls will be appeased. "Wei, the eldest son of Emperor Yi's concubine, a man in fine clothes, bowed to the Haechi again, and then the so-called Haechi knelt down and worshiped him non-stop. His eyes were filled with admiration, and he 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 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 Xie 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?

Kiss it and 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 uncle ask me to come here now? I come to the ancestral temple every morning to worship and worship my ancestors. My uncle sees me every day. Are you still tired of seeing me? Do you want to invite someone to come to me specifically so that our uncle and nephew can reminisce about old times? "

Wei said with a handsome face and a slight resemblance to Di Xin.

There was a hint of coquettishness and joking in his words.

Although Wei was the son of Emperor Yi, he grew up under Bigan's knees and was brought back to the palace when he was ten years old. Therefore, he had a deep relationship with Bigan.

His appearance is softer and more beautiful than that of Di Xin. 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. 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 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."

Wei listened to the words, and 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 also want to ask me, how many benefits did I receive from the Zhou Kingdom? "

Wei's words went straight to the point. As he spoke, he waved the servants behind him to come forward and open several large boxes that came with the team - in those large boxes, piles of Collected massive amounts 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 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 view, 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.

"Two 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, flattered the king's concubine brother, and asked him to release Zhou Fangbo's eldest son? "

The Changshao family, a large clan in the Shang territory of today's Dayi, was born in Aheng, a noble family of today's Shang Dynasty. The Changshao family settled in the south of Yindu.

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 presented to me. I In collecting these treasures, 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 treasures because he respected and loved my wise man, and hoped that I could facilitate this.

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 were picked up for free, and there will be no bad consequences in taking them by oneself - and, since he is public-minded, he 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 Suo clan's clan crest."

"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 explain one or two things, saying that the Changshao clan, the Kongxiang clan, etc. may have been at war with the Zhou state, or they may have come from the same family, so the treasures presented by the Zhou state had their imprints. , but as Bigan took out more and more treasures with marks on them, he became increasingly unable to explain them, and in the end he could only look gloomy and stop talking!

"Uncle, he 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 in Zhou Fang Kingdom, shouldn't he be a merchant in Dayi? Bigan turned around and looked at the sullen Wei. After a few words, he changed the subject and asked him directly, "You have spent all the treasures Zhou presented to you, right, Wei?"

You temporarily borrowed these from the nobles of the Great Shang Dynasty, and then you use their treasures to bribe them and ease the situation in the court? "