Golden Summoner

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After hanging up Yan Duo's call, Xia Ping'an excitedly walked around in his office a few times. Yesterday he thought he was a standard poor man, but he didn't expect to make a lot of money today. There is no such thing as a poor summoner. True enough.

Just then, the phone rang again, it was Uncle Zhou.

Xia Pingan answered the phone, "Hello, Uncle Zhou!"

"Director Mo said that you drove a broken second-hand pickup to work today, which is a bit shabby, let me clean it up for you, you are too stingy, you should take that broken second-hand pickup out and let people know, in the future. No summoner is willing to join the Xianghe City Order Committee, let the robot deliver the car keys, how do you want me to help you clean up!"

Xia Ping'an was a little embarrassed, "Uncle Zhou, I didn't expect so much when I bought it, I just bought the car because I felt it was okay, wait a moment, I'll let the robot deliver the keys to you, you can look at what you want. Do it!"

"It's still like a sentence, okay, don't worry, I'll get it right for you!"

Xia Ping'an didn't leave the office either, so he called a robot in, threw his car key to the robot, and let the robot deliver the key.

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After waiting for a while, Xia Ping'an's mood completely calmed down, and he took the metal box containing the Slave Soldier World Bead and entered the training room.

In the training room, Xia Ping'an opened the metal box, and saw a flashing gray lustre in the box. The gray mist was rolling in the boundary, and the four "divine characters" in small seal script were looming.

- Defection before the battle!

This is the word on the divine script that Xia Ping'an saw.

Seeing this word, Xia Ping'an knew why this slave soldier world bead was able to summon slave soldiers, and he said that the success rate of fusion with this world bead was high.

The defection before the battle took place in the Battle of Muye, which took place in the last years of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, that is, in the eleventh century BC. It was the last battle of King Wu of Zhou against King Zhou of Shang.

The exact time of the Battle of Makino is still debated by historians, but it does not affect the existence and historical significance of this battle.

King Zhou of Shang was incompetent and cruel, and during the war, he was a slave soldier of the former army of the Shang Dynasty, which directly led to the collapse of the army of the Shang Dynasty and ruined the world of Yin and Shang at once.

If you want to fuse this Jiezhu, your role in the Jiezhu is likely to be a slave soldier who defected in front of the battle, and you should be able to complete the fusion by fighting a tailwind.

Thinking of this, Xia Ping'an turned the ring on his hand, revealing the silver needle, pierced his finger with the silver needle, and dripped two drops of blood on the boundary bead.

After a while, Xia Ping'an turned into a light cocoon and entered the world of Jiezhu.

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The sun was shining overhead, and in Chaoge City, Xia Ping'an suddenly opened his eyes...

In front of him was a long queue. The people in the team were in ragged clothes. Everyone was huddled together, standing in an open space sadly and numbly, watching a ceremony in front of him.

Xia Ping'an himself was lined up in ragged clothes, and he was also one of the slaves.

In front of the slaves were two rows of sergeants in armour with spears.

The ceremony was held in an open space. There were a lot of building materials, stones and wood, around the open space. There were some luxuriously dressed people in the middle of the field, chatting and laughing softly.

Before Xia Ping'an could figure out what was going on around him, there was a commotion in the crowd, and in a burst of cries, Xia Ping'an saw more than a dozen slaves tied up with leather strips being escorted up.

Those slaves were male and female, old and young, half of them were children under ten years old, and there were six in total.

All the slaves were strung together by ropes and led out by a group of sergeants...

The bound slaves were pale and their bodies were shaking with fear. They seemed to know what was going to happen next and began to cry.

Looking at the construction site in front of him, and then at the slaves who were escorted up, Xia Ping'an suddenly thought of something, and his face changed slightly.

The vacant lot in front of him looked like a construction site that was about to start, and it was definitely not a good thing for the slaves to be tied up at this time.

Could it be... "foundation"?

Chapter 56 King Wu Calls

Seeing those slaves being escorted up, the richly dressed nobles surrounding the venue stopped talking, and looked at the escorted slaves one by one, and commented there.

A middle-aged nobleman looked up at the sun in the sky, said softly, and made a gesture to the soldiers around him.

Some of the attendants took out incense, put it on the ground, and lit it. The nobles began to kneel on the ground and prayed to the lit incense.

Afterwards, someone took out a bronze utensil and sprinkled some plant ashes in the copper utensil around the open space, delineating a range on the ground.

Then, a witch, dressed like a witch, covered with colorful feathers, and holding a wooden pole tied with colorful cloth strips, began to appear, and jumped up in the clearing, with two feet. He went back and forth on the ground, upside down, chanting words in his mouth, and occasionally waving the wooden pole in his hand towards the surroundings...

After the jump, the witch came off, and the nobles nodded.

"The auspicious time has come, let's start the festival!"

As this voice appeared, the more than ten slaves who were imprisoned cried and struggled.

"Mom, I'm afraid, I'm afraid..." The little girl among the slaves screamed, desperately trying to hide in her mother's arms.

An old slave with gray hair, crying, hugged another little boy in his arms, covered the boy's eyes with one hand, and several slaves were struggling.

But the struggles of those slaves were useless.

The soldiers who held them pressed all the adults to their knees, stepped on their feet, raised the sword, and cut off the heads one by one. roll to the ground.

The blood of the adults who had their heads beheaded splattered on the children's faces, and the children were so frightened that they cried, and some were directly stunned.

"Mom, mom..." The slave girl looked at the body of her mother who had lost her head and fell down. She sat in a pool of blood, her eyes were dull, it was just her mother, her mother screamed, trying to grab her mother's head...

The blood of the old slave holding the little boy dripped from the little boy's head, dyeing the little boy into a bloody man.

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Even in the Jiezhu, even if he already knew what would happen, but witnessing this inhumane scene with his own eyes, Xia Ping'an couldn't bear to close his eyes.

In slave societies, such things were common.

If Xia Ping'an was to find two cruelest Chinese characters in the history of China where slavery existed, these two Chinese characters are "foundation".

In this era, whenever the slave owners wanted to build new high-rise buildings and mansions, they would hold a groundbreaking ceremony, and the slaves would become the victims of this groundbreaking ceremony. When the house started, the slaves would be killed alive. Kill them, use their own bones, lay them under the high-rise building, and use their own flesh and blood to become the building materials for the slave-owners' high-rise buildings.

Except when the construction is started, when the foundation is laid, when the wall is cast, when the gate is installed, and when the building is completed, slaves will be killed to make sacrifices to the house.

The slave owners felt that by doing so, they could bless their high-rise buildings and their wealth and prosperity.

Among the many archaeological excavations in later generations, the remains of the magnificent buildings of this era are covered with the bones of slaves, stained with blood and tears. Just a palace site in Huannan, 889 living people were used to lay the foundation.

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The severed necks of the beheaded slaves were bleeding profusely. The richly dressed slave owners watched all this with a smile, and then ordered the soldiers to drag the dead slaves' bodies around the clearing a few times. .

The soldiers raised the feet of the slaves, and the broken neck was next to the ground, so that all the blood in the slaves could be forced out, and the blood sprayed by the slaves was sprinkled on the high-rise mansion they were going to build. on the ground.

Xia Ping'an and the other slaves watched from the side.

When the blood of the decapitated corpses was completely drained, some of the slaves in front were driven forward, and several large pits were dug in the ground, one of which was for the adults who had their heads beheaded. The corpses, and those children, were thrown into another pit and buried alive without beheading.

Finally, the groundbreaking ceremony is completed.

The slave owners who completed the groundbreaking ceremony looked up at the scorching sun above their heads, and then left with a satisfied smile and a horse-drawn carriage, leaving the foreman and soldiers to guard the place.

"Come on, work..." The overseers waved their whips and beat the slaves, and began to instruct the slaves to work and carry building materials.

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"Crack..." Xia Ping'an carried a piece of wood, and the whip hit him.

"Come on, don't be lazy..." the overseer shouted.

Looking at the soldiers around with weapons and armor, Xia Ping'an carried things silently without saying a word.

The slaves worked silently until it got dark and everyone was exhausted, so the foreman and soldiers escorted Xia Ping'an and the others back to their residence.

Xia Pingan walked in Chaoge City, looking at the capital of the Shang Dynasty. The houses of the slave owners in this era are easy to distinguish. Almost all the slave owners live in those exquisite and tall "Si A Chong" houses, large and small. Houses", while civilians live in relatively low "suite rooms" or "single houses".

A "single house" is a separate room, and a "suite room" is also very simple, that is, two rooms connected together with a door in the middle. In a civilian's room, the biggest furniture is an earth bed and a stove.

The slaves were not qualified to live in houses. Xia Ping'an and the others were driven into some simple shacks and crypts. The shacks were built with the simplest wood and blades of grass, and the crypts were holes dug in the ground, like Dog kennel, no, in the eyes of many slave owners, the life of a slave is not worth a good dog.

The underground is dark and damp. Many slaves around Xia Ping'an have suffered from very serious rheumatic bone disease because of the long-term living in the crypt.

As for the food of the slaves, it is some pancakes made of bran and some gruel.

Xia Ping'an held a piece of charred bran cake and squatted silently in the grass hut, looking at the people in front of him.

The slaves lived a life inferior to pigs and dogs.

The hatred is buried in the heart, and everyone's appearance looks the same dirty and numb, it seems to be a soulless body.

This kind of life lasted for five full days. On the sixth day, the foundation had not been completely completed, and Xia Ping'an and the others stopped work.

That night, they ate an unprecedented meal of bread and millet porridge.

That is, on that day, Xia Ping'an heard the foreman chatting with the soldiers, saying that King Wu's army was calling.

The atmosphere in Chaoge City became tense, and those nobles who lived in the "Four-A Chong House" were anxious.

On the seventh day, all the slaves in Chaoge City were organized, given weapons, and brought to Muye. All the slaves knew that King Wu's army had opened.

When King Wu's army did not call, the slaves were only the offerings of the nobles in the "Four A Heavy Houses", and they could be killed and buried at will, living like pigs and dogs.

King Wu's army came, and the nobles gave the slaves a delicious meal, and then gave the slaves weapons, so that the slaves went to the battlefield to protect the nobles.

To the nobles, everything seems to be in order, as it should be.

It's just that for the slaves, an inexplicable aura is restless among the slaves, restless like a spark.

Slaves have no status, they are as low as grass, but they are not stupid.

Even if a dog knows who is nice to him, he will wag his tail at anyone, let alone a person.

Would a dog go to great lengths to protect someone who would beat it with a stick, abuse it, kill it at every turn, kill its wife, children, and children?

Dogs don't!Not only will it not, the dog will definitely bark at that person, growl, wishing to turn into a wolf and tear that person's throat apart.

Then why did a group of slave owners in Chaoge City take it for granted that the slaves who were taken by them to lay the foundation for the house and palace would protect their house and palace?

Xia Ping'an never understood this question.

Between the slave and the slave owner, there must be one who is more stupid than the dog and the other who is smarter than the dog, otherwise such a bizarre arrangement would not have occurred.

At dawn on the morning of the eighth day, Xia Ping'an saw King Wu of Zhou's army on the vast pasture...

Chapter 57 The Battle of the Pasture

The morning sun shines on Muye, and the breeze blows slowly, blowing the vast grassland like a blue wave.

Today is a good day, but a war destined to go down in history begins here today.

The so-called Muye is the grazing wilderness. This is the largest pasture outside Chaoge City. Usually cattle and sheep are in groups, bison, antelope, and elk can be seen everywhere. Wild animals far away from the battlefield.

The low sound of war drums echoed in Muye, making the air on Muye even more tense.

"Dong dong dong dong..."

Amidst the sound of war drums, the warlord of the slave army on King Shang Zhou's side waved a flag and ordered loudly, "Enter!"

The warlord officers rode on horses, followed by a few soldiers, urging loudly behind the slave army. The soldiers waved their leather whips, and the whip kept exploding in the air, urging the slave army in front to move forward.In front of those warlord officers was an army of more than 20 slaves urgently collected from inside and outside Chaoge City and dispatched to the battlefield.

Xia Ping'an was in the army of slaves.

At this moment, Xia Ping'an was not afraid, but excited.

Because, he finally proved one thing, in ancient China, the giant family did exist, and they coexisted with the human race.

In ancient China, giants were not called giants, but elders.

Regarding the giants, there are many records in the history books of the Chinese dynasties. According to legend, when Dayu controlled the water, he subdued the giant family and let the giants help to control the water.

Qin Shi Huang also had a giant general named Weng Zhong.

Wang Mang usurped the Han, and Wang Mang also subdued the giant general.

"New Book of Tang" is the official history. In "New Book of Tang", there is a record about giants, saying that "the people of long people are three feet in length, saw teeth and claws, cover their bodies with black hair, and do not eat fire". They can make fires, eat people, kidnap women everywhere, and threaten the borders of the country. In that hidden historical legend, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Han nationality used several troops to the north, all related to the "elderly family".

The last time the giant appeared in the history of China was in the Ming Dynasty. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the Jiangsu Weisuo were in distress at sea and fell to a small island by boat. They saw the giant on the small island, and the giant chased after them. Those soldiers, the soldiers escaped by boat. During the fight, a Ming army soldier cut off a giant's finger, which was one foot and four inches long, and finally stored it in the Jiading government treasury.

As for archaeology, it is said that the remains of giants have been found all over the world.

In his last life, Xia Ping'an had searched for signs of giants all over the world. By chance, he saw a giant's leg bones.

At this moment, in the army of King Zhou of Shang, Xia Ping'an saw the giant.

A full eighteen giants!

The giant was seven or eight meters tall and was under the banner behind the army of King Zhou of Shang.

In the distance, as long as you turn your head, you can see the eighteen giants. There is a burning fire in front of the eighteen giants. It was majestic and terrifying.