Mountains and seas can be flat

Fang Zheng didn't have time to think about it, and there was a sudden pain in the back of his head, and Suo Lan hit him on the back of the head with his elbow.The next moment Fang Zheng passed out.

After an unknown amount of time, Fang Zheng regained consciousness from the darkness.Before he opened his eyes, he felt his body shaking and he heard the sound of hooves.Are you on the back of a horse?But there was no sense of forward movement, and it was estimated that the mount was circling in situ and was tied up.

He smelled grass on the tip of his nose.Fang Zheng opened his eyes, but it was still pitch black, and then he reacted from the light and darkness sensed by the light—his eyes were covered with a black cloth.Fang Zheng tried to move his hands and feet, but found that his hands and feet were still tightly bound by straw ropes.Fang Zheng was able to use his own martial arts, but when he wanted to raise his energy, he felt dizzy and stuffy, and his limbs seemed to be filled with lead.No matter how powerful his kung fu is, the most basic thing is to use strength.But now it's as if I've been sick for a long time and my whole body has been exhausted, and I can't exert any strength at all.Fang Zheng was horrified, with a bitter taste in his mouth, was he being drugged?

Fang Zheng pricked up his ears and listened intently. The surrounding was very quiet. It should be in the open air. He could hear the occasional rustling of small animals such as hares and crickets, and a few grass leaves fell on his face.After a while, Fang Zheng's ear power far surpassed that of ordinary people, and he heard a miserable cry from far away: "Ah!" The scream lasted for a while, and after it stopped, Yi Fangzheng's hearing was so weak that he couldn't hear anything.

Fang Zheng only felt that every second was difficult, and the time became extremely long. In fact, only a few minutes passed, but Fang Zheng felt that it was almost a year.He heard another long scream of "Ah!", this time several people shouted together.

Fang Zheng kept counting, and every minute and every second passed. He was tied up in the middle of the night. It is estimated that it is not yet dawn, and the night is getting darker and thicker.There were 28 screams in the distance.Sometimes it's one person, sometimes it's several people.Some people's cries were short and shrill, while others' cries were long and painful.It wasn't until late at night that the dew was heavy, and Fang Zheng's clothes were soaked in dew, that he heard the footsteps of a single person coming from a distance.

This is the footsteps of Xia Zhu's female general Suolan. The shoes she wears are made of cowhide with sheaths, and the footsteps are as light as cats.It can also be heard from the collision of front and rear armor and weapons that she came prepared.What made Fang Zheng's heart tense even more was the sound of bronze weapons made by Qinglongling copper blast furnace.Qinglongling is located in a humid location, and the copper blast furnace is old. In order to make sharp and hard blades, other ore sand will be added to the copper after Zu Jiang's pottery molding technology, so the sound of hitting it is a bit hoarse.A long knife and a short sword hung on her waist.

Fang Zheng thought in his heart, Solan has already been to the copper blast furnace for smelting weapons?Did she get it under control?The screams just now, is she torturing the warriors in Qinglongling?

"Don't hold back when you wake up, guess what happened?" Solan could hear Fang Zheng's breathing after waking up.But she didn't know that Fang Zheng's hearing was far superior to that of ordinary people, and ordinary people would not be able to hear those screams deep underground.The mines in Qinglongling were dug deep, and the mine veins were connected to the "black veins" guarded by the Sanmiao people.Although this section of the mine was cut off by the volcanic eruption, there are still relics left by the big blue dragon drilling everywhere.In addition, the landform itself is a mountain and water karst cave. It is not difficult to dig a little into it, and you will find a natural stone cave that is as deep and vertical as honeycomb coal.There is also Sun Moon Hot Spring where Xiezhi lives nearby.The geothermal resources here are very rich, and the more you dig in, the better you can use it.The copper blast furnace for casting weapons is placed in the deepest part of the mine, and is usually guarded by soldiers.The copper teeth of Jiuli are mainly responsible for smelting.

"No matter what you asked, it seems that you didn't get the answer you wanted." Fang Zheng said to Suo Lan coldly, "otherwise, why come back and ask me." After Fang Zheng opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was hoarse and he couldn't even shout out. , can only speak in a low voice like a stream of air.This is probably due to some kind of poison.

"Fang Zheng, your people are really strange." When Dayu of the Yu Dynasty was in power, all nations came to court, and Jiuding divided the world of Kyushu.Xiazhu was established by Dayu's son Qijun, and Xiazhu also had many small tribes attached to it.Solan has led troops to fight for many years, and has seen many strange tribes.What she was talking about was not that Chinese people looked different.Rather, these people have not "obeyed self-consciousness" at all.This means that under a strong deterrence—whether it is powerful force, advanced poison, or even the monster represented by the "totem" of this tribe—people will always have something to fear.

But the Chinese people, first of all, do not have a "totem" or a systematic "belief" like Xia Zhu's "Four Witch Spirits".On the way here, Suo Lan also investigated. The Chinese have two heads and seal the dragon, and the "God Envoy" is Lian Zifeng, who has the blood of flowers and dragons.Solan felt that it seemed that Chinese people believed in "Dragon" and its race.However, she soon discovered that was not the case.

After Suo Lan knocked Fang Zheng unconscious, he didn't immediately threaten everyone publicly.There were five good players traveling with her, all of whom were damaged due to various reasons along the way.The last fell to the hooves of the buffalo herd.She sneaked into Qinglongling alone, without helpers, even if she restrained Fang Zheng, it would still be very dangerous.What's more, she also had other tasks on her trip, and she didn't come to die with Fang Zheng.

So taking advantage of the night, Solan swept away the stunned Fang Zheng, and first hid Fang Zheng under a remote and deserted hill on the edge of Qinglongling.She tied Fang Zheng tightly, and stuffed two kinds of poisons into his throat—this is Xia Zhu’s precious secret medicine. shout.

Then Solan took away the ax that Fang Zheng was carrying with him.Dive alone into the depths of the copper furnace mines where weapons are forged.

Gu Ya and other Jiuli warriors, the son of Quanfeng Daxingbo, and about half of Qinglongling's troops guarded outside the mining area.But Solan climbed to the top of the vein, and then retreated into the mountain depression with superb means and dived down.Did not face most of the soldiers on the periphery.Only on the way deep into the mine, I saw Er Tongya with dozens of elite fighters guarding the only way.

At that time, she threatened "Your leader is in my hands" and showed the ax stick. This Eastern and Western Sign has never been given to others, not even Zifeng can take it.When the soldiers saw that they fell into the hands of this woman, who knew what happened to the leader and where she got them?Angry and angry again.

Solan flashed Fang Zheng's ax and said coldly: "If you don't let me go, you will never know his whereabouts. After a few days, he will starve to death in a corner where no one can find him." !"

Er Tongya and the others roared and rushed over to take down this ignorant woman, and there was not a trace of doubt in their hearts - who is Fang Zheng, how could he be easily kidnapped and taken away by a woman?But the one that symbolizes power is also inlaid with a snow-white fish-eye bead presented by Ma Piao, which is indeed Fang Zheng's axe.Is the leader really in danger?

And this woman—after dozens of people were knocked down by her—Er Tongya's brain, which has never been too fast, realized that maybe what she said was true, and maybe the leader really fell into her hands .She is definitely not an ordinary person.With this combat power, I'm afraid it will take Puniu or even Lian Zifeng to subdue her, right?Er Tongya was about to shout for help, but his neck was pinched, and something bitter was stuffed into his mouth, and then he could only speak in a hoarse voice.Several of their warriors were tied together back to back, watching Solan destroy their precious means of production:

Solan came to the copper furnace first.Below it is a very high bracket with rolled logs and boulders, and there is a long hole specially hewn out for the use of geothermal magma inside, and the copper blast furnace is firmly supported on it.There are countless black veins and wood piled up next to it, which are supplements when the geothermal combustion is insufficient.On the other side, there are piles of pottery fan fragments, large stones and ore raw materials as high as hills.Most of them are iron ore, which are all mined in this cave.Farther away, there is a large vine wall tied with the aerial roots of banyan trees, on which are hung many brand-new weapons such as daggers, knives, halberds, hammers, and spears.There are more than [-] soldiers in Qinglongling. The Chinese people are all equipped with weapons by relying on the blast stove that burns day and night.

Solan climbed up to the top of the copper blast stove and pushed hard. The copper blast stove weighed about a thousand catties.She couldn't push with her own strength.Immediately, she took a big copper hammer and smashed it hard at the stone and wooden support under the support of the blast furnace.After making more than a dozen earth-shattering noises, the middle section of the bracket collapsed.The copper blast furnace with an unstable center of gravity is like a dull old man leaning from a high place in slow motion. The heavy body fell down and hit the ground with a huge muffled sound, which made the cave tremble a few times.Half of the copper blast furnace was completely crushed by the gravity falling from its own height. The body that used to be able to swallow copper juice and molten iron was torn apart after those few blows.

The soldiers who guarded the room were staring at each other, wanting to kill someone.But they couldn't move on the ground, and their voices were hoarse and rough.

"You believe in dragons, and you are also afraid of dragons, right?" After destroying the copper furnace, Solan began to torture and extract confessions.She picked the smallest and thinnest dagger from the rattan wall, and slammed it into a warrior's shoulder, "But do you know? Our imam ants ate your dragon."

The news that Pang Meng brought back was that the imam ants had already killed and sealed the two-headed golden dragon by Jianmu's weak water.On the surface, Solan believed that the Chinese dragons were too dangerous, and it would be a blessing if they could be eliminated.But the long-term battle made her suspicious of everything.She went south to Qinglong Ridge alone, and she did not have the intention to investigate the news carefully.

However, what Fang Zheng told the Chinese people was that the dragon was patrolling outside, and it hadn't appeared for a long time. Fang Zheng's prestige could temporarily suppress the uneasiness of the people.Those warriors heard Solan revealing the "truth" that the dragon had been eaten by imams, and many warriors were shocked. Thinking of the comforting words of the dragon and the leader who had disappeared during this period, they were suddenly startled.

Of course, some people did not believe her so easily.

"Why are you afraid of this and that. I don't believe you, a woman, is talking nonsense!" Er Tongya cursed, "Our dragon will come back soon, and the leader will not let you go!"

"Your leader? Hmph, he can't protect himself." Solan went to torture another warrior and skillfully cut off a piece of flesh from his fingertip. "Come back soon? It seems that you believe that the dragon is not dead? Where is it?"

"The dragon is happy in you!" Another warrior yelled, cursing obscenely, "Turn your head out of your stomach!"

Solan's complexion was delicate, it wasn't that the obscene words touched her negative scales.Climbing to this position step by step as a woman, some languages ​​have long been immune.Instead, after the torture was over, she went back to the remote hidden spot to question Fang Zheng:

"Your people don't seem to be religious to the 'dragon'. They don't have 'fear' of the 'dragon' in their words. How do you rule these people? Fang Zheng, I can catch you, which means you are just a mortal. Why? "

This made Solan very annoyed, she couldn't sum up that feeling, and she had already succeeded in suppressing Fang Zheng.The copper stove was also destroyed.Although those warriors refused to surrender.The easiest thing is to kill with a few knives and it's over.She has already completed half of the seemingly difficult and impossible task.Whether the dragon was really eaten by the imams, or whether it was patrolling outside is still unknown; but at least the creature of ancient legends is not completely invulnerable.Although the Great Bingyi in the lake does not know how to solve it for the time being.But as long as Fang Zheng is taken away, according to the Lord's estimation, Qinglongling will collapse without a fight.At that time, we will find a way to bury the lake or inject a sufficient dose of poison to kill that Frozen End.

But Solan always felt that there was still a great danger, which she could not understand and control at all.From the attitude towards the "dragon", it can be vaguely seen that the Qinglongling people are completely different from the Xiazhu people she has contacted or the tribes who came to pay homage to them, and they are completely special.How did Fang Zheng make these people who seemed to have no faith or fear submit to them?

"Rule by what?" Fang Zheng sneered and said hoarsely, "People's hearts. Do you know the meaning of this word?"

Solan frowned, having never heard this word before.She was born as a slave.Xia Zhu had very few slaves, which made her upbringing experience extraordinarily rough and full of legends.Of course, those are no longer the focus of her life.What she cares about is Fang Zheng's strange expression, what is "people's heart"?

In fact, it wasn't until the age of 16 that she vaguely began to have a little concept of the so-called "people".

When she was 16 years old, Zhongkang was not the king of Xia Zhu, but the fourth prince of Xia Zhu.In front of him, his elder brother Taikang had already succeeded to the throne.However, Taikang was a tyrannical lunatic. He slashed on the neck of the temple's Xiong with a knife, and the blood ran like water.

"What kind of people! The only voice in this world is Lord Wu! I am Lord Wu! I don't want the broken animals left by Yu Chao. Yu Chao is dead! If Yu Chao's method is right, it won't split!" Taikang raised his knife, and if any of his subordinates who disagreed stood up, he would chop one off. During that time, he killed a total of twelve important ministers.

Yao, Shun and Yu created the huge and prosperous Yu Dynasty, which is the greatest kingdom in the history of this land.Its population is at its peak.It is a real "big country" that Fang Zheng's father said represents a certain political, economic and cultural strength, a prosperous age created by "three generations of sages" praised by later generations of Confucian scholars, and an "idyllic pastoral song" in the ideals of intellectuals. "Do not close the door at night and do not pick up things", honest, fair and hardworking people are respected and reused, and there is no place for crafty crafty and cunning.The government is smooth and the people are harmonious, everything is clear, the people live in peace, and live a long and healthy life.Confucian saint, who was devoted to the ethics of later generations, praised and missed the kingdom of the ancient virtuous kings countless times, praising their benevolence and virtue of enlightenment.Even if there are still terrifying and huge animals and half-beast monsters wandering in the distance, there are brave warriors like Dayi, and the environment protects the peace of the empire.

However, after the death of Emperor Chongyu, his son Qi, with the support of ancestor Jiang Tu Shanjiao, did not obey Boyi who was abdicated by Dayu, but ascended the throne and became king by himself.The Yu Dynasty thus split into Yuyi and Xiazhu.Xia Zhu's successor system was more solid. Taikang was Qijun's second son. Compared with his father's generation who occasionally followed the old customs of the Yu Dynasty, Taikang's political performance was more radical and extreme.He vigorously praised the Wuling culture that was still being nurtured in the Xia Qi era. With the support of Peng Meng and other courtiers, he first abolished the old rule of Dayu that "do not build a city with soil", and then demolished it. He destroyed the temple that judged prison lawsuits, and drove away Xie Yao, who read people's lies.

Taikang symbolized more than [-] people, built a nine-foot-high Wuling Terrace, and carved statues of the four gods. The "Shao Dance", a dance that originally took into account the joy of the monarch and the people, celebrated the harvest and prayed for a smooth harvest in the coming year, has also been modified to become In order to pray to the witch spirits, beseech them to send down divine power to dispel the pain and disaster, and curse the enemy's sacrificial dance.

During Taikang's reign for three years, a shocking change was made every year.His father, Qi Jun, spent 60 years to gradually reduce the centralization of power, but still did not dare to put the essence of slavery on the table, and ultimately failed to complete the reform.Every time Taikang kills a person, he repeats it: Only he truly understands his father's wishes and aspirations, and understands that the so-called jade ceremony that Xia Zhu inherited from the Yu Dynasty is just a high-sounding cloak.He tried in vain to complete all the restructuring that Qijun had paved the way for in one go, but what he got in exchange three years later was the beheading of Pangmeng, who strongly supported him at the beginning.

"Brother is too impatient." Zhongkang, the successor of the Xiazhu Kingdom, only said at the time, "The people must be tamed, and they cannot be thrown away roughly. Take it step by step." Zhongkang knew the reason why the previous monarch was terminated.In later generations, the word is "reversed".

That was the first time Soran faced the concept of "people" up close.

At the age of 17, Suo Lan led the stragglers to kill Xibo, Taikang's confidant guard, and stood beside the new lord as a vanguard officer of the armored army.Most of the subjects who had supported Taikang's restructuring back then came to support Zhongkang again. In their eyes, the fourth prince had a milder temper, at least he would not kill so many people casually.Among these courtiers, Pang Meng, who supported Taikang's reform at the beginning, finally cut off his head and presented it in front of Zhongkang.One eye of this "veteran of the three dynasties" was just blinded by Zu Jiang's Kunxiu camp, but Pang Meng was still on the front line of the coup battle, driving the "veteran" who had been firmly controlled by him since the split of the Yu Dynasty. Flying Badger Army.

At that time, Titan and Xinjun asked each other one sentence: "Is what Taikang did wrong?"

"It's not wrong, it's just too fast."

"It's not wrong, it's just too fast."

On occasions where there were only the monarch and his ministers, Zhongkang taught Solan to understand his real political intentions, while Pengmeng added.Zhongkang lightly instructed the young female general, "Yu Chao has been dead for 60 years. Xia Zhu can't go the old way. On this point, my brother is not wrong. It's a pity that he not only wants to kill people who went the other way, but also kills us." These people who run slower on the same road..."

"The oldest group of the Yu Dynasty who are still alive are people like me who have been half buried in the earth." Pang Meng said with emotion, "When it split, I was only 16 years old, and I dared to draw my bow to point at mine. Teacher—Da Yi, the god of war. I am a person who broke with the old era. The road of Yu Dynasty can no longer be walked, and there is no way to go on. I support Prince Taikang, but he is going too fast, I advise him to slow down A little bit, a little bit, don't be completely insensitive to other people's opinions. But he... alas."

"Then what way to go?" Solan frowned.She had just dealt with the remnants of Taikang, and thought that Zhongkang was pursuing different political views.The move confused her.How can you rule if you don't follow the rules of the Yu Dynasty?Of course, she knew that she was not qualified to think about these issues.Just a flash in my mind.

"Take your time and throw away what should be lost." Zhongkang's expression was gentle, but what he said made Suo Lan puzzled, "Father and brother's wish is the same, and it is also my wish. I will reunify the divided land, It will also create a huge country unprecedented in history, and it will not die in three generations. Solan, can you understand?"

"No." She said truthfully.

"The Yu Dynasty is all about the people. But we don't need the people. Because the people have wishes." Zhongkang explained in detail, "so the person sitting in the position of the monarch must satisfy the wishes of the people in order to continue. Emperor Tao Tang, Emperor Yao Yu and Emperor Chongyu were both too great people. They fulfilled the wishes of most people, and they were exhausted to death, and they had to die to seal monsters. But such great people, among tens of millions of people I can't pick the fourth one. For example, Boyi, who was abdicated by Emperor Chongyu, is not a star and a half away. He can't satisfy the wishes of so many people. At least he can't satisfy the wishes of his father, so the father will stand on his own. The Yu Dynasty split It cannot be passed on to the fourth generation, so its path is not feasible... But I want to unify Xiazhu and Yuyi, I want to train the army to prepare for war, and I want to increase the population in the territory. What should I do? People have wishes, It's too hard to manage."

"Then..." Solan hesitated.

"If they all become cattle and sheep, it will be much easier to manage. Taking care of the cattle and sheep is the easiest. They are fed, clothed, healthy, and able to supply supplies and soldiers. Other wishes are sealed first. So I said, Xia Zhu does not need people."

Zhongkang spoke softly, his expression became calmer and more serene, and a look of approval flashed across Pangmeng's face.Solan hesitated to speak, then shook her head to get rid of the doubts in her mind. Her belief was to eliminate enemies for Zhongkang and follow his decision, and there was no need to think about other things for the time being.Whether it's people or cattle and sheep, she doesn't know how much difference there is.All she knew was that she had been a slave.Slaves are probably not as good as animals, so being able to be cattle and sheep is already very good.

After that, Zhongkang's Huairou method apparently appeased most of his subjects.After all, most of Xiazhu's people inherited the memory of the Yu Dynasty, and it was impossible to immediately agree to the change of slavery.This is also the reason why Taikang was unpopular and eventually failed.Zhongkang is much smarter, he will not force the people to work unconditionally, but vigorously promote the revelation and punishment of the four witch spirits.He took the lead in demolishing the high walls around the city, seemingly imitating the benevolent government of his grandfather, Emperor Chongyu.However, he slowly took over the production and exchange places for copper, silkworms, and jade that were spontaneously formed by the people in the former Yu Dynasty for national use, allowing the people to work in them.Every year, Shaowu becomes more grand and colorful, and the sacrificial words and exaggerated interpretation of the four witch spirits are also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people every year.As he said, take your time, ten years have passed.Xia Zhu's two armies, the Flying Badger and the Kaiyu, were armed more and more sharply.Everyone became more obedient and timid.

However, after tonight's torture of the warriors in Qinglongling, the doubts that had been lingering in the bottom of his heart surfaced in Solan's mind again.The Chinese people are very strange. They are too bold and have no natural fear of authority.When they make mistakes, they have to go through a trial and "trial" before they can be convicted. Finally, the "angels of God" will get rid of the evil seeds, and then they will use punishment... It is said that it is a rule set by Fang Zheng.This Fang Zheng was full of strange thoughts.

Such people, even if they are forced to submit by force, will not be able to integrate into Xia Zhu's social system and become obedient producers, right?The more Suo Lan thought about it, the more irritable he became, which violated Zhongkang's original intention of occupying Qinglongling and domesticating these people.But if it’s impossible, I can only kill them all. It’s not too difficult for her to do it herself... There are quite a few people who have been killed over the years. Why is she still like the little girl next to the cattle and sheep more than [-] years ago? Slave, after dreaming about a dead body, woke up crying?

She didn't answer Fang Zheng, because she really didn't know "People's Heart".But she was unwilling to ask, and she was instinctively vigilant—it was not in her own hands to take the initiative to talk, especially when facing someone like Fang Zheng, it was very dangerous.

Solan supported Fang Zheng on the horseback.This wild horse was tamed by herself.After hiding the wild horses outside the remote valley of Qinglongling, she got into the wild cattle and mixed into the valley.People in that era hadn't figured out a particularly skilled technique of horse training, so horses had to be caught in the wild.But they have discovered that the animal is easy to obey, and when mounted on its back for battle, it can concentrate and be fearless.Among Xia Zhu's high-ranking sergeants, the ability to own a horse is a sign of strong combat effectiveness.The Yuqiang camp in Shoutong Mountain also has the task of taming horses.However, the bravest fighters in Yuyi all form animal companions with tigers, bears and leopards, and horses are just livestock for them to travel short distances.

Solan himself also jumped on the horse. Fang Zheng was blindfolded and couldn't tell which direction she was urging the horse to go. He could only use the smell and echo of the wind to estimate.She ran along the backside of the outermost hills of the great lake.Fang Zheng guessed that she wanted to see the Bingyi in the lake from a distance, but she didn't dare to get close, and she didn't dare to venture up the hill for fear of being discovered by patrolling soldiers.Gradually farther and farther away from Qinglongling.

"Qinglongling's defenses are really lax. You have been missing in the middle of the night, and the copper furnace was smashed just now. Most people still don't know." Suo Lan said in Fang Zheng's ear, "Only those dozens..."

"It was all killed by you." Fang Zheng's tone could not hear the emotion, and only those who were familiar with him knew that this was the moment when the leader was most emotional.

"Otherwise? Let them send a message immediately? In this way, the Qinglongling army will not notice until tomorrow morning at least. By then, they will not be able to catch up with you."

"Fingers don't hurt? Have you applied enough medicine?" Fang Zheng suddenly changed the topic [-] degrees, his tone suddenly changed completely, and he took time off, "Maybe you will be infected and die in two days. I will came back."

The fracture of Solan's little finger, which he cut off himself, was indeed painful.She has rubbed the best medicine on it, and wrapped it tightly with the best bark and leaves in Xiazhu territory.She doesn't understand "infection", and she is worried in her heart, but she doesn't show it in front of the enemy, "It's not like I haven't been injured more seriously. You should worry about yourself."

"Worried? You are arresting me in Yanglun City. Before that, you must eat and drink for me, lest I die. You will not be able to explain to your lord." Fang Zheng can feel it The horse's foot strength is not too slow, but there are two people sitting on it, and the capital city of Xia Zhu, Yang Lun, is so far apart.Who will die along the way is still unknown.

"Since you know that Lian Zifeng is not here, you must have investigated where he went, right? Maybe in the middle of the trip, by coincidence, he also escorted Si Zhongkang, and our two hostages met." Fang Zheng said He couldn't stop laughing.Solan was surprised that he could laugh immediately after he knew that his subordinate died at her hands.

Although Zifeng's route to the north is top-secret, but since the battle between Huazu and Xiazhu is imminent, the purpose of Lian Zifeng's departure at this time is obvious.Suo Lan's heart tightened, he couldn't help pinching Fang Zheng's arm, and shouted, "Yang Lun is much more heavily guarded than your sloppy Qinglongling. Lian Zifeng won't succeed. Also! Don't call the lord by his name directly! Otherwise, I'll pour all the poison down your throat!"

Fang Zheng coughed a few times, and said in a hoarse voice, "Then try it, Fang Zheng is a mute, he can't ask anything. Si Zhongkang will still be upset—are you doing all this to please him?"

"No!" Solan said in a low voice at last with a stern face, "And the lord no longer follows the surname of his mother's clan, and everyone respects Xia."

Fang Zheng thought for a while, Si Zhongkang.It's really typical to follow the mother's surname, so the previous emperor Qijun was actually called Tu Shanqi?It's just that Xia Zhu has now consolidated the authority of the patrilineal society, and the name of the lord has also changed to "Xia Qi" and "Xia Zhongkang".

Fang Zheng rolled his eyes, and chose another direction to stimulate Suo Lan, "I was in Danyang City back then, watching the Flying Badger Army kill Hai Qiniang's family, and I knew that Xia Zhu's biggest problem was caused by your lord or He can't handle it? I wasn't sure at the time. But after seeing you, I'm sure it's the first type. It can drive the loyalty of a person like you. He won't be a puppet. Then you are working for a tiger."

"The biggest problem? A puppet? Serving a tiger? What do you mean?" She was puzzled.Rationality tells Solan not to listen to Fang Zheng's nonsense, and to gag him quickly, but emotionally, there seems to be a faint thread that grabs her heart, and it seems to lead to the "people" she doubted and could not understand ten years ago, so that She did not immediately stop Fang Zheng's narration.

"Pengmeng's Flying Badger Army is a secret army directly instructed by the monarch who has the right to convict and murder," Fang Zheng paused. Its nature is similar to that of the Jinyiwei Blood Droplet in the feudal dynasty, but he did not say these strange words , "This kind of army should be only a small number of elites, but Yu Xiazhu accounted for half of the army. In this way, the people will..." People in this era will not understand that this kind of army structure is unhealthy and unreasonable.The role of the army is to defend the country, but the personal soldiers of the lord are just weapons for the purpose of oppression.With such a large number, the result is that the people become absolutely obedient, dare not make trouble, let alone have ideas, and only have one voice and one thought in their minds, "... a slave tool."

Suo Lan's heart tightened suddenly. Fang Zheng's conjecture was very similar to the "cattle and sheep" that Zhongkang had told her, but she couldn't admit it, and reprimanded, "It's nonsense. Those of Yu Yi and Badian are slaves." , we're doing much better."

"It's different from the slaves of Yu Yi and Badian. Yu Yi's slaves have the right to belong, and they can also become slave owners through the establishment of military exploits and other promotion channels. But the slaves of Badian are simply 'animals'." Fang Zheng shook his head and said, "Xiazhu advertises 'Jade Ceremony', and the people are 'ordinary families' on the surface. But they have become slaves spiritually, which is even more wrong."

Fang Zheng speculates based on modern sociological knowledge that Zhongkang may not be a luxurious and licentious emperor, but if his descendants are at the top of the pyramid of a solid slave social system, they will set up nine-story deer terraces, build meat forests and wine pools, eat, drink and enjoy themselves. Don't do business.Before those faint kings were overthrown, the sacrifices paid were enough to imprison human society in a brutal and bloody slave society for many years.During this period, countless cruel life sacrifices and human slaughters will be done to strengthen that belief system.It is extremely long, lasting nearly a thousand years, and occupies one-third of the historical process.

There was already a large and splendid country like the Yu Dynasty with a harmonious political system, good production capacity and technological development. If it can continue, how many years can this land enter the golden age of material and spiritual culture in advance? A cruel, bloody, ignorant and closed slave society began.Only Fang Zheng can understand the meaning of retrogression.

"What's wrong with that?" Suo Lan listened to Zhongkang's brainwashing all these years, and every year he would take her to inspect the four towns under the Jiuding, watching the people working hard and picking textiles obediently, those people dare not relax a bit, I dare not say that I am tired or dissatisfied.Zhongkang taught Solan, that feeling is called "peace of mind".

"All strict regulations are for the stability of the world. It is better to be a herd in a stable era than to be a 'people' in a chaotic era." Zhongkang's eyes are still gentle and gentle, and what he said seems to make sense .

"Very bad." Fang Zheng interrupted her thoughts, "Why use the most elite forces to deter the people! That should be against the enemy!"

"Because we have experienced wars! People have bad hearts! We must first use strong means to maintain peace!" Solan retorted involuntarily.

Fang Zheng snorted and said: "One day, if the monarch asks slaves to be buried alive, to make people exhausted to build meat forest wine pools, to kill people for no reason for fun, there will no longer be the power and voice of resistance, because People at that time were completely controlled by the army and lost the ability to think. Badian followed the same path. Their deterrent tool was a giant snake, but Xia Zhu’s method was more clever, and Wu Ling and Shao Wu were fig leafs. As for the 'Flying Badger Army', maybe in the future, your armored army will become like that of 'Ba Snake'!"

Suo Lan was incredulous, and said angrily: "What are you talking about! No way!" Although there were a few strange words she couldn't understand (meat forest, wine pool, fig leaf), she also deduced that it was not a good word, and Zhongkang was definitely not like that people.

Fang Zheng said coldly, "Qinglongling is very small, not considered a big country. I say whatever you want, whether you like it or not. The rule of a country should be like the heaven and the earth nourishing all things. It is not because it is a chaotic world that the world will not give spring to all things to develop. A truly coordinating king will not give up his duty to guide the people to a better life because of the chaotic world—” Fang Zheng said sharply, “What your lord is doing is just evading responsibility and turning the people If you become an idiot who dare not speak or think, it will be very easy for future generations to rule!"

Solan grabbed Fang Zheng's neck with his uninjured hand and tightened it. She had never heard such unscrupulous and direct criticism of Lord Xia Zhu.A gentle lord like Zhongkang worked hard every day to deal with state affairs, and Solan forbade others to speak ill of him.What's more, what Fang Zheng said is purely based on speculation, and those things will not happen.Even if it happened, it was done by ineffective descendants, so why blame the king? "If you think the two poisons are not enough, I'll chop off two more fingers, and you won't die anyway!"

Fang Zheng's face turned red and purple from being pinched by her, and he coughed involuntarily.It took a while for Solan to let go, but he pulled a knot made of grass and strangled Fang Zheng's mouth, preventing him from speaking.Although she didn't know Fang Zheng's clear intentions, she was instinctively frightened.Her ability to predict danger in advance became strongly uneasy again, and she didn't dare to ponder Fang Zheng's words just now, and even felt that there seemed to be a terrifying power no less than force in the depths of those words.Fang Zheng seemed to provoke her deliberately, trying to shake her heart?

Fang Zheng's eyes were still blindfolded and he couldn't see.Naturally, no one could see the fierce and restrained anger in his eyes—Saulan destroyed the copper furnace, killed the warriors of the regiment, and kidnapped him secretly, which is not only a great shame, but also a serious crisis.He wants to do his best, whether he has the opportunity to do it or attack his heart, he will never take chances.He is a person who pays every penny and every penny, and has all the ideological weapons that should be smashed and crushed. He is ready to instigate and instigate.

It's midnight again, and it's dawn.Suo Lan had already escorted Fang Zheng on horseback, galloped out of Qinglong Ridge, and began to go north along the foot of the mountain.She didn't ask Fang Zheng about the dragon, knowing that he would not tell the truth.But she's still wary of whether he