Prehistoric: Lord of the Nine Heavens at the Beginning, the Mythical Kunpeng

Chapter 286 King Zhou is unruly and creates cannons

The wooden sword given by Yun Zhongzi was cut from pine wood. After being thrown into the brazier, it immediately turned into ashes.

When Daji saw that the wooden sword was burned by the fire, she immediately felt that her body had recovered as before. She hurriedly asked the palace maids to prepare a banquet and have a drink with King Zhou.

Yun Zhongzi, who was walking in Chaoge City, saw the evil spirit rising again. He counted with his fingers and found out that his wooden sword was burned by fire. He was a little disappointed.

"I originally thought that I would use this wooden sword to kill evil spirits and continue the path of Chengtang. Who would have known that King Zhou was so stupid that he burned my wooden sword."

"It seems that Chengtang's strength has been exhausted, and the Zhou Kingdom is about to rise."

"Forget it, the world is going to be in chaos, I'd better go back to Zhongnan Mountain."

Thinking of this, Yun Zhongzi stopped staying and headed straight for Zhongnan Mountain, never leaving the mountain again.

After Yun Zhongzi left, Grand Master Du Yuanxian returned home and watched the sky at night, and found that the evil spirit was getting stronger day by day.

Thinking of King Zhou's debauchery and immorality, his neglect of government affairs, and the ruin of the world, he was extremely worried as he saw that things were getting worse day by day.

So Du Yuanxian went to Prime Minister Shang Rong and told Shang Rong his worries.

After hearing this, Shang Rong felt that this matter was not trivial, so he hurriedly took Du Yuanxian's memorial to Shouxian Palace to pay homage to King Zhou.

King Zhou was having fun with Daji. When he heard that Shang Rong was visiting, he remembered that Shang Rong was a veteran of the three dynasties, so he made an exception and came out to receive her.

When Shang Rong saw King Zhou, he quickly told King Zhou what Du Yuanxian had discovered.

King Zhou was furious after reading Du Yuanxian's memorial.

A few days ago, Yun Zhongzi presented a pinewood sword, which almost killed Daji. He finally burned the pinewood sword and saved Daji's life. Now, people are still talking about monsters?

When Daji heard that it was about Yun Zhongzi and Songmu Jian, she was immediately frightened and turned pale.

He hurriedly knelt in front of King Zhou and said: "I heard that Yun Zhongzi is a foreign magician who fabricated rumors to deceive His Majesty and confuses the public with his evil words. Now Du Yuanxian uses this as an excuse to disturb the people's hearts. He should be killed!" "

After hearing this, King Zhou also felt that what Da Ji said was reasonable, and immediately ordered Du Yuanxian to be beheaded in public.

When Shang Rong heard that King Zhou wanted to kill Du Yuanxian, he immediately became anxious and hurriedly said to King Zhou: "Your Majesty, Du Yuanxian is a three-generation veteran, loyal and honest, dedicated to the country and the people. Your Majesty wants to behead him. I'm afraid the ministers will not accept it!"

King Zhou ignored him and insisted on beheading Du Yuanxian in public.

Shang Rong had no choice but to go out and tell Du Yuanxian about King Zhou's will.

Immediately, guards took off Du Yuanxian's robe, tied him with a rope, and pushed him out of the Meridian Gate.

On the way, he met Uncle Mei who came to see King Zhou. Seeing that Du Yuanxian was kidnapped, Uncle Mei hurriedly asked why.

Du Yuanxian told what happened in detail.

When Meibo heard this, he was furious. When he found Shang Rong, he wanted to take Shang Rong with him to see King Zhou.

Not long after, the palace people reported to King Zhou that it was Mei Bo and Shang Rong who wanted to see him.

King Zhou, who was having fun with Daji, originally didn't want to pay attention to the two of them, but thought that if they didn't see them, more ministers might come to see them, so he had to reluctantly meet them.

After seeing Uncle Mei and Shang Rong, King Zhou directly asked: "Two ministers, do you have any memorials?"

The implication is that they should be driven away without delaying their own enjoyment.

When Zhou asked about it, Uncle Mei said directly: "Your Majesty, what crime did Du Yuanxian commit that your Majesty wants to behead him?"

King Zhou frowned. As a king, he just killed a minister. As for being blamed?

However, he still had patience and said: "Du Yuanxian conspired with Shi Fang, fabricated rumors, and deceived people's hearts. He deserves to be killed!"

After hearing this, Mabel couldn't help but laugh in anger.

"Hunjun, you listened to Daji's words and failed to care about the righteousness of the king and his ministers. You killed Du Yuanxian today. You killed not only Du Yuanxian, but also the people of Chaoge!"

"Chengtang's hundreds of years of foundation will be ruined in your hands!" When King Zhou heard that Meibo actually dared to scold him, he became very angry and quickly ordered the guards to take Meibo away. Get down, drag him out and chop him off.

At this moment, Daji suddenly spoke.

"Your Majesty, it is an act of treason and injustice for Mebo to insult the king. Killing him would be too easy for him."

"According to my concubine's wishes, I will put Uncle Mei in prison first. I will come up with a very interesting punishment."

After saying that, Daji smiled so brightly that the spirit of King Zhou disappeared from her laughter, and she quickly asked: "Beauty, what kind of punishment are you talking about?"

Daji thought for a while and said: "Use a copper pillar two feet high and eight feet thick, with a hollow inside, and burn it red with charcoal fire."

"Tie a person who deceives the public with evil words to a copper pillar with iron ropes. In a short time, he will be roasted to ashes."

King Zhou was overjoyed when he heard this and praised Daji for being smart and having a good brain.

Then King Zhou asked again: "Beauty, does this punishment have a name?"

Daji replied: "Just call it Paolao. What do you think, Your Majesty?"

After hearing this, King Zhou was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered his engineers to hurry up and make instruments of torture.

A few days later, the construction officials reported to King Zhou that the cannon and burnt instruments of torture had been completed.

After hearing this, King Zhou was overjoyed and asked the officials to take the torture instruments for inspection.

The construction supervisor pushed the copper pillar over. King Zhou looked at it and saw it was yellow, two feet high and eight feet thick. It had wheels underneath so it could be pushed around.

King Zhou immediately ordered that when he went to court tomorrow, Uncle Mei would be burned with a cannon in front of the main hall, so that all officials would be afraid and would not dare to talk nonsense again.

The next day, after King Zhou went to court, he immediately ordered people to bring Meibo up and use charcoal fire to burn the copper pillar red.

The officials looked at the red-hot copper pillar and didn't know what King Zhou wanted to do.

Not long after, the official from the Meridian Gate came to report that Uncle Mei had already brought him.

When King Zhou looked at it, Mei Bo was unkempt and dressed in white.

King Zhou ordered people to tie Mei Bo to a copper pillar.

When Uncle Mei saw this, he became furious and yelled at King Zhou: "Hunjun, what crime did I, Uncle Mei, who was an old minister of the three dynasties, commit, and why do you want to treat me like this?"

"I don't regret my death, but it's a pity that this whole world will be lost at the hands of a foolish king like you!"

King Zhou was furious and immediately had people take off Meibo's clothes and tie them to a copper pillar with iron chains.

Mabel screamed and died.

Suddenly, the hall was filled with the stench of burnt human flesh.

Poor Mabel was so loyal that he ended up like this.

What King Zhou didn't know was that he thought that by listening to Daji's words and instituting a cruel punishment, he could silence Youyou's mouth.

In fact, all the civil and military officials were heartbroken and were no longer willing to serve Chengtang.

King Zhou thought that with the punishment of cannon, the world would be at peace, so he immediately returned to the harem to find Daji and have fun.

In the Shouxian Palace, music was played until the second watch, which alarmed King Zhou's first wife, Queen Jiang.

Queen Jiang also heard that King Zhou believed Daji and tortured Meibo. She was furious and wanted to go to Daji to ask for an explanation.

(End of this chapter)