Is this a godsend?

"And Your Majesty, why didn't you let the evil come back to the ancestral temple after taking and using the Son of Heaven Sword?" Jiang Houfa asked.

This is the most important weapon of the Great Merchant Kingdom. Only the king can take it out and use it when he is on patrol, hunting in the field, or going out on an expedition. After it is used up, it needs to be put back and continued to be enshrined in it, so as not to hurt the spirit of the sword.

Although the king of Shang has gone mad too many times in the past few months, everyone is getting used to it, but his madness is a bit too much now. This is the most important weapon of the country. There were a lot of big movements, which were a bit beyond the bottom line of the courtiers and nobles, but due to the authority of the King of Shang, so I had to make a detour and ask Empress Jiang to advise.

"I'm familiarizing myself with the power of the Excalibur. The sword is a tool, and it needs to be used more often." Then Queen Jiang once again showed the expression that the king must have really taken a silly picture of Da Yi. Bronze swords can't be used much these days. , use it a few times, it is either bent or folded.

"Your Majesty, it is better for you to send the three swords back to the ancestral temple to enshrine, otherwise all the Chinese in the city will be waiting for death." The emperor's sword is not in the ancestral temple. From now on, it seems that the King of Shang is ready to call people, carmen, or go on tour at any time, which means The people of the country were very nervous waiting for the call.

When he went out for the first time to patrol the soil, he asked Elai to come over with a sword casually, which was also carried from the ancestral temple. After the beetle, with an order, the people of Modu and the warriors rushed to the place.

If it weren't for this, the summoning speed of the normal era would not be so fast.

"That's it, how about it? From now on, the three swords will be enshrined in the palace, and a separate one will be built." Wei Ziqi is still in the ancestral temple, Zi Shou can't trust him, and it's too dangerous to put this thing in the ancestral temple , it is better to build a separate one in the palace for worship.

"Okay." Empress Jiang couldn't be persuaded, so she had to give up. After all, Zishou was a person who "knew enough to refuse advice", and no one could persuade him.

The next day, at the court meeting, everyone persuaded again, but the king of Shang insisted on going his own way. On the third day, veterans and close relatives came to persuade, and on the fourth day...

It wasn't until Zishou finally couldn't bear it anymore that he pulled out the Xiaolian sword directly and turned on the maximum power output. The light golden light once competed with the sun for a while, and everyone stopped talking, but it also cast a shadow over the atmosphere of Modu. From the perspective of people at this time, such a waste of divine power was not the work of a virtuous king.

But on the other hand, everyone is also horrified by the supernatural power of this generation of Shang kings. Emperor Yi dare not use it like this. One day, just move your hands and feet, and you can strike another sword.

It can only be said that this guy may not be possessed by a mysterious bird, and he has strong divine power. The nobles are already considering who the next king of Shang will be.

Chapter 11 The King Goes Mad Again

Outside Modu, the summer harvest begins. According to the past situation, theoretically, the beans should be ripe in May, but in the middle of June, the beans and wheat are gradually ripening, which means that the weather is getting colder a little bit. The worst 300-300-year cold period in the middle of the last 30 years of carefree is coming.

Through reasonable dense planting, manure irrigation, and the canals built at the cost of killing slaves, as well as the overturned carts that consumed nearly half of the royal court's bronze production, this year's harvest is gratifying. Slaves and savages, and even most of them The people of the country are all helping to harvest in the fields, and clumps of beans and wheat are harvested.

Then the land was reorganized. Originally, it was intended to let go of the wasteland and plant millet, that is, yellow rice, on another piece of land. However, because of the relationship between Zishou, two plots of land can now be planted with millet.

You only need to turn the ditch into a ridge again, and then plant on the ridge mixed with root nodules for nitrogen fixation and organic fertilizer. However, there are still problems, that is, under normal circumstances, after the wheat is harvested in May, the millet starts to prepare the land and sow. It can be planted around June and harvested before mid-autumn.

For the people at this time, this kind of crop with extremely low yield is the main food, the reason is very simple, its harvest period is very short, and its life is extremely tenacious, sandy soil can also be planted, for the agricultural technology at this time That said, the risk is very low.

Relatively speaking, the risk of the wheat and soybeans that Zishou asked to grow in Wangtian is relatively high, and in terms of harvest, Zishou also feels that the current variety and fertility of wheat are really not suitable for large-scale promotion.

In modern times, the wheat ears he saw were heavy and full of grains, but the wheat grains collected in front of him were shriveled and the ears were short. After counting, there were only about 12 grains. There are only eight grains.

"If you plant one, you will reap eight, and you will never reap it." Zi Shou was very worried, but the other nobles and people in the country didn't know that the king was worried about a hammer. If the king hadn't gone mad and pulled out the seedlings, it might have been a good harvest. Can I charge a little more?

As for the daily life of millet, it is about planting one and harvesting three or so, but because it really grows fast, its vitality is tenacious, and it hardly needs fertilization. Under normal circumstances, no one cares about it and it can grow out of the ground, for example, after the demise of the Shang Dynasty. Well, the city of Modu is full of these things.

Therefore, in a strict sense, this kind of plant, which is similar to edible dogtail grass, is the staple food crop at this time. Unfortunately, it is only planted once a year, densely planted, and large-scale sowing does not require intensive cultivation.

It was commonly planted before the pre-Qin period, but it was rarely planted after that. Therefore, when Wang Mang restored the well field system, he did not consider the problem of the intensive cultivation of farmers brought about by the change of crops and the reduction of the land that single households can cultivate.

Therefore, after Zishou asked to plant millet on the ridge, he asked him to sow black beans, and he piled it up again for Wang Tian, ​​and asked him to plant it like this in the future. The millet is changed into a ditch to plant black beans, and this cycle is used.

If the cold season is not coming, and he does not have mulch and chemical fertilizers, he will perform a show of planting soybeans and wheat in November, harvesting beans in March for millet, harvesting wheat in May, black beans in June, and harvesting in September The superb agricultural skills of planting millet, growing wheat, and rotating crops throughout the year—of course, due to his shallow knowledge of agriculture, there is a high probability that he will not have a good harvest but will completely screw things up.

But Zishou is indeed planning to plant some strange things, especially the new fields that have been opened recently. He asked to plant grass in this new field, to be precise, alfalfa, which is a kind of leguminous pasture, which can be harvested in a year 3~4 times, not only can feed horses, but most importantly - people can also eat - as for whether it is delicious or not, it doesn't matter, human beings these days are not qualified to be picky eaters.

Once planted, it can be harvested for 6-7 years without reducing the yield. In fact, it only needs to be planted for 2-3 years before being replaced with normal crops, because it also has rhizobia, which is good for improving soil quality, especially slightly saline-alkaline soil Very good.

The summer harvest is a very, very important event, the sacrifice before the sickle, the threshing after the harvest and the calculation of the harvest, the tribute to the ancestral temple and the king, and finally, a large-scale Y party to celebrate, well, it can’t be said that, after all Confucius also said that the Book of Songs describing the pursuit of men and women in this era can be summed up in one word - thinking without evil.

Young men and women who see each other form temporary families at such gatherings, and less than half of them will be converted into relatively stable fixed families later, and the rest will continue the original walking marriage system. Both methods exist and run in parallel.

It was not until the Zhou Dynasty that it was gradually and slowly replaced by a fixed family, and it was completely replaced in the Qin Dynasty, where it was managed by means of registering households and the people. Therefore, until Confucius was born, he lamented that the savage Most of them know their mother but don't know their father, and even he himself was born almost like this.

The population, especially the population that has a sense of belonging to Madu and Shang through some social activities such as faith and theocracy, is an extremely valuable asset and wealth in this era, especially after the harvest.

And the not-so-successful agricultural reform that Zi accepted was quickly learned by other in-laws and nobles, and no patent fees were paid. However, this also brought a new problem. The slaves who farmed the land were not enough to consume. The consumption is too large.

In the era when metal farm tools were popularized, it was already the limit for one family to plant 50-70 mu of land, but now the average planting area of ​​a family is about 100 mu. If intensive farming is used, the savages and Chinese will be exhausted, or they will be exhausted. The slaves, or the intensive cultivation of Wang Tian, ​​and the casual manipulation of their own private fields, or vice versa, hastened the disintegration of the well field system in various senses.

This is also the four years of Emperor Xin, Zishou's only relatively successful reform or progress, other directions ~ Coal coking was successful, but iron smelting was unsuccessful, no one knew how to make a crucible, and no one knew how to forge, forging and Casting is completely two craft systems, and it will take a little longer to try a little bit.

The overturning and waterwheel were successful, and the top craftsmen who used the royal court to cast exquisite ritual vessels used the best bronze bearings. However, considering that this is an agricultural and industrial production tool, the things were successfully made, and in fact it also represented a complete It failed because it couldn't be promoted at all, so it could only be used in Wangtian near Modu.

The only good thing is that after the waterwheel came out, the technical difficulty of the stone mill came out, but after the wheat flour was milled, Zishou was completely dumbfounded, how the hell would he separate the bran from the wheat flour?And what about the stone debris inside?This fucking can't ferment.

In the end, the only result of the whole half-day is that when offering sacrifices to ancestors, we can use finely sifted semolina fermented and cooked gnocchi soup to replace the yellow rice dry cakes that can be used to smash the heads of people and dogs.

Although Zi Shou felt that this kind of noodle soup sprinkled with salt was not as good as eating dry biscuits, but other nobles felt that this kind of food was quite delicate and could be used for long-term sacrifices to gods.

The behavior of planting grass was once again attributed by the nobles to the fact that the king was insane, and even many people, including Queen Jiang, thought that the king was really blinded by the big hammer.

Going crazy from time to time, sometimes wise, sometimes confused, and sometimes doing a lot of weird things that no one can understand, more than half of which are waste of people and money to no avail.

In such a strange atmosphere, June passed in a daze, and the following July seemed dull.

The surroundings are peaceful, and there are no more two days in Xiqi, right? The crop species crossed the border, and the vassal princes of Shang and Shang fought for water. The states in the south are also very honest, and the Yifang and Yousu in the east are fine. , calm and peaceful.

However, in this peaceful and peaceful environment, the nobles found that the king of Shang seemed to be getting more mad - he would go to see the white fox every day, as if he was expecting something, but nothing happened - "Because I really It's just a fox~" The fox who couldn't speak yawned, not understanding what the Twoleg was trying to do.

"I found it!" Zishou frowned deeply, "This is a male fox."

"Eh?" Empress Jiang froze for a moment, of course it was a male fox, but female beasts cannot be hunted casually, and the fur of female foxes is not as beautiful as that of male foxes.

"Speaking of which, have you ever heard of a fox that can turn into a human?"

"Your Majesty is talking about the Tu Shan family, one of the ancestors of the Xiahou family?" Jiang Hou's basic skills as a high priest are still very good, and he can tell what the king is asking when he hears it.

"Then where is Tu Shan?"

"The Tu Shan family has already been merged into the Xia Hou family, and it no longer exists. Maybe there are still some bereaved families." Jiang Hou was very confused, why he suddenly asked the Tu Shan family from the previous dynasty.

"Are they really foxes?"

"Ah, how is that possible?" Queen Jiang shook her head, "If wild beasts can turn into humans, wouldn't it be a mess?" How can field hunting be carried out in the future? Before killing wild beasts, you have to think about it. won't become human?

"Then why do you say that the Tu Shan family is the queen of the white fox?"

"Because they are indeed queens of the white fox."

"Can a man and a fox have a child?"

"Huh?" Empress Jiang tilted her head. Did the king go too crazy? Did Da Yi hit too hard? The kid started talking nonsense.

"How is that possible?"

"But didn't you say that they are the queens of the White Fox?"

"That's because their ancestral god is the nine-tailed white fox, so naturally it's the queen of the white fox." Empress Jiang didn't understand why the king had to ask about such a basic thing that couldn't be more basic.

"Does it mean that you believe in white foxes, rather than being born of foxes? Hmm~" Zishou thought for a moment, and then asked, "Then Tu Shan really can't become a fox."

"Yes." Empress Jiang nodded, "Witch Tushan, wearing a fox fur and a bell hanging from her waist, can transform into a nine-tailed white fox."

"Oh, the puppet outfit... is it so advanced?" Zishou nodded, expressing his understanding. It seems that the level of strange powers and gods in this world should be lowered a little bit. It is very scientific that there are no monsters turned into monsters. ~

As for the Three God Swords, maybe they are weapons left over from aliens or relics of some earlier ultra-ancient civilization?

To the east of Modu, a few small red foxes galloped through the grass, passed through the woodland, raised their heads and sniffed, and then were lifted up by a white and slender palm, making a sharp cry.

"Well, well, I see, that's how it is." The girl nodded, as if communicating with these foxes.

Her complexion is different from the dark and rough of most people at this time, but rather fair and tender. Her black hair is tied into two strands by rough red dyed hemp rope and beige undyed string. With a string of colored round stones.

The clothes on his body are similar to those of most people in this era. They are made of rough linen. To be more precise, a whole piece of linen is wrapped around the body and tied together with a belt. Gebu and thicker burlap are intertwined on the legs and fixed with black strings. The feet are the most common straw sandals of this era.

But it is worth mentioning that she is covered with a complete huge white fox fur, the fox head hangs behind her neck like a hood, and her fluffy tail is coiled around her waist. A piece of fur is fixed on the body like a cloak.

"Is it true that the new King of Shang has a strong divine power?" the girl asked, and the foxes responded with a whining sound.

"Ah, it's like this, everyone says he's crazy, it's not easy to deal with, the most difficult thing for Sword Master Yin to deal with is this crazy person." The girl sighed, "Okay, little guys, go back , continue to inquire about the news."

"Woo~" The foxes jumped off the girl's lap and quickly disappeared into the grass.

"I have to leave. If the patrol riders find out, I'll be finished." The girl stretched out her hand and pulled the fox head hood to cover her head. The fox fur wrapped around her upper body like a living thing, her limbs extended, and her long tail unfolded. A huge white fox as tall as a person appeared on the spot. After turning his head to look in the direction of Modu, he ran all the way to the east.

Zishou's judgment is correct. There are no beasts that can turn into humans, that is, there are no monsters in the conventional sense. However, there is one witch who can turn into beasts here. In fact, there are several in Modu. It's just a general situation. There is no need for this, and the divine power and artifacts are not brought by the strong wind.

That is to say, only certain people with extraordinary talents, such as Zishou, can do this. With extraordinary strength, it is natural to pay an extraordinary price. Only a very small number of people can do it relatively easily because of their strong capital, or because they have mastered some special skills. bear this load.

The white fox kept heading east until it came to the edge of a hill. It lost its animal shape and reappeared in human form. It staggered slightly, but returned to normal after a few minutes.

"How's the investigation going?" The man wearing the crown made of white deerskin stood up, and behind him were several strong warriors, holding bone weapons in their hands.

"There has been no change in the Shang capital recently, and as far as I know, the king of Shang is born with supernatural powers and can control Yin Jian...at least the second"

"Then, how is it compared to Wu Yi?"

"...It's far worse than Wu Yi. It's really rare." As the next high priest of the tribe, she is already very talented, but she has never seen someone who can use this heavy weapon to perform it every now and then. However, Wu Ding performs four times a year, which is already enough to make the Quartet tremble and surrender.

"According to Shehu's report, the sword was used at least twice within three days."

"Didn't you urgently recruit the witch doctor into the palace?" The man asked eagerly.

"No, but...his wife is the Jiang family maybe..."

"Okay, I see." The man's face was bitter, and it was difficult to deal with it. He originally thought that the current king of Shang might not be very good at this aspect. In the past three years, he hardly used his sword, so he returned it to Yongdi. Sending the fur as a show of goodwill, but now it seems that it's not that he can't use the sword, but that he doesn't bother to use the sword.

Or maybe, there is something else strange in it?The man was thinking, as a force sandwiched between Yi Fang and Shang, in the past he could use Shang's power to deal with Yi Fang, and use Yi Fang's power to avoid being annexed by Shang, but now... probably can't escape this section up.

"Buzz~" "My sword is ringing, there must be a female monster nearby!"

"..." Zi Shou silently put away the night training. Obviously, there was no abnormal movement, just the simple sword shaking. As for the reason, I don't know.

He checked all the clay tablets, wood chips, and tortoise shells in the library, and went to the Jongmyo Temple to read all the bronze inscriptions and stone tablets, but he couldn't find out what happened to Xiaolian and Chengying's second form.

The description of Xiaolian's use is completely different from the form he found now. In the description, Xiaolian will be a luminous sword, invincible, and can cut through the strongest armor, but that's all.

There is no sign of the huge light blade he wields in the murals at all, and there is no description of the transformation. It seems that in Diyi's hands, it is just a very sharp sword with obsidian in the daytime and fluorescent tube in the night.

Chengying's description seems to be that it can produce a shadow like a dragon, which can directly attack the human body. This is close to the effect Zishou discovered. However, he directly hacked people through the armor, but the documents in the ancestral temple said that people died without a problem. Divide and join.

As for Hanguang, there is not even a record, which makes Zishou feel that he has taken a fake Three God Sword. Except for the initial form, there are almost no words that match.

Chapter 12 Bewitching

In September, Empress Jiang no longer went to the temple to hold daily sacrifices because of her pregnancy. In other words, the pregnancy itself represented the continuation of the Shang King's bloodline, the result of this prayer and sacrifice.

And because she was not in charge of the work that the queen should do on a daily basis, she found that the king's epilepsy had become more and more serious. ?

"Mr. Jiang, come here, try this." Before she could react, a warm object was stuffed into her hand. It was cylindrical in shape, filled with body temperature, and there were warm raised veins on the surface. After realizing what this is, when I opened my eyes, my whole body was about to be distorted into a famous painting "Scream"

"My lord, what are you going to do!?" In her hand is the blood symbol of King Shang's bloodline, the most important weapon of the country, and the hilt of Xiaolian's sword, because it still has body temperature after being held by King Shang for a long time.

The black blade became slightly transparent, showing a black and blue feeling, and the blade was sharper, at least sharper than Zai Zishou's, but other than that, there was no other change.

"Dang!" Jiang seemed to be scalded by something, and dropped the blade, "My lord!" She felt that she should immediately drag this guy to the ancestral temple and kneel down, and let the late emperor change his heart. light with.

"Mr. Jiang, do you feel dizzy? Where do you feel uncomfortable?" "I don't feel well anywhere, and it's all because of your anger!" Jiang Hou, who was still young and still looks like a girl, took a deep breath. A lot of vocabulary, swear words, which are the masters of a language, have not yet been developed, otherwise they will definitely be scolded by this stupid man.

"Try again, can you activate the second mode."

"Mo what?" At this time, the two words "Mo" and "Shi" are both present, but when Zi Shou said it, it was like a heavenly book. What does it mean when they are combined?In fact, due to habit, Zishou has successfully added many different oracle bone inscriptions for later generations, and has invented the basic composition of the Chinese language "ci" in advance.

In the Shang Dynasty, the constituent unit of most languages ​​was "character" and there were not many "words" above characters that could form double or triple characters.

As for idioms and common sayings, there are almost nonexistent, so Zishou succeeded in inventing a lot of idioms and words, and each time he had to explain to the nobles below for a long time, and then everyone looked at him with innocent big eyes, The appearance of Zhang Yu's face, only a few that are easy to understand have been recognized, and more have been attributed to the "Monster of the King of Shang".

Well, the word Yao at this time has the original meaning, which is different from the meaning of ordinary people, and Zishou has successfully changed the meaning of an idiom in later generations—"yao words to confuse people"—from a derogatory term to a derogatory term. : Refers to Shang Wangdi Xin who often uses very human language to confuse people. It is mostly used to describe those behaviors that use strange words and deeds to attract the attention of others. It is a neutral and derogatory idiom.

"It's just to make this sword look different." Zi Shou tried his best to explain his meaning to Queen Jiang, combined with the strange "words" invented by the person next to the pillow, Queen Jiang finally figured out what he meant, but the problem Yes, everyone knows that the transformation of the divine sword is the prerogative of the King of Shang, but such a person as Zishou who can change the divine sword has never heard of it.

She also asked someone to go to Luyi to ask the big witch of her natal family, the old man also stared, as if hearing something wonderful, and then, as she got older, she asked her nephew to drive to an "oldest shrimp catcher" , using drift to corner and flick the tail to enter the door, the pale-haired old woman can actually make a perfect forward roll and land at the moment the chariot overturns.

Seeing that Zishou, who was basking in the sun in front of the palace, was applauded with horror on her face, this is the real witch. Who doesn't think she is possessed by a god after watching this scene? (Sorcerer, female who can dance to the gods)

Then the wrinkled old woman grabbed Zishou up, down, left, and right to look at it for a long time, then pulled Jiang and asked Zishou carefully about how many meals a day he ate and what he did recently. After learning that this guy could eat and sleep, he took out his After the divine sword split a gu eagle with a ditch tens of feet long, the eyes that looked at Zishou changed to looking at a dead person.

And when he knew that this guy would continue his field hunting the next day, he jumped around full of energy for half a month. After returning to Modu, he used his sword twice in three days. The most serious side effect was dizziness and brain swelling. I mixed some honey with water and drank it. In the afternoon, I went to patrol outside the city full of energy. The old witch Zhu's expression changed from panic to numbness.

The last look in Di Xin's eyes was not looking at a person at all, but looking at something strange that didn't look like a person. He didn't even go back for a few days, and lived in the palace. He checked Jiang's stomach if he had nothing to do. Judging by her expression, it seemed that she was three-quarters scared and seven-quarters expecting a less human child crawling out of her stomach.

"No way~?" After looking at Jiang, Zishou changed several postures and couldn't use other forms. So it seems that it has something to do with heredity, but it also has something to do with the holder. After all, in his hand is a black The blunt sword, maybe in his subconscious mind he still thinks it is a weak weapon made of obsidian?

It may also be an objective problem of Jiang's bloodline, or it may be a simple inability to complete the transformation, somewhere in between.

Then he had to find someone of the same bloodline, so Zishou found Jizi...

"Pfft!" The old guy spouted before he could finish his sentence, "My lord, what are you talking about? Let me handle the Xiaojian? You..." Are you fucking crazy, or are you fucking being used by your father? Hu (a sacrificial vessel, used to hold food for sacrifice, referred to as: rice bucket) are you stupid?

It can be said that people in later generations can understand that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave the jade seal of the Chuan Kingdom to his uncle. Let alone whether his uncle dared or not, his wife alone had to hang him up and smoke him on the spot.