The National Manga Alliance started from the Green Snake Tribulation

Chapter 145 Liu Zongyuan

That place is not hidden, but these days, everyone is struggling to eat and clothe, who would have the leisure to create a magic weapon?
It's time to ask about the alms bowl, Zhou Wu went back to the residence to clean up briefly, and then prepared to go outside Yongzhou City.

Walking through the street, I saw another person carrying a livid body out, and casually put it on a rickshaw, with the mother in front and the child behind, pulling and pushing towards the mass grave outside the city.

The one in the car...was the only strong man in the family. Just by the color of the corpse, one could tell that this was another snake catcher who died of poison after being bitten by a snake while catching snakes.

Since then, the mother and child either starved to death or begged on the street.

Not far away, I came across another family in the same situation. Someone in the family had just died while catching snakes.

Immediately afterwards, they encountered seven or eight households intermittently.

There seem to be a lot of venomous snakes recently, and they have become more ferocious, because a few days ago, when I was shopping on Zhou Wu, I never encountered so many people who died from snake venom.

From time to time, there are corpses leaving the city, which may have a big impact and alarm the people in the state capital. After a while, a small group of people in official uniforms came here.

Zhou Wu didn't know those officials, and he didn't know much about the official uniforms of the Tang Dynasty, but there was a sharp-eyed onlooker who shouted loudly: "Look, it's Lord Sima who is here. We need to ask the Lord to make the decision!"

Sima?Yongzhou Sima?
Isn't that... Liu Zongyuan, one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties! ?
Judging from the reactions of the common people, Liu Zongyuan’s voice seems to be quite high among the people who eat melons. It should be hoped that Liu Zongyuan can help write a letter to the court to abolish the snake-catching order. No matter how bad it is, the policy must be adjusted. Kill people!
But Zhou Wu felt that it was useless to shout loudly...

In the early Tang Dynasty, the State Sima was indeed a high-ranking official. He was regarded as the second child of the entire state, second only to the governor, and could even take the place of the governor. The only function...it should be to provide a suitable position for the officials who were relegated by the court.

Anyway, as far as Zhou Wu knew, many officials in the middle and late Tang Dynasty were demoted to state Sima.

These officials were all losers in the power struggle of the imperial court, or simply annoyed by the emperor, so not only did they have no real power, but even the local officials did not dare to make friends with them.

Therefore, when I have nothing to do, I can only travel around the mountains and rivers. If I am not careful, I wrote the Eight Records of Yongzhou.

However, judging from the essay written by the Snake Catcher, Liu Zongyuan is obviously a demoted official who is still ambitious and restless in loneliness. He became an official and saved the common people in the world from dire straits.

In short...he is a good official who has little chance to show his fist.

It's not... Maybe it's really busy, there are no official documents to approve, and there are no major things to do, so there are more corpses in the city, so I have to bring people to look at them.

Liu Zongyuan strolled into the crowd. Some of his followers were worried that the snake venom was too strong and could lead to infection, but Liu Zongyuan ignored it at all. He walked to the nearest corpse with a heavy face, lifted up the white cloth and took a look, and couldn't help but sigh softly.

Then, he carefully and meticulously remade the white cloth, took a deep look at the crowd around him, walked, his steps gradually faltered, and his back slowly bent.

There were bursts of disappointed sighs in the crowd.

But when Liu Zongyuan was about to walk out of this street, he stopped abruptly, and suddenly he stood up straight, like an old and vigorous pine tree.

Then he turned slowly.

From this angle, Zhou Wu just saw his face clearly...Liu Zongyuan only lived to be in his 40s when he died, and now he is still in the heyday of middle age, but he may have gone through ups and downs, his official luck is not smooth, and old age has appeared on his face. state.

Sweeping the eyes of the common people one by one, Liu Zongyuan said in a loud voice: "Later, I will set off for Jingzhao. Even if I do my best, I beg Your Majesty to abolish the snake-catching order! In this world... the snake-catching order is indeed true. too long!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Zongyuan coughed heavily, took out a silk handkerchief to cover his mouth, as if he had wiped something.

A follower beside him hurriedly asked with concern: "Sir?"

Liu Zongyuan waved his hand, indicating that he was fine, and made a solemn promise to the common people again: "Don't worry, everyone, unless I never come back again, the imperial decree to abolish the snake-catching order will definitely come to Yongzhou! I, Liu Zongyuan, say Do it! Cough..."

After another heavy cough, Liu Zongyuan couldn't help but bend down.

At this moment, Zhou Wu felt that Liu Zongyuan and Liu Zongyuan's personal servants seemed to have glanced at him, and that servant opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but was stopped by Liu Zongyuan's eyes.

Zhou Wu was puzzled, but apart from the Chinese textbook, he didn't remember any interaction with this great writer, so he didn't go into it further.

Then, Liu Zongyuan withdrew his gaze, no more unnecessary nonsense, bowed to the ordinary people as a literati, turned around and walked in big strides.

"Master Xie, plead for my life in Yongzhou!" It was some down-and-out scholar in the crowd who shouted first.

"Thank you sir!"

"Thank you sir!"

Soon, there were dense voices of thanks again, and many people bowed deeply, and some even knelt on the ground.

"But my lord... in your current situation...you can't enter Beijing casually without an edict!"

After walking a long way, the loyal follower couldn't help persuading him.

Liu Zongyuan smiled: "You can't enter casually, and it's not that you can't enter. I was demoted, but I'm not guilty... Before I die, I have to do something..."

Although he was far away, Zhou Wu still heard these words.

Looking at the crowd who were watching them off, Zhou Wu, an outsider, couldn't help but remain silent.

Today's Liu Zongyuan is not in good health... I don't know if he will die on the exhausting road.

According to official history records: Later, Liu Zongyuan was indeed ordered to return to Beijing, but he was not reused, and was soon relegated to the governor of Liuzhou.

The governor is the governor of a state. In terms of power, he is much stronger than Sima of the state. However, Liuzhou in ancient times did not have snail noodles. In terms of the development of civilization, in the Tang Dynasty, it was already considered a land of supernatural powers...

Therefore, being a governor in Liuzhou is not as good as being a Sima in Yongzhou.

Not long after, Liu Zongyuan died of illness in Liuzhou.

From the time he was ordered to return to Beijing in Yongzhou to the time he died of illness in Liuzhou, it only took a few years.

The origin of the White Snake in the world is not official history, and there is a butterfly flying here, which interferes with the historical line, so Zhou Wu suspects that Liu Zongyuan may not survive this encounter.

So this is knowing that your health is not good, and then you have to fight to the death, smashing the jar?

But not right!
According to Zhou Wu's understanding of history, Liu Zongyuan is not such a fool. How could Liu Zongyuan, who became one of the core members of the Yongzhen innovation team of the Tang Dynasty, be a fool?
　There is no Liu Zongyuan in the movie "The Origin of the White Snake".

　　But he is a historical figure crucial to the film.

　　Because if there is no "The Story of the Snake Catcher", the origin of the white snake may be another story.

　　So Xiao Xia intends to bring this character to life. There are not many pens and inks. He will only appear twice in total, but he will be an extremely important key figure. Zhou Wu will change because of him.

　　Ask for tickets by the way~
　　Thanks to Bantang Qianli for the 100 coin reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)