Is this a godsend?

"It's not in charge, it's not in charge." Zi Shou is really not stupid, he was just doing a test, didn't you see that he was still carrying Chengying, if this old guy was ready to do something after practicing overnight, he would decisively pull out Chengying Give him a knife, the excuse is that this old guy is trying to snatch the artifact of Sheji.

"Just give it a try and see the difference." The old guy took it up for night practice with doubts. The initial form did become the one in the record, but there were some details different from the mural. The blade became sharper. The old guy It took all the strength of nine bulls and two tigers to transform, but Jizi was relieved.

Although he was imprisoned by Di Xin in history, he was actually quite loyal to Shang. He was purely a scapegoat for Wei Zi. After all, in most of the times, honest people would point their guns at them. Jizi's loyalty is also conditional, that is, when Dashang is still strong, otherwise he will choose to betray Zishou without hesitation.

"Oh, I'm tired." Zishou nodded, snatched Xiaolian, and then went to find someone else. The next target was Boyang, who was not a high-ranking noble. This person was famous for not eating Zhou Su, so he was naturally loyal to Shang. Yes, but the high probability of his loyalty is "Shang" rather than "Shang Wang".

As a result, it was no surprise that the other party would rather be chopped off by him than touch Xiaolian's sword hilt, so he had to find Wei Zi. However, for the sake of safety, Zi Shou decided to make preparations.

So, he picked a day for the court meeting, called Wei Ziqi over, handed him Xiao Lian, and asked him to show the power of Xuanniao's blood, which made him very happy. In his opinion, this is himself It is very likely that he will inherit the throne.

Wei Ziqi walked up to the earth seal platform with his head held high, took the Xiaolian sword with both hands, drew the sword out of its sheath, held the hilt with his right hand, and held the end of the hilt with his left hand, posing a standard sword-holding posture, with the black blade on the The color gradually changed to dark gray under the sun, "Hey!" The straw man who tried the sword was instantly cut in two, and then Wei Ziqi retracted the sword in satisfaction.

"That's it?" "Ah?" Wei Ziqi looked at his brother's expectant eyes, hesitated for a moment, "What's your intention?"

"Show me, the true power of Shariah, you know what I mean"

"..." Wei Ziqi didn't know why, but he understood the general meaning. He held the sword in both hands, and sweat was faintly visible on his head. He tried his best to imagine the previous Shang kings who had seen in the murals conquering the ministers and exterminating evil monsters. The appearance of the blade also changed a little bit, becoming brighter, and soft silver light overflowed from all sides of the blade, as if a round of silver was inlaid on the black blade.

"Ah!" Swinging the sword with all his strength, a silver arc was left in the air, and the straw man broke, "It's gone?"

"No, it's gone." Wei Ziqi handed it back to Xiao Lian sweating profusely. It's not that he didn't have the idea of ​​keeping it for himself. However, this sword is worthy of being the most important weapon in the country. At first, he didn't feel it. It is the strength and spirit of the whole body that must be sucked dry.

"..." Zishou grabbed the sword and drew it violently.

In the first form, the black crystal is like a book page flipping, the sword body splits and deforms, and the pale golden streamer wraps around it, the vastness is like a torrent, and the sound of sneering is endless, Wei Ziqi, who is standing close, feels his cheeks are cut Feeling, involuntarily raised his sleeves to cover his face.

In the second form, the blades are joined together, the silver light flows, and the oblique chips dance and flow in the sword body, finally forming a multi-faceted reflection structure like a diamond. The edge of the silver-gray blade is a round of red gold light.

In the third form, the sword blade is almost completely transformed into countless oblique crystal chips flying and winding, and the golden flames rush straight up, as if Zishou held a whirling pillar of fire in his hand. After a while, he felt that this form was about to become a genuine 18-meter broadsword (at this time, Liuzhang was about 13 meters, and it was not transformed from the later Shichi).

Zishou didn't seem to have any mental and physical pressure at all, just holding the hilt of the sword calmly and calmly, the flame flowed upwards, like a cold and bright sun, those smoky gray oblique crystals surrounded the blade of the flame Flying like small crows reflecting golden light.

The complexions of the surrounding noble priests and princes who came to pay tribute changed, and they knelt down on the ground profusely with sweat, touching their foreheads to the ground, not daring to move. Wei Ziqi thought that Zishou was going to cut him off because of the horrifying scene. But he was so frightened that he fell to the ground, in order not to be cut by the sharp sword qi, he raised his sleeve to cover his face.

In the eyes of the ceremonial officials and priests who are responsible for recording important events, this is simply a stark contrast. A man is tall and tall, holding the sun in his palm, and the golden crow whirls and neighs. Even the tyrant of the Xiahou clan who compares himself to the sun does not have such power. ; one person sat paralyzed on the ground, raised his sleeve to cover his face, as if he was ashamed of his appearance and dared not compete with the sun for glory.

The same Xiaolian sword, in one person's hands, is nothing more than a drop of star and moon brilliance, but in another person's hand, it is the pure sun's flame, so in the moral and political aspects of this era, things are already obvious.

Wei Ziqi's bloodline is not as pure as Zishou's. The Shang King Di Xin is the only orthodox king and heir of the Great Shang. The nobles rule by blood, so naturally they must maintain the purity of the blood, especially for the blood of the Shang King who claims to have divine power.

Those noble priests who had been friends with Wei Ziqi silently looked away, while those who had a normal relationship with him looked at him indifferently, and some even began to doubt whether Wei Ziqi was the blood of Emperor Yi.

It doesn't make sense, your brother is so powerful, you don't say he's just as powerful, and the tiger father and dog son are also a normal phenomenon that everyone knows well in this era, but you can't be too bad, right? The tiger father and dog son can understand, but the tiger father and dog son Father and mouse are unheard of.

As for the fact that when Emperor Yi held the night training, it might not be that there was such a thing as Ziqi's strength, but everyone subconsciously ignored it. This topic is really heart-wrenching.

The flames converged and turned back into a black blade. As time went on, there was still a bit of a burden. Zishou also felt more and more relaxed. I don’t know if it was the special effect of the traverser, or something else. The reason is in it, for example, what is absorbed is not spiritual power, but more abstract things, abstract things that are qualitatively different between modern people and ancient people.

However, he can't be sure about this matter. After all, the physical strength of this body is hard to describe as natural strength. It's a real strength. Knowing who installed the water truck outside Modu of it?

King Shang personally carried it up, and he carried up the waterwheel with a diameter of nearly 7 meters made of solid wood and the bearings cast in bronze by himself.

When he was hunting in the field, he tried it. With his own strength, he could lift a full-grown wild boar and carry it away with one hand. The feeling was similar to that of resisting a heavy bundle of straw. , At the beginning, even if Empress Jiang wasn't pregnant, he didn't dare to really have intercourse - for fear that if he didn't pay attention, the picture would become very bloody.

At first, he thought that this was a world full of spiritual energy, and that human beings' physical abilities could not be generalized, but in the end he found that they could not be generalized, because the strength of other people and his strength were like the difference between a child and an adult Siberian tiger.

This made Zishou silently find an opportunity to develop a new set of vehicle combat tactics - jump off, grab the opponent's wheels, lift the opponent with the vehicle and throw them away - he tried it, a normal ordinary chariot , together with 3 fully armed soldiers, it is a little difficult to lift it up, but it is no problem to throw it out.

It's hard to say that it's the vitality and physical strength of a normal person. After discovering Xiao Lian, he can only attribute it to the fact that there are really some unclear and strange genetic genes mixed in his blood, that is, Maybe it really has the power of a mysterious bird.

"Okay, okay, let's go, let's go, oh, Boyang, you two stay here, I have something for you" These two are loyal to Shang, but not necessarily loyal to King Shang, and the most suitable job Just throw it out and deal with Yousu, Chengzhou, and Yongguo in the south, I believe they will not insult their mission, nor will they be bribed.

As for whether they will be humiliated or not, it doesn't matter, that's just right, Zishou just let Cheng Zhou join the team and put him in the first position after the autumn harvest.

Why is it common to fight wars in this era after autumn and before winter? Because at this time, everyone has enough food as military rations, and the next winter is the slack season. Fighting for a few more days will not delay the farming season.

And spring and summer can't fucking fight. Fighting in spring will delay summer harvest and summer planting, and delay in summer planting will delay autumn harvest. With the agricultural production capacity of this era, if you don't pay attention, you will be in vain throughout the year.

Therefore, spring and summer are combined into one season at this time, that is, spring; and autumn and winter are also combined into one, which is autumn, and the so-called "Spring and Autumn" comes from this.

Work and sacrifice in spring, fight and have children in autumn, so the major affairs of the country are divided into Rong and sacrifice.

This merger is a merger of politics and records. In fact, in the Xia Dynasty, there were already four seasons. The difference between the two is probably the same as the difference between the natural year and the fiscal year.

Zishou, who arranged the work, did not see the resentment and hatred in the eyes of Wei Ziqi, who left. In his opinion, this completely cut off the possibility of competing for the throne, because in front of everyone, it was proved by undisputed facts that he His blood is not as pure and powerful as Zishou.

Well, if he wants to fight for the throne, without any nobles, priests, or even his family members will support him, it is almost impossible for him to have the slightest chance. The only way is to seek outside power, not belonging to Shang power and strength.

At this time, it was only the fourth year of Emperor Xin, and he hadn't considered Cheng Zhou. After all, Zhou's boss at this time was a tortoise with a personality like Ji Chang, who was smooth and did not leave any flaws for the King of Shang to find an excuse to send him off. Their whole family is neat and tidy, if they contact the princes of Zhou...

Wei Ziqi could imagine that within three days, his own brain would have to be placed in the ancestral temple, and it would be delivered by Cheng Zhou himself, and maybe it would have to be inlaid with gold, silver, pearls and jade for decoration.

Moreover, Wei Ziqi didn't dare to take advantage of King Shang's going out to kill people to make trouble, because when King Shang went out, Empress Jiang was still at home, don't look at it in Zishou's eyes, Empress Jiang belongs to the kind of poorly developed Little girl, but in the eyes of people of this era, Jiang Hou, who inherited the blood of Lie Shan Jiang, is also the kind of person who can fight very well.

Wearing armor and holding a spear, she can single out two of the idle noble warriors, even if she is pregnant and can't do it now, but are those witches and attendants under her hands weak chickens?

Besides, apart from Empress Jiang, there are also wives and concubines of nobles who are loyal to King Shang who are also very capable of fighting. After being caught by ginger, he chopped it up himself.

Wei Ziqi does not doubt that Zishou will play tricks on the battlefield. In his opinion, Zishou is a person with high self-esteem and will not embarrass a complete loser. Today's farce is simply the biggest blow to him. Humiliation, and humiliation in public!

However, what Wei Ziqi never expected was that when he was full of hatred and anger, Zishou was watching him coldly, silently arranging all kinds of difficulties and obstacles for him in his heart.

[PS]

Let's see in the future, if we can distort some familiar sayings and idioms, laugh~

[PS2]

I sent it wrong, this is for tomorrow~ Forget it, let’s see.

Chapter 13 King, there is a...

In September, the millet was harvested, but Zishou could only stay in the palace, unable to do anything, and could not go anywhere. This was not house arrest, but something that the king of Shang must do in this season at this time.

Bathing, eating, and resting, according to Zi Shou's feeling, it should be that the physical strength of the former king of Shang was not as abnormal as his own. Three days in advance, take a hot bath, control your diet, and work well to preserve your energy.

Because after the millet is harvested, grain is prepared for war. In this era, food is not available everywhere, and people dare to go out with two days of rations. Those who travel hundreds of miles need to pound rice half a month in advance, prepare grain, and prepare clothes and weapons. Then you can go out.

Because of this, the physical strength of the king of Shang who needs to hold a sword and wear armor is very important. The political situation in this year is similar to the system of the original wolf pack. It would be great fun to fall off the car or be captured by someone.

Therefore, it needs to be prepared in advance, and then it will evolve into a religious activity. Well, as far as Zishou’s cognition is concerned, it is probably like this. It is also really about the length of time you hold the sword.

Zi Shou sat paralyzed on the wooden bed, leaning against the back of the bed in a daze. The so-called bed was not a thing for modern people to sleep on, but a kind of seat. In the Tang Dynasty, the popularity of the Hu bed (Maza) turned the simple bed into sleeping furniture.

So how do people sleep at this time?Answer: Hit the floor!Spread a mat made of straw and hay on the ground, and then sleep directly. This is what Liu Bei weaves mats and shoes for sale, and this kind of thing can only be used by people with a little money.

As for the poorest ones, the word "mask in the sky and on the ground" can explain how they slept. Fortunately, it was the king of Shang who crossed over. If he was a slightly lower-ranking nobleman, Zishou felt that he would have to sleep on a straw mat. ——As for the rheumatism and other problems caused by it, don't worry too much, because... generally they don't live to get sick.

"If I had known yesterday, I would have taken it easy~" Zishou held a piece of hay torn from the soft mat in his mouth, with a dull expression on his face. During the banquet yesterday, because the atmosphere was set there, he accidentally gave it to him. Later generations completely destroyed a four-character word.

Everyone knows that in this barbaric era, a large group of tall and thick men sat together, drank some wine, ate some meat, and after the atmosphere became lively, it was naturally time for dirty jokes, and because of the relationship between dirty jokes, Zishou couldn't Pay attention to get some weird words from later generations.

When understanding his other coined words and characters, the aristocrats who often looked up to him unexpectedly understood Zishou's coined words at an astonishing speed. It is only at this level that the human mind can leap forward quickly." This statement is biased.Because not only thinking leaps forward rapidly, but also intelligence leaps forward rapidly.

Originally, the word "ups and downs" should not be ambiguous according to people at this time, and even at this time no one has used so many characters to create a "long word".

However, when Zi Shou accidentally slipped his tongue, a certain priest present compared the shape of a water wave with his palm, and everyone understood it in seconds, and their intelligence leaped rapidly at this moment.

"Now future generations will probably not worry about the ambiguity of these words, because from now on, ambiguity is what he meant at the beginning~"

Thinking of his success in leaving a mark on history in a unique way, and even affecting the development of language and literature for thousands of years, Zishou felt a little sad.

It's such a strange way of affecting it!Others traveled through ancient times and either became gods or virtuous emperors, but he himself was highly likely to be regarded as the "King of Strange Words" by later generations, because he created a large number of very images that made people feel that ambiguity was the original meaning of strange words and strange words. Name, this is too difficult!

"I hope I didn't say any more strange things yesterday, and don't remember those priests when they go back, and even if they remember, don't engrave it on the tortoise shell..." Zishou could only deceive himself in this way, seeing the eyes of the group of people yesterday It looks like, when you go back, you will either engrave it on the tortoise shell for you, or cast a bronze wine vessel separately to record this matter.

Maybe, the overturning, interplanting and other technologies he made here may not be able to be passed down, but this completely crooked word, as long as the culture continues to develop, will continue to be passed down, and it will live longer than his invention. It grows long and has a big impact.

"Could it be that this is the origin of the saying that good people don't live long and evils last for thousands of years?" Zi Shou's eyes were dull, and he felt that the more he thought about it, the more he felt like he was holding a sword and manually amnesiacing all the people who participated yesterday. impulse. 【PS1】

"My lord, my lord, it's not good, there's a..."

"A monster with a hairy mouth and a thunderous face?" Zishou was in a state of emptiness, and when he heard the opening remark with a sense of déjà vu, he subconsciously responded.

"...a monster came to the door, what is Maozui Leigong face?"

"Ah?" Zishou came back to his senses, and swallowed the words "quickly go to the Western Paradise to invite the Tathagata Buddha", "What do you think is coming at the door?"

The "monster" Zishou didn't realize it for a while, is there really a monster?However, it took a few minutes to realize that the youkai of this era are different from those of later generations.

Because at this time, "yao" has two meanings. One refers to something different from ordinary people, but the meaning of "weird" is the same. These two are linked together, then the meaning is repeated.

Then at this time, the meaning of Yao is no longer anomaly, but the original meaning, which is also the meaning of the earliest glyph of the word Yao - Yao Zhe, Yan Ye.

Qu Weishen is extraordinarily gorgeous. To put it simply, it means that she has just grown into adulthood (the age of adulthood is very early at this time) but she is so beautiful that she is unusually beautiful. It is called "yao", and its original shape almost expresses this meaning. . [Fantastic, beautiful also - "Han Shu"].

Therefore, in this era, a monster means a small but very beautiful strange thing, uh, it can also be a very strange and beautiful loli, which is different from the evil and strange thing in the derived meaning of later generations-although the child In later generations, Shou has never heard of the word "monster" from oracle bone inscriptions, let alone the word monster, which was first found in the seal script of the Qin Dynasty.

However, people are in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties now, so it is probably because later generations have not dug it out, so either there is this word now, or this word was created on the spot by the guy in front of him who couldn't find a description for a while.

After all, the Chinese language and characters at this time are in a stage of rapid development, and dozens of hundreds of characters are created every year on average, and because of Zishou's strange words, some priests and nobles have also learned to use words to form words to describe A more serious side effect of the language structure with multiple complex meanings is that the consumption rate of tortoise shells and bone fragments increases.

Although the meanings expressed by the words are richer and more varied, it also means that more characters need to be engraved, and attributives need to be added to avoid ambiguity-in a sense, it is simply too unfriendly to the sharpeners and writers who are in charge of recording at this time.

[Why is the knife and pen official called the knife and pen official?Because I really use a knife as a pen]

"Then let's go and see you." Anyway, there was nothing to see in this era, so Zishou walked down the high platform, holding his sword, and headed for the gate of the palace.

There is indeed a monster at the gate of the palace. To be precise, it is hard to say that it is not a "monster". It is both monster and strange.

Let’s talk about the monster first, the ordinary chest wrapped in rags, revealing a slender waist, the face is probably a little bigger than Zishou’s slap, the standard delicate oval face, different from the slightly curly hair of the Central Plains people Dark brown long hair, no matter whether it is unsatisfactory or extraordinarily gorgeous, it is in line with it, it is indeed very charming.

However, the strange place is indeed very strange. First of all, this is definitely not a person, at least Zi Shou has never seen a person with four legs. Secondly, a person will not grow two protruding horns like a deer on his head. , this shape...

"Lin Xian?"

"Ah~ Your Majesty's words are too serious, immortals or something~" The other party's voice was also crisp and cute, with a slightly shy look, just...

"Wow, you're so tall~" Zi Shou had to raise his head to see his face. This guy's shoulder height is [-] meters, right?

"The half-human deer?" The lower body is the body of a deer, but the ends of the limbs are not hooves, but claws similar to cats or canines. Zishou can even see the meat balls rubbing back and forth on the ground because of shyness. It's like pinching a meatball.

"This is too much, he is Lin! Haven't you seen it!?"

"No! And isn't the Qilin a sheep's head?" Zishou has seen the records of the Qilin. It is said that it lives in the west of Modu, but it has not been to the area of ​​​​Xiqi, and it seems to be there in the south.

"It's not a sheep's head at all!" Qilin Luoli made a sharp and shy voice, "It's this one!" She took out a mask made of sheep bones, "Because strange people often want to beat me, so put it on This scares them away"

"Oh~" Zishou nodded, there is nothing wrong with that, and if you look carefully, there are scales on both sides of the waist and abdomen, the tail is as wide and flat as a fish's tail, the four hooves are animal claws, and a sheep's head is hung to match a pair of The small horn that looks very soft indeed fits the description of Qilin.

Sheep's head, double horns, dragon scales, dragon tail, animal claws, and the top of the unicorn's horns will not hurt people. Because the unicorn's claws do not have hook claws, they are meat balls like cats, so stepping on them will not hurt people, um, quite In line with the records of the Zhou Dynasty.

"So, why did you come to Modu?"

"Huh? Because I was kicked out, I heard that this is the largest city, so I came here to see if there is any place to work and find food. I asked them, who is the 'king' of this territory, and they let me come Here, speaking of it, are you really the king of this territory?" The Qilin girl looked at Zishou curiously, "You are shorter than those two-headed people."

Two, two-headed man, do I still have such a thing as a two-headed ogre?I do not know how?Zishou showed a dull and confused expression, followed her gaze, and instantly returned to normal, showing a mentally retarded expression.

The two-headed men she mentioned seemed to refer to those riders on horseback. The cavalry in this era were not used as combat troops at all, but were used for scouting and ordering, because there were no stirrups, no saddles, and almost no reins. It's impossible to fight on horseback—but, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a two-headed man, does it? [That's what Native Americans called European cavalry for the first time]

"Why don't your other clansmen come to the human city?"

"Because I will be beaten! And I'm afraid~" It's okay to think about it carefully. After all, here from time to time, a group of slaves are sacrificed alive. From other perspectives, it is indeed quite cruel, and human beings in this era even their own kind Hunting and killing strange-looking monsters has a high probability of being beaten.

"Then it's not like I haven't seen any of them. Isn't there such an effect in our army?" Zi Shou asked evil, and the latter looked confused, "Yes, there are many, and there are more Some are shrine maidens and samurai, but they're not so weird."

"Oh~ why haven't I seen it?"

"You have seen it, my lord. Didn't you see the maiden of the Cangniao clan during the Li Festival earlier?" Zi Shou recalled, the Cangniao is white, no, it is a blue-gray bird in this era, The only thing that matches is when the sacrifices are made, those bird people are like... Wait, aren't they dressed as bird people?

Wait a minute, so, the "Bird Officer" here, do you mean the higher-level officials who are in charge of officials named after Birds, but are they really fucking Bird Officers?

[Actually, there are really dog ​​officials~ It really is from the Shang Dynasty~, squint~]

So, the bird official Renhuang is not because Shaohao named his official name as a bird, but because he is really a fucking bird?

"So, those little witches I saw danced very delicately and had beautiful feathers..."

"Danniao and Cangniao, but, the red dove, the king probably hasn't seen it yet. The red dove is the master of drought, and there is no drought this year."

"The one who likes to wear a dog-head mask..."

"You mean multiple dogs and dogs?"

These two official positions are indeed dog officials in the Shang Dynasty, but please note that they are not dog breeders. One is a vanguard military officer who is like a hound and is the pioneer of the king. As for the position of chief arrester of the six sects later, the status is still very high.

"Is it really a dog's head?"

"How is it possible? Even if it's a strange person, the dog's head is too weird, but it's just a special appearance." Oh, wait, so, in fact, in my royal court, there is now a beast-eared lady, no, a big man with beast ears ?

Zishou was frightfully shocked, so these monsters and goblins are always under their noses?He thought it was some religious custom, and he dressed up strangely~

Also, those who look like people are not completely human, and men call them strange people, so is the woman a monster?