Changsheng: I can sell everything

Master Gao told Song Ciwan a story.

In the last years of the Yun Kingdom, natural disasters continued. In the eight thousand miles of mountains and rivers, drought, floods, insect disasters, plagues... all kinds of sufferings occupied most of the land of the Yun Kingdom.

Master Gao said: "I was in the capital, and my father took me out. Among the streets in the capital, only Yu Street was clean. When I left Yu Street, there were ragged people everywhere. Some of them were lying on the ground with broken limbs. Some put straw tags on their heads to sell themselves, and some dragged their wives and children to the mutton shop in tears..."

“Do you know what a mutton shop is?”

"Hahaha, you don't want to know." Mr. Gao sat on the ground, and with a move of his fingers, the red clouds in the sky changed.

In the deep and shallow red, there were humanoid shadows running, and they were slashed from behind by the butcher's knife. After a while, those shadows turned into sheep, into pigs, into strange things that I don't know how to describe. food.

Wine and meat hang high, Rakshasa smiles.

"This is still the capital. What it will be like after leaving the capital, my father said, he can't even imagine!"

"But it's not like there are no good places in Jingli."

"Some people wear tapestry silk and drink jade dew. Wherever they go, even the cloth on the floor must be made of cloud brocade. They also have a small banquet every three days and a big banquet every five days, and enjoy new things every day. Hunting for novelties, singing and dancing to achieve peace.”

"Sitting at home, when the bell rings, the maids and servants will go to the kitchen to fetch food boxes."

"If you want to eat in the house, you can eat in the house. If you want to go to a waterside pavilion, you can have a waterside pavilion at home. If you want to go to a rockery, you can have a rockery at home. You can also get together with your fellow tribesmen and meet in the flower hall..."

Having said this, Master Gao's little face showed a strange trace of confusion.

He didn't say it explicitly, but it actually showed that when the Yun Kingdom was still there and the Gao family was still prosperous, Master Gao actually lived a wealthy life with good clothes and fine food.

The people were suffering, and Master Gao at that time also saw it, but at a young age he sympathized with him, but was he really willing to give up his wealthy life for the people's suffering?

It's hard to say. Song Ciwan saw a deep complexity on Master Gao's face.

All the changes originated from a dispute in the court.

In the 14th year of Hongsheng's reign, just after the flood in southern Yun State, a sect called the Rebirth Cult suddenly spread among the displaced people.

The teachings of the Rebirth Cult are simple and crude. As the name suggests, they do not cultivate the present, but only cultivate the future.

The harder you live now, the better you will live in the future.

Go through purgatory on earth in this life, and enjoy the wealth and honor in heaven in the next life.

The existence of the Religion of the Past seemed, at first glance, actually beneficial to the court.

Because people who have been baptized by the teachings of the past life religion can forget the pain of this life and are willing to work hard in the most difficult environment.

Even if they give up their physical bodies and treat themselves as cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs for human consumption, they will often shout "a hundred hardships in this life, bliss in the next life" and then die happily.

This kind of teaching is simply a powerful tool to stabilize people's hearts for the upper echelons of the Yun Kingdom who only want to enjoy the immediate wealth and are too lazy to care about the real sufferings of the people.

When the Rebirth Cult first appeared, the emperor was even overjoyed. He also praised the Sunborn Empress who claimed to be the leader of the Rebirth Cult, calling her the humerus of the country. The implication was that he wanted to summon the Rebirth Religion leader to the capital and make her a royal concubine or princess. He is a national teacher and will promote the Rebirth Religion throughout the Yun Kingdom!

The old man of the Gao family was the left prime minister of the Yun Kingdom at the time and was in charge of all officials. He took the lead in opposing the emperor's ridiculous idea.

Prime Minister Gao bluntly pointed out that the Rebirth Cult was causing harm to the country, saying that the Sunborn Empress was cutting off the foundation of the country. He asked the emperor to send troops to attack the Rebirth Cult on the one hand, and on the other hand, immediately open warehouses to provide disaster relief, stabilize the people, and resettle the refugees.

Unfortunately, although Prime Minister Gao was loyal to the country, his two proposals were strongly rebuked by the emperor.To seek rebellion is treason, and to provide disaster relief is also treason!Since ancient times, has there ever been such a ridiculous court?
Master Gao said: "That day, my great-grandfather came home in shackles. It is said that he offended the emperor in the court and took off his official hat. The emperor gave him a pair of shackles, ha..."

"After my great-grandfather returned home, he only said one sentence."

Master Gao looked up at the flaming clouds in the sky and said with almost no fluctuations in his voice: "When the country is about to perish, evildoers will be born. This is God's will and not my fault."

Then he changed his face in an instant and laughed: "Hahaha! God's will! Is God's will that all the [-] members of my Gao family be buried with this foolish king?"

In the sky, the wind and clouds are rushing.

"Wulingguan is in emergency. The 30 border officers are cut off from food and grass. General Chen sent an urgent message to Beijing. Great-grandfather tried his best to mobilize food and grass. However, the emperor wanted to allocate funds from the Ministry of Revenue to build a palace for his beloved concubine, and the prince wanted to collect rare treasures from all over the world. , to win the favor of his mother and concubine..."

"The Ministry of Etiquette needs to repair the ceremony and offer sacrifices to the gods, which requires countless manpower and material resources. The Ministry of Works is complaining. The rivers in various places have burst their embankments. Carloads of materials have been removed, but they all seem to be filling a bottomless pit. The Ministry of Household Affairs really cannot allocate money. , Shangshu of Hube hung himself with a rope that night."

"That night, while my great-grandfather was in shackles, he received another blood letter from General Chen."

"My great-grandfather sat in his study all night. I polished ink and lit lamps for him next to him, and asked him if he would not be an official from now on."

"He took the ink stick from my hand and made a mark on the rice paper."

"Nothing seemed to have happened, but half a month later, news came from Wuling Pass, saying that my Gao family had hidden a private army of 10 people with the intention of seizing Wuling Pass and dividing the Yun Kingdom."

"Wuling Pass was conquered by the Yan State next door. The 30 troops guarding the pass, including General Chen, were all killed in the battle. The [-] private troops of our Gao family also died in this battle."

"Everyone in the Yun Kingdom has placed the blame for the loss of Wuling Pass on our Gao family."

"My great-grandfather served as an official for 45 years, and at the end of his career he was convicted of treason!"

The winds in the sky were changing, and thousands of troops and horses were wailing and neighing. How could the Gao family's [-] private troops ever rebel against the country?

In fact, they are not a private army. They are tribes of the Gao family scattered in various places. Among them are men and women, old and young. Some are old farmers in the Gao family's farm, and some are porters in the Gao family's shop. Guys, there are even embroiderers in the embroidery shop, children in the charity hall...

They gathered from all directions just because they heard a piece of news and had a common goal.

For no other reason than they just don’t want to be slaves to the subjugation of their country!
The Gao family had 300 people, and with these 300 as leaders, a hundred thousand soldiers rushed to the border.

They brought their own food and weapons, and devoted themselves to supporting Wuling Pass.

But it was useless. The ending was that there was a spy in Wuling Pass!
Some people want to try their best to save this dilapidated Yun Kingdom, some people have nothing to do with it, and some people just want it to die immediately.

The army of Yan State marched straight in. The next day after the news came, the emperor issued an order to kill all nine Gao family clans!

"We escaped, which was arranged by my great-grandfather in advance. But my uncles, uncles, father, grandfather, great-grandfather... they did not escape. Only us, only ten brothers and sisters of our generation, were taken by our cousin and escaped... …”

Master Gao's voice trembled slightly, and then he smiled: "How did we escape, do you know? You definitely don't know, you can't think of it, and I won't tell you, hahaha..."

"Later we came to Huaixi Village and lived in the village. At first, everything was very good here. It was calm and peaceful, far away from the war. It was like the last pure land in the world."

"Until later..."

Master Gao's eyes that had been looking at Yun suddenly turned, and he turned to look at Song Ciwan, with an indescribable coldness in his eyes.