Chapter 19 Section VII

The King of Chu and Ji Jiang were walking in the side hall, and several people were chattering and joking inside. One of them was sitting on King Chu's throne with his feet on the imperial case.Seeing the King of Chu coming in, several people stopped talking and joking. The guy sitting on the throne seemed to be the leader of them. What a shelf! Let our brothers hang out here, where did you go to be happy?" Ji Jiang was furious, and was about to speak when the King of Chu took her hand and squeezed it, saying, "It's my fault for waiting so long, my lords." The messenger snorted through his nostrils and said, "Your Majesty has an edict to ask you two things."

The king of Chu said: "I respectfully listen to your majesty's edict. But if you know what you know, you will say everything you know." The emissary said: "The first thing is, Zhong Liwei, the remnant of Western Chu, is he hiding here with you?" The king of Chu answered simply: "No." "The second thing," the emissary said here, the look on his face suddenly became very solemn, and he left his seat and went down the steps.Walking up to King Chu, he said in a low voice, "Is Ding Xin here with you?" After speaking, he stared at King Chu's face with burning eyes.

The king of Chu looked calm and said, "I don't understand what the envoy means." The envoy stared at him for a long time before saying resentfully: "You know what you know. Your Majesty will send someone here. King Chu, you'd better be more aware of current affairs!" After speaking, the messenger waved his hand and led the crowd away.Ji Jiang was angry and hated, said? : "My lord, you haven't lost your power yet, why do they dare to be so arrogant? It's simply a dog's power!" King Chu shook his head and said, "There will be more arrogant ones."

A month later, something even more arrogant came. At that time, King Chu was walking with Ji Jiang in Surabaya. The green willows on both sides of Surabaya are shaded, the setting sun is slanting, and the flat water surface is sparkling.Ji Jiang was so preoccupied that he didn't care to appreciate the beautiful scenery.But the King of Chu pointed leisurely with a wicker stick and said, "Ji Jiang, look, this Surabaya originates from Mount Meng in your country of Qi, and flows into the territory of our country of Chu. Hometown. It seems that in the dark, the fate of us people is destined to be entangled..."

There was the sound of horseshoes in the distance, Ji Jiang looked where the sound came from, and saw a group of people approaching. When they got close, those people reined in and stopped. The emperor's bodyguard.The man dismounted from his horse, walked over with a bronze dragon head talisman in his hand, and said, "By His Majesty's decree, order the King of Chu to do two things!" The king of Chu said: "Please give orders." The man said: "The first thing: arrest the key criminal Zhong Liwei as soon as possible, without any mistakes! If there is any thing of harboring indulgence, it will be severely punished according to the law!"

Ji Jiang couldn't hold back anymore, and said loudly: "Who is qualified to punish our king?! Ask the emperor, who laid down his country for him? Severe punishment according to the law? Bah! Don't say that our king didn't hide Zhongliwei, Even if it is hidden, our king also killed Xiang Yu for the emperor, so it is not worth one..." The King of Chu stopped Ji Jiang and said to the man: "I would like to obey your Majesty's edict. What else is there?" The man took a step closer, stretched out his hand, said with a heavy body, "Your Majesty ordered you to hand over the tripod heart."

King Chu shook his head, looked at Surabaya, and said, "I don't have this thing." The man took another step closer and said in a low voice, "Either it is the throne or the 'Ding Xin', you choose!" "The throne?" The king of Chu smiled, took off the purple gold crown from his head, and handed it to the man, "Take it, wealth and honor are like floating clouds to me." "Bah!" The man waved his hand angrily, and said: "Your Majesty's patience has a limit, you wait to receive the summons from Ting Wei!" After speaking, he got back on his horse, turned the horse's head, and walked back the way he came.

Ji Jiangdao: "What is 'Ding Xin'? He actually threatened you with the torture of seizing the title?" The King of Chu sighed softly, and said: "I thought I would leave it for the future, maybe people at that time would have enough wisdom to unravel its mystery, but now it seems that I can't wait. I enjoy The honor has been honored for too long, it is impossible to endure those tortures——" Suddenly raised his voice: "My lord envoy!" Immediately ahead, the man reined in his horse and looked back. The King of Chu said: "In fact, I have already given you the tripod heart. You don't want it yourself." Then, he turned the purple gold crown in his hand, stretched out his fingers and twisted it, and there was a soft "click", and a small crown was released. The shiny silver-white flakes immediately appeared between his fingers, "Is it this thing?"

The man's eyes lit up, and a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he said, "Ah! That's it! It's..." King Chu flicked his finger lightly, and the shiny flake flew out, turned over several times in the air, and fell into the gently rippling Sishui River. "You?!" The man was startled and angry, and before he could get angry, he quickly ordered the crowd to say: "Quick! Quick! What are you still doing? Get into the water, get into the water! Get into the water and find them all! Find them!" The King of Chu watched them toss their hands and feet as quickly as possible, put on the purple gold crown slowly, and said: "My lord, please go back and tell your majesty: If your majesty is a wise king, it will be the same without the Jiuding. In vain. No matter how magical artifacts are, they cannot make the brutal rule last forever. If you want long-term peace and stability, you should treat the people better!"

The man had no time to talk to the King of Chu, so he ran back and forth by the river, shouting anxiously, "Did you find it? Did you find it? Find it, find it!" The man on the shore was ecstatic, and said repeatedly: "Take it here! Take it here!" The small piece was in his hand, the man carefully dried it and wrapped it up, put it in a silk-padded box, and kept it close to his body.Then he gave King Chu a hard look, got on his horse and led the crowd to leave. Ji Jiang said: "No wonder Your Majesty designed this purple-gold crown specially, so you want to take this treasure! Hey, Your Majesty, since you hid it so well, why did you take it out and let them snatch it?"

The King of Chu looked ahead and said calmly: "What they got is just a piece of waste---that thing will be gone as soon as it sees water." Ji Jiang said: "What the hell is it? Such a small thing is thrown into the river and has to be fished. Why do they value it so much?" "That is the most coveted treasure of the emperors of all dynasties." The king of Chu sighed, looked away from a distance, looked at Ji Jiang, and said, "Ji Jiang, let's sit over there, and I want to give it to you." Tell a long, long story." I should have told you a long time ago, but the story is so long and messed up that I have only recently sorted out its ins and outs. First of all, you have to promise me that no matter how surprised or even suspicious you are about the story you hear, please don't interrupt me, otherwise you will hear fragmented and even more difficult to understand. The story happened a long time ago.How long, I don't know.It may be two or three thousand years, or three or four thousand years. In short, human beings at that time did not have the ability to record historical events.An unknown alien who is very different from us came to our world.Its looming was accompanied by a startling "rumbling" sound.So our ancestors called it "Dragon" and some people said it was the son of Thunder God——Ji Jiang, I said it, no matter how surprised you are, I will ask questions when I finish talking——Until now, I also don't know its real purpose here.All I know is that it came from a world so different from ours that it made a fatal mistake when it came to this world: it took our oceans for land. It thinks that such a flat place is suitable for landing.So, the vehicle it drives—some of us call it "Xingcha"—landed in the Bohai Sea. As I said, it came from a very different place than we have here.That world knew nothing about the ocean.The utensils they make are indestructible, but they have no protection against the most ordinary ocean here. Therefore, Xingcha was destroyed, destroyed by the corrosion of sea water. This extraterrestrial creature was extremely frightened.Because of the loss of Xingcha.It will not be able to return to its world.It begins to examine our world. The result of the investigation made it even more panicked: the world lacks the raw materials for making "Xingcha"!Moreover, this is a world that is still in the wild, without writing, without calculation, without smelting, without buildings... In short, this world can't help it. Just when it was on the verge of despair, it noticed our moon and its power. Xingcha's fall into the sea made it lose everything outside of it, but it didn't make it lose its wisdom.In their world, one of the most amazing mysteries in the universe has been known: there is a mutual pulling force between celestial bodies, the closer ones are stronger, the far ones are weaker, the larger ones are stronger, and the smaller ones are weaker. It is this force that maintains The movement of the sun, moon and stars.You've lived by the sea, so you're familiar with the tides, right?The ebb and flow of the tide is caused by this force.At the same time, this force can also slightly deform time and space.If we can use ingenious methods to concentrate and magnify this deformation, many incredible things will happen, for example, time will be warped or even reversed—don’t ask, I’ve said it before, if you have any questions, wait until I’m done. . A bold idea arises in its heart: as long as it can try to fill up the sea area where its starship fell, and then "roll back" the filled flat land to the time when it landed, so that it will be there If the last moment of the first landing falls on a flat land instead of the ocean, then the disaster is impossible. Although reclamation is a huge project, it does not require any rare raw materials or superb skills, as long as there are enough people. Excited by this wonderful idea, he immediately started to implement it. On the one hand, it began to make artifacts that could control the deformation of time.This is much easier than making a starship, and the required raw materials can also be found in our world: cinnabar, realgar, graphite, lead, mica, crystal, monazite... On the other hand, it began to use its wisdom to promote the reproduction and development of our ancestors.It taught them fishing and hunting, farming, writing, calculation... It helped them establish a country and formulate etiquette to maintain long-term stability and enable the population to continue to multiply.In order to open up the wisdom of the people as soon as possible, it even passed on the essence of the wisdom of its world - gossip, to human beings.Maybe it wouldn't have done it had it known how it would inspire a young man later on. The ancestors worshiped and appreciated it, and respected it as "Fuxi". "Fu" means "Pu", which means broad and great; "Xi" means Xihe, the sun god.The First Men have dedicated to him the most honorable titles they can imagine. But what exactly should we call it? Neither "Dragon" nor "Fuxi" is its real name, but I don't know what its original name is, maybe it doesn't even have a name in that world.For the convenience of description, let's call it "Longxi". The two tasks will take Long Xi a long time.But this is not a problem for it, because its life rhythm is different from ours, and it has enough lifespan to complete these tasks. Problematically, its shape is causing it more and more trouble.It has the same face as a human, yet its body is completely different from that of a human.With the enlightenment of wisdom, people gradually noticed the grotesqueness of its shape and began to look at it with suspicion.Although it taught them to tailor clothes to cover the body, it did not completely eliminate doubts. What kind of body does it have?I don't know very well either.Based on the clues I observed later and the records in the ancient books, I deduce that its body is roughly like a snake, but much thicker than a snake, and its scales are also much thicker. How ridiculous!A creature with such high intelligence has the same body as the humblest and ugliest creature in our world. It had to retreat into the background, and a messenger went about its work among the world.It grants the messenger immortality in exchange for his faithful service.The messenger was Guan Keng, later known as Peng Zu. Long Xi moved all his work to a small island in the Bohai Sea, where he continued to manufacture his artifacts, but he still controlled everything on land.It constantly meddles in our history to make this country move in the direction it wants. It cast Jiuding for Xia Yu to consolidate the rule of the empire.Jiuding can be used to monitor Kyushu, so that the emperor can easily extinguish the brewing rebellion, and avoid the reduction of population and the weakening of national power caused by war.It wants to increase our strength to the maximum, so that we can carry out that huge project for it at an early date. The Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties have passed, and we have expanded from a small country in the Central Plains to a large country with a vast territory and a large population.The utensils we use have changed from wood and stone to copper and iron; our arithmetic can calculate area, volume, efficiency, solve equations, and calculate Pythagorean shares... The conditions for engineering are ripe.At the same time, Long Xi's artifact that can control time has also been completed. Now, only one engineering leader is missing. He began to look for suitable characters. Who are you looking for?Such a huge project will seriously shake the foundation of the country, and no current ruler is willing to do such a stupid thing.Therefore, it must find a young man who has sufficient ruling ability and strong desire for power but has no hope of getting ahead, and uses the acquisition of power as a bait and the execution of the project as a condition to make him willingly serve him. It finds the first person.The man was basically a child at the time, but he had already shown a talent for ruling the country and an ambition that was different from other children.However, the child's humble status in the royal family has already destined him to miss the kings in this life.Thus, Long Xi easily bought the child and paved his way to power step by step.After decades of planning and hard work, the child finally realized his dream of being an emperor and became a monarch with unprecedented power. However, Long Xi did not expect the power of greed.The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant, and the child who has gained power asks him for the law of longevity. Maybe, after obtaining immortality, he will ask him for something else. Long Xi couldn't bear it anymore, and asked his messenger to punish the child: he took away the most critical part of the Jiuding - the heart of the cauldron; at the same time, he left behind a magical mirror that can reflect people's internal organs. Gaining the magic mirror makes the child really happy, but losing the tripod heart makes him angry.However, the child doesn't know that the magic mirror that makes him happy is actually a bane buried beside him.The magic mirror damaged his mind, and finally ruined his ten thousand li country. After giving up this greedy child, Long Xi started looking for a second person. This time he was careful and found a smart and upright young man.The other country is ruined, full of hatred, and is also in a state of needing help.However, when its messenger, Keng Keng, came into contact with this young man, he immediately discovered that this young man's appearance was too special—a soft beauty, like a woman's.In this era of competing for the world with courage, such an appearance is simply a fatal weakness!How can it be imagined that a ruler who looks like a woman can control his subjects to complete such an arduous project obediently? Long Xi had to give up again and started looking for a third candidate.But before its messenger left, he gave the young man a sharp weapon and asked him to use this sharp weapon to deal with that greedy child, which was regarded as one of the punishments for that child.If it succeeds, it will end the child's rule ahead of time. If it fails, it will also deal a heavy blow to the child's mind and accelerate the collapse of his sanity. The third candidate is in Huaiyin.He is smarter and better than the previous two, but he is in a worse situation than the previous two.At that time, he was suffering from poverty, hunger and cold, which made his desire for power stronger than anyone else, and his pursuit of success more urgent than anyone else.It should be said that he is simply the most suitable candidate created in heaven.Changing the fate of this young man is also much easier than changing the previous two.All young people lack is a wartime passage.And this channel has appeared in history, as long as you use the artifact that can control time, and start in August when the moon has the strongest gravitational force on the earth, this channel can be reproduced.Once this passage is obtained, the young man will be able to conquer the whole world with his own wisdom, without Long Xi needing to worry about it. However, Long Xi had a lot of doubts about this young man, and the reason was that the young man was too outstanding.His wisdom is beyond the safe limit, beyond the control of Long Xi.Before using him, Long Xi detected the "pre-shock" from the long river of time.This means that once it is officially activated, there may be a strong "mutation fluctuation", which will make Long Xi lose the ability to predict the future... Oh, this is too difficult, I should explain it. To our world, Long Xi is an outsider.Every little intervention it makes in our world changes our inherent history.And every change in history will trigger a "variation fluctuation" in the long river of time.During the forward pass of the mutation wave, the history of the future is ambiguous.It's like throwing a stone into a pond. As long as the ripples are still spreading, the reflection on the water surface cannot be seen clearly. The "fuzzy period" can be long or short, but it will end one day, so Longxi can always firmly grasp the overall situation of our history in the end. However, the change of this young man's fate seems to involve the entire "river of time", and the "wave of variation" caused by it may take a long time to pass, or it may never stop, because time is infinitely extended. Such a situation can only happen when the fate of extremely good people is changed.It is self-evident that there is a big difference between the two fates of such people, whether they are unrecognized for their talents in their lifetime or those who give full play to their talents.Such a large gap is enough to form an unprecedentedly strong wave of mutation, changing the entire future accordingly. Long Xi hesitated whether to use this young man or not. For outstanding talent, it is both a danger and a temptation.If such talents can be used by it, the benefits to the project will be immeasurable. In the end, Long Xi decided to use him. Young people are proud of their talents and are a little bit unwilling to submit.But it doesn't matter, reality will make him bow his head.Long Xi's messenger appeared when the young man was driven to a desperate situation by reality.He used that magical tool to "distort" the time of a mountain stream, and made the young man witness a miracle of a sudden break of the torrent.The young man was convinced, he took the precious tripod heart from the messenger, and agreed to the deal. Therefore, Longxi used his artifact to open the ancient road more than 500 years ago, and also opened the door of the destiny of the young people. However, an accident happened.