15.10

The people of Southwest China had suffered a lot under the exploitation of the corrupt officials, and with the natural disasters and man-made calamities, they could not see the hope of living. They could not see any hope of survival. Submitting to the imperial court was the only way to die, but raising the banner to rebel could not be a way to live. Driven by this mentality, the people of Southwest China joined the team of overthrowing Daqi. As the saying goes, the barefoot is not afraid of the shoe wearer, and they showed great bravery in the confrontation with the imperial army, and soon occupied a large piece of land in the southwest of the country.

In such a situation, the general practice was to send regular troops to bloody crush the situation, otherwise it would not be possible to calm the situation down at all. But after all, Zhou Yunsheng was a man of the future and did not have the feudal legacy thoughts of ancient kings being arbitrary and supreme in their imperial power and treating human lives as if they were grass. He also had times when he was ruthless, but those were with his enemies, and with the innocent people who had suffered so much, he was willing to use a gentler method to solve the problem. Just as he once said, as long as he sat on the imperial throne of Daqi for one day, he would be a good emperor for one day and take care of his people.

He ordered the army to disperse the insurgents near the state capital, and then arrested all the officials in the southwest and tried them one by one, sentenced them publicly according to the severity of their crimes, and then spread the results of the sentencing by means of diatribes and word-of-mouth. In the end, seventy-four officials of all sizes in Southwest China, sixteen of them were dismissed and exiled, fifty-five of them were beheaded, and the last three of them, because of the seriousness of their crimes, not only had their whole families been convicted, but they themselves would be executed by death by lynching.

“Don’t kill these 58 people for the time being, when I sacrifice to heaven that day, use their blood to comfort the dead people. Lord Luo, you send people to spread the story of my sacrifice to the sky for rain, saying that I am the true son of God, and I will surely give the order to let the God to rain on time. If the people who participated in the insurgent army come back to farm in peace, I will not be held responsible, and not only will the fields they took belong to them, but I will also exempt them from paying taxes for three years. In the future, every year, I will secretly send ministers to inspect all over the country, but where officials are found to have increased taxes without authorization, I will severely punish them!” Zhou Yunsheng fiddled with the rain drawer in his hand, his attitude was idle, but his tone was filled with chilling killing intent.

Luo Zhen admired the emperor’s initiative to put the people first, but also worried that his methods are too mild, in the chaos of the Southwest will not benefit, but rather add to the turmoil, and so persuaded, “Your Majesty, you have issued a few decrees are very wise, but the only thing is to sacrifice to the sky to ask for rain that thing please think twice before you do it. Not to mention whether the process of sacrificing to the sky will attract mob attacks, if the rain failed, they are afraid that they will compile some you have run out of gas, not blessed by the heavens, not the true dragon son of heaven and other rumors. Instead of being criticized for nothing, it would be better to hand over the matter of seeking rain to the officials of the Qin Tian Supervisor, what do you think?”

“No, it is still the same, I am the true Dragon Son of Heaven, and I will surely decree that the heavens will send rain to the southwest. The diatribe will be written like this, no need to use some obscure and subtle spring and fall writing style.” Zhou Yunsheng counted with his fingers and said, “The matter of seeking rain should be sooner rather than later, I have done some math and set it on Feilai Peak two days later, you let people go down to prepare.”

Luo Zhen bitter persuasion can not be, squinting towards the silent Yu Guo Gong stood aside to see, but see his eyes and nose, seems to be all listening to the emperor’s orders.

It’s just that there have been so many emperors who personally went up to the altar to beg for rain since ancient times, and how many of them succeeded? If the chaos of the army with the excuse that the qi has been exhausted intends to intercept the emperor, as long as Zhao Xuan is here, even the biggest turmoil can be stepped on the level. Thinking about this, Luo Zhen only bowed to leave, but Zhao Xuan is still standing in the same place, seems to have something to ask.

“Just ask if you want to know anything.” Zhou Yunsheng spread out the map of Feilai Peak and used the Zhouyi method to convert the best direction for seeking rain. His background was really complicated, he himself came from the future interstellar world where technology was very advanced, and later on, he had mixed in the world of Immortal Cultivation and Western Fantasy, even though he was just a mortal at the moment, and couldn’t do anything to displace the mountains and the seas, but it was still very easy to combine the science and the method of yin and yang to create a downpour. He remembered that in his last life, after Qi Jin Yu had pacified the civil unrest, the heavens suddenly sent down heavy rain for several days in a row, moisturizing the cracked and parched land in the Southwest, and allowing the people to see the hope of living.

I don’t know who pressed this timely rain on Qi Jin Yu’s head, saying that Prince Gong was ordained by heaven and was blessed with great fortune. These messages were widely circulated in the southwest, and therefore, when Qi Jin Yu raised an army to defend the king, the people of the southwest were the first to respond.

Zhou Yunsheng counted the days, the heavy rain is at least two months away from now, the longer it takes, whether it is the people or the imperial army, the casualties will be more heavy. He can not afford to consume, not to mention Qi Jin Yu’s protagonist aura, casually say a few words of grandeur can appease the mob, so can only take out some of the mysterious means of deterrence.

Zhao Xuan took half a step forward and asked with an arch of his hand, “Your Majesty, how do you plan to seek rain? Will it work?”

“It can become.” Zhou Yunsheng lifted his brush to mark the map and explained slowly, “Rain is made of clouds, when the tiny water droplets in the clouds hit each other and condense into large water droplets, it will turn into rain falling down. There are many ways to make the tiny droplets condense, solid particles can be scattered in the clouds to increase the weight of the droplets, and electric currents, light waves, sound waves, and other things can be released to stimulate the clouds to rub against each other and thus condense into raindrops. It is not uncommon why priests like to beat gongs and drums and shout loudly when praying for rain, in fact, they are releasing sound waves into the sky, and although the success rate of rainfall is very low, it is not completely impossible. What I have to do is to find the most dense water vapor in one of the directions, and then the four-pronged attack, so that there is at least a 70 to 80 percent chance of being able to beg for a downpour.”

The electric currents, light waves, sound waves, and other things that the emperor was talking about were things that Zhao Xuan had never heard of before, but inexplicably, he felt that he understood them, and he couldn’t help but nod his head in agreement.

Zhou Yunsheng picked up a cylinder made of wood and said, “This is the rain diverter, which can help me send electric currents, light waves and sound waves directly into the clouds. After chipping the wood for so many days, it’s really hard on Lord Yu.”

It turned out that the Emperor had given himself such an important errand, Zhao Xuan was in a good mood, and his eyes unconsciously showed the color of leaps and bounds.

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The imperial court’s diatribe was spread by word of mouth throughout the southwest. The rebels saw the emperor personally came, accompanied by Yu Guo Gong, who is known as the god of war in Daqi, if he deployed the wolf-like Northwest Army to come to quell the rebellion, within a few days, more than 100,000 rebels would be wiped out. If you can live well, who wants to do this kind of head on the waistband of the pants, the emperor since he said not to settle scores, but also to distribute the fields, why not put down the machete to go back to farming. This is what most of the peasants thought, but Chen XIII, the leader of the peasants who led the rebellion, was extremely resistant to it. He gradually enjoyed the benefits of power in the process of rebellion, and completely lost his mind, wanting to overthrow Daqi to change the dynasty and become the founding emperor himself.

If his brothers quit at this time, his dream of being an emperor will be completely shattered, how can he be willing? He ordered his men to find the diatribe, roughly read through once after the sneer, “Tell the brothers to wait and see what happens, and when that dog emperor can’t ask for rain, let’s say that he is tyrannical and unethical, and much cruelty, and is rejected by heaven, intercepting and killing him is to do the right thing for heaven, and it is a great task to honor the world and bless all the people. Whoever can take his head will be the savior of the world, and will receive immeasurable merit.”

Several of his men promised with great enthusiasm, but one of them hesitated, “Brother Chen, if that dog emperor really begs for heavy rain, what should we do?”

As soon as his words fell, Chen Thirteen laughed out loud and said sarcastically, “These years, the Southwest has been in a severe drought, you see how many cows, sheep, livestock and children have been snatched away by those dog officials for the sake of sacrificing to the Dragon God, but how many rains have they begged for? One is not, visible Qi has reached the end of the luck, even God is not willing to appreciate the face. Look at this diatribe written so wild, ordering the heaven to rain, the dog emperor think he is the god of heaven? Don’t beg for rain, but be struck to death on the spot by the clear sky and dry thunder.”

The crowd of subordinates threw back their heads and laughed at this, as if they had already seen the dog emperor’s charred and blackened misery.

The upper echelon of the insurgent army scoffed at the so-called request for rain because they had tasted power and refused to give up easily, while the lower echelon of the people still revered the imperial power and vaguely looked forward to the matter. However, regardless of whether the insurgents were united or not, the dissemination of the diatribe still had the intended effect, and the war in the southwest finally came to a temporary halt.

Two days later, in the southwest of the highest peak Feilai Peak, the army used wooden boards to build a high platform, high platform around the erection of a number of cylinders pointing straight to the sky, Zhou Yunsheng put on one of the most gorgeous dragon robes, wearing twelve yuk crown, step by step to the edge of the sacrificial platform, vibration of the two sleeves slowly kneel down, looking up at the sky in silence and pray.

He had once been a priest and a god, and just by slightly changing his eyes or expression, he could naturally exude a noble and holy aura. On Feilai Peak, in addition to the accompanying officials, there were also many people from the state capital who had not participated in the rebellion, and there were even scouts dispatched by Chen XIII planted among them. They were stopped by the soldiers on the periphery of the sacrificial platform, originally still noisy, talking constantly, saw the handsome emperor seems to step on the auspicious clouds in general riding the wind up, then all quiet, can only look at him in a daze ~ dumbfounded.

“Blood sacrifice.” The emperor is clearly kneeling on the stage a few hundred meters away, this sentence but clear into everyone’s ears, that impassioned, like the clash of swords and soldiers voice makes people’s ears numb. So this is the emperor’s voice, full of majesty, but also like heavenly music.

The vast majority of the people before the official start of the sacrifice, was the emperor’s voice to take away the mind, to understand the real meaning of the word “blood sacrifice”, can not help but secretly praise.

Just see the southwest of the corrupt officials were one by one escorted to the stage, the clerk of each read a name, the executioner will behead a person’s head, straight cut off fifty-five heads, will be piled up into a tower of heads, and then there are three people were taken to the open space has been stained with blood. They are the southwest governor, southwest governor, southwest dao dai, leaving out the southwestern governor killed himself, can be regarded as the southwest of the most powerful three figures. Once turned his hand for the clouds and hands for the rain of the three, is now in a sorry state tied to the torture rack, by the executioner a knife and a slice ~ body meat.

The death by lynching is undoubtedly the most cruel criminal law in Daqi, the people have only heard of it, never seen it, even if the three abhorred, but also covered their eyes with their hands and turned their backs. Accompanying officials are all eyes and nose, the same do not dare to look more. Enough to cut three thousand six hundred knives, three people finally no breath, a large ~ piece of open space under the platform has turned crimson, an extremely thick, disgusting smell of blood spread in the air.

The people peeked at the emperor’s expression through the cracks in their fingers and saw that his eyes were dark and deep, his expression was neither happy nor angry, he did not look like a mortal, but more like a merciless and heartless god and goddess, and more and more they realized the meaning of the word ‘Son of Heaven’. After the pain and pleasure of killing all the corrupt officials subsided, what gradually surfaced in his heart was the boundless and endless awe, the fear of the heavens, of the gods, and of the imperial power.

Zhou Yunsheng had arranged loudspeakers on the high platform, enough to spread his voice across the entire top of Feilai Peak. With his lips slightly parted, he faintly said, “Play the music.”

Kneeling at the edge of the platform, the musicians began to play the sacrificial music handed down from ancient times, and there were even tough soldiers standing in front of the four drums, pounding them one by one. Stepping on the sound of the drums, Zhou Yunsheng pointed the installed rain catcher one by one to the direction of “Xun Gua” where the water vapor was the most dense. The copper mirror installed in the rain catcher reflected the golden light of the sun into the clouds, one beam after another superimposed on top of the other, forming a huge pillar of light, which from afar looked like the golden light of merit and virtue sent down by the Heavenly Dao in the legend, dazzling the eyes and shaking the mind and soul.

Not to mention that the people under the stage look dumbfounded, is to see a lot of knowledge of the court officials, but also changed their faces, fearful kneeling down three times to call the ten thousand ~ years. What does it mean to be a true dragon son of heaven, to be able to invoke such a brilliant golden light of merit at will, this is what is called a true dragon son of heaven!

When the people saw the ministers and guards kneeling down, they came back to their senses from the shock, and kneeled down one after another, shouting ten thousand years old in their mouths in a chaotic manner. Those insurgent scouts wanted to come to see a lively, after the rain can not just incite the people, but did not expect to see such a magical scene, suddenly a more than a stagnant, pushing and shoving under the emperor actually performed a five-body salute, a good half a day can not climb up.

Zhou Yunsheng adjusted the rainmaker, on the spot pen wrote an imperial decree, with the thunder god mother of electricity quickly for the southwest of the clouds rain, save the people in the fire, and then ordered several officials of the Qin Tian Supervision will be thrown into the huge copper tripod firewood, lit a pile of fire, will be read after the imperial decree into the scarlet flame. The imperial decree burned out in a moment, turned into a rolling smoke floating up to the sky, and then suddenly came to the wind blowing to the “Xun Gua” direction, and the huge pillar of light into one.

Zhou Yunsheng raised his hand to test the humidity of the air and already knew that this plea for rain was almost successful. He knelt down again to pray and recited the Great Compassion Mantra in the purest Sanskrit. The emperor’s voice is already as clear as jade and stone, coupled with the slightly mysterious and ethereal pronunciation of the Sanskrit language, the fusion is actually like an oracle coming from the nine heavens, making people listen to it with a relaxed mind and a sense of awe.

A group of officials were unable to get up, not to mention the civilian population, before the sound of the Feilai Peak, now all quiet, in addition to the emperor’s prayer, and then can not hear the other ringing. About a quarter of an hour later, the flames inside the copper tripod slowly extinguished, shares of black smoke did not dissipate in the sky, but instead the thicker the accumulation, but also unknowingly turned into a large ~ piece of cloudy. The cloud covered the head, making the top of Feilai Peak become dark and unattractive.

I don’t know who exclaimed, “It’s going to rain! The heavens have gotten the Emperor’s will and it’s really going to rain!”

The imperial decree had just been burned, and the dark clouds drifted over, and such a strange scene was difficult for those who wished to call it a coincidence. How in the world can there be such an amazing coincidence?

“Your Majesty Wan~year!”

“The Emperor must not be a man, but a god!”

“The God of Heaven has descended to earth, and Heaven blesses Daqi!”

“Great, we are saved! The Emperor is indeed the true Dragon Son, even the heavens listen to his orders!”

The people were kowtowing and shouting excitedly.

“It hasn’t rained yet, don’t be too happy.” The scouts of the insurgent army reluctantly refuted a sentence, before the words fell, bean-sized raindrops pattered down, drenching their faces with coldness. These people were dumbfounded, looking at the emperor who stood up and walked down the platform, where in the bottom of his eyes there was still a trace of arrogance or murderous intent, in addition to kneeling down and bowing down, no longer able to rise up other thoughts. It turns out that they united in the intention to overthrow, actually is so powerful, unfathomable characters. What is called the hand for the clouds and hands for the rain? This is it. Prior to this, they had always thought that it was just an exaggeration, and had never imagined that there was really such a person in the world who was almost like a god.

The hemp army rose up shouting the slogan “to do justice to heaven” now seems to have become a real joke.

The rain got heavier and heavier, quite majestic, Zhou Yunsheng took off his heavy twelve yuk crown and stepped onto the open space where he had just beheaded a number of sinful ministers. Blood mixed in the rain, splashing up a scarlet splash, staining his bright yellow court boots and the hem of his coat, his black hair was spread out, soaked to the skin, but it did not diminish his elegance one bit. He looked solemn, noble and imposing, and wherever he passed, the people and officials all fell down and bowed to the ground.

Zhao Xuan hid behind the crowd, his dark red eyes staring intently at the emperor who became more and more tantalizing after getting soaked. He loved his holy expression and indifferent eyes, and wanted to possess him more and more, turning him from a heartless and emotionless god into a flesh and blood mortal. When his holy face was stained with the scarlet of lust, and his indifferent eyes misted with pleasure, the picture must be shockingly beautiful. Even though the heavy rain kept washing over his body, Zhao Xuan still felt parched, he licked~ his lips and quietly disappeared into the crowd.

Zhou Yunsheng quickly returned to the Southwest Governor’s Mansion by carriage, Lin An had already prepared hot water and ginger soup and waited for him to freshen up.

Changing into clean and fresh civilian clothes, Zhou Yunsheng crooked on the couch comfortable sigh, the copper furnace burning a light sandalwood incense, smelling and smelling actually make people feel drowsy.

Shit, that bastard’s at it again. Is it ever gonna end? Can you let me have a clear, clear fun? Zhou Yunsheng held his forehead and gritted his teeth as he secretly thought. Soon after, Zhao Xuan dressed in black scurried into the room, smiling lowly, he held the emperor who had fallen on the couch in his arms and skillfully tied the cloth scarf that blindfolded him.

“Show your true colors if you have the guts, don’t do these sneaky things!”

“Whether I have the balls or not, you’re the only one in the world who knows best!” Zhao Xuan laughed more and more recklessly, sharply peeling off the emperor’s civilian clothes and taking out a set of dragon robes from the wardrobe box to change into them for him.

“I love to see you in a dragon robe, not only are you beautiful, but you are also noble. I must have saved the world in my previous life for the heavens to give you to me.” His voice was hoarse and his movements were unceasing.

Am I a gift from God? If you were a different person, you’d be raping me, you know! Zhou Yunsheng had the intention to mock a few words, but was Zhao Xuan blocked his mouth, crazy lick ~ kiss, and when he opened his eyes again, his side has been empty, only the pillow side of a blood red moon, 008 more string of code. Zhou Yunsheng smashed all the furnishings in the house before calling Zhao Xuan over, pointing at the other’s nose and cursing, “How on earth are you guards? Just now an assassin came in and you guys didn’t even realize it, if it wasn’t for my strong martial arts skills, I’m afraid I would have died hundreds of times!”

My beloved is indeed highly skilled in martial arts, and I was almost drained just now. Zhao Xuan was terrified on his face, but in his heart, he reminisced, and when he saw that the emperor had picked up the whip with the intention of lashing himself, he first shivered with excitement.

Zhou Yunsheng gave a wicked chill, his arm raised several times, but ultimately failed to fall, and he threw away the whip and yelled, “Get the hell out of here! Immediately search the entire city to find that traitor!”

Zhao Xuan heart is very regrettable, thought the emperor this is unable to smoke me, then again happy, led a group of men to the state capital of the chaotic party all caught clean.

It rained heavily for three days and three nights, and on the fourth day, Emperor Sheng ordered the heaven to send rain, and the news spread all over the southwestern part of the country. The slogan of the insurgent army, “Doing justice for heaven”, was no longer responded to by the people, and no one was willing to fight against the God of Heaven. Those peasants who participated in the insurrectionist army have thrown away their weapons and fled to their hometowns overnight, initially hiding with fear for a few days, and then saw that the imperial court really did not send the army to take people, but also distributed the fields to the people after counting, and opened the barns to release the grain, and provided relief through labor, and each decree greatly improved the situation of the victims, which dared to be reunited with their family members.

Half a month later, once more than 100,000 hemp army only less than 2,000, was driven by the court army a few times slowly dispersed, reduced to a few roving bandits around the killing and looting, the reputation is completely ruined. At this point, Zhou Yunsheng also do not have to be polite with them, ordered the army to surround and annihilate, do not leave a survivor.

After taking care of all the trivial matters, Zhou Yunsheng decided to leave the Southwest on the day of the really heavy rain, and the people who were sending him off saw the flying raindrops, and their awe of Emperor Sheng rose to another level. And Luo Zhen and other officials, not to mention, gazed at the Emperor as if they were gazing at a heavenly god. They recalled the scene of the day they begged for rain over and over again, and when they went back, they wrote biographies of it, leaving it for future generations to admire.

At this time, Zhou Yunsheng does not know, because of his people-oriented philosophy of governance, advanced scientific approach to governance, the magical ability to command the heavens, so that his evaluation in history far beyond the other twenty-four rulers of Daqi, was later crowned the title of the Holy Monarch, and even scientists have listed a variety of evidence to try to prove that the Holy Monarch from the more technologically advanced outer space, otherwise how would astronomy, geography, literature, military tactics and strategy, all know nothing! And many of these ideas are at least a few thousand years ahead of the times.

But no matter how the later generations evaluate, the current Zhou Yunsheng doesn’t care, his purpose is simple, one revenge; two govern the country that was once in turmoil because of his lethargy. The southwestern chaos has been pacified, and it is time to settle private scores.