Royal Palace.
King Neil and High Priest Hu Lian, who should be in a state of desperation in everyone's hearts, were sitting at a long table enjoying food, and the waiters silently shuttled back and forth to serve them carefully.
Most of the dishes and other tableware placed on the table are made of gold and silver, and a small part of them are bone utensils. Among the tableware, there are meat-cutting knives, large and small spoons, and forks.
Legend has it that these tableware were not spread until they arrived in the Western Continent, especially the fork. Before that, the horned people ate food quite boldly.
Hu Lian put down the tableware, wiped the corners of her mouth with a napkin, and took a sip from the wine glass at hand.
Delicious wine, or because he felt that life was too boring, he deliberately dug it out from his memory and asked someone to find grapes to make it. Thinking about it carefully, many things that the horned man uses in his life today seem to be related to him.
Hu Lian didn't know why he had memories of these knowledge. He always guessed that he might be a martyred god, and the clear or vague knowledge in his memory all came from the God Realm.
And the person he was attached to must have come from the same place as him, he thought.
When King Neil saw that Hu Lian was no longer eating, he also put down the knife and fork, and at the same time waved for the waiters to leave.
All the waiters in the hall bowed and left the restaurant silently.
King Neil also grabbed his wine glass, "The situation is more chaotic than we expected, and those two hornless men got into trouble a little earlier."
"But it's not completely bad for us, right?" Hu Lian shook the wine glass and sniffed the sweet aroma of the wine.
"Yes." King Neil took a sip of his wine and smiled triumphantly: "Those two hornless men probably thought we didn't know what they did. If they weren't for their secret troubles to cover up our actions, I would have sent They killed all those hornless men."
"Don't underestimate those two people." Hu Lian stared at the wine in the glass, as if fascinated by the dark red water.
King Neil said "Yes" indifferently, "After the matter is over, we can just put the crime of killing the senior officials of the Black Horn and White Horn tribes on those two people. Then explain to the public that we have Horn tribe members during this period of time." The sufferings suffered are caused by the demons of the Devil Abyss colluding with the demon warriors of the Eastern Continent and wanting to deal with our Horned Race. At that time... "
"Don't be in a hurry to eliminate the Devil's Abyss. It's impossible to kill all the horned people. If you keep it, you can be alert to the horned people behind, so that you don't start to toss again when you don't have foreign enemies." Hu Lian put down the wine glass and pushed it away.
"Just do as you say." King Neil liked the delicious wine very much, and he drank a glass and poured himself another glass, "If our magic warriors here are cut off, and you need it in the future, we have to go to the East It is really inconvenient for the mainland to arrest people."
Hu Lian frowned. He didn't like King Neil reminding him repeatedly that he needed the magic warrior, but he hinted a few times, and the other party seemed to be unable to understand. If the other party didn't need him to speak every five years, he would take the initiative to think At least one high-level magic warrior was sent to him, and he wondered if this person was using this matter to manipulate him.
"Have you found that little witch from the Baijiao tribe?" Hu Lian changed the subject.
King Neil curled his lips, "The Baijiao tribe hid him very tightly. I sent people to search several possible places secretly but couldn't find it. Maybe he has been sent away far away."
"It's also possible that the two hornless men took Su Men away. Don't forget, it was those two hornless men who sent Su Men back."
"You mean the white-horned tribe and the hornless tribe colluded?" King Neil drank the second glass of wine in one go.
"It wasn't the Black Horn Clan or our Red Horn Clan who captured Sumen. There are only two possibilities for Sumen's whereabouts. One is that they were hidden by the White Horn Clan themselves, and the other is that the Hornless people took him away. .But you searched so many places of the Baijiao tribe in the chaos, and you stared at them so closely but failed to find the child, then there is only one truth."
King Neil laughed loudly, "Good! Good! It's really great that the White Horn tribe colluded with the Hornless people!"
Hu Lian waited for him to laugh enough before saying: "There is nothing to be afraid of if the White Horn Clan has no inheritance. First concentrate on dealing with the Black Horn Clan. As long as you wipe out all the power of the Black Horn Clan, you will be the real king of the three clans in the future." .”
King Neil was not dazzled by the bright future, he seemed to have suddenly remembered, and asked, "Have the people who went to the Eastern Continent not found a place to inherit?"
Hu Lian shook her head, "So far no one has sent a message back, probably not."
King Neil was dissatisfied, "I don't know what Nita is doing. Last time I sent him a message, he ignored me."
"Bonesmiths are like this. Many talented people have a weird temper. Neil, Nita is your younger brother. There is no need to question his loyalty to you."
King Neil didn't say anything, but sneered in his heart. In this world, apart from Hu Lian and himself, he would never trust anyone else. So what if he was his own brother, he didn't believe that Nita was really not interested in his position. If Nita didn't have the power, how could he take the initiative to invite Ying to go to the Eastern Continent
If Yan Mo was here, he would be very surprised, because he knew that Nita was the red-horned man who once put the slave bone on him. What surprised him even more was, why did Nita know that the bones belonged to him, but didn't tell King Neil and Hu Lian
"By the way," King Neil asked more casually: "My lord priest, why are you so interested in that lowly hornless witch named Yan Mo? I heard that you seem to have sent a dark team to find he?"
"Your Majesty, it seems that you have heard a lot."
Seeing Hu Lian's cold face, King Neil took a deep breath, pushed away the chair and stood up, walked behind his chair, leaned forward, and approached Hu Lian in an embracing posture.
"My lord priest, for you, I am willing to give everything, but you have been so far away from me." King Neil grabbed a strand of Hu Lian's hair and sniffed it deeply.
With a flick of her finger, Hu Lian's long silver hair fell off. Then Hu Lian stood up and walked out of the hall without looking back.
King Neil grabbed hold of his long hair and quickly followed, "Lian!"
Hu Lian turned around abruptly, "Your Majesty, don't forget the choice you made."
It was a very common sentence, but King Ke Neil suddenly stopped in his tracks. Yes, he made his choice twenty-five years ago, he chose the throne. But he thought that after he got the throne, he would also get his priest, but his priest found him his current wife as quickly as possible after he chose.
Now, he is already the king, and with the help of this person in the future, he will become the real king of the three clans who does not need to abdicate anymore!
But his priest can only be his priest, and he doesn't even allow him to approach him anymore.
Maybe what you can't get is what you want the most. King Neil watched Hu Lian salute him and then left. He opened his mouth and said nothing.
As soon as Hu Lian returned to the temple, he immediately went to the secret room.
Taking out the bone vessel for communication from the storage bone vessel, Hu Lian inlaid the crystals on the bone vessel, and took out the blood left by Nita and dripped a drop on the bone vessel for connection.
A part of the connecting bone vessel is an empty ring about one meter high. After the bone vessel was activated, there was a quiver in the middle of the hollow ring, and a watery light curtain appeared.
It seemed that it was daytime on Nita's side. He saluted Hu Lian first, and then asked unhurriedly, "Master Priest, what's the matter of looking for me so urgently?"
Such a long-distance contact bone device will not only consume a lot of high-level crystals, but also require a lot of soul power to activate it. If it is not an extremely important thing, Hu Lian will never open it easily.
"Last time you said that you have found the bone bearing, where is it?" Hu Lian went straight to the topic.
Nita was surprised, "I thought you didn't care about that."
"I don't care, but I also don't want it to fall into the wrong hands."
Nita said with a regretful face: "I know where it is, but I can't get it for the time being. The ancient soul in the bone is protecting the hornless man. I was rejected, and the guardian soul inside refused to recognize me, and We all know what will happen if we seize the bone bearing." If not, how could he allow a hornless man to hold that precious bone bearing!
"A man without horns? You said that it was a man without horns who got the bone?" Hu Lian suddenly felt uncomfortable.
"Didn't I tell you?" Nita raised an eyebrow.
Hu Lian didn't speak.
Nita raised his hand, "Master Priest, don't be angry, the guardian in the bone inheritance told me that the bone inheritance must be passed on to a person with horns, but the person who chose to inherit it was the person without horns. The slave bone made the hornless man obediently pass on the inheritance to me, and then I will present it to you, so I didn’t talk to you, I want to give you a surprise. It’s a pity that the hornless man is very cunning, and he knows how to crack the slave Bone, and ran away. Why, someone found the hornless man?"
"... The hornless man you said got the bone inheritance, wouldn't it be one of the two hornless men you reported last time?" Hu Lian's voice became gloomy.
Nita smiled slyly, "Oh, it's really not easy to see you angry. Indeed, I remember that the hornless man who got the bone inheritance is Yan Mo, the priest of Jiuyuan, a new force in the Eastern Continent. Is he real now? With us?"
"Nita!" Hu Lian was really angry, "This is not a trivial matter, why didn't you make it clear to me at the beginning?"
Nita looked at Hu Lian for a while, and admitted: "Well, I want to get the bone inheritance myself, so I don't want to tell you and my good brother."
Hu Lian's anger that had just risen disappeared again. With Enita's character and his obsession with bone tools, it is not surprising that he would do such a thing. Who wouldn't want to have the bone inheritance that is said to carry countless ancient soul memories? That is the real sea of knowledge!
"Forget about Gucheng, Nita, there is something you must do for me. Take my token and contact someone, and ask him to help you take down that tribe called Jiuyuan first, and wait until you take down that tribe." If you fall behind, tell me as quickly as possible."
"Do you want to keep alive?" Nita seemed to understand who Hu Lian was talking about.
Hu Lian pondered for a while, "Keep it, it's best to keep most of it, I'm useful."
At the same time, it was located in the temporary base of the Hornless People, a hundred miles east of Lorraine City.
Before going to sleep, Yan Mo called Qi Hongzhi to his side.
Qi Hongzhi's injuries have basically healed, but his face still has the scars from the original fire.
Yan Mo wanted to heal him with his wish, but Qi Hongzhi shook his head and refused, "My lord, don't do it now."
"Huh? Then when are you going to wait?"
Qi Hongzhi knelt down on one knee, "My lord, please keep this as my reward."
Yan Mo didn't understand what Qi Hongzhi meant at first, but Yuan Zhan understood, he motioned for Yan Mo to come over, and whispered to him: "Qi Hongzhi is good, didn't he form a team with Xiyang and Houshi? Probably he wants to let you remove the scars on his face in front of those hornless people after they have made some achievements. This can not only show the extraordinaryness of you, the Son of God, but also tell others that only by making achievements To get rewards, not to get benefits for nothing."
Yan Mo's mood was complicated for a while, he had never met such a loyal subordinate who cared for his boss and had a solid eye in his previous life, should it be said that people nowadays have fewer ideas and thus are more simple
No wonder the high-ranking people in the past didn't like to enlighten the foolish people. Apart from being difficult, isn't it because ignorance also has the benefits of ignorance
Only ignorance is easy to fool and deceive.
Just like in the modern age of his previous life, ordinary people are affected by the information explosion, and they can know and understand everything, and it is difficult for the higher-ups to fool them. But before the information explosion, not all the above said what they said, and they did what they were asked to do. Most people were extremely honest.
So he often heard some older people lament: We all only knew how to work hard at that time, so it is not like the young people now... blah blah blah.
And in some countries, in order to control people's thoughts, it is normal to ban the Internet, movies, and even speech.
Yan Mo slapped his forehead, thinking far away. Now it's his turn to be the superior. How to enlighten the people while retaining the simplicity and kindness of human nature, and at the same time make them brave and fearless and be ruthless when they should be ruthless has become something he must consider.
"It is very important to establish teaching materials and basic ideas." Yan Mo helped Qi Hongzhi up, agreed to his request, and patted him on the shoulder, saying that he would never treat him badly.
As a result, Qi Hongzhi was so moved that he thanked him repeatedly before quitting.
Yuan Zhan waited for Qi Hongzhi to leave before asking, "What did you just say?"
Yan Mo nodded his head, "When we go back to Jiuyuan, we will get out the teachings. Since we have temples and priests, we can't waste this advantage."
"Doctrine? You mean the same rules as Jiuyuan Sangui Jiuling?"
"It's similar, but it's more detailed. It covers almost everything that intelligent creatures think about when they act." In order to make Yuan Zhan understandable, Yan Mo clarified and gave many examples to illustrate.
Think about how many generations of people were affected by the Confucianism teachings created by his mother country? Even modern times are still affected by it, for better or for worse.
What he intends to do in the future is to use his supreme status and absolute influence to write a new teaching in the name of God-given, so that Jiuyuan and the world will use this as a criterion to brainwash them until the content of the teaching Deep enough to become their genetic memory.
There are definitely advantages and disadvantages to doing so, but nothing can have only advantages and no disadvantages. What Yan Mo has to do is to make the teaching content more beneficial than harmful to all kinds of intelligent creatures. After the war was over, new rulers appeared in Jiuyuan or the Eastern Continent, and then the rulers tossed and turned over and over again for their own interests.
Yuan Zhan roughly understood the meaning of his own priest, and he knew the benefits of this teaching as soon as he heard Yan Mo's description, so he naturally strongly supported it, and said to Yan Mo repeatedly: "The positions of priests and leaders are bestowed by the gods. , this point is good, this point must be preserved!"
Yan Mo squinted at him: Look, even the primitive war who has been influenced by him for many years knows what is best for him. How dare he trust future rulers? If he hadn't clearly stated in the teachings in the name of God that "the position of the leader cannot be hereditary", I am afraid that Jiuyuan will become a family in a few generations.
"Divine granting is not good, unless you want future leaders to be controlled by priests."
Yuan Zhan didn't think there was anything wrong with being controlled by the priest. This guy also had a big idea: "We can divide the power between the leader and the priest in half, and then stipulate that the leader and the priest must be partners."
Yan Mo was speechless, "What if Wu Guo becomes the leader and Dudu becomes the priest?"
"If they are not allowed to be hereditary, the two of them will have no chance to become leaders and priests at all." Yuan Zhan, as a father, of course hopes that the land he conquered can be passed on to his descendants. He doesn't understand why Yan Mo wants to hand over Jiuyuan to others to rule .
"Just one generation in between." Of course Yan Mo has already figured out how to take advantage of the loophole, "The doctrine can limit the time limit of the leader, just like the Horned Race, for example, it can be rotated once every ten years, and it can be extended once, which is a maximum of twenty years Well, it was put on for such a long time because of the relatively long lifespan of the blood warriors, so whoever has the ability will go. The priest does not have actual ruling power, but only exists as a spiritual symbol. At most, he is responsible for education and medical care. "
"How should the leader be chosen?" Yuan Zhan had his own thoughts in his mind, but he didn't immediately speak out to refute his priest.
"We can vote for these candidates through the nomination of the previous leaders and the recommendation of other high-level and local governments." Although the referendum has many disadvantages, many people actually don't know much about the people they want to vote for, but this is The power that belongs to the people must be preserved even if it is a mere formality.
"When we go back, let's discuss with Hide and Shengu." Yuan Zhan didn't make a decision immediately, but adopted a delaying strategy.
Yan Mo knows that this guy has no plans to give up his family, but he is confident that he can convince those high-level people in Jiuyuan. So don't mind the guy procrastinating.
The two are talking.
"Master." Little Sumen suddenly ran over and threw himself into his arms.
Yan Mo lowered his head and saw that the child seemed to have some anxiety on his face. He patted his head and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Xiao Sumen's expression was a little tangled, as if he didn't know whether to speak or not.
Yan Mo knelt down and tapped his little nose, "Tell me, what's the matter? Master will take care of everything for you, don't be afraid."
The corners of Xiao Sumen's mouth curled up slightly, he hesitated for a while, and said honestly: "Witch Alan sent a message, and the person told me that someone sent a message to Witch Alan, saying that the woman who gave birth to me wanted see me… "