"I think this face is a bit familiar." Gu Yun held a wooden stick, looked at the "woman" on the ground repeatedly for a while, and came to a conclusion.
Calais's glamorous wolf king's tent was turned upside down by the people of Xuantieying, and found that there were neither rare jewels nor iron mesh corals in it. , he didn't even let himself go, he was really a selfless lunatic.
To Gu Yun's great disappointment, they were unable to find the legendary witch poison secret technique.
Think about it too, only Liang people like to write everything on paper and organize them into books. There are many primitive customs preserved in the Eighteen Tribes. Some things that need to be recorded are likely to be engraved on stones, tortoise shells, furs, etc. It was simply word of mouth, that the voodoo secret technique they were looking for might only be hidden in Calais's mind and burned to ashes.
In the end, only such a strange portrait was brought back to the northern Xinjiang garrison under Chen Qingxu's insistence.
"Miss Chen just said what this thing might be?" Gu Yun asked the soldier next to him, "What is it?"
"Soul puppet." The soldier replied, seeing Gu Yun poking around with a wooden stick without restraint, he couldn't help but say, "Master, I think this thing is very sinister, maybe there is something unclean, you should hide. farther away?"
The "soul puppet" is about the size of a real person, but weighs 20 to 30 pounds. After washing it, the face and skin look exactly the same as the real person, as if they can speak when they open their eyes.
It is said that this is not actually a whole human skin. It is made by splicing together the best human skins of many boys or girls. After treating with some kind of voodoo method, it forms a whole piece, wraps it on wood, and cuts the wood in advance. In this way, the human skin and wood are closely glued together, and a lifelike dummy can be imitated.
The Eighteen Tribes believe that this kind of ghost can attract the souls of people who have died in foreign land.
At the beginning, this ghost puppet was covered with a layer of dust and dust. After washing it, it looked like a naked real person. Shen Yi thought it was too indecent, so he specially asked people to find clothes to "put on" it. .
Gu Yun stared at the soul puppet's closed eyebrows, vaguely feeling a little bit like Chang Geng's childhood, he stretched out his fingers and stroked his chin, trying to reverse his memory, and asked, "What do you mean by this trick? Is it the soul of that barbarian concubine back then?"
The soldiers believed in evil, a little afraid to look at them, and said in fear: "Master, let's move out quickly, this ghost is scary."
"It's okay," Gu Yun glanced at Soul Puppet's face and said casually, "I think she looks pretty good."
Soldiers: ""
During this period of time, Gu Shuai took care of the north and south battlefields, and I am afraid that he is a little tired and crazy.
At this moment, Chen Qingxu, who was worried about seeing Shen Yi, suddenly came in: "I remember!"
Gu Yun: "Huh?"
I saw Chen Qingxu pulled out a knife out of nowhere, half kneeled on the ground, and under the gaze of Gu Yun and his superstitious personal soldiers, he cut the soul puppet from his chest with a knife.
Gu Yun: ""
His personal soldier shivered with fright, turned his face away and said "Amitabha Buddha", Gu Yun looked at him, and then at Miss Chen, who seemed to be a cook, and handed the wooden stick to his silent relative. The soldier said sympathetically, "Take it to ward off evil spirits and defend yourself."
Chen Qingxu ignored the surroundings, and concentrated on the tip of the knife. The human skin looked flat and even on the outside, even very soft. After cutting it open, there was no flesh and blood inside. The two sides were separated cleanly. The strength was extremely well grasped, and it just cut through the human skin, but did not hurt the wood below.
Gu Yun just started to look around idly on the side, when suddenly, he narrowed his eyes, rolled up his sleeves and squatted down, raised his hands without hesitation, gently lifted the peeled skin, and carefully touched the surface of the wood.
The soldier's face turned green, he made a mess of accusations, and went outside to watch the door with the evil warding stick that the commander gave him.
Gu Yun touched it for a while, then asked in doubt, "Why, there are still words on this wood?"
Chen Qingxu had already scratched the human skin from the beginning to the end. She changed a smaller knife like peeling the shell of a raw egg, and carefully peeled off the human skin little by little until the entire human-shaped wood was exposed. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and took the time to return to Gu Yun's words: "Yes, but the carvings are small and shallow, and only people with extremely sensitive touch can touch them. Ordinary people may have to use tools to see them - the handsome can tell the difference for me. What is written on it?"
The Xuantie Camp and the Eighteen Tribes can be said to be the old enemies of two generations. Many senior generals in the Xuantie Camp recognize the common barbarian language. Gu Yun groped for a moment on the neck of the human-shaped wood, and hesitated for a long time before replying: "All It's a very uncommon word, I don't know anything about cooking, and there is a number behind it, it seems to mention something about sunlight"
Gu Yun looked at Chen Qingxu in confusion: "Why is Zhang Mi's recipe engraved on this soul puppet? Uh, Miss Chen, what's the matter with you?"
Gu Yun had never seen such excited expression on Chen Qingxu's face, and there were almost tears in her cold eyes.
As if she had never seen wood before, she picked up the human-shaped wood with both hands, took out a piece of silk and carefully wiped off the dust on it, as if she was holding a rare treasure.
"The soul puppet needs to communicate life and death in order to attract the return of the soul from a foreign land. Usually, the method is to hide a personal object of that person in the heart of the wood. But since this method is used to pay homage to the soul of the dead, the deceased is usually thousands of miles away. , most of them can't find their burial place, so the personal things are not always available. I just remembered that, in this case, the caster usually uses the last words left by the deceased, or Instead, the inscription on behalf of the deceased."
"When the barbarian sisters fled from the deep palace, the elder sister died in a foreign land on the way, and the younger sister took her children to the den of bandits. Before the concubine died, she left a very important thing to Hu Geer, and later from Hu Geer's hands After tossing and turning, it finally fell into the hands of the wolf king Calais"
Hearing this, Gu Yun's heart jumped wildly without warning.
"It's the female secret technique." Chen Qingxu pointed out what he was thinking, "I thought there was such a possibility, but who knows it's actually true."
Everyone's impression of the "barbarian woman" is only the image of Hugel, the female lunatic, but the noble concubine has no sense of existence. She died too early, from the high grassland "half" down to the closed harem with nine gates, she has no way of knowing whether she is resentful or resentful or accepting her fate.
And what is her attitude towards her children
Presumably according to human nature, it should be hatred. Even when Calais saw Chang Geng's face that looked like a female sister when he was young, he couldn't help but want to kill, not to mention the person involved
However, the voodoo techniques of the Eighteen Tribes are so unpredictable that even the Chen family has been unable to do anything for many years. As the inheritor, the imperial concubine can destroy an unformed fetus without knowing it. Why did she put that Did the child stay
Did she know that the child was finally made into Ur bone by the crazy Hugel
The old man is almost dead, and no one will know anymore whether the barbarian woman decided to keep the child out of a mother's reluctance, or just to learn that Hugel was pregnant with another child out of a dead family. The hatred of extermination has planned an unparalleled evil.
But no matter what, after going around in circles, it was still the female ghost puppet that left a ray of life for Chang Geng.
This is almost a mysterious meaning of cause and effect.
Chen Qingxu didn't want to discuss any karma, she put all her heart and soul on this piece of wood, and before Gu Yun could react, she picked up the wooden man like the wind and ran away, not even picking up the silk when it fell to the ground. Gu Yun was stunned for a long time, and he exhaled after a breath in his chest. He was hit on his chest by an unspeakable hope. When he got up, his eyes were almost black.
He stretched out his hand and rubbed his chin uncontrollably, trying to make a normal and serious face as much as possible, his brows subconsciously knitted together, but the corners of his mouth laughed uncontrollably, the tensed seriousness Intertwined with the uncontrollable joy, it became a standard "ridiculous", and Gu Yun himself felt that his image at this time was probably a bit crazy.
At this time, General Shen's personal soldier next door probed his head outside the tent for a moment, and asked, "Is Dr. Chen finally gone?"
"Let's go," Gu Yun heard his own soldier reply, "What, is there something wrong?"
The soldier who inquired about the doctor's whereabouts hurriedly shook his head and ran back to report.
The next moment, Gu Yun heard a cry of pain coming from General Shen's tent.
Shen Yi's back was smashed and scalded repeatedly, which was extremely miserable, but he still firmly refused Miss Chen's treatment and visits, and repeatedly locked the girl Chen who came to visit, and refused to let her see him. The tragic situation, and resolutely found a military doctor who was good at killing pigs to treat the wound. During the period, he sent someone to secretly come out to inquire about four or five times, and kept holding back until Chen Qingxu finally left. Opened his throat and howled.
Gu Yun listened carefully for a while, only to feel that having a child would never be so miserable, so he couldn't bear it, so he picked up the piece of silk that had fallen on the ground, shook the dust on it, and went out and stuffed it for himself. The little personal soldier ordered: "Quickly send it to General Shen, it will relieve the pain."
Don't care what the silk has wiped, anyway, the effect is very effective, as soon as the thing arrives, Shen Yi's howl is much quieter.
Gu Yun played his brothers with a heartless heart and turned back to the handsome tent. He planned to approve the dozens of battle reports that had been accumulated on the desk and a pile of letters from the major garrison areas. When he mentioned it, he found that he couldn't calm down at all. .
He knew every word on the battle report, but he couldn't make it into one sentence and jumped into his eyes. He thought for a while: "Will the wood only record the method, but there is no solution?"
After a while, I thought again: "That doesn't matter, as long as there is the ins and outs of Ur bone, the Chen family can always come up with a solution."
Then after a while, he secretly said, "You won't really let me burn incense for the bald donkeys at Huguo Temple, right? Mother"
All kinds of tossing and turning, no clue.
And an indescribable longing made a bloody path in this thousands of threads, and jumped into his heart.
A drop of ink fell on Gu Yunjian's tip, and he finally came back. He simply pushed the pile of official business away, took out the letter paper as if he was stealing from life, and began to openly occupy official time for personal interests.
In April in the world, the land of the two rivers is almost exhausted, and the long plum rain is drenched from the river and sea.
For more than a month, Chang Geng has been in Jiangbei. He first took care of General Zhong Lao's funeral, and then Fang Qin wrote to Emperor Longan and advised Emperor Longan to keep King Yan where he was and to assist the court envoys to advance the contact with Westerners.
Although King Yan has stepped down from the political arena, Fang Qin still feels that he is a very serious thing in the capital.
It is reasonable to fight a snake with a stick, and to deal with a political enemy, one should kill him with one blow, but the reason for King Yan's resignation was not planned by Fang Qin, and the whole matter was not under his control, and the identity of Prince Yan was very difficult to handle. Except for the crime of treason, there is really nothing that can kill him.
Fang Qin had no choice but to try to keep him far away.
The word "assistance" is very small, which means that this matter is not dominated by Yan Wang, he has only obligations and no power. After the completion of the matter, it is also the credit of others, but if something goes wrong, there will be more places for King Yan to make a fuss.
It's a pity that the sky didn't go as planned, and the "chaos" that Fang Qin hoped to see didn't appear. King Yan got along like a duck in water in the Jiangbei camp, and his popularity was excellent. He was very likable when he came, and he had the love to fight side by side with all the soldiers, and the face of General Zhong Lao and Gu Yun escorted him.
The envoys sent by the imperial court were very conscientious. After arriving in Jiangbei, everything followed the lead of the Yan King. In addition, Gu Yun kept writing letters on weekdays, and he would make a special trip to take a look at it in ten and a half days. The work of bullying Westerners along the two rivers was very smooth. After three or four small water battles, the advantage was taken, and the soldiers were trained. Li Feng couldn't say anything. Instead, he vaguely felt sorry for the Yan King.
At the same time, another unexpected thing happened to Fang Qin, which made him unable to spare his energy to take the opportunity to install forces in the land of two rivers—
The first batch of beacon tickets has expired and the money has to be repaid.
The status of the first batch of beacon tickets is very special. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were the medicine for the revival of the Daliang Dynasty. Under the circumstance that the domestic Ziliujin has run out again, it is only a matter of time before the Westerners besiege the capital again.
The first batch of people who subscribed for the beacon tickets have a great kindness to the country, and it is reasonable that this debt must be repaid. If the court does not take out this money, it will not only be discredited by others, but it is certain that the beacon tickets will not be issued in the future. The decree that Yan Wang finally implemented "beacon fire tickets can be equivalent to gold and silver in the private sector, and merchants are prohibited from rejecting them" will also become a dead letter.
In this way, even if others agreed, those high-ranking officials who subscribed a lot of beacon tickets for the Wusha hat in the early days of the reform of the official government could not agree.
Until this time, Fang Qin had to admit that although King Yan was fierce, he was never soft-hearted in killing political enemies with his sword. But in the end, a seed was planted early, and the enemy and I were tied to his pirate ship.
According to the plan of the Military Aircraft Office, the first batch of beacon tickets will be sold at the beginning, and there will be a follow-up plan: the third batch of beacon tickets will be released just one month before the expiration date. Eighty-eight, part of the money raised is reserved for the repayment of the first debts, which is more than enough in terms of time and amount.
But what no one expected was that when King Yan left like this, businessmen big and small would not buy it!
Fang Qin knew that the Thirteen Giants were privately with King Yan, but Daliang was so vast, could it be that apart from these ambitious people who wanted to participate in politics, no one else did business? In addition, there are officials who want to sharpen their heads and climb up the ladder. The provinces plug in indicators, and it is easy to raise funds.
But he underestimated the merchant alliance network.
This was done by Du Cai in the post-war period at the behest of King Yan. There are chambers of commerce in various industries, and all chambers of commerce form a big alliance. Although members will be bound by the chamber of commerce, they will also enjoy benefits. It is not to mention the discounts for importing and exporting goods from other members, mainly in the troubled times when bandits are rampant. If there is a printed copy of the Chamber of Commerce, you can request the protection of the garrisoned troops in various local governments—this was the privilege given by the imperial court to the first batch of thirteen giants who subscribed for the beacon tickets, and Du Wanquan generously gave it to share.
However, many merchants gradually discovered that accepting constraints is not a bad thing. With the logo of the big chamber of commerce, the trust of private buyers has increased a lot, and they no longer have to be caught in the price war with those shoddy merchants.
This merchant alliance network was quickly spread across the country, and there may be various problems in a few decades, but at the beginning of its establishment, the loyalty of the members was very high, and it seemed to be an iron plate in front of Fang Qin. .
The third batch of beacon tickets was blocked from the very beginning. Except for some officials who were eager for quick success, they could hardly push them. The inexplicable non-cooperation of the Chamber of Commerce caused a lot of doubts in their hearts. , all of them followed suit.
And lure is not enough, coercion is not enough. A group of upstarts promoted by the thirteen giants has become a trend, and it is not so easy to move them.
The beacon ticket is implemented by the military aircraft office, but the military aircraft office is only responsible for pushing, and the money is all in and out from the household department. Fang Qin can't wait to ask the gangsters to pay for it - but it's a drop in the bucket, not to mention whether the major families are willing to pay for this. Money, even if he was willing, he would take out such a large amount of money without blinking. Back then, the poor people in the two houses, who could even scold King Yan in disgrace, appointed them to swarm them, and they would not stop until they turned their heads.
As the days approached, even Li Feng couldn't sit still. He personally interrogated him several times. After three or four days, he called Fang Qin and the others into the palace and reprimanded him. There were no ten or eight sessions, and the pressure finally became great. Unable to bear it any longer, the six divisions had to jointly submit a letter to the Military Aircraft Department, asking King Yan to return to the dynasty.
When the decree arrived in Jiangbei, Chang Geng accepted the decree very calmly, and then arranged the handover of military affairs in an orderly manner. He just unhurriedly packed his bags and prepared to go north.
Just as he was about to leave, the news of the great victory in Beijiang arrived.
For a time, the whole Jiangbei was boiling, and Chang Geng took the letter to himself from the messenger while listening to the cheers and cries in his ears.
In Gu Yun's letters to Chang Geng, some were purely private letters, while others were for the official business of exhorting King Yan. Chang Geng was very experienced. Before opening the envelope, he knew whether it was public or private - Gu Yun's public affairs were usually only thin. A thin piece of paper, a few words. When he took the letter from the Xuanying messenger, he was a little disappointed for a moment, because it was very thin, so there must be no private words.
Chang Geng casually instructed Xuan Ying: "Gu Shuai may not know yet. I'm going back to Beijing today. The matters in Jiangbei have been handed over. Please go back and let me know."
Said that he did not shy away from opening the letter in front of everyone.
There was really only one piece of paper on it, with a hand drawn on it, and Gu Yun wrote a line: "Send a palm to Jiangbei, and measure for me whether Yiren's belt is ever wider."
Inexplicably, everyone looked at King Yan for so long, and then his face turned red.
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