"Junhou, those Yue Wu have all been killed!"

Heifu nodded, it happened suddenly, the terrifying scene was unexpected, but fortunately, Sang Mu flew over and reached out to help him block it. Mulberry was wearing thick armor, and the little snake's fangs were only pierced into the leather bracers on his hands, and he later learned that this was a highly poisonous snake, and if he was bitten, he would die one day, which scared Heifu into a cold sweat.

Needless to say, this must be the poisonous plan of the Minyue people, and with a wave of his hand, the ten Yue witches who had sent the heads of Wuzhu were all arrested and interrogated one by one.

"You can go to the snake cave in the palace and take a look." Lao Yuewu, who was knocked out of his teeth and had a mouthful of blood, said.

At this moment, Heifu is leading the army into the "palace" of Dongye City, after the incident of Fang Cai, the short soldiers are extremely cautious, and every bush must send a person wearing leather boots to step on it, and hit it with a knife, for fear that a snake will burst out again.

The name of this place is the palace, in fact, it is just some dwarf dry column buildings, but it can be clearly seen that their pattern is a circle, in the center of the circle is a large wooden snake, in front of the snake's head, there are several deep pits of length and width of ten paces, made of bricks and stones, before approaching, there is a smell of fishy......

Take a closer look, the situation inside is terrifying: there are countless snakes and insects at the bottom of the pit, or green dragons as thick as a human waist, or cobras as thick as children's arms, and more are small and colorful poisonous snakes as small as fingers, golden krait, silver krait, lily snake, bamboo leaf green, illuminated by the light of torches, crawling to the corners, revealing only the white bones in the middle.

Seeing this situation, even the Dongmen leopard, known as a brave general and able to kill crocodiles, couldn't help but take a step back and scolded: "Does this Fujian people like to play with snakes so much? ”

Heifu also felt panicked, glanced at the giant snake statues and the snake patterns on the buildings everywhere in this "palace", and said:

"Fujian, Southeast Yue, snake species, this Minyue people, originally a tribe that worships snakes, but I didn't expect that they would be obsessed with this."

Heifu remembered that Mei Hong had told him that the Lingnan Zhuyue had the same ancestor, divided into "twelve kingdoms", and each had its own beast gods to worship. Among them, there is a group that worships snakes, which is the Min people, who moved into Fujian and became the main ethnic group in the local area. Later, the descendants of Goujian, the king of Yue, fled to this place and became the ruler of the Min people, but also inherited the local worship of snakes and regarded snakes as mascots.

Local aristocratic women often use carved snake hairpins to decorate their hair, while men depict snake lines on their faces......

Every seventh day of the seventh month of the Central Plains, a huge "snake god" will be held in Dongye City, Fujian men, women and children will catch a snake, or grasp it in the hand, or wrap it around the arm, or coil around the neck, and even kiss with the snake, dance with the snake, the scene is very peculiar. And the king of Minyue will also wear a snake crown on his head, and let people carry a huge wooden snake statue and walk around the city.

According to the confession of the group of Yue witches, yesterday, the king of Minyue did not see that he lost the water battle and was about to be destroyed, so he fled back to Dongye alone, and pinned his hopes on the snake god he worshipped......

"Look at the big snake."

Heifu pointed to a big python lying at the bottom of the pit that was full and sleeping: "The abdominal circumference is very thick, probably just devoured people, listening to those Yue Wu said, when there is no despair, he actually threw his wife and son into the pit and sacrificed to the snake god, so that the Yue Wu practice, hoping to arouse the snake ...... in the Min River."

Snake repair, this is the name of the snake god revered by the Min people, its color is black, green head, it is said to be able to swallow elephants, digest for three years, before spitting out bones.

In the legend of the Central Plains, this monster has long been shot by Hou Yi, but in the mythology of the Min people, the snake meanders southeast, crawling over Wuyi Mountain, and the Min River is its incarnation. The descendants of the snake also sleep at the bottom of the Min River, once the king of Minyue sacrifices with the blood of a living person, it will wake up, flick its tail, it can make the Min Sea boil, open its big mouth, and swallow thousands of troops......

Wu Zhu threw his wife and children to feed the snake, praying that the giant snake would emerge from the Min River, wipe out the Qin fleet in one fell swoop, and save the dangerous Minyue.

It's a pity that this is the plane of reality, the Min River is calm and calm, and the Qin people cross by boat in the early morning.

After waiting for a night, Wuzhu became even more desperate, and then committed suicide, and threw his body into the snake cave, and his head was stuffed by Yue Wu with a poisonous snake that he didn't know how to use, and he was stunned, in a vain attempt to pull the commander of the Qin army on his back when offering his head.

"It's vicious!"

Dongmen Leopard and the others heard this, and they shouted to throw some torches and firewood down and burn this poisonous snake full of holes!

"It's a pity to burn to ashes, it's better to make snake soup."

After being beaten seven times by Dongmen Leopard, Mei Kai, who finally became honest, came over to suggest that others were horrified when they looked at the snake, but he salivated.

"Nanyue people not only eat Minyue people, but also like to eat snakes, we cook snake soup in their way, it is delicious!"

Seeing everyone's disgust, Mei Kai was very surprised: "There are people who don't like to eat snakes?" ”

Bo Lujia, who is still the master of the black husband, coughed lightly and told Mei Li a story.

"When the king of Chu Wei, there was a person who ordered Yin to be high-minded, and after the Qi people, he betrayed the country and entered Chu, and was convicted, so he was released in Nanyue, and he was supreme and solid for three generations, and there was no doubt about the Yue people. After Gao Gu traveled north to Qi, the snake was made into bacon as dry food, after arriving in Qi, the master of Qi was very hospitable, so Gao Gu took out a pattern pit viper jerky and gave it to the master as a reward, the master was so frightened that he turned around and left, Gao Gu thought that the master disliked the gift was thin, so he ordered the messenger to find the biggest poisonous snake to give to the master......"

This is a ridiculous story, the cultural difference between the north and the south is so big, the heavy taste of the South Vietnamese people, let alone the Qi people, even the Dongmen Leopard and others in Nanjun can't understand it.

Therefore, Mei Kai's love for snake soup can only be appreciated by herself.

At this time, Xiao Licang came over to offer a plan.

"The prince and the donkey have no sympathy agreement, after the destruction of the Wuzhu, Qin has Dongye, and the rest of the places are all uncompromised. However, the people of Dongye Fujian worship snakes, and there are many snake king temples in the city, if there is a witch to incite it, I am afraid it is not conducive to us. ”

He suggested: "It is better to follow the example of Ximen Leopard Zhiye, throw all the Yue Wu into the snake cave, and then destroy the snake king temple in the city, and make a decree to strictly prohibit the Fujian people from feeding snakes." ”

This involves the question of how the Qin army will govern Dongye City in the future, Li Cang learns the laws and decrees, so his thinking is biased towards the general Qin officials, and if it is not pleasing to the eye, it is enough to prohibit it with an order.

But as soon as Li Cang's voice fell, Lu Jia put forward a different opinion.

"The subordinates thought it was not appropriate to abandon it suddenly."

Dongmen Leopard has always been xenophobic, and when he saw Lu Jia, an outsider, come in and propose, he frowned and said, "How can you allow a little relocation master to intervene here!" ”

Heifu stopped Dongmen Leopard's rudeness and looked at Lu Jia: "You can talk about it." ”

Lu Jia said: "It is a good thing to change customs, Fujian people worship snakes and build more obscene shrines, it should be slowly easier, but this custom has been circulated in Fujian for a long time, and it is difficult to return, so it is not appropriate to force it to be reversed by decree." It is important to know that laws and regulations are forbidden for a while, while indoctrination is permanent. If the disciples do not educate the law first, they will abandon the original and the end. The ancients were good at being kings, barbarians were anti-tongues, special customs, and different habits were all obeyed, and they were virtuous...... I also hope that the prince and the marquis will check it. ”

Li Cang said: "Mr. Lu, don't you Confucians often say that you only hear of those who use Xia to change to raze, but not to change to those who are razed?" ”

Lu Jia said with a smile: "That's Mencius's words, he said this, he was satirizing Xu Xing, a peasant from Chu State, and he was a barbarian with a dove's tongue and bird's language, unfortunately, although I studied Confucianism, I was also a 'barbarian' in Chu, so I didn't dare to agree." ”

Mencius is indeed a regional black, and the Confucianism that Lu Jia learned is not the Qilu system, but the Lanling system that is deeply influenced by Xunzi, and at the same time there is a certain Huang Lao thought, so even if it is not pleasing to the eye, it is inclined to "cultivate its teachings and customs", and it is recommended to change it subtly and slowly.

Xiao Tao, who had finished arranging the sentry post in Dongye City, happened to come back, and after hearing the argument between Li Cang and Lu Jia, he also said: "I thought that Lu ...... Lu Sheng is right. ”

Xiao Tao stammered and told Heifu about the local customs he had witnessed in South Vietnam: the Yue people were vulgar and worshipful of gods, and they were extremely superstitious. Sometimes, the Qin army killed its ruler and mausoleumed its tribe, and the Yue people did not resist much. But once they destroy their temples and altars, or even step on a frog and kill a crocodile, it will cause an uproar. In the first invasion of Vietnam, many local garrisons were besieged by the Yue people, just because of these inadvertent trivial things.

But for the Yue people, this is a great evil that violates the taboo.

"Now that the Min people are afraid of the army of the princes, they have surrendered and killed the disobedient. But...... However, if the snake temple is destroyed, the Fujian people will complain, and the garrison left behind may face endless resistance from the locals. ”

"Xiao Tao's words are reasonable, the past does not forget the teacher of the future, the mistake made by the first time can not be made again!"

Indeed, as Xiao Tao said, it is more sensitive to this group of barbarians than to be conquered and to touch faith.

He then asked the crowd three questions.

"What are we here for?"

"Is it to change customs and let the decree penetrate into every household in Fujian?"

Li Cang was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head.

"Is it to promote education and make Fujian the coastal Central Plains, the hometown of Confucianism?"

Lu Jia was a little embarrassed and admitted his mistake.

Heifu said: "No, we are just lonely soldiers who have gone deep into foreign lands. He was about to use Dongye as a stronghold, so that the Min people could honestly surrender, help the Qin army work, and even serve as the vanguard of the attack on South Vietnam, nothing more. ”

As a general, you can't just think about attack, but also politics, but what's worse is that you forget your own job one by one!

Heifu spread his hands: "Therefore, what changes customs, promotes education, and changes the Xia into Yi, that is the matter of the magistrates sent by the imperial court in the future, and it has nothing to do with us!" ”

So although he was almost bitten by a snake, he would not be angry with the local faith.

Heifu was even thinking about whether the local snake-worshipping custom could be used by himself.

Superstition was an obstacle to the magistrate's governance, but for Hef, the "conqueror", superstition could sometimes be his help!

Looking at the head of Dongye City, the gradually rising flag, Heifu had an idea......

……

On the third day of Dongye's change of hands, all the Yue Wu who were loyal to Wuzhu were secretly executed.

However, Heifu forbade the Qin soldiers to invade the snake temple inside and outside the city, and also asked the donkey to find a group of highly respected Yue Wu around Dongye......

The big and small Yue Wu gathered on the edge of the snake cave, and was surprised to find that the snake cave here was not only intact, but even repaired, and the generals of the Qin Dynasty also let people throw pigs and cattle down to feed the hungry snakes.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Heifu appeared, stood under the statue of the snake, pointed to the red dragon that was unfolded on the ground, representing his status as a "prince", and said to the Yue Wu with a pleasant face:

"Don't you know that I also worship snakes!"