Chapter 777 I am willing to save the world with my blood!
The City of Winter was built on the hills, with the houses arranged around the center, where the Luo Palace and Valhalla are located. The ancestral temple is set up in the city on the mountain. The so-called Luo Palace is just some slightly cramped houses. Most of the Luo family have only migrated here for a few years and have not yet built a magnificent city.
In front of the Hall of Heroes, the Luo clan and other clans all knelt before it. The increasingly aged Luo Chen held the magic staff and said solemnly: "Ten years of frost have finally forged a bitter winter. All the heroic souls have gone. Our clan has erected a beacon in the extreme cold and darkness of the far north. The light of the Su Wang will shine on the northern border. Rest in peace, rest in peace!"
Tens of thousands of people bowed their heads, folded their hands and praised in unison, "The spirit of the Su King is in heaven, his glorious name will last for thousands of years.
The descendants will enjoy great light, and the blessings will continue for a long time."
Just as everyone finished chanting in unison, they chanted three more times. Luo Chen was about to step down from the altar, but he suddenly stumbled. His body first swayed as he tried to stand firm, and then he fell straight down. This sudden change shocked everyone. It was not until the divine staff fell to the ground with a heavy sound that Luo You reacted. He rushed directly to the altar, helped Luo Chen up, and shouted: "All the tribesmen return to their houses and settle down."
The crowd had to disperse, anxiously waiting for news from Luo Palace. Three days later, when the bell hanging in Luo Palace rang dully, everyone knew the ending: the head of the family had indeed passed away.
Luo Chen served as the head of the family for ten years. Soon after he succeeded to the throne, he went to Liaodong and had not seen his people for five years. After another five years, the Luo family moved here. His greatest achievement was to establish Winter City. After all the Luo family members moved to Winter City, he died suddenly. It was really a matter of time and fate.
Those who made their families migrate to Liaodong were buried in Zhaocheng, and those who made their families settle in Liaodong died in an extremely cold place. Their funerals were not complicated but grand. Luo Chen never built a tomb for himself. He was buried in the south of Winter City, which meant looking back to the South.
Luo You's succession ceremony was also very simple. The high priest crowned him in the ancestral temple and then handed the sacred staff to him. It was so simple that it didn't seem like that of an aristocratic family with many rules and regulations passed down for thousands of years. Instead, it looked like a barbarian who casually put a crown on himself.
Luo You stood on a high place and looked at all his busy people, his father's last words echoing in his ears: "It is bitterly cold in winter, and it is very difficult to get food. I am not worried about grain, because although Liaodong is barren, its soil is very valuable. After a few years of cultivation, there will be no shortage of food. However, people can only survive by eating grain, and they must have meat. This is what my father is worried about. Feeding livestock with grain is not enough for horses, let alone chickens and ducks?
Winter is located in the far north, and the border with Yan is two thousand miles away. The journey is difficult and far away, and it is not worth going there for trade. You should inherit the throne, take the rivers and mountains, and encircle them, so that fishing and hunting can flourish, and cultivate farmland for crops, so that women and children will have no shortage of food. "
They never talked about the future of the family, never talked about whether King Su would return, never talked about how to control the Di Hu from all directions, they only talked about food, which showed how difficult the Luo family was. The large amount of food reserves brought by the migration of Winter made the Luo family worry-free for several years. However, once the immediate worries were solved, long-term concerns would arise. How to ensure the survival of the 100,000 people gathered in Winter was the only concern.
Thousands of men with bare upper bodies, covered with crystal sweat, were waving iron tools in their hands to split the soil. At the end of the ditch was a hub, which could bring river water here to irrigate farmland. Developing water conservancy was the only way to increase farmland yields. Looking outside the Winter City, there were many farmlands with ditches and ridges passing through them. The Luo family had manpower, technology, and tools to migrate, and the speed of reclamation was extremely fast.
On the bank of the river, there is also a group of big men holding fishing nets with large holes and riding on the river in small boats. When they see a school of big fish, they jump into the water and clap their arms to create waves. In the summer, even direct descendants of the Luo family can catch fish, and only in the severe winter cold do direct descendants need to use their talent for sinking fish to increase their chances of catching fish.
The mountains and forests outside the city of Winter are lush and green, with poplars, pines and cypresses everywhere, and large tracts of virgin forests. There are many jackals, tigers and leopards, and there is no shortage of carnivorous livestock. Dozens of young and strong men are divided into teams and go into the mountains to hunt. If it were an ordinary hunter, it would be difficult to find prey, but Luo's hunting team is usually led by a direct descendant. There are hundreds of Saker Falcons in Luo's hunting team now, and most of the prey are unavoidable. Luo also has armor, bows and crossbows, sharp weapons, and medicines, which are completely different from ordinary hunters. It may be biased to say that they are catching, but they should be considered as hunting. Even a tiger will be killed by an arrow.
After migrating to Winter City, apart from the fact that the winter was too harsh and some tribesmen died every year, everyone discovered that this was actually a place of abundant resources and the land under their feet was good for growing crops. What King Su said, that the Luo family would prosper in the White Mountains and Black Waters, was indeed good advice.
As expected, King Su was never wrong. The only pity was that the severe cold in Liaodong was not as warm as the Western Regions. Unless people lived in the Winter City where dozens of direct descendants of the Luo family worked together to keep warm, it was really difficult for ordinary people to survive in the extreme cold. Even the Hu people had to migrate to the mountains and forests further south to avoid the cold in winter.
In the Luo Palace, Luo You and a group of Luo clan leaders were discussing clan affairs. Luo Xiang, who had been tempered and was the most important, reported to Luo You first: "Brother, according to the hunting team's report a few days ago, most of the Liaodong land south of Winter City and north of Yan State has been occupied by the constantly migrating Hu tribes. The only trade route for our clan to Yan State has been completely cut off. Now our clan is completely isolated in the north. The situation is worrying. Some Hu tribes have noticed Winter City. They dare not come in the cold winter, but they may dare to come in the summer. Perhaps the war is about to start."
One of the main reasons why the Luo clan moved to Liaodong was because of the prophecy of the prosperity of the Hu people by the Emperor Su Wang. Luo You narrowed his eyes and said, "Since the prophecy of the Emperor Su Wang came out, what our clan can't figure out the most is how the Hu people will prosper and how our clan can suppress the Hu people. Now that the Hu people want to attack Lin Dong, we can test the quality of our clan and find a way to suppress the Hu people."
When Luo's warriors easily pierced through the Hu people, Luo You looked at the corpses all over the ground, there were as many as hundreds of them, and he shook his head. With the strength of these Hu people, they could not threaten the strength of Winter City at all, especially the warriors nowadays, who were even better than before after experiencing the bitter cold of Liaodong. The most obvious thing was that their bodies had become bigger. The only thing that surprised him was that some of these Hu people were indeed brave, and they could even break the armor with one hammer, but they were eventually surrounded and killed by the more organized warriors. War is never about bravery and fierce fighting, and even an enemy with thousands of people needs the protection of personal guards to kill the enemy.
"The Hu people acted without any rules, using the hunting techniques for military battles, which is why they suffered this defeat. These Hu people are not a concern. What can you see from this?"
Luo You first summarized the Hu people, and then asked others what they thought. Luo Xiang pondered for a moment and said hesitantly, "Brother, I feel that the most difficult Hu people are a little too brave. Even though the Liaodong Hu people are all quite brave, it's just a small tribe. There shouldn't be so many brave generals. It feels like the heaven and earth are united and the fortunes are surging."
Luo You had always felt something was wrong, and when he heard what Luo Xiang said, he felt that it hit the nail on the head. He gritted his teeth and said, "So that's how it is. Times create heroes, and heroes create times again. With the help of heaven, the Hu people prospered, and heroes emerged from the Hu people. Just like the heroic era at the end of the Han Dynasty in our country decades ago, heroes emerged from the Hu people, and naturally they were able to seize all the luck and create a more turbulent situation. Is this the reason for the prosperity of the Hu people?"
Heaven has really taken great pains to make the Hu people prosper when the Xia people are declining. It is really impartial. All things in the world have their ups and downs. Heaven is not only for the Xia people, not only for the Xia people. But this conflicts with the wishes of the Su King. Our clan has gone against the will of Heaven. We have no choice but to do so. Now let's see how many heroes can make the Hu people prosper to this extent, and who will win and who will lose compared to our Luo clan. "
Luo You's words were filled with reluctance, but everyone was shocked. They were all real high-ranking officials of the Luo Clan, and they knew that going against the will of heaven was not that simple. So far, the Luo Clan had only been halfway better than heaven, and there had never been anyone who could truly overturn the world. "Since ancient times, there have been many cases where a king has ruined a country, and there have also been many cases where a king has made a country prosperous. During the Zhou Dynasty, there were many countries. When there were wise kings and capable ministers, the country would not be defeated. When there were incompetent kings and treacherous ministers, the country would be destroyed. This was everywhere. We should be cautious. We need to wait and see whether the Hu people will prosper, but the Hu people should not attack Winter City directly again."
Luo's judgment was very accurate. The Hu people were not good at attacking cities. After trying, they found that Luo was very strong and the input and output were completely disproportionate, so they stopped organizing attacks.
As the first snow fell, white frost hung in the woods. The biting cold wind began to wander through the mountains and rivers of Liaodong. Deer leaped and galloped in the woods. The sound of arrows breaking through the air could be heard. Deer fell to the ground wailing. Many sturdy figures in fur coats ran out of the woods. Years of hunting made these people run like tigers and leopards with great momentum. Two of them threw the deer carcasses on the horses and washed the blood stains on their bodies with the snow on the ground. This trip was fruitful. Dozens of deer were captured, and more than a dozen of them were still alive. They should be able to be kept in the mountain city and become one of the treasures of the mountain warehouse for the Luo family to use. In winter, prey is scarce, and they need to store meat for the winter before the snow closes the mountain. Therefore, the Luo family hunting team hunts around the mountains on a large scale. With the population of Winter City, the prey in Liaodong is inexhaustible, and it will be impossible to eat them all in another hundred years.
The group was about to return to Winter City when they suddenly saw a group of dozens of people fleeing to the north. They saw that those wrapped in animal skins were the Hu people from Liaodong. These Hu people were strong and had amazing physical fitness. They only breathed slightly while running wildly, and had great endurance. They could climb over the forest and escape without making a sound even if they were injured. They were really a good source of soldiers.
The people chasing behind the group were also Hu people, riding horses and holding crossbows. After all, two legs were not as fast as four legs. The fleeing Hu people were eventually caught up and knocked to the ground. The Hu people lying on the ground still refused to surrender and shouted angrily: "As fellow tribesmen, why did you help those lowly Xianbei bastards to attack our tribe?"
"The Great Chanyu favored by the heavens, surrounded by the sun and moon, echoed by the mountains and rivers, supreme, was born to rule all the people under the heavens, and you are no exception. If you surrender, you will live, if you don't, you will die. That's all. There are already some people in the tribe who have become local kings. If you stay in a bitter and cold place like Liaodong, only death will be waiting for you in the end. Follow the Great Chanyu and wait until we invade the southern country, and you will get everything you want."
The members of the Luo family who were hiding were all horrified when they heard this. After these barbarians captured their people and left, they quickly returned to Winter City to report the news.
The Luo family naturally knew that a Xianbei tribe moved westward and prospered on the grassland, but they did not expect that the increasingly powerful behemoth would actually return to Liaodong to capture Hu people as soldiers. The ones who knew the Donghu's fighting power best were their own people. A steady stream of slave catchers captured Hu people from the ice and snow, and then armed them and sent them to the grassland to become the strongest warriors of the grassland empire. After putting on armor, these most courageous Hu people could fight ten people at a time and were not afraid of death. At a critical moment, a thousand people could overcome all difficulties and dangers. The Yan people were also capturing Donghu people to serve in the army. Now more than half of the Yan army are Hu people, who can fight hard and bloody battles, making the Han Kingdom suffer.
Luo You and the others sensed danger. Luo You took a deep breath and said, "The prosperity of the Hu people started with the arrival of the Heavenly Prodigy, and then the unification of the various tribes on the grassland. When Liaodong was also integrated, their power and fortune should have reached their peak. However, since the Mandate of Heaven has descended, their power is unstoppable. What should our people do?"
The high priest had read the Luo clan's classics for a long time, and said solemnly: "Obeying the order of the Su Wang Shang Huang and suppressing the Hu Ming is actually an act against heaven. In the history of our clan, there are roughly three ways to go against heaven. The first is the Divine Artifact of Heaven. The Su Wang Shang Huang said that the artifact has the power to go against heaven and can reduce the destiny of luck; the second is to exchange the life of the son of destiny. This method is used quite a lot. The destiny of the Zhou Dynasty was extended because of this, the destiny of the Xiongnu ended because of this, and the destiny of the Han Dynasty collapsed because of this, but the application of this method is unclear; the third is to repay blood with blood and life with life. , our Luo family is the descendant of the Su Wang, who is as great as the sky. Our Luo family has the destiny of heaven. Our blood is supreme and precious, and can resist the destiny of heaven. According to family records, in the past, during the reign of Duke Xuan of Zhou, there were brave warriors who offered blood to heaven, and the destruction of the destiny of heaven was reduced. During the war among the Xia people, our family was suppressed by the destiny of heaven and almost collapsed. Once this blood flowed, the shackles of the destiny of heaven loosened, and even heroes like Duke Wu appeared in the world. This is the method of washing the destiny of heaven with blood. The direct line should be first, otherwise it is useless. "
The high priest listed three methods to defy the will of heaven. Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. In fact, only one or three methods could be used. One was the family heritage, and the third was the heavy sacrifices and blood and tears. It was hard to describe. Luo You sighed slightly, and soon became resolute. "Since we have moved to Liaodong, what can't we give up? With the divine weapon and blood, I will save the world from collapse. I will start!"
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Liaodong is 1,800 miles long and 1,500 miles wide, a vast and fertile land, all occupied by various barbarians. Their influence grows stronger day by day, but the industry languishes in summer and is extremely cold in winter. A small boat on the vast ocean is as precarious as an egg on a pile of heaps, and is in danger of being overturned and ruined. - "Liaodong Records"
(End of this chapter)
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