Chapter 818 How is Luo's family doing now?
The Luo family of Winter City knew nothing about what happened in Central Plains.
On the vast river, the sparkling water meanders towards the distance, with white waves rolling up and down. On both sides are lush jungles and overgrown weeds. This is a deserted place, and naturally there is no wide straight road connecting it.
Dozens of sturdy men with bare upper bodies were riding boats on the river and in the water, holding fishing nets and knives and forks in their hands. Water droplets fell on them, sparkling in the sun. The explosive lines made them look full of power. Almost all of them were over eight feet tall. One of them pulled the boat and rushed against the waves, roaring loudly like a tiger, shaking the mountains and forests.
In the mountains and forests north of Winter City, there were dozens of men running wildly in the mountains in groups. Their bodies were as agile as monkeys, holding hunting spears and bows and arrows in their hands. Almost everyone was followed by an extremely ferocious dog, which was as tall as a man when standing up. These dogs ran everywhere in the mountains, driving their prey one by one. The mountains and forests were full of the barking of dogs and the roars of these men. The young animals were let go, and the prey that were gradually entering old age fell into the hands of these people.
"Chief, the traces of the tiger are here!"
This news made the group of people cheer immediately. Only one animal could bear the title of mountain king, and that was the so-called Siberian tiger in later generations.
In this era, the number of Siberian tigers is extremely large, and they are everywhere in the vast mountains and forests.
For any person who enters the jungle alone and faces a Siberian tiger, the only outcome is death.
But with so many people from the Luo family going into the mountains together, and carrying bows and arrows and spears, they were naturally not afraid of the Siberian tiger, a non-gregarious animal.
and.
The leader of the Luo family took out a whistle and blew out a slightly sharp sound. After an unknown amount of time, accompanied by an earth-shaking roar, a Siberian tiger half a person's height and nearly ten feet long walked out in front of everyone. Blood was still dripping from its mouth, and it was obvious that it had just been hunting for food, with a full fishy smell.
But after it appeared, it did not attack anyone. Instead, it walked in front of the whistleblower with vigorous steps, and then slowly lay on the ground. The whistleblower touched its head, put the soil in his hand in front of its nose, and said with a smile: "One of your kind appeared here. We are here for him. Take us to find him."
The Siberian tiger roared softly a few times, stood up and leaped towards the forest. More than 30 wolfhounds followed immediately. In a moment, the forest was filled with flying dust, and a group of people followed.
The Luo family came to the mountains for one reason: hunting. The Luo family had a large number of hunting dogs, so hunting was very efficient.
The second purpose was to clear out the dangers in the surrounding mountains, and the king of beasts, the tiger, was naturally the first to be targeted.
The reason why the Luo family was able to tame a ferocious beast like a tiger was naturally not because of those animal taming techniques. The success rate of those animal taming techniques was not high, and when facing a wild and difficult-to-tame beast like a tiger, the failure rate was very high.
Luo inherited the ability to communicate with birds in the sky and fish in the water from Xi Shi and Wang Wenjun. The only thing she lacked was the ability to communicate on land.
Although the Luo family paid a huge price to conquer the Hu people, they did gain some benefits. Not to mention the increase in the imperial fortune, the Luo family also obtained a magic weapon similar to the Heart of the Medical Sage. This magic weapon extracted the stunning talents of Xi Shi and Wang Wenjun, and evolved them into a magic weapon called the Heart of Nature.
[Earth Rank·Heart of Nature (the embodiment of nature, the master of all spirits): The person who holds this artifact can bless people every once in a while, allowing them to gain the ability to communicate with animals and become true children of nature.]
This kind of clairvoyance is certainly not learning animal language, but a rather peculiar ability that can change the wild and unruly thinking of animals. It is certainly much inferior to the beauty that can make fish sink to the bottom of water and geese fall to the ground, but this thing can be bestowed on many people, which is much better than talent.
It is quite difficult to obtain survival supplies when fishing and hunting in Liaodong, but the Luo family has the artifact Heart of Nature, so they can survive here relatively well.
With the help of the magic weapon, the Luo family slowly transformed the tigers in the surrounding mountains into their spiritual beasts. With the protection of these spiritual tigers, the hunters who came to hunt were much safer.
What limits the number of spiritual beasts of the Luo family now is not the number of tigers, but the number of people in the Luo family who are blessed. So every time a person is blessed, they will set out to the mountains to find an animal such as a tiger to tame.
As for the hounds, there is no need to say much. They are animals that are very easy to tame. These hounds open their eyes under the illumination of the Heart of Nature when they are born and are the most loyal companions of the Luo family.
The Luo family in Liaodong is different from what most people in the Central Plains think. The conditions here are indeed difficult, but the Luo family is not in a situation where it is difficult to survive. The strong physical fitness, superior civilization system, and magical weapons with infinite power make the Luo family fundamentally different from the Hu people who once lived here.
From the time when the Hu people were defeated until now, the number of Luo's people has been decreasing, but that is because the elderly are constantly dying, and there are three generations of people who died. Considering the proportion of the youngest population, it is very normal.
According to Luo's estimation, the population of Winter City will eventually enter a stable period at around 50,000 to 60,000 people, and will neither decrease nor increase significantly.
Outside Winter City, water wheels continuously pump water from the river and then irrigate the ground. The Luo family built a large number of water conservancy facilities around Winter City. These criss-crossing ditches together with various water wheels and mills constitute the current land of the Luo family.
With large-scale breeding, fishing and hunting, the Luo family does not need a lot of land to feed tens of thousands of people. A large amount of things are pickled and stored. It can be said that even if there is a severe drought for two consecutive years and there is no harvest, no one in the Luo family will starve to death.
It is indeed difficult to survive in Liaodong, but as long as people like the Luo family can solve the problems of cold, fertility and disease, the resources here are so rich that they are an inexhaustible treasure trove.
In Winter City, the current head of the Luo family was wearing a somewhat old robe. The current Luo family had no means to make silk, mainly because of the lack of raw materials and the road to the Central Plains had been cut off. The robes left in the inheritance ring could be said to be one less piece after another, so the robes he was wearing were very old and he had never changed them.
The current head of the Luo family does not have anything important to do. The Luo family is still in the throes of breaking through the destiny of the Hu people, and they have lost the blessing of their ancestors. Now even their direct descendants have died young or have mediocre talents.
However, the Luo family has come to this point and has become completely united. The mediocrity of their direct descendants is nothing, and there are always two or three people in each generation with good talents.
The head of the Luo family prayed in the ancestral temple as usual, just like in the past years, and silently felt the increase and decrease of the family's wealth.
In a place he had never seen, the Luo interface in the system was also constantly changing.
[Ancestors: Ji Zhao, Luo Zhao
Clan leader: Luo Xianren (59th generation grandson of the Luo clan of the Ji surname)
Title: None (Title is too low, -10,000 luck points per year to maintain the survival of the family)
Country: None.
Faction: Zhuxia.
Ability attributes:
Power struggle: 80; Governing the country: 82; Controlling people: 83; Command: 80; Military force: 74; Military strategy: 78; Cunning words: 84; Academics: 83; Charm: 95
prestige:
Family Reputation: Pillar of the National Dynasty (Branches: Jiangdong Luo Family, Yinghou Luo Family) (Unparalleled in the world; Awe-inspiring; Pillar of the National Dynasty; A wise man in the prefectures and counties; A wise family in the countryside)
The reputation of the head of the family: unknown (famous; well-known; emerging; newcomer; unknown)
Luck points: 2431527.
Artifacts
The only earth-level item is Sumeru mustard seed.
Earth level·heart knot.
Earth rank Heroic Spirit Card.
The only one on the Earth Rank: the Heart of the Medical Saint.
The only divine paradise on earth level.
The only place in the world is Yuanding.
The only earth-level book: human book.
The only earth-level ruler.
The only earth-level magic weapon.
Earth level, the heart of nature.
Xuanjie Qingshi.
The only god of the four seasons in the Xuan level.
Xuanjie: Good weather and good harvest.
Xuan level: Divine Talisman.
Xuan-level passerby card.
Xuan level, Divine Phoenix.
Talents: beauty that can make fishes sink, wild geese fall, the moon hide, national beauty, heavenly fragrance, gentleness, business luck, literary elegance, and goddess of Luo River.
Destiny Child (female): None.
Six-dimensional talent exceeds 90, ancestor blessing: none. 】
This is the present Luo family. It can be said that the data panel cannot reflect the weakness of the Luo family. The biggest problem is the loss of the title. The world without an emperor is not only a bad thing for the Xia people, but also for the Luo family. The title is only valid if it is conferred by the emperor. The relationship between the Luo family and the emperor can be said to be mutually beneficial.
But now the Luo family cannot leave the mountain. Luo Xianren kneels in front of the statue and kowtows to Ji Lingjun. Whether in reality or in the future, the Luo family must stay in Liaodong and watch their luck points decrease.
If he were to go out now, Luo would have to face an unknown future in a weak state. No one knew what kind of abnormal emperor he would encounter outside.
If the Luo family wants to come out, they must go all the way up to reach a new peak, instead of getting caught up in endless political struggles and wasting the last of the Luo family's strength.
The Luo family never thought that they could really scare anyone. The biggest characteristic of human beings is that they only remember to eat but not to be beaten, and they forget the pain once the scar has healed. Another characteristic of human beings is that if there are enough people, all kinds of strange people may appear.
When the Luo family was in the Central Plains, they killed countless people who had the audacity to marry Luo's daughters, including princes and grandchildren of the emperor. Many of them did not know who they were after getting drunk and spoke rudely. This kind of thing happened frequently. All these incidents made the Luo family wary of many things.
and.
The ancestors also did not support Luo's coming out now.
In the Nine Heavens Divine Realm, Ji Lingjun often wakes up and falls asleep again and again. She is the only person or god who can sense that Ji Zhao is not in danger.
The other half is naturally Luo Su who is slowly waking up.
Ji Lingjun believes that now is not a good time for the Luo family to come out, as the family is still in the stage where the destiny of the Hu people is backlashing against them, and the talents of the Luo family's descendants are not enough to stir up the world.
Moreover, she was able to see a lot of things on earth, especially when those people in Wei State prayed to the Goddess of Luo River, she had a slight understanding of what was happening in Wei State.
She looked at this indifferently, not only Ji Zhao, she was also quite curious, what would the world be like if the Luo family was gone?
The result now made her somewhat dissatisfied, but it was also within her expectations.
She was still wearing a black gown with a golden phoenix pattern, which made her skin look white and translucent, just like when she was in charge of the government of Luo State. The peach blossoms in the sky fluttered at her fingertips, and then slowly fell to the ground, disappearing without a trace.
As her body moved, she floated lightly towards the center of the peach forest, where there were towering mountains. On the top of the mountains was a towering building, solemn and majestic, full of solemnity. It was naturally Valhalla.
Every time she came here, Ji Lingjun felt a little emotional. If it weren't for the fate of the Bang Zhou Phoenix, she should be in this temple now, in endless silence, waiting for the day to be awakened. How could she have the freedom she has now?
As she stepped into the hall, the first thing that caught her eye was naturally the only living statue in the hall, her ancestor from many generations ago, Luo Wen Gong Luo Su.
She walked forward and bowed respectfully, "Lingjun pays homage to the ancestors."
A lot of the stones on Luo Su's body had fallen off, and his entire body above the chest had turned into a real body, with only the part below the chest still made of stone.
Ever since his head completely melted away, he has often looked at this temple. His gaze seemed to be able to penetrate everything. Everything in this temple fascinated him. He saw his father, grandfather, brothers and sisters, his son, and countless people he knew or perhaps didn't know, but he knew that they were all descendants of the Luo family.
The Luo family's inheritance is really long, he felt a little emotional.
He knew that Bang Zhou had perished. When Ji Lingjun told him this, he felt a little sad, but he quickly accepted it. This was probably the law of nature.
Finally he started to study, he wanted to know what had happened all these years.
Looking at the extremely beautiful girl in front of him, Luo Su smiled and said, "Lingjun, you are here. What book did you bring for the ancestors this time?"
Luo Su likes reading, which contains endless wisdom. In this reincarnation, his talent in governing a country has almost reached the pinnacle in the world, but he is still not satisfied and wants to learn more. This is probably the biggest difference between smart people.
Ji Lingjun, who always looked down upon others, couldn't help but feel tremendous pressure when facing her extremely famous ancestor. This was something she had never felt before when facing her ancestor. Of course, the ancestor had always been quite doting on her, so it was normal for her to feel no pressure.
If I were to use a more vivid metaphor to describe it.
Just like she once said about the stupid Azhi, she felt stupid in front of this old ancestor.
Ji Lingjun said in a deep voice: "Ancestor, I didn't bring any books this time. I'll tell you about a few things that happened in the human world."
Then she told Luo Su roughly what had happened in the Wei State. Her expression was very solemn, but Luo Su did not react at all. This reaction was exactly the same as when he heard Ji Lingjun talk about Sima Yi violating the Luo River oath.
He just listened quietly, and then said calmly: "There is such a thing."
Although he found these things a little unbelievable, from his tone of voice, it was clear that he didn't take them to heart at all.
Perhaps because he saw Ji Lingjun was a little serious, Luo Su hesitated for a moment and said with a smile: "Lingjun, you are relatively young and born relatively late, so naturally you don't know about the early days of Bang Zhou.
My ancestors may not have told you how much effort our Great Zhou spent in order to eliminate the Shang Dynasty's culture of human sacrifice and ghost sacrifice. Even in my time, we were still fighting for this matter.
In the end, the world went from the bloody and ignorant Shang Dynasty to our Great Zhou Dynasty full of etiquette and gorgeous costumes.
Where in this world is there anything chosen by God that can be carried out according to our will?
Just let them make noise.
So what if the whole world turns upside down?
Now all that holds me back are these stones.
The day I return to the world, the holy light will shine upon the world, and all the rebels and thieves will be recorded in history, and the rivers and streams will be like this forever. "
Luo Su's voice was not loud, but it was full of infinite power. He casually said, "Let them make a fuss," as if he was watching children fighting. But in fact, it was the most powerful people in the world who were wantonly trampling on the moral and political bottom lines.
He scoffed at the destruction and did not think that these would be difficult tasks. He believed that as long as he was born, he would be able to clean up the ruined mountains and rivers, just like he had lifted Bang Zhou back from the brink of crisis.
He is stronger now, so what does he have to worry about?
Tiny cracking sounds were heard all the time in Valhalla, and tiny pieces of stone fell from Luo Su's body. He was reading a book in his hands. He never moved, but the whole Valhalla seemed to move with his breathing.
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Naturally, no one knew what happened in Liaodong. Both sides were unaware. One side did not know what kind of situation the Central Plains had entered, and the other side did not know that the Luo family was actually living well in Liaodong and had not fallen into the difficult situation of survival that they had imagined.
After leaving the palace and getting on the carriage, Murong Ke of Yan sighed slightly. When he was in the palace, although there was no big problem with the attitudes of the Queen Mother and the Emperor, politically, no one would reveal their attitude so easily, and he was naturally sensitive and felt something different.
First of all, the emperor's attitude has changed slightly. The reason why Murong Ke can now govern so stably is inseparable from the emperor's trust in him. Although the emperor is young, he is the emperor after all. If he openly opposes Murong Ke, then Murong Ke will definitely step down, unless he is willing to rebel. There is no doubt about it.
The incident of regicide by clan members in Wei State finally made the emperor change his mind. However, because Murong Ke had a strong reputation and the emperor had a very high favorability towards Murong Ke, he did not destroy the Great Wall by depriving Murong Ke of his power, but acquiesced to the Queen Mother's division of Murong Ke's power.
Then came the Queen Mother. Murong Ke's evaluation of her was that she was a woman in the deep palace who only wanted to gain some benefits for her family and had no long-term vision. Before, the Queen Mother had been suppressed by Murong Ke and no longer mentioned dividing Murong Ke's power, but now she started again.
The reason why she let Murong Ke share power with others was because Murong Ke's power was difficult to deprive him of, and dividing power was already the best outcome.
The Queen Mother did not specify any specific persons for Murong Ke to appoint, but her words implicitly mentioned foreign relatives and old nobles of the Yan State. Many of those people were the Queen Mother's people, so behind the Queen Mother's seemingly fair words, there were calculations of interests.
Speaking of this, we have to mention a unique political feature of the Yan State, that is, the powerful military nobles of the Yan State. These people followed the previous generation of the royal family, the Yan family, from Liaodong to the Central Plains. The Murong family was once a member of this military noble family. The difference is that the Murong family is very powerful.
In Liaodong, the Yan clan was not much stronger than the Murong clan, and the status between the two was not that different. In the eyes of many old Yan people, it was nothing that the Murong clan usurped the throne of the Yan clan. In the past years, it was not the Yan clan that always led the old Yan people. It was just that the superior and inferior clans were divided when the country was founded.
Until now, the former Yan family, which was later changed to Dai by Murong Chengguang, is still one of the most powerful families in the Yan State.
These old Yan people enjoyed political privileges in the State of Yan, and many of them stood on the opposite side of Murong Ke. It was not a complete opposition, but it was just because Murong Ke rose too quickly, which made many people unhappy, so they stood on the side of the Queen Mother, who also came from these old noble families.
Murong Ke's wife came from a prominent Han family and he married a noble daughter of the Lu family. This branch of the Lu family was originally moved here by Yuan Shao. Later, one branch was moved to Youzhou and took root in Youzhou.
In today's world, after suffering successive heavy blows, the Linzi Lu family and the Jimo Lu family had long chosen to merge their clans and chose Linzi, the birthplace of their ancestors, as their county of origin.
It is now one of the largest aristocratic families in Shandong, and the only ones that can be compared with it are a few families such as the Jiangdong Luo family.
Although the Liaoxi Lu family is not as good as the Linzi Lu family, it is also considered a first-class clan in the world. It's just that in the Yan State, aristocratic families are not particularly valued, and it is difficult for them to hold top official positions, so they seem a little insufficient.
Murong Ke's paternal family, maternal family, and wife's family were not old aristocrats of the Yan State. This was actually intentional by Murong Chengguang and Emperor Huan of Yan. Even Murong Chengguang knew the reason. It was simply that although the old aristocrats of the Yan State had made great contributions to the Yan State, if the country wanted to function normally and become a dynasty, more people had to be involved in the governance of the country.
If only the old nobles of Yan State hold high positions, then Yan State has no future. In this case, Murong Ke, who was chosen by the two to govern, cannot have too much involvement with these people. Therefore, choosing a woman from a prominent family for Murong Ke is the best result.
Murong Ke had always been doing things according to the wishes of Murong Chengguang and Emperor Huan of Yan. But at this moment, he finally felt the difficulty. The woman his brother married became his biggest obstacle.
What will Dayan look like in the future?
The carriage rumbled through Jicheng. He closed his eyes, but he didn't know it.
How many ancestors in this world have struggled for countless years, but in the end were ruined by their descendants in one day?
In this era of great contention among many nations, if you don't move forward you will fall behind.
Why are kings who start businesses always greater than kings who maintain the status quo?
Why are those who start a business called ancestors, while those who maintain the business can only be called patriarchs?
Because a king who maintains the status quo does not encounter competition, a mediocre king who maintains the status quo will only cause the country to decline. In a world of great contention, a mediocre king will cause the entire country to fall into an irretrievable situation, or even directly destroy it.
Murong Ke knew that he was still young, and he wanted to unify the world in his lifetime. If the plan went well, it would be possible.
When he took control of the State of Yan, he realized that Emperor Gaozu of Han and Emperor Guangwu of Han were able to unify the world in just a few years and ten years respectively. They were so incredibly powerful.
In just a few years, he fought in Hedong alone!
Murong Ke certainly knew that this kind of analogy could not be used. After all, the situation faced by Emperor Gaozu of Han was completely different from his own. Emperor Gaozu of Han faced scattered princes, while he faced a complete country.
The situation similar to his current one should be the situation during the Warring States Period, when it took the Qin State a hundred years to complete unification.
But Murong Ke felt that he could not wait that many years. He must unify the world for the State of Yan during his lifetime. Otherwise, looking at the current appearance of the Queen Mother, he was worried that after his death, the Queen Mother would do something strange, and he would regret it for the rest of his life.
What happened in the palace gradually spread, and the whole Jicheng was looking at Murong Ke, waiting for Murong Ke's reaction.
Murong Ke solemnly issued a conscription order, announcing to all the nobles in Jicheng that a new round of war was about to begin.
"Since ancient times, there has never been a king who was appointed by heaven who did not conquer the world. Now, Your Majesty has divined that Great Yan will win the next war. At this time, news has come that the people of Wei have murdered their king. I believe that God will begin to dislike Wei.
Now is the time for Great Yan to forge ahead. We have defeated the Wei people many times in Hedong, making them bleed to death in Hedong. The Yan people have gained glory from this. In the name of the Grand Marshal of the Western Expedition, I am calling on the warriors of the entire Great Yan. "
The re-emergence of war instantly interrupted all undercurrents in Yan State. For Yan State, a country that still relied mainly on military achievements, nothing was more important than fighting, and political struggles had to be put aside for later.
Murong Ke himself served as the commander-in-chief of the Western Expedition, commanding all the soldiers to attack Hedong. He had to leave Jicheng temporarily. As the situation gradually changed, a new idea emerged in his mind. He wanted to leave double insurance for the State of Yan.
To prevent the State of Yan from being devastated by the sudden unrest.
Of course, there is some selfishness in this, but that is human nature.
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Between the White Mountains and the Black Waters, there is the Luo tribe. A Hu person said: The tribe is good at controlling eagles, tigers, and even snakes. They are all three feet tall, with green faces and fangs. They are strong enough to move mountains, and their voices are like the roar of a tiger and thunder. They live in the cold winter. - "Miscellaneous Notes of the Hu Cong"
(End of this chapter)
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