Chapter 391 Demon Seed
"No matter what Zhaoming is planning in the dark, we must prevent and stop it."
Chen Danqiu said: "The Supervision Department needs to collect as much bronze wares as possible from the Yin and Shang period in various countries, especially those with inscriptions and oracle bone inscriptions. It is also necessary to search for alienated objects related to Yin Shang bronze wares in Dongjun Building.
Tantai Siye, come and organize the doctor to carry out research to see if we have missed any key information.
Cui Siye, please go to Hedong Road—there are many bronze utensils left by the aristocratic family, and the academy is willing to buy, rent, and exchange them."
When the head of the mountain went out, he said the same thing in the academy for offering wine,
After receiving the order, everyone turned around and left the office, except Xi Yangyu who was called down.
"Xi Siye, please stay."
Xi Yangyu paused, turned around, and asked calmly, "What's the matter with offering wine?"
Chen Danqiu sat back in his seat, and his gaze paused for a moment on Xi Yangyu's left arm sleeve, "Is your hand okay?"
"It's okay. Although I still have two headaches every three days, I still can't die."
Xi Yangyu smiled and sat down.
"I know that you are somewhat dissatisfied with Pu Liuxuan's return to the academy, but we need someone who understands Junqianzi and Junqianzi's way of thinking to stay in Chang'an."
Chen Danqiu waved his palm, called a hot water pot from the air, brewed two cups of hot tea, and said, "This is also the meaning of the head of the mountain."
"I understand, everything is for the country of Yu."
Xi Yangyu tried his best to hide the stiffness in his smile, "Is there anything else?"
"Well"
Chen Danqiu took a sip of hot tea, and said slowly: "Have you heard of the mind demon?"
"Mental Demon Seed?"
Xi Yangyu frowned, "Isn't that a legend from the former Sui Dynasty?"
During the heyday of the former Sui Dynasty, there was a rumor circulating in the southern part of the empire—a certain demon cult invented a special skill that could tamper with and distort people's minds.
Its name is "Magic Seed".
Those who have been subjected to demon seeds have no abnormal appearance, but their temperament has undergone tremendous changes. Their living habits, ways of thinking, and idiomatic language, etc., all seem to have changed their personalities.
Once the demon-seeded person starts to transform, he will slowly wither away and die as time goes by. As short as March, as long as half a year.
During this process, anyone who has a close relationship with the demons will risk being assimilated.
Many people claimed that people they knew were attacked by demon seeds. This rumor quickly spread to the entire Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and swept across half of the Sui Kingdom. Even the Sui Emperor had heard about it and ordered the court to investigate the matter thoroughly.
The people are panicked and worried about the appearance of demons around them. Spontaneously organized to expel the local unidentified beggars, monks and Taoists, and even abused lynching to execute them.
Some people took this opportunity to report that their enemies had been attacked by demon seeds, which immediately triggered a large-scale retribution of grievances.
Neighbors, husband and wife, father and son, master and apprentice...all turned against each other.
The last minister of the State of Yu stood up and led his troops to wipe out a demon cult entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, claiming that the source of the demon seed was dead, so he stopped the incident.
After the investigation, it was found that there were no so-called demons at all, and all of them were collective panic caused by rumors. For this reason, tens of thousands of Sui people were killed and injured, dozens of court officials were demoted and dismissed, and the annual tax revenue was reduced by 10%. The secondary disasters caused by the shutdown are even more difficult to calculate.
Emperor Sui issued an edict of sin against oneself, learned from the pain, and decided to establish an institution to educate the people of Yu State—that institution is the Academy.
This history is known to any academic doctor,
Chen Danqiu asked: "Do you think, from the perspective of reading and learning, is it possible for the mind demon to be realized theoretically?"
"this"
Xi Yangyu thought about it carefully, and said slowly: "Nianxue originated from the era of co-habitation of man and god, which is older than the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
The tribal shaman, by drinking the decoction, makes himself fall into a drowsy state, and communicates with the will of heaven and earth in his dream.
Foresee future weather changes and guide the relocation, farming and animal husbandry of the tribe.
Essentially, it is based on one's own heart and the heart of heaven.
It is the same as the current reading.
As for whether it is possible to use one's own heart to understand people's hearts, change the will of others, modify the personality of others, and even influence millions of people with the help of mental demons as rumored
I have no idea. "
Xi Yangyu said frankly: "Even if it is possible to realize it, it must be achieved by Linyuan, or even a higher level."
"Is this so?"
Chen Danqiu nodded thoughtfully. Seeing the slightly curious expression on Xi Yangyu's face, he smiled and flipped through the unfinished manuscript on the table, and said, "Recently I'm writing an article about the origin of the establishment of the academy. It talks about the part of the mind demon seed, so I asked you for a question.
By the way, I heard that your Da Lang is getting engaged soon? "
"Well, with the girl from the Zheng family."
Mentioning this, a smile appeared on Xi Yangyu's face. His eldest son has been courting a court lady who was born in the Zheng family in Xingyang, and has reached the stage of talking about marriage.
Xi Yangyu was born in a humble family, while the Zheng family in Xingyang belonged to the five surnames and Qiwang. If the marriage contract is established, it is regarded as a glorious lintel. Maybe in the next hundred years, the Xi family can also become a wealthy family.
Xi Yangyu and Chen Danqiu exchanged a few words, and after drinking a cup of tea, they got up to leave.
After he walked away completely and the door closed automatically, Chen Danqiu sat alone in the room, his smiling expression slowly retracting.
He picked up the unfinished article on the table, put it on his knees, and muttered to himself: "The mind demon, the mind demon"
As a school for offering wine, he can see far more information than the historians of Yu State, or folk scholars who study this historical event.
Mental demons are not simply collective delirium. It is true that some people were seeded by demons, their minds were changed, their personalities were modified, and they died in groups after three months. It's just that the final harm is not as extensive as the rumors say.
Since this mutation is real, will there be monks who have mastered this technique,
When life is about to come to an end, implement magic seeds on others, replace the minds of others with your own, so as to achieve... eternal life in a certain sense?
The sudden dissipation of the rumors of the mind demon has nothing to do with the appeasement measures taken by the Sui Dynasty court,
But because the cultivator who spread the magic seed in the dark had already obtained the desired result, he voluntarily stopped the experiment?
(end of this chapter)