Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 195 Monarch and Minister
He Bo was not very clear either.

Why was it that he could only make a black pottery jar out of the soil from the mountains, bringing extraordinary enjoyment to the dead ghost?

When we got to Sanjiangyuan,

What was molded out was a white pottery jar, which could also hold a person's soul, but not only would it not be consumed, it could also extend the existence of the soul.

At the source of the Three Rivers,

When He Bo is bored, in addition to providing special services to the cattle and sheep, he will also dig some mud to play with.

God has given humans extremely flexible fingers, which naturally makes "kneading mud" an innate talent for humans.

then,

He Bo had unknowingly accumulated quite a few small pottery jars.

The color produced by burning with normal flames is the common yellow earth color, but He Bo was lazy and used his magic power to directly sculpt the clay, which turned out to be white.

The former has no abnormality.
The latter can automatically absorb the ghosts of nearby deceased people.

How did He Bo know that?
That has to do with the ecology of the plateau!

Anyway,

Not all creatures that come to Sanjiangyuan to drink water are alive and well.

He Bo would not stop a normal predation behavior that occurs in nature.

Because sheep eat grass and wolves eat sheep, this is an established rule of nature.

What's more, this is a plateau where resources are not abundant.

When there are plenty of survival materials, only humans will commit cannibalism.

He Bo was sorting out the veins of Sanjiangyuan here, with many pottery jars piled up beside him.

There are white ones and yellow ones.

Some of the surfaces are outlined with patterns and pictures.

Subsequently,

He Bo frowned and noticed the changes in the small white jar.

Therefore, he realized that the soil at the source of the river was different from the mountain soil he had collected before.

This is naturally good news for He Bo.

Because he always has some friends who want to travel to faraway places to see the scenery.

And He Bo couldn't turn into a raging flood, wetting every corner of the world, and keep up with their pace.

After all, he has no intention of destroying the world.

in this way,

I can only find a way to ask my friends who left earlier to wait for me.

And Qu Yuan,
I was lucky enough to be the first ghost to be put into the small white jar.

But Qu Yuan did not think there was anything to be thankful for.

He sat on the ground, wet, looking sad, and said nothing.

He Bo told him, "Humph!"

"Now that you have fallen into my hands, it will be difficult for you to see the scenery of Chu in the future!"

"But I can let you meet an old friend from Chu!"

The ghost waved his hand, and the figure of King Chu Huai Xiong Xin appeared beside him.

This person died in Xianyang, Qin State.

His soul was naturally led by the ghost officials to the ghost country.

In the beginning,

King Huai of Chu was very happy. He felt that although he died in a foreign land, he was finally in the arms of "Donghuang Taiyi" and was cared for by Tubo.

Until he met King Huiwen of Qin and Zhang Yi who were traveling together in Haoli.

His happiness was gone in an instant, and his whole body began to tremble with anger.

The King and Prime Minister of Qin were also very surprised. They were so lucky to meet old friends while shopping.

But before they could react, King Huai roared and pounced on Zhang Yi.

King Huiwen of Qin rushed forward to stop them, and it turned into a fight.

Fortunately,

Finally the problem was solved satisfactorily -

Because Zhang Yi used his eloquent tongue to coax King Huai of Chu into submission!
King Huai of Chu, who was still naive even after King Hui's death, let them go lightly. Later, for some unknown reason, Zhang Yi asked King Huai of Chu to move his mansion near King Hui and make them neighbors.

Now it has been several years,
King Huai of Chu got used to the life in Haoli, and eventually he met his old friend again in the underworld.

He looked at the aging Qu Yuan and felt filled with guilt after learning the cause of his death.

After all, most of the exiles Qu Yuan experienced were ordered by him.

"Doctor Qu..."

"Ugh!"

King Huai of Chu didn't know what to say and could only let out a distressed sigh.

What happened in Chu State in recent years?
Of course he had heard about it, but ghosts and gods do not interfere in the human world, so what can a dead ghost like him do?
At most, he would climb over the wall and fight with King Huiwen of Qin.

Qu Yuan stared at him blankly for a long time. Finally, he could not bear it anymore and stepped forward to kowtow to King Huai.

With tears streaming down his face, he cried out:
"My king!"

King Huai hugged him and couldn't help crying.

"It's my incompetence. It's me who has failed you!"

He Bo stood quietly by the side, waiting for the king and his ministers of Chu to end their grief.

then,

He suggested, "Let's go drink!"

"I left my friends behind, and you guys got to meet again. Isn't that a good thing?"

"Even if you are sad, you can drink to relieve your sorrow!"

"Yeah!"

"I want to hold a banquet for you and apologize to you!"

During the years when he was detained in the State of Qin, the person King Huai felt most sorry for was Qu Yuan.

He is not as resolute as King Dao.

Though I outlive my ancestors,
But he is always easily influenced and has difficulty making decisions.

This also meant that Qu Yuan's "good politics" was only implemented at the beginning, and then it was abandoned, and he was subsequently exiled for many years.

Now that he was dead, King Huai felt that he could not blame anyone. He just held Qu Yuan's hand and wanted to take him back to Haoli to wash away the dust from the journey.

He Bo also put his hands behind his back and slowly followed over to eat.

King Huiwen of Qin, who lived next door, heard the sounds of stringed instruments and the aroma of fine wine in King Huai's house and wanted to go in for a taste.

But Gongzi Qian stopped him.

"This is a reception for the Sanlu doctors from Chu. If you go, I'm afraid you will become food on their table."

Qu Yuan's reputation
King Huiwen of Qin had also heard of it.

As for how he died,

Although it is not clear at the moment, how could King Hui not guess?

So he stopped and gave up his original idea.

At the banquet on the other side,
King Huai kept expressing his mistakes to Qu Yuan, and the two of them often hugged each other and cried bitterly.

At last,
King Huai drank several bottles of wine and fell on the table drunk.

Qu Yuan was also a little drunk, but in a short period of time, there were too many changes between life and death.

He couldn't fall asleep without any worries like King Huai, who had been dead for a long time and had let go of many things.

He just leaned on the table, holding an empty wine glass in his hand, and asked He Bo, "...How have the ghosts and gods been doing these years?"

He Bo smiled and said, "It's okay!"

“My goal will soon be achieved!”

The Qin State conquered Yingdu in the spring of this year.

On the plateau, He Bo finally sorted out the three major rivers. He could then grab the "thread" representing the Yellow River and pull it into his hands little by little, turning it into a ball of wool to play with at will.

So he returned to the underworld with ease, intending to say hello to the dead ghosts again and explain that he would have to slow down his pace afterwards.

Come back once a year,
All of that is impossible.

Anyone who has spun yarn knows that

Once the line is wound up, it is best to wind it up from beginning to end in one go.

In this way, the person who collects the line will feel at ease.

It took He Bo more than ten years just to sort out the sources of the three rivers.

Refresh the progress bar later.
It may also take a lot of time.

So He Bo decided:
He wants to put all his energy into conquering the Yellow River!
"Just don't slack off. When I come back, I will still use your paper and pen to learn about the movements of the human world!"

After telling about his next big plan, He Bo spoke to the two historians Gan and Shi.

Ghosts and gods like to read and collect classics. Many dead ghosts in the underworld know this.

As the leaders followed suit, the dead ghosts gradually became popular with this trend -

After all, there are always some dead ghosts who can rely on the long river of history and exist for a long time.

They sat and watched the clouds rolling in the sky, the ebb and flow of the tides in the rivers, and then recorded the movements of the world of the living.

That way, I can wait for the other person to die and then laugh at him!

Shi Shen pinched his beard and smiled, "Don't worry, I will print the books as soon as Qin delivers the books from Chu's storage room!"

When the Qin State conquered the Chu State's capital Ying, it did not burn the classics that were treasured in the Chu State's capital.

They simply followed the policy set by Shang Yang during the reign of Duke Xiao and moved all the classics to Xianyang in the Qin State.

When we arrived in Xianyang,
Naturally, it fell into the hands of the dead ghosts.

When the living rest in peace, the ghosts from the underworld will pop their heads out and reproduce the classics.

Gan De also said with emotion, "The collection that Prince Chao brought to Chu can finally return to the world."

The ghost officials in the underworld would occasionally, in accordance with the instructions of the ghosts and gods, spread some excellent tools and farming methods to farmers on both sides of the river.

In this case, I don’t mind passing on the events of the past to future generations.

Only if you know where you came from,

Only then can you know where you should go.

“I have also been able to take a peek at the Three Tombs and Five Classics and Eight Ropes and Nine Hills collected by the Chu State!”

Three Tombs, Five Classics, Eight Ropes, Nine Hills,
It is a historical book from ancient times, recording stories from the time of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

When the Western Zhou Dynasty was enfeoffed, the Zhou emperor specially gifted this set of books to the princes, hoping to tell them:
Though scattered among the Rong Mountains and Di Seas,
But don’t forget the examples of your ancestors!

But until now,

Too many princes were destroyed. How many countries that have passed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty can still preserve this set of books?
The Yan State was living in such a difficult situation that it did not even have the time to record its own history in detail, let alone protect this set of old books.

The states of Song and Wei were plagued by internal strife and, because they were weak, they were often bullied. Their capitals were destroyed several times and their classics had long been dispersed.

Only the Chu State,

After the founding of the country, it was generally stable and the national system was strong enough to preserve these books in the chaos.

after all,

The State of Chu has long been despised by the other states as "barbarians". If it cannot even protect its ancestors' things, it will really have to eat at the same table with the surrounding Vietnamese barbarians.

“I hope I can see these precious books next time I come back!”

He Bo clapped his hands and said.

then,

He went to check the work of the ghost officials and inspected the situation in the underworld.

He Bo said to Ximen Bao, "You are my prime minister of the underworld, you must manage it for me!"

Ximen Bao replied bluntly, "What are you talking about? Have you ever managed the underworld yourself before?"

The ghost immediately curled his lips and showed an angry look.

"You damned bastard, you have no respect for your master!"

"I'm going to favor someone else!"

The underworld is full of talented people, and Ximen Bao is one of them!
"As long as it's not Shang Yang!"

"Why can't it be him?"

"Because I'm worried that he'll change his ways in the underworld and end up being torn apart by five horses again!"

The dead ghosts in the underworld do not live as miserably as those in the world of the living.

The situation in the underworld is also controlled by ghosts and gods, and there is no division.

If they were to apply Shang Yang's laws to them, the ghosts would really "parade like a hundred ghosts at night" and beat Shang Yang until his soul was scared to death.

He Bo then burst into laughter.

(End of this chapter)