Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 473 The First Year of Yuanyan
Regarding the matter of what was delivered at the Taiping Road in the Qin state...
As God, He Bo knew nothing of this.

He remained seated atop the clouds, watching the flames of war raging all around—

After Zhou Jian met the Taiping Dao, who were preaching at Heming Mountain, he no longer felt lost about the future because he had an organization to rely on and scriptures to guide him.

He followed the Taiping Dao (the Way of Peace) and traveled to disaster-stricken areas of the Han Dynasty to provide relief and medical care.

In this process,

The medical skills that Zhou Jian learned from his teachers, as well as his own research on the diagnosis and treatment of external injuries, all originated from the medical skills of Xinxia and were integrated.

To know,
In the newly settled areas, excessive heat and moisture cause food to spoil easily.
Therefore, epidemics frequently broke out.

Even with the Ganges, a river so magically gentle that it welcomes countless divers while still providing a cleansing service for children on both banks against unseen poisonous insects,

It can only temporarily suppress the situation near the Ganges.

Therefore,
In the trials of the new summer, skilled healers often emerge, providing medical care and treatment for the people, including treating epidemics.

This also led to,
The Taiping Dao, which built its fortune and established its teachings through relief and free medical clinics, must develop superb medical skills!

There is no other reason,

Only one scroll!

at the moment,

Zhou Jian is absorbing the miraculous medical skills from Xinxia and improving his own strength.

He hopes to write a medical book after this.

Unlike the *Huangdi Neijing* and *Shennong Bencao Jing*, which teach people to identify internal ailments and grind and process herbs, this work is different.
The medical book Zhou Jian wanted to write was more about teaching people how to adjust their bodies after an injury in order to maintain their fragile lives.

He said to the Taoist priests of the Way of Peace, "We both feel that the world is about to descend into chaos."

"In chaotic times, everyone is busy and crying out, so where would they find the time to collect and prepare herbs?"

"I have no grand ambitions, nor the ability to heal the world. I only hope that my actions will allow more people to survive in the future."

As for what the aftereffects might be?

What do you mean by removing the surface but not the interior?

We'll talk about that after we've saved our lives!

"Once the medical book is finished, Taiping Dao will help you spread it!"

The Taoist priests agreed with Zhou Jian's idea and were willing to provide more help to the world.

"Then I'd better hurry!"

Zhou Jian smiled and said, "The Sichuan and Chongqing region is more remote than the Central Plains, and it still has a relatively stable and peaceful atmosphere."

"I want to take this opportunity to finish writing the medical book and then hand it over to you!"

After he finished speaking,
He grabbed his "medical kit" filled with nails, chisels, hammers and other tools, and set off to descend Heming Mountain to provide free medical treatment to villagers injured while hunting nearby.

He Bo watched him descend the mountain, then looked away.

The God who surveyed heaven and earth fell down and vanished as a gentle breeze.

……

"my God!"

When will you take over the Yangtze River?

When He Borun arrived in Lingnan
After getting a new mount, the local governor came to inquire about the progress of his business.

He Bo could only sigh and say, "Changjiang Zhenlie is still not enough to completely sway her heart!"

"waste!"

"Don't you know how to enforce this?"

Xiao Hebo sat on the back of a giant toad, a specialty of Panyu, and offered a disdainful critique of its original form.

"Where is your torrent, full of mud and sand?"

"Where is your determination to destroy what you can't have?"

"Where is your decisiveness in dealing with the Huai River back then?"

"Why should you lick the Yangtze River just because it has a lot of water?!"

He Bo, hands on his hips, told him, "How can the Huai River compare to the Yangtze River?"

The Yellow River, when it meets the Huai River, can completely overwhelm the other side.

But it flows into the Yangtze River...

Is it rushing up to become a tributary of the latter?
"I have my own procedures!"

"Don't disturb my cultivation!"

He Bo dismissed the clone without any politeness.

He stretched out his finger and poked the rear of the latter's mount.

The toad immediately started hopping around.

Carrying the chattering ghosts and spirits on its back, it jumped directly into the lake next to it.

Xiao Hebo was very angry.
After struggling to surface, they will commit those wicked acts of insubordination.

then,

He Bo, whose schizophrenia was getting worse, rolled from the world of the living into the world of the dead.

He grabbed Xiao Hebo, who was standing with his arms crossed and looking defiant, and tried to wash his face with the icy cold water to show him how powerful he was.

As soon as I squatted down by the Weak Water,
Then a basket drifted by.

He Bo went over and picked up the basket, and found a small, obviously newborn baby lying inside.

"Quickly pass through the cycle of reincarnation!"

"I wonder if this kid has ever seen the world with his eyes open, given how fast he moves."

While the real Jiang Liuer was out retrieving the ghost version of Jiang Liuer,
Little Hebo broke free from his restraints, climbed onto his head, and spoke to the pale-skinned, dim-looking infant.

He Bo ignored him, simply picked up the baby and examined him.

Then he revealed the child's origins:
"These are Liu Ao's offspring."

"How did he kill him again?"

Liu Ao,

He is the current Emperor of the Han Dynasty.

He was also the target of Emperor Yuan of Han, Liu Shi, who would denounce him daily from the underworld.

The late emperor originally thought he had been muddle-headed enough while he was still alive.

Who knew his son would be even more confused than him!

"I wish I could strangle this wretched child the moment he was born!"

Because of the encouragement from their ancestors,

Thus, Emperor Yuan of Han, who lacked some of the refinement and etiquette, said this through gritted teeth.

Perhaps sensing his deceased father's thoughts, Liu Ao, now in the mortal world, decided to use his own hands to fulfill his last wish—

Just as He Bo was playfully fighting with his clone,
He strangled his newborn son, whom he had finally obtained with great difficulty, with his own hands.

Before that,
Liu Ao had already dealt with one of his biological children.

They were also born not long ago.
He hadn't fully grown yet, revealing the features he inherited from his parents.

He was then personally sent to the underworld by his own father.

What's more outrageous is that
Because the causes of death of these two princes were extremely unusual.

The royal family could not hold a funeral for him, and even in historical records, they had to cover it up and rarely mention it. They could only bury him hastily in a remote corner and hide him within the high palace walls.

The reason why Liu Ao did this was...
It was all just to please his true loves—

In the third year of Hongjia,

When people in Shu were forced to rebel

The emperor acquired a beautiful woman, a peerless beauty, who could dance on a palm, at Princess Yang'a's residence.

He doted on the woman named Zhao Feiyan.

Later, upon hearing that the other woman had a sister named Zhao Hede who was even more beautiful, he was overjoyed and brought her into his harem as well.

Since then,

The emperor's hands belonged only to these two sisters.

The emperor's gaze lingered only on these two sisters.

For them,

The emperor deposed his empress, whom he had once respected, and while they were enjoying a romantic moment under the moon, he made a vow to the beauty in his arms: "I will never let anyone else disturb our beautiful life again."

He did indeed do that.

Even though the Zhao sisters are infertile.

As someone who has been on the throne for many years,
An emperor who has no heir to this day

To fulfill his promise, satisfy his true love's desire, and put the childless beauty at ease,
He tacitly approved of the Zhao sisters taking away the little prince, who was only ten days old and born to another woman, and poisoning the young mother.

As for what happened to that child?
Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun came to inquire in person, but the emperor remained silent for a long time before replying to his mother:
“I don’t know where he is, and you don’t need to worry about it anymore.”

The Empress Dowager was so distraught that she beat her chest and stamped her feet, scolding the Emperor for his absurdity.

The Liu family truly has a throne to inherit!
What emperor would kill his own child for the sake of a woman!
But the emperor remained silent. This summer,

When plants grow and life abounds...
The news that Consort Xu in the emperor's harem was pregnant reached the ears of the Zhao sisters.

The latter vehemently opposed her giving birth to the child, crying and making a scene in front of the emperor, and banging her head against the wall.

"You have broken your oath to us!"

"You still want Lady Xu to give birth to a prince? Don't you know she was Empress Xu's sister back then!"

Empress Xu was deposed.
It was because of the Zhao sisters;
If Xu's son becomes the crown prince and then the emperor...
They're doomed!

"Since you've already thrown away one child, what's wrong with throwing away a second one for us now!"

Zhao Hede, who was more favored than her older sister, said this.

The emperor was so angered by her blunt words that he couldn't eat for several days.
But seeing how infatuated the beauty was with him, he finally softened his heart.

He said:
"If I give birth to a daughter, I will let her grow up outside the palace."

"If a son is born, then proceed as before."

The Zhao sisters were then happy.

until today,

The baby was born with a cry.

The two sisters looked extremely uncomfortable.

The emperor felt sorry for them and directly ordered people to bring the newborn children to his palace in straw baskets.

The doors and windows were all closed.

The emperor, carrying a straw basket, turned and walked behind the screen.

Not long after, he came out again carrying a straw basket, handed it to a guard, and instructed him:
"Bury it in a corner, don't put it in a conspicuous place."

The guard received the order.

Next to the Taiye Pond in the Imperial Palace, a shallow pit was dug, and the straw basket was buried inside.

The waves of Taiye Pond surged up.

Finally, carrying this small straw basket, it flowed all the way to the underworld, which might be brighter and more beautiful for the child.

"Should we hand it over to Liu Shi to raise?"

After Xiao Hebo shared his thoughts on "the power of true love" with the main body, he talked about how to deal with the child.

"He wouldn't even dare to hug one more than the previous one, let alone this one!"

"Let's leave it to Fusu and his wife!"

Fusu's residence in the Central Plains Ghost Kingdom was not far from Liu Shi's.

In the afterlife,
All the things of this world have vanished with the wind.
Fusu did not have much attachment to it.

Therefore,
The two Qin and Han emperors, who shared a fondness for Confucianism, established a relatively harmonious neighborly relationship.

It wasn't until Liu Shi received the grandson sent down by his son that...
He spent his days at home sighing and weeping over the baby in swaddling clothes, which caught the attention of Fusu, who was passing by.

When they learned the reason, Fusu and his wife were very surprised:
"How can there be such a heartless father in the world!"

In this comparison

The First Emperor was more than just a loving father to him!

Subsequently,

Seeing that Liu Shi was truly heartbroken and had no experience in caring for a baby, he and his wife took the swaddled baby back with them.

"It won't be long before he enters the cycle of reincarnation. Let him experience the nurturing of his elders before he does."

Since the dead have lost their lives, they naturally cannot grow.

Aside from those whose minds are still turbulent and who retain the spirit of their youth,
Most of the dead ghosts are basically the same as they were when they died, and they remain the same afterward.

The plight of infants who die quickly is even more tragic.

Those who died young,

They are unlikely to be remembered by their parents for long, because their parents will have new children.

And because they don't understand anything and only know how to cry, they can't grow up no matter how you try to raise them, so the dead ghosts in the underworld don't like to adopt them.

When the time comes,
The infant ghosts were also among the first to be cast into the cycle of reincarnation.

Relatively speaking,

Children who grow up in the mortal world to an age where they are active, lively, and understand some things are more likely to receive the care of the dead in the underworld.

The merciful God even instructed some young female ghosts who died young to build a carefree paradise for the little devils, according to the myths of the Chu region, so that they could play freely there.

occasionally,

God himself will descend upon this "kindergarten" and grab a couple of children to play with.

"Ugh!"

"Having a father like that, I'd rather be a plant or a beast in my next life!"

Even tigers don't eat their cubs.
Even plants can bask in the sunlight and grow according to the rhythm of the four seasons.
How could one be so cruelly murdered by their own blood relatives?
When he received the "package" personally delivered by the spirits, Fusu placed the two babies, who were about the same age, together and sighed at them.

"It seems the Han Dynasty won't last much longer."

Natural disasters continue to occur in various places.

Local uprisings broke out one after another.
But in the imperial court,

Those who served the emperor were extravagant and competitive, and their arrogance was boundless.

The ruler acted irrationally and was obsessed with beautiful women.

How can a country like this last?
"Looking at it this way, it seems we were somewhat unjustly defeated back then!"

His wife, who was preparing the baby's porridge nearby, chuckled casually.

Fusu immediately became alert.

He looked around and then said to his wife, "Don't say anything that will upset Father."

They died unjustly.

Who laid the foundation for the downfall of that nation?
"The rise and fall of a nation is a very mysterious matter and cannot be judged solely by the wisdom of its rulers and ministers."

Fusu picked up a child and sighed, "These things like the Nine Cauldrons of Heavenly Mandate are either my fortune to obtain or my fate to lose. Why force them?"

His wife laughed and said, "Save those words for Pijiang!"

"He's been troubled by things in Xiqin lately!"

Fusu then remembered,

Our family, residing in the Western Sea region, also experienced a situation where "the father bid farewell to the son, who then laughed."
It's just that the son has grown up and chose to act ahead of time.

He sighed again and didn't want to say anything more.

But Kong Guang, in the mortal world, was overcome with grief at home.

"How could the mighty Han Dynasty have become like this!"

He lost all his composure.
Ji sat on the ground, pounding his chest.

"How could there be a monarch who would kill his own offspring for the sake of beauty!"

The story of Liu Ao killing his two sons.

Ultimately, it couldn't be perfectly hidden.

After all, Consort Xu's child was born in the Shanglin Garden, where she was not under the same strict supervision as in the Weiyang Palace. Some nobles who received the emperor's permission could even ride horses and go hunting and sightseeing there with their entourage.

Therefore,
When Consort Xu, driven mad by the loss of her child, ran out of the old palace where the emperor had housed her and rushed towards a powerful nobleman who was fighting a wild boar.

Everything was revealed.

Kong Guang was shocked by this news.

He learned the principles of "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and trustworthiness" and "ruler-subject, father-son" relationships from a young age.
I really can't understand how someone like Liu Ao could exist in the world.

Don't you not have children?

Don't you know how important offspring are to an emperor?

Even if ancient monarchs wanted to execute their own sons,

It also has to be based on the premise that you "don't lack sons"!

Are you really planning to choose love over power?

The thought flashed through his mind, and he looked bewildered, remaining stunned in front of everyone for a long time.

Only when his disciple Wang Mang tugged at his sleeve with concern did Kong Guang turn his neck and open his mouth to utter a sound:
"what?"

"How could such an absurd emperor possibly govern the country well!"

Kong Guang grieved for a long time, then put his mind to work.

He felt he had found the answer to why the country had fallen to such a state:
"No wonder all sorts of unrest have occurred from the Central Plains to the Western Sea!"

"It turns out that it was because the emperor had lost his proper virtue, which angered Heaven!"

He spoke sincerely to his disciples who had come to visit him:
"If the emperor were as virtuous and courteous as you, the country would surely prosper!"

Wang Mang listened quietly, only showing a humble smile.

(End of this chapter)