Lord of the Earth

"What, Lu Bu, Lu Fengxian?"

Lu Su and Shen Wansan's faces, which had already shown surprise several times, were moved again.

As a person from the Three Kingdoms period, Lu Su had naturally heard of this famous "Flying General".

Especially after Lu Su's arrival, he obtained the memory from the projection of the "Sea of ​​Illusion" itself, and he clearly knew the story of "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu"!

Who could fight against the "deified" Guan Yu?
Apart from Xiang Yu, Lu Bu is probably one of the strongest candidates.

Moreover, the target this time is not Guan Yu, but the genius of the foreign race.

With Lu Bu's ability, even if he cannot kill him, at least it is enough to deal with him. There is hope that the predicament of the Eastern Wu Dynasty will be resolved!

"I didn't expect that even Lu Fengxian has joined the Qianxia Dynasty..."

At the same time, Lu Su couldn't help feeling curious and confused.

After all, in his memory, although Lu Bu looked like a "vicious dog", anyone could recognize him as his master.

But in fact he was a wolf of the desert, arrogant and ambitious. For the sake of profit, Fang Tian Huaji stabbed several "godfathers".

The ruler of the Qianxia Dynasty was able to subdue such a person and even made him his most important "personal bodyguard"!
Is it because we place too much emphasis on his military prowess and even ignore his personality flaws?

Or maybe because his own power is stronger than Lu Bu, he is sure that the other party is not capable of "rebellion"!
"Lord Xia, I wonder if Su can go to the Qianxia Dynasty for a visit and meet his old friend Kong Ming... Then he can report to the two young masters when he returns!"

Lu Su looked at Xia Tian and spoke.

"Of course! Mr. Zijing is a close friend of Lord Zhuge, and a rare hero of our human race. The Qianxia Dynasty welcomes him very much."

Summer has a smile on her face.

A few minutes later, in addition to Xia Tian and Wang Yangming, the people who came out of Jubao Tower included Lu Su, who was dressed in purple robes and had an expectant look on his face. They walked towards the "dojo" in Longchang, where they could enter the "secret passage" of the Qianxia Dynasty.

"Hmm, is that the Qihuoju? It occupies an entire street."

However, when passing a street on the way, Xia Tian suddenly saw the three words "Qihuoju" hanging on the archway at the entrance of the street, which made him stop for a moment!
According to what Wang Yangming said before on the road.

As the former prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, Lü Buwei was a man of many talents and had three thousand followers under his command...

The "Qihuoju" he built is more famous in this city of saints than Shen Sanwan's "Jubaolou"!

After all, Jubaolou mainly sells "things", while Qiwuju does business about "people", and the connections that can be accumulated are undoubtedly very powerful!

The most important thing is that Lu Buwei has both good and bad reputations.

However, as the first businessman in history to make a "political investment" and successfully obtain huge profits, his popularity far exceeds that of Shen Sanwan, and the quality of the people he can make friends with is obviously at a higher level!

"However, Mr. Yangming was not the first to bring me to "Qihuoju". There must be a reason, right?"

Xia Tian said.

Although, it was Xia Tian himself who decided whether to go to "Jubaolou" or "Qihuoju".

But Wang Yangming first took him to Zuixianju, which was closer to Jubao Tower. In a sense, he had already shown his tendency, and there must be reasons for it!
"Your Majesty is wise."

"Compared to the more 'pure' Jubaolou, this Qihuoju has a bigger business, but it is also more complicated. Because they not only sell rare items... they are even trading in human beings..."

Wang Yangming began to explain.

"What, human trafficking?"

Hearing this, Xia Tian couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Yes, Qihuoju, which mainly engages in the work of 'talent broker'."

"The main business is to help the major forces contact the right people to descend, so that both parties can get a satisfactory result..."

"Secondly, it is to sell and trade 'population' to various territories... However, it is mainly aimed at humans from other worlds, including the locations of those human tribes in other worlds, and the plans to conquer them..."

"In addition, we mainly capture some special alien races, such as foxes, succubi, and mermaids, and even capture their princes and princesses to auction them off to other human forces as slaves... These can generally be sold at high prices."

"Also, I heard that there is a certain amount of sex trade involved!"

This was immediately confirmed.

Clang, clang, clang!

I saw a few people and stopped at the entrance of "Qihuoju".

The waiter at the door suddenly struck a golden gong hanging nearby, and then shouted at the top of his voice.

"Ten days later, Qihuoju will hold a new round of 'Rare Goods Auction' with a total of ten items!"

"Auction item one, the Deep Sea Mermaid Princess, gold rating, transcendent level five cultivation, possesses the talent of turning tears into pearls to increase cultivation, and can command sea beasts in the water..."

"Auction item 2, a barbarian tribe from another world with a population of 10,000, who believe in the 'Hou Tu Spirit'. It is recommended that human forces that possess the Hou Tu statue purchase it..."

"Auction item 2: The location of the alien stone man tribe, a person with extraordinary strength and the ability to turn mud into stone..."

"Auction item 4: fifty Assassins from the Shura Clan, all of whom have extraordinary cultivation..."

"Auction item five..."

This golden gong seems to have some strange properties.

Suddenly, it attracted many people to stop and watch.

However, Xia Tian's brows furrowed even more, and his original desire to go and take a look suddenly faded.

As modern people, we always say "Those who are not of my race must have different hearts."

However, the meaning of the same sentence is different from that in ancient times.

Because the "races" he mentioned refer to different ethnic groups, while in the eyes of ancient people, they are different races within the same human race!

The survival of ancient people was extremely dependent on land, grasslands and other production materials.

In the same area, the number of people that can be supported is severely limited, so naturally a pattern of using civilization or blood as a bond to keep each other warm is formed!
Therefore, there have always been endless wars in the history of the human race.

However, the Eternal Land is different. The entire Eternal Land is too large, and there are survival resources everywhere. There is no need for humans to gather together to fight each other. What they should do is "unite" to jointly deal with the crisis of alien races!

But obviously not everyone can do this.

Especially in the eyes of the ancients, when faced with invasion, one would either be conquered and enslaved, or conquer the other side. All the men taller than the wheels would be slaughtered, leaving only the women to reproduce...

However, this conflicts with the interests of the human lords.

For the lord, the population that can continuously provide "luck rewards" is even more valuable than rare objects and treasures in a sense!
Therefore, even though Xia Tian did not treat those people from other worlds equally, he did not discriminate against them. He even asked the Xin Xue disciples in white clothes to take the initiative to act as teachers for these people and bring these people from other worlds into the big family of the Qianxia Dynasty!

Let them learn the various ancient calligraphy, painting, literature, theories, etc. created by Chinese civilization... As long as these foreigners can eventually pass the assessments of the "Emperor's Academy" and the "Star Hall".

Then they will receive the same national treatment as the original personnel of the Qianxia Dynasty!

This policy actually caused a lot of controversy at the time, and even there were certain voices of opposition among the top leaders of the Qianxia Dynasty.

After all, most races, including humans, have "classes".

The Mongols divided the conquered people into "four categories". The Qing Dynasty had "masters" and "slaves". The Han people also had the chain of "scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans"...

Even in the Qianxia Dynasty, the "merit system" was used to link people's contributions to the dynasty with the various treatments they enjoyed!

Therefore, everyone still hopes to retain the system of "servants".

However, Xia Tian still used his decision-making power as the king to pass the resolution to allow the human race from the other world to integrate into the Qianxia Dynasty.

And this also received full support from Zhuge Liang, the head of the government affairs department!

After all, this is what Zhuge Liang did in history.

Shu Han only had one state, and its population was the worst among the Three Kingdoms. In order to obtain enough soldiers, he personally conquered the Nanman and Qingqiang...

Make a blood oath with the leaders of these tribes!

Although the "Seven Capture of Meng Huo" is just a fictional story in the novel.

But it also makes later generations feel incredible that Zhuge Liang was able to make his people work wholeheartedly for the Kingdom of Shu after conquering the foreign races!

However, this is precisely because Zhuge Liang was not as hostile to the Southern Barbarians as he was to other Han people.

Even if the other party lags behind in civilization and enlightenment, we are willing to "treat them equally."

"If the Chinese race wants to eventually dominate the entire human race, they must be attentive in their policies towards all human races and gain all the support they can..."

This is what Zhuge Liang said during the meeting.

Of course, this kind of human force with "lofty ambitions" is only a minority after all. For profit-seeking businessmen, they do not care about such long-term interests, but only care about the immediate gains.

"The most important thing is that in the eyes of some people, we humans from Shenzhou are not considered the same kind as those people from another world cursed by the gods! They are too clumsy and can be fooled!"

Wang Yangming said.

Some "middlemen" will even deliberately send some strong men to attack and kill the humans from these other worlds.

Afterwards, let the "guests" who bought these people play the role of savior, and win the "hearts and minds" of these people in one fell swoop, and everyone is happy!

"Is that so? This is pure business behavior!"

When Xia Tian heard this, his expression became a little serious.

Just some emotion.

From the perspective of a king, he didn't have much qualifications to blame the other party.

Because the Qianxia Dynasty itself will also use various means and measures during its development!
"However, doing this will ultimately result in the loss of the entire human race's luck..."

Xia Tian shook his head.

"Compared to Jubao Tower, which was built with a rare item, Qihuoju has a more complicated background... It involves the power of many parties, not only the Chinese dynasty, but also some forces from Western countries... Therefore, its momentum is much greater than that of Jubao Tower..."

"Lü Buwei is known as the best eclecticist, combining Confucianism, Mohism, Nominalism and Legalism, and is well versed in all the teachings of hundreds of schools of thought... It is said that he has already become a genius!"

The expression on Lu Su's face was also somewhat serious.

In a sense, Shen Wansan was a relatively pure businessman, and supporting Zhang Shicheng was just a choice he had to make when the world was at war.

But Lu Buwei was not like that.

The entries he left in history are "businessman, politician, and prime minister of the Qin Dynasty"!
The apparent reason for Shen Sanwan's property being confiscated was nothing more than offending the imperial power. How dare he dare to say something like rewarding the army on behalf of the emperor?
But this is undoubtedly far less than the crime committed by Lu Buwei.

From a mere businessman to the powerful Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty, he even had an affair with the Queen Mother of the King of Qin. Like the Four Princes of the Warring States Period, he kept "three thousand guests" and even presented the "Wheel-Turning King" Lao Ai to the Qin Shi Huang, giving Qin Shi Huang two more "brothers" who posed a threat to his throne.

Such a daring and shocking thing!

Although he saved the life of Qin Shi Huang's father, and even in a sense the birth of that greatest emperor in history was largely due to the efforts of this "merchant", there was no possibility for him to survive.

To be honest, given Ying Zheng's character, he did not kill him directly and exterminated his three clans, which was already a special care for this "Zhongfu"!

However, existence is reasonable.

"Qihuoju" was not only established in the "City of Saints" of the human race, but it even prospered and grew stronger.

It only goes to show that most human beings do not care about the ideas of the “weak”, especially those forces that openly fight under the guise of “human rights” and want to stand on the higher ground to accuse others of nothing more than using them as tools!

"The law of the jungle has always existed... The society of universal peace described by ancient sages is probably just an ideal."

Lu Su sighed, seeming a little depressed. Confucianism emphasizes self-cultivation, family management, governance of the country and peace in the world. Everyone has his or her own ambitions in life.

I originally thought that with the foundation of Dongwu, it would be enough to build a paradise in this world.

Unexpectedly, nowadays, we are faced with internal and external troubles, even the capital is hard to protect, let alone "Datong"!

"It may not be just an ideal. It just so happens that Mr. Zijing is going to visit my Qianxia Dynasty. Let's take a look at my Qianxia Dynasty first. How does it compare to the ancient world of Datong..."

Xia Tian said with a smile.

"That person seems to be Lu Zijing..."

When the few people left, inside "Qihuoju", a person wearing a gorgeous brocade robe with intricate patterns embroidered on the lapels, a jade belt around his waist, and a jade ring on his finger was seen.

His eyes noticed Lu Su, and after a glance at him, he turned his head and looked at the figure opposite him who was wearing black clothes. He was clearly standing there but seemed to be covered by shadows and could not be seen clearly at all.

"Saint Lu, this time I ask you to leave those 10,000 barbarians to my Majesty... However, we need to make clever arrangements to ensure that your Majesty can directly win the hearts and minds of these barbarians..."

Said the figure wearing the ring.

"Mr. Mi, the auction has already been scheduled. It would be inappropriate to cancel the auction item and then put it on the shelf. Besides, nothing can be flawless. If something goes wrong, it will damage the image of Lord Liu..."

At the feet of the black shadow was lying a lion-like creature, its body covered with fine, silky black fur. There was a faint glow on the creature, and its ears were like two blooming black lotuses, which seemed to be able to listen to and distinguish everything in the world!
"Money is not a problem. Although my Mi family is not as wealthy as a country, we are still wealthy enough..."

“Saint Lu, my Mi family has wronged you, Second Master, so that now I, who have almost no chance of becoming a Saint, have to enter this Saint City to manage my business. I’m afraid I will never be able to leave this city again in my lifetime! And your Second Brother has even become a creature of catastrophe…”

"Now, if I want to completely eliminate the anger of Generals Guan and Zhang and find a way out for my Mi family, I can only give it my all and try my best!" (End of this chapter)