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"No matter what Zhaoming is planning in the dark, we must prevent and stop it."

Chen Danqiu said: "The Department of Supervision 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 Tower.

Tantai Siye, come and organize the doctor to conduct 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,

Everyone who received the order turned 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 sleeve, which had grown out, "Is your hand okay?"

"It's okay. Although I still have headaches twice in three days, I still can't die."

Xi Yangyu smiled slightly and also sat down.

"I know that you are 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."

With a palm motion, Chen Danqiu summoned a kettle 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 that a certain Demon Cult had 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 abnormalities on the outside, but their temperament has undergone tremendous changes, and their living habits, ways of thinking, and idiomatic language all seem to be different individuals.

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 be at risk of being assimilated.

Many people claimed that people they knew had been 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 were panicked, worried that there would be monsters 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 widespread retribution.

Neighbors, husband and wife, father and son, master and apprentice...all turned against each other.

For a time, people were in turmoil and society stagnated.

The last minister of the State of Yu stood up and led his troops to wipe out a demon sect 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 monsters 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 national shutdown are even more difficult to calculate.

Emperor Sui issued an edict of sin against himself, learned from the pain, and decided to establish an institution to educate the people of Yu State - that institution is the Academy.

Any doctor in the academy knows this history,

Chen Danqiu asked: "Do you think, from the perspective of 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, put himself into a drowsy state, and communicated with the will of heaven and earth in his dreams.

Foresee future weather changes and guide the relocation, farming and animal husbandry of the tribe.

In essence, it is based on one's own heart and the heart of heaven.

Just like studying now.

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 that 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 eldest son 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 came from a poor family, while the Zheng family in Xingyang belonged to five surnames and seven Wangs. 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 restrained.

He picked up the unfinished article on the table, put it on his knees, and muttered to himself: "The devil of the mind, the devil of the mind"

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 their minds with your own, so as to achieve... eternal life in a certain sense?

Whether the sudden dissipation of the rumors of the mind demon has nothing to do with the comforting measures of the Sui Dynasty court,

Is it because the cultivator who spread the magic seed in the dark had already obtained the desired result and stopped the experiment voluntarily?