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Chapter 559 Mask

On a wooden flat roof and conical high platform, several men wearing bird-haired crowns stood. Except for the cloth around their waists that looked like a short skirt, they danced without clothes, shoes and socks.

There was a murmuring in his mouth, it seemed like he was doing it, or was praying to heaven.

On the flat ground, several men in the same dress were escorted a "blue man" covered with blue paint and walked up to the platform along the steps.

There is a high raised sacrifice case on the platform. The "Blue Man" was lifted up by others on the sacrifice case, lying on his back, his limbs were pulled down by someone. This posture made the "Blue Man"'s chest and abdomen bulge. From the side, the "Blue Man" formed the character "公" with the sacrifice case.

A man wearing a bird-haired crown and a jade mask came to the front of the sacrifice table, held a black stone blade (reverse grip), raised it high, and then pierced it into the chest of the "blue man" lying on the sacrifice table.

Amid the screams, a heart left his chest and was held in his hand by the man wearing a jade mask, and then raised it high, as if he was dedicating this vivid heart to God.

Then, the "Blue Man"'s head was cut off and along with the headless corpse, he was thrown off the platform.

The head and the corpse rolled down the steps, and the head was like a ball, rolling very quickly. After landing, it still rolled forward, rolling to Yuwen Wen's feet.

Yuwen Wen, wearing military uniform, looked down at the wooden fake head under his feet, stepped on it, and then murmured to himself: "Oh, it's actually carved from solid wood. The props are very attentive."

The general who accompanied the emperor to visit the military academy whispered: "Your Majesty, please let them put away this prop."

Yuwen Wen nodded and gently kicked the wooden man's head forward. Soon, a man wearing a bird-haired crown ran over and put away the fake headless corpse. A large number of staff rushed to the platform and began to pack up all kinds of props.

The military academy teacher who played the high priest walked down the platform, handed the stone dagger in his hand to the assistant teacher, walked to Yuwen Wen to salute, and then said to the students who surrounded the platform and were covered in darkness:

"Everyone has seen that this is the re-enactment of the process of the American chief performing the human sacrifice. It is a scene experienced and recorded in detail by the Beiyang Trading Company Expedition Team. According to the multi-faceted verification of knowledgeable people, this is similar to the custom of the human sacrifices in the Shang Dynasty..."

"So, the Native Americans are highly likely to be descendants of the Shang Dynasty!"

When the students heard this, they whispered to each other. Yu Wen Wen, who was standing beside him, watched the military academy teachers "brainwashing" the students without saying a word.

Everything is too much. This view that "native Americans are descendants of the Shang Dynasty" should not be promoted by the king of a country. He only needs to start the public opinion machine and constantly instill this concept into everyone.

When the concept of "Native Americans are descendants of the Shang Dynasty" is deeply rooted in people's hearts, the saying that "America has been the homeland of China since ancient times" will naturally be formed.

Yuwen Wen thought of this, looked at the sky, and then looked at the teacher with a bird-haired crown.

The "American Folk Performance" ends, followed by the "American Style Exhibition".

More than a dozen weapons shaped like oars were placed on the weapon stand. The teacher picked up one and showed them to the military academy students in a circle. Everyone was amazed at the weapons from America.

The main body of this weapon is made of wooden, shaped like a boat oar, with a total length of about five feet. The "pad" is grooved on both sides and sharp black stone flakes are inlaid with sharp black stone flakes. These stone flakes are like serrated teeth, and the "wooden oars" inlaid with a large number of stone flakes are named "Saw Tooth Sword".

The wooden sword body of this "serrated sword" is dark red, not a normal color. The teacher explained: "This is a murderous weapon, so human blood dyes the wooden body red..."

"Don't think that this weapon is a toy. In fact, every stone blade is very sharp, so the lethality of this weapon should not be underestimated. Its killing method is 'cut, saw'..."

When the students looked at this kind of wood-stone combination, they didn't believe it was a weapon with "lethality that should not be underestimated". They whispered one by one, with a look of doubt.

The teacher walked out of the crowd with this 'serrated sword', came to a sick old horse, looked at the students, and said, "Everyone is ready..."

The students surrounded the teacher and the old horse, and watched the teacher hold the "serrated sword" in both hands, and slashed hard, and even cut off the horse's head.

The moment the old horse's body and head separated, the onlookers couldn't help but exclaim: facts are better than words, and weapons that can kill horses with a "sword" are not much worse.

However, such a "serrated sword" is made of wood and stone, and its power is similar to that of an iron sword. Can it be said that the iron weapons in the Central Plains have no advantages?

"Iron weapons are of course better than stone weapons, there is no doubt about this." The teacher stained with horse blood signaled to the assistant to distribute the "serrated sword" so that the students could hold it in their hands to experience this strange weapon.

After everyone had waved the "Saw Tooth Sword", he asked: "What do you think is wrong with this weapon?"

A student replied: "Uh... this weapon is too heavy, much heavier than a common iron knife. I'm afraid it will consume too quickly when waving it on the battlefield."

Other students nodded, and someone added: "Even if this weapon is sharp, the sword is made of wooden. It seems that its strength is limited. It may be okay to deal with armorless or light armor targets, but it may be easy to break when facing iron armor or blunt weapons."

"Everyone is right, the 'serrated sword' made of wood and stone is sharp, but not as sharp as the iron weapon."

The teacher began to explain to the students the stone weapons commonly used by Native Americans based on the investigation report of the expedition team, so that everyone can have a deeper feeling about the "New World" thousands of miles away.

This kind of wood, a "serrated sword" made of stone, can be sharp, but not strong: First of all, the natives use animal feces to stick stone blades into the wooden troughs on both sides of the wooden sword body. How can such an inlay be compared with an integrated iron knife?

Secondly, in order to strengthen the strength of the wooden sword body, the material weight can only be increased, and the stone blade is not light, which leads to the excessive weight of a "serrated sword".

If you only fight one-on-one in the martial arts field, this problem doesn’t matter. If you are on the battlefield where thousands of troops are fighting, how can the soldiers get so much force to wield such weapons to kill the enemy for a long time?

Therefore, when the Beiyang Trading Company's expedition team arrived in the Americas and showed the power of the iron sword to the local chief, the other party directly regarded the iron sword as a magic weapon and was willing to exchange it for gold of equal weight.

Iron swords are very popular, and the same is true for iron armor. The weapons used by native Americans also include daggers, spears, spears and arrows, but the spearheads and arrowheads are made of stone. They cannot be broken against the Central Plains iron armor decorated with cold forged armor leaves.

The opponent's armor was almost gone because the climate was hot, and the soldiers were basically shirtless like ordinary people, and then sewed a piece of cloth into a short skirt to cover the crotch.

The American tribe soldiers were not even equipped with leather armor, and the elite soldiers were at most wearing thick cloth clothes for cloth armor.

The tribes in America that the expedition teams came into contact with seemed to be unable to smel iron tools, so the tools and weapons of each tribe and city-state were mostly made of stone. The iron weapons and tools that have been popularized in the Central Plains have been well received in the Americas.

Countless tribal chiefs were willing to exchange gold, silver, and various local specialties for the iron products in the hands of the Central Plains Expedition Team.

After hearing this, the students didn't know what to say, because they felt that the fighting power of the Native Americans was very weak, and their level of development seemed to be very poor, and their living conditions were similar to those of the Shang Dynasty, as the newspaper said.

Many people all had thoughts at the same time: So they are really survivors of the Shang Dynasty?

Then America is "Dong Shang" or "Dong Yin"?

So can America be said to be the homeland of China?

Yu Wen Wen, who had been "listening", saw the excited expressions of the students and knew that the publicity he planned had worked. He spent a lot of effort to conduct a "human sacrifice performance" in the military academy. Of course, the "American Weapon Display" was not boring.

When it comes to America, the first impression of the people in the Central Plains is "distant", "bad land", "barbaric barbarians who eat raw meat and drink blood everywhere", etc. Such America seems to appear in front of the world with a hideous mask.

Now, he wants to take off this hideous mask and reveal the true face of America, so that the people can know that America is not a barren land.

Let explorers, merchants and outlaws know that America is a good place to make a fortune.

Only in this way can the seeds of "development and immigration to the Americas be very cost-effective" take root and sprout in everyone's hearts.

Lay a solid foundation for the possible "American immigration wave" that will occur in the future.

Yuwen Wen was proud of his achievements in his 20 years of administration, but he did not dare to be complacent, and the sense of crisis in his heart was lingering.

The peace that has lasted for decades, sufficient food supply, coupled with the increasingly improved living conditions and medical standards, will lead to an explosive growth in the population of the Central Plains.

Then, after a hundred years, four to five generations, the population of the Central Plains will probably have a "large population and few land" compared to the available arable land.

Coupled with the uncontrollable land annexation, domestic conflicts have intensified. If these contradictions cannot be alleviated, war will occur.

Therefore, Yuwen Wen felt that he had to prepare for the future and do something in advance to find more living space for the people of the Central Plains overseas.
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