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Tales of Lanfang : The Empire of the Five Beasts. By Xian Darkthorne
Hundreds of years before the Shang kings clambered on to the Dragon Throne, the ancient city of Lanfang held sway over the fertile plains north and west of the Yellow River, near modern Urumqi in the province of Xinjiang. Under the Five Heavenly Beasts, theirs was a cruel empire, voracious in its appetite for male slaves, which it obtained in sweeping raids against the various Han (or native Chinese) tribes and villages. The great majority of Lanfang's slavemen laboured at keeping the Great Beasts and their armies well-supplied with food, weapons and time to indulge in their favourite vices. The other unfortunates, specially chosen for their strong, manly bodies and larger than average sexual organs, suffered their conquerors' wicked pleasures.
In this first pre-Han Chinese empire, sexual torture was as much an art as their expertise in alchemy involving various fluids painfully extracted from their screaming slaves' helpless cocks, balls and nipples since for all their quaint superstitions and strange beliefs, the lordly citizens of Lanfang were as much masters in herbal, medical and surgical sciences as they were at inflicting the most exquisite pain.
Through the first three hundred years of its existence, many Beast Houses found themselves ruling Lanfang, until the Tiger, the Boar, the Stallion, the Phoenix and the Dragon finally allied their armies and seized power. The other Houses became minor nobility and when the Five Great Beasts ruled the city, they put into practise their own strange clan customs in Ancient Lanfang, such as their habit of cutting off the foreskins from their slaves penises. Lanfang's shaman doctors developed wonderful ointments and potions that healed quickly and made it painless for the citizens when such operations were carried out on their sons' twelfth birthday.
When it came to their male slaves, however, they were much less kind. Their medicines healed the cuts equally effectively and quickly, but differed in one aspect. Such medicines as they applied to their slaves' cocks were designed to heighten the agony of the knife. It was a painful but effective way of reminding the luckless men that much worse pain awaited if they failed to please their masters. A master, no matter how rich or poor or young or old, was to be obeyed without question. Always.
But it was not completely bad, of course. Some slaves led such pampered lives that other, less fortunate ones had to obey them. Their masters sometimes doted on them so much, it was not unknown for the lucky slaves to be allowed to punish or even torture other slavemen sexually. Of course, such a thing was against the Empire's laws, which stated that only a master could punish his slaves. But the law was seldom if ever enforced against these fortunate slaves. Whatever might happen in a citizen's home was his own business and no one else's.
Many of Lanfang's customs and arts have been lost over time, too; some banned by the Chinese Shang emperors, others fallen by the wayside over the centuries. The torture shop, for example, can no longer be found anywhere, though many of the old-time craftsmen's skilfully hand-made instruments might still exist in slightly different form as quaint, if also slightly shameful, erotic toys in a few Chinese homes.
When poor harvests made it hard for the farmers to pay their taxes, the Beast Lords' tax collectors would make them pay with their male juices instead. Every male who could ejaculate would be tied to a special wooden rack, and repeatedly and forcibly milked of his man-seed until he fainted.
Though teenagers were not spared, the curious thing was that the older the man, the higher the value they placed on his 'yang' or male essence, especially if he was strong and fit enough to maintain an erection and ejaculate many times. They reasoned that while a younger male had more erections and usually produced more sperm more easily, it was immature and thus, of poorer quality whereas the cock juices of a fit, older man who could still ejaculate many times consecutively, must be possessed of stronger and more potent male energies.
At the height of its glory, Lanfang was divided into five cantons, one for each of the five Beast Dukes. Each area was run by a large extremely complicated bureaucracy staffed almost exclusively by members of the nobility, just as a separate Beast army guarded its own parts of the capital and patrolled its own frontiers along Lanfang's sprawling empire.
Each part of the city operated almost independently of the others though there was a lot of cooperation - and rivalry - between every one of them. This was only natural since the Dukes, their clans, and allied Houses competed fiercely against one another in a none too friendly contest for land, slaves, power and political prestige.
The people of the empire were sun worshippers, hence their preoccupation with manly juices and male sexual torture, but unlike the Chinese Shang emperors who came after them, the Beasts never practised human sacrifice. They believed that their supreme solar deity, Tai Je-yi, preferred to receive their living seed instead. And lots of it, too. At their one great summer festival, citizens lined up in the temples from daybreak to sundown to spill their sperm for the Sun God. When night fell, the most virile slavemen with the biggest cocks were tied naked in front of Tai Je-yi's image and furiously masturbated by the priests who also tortured the slavemen's nipples viciously, until the slaves collapsed from pain and exhaustion.
It was a lot of fun for the wildly cheering spectators who often placed large bets on the victims, and a great honour for the slaves themselves to be chosen for the annual offering of sexual fluids. The bravest and strongest men whose cocks managed to get hard the most often in spite of the pain inflicted on their nipples or gave the most copious amounts of male juices, were freed and offered positions in their armies or the male harems of the royal households.
The Beast Dukes and their people were a rowdy, randy and barbarous bunch who lived and loved in a wonderful long ago time before the later Imperial Chinese bureaucrat-scholars constricted all the life and joy out of the land and it is my sincere hope that you enjoy reading these tales of lost Lanfang as much as I did writing them.
Xian Darkthorne. March 2011.