Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:32:26 +0800
From: Xian <xiandarkthorne@gmail.com>
Subject: Tales of Lanfang: The Empire of the Five Beasts (MM SM CBT)

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction and contains descriptions of many
explicit sexual acts between consenting males. If this type of content
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Copyright 2011 Xian Darkthorne. All Rights Reserved.
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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.