July 15, the Midyear Festival, the Tang Kingdom Festival.

This is the great sacrifice of the country that the people of the whole country know through the edict that they will sacrifice the martyrs and welcome the heroic souls today.

It is very clear in the edict that the great sacrifice is dedicated to the 83,124 soldiers who died in battle, died of illness, or died of serious injuries in the past six years since the Haidong era, including the villagers and the people who died defending the country.

Lin'an, Jinling, Chengdu, Luoning and other major cities, paper people and paper horses on the main street, military flags and garlands, soul flags and paper money, white silk on the list, put out several miles along the street.

Set up a spiritual shed every half a mile, set up incense cases, two elegiac langs, a class of musical instruments, eight spiritualist dancers, and four Taoist priests.

In the military, each team or each large warship has a mourning shed.

When I came to Anseong, there were 32 spiritual sheds, and more than 200 soul dancers were used.

Everyone wraps their arms in white gauze. The white flags and white curtains of the large and small cities everywhere are solemn.

In the countryside, the township office also set up a funeral shed, and selected villagers to serve as elegiac singers and spiritualist dancers. And the people also wrapped their arms with white gauze.

The elegiac lyrics for the festival had also been written long ago, and together with the dance movements, they had been choreographed two months earlier. Even the villages with poor cultural heritage are ready.

The newly built Taoist temples in various places, especially the Chungbu Dao Temple and Taoist Society, are even more prosperous today.

The entire Tang Kingdom is a vegetarian family.

According to the freshly baked regulations, Datang has a Qingming small festival and a Zhongyuan festival. The Qingming small festival is just the imperial court and local officials going to the Taoist palace and Taoist temple to worship, and the people do not need to participate, just sacrifice their ancestors.

But the Zhongyuan Festival is different, and it must be participated by the whole people. It is forbidden to marry, to drink and feast, and to rejoice.

The families of the martyrs can gather in various places on this day to supervise the sacrifices and accept the people's tributes.

Since ancient times, the sacrifice of the fallen has been more solemn than today.

From the imperial palace to the county officials, to the village offices, they all hung the Tang Dragon Flag with white edges.

Plain color is heavy in the world!

At the end of the afternoon, the king of Tang and the queen led hundreds of civil and military officials? With a grand guard of honor, they lined up under Phoenix Mountain.

And at this time? Most of the people in Lin'an City also took to the streets? Under the organization of Fang Zheng, the procession surrounded the mourning shed.

Is the hour and quarter the beginning time of the unified sacrifice? Not only Lin'an, but the whole country is mourning at this moment.

A great mourning!

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning are dressed in court clothes? White flowers hanging on the cuffs? Unlike everyone else.

At the moment when Li Luo and Cui Xiuning boarded the car? Zheng Sixiao, the chief priest of ceremonies, said loudly: "Fire the cannon!" ”

The two six-pound guns that were not loaded with projectiles suddenly roared.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

As soon as the cannon sounded, Tang Wangsu's chariot, pulled by four white horses, slowly moved forward. There is a pair of plain cars pulled by white horses in the back, also carrying the prince Li Zheng and Li Lu Li Wei? It was supervised by a female official, Zhen Liangxiu, and a eunuch.

Guards crowding in front and back? The forbidden army opened the way in front, and all the ministers of civil and military affairs followed on foot, and they swept out of the Zhentang Gate.

In the meantime, the horn in the guard of honor? Blow together, too. The big drum on the drum car, the bell chime on the clock car? It all played too.

"Woo-woo-"

"Knock knock—"

In the mournful and solemn music, the sixty elegiac men who accompanied the car slowly sang the elegy together:

"Wu Gexi wearing rhino armor, and the car is wrong and short-handed. The sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrows and fallen soldiers compete to be the first......"

The accompanying team sang bells and drums, and the 32 mourning sheds in the entire Lin'an City also mourned together. The conjuring dancers also wore white robes embroidered with Tang characters, garlands on their heads, masks, and their hair and danced.

All the instruments played, and all the elegiac men waved white flags and sang "National Mourning" slowly, singing and singing, and singing again.

At this moment, under the careful preparation of more than two months, the Tang Kingdom went to Haizhou in the east and Yizhou in the west, regardless of the city and countryside, the whole country mourned and sang "National Mourning", shocking the world!

"With a long sword, the Qin bow is carried by the bow, and the first body is not punished. The body is dead, the spirit is the spirit, and the soul is resolute. ”

In the mournful and magnificent elegy, the great sacrificial procession led by the Tang King personally went out of Lin'an City and came to the Qiantang River.

On the riverside, thousands of paper people, paper horses and other sacrifices have been prepared. On a wooden platform built on the riverside, sixty-four dancers (eight hundreds) are dancing with their hair draped.

"Burnt salute!"

Soon, paper people, paper horses and other objects were set on fire, and a sky-high fire broke out by the river.

Together with the fire, the music and dance elegy is even more exciting, and the sound shakes the rivers and seas.

Then, the procession left the riverside and headed for the Chungmu Shrine in the north of the city to begin the most solemn festival.

Lin'an Zhongwu Temple is currently the largest Zhongwu Temple in the Tang Kingdom. At this time, the Zhongwu Shrine was full of cigarette smoke, bells and drums, and extremely solemn. On the Jingu Square, the elegy of 360 Tang Army soldiers is wearing white armor and singing "National Mourning".

Sixty-four dancers, sixty-four musicians, and eight musicians and eight musicians conducted the dance.

All the Taoist priests in the Zhongwu Divine Palace are reciting the Taoist scriptures, praising the fallen soldiers for abiding by the martial arts, and the heroic spirit will live forever, and will turn into a heroic righteousness, bless China, and protect the Tang Dynasty forever.

A huge phoenix military flag was unfurled in the square.

In the smoke, Li Luo slowly got out of the car with Cui Xiuning and was surrounded into the Zhongwu Divine Palace.

Wen Tianxiang and Lin Biju followed closely behind, and climbed the steps and went to the square.

On the huge square, the scene was already grand, and as soon as the Tang King and the ministers arrived, it was even more grand.

"Woo-woo-"

Rows of huge horns sounded, and the whole world was solemn and solemn.

"Roll call!"

As soon as the horn sounded, a full hundred samurai stepped up to the high platform and unfurled a long list, each reading the names of the dead.

More than 80,000 people have to finish it. Among them are veterans of the Haidong era, recruits from the south of the Yangtze River, villagers and righteous people.

As the name was pronounced, many people looked sad and even began to cry.

After the name was pronounced, another cannon rang out, and all the music and dancing stopped together. The dancers, singers, commanders, and others stepped back together.

The entire Chungwu Shrine suddenly fell silent.

"I respectfully invite the king to give a sacrificial speech!" The high priest Zheng Sixiao sang loudly.

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning climbed onto the high platform one after another, unfolded the sacrificial words that had been prepared long ago, and began to read.

"The widow obeyed the mandate of heaven, pained the difficulties of China, and mourned the difficulties of the people. At the beginning, with the nine grades of small officials, he started in Jianghua, built a brigade called Xiangyong, and there were 308 people from the Yuan. Today, half of it is withered..."

“… Since the determination of the people, more than 83,000 people have been killed in the land of the five states, tens of millions of people have been relieved of the overhang, and the hope of rejuvenation is also hopeful..."

Li Luo read the sacrificial text, and his eyes flashed with the vivid faces of Guangxia and other people who were once familiar and now became blurred, thinking of the Jianghua era, when Yuan Congxiang Yong was in the capital village, he couldn't help but cry.

A lot of people are gone.

Outsiders say that Li Luo has Liu Bei's benevolence, but that's not just talking. Compared with the rulers of his contemporaries, Li Luo is indeed worthy of a benevolent character.

Cui Xiuning, who was on the side, burst into tears and wept.

"King's Day mourning! Mother's Day mourning! ”

Seeing this, the ministers knelt first, and then thousands of others knelt down together.

"Mourn on the King's Day, mourn on the Mother's Day!"

Li Luo continued: "... But righteousness still exists, the country of China is there, and the heroic spirits will always enjoy sacrifices, and the honor will last forever... Woohoo lament, Shang Fang! In the year 3982 of Huaxia, the 15th day of July in the fifth year of the Tang Dynasty. ”

After Li Luo finished reading the sacrificial words, it was a sacrifice.

"Sacrifice!"

Suddenly, rows of paper figures and paper horses were ignited, horns sounded again, and music and dance were revived again. At Valhalla, behind the shrine, thousands of wax torches were lit.

Li Luo led the ministers into the main hall, personally offered incense, and then distributed the sacrificial meat to the queen, princes, princesses, and ministers.

Wait until the people have symbolically eaten the sacrificial meat, and night falls.

Li Luo left the main hall, and the last procedure was started.

Another cannon rang out, and dozens of mourning sheds and thousands of Kong Ming lanterns rose together outside Lin'an City, illuminating the entire night sky.

"Wow!"

"Wow!"

The only dozen or so Haidongqing in the Tang Army also soared into the sky under the command of the falconer, struggling to hit the air with white streamers, flying through the brilliant Kong Ming lanterns, and the long streamers were like phoenix tails.

At this time, a bright full moon rises, reflecting the brilliant Kong Ming lantern and the Haidongqing flying high, which looks magnificent and like a dream.

Inside and outside the city, hundreds of thousands of people looked up at the sky, tears in their eyes.

Life and glory and death are so far, enough!

Why don't the men take Wu hooks, blood spill the field, and the horse leather shrouds back!

This night, I don't know how many Tang people were full of excitement and tears. Even the simple sacrificial rituals of the village hall made the peasants emotionally aroused.

The morale of the entire Tang State rose to a higher level overnight and became more cohesive.

The news of the Tang Dynasty's national sacrifice generally spread to the Liang Kingdom, the Song Kingdom, the Dali Kingdom, and the Yuan Court, making the enemies of the Tang Kingdom even more frightened, stunned, and unbelievable.

The whole country sacrificed the fallen soldiers on the same day, and tens of millions of people participated in it, and the momentum was huge, and the gift of eight hundred was really unprecedented, and it was appalling. Isn't that a great funeral gift only for the death of a monarch?

Why did the Tang Kingdom actually use it to sacrifice the soldiers who died in battle?

This is indecent!

What a disrespect!

Tang Guo is really a tiger and a wolf.

Even Zhao Liangchao, an official of the Song State, wrote a poem to lament when he heard the news: "There has never been anything wrong, but he came out of the Tang Kingdom." ”

When Xiao Yan, the prince of Liang, heard the news, he was silent for a long time, but sighed.

Even the soldiers of the two countries are extremely envious.

Half a month later, Duan Qing, the king of Dali, who had been deeply poisoned and was terminally ill, coughed up blood on the sickbed after learning the news and said: "It's difficult, it's difficult, it's difficult!" ”

After that, he screamed and coughed up blood, and he died that day. Duan Qing, the king of Dali who had only been in the country for half a year, died like this.

He didn't know until he died that he was chronically poisoned by his filial daughter-in-law Xiao Ji. He couldn't have imagined that his daughter-in-law would harm him as soon as he came.

On the same day, Prince Duan was enthroned in front of the coffin, proclaimed himself Emperor Dali, and named Xiao Ji the empress. He also sent Dadu to report the funeral, and respectfully asked the Emperor Dayuan to draw up a nickname and recognize his accession to the throne.

And when Kublai Khan got the news of the Tang State Festival, he also looked gloomy and sat alone in the Eagle Fang for a long time.

…………

Soon after the Tang State Festival, Li Luo finally announced to the ministers that he had obtained the jade seal of the country.

The ministers all celebrated with their hands and congratulated one after another. Wen Tianxiang, Zheng Sixiao, Mu Wei and other ministers were particularly excited.

With the heirloom jade seal, the king is not the son of tabula rasa.

The legitimacy of Datang will be greatly improved!

In order to celebrate, Li Luo feasted hundreds of officials in the palace and became a banquet.

At the banquet, Li Luo promoted the viscount of Yan Falcon and others to the earl, and named the former "cheap uncle" Li as an earl. Because Li Zhu was the prime minister of Goryeo and was proficient in oriental etiquette, Li Luo awarded Li Zhu Honglu Siqing the actual position, ranking in the third rank.

But on the night of the banquet, Li Luo and Cui Xiuning had just returned to the dormitory, and the spy Li Zhi knocked in late at night and sent an urgent piece of information.

Or about the intelligence of Lin'an City.

"Wang, teacher, there was a family in Guhuaifang who died violently three days ago, and yesterday several neighbors in the vicinity all had neck wraps, cold and weakness, and the police sergeant who went to check the body three days ago also had such symptoms, it is estimated that it is the plague!"

Li Luo and Cui Xiuning were startled, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. Pestilence!

This must be a plague!

"Is it quarantined?!" Li Luo asked sharply.

As students of the two, Li Zhi and the others certainly knew about the measures of plague isolation for a long time. When Cui Xiuning was in class, he once talked about infectious diseases, focusing on plague.

In fact, ancient China knew as early as the Qin and Han dynasties that plagues had to be quarantined.

It's just that the measures that Li Luo and Cui Xiuning have long warned are stricter and more scientific.

"Isolated! The king is reassured. "Today, dozens of people are sick and seven have died violently. The body was blackened, because it might carry evidence, had not been burned, and was temporarily enclosed in a coffin. The sergeant was smeared with mud, wore a mask, and wore leather armor at the inspection site. ”

"The sergeant who delivered the news, in order to prevent accidents, tied the letter with an arrow and shot it at the Special Investigation. The king and the mother can rest assured that the minister is fine. Otherwise, I would not dare to come and ask for a meeting. ”

She didn't know that Li Luo and Cui Xiuning had been vaccinated and were insensitive to all kinds of plague.

To inspect the deceased who died of sudden illness, the sergeant must apply mud all over his body, wear a mask and wear leather armor. This is a manual that was prescribed in the Haidong era.

Why?

Because the ancient plague was terrible. The plague is transmitted by parasites such as fleas. It can also be transmitted through the respiratory tract and is very dangerous.

The neck is wrapped up, the cold is weak, and the body of the deceased is black, isn't this the plague?

The bubonic plague, once known as the Black Death in Europe, was brought by the Mongol expedition to the west, killing tens of millions of Europeans. Even in later generations, the Black Death was also a shadow in the hearts of Europeans.

Cui Xiuning's body was a little cold, and he said in a deep voice: "The plague does not happen casually, there is less plague in the south, Lin'an City has been peaceful for more than a year, and the hygiene is much better than before, why did the plague suddenly appear?" What did the sergeant find? ”

Li Zhi said: "To be sure, it is man-made. The family that died violently had a foreigner a few days ago, spent money to spend the night and left after two days. Also, the sergeant found the carcass of a marmot (marmot) under the bed, as well as a sack, which was supposed to have been filled with marmots. ”

"We suspect that someone brought the marmot to the house, and the marmot is already sick. It was the marmot who passed the plague to the family. The minister guessed that if this was the case, the person should have the antibodies that the teacher said. ”

Li Luo said without thinking: "This is most likely done by Yuan Ting!" This is their usual method! The Huns used it! ”

The place where the plague is most common is the Asian grassland. Even in later generations, plague often broke out in the grasslands.

Why?

Because the plague fungus is often carried on marmots (marmots), it is the favorite host of the plague bacteria. The vast majority of plague comes from marmots, that is, the plague experiments of the bacterial troops of the Japanese Kingdom in later generations, and the germs are also extracted from marmots.

Marmots, on the other hand, mainly live on the grasslands.

Therefore, the nomadic people since ancient times have suffered from the plague. Of course, they were therefore more resistant to plague than the Han Chinese and Europeans.

The Huns, of course, did not know about the plague. But they knew that dead bodies could make others sick. Therefore, the Huns often threw their corpses in the water of the Han people, hid them on the road that the Han army had to pass, or threw them into the cities of the Han people.

The Mongols also knew for a long time that marmots that died of disease were dangerous. Therefore, Mongolian hunters have an ancient custom when catching marmots, which must be caught by marmots that are jumping alive. If the marmot is listless, not only will they not catch it, but they will stay away.

Two large-scale plagues in Chinese history occurred in the late Han Dynasty and the late Jin Dynasty.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, during the Hengling era, there were several large-scale plagues in the north, and many people died.

Why the end of the Han Dynasty? Some people believe that because the Xiongnu gradually moved inward at that time, they began to live together with the Han people, which brought the plague.

At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Mongol army besieged Bianjing (1232) and withdrew half a month later. As soon as the Mongol army withdrew, a large-scale plague broke out in Bianliang, killing more than 900,000 people.

The Bianjing epidemic caused the last vitality of the Jin Dynasty to be exhausted, and it perished two years later.

Why did the Mongol army besiege the city of Half Moon City, and the plague broke out in Bianliang?

Some speculate that the Mongol army threw the corpses of the plague into Bianjing.

Why did the plague break out in Europe when the Mongol army marched west?

The Mongol army once threw blackened corpses into European cities with stone throwers, causing tens of millions of deaths from the Black Death.

On many occasions, the Mongol army deliberately polluted water sources with sick and dead corpses.

Coupled with the Mongol army's strict cremation order, the military order to burn people and horses as soon as they died, shows that the Mongolian military knew the horror of the plague early on and took advantage of it.

Looking at the history of the conquest of the Mongol army, basically wherever the Mongol army fought, there would be an outbreak of plague.

There is also a seemingly absurd saying, why do the Saiwaihu people want to have a beard?

Some people say that they are afraid of being blocked by their hair, which is of course nonsense.

Others say that they are afraid of lice.

Aren't Han people afraid of lice? Europeans are not afraid? Why did the Waihu people alone get to the point of having a head because they were afraid of lice?

It is speculated that it may be to prevent fleas carrying plague-carrying lice.

This is the original experience of the grassland peoples who have been fighting against epidemics for thousands of years. Thus forming a habitual aesthetic.

Therefore, Li Luo guessed that it was a good thing done by Yuan Ting.

A man with plague antibodies, with a marmot infected with the plague, came to Lin'an.

It's scary to think about.

"Herald! Lock down the city! Tell the world now that the plague is strictly prevented! Spot a suspicious stranger and arrest it immediately! Li Luo stood up.

Cui Xiuning also gritted his teeth and said: "Immediately ask the whole city, as long as he doesn't go out of the city, dig three feet into the ground and find him out!" Also, don't kill! Take a confession! ”

One after another, orders flew out of the palace quickly, and Lin'an City at night was suddenly alarmed.

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