Xiao Jing's problem, even Shen Xi himself is not very clear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because the heads of the previous battles were stored in Juyong Pass, it is likely that only some of them were transported at this time, and they were busy fighting the Tatars along the way, and they didn't have time to think about inconsequential things. But as soon as the war ended, he was pulled back to the capital by Xie Qian, and he didn't have time to carefully count many things.

Shen Xi replied: "The specific quantity, the official is not very clear!" ”

Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, said with a smile: "Your commander who went out on the expedition has done a very special job, and everyone else cares about the amount of military merits, this ...... You don't seem to care much? ”

Shen Xi shook his head and smiled bitterly, he did count it once before, but it was still when he was in Juyong Pass, and he only roughly counted it, after leaving Juyong Pass and returning to the Beijing Division, things were one after another, and he really didn't have time to calculate.

After a short time, the herald passed the news: "Lord Shen, the first batch of heads, a total of 3,925 heads, is being escorted!" ”

Xiao Jing didn't hear clearly, and asked in astonishment, "How much?" ”

Shen Xi didn't answer him, with a wave of his hand, the herald went in the direction of the noon gate, and the herald kept repeating the previous numbers, but this time Xiao Jing heard it clearly.

Nearly 4,000 heads, this is still the first batch, Xiao Jing thought he had heard it wrong.

Waiting for the head of a cart to enter the city under the transportation of the carriage, Xiao Jing knew that this was not a false report of war exploits at all, there were about one or two hundred heads in each cart, all of them were dead heads, stacked on the carriage, which looked a little eerie, but for the Ming soldiers, it was a real merit, and it couldn't be faked at all.

Many of the soldiers present couldn't help but drool when they saw it, how much credit these heads involved, they were in the military, and they knew better than anyone else.

In this first batch of heads alone, more than 20 carriages were loaded, and everywhere the carriages passed, they were all amazed, and even some children were frightened and cried by this terrible picture, looking for their father and mother in the crowd. But almost all the adults pointed to the head of the Tartar and applauded loudly, because every head on the carriage was evidence left in this world by a barbarian who had scourged the Ming Dynasty, and all the people applauded the Ming soldiers for their heroic killing of the enemy.

Before the first batch of heads had passed, the herald came in a hurry, shouting: "The second batch of heads, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-three heads, is marching into Zhengyang Gate!" ”

Shen Xi waved his hand and said, "Spread the news of the noon gate!" ”

Xiao Jing swallowed his saliva, glanced left and right, and saw that all the officials and generals looked at Shen Xi with a hint of awe, and couldn't help but ask, "Lord Shen, this is the first level...... Why do you ship in batches? ”

Shen Xi retracted his gaze from looking at the convoy and patiently explained to Xiao Jing: "The main thing is to be able to distinguish which battle these heads are from!" ”

Xiao Jing's breath was a little uncomfortable at this moment, and he caressed his heart and said, "Then Lord Shen, the back...... Probably gone, right? ”

Shen Xi thought about it, the first batch of heads was obtained from a battle with the Fire Silk Department; The second batch of heads was obtained from the use of "Ma Lei" tactics, as well as the arrival of Juyongguan reinforcements by Yunliu and Xi'er in the battle of Tumubao. Although the number of heads obtained by Yunliu in that battle was not large, he also won more than 100 heads, and some of them could not be transported to the city.

For the Battle of Tumubao, in fact, the first two battles were just appetizers, and the real bloody battles occurred in the tentative battles launched against Tumubao by Yismain's troops and the two subsequent battles of the nest.

Shen Xi replied affirmatively: "Back...... There should be some more! ”

Xiao Jing heard Shen Xi say that there were still "some", thinking that there were not many more, and his heart was finally much more relaxed, although he had long expected that today's errand would not be easy, but thinking that the ceremony was almost over now, he took it calmly and prepared to finish the work.

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Imperial Palace, Wenyuan Pavilion.

When the three auxiliary political scholars of the cabinet learned that Emperor Hongzhi was going to attend the prisoner sacrifice ceremony in person, Zhu Youzhu had already taken Luan to the Wumen, and Liu Jian, the first assistant, did not even get any news in advance.

Liu Jian with a little bit of shame, Feng Zhao and Li Dongyang, Xie Qian, the two of them, went to the noon gate to participate in the ceremony, and at the same time attended the ceremony of watching the ceremony of all the officials above the fourth grade in Beijing, the first and second leaders of the basic six departments and nine secretaries have arrived, but they did not see Ma Wensheng, Zhang Mao and others, because these people have rushed to Zhengyangmen to supervise the normal progress of the ceremony of entering the city.

In addition to the officials, the envoys of the vassal states in Beijing were also present.

The continuous curfew in the capital of the Ming Dynasty and the bad news of failure have made countries have certain doubts about the military strength of the Ming Dynasty.

When Xie Qian arrived at the noon gate, the battle had been lined up, this was originally the palace used to watch the ceremony, after the emperor ascended to Luan, all the ministers were separated on both sides, this time the emperor did not prepare seats for the ministers, and all the officials could only stand to participate in the prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

On the contrary, the envoys of various countries were given preferential treatment, and seats were arranged at the back of the courtiers' procession so that they could watch the ceremony unfold in a comfortable way.

Liu Jian went up to talk to the emperor, mainly to raise objections to Zhu Youjiao's sudden holding of such a prisoner sacrifice ceremony, while Li Dongyang and Xie Qian stood under the viewing platform and waited for the prisoner sacrifice ceremony to begin.

Li Dongyang frowned and asked Xie Qian in a low voice: "Yu Qiao, Your Majesty suddenly held a ceremony to offer prisoners, have you received the news in advance?" ”

Xie Qian thought to himself, I haven't even heard of you, Scholar Li, where did I hear about it?

"Never." Xie Qian shook his head and said.

Li Dongyang glanced at the viewing platform again, Zhu Youzhu had finished talking with Liu Jian at this time, even as the head of the civil ministers, Liu Jian could not stay on the viewing platform, and staggered down, Li Dongyang wanted to go up and ask two reasons, but seeing Liu Jian's dark face, he was not bored.

Not long after, the crown prince Zhu Houzhao came over, and this time the prince's position was not under the stage, but on the seat set up next to the emperor's throne on the stage.

Zhu Houzhao rarely wore a grand crown dress, Gon took nine chapter patterns, the crown is Jiuhan, the nine jade, the sleeves are embroidered with fire, Chinese insects, Zong Yi patterns, the shoulders are embroidered with the sun, moon, dragon patterns, and the back is the stars, mountains and other patterns, at this time Zhu Houzhao, temperament is free and easy, the face is majestic, decent, no matter how you look at it is a qualified prince.

The ceremony of presenting prisoners officially began, and first the Ming officers and soldiers entered the city.

But the officers and soldiers will not go directly to the noon gate, because Zhu Youzhi is afraid that Shen Xi's subordinates will rebel, and as the emperor, he will never easily take risks, so after Shen Xi's troops enter the capital, they will immediately be deployed by the military department to different city defense yamen in the nine cities, which is equivalent to immediately disbanding the soldiers and horses of this road and returning to the Beijing battalion for unified deployment.

As for the prisoners of war, they will also be escorted by the Imperial Forest Army, and the prisoners of war will be sent to the Daming Gate to the noon gate, in order to prevent the prisoners from making trouble, the soldiers of the Royal Forest Army are responsible for escorting one prisoner for every two people.

Zhu Youzhu thought at first that there were only a few hundred captives at most, so he did not dispatch many Imperial Forest Army, just when he was talking to the prince to give instructions on how to deal with such a scene, the herald had already reported the specific number of prisoners of war, Zhu Youzhu was a little surprised when he heard it, stood up and asked: "The number of Tatar prisoners of war, can you count it clearly?" ”

Liu Jian, as the first auxiliary minister, ascended to the viewing platform and saluted: "Your Majesty, it is better to wait until all the prisoners of war have arrived, and then make a decision!" ”

Zhu Youzhu glanced at Liu Jian, the reason why the prisoner sacrifice ceremony was held this time was mainly aimed at Liu Jian and other powerful ministers, the purpose was to deter the dynasty, and at the same time let the vassal states maintain confidence in the Ming Dynasty. Now there are more prisoners of war than expected, which is a great thing for him, the emperor.

Zhu Youzhu waved his hand and said, "Escort the prisoners of war to me!" ”

As soon as Zhu Youzhu returned to his seat, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but praise: "Father, Erchen has long said that Mr. Shen is very capable, he used to teach Erchen the knowledge of the art of war and strategy, and Erchen has learned and used it in this battle with the Tartars, and it is very effective every time!" ”

Zhu Youzhu didn't comment too much on his son's stubbornness, and it didn't take long for the prisoners of war to come to the noon gate under the escort of the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Forest.