Chapter 122: Sacrifice
When the sun rose the next day, Yang Wang Ye was already standing in front of the Fengtian Hall in the Forbidden City of Nanjing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's just that this palace that has suffered many vicissitudes has long been in ruins.
In fact, after Yongle moved the capital, this palace has been in decay, not only the part burned by Emperor Jianwen has not been repaired decently, and later suffered many disasters, and it has not been repaired well, Zhu Yousong called the emperor because of Fengtian, Huacani, and the three major halls of the body are broken, and have to choose in the Wuying Palace, which is just a side hall, and after the Tartars entered the customs, the imperial city became a garrison city, and often dismantled some precious materials from here to repair other things, and it is basically about to become a ruin now.
"This has to be repaired quickly!"
Ying Tianfu Yin Yan Hongkui looked at the unrecognizable Forbidden City and said, and carefully peeked at Yang Feng's face.
"Let's just clean it up and live there."
Yang Wang Ye said indifferently.
He really doesn't have any extra money to build the palace now, even with his ability to absorb money and keep fighting local tyrants, the finances are still very tight, in addition to maintaining military expenses, and his compulsory education is too expensive. Especially this time he has newly occupied so much territory, it is all about compulsory education, those ordinary people are looking forward to him, in addition to the division of land, this is what they are looking forward to the most, if he doesn't do it, how can he be worthy of his identity as a Yang Sage? It can be said that there are more places to spend money in the future, not to mention that he also has a series of industrial projects, especially the steel industry must really start, the famous Ma'anshan Iron Mine is next to him, plus the Changguang Coal Mine, it is enough to make do with a big steel mill, this also has to be invested.
As for the palace or something, let's go back first!
"Lord, Ah Shan was caught, Dajia was trampled to death by one of our cavalry in the melee, and the other Tartar officials in Nanjing basically didn't run and took them all, but Jiangning Weaving Cao Yin ran to Yangzhou before this time I didn't catch it, and most of the valuable property in the family was transferred to Yangzhou."
Du You walked over and said.
At this time, the first and second armies had already entered the city, and the large-scale battle in the city was almost over, and only a few Qing troops were still resisting stubbornly, but they had also become rats fleeing in all directions, and it would not be long before they were shot to death in the shouting and beating of the city.
"Run, run! Where else can he run if he runs? It's not all the same sooner or later. ”
Yang Feng said very domineeringly.
"Also, take the captured Qing army, as well as the flag officials in the city to Xiaoling, and this king wants to worship Taizu."
Then he added.
"Yes!"
Du You saluted and said, then got up and went to carry out Yang Feng's bloody task.
This time, there were quite a few captured Qing soldiers and captured flag officials, adding up to thousands, and they were soon strung up with ropes and bayonets by the Ming army, lined up to go out of the city and walk towards Xiaoling under the angry scolding and beating of those ordinary people. There are two prisoner cars in the front, the first car is Ah Shan, and he and Dajia presided over the capture of the common people as meat shields, and now Dajia was trampled to death by the war horses of the Ming cavalry, so he will be sentenced to the Ming Dynasty. On the prisoner car behind him was Prince Jane Yabu, although the people of Nanjing didn't know him very well, but fortunately, there was a sign behind him, and a Tartar iron hat king was executed, which is still very concerning.
In fact, Yabu had already gone on a hunger strike.
Of course he knew that Yang Feng was going to sacrifice himself in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum, so if he didn't hurry up and find a way to kill himself in this case, would he really wait to take the three thousand six hundred knives?
There is no other way, he can still do it without eating or drinking.
However, he underestimated the technical strength of Yang Wangye, can he die on a hunger strike? The prince of Yang simply hung glucose on him, poor Prince Jian endured hunger and thirst for so long, and actually lived more and more energetically, so he had to keep repeating in his heart that he gained superpowers after becoming a ghost, and then how to retaliate against Yang Feng, so he walked the last journey of his life in the rotation of the wooden wheel of the prisoner car.
Of course, he also knew that this was destined to be hopeless, after all, the Yang demon was very Taoist, and it was estimated that even if he became a ghost, he would not be able to defeat others.
"Taizu Taizong, open your eyes!"
Poor Prince Jane looked up to the sky and roared, but unfortunately he had a hemp core stuffed in his mouth, and he couldn't shout at all.
"Lord Wang, is it a little more?"
Looking at the sacrifices that could not be seen at a glance, Huang Baijia said, at the same time, a few Qing army officers who were unwilling to be killed roared out angrily, but before they could get closer, the Ming army who were escorted nailed to the ground with bayonets, this number is indeed a bit much, thousands of prisoners of war were executed, it is inevitable that it is against the way of the sages.
"It's not much, just pile up a Jingguan!"
Yang Feng said gloomily.
As soon as he finished saying this, suddenly another Qing army general rushed out, but instead of running to fight him to the death, he knelt down there and begged, while kowtowing, while saying that his ancestors had contributed to the Ming Dynasty, and begged the prince to spare him from death.
"Bring him here."
Yang Feng said.
Soon the man was brought to the rhinoceros.
"Who are your ancestors?"
Yang Feng asked.
"Lord Qiyu, the villain's father is Ma Zide, the general of Jingkou who just died of illness, and the villain's grandfather is Ma Jinzhong, the king of Hanyang, who was sealed by the Yongli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
The man said as he lay on the ground.
"Yongli is the self-proclaimed King Gui, although the matter is helpless, so it will not be pursued, but the official positions he sealed, also need to be re-discussed, Lingzu's Hanyang King should not be mentioned again, but although Lingzu got up as a group of thieves and that rebelled as a henchman, but in the end it was also lost and returned, but it was indeed for me to fight on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be regarded as a loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty, but it is also a fact that your father defected to the enemy and treason, and even openly led troops to resist the king's division, which is even more evil. So, do you think it's fair to pay for your father's sins with your grandfather's merits, and spare your family's life but all your property? ”
Yang Feng said.
"Thank you, thank you."
The man was busy kowtowing, and then, under the supervision of the Ming soldiers, he went to look for his family among the captives.
"It seems that we should indeed sort out those things back then, although the official positions of King Fu, King Tang, King Gui and others are too indiscriminate, but those who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty in the end, such as Li Dingguo, Ma Jinzhong, no matter what their background, at least they don't lose money, and these people should also give some praise."
Yang Feng said.
"Can the prince give a standard?"
Huang Baijia said.
Yang Wangye is orthodox with Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty has continued the Chongzhen year name, which means that the thrones of other Hongguang, Longwu, Yongli and others are not recognized, and these people are reduced back to their original titles, at most a better nickname, and the princes who were indiscriminately sealed in their later period naturally did not recognize it. Of course, there is no need to care about these people who were later cleared, but those who did not descend to the Qing Dynasty but died of illness in battle, died of illness and died unyielding after being captured, these should also have appropriate rewards, anyway, they are all dead, and giving them a title is also considered to let the people see the heart of Prince Yang to reward loyal ministers.
"Zheng Chenggong still retains his county king, although he is more selfish and does a lot of things wrong, but after all, he has also finished with my Ming Dynasty, and Li Dingguo has been demoted to the county king, and the others you can reconsider, and there are some people who do not have a title and also add a suitable title, let me take a look."
Yang Feng said.
This matter is so decided, as for how to set the title of those people, this does not need him to worry about, soon Yang Wangye arrived at Xiaoling with thousands of sacrifices and his subordinate military generals, along the way, there were constantly unwilling to lead the neck to be killed by the Qing army ran out to try to snatch the Ming army's weapons to resist, and some people simply lay on the ground and did not leave, these people were all nailed to the ground by the Ming army with bayonets without exception, and as a result, along the way, hundreds of corpses were left behind.
As for the next, it is the cumbersome worship procedure, although Yang Wangye does not understand it very well, but there are well-educated people around him, these people all understand, according to the etiquette of the vassal king's worship, just go down one by one, these are also very time-consuming. It wasn't until it was close to evening that the previous ritual was completed and the sacrifice procedure was entered, and then I saw the whole two battalions of Ming soldiers carrying rifles forward, and the two dragged out hundreds of Qing prisoners, dragged them to the square in front of the Xiangdian, and directly pressed them to the ground, one held down the other and picked up the rifle and directly hit the heart with a bayonet.
The same process was repeated over and over again, and soon the dead bodies were piled up in front of the Hall of Filial Piety.
This is Yang Wangye's view of Beijing, first put it here for a few days, anyway, it is early spring and it can't stink for a short time, the exhibition is enough and then pick a good day, directly light the fire, and after burning, the bone slag is poured into the Yangtze River, which can be regarded as the completion of the bones and ashes.
After dealing with the Qing army, then Ah Shan and Yabu, they also happened to be companions, tied to the shelf and then took a fishing net, and began to receive the 3,600 knives together, but unfortunately there are no such craftsmen in Nanjing, and those who know this are all in Beijing, and the prisoners who need Ling Chi will not be executed outside Beijing. In this way, they had to find two ordinary executioners to carry out the execution, and according to the rules, they had to be cut for several days, but because of their poor craftsmanship, in fact, within two hours of cutting, the two of them swallowed their breath, so that the surrounding audience was greatly dissatisfied.
made Yang Wangye not interested in letting them cut it again, so he simply threw it on Jingguan and pulled it down.
"Practice this craft more in the future, there are still a bunch of things waiting for you in Beijing, don't be so embarrassed next time."
Yang Wang Ye said to the two executioners very sternly.
The latter hurriedly kowtowed and said that he would strengthen his studies when he went back, strive to be a good executioner of the prince, and chop more tartars! (To be continued.) )