Chapter 143: Chang'an Sacrifices Prisoners
On the cloud platform of Taimiao in the western suburbs, the crown prince Liu Che stood tall, looking at the queue of prisoners who spread for more than ten miles on the avenue outside the Taimiao, and his heart was surging.
Today, Liu Che first had to tell the ancestors of heaven and earth in Taimiao and Taishe, that is, to report the victory, offer the captured spoils, and then put the captured soldiers in the military camp outside the city, so that they could rest and recuperate. It was not until Ming that he led them to escort some prisoners of war and booty to Yongmen in Chang'an City, where they offered prisoners to Emperor Jing and hundreds of officials.
Behind Liu Che, Lao Zongzheng Liu Tong and Taichangqing Liu Xiao were now flushed and excited. As the Liu family, the two of them can participate in such a huge victory memorial ceremony, which is enough to comfort their ancestors and leave a strong mark on the family tree.
More than 100 Hun thief chiefs led by the Aries King, tied a white rope around their necks, were escorted to the main hall of the Taimiao, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing. In particular, a few fierce thief chiefs who refused to kneel were smashed into their kneecaps by the warriors, and fell to the ground wailing, but they did not dare to scold. Just because of the lessons of the past, those who dare to speak out will be knocked out of their mouths full of teeth, their jaws will be removed, and they will be miserable.
Liu Che looked at all this with interest, but he somewhat understood the reason why he had to pay tribute to the temple before offering the prisoners, it was clear that he wanted to train the prisoners first, so as not to blow up the thorns. Only the obedient surrender of the thief chief can reflect the emperor's heavenly temperament of leading the four seas to surrender from the heart, as for the wicked, it is still up to Liu Che, who is the crown prince, to do it first.
The ancient song was played slowly, the singers sang along with the song, and the musicians danced one after another. Liu Che couldn't help but feel pain in his brain, this song came down, and there was no hour that couldn't end. However, although he was the presiding officer of this sacrifice, he actually had nothing to do, rewarding the soldiers and disposing of the prisoners of war was not something he could do, and he had to leave it to the emperor's father to issue a decree at the prisoner sacrifice ceremony. Liu Che said today that he could only reward the soldiers a little, otherwise the imperial historians would have to ** him to buy the hearts of the army.
Fortunately, Liu Che had a discussion with the emperor's father last night, and the emperor's father played the benevolent role, and Liu Che played the tough and iron-blooded hawk, so there was another good errand that made Liu Che's blood boil today.
Liu Che, who couldn't wait, discussed a few words with Lao Zongzheng in a low voice, Liu Tong showed excitement on his face, pondered for a moment, and then nodded in agreement. Liu Che agreed with Zongzheng, and then asked Tai Changqing to step forward, and said loudly: "Taichang, the lonely king still has important things to deal with today, and this music and dance should be simplified slightly, don't repeat the performance, miss the time." ”
Tai Changqing Liu Xiao heard this, and his face was embarrassed. He has served as Taichangqing for more than ten years, and has arranged countless sacrifices in the two dynasties. This ancient song is indeed played repeatedly, and some large ceremonies even have to be repeated more than 100 times for several hours. Today, he has only arranged for one hour of music and dancing, which can be regarded as simple.
Lao Zongzheng Liu Tong saw that he was silent for a long time, frowned and said: "Your Highness does have important tasks, and you don't have to be embarrassed." Every ritual is these songs, don't say that the ancestors in the temple, even the old man are tired of listening to it! Let them accept it as soon as possible, His Royal Highness will use other methods to comfort the ancestors, which is much more sincere than this Raushzi music and dance, and the ancestors will not blame! ”
Liu Xiao was speechless, and did not dare to refute at all. Lao Zongzheng Liu Tong is now the most respected person in the clan, and the internal affairs of the Liu family are basically based on him, that is, Jing ** should seriously consider his opinion. However, Liu Tong is a hearty and heroic surname, and he usually said that there are not a few complicated customs and etiquette in Taichang Mansion, and he is really the same as Liu Bang, the ancestor who was born in the market.
Liu Xiao nodded helplessly, and invited a few words from his subordinate Taichang officials, and ended the music and dance sacrifice early.
Liu Che waited for the music to stop, his spirit was shocked, he stepped forward, stood on the high platform, and said loudly to the soldiers inside and outside the Taimiao: "The Han Dynasty has been established for decades, and the Huns have invaded my border and captured my people. Fortunately, my Han warriors are like clouds, and the soldiers will use their lives, and this time the city is a great victory, beheading 20,000 and capturing more than 50,000 thieves. The Han army is mighty! God bless the man! ”
"The Han army is mighty! God bless the man! ”
"The Han army is mighty! God bless the man! ”
As soon as Liu Che's words fell, the soldiers of the Han army under the high platform all shouted excitedly, and then spread, and the queue that meandered for more than ten miles all shouted, and the people who rushed to greet the army on the side of the road were also thunderous with joy, shouting with the voice, and the real sound shook the sky and lasted for a long time.
After a long time, Liu Che pressed his hand, signaled the soldiers whose voices began to be hoarse to be quieter, and said loudly again: "The ancient holy king once crusaded against the disrespectful and built the most heinous ones into a capital view, which is to use this heaviest punishment to warn **. Today, when the Son is merciful and loves the people, and uses force to prohibit violence, to fight soldiers, to protect the great, to determine merit, to reassure the people, to make peace with the people, and to enrich wealth, for this reason the seven things can make future generations not forget martial arts, but they cannot bear to kill more. However, the Huns brutalized the people of the Han Dynasty, and they must not be punished! Today, the lonely king will punish the Son of Heaven, and use the barbarian heads offered by the soldiers to build a Jingguan! Those who commit me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away! ”
There was silence inside and outside the temple at first, and then there were huge cheers and roars.
"Those who offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away!"
The soldiers and the people shouted loudly, tears in their eyes. In the decades since the founding of the Han Dynasty, most of the children of Guanzhong have served in the army to fight against the Xiongnu and defend the country. Almost every family has a blood-stained battlefield, and in the face of such a great victory at this time, he can finally raise his eyebrows and shout with his arms open, comforting the heavenly heroes.
Although they have more than 10,000 words in their hearts, they are unable to express it, and at this time, they only feel that the prince said, "Those who offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away!" In just a few numbers, the blood and qi that had accumulated in their chests were revealed, and they naturally exclaimed. The Hun prisoners of war who were tied up in a long string trembled in the shouts of the heavens, and they were no longer the original martial arts.
And the Hun nobles who had Bai Lian around their necks and knelt on the ground were even more gloomy. They are deeply aware that if the Han people, who are already martial, wantonly wave their blood surnames in their hearts and change the previous national policy of valuing peace, the Xiongnu will be in danger!
Subsequently, nearly 20,000 Xiongnu heads were stacked on the west side of the Taimiao, covered with soil and tamped, forming a pyramid-shaped mound. Although these heads were made of lime and nitrate before they were shipped, it took too long to transport them from the northwest to Chang'an in the summer, and they were all rotten. However, Liu Che held back his nausea, personally led the officials and soldiers, and laid the first layer of heads for Jingguan before stopping.
Many civil officials really couldn't stand the bloody and foul smell, and vomited, so they were immediately dragged down by Liu Che and sent back to Chang'an to recuperate. On the contrary, it was the old man Liu Tong, smashing the old mouth with missing front teeth, as if he was chewing something carefully. Even Liu Che was terrified by his movements, and inadvertently wanted to stay away from this old **.
Jingguan Cheng, Liu Che, who was full of excitement, slowly climbed up to the sealed soil, and personally planted the Han military flag on the top of Jingguan, which was cheered by all the people and endured for a long time. After a long time, Liu Che, who had calmed down, announced the end of the sacrifice and led the soldiers to the camp in the west of Chang'an City to rest.
Along the way, the people took out the prepared food, water and wine to reward the soldiers, and of course did not forget to throw stones into the long line of prisoners of war. As long as they were not killed or maimed, the soldiers of the Han army had no dissuasion. On the contrary, some prisoners of war showed fierce faces and yelled at the people, and then they were pulled out of the ranks by the soldiers, thrown into the crowd, and let the people smash them into pulp. For these dead prisoners, the Han generals did not stop the movement of the soldiers, and in the process of transportation, it was common for some prisoners to be killed or wounded, as long as there were no large-scale casualties, no one would pursue them.
In the early morning of the next day, inside and outside the Yongmen Gate in the west of Chang'an City, the people who flocked to it were crowded. On the avenue outside the city is a contingent of prisoners that stretches for more than ten miles, and in the straight road in the city, there are all high-headed horses, and the armor is clearly forbidden to the soldiers. The dark military flag fluttering in Chang'an City, the scene was extremely grand.
On the city floor, there is a tent seat in the front wing, and the civil and military officials and the prisoner generals stand on the left and right downstairs, and the position of the prisoner is set up in the south in front of the building. After the hundred officials arrived, Sun Quan, the eunuch with the palm print, lifted the Banqi card upstairs with a red silk rope bag and reported to Emperor Jing in the city tower. Emperor Jing slowly walked out of the city tower, his face flushed, and the excitement in his heart was overflowing. He slowly took his seat, and the civil and military officials and soldiers under the city tower climbed the mountain and shouted long live.
When the call subsided slightly, Sun Quan took a few steps forward, came to the middle of the city tower, and shouted loudly: "Bring prisoners!" ”
The prisoner general took the Xiongnu nobles led by the Aries King to the prisoner seat under the city tower, and after yesterday's training, the thief chieftains were also interested, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and waited for the ruling of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty with a pale face.
Sun Quan held the good news in his hand and read it out loud: "Qin Yong, the general of the Chen Xiao Cavalry, was ordered by the Son of Heaven to join the Han army and the soldiers to destroy the Huns, beheading 21,341 people, capturing 52,850 soldiers, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and livestock, and countless grains, grasses and ordnance. Today, I say that I will dedicate the Son of Heaven, may my emperor live long, and the society will be eternal! ”
When the words landed, there was a tsunami inside and outside Chang'an City, jubilant.
Due to the absence of Dou Ying, the lieutenant in charge of military affairs, Prime Minister Yuan Ang issued a proclamation on his behalf, dedicating the captured prisoners, and asking them to be handed over to the department for disposal.
Although Emperor Jing had already made up his mind, he stroked his beard and pretended to groan, and only after a long time did he slowly say: "A great man, you need to have the temperament of the Heavenly Dynasty, the first evil must be done, and the accomplice can be accepted as an official slave, and there is no need to kill more!" ”
Sun Quanfu, the eunuch with the palm seal, stepped forward again and conveyed His Majesty's will to the hundreds of officials and people under the city tower. Under the leadership of the hundred officials, all the people knelt down and shouted in the name of His Majesty's mercy.
Wang Xuan, the secretary of Dali, took the paralyzed Aries King to the Dongshi Law Field and sentenced him to death. And the rest of the Hun thief chieftains were able to keep their surnames, shout long live three times, and then thank you. The civil and military officials also bowed to the wat (inserted the wat version into the belt) and danced, and shouted long live.
Subsequently, Sun Quan once again read out the edict of the Son of Heaven, in addition to rewarding meritorious soldiers, it was the Han Dynasty who reduced the levy for three years again. Since the beginning of spring this year, His Majesty the Emperor, who loves the people like a son, has reduced the tax three times in a row, and this year is the wind and rain are smooth, seeing that autumn is about to begin, and a bumper harvest is in sight, how can the people not be grateful.
The princes of the Han Dynasty showed bitterness on their faces, and secretly slandered Emperor Jing and cheated them again. In the early Han Dynasty, most of the feudal states or fiefdoms of the princes belonged to official fields, and they could only extract an equal proportion of the rent from the taxes of the imperial court. The princes were not the de facto owners, and the scale of private land in their hands that could set their own rents was not even comparable to that of some large landlords who wantonly annexed land.
Emperor Jing reduced the tax three times in a row, that is, to cut the flesh of the princes, if it were not for the royal industrial group can now bring them huge profits and make up for the losses, I am afraid they would even have the intention of rebellion. But they don't know, or don't want to know, the truth that the wool comes from the sheep. Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu, looked at the endless stream of Xiongnu prisoners of war who were escorted to the camp of the Northern Army, and smiled about the upcoming crazy auction, and how much silver he could take out from the treasury of the Han magnates, and his heart blossomed.
(Whew, the war is finally over, and I can return to my favorite farming, if you want to see any technology, brothers, hurry up and post.) Today, after the resumption of the two watches, there will be a face to ask you to click, recommend, monthly pass, everyone support Ha. Maybe there will be more updates...... (To be continued.) )