Chapter 880: Bloody Sacrifice
Chi Bangsong nodded: "I know that you left Dongzan by your side, and you also wanted to be a hostage, but let me remind you, this kid is already thirteen years old, and he will be an adult in two or three years, and if you release him back to the Gar tribe at that time, then according to the words of the Han people, it will be difficult for the fish to return to the sea and the goshawk to return to the sky. ”
Ji Song smiled slightly: "So I want to take advantage of the present to show favor to him, just now I thought about it again, the three tribes of Nong, Wei, and Niang are too close to Tubo, and they are always a threat, after our sacrifice this time, regardless of whether they have any objections, they will detain these three heads, and then move the Gar tribe to their territory, and you can give them half of the territory of each of the three tribes, so that the sum is larger than their original territory, and the Gar tribe has hostages in our hands, and there are benefits, I will definitely be willing." ”
Chi Bangsong smiled: "Then aren't you afraid that the Gar tribe, which has a grudge against us, will unite with these three tribes and lead the Tubo soldiers to invade?" ”
Ji Song smiled: "It's okay, you must know that the Gar tribe occupies a large territory of these three tribes, there will only be hatred between them, and they will not join forces, when the old land of the Gar tribe is reached, we will let the younger brother and nephew of the leaders of the three tribes divide half of the troops to occupy it, so that the power of these three tribes is weakened, and there is the monitoring of the Gar tribe, even if you want to take refuge in the Tubo people, there is not much capital, we can observe from it, and the obedient tribe will share more gold in the salt trade, The disobedient ones secretly instigated the obedient tribes to attack, so that there was no need to worry about the Tubo people taking the opportunity to invade, and wait until the shape of our country was stable. You can take the initiative. Destroy Tibet! ”
Chi Bangsong breathed a long sigh of relief: "A few loose." You really deserve to be the number one thinker in our Subi country, and it is not in vain that I love you. Okay, do as you say, and we'll go and meet the three heads now. ”
A day later, a temporary camp was erected on the grassland outside the castle, and a wooden fence was erected around it, with a radius of three or four miles. And in the camp, a pile of rocks was piled up, on which a cowhide banner was inserted, and the totem of the Subi country was painted on the banner - two Dapeng golden-winged birds, the legend said that the ancestors of the Subi country fell from the sky, and the Dapeng golden-winged bird became the totem of this tribe, and then until the founding of the Subi country, every time it was sacrificed, this cowhide banner would also be taken out and used as the main flag of the sacrifice. In order to unite the various tribes separated from the Subi tribe, it reminds everyone. Five hundred years ago, we were one ancestor.
Dozens of seats have been laid out on the steppe with sheepskin mats, and placed on the grass, which is where the nobles of the Subian kingdom sit, and on each piece of sheepskin sits the head of the tribe of the Survi kingdom, and above the main seat in the front row, the queen of the Sulvi kingdom, Chi Bangsong, sits in the center, and she wears a full queen's dress today, and her whole body is decorated with gold flakes and beautiful feathers, and her face is still painted with her favorite yellow oil paint.
And Ji Song Da Yan changed a pair of blue and red oil paint on his face today, at this time he closed his eyes slightly, and he didn't know what he was thinking, beside him, sitting in turn were the leaders of the three tribes of Nong, Wei, and Niang, each smiling, looking relaxed, and the slave Dongzan was still barefoot, bare-chested, with a silver collar around his neck, standing behind Ji Song, his expression was calm, but there was occasionally a glimmer of light in his eyes.
All eyes were on the dancing high priest in the center, an old woman who looked to be over seventy years old, with gray hair, and who was dressed in gold and silver, dressed in jewels and jewels, and dressed in gold and silver, and who wore bird feather coats with bones of various animals and humans hanging on them, and held in her hands two huge bone plates made of yak shoulder blades, and her mouth was chanting words, and she was chanting incantations while beating the bone plates, and she was dancing around the stone pile.
The corpses of ten slaves are lined up in front of this stone pile, which is a unique way of sacrificing to the god Asura (the god of war in the Subian kingdom is worshipped as Asuras, and also believes in the sacred bird, which is believed to bring them a good harvest and abundance), and then the sacred bird (a pheasant caught from the mountains of the Subian country) is obtained, and the divination of the sacred bird reflects the fortune of the country for the next three years.
Finally, the high priest's ritual of dancing the god ended, and the two attendants solemnly presented a pheasant, which is a necessary thing for the triennial sacrifice ceremony of the Subian country, according to the ancient law, the queen of Subi will personally cut open the belly of this pheasant, if it is corn, it indicates a good harvest in the coming year, on the contrary, if the belly is sand, it indicates that there will be a famine in the next three years.
Ji Song sat in his place calmly, without saying a word, as a person who dared to kill the king with his own hands, he had already become a complete atheist, the legend said that after killing Queen Subi, the punishment that the Asura God would come down would not come after more than ten years, so Ji Song was completely fearless, this pheasant was caught by him yesterday when Dongzan was caught from the mountain, and he specially ordered it to be fed corn for a night, so today's sacrifice is just a ritual, fooling some of these simple-minded tribal leaders, let them understand that following Queen Chibangsong, they can have smooth weather and worry-free food and clothing!
Chi Bangsong stood up, she didn't know what Jisong had done, whether it was as a queen or as a woman, she still had great awe of the gods from the bottom of her heart, after all, the legitimacy of her throne also came from this gift from God, the so-called major events of the country, in the heirs and rituals, and for the Subi country, which is not the successor of the mother and daughter, the major affairs of the country are only one of the sacrifices.
Chi Bangsong walked in front of the high priest, the high priest put down the bone plate, picked up the pheasant with both hands, and handed it to Chi Bangsong, I don't know if it was because of old age or because of other reasons, today's high priest's hands were a little trembling, and the pheasant in her hand did not know her next fate, and was still leisurely looking around.
Chi Bangsong took the pheasant in her hand, grasped the bird's feet with her left hand, and took a knife from a priest in her right hand, her eyes closed gently, and her mouth silently said: "O great divine bird, please give us the instructions of heaven in the kingdom of Subi!" ”
When she opened her eyes, Chi Bangsong's eyes suddenly showed murder, and the wrist of her right hand shook, and with a fierce knife, she stabbed into the pheasant's abdomen. (To be continued......)