Under the farewell of the people of Chang'an, the vast team led by Li Yuan entered the palace from Chengtianmen and went to Taimiao and Taishe to pay tribute to the ancestors of heaven and earth.

The ancients regarded worshipping the ancestors of heaven and earth as a sacred thing, and for some reason they also knelt down to the heavens and knelt down to their parents.

But whoever goes out to triumph, every festival must tell the ancestors of heaven and earth.

As a later generation, Luo Shixin did not like complicated etiquette, but the ancients did not pay attention to etiquette for no reason, blindly seeking etiquette. Each of their etiquette has a certain meaning, and they can understand the moral importance of the ancients. On the other hand, in later generations, there was less etiquette, less etiquette, and when it came to civilization, self-cultivation, and self-cultivation, there was a huge difference between modern people and the ancients.

Because the ancestors of the heaven and earth attached great importance to it, it was also particularly solemn.

Worship with incense, say hello to the narrative, and treat every link sincerely.

After the ancestor worship was completed, it was already past noon.

The next and most important part is the prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

This ritual has been practiced since ancient times, and the records of the fortnight contain countless rituals for the sacrifice of prisoners. With the development of successive dynasties, it evolved into a custom, and it was necessary to hold a prisoner sacrifice ceremony only when the great results of the war were achieved.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were only four years of martial arts, Li Shimin conquered Henan, captured Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, and held a prisoner sacrifice ceremony in the north of the Central Plains. Now, Li Jing and Luo Shixin have achieved more results in defeating the Turks than Li Shimin's great victory back then. The ceremony was also extraordinarily grand and grand.

The Turkic chieftains, the left and right Xiangcha, the left and right Xian Wang, the Sixteen She, and all the Turkic nobles who were captured in this battle had to bow down in front of the Taimiao and Taishe with white practice. first plead to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and then go to Chengtianmen to gaze at the heavenly tower to accept the prisoners.

According to the etiquette law, Li Yuan set up a tent seat in the front of the Shuntian Tower of Chengtianmen. Hundreds of civil and military officials and prisoner generals stand on the left and right of the downstairs, and a prisoner seat is set up in front of the building a little south. After the hundred officials arrived, the courtiers lifted the Banqi card upstairs with a red silk rope bag and reported to the emperor. The emperor was seated, and hundreds of officials shouted long live and saluted. The courtiers announced the "dedication of prisoners", and the colonel brought the captives to the sacrifice position.

Li Yuan sat on a high place, looking at the Turkic Khan Jieli led below and the hundreds of Turkic nobles behind him. The mood can't help but be happy. Since the beginning of the incident, he has been restrained by the Turks, and he has to make compromises. According to his original idea, it was like the Han Dynasty 800 years ago. After a long period of accumulation and condensation, and the strength of the country, a figure similar to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty appeared, and the foundation they laid was used to wash away the shame they received: he could not have imagined that he would live in his lifetime. And still so beautiful. Able to watch the invincible Turks fall in front of them. Seeing the majestic Turkic Khan kneeling in front of him and pleading guilty.

Either Caesar or nothing!

The defeated did not have any dignity at all, even the Turkic Khan King like Jieli, who had once been a powerful party, could only kneel in shame in front of the crowd at this moment and bow down at Li Yuan's feet. With Jieli's identity, he was unwilling to be insulted by this, but it was indeed easy to kill him alone, but his people would be implicated because of this. As the king of the Turkic Khan, Jieli thought it was a sin to fail to protect his people. To the point where it has come to this. How can he have the face to die and escape.

I could only kneel on the ground, and I couldn't help but listen to the courtiers read out the battle report of the Tang Dynasty in public.

This reading of the war report has a name for this period. It's called "Lubu".

The "Lubu" system began in the Later Wei Dynasty and became the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, officials called those texts that were not very important and did not need to be sealed by special means as "lubu". Later Wei used "Lubu" to publish the news of victory, and whenever he attacked Kejie, he conveyed the news in the shape of Lubu, and wrote the good news on the lacquer pole, so that the world knew about it. This method was later widely adopted, and Lubu gradually became the "Book of Dedication" that "spread all over the world, and exposed the eyes and ears".

Since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, there has been the ritual of declaring cloth. Whenever a great victory is achieved, hundreds of officials and guest envoys from all directions will be gathered outside the Guangyang Gate to read out the Lubu. After this is read, the hundred officials will dance and bow again.

The victory of the Tang Dynasty has long been announced by the "Lubu" system, but at the moment it is still necessary to read out the battle report, in order to praise the effectiveness of their own soldiers in exchange for bloody battles, and the generals who went out to fight are also proud of their names appearing in the war report.

Li Jing, Luo Shixin, and Li Shiji, the names of the three main generals who went out on the expedition naturally appeared many times, and the remaining lieutenants of the three major generals, such as Wei Chi Jingde, Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, Zhang Gongjin, and Gao Yongsheng, also appeared one by one, but they were not the ones who appeared most frequently. In addition to the three major generals, Su Dingfang under Luo Shixin is the general with the most names, and his record is also extremely impressive: the Powu tribe killed the tribal chieftain, participated in the battle of the sticky tribe, and locked the victory. On the way to the Turkic royal court, pulling nails and sweeping away the small and medium-sized tribes along the way, Su Dingfang also made great achievements, and led his troops to capture two tribes. The next offensive and defensive battle of the mokou slope made a first-class contribution, and when chasing and killing Jieli, he also had to go forward in every battle, showing extraordinary bravery. Regardless of wisdom and bravery, Su Dingfang has a brilliant side in this battle, and in the face of his achievements, many people with a heart have already noticed that the Tang Dynasty has another rising star.

Luo Shixin listened to Su Dingfang's efficacy, which was second only to their three main generals, and he was also happy in his heart for the general with the most brilliant achievements in foreign wars in the history of the Tang Dynasty: Su Dingfang should not have what happened in his previous life in this life.

Su Dingfang has extremely brilliant achievements in history, but the first half of his life was a dusty pearl and no soil for development. It is only because of the famous ministers and fierce generals of this era, there are too many wise and brave people, and Su Dingfang is a general who has been following Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin, and he did not become a Tang general until the Zhenguan period. Although he has a talent, his qualifications and reputation are pitiful, and he has no chance to prove himself. The only outstanding thing was to follow Li Jingqi to attack the Turkic Khan's court, he was the first to enter Jieli's tooth tent at that time, and he was also named Zuowu Hou Zhonglang General. But what he showed was his own bravery, not his ability to command the army.

When it comes to bravery, in the martial Tang Dynasty, if it weren't for Luo Shixin, Qin Qiong, Wei Chi Jingde, and other brave and heroic tiger generals of the three armies, who were famous all over the world, there were countless people who could be called brave. Because of this, once Zhenguan, Su Dingfang did not have the opportunity to show his ability level. It was not until the Gojong Dynasty that Su Dingfang, who was sixty-three years old, showed his talent in the campaign against Goguryeo and entered Li Zhi's sight. Then it only took him ten years to destroy the Turks in the west, Baekje in the east, and Tubo in the south, across thousands of miles, annihilating the three kingdoms before and after, and capturing their kings alive, so that the countries of the Western Regions were shocked and surrendered.

In later generations, whenever Luo Shixin saw Su Dingfang's heroic deeds, he couldn't help but think: What would happen if he had the opportunity earlier, not as a bad old man, but when he was discovered in the prime of his life? How terrifying will his foreign war exploits be? Of course, at the time, this qiē was all fantasy......

Now he has crossed over, and by chance he met him and took him in as a subordinate.

At the same time as accepting Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin had an idea to tap Su Dingfang's ability, so that he could step into Li Shimin's eyes earlier, and wanted to see how far this foreign war hero could grow. As he expected, Su Dingfang's military talent was amazing, and he became his heavy arm in a short period of time, and he made such achievements in just over a few years.

Luo Shixin was not happy with Su Dingfang...... He touched his beard, glanced back at the red-faced general, and thought, "Your achievements will be better than in history nine times out of ten, but the title of the first foreign war hero will have to be given to me...... With me, you can't get it. ”

During the ceremony of sacrificing the prisoners, Li Yuan would also announce in public the disposition of the Turkic prisoners. If the death sentence is pronounced, it will be dragged directly to the execution ground to be punished, and if the sentence can be forgiven, it will require the grace of forgiveness from kneeling three times and bowing nine times.

Regarding the disposition of Jieli, Li Yuan had a discussion with the Manchu civil and military forces. There are two different voices in the court, one is more radical and directly kills the matter, and the other feels that the survival of Jieli is related to the Turkic remnants in the north, and if Jieli is killed directly, it will cause the remnants to feel uneasy, so as to break away from the control of the Tang Dynasty, flee from the Tang Dynasty and go to Xue Yantuo, the Western Turks and other departments, affecting the overall situation.

For these two voices, Li Yuan chose the latter.

In the face of the disposal of the Turkic remnants, Li Yuan has not come up with a definite decision until now, and he has discussed it. But one thing is certain, after all, the people of the Central Plains are the people of the Central Plains, not beasts from the grassland, and they cannot do such a cruel and inhumane thing as genocide. Grassland birds and beasts can exterminate humanity and slaughter tens of millions of people in the Central Plains, but the people of the Central Plains cannot slaughter millions of grassland people.

Although there was no clear decision on how to deal with the Turkic remnants, Li Yuan did not want to cheapen Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks in vain, so he forgave Jieli's crimes, bought him a farm house in Chang'an, awarded him the rank of general, and put him under house arrest in Chang'an, and was not allowed to return to the Turks. As for Zhao Deyan, other Turkic chieftains, left and right Xiangcha, left and right Xianwang, and Sixteen She, and other captives who should be killed, they will not be merciful.

Zhao Deyan, a traitor, committed a heinous crime, and directly gave Ling Chi the capital punishment, and the other Turkic chieftains who were known for murder were all executed, and only one of the left and right Xiangcha and the left and right Xian kings lived, and seven of the sixteen were killed. As for the stubbornness and loss of thought, Ashina Sheer survived, and chose to work for Datang because Datang forgave Jieli.

These two famous Turkic generals who have made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty have finally become members of the Tang Army.

With the end of the prisoner dedication ceremony, the next thing is the relief that all the generals who went out to fight, and the highlight after the big victory...... Award people according to their contributions. (To be continued......)

PS: Chapter 1!