Chapter 304: Iron and Blood

On April 13 of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the Jinzhou army killed prisoners in Wujia Zhuangzi, Pingdu County, Laizhou Prefecture. That night, fifty-six captives were beheaded, their heads cut off, their entrails removed, and boiled in cauldrons for the whole army.

The fifty-six prisoners were all heinous criminals, and it was not an exaggeration to cut them with a thousand knives. Although he killed the prisoners for food, Dayong was unwilling to kill indiscriminately, and ordered Guo Yi to interrogate the prisoners, expose each other, and choose the first evil person to kill them first.

There was still a day's food in the camp, but it was no longer supplied to the soldiers, but all to the women and children, so that they could be guaranteed not to eat human flesh before they reached the state capital.

Led by the old Jinzhou army, and with strict orders, the human flesh matter was quickly implemented in the whole army, and there were very few complainers in the army, and there was no commotion. Even if there are complaints and those who are unwilling to obey, in the face of the general trend, they can only give in.

People are doing it, and the sky is watching. It is clear every day, and what the Jinzhou army did, whether it was good or evil, has its own posterity. Today, here and now, it's all about being fed.

The heavens and the earth are big, it is not as big as no food in the stomach, and people take food as the sky, this is not a lie. Besides, since the founding of this dynasty, this kind of feeding on human flesh is not unfounded.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Huaiyou army had no food, and had no choice but to use human flesh as the supply of the army.

During the Chenghua period, Xiang Zhong pacified the Jingxiang displaced people, and the army also ran out of food, killing and eating tens of thousands of displaced people until the end of the rebellion.

For more than 200 years, there have been many records in the notes of the literati, and there have been many circulars among the people.

To this day, with the collapse of state affairs, natural disasters are endless, and cannibalism has never been heard of. In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in Shaanxi, thousands of miles of red land, the people had no food, the hungry people gathered together for thieves, and the people were cannibalistic. There are even tomb robbers who steal the rotting corpses from the tomb to eat!

In order to survive, human instinct forces them to do some beastly things, but should they be harshly criticized and scolded?

At the beginning, the local officials had the word "cannibalism" on the newspaper, and the princes of the court did not hide their faces and weep bitterly, but a few years later, when they saw the words "cannibalism" again, the princes of the court put them aside casually, and even the pain was avoided.

If the world is like this, what can the human heart be?

When the princes of the court were afraid that they were thinking more about how to keep the power in their hands, how to better drive their opponents out of the court, as for those lowly people, they were left to fend for themselves. Confucianism has been indoctrinated for thousands of years, and the sages are righteous, and they can only be lamented with one sentence, what else can they do? As long as everything does not happen to you, the mind will always be at peace. The human tragedy thousands of miles away is only a few sentences in the history books.

Cannibalism, to the Jinzhou generals, but it seems to be far away, but it seems to be not close. Since the rebellion of the Eastern Prisoners, has there been less tragedy of cannibalism in the land of Liaodong? Have those Sichuan troops seen less since they left Sichuan? Are those Changping children seen less again? Are there fewer soldiers who were part of the rebels? Are there fewer soldiers who were born as horse thieves?

In this world, no matter how soft the heart is, there is no way, if there is no strong enough heart, how can you live in this world! It's all about living!

If you don't eat this meat, you can't live. No matter how great the righteousness is, it is always less than a piece of cooked meat in front of you. Gritting his teeth and closing his eyes and swallowing it, the general didn't say that what he did today was a helpless move by loyal ministers and good generals. For the sake of the Son of Heaven, for the sake of the Great Ming, for this tragic cannibalism never to happen again, we can only swear to the death.

Even if the Son of Heaven blames him, even if the heavens are angry, we are willing to share it with the general.

The Jinzhou Army, always, advance and retreat together!

Compared with his predecessors, Dayong cannibalized people in the army, but his methods were too good. Historically, the army has used large-scale cannibalism, and the method used is nothing more than that the people to be slaughtered are placed on two large vats and roasted with a large fire; Either cut off the hands and feet, pour hot water on them, and brush off the bitter skin with a bamboo broom; Otherwise, they put people in bags and cook them alive in a huge pot. Men cut off their legs, and women cut off their breasts, which is so poisonous that it is unspeakable.

When people are eaten by the same kind, it is a painful thing for eternity, and it is even more poisonous to kill people. Although there is a last resort, Dayong always thinks that this evil thing can be a little "good", and the matter of killing alive, Jiang Maoran in Pingdu City is alive and well, but today, it can't be like this anymore. Let the people be killed and then steamed, so that the heart will be more comfortable.

Don't kill women and children, don't kill the old and weak, don't kill the innocent, only kill those who are indeed the most heinous crimes, this is Dayong's strict order to his subordinates.

People have a limit, cannibalism is already the most despicable thing done in this era, how can it break through again. If you really want to be like that, you have wiped your neck with a knife, and your eyes are out of sight and your heart is pure, why do you struggle in these last days, and want to save the building from the plan of toppling with the strength of one person?

More than 1,000 captives, even if everyone has blood on their hands, I am afraid that not everyone is a vicious criminal. Although the first evildoer and the iniquity can be killed, if you want to pick out the meat in the pot, you must always give them a chance - a chance to be killed one day later and not become a food in the stomach!

Is it a human goodness to be eaten a day late?

In the midst of great evil, doing small goodness, great courage, whether it is benevolence or goodness, or hypocrite, who knows the way.

said that Dayong has the kindness of a woman, but he can't talk about it, and he can't say that his mother-in-law and mother are hypocritical. How to evaluate Dayong's actions today, I am afraid that after thousands of years, I will have my own opinion.

When a man is hungry, he must eat. Heaven is like this, and no one can act against the sky!

Dayong doesn't have the spirit of a king, and he doesn't have enough luck. Since coming to this era, all the way has been accompanied by corpses or corpses.

Iron and blood make a gambler a cannibal demon; Iron and blood make a gambler who wants to revive China no longer have the slightest humanity.

In order to win, he can do whatever it takes. What else can he do? Could it be that he could conjure out ten thousand stone grains empty-handed? Could it be that he scattered beans into soldiers, called for wind and rain, and changed history?

In this era when the edifice is about to fall, what can Dayong do besides iron and blood? Poetry is right, step by step, to be a peaceful minister? Studying hard, he was a blockbuster on the road to the imperial examination, even in the middle of the three yuan, and he was the important minister of the dynasty who supported the emperor? Or do you want to seek the battle of Taoism, instill in the world the scientific path of the future generations, and become another saint?

What others can do, he can't do, without him, just for this era, what is needed is just a butcher who dares to cross the knife!

But I didn't know that in the far north, the young emperor knew the bitterness in my heart, and knew that a courtier who had sworn to protect him was suffering from human nature.

Emperor Zhuang Lie, but with my Shi Dayong, I will not let you become a lonely soul on the coal mountain, let alone let this Ming Dynasty become the prey of the Eastern Prisoner!

Fill your bellies, follow in my footsteps and attack forward!