Chapter 794: Sacrifice to the Heavens
After hearing this, Su Ji said in a deep voice, "You don't know, the war between our Northern Jin Dynasty and the Tamarin people has been going on for hundreds of years, although no side has always had the upper hand, but even the war has made the life of the Li people miserable......
Yuan Muye nodded and said, "Actually, I found through observation just now that although these marmosets are taller than the Northern Jin Dynasty in terms of size, they should be very backward in other aspects, and they are still in the initial period of nomadic civilization, so their quality of life is far less stable than that of the agrarian society of the Northern Jin Dynasty." ”
"Isn't it, the marmosets are good at hunting and horse herding, while we Northern Jin people mostly work in the fields and harvest grain...... It is a terrible abomination that these marmosets come to rob us of the grain we harvest, without farming the land themselves. Su Ji said angrily.
Yuan Muye sneered when he heard this, "Human nature is greedy, how can they be willing to work hard again if they can get food by force?" And the most important tamarins don't know how to farm at all...... In fact, the Tamarin and the Northern Jin Dynasty could obviously end the dispute by cooperating with each other, but they always chose to use the most stupid war to hurt each other. ”
Su Ji was stunned for a moment and said, "What is the way to cooperate with each other?" ”
Then Yuan Muye patiently explained, "First of all, you have to know why the marmosets wantonly plundered the border of the Northern Jin Dynasty? ”
"That's because they're cruel by nature!" Su Ji said without thinking.
But after hearing this, Yuan Muye shook his head and said, "This is not a fundamental problem, I said before, the marmosets are only good at being nomadic, so their lives and living environment are extremely unstable, and the life of wandering around is not easy." And you Northern Jin Dynasty is different, you know how to farm, you know how to choose to settle in a place where the land is fertile, you plant in spring and harvest in autumn, and live in a fixed place for a long time, you have more time to create other things, so compared to the Tamarin people, your life must be richer. ”
When Su Ji heard this, she snorted coldly, "Our rich life is also because of our efforts, they are obviously too lazy to farm themselves, so they will go out and rob others!" This kind of wild people, how do you let us cooperate with them in the Northern Jin Dynasty? ”
Seeing that Su Ji didn't agree with her idea, Yuan Muye asked rhetorically, "Where did your Northern Jin Dynasty's war horses and cattle and other livestock come from?" ”
Su Kyi thought for a moment and said, "Some of them are raised by us, but most of them are purchased from the country of Ganlan in the south. ”
Yuan Muye nodded when he heard this and said, "If you think about it from another angle, the marmosets can only graze and hunt, and the Northern Jin people are only good at farming, what if the Northern Jin people exchange the grain in their hands for the horses and cattle of the marmosets?" In this way, you will have war horses and ploughing oxen, and the marmosets will get the food they want, and the fundamental problem will be solved, and there will be no more strife......"
It was the first time Su Ji had heard this idea of Yuan Muye, and she was stunned for a while and said, "But are they willing to exchange with us?" ”
"Who knows if you don't try? You keep saying that the marmosets often harass the border people of the Northern Jin Dynasty, causing them heavy casualties, but didn't you Northern Jin Dynasty kill their people when they fought against the marmosets? Since the two sides have been able to play for a hundred years, it proves that the strength of the two sides is equal, and there must be casualties on both sides, so naturally they will have to bear the pain caused by the war...... And how do you know that the people of the marmosets do not want the war to end? Yuan Muye said bitterly.
After hearing this, Su Ji muttered, "It would be nice if we could try to cooperate from the beginning, but now it's too late to say anything, there is a deep feud between us, and neither of us should let go of the hatred and make peace sincerely." ”
Yuan Muye shook his head when he heard this and said, "That's because you still don't understand the truth that there are no eternal enemies in the world...... And in the face of war, there will never be a real winner. ”
Yuan Muye's conversation with Su Ji this time was a bit informative, and she couldn't accept these bold ideas for a while, but she also planted some seeds of determination to reform in her heart, because she knew in her heart that it was time to completely solve the battle between Tamarin and the Northern Jin Dynasty.
A few days later, the Northern Jin Dynasty's Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony officially began, and the King of Jin Ling issued a decree to announce to the world that the great master of the Northern Jin Dynasty would slash a tamarin captive on the day of the Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony...... This Zhao was launched, and the whole country was jubilant in the Northern Jin Dynasty.
Although Yuan Muye couldn't understand that killing a prisoner was just to the point of the whole country jubilating? But he had already promised Sukie, so he could only help her get through this hurdle first......
After the ceremony began, Yuan Muye had already changed into the same clothes and mask as the National Teacher, because the process of this kind of ceremony was very cumbersome, so Yuan Muye could only exchange with Su Ji at the last moment.
In the entire ceremony, the only opportunity to hide from everyone and exchange with Su Ji is to have a group of wizards from the Purple Cloud Palace dance a blessing dance before the sacrifice to the heavens, and after this dance, the Northern Jin Dynasty national master will come out of a dark compartment of the altar and directly kill the tamarin captives who have already been tied to it as a sacrifice.
And all Yuan Muye had to do was to hide in that secret compartment all the time, and after the blessing dance was over, he went out pretending to be Su Ji, killed the marmoset man, and sprinkled his blood under the altar to complete the entire ritual of sacrificing to the sky.
After this step, Yuan Muye had to quickly retreat into the dark grid, and then let the real national teacher walk out through the exit of the dark grid...... As long as Yuan Muye, who stayed in the dark grid, took off the clothes of the national teacher and put them on, he would immediately change into another style of clothes, and Su Ji would naturally send someone to pick up Yuan Muye from the dark grid.
Although this plan is a bit risky, but fortunately, the people and officials under the altar usually dare not raise their heads at this time, and the wizards on the stage will not keep staring at the national teacher, so as long as they are bold and careful, they will never be discovered.
Things were indeed as Yuan Muye expected, he went to the altar in place of Su Ji very smoothly, because no one dared to look directly at the national teacher on the platform at this time, so Yuan Muye came to the tamarin man as if no one was there......
In order to prevent the other party from cursing and vowing before death, in this case, it is usually used to plug his mouth with a cloth so that he cannot make a sound. But this guy who was the only one who dared to look at the national teacher seemed to find that the person in front of him was not the real national teacher, so he immediately struggled desperately.
Fortunately, the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony has already reached this point, and it stands to reason that there should be no more variables, as long as Yuan Muye walks over now and raises his sword...... Even if the tamarin man knew that the person in the heavenly sacrifice ceremony was not the national teacher of the Northern Jin Dynasty, what could he do?