Chapter 555
The purpose of the parade is to humiliate, and the dead cannot see it, but the living can see it. Li Xiao's purpose is to let the big guy know that the Ming people will not die in vain overseas.
The huge parade really greatly improved the cohesion and national pride of the imperial court.
In the past, overseas Ming people had to be people with their tails between their legs. The local natives often robbed the seemingly wealthy Chinese, and the slightest resistance was a stab.
And on the Ming side, it is often because of civil strife. Coupled with the long distance of the shipping route, the contempt of the imperial court for the merchants, and other reasons, there was no one at all to avenge the death of the Daming maritime merchants.
It's been a long time! Those natives in the south are not so afraid of the Ming Dynasty. The little momentum of the Heavenly Empire that Zheng He accumulated when he went to the West was squandered by the scholars and doctors of the imperial court.
If an empire wants to be strong, it must increase the national self-confidence and national pride of its citizens.
At that time, there were more than 100 people in the class, and they dared to kill the Hun mission in a foreign country. Wang Xuance borrowed troops to subvert a dynasty in another country. Behind this, there is a strong country as a support.
Li Xiao is to let all the Ming people know that there is a strong motherland behind them. No matter what happens to you out there, this empire will be your most powerful boost. If you are slaughtered by the local natives, those natives will face even more brutal slaughter.
For those who are indigenous, nothing else matters. They only like to take advantage of and money, and of course the premise of all this is to live. When they realized that attacking the Ming people was tantamount to suicide, the overseas Ming people would be extremely safe. Of course, there is a price to be paid to this, but this cost is not worth mentioning compared to the benefits that the Ming received from all over the world.
The Ming Empire has almost lost its passion and vitality in the past twenty years, and today's events are a booster that will make the Ming Empire burst back into life.
The procession of 800 men finally reached the altar, and the servants whipped them so that they fell to their knees. Walking this way, it has greatly consumed their physical strength. Many people are actually paralyzed on the ground, and they don't forget to chew two mouthfuls of rotten vegetable leaves while being angry. There are a few people with good physical strength, who are still "crunching" and "crunching" nibbling potatoes.
It stands to reason that we Chinese have always disliked causing trouble to others, especially those with real power like Yan Wangye. Therefore, there will be a decapitation meal before the beheading. Normally, the standard of food for the severed head meal will be very high. As long as you don't want to eat ginseng, abalone, bird's nest and other superlatives, the cell boss will satisfy your desire to eat enough.
No one cares about the Javanese people, they are not the people of the Ming Dynasty. The cell boss also decided that after their death, black and white impermanence would not come to hook their souls. Naturally, Lord Yama will not see these decapitated ghosts, so the decapitated food will be saved. The imperial court is short of funds, and the money still needs to be saved. It is better to tear some cloth to make clothes for the doll than to let the animals eat it.
Sun Chengzong sat on a chair with his eyes closed, like a sleeping Buddha. The scholars sat on both sides of Sun Chengzong, and Li Xiao, the secretary of the military department, sat next to Sun Chengzong. At the top of them sat Zhu Yihai, the Emperor of Longwu.
Looking at the crowd of people below, Zhu Yihai was a little excited. After all, His Majesty the Emperor, who came from a small place, had never seen such a big scene.
Sun Ruyou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, stared at the shadow on the sundial, and when the shadows on the sundial were about to coincide, he immediately walked up and saluted Li Xiao and Sun Chengzong: "Dashuai, Mr. Sun, the hour is coming." ”
"Hmm!" Sun Chengzong closed his eyes and said "um", Zhu Yihai's throat shook twice, and finally he didn't dare to speak.
Li Xiao stood up, and today he wore a Liao army uniform. The one wearing on his head was not a black gauze hat, but a military hat of the Liao army. A fiery red five-pointed star, shining in the sun.
"Quiet! Be quiet! Now I give the floor to the marshal. Sun Chengzong held an iron horn and shouted at the people below.
When the people near heard it, they immediately shut up. The people in the distance couldn't hear it, and they were still shouting. Silence spreads from far and near like the waves of the ocean. After a while, the crowded vegetable market quieted down.
"The people of the capital, the fathers and villagers of the Ming Dynasty.
Two thousand years ago, there was a general in our Han Dynasty named Ma Yuan. He said a very heroic word, the one who offended me as a strong man! Even if it is far away, it will be punished!
For 2,000 years, this sentence has been the code of conduct of our Han nation. It's just that sometimes the national strength is weak and there is no way to achieve it.
Just this time last year, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in Java rioted, killing more than 40,000 of our people. What did the court do this year? We transferred Annan troops to Java and captured 50,000 people in one go. Assigned to my capital, there are only these 800 people.
What was the purpose of killing these 800 men? It's not for everyone to watch and have fun, but to tell everyone. My Ming Dynasty is now as strong as the Han and Tang Dynasties, and those who commit my name are violent! Even if it is far away, it will be punished!
In the future, I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, will always walk in other countries, and we must always remember that there is a powerful country behind you. If someone slaps you once, you slap you back twice. If someone kills one of us, we'll kill both of them.
I am Ming, I want to repay the wrongs. I am Ming, that is, to repay virtue with virtue and repay grievances with straightforwardness. The debt of blood can only be repaid with blood, so use their blood to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of unjust souls of the Ming Dynasty who died! "Seeing that the shadows of the sundial overlapped, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.
Li Xiao shouted: "Chop!" ”
With Li Xiao's order, the executioner immediately raised the ghost-headed broadsword. The apprentices tightened the prisoner's hair so that he exposed his neck and face against the wooden pier, and with a single sword, the cold light flashed, and fifty human heads rolled on the ground in a pool of blood.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the yang energy of the day is the most vigorous, the ghost head knife cut off the neck. Blood spurted out of the cavity at once, and the red blood was like a silky ribbon, reflecting the bewitching light in the sunlight.
His head fell to the ground, and his body writhed twice like a maggot.
The crowd erupted in loud cheers, and everyone felt their blood pumping. It's been many years, and it's the first time I've heard that the imperial court will make decisions for ordinary people. Before that, the court was the court of officials, so they didn't care about the life or death of the people.
Even if they were killed by foreigners overseas, those scholars and doctors would not only not sympathize, but would laugh at two sentences: If you don't wait for the great rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty, you have to run to the barbarian land, and you deserve to die.
"Long live Daming!" Someone in the crowd took the lead in shouting.
Then countless people shouted: "Long live Daming!" ”
The sound was like ocean waves, rolling wave after wave, shaking Li Xiao's eardrums. But the people below seemed to be crazy, raising their right hands and shouting non-stop. As soon as the throat fell, another person would raise his fist and lead the shout.
For the first time, the people of the capital felt that this court was not only the emperor's, but also the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The wave ended, just when people were tired of shouting and wanted to rest for a while. Suddenly, an abrupt voice sounded: "Li Dashuai!" Banzai! ”
The whole market was quiet, and everyone looked at each other, not knowing whether to shout or not.
"Li Dashuai! Banzai! The guards guarding the court were the first to shout.
The shouts of the guards were like matches that lit powder kegs.
"Li Dashuai! Banzai! ”
"Li Dashuai! Banzai! The sound is like the tide of Qiantang and the thunder rolling in.
Li Xiao stood on the high platform with a smile and waved to the people below. Sun Chengzong closed his eyes, didn't even lift his eyelids, and seemed to be really asleep. Li Xiao's old subordinates all stood up and shouted loudly, one by one like crazy demons. The scholars of all the ministries who realized it later also stood up, raised their right hands and shouted.
Zhu Yihai, who was sitting on the dragon chair in the middle, had uncontrollable twitches on his face, and grabbed the handle of the dragon chair with both hands. Ten fingers are bloodless because they are clenched too tightly!
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