Chapter 853 Under the Bronze Sculpture of the Holy City
On the way to the holy city of Meiji. Zhao Xing thought that he might be warmly welcomed by the people in the city, but he didn't expect the warmth to be so hot and touching.
can add unfigurative verbs such as "hot" and "touching" in front of the word warm, and Zhao Xing can enjoy this honor. What kind of "warmth" should it be?
According to the requirements of Zhao Xing in that year, after the formation of a situation of three ethnic groups in the north of the state, with the former Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu Wangting Meiji as the center, the places within Jiling, Luoxian, Biguan, Hequ, Pingding, Guangyan, Manbai, and Wudu were built into the core areas where the three ethnic groups of Huangxuan, Yaoxing, and Yansheng and the local Han people lived together.
In this area, the people of the four ethnic groups jointly elected officials at all levels, respected each other's living customs, and lived together in a blue sky and land, and the herdsmen of all ethnic groups who were far away in the desert of the north, they all had fixed residences in this area, and the elderly and young children were left behind to be supported and raised by special people. When the weather is cold or there is a major festival, the herdsmen from afar will hand over their cattle and sheep to the officials of the Patrol Bureau, and they will return to Meiji with their families to live a peaceful and peaceful life.
And the reason why this land, which was still fought over by various ethnic groups many years ago, can now become the spiritual holy land of the Huang, Yan, and Yao tribes is that all the old and deceased in their clan are now buried in this land. The place where the child is born and the deceased is buried has always been the most important place for that nation, and Zhao Xing is the founder of this spiritual home.
Maybe Zhao Xing's methods were a little cruel in the process of unifying the northern desert, and the human head landscape that still remains on the desert is a silent telling, but now time has only passed for more than ten years, and many people who came out of that time vaguely remember that every war happened and it seemed that Zhao Xing did not take the initiative to provoke it. The steppe bandits who launched a war of aggression were finally ruthlessly killed by the army led by the invincible Zhao Xing, which is also the price that must be paid when the robbers, and no one can be blamed.
The Qianghu tribe in Hexi, which chose to cooperate from the beginning, has the best life now, because they have received Zhao Xing's assistance for the longest time, and the sinicization is also the most thorough and crisp; the Southern Huns who were forced to have no way out by the Xianbei people and the crisis within the clan, and finally belonged to Zhao Xing, are now also living very well, and they have determined to keep up with the Huangxuan tribe and take a bigger step towards annexing the Jin State; the Xianbei tribe and the small tribes on the northern grasslands who were directly beaten and scared by Zhao Xing are naturally not beautiful compared with when they were rampant in the desert, but now they can't afford to have any resistance and revenge。
Zhao Xing's method of mixing the four ethnic groups is so clever that now because the various ethnic groups can freely intermarry, it is no longer clear which ethnic group the newborn children should belong to. In addition to the remnants of the Xianbei old people who still secretly recalled the glory of the past in the dead of night, more young people are now concerned about how to join the caravan of the Jin Kingdom and go to the Western Regions to earn a wife who can marry a beautiful daughter-in-law.
It is foreseeable that with the gradual passing away of these old people who still remember history, and with the unswerving implementation of the established policy of Zhaoxing's ethnic integration, the alien ethnic groups that were originally entrenched in the northern desert and have always harmed the peace of the Han people will surely become a thing of the past, and will be replaced by a group of hard-working northern people who can shepherd the desert for thousands of miles.
Stepping on the open avenue sprinkled with flowers and green leaves, leading to the middle of Meiji City, watching the crowds of people from all walks of life on both sides of the road rushing to welcome the King of Pingxi, and listening to the words of praise from the people's mouths, Li Ru and Ma Tan were still infected by such a heartfelt and unpretentious scene. They asked themselves in their hearts, how much did King Pingxi need to do to benefit all ethnic groups in order to get to such a grand occasion today?
The holy city of Meiji is very large. Just because of the expansion year after year, the city has become a big northern city after Jinyang. Today, Meiji Castle can be divided into the Inner City, the Middle City, and the Outer City, and if you look down from the air, the three cities of the Outer, Middle, and Inner Cities are actually like the Inner Ring, Middle Ring, and Outer Ring of the big cities in later generations. The inner city and the middle city are distinguished by low walls, which is related to the fact that the walls were built only to prevent wild beasts from entering the city.
In the eyes of the people of the four tribes, no one can fight from the north to Meiji City, because there are cities with large armies such as Heyin, Wuyuan, Linrong, and Woye as barriers to the north of Meiji, and further north, there are Fengxue City and Dragon City as outposts. What's more, to the south of Meiji, there are brave and invincible Bingzhou legions silently watching the northern desert at all times.
In the same way, there is still a low wall between the middle city and the outer city, and the value and significance of this wall is to facilitate the registration of officials and the management of the population. In the household registration books of the people in the city, you will see words such as "Inner City South District", "Middle City West District", "Outer City North District" and so on.
In fact, the current Meiji Outer City can no longer be called an outer city, because many residential towns have been formed outside the outer city, and the outer city is vaguely surrounded in the middle. It seems that in a few years, this place will be called "beyond the outer ring".
From the very beginning, the construction of Meiji City radiated outward from the square square square in the center of the inner city, which resembles the central square of Crouching Tiger City. The square is surrounded by schools, hospitals, government offices, and various large shops, which also makes it easy for city residents from all directions to come and attend to their daily affairs.
In the middle of the main square, a statue of cast bronze and gilt stands tall. The protagonist of the statue is undoubtedly still alive, and he is living a good life in Pingxi King Zhao Xing. Although the statue of the living was regarded as disrespectful in the past, it has become a very fashionable and trendy practice in the territory controlled by Zhao Xing, especially in the area where many ethnic groups gather.
On the one hand, this is for propaganda purposes. On the other hand, it is also the simple desire of the local government office to meet the people's desire to worship the great hero Zhao Xing from time to time.
Every day, under this statue of the king of Pingxi waving a spear, there are always all kinds of interesting things happening. In order to show their innocence, some people will make a solemn oath under the sculpture of King Pingxi, and the onlookers will recognize it; some people will come to the sculpture to pray silently when they encounter difficulties and setbacks, hoping that King Pingxi will give them luck and strength; and some people will come from thousands of miles from the northern prairie just to say their gratitude to King Pingxi to the sculpture. They could not forget the officials sent by the king of Pingxi who came to the wasteland year after year to distribute relief supplies to the poor people and help them through the most difficult times.
Being admired and respected to such an extent, no matter how hard and hard work you put in, it is really worth and aspiring to, right?