Long live the voice, the mountains and the tsunami continue.

In the canopy, a group of old minds were buzzing, and they were really frightened by the current scene.

The head of the Lu family said in a trembling voice, "The movers of the drum world are silent, and King Yan has only a few words, and he has tried his best to stir people's hearts......

The gentry and landlords in Zhenze Building were also a little dizzy, and there was still some fear in their hearts.

"He... What the hell is he going to do?"

"It turns out that sacrificing heaven and earth is just a pretense, but in fact, what is plotting is to return to the hearts of all people, King Yan is really kind."

"Turn your hands into clouds, turn your hands into rain, and that's it."

"I thought that this sacrifice was just a miscellaneous play, and I was waiting to see how he ended, but I didn't expect that he would make a false shot......

"You actually want to worship and sacrifice a bunch of martial artists, red guys, and peddlers' pawns!? He's going to turn the sky upside down!?"

"It is the ancestral family law to control martial arts with literature, but King Yan is so elevated the name of a martial artist, he is really crazy!"

"Ugh...... King Yan didn't distinguish between civil and military affairs."

"Hehe, I see, this highness has gone a little far, long live? He's not in that seat yet!"

"He's digging his own pit and jumping by himself, and see how long he can be proud, even if the officials allow him, can the princes of the court still tolerate him?"

Although the Great Song Dynasty attached great importance to commerce, it was still an agrarian civilization in the final analysis, so the landlord class was still in the dominant position in the dynasty, and these people in the building were the epitome of this class.

Without affecting their interests, they don't care who becomes the emperor, whether you are Zhao Si or Zhao Liu.

It's just that Zhao Mengqi doesn't seem to be friendly to them, and his words and deeds in the past also show a good martial heart, and today he has given the martial artists a very high honor, which makes them very uneasy.

The Great Song Dynasty's policy of emphasizing literature over military force was criticized by many people in later generations, and they despised the cowardice of the Song people, calling the Song Dynasty "cowardice" and "sending".

But everything has a reason, and if you take a closer look at what the world was before the Song Dynasty, it is not difficult to understand why it is important to emphasize literature and ignore martial arts.

Since ancient times, the new dynasties are all the previous dynasties for Yin Jian, so the first emperor precautioned in the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, centralized power, and the county of the county, and the Han Gaozu punished the defeat of Qin's isolation, and divided the children into princes.

What was Song before?

The Tang Dynasty, with its great martial arts, its vast territory, its prestige and its borders, and the coming of all nations, sounded very uplifting and happy.

However, it was precisely because of the lack of restraint on the warriors that only 130 years after the founding of the country, the feudal towns began to be divided, and the world fell into war and turmoil for 200 years.

The Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo Rebellion, the Jingyuan Mutiny, the Huangchao Rebellion, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the warlord melee.

casually flipping through the history books of this period of time, they are full of sensational human tragedies.

The normal rules are all broken, only for the strength of the respect, the strong can be the Son of Heaven, and the emperor is faster than the marquee.

When the martial arts were in power, the literati and Confucian scholars were reduced to concubines and slaves, and their bones were lost, and their lives were like mustard, and the day was precarious.

Ordinary people are even more unlucky, they want to be peace dogs but can't, they can only become two-legged sheep and use them as military food and salary.

And the martial artists also lick blood all day long, most of them may not be ambitious, but if you don't kill people, people will kill you, and many things are actually people in the rivers and lakes who can't help themselves.

After experiencing this kind of unprecedented chaos and the dark age of the sun and the moon, it was not easy to come out, and the emphasis on literature and light on military force has become the collective aspiration of all strata of the entire society.

At that time, Zhao Da was also a mutiny, and he had seen so many predecessors who had seen the destruction of the country, how could he not be afraid in his heart.

To say that there is nothing wrong with his cup of wine to release military power, whether it is for the Zhao royal family or the people of the world, this is the right choice.

Judging from what Zhao Da did, he definitely did not mean to use the literati to overpower the martial arts and reduce the martial spirit, he believed that the martial arts could only manage the army, and must not interfere in politics, and wanted to establish a balanced government in which the civil and military affairs performed their duties.

In fact, the vast majority of powerful countries in later generations handled civil-military relations in accordance with this idea.

Zhao Da just didn't let the generals get involved in the central power, he himself

is a military general, how can he not understand the importance of force, so he still gives enough power and trust to the border guards to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

It's a pity that Zhao Da died violently, and Zhao Er, who took over, was a literati, and he didn't see far as Zhao Da, and he was defeated by the Gaoliang River, which exposed his lack of military talent, and his martial arts were not enough to suppress those generals, and the throne was a little unable to sit still.

As a result, Zhao Er greatly improved the treatment of literati, helped him to suppress the martial arts, and tried his best to dispel the martial spirit of the whole country, although it brought a long period of peaceful development and cultural and economic take-off, but at the same time, it also laid the bane for the weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty's later foreign wars.

After the disgrace of Jingkang, the ruling class of the Great Song Dynasty was awakened, realized the disadvantages of emphasizing literature over military force, and had to temporarily relax the shackles on military generals, improve the status of military generals, and grant them greater power.

In the early days of Nandu, military generals could serve as Xuanfu envoys, pacify envoys, become feudal officials, manage military and political affairs, and have the right to act cheaply in case of emergency.

The power of the generals swelled, which greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Song army, and won many great victories in the wars with the Jin State.

However, some military generals held their own military strength, and gradually became domineering, despising the imperial court, such as Liu Guangshi, Zhang Jun, etc., who repeatedly resisted the decree and disrespected, and Yue Fei and Zhao Jiumei had political disagreements, causing suspicion, as well as Miao Liu mutiny, which intensified the contradictions between military generals and civil ministers and imperial power.

This time, the fear of being dominated by military generals once again shattered the fragile hearts of the ruling class, and Zhao Jiumei began to rebuild the forbidden army, restrain military power, and strengthen the prevention of army commanders.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and light on military force was mainly to suppress the military generals and prevent them from flying high, but it did not despise the armed forces and the army, and seventy or eighty percent of the annual financial revenue was smashed into the army.

It's just that generals are the soul of the army, and generals who have been excessively suppressed and guarded against will no longer have subjective initiative and enterprising, and will have the mentality of messing around, and the army's combat effectiveness will naturally be gone.

Zhao Mengqi understood this problem, so he thought of forming a new army and exploring a way that could reasonably restrain the generals without affecting combat effectiveness.

This is difficult, but he has more knowledge of nearly a thousand years, and referring to so many examples of success and failure in later generations, he will always find a feasible way, and giving high honor to soldiers is one of the means.

It's just that most of the others don't understand that the concept of guarding against generals becoming bigger has been deeply rooted in their bones, so they definitely don't like King Yan who shakes this criterion.

At this time, Zhao Mengqi, who was standing on the high platform, seemed to be worshipping tens of thousands of people, and couldn't help but feel a little drunk, perhaps, this is the wonderful taste of power.

Fortunately, he didn't linger for long, the cold rain woke him up, and when the cry was a little quieter, he stretched out his hand and motioned for everyone to be quiet.

"The three talents, heaven, earth and people, today's sacrifice, people first, heaven and earth must not be forgotten."

"The matter is in a hurry, the ritual and incense are not ready, and the three animals are not evenly offered, but the sincere respect must be expressed, come and offer the sacrifice!"

Many people still thought that King Yan's sacrifice today was just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, but they didn't expect him to go around and come back and sacrifice heaven and earth, and they didn't understand what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

More people are curious about what kind of sacrifice King Yan wants to use instead, you must know that in the normal sacrificial ceremony, the sacrifices are very rich and exquisite.

Immediately, the sergeant was seen carrying three cloth bags slowly towards the altar.

The cloth bag is moving, and it should contain living creatures, which makes people speculate constantly.

It wasn't until the sergeant climbed to the top and poured out the contents of the bag that people were shocked to realize that it was actually a human!

"Isn't it? Sacrificing people is hurtful to the heavens!"

"Hey, one of them is still wearing an official uniform......

"The one on the left, like... It seems to be the leader of the rebels who hung in the castle tower before."

Gradually, people already know who these three people are, the three fathers and sons of the Liu family, Liu Zhengyi, Liu Xiuren, and Liu Xiuli.

Zhao Mengqi pointed to the three people, "Liu

The sins of the family are so great that they are too numerous to write, and their grave sins are as follows."

"Jiaotong Prefecture and County, rampant in the township, cunning and plundering, bullying the weak, relying on their high fortunes, choosing profits and merging,...... There are occasional arguments, the officials are attached to the power, and cannot be cut, until the land and property have been exhausted and the tax register is still there, and the prisoners are imprisoned, and as for the sale of wives and children, death and migration, it has been ...... A total of more than 100,000 mu of public and private land was annexed by means of grabbing, occupying, forcibly buying, and calculating, so that the good people had no land to cultivate, and wantonly surrounded the fields and blocked the waterways of Taihu Lake...... Use the power to reduce the servitude and escape into hiding, or move it to the small people's households, or implicate the Yili, and the envoys will lose on their behalf. Raising water couges, robbing houses, destroying embankments and flooding fields,...... Smuggling is forbidden, collaborating with the enemy and treason, and committing rebellion ......" cao

The Liu family has been evil for so many years, and the victims are naturally indispensable to be present.

Hearing the crimes one after another, the people gritted their teeth and hated to eat their flesh and sleep on their skin.

And the big guys in Zhenze Tower were also terrified when they heard it, because they had more or less done some of these things, and naturally thought that King Yan was going to kill monkeys and make an example of chickens.

It took half an hour for Zhao Mengqi to finish reading the Liu family's crimes.

"Such sinners are angry and resentful! I hereby correct the Dharma and sacrifice it to the heavens!"

Immediately, the knife and axe hand Ma Li chopped off the heads of the three fathers and sons of the Liu family and placed them on the edge of the altar.

Although they all know that the father and son of the Liu family deserve it, Liu Xiuren is a prefect of Wenchen, and Liu Xiuli is also the commander of the State Control Department, and he is already a high-ranking official of the imperial court.

For these gentry in Wujiang, the crazy expansion of the Liu family in the past has somewhat damaged their interests, but as the same class, there is naturally a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

"The rule of not killing doctors really no longer exists?"

"He still relies on martial arts, is it time to return to the troubled times when the rites and music collapsed and led the beasts to eat people?"

"King Yan...... It's too tyrannical, and I have never seen such a tyrant in the nearly three hundred years of the Song Dynasty!"