Chapter 202 "Take it" Ling Chi and settle the Liao debt
"Soldiers, the Great Wall of the country; Soldiers, the most important weapon of the country; Soldiers, the backbone of the country...... Le Shi to remember, enjoy the incense, all generations to pay respect......"
The second is four, and it is sound, and it is eight, and it is sixteen. crescension, thirty-two. At the bottom, there are 360 Han generals, and the unison should be like thunder!
Through the continuous repetition and amplification of the Han generals, the emperor's words clearly reached the ears of everyone present.
This is the emperor's golden words, giving the highest evaluation and the highest definition to the soldiers. This is the highest praise that has never been seen in all dynasties, and it will also leave a strong mark in the history books.
Feng Datie and two officers climbed the city tower, knelt on one knee, and received the military flag awarded by the emperor himself, so excited that their hands trembled slightly. Even in the face of the surging attack of Jiannu, there has never been.
Zhu Youxiao smiled and said loudly: "Wang'er is as solid as a rock, and then make new contributions." ”
"Hooray, hooray, hooray!" The three of them bowed their heads in thanks, got up and retreated from the tower.
The bright red flag is as red as blood, and in the center are three bright yellow mountains, and on it are the word "rock" embroidered with gold thread.
Bright yellow, only the royal can be used, even the emperor's costume. Now that he has been given a brigade of teachers, the gift can be seen.
The flags were waved in front of the army, ushering in the sound of "long live" another mountain and tsunami.
Next, a group of soldiers took down the flags and heads from the carts, and piled them up under the gaze of the emperor on the tower of the noon gate.
"One, two, three......" The officer in charge of supervising the forbidden army reported the number loudly, and then repeated in unison by the forbidden army behind, and finally even the people watching from afar could clearly hear it.
There were two red flags in the bloody battle in southern Liaoning, Zhenjiang repelled the Zhengbai flag, Nong'an annihilated Amin's department, and there were several small battles, and the first level added up to 8,653 levels.
The people heard it clearly and made an uproar. In the past, this time is the highest. They didn't know that there were more Jiannu killed and injured than the heads they killed.
Hehe, Eight Banners, now there are only the original Six Banners at most, Zhu Youxiao sneered.
After the head was counted, the captured flags were again, and finally the prisoners were brought over.
Releasing news in advance and preparing in advance works quite well.
The people of the capital were quite enthusiastic, and there were plenty of things to prepare for Amin and other captives. Rotten leaves, rotten eggs, garbage, etc., all fell on them as they paraded through the streets.
The emperor, who was far away on the upper floor of the Wumen Gate, seemed to smell a foul smell when he saw that the wooden cage of the prisoner cart was already shaped like a garbage truck.
The chief priest Xiao Yuefeng led the left and right attendants out of the class to perform the work, and went through the crimes of building slaves, and asked the emperor to behead the prisoners, "Go to the city to execute Cao, please order." ”
Da Si Kou is good, where there are hundreds of words, the words are loud and comfortable.
Zhu Youxiao brewed his emotions, felt that his voice was fine, and said loudly: "Take it!" ”
As soon as Chrysostom opened, first the left and right Xun Qi, and then the ministers passed the dragon to the dragon, and the number of people changed from less to more, and finally the Han generals of 360 people repeated the order in unison.
I can't roar a lion, but I have a loud trumpet in unison! Listening to the thunderous male chorus, Zhu Youxiao pursed the corners of his mouth, revealing a look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling.
All the Jiannu captives were escorted to the vegetable market to be executed, which should be the favorite program of the common people. There is a conversation after tea, and I rarely see this big scene in my life, right?
A bloody and cruel scene, but with a different kind of stimulation. Especially when I saw the terrible situation of the enemy and heard their wailing and screaming......
I forget it, I'm always too soft-hearted! The Emperor waved his robes and turned to walk down the tower.
At this point, the carefully prepared gift of the prisoners was completed. But what happened around this elaborate sacrifice of the captives would last for a long time.
If it was just a few butchers, it would obviously not satisfy the emperor. People have to be used when they die, and it is good to be angry old slaves. I'm seventy or eighty years old, and I'm still injured, maybe I didn't come up in one breath, and I hiccuped!
Moreover, while Amin and other captives were still on the way to escort, the emperor began to arrange. It is estimated that the news will soon reach Jiannu's ears.
As for the prisoners of the Horqin Division, they were not taken into the capital at all, let alone participated in the prisoner sacrifice, they were all locked up somewhere outside the city!
But the holding of the prisoner sacrifice still reached the ears of Hai Lanzhu and Bumu Butai.
The two girls were locked up in the Huanyi Bureau, and the Huanyi Bureau was the only one of the eight royal bureaus outside the Imperial City. Except for the eunuchs, the people here are generally two kinds of people: one is the old palace maid, who is placed here to die; The other is the punished concubines and palace maids.
If taken literally, the Huanyi Bureau is the washing of clothes. This explanation is not comprehensive, washing clothes is only one aspect, and on the other hand, it is equivalent to a place of imprisonment for the palace maid for life.
Because according to the rules of the palace, even if the palace maid is old, she cannot be free.
When they were of little use, they would be sent here, where the chief eunuch would provide rations and do the hard work they could, and stay in the's clothes until they died.
At the same time, the Huanyi Bureau also has the role of punishing convicted concubines and palace people.
For example, the Hakka family, after Chongzhen took the position, he sent it to the Huanyi Bureau. The eunuch of the Huanyi Bureau understood it, beat him to death with a messy staff, burned it and scattered ashes, and it was over.
But since the second year of the Apocalypse, the role of the Huanyi Bureau has been less, that is, washing clothes and doing rough work. The royal rules have also changed, the palace people have a salary, and they will be released from the palace when they are old.
At the same time, Zhang Guoyuan, who is more upright, served as the palm print of the Huanyi Bureau, and he was not allowed to abuse the palace people. Doing menial work is tiring, but there are no more examples of being tortured to death.
The two girls were not locked in the small black room, they followed others to work, eat, and rest. But if you want to escape, it is impossible.
The news of the prisoner sacrifice had spread long ago, and even the people in the Huanyi Bureau knew about it. The two girls are worried and don't know what to do with their relatives?
"They were all taken to the entrance of the vegetable market and cut by a thousand cuts!" A palace man excitedly told others, quite proud of the first-hand information he had.
"How many days?" Someone asked with concern and speculated, "Liu Jin was cut for three days back then, more than 3,000 knives!" ”
Ling Chi, which began in the fifth generation, was eight to one hundred and twenty at the beginning; By the Ming Dynasty, this number was upgraded to 1,000 to 3,000 dollars.
Obviously, the process of dying has been delayed for so long with only one purpose, and that is to warn the world through the excruciating suffering of the tortured that if you dare to commit adultery, this is the end.
The most famous Ling Chi torturer in history, the great eunuch Liu Jin can definitely be ranked. History: Liu Jin was sentenced to 3,357 knives, which was completed in three days. happy
I don't know why the people watched it like a tide when it was Lingchi, and they still talked about it afterwards. It is said that every time Ling Chi was executed, many people bought cut human flesh to use as raw materials for the treatment of boils.
The news spread quickly, and it seemed that there was a lot of interest in the sacrifice of prisoners and the cutting of a thousand knives.
"Bang dang!" The basin slipped from Hai Lanzhu's hand, and the water spilled all over the ground. She ignored it, crouched on the ground and began to cry.
"Sister-my father and mother have been killed!" Bumu Butai also heard the news, threw away the clothes he was washing, and ran over crying, and the two sisters hugged their heads and cried.
The eunuch in charge is gone, although there is an explanation above, don't be too embarrassed for these two girls, but they are not allowed to be so presumptuous!
"Where do you want to rebel?" The steward eunuch stepped forward and shouted, "Go to work, howl a fart?" ”
"They're slaves!" There are palace people with sharp ears, listening to Bumu Butai shouting that his father and mother were killed, and hurriedly reported to the steward eunuch, "The Jiannu who were cut by a thousand knives have their parents. ”
Well?! The steward eunuch's eyes widened in confusion, Ling Chi's was indeed a slave, but they were all men, and there were no women!
"You, you're the slave." Bumu Butai sobbed and raised his face full of tears, and retorted angrily and sadly, "Your parents are Jiannu. ”
The eunuch in charge was even more confused and angry, and scolded: "It's not Jiannu, you cry a fart, what does it matter to you to cut Jiannu with a thousand knives?" Get up and get to work. ”
Bumu Butai blinked his eyes, not quite figuring out the taste.
"The prisoners were killed as slaves?" Hai Lanzhu still had to react faster, and looked at the steward eunuch with a look of hope with hazy teary eyes.
"Nonsense, who will you kill if you don't kill Jiannu?" The steward eunuch rolled his eyes, "Today is a gift for prisoners, long live personally ordered the execution, how can other cats and dogs be qualified?" ”
The two sisters heard it clearly, looked at each other, and didn't know whether to be happy or sad, whether to laugh, or cry with joy.
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I don't know how much the meat can be sold for, but it's certainly not enough to alleviate the financial strain.
In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youxiao had to worry about money again, but he thought of a bloody thousand cuts.
Smiling at himself, the emperor stroked his forehead, thinking about the possibility of issuing treasury bonds.
In order to produce, manufacture, and transport sufficient ammunition and materials for the purpose of a major counteroffensive, as early as two months ago, the Tianjin Wei Ordnance and Powder Bureau had already started production.
Setting up a stall is a lot of money. Although production has reached a new level, the money is also worryingly spent.
This war is a one-sided investment, and there is no benefit, and the counterinsurgency war in the southwest is the same. Although, in the long run, the rewards after victory in the war were also handsome.
With vast land and abundant production, Liaodong is a good place with great potential for development.
But no matter how good the prospect is, how can we overcome the difficulties ahead?
The income of raiding homes is gradually decreasing, and tigers and flies fighting together cannot change this trend.
The Qingtun Replenishment is still in progress, but it can only ensure the cost of other northern border towns; The chaotic income of mirrors, banks, market offices, and banknotes is still gratifying, but it is not enough to spend the two wars in eastern and southwest.
The reason why the prisoner sacrifice ceremony was made grand and grand was that Zhu Youxiao was also preparing for the issuance of treasury bonds. The hope of victory was greatly increased, and the people were willing to make a long-term investment of their hard-earned money.
However, in the face of the issuance of treasury bonds by the whole society, Zhu Youxiao did not agree very much.
The so-called capable people work hard, and it is not easy for the small people to save a few taels of silver, but for the powerful and rich, it is a lot of money, and it has no impact if it is thrown away in vain.
The General Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce, and the Yangtze River Merchant Gang who were waiting for the imperial court to reply in the capital. As long as the emperor says a word, he will definitely be enthusiastic, and it is very possible to donate for free.
But the emperor had another idea, that is, he needed to issue national bonds, to be precise, "Pingliao bonds", to unite the hearts of the Ming people.
The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband. At that time, there was still no such sentence, and the emperor plagiarized it, and he did not blush in the slightest.
Why did most of the people who died in the Ming Dynasty act as indifferent spectators, whether they were rich and noble, or ordinary people who accounted for the majority of the population? In particular, the Jiangnan gentry only broke out with a fierce anger when they shaved their hair and changed their clothes.
From ancient times to the present, what does the change of dynasty mean? Is it just a change of allegiance to the master, a change of government that pays taxes?
This kind of thinking not only existed in the feudal era, but also in modern times, so why not occupy a place?
From the performance of most people at the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao drew conclusions. Zhu Zhiyu, who went into exile in Japan after the death of the Ming Dynasty, as a witness to history, also wrote the real reasons in his book.
"In the last years of Chongzhen, the gentry were full of crimes, and the people were in pain into the bone marrow, and they all had the heart of 'time and mourning, and you died together'. Therefore, the thieves responded inside and outside, and went against the captives and broke through. ”
To put it bluntly, people don't have much nostalgia for the regime at the end of the Ming Dynasty. It is the mentality of "it doesn't matter who he rules, no matter how bad it is".
The biggest driver of the death of the Ming Dynasty is its own corruption, natural disasters and man-made disasters have put the people between life and death, but the imperial court has no pension relief, and is still adding Liaodong three salaries.
Li Zicheng is not very strategic or wise, but the court constantly pushes the hungry people to his side.
With only one sentence of "Juntian is exempt from endowment", and only one sentence of "King Chuang is coming and he will not pay for food", he has the capital that has been defeated again and again, and he has more and more followers.
If you look at the problem from this point of view, Chongzhen is pitiful, but it is also even more hateful. The people's hearts were lost, and the only one who accompanied him to hang the southeast branch was Wang Chengen, a eunuch.
Don't think that the common people are easy to bully and the weakest. They have both greed for profit and a desire for revenge, and they stand by and watch the court that does not care about their life and death, and even step forward to make more efforts, which is the explosion of their resentment.
The so-called "their hearts have changed, and the rivers have collapsed", despising and treating them harshly, and the final result is that the mountains and rivers have changed color, and the Central Plains has fallen into a bloody state.
has both the desire for profit and the nature of human beings, Zhu Youxiao doesn't think so. Nor did he pin his hopes on patriotism and impassioned propaganda slogans.
It is not difficult to do a court that the people appreciate and an emperor who the people love and praise. Because the requirements of the people of the Ming Dynasty are not high, they will not rise up if they can be a "Taiping dog".
And Pingliao is not only a matter for the imperial court, but also related to the common people, and through the issuance of "Pingliao bonds", this goal may be achieved.
Zhu Youxiao had already made up his mind, picked up a pen and paper, and wrote a secret letter to Bi Ziyan and Wu Dazhang. How can the leaders of the two major banks be idle when they issue "Pingliao bonds"?