48. Li Shimin sacrificed prisoners and migrated to the king of Jiangling

(2-in-1)

Last time, he said

The drunken fairy upstairs gossiped

Li Pojun's brothers share the food

It is said that after Li Pojun returned home, he was reprimanded by his mother and told that Li Shimin should return to Beijing in a few days, and a grand ceremony would be held at that time.

The last time Xue Rengao was captured, it was just a small ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, and this time it should be grander last time, and major ceremonies such as sacrificing to the Taimiao Temple will be held.

Three or four days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Li Pojun has also received news in the mansion that Li Shimin will come back tomorrow morning, and he will go to Wuli Pavilion outside the city to greet him at that time. It is said that Li Shimin's expedition to the Central Plains has been out for eight or nine months, nearly a year, so Li Pojun has not seen Li Shimin for a long time.

The next day, Li Pojun also got up early, put on a brand-new Suluo clothes, and dressed up for a while under Qiu Er's service.

After a long time, the door opened, facing the morning sun, came out a handsome and mighty young man, with a special demeanor, Xiao Xiao Susu, hearty and clear, dragon and phoenix, natural nature...... A few words don't seem enough.

Really

"Zongzhi is a chic and beautiful young man, as bright as a jade tree in front of the wind". Qiu'er's eyes looked at it stupidly.

Li Pojun also pretended to be 13 slightly, and he spilled away, leaving only a peerless and independent back.

Soon followed the eldest grandson Wujian and led Xiao Chengqian to the city gate, and when he saw Li Yuan's frame and the ministers, he also hurried down to pay respects.

As soon as he got out of the car, Li Pojun undoubtedly attracted everyone's attention, there is no way, people are handsome, Li Pojun said secretly in his heart.

After the eldest grandson Wujian saw the salute, Li Pojun led Xiao Chengqian and stepped forward.

"Grandson visits the emperor's grandfather", Xiao Chengqian also repeated it in a milky voice.

"Hehe, Wen Han, get up, go, go with me to greet the people" After speaking, he took Li Pojun and walked slowly to the long pavilion on the side of the road, Li Pojun was also held by Li Yuan's big hand in his right hand, and Xiao Chengqian was held in his left hand.

This scene made all the ministers envious, and they all secretly thought that this King Qin's family was really favored by the emperor.

Li Jiancheng's eyes also flashed, there was no way, who let his son not succeed, and he was even reprimanded by Li Yuan many times for making mistakes.

The people outside the two rows of forbidden army guards were also talking.

"The gentleman next to the emperor is really handsome."

"Oh, you know who that one is, no."

"Oh, brother Tai knows, please inform the little brother"

"Seeing that you are so sincere, let me tell you, that is Li Pojun, the eldest son of His Royal Highness the King of Qin that we are going to greet, and he is titled the King of Zhongshan County, which is a figure who is both civil and military."

"Huh? He is the legendary His Royal Highness the King of Zhongshan, the first time he saw a real person, he really lived up to his reputation."

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Soon, a puff of dust was lifted in the distance, and a group of people and horses came in the dust.

Li Pojun could see at a glance that the leader was his father Li Shimin, and the more eye-catching ones were the two generals on the left and the right, one with a yellow wax face and the other with a black face.

I saw that Li Shimin came to see Li Yuan a hundred steps away, and Li Pojun didn't want to come forward to salute on this occasion, so he had to make eye contact between father and son.

When Li Shimin saw his two sons being led by Li Yuan, a bright light flashed in his eyes, and he seemed to be more energetic.

After a set of etiquette.

Under the farewell of the people of Chang'an, the vast team led by Li Yuan entered the palace from Chengtianmen and went to Taimiao and Taishe to pay tribute to the ancestors of heaven and earth.

The ancients regarded worshipping the ancestors of heaven and earth as a sacred thing, and for some reason there was a saying that they knelt to the heavens and knelt down to their parents.

Because the ancestors of the heaven and earth attached great importance to it, they were also very solemn.

Worship with incense, say hello to the narrative, and treat every link sincerely.

After the ancestor worship was completed, it was already past noon.

The next and most important part is the prisoner sacrifice ceremony.

This ritual has been practiced since ancient times, and the records of the fortnight contain countless rituals for the sacrifice of prisoners. With the development of successive dynasties, it evolved into a custom, and it was necessary to hold a prisoner sacrifice ceremony only when the great results of the war were achieved.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin attacked Henan this time, captured Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, and unified the northern part of the Central Plains.

Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong and other extremely powerful nobles who were captured in this battle had to bow down in front of the Taimiao and Taishe with Bai Lian. first plead to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and then go to Chengtianmen to gaze at the heavenly tower to accept the prisoners.

Everything was determined according to the etiquette law, and Li Yuan set up a tent seat in the front of the Shuntian Tower of Chengtianmen. Hundreds of civil and military officials and prisoner generals stand on the left and right of the downstairs, and a prisoner seat is set up in front of the building a little south. After the hundred officials arrived, the courtiers lifted the Banqi card upstairs with a red silk rope bag and reported to the emperor.

The emperor was seated, and hundreds of officials shouted long live and saluted. The courtiers announced the "dedication of prisoners", and the colonel brought the captives to the sacrifice position.

Li Yuan sat on a high place, looking at Dou Jiande, Wang Shichong and others led below, as well as hundreds of civil and military officials behind him. The mood can't help but be happy. was able to watch the two Dou Wang, who were invincible and dominant, fall in front of him. Seeing the majestic side, the princes knelt down in front of him and pleaded guilty. The words "success" and defeat

The defeated have no dignity at all, even a male lord like Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong, who once commanded the party, can only kneel in shame in front of everyone at this moment and bow down at Li Yuan's feet.

The next step is to read the war report in the kneeling of King Dou, which has a name in this period, which is called "Lubu".

The "Lubu" system began in the Later Wei Dynasty and became the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, officials called those documents that were not very important and did not need to be sealed by special means as "Lubu". Later Wei used "Lubu" to publish the news of victory, whenever the battle was conquered, the news was conveyed with the situation of Lubu, and the good news was written on the lacquer pole, so that the world knew about it. This method was later widely adopted, and Lubu gradually became the "Book of Dedication" that "spread all over the world, and exposed the eyes and ears".

Since Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, there has been the ritual of declaring cloth. Whenever a great victory is achieved, hundreds of officials and guest envoys from all directions will be gathered outside the Guangyang Gate to read out the Lubu. After this is read, the hundred officials will dance and bow again.

The victory of the Tang Dynasty has long been announced by the "Lubu" system, but at the moment it is still necessary to read out the battle report, in order to praise the effectiveness of their own soldiers in exchange for bloody battles, and the generals who went out to fight are also proud of their names appearing in the war report.

Li Shimin, Li Jing and other main generals naturally appeared many times, and the remaining lieutenants Chi Jingde, Xue Wanche, Xue Wanjun, Zhang Gongjin and other lieutenants also appeared one by one, and even Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie appeared in Li Pojun's surprised eyes.

During the sacrifice ceremony, Li Yuan would also announce in public the disposition of King Dou and other prisoners.

If the death sentence is pronounced, it will be dragged directly to the execution ground to be punished, and if the sentence can be forgiven, it will require the grace of forgiveness from kneeling three times and bowing nine times.

Regarding the disposition of King Dou, Li Yuan had a discussion with the Manchu civil and military forces. There are two different voices in the court, one is more radical, directly killing things, the other feels that Wang Shichong surrendered and was not captured, and it is not good to kill directly, if he kills the change of mind of the world's forces, if he kills Wang Shichong directly, it will cause uneasiness to surrender to those people, so as to break away from the control of the Tang Dynasty, flee from the Tang Dynasty and go to other ministries such as Xue Andu, Du Fuwei and other ministries, affecting the overall situation of unification.

And Li Shimin also promised that if Wang Shichong surrendered, he would spare him from death, so Li Yuan issued an edict to pardon Yu Shichong's capital crime, demoted him to a concubine, and exiled to Shu with his brothers, nephews, etc., and beheaded Dou Jiande in the city.

However, to everyone's astonishment, within a few days, Wang Shichong and his brother Wang Shiyun were killed by the son of the enemy Dugu Ji, Dingzhou Assassin Shi Dugu Xiude, etc. in Fuzhou Station. Li Yuan had no choice but to order the dismissal of Dugu Xiude's official position, and the other brothers and nephews of the Wang family were also killed for rebellion on the way out.

Therefore, the fate of the two anti-kings of King Dou is very tragic, Li Pojun can't help but feel related when he hears it, as for Wang Shichong's death, who can know whether he died at the hands of Dugu Xiude, all this is unknown, and it doesn't matter.

With the end of the prisoner sacrifice ceremony, the next thing is the relief of the expectations of all the generals who went out, and the highlight after the big victory - the reward for meritorious deeds.

Among them, Li Shimin, as the main player, will gain the most.

He was named the general of Tiance, led Situ and Daxing Taishang Shuling of Shaanxi East Road, and was located on the prince, and the number of food towns increased to 30,000.

Li Yuan also issued an edict to authorize the Tiance Mansion to purchase its own official property, so Li Shimin opened a literary museum, recruited scholars from all over the world to enter the museum for consultation consultants, and the literature museum was combined with the Qin Wangfu to form a small government agency.

For Li Shimin, the position of Admiral Tiance is the most important thing for him.

Because this position will become an important bargaining chip for the throne between Li Shimin, the king of Qin, and Li Jiancheng, the crown prince. You can give others an official position, and it will be much easier to recruit talents. He has the power to be an official, and he doesn't have to worry about not being able to recruit talents. For example, he once recruited Du Yan to Tiance Mansion at the suggestion of Fang Xuanling. Li Jiancheng has one less proud talent, he got one, and the odds of winning are a few points more.

The power possessed by the "Admiral Tiance" also made many people pay more attention to him, and the ministers and warriors have thrown themselves into his disciples, and Chang He, who played an important role in the Xuanwu Gate Change, has actually been co-opted by him. Therefore, although the title of "Admiral Tiance" was a "comforting product" created by Li Yuan himself to appease him, it was also very valuable, which did enhance Li Shimin's prestige and provide convenient conditions for his future actions.

And other people's rewards are also quite generous, such as Qin Qiong was awarded the title of Wing Guogong, and was rewarded with 100 catties of gold, 7,000 pieces of silk, etc., and Wei Chigong was added as the second deputy of the left guard of the Qin Wangfu for his merits.

The other is a series of clan reseals and seals.

Li Shentong was originally the general of the right Yiwei, the king of Yongkang, renamed the king of Huai'an, served as the pacification ambassador of Shandong Province, and was appointed as the left servant of Hebei Xingtai

As the son of a man of the hour, Li Pojun's brother was also rewarded.

Li Chengqian didn't have much chance because of his young age before, and this opportunity was also named the King of Hengshan.

Li Pojun was renamed the King of Jiangling from the King of Zhongshan, and it was not simple to say that this fiefdom of Jiangling was not simple.

The city of Jiangling was formerly known as the capital of Chu State "Ying", from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, 34 generations of emperors built their capitals here, which lasted 515 years. Since the Han Dynasty, Jiangling City has existed as the seat of Jingzhou for a long time, so it is often called Jiangling with "Jingzhou".

Since the five dynasties, the ruling center of the Central Plains Dynasty is between Henan and Shaanxi, Jiangling controls Bashu in the west, connects Xianghan in the north, takes the rivers and lakes in the north, and refers to Wu and Yue, which is the key point of the Central Plains to communicate with Lingnan, and is called "the important town in the southeast" and "Yidu also".

The regimes that built their capitals in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the past dynasties built their capitals here, there are five dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are ten generations of regimes to build the capital, among which Chu is a big country and a powerful country, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties all have half of the rivers in southern China, so the ancient capital of Jiangling has a higher status, second only to the "seven ancient capitals", and is the famous capital of Jing and Chu.

A large set of tedious ceremonies took a whole noon and finally ended.

Li Pojun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he returned to the mansion.

But Li Pojun remembered his title at this time, so he went to ask Li Shimin, who had just taken a bath and changed his clothes.

After Li Shimin's answer, Li Pojun understood a little and was quite satisfied with this fiefdom, which was much stronger than those miscellaneous titles.

And Gangneung is also a rich place in Jingchu, and the tax revenue is also considerable.

And Li Pojun's standard is also whether he is an official or not, and this King of Jiangling is also quite majestic, even better than the King of Zhongshan in the name of that country, and better than the King of Hengshan of Xiao Chengqian.

Li Pojun couldn't help but feel proud.

In the evening, the family had a reunion dinner, Li Pojun looked at his mother and looked at his father, he was embarrassed to stay here.

It was quite embarrassing to eat, but fortunately, the conversation box was opened.

Li Shimin is now complacent, and he is also quite happy, and Li Pojun drank again and again, Li Pojun is also seven or eight years old, and even the eldest grandson Wujian has thought of greeting him with relatives, so Li Pojun is naturally drunk.

However, Li Pojun really didn't dare to compliment the wine of this era, thinking that it was rice wine in general, this rice wine was slightly stronger, but it was extra mellow, this was still the palace wine, and Li Yuan rewarded it.

Li Pojun remembered that there was a strong liquor called Sanle pulp in the Tang Dynasty, which seemed to have been introduced from the Western Regions, and the taste was stronger, Li Pojun couldn't help but look forward to it, and went out to try it another day, in fact, he didn't drink alcohol under the cultivation of the army, but at this time the situation was different, the thoughts were different, and he was quite curious.

Speaking of wine, Li Pojun has a desire to make distilled spirits, but now the time is not ripe, so he can only wait for the time.

After the meal, Li Shimin said that he could not say that he would hold a hunting meeting in the next few days, relax and relax, and celebrate the big victory.

Naturally, it aroused Li Pojun's curiosity and yearning.

"Don't worry, you kid will definitely bring it with you when the time comes, you have also been practicing archery for a long time, and you will perform well when the time comes, don't be ashamed."

In Li Shimin's laughter and scolding, Li Pojun went back slowly.

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