Valhalla, which enshrines the bones of soldiers who died on the battlefield in the past few years, among them, some people's families still survive, and some people's families have died as early as the beginning of the troubled times, but when facing the towering Valhalla tower, no matter who is present, they have left a tear.

Maybe it was because of the influence, maybe because of admiration, Cao Cao got off his horse, looked up at the majestic Valhalla on the nearly twenty-meter-high stairs, and then slowly began to climb step by step, this is to show respect for the loyal souls of the soldiers who died in battle!

Behind him, hundreds of Wei soldiers holding the ashes of the soldiers who died in the grassland this time, their eyes were slightly red, and they followed Cao Cao with solemn faces.

Some of the people present, after seeing the ashes, thought of their relatives who had never seen them, and they also understood something in their minds, their eyes were red and swollen, full of tears, but there was some pride mixed with them.

The ashes of thousands of soldiers who died in battle, after nearly an hour, were finally put into the Valhalla, at this time Cao Cao stood alone in front of the Valhalla, looking at the high plaque, the huge and black and red Valhalla three words, bent his knees, and knelt slowly!

"Your Majesty!"

As soon as the Son of Heaven knelt, it shook the heavens and the earth, and all the people present were shocked to see Cao Cao kneeling on his knees in front of Valhalla, and made a big salute with three buckles, such a big gift not only did not make Cao Cao's prestige decline, but made his prestige even higher!

"See, see, your death was not in vain. Your Majesty, he remembers you, Your Majesty, he commemorates you, have you all seen it?! ”

The people were crying. But their hearts are proud, and they are proud that their husbands, children, and grandchildren can be commemorated by the king of a country, and they can be worshiped by a country forever.

Your death in battle will not be in vain, I will let the whole of China and the Chinese nation shine on the world forever like the sun that never falls!

The battle of the grassland, if it weren't for these soldiers fighting to the death. blocked the Xianbei army, so the grassland at this time may still be in the midst of war. Cao Cao's army of 200,000 may still be dragged in the grassland!

It was precisely because of them that there was a later great victory, and Cao Cao later became a great Dan Yu, ruling the grassland with the voice of the Han people. Only then did there be a miracle that lasted only a month to eliminate a powerful regime of grass carp!

After the three buckles of sincerity. Cao Cao got up and turned around, facing everyone below, whether it was the people, the soldiers, the generals, and the civil officials, and shouted in a deep voice: "I announce, worship, begin!" ”

The whole worship process was tedious and complicated, and it took several hours before and after. The whole worship process is more cumbersome and rigorous than the worship of the gods. There are still excesses.

After this ceremony, after the news that Cao Cao personally deducted the heads of the dead soldiers spread, some people secretly gloated, Cao Cao's prestige was reduced, but the Wei soldiers looked at Cao Cao's eyes even hotter!

And although the families of those fallen soldiers still feel sad, it is more of a pride, and in the hearts of ordinary people, a sense of reverence involuntarily arises, which is for Cao Cao and all the soldiers of the Wei army.

Since the next day, the Wei army's behavior of worshipping the fallen soldiers has formed a tradition, and every year on November 20, Cao Cao will lead the generals to hold a ceremony to pay tribute to the souls of the heroes who died in battle, and the souls of the loyal!

In the future, as Cao Cao's power grew, the scale of the ceremony became larger and larger, until the strength of the Great Wei expanded to other places, it became an annual grand festival second only to the beginning of the year, and this ceremony also became the most important royal memorial activity of the Great Wei Empire in later generations!

As early as the beginning, Cao Cao's rule began to implement various policies to improve the social status of soldiers, especially the construction and completion of Valhalla at the beginning, which made the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Cao Cao's command very different from the soldiers under the command of other princes!

But in the people, the status of soldiers is not very high, although it is very high compared to the later Song and Ming dynasties, but compared with the later Celestial Empire, it can only be regarded as the bottom.

However, this time after Cao Cao personally worshipped with the respect of the Son of Heaven, the status of the military suddenly improved, in the control area of the Great Wei at this time, the style of advocating martial arts gradually became popular, and the military was no longer as high as before, and it seemed to be synonymous with a road without a way, but loyal and fearless, admired by 10,000 people, and the representative of heroes and heroes, the military became a profession that many enthusiastic young people under the command of the Great Wei yearn for.

Later, in the territory of the Great Wei, there was even a situation where women and non-soldiers did not marry, which led to the Wei court at that time, which had to introduce some policies to suppress it, otherwise, if all women had to marry soldiers, then what about other people, such as farmers, merchants, scholars, etc.

Of course, the reason why this is the case is mainly because there is a soldier as a husband, and his status is half higher in front of people. And in some villages, there is also a competition between each other, comparing the number of soldiers in their respective villages.

In a word, Cao Cao's efforts for several years, under today's unintentional willows, finally became a willow, the social status and treatment of soldiers have been unprecedentedly improved, the morale of the soldiers of the Great Wei Dynasty is high, the soldiers are excellent and sufficient, and the soldiers have become heroes in the eyes of ordinary people.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages in everything, and although Cao Cao's series of policies has brought incalculable positive benefits, it has also brought negative effects.

First of all, the three southern kingdoms are more jealous and despised by Cao Cao, disgusted, after all, the civil and military are wrong, and the rise of the martial arts is equal to the weakening of the literati's right to speak, such an undercurrent may be weaker in the Wu State, but in the Jing Han and Shu Han, who inherited everything from the Han family, can be described as extremely strong, in their opinion, Cao Cao is completely destroying the fruits of victory that they have spent hundreds of years winning!

These arrogant civil officials don't want to go back to the time in the early and middle Western Han Dynasty, when they were pressed by the soldiers and couldn't lift their heads!

Not only the three southern kingdoms, but even Cao Cao has some voices within Cao Cao, thinking that Cao Cao's move is too much, but as more and more children of the poor family learn, Cao Cao can be said to be more and more indifferent to them.

Whenever such voices and ideas are found, Cao Cao directly slandered the monarch's father and punished him, and those poor children filled it in, although they were only some low-level officials at this time, but Cao Cao's resolute and resolute approach still suppressed the dissatisfaction in the hearts of those family officials. (To be continued......)