Daming Yinghua

Chapter 144 Entering Liao Dynasty

On the winter solstice in the 45th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in a place called Hetuala City on the northeast snowfield, the Jurchens have not yet developed the habit of paying attention to this solar term, which is called "the winter solstice is as big as the year" by the Han people.

However, today, many banner people still flock to Khan’s palace to watch a ceremony like a festival.

Not a sacrificial ceremony, but a killing ceremony.

The owner of the Khan Palace, the 58-year-old chief of Jianzhou, Nurhaci, sat in the hall he named "Khan Palace's big yamen", his indifferent eyes passed through the not spacious hall door, and fell on the crowd on the snow in the distance .

The palace where he sat upright was built with brick and wood structure, and the two-story roof was made into an octagonal shape according to the shape of a tent.

If the mighty civil servants and military generals in the mighty and huge empire in the west see it, they will definitely laugh at it. This kind of building is more like a pavilion for resting. .

Equally shabby, there is a small row of tile-roofed houses to the east of the "octagonal pavilion".The layout and land occupation are similar to those of an ordinary chariot and horse shop in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but it is the entire space for Nurhachi, the "Khan King", from living and sleeping to receiving guests and offering sacrifices.

However, Nurhachi, who had been to the capital to pay tribute and seen the glorious Forbidden City, is now very satisfied with his little Khan Palace and does not feel inferior at all.

In his understanding, in the history of the Han people, "Tang is [-] miles away, King Wen is [-] miles away", and Liu Bang won the world from a pavilion in Surabaya, which indicates that he will also start from the small city of Hetuala in the northeast corner, Go west and south step by step to realize the grand plan and strategy.

However, the "chariot and horse shop" style bedroom is really cramped, so that only Nurhachi's concubine can squeeze in with her husband and sleep on the kang inside.

The other women of the Great Khan, those who came to Hetuala because of Jianzhou's marriage with other Jurchen and Mongolian tribes, all slept in the simpler kang huts around them.

Now, these women were finally temporarily released from their cages, and came to the snow field between King Khan's Palace and King Khan's Well, where they blended into the crowd watching the killing.

The one who was about to be killed was also a woman.

The identity of a shaman once made this woman accept the worship of believers in the house called "Tangzi" built by the tribe, just like Nurhachi accepted the surrender of the Eight Banners soldiers.

Tangzi and shaman are the spiritual pillars of the Jurchens.Each tribe has different tangzi and shamans, and the idols enshrined and the words of praise are also strange.

But in the hands of a conqueror like Nurhachi, Tangzi and Shaman both have the same destination: destruction.

As the head wolf of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, Nurhachi would burn the local halls and kill the shamans who were the spiritual leaders whenever he went to conquer the various tribes of the Jurchens in Haixi.

And the reason why the shaman of the Ula tribe who was kneeling in the snow at this moment did not die three years ago was because she was favored by Nurhachi's fifth son Mangurtai when she was young.Mang Gurtai was not willing to kill her at that time, but hid by his side.

However, his younger brother Huang Taiji found out about this and reported it to his father Nurhachi.

The cruel and superstitious alpha wolf can spare the lives of those surrendered generals, but he will never spare the shamans.

The ultimate means of genocide is to destroy their beliefs.Just like what Nurhaci's descendants did to the nation in the western empire many years later.

A Bajala warrior dressed in armor made of iron, like a bear covered with silver scales, walked up to the witch.

To deal with prisoners who have been tightly bound, there is no need for such a costume of rushing to kill, but the strong, in order to bless their own arrogance, often need to be supplemented with a solemn and funny sense of ritual when executing the sentence.

"ah……"

"Hey……"

"Yo yo yo..."

The crowd screamed or cheered, as the beautiful head was separated from the frail body, and as the steaming blood sprayed to the white snow, it broke out without any suspense.

The Ba Yala warrior leaned over, lifted his head, and swaggered back to the big yamen of the Khan Palace not far away.

Mangurtai, who was sitting on Baylor's conference table, stared at the strings of blood beads, which fell on the snow, stretching continuously, from far to near, until Ba Yala entered the hall, and the blood beads gathered at his feet beach.

Nurhachi looked at Mang Gurtai, then at Hong Taiji sitting across from him, who was also expressionless, and said to the big Baylors and the ministers, "This should be the last shaman of the Ula tribe."

Staring at his son Mang Gurtai again, he said, "Wubeile, you hid the shaman of the Ulab tribe and had a son with her. Fortunately, Ben Khan found out in time, and both mother and child were expelled. Ben Khan punished you with a cow record and gave it to you. other flags."

"Niulu" was originally a group formed by the Jurchens for hunting in groups in the early days. After Nurhaci reformed the Eight Banners military system, the number of each "Niulu" was fixed at 300. Only the Khan can decide the distribution of Niulu with deals.

Mangurtai got up and knelt beside his woman's head, not caring that the skirt of the cotton armor was stained with blood.

He raised his arms to salute, and said solemnly: "I will obey the punishment of the Great Khan."

Nurhachi waved his hand, signaling his son to sit back in his seat, and let the executioner, Ba Yala, step back with his head in his hand.

Huang Taiji turned slightly, turned towards his father, and respectfully said: "Great Khan, Haixi Jurchen, Hulun four tribes, now only the Yehe clan is left. It won't be long before all the Jurchens can only worship us Aixinjueluo." Tangzi."

Mang Gurtai let out a "chi" and teased, "When Babeile usually hunts, he likes to go after tigers and bears. Why is it that when it's time to attack the city, his eyes are only on the shaman and Tangzi."

Huang Taiji pursed his lips indifferently, and his loud voice did not mean to argue: "Wu Beile is right, not only must you see far in attacking a city, but also make a choice about the order. Today, we are here to listen to the big sweat Dingdu, the big plan after the spring.”

Nurhachi twisted the beads in his hand.

Since he built the "Seven Great Temples" in his royal city, and included Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and even Lamaism in the Jurchen ethnic group, Nurhaci often fiddled with Buddhist beads and strings on public occasions, and at the same time deliberately expressed his respect for Confucius and Guan. Second Master's habit.

He twisted the beads for a while, opened his eyes and said, "Sage Kong didn't think that everything should be thought twice before acting. He said, again, Si Keye. Ben Khan thought about it twice last night, and then he decided. Between Fushun, let's fight Fushun first."

……

Five hundred miles away, Daming, Liaoyang City.

"Zhang Shilang, Miss Zheng, Mr. Wu, the winter solstice is as big as a new year. Today, we have an early New Year's meal. Mao, let's drink this first."

In front of the large iron pot on the charcoal stove, Mao Wenlong personally held the spoon, turned the stewed goose with bean paste in the pot several times, picked up the wine glass, and drank it all in one gulp.

Zhang Quan, the servant of the Ministry of War sitting at the top, looked meek, and after drinking the wine in the glass, he said to Zheng Haizhu sitting at the bottom: "This wine is very strong, Miss Zheng can do whatever she wants."

Zheng Haizhu raised his body to give a blessing ceremony.

Her complexion was reddish, not because of the charcoal hot pot, or the effect of strong wine, but because of excitement.

She didn't expect that one month after she came to Liaodong, she would meet Zhang Quan, the servant of the Ministry of War, at Mao Wenlong's place.

In Zheng Haizhu's view, this civil servant of the Ming Dynasty who had just become Qin Liangyu's in-law and Ma Xianglin's father-in-law was the second trustworthy soldier in Liaodong besides Mao Wenlong.

(End of this chapter)