The big man has a living father

Chapter 247 Death War
Here, an industrial revolution is brewing.

The other side of the earth.

A big fire is burning.

In North America, where management is relatively lax, although there are wars among the Feathered People on both sides of the mountains, in fact everything is relatively peaceful.

In fact, they were all very unimpressed by the plains.

The reason is simple. In America, where there were no horses, people would not be able to escape if they were ambushed on the plains.

It’s not that people can’t escape, but they can’t take their belongings with them.

There is no strategic location to defend, and if you run you will just have to abandon your crops.

If they were attacked during harvest time, the entire tribe would flee and starve for a year.

Therefore, they do not live in the plains, but in poor mountains and bad waters.

This is a custom that has been formed from eight thousand years ago to the present.

The people of the Han Dynasty liked their customs so much that they only needed to tell them that the mountains belonged to them and the plains belonged to the Han people. The Han people hired them as workers and gave them money to buy everything the Han people brought.

They agreed.

As long as they are not given horses and their warning range is not expanded, they will not be able to get down the mountain.

But further south, it’s different.

This plateau mountain area is under high pressure.

There is a city in this place called Kangus, which means the city of living sacrifice in their local language.

When Huo Hai saw this name, he was stunned.

Because of the scale of this city of living sacrifices, Huo Hai judged at a glance that it was ancient Mexico.

To be precise, the Spanish established Mexico after destroying the Aztec royal city.

And the Aztecs were not the original owners there.

When the Aztecs first arrived here, they found a city so huge that it was beyond their imagination.

The city was too big and there was no tomb, so the Aztecs named it the Land of the Gods, which is the ancient city of Teotihuacan.

Later, after research, it was discovered that living sacrifices were popular in this area, and people were cremated alive, so there were no graves.

This land of gods should be a regional center created by some powerful force using religion.

Here, sacrifice is the most important thing, and everything else comes second.

Therefore, a city with a population of nearly 200,000, second only to Chang'an at that time, developed.

Of course, Huo Hai remembered it very clearly. It was in the fifth or sixth century. Moreover, this place was built in the first century BC and destroyed in the seventh century BC.

It was destroyed by a fire and finally disappeared.

A whole... Sanxingdui that is two thousand years late.

Sacrifices, religions, huge cities, and broad roads all disappeared inexplicably.

Isn’t this the Sanxingdui template?

After Huo Hai learned about this city called the City of Living Sacrifice, he felt that this should be ancient Mexico.

To be exact, it is 40 kilometers away from Mexico.

The real Mexico is a huge artificial island of backfilled soil and does not exist in this era.

After learning about this, Huo Hai suggested to the people at the Navy’s North Base that they could conduct an investigation but avoid conflict for the time being.

Although the Han Dynasty still had to go south to obtain various crops and seeds, explore various minerals, and do business.

But it is still very simple to bypass this area for the time being.

Externally speaking, religious issues are difficult to deal with and require specialized research.

But today, it cannot be studied.

The Han fleet was heading south, and a small boat disembarked from one of the ships and decided to stay here for a while.

The Han people are studying how to efficiently explore the land in North America.

As for this thing, if you go eastward in North America, the Feathered People don't want it, so it would be a waste if you don't want it.

But North America is too difficult to cross, so many teams start from Central America and head towards the Atlantic Ocean.

This time, a group of two people walked past the City of Sacrifice.

The distance is about two hundred kilometers.

According to the Han people's estimation, two hundred kilometers is already very far, and they should not control this area.

But, take it for granted.

If they had asked Huo Hai, he would have known very well that the City of Living Sacrifice, with a population of over ten thousand, had an actual control range of at least four hundred kilometers from north to south, and an economic control range of at least one thousand kilometers from north to south.

In short, the two men were arrested.

What is the City of Living Sacrifice?
There were two kinds of living sacrifices to choose from: one was to cut out the heart while the person was still alive for sacrifice, and the other was to burn the person alive for sacrifice.

To put it bluntly, it is the civilization at the Shang Dynasty stage that does not have the ability to extract metals.

And it seems to be in the early stages of big business.

That's the place.

Can two people get along?
One person had his heart cut out, and another was burned alive on the Avenue of Death in the City of Living Sacrifice.

The news soon spread to the sea.

At this moment, the person in charge of controlling the sea routes is Wei Kang.

Wei Kang is no longer the little boy he used to be. Now he is 23 years old and has been at sea for three years.

At this time, Wei Kang's position was the North Pacific Shipping General.

Sitting in the main fleet command room, Wei Kang was stunned when he heard the news.

The Han Dynasty had too many specialized language geniuses. Since the beginning of its conquest of North America, these language geniuses trained by Dongfang Shuo and Zhang Qian came to the sea in large numbers.

They learn local languages.

In the early days, when the Han people could not communicate with the Feathered People, both sides were very cautious.

Since they are able to communicate, and the communication between both sides is smooth, they can understand each other's restraint.

In the past few years, there have been basically no malicious incidents.

Sometimes there would be cases where big Han people were killed, but basically they were because they had offended the locals and committed serious crimes, so even Ge San and his people couldn't say anything.

The situation was similar when the Han people killed the Feathered People.

Because of the restraint of both sides, the other side couldn't say anything.

The two sides have had a tacit understanding for so many years.

But this time, the situation is completely different.

There were two Han people passing by and were heading north, and they died instantly.

One is called Beiwu and the other is called Juno.

Zhu Nuo is from Chang'an, and Bei Wu is from Chengdu.

Both of them are language geniuses. Although they are not from good families, they actually hold lieutenant-level positions in the current Han military system.

Wei Kang put down the letter and looked up: "Did the two of you have any last words?"

This idea was proposed by Huo Hai. He allowed the soldiers who could read to keep a suicide note every time they were on a mission. It was not because it was unlucky, but in this era there were many economic disputes and it was easy for a family to be wiped out.

Huo Hai wants to eliminate this phenomenon from all angles and correct social trends.

Resolutely crack down on cases of property division.

Of course, there are other meanings to telling the soldiers. At least when they die, there will be a letter left for their families.

The deputy took out a letter and handed it to Wei Kang: "This is from Bei Wu. Juno's suicide note is in the bridgehead. It is estimated that it has been sent back. I can dictate it."

Wei Kang: "Speak."

Deputy: "Juno's suicide note probably said: How can a general be at peace when he is away? He is exhausted from running around, and has bled to and fro. There is nothing more to say."

Wei Kang opened Bei Wu's suicide note.

Bei Wu's suicide note read: "It's unlucky to write a suicide note, but I'll write it if I'm asked to. If I die, I'm not married, and there's no heir to my estate. I like my second uncle's grandson, so I'll give him to him. By the way, my land should be given to my aunt, as her family has little land. I also bought a house in Qiancheng, which I'll give to my third uncle's daughter. Qiancheng is a place where she can see how vast the world is. I still have some things in the army, which I'll sell for some money. I'll treat my brothers to a drink."

After Wei Kang finished reading, his assistant brought a glass of wine and Wei Kang pointed at the wine.

The deputy nodded.

Wei Kang stood up, picked up the wine, and drank it all in one gulp: "Pass my order to recruit 30,000 feather workers from Redwood Mountain. I want to build a road from the seaside to transport naval guns to the mountain."

"Notify the entire North Pacific Fleet. All carpenters must gather together to build traction artillery carriages. All horse-drawn carriages must be requisitioned and gathered outside the city of living sacrifice."

The deputy hurriedly said: "General, although we have artillery, we only have more than a thousand people now. Should we wait for the news to be transmitted back to the Han Dynasty and wait for His Majesty to make a decision?"

Wei Kang waved his hand and said, "If the news gets back to Chang'an, His Majesty will know that we have to wait for news from Chang'an even for such a matter. Wouldn't he be mocking the North Pacific Fleet as being useless?!"

After saying that, Wei Kang slammed his hand on the table.

When he was a teenager, Wei Kang was just a big boy who had practiced martial arts. But now, Wei Kang is a mighty man.

The palm strikes not hard, but very lightly, but the expression is serious.

A pair of eyes that look at both victory and defeat, and yet not victory or defeat.

Under Wei Kang's dispatch, shipping here was almost at a standstill. All the ships went north to the vicinity of Redwood Mountain to pick up local migrant workers who were willing to work here.

In fact, they were unwilling to come.

Because they also know that there is a powerful and terrifying religion in the City of Living Sacrifice.

Like living sacrifice.

Even though they look the same and have similar culture, it seems even more strange because of this.

The Han people looked at the city of living sacrifices because their customs were different.

This Redwood Mountain is actually the Pattern Clan where Gulupo belongs. They are a group of people who like to paint patterns on their bodies and are very good at fighting.

It's the Pattern Tribe. When they see the City of Living Sacrifice, they think that the people in the City of Living Sacrifice are completely crazy.

How could a normal person be sacrificed alive?
Because everything else is the same but this one aspect is different, the Pattern Clan finds the people in the City of Living Sacrifice even more terrified.

Fortunately, the Han people have plenty of money.

The big man raised the price.

The wages were increased from fifty coins to two hundred coins.

With this price increase, the battle patterns of the Pattern Clan warriors began to burn, and they signed up eagerly.

Batches of Pattern tribe warriors became laborers and were sent to the coast of Lower California.

Here, the Han fleet directly bombarded the mountains, turning the coastal settlements controlled by the City of Living Sacrifice into ashes.

The entire war preparation was proceeding in an orderly manner.

The episode took place in Qiancheng instead.

Initially, fleets from several northern ports and bridgeheads returned and told local merchants that shipping in North America had been suspended. The specific reason was unclear, but the military fleet no longer had time to transport goods.

After that, some small boats came back one after another asking for supplies, and some wanted to add more guns and artillery, so they came back to ask Tian Jue for help.

It is normal to give these troops sent out to the front lines artillery, but not many guns.

Tian Jue couldn’t give it either, so he just applied online step by step.

Afterwards, Wei Kang's deputy led the fleet back to Qiancheng.

At this time, they had already cleared the coast and started building the road to siege the city.

There are still some problems to be overcome before the naval guns can be put on land and used, but these problems are not insurmountable. We are currently advancing step by step towards the City of Living Sacrifice.

It was the return of Wei Kang's deputy that caused big problems.

Wei Kang's deputy was named Wang Shensheng. He was born an ordinary private. He was not even from a good family. He was another kind of soldier of the Han Dynasty, a conscript from a poor family.

Logically, people like him should have disappeared during Emperor Wu's reign.

But, among that small number of people, Wang Shensheng stood out and cut his way to his current position one sword at a time.

In history, Wang Shensheng also left a name, but it was a rather unfortunate name.

Wang Shensheng, Hu Chongguo and others went to attack Kangju during the Han Dynasty's war against Dayuan, but encountered a sandstorm on the way.

They wanted to intimidate the King of Kangju, but failed.

But in the subsequent development, not long after, the situation was almost the same, and Shangguan Jie captured the King of Kangju.

Hu Chongguo was promoted to the rank of Dahonglu, one of the Nine Ministers, and was also Sima Xiangru's deputy when he pacified Southern Shu. Wang Shensheng was a veteran of the battlefield, rising from a private to a captain.

Several people became the basis for Shangguan Jie's heroic reputation.

However, as history progressed, Dayuan had already been given away in advance, and Wang Shensheng had not had the chance to become a colonel and was only a captain.

However, people cannot change.

Wang Shensheng's character is evident here.

When we returned to Qiancheng, many people came to ask why sea transportation had stopped.

You know, shipping from North America accounts for more than half of the Han Dynasty’s shipping income.

So much money is needed to support many people.

Wang Shensheng did not hide it and told the reason.

As a result, some merchants said privately that day, "They are just two soldiers. It seems unwise to stop trading and attack the opponent just for them."

Although what this means is that we should wait for the court to react before sending out the army.

But the reason is not because of the second half of the sentence, but because of the two soldiers in the first half.

Wang Shensheng directly sent soldiers to arrest the two merchants. Without any interrogation, they were hung on the gate of Qiancheng City.

The Qiancheng at this time is not the Qiancheng of the past. The city wall and gate of Qiancheng before is now the center of Qiancheng City.

The two men were hung up and exposed to the sun.

Everyone saw it.

Some people went to Tian Jue to plead for mercy.

It's so funny. How could Tian Jue help them? If he did, how would he gain the support of the people in the army in the future?

Then the county magistrate of Qiancheng came out to persuade him.

Wang Shensheng said, "You county magistrates are all lying low, how can you be so stupid?"

The county magistrate was tied up and hung on the city gate.

The news soon spread to Chang'an.

Chang'an is different from Qiancheng. Although the people in Qiancheng are on the frontier, they have never been threatened by external forces. The newly born merchants here are pure merchants and it is easy for them to lose their minds.

Although Chang'an was the center of the empire, it was often threatened by foreign enemies in the past.

Therefore, businessmen understand the importance of soldiers.

What's more, the new rich and soldiers now form a new class, and they are almost all our own people.

So the opinion in Chang'an was very unanimous, that is, they wanted to fight.

Wei Kang directly organized the war, allowing Wei Qing to show off his abilities.

It used to be said that Wei Qing’s biggest problem was that he couldn’t have children. It wasn’t that he couldn’t give birth, but that he couldn’t give birth to good children.

Now the public opinion has turned around.

Since this matter involved business issues, Sima Xiangru asked Huo Hai to give instructions.

Huo Hai ordered that the heads be beheaded as a warning.

Making money is a means, not an end. Developing the economy and allowing people to live a good life is the goal.

If someone puts the cart before the horse in order to make money and gives up other things in order to make money, then he is simply not in his right mind.

Especially for a few soldiers, why go to so much trouble, should we do more business, this kind of slightly transformed idea is not "no atomic eggs, only tea eggs"? It's just expressed differently.

This is an almost unacceptable statement in later generations, and certainly completely unacceptable to the brave and martial Han people.

So Huo Hai directly ordered to behead them as a warning.

When Huo Hai's instructions were delivered to Qianchengshi.

Three men had been hanged on the city gate tower.

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We will resume updating big chapters from tomorrow, and the Chinese New Year is over. I wish everyone a prosperous new year!
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