Rebirth of the best emperor

Chapter 315 Evil Demon
"Your Majesty, due to the hasty preparations for the offering of prisoners, the number of preparations was not large. The soldiers of the Vanguard Battalion searched the entire battlefield, and only then did they gather 99 soldiers of the Guo army with sound legs and feet and a decent appearance." Li Guang stood at Wang Mang and whispered: "Originally, according to the previously agreed plan, there was no link of offering prisoners, but after His Majesty's reward arrived in the army, there was a voice of offering prisoners in the army, and I feared that the army's heart would change. , and agreed to the matter, besides, the nine hundred and ninety-nine Guojun ministers have checked carefully, and there is nothing wrong with it."

"What are you doubting?" Seeing Li Guang's serious expression, Wang Mang knew that Li Guang had discovered something. Among Wang Mang's many courtiers, Li Guang was definitely one of the few people who were least worried about loyalty. After all, it was sent by the system, and it was tied to my real life and death.

Li Guang said coldly: "I have led troops to fight for many years, and I always feel that something is wrong. The voice of offering prisoners is strange. I sent someone to investigate, but I couldn't find the source at all. That’s why it’s definitely not normal.”

"If that's the case, why do you still do this thing of offering prisoners?" Wang Mang said.

"I said that this matter is already the will of many soldiers in the Qianfeng Battalion. Although I am their leader, I cannot violate the will of all of them." Li Guangdao: "At the same time, I am also very curious, who are these people? What to do?"

"Then why didn't you tell me about this before." Wang Mang said.

"This is just my suspicion. I have no evidence. I just hope that my feeling is wrong." After Li Guang finished speaking, he bid farewell to Wang Mang. As the leader of the vanguard battalion, he will be in charge of the ceremony of presenting the prisoners.

With the sound of a long war drum, a pair of soldiers from the Qin army with high spirits pressed 99 Guo army prisoners and slowly walked into the school grounds that had just been cleared.

As soon as the prisoners of the Guo army entered the school grounds, they were knelt on the ground with their heads pressed down by the soldiers of the Qin army. Li Guang took Wang Jitang and other generals to kowtow to Wang Mang and said: "Your Majesty, Li Guang led the forward battalion to offer you prisoners. Yonggu, God bless His Majesty, long live, long live, long live!"

Long live, long live, long live His Majesty!
Following Li Guang, nearly 20 soldiers from the vanguard battalion who had passed through the battle roared at the same time. Wang Mang sat on the high platform, and the ministers of civil and military affairs stood around him behind him. General, help the Great Qin to be victorious in every battle!"

"The ceremony has begun!" Li Lan roared.

Offering captives is not just a matter of bringing the captives to the emperor for a walk. There are a lot of details in it, but it happened suddenly and the Qin army was not prepared, so it was simplified first by Li Guang on behalf of the Qianfeng battalion. A passionate letter from Wang Mang, this letter is gorgeous throughout, with only one meaning, Your Majesty is wise!

Then Changsun Wuji accepted Li Guang's offer of captives on behalf of Wang Mang, and then he also gave Li Guang an enthusiastic letter. This letter was also gorgeous in its entirety, with only one meaning. A brilliant victory has been achieved!

Then, headed by Wang Dun, he brought Ma Liang and other 99 young scholars who had a lot of research into the rhythm, and temporarily represented the music hall of the Ministry of Rites, singing praises to Da Qin and Wang Mang.

Wang Mang found this process quite boring, but many soldiers present watched it with gusto, Wang Jian said on the sidelines: "Your Majesty, this offering of captives will help unite the hearts of the people, and it is an inexhaustible magic weapon to promote the majesty of the Son of Heaven. I feel deeply about presenting the prisoners today, and I would like to ask Your Majesty to present the prisoners to the ancestors in the ancestral temple according to the ancestral system after the end of this battle!"

As soon as Wang Jian finished speaking, Wang Mang's expression changed, and a task suddenly appeared in the Ultimate Emperor System, which had not moved for a long time.

"Hidden mission: sacrifice to the heaven and earth, and get the protection of the heaven and the earth."

The mission with a total of ten words seems to be clueless. Wang Mang looked at it and didn't know what kind of mission it was. Wang Mang raised his eyebrows. Although this mission is strange, the reward for completing the mission may not be trivial. Now we have seen the main story line There are three kinds of system tasks, task, branch task and temporary task, but this hidden task has never been seen before, and the moment he saw this task, Wang Mang felt that he seemed to be inextricably involved with this task.

What kind of mission is this?
Wang Mang thought that all the previous missions were triggered by a certain medium as a catalyst, but this time... Wang Mang frowned and thought about it, and then thought of the ongoing prisoner offering ceremony.

Could it be offering prisoners?
Wang Mang thought about it, and felt that it was very possible. Then he thought about the task again, so what is sacrifice to heaven and earth?

After thinking about it, Wang Mang still didn't have a clue, he couldn't help showing some impatience on his face, Wang Jian observed his words, and quickly asked, "Why is Your Majesty so preoccupied?"

"I do have something on my mind." Wang Mang nodded, looked at Wang Jian, and suddenly asked, "Does the general know the connection between this sacrifice and sacrifice?"

Wang Jian's expression changed, he looked at Wang Mang in shock, and said, "Why do you ask such a question, Your Majesty?"

"What's wrong?" Wang Mang didn't know why Wang Jian was so nervous after he asked the question.

Seeing that Wang Mang was a little confused, Wang Jian immediately knew that the emperor just didn't know where he knew about such a thing, and he didn't know much about the details, so he said, "Your Majesty doesn't know something. According to the ancient law, the wiser and stronger the souls sacrificed, the more protection they will receive from their ancestors. Of course, these things happened many years ago."

Wang Jian then explained to Wang Mang in detail the relationship between sacrifices and captives. According to Wang Jian, as early as many years ago, whenever a war started on the mainland, all countries would directly chop off the heads of captives as sacrifices. I don't know what the rule is, but it has always been like this. It is said that this way you can get the protection of the ancestors, but I have never heard of anyone who actually obtained protection by offering a captive life sacrifice to the ancestors.

On the contrary, 500 years ago, Jin and Song were at war, and Jin directly sacrificed 100 million soldiers and 200 million civilians of Song to the ancestors of Jin. It was the most grand sacrificial activity in the past thousand years. It is said that the monarchs and powerful people from various countries in the mainland were attracted to watch the ceremony. Suddenly, the power of the Jin Kingdom reached the extreme, and it almost had the momentum to annex the world.

However, shortly after that sacrifice, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom who had the ambition to swallow the world at that time fell ill due to an occasional cold and fell ill, and soon died on the sickbed. Then the kings of the Jin Kingdom continued to change, and in just 20 years , the state of Jin actually replaced five monarchs. The originally extremely powerful empire became full of holes due to the internal consumption caused by the constant replacement of monarchs. In the end, the clan of the state of Jin was weak, and the huge state of Jin was actually controlled by the three great families of the state of Jin. Controlling, the last three great families completely replaced Jin, which is now the Three Kingdoms of Han, Zhao and Wei.

Since then, there have been rumors in the mainland that the reason why the Jin Kingdom declined, and the reason why there were so many disasters, was because of the grand sacrifice of 300 million people. On the contrary, because of killing too many lives, it caused heaven and earth to punish them, directly causing the most powerful empire to collapse.

Then, for unknown reasons, the life sacrifices that have been passed down for countless years in various countries on the mainland slowly stopped, occasionally, and the scenes and scales were relatively small.

All the countries were frightened by the affairs of the Jin State, so when he heard Wang Mang asked about sacrifices and captives, Wang Jian thought of the story of the Jin State at that time, for fear that the Great Qin, which had just improved, would be punished by heaven and earth because of Wang Mang's whim. , ruined.

After Wang Mang knew this story, he had an idea of ​​the hidden mission that suddenly appeared in the system. He looked at Wang Jian and said, "I thought it would be a waste of food to keep these captives. Since they can be sacrificed, I directly killed the sacrificed ancestors to save money." I bought some cattle, sheep and horses, now it seems that I have to support them."

Seeing that Wang Mang had lost some thoughts that he shouldn't have, Wang Jian said, "Your Majesty, there is no need to keep them, just sell them to slave traders later."

"That's the only way to go!" Wang Mang nodded.

When Wang Mang and Wang Jian said this, the red tape of presenting captives over there was finally over. Li Lan wiped the smear on his forehead and shouted: "The final ceremony of presenting captives will be held next, and the captives will represent you." Offer loyalty to His Majesty!"

I don’t know who came up with this process of presenting captives, especially the captives at the end represent loyalty, which is simply ridiculous.

Wang Mang looked at the front of the captives. A handsome young man stood up and let two soldiers of the Qin Army press down on the left and right, and walked towards the high platform where Wang Mang was.

The young man walked up to the high platform, bowed his head and said, "Guo De, the descendant, offers his loyalty to His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor!"

"I accept your loyalty, get up!" Wang Mang waved his hand, just wanting to quickly end this boring ceremony, but at this moment, Wang Mang suddenly felt a deep chill descending from the sky.

Wang Mang raised his head abruptly, but saw a ray of black air coming from the sky, only rushing towards Wang Mang's high platform, Wang Jian stepped forward directly, blocked in front of Wang Mang, and shouted: "Masters in the army, hurry up and escort! "

The black air rushed in front of Wang Jian, vortexed, and plunged into the Baihui acupoint on the top of the handsome young Guo De's head.

Guo De trembled all over, the black energy was divided into two, four in two, eight in four at the Baihui acupoint on the top of Guo De's head, and in a blink of an eye, it spread all over Guo De's body.

"Thief, seek death!"

Li Guang had been secretly guarding against the prisoner offering ceremony. Seeing Guo Dezhi's anomaly, he stood up immediately, drew out his long knife and slashed at Guo De.

When Li Guang's saber fell, a stream of black energy split out from Guo De's body, and it instantly touched Li Guang's saber light. With a bang, the black air shattered, and Li Guang's saber's momentum also felt.

"what is that?"

Li Hong was on the high platform, and before he could figure out the situation for a while, he was shocked by what happened in the captive team and took several steps back, almost falling off the high platform.

Wang Mang and the others quickly looked at the captives, and they saw a burst of black air at the Baihui acupoint on the top of the captives' heads. With the appearance of this black air, the vitality of these captives quickly disappeared, and they turned into mummified corpses in a blink of an eye. , it seems that all the energy of the whole person has been turned into nourishment for this ray of black energy.

Once the black energy takes shape, it will directly appear on the top of Guo De's head, then sink into Guo De's Baihui acupoint, and merge with a black energy in Guo De's body. As the black energy continues to merge, Guo De's momentum surges upwards rapidly The whole person also became ferocious and terrifying.

"Evil heretics!" Qin Mengyao appeared next to Wang Mang at some point, and looked at Guo De coldly, as if he was not looking at a person, but a demon.

(End of this chapter)