Chapter 221 Blood sacrifice(1/2)
Outside the city, by the river.
Countless silver piled up into mountains, and the silver shone brightly.
The soldiers looked at the silver mountain from afar and felt intoxicated.
"How much money does this cost?"
"I'm afraid there will be 100,000."
"One hundred thousand taels? One hundred thousand taels is not that much. I guess I'll get one million taels of silver."
Everyone couldn't help but talk, and opposite the soldiers, the state superintendent and the cabinet ministers were sitting.
The central army stood in the middle with a flag.
This flag was sent from Shaoxing. It was very huge, ten feet high, ten feet high, and ten feet large, made of black and green satin, with white silk as the edges, and the head of the flag was decorated with pearls.
Several signs are hung on the sitting flag, each representing one direction. Each sign is also drawn with figures, and Yin and Yang Bagua are drawn in the center of the flag.
There is a hair ball on the top of the bar, made of yak tail, called shao. It is said that the decorative shao originated from Huangdi. After he defeated Chiyou, he cut off Chiyou's hair as decoration for the bar, thus establishing the sacred status of the bar.
The big flag is naturally the highest-level military flag of the Ming army. Usually, the Bagua Taiji Chronicles are specially stored in the flag temple. There are also sacrificial flags in spring and autumn every year. The flag temple also specializes in the guardian gods.
The flag-headed general, the six-character general, the five-sided flag god, and even the gods who are in charge of warships, the gods who are in charge of golden drums, the gods who are in charge of bows, crossbows, the gods who are in charge of flying guns and stones, the gods who are in charge of Wuchang, the gods who are in charge of the formation, and the gods who are in charge of the fire and thunder of Chengzu Zhu Difeng.
Please ask the Central Army to sit on the flag, this is not ordinary.
Now that the Central Army has raised its banner and put up so much money under the banner, everyone knows that something must have happened.
"The auspicious time has come!"
"Sacrifice flag!"
A general came on a horse wearing armor and shouted loudly.
The governor Zhu Yihai changed into the entire military uniform of the governor who had just been sent by the governor, wearing a golden phoenix-winged helmet, and was decorated with the Golden Zhenwu Emperor. There was also a golden dragon spitting out fire on each side.
The body is covered with armor, square collar, double collar, sleeveless, and hem on both sides and the back. The collar is decorated with jujube-shaped gold buckles and cloth buckles. The whole body is covered with fish-scale nail pieces, layered and arranged, and a golden dragon is decorated with left and right chests.
The upper body lace, collar, shoulders, bottom edges are all covered with red embroidered gold cloud dragon pattern edges.
The shoulders are golden Qilin-shaped shoulder armor and red shoulder tassels.
The bottom edges of the front and back of the body are decorated with double rows of colorful spikes, colorful cloud dragon pattern narrow-sleeved robe under the armor, arms tied with both arms, made of red velvet ribbons and golden armor pieces. There are yellow straps on the waist, and swords, bow bags, arrow bags and other weapons are hung.
This set of emperor uniform is so majestic.
Zhu Yihai passed by the flag and walked forward, and came to the tooth flag in front of the camp gate.
The military flag is a sacrificial flag, but the big flag is to be sacrificed in the flag temple and sacrificed in spring and autumn.
Usually, when the flag is sacrificed in the army, the flag is sacrificed in the teeth.
The tooth flag, therefore its name means that the flag decorated with ivory on the pole.
When the emperor or general went on an expedition, he set up ivory-decorated flags in front of the military camp, and the gate of the camp that erected the flags was called the gate, also called the military gate. In the Ming Dynasty, it was called the governor and the admiral was called the military gate. This was also the result.
“Bring a sacrifice.”
When sacrificing flags in the army, three animals are generally used to sacrifice.
But sometimes there are people who sacrifice, mainly using prisoners.
Today, Zhu Yihai also wanted to use people to sacrifice military flags, and the Jinyiwei, wearing flying fish suits and embroidered spring swords, came up with a large number of people.
A undressed face.
"Test the right person!"
The new commander of the Jinyiwei, Ma Jixiang, led people forward to verify their identity according to the roster, and then reported them one by one.
"Yanzhou magistrate Yu Kai, pseudo-Yiyang king Zhu San, general Zhao Huaiming, and Fang Shiyan..."
More than three hundred criminals.
At this time, everyone was embarrassed, but they were all very famous when they were famous. There were officials from Yanzhou prefectures, such as Yu Kai, former prefect, Wang Liang, the former inspector, Deng Zhong, and Huang Zhenfei.
There were also the former son of Fang Guoan, deputy general Fang Shiyan, and Zhao Huaiming, general of the former Hongguang Dynasty.
Even the King of Yiyang, who had claimed to be the governor of Longyou, had been taken to the imperial camp prisoner. It was found that he was a rogue, with the surname Zhu and San, pretending to be a royal family, pretending to be the King of Yiyang, and conspiring with Fang Guoan.
There are many local gentry and powerful people.
Now, all of these people are wearing chains and escorted to the schoolyard.
Zhu Yihai directly wanted to take their teeth sacrifice flag.
And all the money on the school ground was obtained from their family.
Although Yanzhou has many mountains and hills and few fields, because the famous Hui merchants in the late Ming Dynasty had to go to Hangzhou and go to Yanzhou to go to sea. At the same time, they went to Hangzhou, Fujian, and even to Jiangxi. This is also an important road.
Therefore, Yanzhou Prefecture is the second largest prefecture among the eight prefectures in Zhejiang after Hangzhou. It is very rich. The people here are also famous for their business. Even the famous Hui merchants actually have a large number of Yanzhou people.
There are many businessmen with a net worth of more than 100,000 or more taels, but when they insist on getting along with Zhu Yihai, they finally realized a terrible ending.
Even the military leaders like Fang Guoan before had a way to stabilize the turbulent times, but now they have misjudged the ruling state one after another.
They gave their uncle about 100,000 taels of silver. They wanted to settle the regent, but whoever did not succeed would make the situation hurt.
The furious Zhu Yihai directly sent the Jinyiwei, the East Factory and the Imperial Camp to copy them all, and this time he was not polite.
Let you take the initiative to fill the deficit and clear the arrears and return the land. If you still play this trick, then you will confiscate them all.
The young master Fang Fengnian walked up tremblingly and began to read out the charges of these villagers.
He didn't expect that this matter ended in the end.
As I recited the names one by one, my body couldn't stop shaking and my hands and feet became cold.
When I finished pronunciating the last word, I felt that all my strength was exhausted and I almost fainted on the ground.
"cut!"
"Resolute decision!"
Zhu Yihai vomited coldly and finally pronounced the verdict.
There is no need to wait until the autumn is to ask for the beheading, nor do you need to go through the Ministry of Justice or Dali Temple to directly kill.
He killed more than 300 people in one go.
Blood is everywhere.
These more than 300 people were just the first rebels, and their direct blood relatives could not escape the blame. Although they were exempted from death, they were all sentenced to exile and sent to various mines and salt farms to do hard labor.
Only those under the age of fourteen are exempt from hard labor, but they also have to make a living.
Blood stains the tooth flag red.
The killing of people rolled in, and there was a silence.
After killing someone, Zhu Yihai began to give rewards.
The Imperial Camp Warrior Town stationed in Yanzhou started the first, and the new recruits were five taels of silver, and then the first monthly salary was paid, with the full salary.
Then the guards of the former Yanzhou Guard Thousand Household Office reissue three months of monthly food, plus three months of severance expenses.
Then he reimbursed the arrears to the clerks and servants of Yanzhou Prefecture.
After paying them, Zhu Yihai paid the other imperial camps around him half of his owed salary, and the previous monthly salary, and also paid the Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
The officials and clerks of the Grain Station lined up and paid the money according to the roster.
Many soldiers were excitedly lined up to receive their salary.
Someone got the food and salary and found that the money was really paid.
"Huang Jixiong, the left team of the left team of the left bid for the left alliance of the Imperial Camp, has a third-class rank, and has been recruited to the army. The former guards of Qianhusuocheng, Yanzhou."
"It is time to pay your original garrison severance fee, six months of monthly grain, one stone of rice per month, a total of six stones of rice, two taels of silver at the time, and you will be given twelve taels of silver."
"You were recruited into the Imperial Camp Warrior Town, and you would give you five taels of silver home payment."
"You are newly enlisted in the army, but no matter how many days the first month, you will still pay a full monthly salary. The private's daily salary is one qian and three silver coins, and one month is three qian and nine qian."
"So I should give you a total of twenty taels and nine cents of silver."
Huang Jixiong was stunned on the spot. The tall but thin man thought he had heard it wrong.
"Didn't you say that you should give three months of food as severance payment?"
"Well, the country is polite to you, etc., so I will add three months to severance."
Huang Jixiong asked again, "I am recruiting into the Imperial Camp Warrior Town, and I have An Jiayin?"
"Of course there is this. If you enter the imperial camp, there will be no An family silver. Wouldn't it be unfair to you? Your Highness has always been kind and will never treat everyone badly."
"Six stones of rice are worth 12 taels of silver? In the past, it was worth 8 cents of silver per stone."
"It's calculated based on the current price of rice." The clerk replied patiently.
"If you confirm that it is correct, you will receive the money." The clerk said again.
Seeing the clerk taking out the silver, Huang Jixiong couldn't help asking again, "Will you deduct the silver?"
To be continued...