Chapter 82: The Great Parade of the Prisoner Sacrifice Ceremony (3).
An hour later, the treasure offering ceremony finally ended in the cheers of everyone, except for those treasures that were placed in place and did not move, the rest of the people returned to their positions, Li Shimin led his concubines and children and ministers back to the city gate, and a thousand youth troops were also led by Li Zhen to return to the outside of the city from another road, and re-round with the large army, ready to carry out the second project.
After offering the treasure, the next step is the big military parade, this time it is not only the youth army, but from all the armies that participated in the war last year to select 20,000 elites to jointly promote the strength of the Tang Dynasty to the people of the Tang Dynasty and foreign envoys.
Anyway, the big military parade project was proposed by Li Zhen.
In ancient China, there was no such thing as a military parade, and the earliest recorded military parade was in the Zhangde Autumn Exercise in the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty.
How did ancient times proclaim the strength of the country to foreign countries?
There are two main methods: civil and military.
Wen naturally shows the prosperity of the country through economic means.
For example, during the period of Emperor Yang of the former Sui Dynasty, in order to show off his wealth, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty invited the leaders of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions to come to Luoyang to watch the performance of a hundred operas.
The leaders of various ethnic groups asked for permission to allow merchants from the Western Regions to enter Luoyang to do business, and Emperor Yang of Sui agreed, and he was busy decorating the city of Luoyang.
The trees inside and outside the city were wrapped in silk, and merchants had to wear fancy clothes, and even vegetable sellers had to pave the ground with fine straw mats.
Merchants from the Western Regions passed by the hotel restaurant, and the owner warmly invited them to sit down, and went out drunk, not allowed to charge a penny, and said: "China is rich, and there is no money for wine and rice." ” You must know that the conditions of the country at that time were not good, the Sui Dynasty had just ended the three-hundred-year melee between the north and the south, and the national strength had barely recovered a little, but the people often had cold and starvation.
In this case, Emperor Yang of Sui's behavior is undoubtedly a typical slap on the swollen face and fat man, which not only wastes national strength, but also causes dissatisfaction among the people.
But this fat man was a little too much, and even the foreign envoy saw the falsehood.
At that time, some people asked: "There are poor people in your country, who are not clothed, why don't you use silk to make clothes for them, but use them to wrap around trees?"
” No one knows how Emperor Yang of Sui replied at that time, but he was speechless for sure.
This is Wen's method, and Li Zhen doesn't like it.
The so-called method of martial arts is naturally to declare one's majesty through force, for example, in the pre-Qin period, there was a method of declaring force called Zhujingguan.
What is Kyokan?
It is a high mound made in ancient times to show off martial arts, gather enemy corpses, and seal the soil.
That is, after winning the battle, the bones of the enemy were piled high into the shape of a tomb, and the swimsuit showed his own military exploits.
On the 199th volume of the "Old Tang Book", on the 149th of the biography, there is a record in the "Biography of Dongyi": "In the second year of Zhenguan, he broke the Turkic Jieli Khan, built a military envoy to congratulate him, and sealed the domain map.
In the fifth year, the emperor's edict was issued to the commander of the Sima of Guangzhou, and the grandson of the Sui warrior was killed, destroying the Jingguan established by Goryeo. ” It's a pity that the Jingguan here was not built by the Tang Dynasty itself, but by Goguryeo using the bones of the soldiers who died in the three expeditions of the former Sui Yang Emperor to Goguryeo, but it was destroyed by his order during the Li Shimin period.
In fact, after the pre-Qin period, there were very few Beijing temples in China, because in the Confucian concept, the construction of Beijing Temple was a brutal act, which was inconsistent with the benevolence they pursued.
No matter who the person who built the Beijing Temple is, he will face the wild spray of the historians, and you will be written as a national sinner every minute, do you believe it or not?
Using the method of force to promote the majesty of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhen does not mind, he has always been unconcerned about the smear of Confucianism and historians, if he cares about such a little reputation, why would he reduce the millions of people in Nanyang to slaves?
It's just that now there is no corpse for him to base Jingguan?
What's more, Li Zhen doesn't want to be embarrassed, Li Shimin values his reputation very much, and he may not agree.
So later, there was only one economic means left to promote national strength, and even this time when various countries came, Li Shimin also used moderate means to show the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that this kind of behavior of slapping a swollen face and becoming fat, Li Zhen really can't get used to it, and there is no corpse to build a view of Beijing, so he took the initiative to bring up the big military parade ceremony.
Sure enough, Li Shimin himself has no interest in letting other races take advantage, but there is no better way, so he can only use the way of the former Sui, although it has been weakened on the basis of the former Sui, he is still depressed.
Now when I heard Li Zhen propose a military parade, I immediately understood the benefits, not only can I use this to promote the strength of the Tang Dynasty, give all countries a disadvantage, but also reduce the expenses of the imperial court - you must know that in order to receive those foreign missions, the Tang Dynasty spent a total of nearly one million yuan, and these foreign races don't know how to be satisfied, and they actually want to get benefits from the Tang Dynasty......
If it weren't for the fact that they were all guests and it was not easy to make a move, Li Shimin would have killed them a long time ago - you who are beautiful and take advantage of such a big advantage and still want benefits, how can there be so many benefits for you to take advantage of?
Understanding the role of the military parade, Li Shimin was pleasantly surprised, but after discussing it in the court, he handed over this task to Li Jing, but Li Zhen was also placed in the position of adviser (there was this position in ancient times, such as "Hanshu Xiongnu Chuanzan" It is recorded: "Consultant Feng Tang, and the general." "), to provide technical guidance for the parade.
It's just that......
What Li Zhen didn't expect was that after Li Jing became the president, basically all questions had to be asked to him for attention, so on the contrary, Li Zhen, the consultant, became a busy man - this is different from what Li Zhen thought.
In his mind, he is just an idle consultant, and he gets a salary by the way, and he can give advice or two when he has something, and he can be lazy at home if he has nothing to do.
However, the current situation is that almost the entire military parade is led by him, and Li Jing, as the commander-in-chief, has become an assistant to help make up for it - at this point, how can Li Zhen not understand that he was yin by those old foxes?
But at this point, Li Zhen had no other solution than to give the old foxes a middle finger and express his contempt for these old scoundrels, so he had to bite the bullet.
As for the resignation, this is definitely impossible, not to mention the importance of the military parade to the next Datang, let's just say that the preparations for the military parade at this time have begun and the 50,000 elites selected from the army have also been in place, even if Li Zhen wants to resign at this time, Li Shimin will not allow him to give up halfway.