I have to say that Sun Yihe and Huang Donglai will pick the day, the day they came to Zuoyuan, it happened to be the sacrificial day once every twelve years.In Sahara, the people naturally know about the regular "sacrifices", after all, it has lasted for hundreds of years, and it is impossible to completely hide it from the people; This was already in mind by Masahiro Sahara, who carried out the "first sacrifice" back then, so in the first twelve years, he thought of a set of rhetoric for future generations.The content is roughly as follows: the Sawara clan is a clan chosen by the gods, so every twelve years the gods will receive a descendant of the Sawara clan to the heavenly realm to "study"; As long as this descendant has the blood of the Sawara clan, he may not necessarily be a descendant of the clan, but he must be a boy, and he must be under the age of sixteen, and he must remain "pure"; And this sent child is not gone, he will be reincarnated again in the next Jiazi and return to the Sawara family and become the head of the new generation.Seeing this, many officials must have seen that Masahiro Sawara is still very slippery with the routine of using myths and legends or religion to maintain the rule of the feudal dynasty.From the perspective of our modern people, in addition to the beautification effect of external propaganda, the more important thing is to set several restrictions that are conducive to the continuous implementation of the tradition.First, why did the sacrifice have to be under the age of sixteen?
This should actually be easy to think of, because the child is easier to control, and brainwashed him since he was a child, saying how sacred and glorious it is to be a "sacrifice", then he will most likely cooperate obediently at that time.Adults, on the other hand, have more mature minds and more complex interpersonal relationships, and will run away or even rebel if they can't keep it.But the age limit should not be too small, such as under the age of eight......
With the premature mortality rate of young children at that time, it would not be good if there were children in a certain generation who were not in this age group, so the range of zero to 16 years old was relatively generous and appropriate, and "it may not have to be from the clan" was also relaxing the conditions.Secondly, Why do boys?
If there is a fear that the age limit will lead to a lack of success, wouldn't it be better to relax the gender as well?
But this is clearly not going to work......
Because girls are more likely to arouse sympathy and pity, especially beautiful girls, it is also easy to attract people who covet their color; At that time, the age of contact was very early, and girls who were nearly sixteen years old were already able to have children, and it would be complicated if a girl who had already been decided to be sacrificed had a lover, or became pregnant or even a mother before the year of sacrifice.Masahiro Sawara fully understands human nature, and he will not risk letting the "sacrifice" establish some kind of strong emotional bond with others, let alone let the sacrifice have direct descendants, so he has reduced this possibility to a very low level from the beginning, and the latter one to maintain "purity" is undoubtedly for this consideration.In the past few hundred years, there has been a sacrifice that has quietly left an heir, and that child grew up to learn about his father's fate from his mother, and later tried to destroy a sacrifice in retaliation, but in the end it failed.After that lesson, the descendants of the Sawara clan added the rule that those who "defiled" the sacrifice were to be executed immediately if they were discovered, and if they had any descendants left, they would also be disposed of as "unclean."
In the end, it is the article "I will be reincarnated to become the head of the family within a jiazi", which is a typical painting cake, but it is not all meaningless.On the one hand, these words are also used to say to the outside world, and there are also elements of beautifying sacrifices; On the other hand, this can be seen as a supplement to the previous "boy-only" article, after all, at that time, women could not become feudal lords.The above is the essence of what Masahiro Sawara said to the people after careful consideration.As for how the "sacrifice" is actually operated, let alone the people, even within the Sawara clan, only a few people know about it.Therefore, for the people who live in Sawara, the "sacrifice" is not a terrible thing, anyway, it is not the children of the common people who want to be "sent to the heavenly realm", and the interval of once every twelve years is not short, and the life of a person in that year can be several twelve years.For those who travel to Sagahara, this is just a local folklore; In ancient times, this kind of local folk custom of sacrificing living creatures and even living people was found all over the world, and to be honest, no one took it seriously in an era when human life was not valuable.The Sawara clan would not have made a similar move to "seal the country" before and after the sacrifice, because that would make people feel weird......
Therefore, they were only "loose on the outside and tight on the inside", and on the surface they were no different from usual, but secretly they strengthened the inspection of entering and leaving the domain.This is also why, Keijiro, who came a few days earlier than Shuangharmonic, was locked up just because he "described eccentric"; The people of the Sawara clan themselves didn't plan to do anything to him, but just in case, they wanted to lock him up until the end of the sacrifice before letting him go.However, Sun and Huang didn't know about these situations......
That night, after the sky darkened, Sun Yihui saw that the vigilance of the cell was quite lax, and the prisoners in the prison next door were also asleep one by one, so he began to carry out his plan of "stealing the house" as planned.Chuachuachua - As soon as the trident came out, the fence door of this kind of cell was the same as not, and Sun Yixiang easily took Keijiro out of the prison door.The two of them walked out in the dark, through the other two sections of the barn where there was no light, and then went up a flight of steps, and came to a small room with a little firelight.This house is a gatehouse used by the jailers, because it is winter, so the two jailers on duty at this time have not unexpectedly dozed off in the corner.If Sun Yihui and Keijiro just wanted to escape, then there was no need to disturb the two, but tonight Sun Yihuan came to "sneak into Sawara's mansion to search for the dragon bi", so in order to make it more convenient to act, he still worked with Keijiro to subdue the two jailers, took off their coats and changed them.Then, Sun Yihe and Keijiro, disguised as two miscellaneous soldiers of the Sawara clan, came out of this underground cell.Here we say in the book, this Sawara clan's mansion is not just a few large houses, but a complex of buildings surrounded by city walls.In the middle of the complex is a small Japanese-style castle in the form of a flat castle with a tower and a castle tower.
Around this castle, there are ordinary bungalows or longhouses such as armament depots, grain depots, stables, and military service quarters; And the people's fields, dwellings, and shops were all outside the walls of this "Sawara Castle".But......
Sun Yihuan and the "dungeon" where they were imprisoned had an exit inside the city wall, so Sun Yihuan and Keijiro came out from the bottom, and they didn't need to go through any sentry posts, and they could go to the castle with lanterns.And because there was a "sacrifice" tonight, many people in the city were transferred to the "valley on the lake", so their actions were unexpectedly smooth, and they successfully touched the castle without meeting a few people along the way.Sun Yihuan is a thief, after entering the castle, he didn't need to grab someone to ask for directions, just based on his own experience and intuition, he determined that the room where valuables were stored must be on the high floor, not facing any of the outer walls of the castle, but there are stairs up and down the stairs nearby.Because this is the only kind of place, it will not be affected by rain or wind, nor will it be damp in any season, and it will not be burglarized by people digging holes in the outer walls or underground......
In the event of a fire, the nearby stairs are also convenient for firefighting and transporting supplies.As a result, the two followed Brother Sun's train of thought, and after ten minutes of sneaking into the castle, they really found Sawara's study.
(End of chapter)