Chapter 2560: The people are as restrained as lambs
The next day, Pingcheng, the palace city of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Behind the city gate is a huge square with a radius of five miles. It is usually used for the training and horse racing of the guards stationed in the palace, so it is so spacious. This is the first palace gate in the palace.
Between the city and the inner city, it is similar to the Wengcheng when defending the city. On the four walls, horse and cow flags are flying everywhere, and thousands of fully armed soldiers are arrayed at the top of the city. Everyone is holding a big bow, and behind them
In his quiver, there were thirty more long fang arrows than usual. After the evil ghost faced him, a pair of fierce eyes stared at the dark crowd in the square below the city.
Most of these people are men in their prime, wearing commoners. Judging from their hairstyles, there are Han Chinese with buns and braided hair, or barbarians with hair on all sides and a Mediterranean patch on their heads. The number is similar, with seven in each.
In addition to the eight thousand people, these were the people from all over Hebei who were arrested along the way after Tuoba Gui massacred Qinghe County a few days ago. Now they were all taken into the palace city of Pingcheng. They all looked different.
He was so panicked that he didn't dare to take a breath, and he didn't even dare to think about his terrible fate next.
Among the crowd, two Han men began to whisper, and a dark-skinned man in his thirties whispered: "Brother Shitou, look at this posture, do you want to kill us? There are archers on the surrounding walls.
This round of arrows, I'm afraid, I'm afraid half of the people here will die."
The man called Brother Shitou was a red-faced dwarf in his mid-thirties with a rosy nose. He shook his head: "Gou Sheng, don't be blind. If you really wanted to kill us, you could have done it long ago.
, why bother? This is Pingcheng, the capital of the Wei Dynasty. Is it necessary to bring tens of thousands of us in and kill them?"
A braided Hu man spoke half-baked Chinese and whispered: "You Han people don't know, these Tuoba Hu people, they, they like to make gold figures to worship the sky. I heard that when worshiping the sky, you must
Kill, you have to kill a lot of people, so that you can get the protection of your ancestors. I think we will all be killed as sacrifices this time."
Gou Sheng was about to burst into tears: "Brother Albus, don't scare me. I have an old man and a young man, and you still expect me to go back alive to support the whole family."
Albus sighed: "Why am I not? Tell me, why am I so miserable? I went out to sell four sheepskins. When I saw the cavalry, I just went to the side of the woods to avoid it, and then I was treated as a spy.
They're here. But the ones who captured me were soldiers from the Wei Dynasty. How can I reason?"
Brother Shitou asked curiously: "Albus, aren't you from the Yu tribe? You also entered the customs with the Tuoba clan. You have achieved military exploits before. It's okay for us Han people from Hebei to be arrested, so why should you be arrested too?"
Already?"
Albus gritted his teeth: "It's all your fault, the Han people. I heard that it was because the Han people in Qinghe defected, which made His Majesty so angry that he arrested all the people along the way who ran away when they saw the army and sent them to
Here in Pingcheng, I’ve tricked you to death!”
Brother Shitou said angrily: "We Han people are to blame for what happened in Qinghe? Didn't it happen that you Hu people from the Helan tribe forcibly abducted all the people in Qinghe County? The Helan tribe was still the in-laws of the Tuoba tribe. That Helan tribe
Lu is also Tuoba Gui’s uncle, and their own family fights have brought misfortune to us people!”
Albus frowned and whispered: "Stop talking, if this word reaches the emperor's ears, even if you have ten heads, you won't be able to chop it off. I heard that he is now taking the five-stone powder and is not thinking clearly."
It's normal, and it's okay when you're awake, but if you get involved, you'll kill everyone on sight, even the important ministers and generals of the Wei Dynasty, as well as the former heroes. I advise you..."
As he was speaking, the gate of the inner city suddenly opened slowly, and a sound of drums and horns soared into the sky, accompanied by thousands of voices shouting: "Long live my emperor!"
On the city wall, all the sergeants also shouted in unison, speaking at least a dozen different languages. It also showed that although these sergeants wore the same military uniforms and armor, they obviously came from many different tribes. However,
Under the command of uniform military orders, even if they used different languages, they still exuded a chilling majesty that shocked people's eardrums. Even the nearly 20,000 people in the palace square couldn't help but
He knelt down and started shouting "Long Live Long Live" on the ground.
Tuoba Gui was dressed in a large wolf-skin chariot and golden armor. He stood on a chariot pulled by four tall horses. He held a giant sword in both hands and had a murderous look on his face.
Accompanied by hundreds of hussar guards, they slowly walked out from the city gate of the inner city. Thousands of sergeants who were originally concentrated near the city gate, as the chariot passed by, pressed their hands on their chests and raised their hands.
He knelt down and performed the salute. It was not until Tuoba Gui's chariot arrived in front of the city gate and the three hundred cavalry guards on both wings were lined up that the shouts around him gradually calmed down.
Tuoba Gui's sharp eyes swept over the people of Hebei who were kneeling in front of him, and he spoke coldly. His voice was not high, but it was full of energy. Every time he said a word, there would be more than a dozen translators.
, quickly translated the words he just said into various languages. These sounds echoed in the palace and penetrated into everyone's ears: "You are my subjects of the Wei Dynasty, living in Hebei, and I have been ordered by heaven.
In order to relieve your suffering, I have been fighting for years in Xihebei, traveling thousands of miles, abandoning my family and business, and coming here with my whole family, just to save you from the hands of the Murong clan's Yan Kingdom. Although you are a grassroots people, you are still a beast.
Knowing how to repay kindness, you have received the kindness of the great Wei State, and you should think of repaying it to the country and protecting your family. This is the way to be a human being."
"But I never expected that you, the country's bounty, had no intention of repaying the country. In the past, there were unscrupulous people from Qinghe who secretly formed alliances with the rebels of the Helan family to kill our defenders and seize our county. Later, there were you and other soldiers and civilians in Hebei,
When I encountered a large army on the road, I didn’t put a pot of wine in it to welcome the king’s troops. Instead, I regarded the army as bandits and fled in the face of the wind. I saw it with my own eyes and was heartbroken!”
"Since I entered the Central Plains, I have been benevolent and indulgent to you. I have exempted and exempted taxes year after year and never called for military service. I thought that doing so would make you grateful and take the initiative to serve the country. But I was wrong. You only used my
Tolerance should be regarded as weakness and can be bullied. Today, I will let you understand who this world belongs to and what the use of this king's law is!"
A burst of wailing broke out from the crowd: "Your Majesty, please spare your life. We are not guilty. We were just afraid for a moment. Our crime will not lead to death!"
There was a hint of killing intent in Tuoba Gui's eyes: "Just follow the old rules of our Tuoba tribe and let the gods and ancestors decide who is guilty and who is innocent!"
