Liu Xie walked slowly up the stairs, mainly because he wanted to fully experience this road that was different from the past.
The ancient bluestone bricks extend at the foot to the end of the mountain gate.
Behind the door at the end is everything on the Yuxiu stage.
In the square behind them, more magnificent buildings stood on the stage. The Jade Emperor's Palace with a round sky was the end point of their trip.
Liu Xie, who finally appeared on the Yuxiu stage, has changed a lot compared to his mentality in previous years.
If it weren't for the ministers watching him from behind, he would really want to shout to the sky right now.
"Ah...the days without Cao Cao are so comfortable..."
However, the call from behind made Liu Xie, who was standing in front of the door, a little embarrassed:
"Your Majesty...you are blocking the adults' way..."
It's hard...Liu Xie's fist is hard.
Next, it was time to set up the place... Fortunately, Yang Biao was very neat in his work. When everyone came to the Yuxiu stage, all the rituals had been prepared.
The first thing is to enter—
The young Tai Zhuling shouted loudly, and a large number of strong vegetarians walked out of the divine kitchen (where tributes were stored before the sacrifice) - each of them was carrying a huge copper plate and bowl, and in the plate and bowl were
It is filled with the whole body of the six animals, as well as blood, gravy, and several types of drinks of different sizes.
Of course, in addition to these regular tributes, the most eye-catching thing should be the offering of human corpses——
At this time, the real professional team showed their extremely high quality. They carried a corpse that seemed to have ossified, and walked slowly and steadily towards the altar in front of the Jade Emperor Palace.
Liu Xie, who was kneeling on the futon in front of the altar, was stunned... He knew that this sacrifice to the heaven was indeed quite formal by Yang Biao, but... when the part of offering human corpses written in the ancestral system appeared, Liu Xie was still shocked.
He kept swallowing his saliva.
"A real corpse?"
Looking at the group of strong men moving forward silently, many people held their breath.
Liu Xie cast a questioning look at Yang Biao in confusion, but it was obvious that Yang Biao was also dumbfounded.
"What...what are you doing?"
"How come I haven't heard anything?"
Yang Biao could barely control his voice. He wanted to rush directly to the Tai Zhuling and question him directly.
But the sacrifice to heaven has already begun, and no one can interrupt it easily, otherwise it will be a great disrespect to the Emperor of Heaven——
Then again, things like human corpse sacrifice are not surprising in the long history.
It’s just that because of the development of social culture and the consideration of human life itself, even the emperor, as the ruler, would feel that things like human corpse sacrifice are somewhat inappropriate——
Therefore, as the activities of worshiping the heavens slowly developed later, the living corpse sacrifice gradually became the living sacrifice (pretending to be dead). In the end, this link was simply cancelled, and bronze statues were used instead of the objects of prayer in the activities of worshiping the heavens.
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Yes, in the final analysis, offering a human corpse is just to show respect for the Emperor of Heaven. It is necessary to use a corpse as the true body of the Emperor of Heaven, whether it is offering melons, fruits, rice, or grains.
Pigs, cows, horses, etc. are all to show people's respect to the Emperor of Heaven.
Therefore, it was a very stupid idea of the ancients to restore possible situations as much as possible.
Liu Xie's era should have been able to accept human corpse sacrifice, or in other words, he should have been exposed to such things long ago, but because he had never officially participated in a heaven-sacrifice event, his reaction was
It will be so intense.
But obviously...the appearance of the corpse is very shocking to people's perception.
When they saw this, it seemed that Fu Wan, Wang Yi and others had already noticed something was wrong with this sacrifice to heaven - but when they wanted to come forward to ask, those who were supposed to be the guard of honor were
Soldier, take a step forward in front of the ministers——
The sudden appearance of murderous intent forced all officials to take a few steps back.
They were surprised to find that the soldiers in front of them were not the same elegant and noble soldiers as before. They were clearly a group of elite soldiers who had crawled among the dead and were obviously stained with countless blood——
Just the aura emanating from their bodies is enough to feel this.
But the appearance of these soldiers... blocked the possibility of contact between civil and military officials and the emperor Liu Xie.
——
When a group of strong men placed the corpse in the empty space in front of the altar, Liu Xie smelled the rotten odor unique to the corpse. He just raised his eyes and saw the corpse's eyes widening...
Liu Xie screamed and suddenly jumped back, causing all the civil and military officials far away from him to look at him anxiously, wanting to help but unable to do so.
"ah!"
Liu Xie put a hand on his chest, and there was already cold sweat on his forehead——
He always felt that the eyes of the corpse just glanced towards him.
When he came back to his senses, Tai Zhuling had already walked to his side with a worried look on his face and helped him up.
"Your Majesty! Are you okay? Don't be afraid! This man...has been dead for a long time."
Looking at Tai Zhuling's calm face in front of him, Liu Xie became angry with shame——
"Are you afraid of a mere corpse?"
"No need to help me! I can get up by myself!"
Shaking away Tai Zhuling's hand in front of him with one hand, Liu Xie stood up angrily, but as soon as he took a step, his legs were shaking violently and he couldn't even hide it.
Liu Xie gritted his teeth and cursed in his heart for not living up to expectations——
"You...come here to me! I just fell down and my leg hurts..."
"okay!"
Tai Zhuling greeted him with a smile and helped Liu Xie, who looked reluctant, back to his seat again.
Yang Biao in the distance looked at this scene with a blank look on his face. His eyes were always on Tai Zhuling beside Liu Xie, and he frowned tightly:
"This...could this be all done by Cao Cao?"
Yang Biao was puzzled. He didn't understand the meaning of Cao Cao's actions——
While Yang Biao was still struggling, Tai Zhuling leaned over Liu Xie and said softly to him:
"Since just now, I have been thinking about why Your Majesty is so impatient with me..."
"After much thought, I seem to have figured it out..."
"You...what are you talking about?"
Liu Xie seemed to have seen through all the thoughts in his heart by the strange Tai Zhuling in front of him. He hurriedly covered it up, but he didn't want the other person to chuckle and say something he couldn't refuse:
"Your Majesty, do you feel that your Majesty has stolen your limelight?"
"Obviously it is such a formal ceremony to worship the heaven...it is obvious that the honor guard is so luxurious, but...but His Majesty can only follow the process and complete this journey without any sense of presence...Isn't it a pity?"
"You! What do you want to say!"
Liu Xie's head felt a little hot again. The other party's words did not have a strong tone, but they could linger in his ears and in his heart.
It's like the ghost from hell is tempting you in your ears...it's almost irresistible.
"Xia Guan has no other intentions. Since he joined Taichang, Xiang Guan has been extremely respectful to His Majesty... After knowing the process of this heaven-sacrifice ceremony, Xiang Guan also wanted to ask the Prime Minister's Office why he asked me to do it.
Such an important thing..."
"However, I don't have the ability to go head-to-head with people from the Prime Minister's Palace. And no matter what, after this ceremony, when Tai Zhuling's body recovers, I will resume my duties..."
"So I thought...it would be better..."
He took out a silk book from his arms, and Liu Xie just stared at the silk book in shock. Liu Xie was not stupid yet, so he had already guessed what was written on the silk book.
"What a beautiful thing it would be if His Majesty could personally recite the blessings for offering sacrifices to heaven and take over the leadership of the subsequent series of ceremonies?"
Tai Zhuling let go gently, and the silk book fell from the air. Liu Xie, with quick hands and eyes, grabbed the silk book——
He seemed to have madness in his eyes, as if he had found a treasure.
