Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 449

After the Son of Heaven finished speaking, all the officials, soldiers and common people bowed in unison: "Long live Your Majesty, and your loyalty will last forever."

Long Wu looked down from the altar, and at the foot of Yuexiu Mountain, he was full of worship, and his heart couldn't help agitated.

At this time, He Wuzou, a scholar and minister of the Ministry of Rites, received the emperor's signal, and immediately shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has a decree, and the subjects are equal, please enter the temple."

His voice was transmitted from the altar to the foot of the mountain one by one by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, causing his words to spread throughout Yuexiu Mountain, and his voice reverberated, making the scholars and people watching the ceremony feel a sense of awe.

The Martyr's Shrine was built on Yuexiu Mountain. A stone step leads directly from the foot of the mountain to the Zhongmartyr's Shrine on the top of the mountain. A doctor of the Ministry of Rites stood by the stone steps at the foot of the mountain. He unfolded a scroll and read aloud: " One request, all the officials who died in the Northland, the posthumous posthumous title of Fan Jingwen, the great scholar, Ni Yuanlu, the posthumous posthumous title of Wenzheng, the posthumous posthumous posthumous title of Wenzheng, the posthumous posthumous posthumous title of Ni Yuanlu, Zuo Zhongyun Liu Lishun, the posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous title of Wenlie, Wang Wei, the posthumous posthumous posthumous title of Wenlie; ~ Please enter the Martyr's Shrine."

Every time the doctor of the Ministry of Rites reads a name, a supervisor of the Imperial College will hold a tablet and stand out solemnly.

Xu Yanyan in the distance burst into tears when she heard the name of her father Xu Zhi and knew that her father's memorial tablet would be invited into the Martyrs' Shrine to enjoy the offerings from the world.

The heartbreaking experience came back to her heart again. The rainy night when she fled from north to south, the dilapidated village, and her father's corpse floating under the tree, she couldn't help tightly covering her colic chest with one hand, When He Zhizhi saw her, his jade hands stroked her back, comforting her inner pain.

"Second request, all the martyrs in Zhejiang Province in the south, Huang Degong, Duke of Jingguo in Zuozhu Kingdom, posthumously titled Wulie, University scholar Gao Hongtu, posthumously titled Wenzheng, University scholar Zhu Dadian, posthumously titled Wenzhong, University scholar Ma Shiying, posthumously titled Gongjie, and University scholar Shi Kefa The posthumous title is Wen Zheng, the posthumous title of Zhang Guowei is Wen Lie, and the posthumous title of General Li Taizhen is Zhong Zhuang~"

Wang Yan brought 30 soldiers and civilians to the south at the beginning. Li Taizhen died in battle with [-] Yangzhou soldiers on the bank of the Wusong River in order to give the army and the people a break. The first time I asked him for a title, and also asked for a posthumous title of Zhongzhuang, but the five thousand brothers, because during the Battle of Yangzhou, all the registered names were lost during the retreat, but they were separated from hundreds of thousands of Yangzhou soldiers. Together, it is impossible to know their names again. With the long river of history, only a string of cold numbers is left behind.

"Three invitations, the ministers who died in the middle of Chu, Jiangxi and Fujian, the posthumous title of Jiang Dejing, the great scholar, the posthumous title of Wenlie, the posthumous title of Huang Daozhou, the posthumous title of Wenlie, the posthumous title of Fu Guan, the posthumous title of Wenzheng, the posthumous title of Wulie, the posthumous title of Cao Xuequan, the Minister of Rites, and the posthumous titles of Wenzhong and Tong Political Secretary Ma Sili's posthumous title is Wenzhen~"

"Four requests, the loyal souls of the soldiers who resisted the Qing Dynasty~"

How can the title of a bachelor be regarded as a deputy national level in modern times? Since the Ming Dynasty, since Jiashen, there have been countless others, and it is impossible to count them.

Lang Guan of the Ministry of Rites, every time he called out a name, the people watching the ceremony felt a little heavy. It was different from the excitement and joy of watching the official-army competition and Cuju in the morning. The entire Yuexiu Mountain, the 10,000+ gentry and common people, all fell into silence. Every sound of Lang Guan's was like a heavy hammer hitting the heart, making people's heart ache.

Because every minister is invited into the shrine, behind his name, there is a heart-wrenching and sighing story. He may represent a tragedy, or a city that fell, or an anti-Qing armed force. of destruction.

"Woo~" A group of scholars couldn't help crying, because they knew best that behind these names were the sufferings of the Han people.

"Please be loyal to the temple~"

On the stone steps leading from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, hundreds of supervisors of the Imperial College, each holding a tablet of a hero, walked up the steps step by step to the top of the mountain. More than 300 heroes of higher rank were in front and behind. It is more than 5 military cards.

For high-ranking officials, according to their titles during their lifetime, their plaques will be listed in the Civil and Military Halls, and more than 5 military plaques will be hung in different halls according to the battles they died in.

Every hall will be engraved with stone tablets to record their deeds, and the ministers who died in the war against the Qing Dynasty or committed suicide will also be invited into it for future generations to pay homage to.

The ceremony of inviting loyal martyrs into the temple lasted from noon to dusk. After the emperor brought all his ministers to worship, it came to the last stage.

In the third year of Longwu, on February [-]th, Wang Yan swore to march eastward in Yuexiu Mountain, Guangjing. Standing on the altar, facing more than [-] soldiers and civilians, he read out the imperial court's call for conquest of Fujian to restore the old land. "Fu Bamin Xi", "The captives took advantage of our gap and invaded the Central Plains. It has been three years now. The Central Plains has been in trouble, and the south has been invading Ling for a long time. Since the captive chieftain Boluo led the teacher to invade Bamin, he has poisoned hundreds of thousands of people and ravaged the state. The county is more than a thousand miles away, and the cities they pass, no matter how big or small, and the people, rich or poor, are all looted and plundered, and the crimes committed are too numerous to write down."

"Those whom Yan hates are like the captives in the north. Every time they invade a place, they will drive my people forward and fill the river day and night. There will be no casualties. Every time a city is broken, my people will be killed, my sisters will be tortured, and their hair will be shaved. Changing clothes, ruining my clothes. My thousands of years of etiquette and human relations in China, the rules of poetry and books, have been wiped out. This is not a change unique to the Ming Dynasty, and it is a shame that has never been seen since the opening up."

"Today, under the order of the Son of Heaven, he led [-] kings and teachers, invited the surnames of the country to succeed, and hunted the captives of Fujian, and all the lands in the middle of Fujian, who wore left hair and fought against the kings and teachers, would not be pardoned. Let all the armies work together to restore our old borders, and from now on, we will work together to restore the Han Dynasty."

At the foot of Yuexiu Mountain, more than [-] soldiers and civilians immediately shouted in unison, "Together with one heart, we will rejuvenate the Han Dynasty ~ with one strength, we will rejuvenate the Han Dynasty~"

Today, the people of Guangjing, with ups and downs in their moods, invited the martyrs to enter the temple, which brought them the heaviness and tingling pain in their hearts. At this time, they finally vented, and the voice of shouting lasted for a long time.

Amidst the shouts all over the sky, Wang Yan stepped on his horse, led the soldiers and horses of Zhongwu and Dubiao, went out of the city to join the brigade, and then marched towards the front line of Chaozhou overnight.

A few days later, the Ming army with 4 horses and [-] civilians recruited from Guangnan gathered in Chaozhou, and then set off with high morale, crossing the provincial border between Fujian and Guangdong to the east, approaching Dongxi, and pounced on Zhangzhou, sounding the sound of recovery. The Horn of Lost Land.

Wang Yan took the supervisor mark as the vanguard, and Wang Shixiu led the cavalry in front of the army. Iron hooves rolled and shook Bamin. The beacon tower along the Dongxi River suddenly blazed into the sky, and pillars of smoke rose into the sky, spreading the news to Zhangzhou, and then The introduction to Fuzhou made Zhang Cunren feel like sitting on a needle blanket.

Zheng Chenggong also arrived as promised, and Zheng's navy entered Dongxi directly. The Zhangzhou Qing army's stronghold along Dongxi did not fight, and fled into Zhangzhou in a hurry.

On February [-]th, with the cooperation of Zheng's navy, Wang Yan led his army across Dongxi with ease, and reached the city of Zhangzhou on the same day.

(a bit busy and late)

(End of this chapter)