The ceremony of the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony has been held until now. Every morning, I have to climb along the hillside of Danhan Mountain to the top of the peak. This is really painful for a person with ordinary physique like Wen Qiao. Fortunately, I am with him every day, and I have supported him along the way, which has helped a lot.
Duan Piyun was the son of Duan Wuwuchen, a man from western Liaoning. Although he was a Hu person, he was deeply sinicized, well-versed in classics and history, and was good at painting. He was a rare scholar in northern Xinjiang who was both civil and military. He did not master the strength of the Duan clan like his brother Duan Ji and Lu Jun and Duan Wenyang. Instead, he became an official in the Great Jin Dynasty and became the governor of Youzhou, Wang Jun, the governor of the temple.
Duan Piyin and Wen Qiao were both envoys sent by local officials in the Great Jin Dynasty. They were in the same place for every sacrifice. After chatting for several days, they felt great about each other. Of course, this was also considered that the two prefectures of Youbing were originally Fangzhen, which was on the front line of the northern border, and they had the necessity to watch over each other. As the shogunate, they naturally intended to make friends with each other.
As for the small disputes between the two families in Dai County, both sides are smart people, so naturally they will not only increase embarrassment at this time. After all, Wang Pengzu's strength lies in western Liaoning, and Liu Yueshi was busy dealing with the Huns in southern Bingzhou. It was nothing but a Dai County principal. You can also slowly win over the newly released Dai County prefect.
At this time, since Duan Piqian reached out to help, Wen Qiao reluctantly thanked him, but he was climbing up, but he was a little distracted and his feet slipped. Although Danhan Mountain was set up as the royal court by the Xianbei Da Shanyu Tanshihuai a hundred years ago, how could the Xianbei people have the ability to build it? The entire Danhan Mountain is still a wild mountain. Not to mention that it could not find any trace of the royal court, and even the road was not resting at all. There were cliffs and valleys not far from the road, which was simply difficult to reach the extreme. During this slippage, Wen Qiao could not stand and was about to roll down.
Fortunately, Duan Piyi reacted very quickly. He pulled Wen Qiao's arm and lifted it up hard, and shouted: "Push hard!"
Wen Qiao quickly kicked his legs with the upward pulling force. Finally, his hands and feet were quite flexible. He suddenly crossed the half-human gap and fell to the ground. He watched back with lingering fear and saw a round stone that was trampled down by him rolling down the slope. The round stone bumped back and forth between the rugged rocks along the way, and the speed became faster and faster. Finally, he jumped out of the arc and fell into the abyss.
Wen Qiao stared at the falling side of the rock, and his face twitched a few times. When he turned around, he felt more and more tired. He didn't care about his demeanor at this time. He found a flat rock on the top, sat down, and kept wiping the sweat on his forehead. After a long time, when the Hu chiefs behind him almost rushed up, Wen Qiao stood up. Because his physical strength had not recovered, his hands and feet were still trembling slightly, but his movements were very fast. After walking a few steps, he even patted his legs with self-deprecating heart and laughed loudly: "Haha, haha, today I'm tired, and my actions are getting more and more embarrassing."
As he said that, he grabbed Duan Piqian and bowed deeply: "If it weren't for the elder brother today, there would be no Wen Qiao!"
"The poem says, the spine is in the original state, and the brothers are in a hurry. It's just a small task. Why should Brother Taizhen care?" Duan Piqin smiled and said, "The people of Jin regard farming and study as their career, and their literary talent is weak, and they cannot be compared with us, the people who are outside. Moreover, although Brother Taizhen is weak, he is brave enough, and is much stronger than Tian Si, Jin Li, Liang Tian and others."
What he mentioned was "Tian Si, Jin Li, Liang Tian and others" which was the last time that the Great Jin officials participated in the Tuoba Xianbei sacrifice ceremony, which was eleven years ago.
After the decline of the Huns, the Xianbei occupied the former territory of the Huns. When Tan Shihuai was in power, the power reached its peak. The territory was more than 1,200 miles from east to west and more than 7,000 miles from north to south. Tan Shihuai used Danhan Mountain as the royal court, and divided it into three parts, east, middle and west, with several commanders. The ancestors of Tuoba Xianbei were deduced as one of the great commanders. After Tan Shihuai and Kebineng, the Xianbei tribe alliance collapsed, and all the powerful men fought and fought with each other. To this day, the three strong men of the Xianbei in the eastern part of the eastern part of the Xianbei, the Tuoba clan was the only one of the branches of the Tuoba Xianbei.
Since the founding of the Great Jin Dynasty, wars with the Xianbei in the west have continued. Hu Lie and Qian Hong and other famous generals died in Longshang. Therefore, the court added a message to the Tuoba Xianbei, striving to avoid the dilemma of being attacked on both sides. In the sixth year of Yuankang, Tuoba Yiyi buried his father, Demo Khan and his wife, and summoned various tribes to sacrifice to the heaven and earth at Danhan Mountain. Frightened by the power of Yiyi, the vassal states far and near, all the servants and tribes were present, gathering 200,000 people. At that time, the imperial court of the Great Jin Dynasty did not dare to neglect. King Sima Ying of Chengdu sent Tian Si to serve as the Zhonglang, Sima Yong of Hejian sent Sima Jinli, and Ma Teng of the Dongying Company sent Liang Tian to join the funeral, and expressed his intention to be a gang.
Unfortunately, the three royal princes did not know that the etiquette of Hu'er in the northern border was very different from that of China and the DPRK. It is said that the three officials they sent were full of ugly things when climbing the Banshan Mountain. Some of them cried and exchanged tears and refused to go again halfway, and some of them hugged Hu'er's waist beside the dangerous road and shouted at the sky and the earth. Although they did not know how their goodwill task was completed, the Tuoba Xianbei noble chiefs now despised the Jin people so much, which was not without the contribution of the three.
Compared with those three envoys, Wen Qiao was considered outstanding. Although he was weak in body and courage and perseverance, he was no less than others. Although he had worked hard to climb the mountain every day, he insisted on it and did not delay any delay along the way. Both as an envoy of the court, Duan Piyin was with Wen Qiao during these three days. If he was still watching jokes on the first day of the ceremony, he couldn't help but admire Wen Qiao's tenacity.
The two talked and rushed to the road, and in a blink of an eye, another half an hour passed. When the red sun jumped out of the clouds in the distance, the steep road with mountains and valleys finally reached its end and arrived at the top of the main peak of Danhan Mountain.
After all, the Xianbei Grand Chanyu sacrificed to the sky here in history and had undergone some renovations. Although the Xianbei Grand Alliance was destroyed for a long time, most of the ruins of the past have been destroyed and thorns have emerged everywhere. However, the large slabs on the ground are still preserved, and countless stone slabs are spliced ​​together, leaving a wide flat ground dozens of feet away.
After hard climbing, I came to the top of this Danshang Mountain. The long wind came into my arms and the vision suddenly opened. No matter who everyone felt very happy. Wen Qiao sighed and looked north, the vast grassland was vast and boundless. To the south, you could faintly see the Daijun Plain behind the mountains. Looking at the east and west, the two thousands of peaks and thousands of mountains are Yanshan and the main veins of Yinshan. Wen Qiao looked at it at the trance and almost felt that the rock cliffs had turned into hideous scales. The entire mountain range was like a giant dragon with a body stretching for thousands of miles, winding from west to east.
There was no other mountain road to this peak, and only Wen Qiao had to climb it hard just now could pass. At this time, Lu Guan, Yilu, and the leaders of various tribes had already stood around the campfire. Wen Qiao, Duan Piqin and others did not dare to be rude, and they quickly stood at their own position. After a moment, the thirty-six countries, ninety-nine chiefs and others came up to the mountain one after another, without saying much, they found a place to be appropriate.
There is a burning bonfire in the middle of the flat ground. This bonfire is not used for heating and barbecue, but uses huge trees thick to build a wooden rack, and then fills it with a large amount of flammable firewood and oil, which is more than two meters high. Once ignited, it can be kept out for dozens of days. The bonfire is lit the day before yesterday, and at this time, the flames become more and more intense.
Near the campfire, there were seven-sided skin drums with huge and unpublished faces. Fourteen powerful men with painted beasts on their upper bodies ignored everyone coming up the mountain and just swung the drumsticks and beat the drums endlessly. Each of them used all their strength to beat them straight, making the flesh all over their bodies bulge. A large drop of sweat sprinkled everywhere with the movements, and the drum sound was either fast or slow, completely different from any kind of drum music familiar to Wen Qiao, and carried a special rhythm. Not to mention the top of Danshan Mountain, even the foot of the mountain dozens of miles away was clearly heard.
With the rumbling drums, everyone who participated in the ceremony of worship for heaven today has been in place, and hundreds of people have surrounded the platform.
Just as everyone was in their seats, more than a hundred men wearing furs of beasts of all colors, with terrifying masks on faces, holding swords, swords, spears, axes and other sharp weapons emerged from somewhere.
As soon as they appeared, a strong smell of blood swelled out. It was the blood that was soaked in the bodies of these men. I don’t know if the blood came from humans or some kind of animal, but I just felt that it was extremely thick. A large mass of blood dripping fell with every move, and even pounced on the faces of the approaching Xianbei people, making a clattering sound.
These men shouted loudly, shouting in unison in the turbid Xianbei language, and rushing around the bonfire. Their hands and feet were dancing wildly, as if they were crazy, and their direction of running was changing, and their speed was getting faster and faster, accompanied by stiff standing, jumping, and rolling without warning in advance. While they were shuttled and back and forth at such high speed, these people never touched each other at all. And when others were watching for a while, they felt dizzy and nauseous.
Although it was the third day to watch the festival, Wen Qiao still didn't understand where these men who seemed to be Nuo came from. He was used to the elegant music of the Central Plains Shaoyin and elegant music and did not feel that this strange dance had any beauty. So Wen Qiao simply lowered his eyebrows and bowed his head, not watching the increasingly crazy dance, but just thought silently in his heart.
The same as the previous two festivals, when it reached about 500, a very high and shrill scream sounded. At the same time, hundreds of Tuoba Xianbei people below the official position of the Self-Ri, all bowed to the ground!
Chapter completed!