"Li Aiqing, immediately prepare a battle report and send the victory report and the affairs of the North Korean Chief Secretary back to Beijing City to spread the news throughout the world!"
"I obey the decree!"
Yuan Keli responded immediately. He, who had always been steady, was also full of excitement at this moment.
The certificate of credence is stamped with the seal of the Joseon Dynasty and the private seals of hundreds of officials and family heads. These people represent the current principals of Korea.
This is different from the surrender of the Mongolian tribes and Liaodong, because it was originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but was separated for some reason, and now it is just recovered.
North Korea is different. The North Korean regime can be traced back to the late Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains. Jizi (named Xuyu), the uncle of King Zhou of Shang, was unwilling to surrender, so he led his men to the northeast.
Eventually he went to the Korean Peninsula and established a political power in Pyongyang, which was known in history as "Jizi North Korea" (also known as the Jizi Dynasty of the Yin family).
Until Liu Bang established the Han regime, Wang Luwan, a different surname, had a general named Weiman who went to Jizi North Korea, and then directly destroyed Jizi North Korea, established Weiman North Korea, and declared himself a vassal of the Han Dynasty.
During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a stupid young man named Youqu in Weiman North Korea angered Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. In anger, Emperor Wu directly sent 50,000 troops to destroy Weiman North Korea and established four Han counties. Since then, North Korea has been included in the Central Plains Dynasty. .
This was the first time in history that the Korean Peninsula was included in the territory of the Central Plains Dynasty.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the heroes were divided and the Central Plains dynasty had no time to take care of the Korean Peninsula. Goguryeo took the opportunity to rise and annexed the four Han counties, and the Korean Peninsula was separated from the Central Plains.
It has been independent for more than a thousand years.
During this period, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty conquered Goguryeo three times, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty sent troops to conquer Korea eastward, and Mongolia conquered Goguryeo nine times. However, Korea was only listed as a vassal state and was never really included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Regardless of whether those previous dynasties looked down on North Korea or were unable to include it, now that North Korea has become the Chief Secretary of the Ming Dynasty, it is the true expansion of territory for the Central Plains dynasties in the past thousand years.
"Your Majesty, tomorrow the battle mausoleum and monument will be completed. After you pay your respects, the army can return to the court!"
"Battle?"
Listening to what Yuan Keli said, Chongzhen frowned and said softly: "Yuan Aiqing, I think it's a bit inappropriate and hard to pronounce to use the word battle to describe our fallen soldiers.
I have thought about it again and again. From now on, all soldiers who died fighting to protect our country will be called martyrs. The big tomb outside the city will be called the Dangwan Martyrs Cemetery, and the monument will be called the Dangwan Martyrs Monument! "
"Martyrs? Martyrs Cemetery? Martyrs Monument?"
Yuan Keli was stunned for a moment, searching carefully for the word martyr in his mind. Every time the emperor used the word, it had a specific meaning.
Without waiting for him to think about it, Chongzhen continued: "Pass the order, I will personally go to pay homage at midnight tomorrow. The three armies will also arrive, and then we will return to the court!"
"I obey the decree!"
Early the next morning, the army that stayed in Dangwan slowly walked towards the battlefield, all with serious faces.
The battlefield that was like hell more than ten days ago has now been cleaned up, and there is no smell of blood, because the soil on the battlefield has been dug up and burned.
On the side of the battlefield close to the Di Yuoling Mountains, there is a cemetery covering an area of more than ten acres. The entire cemetery is paved with bluestone, which looks unusually heavy.
The cemetery is backed by mountains and faces the southwest. The southwest is the direction of the Ming Dynasty. In the middle stands a nine-meter-high stone monument.
Behind the stone stele are more than a dozen tombs with ashes buried. The three-meter-high stone stele reads the tombs of fallen soldiers of the Liaoxi Army of the Ming Dynasty, the tombs of the fallen soldiers of the Tengxiang Left Guards of the Ming Dynasty, and the graves of the fallen soldiers of the Ming Dynasty Huben Guards...
Chongzhen originally wanted to build a large tomb to bury the ashes of all the soldiers who died in the battle together, but the generals meant that there were too many people under the tomb, and the soldiers could not find their own troops and could not return home...
Chongzhen could only agree to this request.
"Come here, bring Yagyu Munenomi, Hoshina Masayuki and others!"
Li Ruolian, who had been prepared for a long time, led a group of royal guards and was dragged by more than a dozen Fuso generals to the monument.
These people have been tortured to a terrible state. If they were not hanging in the ginseng soup made from three hundred years old wild ginseng and dozens of precious medicinal materials every day, they would have died long ago.
Although this group of people had received special training, in the face of Jin Yiwei's torture, they only carried out two or three types of torture before extracting all the information they knew.
Even a great swordsman like Yagyu Munenomi, after experiencing the attack on his heart, only persisted in six kinds of torture and poured out all the information he knew.
Yagyu Munenomi is Fuso's intelligence chief and knows almost 80% of Fuso's secrets, which also gives Ming a very clear understanding of Fuso's overall strength.
Looking at Yagyu Munenomi and others on the ground, Chongzhen said coldly: "Let's start!"
Li Ruolian gestured towards the distance, and more than ten people walked out of the army. Each person dragged one person to the big tomb behind the monument. These people were the generals of the army where the soldiers who died in the tomb were killed. They wanted to personally pay tribute to their brothers who died in the battle. They take revenge.
The entire execution process was extremely bloody, with repeated screams, but it excited the Ming army sergeants.
This step is called blood sacrifice, and the entire cemetery is completed.
Chongzhen stood in front of the stone tablet in military uniform, holding three lit incense sticks in his hands, bowing slightly towards the stone tablet, and then placed the incense in the big cauldron in front of him.
Watching the green smoke rising, Chongzhen said softly: "My fellow soldiers, the Ming Dynasty will always remember you. I will have people write books and biographies, so that future generations will know that the peace they enjoy is earned by you with your lives!"
After saying this, Chongzhen turned around and looked at the tens of thousands of serious-looking soldiers.
"Soldiers, in the battle of Dangwan, we destroyed 200,000 slave-building coalition forces, but we also have more than 18,000 soldiers buried here. I built the cemetery and monument so that future generations can remember them forever.
After much thought, I named this cemetery Dangwan Martyrs Cemetery and Dangwan Martyrs Monument. "
The ordinary sergeants had no reaction, but the generals accurately grasped the word martyr in the emperor's words.
For a moment, the origin of the word martyr sounded in the minds of the generals.
For example, "Han Feizi: The Secret Envoy": "Those who love the name but do not advance in officialdom are called martyrs in the world;
"Stepping out of the Xiamen" by Cao Cao of the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms: The old man is in trouble, but his ambition is a thousand miles; the martyr is in his old age, but his ambition is endless!
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While the generals were thinking, Chongzhen continued to speak loudly: "The martyr I am talking about comes from the line in "Zhuangzi: Autumn Waters": "He who holds the white blade in front of him and regards death as life is the bravery of a martyr!"
"A martyr is fierce in fire and strong in the sun. Faced with the sword, he looks at death as if he is home. This is the bravery of a soldier."
"This is the truest portrayal of our soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice and defend their homeland. Only the word "martyr" can accurately express my respect for the soldiers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, all the soldiers were shocked, their scalps were numb, and their skins were getting goosebumps.
