"What's there? There are four floors up and down. The top is the memorial tablet of heaven and earth, and the bottom is several large piles of grain, including wheat, rice, and sorghum... You didn't come up to see it." The old man clicked his tongue in admiration and made a gesture with his hand, "Then

The grain pile must be able to hold more than one cloth bag! Tsk, the grain pile is great, the sizes are the same, they are all sharp and not sloppy, and they are all the same height and size."

The extremely neat pile of grains created by Li Mengxi was indeed amazing in itself, and it left a deep impression on the people who participated in the sacrifice.

There were five large piles of grain as a sacrifice. The grain piles were so big that even a vat could not be filled. The grain piles were all the same size, and their tips were all as high. Below, there were cow heads, six in a row. According to the old man’s story, the old man said

The language is not concise enough, and I can't say anything about the arithmetic sequence of intervals. According to the meaning of the old man's vomiting words, it always means the same thing, neatly, the cow's head is placed with the cow's nose high on one side, and the board is placed squarely.

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Crowds of people gathered around the old man, listening with wide eyes.

The last ones the old man mentioned were white, round, and as big as gourds and gourds. There were several piles of them, as if they were made of white flour. I don’t know what they were.

People still don’t know that white flour steamed buns are white flour steamed buns.

Regarding the details of the sacrifice, some people also asked what was being burned.

"It's the Nian beast." Half of the boys said, "The top is two tree branches, standing like deer antlers, and the bottom is a bamboo stalk and wheat straw. When it is lit on fire, it makes a crackling sound..."

As for the seats, a group of women gathered around and chatted. Among them was a woman who participated in the sacrifice. The woman said that she was sitting at the front of the first row. The woman covered her mouth in embarrassment and laughed.

"I said I was going to the back. People said I won't waste my time. I'll go wherever I want. If I go to the front, I'll stand in front..."

The women next to them all smiled kindly. During sacrifices in the countryside, there is a clear distinction between superiority and inferiority. Those in the front are all respected clan elders, but in the military sacrifices, women will be allowed to come forward without saying anything.

There is respect and inferiority in nature, but if we don't talk about superiority and inferiority, it shows great respect for women, and women are happy as a result.

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After dozens of people from the training team arrived, Li Mengxi gave instructions to the dozens of military training benchmark soldiers and briefly explained their tasks.

The task is simple, just bring the worshipers and kneel down together.

When Li Mengxi ordered the teaching team to go down, a small leader of the teaching team stopped for a moment and came over to give some advice. This person said that after looking at the sacrificial seats, there were always four to five hundred, which was too many. If the teaching team was only in the front

If you carry it with you, but you still can't see it from behind, you can insert the teaching team between the front and back of the seat so that both the front and back can be seen.

Li Mengxi suddenly realized that this was indeed an oversight.

Li Mengxi smiled, and he stopped the captain of the teaching team who was about to join the team. Li Mengxi took out a pen holder from his waist and scrawled a military coupon. The value of the military coupon was five kilograms of grain.

These five kilograms of food serve as a reward for the captain's good suggestions.

Good policies require good feedback to promote their implementation. Li Mengxi has understood this in practice. Rewards have a demonstration effect. The suggestions put forward by the captain of the teaching team are actually dispensable and of little value, but no matter how valuable they are,

Even if it is small, you should also give clear rewards. When others see the reward, they will make a decision and give more suggestions next time.

What is more important than fruit is a tree that can continue to bear fruit. Suggestions from the military are important, but more important is the good atmosphere of proactive self-construction in the military.

The teaching team joined the sacrifice. As a special part of the army, during the training a long time ago, each team of the teaching team had long been accustomed to being among the large number of recruits, patrolling back and forth to demonstrate.

During military training, the teaching team had to be responsible for more than 100,000 people, consisting of 12 banners, 120 battalions, and 1,200 teams. Now it can only be responsible for a mere four to five hundred civilians. They are familiar with the road and can handle it with ease.

After the teaching team was divided into small teams, with six people in each team, and they were distributed among the hundreds of seats for the sacrifice, the second wave of worshipers came up from behind.

After that, the second wave of sacrifices began. The ceremony officials sang and hundreds of people stood in silence. When the ceremony officials began to prepare to kneel and kowtow to the altar, the teaching team mixed in among the civilians reacted quickly and immediately moved in sync with each other.

On the ground, the civilians saw this and immediately followed the teaching team's actions.

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu watched from a distance. In this second wave of sacrifices, the people knelt down much more uniformly, which could be called orderly. Hundreds of people knelt down and kowtowed at the same time, which was a spectacular sight.

During this time, the Nian beasts on the left and right sides of the altar had been burned into balls of fire, crackling enthusiastically.

Li Mengxi nodded slightly while watching the grand ceremony of the sacrifice. He looked at Guan Yu and said, "If we talk about the method of deterring the enemy, we must use the five senses. The five senses are sight, hearing, nose, taste, and body.

To frighten the enemy and shock the people's hearts can control the five senses, and conversely, to inspire the people's hearts can do the same."

Turning his head to look at the undulating kneeling ceremony in front of the altar where the sacrifice was taking place, Li Mengxi pondered, "The beautiful high platform is solemn and solemn, and those who look at it have already used it.

But apart from this, there is nothing else.”

"... Perhaps, we can use vocal music, gongs, drums, brocade harps, etc. to play during sacrifices. Wouldn't it be more solemn and more shocking to people's hearts?"

"Those who smell it can burn incense and let the smoke disperse."

"As for the taste of the tongue, well... I heard that there is a barbarian shamanistic ritual. Before the sacrifice, the people will swallow the poisonous fruit. This kind of poisonous fruit has a hallucinogenic effect, so when the sacrifice is made, the expression of the person offering the sacrifice will suddenly appear blurred.

Weird, I thought I was seeing God.

Although this method is barbaric, it has a lot to learn from when it comes to the effectiveness of sacrifices and its ability to confuse people's hearts."

"As for the physical sense... When offering sacrifices in hot summer, the altar should be shaded by trees. When offering sacrifices in cold winter, the altar should be warm. In this way, you can feel comfortable during the sacrifice and your people's hearts will be lifted."

Li Mengxi saw that the sacrifice was a bit weak, so he wanted to improve the content of the sacrifice. Then he thought that the purpose of this sacrifice was to boost people's morale. Since it was related to people's morale, Li Mengxi thought of the essence of the method of deterring the enemy, and then did the opposite.

, then I thought of a systematic method to improve the effect of sacrifice.

Then, some vocal music, some incense, some hallucinogens, etc., they all appeared.

Li Mengxi was talking to himself, but he didn't notice that Guan Yu looked down at him, Guan Yu looked slightly surprised.

Otherwise, what Li Mengxi said was so novel. In the wild, shamans and priests would eat mushrooms, and these mushrooms had so-called hallucinogenic effects. After eating them, people would become confused and see strange hallucinations, thinking they were seeing something.

Miracle, is there such a thing? Guan Yu was extremely curious.

As far as the hallucinogenic mushroom is concerned, using one of the five senses as a method of deterring the enemy actually has a significant effect.

For example, the legendary mountain old man who cultivated a sect of assassins first created an artificial paradise filled with milk and honey beauties, and then fed the assassins to be cultivated with hallucinogens.

When you are confused, throw it into a man-made paradise, and then trick the assassin into saying that it is the Kingdom of Heaven. Once you complete the task, you can enter the Kingdom of Heaven and enjoy everything there.

As a result, the assassins were beguiled to risk their lives and do whatever it took to achieve their goals.

This method of training assassins is very clever. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if we used the same method to train a team of capable assassins, would it be of great use?

It can be useful, but it is of no great use.

Due to the art of war and the uprightness of the situation, it is easy to suppress the biased forces. The large amount of resources spent on cultivating assassins are used to improve people's livelihood and train soldiers. The positive effect they play is far stronger than what assassins can achieve.

Strange attack effect.

Therefore, although Li Mengxi thought of the story of the old man in the mountain and the Assassin sect, after some planning, he gave up the idea of ​​cultivating a large number of assassins in this way. Otherwise, the resource utilization rate was too low and it was too stupid.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Only those small countries with a population of tens of thousands and not even a decent city or a decent army are afraid of a group of assassins.

This is the Han Dynasty, the Brilliant Celestial Dynasty. Assassins can be trained a little to prepare for emergencies, but training assassins on a large scale and on an assembly line is too stupid.

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The sacrifices were carried out in an orderly manner, with four to five hundred people at a time, going round after round, burning the Nian beasts one by one. When the Nian beasts were burned out, new Nian beasts were carried to both sides of the altar.

So that whenever the people go to offer sacrifices, they can see the Nian beast being swallowed up by the flames and hear the crackling sound of bamboo joints.

The festival, attended by hundreds of thousands of people, lasted from morning to afternoon, and then into the evening.

The last wave of people to participate in the sacrifice were hundreds of people from the Yellow Turban Hercules Battalion. Because the Yellow Turban Hercules were separated from the common people, and at the same time, as a special battalion of soldiers, the Hercules Battalion was distinguished from ordinary soldiers. This caused

When the army was assembled, there was no strength of the Lux Battalion, so the Lux Battalion fell behind.

Li Mengxi felt strange when he saw that the last wave was Zhou Cang and his group of yellow scarf warriors, so he went up to ask and found out the problem.

Later, in response to this problem, Li Mengxi clarified the division of the Lux Battalion. The Lux Battalion was still classified as a war barracks, but in terms of organization, it was not classified as ordinary soldiers, but was placed under the direct command of the commander-in-chief, as elite relatives of the commander-in-chief.

strength.

It was getting late, and Li Mengxi wanted to go back to the city, but he saw many civilians coming over and standing watching from a distance.

They called the husbandmen over and asked about it. They found out that they wanted to use the altar to worship again.

Li Mengxi naturally agreed.

The people who got permission came in droves. When the people came, they often brought some firewood, which they piled in front of the altar and raised a small fire to perform their own worship.

Li Mengxi originally thought that the self-sacrifice of the people was the behavior of a small number of people, but as it turned out, at night, late at night, Li Mengxi looked at the top of the city and found that the people who came to offer sacrifices were still coming, and the lights were lit in front of the altar.

The fire lit up little by little, cluster after cluster.

Now something happened. The sacrifice was originally intended to boost people's morale. However, the altar was set up too well. The sacrifice was too grand and too realistic. As a result, the effect of boosting people's morale was so great that it not only stabilized

It has won the hearts of the people, and the civilians, husbands and soldiers also want to use the altar to commemorate the deceased or pray for their families and themselves.

Li Mengxi only felt sorry for firewood. Fuel was expensive and scarce in the army. He also felt sorry for the waste of so much firewood ordered for sacrifices.

During Zhang Jiao's rebellion, when he offered sacrifices to heaven and raised the army, the altar built by Zhang Jiao was far inferior to Li Mengxi's. In terms of the effect of stabilizing people's hearts, it was naturally not as good as Li Mengxi's.

Li Mengxi is far better than Zhang Jiao in terms of his ability to confuse people by pretending to be gods and ghosts.

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