"Your Majesty, how to deal with the corpses of these fallen soldiers?" asked Minister Duan Zhixuan.

And Li Shimin said: "Dear friends, what do you think should be done?"

Jing Wen said: "Your Majesty, you should have all these soldiers gathered up. After all, they are all the bones of our Han people. Can we still let them die here and die in a foreign land, and the heroic soul cannot return to China?"

Duan Zhixuan continued, "Your Majesty, I think we should collect them. But the problem is that these have turned into bones. They don't know their appearance and identity during their lifetime. They have no way to find out their relatives and hometowns, so we can't send them back to their hometowns, and we can't find their ancestral graves to bury them! If this happens, these fallen soldiers will not be able to enjoy the incense and tribute from their descendants in the future. Aren't they all alone?"

Li Shimin was also a little silent because this was indeed a huge problem. In ancient times, incense tribute was emphasized, and in the ancestral tombs were required to enter the ancestral tombs to enjoy the incense tribute of his descendants. Sacrifice was a very important task in ancient times. If the sacrifice to his ancestors was ignored, it would be a serious unfilial piety. But now these have become bones, so they cannot know their appearance, and they cannot find their original hometown and ancestral tombs. In ancient times, there was no such means as forensic doctors in later generations, and they could see the appearance of the deceased during their lifetime through the skull. In ancient times, there was no such household registration network as later generations, and they could find out the identity of someone at any time. If they could not enjoy the tribute of later generations, they would be a lonely ghost in Chinese culture, so this is also a very important issue.

"Also, the corpses have also been decayed. Many of the heads and bodies have been separated and have been completely mixed with the other white bones. In this way, we cannot tell who is whose corpse is. If you send it back like this incorrectly, it will be impossible!" Duan Zhixuan continued.

These soldiers who fell into battle can be said to have no corpses. In ancient times, there was no DNA that could judge by genes that the part was a corpse of anyone and who was the corpse of whom. So this could not be found out at all, and this made them unable to judge. If it was just a random burial of a bull's head and a horse's mouth, this would not be suitable. After all, doing so was very disrespectful to the corpses in ancient times, and this was not in line with ancient civilization.

"Who has any good idea?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen thought for a while and immediately said, "Your Majesty, I have a method, I don't know if it is feasible!"

"Tell me!" Li Shimin said.

Jing Wen immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think these corpses can be cremated. Since the corpses are no longer distinguishable, they will be cremated. Let them be completely integrated. I think those soldiers can fight Goguryeo together and die together on the territory of Goguryeo. They also have a profound friendship with charisma. Since this is the case, we cannot distinguish them. Then, after cremation, they are buried together, which is in line with the tradition of the army. On the battlefield, it is impossible to find a way to send them back to their hometown for burial at any time, and burial on the spot is also a way."

"Cremelting?" Li Shimin was a little surprised.

This cremation is indeed a good way. Since they can't tell the difference between these corpses. Then, it might be a good way to cremate them in unification, after all, these fallen soldiers are not outsiders. They are all comrades in the same military camp. Even if they had some conflicts before their lifetime, they were still comrades after their death. There is no need to distinguish them so clearly. Of course, this is just a compromise method to cremate together without being able to judge the corpses.

"What should I do with the ashes of those soldiers? It's not easy to throw them away casually, right?" Duan Zhixuan said.

Jing Wen immediately said: "Your Majesty, why not put the ashes of these soldiers in the Loyal Soul Temple that our Tang Dynasty was about to be built and allocated a special area for resettlement. Then you can enjoy the incense of the people of our Tang Dynasty in the future. In this way, they will not be able to pay tribute without incense. They can not only enjoy the memorial of their own families, but also enjoy the memorial and memorial of countless people of our Tang Dynasty. In this way, they will no longer be lonely ghosts."

Jing Wen's this actually wanted to open a cremation and a public memorial. In ancient times, cremation was rarely popular, and most of them were burials. More importantly, it was popular to celebrate the internal tributes of individual families, and public memorials were not popular. So Jing Wen now wanted to use the corpses of these fallen soldiers of the Sui Dynasty to propose two new concepts, namely cremation and public memorials. Although it is impossible for everyone to turn around in a short time and let everyone accept cremation and public memorials, at least one head was set, and someone would support it later. In ancient times, everything was paid attention to precedents. If Jing Wen could create a precedent at this time, those who supported cremation and public memorials in later generations could also find precedents. This is a very good thing.

"Let these soldiers of the Sui Dynasty enter the Loyal Soul Temple in our Tang Dynasty?" Duan Zhixuan was a little confused.

"General Duan, in fact, there is nothing wrong with the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty entering our Tang Dynasty. Our Tang Dynasty inherited the Taoist dynasty of the former Sui Dynasty, so there is nothing wrong with accepting these soldiers of the Sui Dynasty. In addition, we are all Han people, and they have worked hard for us to regain our territory and sacrificed their lives. Then, did our Tang Dynasty inherit their will now and then continue to conquer Goguryeo? So there is no problem with our Tang Dynasty's Loyal Soul Temple accepting them. After all, everyone is the army of the Han people in the Central Plains, and they all died for the sake of the country and nation. In addition, they did not die to resist the founding of our Tang Dynasty, and they had no hatred with our Tang Dynasty, so there is no problem with letting them enter the Loyal Soul Temple!" Jing Wen said.

Duan Zhixuan still wanted to say something wrong, but Li Shimin said: "Okay, I have decided to let these former Sui soldiers enter the Loyal Soul Temple in my Tang Dynasty, so that they can enjoy the incense and tribute of the people of my Tang Dynasty for generations. They did not die to prevent the founding of my Tang Dynasty, so they have no hatred with me. They are also considered people who sacrificed for the recovery of territory in the Central Plains, so they can naturally enter the Loyal Soul Temple in my Tang Dynasty. Jing Wen is right, Duan Aiqing, your idea is a bit narrow."

"I accept the order!" Duan Zhixuan said.
Chapter completed!