Chapter Twenty-Three: Prelude to the Grand Ceremony

The day before the Yuan Xi Festival, Yue Qianming and the three of them had begun to fasting and bathing and preparing for the ceremony of entering the city in accordance with the etiquette, although the number of the three corps added up to less than 10,000, but they were all elite soldiers, and their momentum could be as strong as tens of thousands of ordinary soldiers. And the soldiers of these three elite corps of the Three Realms still have some thoughts of competition, and no one wants to be looked down upon by the other party, and their momentum has been raised to the top. Yue Qianming and the three of them were in an empty square of the post station at this time, and under the guidance of the officials sent by the Ministry of Rites, they were training their respective legions to pay attention to in the ceremony of entering the city, such as paying attention not to let the mounts be startled by the enthusiastic onlookers and causing a riot and other small details, and a post station official came to report: "Gonggong Wei has come to the post station." Yue Qianming and the three of them went out of the post station to greet Father-in-law Wei, but they didn't know what he was doing this time.

The three of them did not meet Gonggong Wei until they came to a distance of about a mile from the post station. Seeing that Father-in-law Wei was still receiving the person who was waiting, his waist bent down slightly, and his color was solemn and very respectful. Yue Qianming and the three of them understood that this Wei Gonggong should be waiting for a person he respected very much, but they didn't know what kind of person it was? When they came to this Wei Gonggong's side, they were about to say hello to this old eunuch who was extremely senior in the eunuch group, and suddenly the three of them felt that the ground was trembling slightly, and they looked at Wei Gonggong who suddenly became more respectful, and the three of them knew that the person he was waiting for was coming, but they didn't know who had come to Kyoto again. The ground trembled more and more, and I saw a corps of shining silver light in front of me, rushing towards this side at a speed faster than the wind, with the eyes of Yue Qianming and the three of them, they could see that there were also two thousand five hundred people, and the leader was wearing silver armor, with a tiger head engraved on his chest, and a silver helmet on his head, and even the face armor was put down, and the soldiers behind him were all dressed like this, the only difference was that there was no mark on the armor of those soldiers. The soldiers of this corps are all riding giant beasts, the giant beast is like a tiger, and it is also dressed in silver armor, the hair of the exposed parts is white without any variegation, the limbs of the giant beast fall silently, the movements are uniform, as if the momentum of thousands of horses galloping, the whole team only carries a flag on a long pole in the wind, and the flag is embroidered with a snow-white giant tiger, like a tiger in the mountains, ready to devour all things in the world with ferocious spirit.

Seeing the arrival of this corps, Yue Qianming and the three of them instantly became a lot more respectful, the corps came to everyone, stopped suddenly, but the formation was not chaotic at all, only to see the leader jump off the mount and lift up the mask, but it was the Xin Zheng God General who was more than two hundred years old. Gonggong Wei immediately greeted him, first saluted respectfully, and then said: "The king has said that the old god Mo will participate in the ceremony of entering the city tomorrow, and today I will take a rest at the Shili Pavilion Post Station first, nourish my spirit, and raise the military prestige of my Zhao Xin clan." I saw that the old god Mo would bow down and salute and say, "The last will obey the order." ”

Gonggong Wei said: "Then the old god general, take the guards to the post station to rest first, and our family will go back to the palace to reinstate the decree." After speaking, he took the attendant and the little eunuch and left first.

Yue Qianming and the three of them waited for Gong Gong Wei to finish delivering the decree before they stepped forward to salute Xin Zheng and said in unison: "The last general, see the military minister." After everyone finished saluting, Xin Zheng smiled and said, "You three boys came back early, and the war in the three realms is over, right?" Yue Qianming and the three of them hurriedly saluted and replied: "Fortunately, I will not disgrace my mission and protect the territory of my Zhao Xin clan." ”

Xin Zheng helped the three of them up one by one, and said as he walked: "The three of you have worked hard this time, especially Qianming, I heard that Qianming this time rushed thousands of miles to intercept and kill the enemy's main general Li Deming in the territory of Xia Geng's country, and even disabled the wolf horseman. ”

Qianming smiled modestly and said: "The last general does not dare to take credit, it is all thanks to the proper deployment of the king." Xin Zheng patted Yue Qianming's shoulder and said with a smile: "That lawless kid back then also learned to be modest, it's not easy!" looked at Chen Qiyuan again and said: "Qiyuan, I heard that this barbarian attack is extremely tragic, is there any special situation?" Chen Qiyuan hurriedly reported to Xin Zheng what he told Yue Qianming and Qin Kongyu that day, Xin Zheng pondered for a moment and said: " Since the Eastern Barbarians have formed an established strategy for the reserve materials, it seems that they will still loot our eastern border within this year, and you can immediately write a secret letter to the Eastern Military Division to not relax their vigilance, strengthen their defenses and deal with the intrusion of the Eastern Barbarians at any time, and no longer let them break through the defense line of our eastern border and disturb our people in the eastern border. ”

After Xin Zheng finished assigning the task to Chen Qiyuan, he looked at Qin Kongyu and laughed: "Boy Kongyu, you have finally learned to let go of your pride, not bad." After praising Qin Kongyu, he said: "Soldier, treacherous." Not only is there a righteous conspiracy, but there are also sneaky conspiracies, in the final analysis, war is still a grasp of human nature, your previous character decided that you will only use the magnificent atmosphere of the yang conspiracy, although you can see the enemy's conspiracy, do not let yourself fall into the trap, but you never use, has been ignoring the thinking of conspiracy strategy, but yin and yang is the way to use soldiers, you have grown a lot this time, I originally thought that this time you can only hold the southern border without losing, but I didn't expect to wipe out Kim Chengxiong's department, and bring Jin Chengxiong's head back to Kyoto, it seems that the blood and food of this sacrifice to the ancestors is very richIt's just that your trick is really a bit disgusting, I can imagine what Kim Sung-woong's face would be like at that time, and he wouldn't have thought that the proud Zhennan God would use such a disgusting trick. Qin Kongyu was embarrassed by Xin Zheng's words, touched his head and said: "That Jin Chengxiong is known for his caution in using soldiers, I really couldn't find any weaknesses in his defense at that time, and several attempts to lure him worked, so I could only make a fuss about his cleanliness fetish, but I didn't expect Jin Chengxiong to be really dizzy, so I gave me a chance." Xin Zheng looked at Qin Kongyu and praised again and again: "Not bad, not bad." ”

A few people walked and chatted already at the door of the post station, there were already staff of the post station to take Xin Zheng's corps to the place to rest, Xin Zheng took the lead in entering the post station, and waited until everyone had already sat down, Xin Zheng talked about the situation in the west, that Meng Yuan did have the opportunity to attack the western border of Zhao Xin's country, and the vanguard troops had arrived at the border line, but only stayed for two days, did not do any attack, and withdrew, Xin Zheng sent people to investigate the situation in Dating Prefecture only to learn that it was the Meng Yuan clan that had a slight situation in Dating Prefecture, and then recalled the troops who invaded Jiu Nao Prefecture, but Xin Zheng still adjusted the deployment of troops in the west, and the finishing work was not completed, was recalled by Zhao Lingyun to participate in the Yuanxi Festival entry ceremony, Xin Zheng handed over the rest of the work to the Western Military Division to complete, and hurried back to Feng'an City.

Due to the etiquette rules, Yue Qianming and the three of them did not give Xin Zheng a reception, but simply ate vegetarian food, and the four of them chatted for a while, and then continued to cooperate with the officials sent by the Ministry of Rites to complete the rehearsal of the entrance ceremony.

At the time of the first four quarters of an hour, the moon had not yet set, and the east gate of Feng'an City had been opened, and by the moonlight, you could see that a huge open field at the east gate of Feng'an City was already full of people, crowded with people in Feng'an City, as if all the people in Feng'an City were concentrated here at the moment, and some children were still carrying small lanterns, which were originally prepared for tonight's Yuan Xi Lantern Festival, but now they were taken out early. And Zhao Qin'er led Jiang Chen, Lu Xiangning led Yue Wujing, and a beautiful woman pulled Yu Chide's little fat man to stand at the front of the crowd, and there were guards in the surging crowd and a small space separated from them, and a few people were not crowded. Zhao Lingyun deliberately blocked the news of the Three Kingdoms attacking Zhao before the war, which will inevitably cause panic among the people, the people of Zhao Xin did not know the specific situation at the time, and only knew a little about the war on the border, but after the war, Zhao Lingyun released the news, and vigorously publicized the details of the war and the critical situation at that time, the people of Zhao Xin's country all had a sense of hatred and hatred, and the news of victory came to the city, and the storyteller said in the major teahouses and taverns that Yue Qianming went all the way into the enemy territory and killed Li Deming, and said how Qin Kongyu completely annihilated Jin Chengxiong, this Qin Kongyu privately got the title of Jin Qila God General。 After several days of publicity, the people of Feng'an City spontaneously organized to come to the east gate to welcome the soldiers returning from the expedition, and Zhao Lingyun gave many rewards to the eastern, southern, western, and northern military divisions on a large scale, and sent officials from the supervision department to these four borders to distribute the rewards to all the soldiers according to their merits, so as to prevent anyone from being greedy or unfair.

At this time, a high platform has been temporarily erected at the east gate of Feng'an City, the layout is simple but not losing the prestige, there are officials of the Ministry of Etiquette on it are improving the final work, the defense work of the entire east gate has been taken over by the Imperial City Forbidden Army, a big fat man wearing a golden armor is walking around like flying to do the final inspection work, although anxious but still very meticulous to check all the places over and over again, the whole high platform has also been surrounded by the forbidden army airtight, no one is allowed to approach. After Wei Chi Zhongming finally checked all the places, he found that there were no loopholes, and he was still not at ease and transferred heavy troops to guard all the places where there might be ambushes or hidden assassins, and each team was assigned an emergency contact transmission spirit jade, and then handed over the guard work to the deputy commander, and he went back to the imperial city to escort Zhao Lingyun out of the palace to come to the viewing platform, and the road leading to the east gate of Feng'an City was also under martial law, and there were forbidden troops guarding along the way.

At five quarters of an hour, Yu Chi Zhongming rode a giant beast from the Qinglong Gate of the Imperial City to open the way in front, Zhao Lingyun's dragon drove in the middle of the entire honor guard, and followed by Zhao Lingyun's dragon was Zhao Lingwu's Wang Jia also advanced with the honor guard, Zhao Lingwu, who was sitting in the car, had a calm face and could not see joy and anger, but he could still see the unwillingness in his heart from his eyes, he did not expect that the layout he had planned for ten years collapsed in just a few months, and Zhao Lingyun's status was not shaken by all, but it helped Zhao Lingyun's prestige even more, and he can only obey Zhao Lingyun's domination now, with the completion of Zhao Lingyun's huge layout, from a chess player to a non-critical idle man.

The entire honor guard walked all the way unimpeded for nearly three quarters of an hour before coming to the east gate of Feng'an City, after Zhao Lingyun arrived at the viewing platform, he saw that the viewing platform was brightly lit at the moment, as bright as day. At the moment of Mao began to carry out the ritual of sacrificing Emperor Hao, first reciting the sacrificial text, the content roughly means that this war is a battle of Taoism and no Taoism, only to protect the people of Zhao Xin's country to live and work in peace and contentment and the integrity of the ancestral foundation, justice is finally victorious, thank the Emperor Hao in the heavenly kingdom for his protection, and hope that Emperor Hao can always bless Zhao Xin's country with smooth wind and rain, and the country and the people are safe. Completed a series of complicated ceremonies to worship Emperor Hao, civil and military officials and imperial relatives and all the people in the city without exception knelt on the ground, there are spiritual cultivators who practice fire attributes to come forward to burn the sacrificial text just read out, the ashes formed after the sacrificial text was burned are ethereal and misty straight up to the nine heavens, everyone recited the opening chapter of the "Heavenly Language" "Song to Emperor Hao" before they all got up and looked to the east, waiting for the appearance of the victorious army, at this time the red and yellow like the sun like fire is already in the time of the dew.