Chapter 81: Under the Zhengyang Gate

On the twenty-third day of the fifth month of orthodoxy.

Off.

Zhu Qizhen got up very early this time, but he didn't go to the early court.

Because of the military parade, Zhu Qizhen was exempted from the early dynasty.

At this moment, he was not wearing the emperor's formal clothes, but a military uniform.

A suit of glittering armor. There are a lot of reliefs on it, there are tiger heads swallowing mouths on the wrists, dragon reliefs on the shoulders, and as for other places, small details are handled. It's like a work of art.

Don't look at this glitter, you can't fight.

This armor was tailor-made for Zhu Qizhen by Ouchi craftsmen according to the armor of Taizong and Xuanzong. The gold on the outside is just gilt, but the inside is a hundred refined steel, and the weight is not light.

Zhu Qizhen still hasn't grown up in the end, although he looks like an adult, but his body is still a little thinner, if it weren't for Zhu Qizhen's constant practice of riding and archery since he was a child. I'm afraid that wearing it will be a little inconvenient to walk.

Even so, Zhu Qizhen felt as if he was imprisoned, and it was very inconvenient to walk.

Wang Zhen also persuaded whether to pull out some of the armor pieces, from the outside, there was no clue to the decision.

But Zhu Qizhen was unwilling.

Although this twenty or thirty pounds of armor is heavy, is it comparable to the weight of the Ming Dynasty?

Zhu Qizhen has been used to it in the past few years.

He even felt that what was the most important thing as an emperor? Is it a wise god? Is it the scheming superior? No, it's being under pressure.

He's used to it.

Zhu Qizhen opened the main gate of the palace, but saw countless gates open layer after layer in the sound of horns, and the sun shone on the copper nails of the red door, which was extremely majestic.

The three hundred guards of the Qianqing Palace, many of them were guarding the side, they were all wearing armor, with swan feathers on their heads, supporting left and right, and even the distance between the horses was not bad.

Most of these three hundred people are the sons of the generals, or they are masters selected from the millions of troops. Even if you are a noble child, you can't keep it here without two brushes.

Each of their horses is a carefully selected royal horse, and each pair of armor and each weapon is engraved with the word "Imperial Use". All of them are made by Ouchi's skilled craftsmen.

Before the noon gate of the palace, there was a large number of people waiting in the dark. Its Chinese martial arts are distinct, and the martial generals are headed by Zhang Fu, all of whom are dressed in armor, and there are several family members around them. According to the different levels of the princes and uncles, the families who can be brought are also different.

On the civilian side, most of the civil officials are also on horseback. Except for some old ministers, such as Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu, who are seventy or eighty, the rest of the ministers are all riding lightly.

There are some differences, though.

That is, the horses ridden by these civil officials, most of them are the horses of the government, because the lower civil officials are them

It's really very poor, and you can't buy a horse, as for Xungui's side, not to mention the high fortune, there is also some gray income from the field, and even some gray income from the Weisuo Tuntian, in short, the family is not poor.

How can you not ride a horse?

These ministers also brought retinues, and according to different ranks, they brought different people. As for the fourth grade or less, then there is none, it would be good to let you pass, and I still want to bring my entourage, I think too much.

Wang Zhen took the eunuchs and the people from the Ministry of Rites to inspect back and forth to see who made something on such a big scene.

With an order, the main gate of the palace was opened, and countless noisy voices came out, even if Zhu Qizhen was riding on a horse, he could hear the outside saying: "It's coming, it's coming." ”

Countless noisy sounds, adults crying, children making noise, all kinds of sounds came out suddenly.

Seeing this, Hu Hu couldn't help frowning, and gave an order to a person next to him, and immediately several soldiers rushed out, and then there was a loud scolding, and then it quieted down.

After a while, the solemn atmosphere returned.

Hu Hu scolded in his heart: "Your Majesty, I really don't know what to think, I have to let the people watch, hey, ------" Hu Hu instinctively felt that his head was big.

It was not that there were no military parades before the Ming Dynasty.

But that's more of the emperor going to the army, reviewing the three armies, and letting the three armies pick out the people and practice the drill in front of the emperor. It's more of an internal review.

The site is usually in the suburbs, or simply in the camp.

The people could never see it.

Zhu Qizhen ordered the people to be allowed to watch, but he didn't know how much trouble he had caused to Hu Hu.

In fact, this matter, Hu Hu is still troublesome here, but it is not just trouble on Zhang Fu's side. Just think about it, and you can see how many safety hazards there are.

This time, the number of people who want to be reviewed by Zhu Qizhen is probably only more than 20,000 people.

Although Meng Ying brought 30,000 people back, after Hu Hu passed, he immediately rowed down many people. There are mutilations on the body and scars on the face. Those who are too short and do not look good.

Wait, it's all pulled down.

If it weren't for the emperor's guidance, it must be Meng Ying's department, if the number of people is too small to support the scene, otherwise Meng Ying's 30,000 people will not be able to leave more than 10,000 people.

But for the sake of the parade of 20,000 troops.

Zhang Fu used almost all of the Beijing camp. The city wall is full of soldiers from the Beijing camp to maintain order, from the main gate of the palace to the Zhengyang Gate in just a few steps, there are even more spears like a forest, a forest of armor, and a wall of people is forcibly discharged, isolating the people on the left and right.

The houses on both sides of the road were all expropriated. In order to prevent people from lurking in high places, they use bows and crossbows to stab them. There are also a few soldiers on the roof of each building.

This used several guards, as for the outside of Zhengyang Gate, there are several guards to maintain the site, as I said before, the south of Beijing is not nothing

People inhabited.

It's just that it's not enclosed in the city wall, and when it comes to allowing the people to watch, the only place that people can see is opposite Zhengyangmen, and the city wall is full of officials at all levels, and even the places of honorable people. It was divided by the imperial court, and ordinary people could not go up to the city wall at all.

As a result, on the south side of the Beijing city wall, there were already many people gathered here, elated, and happy than any temple fair.

After all, there are temple fairs every year, but such a big gift. But not every year.

Headed by Zhu Qizhen, the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs followed behind Zhu Qizhen and walked out of the palace, and it didn't take long to arrive at Zhengyangmen.

After all, Zhengyangmen is not far from the palace, and even the rear team has just left the palace.

Zhu Qizhen ascended the Zhengyangmen Tower.

The Zhengyangmen City Tower is majestic and majestic, but it has just been built.

This is also the first time that Zhengyangmen has been opened.

Zhengyangmen protrudes beyond the city walls of Beijing, and there is an urn city. The castle tower was very tall, with four stories of arrow towers and a number of gun emplacements, but most of them were withdrawn for today.

In front of the Zhengyangmen Tower, the throne has been placed, the yellow umbrella covers the top of Zhu Qizhen's head, and the two peacock fans cross left and right behind him.

It seems to be specially designed.

Zhu Qizhen sat on the throne, and the whole person was much higher than the female wall, so that most of the people below could see it, and Zhu Qizhen's line of sight was also excellent, and it seemed that he could faintly see the Lugou River dozens of miles away.

Beyond Beijing's moat, there is a clear line. But it was the soldiers of the Beijing camp, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp were like a dam separating all the people.

Between the moat and this human wall, a road has been built overnight, with loess and clear water sprinkled on the street, which is already the best state of most roads in this era.

A little further south, it was dense and it was impossible to see how many heads there were, and people were crowded one by one, only in the crowd, some houses popped up.

That's right, the crowd has become the background color of Zhu Qizhen's sight,

The large and small buildings in the south of the city have become embellishments and have been washed away by the crowd.

To be honest, Zhu Qizhen has not seen many people in later generations, but it is still very rare to see so many people, he estimated in his heart that there may not be a million, but hundreds of thousands of people, there must be.

"Your Majesty has arrived." Dozens of eunuchs lined up even behind him, shouting at the top of their voices. These eunuchs were all specially trained, and their voices were so loud and sharp that Zhu Qizhen's ears hurt when he heard them.

But I have to admit that at this time, they are still very useful, their voices overpower all voices, and for a while, the officers and soldiers below are maintaining order.

The gongs, drums and horns sounded in unison for a while, and the whole scene did not know how many big drums were arranged, and for a while, anyone in any direction could only hear the drums.