Chapter 499 Opening Ceremony

"Now the Great Song Dynasty has to give 500,000 guan to the Liao State and 200,000 guan to the Western Xia every year, and my Great Song Dynasty has an annual income, although it is claimed to be more than 100 million guan, but after removing the consumption, how much is left?"

"In four years, two years of mountain mourning, that is beyond the means, a year of water, or beyond the means, a good year, but a surplus of one million, equivalent to half of Thailand to others."

"Western Xia and Liao are the two ropes around the neck of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are getting tighter and tighter."

"I know that the monarch most admired by Jun Shigong is Tang Taizong, followed by Emperor Wen of Han. It is believed that the system of government soldiers is far better than the system of recruitment. ”

"And I don't think so, without him, the world will change."

"In Xirong at the time of the Qin state, the arrows were no more than stones and bones; The Huns of the Han Dynasty, because there were no horses, in fact, the cavalry could not be impacted, but for long-distance marches, and they needed to dismount in battle. ”

"Coupled with the poor military weapons, Li Ling encountered 80,000 Huns with 5,000 infantry, and he was still able to fight for eight days and eight nights, and the arrows were exhausted before he was captured."

"But now look at it, the Western Xia cavalry has developed a captive, a ploon, and an iron harrier. Riding breeds are divided into mules, donkeys, horses, and camels. The division of military services has become more detailed, the combat strength has been enhanced, and the tactics have been improved with each passing day. Xixia Qingfeng, Qingtang plate armor, whirlwind cannon, strong crossbow, all fine. ”

"Iron cavalry raids, a hundred miles a day, are commonplace; Charging and firing arrows, penetrating the infantry formation, is a breeze. ”

"It can be said that the progress of the military organization of the nomadic race, after a thousand years, greatly exceeds the progress of the agrarian race; The quality and ability of its army now far exceed that of the army of the farming people. ”

"Jun Shigong, there is a saying called boiled frogs in warm water, I don't know if you have heard of it?"

Sima Guang said: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Su You said: "When the frog was thrown into the water at 40 degrees, the frog immediately struggled to jump out of the hot water because it couldn't stand the sudden high temperature stimulation and was able to escape. ”

"But when you put the frog in a container with cold water and then heat it slowly, the result is different."

"The frog is at ease in the water because of the comfortable temperature at the beginning. But when the frog found that he couldn't stand the heat, he was already too weak and was unknowingly boiled to death in hot water. ”

"Now is a world of great contention, and following the path and not thinking of making progress is equivalent to self-destruction, Jun Shigong, do you think I am right?"

Sima Guang sighed: "I admit that you have a point, but Mingrun, now the country is overwhelmed, and the people must be rich and strong, and the soldiers and horses must be strong before they can speak of the army." ”

"Your Majesty, cheer up, this is of course a good thing, but if you don't do it lawfully and fail to do it, then you won't advance but retreat."

Su You nodded: "Yes, I persuaded Your Majesty, Shaanxi and Hebei will need twenty years to recover." But Jun Shigong, this must be 20 years of hard work and hard work, not 20 years of sticking to the rules, getting by, and spending money to buy peace. ”

Sima Guang finally had nothing to say, sighed again, and set his eyes on the lake.

The ships have moved to the east of the five halls, lined up in the water hall, and a small boat will send a military academy to nearly a thousand, holding a long pole in his hand, hanging a brocade silver bowl, and inserting it in the water of the near hall.

Red flags were unfurled, trumpets and cannons roared, and the sergeants on the two rows of boats in the distance began to row frantically, beating drums and marching together.

Spectators along the shore cheered and cheered, placing orders and buying bets to cheer on their fleet.

Even a group of officials have bet, this is a charity lottery, enjoyable at the same time, but also has a good reputation.

The shortest won the bid and came to the mountain in front of the temple to worship and dance. Then the tiger head boats and the like in the distance began to set off, and each of them competed for the bid three times.

The spring pond is bright, laughter and laughter, almost to destroy the clouds.

There were only two people, an old man and a young man, with deep frowns, falling into their own contemplation in this harmonious spring.

After the completion of the Jinmingchi Bidding Competition, the boats introduced the big dragon boat to the Aowu here, and the emperor set off again to ride the Qionglin Garden.

Qionglin Garden is on Shuntianmen Street, opposite to Jinming Pond.

The front teeth are all ancient pines and strange cypresses.

There are stone orchards, pomegranate orchards and cherry orchards on both sides...... There are also pavilions in the garden, and most of them are occupied by restaurants.

Qionglin Yuan southeast foot, is a man-made hill, dozens of zhang high, there are horizontal floors on the mountain, the gold and blue shoot each other, there is a brocade stone winding road under the mountain, Baoche pond.

The willow locks the rainbow bridge, and the flowers linger in the phoenix. Flower beds dot the dots.

Frangipani, jasmine, Shandan, Ruixiang, Hanxiao, and incense, many of them are southern flowers and plants from Fujian, Guangzhou, and Zhejiang, and they are rare to see in other places in Bianjing.

There are Moon Pond Pavilion, Plum Pavilion, Peony Pavilion...... The pavilions are not to be counted.

Touring all the way, Su You looked left and right, and followed the holy car to Baojin Building.

There is a banquet hall in the south of Baojin Building, there are concubines who accompany the driver on weekdays, official dependents, carriages and horses stay here, it is the only place in the whole park where people are forbidden to enter and exit, and there are internal officials and supervisors.

There is a shooting hall in the west of the hall, there is a horizontal street in the south of the palace, and outside the horizontal street, it is the big lawn square where the Bianjing people hit the ball and juju.

Along the streets around Qionglin Garden, there are all special restaurants, and the citizens of Bianjing who come to play and feast on horseback and play ball do not have to worry about being hungry and not eating.

On weekdays, this is still a large school field, and the royal horse has been tied to the door for a long time. On both sides of the door, there are high color sheds, and the scholars only need to pay a little money, they can climb the shed, and happily watch the forbidden army training a hundred opera acrobatics.

Wait, I just said something ridiculous...... Yes, the virtue of the Great Song Forbidden Army is so ridiculous!

Today's royal horse moved to the side of Jinming Pond, and the yellow cover was opened outside Qionglin Garden, and the whip was sounded.

This name, called "Imperial Horse Pool", every time the Imperial Horse Pond, and the dragon boat out of the Olympics, the number of visitors must double, compete to see the face of the sky.

Su You accompanied Zhao Ji to the Debaojin Building, and after Zhao Ji sat down, the military parade, ah no, the juggling began.

The first to come up was more than a dozen drummers, one of whom shook the double drums, the drums were uniform, and they sang "Youth March Mountain Creek ......", which officially kicked off the opening ceremony.

At the end of the song, the drummers piled up a human flesh platform, and a red scarf man jumped up and flipped the flag.

Then the lion and leopard entered, sat and retreated, which was a beast taming performance.

Then another red scarf, holding two white flags, jumped in, the flag was around the body, above the head, and under the feet whirlwind dance, called "fluttering the flag".

The audience on both walls applauded wildly, and the color was like thunder.

Su You said to Li Xian stupidly: "Are those just called-watching from the wall?" ”

Li Xian is also a military now, but he is not ashamed but proud: "You have to have an identity to go up, and ordinary people can only sit in the flag pavilion as soon as possible, and I heard that there are still people who make a career out of it." ”

Su You couldn't help but be speechless, the Great Song Dynasty party was constantly fighting, but only this party still existed after a thousand years - the scalper party.

If it weren't for the fact that the performer was a soldier, Su You felt that his heart was echoing, in fact, the acrobatics were quite good-looking, and it could even be said that the opening ceremony was very exciting.

In addition to lively individual events such as pole and somersaults, there are also club moves, pianists making orders, and the next large-scale group exercises are called exciting.

More than 100 light and healthy sergeants with flower makeup, banners in the front, running into the field, each holding pheasant tail barbarian cards and wooden knives, lined up in a row.

After the worship dance, the mutual change of the door, the bridge, the glaive and other formations are like the mutual teasing before the awkward dance in later generations.

Then the club played the barbarian card order, the music became dense, the two sides of the barbarian steel knife out of the battle dance, began the martial arts routine performance, the attack and defense was very intense, the last person made a fighting momentum, one person made a stiff fall to the ground.

Su You's eyes were sharp, and he could see at a glance that although the brute card seemed to be solid, it was actually Erlin Vine Shield, but it was pasted with paper and the denomination of the beast was drawn; The knife is also a thin spring steel sheet, and it is performed with bells and whistles and fast movements, but it is actually lethal.

Listening to Su Youyi's explanation, Sima Guang suddenly realized: "I'll just say that this year's brute dance is much faster than last year......

Next, there were five or seven pairs of cards, all of which were guns against cards, swords against cards, etc., and the crowd in the stands who did not know the truth only saw the sword flickering, and the strong man jumped and rolled, and couldn't help but praise it all together: "Good kung fu!" ”

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi were both Wenchen, and they were also frightened at this time, Sima Guang praised: "Good! This time the dance is finally a bit of a military practice. ”

Su You smiled dumbly: "Jun Shi Gong, Jie Fu Gong, my family Wei'er is a master of technical attack, she said that the Hoard Army is fierce, and the spikes have a small half of the credit, and it is the king to work hard to grasp the ground and control the center of gravity. ”

At this moment, there was an explosion, fireworks broke out, the sword and shield hands retreated, and a team of people wearing masks and spitting wolf teeth and fireworks came up.

These people are wearing the clothes of the blue post gold flower short queen, Parkin soap pants, stomping on their feet, carrying a big gong with them, dancing and retreating, called "holding the gong".

After going around the scene several times, fireworks were set off, and then another explosion sounded, and the song of "Worship the Crescent Moon Slow" sounded, and the scene of tense confrontation turned into a funny and strange slow play.