Chapter 571: Opening Ceremony
On the eighth day of August, the weather was fine.
Before dawn, the whole Dingxiang City was lively.
All the merchants who sell food in the city have made their own unique food in advance, filled it with a board cart, and urged their men to rush to the direction of the main venue outside the city.
The other group, the workers of the various workshops in the city, made breakfast early, and after a full meal, put on their most decent clothes, brought a piece of red silk that had been bought a long time ago, and rushed to the stadium with their families, they knew that today's opening ceremony would have the biggest excitement in the history of the Tang Dynasty, and they wanted to wave red silk to express their welcome to this grand event, and at the same time, they also expressed their enthusiasm for this grand event to the emperor who would be present.
As for those courtiers who have official positions, they are in the early morning under the wake-up service of the waiter in the hotel, and begin to dress up, the courtiers from Chang'an, mainly live in the Dingxiang branch of Wangjiang Building, here, today there is a very rich breakfast buffet, however, there is no gruel or drinks and the like, this is to prevent everyone from ingesting too much water, urgency during the ceremony.
Sun Xiangfu's family also began to prepare before dawn, his token can allow everyone in the family to enter the guest viewing seat with seats, even if Hongmei and Chun Tao have a big belly like a watermelon, they stubbornly have to go to the scene to watch, no way, Sun Xiangfu had to send all his own guards to escort them.
When it was dawn, Sun Xiangfu's family went out of the city with the flow of people, in fact, the opening ceremony would not start until about nine o'clock in the morning, and there were still two or three hours left! The reason why everyone rushed out of the city so early was to occupy a good position, and after dawn, when the colorful hot air balloons were lifted into the sky, the enthusiasm of the people to run outside the city was even higher.
Many people who had been playing in Shanyang City earlier had already seen this kind of thing, however, more people on Dingxiang's side didn't know what it was, and thought it was a miracle, and even the lords of many states thought so.
With rounds of fiery shouts and all kinds of nonsensical worship, as the insider's explanation slowly spread, the crowd finally settled down and accepted the unknown after the initial chaos.
Ten large hot air balloons enclosed a radius of several kilometers, and the center of the circle was the main venue. Around a central field, which was larger than four football fields in later generations, there were nearly 100 steps of turf slope, which were at a 25-degree angle and extended to all sides, which were the viewing seats of ordinary people.
In order to build this oval high slope, Changsun Impulse used more than 20,000 people, according to the original hillside terrain, dug for more than half a year, roughly, can be used for hundreds of thousands of people to see the main venue, people who are relatively behind, want to see the scene on the field, in fact, it is very difficult, four football fields are the size of a place, in a few hundred meters away, that is, a small square.
As for the people outside the slope, it is even more insecure, the whole site is open and open, and God knows how many people will gather.
Li Jing sent all the soldiers out early in the morning, outside the slope, to guard in pieces to prevent a stampede, and these people who could not enter the range of the slope could only listen to the drums and cheers in the main venue, and look at the dense human heads.
There is no way to do this, even in the future, without borrowing the TV platform, it is difficult to let hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people watch a live performance at the same time.
Around the slope, there are many black holes, which are the passages leading to the inside of the slope, the actors entering and exiting, and the tens of thousands of actors who are about to take the stage are preparing in those holes.
When Sun Xiangfu entered the venue, it was still early, so she first came to the cave to see how Yu Xiu'er's preparations were doing, for this performance, she was busy for eight months, and last night, I am afraid that there was no rest all night.
"Actually, you don't have to be so nervous, such a large-scale performance, a very small number of people have a little bit of a problem, the audience can't see it, there is no need to be perfect, as long as that's the case, by the way, did you sleep last night? If not, you can still squint for an hour, and if there is something, I will take care of it for you. ”
In the actor's rest area, seeing Yu Xiu'er, who had already dressed up and dressed up, Sun Xiangfu said with some distress. These days, Yu Xiuer has lost a lot of weight.
"It's okay, in the second half of the night, I slept on the reels for an hour or two, and this arm is still very sore, and I'm afraid that when I command for a while, I won't be strong enough."
"Come and I'll help you rub it, something like this! In the future, you have to train someone to come out and do it, and the director will perform it himself. ”
Women, when they are tired, always like to be coquettish to men, Sun Xiangfu's dog-like performance, suddenly made Yu Xiu'er's mood relax a lot, and said with a smile, "In the future, Red Sleeves and Xiangdie will come back, and I will leave this matter to them, by the way, are they here today?" ”
"It's so big, can they not come and see it! Just right, help me bring a few little ones. ”
Hearing Sun Xiangfu say this, Yu Xiu'er's beautiful eyes glanced at him with a little meaning and said, "Husband has finally opened up!" In the future, don't see them for this kind of thing! ”
"Well, this, whatever! Like, my token can give them a better seat to watch ······"
"Okay, husband doesn't need to explain, this is a good thing."
"Well, it's better to make it clear······
Just as Sun Xiangfu was chatting with Yu Xiu'er, Cheng Chumo, who was wearing a military uniform, also arrived in this area.
"Yo, I didn't see anything."
Seeing Sun Xiangfu who was chatting with Yu Xiu'er's arm, Cheng Chumo deliberately covered his eyes with his hands and said loudly.
was interrupted by Cheng Chumo like this, Sun Xiangfu was embarrassed to continue rubbing Yu Xiu'er's arm, and yelled at him, "Fool, I didn't see you cover your eyes, by the way, this is the actor's rest area, what are you doing here?" ”
"Uh, no, I'm worried that I'm busy with business and can't take care of breakfast, so I got some food and sent it over."
"Ouch, I haven't seen you for a few days, it's all cooked enough to send food, Xiu'er, don't the actors care about the food?" Sun Xiangfu deliberately quipped.
"The actors' meals are still good, and this morning, everyone is full."
"Na Na Na, you should be useless this time." After getting Yu Xiu'er's answer, Sun Xiangfu continued to quip.
"You don't know this, I have good news to tell Ruyan today, but if I don't get this news, Ruyan can't eat anything."
"Good news? What's the good news? Sun Xiangfu asked curiously.
Cheng Chumo, who realized that he seemed to have missed something, suddenly dodged his eyes a little when Sun Xiangfu asked.
Sun Xiangfu suddenly saw the clue from his expression, and said in a solemn tone, "It's a brother, just tell me honestly." ”
"Well, that's it, Your Majesty remembered that her eldest brother Zhang Cheng had a meritorious role in destroying snake venom, pardoned him for his capital crime, and let him accept lifelong labor re-education in Shanyang Labor Camp."
When Sun Xiangfu heard this, he squinted his eyes and said, "Whether Zhang Cheng can live or not should be to see if Wang Hao will die!" said, is His Majesty ready to pardon Wang Hao. ”
"No, no, didn't Your Majesty tell you a long time ago, how to deal with Wang Hao, and make a decision after the sports conference."
Sun Xiangfu didn't doubt Li Shimin's integrity, but he always had a bad feeling lingering in his heart.
continued to ask Cheng Chumo, Cheng Chumo also didn't know, Sun Xiangfu reluctantly believed what he said, and asked him to send Zhang Ruyan food.
When the time was almost the same, Sun Xiangfu was driven out by Yu Xiuer, she was about to start gathering people to prepare, and Sun Xiangfu also went to the center of the venue to prepare to line up to greet Li Shimin.
"Young Master Sun, may I ask what these things fly in the sky, I asked Tang Gong about them, they said it was a hot air balloon, how did this hot air balloon fly in the sky?"
Just walked to the center of the venue, Sun Xiangfu was entangled by Heracliu, who was at the top of the list of representatives of Fanbang, it seems that throughout the morning, their mood was very complicated, because they encountered too many incredible things.
When Heraclius asked this question, the representatives of the other countries also looked at Sun Xiangfu with expectant eyes.
"Uh, this thing! The knowledge involved is very profound, even if I tell you, you are the same as when you were in the opera house that day, the more you listen, the more you don't understand, if you want to really understand, you need to start learning from the basic culture of our Datang. Sun Xiangfu made an excuse.
"Then, can I learn the basic culture of your Datang?" After listening to the interpreter's explanation, Chirac looked at Sun Xiangfudao with more expectant eyes.
"Of course, our majesty, has always welcomed Fanbang to learn the culture of our Tang Dynasty, and he has even prepared a lot of beautiful books, ready to give them to you, as long as you understand the truth in the books, it will be much easier to learn these things."
"Really? That's really good, it turns out that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is such an enlightened and friendly person, I will definitely offer him the most pious gift······"
Sun Xiangfu's words were translated to them by the translators of many Fanbang representatives, and suddenly attracted the admiration of the Fanbang delegation.
But Sun Xiangfu's own heart is very complicated, these guys, if they all study the Confucian classics as holy scriptures, then, in a hundred and ten years, what will become of the whole world, I am really looking forward to it!
The time was close to nine o'clock in the morning, the fiery red sun, the whole earth was illuminated, a huge, painted with gold paint a five-clawed golden dragon of the big hot air balloon, dragged by the rope in the air, slowly flew to the main venue, the gold paint reflected the sun's light, so that the five-clawed golden dragon shining, as it entered the main venue of everyone's sight, Sun Xiangfu did not talk to Heraclius and them, straightened up, on the red carpet, found his place to stand.
Everyone knows that His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is coming, and this is the first time he has shown his face in front of the representatives of Fanbang, and the posture of his appearance is falling from the sky.
There was no need for people to organize, and the scene sounded like a tsunami-like 'long live'.
In the nearly 100-meter-high hanging basket, after getting through the initial fear of height, Li Shimin's mood was extremely excited, this feeling that everyone in the world was at his feet, and millions of people collectively shouted long live to him, it was simply too cool.
is also excited, as well as the eldest grandson queen, she is a person with poor cardiopulmonary function, and during the whole flight, she felt like her heart was about to spit out of her mouth, but fortunately, there was no problem.
It was the old Li Yuan, although his body was trembling all the time, but his eyes were full of excitement, who would have thought that he would be able to go back to heaven when he was alive!