On February 19, Bailiyan went to the tomb of King Renwu to prepare for the priesthood of King Xian and the preparations before the sacrifice to the heavens.

Affected by the war and the situation at home and abroad, the cabinet will not be present on the day of the festival, and Bailiyan needs to do more work to ensure the smooth progress of the priest's work.

On the 22nd of February, the Eastern Front launched an offensive, but it was clearly felt that it had encountered the greatest resistance since the offensive last year, and the armpit used the key thermal explosion bomb again, but it did not cause extensive casualties among the coalition forces, but the geographical inconvenience brought by the rainforest and the quagmire seriously affected the advance speed of the Jinxian coalition forces on the Eastern Front and increased the combat casualties.

On the Western Front, the Northern Expedition was launched at the end of February, and after last year's recuperation and preparation, most of the princes of the West Sea sent additional troops and horses to the front line, especially the Xu State, and invested more than 300,000 troops and 500,000 horses of various kinds for logistics transfer, which greatly eased the logistical pressure on the Western Front.

In the first nine days of March, it was cloudy and rainy, and the meteorological observation station predicted that it would continue to rain in the next few days, and the festival was postponed until March 15, when the weather turned clear, and the envoys of the princes and princes took a special train to the foot of Miaotian Mountain through the railway bridge north of Yongxing City.

In order to take care of the face of the Son of Heaven and the princes, the pomp was not very large, but a number of video equipment were used throughout the process, and for the first time, there was a sound recording system.

From the foot of Miaotian Mountain to the platform of the railway station, the red carpet along the road is laid for five miles, which is indeed a bit extravagant and wasteful.

The Son of Heaven and King Xian stood side by side on the platform, and in the distance there were three gold-plated luxury cars ordered by King Xian. When the princes gathered, King Xian invited the Son of Heaven to ride:

"Your Majesty the Son of Heaven, please!"

"Hehe, it's still King Xian, please."

"The Son of Heaven is the Lord, and His Majesty should invite him first."

"That being the case, the widow has accepted it."

Jiang Yu's city has always been very deep, he doesn't care about the things on his face, as long as he can achieve his goal, he can endure it, even if it is ten or twenty years, he can bear it.

The Son of Heaven is one step ahead of him or one step behind him, it is just a politeness and a false snake, he really has the initiative and moderation, and the humility and bearing on the surface are the capital he needs more, at least in the next ten years, this mask of hypocrisy still has its value.

The Son of Heaven and King Xian walked at the forefront of the procession, and Bailiyan and Gongliangxiu and others walked with the team in the later procession, saying as they walked:

"Then the three taels of the Xian Throne car will not only build three." Gongliang Xiu asked, wondering why he had only seen these three cars so far.

"It's true that only three were built. At the beginning, it was customized by Dawang, so there was no supporting production line. Moreover, in the past few years, the war was tight, and the automobile had just arrived, Yongxing City specialized in manufacturing more trucks for transportation capacity, how could there be so much productivity and manpower to manufacture this kind of car.

However, Brother Gongliang does not have to worry, when the war is over, this car that ordinary people ride in will be mass-produced and sold to various places and even vassal states. ”

"But this car can only carry a few people and very little luggage, so it can't transport goods, so you won't just sell this car to me."

"If you want a truck, not yet. It will have to wait three or five years after the end of the war, and by then the vehicle factory will be expanded, and it may be rich. ”

After the completion of the third phase of the vehicle factory, the annual output of nearly 4,000 light trucks, 4,500 medium trucks, including pickup trucks, is less than 10,000 throughout the year, barely used for domestic economic construction and logistics and transportation, and there is no balance in external sales.

If it weren't for trucks, baggage, wagons, and transport, one million people would have been on an expedition of four or five thousand miles, and at least six million people would have been needed to barely ensure food.

Zhiguo's Northern Expedition relied heavily on the transportation capacity of Xianguo, and Gongliangxiu saw this deeply, but Zhiguo did not have the ability to industrialize the production of vehicles, so he could only buy them, and Mitsu Gold obviously provided sufficient financial resources for Zhiguo.

The Son of Heaven was arranged to take the first car to the foot of Miaotian Mountain, the King of Xian took the second car, and the third car was a reserve car. The rest of the princes and civil and military officials rode in a four-wheeled carriage, and the car kept a constant speed and drove slowly all the way to the courtesy post at the foot of Miaotian Mountain.

The building style of the Concierge Station is still quaint, and the faint style of wooden buildings has been retained to the greatest extent, and it is a brick and concrete hotel building built at the foot of the mountain in recent years, which is used to entertain planetarium personnel and agricultural technicians on weekdays, and is used to receive foreign guests for special events, and also accepts concessions for recuperation and accommodation.

During the journey, Baili Yan Xue Zhong took the same carriage, and Xue Zhong asked some advanced topics from time to time:

"Lord Si Nong, after the war, where will the Central Plains go, does Lord Si Nong have a long-term plan?"

"In the long run, we should first strive for more time to recuperate and recuperate, and develop industry and economy, especially industry, the industrial scale of Xianguo is still too small, and the war has been expanding in recent years, and steel production has been seriously insufficient. Therefore, after the war, the priority is to build the country and pacify the people's livelihood, and if you simply think that with the current national strength, you can recover the princes, then you are very wrong. ”

"The lower officials don't think that they can easily subdue the princes, but there should be no obstacle to pacifying the princes."

"With the current military strength of the Xian State, it is not a problem to eliminate all the princes, the question is whether the Xian State has the national strength to coordinate the economy and people's livelihood in the world.

It is easy to eliminate one faction, but it is much more difficult to clean up the mess left behind than to simply eliminate one faction, and it requires a lot of money, industrial goods, and continuous investment.

At that time, the unification of the world was only a nominal unification, but in fact it was still a re-division of rights, which led to more new princes.

It is absolutely impossible for the Xian State to unify the whole world, and it is absolutely impossible to follow this old road, so it must do a good job in all the work at the economic, political, and military levels, and this requires the expansion of the scale of the domestic industrial and economic base, so it is not enough to unify in a short period of time. ”

The unification of the territory is ultimately a high degree of unity of economic interests, and politics and economy are highly compatible, ignoring the complexity of economic interests, and considering the unification of the world purely from a political and military point of view, often after the victory of the war, they fall into a comprehensive economic predicament and are at a loss.

It is absolutely impossible for the Xianguo to carry 20 times the current land area and realize the centralization of power in the short term.

Two quarters of an hour later, the procession arrived at the newly arranged Garden Square outside the Concierge Station, where musicians from the Inner Deacon's Mansion and the Rite and Music Division lined up on both sides of the avenue, and the gilded cars came to a halt, accompanied by traditional drums and trumpets to the majestic music of Huang Zhong Dalu.

The princes and envoys accompanied by the officials of the Xian State to the square, the Son of Heaven and the King of Xian walked to the pavilion of the Concierge Post on foot, and the Son of Heaven looked at the Miao Tianshan and sighed, and could not help but say:

"The weather of this wonderful Tianshan Mountain is extraordinary."

Jiang Yu also looked up at the mist that had not yet dispersed from Miaotian Mountain, and said:

"The ancestors of this mountain climbed to worship the sky every year, and Lone also climbed the mountain many times, but the naked eye did not know what the mystery was."

In front of the Son of Heaven, Jiang Yu can only be called "lonely".

Lone is slightly lower than widow, which is the self-title of the local feudal town to the co-owner. But on most occasions, it is actually okay to call yourself a widow and the king in front of the Son of Heaven, but worshipping the heavens is a major political ceremonial activity, and you can not do anything that is transgressive, and try not to touch the inherent political conventions.

When the two were talking, Baili Yan, Xue Zhong and others walked into the pavilion, and Bai Liyan stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, the sacrifice to heaven should be all ready, and you can climb the mountain."

"Hmm." King Xian answered, turned to the Son of Heaven and asked, "Your Majesty, how are we doing together?" ”

"That's very good." The Son of Heaven happily agreed, and then said to Xiangguo Jia Zhou: "Please ask Xiangguo to hold the weapon and climb the mountain to worship the heavens." ”

"The old minister obeys."

"Holding the vessel" is both a hand holding ritual vessel, according to the past practice, should be carried by the noble wrestler in front of the monarch, but the princes and kings sacrifice to the sky according to the regulations and the king number can not use heavy weapons, such as Ding, etc., the princes and kings can only use the bean and so on, symbolic sacrifice to the sky.

Today, the Son of Heaven and the King of Xian worship the sky on the same day, and should be held by the monarch's auxiliary ministers, the auxiliary ministers of the Son of Heaven are the prime ministers, and the auxiliary ministers of the Xian King are Baili Yan.

The two of them and the wrestlers each hold a ritual vessel, and the Son of Heaven sacrifices to the heavens as a tripod, weighing about two stones. King Xian's sacrificial ritual vessel is a 簋, weighing about 200 catties, slightly lighter than the Son of Heaven.

These two ceremonial vessels are ordered and cast in advance, considering the convenience of going up the mountain, there is no casting is very heavy, and the symbolic meaning is on the line.

And Jia Zhou is now more than sixty years old, such a large age, it is obviously difficult for him to hold the big tripod to climb the mountain, and it is only symbolically holding the tripod to walk in front, and the bronze tripod is still carried up by four noble wrestlers, with a wooden pole of vermilion lacquer, and the same is true of Bailiyan.

The other princes and envoys lined up in two teams, followed the Son of Heaven and the King of Xian in order and walked slowly on the mountaineering road, and several camera equipment set up along the way up the mountain recorded this historical moment throughout the process.

Looking at the fairyland on the mountain, the princes and envoys talked to each other:

"I heard that the Xianguo ice velvet flower was first planted on this Miaotian Mountain."

"Yes, I also heard that there are also plants on the snow mountains of Wanchuan County, and after the hyelweiss flowers were planted in Xianguo, the price plummeted, and now they can be sold in Yicaotang."

"But it's still a sought-after precious herb, and only the rich can afford it."

There are all kinds of rumors here, and others are saying their own things:

"The telescope on the mountain is said to be able to catch the moon and pick up the stars, which is very wonderful, I don't know if I can have a chance to see the scenery this time."

"I want to come to Bailiyan is to spare no effort to show the prestige of the Xianguo, and this mountaineering sacrifice must be indispensable to show off in front of us."

"Xianguo boasts that it has its own capital, and I have heard that Bailiyan has spent more than 3 million Singapore dollars in more than 20 years to repair this observatory, which is beyond the reach of the dust."

Everyone chattered and talked all the way, and Gongliangxiu and the eldest son and second son were a little difficult to walk on the mountaineering road. After all, he was born as a literati, even if he also galloped on the battlefield, but he lived in the temple all these years, and he also wasted his physical strength.

"This Miaotian Mountain is really a bit high, Xu'er, how long will it take to climb."

"My father had climbed less than a third of the way, and the higher he went, the more tired he became. However, Xianguo has built a foothold in two-thirds of the height of the mountain, and you can immediately settle down and rest. ”

"It seems that your father-in-law is thoughtful, thinking that my ancestor has also climbed Cangji Mountain many times to worship the sky, but he has never thought of building a foothold along the mountain."

At this time, the eldest son, Gongliangnuo, interjected:

"Cangji Mountain is dozens of zhang higher than this Miaotian Mountain, and it is not easy to build a place to settle."

At the next moment, Gong Liangxu answered:

"The eldest brother is right, there are hundreds of people going up the mountain this time, not counting the forbidden army on the mountain and the mountain road, it really takes a lot of manpower to build a place on the mountainside where hundreds of people can rest.

I heard my father-in-law say that in the early years, the construction on the mountain relied on manpower, and it took half a year to open the mountain side out of the flat land, and it had to consider the hardships and wages of the people. ”

The father and son walked while talking, and at this time, Bailiyan and Xiangguo Jia Zhou walked side by side on the stone steps, chatting as they walked:

"A hundred steps above is the resting place, Lord Xiangguo might as well hold on for a while."

"Hehe, it seems that you can't accept the old age. Yongxinghou also has fifty and five this year. ”

"Yes, decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and it's a sigh to think about it."

Jia Zhou's words couldn't help but evoke memories of the past, and he seemed to see the scene of climbing the mountain with Jiang Hai twenty-five years ago to worship the sky.

At that time, he was still young, and Jiang Hai was also in his prime, and the two of them worked together to have today's foundation. Now that he is helping his son to ascend the throne as king, and once again opening a new era side by side, at this moment, the surging and heroic spirit in his heart is turning into a firm belief that drives him to move forward.

However, the next moment, everything had come to an abrupt end, his chest suddenly burst into a blazing flame, faintly felt a burst of sharp pain and weakness, he subconsciously reached out to touch his right chest, and when he looked down, he already knew that none of this was possible.

"Baili Yan, Baili Yan ......"

Wildland shouted frantically, but he couldn't stop the body from falling forever.

A nine-milli-caliber steel core bullet pierced his chest, penetrated through his right lung, and finally shot at the eyebrows of the salty king Jiang Yu at the foot of the two steps behind him, this bullet finally ended the lives of two people, and an era came to an end.

"The King...... There are assassins, there are assassins......"

Yan Cong shouted hoarsely, he watched King Xian fall beside him, and the bullet shot directly into King Xian's skull, but he didn't hear the gunshot.

And the Son of Heaven, who was originally walking side by side, looked at the fallen King Xian with a pale face, and the fear and horror in his heart overwhelmed him at this moment, and he sat on the ground without warning at the next moment, and was quickly protected by the Liang National Forbidden Army.

It happened so suddenly, that the envoys behind him didn't even know what was happening in front of them.

"Father, father......" Gongliang Xu rushed down the mountain road in panic, shouting incessantly, tears flooding his eyes: "Father, father......"

He fell to his knees, shouting, crying, and Gongliang Xiu still didn't know what was happening:

"What's wrong Xu'er, what's going on!"

"Father-in-law, he, was assassinated, and King Xian was also ......"

"What!" Gongliang Xiu was stunned, he couldn't believe his ears, in broad daylight, the world was expecting that someone would assassinate the first person in the world, or at this critical moment.

Qiang Zhen was shocked in his heart, and Gongliang Xiu asked:

"Your father-in-law is strong in martial arts, how can he be stabbed."

"It's a gun, it's a gun......"

"Guns, haven't you heard a gunshot!"

On the side, Gong Liangnuo hurriedly said, Gong Liangxu cried and said:

"He was killed by a gun, there is no doubt about ......"

It was indeed the 654B sniper rifle that hit Bailiyan, using a steel-core bullet, but using the latest silencer, which was a special configuration equipment issued to the Yulin Army, and was also limited to the Yulin Army.

For a long time after the bullet hit Bailiyan and Xianwang, Yan Cong and the forbidden army in charge of vigilance both noticed the gunshot, so they didn't know how to respond.

Unification must first be the identity of culture and ethnic groups, and if one of the two is achieved, unification can also be achieved.

The second is economic and political reunification, if the reunified side, after reunification, not only does not get the treatment it deserves, on the contrary, life is more difficult than before, there is less food to eat, and the status is lower, this kind of reunification may still be in the nest in the end.

Of course, the unification of military forces is also possible, but it is still only an expedient measure, and without the political and economic unity of cultural and ethnic groups, it is all empty talk in the end.

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