Chapter 265 Chang'an City is full of bureaus

When the emperor's chariot passed by the street, the people along the way bowed one after another. They respect the emperor from the bottom of their hearts and respect the Yang royal family. If it weren't for the Yang family's unification of the Central Plains more than a hundred years ago and the establishment of a stable and powerful empire, the lives of the common people would not be as leisurely and contented as they are now. A strong empire is not only a symbol of royal glory, but the stronger the country for the people, the more stable their lives will be.

The emperor seemed to enjoy the worship of the people, and he was satisfied and pleased to feel that he was worshipped as a god. Their Yang family has done a lot of things for this empire to last for 10,000 years, and on the basis of not touching the fundamental interests of those families, they have done their best to take care of the people. This is something that the rulers of the previous dynasties and even the previous dynasties of the Central Plains have never done, and because of this, the emperor also firmly believes that the rivers and mountains of the Great Sui will last for generations.

The oppression of the common people is undoubtedly the lowest in the history of thousands of years of civilization.

The people's shouts of long live are very sincere, and they love the successive emperors of the Great Sui. Even when the state treasury was unable to make ends meet and had to increase taxes because of the reckless military force during the reign of Taizong, they only complained.

The emperor looked at the people, at his people.

He subconsciously raised his hand to straighten his crown, and his eyes became more and more determined.

Whoever you are, don't try to snatch these people out of my hands!

Whoever it is!

The gong sounded loudly, and as the procession passed, the people fell to their knees. The flying fish robes of the one hundred and eight Ouchi guards in front of them pressed forward with their swords, and they were majestic. The big red cloak was blown up, and it looked very imposing. Behind are the golden gourd warriors who hold various honor guards, all of whom are burly and athletic. Behind them were five hundred soldiers of the forbidden army, wearing bright cotton armor and looking even more solemn. Behind the forbidden army is His Majesty's Imperial Palace, which is surrounded by officers above the rank of captain of the Imperial Army, as well as the guards of the Ouchi Guard.

Behind the imperial chariot are the accompanying palace maids and eunuchs, and behind them are the civil and military officials. At the rear, one hundred and eight cavalrymen.

The red national flag of the Great Sui and the dragon flag representing the imperial family fluttered on both sides of the imperial chariot, and the court musicians walked in front of the imperial chariot and played and beat as they walked.

Emperor Yang Yi of Tianyou is a very low-key person, and he can even be said to be the most low-key of the previous emperors of the Great Sui. This is the first time in the more than ten years since he ascended the throne that he has paid such attention to pomp and circumstance, and it is very simple to leave the palace and entourage on weekdays. So this was the first time that the people had seen the emperor on such an occasion, and everyone was a little excited.

At least tens of thousands of people gathered around the square, and they did not take a step beyond the rules, and the huge square seemed even more empty compared to the density of the crowd. It was not until His Majesty had ascended to the stage that the army of Zuo Wuwei would come from afar, walk around the square and stop to form a phalanx to accept the emperor's review and lecture.

The officials of the Ministry of Rites have been busy for a long time for this matter, and now is also the time when they are most nervous, lest something go wrong, everyone knows that if today's ceremony is ruined because of a mistake, there will never be good fruit to eat. In order not to have an accident, even Huai Qiugong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, personally came out to preside over the affairs.

A member of the Ministry of Rites hurried to Zuo Wuwei's place with a few subordinates, he wiped the sweat on his forehead and said to Zuo Wuwei's general Yu Manlou: "General, don't be too talkative, may I ask how to go, how to stop, and how to line up when passing by the square for a while, how to go, how to stop, how to line up are all ready, right?" ”

General Yu Manlou smiled and said, "Do you think that General Ben can mess up today's affairs?" ”

The staff member of the Ministry of Rites hurriedly smiled and said: "Xia Guan didn't mean this, but he didn't even feel at ease with Huai Lao, so he specially ordered me to ask the general again." ”

Yu Manlou said: "Then you go back and tell Huai Lao, everything has been arranged." ”

"Oh"

The ceremonial member Wailang agreed and was about to leave, looking at the majestic team and feeling a good sigh in his heart. It was the first time he had seen so many people gathered together, and the awe-inspiring military might made him feel very small.

After he said goodbye, he rushed back to report to Huai Qiugong, although it was only February and the weather was still cold, but his body was already soaked with sweat. I found a place where no one was sitting down and kicking my breath, and before the hand that stretched out his waist was stretched, someone suddenly strangled his neck from behind, and a narrow knife swept across his neck, and blood spurted out at once.

Soon, his body was dragged away. After a while, a man dressed in the same official uniform as he walked out of his lazy place with a few retinues, and quickly blended in with the busy officials. No one noticed that there seemed to be a lot of new faces in the Ministry of Rites today.

The red sleeves recruited them for these singing and dancing performances, and naturally the stage was assigned according to the command of the officials of the Ministry of Rites. More than a dozen stages were lined up in turn, and the stage with red sleeves was in the center. There is no doubt that no one can shake the position of the leader of the Red Sleeves Song and Dance Troupe.

A few young officials of the Ministry of Rites directed the people of the Cabaret to stop next to the stage that belonged to them, and today was definitely a golden opportunity for the girls of the Cabaret. They had never performed on such an open-air stage, and one of the audience was the current emperor. At this time, the people around me were afraid that there were no less than 100,000, and there were so many dignitaries. Especially the girls in the other singing and dancing lines, they all held back their strength to compete with the people with red sleeves. Even if it can't be compared, I hope it can arouse the ideas of those big people.

The best outcome for those of them who are singers and dancers is to be concubines for a big person. So today, they are all dressed up and showcasing, thinking that if they are lucky, they may be selected by His Majesty to enter the palace.

Naturally, they would not notice that the eyes of those officials of the Ministry of Rites had been aiming at the Dianjiangtai opposite.

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The emperor's chariot stopped outside the square, and the emperor in full costume waved to the people as he stepped out of the chariot. The smile on the corner of his mouth was charming, it was the charm of a man who held the supreme power in the world. He was the emperor of the Great Sui and the most powerful man in the entire Central Plains. In addition to Meng Yuan, the emperors of other countries also had to pay courtiers when they saw him.

Under the guidance of Su Buxing, the eunuch of Bingbi in the imperial study, the emperor strode towards Dianjiangtai. The hundred officials were divided into two columns according to the civil and military grades, standing on the left and right of the point. And those nobles of royal blood and important ministers of the imperial court followed the emperor to the platform.

On the stage, the dragon chair, which symbolizes imperial power, is placed in the center.

According to the rank and inferiority, the two people closest to the emperor are Yang Yin, Prince Yi, who sits on the left, and Zhou Banchuan, the president of the Yanwu Academy, on the right. But I don't know why, Prince Yi and Dean Zhou haven't arrived yet. The emperor who ascended to the podium didn't seem to care at all, he just glanced at the chair on the left side of the dragon chair lightly, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.

Before sitting down on the dragon chair, the emperor stretched out his hand and pressed down twice, and the cheers of the people immediately stopped, and the square of no less than 100,000 people became very quiet.

Huai Qiugong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, who personally presided over today's ceremony, walked to the front and informed the emperor of today's procedural arrangements. The Emperor nodded, signaling that it was time to begin.

Huaiqiu obeyed the order fairly, and then walked to the front of the point general platform and shouted: "The ceremony begins!" ”

As these words were shouted, a Ministry of Rites official standing on a high place immediately waved the flag in his hand. On the street on the north side of the square, there were officials of the Ministry of Etiquette dancing like a relay of flags, and soon, Yu Manlou, the general who saw the flags dancing, took a deep breath, and then raised his hand and pointed forward.

"Go forward, take out the spirit of Zuo Wuwei!"

The first to start was the 3,000 cavalry, and the sound of the horses' hooves on the bluestone slabs was dense and coherent, like the sound of a rainstorm hitting a lotus leaf. Three thousand cavalry, just looking at this number is not large. But only by seeing it with your own eyes can you feel the momentum of the army beating drums. Three thousand men and horses, walking along the street, looking from the front and back, there is no end of the line. The cavalry marched and followed, and the infantry marched forward in a square of a thousand men.

Zuo Wuwei belongs to one of the six armies of the Son of Heaven and belongs to the elite of the elite. If you let the nearly 40,000 troops walk in a row, it will take a lot of time to circle the square and then line up. Therefore, in order to shorten the time spent on the ceremony, only 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry participated in the review. Most of the people have already left the city to wait.

The emperor's face was calm when he saw the cavalry contingent appear in sight from afar. But no one would ever see it, and his fists began to clench in the cuffs.

According to the regulations, the procession does not pass in front of the emperor when entering, and the procession will go out of the city after taking the oath and will walk on the avenue in front of the emperor and accept the review of His Majesty. So the cavalry entered from the side of the square, entered the square after going around for most of the circle, and lined up in the square, as did the infantry.

When Zuo Wuwei's soldiers appeared, the onlookers suddenly burst into cheers. It was not easy for the people of Chang'an City to see the army travel, because since the founding of the Great Sui, no country's army could threaten Chang'an. If it weren't for the fact that the enemy this time was Mengyuan, I am afraid that the emperor would not have called the six armies of the Son of Heaven to go on the expedition.

The cheers of the people were deafening, and they were all boiling when they saw Zuo Wuwei's majestic military posture. A sense of pride emanating from my heart immediately permeated my whole body.

A gray-haired old man trembled with excitement, he took his wife's hand and said in a trembling voice: "See! Did you see that! This is our Great Sui's male soldiers! Back then, I was a soldier in Zuo Wuwei, and I once achieved a brigade rate! I told you, even if the team passes by, there is a murderous aura, you don't believe it, you see, you see...... The long lance is like a forest, and the horizontal knife is like a sea! ”

His wife had lost her front teeth, and she couldn't speak a little unpleasantly: "I saw it...... Whoever says I don't believe it, I know you were a hero when you were young. But don't say it, looking at those soldiers, my legs are weak. ”

The old man said proudly: "That's nature, every soldier in the Great Sui is a hero." ”

He pointed to the team and introduced his wife: "Do you see the weapon in the hands of the cavalry, that is the lance." The lances used in cavalry are generally made of composite materials, which are made of fine work and have excellent toughness. And most of the long lances used by infantry are hard lances. Do you see the bows behind those infantry and cavalry, it is also different. Riding a bow is smaller than a foot bow, but has a faster rate of fire. And the foot bow has great power and a long range......"

As he said this, the old man suddenly stopped. I don't know what I thought, but I suddenly frowned.

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A carriage stopped at the gate of the Martial Arts Academy, and it was just getting dark. The emperor's guard of honor had not yet left the palace, and because the people had gone to the square, the streets were even more deserted. A few Taoists got down from the carriage, helped an older Taoist to come down, and then slowly walked to the gate of the Yanwu Academy after settling the fare.

At this time, the door of the Yanwu Academy suddenly opened.

Professor Yan Qing and another professor named Min Xu walked out side by side, and his face was extremely solemn when he looked at those Taoists.

In front of the library building of the Yanwu Academy

Dean Zhou sat at the stone table in front of the library building, looking at the endgame on the chessboard in front of him. He seemed to be very entangled in how to settle next, and his brows were a little deep.

At this time, someone suddenly said to him lightly: "How boring is it to play music alone, how about you and me play a game?" ”

Dean Zhou raised his head and looked at the person who spoke, nodded and said in a flat tone: "You are barely qualified, sit down." ”