The next day, under the auspices of Zhao Junsheng, Queen Mulan accepted Wan Yutong as her sister-in-law, and the two married Jin Lan.

Subsequently, Zhao Junsheng issued an edict to canonize Wan Yutong as Suiyang Jun, and gave her a golden sword and a waist card for entering and leaving the palace, allowing her to enter the palace at any time.

Before Wan Yutong, only Zhao Junsheng's mother-in-law Hua Yuan was named Wuchuan Jun in the entire Qianguo, "Jun" is a title set up by Zhao Junsheng specifically for his mother-in-law Hua Yuan, and now Wan Yutong is named Suiyang Jun, I am afraid that no other woman will be named "Jun" in the future.

After the ceremony, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan left Wan Yutong to eat in the palace, Wan Yutong was not easy to refuse, had dinner with them, and chatted for a while before getting up to say goodbye.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan sent her outside the main hall, "Yutong, wait a minute!" ”

Wan Yutong stopped and turned around.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Two days later, I will set up a banquet in the palace to invite Yang Nandang, the lord of Qiuchi, the Tuyuhun envoy Shiyin, and the Beiliang envoy Fuqu Anzhou and others, and there will be many ministers and generals to accompany them, you can also come over, show your face, let everyone know your identity, and don't worry about annoying you with no eyes in the future!" ”

Hua Mulan said: "I think Brother Junsheng is right, you have to come to the palace more often in the future, otherwise I won't follow!" ”

Wan Yutong smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, I always feel that after marrying Jin Lan with you, there is a layer of constraint on my body, and I am no longer so free." After the news of my new identity spread, I am afraid that I will be stared at everywhere I go! ”

Hua Mulan shook her a roll of her eyes: "Do you think that with your beauty, no one will stare at you wherever you go?" The identity of my Mulan's sister-in-law and Suiyangjun is just to give you a layer of protection! What do you want to do, where do you want to go, and it's not the same as before? ”

"Okay, I'll come back in two days!"

Two days later, in the evening, the palace held a night banquet, and Wan Yutong came early at the advice of Mulan.

"Yutong, you're here!" Before Zhao Junsheng could speak, Mulan got up and trotted over with her skirt.

"My sister has seen my sister!" Wan Yutong made a blessing.

"Oh, you're still coming with me, okay! The people haven't arrived yet, so let's go over there and sit down and talk! Hua Mulan pulled Wan Yutong and walked to the nearest low table for her to sit down, this position was under her.

The two women got together and chattered endlessly, and Zhao Junsheng shook his head helplessly when he saw this.

Soon, the invited envoys of the vassal states and the ministers of the dynasty arrived one after another, saluting Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and others one by one.

When everyone arrived, Zhao Junsheng picked up the wine cup and said to everyone: "Today's banquet is mainly to feast on Yang Nandang, the lord of Qiuchi, the envoy of Tuyuhun Shiyin, and the envoy of Beiliang, Fuqu Anzhou, I think you all know the three of them." Come, let's raise a glass and welcome the three of them! ”

Everyone picked up the wine cup and drank it together.

Zhao Junsheng put down the wine cup and gave Hua Mulan a look, Hua Mulan saw it, understood it, and said to everyone: "Introduce someone to Zhuqing, this is Wan Yutong, the righteous sister of Jin Lan in this palace, her father is Wan Dugui, a general under Emperor Taiwu of Wei back then!" Sister Yutong has been canonized by His Majesty as Suiyang Jun, and she has been given a talisman golden sword! ”

What does the Talisman Golden Sword do? Of course, it's protective, but does it do anything else? Hua Mulan didn't say anything, but everyone present understood that this thing was a gift from the emperor or a weapon, and if it was injured or killed, no one should dare to trouble its owner.

"I've seen Suiyang-kun!" The ministers and envoys of the vassal kingdoms who participated in the night banquet stood up and saluted Wan Yutong one after another.

The relationship between Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan and Wan Yutong was not known by many people before, only the closest people knew, but these people would not talk nonsense everywhere, so Wan Yutong would attract so many flies, and now that her relationship with these two people is open, everyone suddenly realized.

Wan Yutong got up and saluted one by one, until Zhao Junsheng beckoned everyone to raise their glasses and drink together.

After three rounds of drinking, Anzhou got up and saluted Zhao Junsheng and said: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty has heard that there are many warriors in Daqian, and this time Your Majesty has brought several warriors from Beiliang, all of whom are first-class masters, and Your Majesty wants to send these warriors to perform a few martial arts performances with the warriors of your country to enhance the friendship between the two countries!" ”

The ministers who participated in the night banquet talked in a low voice, and some people bluntly said that the people of Beiliang were arrogant and wanted to show off their might in our country.

There are also people who are indignant and threaten to send their warriors to give the Beiliang people a little color.

Zhao Junsheng said: "Since your envoy has this Yaxing, I should be satisfied!" In this way, I will not send warriors and warriors to perform martial arts with the warriors brought by your envoy, and in a few days it will be the day when this dynasty will conduct a martial arts examination, and when the time comes, your envoy will send his warriors to participate in the registration, and they will meet many warriors of my great cadre, if they can get a ranking in the martial arts selection examination, I will have a heavy reward! ”

Frustrated Qu An Zhou's eyes lit up: "Martial arts exam? If a samurai under his command gets the top few in the martial arts selection examination, can he become an official or a general? ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Being able to get the top few shows that you are already very brave and strategic, and you are naturally qualified to be an official in this dynasty!" ”

"Well, Your Majesty will send someone to sign up for a few of his samurai tomorrow!" After saying this, Anzhou sat down.

Zhao Junsheng looked at Shi Yin: "Shi Yin, does Tuyuhun also want to send warriors to participate in the martial arts examination of this dynasty like the Northern Liang Kingdom?" ”

Shi Yin is asking for it, if he can let his warriors defeat many warriors in Qianguo and Beiliang, he will definitely increase Tuyuhun's prestige, "Since Beiliang has sent samurai to participate in the martial arts exam, of course I Tuyuhun will not be left behind, and I will definitely send people to participate!" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said: "Okay, tomorrow I will send someone to find you, you only need to submit the list of samurai who participated in the martial arts and don't care, someone will notify you when the time comes!" ”

The next day, Zhao Junsheng summoned all the ministers of the imperial court to come to the Qinzheng Hall to talk about the martial arts examination.

"Zhuqing, this is the first time that this dynasty has held a martial arts examination, and we must pay special attention to it, and the Ministry of War is responsible for preparing for it. Zhuqing's family has outstanding martial arts and strategies of the children and nephews can sign up, there are good talents and beautiful jade in the army, and the generals can also recommend them to participate, they must do it beautifully, and they must be a complete success! I don't have any other requirements, but the top three must be my warriors! In Dabi, there must be no fraud, but you can make minor adjustments within the rules, as long as you don't violate the rules, you all know what I mean, right? ”

All the ministers said in unison: "The ministers understand! ”

The warriors who participated in the martial arts examination were all warriors from all parts of the country who had passed the county-level selection, and these warriors were all martial arts people.

Wu Jinshi can serve as a local garrison military attaché, and can serve as a military attache in the army, and the military rank may not be very high at the beginning, but the starting point of these people is high.

In the past, ordinary people could only be small soldiers in the army, and it was difficult to get promoted even if they made military achievements, most of them became cannon fodder, and no one knew if they died.

And now it is different, Qianguo has opened the road of civil and military imperial examinations, even ordinary people can get the road to promotion as long as they can get the ranking in the big competition, and with the identity of the imperial examination and jinshi, they can directly become officials from the beginning.

In the past few days, the weather has rarely turned clear, the first day of the martial arts expedition has finally appeared in a long time since the sunny day, thousands of martial artists from all over the country are concentrated in the racecourse, and many Qianjing people who came to watch the battle are surrounded by the racecourse.

The spectators sat in the stands, there were more than 20,000 people, and the stands of the entire racecourse were full, just because there was news that the emperor would personally appear in the main stand to watch the game.

There have long been people inside and outside the racecourse who have been paying close attention, and as soon as the list comes out, they will immediately open a handicap for hundreds of people to bet on.

This martial arts examination is different from the Wenju, the so-called Wenju has no first, there is no second, the ranking of the Wenju examination is all determined by the examiner, the subjectivity is too strong, and many people are often not convinced; But martial arts are different, winning is winning, losing is losing, and the victory is determined by the competition and confrontation, which is straightforward and clear, and it is not possible to lose or not accept it.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan took the children to the racecourse under the escort of the Dragon Guard, and as soon as they walked up to the main stand, Zhao Junsheng said: "Yo, there are still a lot of spectators, so I'm afraid there are still many people who don't have seats, right?" ”

"It's true that there are still quite a few people who don't have seats! Your Majesty, Niangniang, please go this way! Gao Xiu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said, and led Zhao Junsheng's family to the main stand.

Many spectators in the surrounding stands and in the other three stands saw the emperor and empress appear, and they all bowed down and shouted long live, and the other spectators reacted and also bowed down and chanted, cheering one after another.

Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan sat down with the child and instructed the eunuch: "Let the people get up!" ”

The eunuch asked Gao Xiu to bring a trumpet-shaped thing and shouted: "Your Majesty has a decree, everyone is exempt from courtesy!" ”

Only then did the people get up and do it again.

"Your Majesty, can we begin?" Gao Xiu asked.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and looked, many ministers and generals who were not on duty in the court and the central government had come, and several envoys from the vassal states had also arrived, so he nodded: "Let's start!" ”

Gao Xiu immediately ordered the soldiers around him to pick up the order flag and wave it several times in a row, and the examiners and referees on the field immediately announced the start of the martial arts competition.

The first round of the test is the riding and archery competition, which is to ride a horse and shoot an arrow within the specified time, and only if the hit reaches the specified level can you be eligible to enter the next round, otherwise you will be eliminated.

The area of this racecourse is large enough, and the first round of riding and archery competition arranged 20 shooting ranges for the competition, and all the martial artists who participated in the martial arts scientific examination were divided into 20 arenas to participate in the competition.

Ten arrows per person, ten targets, each target has ten rings, the horse is provided by the examiner, and the hit of more than seventy rings can be promoted to the next round, which is not only a test of riding and archery skills, but also a test of riding skills, after all, it is not a horse that they often ride, but provided by the examiner, and it takes very exquisite riding skills to drive the gallop freely.