Don't talk about others, Zhu Di was also shocked when he stepped into this huge arena.

When the audience cheered, his eardrums were buzzing with shock, and he was temporarily deaf, and this tremor from his body made him can't help but boil his blood.

It wasn't until he saw a group of women, leading the children to kneel down in the aisle to greet each other, that he recovered.

The crown princess is also in her forties this year, and the death of the crown prince does not seem to have any impact on him. Although the years have carved traces on her face, they have precipitated elegance.

"No need to be polite, get up......"

Zhang Guifei is several years younger than Zhang, but she is a generation older. At this time, without Zhu Di's explanation, she also understood what she should do at this time.

She helped Zhang up, gave up her position, and revealed the princess and the fourth-generation eldest grandson Zhu Qizhen behind.

Zhu Qizhen was born in the fourteenth year of Yongle, and according to the current virtual age, he is already seven years old.

After two years of schooling in the academy, he has matured a lot now.

Although his impression of Zhu Di was blurred, he still knelt down respectfully and kowtowed three times according to his mother's teachings. "Great-grandson Qi Zhen welcomes the return of Emperor Taizu."

Zhu Di stepped forward with a smile to pull him, Zhu Qizhen was a little clever, where did he dare to let Huang Taizu pull him, he jumped up and grabbed Zhu Di's hand. "How many heads did Taizu cut off on this expedition?"

Zhu Di paused for a moment, and said with a smile: "Yes, yes, it's my Zhu family's ......."

Zhu Zhanji glanced at Sun Xian, who lowered his eyebrows, and knew that this must have been taught by her again.

Aside from Zhu Yunwen, who was ousted from power by Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are both ruthless characters who can put pen to paper and settle the world, and martial arts can go to the horse to determine the world.

In Zhu Zhanji's generation, his personal strength is even more outstanding, in the twelfth year of Yongle, at the age of sixteen, he went into battle to kill forty-three people, which has been blown for almost ten years.

Under the propaganda of the imperial court, there was no one in the world who did not know that Zhu Zhanji's personal force was strong.

Several emperors have attached great importance to martial arts, and even regarded martial arts as more important than martial arts, and Sun Xian has naturally instilled this idea in Zhu Qizhen for a long time.

However, Zhu Zhanji did not bother Sun Xian, he once taught Zhu Zhanji, and later taught Zhu Zhan Yong their Xuanzhen Dao Master, and now he is the martial arts master of this group of children.

Regardless of whether they are interested or not, at least in their adolescence, they must lay a good foundation for their bodies, and being an emperor is not only an intellectual work, but also an individual work.

Maybe it's because of his age, Zhu Di has a good patience with the children, pulled Zhu Qizhen to ask a few words, and then looked at the large group of children behind him, showing a happy smile.

"How many children do you have now?"

Zhu Zhanji touched his nose a little embarrassed and said, "Fifty-one, twenty-seven boys, twenty-four girls." ”

Zhu Di laughed and said: "At this point, you are stronger than me, even stronger than your ancestor!" The world is so big, and it is about to have more births, anyway, some of them are divided into territories. ”

Zhu Zhanji's heart moved, the previous Zhu Di did not approve of feudalism, and Yixin wanted to establish a centralized central government.

But this expedition to the west, presumably because he saw that the earth was so big and it was inconvenient to communicate, so he now unconsciously changed his stance on feudalism.

But now is not the time to think about this, there are nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians waiting for them in the stadium!

Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji appeared in the box in the middle, there was only one large window, but there was no glass block, and the people who were paying attention to this box in the venue saw two bright yellow figures appear, and the cheers were even louder.

Zhu Zhanji, who was accustomed to this kind of atmosphere, calmly waved his hand at the people. "Imperial Ancestor, ...... you come here?"

Zhu Zhanji led Zhu Di to a large window less than one meter high, and almost all the people in the audience stood up and cheered loudly.

Zhu Di began to be a little unaccustomed to it, even at the military parade, he had never directly faced so many eyes.

Seeing Zhu Zhanji's movements, he also learned to wave his hand, and with the movement of his arm, the people and soldiers in the field also made a wave of people.

No matter what era it is, when a sport is popular, their fans will naturally have various ways to support it.

From the beating of gongs and drums outside the venue, the uniform costumes, to the various slogans inside the venue, including the crowd waves, all appeared spontaneously.

Especially the celebration of human waves, which requires the cooperation of the whole audience, when it appeared in the eighteenth year, the audience was still chaotic, and in the nineteenth year, no matter which game, the audience looked better than whom.

Zhu Di saw such a celebration for the first time, and was a little stunned for a while. His hand also forgot to swing, and his hand stopped, and the human wave came around in a circle, and then stopped.

Zhu Di wanted to wave his hand again, but Zhu Zhanji hurriedly stopped him and said with a smile: "Imperial ancestor, is it as happy as an arm?" But today is not a competition, let everyone rest for a while, there will be a military parade soon. ”

Zhu Di was still unsatisfied, propped his hands on the windowsill, and looked into the field. "100,000 people gathered together, and they are still so concentrated, it is almost comparable to the battle formation of thousands of troops. Now that the royal family has an additional channel to enjoy with the people, the people will be more loyal to our royal family. ”

Although Zhu Di is old, his thinking about the problem has not aged, and after a while, he can see the main role of this arena.

For Zhu Zhanji, whether it is a Keju competition or a military parade, it is actually less important than connecting the high-ranking royal family with the people.

In this era, there is no television, no radio, and although the people have the emperor in their hearts, they are only loyal to the position of the emperor, not to anyone.

Only by letting the common people and the soldiers see the emperor can this kind of worship be transformed from a vague concept into personal loyalty.

Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties, as long as they are not puppets, will like military parades.

On the one hand, it is to win the hearts of the military, and on the other hand, it is to find its own sense of existence.

The arena, which can accommodate 100,000 people, is a place more suitable for personality worship than anywhere else, and when the eyes of 100,000 people are focused on one person, under the herd mentality, the inner worship will quickly be concretized.

It can be said that this arena was built, as long as the emperor did not go perverse and knew how to act in front of the people, at least the local people of Tianfu would definitely not stand on the opposite side of the royal family.

Because through the arena, the royal family let the worship of the people settle down and pinned it on reality.

Embodied worship is more stable than worship without a goal, and it does not change easily.

A person who has no faith may not worship God, or he may worship God when he sees him. But anyone who already has faith will not easily change his faith, and this is the truth.

The two sat down at the window, and Li Liang, who was standing in front of the podium, immediately raised his right hand, and the musicians who had been paying attention to him for a long time immediately beat the drum in front of them.

In order to compete for this position, Li Liang and Lu Zhen also fought for half a month. After all, Lu Zhen is old, and he is short of energy, and it is difficult to hold on to chanting for two hours, so in the end, Li Liang won and served as the host, and Lu Zhen hung up the title of commander-in-chief.

Today, a total of 360 drummers are evenly arranged in the venue to ensure that people from every direction can hear the sound of the drums.

Apart from the sound of drums, there are no other musical instruments for today's celebrations, and everything is carried out according to the military music of the army.

When the three hundred and sixty drums were beaten at the same time, the resonance of this wave made everyone excited.

In preparation for today's celebrations, all the parade soldiers have been trained for three months, and although they may not be able to walk in a uniform manner, they are at least presentable.

No one is better at engaging in this kind of formalistic stuff than Zhu Zhanji.

Moreover, he not only transferred the Jingwei and the Beijing army, but also included some border troops who did not go to the expedition, and almost every army was transferred.

In this way, when propagandizing, it will not make some border soldiers, border guards, feel that they are being ignored.

All the people who were transferred over were required to be between 1.75 and 1.8 meters tall, and the flag bearer in front was more than 1.8 meters.

What is more difficult than the transfer of soldiers and the training of soldiers is to write a satisfactory propaganda script, because the current civil servants still like to use classical Chinese to introduce the situation of each military guard.

This kind of article with beautiful words but no momentum looks too sissy when it comes to military parades.

Zhu Zhanji even took matters into his own hands and wrote several propaganda drafts introducing the situation of various armies, and then asked others to write them in his format.

After several drafts, all of them were reviewed by him before they were taken out and used.

A neat drum beat stopped, and Li Liang, whose voice was slightly sharp, approached the speaker and shouted loudly: "On June 26, the twentieth year of Yongle, my majesty the emperor of the Ming Empire, the royal conquest, the triumphant ceremony, now begins to ......"

As soon as the words fell, fireworks were immediately lit at several corners of the arena, and then outside the arena, a salute rang out, and for a while, it was very lively.

Zhu Di was very amused, but scolded with a smile: "Empty head and brain, insignificant." ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "This is not for the emperor's grandfather, but for the whole audience, civil and military officials." There were no outsiders present at this time, and there were a few trustworthy chamberlains behind him, and Zhu Zhanji changed back to the title of the emperor's grandfather.

Zhu Di nodded and agreed: "Yes, it took a lot of thought." ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "The wonderful is still to come, please get ready to take the stage......

At the entrance, the representatives of the soldiers who went out this time were already waiting there. After the salute stopped, Li Liang shouted: "Now, the audience stands up, and I am invited to give a speech by His Majesty the Emperor ......of the Ming Empire."

Wang Yan and the others led Zhu Di out of the door, through the passage, to the prominent podium.

And everyone in the audience got up, clenched their right hands into fists, put them on their left chests, and saluted Zhu Di.

Zhu Di felt that his two legs were light, and when he came back, he was still thinking about whether to give Zhu Zhanji a Zen position.

But enjoying this much-anticipated glory, he felt that this throne was even more precious.

Standing in front of the podium, Zhu Di took a deep breath and gave a military salute to everyone, cheering in the arena, and from time to time he could hear the slogan of long live long live long live.

Zhu Di read a "Western Expedition Essay" written by him, the main purpose of which was to give justice to this war.

I, Daming, didn't run tens of thousands of miles for no reason to fight a battle that didn't benefit Daming much.

And in reality, not many people pay attention to this. As long as the war is won, few people will die, and the livelihood of the people will not be affected, and the people will only have a sense of pride.

Moreover, Zhu Di also has a failure, that is, 徵文 written in classical Chinese.

In addition to the soldiers who entered the arena today, they were their relatives, and most of them did not know how to write and ink, so that many people did not know what Zhu Di had read.

They could only see others applauding, and he applauded, without the rhythm of the beginning.

Zhu Di also seemed to feel bored, and quickly finished reading the text, wanting to see what other arrangements were made below.

However, when he was about to come down, Wang Yan, who was behind him, reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, raise your right fist and wave it a few times." ”

Of course, Zhu Di, who often parades in military parades, knew this way to boost morale, but it was only because he faced more ordinary people that he didn't think about it.

After Wang Yan's reminder, he immediately raised his fist to the sky. And the people in the audience also followed his movements, raised their right fists and shouted: "Long live Daming!" Long live Your Majesty! ”

This made Zhu Di intoxicated again, and he stood there and waved dozens of times before putting down his arm.

After retreating through the passage, he asked, "Why are these ordinary people so united now?" ”

Wang Yan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is all because of the Keju Contest twice a year, and the royal family has representatives present every time, and it is already a common practice to shout long live the Ming Dynasty, long live Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Di nodded and said: "Keju can cultivate the style of martial arts, and it can be vigorously promoted in the future!" ”

"His Royal Highness has been promoting, and now there is rubber from Dongzhou, and the ball of Keju is made of rubber and then inflated, which is more resistant to kicking than the original pig."

Back in the box, Zhu Di sat down and asked Zhu Zhanji. "Isn't the Dongzhou fleet still unreturned?"

"The main fleet should return in July and August, but some goods and crops have already been shipped back last year."

Zhu Di didn't know much about this matter, and asked: "Is there really an acre of land that can produce crops of ten stones?" ”

"The yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes is more than ten stones, but corn is not enough, and it is not much different from wheat and rice. However, corn does not require soil power, and can also be grown on hillsides, so it can be promoted in the northwest. ”

In the venue, the first army to be reviewed has come over, they are this Western Expedition, Zhang Chang and Jin Wuwei, the first meritorious Zhang Chang, Jin Wuwei, Fu Junwei, Teng Xiangwei three guards.

They fortified the north of the city of Herat and killed more than 70,000 enemies in one fell swoop, including Shaharu and his four sons, so they were the first to be crowned.

In Li Liang's introduction, they have become synonymous with heroic martial arts. However, ordinary people and military families like to listen to this, and the louder the blow, the louder the cheers.

When they passed under the rostrum, Zhu Di got up and waved his hand, gave a military salute and sat down. "This evening, our grandfather and grandson will have a good chat together, and we will talk about this later."

Zhu Zhanji nodded, now is not the time to talk about things.

As soon as he thought so, Zhu Di said again: "What do you think about abolishing the funeral system?" ”

Zhu Zhanji didn't expect him to raise this question at this time, so he reacted after a moment and replied: "Grandson wants to publicize the wind of thin burials. ”

Zhu Di didn't expect Zhu Zhanji's answer to be so unexpected, and he paused for a moment before muttering: "The wind of martyrdom and thin burial ......"

Zhu Zhanji didn't wait for him to ask, and said: "Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the trend of thick burials has risen, and these dynasties and dynasties, as well as the Han Dynasty, have been popular for a period of thin burials, and the rest are thick burials. But now, the thicker the tomb, the more damaged it is, and the people rob the tomb, and they are repeatedly prohibited.

Moreover, most of the thick burials are accompanied by various antiquities, gold and silver, which also makes the folk gold and silver in short supply. Controlling thick burials increases the circulation of gold and silver. ”

Zhu Di said in a deep voice: "I'm talking about people......"

Zhu Zhanji knew that this was Zhu Di's heart knot, since Zhu Yuanzhang's death, most of the concubines were buried, and Zhu Di also wanted to have concubines buried after his death.

But now that Zhu Zhanji has abolished the funeral system, if he still lets people accompany him to the funeral, then he will definitely be portrayed as a faint king.

Moreover, Zhu Gaochi has been dead for more than a year, and he has not yet been buried in the ground, and his concubines have not been buried.

These two things put Zhu Di there at once, and he didn't dare to let people be martyred. At this time, it is normal for him to have some resentment towards himself.

Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and said, "Who is not raised by a father?" Who doesn't eat whole grains? There are differences in identities and bloodlines, but they are all the same.

The emperor's grandfather, the grandson often empathizes with the government, and the grandson often measures left and right, and follows the principle of not doing to others what you don't want to do to others.

Therefore, the grandson can be thoughtful, and in a short period of time, he can make the ministers return to their hearts. This does not depend on the identity of the grandchild, but on the fairness of the grandson. ”

Zhu Di sneered and said in a low voice: "Do you think this world is really fair?" ”

Wang Yan and Liu Wan, who were standing behind them, couldn't wait to be far away outside at this time, and when they heard such a conversation between the emperor and the grandson, their lives were in a thought!

Zhu Zhanji didn't feel too much pressure, if it was before, he would definitely be directly subdued in front of Zhu Di, but after three years of imprisonment, he felt that he had enough confidence.

He stood up first, waved his hand to the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion who walked to the stage, and then turned back and said, "There is no absolute fairness, only relative fairness. However, as the makers of the system, we must always maintain the bottom line of fairness. ”

"Yes, you finally get it." Zhu Di laughed: "I am relieved that this country will be handed over to you." ”

After saying that, he let out a long sigh, obviously feeling a little depressed that he would not be buried with him.

There is no way to have it both ways, and now, he can only follow Zhu Zhanji's rhythm, unless he doesn't want his reputation.

In the venue, the team that went out to be read will soon be all simple.

Their teams were not strictly trained, and even at this time, that is, they were in a neat formation, and they were still marching at their usual pace, so they didn't seem to be very interesting.

However, the interest of the common people and the civil and military officials did not dissipate, because they had already learned in the newspapers that Zhu Zhanji had specially trained a group of soldiers to serve as the army to be paraded.

In the past few months, the newspapers have often mentioned it, and everyone's interest has been aroused.

Zhu Di is also interested in these soldiers, and he really wants to see what tricks Zhu Zhanji can play with these soldiers.

Moreover, he also likes the military parade very much, showing the muscles of Daming in front of thousands of foreign envoys and making them afraid, of course, it will make him feel happy.

At this time, Li Liang's voice became low. "What is coming to us now is the representative of the veteran who sacrificed his youth and blood to expel Meng Yuan when the Ming Dynasty founded the country. The youngest of them was sixty-five years old, and the oldest was eighty-six. Although their bodies are aging, they still have the immortal military soul of the Ming Dynasty in their bodies. Now, let's stand and pay tribute to these former warriors. ”

Hearing Li Liang's words, even Zhu Di couldn't help but stand up and look at the venue.

Ninety-nine old men, some of whom were disabled, blind, with severed hands and legs, came in through the entrance, but one by one they held their heads high, clenched their fists against their chests, and showed their afterglow to the audience.

Although they can no longer take neat steps, they can be glorified in front of His Majesty the Emperor today, and they have no regrets in dying.

Zhu Di kept standing up straight and saluting, and when they walked over, he said to Zhu Zhanji: "It's a good job, you have a heart." ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang, let's just stand here and watch, today's arrangements are more than that." ”

When the veteran walked over, Li Liang's voice sounded again. "Now coming to us is from the Nuer Gandu Division, the northeast frontier guards of Duoyan Sanwei, although they do not have outstanding records, but for decades, they have been sticking to the coldest frontier of the Ming Dynasty, starting from scratch, turning millions of miles of land into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and turning countless wastelands into fertile land. Without them, there would be no peace in northern Xinjiang. ”

Now it was the trained soldiers, who had finished their formation at the entrance, and then walked in unison, and after less than thirty paces, they grasped their steel guns and kicked them up.

According to the course of the stadium, the formation is arranged in eight columns, each column is twelve rows, a total of 96 people. In front of them, there was also a standard-bearer, two flag-bearers, a total of ninety-nine people.

When the neat ninety-nine people kicked up together, although the number of people was small, the shock was not small at all.

There was a burst of shouts from the audience, and many people even applauded,

They don't squint, follow the beat of the drum, and their steps are neat, attracting everyone's attention.

When they came to the bottom of the rostrum, they chanted with the sound of the flag-bearer: "Salute!" ”

Everyone raised their right hands, propped up at a forty-five-degree angle, and their fingertips were eyebrow-raising.

They raised their heads slightly, looked at Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji, and shouted neatly: "Long live Daming!" Long live Your Majesty! ”

The people in the stadium also shouted along with their chanting: "Long live Daming!" Long live Your Majesty! ”

Seeing this scene, Zhu Di's body couldn't help but tremble, this is the strong army in his mind!

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