Chapter 180: The Kingdom is Founded
After a lot of preparations, the inauguration ceremony of Lin Ji was finally held as scheduled before spring ploughing.
On the day when the ceremony began, all the residents of Chaolin City, except for the guards from all over the city, dressed up and went to the central square to participate in the ceremony.
Soldiers lined up in neat formations on both sides of the palace. They wore uniform elephant skin combat boots, a uniform dark green military uniform dyed of green copper ore, and a narrow-brimmed rattan hat wrapped in copper.
Except for a few of the materials used in the small forest town, most of the items were produced in the city.
After the soldiers entered the procession, they stood still and looked majestic.
Thirty meters away from the soldiers was a group of people from the city's subdivisions, workshops, or residential areas.
They wear a wide variety of colors and styles.
Many people were wearing clothes that Lin Ji had issued before. Some people wear winter clothes, and after wearing a vest inside, they wear them openly; Some people are wearing summer clothes, but they are wearing them over sweaters.
More people wear the products of Chaolin City in the past two years. The materials of these clothes are wool, tweed, hemp, leather, and there are also several materials mixed and matched. For example, embroidering a piece of animal skin on the knee of the trousers, and sewing the collar of the leather coat with linen. The styles are mixed and matched, but they are not ugly and quite functional.
There is green copper ore pigment in the city, blue malachite pigment, and there is also madder grass that can take red here. With these three basic pigments, Lin Ji found some color ratios and made a printing and dyeing factory, and the colors of the clothes on their bodies were also colorful.
Men are usually blue, green or black. Women are the color of the rainbow, how bright and how to wear. The style of the clothes is to choose the suitable style of the clothes taken out by Lin Ji and make it according to it. Of course, they generally choose a more relaxed and convenient style to work, which looks not much different from the later generations.
It's just that in addition to these attire, they also wear various accessories or headgear. If a person from a tiger background was a horned warrior before, he would wear his original horned hat. Hunters who have hunted beasts may also wear tooth necklaces if they still have their teeth.
Some people will also wear flowers, shells, freshwater pearls, stones, etc. according to their original customs. Even if you don't have these, you will hang a mineral water ** or something other more chic on your body to show grandeur.
After the soldiers and people were basically assembled, the elders, officials and generals at all levels also arrived in front of the palace one after another.
Their attire was different from that of the soldiers.
The elders wore a black blouse with epaulettes of the dragon and tiger scepter, and held a newly carved dragon and tiger double-headed scepter in ivory, which looked quite majestic.
The ministers of the Government Council wore mainly black suits, and wore embossed bronze dragon and tiger badges on their chests. They also look extremely energetic.
Officers above the commander level still wore green uniforms, but they wore flat-headed caps with stars, and their armbands were distinguished by bronze stars. Each by one carries a long knife or sword at his waist, and he looks majestic.
"The king has arrived!" Elders, officials, and generals stood still on the steps, and when it was nine o'clock in the morning, a shout was heard in the distance, and the audience was silent.
On one side of the square, a team of palace guards opened the way, and the white-haired Xiaobai held a spear more than three meters long and led an elephant whose coat was dyed gold. Lin Ji sat on a chair on the back of the elephant. Behind him was another group of palace guards riding bighorn deer.
Lin Ji also wore a suit, but his suit and shirt were embroidered with gold threads with golden dragons and tigers. Make him look extraordinary.
All of these clothing and accessories are the credit of Hu Yi'er. In terms of various rituals, women are too particular about it than men. When Hu Yi'er and the others began to work on this, Lin Ji only gave a few suggestions and a few materials, but after she was busy, she became the appearance in front of her.
Lin Ji felt that if this wife had been like this in the future, his life would not have to worry about him. Presumably, such a queen will also be liked by everyone.
Judging from the current situation, Hu Yier's efforts are indeed very likable. In addition to the satisfaction of the people who wore these, this also successfully made the people in the crowd jealous.
As one of the few guests of the ceremony, Bayang and his entourage were arranged to watch the ceremony directly opposite the palace. Judging from the situation of the location, the treatment is not low.
But they stood in the crowd in foul-smelling hides, and compared to the people around them, they were as out of place as the short-haired bison in the migratory herd, which made people feel embarrassed.
Because of food restrictions, the people of the Mao tribe had never gathered on such a large scale. At this time, seeing the scene of tens of thousands of people gathering together, the feeling in Bayang's heart was even greater than when he saw this city.
Tens of thousands of people, even if they are not armed, are prohibitive, if they attack together, where can they be stopped?
Seeing Lin Ji riding an elephant again, it was like the arrival of the son of God, and he secretly made many grand wishes in his heart. He vowed to go back and let the people of the Mao tribe wear such beautiful clothes, and also train the warriors into thousands of people as one, and also build such a big city, so that so many people can live in the same place. Finally, he will be king, too!
The forest trail rode past the front of the soldiers, and was saluted by the troops. The people on the opposite side also stood up and bowed.
In front of the stone steps of the palace, the ladder set up by the guards, and the forest trail calmly descended from the elephant, and the ceremony began.
At the beginning of the ceremony, there was nothing to do with the forest traces. At this time, it was the time for the old ladies of the Presbyterian Church and the other leaders in the crowd to be busy.
They had a cart pushed and placed on the road in front of the palace. On the carts are sacrifices prepared according to their respective customs and totems. They found the cart that their men had prepared and began the sacrifice.
These people sacrificed in different ways, but the content was a unified ritual of handing over power. That is, the management of the tribes is handed over to the forest trails. For the people at this time, only after such a ceremony can they hand over power. After the forest trails, the founding of the country to take over all these tribes is also "justified".
These ceremonies lasted for a long and short period of time, as there were so many sacrificial stalls that the forest ruins only had to go and pay homage to their rituals at the end of their rituals.
Stone Beak took a few people with cameras or ** to follow Lin Ji and record some key moments. Subsequent forest traces will be printed as photos or made into videos for retention.
In this project, Roasted Yang saw that the same ritual was being carried out by the mushroom pickers.
He was red-eyed.
After getting the talk of free love, he spent the next few days looking for mushroom picking. Not on the hill outside the city. It is said that except for the steamed buns sent back that day, he has not returned since, and he has eaten and lived in the textile factory. The various colors of clothes that Bayang sees now have her credit.
When he heard that she was in the textile factory, he went to the textile factory every day. But at that time, in addition to picking mushrooms in the textile factory, there were also many women from Human and Ji Lin who were busy inside, and the guards also increased their level, and every time Bayang went, he was stopped at the door.
According to his temper, he would have gotten in. Helplessly, Yuanxiao and others were by his side every day, every time he wanted to get angry, he would talk about Chaolin's rules, and he also felt that his more than 200 people could not take advantage of this city of tens of thousands of people. So, he had no choice but to give up.
At this time, Cai Fu was wearing a white long-sleeved T-shirt and simply tied a ball head. After her illness was cured, her body may have waited for the belated development, and it seemed that she had grown a little taller and her skin had become a little whiter.
Her sacrificial material should be the simplest of all the sacrifices, where there is only a pot of fire, a bundle of grass, a basin of salt water, and a bighorn deer.
But I don't know who prepared the bighorn deer, it's really a mount for picking velvets in previous years. Therefore, even in the midst of a simple sacrificial ceremony, she interacted with the deer and showed a bright smile.
The girl in white smiled, and that youthful feeling made Bayang look dry.
He wanted to rush out at this time, but when he saw the rows of soldiers standing straight on the opposite side, he could only endure it.
The deer sacrifice is at the end and ends at the latest. Because a young girl knew that when the ceremony was over, she would be separated from her deer, so she deliberately waited until the fire was burned out, the grass was fed, the water was fed, and the rituals of others were over, and then she signaled for the forest to pass.
The forest trail passed, with a solemn expression as before, and he bent down and raised his hand as he did to pick mushrooms, and put his hand on the head of the bighorn deer.
After the ceremony, Lin Ji said something to the mushroom. Cai Rong suddenly smiled in surprise, and then hugged his fists and bowed to the end.
Picking the deer led the deer, followed the forest trail to the front of the palace, and went up the steps in front of the palace, after the elders.
After the crowd, the slaves of the deer did not know what they saw, and at the same time erupted in enthusiastic cries. The soldiers on the opposite side almost rushed at them.
Lin Ji returned to the steps, faced the crowd, turned on the horn, and began to swear: "Today I have to be a tiger, Ji Lin, Youda...... The recognition of the tribes such as the deer is willing to follow the dragon and the tiger, and worship me as the king. I would like to lead you to fight famine, disease, reduce civil wars, and create a better life for the founding of China......"