In the middle of July of the third year of Guanghe, the weather gradually cooled, and as Bajun Taishou Fuquan led the troops into the Beijing division for almost a month, there was a sudden noisy public opinion in the city of Luoyang, for no other reason, only because the current Han Emperor Liu Hong issued an edict to parade and hunt in the royal Shanglin Garden in the west of Luoyang City and Beikuang Mountain.

For the people who did not have much entertainment in the Han Dynasty, the Son of Heaven patrolled and hunted, and the military parade and school hunting were naturally things that could be talked about, and the Han folk customs were generally martial, and countless high-ranking officials from scribes could also be military attachés, and the civil and military were not separated, so for the common people, now they heard that the Son of Heaven was naturally excited, and combined with the news that the imperial court was going to go out to conquer outside the city of Luoyang, they naturally speculated about what the emperor Liu Hong wanted.

On this day, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the elites of the Luoyang City, who had already been stationed in Shanglin Yuan in advance, were ready to go at this moment. I saw that in the hundreds of miles of pastoral fields from the west of Luoyang City in Beijing to Hangu Pass, surrounded by Beikuang Mountain, in addition to those people who lived and cultivated in Shanglin Yuan, there were only these elites of the Han Dynasty who wore the iron armor of the Han army and had high morale.

Shanglin Yuan, whose name was originally the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty to destroy the six countries, migrated 120,000 wealthy households of the six countries to Xianyang, and arranged them to form a pastoral garden in Weinan. After the death of Qin and the rise of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the Taizhong Doctor Wuqiu Shouwang to begin to expand the Shanglin Garden in the south of Acheng, east of Xu, and west of Yichun, and to expropriate all the cultivated land and grassland of the people in this range for a fee to build various landscapes in the garden. Later, Shanglinyuan further expanded to the east and north: the north expanded to the north of the Wei River, and the east expanded to the east of Chan and Ba, forming an unprecedented scale and entering its heyday.

It is a pity that the prosperity must decline, until Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, in the first year of the emperor demolished more than ten palaces in the Shanglin Garden, took its materials and tiles, and built nine temples; After that, the Red Eyebrow rebel army attacked Chang'an, and Wang Mang's army killed him a lot in Weinan and other places, and finally caused Shanglinyuan to suffer a devastating disaster.

In the end, as the war spread, Chang'an was ruined, no one repaired it, and finally destroyed it. In the early days of this dynasty, the famous scholar Ban Gu described Shanglin Yuan in the "Western Capital Fu" with "watching the traces in the old ruins, smelling the old ones", which shows that the Shanglin Garden in Chang'an at that time was undoubtedly a ruin.

Later, Guangwu Zhongxing, the capital of Luoyang, since the imitation of the former Han Dynasty to build a forest garden, and finally in the west of the city of Luoyang, rebuilt the Shanglin Garden of Luoyang, used for school hunting parades. Today, with Liu Hong, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, leading the ministers and hundreds of officials to Shanglin Garden, the royal forest garden, which has not heard the sound of soldiers for a long time, will begin to hear its familiar sound again.

With the sound of violent drums sounding on the heavily guarded and fighting school platform, the sonorous and powerful vibration sound of countless armor soldiers marching forward in the upper forest garden.

Although most of the soldiers and horses in Luoyang City have not practiced fighting for a long time, their combat power is naturally not low in the Central Plains, but compared with the soldiers of the trilateral counties, it is a little worse.

However, since Liu Hong had the idea of conquering Xianbei in his heart, he often transferred the meritorious veterans of the border plug into the forbidden army to supplement, and the soldiers and horses selected for the parade in Luoyang City today are naturally also elite divisions dominated by the old soldiers of the border counties, which can be said to be the essence of the whole world in the Han army today.

On the school platform, Liu Hong sat on the Hu sitting, and beside him stood the eunuchs of the Central Standing Committee headed by Zhang Rang and the commanders of the troops who participated in the parade this time, but behind him were the hundreds of officials and ministers who also came here to watch the parade.

Trample! Trample! Trample!

Footsteps burst, mixed with the sound of iron armor, I saw the strong Han athletes from all over the country holding spears, bows and arrows, wearing iron armor and shackles, advancing forward in turn in the open space under the school platform, in their respective territories, laying out formations, armor shining brightly in the sunlight, they raised their heads and chests, and accepted the review of the supreme ruler of their empire.

"Father, what are the soldiers and horses under my command?"

Liu Hong looked at the school platform, his elite soldiers of the Han Empire, couldn't help but be a little proud, although most of these soldiers and horses are not pure Luoyang forbidden army, but with the elite blood of all over the country to form a strengthened army, but in the final analysis, it is the Han army under his rule, seeing this elite division, naturally proud.

Zhang Rang had a smile on his face, and then cautiously looked at the front of him, this emperor Liu Hong, who had always seemed to have something on his mind recently, and did not say many things to him, saw that there was not much abnormality, so he said: "After all, all the soldiers under his command are Han Heavenly Soldiers, and they are brave and elite, such as Emperor Shizong Xiaowu's divine soldiers who swept outside the fortress, and the four Yi in the world will be frightened when they see it." ”

Although Zhang Rang did not allow the psychological thoughts of the emperor Liu Hong, who had known him for many years, it did not affect his personality of knowing Liu Hong's great achievements, and he envied Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who sat in the deep palace but could have the Han army swept outside the world, so he naturally patted Liu Hong's fart.

"Good! Good! Liu Hong's face was overjoyed, looking at Zhang Rang and laughing, although he also knew in his heart that the other party was just complimenting himself, but it did not prevent him from continuing this compliment. Then, Liu Hong looked at the generals in Luoyang City beside him, and said with a smile: "What do you think about this?" ”

In his heart, Liu Hong, who had just accepted the compliment of the eunuchs, wanted to find another group of people to echo him, of course, he would not choose those hundred officials and ministers who came with him, everyone knew that most of those foreign courtiers did not like to conquer, advocating Confucian culture, asking them how the soldiers and horses were, and they couldn't say that they couldn't answer the questions and embarrassed themselves.

Fu Quan followed Zhang Ze, Duan Cheng and other forbidden troops in Luoyang to listen to the emperor's words, most of them didn't know how to speak, they naturally knew in their hearts the strength of the forbidden army under their command that was strengthened by elite soldiers from all over the Han Dynasty, because there were many old soldiers, of course, they were undoubtedly elite, but if it was said that the four people in the world were afraid and fled in fear, it would be a bit too much, but at this moment, they didn't dare to say it honestly, otherwise they would not be able to make the emperor unhappy.

However, some people didn't know how to speak, but some people dared to be angry and dared to speak, only to see Duan Cheng, the captain of the Yue Cavalry, say: "Back to Your Majesty, the soldiers of the Yang outside the ministers are still weak and ......."

"Luoyang County Chronicles" contains: "There is Shanglin Garden in the northwest of Pingle" refers to Shanglin Yuan in the west of the city and on Beikuang Mountain

"The rich people in the world live in 120,000 households in Xianyang. The temples and Zhangtai and Shanglin are all in Weinan" excerpt from "Historical Records: Qin Shi Huang Benji"

"So I thought that Daoyuan was working hard, and it was troubled by the people, so that the Taizhong doctor Wuqiu Shouwang and the two people who could be used to calculate the edict were from the south of Acheng, east of Xu, west of Yichun, and Tifeng Qingmu, and his Jia Zhi, and wanted to remove it as Shanglin Yuan, which belonged to the South Mountain."

Excerpt from "Hanshu Dongfang Shuo Biography"