Chapter 206: The Celebration of the King
After the old city of Hetuara was breached, it was equivalent to announcing the complete collapse of the Manchu power.
Hu Zongxian let Ran Wu sit in Shengjing, continued to screen prisoners, confiscate the property mansions of the Manchu nobles, search for the remnants of the fish that slipped through the net, and other aftermath work, and he secretly returned to Guangning City from Shengjing with more than 100 personal guards.
Di Qing also temporarily handed over the affairs to the deputy general, and rushed back to Guangning City with his personal guards.
The shanjia stationed in Gaizhou also rushed back.
Liu Ji also temporarily put aside the affairs of Liaoyang and rushed to Guangning City, and Cao Bianjiao, the garrison of Liaoyang, was temporarily in charge of the affairs of the city.
Including Bai Jinxiu in Datong, as well as Li Yongnian, the general soldier of Datong, and Mu Zuo, the prefect of Datong.
They were all ordered by Jiang Chuan to rush back to participate in Jiang Chuan's celebration of being crowned king, and at the same time to participate in the first strategic discussion meeting after Jiang Chuan's kingship.
Hu Zongxian sent someone to escort the Manchu Emperor and the Empress Dowager and other Manchu nobles prisoners have also arrived in Guangning and are secretly imprisoned.
Di Qing arrived in Quang Ninh City almost at the same time as the envoys sent by the three Korean countries.
In fact, Jiang Chuan didn't plan to do this celebration in the first place, he always felt that this kind of thing was a false ceremony and didn't make much sense.
It's just that Su Qin thinks that since ancient times, in addition to relying on strength to ascend to the throne, all kinds of grand and cumbersome ceremonies and ceremonies are also a necessary means, and the so-called etiquette cannot be abolished, which is probably what it means.
Jiang Chuan also understood, in fact, Su Qin's meaning was to increase the sense of sacredness of himself, the king of Qin, through a sense of ritual and add a layer of aura to himself.
On the other hand, it is also to take this opportunity to let all the people of Liaodong know about this matter, so as to play an inspiring and deterrent role.
At the same time, there is also the purpose of taking this opportunity to rein in the forces under Jiang Chuan's current command.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Jiang Chuan accepted Su Qin's opinion and decided to hold this ceremony.
The ceremony was held in the new Qin Palace, and in addition to Ran Wu, all the high-level officials of the entire Jiang family army attended the ceremony.
In addition, there are also the main officials of Quang Ninh City, of course, all of whom are those scholars recruited by Jiang Chuan from the Hanlin Academy in the base.
There are also many big merchant squires who rushed from Datong after hearing the news, and these people have a very clear purpose, that is, to come to Jiangchuan, the actual king of Liaodong, to be familiar.
Today's Jiangchuan is no longer the Jiangchuan that occupied the nest of horse bandits pennilessly in the past, but the real big man who destroyed the Manchu Qing Dynasty, unified Liaodong, and made the three Korean countries and the Mongol tribes submit.
With the keen sense of smell of these businessmen, they will never let go of this good opportunity to hug their thighs.
In addition, there were envoys from the Mongol tribes that surrendered to Gangcheon, as well as envoys from the kings of the three Koreans.
In order to carry out this ceremony in an orderly manner, Bai Shan, a general under the command of Jiang Chuan, was personally responsible for the security work, and the entire Quang Ninh City was full of stubborn patrol soldiers.
The guards at the gates on all sides of the city gate also became extremely strict in checking the people entering and leaving, and once they were found to be carrying weapons, all those who were arrested on the spot.
Directly north of the central square of Quang Ninh City, a huge high platform was erected, and an incense table was set up on the high platform.
On the incense table are three animals and other sacrificial items.
On both sides of the high platform are filled with flags of various colors, including the military flag of the Jiang family army and the golden banner with the words King Qin written on it.
On the south side of the high platform stood the crowd of guests, the aforementioned people.
Around the entire square, there were swordsmen from the Guards Battalion who were dressed in black and armor with a stubborn and grim expression, and their sharp eyes like falcons scanned everyone who appeared in the square.
At the slightest movement, these swordsmen will kill them as quickly as possible.
Further down the periphery of the swordsmen of these guard battalions, there were countless people with hats and even bare heads watching.
The fierce and fierce swordsmen of the Guards kept them from making a loud noise, but they could not stop them from whispering, and the curiosity of the people drove them to talk about everything they saw and heard.
Together, these whispers turned into a loud buzz that enveloped the central square.
The swordsmen of the Guards Battalion with grim expressions were divided into two columns, one facing inward and the other facing outward, looking at the whispering people with indifferent and vigilant expressions, and did not mean to stop them in the slightest.
Jiang Chuan is not a fascist, so naturally he will not be authoritarian to the point where he doesn't even let people speak.
Suddenly, a bell rang throughout Guangning City, which was a bell from the yamen of the prefect of Guangning.
The humming of all the whispering crowds suddenly stopped, and many people looked for the place where the bell rang in a daze.
After the bell, dozens of long, thick horns rang out in the desolate and distant voice, enveloping all directions. Amid the desolate whimpering sound of the trumpet, the crowd fell silent.
It seemed that the whole city of Quang Ninh seemed to be quiet, and everyone involuntarily stopped their steps, raised their heads, pricked up their ears, and looked in the direction from which the horn came, wanting to find out what was going on.
These horns were sounded by the trumpeters of the army who had arranged in advance on either side of the high platforms in the central square.
As soon as the horn ceased, there was a rhythmic sound of horses' hooves, and people followed the sound of a neat and mighty team of horses slowly marching from the street on the north side of the central square.
All the horses in the whole horse team were composed of pure white Arabian war horses with tall bodies and no stray hair on their bodies, and the whole horse team had one hundred and one horses.
All the knights on the horse were silver helmets and silver armor, with blood-red cloaks behind them, sitting upright on their horses, holding a big sword in one hand and a big sword in front of their chests, and their eyes were resolute and blazing looking at the tall figure at the front of the entire horse team.
The figure in the front was extremely different, he was wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, and the outside was covered with a dragon robe embroidered with a four-clawed golden dragon, and the golden dragon on the dragon robe was galloping. Behind him was a cloak as dazzling as a flame, fluttering in the morning breeze.
There was a huge two-handed sword hanging from his waist, and under his crotch was a fiery red horse like a beating flame, and there was not a single stray hair on his body, which looked like an extremely divine horse.
He is naturally Jiang Chuan.
The hundred silver-armored knights guarding behind Jiang Chuan are all composed of the most powerful all-round warrior knights in the fortress arms, and the war horses under their crotches are also carefully selected by Jiang Chuan from the horse farm in the fortress base, so it can be said that both people and horses are absolutely luxurious.
As the rhythmic sound of the horse's hooves got closer and closer, the image of the entire horse team became clearer and clearer in the eyes of the onlookers, and the contrast between Jiang Chuan's image and the hundred silver-armored knights behind him suddenly gave everyone an extremely strong sense of visual impact.
The scene was like a cluster of bright red flames jumping in the snowflakes in the sky, which was extremely visually impactful.
The crowd, stunned, let out a "Wow! It was as if a huge exclamation point suddenly popped up in the sky.