As early as dawn, the eastern suburbs were surrounded by crowds, including poor people, wealthy merchants, and even nobles and officials, all dancing and waiting for the start of Marseille. To Yang Zhao's surprise, the Sui Dynasty had a group of relatives and friends, and the crowd was divided into groups after groups, cheering for their own players.

Yang Zhao stood on this newly built towering stage, overlooking below, looking at the noisy and chaotic crowd below, and looking at the groups of tightly guarded guards around him, making him realize the beauty of the pinnacle of power for the first time, and he was fascinated. At this time, the guard said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, Li Yuan asks to see you."

The second brother Shan who was standing beside the prince heard the word Li Yuan, and the hatred in his heart suddenly burned, his trembling hands clenched the spear, his eyes looked straight ahead, and his irregular breathing could be heard from time to time, and a thick murderous aura radiated to the surroundings.

At this moment, the prince saw that the situation of the second brother was not right. immediately said in a low voice: "Second brother, control your emotions, now is not the time to kill Li Yuan." Yang Zhao was also in a hurry, afraid that he would do irrational things, and secretly said that he had made a mistake. When the surrounding guards found something unusual, they also stared at Shan Xiongxin tightly, and as long as he moved slightly, they would take it down.

Shan Xiongxin took a deep breath and calmed down: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't worry, I will control my emotions." ”

"Second brother, Marseille passes through the woods today, and there will be an ambush by my Great Sui soldiers on that section of the road, and that is a good place for you to attack the children of the Li family." Seeing that the second brother's expression was normal, the prince instructed the guards: "You go and bring the Dawan horse from the Western Regions to pay tribute, and I will give it to the second brother." ”

At this moment, Li Yuan's father and son had already walked to the high platform to greet the prince. Yang Zhao looked at the few people behind Li Yuan, and saw that they were all extraordinary, especially Li Shimin, although he was about sixteen years old, his every move was like a spring breeze, no wonder Ruyi would choose him.

"Lonely in the palace, I often hear people say that the sons of the country are all extraordinary, especially the people of the world, who are extraordinary in literature and riding skills. When I saw it today, I knew that what I said was true. Today's Marseille incident, I wonder if the national government let the people of the world participate? If Shimin can get good results, Gu will definitely recommend Shimin in front of his father. ”

Li Yuan originally wanted Jiancheng to lead the children of the Li family to participate in the competition and leave Li Shimin behind. Now the prince obviously wants to let Shimin compete, but it should be no problem to win the top 20 with Shimin's riding skills, so let Shimin lead the team. Li Yuan nodded at Shimin, and Shimin took a step forward: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has won the award, and Shimin is grateful to the prince for his love, and he will go all out for the next Marseille." ”

Seeing that Shimin agreed to participate in Marseille, Yang Zhao knew that the matter was halfway done, so he continued to laugh and said: "This time Marseille should not be too rigid in the rules. In other words, I hope that the people of the world will not live up to Lonely's expectations. ”

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you're here." Seeing the emperor coming, everyone quieted down and knelt down to say goodbye.

"Everyone, I want to select capable people from among the talents in Luoyang today to serve in the East Palace. The first in this competition will be awarded a BMW in the Western Regions, and another thousand taels of gold will be rewarded, and the marquis of Yongwu will be hereditary for three generations. The rest of the top ten will be rewarded with 100 taels of gold, and they will be crowned Earl Wu, hereditary for three generations. "

When all the contestants heard this, they said in unison: "Thank you, long live my emperor, long live long live." ”

Yang Guang was very satisfied with the reaction of the contestants, nodded and agreed that the eunuch would announce the rules, and he began to flirt with the concubine.

"At the beginning of the competition, the red flag waved on the high platform as a signal, and your task this time was to obtain the flag from the woods west of Luoyang and return to the eastern suburbs the same way. The first player to come back was the first player of the game. The rankings are accumulated in turn. Each of you will have a map of the tournament with specific rules on it. There is still an hour to prepare. ”

Yang Zhao was looking at Xiao Luo beside the queen, constantly crooked. And Yuwen Chengdu is quietly aiming at Princess Ruyi. It's a pity that the eyes of these two women are always fixed only in the direction behind Li Yuan.

The game was about to start, and at this time, Ru thought that his father was chatting with other ministers, and ran to Li Yuan's side: "Brother Shimin, come on." And Yuwen Chengdu, who has been watching Ruyi, is going crazy, thinking that he will definitely make Li Shimin look good later.

When the preparation time was over, the red flag waved on the high platform, and I saw that Yuwen Chengdu took the lead and rushed to the west woods with the children of the Yuwen family. Seeing his quick reaction, everyone was not willing to lag behind and ran away. The obstacle from the eastern suburbs to the western woods is basically a stone or tree one meter high. Of course, there are also many deep and wide pits, which are not difficult for horse masters.

The weather in Luoyang in June was very hot, and the competition was also past several sincerity, and the players who should not have done it fell on the obstacle road and led the horse back to the original road.

At this time, Yuwen Chengdu and the remaining two children of the Yuwen family had already come to the last obstacle fire ring in front of the woods. It is about 60 centimeters high, but there is a raging circle on it. The children of the Yuwen family stopped moving, and Yuwen Chengdu saw that he was as timid as a mouse and looked down on them in his heart, "You waste, look at General Ben rushing over." Drive. One of them jumped after Yuwen Chengdu. The other person returned along the road. In fact, there is nothing difficult about the fire ring, it is just a test of your courage.

The soldiers who had been waiting on both sides of the woods for a long time had long been impatient, and they were lying on the ground with their eyes on the ground.

"Big brother, why haven't they come yet, the weather is so hot, if they don't come again, they will heat people to death." One of the big soldiers said listlessly.

The captain also scolded: "How do I know." These turtle grandsons ride so slowly. Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves.

"Big brother, here, here." The big-headed soldier excitedly picked up the rope and prepared to rush forward, at this time the captain looked forward and found that this person was fierce and very similar to Yuwen Chengdu, and saw a Yuwen sign in front of his chest, and immediately scolded: "Stupid, that's the person from the Yuwen family, the one in front is the general of Yuwen Chengdu, you don't want to live, offend him, ten you are not enough, let's just pretend, lift the rope twenty centimeters high, and let the people of the Yuwen family pass." At this time, how did Yuwen Chengdu know that the soldiers would release water on them again, and only saw those thick ropes twenty centimeters high and covered with nails, thinking that this is the last pass? Yuwen Chengdu didn't care so much, he rushed left and right and passed directly, and the person from the Yuwen family followed Yuwen Chengdu closely without encountering any obstacles, and passed the horse rope, and was overjoyed: The earl can still be hereditary for three generations.

At this time, the players who were confused by the trap in the back also saw Yuwen Chengdu passing so lightly, thinking that the last level was chicken ribs. Immediately overjoyed, his eyes lit up, as if he had seen the picture of Emperor Yang appointing them earls, and he raised his horsewhip and was about to rush straight away.

The soldiers were relieved to see that the people of the Yuwen family had passed. Seeing that another group of people had broken through, the captain shouted and raised the rope that was twenty centimeters high to one meter. The runners who rushed straight through were caught off guard by the sudden change, and one by one they crashed into the rope covered with nails, flew off their horses, and fell to the ground, struggling, and wailing in pain.

At this time, Li Shimin and Shan Xiongxin also rushed to the jungle, and the second brother Shan stared at Li Shimin.