Chapter 666: Rite Process

The infantry traveled dozens of miles a day, and at this time it was the middle of winter in the ice and snow, and it took half a month to reach the Zhenrong army from Xingqing Mansion all the way south, and it took a few more days for Tong Guan to arrive at Xingqing Mansion from Zhenrong Army. et

trembling and cautiously walked this way, but there was no danger, but Lotte was more and more worried in his heart, where was this Wuzang at this time, and what he was preparing to do.

As the saying goes: don't be afraid of thieves stealing, afraid of thieves remembering. That's how Lotte is right now.

After arriving at the Zhenrong Army, Lotte's heartstrings that had been tense were relaxed, because of the heavy responsibilities of the body, Lotte pushed the banquet of the Zhenrong Army guards directly, and the Zhenrong Army's guards looked at the Lotte Army with a heavily guarded appearance, and thought clearly that the stake must be very important, and directly raised the alert level of the Zhenrong Army.

It's late at night, and Lotte's room is still brightly lit.

"Wu Song, Xu Jiang, you two get along with each other, if you don't hide the vultures, what will you think about at this moment?" Lotte asked, frowning.

Wu Song thought for a while and said: "Official, there is a chance that eight or nine out of ten Xiao Jue's Wu Wu will die in the rebellion, or he will die in the Xia army riot after the Xingqing Mansion is broken!" ”

"I agree with Wudutou's opinion!" Xu Jiang said, paused and then said: "According to the humble understanding of Wu Zangwu, and the loyalty of Wu Zang Wu to the Xia Kingdom, there is almost no one in the Xia Kingdom, if he is alive at this time, he will never sit back and watch Li Qianshun be taken to Biandu by the Lord Shu to be humiliated, and he will do everything possible to rescue Li Qianshun, and he will never live incognito, if he really can't save the Xia Kingdom and die and die for the country." ”

"Anything else?" Lotte asked again.

General Xu continued: "As far as the lower officials know, there is no hidden vulture in our army to have an inner line, if that no hidden vulture is alive, he will choose to do it before we enter the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, this time we have no danger all the way, it can be roughly inferred that the no hidden vultures should not be alive!" ”

After thinking for a moment, Lotte nodded: "You are right, it may be that the official is too careful!" ”

At this time, Xu Jiang said again: "My lord, if there is nothing to do, the lowly post will go out first, and the lowly post will also find out what has happened in the next dynasty recently, so as to report to the lord!" ”

"Let's get busy!" Lotte nodded, and suddenly said, "Wait...... When I arrived in Weizhou, I found a few good men to bring with me to the team, so as not to have health problems with these Xia people! ”

"My subordinates will send people to Weizhou to find a few good men!" Xu Jiang answered, and then left.

Lotte did a calculation in his heart, and now he has passed the sixth day of the lunar month, and said helplessly to Wu Song: "It took half a month from Xingqing Mansion to the Zhenrong Army, and it will take at least a month from the Zhenrong Army to Biandu, if there is more rain and snow, it is not impossible to go for two months, we will not return to Biandu before the New Year, and you and I will pass by as we did last year on New Year's Day this year!" ”

"What did the adults say!" Wu Song hurriedly said: "The little one is alone, the four seas are his home, he has received the life-saving grace of the great kindness of the adults, and it is a small blessing to be able to do things by the side of the adults, as long as he can be with the adults, it will be the same wherever the New Year is!" ”

It has been a year and a half with Lotte, in addition to Lotte and his own life-saving grace, Wu Song admires Lotte very much, with Lotte's side, Wu Song saw Lotte come from the wind and waves, this patience and intelligence are by no means ordinary people.

After a day of rest in the Zhenrong army, he went directly to Weizhou, and the subsequent trip can be described as smooth sailing, and the climate in the Great Song Dynasty is much warmer than that of Western Xia, and at the same time, scouts are sent in advance along the way to prepare food and lodging, so the road is smooth sailing, and there are occasional thieves on the road.

Along the way, only because of the heavy snow delayed for a few days, New Year's Day and the first day of the new year rested in the post house for two days, after more than a month of marching, arrived outside the city of Biandu has been the ninth day of the first month.

Lu Letian paid great attention to Li Qianshun's physical health, for fear that Li Qianshun would not be able to stand the pain of long-distance bumps, so he looked for the best local lang to accompany him everywhere, that is, the royal family, concubines, and nobles of Western Xia, and Lotte also tried his best not to let these people get sick.

At the end of the day, the nomadic people have a strong physique, and very few of the nobles of this Western Xia have fallen ill along the way, which has made Lotte a lot easier.

As early as a few days ago, Huizong Zhao Ji had received the news that Lotte had escorted Li Qianshun back to Biandu, and it was Zhao Ji's nature to be so happy, and he immediately summoned the world to the book and the housekeeper. Since Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty suffered a lot of losses in the land of Lingxia, and after Li Yuanhao established the country, the Great Song Dynasty suffered a lot of anger in the hands of Western Xia.

In terms of population and land, the Great Song Dynasty is more than ten times or even several times that of the Western Xia, that is, the tax income is also ten times that of the other party, but every year it is necessary to give the Western Xia money, which is called the New Year's currency to buy peace, although the Great Song Dynasty began to suppress the Western Xia after the Zhezong Dynasty, but the previous defeat and shame still made the Great Song Dynasty feel aggrieved.

Since Li Yuanhao rebelled against the Song Dynasty and became the emperor of the Renzong Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty has not wanted to destroy the other party every moment for eighty years, and now it has finally been realized, how can it not be inspiring, and how can it not raise its eyebrows.

This year's New Year, in order to celebrate the destruction of the Western Xia, the royal reward in front of the royal street was much richer in previous years, and the common people set off firecrackers in previous years, so as to express the joy of the heart.

What made Zhao Ji of Song Huizong feel excited was that he originally thought that it would take at least a year to destroy the summer, and he was even mentally prepared to sacrifice more than 100,000 people, and he was even more mentally prepared to consume a large amount of grain and grass materials, but it only took less than a month and a half before and after to take Xingqing Mansion and capture Li Qianshun, solving the scourge that had plagued the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty for a long time.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there were such great achievements, but until the defeat of the Xiyong and Liao Dynasty and then to the Lanyuan Alliance, until the Zhezong Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty was almost at the point of being passively beaten, and it was not until the Shenzong Dynasty that it began to have blood.

At this time, Zhao Ji, who was so happy about his achievements, was full of ambition, and even began to fantasize about the homeland of the clouds in the north, and completed the achievements of Emperor Taizong Taizong that had not competed in that year.

Although the beauty of his heart, Zhao Ji is not a person who does not know current affairs, although the Western Xia was destroyed at this time, there are still many remnants of power in the Western Xia, which must have restrained a lot of the energy of the Great Song Dynasty, so the matter of cutting Liao can only be put back. Moreover, the Great Song Dynasty ate a territory as large as that of Western Xia, and it also took time and process to digest the territory and population of Western Xia.

Secondly, there are some small states in the Great Song Dynasty, Hebei West Road, Hebei East Road, Jingdong East Road, Jingdong West Road and Huainan East Road are not very peaceful, and they began to make a wave of thieves, the largest one is a person named Song Jiang with 35 people under his command in Liangshanluo, and then led the crowd to attack Heshuo and Jingdong East Road, and then turned to Qingzhou, Qizhou and Puzhou, and captured more than ten prefecture counties.

In December of last year, Hou Meng, the governor of Bozhou, suggested that Song Jiang should be recruited, but it was not successful, and then Zeng Xiaoyun, the governor of Shezhou, was ordered to lead the army to conquer, and Song Jiang went south from Qingzhou to Yizhou.

The external worries of Xixia are being solved, but I didn't expect that there will be internal troubles in the country, Huizong Zhao Ji had to put down the thoughts in his heart, but the work of destroying Xia is enough to make Huizong Zhao Ji famous in history, and even Zhao Ji wants to sleep in the credit book, and the history books will praise himself for being a king.

In terms of level, although Li Qianshun is the emperor in the country, he is a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao at the same time, and claims to be the king or lord of the Western Xia Kingdom, so the level is lower than that of Emperor Huizong, but Li Qianshun is also the king of a country, and now he is escorted to the Great Song Dynasty.

When to enter the Biandu City, the route to enter the Biandu City, as well as the ensuing process and related etiquette, the officials of the Ministry of Rites have made a clear and detailed plan in advance, one for the prince, King Yun and Wu Baiguan, and the other for Lotte, all the procedures are planned according to the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

On the eleventh day of the Lunar New Year, the sky has not yet brightened, the prince Zhao Huan, the king of Yun, Zhao Kai, and the princes and ministers of the dynasty, who are not on duty, should put down their hand affairs, and then dress neatly, come to Xuande Gate early to gather, and then under the leadership of the prince, they will come to Suzaku Gate to greet them.

Theoretically speaking, Li Qianshun was not a prisoner of war, but the king of a vassal state of the Great Song Dynasty, and when he came to the Great Song Dynasty, he was summoned by Emperor Huizong, so he naturally had to send the crown prince to greet him.

Of course, this is just a more polite statement, the reason for the integrity is that the Western Xia caused so much trouble to the Great Song Dynasty, and also made the Great Song Dynasty suffer so much, and now that the Western Xia Emperor has been captured by the Great Song Dynasty, the officials under the Great Song Dynasty will naturally not let go of this good opportunity to raise their eyebrows.

It is to think about Li Qianshun's depressed appearance of a loser, and then take him into the inner city, and receive congratulations from thousands of people in Beijing along the way, this kind of scene makes people's blood boil.

According to the process formulated by the palace and the Ministry of Rites, Lotte led 5,000 soldiers and horses to camp outside the Nanxun Gate for a night, and only assembled three miles outside the Nanxun Gate in the early morning of the eleventh day of the first month.

Suzaku Gate is the south gate of the inner city, and Lotte wants to enter the city from the South Xun Gate of the outer city, which is also the process and rules discussed by the Ministry of Rites, you must know that the Western Xia is in the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty, from the direction point of view, Lotte led 5,000 soldiers from the Weizhou Gate and the New Sour Zao Gate to enter Biandu, but to enter Biandu from the South Xun Gate, it is obviously necessary to go around a large circle of wrongful roads, but the will is so, and it has to be done.

Although they have taken a lot of wrongful roads, but the five thousand cadres are full of energy, and if they miss this opportunity, they may not be able to come to Biandu for the rest of their lives, and they will not be able to see His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for the rest of their lives, which is the biggest reason why these soldiers are excited.

Although they were only in line at this time, the sound of the armor's impact, footsteps, and horses' hooves sounded rhythmically and uniformly, showing that this army had extremely high quality and discipline.

At this time, the Nanxun Gate to the Suzaku Gate was cleared out, and no one was allowed to move around, just waiting for Lotte and his 5,000 soldiers and horses to enter the city neatly.

Seeing that the time was almost up, the official of the Ministry of Rites who had been sent before reminded him: "Lord Shu, the time has come, please enter the city!" ”

Lotte nodded, waved his hand, and signaled, "Enter the city!" ”

It is getting closer and closer to the South Xun Gate, but at this time Lotte feels that there is a strange fragrance coming to the nose, and the closer it is to the South Xun Gate, the aroma is getting stronger and stronger.

"The owner of the hermitage is here......

"Mr. Le also went to ......"

……

When Lotte just judged it, he only heard bursts of warblers in the distance.

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