From the moment he set foot in the city of Tokyo, Han Kuangsi was full of reverie about this city, Tokyo, the imperial capital of the Great Song Dynasty, is located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and everything here is better than the capital of Liao and any city in Liao.

Han Kuangsi's sons and daughters began to say: "Daddy, this Tokyo city is more prosperous than Shangjing. ”

"Master, when will I be able to see Jean?" Mrs. Han also couldn't wait.

At this time, a four-wheeled carriage came, Han Kuangsi looked up at the carriage that was coming slowly, he looked at the carriage with strange eyes, four wheels, strange.

The coachman got out of the carriage and said, "Mr. Han, please get into the carriage." ”

Seeing that Han Kuangsi was a little at a loss, the coachman immediately took out a boarding ladder from the car and put it in front of the carriage, and Han Kuangsi's family entered the car.

The carriage moved slowly down the street...... Towards the north of the city, all the customs and charms along the way were displayed in front of the Han family.

"What a Tokyo Imperial Capital." Han Kuangsi sighed sincerely.

Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of a house in the north of the city, and the driver began to knock on the door.

Han Derang [Han Kuangsi's fourth son] didn't know that his family had arrived safely, and the moment he opened the door, he seemed to see Han Kuangsi's rickety back, as well as several brothers and sisters.

This is not an illusion, Han Derang didn't expect that he really saw his relatives, he immediately ran over and fell to his knees with a "plop".

"The child is not filial, which makes my father and mother worried."

"Jean'er, it's good if you're alive......"

"Shiro ......"

The Han family burst into tears, and Mrs. Han [I don't know the name] said, "Rang'er, why are you here?" ”

"Mother, let's go in and talk about it."

When the Han family entered, Han Derang told his family many things, but did not tell them Zhao Dezhao's identity.

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive......"

Han Derang said: "Dad, mother, brothers and sisters, you are new to the city, and you are not familiar with this Tokyo city, why don't you accompany the children to the city for a few days?" ”

"Hmm."

"After a while, it will be the dragon boat race, and the Song Dynasty officials will destroy Shu this year, so they are specially in Jinmingchi, the envoys of various countries, and the people of the world, so the dragon boat race is the grandest this year." On the street, Han Derang can hear the news wherever he takes his family.

"Dragon boat racing?" Because since they were born in the north, the Han family has never seen the Han tradition of dragon boat racing, and in the land of Youyan, there are very few such activities, and north of Youyan, they have never heard of it.

"Brother, can we go together then?"

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At this moment at the Liangcheng Inn, Zhao Dezhao received the news that the Han family had entered Beijing, thinking that the Han family was reunited at this moment, that kind of moment of flesh and blood reunion, Zhao Dezhao didn't want to come forward to disturb them, so he planned to go back in a few days.

Now that Shu is pacified, the governance of Shu is the most important, and various projects are underway in the Great Song Dynasty.

The Jinmingchi Lake in the west of the city is rippling, large and small warships are training in the lake, and the Jinmingchi training water master has always been operated by the imperial court, and Zhao Kuangyin handed over the power of training the water master to his close confidant Yang Xin.

And in the next few days, the dragon boat race will also begin.

The dragon boat race began in March, the dragon boat race in Kaifeng City was not held in the Dragon Boat Festival, but was arranged around the Qingming Festival every year, usually in March, the dragon boat race was also called "bidding", to the five generations, the wind of the race became more and more popular, not only non-governmental organizations, the official also vigorously advocated, the dragon boat race became a major event.

This year's dragon boat race is the grandest one, but also in order to show the martial arts of the Song Dynasty, all places in the capital have been crowded with people, restaurants and inns have been overcrowded, these days the hotel inn and other business is very prosperous, outside the city Wowanjia there are many shops, businessmen have rented shops in Wowanjia, driving the economic development outside the city, but also driving the development of Kaifeng economy.

On this day, on the Jinming Pond, the dragon boats were lined up, and the warships docked at the waterway wharf, and the day before, the hot air balloons that were originally floating on the Jinming Pond were also removed, which was a matter of military secrets and was limited to military use.

On this day, the sky is clear, three o'clock, the emperor Zhao Kuangyin and the minister of civil and military affairs, sit on a big dragon boat, this big dragon is thirty or forty zhang long, three or four zhang wide, the head and tail are carved with the soaring dragon, golden and brilliant. At the beginning of the performance, several small boats first towed the big dragon boat to the front of the water hall.

There are many official hat chairs on the dragon boat, and since the birth of the official hat chair, it has become a special chair for the imperial court and officials.

Zhao Dezhao, the king of Wei, sat on the official hat chair, looked up at the Jinming Pond where the lake and the sky intersected, and now the water surface of this Jinming Pond is far more than twice as large as that of later generations.

Zhao Guangyi, King of Jin, and Zhao Guangmei, King of Qin, also sat next to Zhao Kuangyin, the emperor, and enjoyed the dragon boat race together.

Zhao Kuangyin also invited envoys from various countries to Beijing to watch the dragon boat performance.

Tang envoy Han Xizai also sat on the viewing seat, although he is a northerner, but has not set foot in the Central Plains for a long time, although he came to Li Yu invited this time, but Li Yu because he is a northerner, he is suspicious, and he did not use him, a mere Song envoy is also Li Yu to take care of Han Xizai's face.

And the Southern Han Dynasty surrendered to the ministers, the former Chenzhou Assassin Lu Guangtu also sat here, the Southern Han did not send envoys this time, presumably relying on their Nanling advantage, and after the Battle of Chenzhou, they thought that the Song army would not cross this boundary, so they swept away the face of the Song State.

The younger brother of Wu Yueguo's envoy Qian Yu and the master of Lingyin Temple Zhijue Yanshou also came, because the Empress Dowager Du worshiped the Buddha, so this time Qian Yu was also to match the Song Emperor Zhao Kuangyin; Chen Hongjin, the envoy of Quanzhou Pinghai Jiedu, the Quanzhang observation envoy, and the Taifu of the inspection school, sent his son Chen Wenxian, the deputy envoy of Jiedu, to Beijing to express his intention to return to the Great Song Dynasty.

Cao Yuanzhong, the king of Khotan, Li Shengtian, the king of Khotan, went to the Central Plains in the first year of Jianlong (960), Musa Khan of the Qarakhanid Dynasty declared Islam as the state religion, and the war broke out between the Buddhist Yuwen State and the Qarakhanid Dynasty who believed in Islam, Li Shengtian sent envoys and monks to pay tribute to the Song Dynasty several times, but also to win over the Song State, and wanted the Song State to ask for reinforcements, but because the northwest was too far away, there were several countries in between, Zhao Kuangyin only sent monks and envoys to Khotan, and there were also close exchanges between Khotan and the Guiyi army...... This time, Li Shengtian sent his ministers and monks to come.

There were no people from the Northern Han Dynasty and the Liao State among the envoys, and the envoys from other parts of the Great Song Dynasty also came to watch the grand performance.

Zhao Dezhao's eyes also looked at the envoys of various countries behind him, Zhao Dezhao had already learned the news of the envoys coming to the Song Dynasty through the intelligence of Changchun Hall, and these envoys had a festival envoy.

Jin Mingchi, the war drums are beating, and the person who presides over it is Yang Xin, Zhao Dezhao is no stranger to this person, and now his younger brother Yang Zan is under Zhao Dezhao, a deputy commander.

The hour passed, and the main roads around Jinmingchi were full of forbidden soldiers, wearing red scarves and crimson robes, and the people on the left and right also stood near Jinmingchi, watching the grandest dragon boat race in Tokyo in the first year of the destruction of Shu, and Han Derang also took his family to wait for the start of the dragon boat race next to Jinmingchi.

Wu Lingqing, who was dressed in a white robe and wore a stiff-legged hood, was also among the people watching the dragon boat performance at the moment, standing on tiptoe and looking at the depths of the lake

Wu Lingqing smiled bitterly, a few days ago, Zhao Dezhao said that he wanted to blend in with the ranks of officials, he thought about it, he should be able to squeeze in the people to watch the performance, and refused, there are really many people in the tide today.

Before the "bidding", there are also wonderful dragon boat trick shows, including "Xuanluo", "Sea Eye", "Jiaotou" and other programs.

A military academy wearing a red scarf appeared on the water shed, holding a red flag in his hand, and then began to mobilize in chess language, and the other people on the Xiaolong boat were all dressed in cyan short clothes and long turbans, and when they saw the chess order, they began to rotate with gongs and drums and oars, and the boats on the lake began to form a circle. This is called "Xuanluo".

After the "Xuanluo", the drums beat again, and these small dragon boats split into two strands, detached from the circle, and then each formed a circle again, which is the "sea eye".

After the "sea eye", two groups of small dragon boats began to row opposite each other, and the boats began to insert from the gaps and drive in a fork, which was called "crossing".

The bow soldiers beckoned them with flags, and all the ships were lined up on both sides of the waterfront hall in the east-west direction, and faced the waterfront hall.

After the performance, Yang Xin drove the boat to the emperor's dragon boat, facing Zhao Kuangyin, Yang Xin arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, 'Xuanluo', 'Haiyan', 'Jiaotou' and so on have been prepared, please give the order to start the 'bidding'?" ”

Zhao Kuangyin got up from the official hat chair, and then took a benchmark with things like a brocade silver bowl from the hand of Zhang Dejun, the waiter, and then ordered the soldiers of the forbidden army to hand it over to Yang Xin.

The forbidden army stepped on the bow of the boat and handed it to the referee Yang Xin, who inserted the benchmark in the water, and then, with the flag as the signal, the small dragon boats on both sides beat the drum and sailed to the benchmark at the fastest speed, and the one who got the benchmark first won.

At the end of the hour, the "competition" began, on the dragon boats everywhere, the sturdy men were wearing short jackets, half-exposed, and many of them were characters in the forbidden army, wearing red robes were forbidden army soldiers, and those wearing cyan short jackets were the people who participated in the competition. Zhao Kuangyin also wanted to have fun with the people in this arrangement, and at the same time summoned the envoys of various countries to Beijing to celebrate the extermination of Shu, and also demonstrated to various countries, so that the envoys of various countries could clearly see the strength of the Song State.

The "bidding" is underway, and everyone's eyes are looking at the dragon boat racers in Jinming Pond, and the red and blue colors in the distance are mixed with each other, and they are immediately rhythmically approaching the "benchmark".

The water of the lake was paddled open, and the water on the lake was full of sound, and the silver bottle burst through the water slurry...... Zhao Defang ran into the arms of his brother Zhao Dezhao at this time, staring at the situation in the distance with wide eyes, while Emperor Zhao Kuangyin held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand and watched the dragon boat race in the distance through the clairvoyant mirror.

Zhao Defang ran over again, ran to Zhao Kuangyin, and asked for a clairvoyant mirror to watch, "Daddy, lend the clairvoyant mirror to the child." ”

Zhao Kuangyin "endured the pain and cut love" and temporarily gave it to Zhao Defang, Zhao Defang looked at it happily, and then reluctantly handed it over to Zhao Kuangyin.

An hour later, three teams were born on the water surface of Jinming Pond, namely the champion, the runner-up, and the third runner-up, and the emperor Zhao Kuangyin personally awarded them medals and rewarded them with some treasures.

At noon, the royal family held a banquet in Yujin Garden, which was attended by hundreds of civil and military officials and envoys from various countries.

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