"Taiyi is close to the sky, even from the mountains to the sea.

The white clouds look back, and the blue mist enters to see nothing.

The peaks in the field change, and the clouds and sunshines are different.

If you want to stay with someone, ask the woodcutter across the water. ”

This poem is the recent poem of Wang Weiwang Maha, the leader of today's poetry circle, and this poem is recited as Taiyi Mountain, also known as Cuihua Mountain, which is a branch of Zhongnan Mountain. That is now the location where Gu Yuanxi participated in the Taiyi hunt.

Located at the foot of Cuihua Mountain, the Taiyi Palace was built by the order of Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, who conquered the Huns. After the construction of Taiyi Palace was completed in the second year of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, he took hundreds of officials to this place by car and sacrificed to the Taiyi God for the second time.

In the second year of Yuanfeng, after the Han Dynasty destroyed the Minyue Kingdom in the first year of Yuanfeng, Liu Che, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, sent 50,000 troops again to conquer Wei's Korea from Penglai, opening a precedent for the use of troops at sea in Chinese history. The fuse of this expedition to Korea was because the envoy of the Han Dynasty, Shehe, killed the Korean king who escorted him out of the country after the envoy to Korea failed, and as a result, the Joseon king Youqu held a grudge against Shehe and sent troops to raid Liaodong and kill Shehe. This is the famous "Incident of Involvement". Then, in the following year, the Han Dynasty destroyed Wei Manchu Korea and officially established the "Han Four Counties".

In the same year, Zhao Ponu, a general of the Han army, led his troops to the west to conquer Loulan, Gushi and other important towns in the Western Regions. In China, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent tens of thousands of soldiers to the lack of embankments in the Guzi River, so that the ministers from the general down to the salary were paid, and finally filled the gap in the Yellow River. This is also the first time since the unification of the Qin Dynasty that the emperor visited the site to control the Yellow River. In the same year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave the King of Dian the "seal of the King of Dian" and set up Yizhou County, and since then, most of Yunnan has been included in the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty, which is the deeds of the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to open the southwest.

Therefore, the Taiyi Palace built in the second year of Yuan Feng entrusts a series of good wishes of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty to pray for the peace of the country and the people, the prosperity of the country, and the smooth war. In the Tang Dynasty period where Gu Yuanxi lived, it was an elegant place for dignitaries and nobles to rest during summer singing and hunting.

Although today's Taiyi Palace is not the original Taiyi Palace built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but was continuously rebuilt by the Sui and Tang dynasties in later generations, the new Taiyi Palace as a Tang style building is still full of Han and Tang Dynasty heroes.

And now, the Taiyi Palace is full of many high-status figures of the Tang Empire. And today's banquet host, Yang Yupei, the wife of the Qin State, Li Guangbi, the new Hexi soldier and horse envoy, Shi Siming, the Pinglu soldier and horse envoy, and several extremely noble royal families all knelt on the ground in front of the Taiyi Divine Throne with respectful expressions.

Of course, the fact that these people made such a respectful and humble gesture was not because of how devout they were to Taiyi Zhenren, a Taoist god. Although there were indeed a few Li Tang clans in it who sincerely believed in the Taoist religion that they Li Tang supported, most of them were only trying to fulfill the edict of Li Longji, the imperial master of Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace, who was honored as "Kaiyuan Shengwen Shenwu Emperor".

In fact, Li Longji has had the idea of personally going to Taiyi Palace to worship the Taiyi God since last year. Because last year's Tianbao four years and this year's Tianbao five years, like the second year of Yuanfeng when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built Taiyi Palace, they are all mixed years.

In the fourth year of Tianbao, for Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the most worthy of celebration is naturally to finally justifiably canonize his daughter-in-law Yang Taizhen, who has been in the palace for five years, as a concubine. After helping his son put on a green hat in an open and honest manner, Wang Zhonghe, who was the envoy of the Shuofang Festival in the same year, concurrently served as the envoy of the Hedong Festival. After Wang Zhongji concurrently served as Hedong, he placed castles in the key places thousands of miles from Shuofang to the border of Yunzhong, and expanded the land for hundreds of miles. The people on the border thought that they were generals since Zhang Renqing, but they were not as good as them. In the same year, the power of the Turkic Khanate, which had long threatened the borders of the Central Empire, finally died out under the blows of Wang Zhongji and the Uighur Khanate.

However, it is worth worrying that the power of the Uighur Khanate has become strong as a result, with all the Turkic homelands, reaching Murwei in the east, Jinshan in the west, and the desert in the south. This cannot be said to be a new threat to the Tang Empire. Despite this, the Uighur Khanate's Gulu Vigaque Huairen Khan Guli Peiluo was canonized by the imperial court as the general of the Sanpin Zuo Xiao Guard, and he was extremely respectful and humble to the imperial court, and the two major forces of Tang and Hui were also extremely friendly. The north side has indeed been unpoliced ever since. Judging from the current situation, it should actually be regarded as an excellent state.

What really deserves to worry about Tang Xuanzong Li Longji is Tubo, a powerful country in the southwest plateau. In September last year, the then envoy of the Longyou Jiedu Emperor Fu Weiming fought with Tubo in Shibao City, and was defeated by Tubo, and the deputy general Chu Li was killed.

Shibao City, which was slackened and unworthy due to the two towns of Longyou and Hexi in the 29th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, led to the dangerous place that was captured by the Tubo sneak attack after a few years, and it still cannot be recovered. Although Li Longji, who has entered old age, has been lazy in government affairs for a long time, he is still concerned about military affairs, especially this matter.

Therefore, there is also a trip for Mrs. Qin to worship Taiyi Palace today. Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the conceited Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who was no less conceited than his predecessor Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, hoped to be able to resolve the current difficulties of the Tang Dynasty like Liu Che, and hoped that the war of the Tang Army in the west could be extremely Tai and hit Tubo hard.

"Alright. The matter of worshiping the Taiyi God has come to an end, so let's go to the Taiyi hunting ground. Yang Yupei, the wife of the Qin State, smiled slightly and said, "I'm afraid the nobles outside the Taiyi Palace can't wait." ”

Yang Yupei, the wife of Qin State, is the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, the Sihu of Shuzhou, and the eighth sister of Yang Guifei of Tang Xuanzong. Her age is only one year different from Yang Yuhuan, who is the favorite concubine of Tang Xuanzong, and she is only twenty-eight this year, although she is already the age of a half-old in ancient times, but in fact her appearance is the same as her age, she is still extremely young and beautiful.

Gu Yuanxi, as a guest of King Jianning, was actually not qualified to follow this group of dignitaries into the Taiyi Palace to worship, and those who could worship in the main hall of the Taiyi Palace, except for the lady of Qin and several princes and heirs of the clan, there were only two soldiers and horses from the feudal towns who were authorized by grace.

Even Li Qi, who is the son of the crown prince and the king of Jianning County, can only stay outside the main hall of Taiyi Palace at the foot of Cuihua Mountain, where the royal family is running all over the place. It is conceivable that with Gu Yuanxi's identity, it is naturally impossible to see Mrs. Qin Guo, Li Guangbi and others.

After Gu Yuanxi escaped from Taiyi Pond, he returned to the tent where Li Qi and his party were very depressed, and after learning that he could not follow Li Qi into Taiyi Palace, he stayed in the hunting ground honestly. After all, Taiyi Palace is actually less than a mile or two away from the place where the hunting ground is located.

When Gu Yuanxi saw the chariots of Mrs. Qin Guo and others galloping from the direction of Taiyi Palace from a distance, he immediately realized that today's Taiyi hunting banquet was about to begin.

Sure enough, when Mrs. Qin Guo drove out of Taiyi Palace, the order of the Taiyi hunting ground also became extremely orderly, and the soldiers guarding the hunting ground began to be more vigilant.

The Tang Forbidden Army was originally the so-called "Sixteen Guards", and the Sixteen Guards were the crystallization of the prevailing government soldier system. Because the 16 guards are located in the south of the palace, they are called "Nanyafu soldiers".

But at this time in the Tang Dynasty, the collapse of the government military system has been very powerful, and today's Tianbao five years, with the destruction of the Juntian system, the government military system collapsed. The Sixteen Guards have lost their combat effectiveness and are only used for ceremonial decorations, and at this time the Tang Dynasty Imperial Court Jingshi relied on the "Northern Ya Forbidden Army".

The so-called "Beiya Forbidden Army" is a guard composed of recruited soldiers who guard the north gate of the imperial palace. The military system adopted by the "Southern Yafu Army" is a government military system that integrates soldiers and peasants, while the "Northern Ya Forbidden Army" adopts a conscription system.

After the accession of Li Heng Lingwu of Tang Suzong, the Northern Ya Forbidden Army was expanded to the Sixth Army, so it was called the "Northern Ya Sixth Army". But in fact, the Sixth Army of the Northern Ya also lost its combat effectiveness after the Anshi Rebellion, and the forbidden army that replaced the "Southern Yafu Soldiers" and the "Northern Ya Sixth Army" was actually the Shence Army that evolved from the border guards.

At this time, in the five years of Tianbao, the Shence Army will naturally not appear. There are only four armies in the Beiya Forbidden Army, and the Beiya Forbidden Army, which has recently taken up the sanitation Taiyi hunting ground, is the soldiers of the Longwu Army.

The left and right dragon martial arts army was separated from the left and right Yulin army in the twenty-sixth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and its predecessor was the famous "ten thousand horses".

The beginning of the Wanqi and the Beiya Forbidden Army was originally filled by the Yuan Cong soldiers and their descendants who followed Li Yuan to raise troops in Taiyuan, and were called the "Yuan Cong Forbidden Army". He was responsible for guarding the north gate of the palace and accompanying the emperor to hunt in the garden, and was the emperor's closest guard. During the time of Taizong, 100 people were selected from the flying horses and were good at riding and shooting, and they were called 100 horses. After the martial arts, it was expanded to 1,000 horsemen. Zhongzong changed its name to Wanqi. Tang Xuanzong used ten thousand horsemen to eliminate the political rival Princess Taiping, so he attached special importance to it.

Although at this time, the Dragon Martial Army no longer had the strong combat power it used to be, it did not completely lose its combat effectiveness like the Sixteen Guards. Although it cannot be compared with the border armies of several strong vassals, at least among the Jingying troops in Chang'an, the combat effectiveness is still second to none. Today, with them coming to the hunting grounds, at least the safety of everyone present is still very guaranteed.

After Mrs. Qin Guo entered the arena, everyone also walked into the center of the hunting ground in an orderly manner.

This is the place where today's banquet is held, and the banquet in the hunting ground is completely different from the nature in the palace. Among them, the seat of Yang Yupei, the wife of the Qin State, is naturally the center of the north, and her seat is surrounded by countless silk satin to form a tabernacle, only revealing the front facing south, and the curtain is also decorated extremely luxuriously.

Under the curtain of the lady of Qin, the seats of the people were divided into two columns, left and right, and the tent was also surrounded by various silk satins. Of course, unlike the Lady of Qin, their curtain only enclosed the top and rear, and there was no silk on the left and right. This is not to show the difference in status, but to facilitate the conversation between the host and other nobles.

Gu Yuanxi's brothers and sisters, as well as Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun, naturally followed the curtain of Li Qi, the king of Jianning, and sat on the ground inside. It should be said that Li Qi's seat is still extremely high. Although he is just a county king, in today's occasions when the royal family is flying all over the sky, a county king who is extremely noble in the eyes of ordinary people is really not worth mentioning. But in this era of fighting fathers, as a second generation of emperors, the identity of the prince's son has distanced him from other county kings. This also cheapened Gu Yuanxi and a few people by the way.

The banquet of the guests was divided into two columns, of which the left and right columns were naturally led by two soldiers and horses from Hexi and Pinglu. Although their own identities were not worth mentioning at all in the eyes of the dignitaries present, because the purpose of this hunting meeting was to hold a banquet for the two of them. Therefore, their seats naturally ranked ahead of other noble clan nobles.

Gu Yuanxi saw two familiar figures standing in front of the front row of tents opposite, Wang Wujun and Zhang Xiaozhong, and realized that Li Guangbi's tent was in the same direction as himself.

Under the tent of Li Guangbi and Shi Siming, there were several princes and princes present. Next to Shi Siming is the tent of Li Pu, the king of Yi. And under the princes of several princes, it is naturally the heir Xue King Li Xuan, the heir King Li Chengning, and the heir Qi King Li Zhen. They are all nephews of the current emperor Li Longji, and the title is below the prince and above the heir.

"Your Majesty has a will!" The lieutenant next to Mrs. Qin Guo held up a yellow satin, and Gu Yuanxi didn't need to look at it to know that it was the legendary holy decree.

When everyone present heard this, they all knelt down to receive the order, and then chanted in unison: "Long live the Son of Heaven-"

This sentence has the same meaning as "long live, long live, long live" in the later Ming and Qing dynasties. The lieutenant who had made the decree coughed lightly, and then said solemnly:

"Under the door: 'Grant the Yue to the altar, so the army is used with force; Yifeng is a job, so he is virtuous. Those who are talented build the merits of the Xi Dynasty, and those who have made great achievements have a very reward. The edict of the philosopher, no more than it. Today, Wupin is on the Dingyuan general, the Hexi soldier and horse envoy, and the Chishui army envoy Li Guangbi; From the Wupin Upper Cavalry General, Pinglu Soldiers and Horses, Pinglu Military Envoy Shi Siming. It is very popular on the frontier and outside the territory. Pavilion barrier lying drum, has become the order of anti-violence; Tuntian feeds the army, benefiting the use of abundant wealth. then discuss meritorious deeds and rewards, and reward generous gifts. Li Qingguang Bi can be awarded the title of the fourth rank of the strong general, and the left leader Wei Zhonglang general, the founding man of Xiangxian County, 300 households, and 50 households. Shi Qing Siming can be awarded the rank of the fourth rank of the strong general, and the left prison guard Zhonglang general, the founder of Rongcheng County, 300 households, and 50 households. You can give three children and one manor, and use the labor of the generals to benefit the spirit of the three armies, and the rest will be the same. 'Chin this—"