Chapter 21 Responding to the Battle

"The Struggle of the Reborn King"

【Introduction】

"The king is not like the king of people, he is not like the king of the king, the pain of old age, the prodigal son of smelting, and the hearts of scattered people to change greatly, all of them are bound to die!" At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, exhausted the traitors in the world, filled the palace with demons, the building was about to fall, and the prosperous and wealthy Song Dynasty was in turmoil.

The special forces from the modern era possessed the second prince Zhao Tan, in order not to be a prisoner and die in the city of the Five Kingdoms, he had to work hard!

Author: Let you heartwarm.

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The next is that the envoys of various countries go up to congratulate, the ambassador of the Liao State wears a golden crown, wears a purple narrow robe, and wears a gold disc around his waist, and pays homage with Khitan etiquette, kneeling on one leg, and does not kowtow: according to the rules of previous years, Xia Guo should also send envoys, but last year, the two countries raised swords again, of course, they will not come: then there are Hui Chun, Yu Yan envoys, Nanban five surnamed Fanren, and Zhenla, Dali, Dashi and other countries have also sent people. The emperor immediately gave Han costumes, brocade jackets and other clothes, which may be like the current "G-8 Summit", the host has to give the most national characteristics of the costume!

At the end of the congratulatory ceremony, the emperor held a state banquet to entertain the ministers. There are tens of thousands of people attending the court meeting today, and the Daqing Hall can't be placed in the big one, so it is divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the seats under the buttocks are different. Princes, high-grade officials, three divisions, three dukes, ascended to the palace and sat on the embroidered pier: the governor of the government and the following commanded the above to sit on the palace, sat on the Pudun: all Yu Hou sat in the Duo Palace, and the rest sat in two corridors, they had no stools to sit on, they all sat on the ground like a meal on the construction site, but the emperor felt sorry for them, and was afraid of catching a cold and diarrhea and laying a felt.

Everyone's seat in front of the display of food can not be eaten, the plate also has a difference in rank, the general person in front of the display of the plate has ring cake, oil cake, jujube tower, Liao envoys in front of the pig, sheep, chicken, goose, rabbit, even bone meat and so on.

After the banquet was announced, the wine was poured first. During the pouring period, there are a series of performances, ventriloquism, music, dance, and a lot of tricks. After drinking, there is also a music, dance, and acrobatic performance for each drink. All men and women participating in the performance are dressed in red scarves and colorful clothes. According to the rules of the Song Dynasty, the whole banquet is generally nine wines.

The dishes that accompany the wine are not laid out at the beginning, and are not served until the third drink. What snacks are served, the appetizers at the third light are: meat, salted stocks, fried meat, and double hump slots. The dishes served on the fourth hour are: roasted bones, noodles, white meat, and hu cakes. The dishes and snacks served at the fifth wine time are: Bunxian Roast, Smallpox Cake, Taiping Biluo, Dry Rice, Silk Soup, and Lotus Meat Cake. In the sixth wine, fake peas, honey float and crispy flowers are provided. In the seventh day, the sheep is cooked, Hu cakes, and boiled golden sausages are provided. In the eighth wine, fake sand fish, steamed buns, and belly soup are provided. On the ninth day, water and rice are provided, and meals are ordered in clusters.

This meal Zhao Ta ate from more than nine o'clock in the morning until it was dark in the afternoon, although the small table in front of him changed the dishes one after another, but his stomach was still half down. It was the first time he participated in a state banquet, and he didn't know the mystery of the road, looking at a group of old men on the side, even his brothers were watching the show and drinking, but he rarely moved his chopsticks, he was afraid of being rude, and he didn't dare to move. According to the thinking of his previous life, he pondered that the big dishes were the last to serve, thinking that people might be waiting for the delicious food in the back! But when the last table of dishes came up, he realized how stupid he was, and there was only a bowl of rice and a few small pickles left!

"Damn, this is called a bullshit state banquet, no one will remind me!". Zhao Ta ate a mouthful of small pickles and drank porridge, and scolded in his heart, this feast is over, not to mention the Manchu and Han banquets of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the prawns, elbows, roast chicken, and roast duck on the ordinary banquet now have no fish and shrimp aquatic products and have not met at all, not to mention bird's nest, bear's paws, fish lips, humps, monkey brains, these delicacies of the mountains and seas, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people eat this state banquet, and it is not as much as the feast of the "coal boss, the marriage daughter." ,

In the second year of junior high school, Zhao Ta made up for a day's sleep at home, and the house also had a holiday, and gave them red envelopes to let them move freely, and if they were willing to go to the restaurant, they would go to the restaurant if they were willing to buy things, and he would buy things This year, he had a good harvest, and there were three million yuan in the account.

On the third day of the first year, Zhao Ta entered the palace early in the morning, and today he will go to the South Imperial Garden to accompany the emperor to watch the archery competition with the envoys of the Liao State. This event has been held for many years and has become a must-have program staged during the Spring Festival of adults. The two countries have been fighting for many years, but the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State fought with fewer victories and more losses, and paid compensation for the damage, so they wanted to find the feeling of a winner in the sports competition and save some face. Liao means to show their own force, so that the Great Song Dynasty always remembers that the Liao State is unequaled, you give me honesty, what I want, you have to give me something, don't have any crooked thoughts, so the game has become a secret war between the two countries, and it has also become an annual event in Bianliang City, attracting countless people to watch.

When they arrived at the South Imperial Garden, the forbidden army had already made preparations, opened the field, surrounded it with yellow curtains, and separated the crowd watching the excitement. Zhao Ji led the ministers and the princes and the hundred and ten people of the clan knights into the field, he sat on the middle throne, and the courtiers of the two countries sat opposite each other. The drum sounded three ways, the game began, the straight arrow squad of the front division of the palace set up the arrow stack, and the players from the two countries appeared fifty steps away. It is said that the Liao people are good at using bows, and the Song people are good at making crossbows, but the people sent by the Liao State chose crossbows, and they can only use bows here.

The people who came down from the Liao Kingdom wrapped their heads around their heads without feet, wore brocade jackets, stepped on the crossbow with their feet, and danced in circles. Zhao Ta looked at it and wondered, not knowing whether it was showing off or praying, and then he put on the arrow, aimed at the target, and the envoys of the Liao State corrected it on the spot, and then sent the arrow. "Knock knock......... The drum sounded tee, and the red heart was in the middle.

Next, it is the turn of the military generals of the Song Kingdom to accompany the shooting, he is not ambiguous, the front legs are bowed and the back legs are tight, and the bow and arrows are also in the red heart, they are all straight in front of the emperor, and they are the closest servants of the emperor, which is equivalent to the current Zhonglu Yang Guard Regiment, and the kung fu is certainly not bad.

Two people, shoot the target, shoot the plate, shoot the plate and shoot the egg, the three-way arrow is shot, the two sides do not distinguish between the winners and losers, it is said that it is a tie, and the New Year is a happy thing, Zhao Ji will reward the winner of the treasure is ready to be divided into two, and the two will be rewarded.

"Qi Song Sheng, the envoy of the Liao State has something to say, saying that archery is not divided into winners and losers, and the two princes of other countries want to compete with our dynasty again!" This kung fu, an official of Honglu Temple stepped forward and said.

"Oh!" Zhao Ji was a little surprised, but he couldn't help but accept it when he made a move, otherwise he would plant more faces, and then he thought about it, the other party was challenged by two princes, but I don't know if his sons can do it?

"Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, if you can't send anyone, even if you lose, please give us the reward!" Just as Zhao Ta hesitated, a young man wearing a golden crown and a white robe came out and said, "There is no need to ask if it is one of the princes of the Liao Kingdom."

"Hmph, the child is rude, I am a big country, how can there be no one!" Losers can't lose, how can Zhao Ji let a child be scared, and reprimanded with a fierce voice.

"The fifth brother must not be rude, how can there be no warriors among the many princes of the Great Song Emperor?" Another one came out from the Liao State and said that it was persuasion, but it was better to add fuel to the fire, and the smell of gunpowder in the field was stronger.

"Which emperor should fight?" Zhao Ji looked at his son sitting on his right hand and said, these are the results of his own hard work for so many years, his son he already has twenty-five, five dead and twenty, today can walk back and run to see the lively twelve, seven kings, the rest are either county kings or national dukes, now it is six to one, and there are more than 20 clan relatives, they are also their own sons and nephews, how can they pick out two, he is still confident in victory!

The emperor's words startled the ministers who accompanied him in the field, they know his son better than the emperor, if you want to say that you don't speak, the boss Zhao Mad is absolutely good, that is a gourd without a mouth, I haven't heard him speak in the court: the third Zhao is better than chanting poetry and painting, and a brush can destroy them all: the fourth is dead and not mentioned: the fifth and sixth are not able to eat and play, but they don't see any ability: the seventh, eighth, and ninth are not yet ten years old, and it is estimated that the bow can't be opened: the rest are just not milky and useless, As for those clans, although they are all military attachés, they have never seen them do the work of military generals: as for the second Zhao Ta, they directly ignored it, although they were known as "heroic martial arts", they also saw that he played Wang Baquan twice and beat Wang Sheath and "Guan Yu", I have never heard that he can shoot arrows. I heard that the current emperor of Liao, Yelu Yanxi, is even more unparalleled in riding and shooting, and his son must not be far behind, otherwise how dare he challenge in public, but the emperor has already said that he can't solve his worries! ,

"If any emperor can defeat them, he will be crowned a general, given a gold belt, and a royal horse!" Zhao Ji was a little anxious when he saw that his sons were facing timidity, dodging and dodging, and they didn't even have the courage to fight, so he opened the reward and spoke sternly.

"Erchen is willing to fight with the prince of Liao!" Zhao Ta didn't want to end up at first, he felt that his brothers had received formal education, and shooting was one of the six arts of a gentleman, and it would definitely not be too bad, much stronger than his own wild fox Zen, but at first glance, they all looked at their noses and noses, and their noses and hearts were silent, and they knew that the way was not good. At the very least, it was said that he hung his father there, and he lost the face of the royal family, and said that there was no one in the Great Song Dynasty, and he lost the face of the country, which made him, a former hot-blooded soldier, stand up and say loudly.

"Who else wants to fight!" Zhao Ji's heart was warm, and he was also relieved, at the critical moment, his second boy gave himself a long face, but the other party was two people, and there was still one missing?

Zhao Ta's gaze swept over his brothers, a few of them were not very good, if everyone was not good, he would not be able to do anything, and he would be embarrassed by everyone, but as soon as he stood up, his nature was serious, his behavior was cowardice, and he couldn't share his father's worries, which was unfilial.

"Brother Jiu'er, would you like to give it a try?" When he saw Zhao Gou's heart, Zhao Gou's face was flushed, his fists were clenched, and he was in the midst of a battle between man and god, Zhao Ta understood that he had been waiting for the opportunity to get ahead, but when the opportunity came, he was timid again, and someone pushed him, stepped forward and took his hand and asked softly.

(To be continued.)