Ma Kuo was ordered to return to Beijing, and he rushed to the Privy Council first to restore his life. said that it was a return to life, but it was nothing more than a report. In fact, when Ma Kuo and others rebelled in Wuma Mountain, it was the second siege of Bianliang that had not been lifted, and Ma Kuo did not receive any orders from the imperial court.

Uncle Cheung was on duty in the Privy Council at night. He briefly asked about the battle situation in Hedong, even if Ma Kuo's recovery was over.

"Ma Chengxuan, do you have a place to live in Bianliang?"

"Back to the Privy Council, the last general has no acquaintances in Beijing?" When Ma Kuo returned to Beijing in the past, he lived in Liu Qi's house, but now that Liu Qi is in Hanzhong, Ma Kuo can't live in it.

"Master Wu," Uncle Zhang called his staff at night, "Acting for the official to draft a list and let Ma Kuan go to live in the post station of Baojia household." ”

Zhang Shuye said to Ma Kuo again: "Jingzhong Bank is a guarantee, and you are not allowed to stay unless someone is a guarantee or testimony." ”

"The last general also acts in accordance with the "Baojia Law" in Hedong, and knows the rules."

Bidding farewell to Uncle Zhang, Ma Kuo first went to meet Zhang Kejian, the envoy of the Hedong Economic System, and then the two took their own soldiers to stay at the post station under Baojia.

"The student was still in the second year of Xuanhe, and when he was released to Fenzhou Zhizhou, he went to Bianliang. When I came back this time, the style of Bianliang was very different from what I remembered. After dinner, Zhang Kejian chatted with Ma Kuo.

"Yes, yes, Bianliang has simply become a fortress, but I am afraid that the lanterns of the Shangyuan Festival will be gone."

"That's not necessarily, today's students went to Zhongshu Province to report on their work, and I heard that there will be a lantern festival on the Shangyuan Festival, and there are new things like a parade of combat heroes.

Ma Kuo was noncommittal: "It seems that there is still money and food in the capital, and it can afford to hold the Lantern Festival." ”

"Cheng Xuan, the four sieges of Bianliang, you and I have not experienced it. The students visited the city today, and they heard quite a few tragic things. You must know that Bianliang attracted the main force of the Jin soldiers, and we can only finish the Yanyin technique in Hedong, and the two of us will enter Beijing this time, and we will receive the reward on behalf of the Hedong soldiers. ”

"Speaking of rewards, Ma Kuo heard that the imperial court is going to set a new system, and the priests of Xuanyuan Dao and the official ranks of the imperial court will be combined into one."

Zhang Kejian's face sank: "Zen Master Zhizhen of Wutai Mountain has repeatedly proposed to take Xuanyuan Dao as the state religion, Xuanshuai has not said anything, is this to be agreed?" ”

"Why don't you say that Xuanshuai will eventually get the highest status in the imperial court, so Xuanyuan Dao's body doesn't need to be independent."

Zhang Kejian knew that Ma Kuo was right. Hu Yangeng previously built a feudal town outside, and it was inconvenient to use the name of the imperial court for various rewards. And now......

"Add nine tin, the sword goes to the temple, praise and worship, and open the capital. Alas, it has finally come to this point. Ma Kuo let out a long sigh.

"Cheng Xuan still hesitates in his heart? If it weren't for Huyan Xuanshuai, we would have been dead souls under the knife of the gold thief, and Hedong would have become the abandoned land of the imperial court. ”

"Don't I know? It's just that since I joined the army, I am bent on repaying the Zhao official family, and the Zhao official family is about to become the Hu official family all of a sudden, and my heart can't turn around for a while. ”

"Then don't think about it, as long as you talk in your heart, you want to fight for Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and Xuanyuan bloodline, and your mind will be clear."

"It turns out that Xuanyuan Dao still has such a wonderful use."

Zhang Xian also returned home, and in the face of the scolding of his septuagenarian father Zhang Suo, who "has no king and no father", Zhang Xian's face sank like water, and he recited aloud: "The great ancestor, I am a Huazhao maker; Xuan Yan worships Mian, Yue Ehe Hao. ”

If you talk about the monarch's father, who is higher than the ancestor of Yan and Huang?

suppressed his father in terms of momentum and reason, and Zhang Xian could also calmly tell the reason why he followed Hu Yangeng.

"A few days ago, I was drinking with Hu Yangeng, and the old man scolded that guy." Zhang Suo laughed, "Look at the appearance of you, Hu Yangeng's usurpation of the throne is already unstoppable, but you and I, father and son, have all eaten the imperial grain of the Zhao family, and we should be loyal to the Zhao family." ”

"When the child went north to Huyan Geng, he had not yet been crowned and had never eaten the Zhao family's grain. The grain and grass eaten by the children are all served by the people of Hebei, and the children will support whoever the people of Hebei support. ”

"Rebel...... Alas, the court treats your father well, you have to look at your father and save the lives of the Zhao family. ”

"Xuan Shuai never kills indiscriminately, and his father should not worry."

The military generals who returned from Hebei, Hedong, Hexi and Shandong, when they met with the old people in Beijing, were talking about the rewards that the imperial court was about to send down. ”

The point is to stop, and what happens after adding nine tin, everyone knows it.

The lanterns of the Shangyuan Festival are arranged by the Kaifeng Mansion, and just after the fifteenth day of the first month, a large group of Praetorian Guards reappeared on the road to carry out the second "street clean" today.

Empress Dowager Zhu Fenglian, Concubine Zhu Fengying, Emperor Zhao Helium, and Hu Yangeng, who accompanied the car, finished the ceremony at the temple ceremony, and Luan drove through here, and then returned to the palace.

The sergeants held lacquered wooden muleties in their hands, stopped the carriages and horses on the street one by one into the alleys of the branch roads, and drove the pedestrians to both sides of the road, and only allowed them to meet them on the side of the road, and did not stay in the middle of the street.

In the Fengle Building next to Suzaku Street, every pavilion is fully booked. Although Bianliang has been transformed into a chessboard-like fortress, landmarks such as Feng Lok Lou have also been restored. In Fengle Louding, the pavilion is not the rich households in Kaifeng - with the retreat to Hebei that lasted for several years, there are no rich households in Kaifeng - these grids are all selected by each Baojia to watch the ceremony.

At this time, they looked down from the upper floor, and the Praetorian Guards on both sides of the street downstairs, with their backs to the center of the street, facing the shopkeepers, pressed them one after another with the lacquered wooden mullions in their hands, as if to build two temporary human walls, and enclosed the crowd of people who were crowded and next to each other outside the wall, and vacated a large part of the middle for Luan to pass through here.

Seeing the Emperor and Empress Dowager's halogen team coming, he asked people to show off, "The front of the halogen brigade is six white elephants, all of them are wearing golden halts, draped in various colors of silk and tassels, and walk side by side in front of the team to open the way. The elephant riders each sit on a small wooden lotus chair around the neck of the elephant. They were at the forefront of the 21,575-strong Halogen Brigade, and they had the great mission of regulating the pace of the procession, so they looked left and right, and were very proud. ”

But this time there were no white elephants, only a team of two hundred horses, and the men on horseback were dressed in all sorts of mutilated armor.

"He is a man who made meritorious contributions in the Battle of Bianliang."

"There are also military men who have made meritorious contributions in other places."

Ten years ago, these military men were called "thieves with soldiers", but today they are big people who stand up to the sky, and under the gaze of the residents of Bianliang, they look forward to their own pride.

Following them were Taichangqing, Guangluqing, Taifuqing, Kaifeng Yin and other officials, all of whom had a Zhu Teng title plate in front of them, indicating their official rank and identity. They can only be ranked second to the meritorious soldiers.

It was followed by a group of infantry, and then the "armor and cavalry equipment" led by Hu Yantong, also known as a chain horse, led by Hu Yantong, who belonged to the Ma Military Division of the guard. This specially selected cavalry is the essence of the forbidden army and the backbone of the honor guard. They all stepped off their horses with swords in their hands, and in response to the rhythm of the bronze drums and golden cymbals, they stepped out to the sound of neat and well-proportioned horses' hooves, and slowly marched forward amid the cheers and cheers of the audience.