Zhang Jun had already ridden a horse to catch up, and when he saw the emperor dressing the old man, even though it was thunderous with joy, he frowned violently. When Zhao Huan returned to the car with a smile, he was not polite, and immediately said to Zhao Huan in a straight tube: "Your Majesty, the grace of the Son of Heaven lies in government affairs." Your Majesty, but if you can defeat the Jin people and recuperate with the people, you can be virtuous and be born, why should you be so kind to one person? ”

Zhao Huan Shicai also felt that Meng Lang and Shicai's actions could make the people pass on their words, but the kindness of the Son of Heaven was indeed not suitable for a certain person, and it should not be too specific, otherwise it would be difficult to do things in the future. Listening to Zhang Jun's persuasion, Yuan also nodded his head, indicating that he was right, and when he heard "virtue is born", he remembered a certain martial arts for no reason, and immediately couldn't help grinning.

"Your Majesty!"

Zhang Junqi's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and the emperor didn't listen to persuasion, so he actually laughed at him in front of him, which was insulting to the minister's personality.

After all, the ministers of the Song Dynasty were not like the Ming and Qing dynasties, they were very temperamental, and they were treated like monkeys by the emperor, which was naturally worthy of anger.

Zhao Huan knew that he was wrong, so he smiled at the moment and said to Zhang Junzheng: "You are right, I remembered something else for a while, and I actually laughed." ”

"Oh."

Zhang Jun naturally didn't care what jokes the emperor thought, so he put his mind at ease, arched his hand on the horse, and said: "Your Majesty, you will be outside the city in a while, the six armies and the Huang Lu battle are waiting outside the city, Your Majesty will ask the soldiers to take a little color off to comfort the hearts of the soldiers." ”

"It's nature, I've got it."

Zhao Huan originally really wanted to tell a "joke" to meet the situation, who knew that these ministers were more serious than one another, and when they answered with themselves, they were always like a big guest and never laughed. The scholars of the Song Dynasty always held their own identities and refused to perfunctory the emperor, lest they bear the reputation of a courtier, which also made the emperor extremely weak when he summoned the ministers.

Chang'an City at this time. The commission is too small, the scale of the entire city, but the size of the imperial city of the Tang Dynasty is about the same size, Zhao Huan sat in the car, and after a moment of effort, he had already passed through the city gate and arrived outside the city.

As soon as they left the city, nearly 30,000 Song troops and the honor guards shouted together. Compared with the people who are more neat and majestic, Zhao Huan, who was caught off guard, was taken aback.

Because there were all troops outside the city, and most of them were newly recruited recruits, Zhao Huan specially got out of the car, changed the horse white in the first district, and personally stepped on, holding the reins in one hand and holding the sword in the other, and walked slowly to review the three armies.

"Hooray!"

Guanshan garrison. Originally, it was to recruit elite warriors among the township soldiers and archers of Yongxing and other four roads.

However, in the past two years, Zhao Huan has been conscripted again and again, and Zhao Huan intends to save people's power in Guanshan, and cannot recruit all the local warriors. Therefore, when the Fengsheng Army planned and prepared two months ago, most of them were recruited near the Xihe River and Chengdu Fu Road in Hanzhong, although they could not be selected from ten thousand, they were all strong warriors of these roads.

Most of them came from the countryside, and participated in small-scale battles during the invasion of the Jin soldiers, but they did not go out with the army, but stuck to the village. After Zhao Huan decided to expand the army, he had been recruiting soldiers and horses on Yongxing Huanqing and other roads, and did not take care of other places, so he could get to this time. These self-proclaimed warriors have the opportunity to participate in the battle with the enemy in the imperial camp forbidden army, because the soldiers are particularly high, and because the emperor himself came to review them, these township soldiers, who are rarely seen even in the county order, feel extremely excited, and when they shout, they stand tall and protruding, looking forward to being proud of themselves, in the hope that the emperor who is galloping past on a horse will take a look.

Except for the army. It is that there are as many as 6,500 people in the Huanglu battle, because the palace room in the city is too small, the so-called square in front of the main hall is too crowded with hundreds of people, it is impossible to think of it as in the Tokyo Imperial Palace, so Xie Liang first proposed, simply reduce the number of people, and some people mentioned that now that the war is in chaos, the big ceremonial frame can be neat, and save people's power, and can apologize to the ancestors.

And Zhao Huan, who has always cherished the people's power and refused to waste national funds, is surprisingly persistent in this matter. Although he didn't know how large this big battle was, he knew in his heart that before he patrolled the army, the honor guard must not be thrifty, because this time it was not because of the urgent military situation, and Tongguan was just that, Hedong fell to the Jin people for a few years, and the emperor's majesty was used to re-inspire the hearts of the people, and even if the battle in Tongguan went well, it was possible to go straight to the Central Plains of Luoyang, even if it could not be obtained, it could also threaten Tokyo.

Just when he came out of the city and saw with his own eyes the full guard of honor composed of 6,500 people, Zhao Huan was still deeply shocked.

6,500 people, brightly dressed and armoured, holding various banners showing the emperor's majesty, standing quietly on the plain under the city wall of Chang'an.

On the left, the most frontal ground, there is a green dragon flag first, then five Wuyue flags, twenty-five five-party dragon flags, fourteen Shenmen red flags, and Vermilion Bird flags; On the right, there is a white tiger flag first, then five five phoenix flags, twenty-five five phoenix flags, fourteen red door god flags, real martial arts flags, and six soap poison fluttering; Such a scale is only the "Jinwu" in the big ceremonial frame.

Under Jinwu, it is the "Ministry of War", what Tianyi Banner, Seti Banner, Five Elements Zhongdi Jinmu, Water, Fire and Earth Flag, Twenty-eight Constellations, Fengbo, Bai Ze, Flying Elephant, Lei Gong Banner...... All of these things add up to hundreds of facets.

After the military department, there is the so-called "dragon pier" team. Sun and Moon Flags, Lions, Phoenixes, etc.

In addition to the "Six Army", the whole guard of honor has more than 1,000 flags, in the era of the reign of Zhao Huan's father Zhao Ji, the annual Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, on the main hall of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, Daqingdian Square, displays these honor guards composed of 7,500 people, in order to show the prosperity of cultural and martial arts, collectively known as the Huanglu Great Battle, is the largest honor guard to show the emperor's majesty and dignity.

After Tokyo was broken, the honor guard was separated, Zhao Huan ran Chang'an in the past two years, and many of the honor guards came to Chang'an one after another, either in the army or as officials, and only a few people went to the palace to take charge of the poor travel honor guard for Zhao Huan. At this time, after more than a month of preparation, several thousand people were transferred from the Fengsheng Army, and only then did they barely have 6,500 people, and set up three Huang Lu battles that were only two-thirds of the scale of that year.

Zhao Huan didn't care at first, but after watching it for a long time, he was already dumbfounded.

In addition to him, Zhang Jun and the others also watched silently, with different expressions on their faces, not knowing whether they were sad or happy. Yesterday's prosperity can be glimpsed from the scale of this honor guard, and today's sadness lies in the fact that the capital has been lost, and even the palace where the honor guard can not be found, so he has to go out of the city first and open it in the wild.

"Order Zhao Kai to come over."

Zhao Huan watched for a while, finally came back to his senses, returned to the frame and sat down, and saw Xie Liang and other officials who saw him off standing on the left side of the road, silently looking at the big ceremonial stand, so he didn't look for Xie Liang first, and ordered someone to send Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai didn't know what the emperor summoned before leaving, so he hurried to Zhao Huan's car, first bowed and saluted, and then raised his head to Zhao Huan and asked, "What does Your Majesty have to call the ministers?" ”

Zhao Huan looked at him, and saw that this financial management official who he had promoted from Chengdu had wrinkles on his forehead arranged in rows, and his white hair on his sideburns turned into frost, which was similar to the middle-aged official with a sturdy body and a strong face two years ago.

He knew that the country was using more and he had to be sympathetic and gracious, and he couldn't pay more taxes, or even save money in many ways, so the burden on the prime minister who was in charge of financial management was also heavier day by day, and Zhao Kai seemed to be ten years old.

Zhao Huan's heart was sideways, but his face was unmoving, and he only said indifferently: "I called you over to ask how much it will cost you to go on this patrol?" ”

"This?"

Zhao Kai was stunned at first, and then glanced at the big guard behind him, and he already knew it in his heart. The emperor first insisted on seeing it, but now that he sees this large scale, he must have regretted it in his heart.

He replied immediately: "More than 30,000 people, the daily daily expenses, will be 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, plus Your Majesty's daily expenses, as well as the preparation of the big frame, it has already cost more than 200,000 yuan, and Your Majesty's tour for a month will be enough, more than 1 million yuan." ”

Zhao Huan regretted it in his heart, but his face still refused to show it, but he just smiled at Zhao Kai: "This big car is so expensive, Qing should have said it earlier." Xie Liang said generally, if you, the Minister of Finance, don't say it, and I don't know it, so there is a mistake. ”

Seeing Zhao Kai's embarrassed face, Zhao Huan smiled again: "This experience is also rare, and it's okay." ”

He tapped lightly, Zhao Huan knew that this person was thin-faced and narrow-minded, and he was afraid that he would think too much, but he comforted him again.

Zhao Kai's face was flushed, this trip cost a lot, and other Zai was on the contrary to Mi wasted time, he had the intention of speculating about the emperor, and he was unwilling to speak against it with his heart, and he was accused by the emperor at this time, which was even more embarrassing than others.

Fortunately, the emperor was not too much, he sighed secretly and stepped aside.

Zhang Jun saw that Zhao Huan's review had been completed, and as the head of the patrol, he ordered to let the Fengsheng Qianjun go first.

Under the leadership of dozens of cavalrymen, the front army of more than 10,000 people slowly moved west along the avenue, and the military-made leather boots stepped on the yellow-brown earth that was dry and cracked in winter, stepping on the smoke and dust in the sky.

After the front army, it was Zhao Huan's car and the big guard car, after being separated from the front army for several miles, Zhao Huan only felt a shock to the body, and the inner temple guards who looked around surrounded the carriage back and forth, and also began to move forward.

After traveling five or six miles, the Chang'an city wall has been annihilated under the horizon, and it is gradually impossible to see clearly.

The body shook around, Zhao Huan was still very interested, and he couldn't stop looking out of the car window, and in the evening, he had already lowered the car window, closed his eyes and recuperated, even if the scenery was very good at dusk, he was not interested in looking at it again.

Seventy or eighty miles have been walked, and as far as the eye can see, in addition to the bare loess mountains, it is rare to see a large number of prosperous villages, and the two county towns passing by are also very dilapidated, and the road is not seen at all except that the main road has long been repaired by the government on the side of the road and is quite smooth.

As for the river, you can see the Wei River along the way, this famous big river near Chang'an, because of the dry water in winter, it is almost cut off, the Wei River is like this, and the rest of the rivers are even more unbearable. As for the water conservancy ditch, I'm afraid don't even think about it.

The conditions are so bad, no wonder that from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the land of the Guanzhong Plain, which has been prosperous for thousands of years, can no longer turn over.

He only felt that his heart was heavy, and the coming day was difficult, so how could he still enjoy the scenery.