Chapter 583: Sacrifice to the Heavens

Wang Yan has a small family spirit in his bones, he only cares about his small family, Daliang is about to have a big change, Wang Yan is most worried about the palace in Xinzhou.

After returning home, Wang Yan wrote a letter in Hanyu Pinyin, writing all the information he knew in it, and asked He Yushan to convey it to Mr. Wang, so that the old man could prepare early, and only he and He Yushan could understand Hanyu Pinyin in the world, so Wang Yan wrote without scruples, and he was not afraid that the letter would fall into the hands of others.

After the letter was written, Wang Yan sent someone to send it to Xinzhou quickly.

After the letter was sent, Wang Yan was still not at ease, and wrote a letter to Bai Gongsha, asking her to help take care of the palace, and he would repay him in the future.

When there were still three days before the heavenly ceremony, Wang Yan lived in the Tiance Mansion camp in Luoyang City, and in the blink of an eye, tomorrow was the ceremony of sacrificing to the sky.

The emperor and queen went to Dongshan to worship the sky, with a total of about 30,000 troops guarding, including 1,000 elites to protect the safety of the emperor and queen, and Wang Yan was the leader of this 1,000-person elite.

Before dawn, Wang Yan waited in front of the palace gate with a thousand fully armed elite armor soldiers.

As soon as the ugly hour arrived, the palace gate opened, and countless forbidden soldiers escorted a carriage out of the palace gate.

Wang Yan handed over to the guards, the soldiers separated, and the carriage slowly drove into the center.

Wang Yan holds the coiled dragon in his hand, the red rabbit under his crotch, and walks in the forefront, fully armed Wang Yan, majestic and full of aura.

When I left the city through the south gate, it was still dark.

The 30,000 army was guarding outside the city gate, leading the team to be invincible in all directions, and the 30,000 armor soldiers stood neatly behind him, * solemn and murderous.

Wang Yan led the team into the center, and under the escort of 30,000 armor soldiers, he marched towards Dongshan.

Dongshan is fifty miles east of Luoyang City, and the time of the sacrifice to the heavens was set three hundred years ago, starting at noon, to climb the altar on the top of the mountain before noon, and to reserve the time for climbing, the whole army is basically trotting and marching.

The sacrifice to heaven is a big gift, and there is no room for desecration, so the atmosphere along the way is very serious.

Wang Yan pulled down his armor and concealed his expression, because the contrast between his expression and the solemnity on the armor's face was too strong.

Emperor Huizong and the queen rode in two carriages, Emperor Huizong's carriage was in front, the queen's carriage was behind, Huizong sat in the carriage, looked directly at Wang Yan's back through the gauze curtain, to Wang Yan, he liked it to the bones, since that day Wang Yan swore allegiance to him, his attention to Wang Yan has not stopped, Wang Yan's performance is clear to him, and now he has become the invincible son-in-law of the ten directions, he sees the hope of regaining power from Wang Yan.

The queen's carriage was directly behind the emperor's carriage, and the queen was also sitting in the carriage, her eyes closed, and Yue'e was fiddling with the incense burner on the side, gently fanning the fragrance with a fan.

Fifty miles of road is the straight-line distance on the map, really calculated, there are seventy or eighty miles of road, and it took nearly four hours to reach the foot of Dongshan Mountain.

Because it is a sacrificial place, there are forbidden troops guarding the East Mountain all year round.

There was only one way up and down the mountain, and the army of 30,000 was divided into two teams, one team guarded in front of the mountain gate, and the other team patrolled around.

Gao Ji got out of the carriage with Huizong in his arms, Yue'e got out of the carriage with the queen, Huizong walked in front, and the queen kept a distance of three steps from him.

The forbidden troops stationed at the Temple of Heaven are all generations of hereditary soldiers, and they have been guarding this important place of worship since their ancestors, and the road on the mountain is very wide enough to accommodate two carriages in parallel.

A ceremonial official came down from the mountain, his ancestor was in charge of the ritual of sacrificing to the sky, with a team of people, at the gate of the mountain to set up the incense case, first let the emperor incense, and then read a large section of the sacrificial text, only to let the forbidden army guarding the door to get out of the way, welcome the emperor and go up the mountain.

Wang Yan took the armor soldiers, followed closely behind the emperor and queen, and went up the mountain together.

The mountain path of Higashiyama is different from other famous mountains, other mountains are built along the side, and you can enjoy the scenery while climbing, but Higashiyama is different, it is a mountain road carved out from the center of the mountain, and when you walk on it, there are stone walls on both sides, and there is only a ray of light on the top of your head.

There was still half an hour before noon, and the group finally climbed to the top of the mountain, the east mountain is a low mountain, and the top of the mountain is very wide.

In the center of the top of the mountain, there is an altar ten zhang long and wide, three zhang high, the altar is full of sacrificial items around the altar, there are countless oil lamps, incense burners, colored flags, etc., and the altar wall is carved with sacrificial texts.

At the steps of the altar stands a large banner with the word 'Temple of Heaven' written on it.

Incense burners and candles were placed under the banner, more than twice as large as those just below the mountain, and ten ceremonial officials wearing Xuan robes stood respectfully in front of the incense table, all holding a scroll in their hands.

The emperor came to the incense table, knelt on the futon, and began with the celebrant on the far right, unfolded the scroll, and read the sacrificial text.

The emperor and queen knelt, and the people present, except for the ten ceremonial officials, knelt down in advance.

The sacrificial text sounds cumbersome and tongue-twisting, but the content is not difficult to understand, first praising the merits of the ancestors, then patting the heavens, and finally telling the emperor to respect the heavens.

Wang Yan's attention was not on the sacrificial text, he raised his vigilance, and just after going up the mountain, he felt a faint hostility, it was likely to be the assassin of the emperor, and he needed to raise his spirit.

After the ceremonial official read the sacrificial text, the emperor and queen knelt three times and bowed to Tianxing, and slowly stood up after the ceremony, took the sacrificial text handed by the ceremonial official, and bypassed the incense case and boarded the altar.

Wang Yan waved his hand, and Xiao Feng led the armor soldiers to surround the Temple of Heaven, a thousand people, and surrounded four floors.

Wang Yan followed the emperor and queen to the altar, and his eyes swept around the forbidden army standing at the edge of the mountaintop.

The prince walked up to the Temple of Heaven with the sacrificial text, Gao Ji and Yue'e were not qualified to go to the Temple of Heaven, so they could only wait below.

There were no ornaments on the Temple of Heaven, the stone surface of the white marble glowed with white light, and the sun was about to reach overhead.

The uneasiness in Wang Yan's heart became more and more intense, the coiling dragon was in Xiao Feng's hand, and Wang Yan's hand was tightly clenched on the hilt of the sword.

The ceremonial officer looked at the sundial and shouted as the shadow was on the scale in the center.

"It's noon! Your Majesty reads the memorial message! ”

Emperor Huizong slowly unfolded the sacrificial text, just about to recite it.

Thundered!

There was a loud bang from the mountain pass, and then a puff of smoke and dust erupted from the mountain pass.

Wang Yan turned around suddenly, his eyes widened, and he took three steps back to close the distance between Emperor Yu and Empress Yu.

A cold light shot straight down from the top of the left side of the two dragon pillars at the entrance of the mountain road, heading straight for Huizong's heart.

Wang Yan was behind Huizong, his eyes were quick, a sword was struck, and he hit the arrow, the feather arrow deviated from the direction and shot to the side, and the half-finger-long arrow did not enter half of the stone face.

Wang Yan's face was gloomy, and he looked at the stone pillar, a person dressed in white and wearing a white mask, holding a bow of ten stones, and the arrow was already on the string.

Sou! Sou!

A ten-stone bow, two arrows in unison! The target is the emperor!

The queen was beside the emperor, and in a hurry, Wang Yan couldn't allow Wang Yan to think too much, so she turned around and pounced, spread her arms, and threw the emperor and queen to the ground.

There were two clanging sounds, and the arrow was completely submerged in the stone slab.