The day has finally come.

In the cold wind, countless flags fluttered in the air, and groups of soldiers wearing new military uniforms lined up along the narrow stone road outside the fence of the parade ground, parallel to the parade platform. The vast field was filled with officers and soldiers of the various regiments waiting to be reviewed, and they faced the parade platform, forming dozens of rows of solemn red lines.

And in the distance, on the flat ground outside the fence, several infantry and cavalry regiments stood in parallel, ready to march through the parade platform.

Dressed in red uniforms were the permanent legions of the Han Dynasty, all of whom had been carefully selected from the territory previously controlled by the Zhao family army, and who had recently entered the city of Beijing with the new emperor who was about to ascend the throne, and had successfully changed the dynasty.

Maybe some of them now think that this will be the end of the journey, but the emperor and the important ministers around him know that in the future, their journey will begin.

One day, as far east as the sea, as far as the desert in the west, as far as the ice fields in the north, and as far as the giant forest in the south, their footprints will be all over it, and they will also fight for themselves and the descendants of this nation, and they will also fight for incomparably brilliant deeds.

The soldiers in black uniforms are the people of the Praetorian Guard, these people will defend the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty in the future, and become the guards stationed in the capital of the Han Dynasty, they are not too many, but they are all elites selected from the various legions, and now they are all extraordinary, and they will straighten their waists, and they want to use this way to express the arrogance of their own Son of Heaven's army.

Under the gaze of this army, Zhao Jin, the new emperor of the Han Dynasty, stepped onto the empty parade platform step by step.

Yes, there was no one, because there was no one left in the empire he had single-handedly built to stand side by side with him.

And he, through more than 20 years of hard work, has come to a most glorious peak.

However, even when he is the only focus of attention, his face remains serious, and there is no trace of nervousness or joy in sight.

In the cold wind of the hunt, his gaze shifted slightly.

The closest to the stage were his closest and most relied on brothers, who were now divided into two sides and stood under the parade platform. The closest is Wang Zhaojing, his most trusted and relied on old friend, who will become the prime minister of the new dynasty, the first person among the ministers, and even he bows his head respectfully and refuses to meet the emperor's gaze.

According to the position of the new court, the others lined up farther and farther away, and some of them in the back he could no longer see clearly, only thinking that it was a thick black and red fog, which was surrounding his feet.

However, from this day on, they will no longer be any different, because they will all be his subjects.

Emperor Chongzhen wanted to be martyred before, but then he was immediately controlled by the eunuchs and civil officials around him who wanted to surrender. After the Zhao family army entered the capital, although he resisted very fiercely, and made it clear that he refused to cooperate and wanted to kill him, but after all, he was just a pampered and ignorant prince before, and he did not spend much effort, and the edict of abdication issued in his name was promulgated throughout the country. From today onwards, this hard-working emperor will be moved to a certain place of residential surveillance along with the other surviving royal families of the Zhu family, and live a life that is not free but at least relatively stable until the end of his life.

The other more large distant Zhu clan relatives would be dismissed directly and live a life of self-reliant civilians, and the emperor and his close ministers were not worried that they would rise up and rebel.

Originally, his ministers wanted him to ascend the throne in the magnificent palace of the Forbidden City, but he refused, he did not like the palace, and preferred to ascend the throne while parading troops on the outskirts of the capital.

He hopes to use this way to tell his subjects and tell the world that even if he becomes an emperor, he will never want himself and his ministers to lose their simple nature.

He looked at the neatly uniformed soldiers in the audience, and looked at their young faces that were smiling and even tearful because of excitement. He had 100,000 such soldiers, and he could ask for more if he wanted. And he firmly believes that on the earth today, no armed force, no country can stop this army that he has armed with the most sophisticated equipment and ideas far beyond the times, and the only thing that can withstand them is the endless desert and the vast ocean.

What are they fighting for?

They are fighting for him, in order to expand the foundation he created to the whole country and become another new dynasty in the land of China.

However, this was not enough for him, he wanted these people to fight to regain the glory of the Chinese ancestors many years ago.

I don't know how many years ago, the ancestors gathered around their leaders, resisted the invasion of foreign aliens, resisted the invasion of natural disasters, and for thousands of years, with amazing courage and determination, they expanded the land step by step, all the way out, and finally reached the vast majority of places that the ancient ancestors could look up to, and also let their descendants get the glory of "China".

The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers, this is the simple dream of the ancestors, and it is also the ultimate goal they diligently pursue.

I don't know how many years later, their descendants were decadent, tired of conquest and expansion, they stopped to rest, indulged in the convenience and comfort brought by civilization, forgot the pioneering spirit of their ancestors, and forgot the glory they once carried, and these glory were picked up by people from other worlds, and then crossed the continent and ocean with these lights, became the master of this world, and also put guns on this once great nation.

And he traveled here in the gap of time and space. After a fantastic journey, he has come to this point and become the master of an empire.

Is this the limit of yourself? Is this what you need to do?

No, at this moment, he prefers to believe that the reason why he was transported back to this era by time and space is because of his destiny, which is to lead this great nation to pick up the sword he lost in confusion and pain, and to regain the glory it is about to lose.

And he was still young, with decades to spare, and he could let his soldiers cross the desert and cross the oceans to complete new conquests one after another, spreading the concept of "China" to every land, so that they would either become subjects of the empire or tremble in the prestige of the empire.

He knew that there was no immortal dynasty since ancient times, and the new dynasty he established would one day collapse in the torrent of time and become a remnant in the history books.

However, he also knew that in a world that had been refreshed by him, he had left a mark beyond the vast majority of people in the world, becoming the undisputed ruler of one of the most populous empires in the world today.

He also knew that he would continue to lead his empire and drive his loyal soldiers to do even greater things until ...... Dwarf any conqueror in history by him.

And his children and grandchildren will continue on the path he has blazed, and will not expand the land and power of this great nation until it can no longer expand.

"The destiny of heaven is in the country, and the destiny of heaven is in me!" He whispered to himself, as if to himself, as if to some being in the dark.

Then, he raised his hand slightly.

At this moment, the prime minister suddenly knelt down, and then the people behind him knelt down in rows, like waves that were being conducted.

It was their salute to the supreme lord of the empire, and it was also a proclamation of the rebirth of a nation.

"My emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

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Today's two watches, the second watch at about 15 o'clock in the afternoon, and the next two shifts for a period of time