Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Temple of Taimiao Rewards
Early in the morning of the second day, Huo Quai's army marched towards Taimiao as a team. "Ya * Wen * Yan * Qing * Shou * Fa" (Pingnan Romance) Taimiao appeared as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and was recorded in the "Zhou Li", becoming a place for the royal sacrifices to the ancestors of all dynasties in later generations.
However, it is worth mentioning that, unlike other periods, the Western Han Taimiao is the most numerous period in history. Because during this period, not only the emperor had a temple in Chang'an, but even the princes and kingdoms also had a temple.
Of course, the temple where Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty worshiped is in the suburbs of Chang'an, and it is dedicated to the emperors of the Han Dynasty since the grandfather of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.
The Taimiao Temple is also a huge palace complex, and when Huo Quai's army arrived, the imperial palace of Emperor Wu of Han had not yet arrived, but almost all of the ministers of Chinese Wu of the dynasty were present. However, Huo Guang found that the gate of the Taimiao was closed at the moment, and the ministers who had already arrived were also standing in the open space outside the Taimiao very consciously.
These people were all dressed in long-sleeved deep clothes, and each stood still like a stone figurine. Because none of them Huo Guang knew, he didn't have anything to pay attention to these people. At this moment, Huo Guang looked behind him from time to time, and what he wanted to see was naturally Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
"This is the gate of the Taimiao, there is still some distance from the main hall, and the army will definitely not be able to enter the Taimiao, but we will follow Your Majesty in, and you can follow me when the time comes, don't say much, don't look around." Huo Quzhi whispered to Huo Guang that there was a fixed arrangement for each official to stand when he entered the Taimiao normally. However, this time Huo Qubing and his soldiers were the protagonists, so they were ranked in front of all the courtiers after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
"His Majesty the Emperor has arrived at ......" He didn't wait long before Huo Guang heard a loud chant coming from behind. Then Huo Quzhi took the lead in dismounting and stood quietly on both sides of the stone road leading to Taimiao.
Huo Guang naturally dismounted, his eyes looked along the end of the stone road, and the first thing he saw was a dense array of banners, and soon after the banner opened, a gorgeous carriage appeared, needless to say, this was naturally the car of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. At this moment, the soldiers of the Battle of Mobei and the officials of the DPRK and China were on both sides, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty passed through them.
Under the gaze of everyone, the carriage stopped ten feet from the gate. Watching the brocade curtain in front of the carriage slowly being opened, Huo Guang felt that he had held his breath, this eloquent and famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was about to appear in front of him, and he was still alive......
Soon, a towering and upright figure slowly walked out of the carriage, and Huo Guang in the distance felt a heavy aura like a mountain appear, which was the so-called momentum. In the past, Huo Guang always thought that the so-called momentum was just fiction in literary works, and it was not until this moment that he really felt that there was really such momentum in people.
"Thankfully, all the soldiers!" As Emperor Wu of Han stepped out of the car, a plain but dignified voice came from his mouth. This is a simple greeting, Huo Guang couldn't believe it, the opening of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who swallowed mountains and rivers, turned out to be such a sentence!
Huo Guang raised his eyes slightly and saw Emperor Wu of Han wearing a crown and a crown on his head. The crown was a black tunic with a vermilion undergarment and a coat of arms painted on the top and bottom. The black blouse has a cloud pattern embroidered on the chest, and the sun and moon are painted on the left and right shoulders. Huo Guang didn't want to look at it, he knew that the back of this black shirt should be the stars. The so-called "shouldering the sun and moon and carrying the stars" is also the fixed style of the emperor's crown dress handed down from the "Zhou Li", which has continued unchanged in China for thousands of years.
However, when Huo Guang fell on the face of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was covered by the 'crown' hanging in front of the crown. He could only feel that Emperor Wu of Han was nearly forty years old, but his specific appearance was not real!
"Meet Your Majesty, long live my emperor!" As soon as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty stepped out of the carriage, all the ministers and tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison. And Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still put on a majestic posture, and with the support of several attendants, he walked towards the gate of the Taimiao.
Emperor Wu of Han walked steadily, and he didn't look at anyone on either side of the way. And with the arrival of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the gate of the temple was also opened. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and his dependents walked into the Taimiao, Huo Quai's illness turned around and followed behind the emperor's dependents. Then he was naturally the general of the Battle of Mobei, and finally the ministers of the court and the central government also entered, but although there were many people who entered the Taimiao, they were not chaotic at all, and even so many people were still quiet and abnormal, and even the birds on the big tree of the Taimiao were clearly audible!
"It's a pity that I didn't see what Emperor Wu of Han looked like at such a close distance. If you have a mobile phone or something, it's a bunker, take a photo and send a ** or something, it's estimated that it will be popular, right? At this time, Huo Guang was not so nervous at first, and he made a joke silently in his heart.
The whole sacrificial process was very long, first of all, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty read a long sacrificial text, but Huo Guang really didn't hear what the sacrificial text was. First, the sacrificial article is really difficult to understand, and secondly, although they are very close to the main hall of the Taimiao, they are still more than ten meters away from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has a very loud voice, they can't hear what it is in the ears of these people.
Fortunately, in the Western Han Dynasty, they did not kneel at every turn, although the whole sacrificial process was very long, but there was no need for these ministers to kneel all the time, basically they were standing behind to accompany Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
After some elaborate ceremonies, the highlight of this time finally came to be the awarding of seals to the six newly feudal generals. In feudal society, the most representative of identity is the seal letter, and the process of sealing the marquis is that the emperor grants the prince a gold seal. In the Western Han Dynasty, the Liehou Yinxin enjoyed the highest level of gold seal purple ribbon, and the so-called golden seal purple ribbon refers to the real gold seal letter and purple seal ribbon.
As soon as the canonization began, Huo Guang saw that there were six chamberlains who each walked in front of the civil and military officials with a tray, and then Emperor Wu of Han said a long sentence, this time Huo Guang probably understood the meaning of Emperor Wu of Han's words. Basically, it means that the six people who were named marquis at what time and where they established great merits for the Han Dynasty, and then according to Gaozu's customization, these six people were named marquis.
Then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty called out the names of these six people one by one, and the six people stepped forward in turn and solemnly took the golden seal from the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. However, there was a detail that surprised Huo Guang, in Huo Guang's subconscious, he thought that these people who had been named marquis would kneel in front of Emperor Wu of Han like on TV, and then raised the golden seal above their heads to bow down to Emperor Wu of Han. But in fact, it is not so complicated, and the status of the recipient and the emperor is extremely equal.
For example, Lu Bode stepped forward to accept the seal, first Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held the seal in his palm, but Lu Bode walked in front of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty but did not kneel, but was five feet away, just a simple hand-to-hand salute to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and gave him a deep respect. Then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty handed over the seal letter to Lu Bode, and finally even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty handed over a salute to Lu Bode, which is very different from the impression of later generations.
"This ...... It seems to be very similar to the monarch of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it seems that he has also entered a misunderstanding, and many etiquette systems in the Western Han Dynasty are actually very close to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Huo Guang found that the process of sealing the marquis was exactly the same as when those monarchs in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period 'worshiped Shangqing and made generals'. That is to say, in the Western Han Dynasty, the monarchy had not yet been mythologized as in later generations.
It didn't take long for the six people to be crowned marquis, and after the marquis, it was a collective reward for the soldiers of the whole army. At this time, it was not Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who presided over it, but an official in his sixties, Huo Guang estimated that this person's status in the court was definitely not low, and it was very likely to be Li Kang's uncle Prime Minister Li Cai.
"He is An Lehou" Just when Huo Guang was guessing, Huo Quzhi whispered in front, and Huo Quzhi grasped the size of the voice quite well, and it happened that Huo Guang could only hear it. This completely confirmed Huo Guang's guess that Li Cai's title was An Lehou.
This time, Li Cai took out a few rolls of bamboo slips, and actually began to read from the first volume. And the content of it is a reward for Li Dare to be an officer in the army, because there are too many people, Li Cai can't remember it at all, so naturally he can only read according to the script. After more than 100 officers, it is a general explanation, how many ranks of the enemy are killed, and how many ranks are advanced.
Huo Guang listened carefully to Li Cai's list, and sure enough, he didn't find his name among them. It stands to reason that Huo Guang's position should also be ranked among the officers, but he really didn't say a word about him from beginning to end. In this way, Huo Guang became the only person who entered the Taimiao Temple and participated in the Battle of Mobei but did not receive a reward.
It had been nearly an hour since Li Cai read this, and some of the elderly officials were already dizzy. However, all the officials know that this is definitely not over, because the two coaches of this battle, Wei Qing and Huo Quai, have not yet been rewarded. By the way, although there is basically no reward for the Wei Qing Legion, there are also a few people who want to be rewarded according to the officer, and all these people today and Wei Qing have also come to Taimiao, but compared with the Huo Quzhi Legion, they are basically equivalent to non-existence!
"I have been thinking about it for a long time, and the general and the hussar general have made great achievements for my Han Dynasty, and since then they have added 5,000 households to the general's food estate, and 5,800 ......households to the hussar general's food estate," Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty suddenly said to the hundred officials under the steps. When these words were spoken, all the officials gasped and looked shocked.
You must know that in general, there are more than 2,000 households at most at the beginning of the list, and this time the two people are directly more than 5,000 households, and more than 5,000 households are actually equivalent to a small county. After this sealing, Wei Qing's food town has reached 16,700 households, Huo Qubing is less than Wei Qing, but it is only 600 households less, as many as 16,100 households. This is not even among the heroes at the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty!
However, this was still not enough to show his merits, so I decided to add the post of general and hussar general to the post of general and hussar general. Open up the territory for my Han Dynasty and expand the country! "A wave of Emperor Wu of the Unpaced Han Dynasty didn't wait for everyone to react, but threw out an even heavier bomb, which really completely stunned all the officials!