The chariots, the horses, and the pedestrians, bows and arrows, are all at the waist.

The grandmother and wife sent each other off, and the dust did not see the Xianyang Bridge.

The clothes stopped crying, and the crying went straight to the sky.

Du Mu's poems describe the scene of a father crying and shouting when the army goes out; But when Li Shimin went on the expedition, no such thing happened.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that most of the sergeants under his command have gone to Luoyang, and the slow foot soldiers are mobilized together with the military families who are willing to accompany the army; It was requisitioned early. So what I saw on the field was another scene.

A large cavalry of the black crows stood silently and solemnly, with only the fierce flags and the occasional sound of horses' hooves kicking; Every time there was a sound of tapping, there were horses trying to get out of the phalanx in search of freedom, but they were quickly controlled by the riders. In front, a group of central cadres of the Tang Empire stood on the high platform, and the old and young, including the crown prince and the king of Qi, surrounded Li Yuan, waiting quietly.

Everyone stood quietly, and only one person could move freely, and that was Wu Yang with a camera; In order to preserve the precious images of the King of Qin's expedition, Wu Yang was allowed to move freely on the field and press the shutter on all shot-worthy shots.

Seeing that the time was close to noon, Li Yuan's face was a little unpleasant, and he looked up at the sky from time to time anxiously. At this time, an official from Qin Tianjian stepped forward and bowed:

"Your Majesty, the auspicious time has arrived, and King Shenxiao is afraid that he will not be able to catch up, so why don't we wait for the first expedition ceremony! Otherwise, you will miss the auspicious time to go out. ”

Seeing that Ye Shenren never had the intention of appearing, Li Yuan knew that he was afraid that he would not be able to wait; With a wave of his hand, he said, "Let's start!" ”

The ritual of the expedition is very complicated, with divination, sacrifices, oaths, drinking a bowl of Zhuangxing wine, and finally leaving the city with a horn.

There are many methods of divination, such as flags, knives, guns, and chickens.

Occupy the flag is to see the direction of the wind blowing the flag, if the flag is blown by the wind to the sky, it is good luck; If the flag just wraps around the flagpole and refuses to fly, it is a bad omen.

By the way, in modern society, although there is no longer any ritual of occupying the flag, the habit of flying the flag high is engraved and inherited in the genes. When some Eagle Sauce game companies are playing games where the rabbit army occupies their homeland, they often follow the Western habit of hanging a very large red flag from the roof of the building, just like the Nazi flag style; But this is actually wrong, because the rabbit army has always paid attention to the flag flying and never falling, and has never had the habit of hanging.

This is to complain and continue to talk about divination; In addition to the flag, there are also knives and guns, this way is similar to the flag, that is, take a knife or gun and throw it into the sky, and when it falls, look at the back of the knife or the point of the head of the gun to judge the good luck.

The above three are quite simple and affordable, as for the chicken, the writer didn't understand, it seems that the process is to kill a chicken, see what shape it poses before it dies, and determine the good luck according to the shape of its death, in short, it's quite mysterious.

After divination, there is still a sacrifice; This sacrifice is nothing more than sacrificing to the heavens and the earth and sacrificing the flag, generally slaughtering animals to worship the heavens and the earth, and some will even slaughter enemy prisoners and hostages. I often see in the depiction of war in costume dramas, who is going to cut the sacrificial flag at every turn, which is a part of the ancients' expedition to sacrifice.

The first two links are done by professionals, and they have been completed in advance on a small occasion for a few people, after all, they are all at the juncture of the expedition, and the battle is inevitable; If all the personnel are gathered to participate, in case of a big bad omen, it will not greatly damage the morale of the soldiers.

The third item of the expedition conference: the oath, and divination, sacrifice only a few people participated, the oath is a ceremony attended by all personnel, and it is the most solemn expedition ceremony. In this link, Li Yuan will give Li Shimin things that symbolize power, such as tiger charms and scepters; At the same time, the text of the Eastern Crusade was read out at the meeting, exposing how unjust and immoral the countries east of the Tang Dynasty were; The justice of this war is expressed.

Originally, such an important expedition also had a ceremony to pay homage to the generals, in which the emperor made a gesture to the generals who led the troops, representing the safety of the country on the generals. But who made Li Shimin his son, how could there be a father who made a fool of his son, not to mention, this expedition, it was Li Shimin who fought for himself. Therefore, the worship ceremony was dispensed with.

When you receive the festival, the ceremony is almost complete; After drinking a bowl of wine, Li Shimin bowed deeply to Li Yuan, and then took the lead and took the first step in the Eastern Crusade; The other Tiance Mansion cavalry immediately followed.

When the cavalry group poured out of the gate of Chang'an, a low and solemn horn sounded on the city wall, and the melodious horn reached Li Shimin's ears, and he looked back at the majestic Chang'an City; In my heart, I sighed, this giant city, I am afraid that I can only return in a dream in this life.

Li Yuan stood on the tower of the city gate until all the banners and cavalry of the Tiance Mansion disappeared, then he sighed, turned his head to Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji and said, "Prince, since the King of Qin is gone, you can rest assured." In the future, I will stay in Chang'an City to supervise the country, and do not return to the northern border. ”

When the second son is gone, the eldest son has to stay by his side; As for the third son. Li Yuan said again:

"King Qi, you are also ready to prepare, go south to Tuzhou!"

Li Yuanji hurriedly said respectfully: "The order of the sage, Ergu does not dare to resign; However, Brother Qin's eastward expedition was imminent, and it was when the soldiers, horses, and grass were tight, so he gathered troops to the south in such a hurry, just afraid that the national dynasty would not be able to catch it. ”

It's not that Li Yuanji doesn't want to go to Muzhou, every time he thinks that he can occupy a continent and close the door to the north to become the emperor, he will wake up with a smile in his dreams; But now is indeed not a good time to go south; has been fighting with his father and brother for many years, and Li Yuanji still has the vision he should have; At present, the Tang army has succeeded in attacking the Turks in the north, but at the same time, it has also dragged down a large number of elite troops of the Tang Dynasty. At this time, Li Shimin was forced by Li Yuan to lead his Tiance Mansion army to the east; Before Li Shimin did not leave the Central Plains, no one dared to use the army loyal to the emperor that was gathered by Li Yuan.

This Datang, who can recruit good fighters, has almost been emptied. It can be said that it is the weakest time; At this point, it is not difficult for Li Yuanji to imagine what kind of treatment he will have, but he is afraid that most of his subordinates will use crooked melons and inferior dates to fill the number.

This kind of southward method, it is better to wait, whatever, you have to wait for the north to stabilize a little, and then send a group of northern expeditionary soldiers into the palace of the king of Qi before leaving.

Li Yuanji has a small abacus in his heart, but his mouth is full of plans for the country; Li Yuan smiled when he heard this, the emperor who had just returned from a run around Goguryeo didn't take Goguryeo's combat effectiveness to heart at all; With spaceships and divine thunder there, there is no need for a large army of ants, just two explosions, and they can scare those wild people in the border to the point of-urine flowing; It's so easy to conquer a city. It's really not good, there are still mechas, although the mecha troops are the emperor's own army; But it can still be temporarily lent to the envoy of the King of Qin.

Of course, soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the way of life and death; After being reminded by Li Yuanji, Li Yuan felt that he should be cautious. So he changed his words:

"It's not to gather troops immediately and go out, but to explore the way first! The spaceship of the Shenxiao Palace, I will give you one; With the convenience of a spaceship, you can travel lightly and simply, draw the geography of mountains and rivers along the way, and record the customs and customs. ”

This is okay, but when it comes to King Shenxiao, Li Jiancheng asked curiously: "Father, on such an important day when King Qin goes on an expedition, he will never see King Shenxiao?" ”

Speaking of which, Li Jiancheng heard that King Shenxiao accepted King Qin's son as an apprentice, and then King Qin got the only spaceship in the world; As for whether it will have any subtle impact on the political situation of Datang in the future, it is unknown. I can't say, the prince's mansion and the Qi Wang's mansion also have to arrange a few nephews to be students under the Shenxiao King's door.

Speaking of King Shenxiao, Li Yuan also wondered, since the New Year, King Shenxiao always appeared in the palace on time; Li Yuan also specially informed Ye Shenren that today was the day of King Qin's expedition, and asked him to come to watch the ceremony; As a result, all the people are gone, and the man of God still does not appear. I don't know what I was doing.

……

Ye Jinyu, who was nagged by Li Yuan's father and son, was standing at the door of the high-speed rail station at the moment and telling Ye Jinhuo.

"The high-speed train will arrive home in a few hours, pay attention to the prompt at the station, don't be late; Don't be afraid if it's late, just find a bus to sit back...... Don't talk to people casually on the road, take care of your mobile phone, you don't have much cash on you, and I transferred the money to your mobile phone. ”

It turns out that today is not only the day when King Qin goes out, but also the day when Ye Jinhuo goes home; Ye Jinyu, who was afraid that his younger brother would be lost, personally sent Ye Jinhuo to the station, and said a lot of nonsense to Rory, but I didn't know that Ye Jinhuo had listened to a few words.

"Bring all the exercises and do them well; Take the college entrance examination well, strive for a good score, and then I want to help you pull the relationship and strive to get into a good school. If you really can't do it, just study abroad, spend more money to go abroad, and study at a global university, a Pacific university, or something; I will make a turtle in the future. ”

"Brother, these pheasant universities you said are nothing to read, okay, my car is about to be checked, I have to go; Don't worry, I will study hard, and strive to score 700 points in the next few months, and then I will be admitted to their school in my own country, so that I can help you see the copy shop while studying. ”

"It's not promising...... What is there to keep in a copy shop; You just need to take care of your studies, and I'm still waiting to use the computer you designed and built. ”

Time waits for no one, Ye Jinhuo finally left;

Seeing his younger brother disappear at the security window, Ye Jinyu turned around to look at this huge and prosperous city, and inexplicably felt lonely; Although it is an international big city with a large number of people, he Boss Ye is still alone!

Back in the car, Lu Yuwei was waiting for him with a smile.

"Boss, good news, that Manager Chu has contacted me again; As you might guess, not only is the battery low price, but each battery also comes with a 28 large load bike. ”

"Uh......" is pretty good news.

Before the matter was over, Lu Yuwei said again: "In addition, the DMV called and said that the boss, your driver has come down and can be picked up at any time." ”

Ye Jinyu was stunned: "I seem to be just preparing to take the first exam......