On the first day of October, the long-awaited Grand Reading finally began.

On the evening of the previous day, Li Tai and other guards of the government left the city and were busy preparing for the honor guard of the book to participate in the big reading in the camp demarcated outside the city.

Although Gao Zhongmi lacks much power, his official position is high, so the scale of the honor guard of the Taiwei Mansion is not small, with ten armor in the front, thirty swords, one Daxu, one in the back, and fourteen people on the left and right.

Li Tai, as the secretary of the Taiwei Mansion, was the leader of this honor guard. The first time he participated in such a high-level ceremony in ancient times, he was also nervous, and counted all the cultural relics and personnel over and over again.

When he first received these cultural relics, he was still more excited to see those exquisitely made and powerful armor.

Previously, he had a family heirloom fine armor, but it was seized before Tongguan Pass. Later, although he was protected by some favors, the original armor had long been confiscated by which soldiers had been confiscated and had not been recovered.

After the Battle of Bishan, the Western Wei army was so poor that they panicked, and some favors did not make any more compensation, after all, Li Tai did not go into battle to kill the enemy, and it was a waste to give him a pair of armor.

This time, Daxingtai was allocated to the armor defense forces of the Taiwei Mansion to participate in the big parade, and Li Tai wanted to try what it was like to wear it around.

But when his hands touched those real armor objects, he couldn't help but be disappointed. These armor looks powerful and handsome on the outside, but they are not iron armor at all, but simple lacquered tire armor, looking at the rattle, the protection ability is almost nothing, and you can pick up a few with one hand.

Although there is no practicality at all, these armor tools are very powerful when they are hung on the body, Li Tai with the help of his subordinates put this armor on his body, and suddenly he felt that he was only one roaring dog away from Erlang God, and he walked with a tiger.

This is not a joke, there are really dogs participating in the big parade this time, there are hundreds of hunting dogs, but they do not belong to the Zhugong Mansion, but belong to the six armies directly under Daxingtai.

There is less important props for COS Erlang God, but Li Tai has an extra dog-beating stick. This wooden stick is more than a foot long, and the two ends are inlaid with copper rings, and its real name is 殳.

The so-called Bo is also stubborn and the pioneer of the king, which refers to this kind of weapon, which means that the uncle, I will open the way with a stick, and the king, you can rest assured that you will walk behind.

When Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty was young, he lamented that Shi Eun was regarded as the ruling Jinwu, that is, he felt that those young men who held sticks to open the way were really handsome. Jin Wuwei is the emperor's honor guard, and Li Tai is now a guard of the public government, which is still almost meaningless.

In addition to this pole and the ritual armor on his body, he also has a class sword and a slight bow. The sword is a piece of lacquered wood, not even bladed, and the bow is not wound at all, all of which are inserted into the skin of the waist.

In other words, none of the ritual artifacts issued to him were actually combat, and even if he wanted to assassinate Yu Wentai or anyone while attending the ceremony, he couldn't do it at all.

At dawn, the drum in the city sounded three links, Li Tai and Changshi Nianhua hurriedly commanded the honor guard to go to the specified place to set up, and checked the honor guard from beginning to end to see if there were any omissions.

After being busy for half an hour, the drums and horns inside and outside the city sounded in unison like thunder.

The majestic sound shook people's eardrums, Li Tai led the horse to stand in the honor guard, Rao is equipment is a little flashy and funny, but the mood can't help but surge, this vigorous and killing atmosphere is really infectious.

With the opening of the city gate, the six armies took the lead, holding the halberd to guide the first, a team of 100 people, each holding a group, the night wind blew the flag hunting, and became a moving harmony in the sound of drums and horns.

After the guard of honor of the six armies was opened, a big car with a large building drove out of the city gate, on which a big drum was pulled, and there were drummers beating the drums, and the gap between the drums was filled with various musical instruments such as long singing and horizontal blowing, which was the front of the king's ceremonial car, and there were more than 600 musicians alone.

Advocating and marching, it is the six square army arches from a big car out. There was no one on the cart, only a carved imperial case was placed, and the imperial case was placed with the emperor's edict and the Taimiao sacrificial text.

The empty car representing the emperor passed by, and two big cars came out in parallel, respectively riding the crown prince of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yuan Qin, the prime minister, and the Daxing Taiyu Wentai. The two cars drove out, and the front drumming became more high-pitched and excited, and the soldiers of the forbidden army who were guarding the four sides also began to sing the honorific horn loudly.

Li Tai has not seen a big scene, but when he saw such a majestic picture of the honor guard with his own eyes, his palms were still soaked with sweat unconsciously.

This kind of ritual is indeed very powerful in the shock and infection of people's hearts, so that Li Tai frequently silently recites in his heart "He can replace him", and the tension in his heart is reduced.

Finally, the buses drove out, and when they heard the roll call of the ceremonial official in front of the city gate and shouted to Gao Zhongmi, Li Tai hurriedly turned over and got on his horse, looked back and ordered the honor guard to take place in front of him, arching from Gao Zhongmi's car and slowing down in the honor guard.

The entire honor guard traveled several miles east and arrived at a hill several feet above the flat ground, which was the main venue of the Great Parade.

The guards and Chinese troops who arrived at the mound first had already surrounded the mound and the mound was also full of various ceremonial relics. Li Tai and other princes' honor guards lined up on the left side of the plateau, and on the south side were the armies of the states, which had already been clearly arrayed.

In the morning light that was about to break, flags were lined up, and the black pressure array covered the space, and there was almost no end in sight.

As the dawn of the east broke through the clouds, the drums and horns around the square sounded loudly again, and the Western Wei Taichang Qing Lu Wei and the officials of the ceremonies took the stage, first made a prayer ceremony, and then began to read the edict of the emperor of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Li Tai stood on the side of the high platform, listening with his ears sideways, and could only barely hear some words through the slight tone of the morning breeze, and it was expected that the soldiers farther away in the array could probably only see a senior official standing on the high platform hoarsely, but they didn't know what they were shouting.

However, after the reading was completed on the stage, there were officials everywhere in the school to read out the contents of the edict again. When Li Tai saw this, he couldn't help but think about whether to get a speaker out. However, with his physical and mechanical level, at most he will roll up a shouting microphone.

The content of the edict is classical and obscure, and although it can be heard, there are few people who can interpret it. Li Tai also sounded half-understood, to the effect that "brothers, I'm too difficult", "There are always Diao people who want to harm me", "Everyone killed He Liuhun for me, divide money, divide power, and divide women" and so on.

When the edict was read, more than half an hour had passed, and then the ritual process was accelerated, and the prince of the Western Wei Dynasty, Yuan Qin, took the stage and handed over the things that represented the power to Daxingtai Yuwentai one by one, which was to reaffirm the unshakable authority of Daxingtai in front of the internal and external armies.

Li Tai and other public palace guards also dismounted one after another, escorting the princes to watch the ceremony, but because they stood too close and were blocked by the high platform, they really couldn't see anything. Originally, I wanted to take a closer look at Yuwentai's demeanor and see what the person I wanted to overcome looked like, but I only saw a row of armor soldiers' legs.

After Yuwentai accepted the ceremony, the crown prince Yuanqin was guided by the ceremonial official to step down and sit down in the back tabernacle.

After Yuwentai took over the home field, the ceremonial officials took the roll call again, and the princes and Kaifu took the stage in turn and took over the ceremonial instruments representing their respective authoritative positions from Yuwentai.

Li Tai also took advantage of Gao Zhongmi's on-stage to stand on the edge of the mound and take a look at the powerful minister of the Western Wei Dynasty from afar. Yu Wentai was dressed in a Xuanjia cloak, and after sitting on the desk with a sword, his figure was only about average compared to the really burly and tall general, but his arms were indeed quite long.

In addition to the honorary generals, the highest level of the Western Wei military is now the Great Kaifu, and the Six Pillars of the Later Dynasty are now mostly at the Kaifu level.

In addition to the solemn sense of ceremony, this authorization and decentralization also reflects the essence of the power of the Western Wei regime: although Yuwentai has set up the imperial family and holds hegemony, he cannot be arbitrary, and still needs to delegate the power in his hands to the generals of the Zhukaifu to jointly maintain the rule of the Western Wei regime.

After the princes who were not in charge of the army passed the scene, they all retreated behind the scenes, sat around the crown prince Yuanqin, and enjoyed the next big parade process in the tent.

However, after the Zhukaifu was given authority, they each led the people back to their departments, and there were drums to cheer them on in advance and retreat, and the majesty they played in front of the armies was far from being comparable to the princes sitting high in the curtains.

The sun gradually rose, and Li Tai stood outside the tent with his head in his hand, and he gradually felt hot and dry in the late autumn of October.

One is that my heart is infected by this atmosphere, as if I am below, and I don't want to be above. Although the lacquer armor on the body is not heavy, it is also impermeable, especially the surface of the armor is dark and heat-absorbing, the front and rear tabernacles are covered, the wind is silent, and the taste of exposure to the sun can be imagined.

The time soon came to noon, and the Zhukai Mansion returned to their respective positions, and after the lengthy etiquette, it was finally time for the exciting military parade.

Accompanied by the sound of thick drums, the first to appear were 3,000 armored cavalry, several generals led the team, and rode out of the camp from the assembly place, like a huge steel fortress, slowly moving towards the center of the field.

With the rhythm of the drums, this heavy armor team is also changing the formation, especially when the drums are agitated and the heavy armor is charging, the majestic horse's hooves overwhelm all the noise on the Jing Yuan, and this is the only sound in the sky and the earth!

After the end of the Battle of Bishan, there was a pessimistic atmosphere in the entire Kansai region, both in the public and in the opposition. However, with the appearance of this heavy cavalry, some negative shadows in the hearts of the spectators were gradually dispelled.

As the heavily armored knights marched to the high platform, Yu Wentai stood up directly from his seat, walked to the front of the mound, overlooked these heavily armored elites, and suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "Great righteousness and brilliance, thieves are not afraid!" ”

This is obviously not an imminent etiquette, when Yuwentai shouted this, there was some confusion on and off the stage, and after a while, only the generals in the array below shouted in response: "Fight for the big line!" ”

The sound was jagged at first, and then it took a while for it to become neat.

Li Tai, who was standing in front of the tent at the back, heard this shouting conversation, and his heart suddenly became happy: Emperor Xiaowu was so awkward with Gao Huan, Gao Huan still treated him as a little baby, and he was slaughtered by you when he came to Kansai, why are you embarrassed to shout like this?