When Zhao Yeli announced the start of the game, deafening cheers immediately rang out around Ziyun Tower.

People rushed over early in the morning, but after listening to nonsense here for a long time, they were already a little impatient.

In fact, Zhao Yeli has no choice.

Although the participants in today's contest are mainly literati, His Majesty the Emperor still intends to use this to give the dragoons a second hand.

Although the return date of the dragoons is today, it is still early at this time, and the dragoons will definitely not be able to come back.

So after everyone discussed it, they decided to let the old man delay on the stage.

However, despite his best efforts, he was unable to drag the dragoons into the city.

He had no choice but to announce the start of the game.

In order to improve the spectacle of the competition, several people discussed the possibility of holding a piano art competition at the same time as the painting and Go competitions.

This allows the audience to enjoy the music while waiting for the outcome of the match.

As for the poems, the judges naturally made the questions on the spot and let the scholars recite them on their own.

Don't look at the many scholars who come to participate in the competition, but not everyone is a generalist.

In addition, some scholars think that their strength is not good, and some projects do not want to go up and be embarrassed even if they are involved.

As a result, fewer than three hundred people participated in the first drawing competition.

This point can be fully accommodated in the Ziyun Building.

Therefore, all the painting competitions are arranged in the Ziyun Building.

The questions given by the judges are not simple.

That is, all the participating students are required to depict today's grand occasion within the time of a stick of incense.

This required the painters to be not only proficient in the depiction of figures, but also to have attainments in landscape painting.

Hearing this request, the students climbed to the second floor of the Ziyun Building one after another, and began to carefully observe the crowd downstairs and the surrounding scenery.

This is a bitter Li Zhi.

Others, no matter how short they are, are adults, and they can easily lean out of the fence to observe.

But Li Zhi is still only a four-year-old child, and his height does not even exceed the fence.

He stood there and looked around, but he didn't find a single acquaintance, and he was too embarrassed to open his mouth for strangers to hold him and take a look.

So he gritted his teeth and finally decided to step on the fence and look down on it.

This is a dangerous maneuver, because if you are not careful, you may be pushed off the fence by the people around you.

Just when Li Zhi had just stepped on the fence with one foot and was about to exert himself, a hand suddenly pressed his shoulder.

As soon as Li Zhi turned around, he saw a young scholar standing behind him.

The man saw Li Zhi coming over, so he spoke: "The student Fang Yi has seen His Royal Highness the King of Jin. ”

Li Zhi heard him report to his family, so he asked happily: "Brother Tai is the eldest son of Fang Xiang's family?" ”

Fang Yizhi replied with a slight smile: "My father is Fang Xuanling. ”

Li Zhi arched his hand and said: "I have heard the teacher mention it many times but I have never had the opportunity to see it, I don't want to meet here, the younger brother has seen Brother Fang." ”

Fang Yi smiled and said: "The student is secretly guarding His Highness on the orders of his father, and he doesn't want His Highness to do such a dangerous thing. ”

Li Zhi was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and said: "This king is not tall enough, so it is helpless to do this." ”

Fang Yi said straightly: "Why don't you just let the students hold up His Highness and take a look?" ”

Li Zhi said: "In this way, there is Brother Laofang." ”

The two met here, and some scholars who thought they were skilled at painting had already returned to the Ziyun Pavilion to burn incense and paint.

And some people who are not too sure in their hearts are still carefully observing and feeling.

When Li Zhi was lifted up by Fang Zhizhi, he saw at a glance the dense crowd below talking to each other in the bright sunshine.

His gaze wandered left and right again, and soon his surroundings were reflected in his mind.

Just when he felt that he had observed enough and was about to let Fang Zhizhi put himself down, he found a team of neat-looking soldiers slowly appearing at the end of his gaze.

He knew it was a dragoon returning from special training, and they were heading here.

So he couldn't help but observe carefully for a while, and then he was satisfied to let Fang Zhizhi put himself down.

At this time, Fang Yizhi also saw the army marching in the distance, and couldn't help but be attracted by the high-spirited momentum of the other party.

After putting Li Zhi down, he carefully observed the marching army before entering the Ziyun Tower with Li Zhi.

At this time, there was no one in the corridor outside, so the piano competition began to be carried out in pairs.

Contestants were asked to sit on the east and west sides of the Purple Cloud Building to perform.

Whoever plays the most attracts the audience to stop will win.

Only when the two are about the same will the referee give a professional judgment.

The competition will be divided into multiple rounds, with one person eliminated in each round until the winner is decided.

Li Zhi didn't have the heart to enjoy the performance outside for the time being.

After lighting the incense stick beside him, he quickly immersed himself in his creation.

The painting that Li Zhi wanted to make was not easy to grasp.

Originally, he only needed to integrate the enthusiasm of the audience outside the building into the surrounding scenery.

But at the last moment, he saw the dragoons marching in the distance.

The solemn aura of the marching army formed a strong contrast with the cheerful and lively atmosphere in the Hibiscus Garden.

At the same time, it also seriously affects the intention given by the referees.

Li Zhi was reluctant to erase this force from his paintings, so he wanted to eliminate this influence as much as possible.

After some thought, Li Zhi finally began to write, and at this time, many people's paintings were already coming to an end.

The audience outside the Ziyun Tower wandered on the east and west sides of the Ziyun Tower from time to time.

They are carefully comparing which student is playing more beautifully.

Just as a group of games had just ended and the crowd had just stood still, the neat team of the dragoons also happened to come to the outside of Qujiang Pond.

They dismounted at the gate in unison, and then began to line up under Su Lie's command.

The procession was quiet and fast, and there was no commotion even on the horses under the soldiers' seats.

After Su Lie asked the friendly troops guarding outside Qujiang Pond to take care of the war horses, he led the soldiers who had completed the formation towards the direction of Furong Garden.

The neat pace of the procession and the solemn aura with which they had just arrived deeply shocked the soldiers who were in charge of guarding the Qujiang Pond outside the Qujiang Pond.

They are also the elite of the Tang Dynasty, and almost none of the friendly troops in Chang'an City can make them feel admired from the heart.

However, today, when they faced the dragoons, they were shocked by the momentum of the other party from the first glance.

What they admired even more was the tacit understanding of the dragoons along the way.

It was as if the horses under their seat had completely merged into a single whole.

Thousands of people rode horses, and the sound of horses' hooves on the ground made it impossible to tell the order.

And when the dragoons marched in formation, they were also in lockstep.

The sound of neat footsteps stunned the soldiers.