Before entering the depths of winter, Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui came to Chang'an City early!

Chang'an City, the capital of the Eastern Pole Empire, is the oldest ancient city in the Eastern Regions. It is also one of the oldest cities in Kyushu in the world!

The city is dozens of zhang high, and the mottled ancient walls are all traces of swords and slashes, and the protective city wall that stretches for hundreds of kilometers seems to be a gable out of thin air.

The moat is dozens of zhang wide, and the river is several people high in depth, which is daunting.

The pedestrians who come and go are really like a sea of people, standing at the gate of the city, looking at the people queuing up to enter the city, there is no end in sight, the people who go out of the city and the people who enter the city seem to be two mud streams composed of flesh, flowing in opposite directions along different roads.

Some small countries in the Eastern Regions have a population of only a million or even hundreds of thousands, while a single Chang'an City has a population of nearly 10 million! It is comparable to some medium-sized countries with a slightly smaller population! And its area is also vast, and the area within a radius of several hundred miles is where the city of Chang'an City is located.

For the safety of Chang'an City, there are tens of thousands of dragon armor gods in Chang'an City. Outside the city, more than 100,000 dragon armor gods were stationed to defend the land of Gyeonggi.

Standing five miles outside Chang'an City, Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui sighed.

Chu Chou lamented that Chang'an City was now so prosperous under the governance of the Eastern Pole Empire, while Zhao Zhishui lamented that he had to wait in a long line to enter the city, which was really an exaggeration!

"Today seems to be the ancestor worship ceremony of the empire, so there are many people from the rich and noble families in the nearby Caicheng who want to come to Chang'an City to pay tribute to the appearance of those Huangzi Gongqing and Manchu Dynasty civil and military officials, and even more to take a look at the appearance of the current emperor. Chu Chou listened to the discussions of the people in line and understood what was going on.

Chu Chou's eyesight is excellent, and when he raises his eyes, he can clearly see the grandeur of Chang'an City. He listened to the voices of the people queuing up nearby, and remembered the romantic poet he met in Chang'an City back then, that person he looked down on at the time, but now that he thinks about it, he has some respect. For example, the person once gave a poem, and then asked Chu Chou how it was, at that time Chu Chou just smiled and shook his head, and the man didn't say much, just said that you will understand in the future.

"The horses on the Chang'an Ancient Road are late, and the high willows are neighing. Outside the sunset island, on the autumn wind plain, the eyes are broken for four days. ”

"Guiyun is gone without a trace, where is the early stage? ”

What the merry poet made Chu Chou remember the most was that sentence: Even though there are thousands of styles, who can you say it to?

"Who else to talk to?" Chu Chou whispered to himself.

Two hours later, Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui finally entered the city. There is a mile of land in the city gate hole, and the torches inside are bright, which can be regarded as Zhao Zhishui's long sight again.

The flow of followers entered Chang'an City, and the vision suddenly opened up. The avenues in the city are all paved with bluestone, and the width of the main street avenue is not less than 20 zhang, which is clearly stipulated. So people come and go, and it's not so crowded that you can't walk.

"It is worthy of being the imperial capital of 'opening the palace in nine days, and all nations are crowned with crowns'! I am fortunate to be here in this life, and I have no regrets!" Some young scholars from other countries have traveled here, and they have been amazed and excited.

"I heard that the ancestor worship ceremony will start in an hour! Let's go, we can catch up!" There were rich and noble families who had just entered the city, riding horses, and galloping slowly towards the city.

In Chang'an City, it is stipulated that horses can be ridden, but horses are not allowed to gallop, and there is a speed limit, otherwise it is easy to step on the people. In a few areas and streets, horseback riding is not allowed, only horse-drawn carriages are allowed. There are also a very small number of streets, even horse-drawn carriages can not be seated, such as the royal road in the capital, even the noble Huangzi princess, princely generals, can only park the luxurious carriage outside the royal road, and then walk into the palace to face the saint.

"Do you want to go and see the ancestor worship ceremony that the Son of Heaven personally participated in?" Chu Chou asked Zhao Zhishui.

Zhao Zhishui thought for a while, nodded with a smile, and said, "I haven't seen the emperor yet, this time it's just a good look, if you don't look at it, you won't see it, you will see it as the emperor's son of the empire." ”

"Well, let's go, I won't be able to catch up if I'm late. ”

In the Imperial Palace in the center of the Imperial Capital, the Imperial Study!

A middle-aged man dressed in white, who was extremely white, was dealing with some folds, even if he encountered some small problems or small troubles, he did not frown, and read those folds from all directions with an expressionless face.

"Your Majesty, the ancestor worship ceremony is about to begin. A eunuch on duty in the imperial study looked at the sun, entered the imperial study, bent down and said respectfully.

"Got it. It was the middle-aged man of the Imperial Son of Heaven who said, and then continued to review the excerpts.

After the Imperial Son finished speaking, the eunuch bent down and walked out, without saying a word more.

After another moment, a purple-clothed palace chief hurriedly walked to the front of the imperial study, and several eunuchs on duty in the imperial study at the door saluted one after another, and the purple-clothed chief of the inner house waved his hand to signal that he was exempt from courtesy, and after slightly tidying up his clothes, he slowly walked into the imperial study.

"Your Majesty. The ancestor worship ceremony is about to begin, please bathe and change your clothes. Even though the purple-clothed eunuch was already the head of the Sanpin Dauchi, his tone was still as respectful as the previous eunuch on duty.

"Whew!" After the Imperial Son of Heaven finished dealing with the last fold, he slowly got up, closed his eyes and pressed his temples, and said, "Got it." Now go shower and change clothes. ”

The purple-clothed chief led the way, and the speed of walking was just the speed of the Son of Heaven behind him, and he grasped it just right. This is a skill that a senior eunuch must have.

After a bath and change of clothes, the emperor put on a purple crown with almost the most exquisite workmanship in the world, which was extremely luxurious and noble, embroidered with five dragons and nine dragons on the outside, and nine purple dragons on the outside, which made people have to be in awe at a glance.

At this time, the Chinese military officials also bathed and changed their clothes one after another, and began to drive the carriage to the palace.

Usually, some princes and earls who occasionally enter the palace to face the saint also wear python robes that they usually don't wear to travel into the palace.

For a time, many streets in Chang'an City could see precious carriages rushing towards the center of the city, which was spectacular.

Today happened to be a sunny day, the sun was shining, the wind was smooth, the sky was clear, a thriving scene, and many people who had nothing to do flocked to the direction of the palace, standing in advance by the street where the civil and military officials were going out of the city to worship, waiting for the procession to carry out the annual sacrifice ceremony.

Chu Chou and Zhao Zhishui ran the internal force body method, walked quickly, and it took more than an hour to rush to the street outside the imperial road.

However, the streets here are already full of people from the rivers and lakes, ordinary people, rich people, foreigners, etc., and there is no place to stand.

The restaurants and green buildings on both sides are also crowded with the big families in Chang'an City, and they are already forbidden to enter at this time. Even if you spend money and gold, you can't get in.

In the end, Chu Chou remembered the jade plate engraved with "Drunkard" given to him by Lao Shangshu Bai Anyi before, he had the idea of giving it a try, who knew that he really climbed a restaurant with an excellent view and a good location, this restaurant is called "Drunken Immortal Building", which has a great reputation in the capital, and Chu Chou has drunk here a few times when he walked the rivers and lakes before.

"Young Master Chu?" When they reached the fifth floor, several young people recognized Chu Chou, and Chu Chou also recognized them. It was the young people who went to visit Bai Anyi's old Shangshu before.

"Hello everyone. Chu Chou greeted politely. Then he took Zhao Zhishui to find a window position, sat down and looked downstairs on the street.

The Drunken Immortal Building was booked by those top sons in the capital a few days ago, and it is not possible for anyone who wants to enter. It can be said that the hundreds of people in this eight-story attic are the top sons and brothers in the entire Chang'an City, the entire empire, and even all the dynasties in the entire Eastern Regions. The higher you go, the larger the background. Chu Chou had the jade pendant of Lao Shangshu at this time, but it was only on the fifth floor, and there were three floors above.

All kinds of wine and delicacies have already been prepared on the table of the entire Drunken Immortal Building, all of which are provided for free, and if they are exchanged for silver, a table will cost at least hundreds of silver.

"It's almost starting. Chu Chou squinted slightly, looking at the end of the royal road in front of the street.

In the first half hour of the start, the elite "Dragon Armor Shence Divine Army" in the elite of the Dragon Armor Divine Army guarding the capital began to arrange the defense line, standing next to the road that the Son of Heaven and the civil and military officials had to walk for a while, standing between the crowd of people watching and the street, there were three armor soldiers of the "Dragon Armor Divine Army" at a distance of one zhang, and then on the roofs or roofs on both sides, there were "crossbowmen" in the Dragon Armor Divine Army secretly ambushed, and in the crowd, there were more large internal dragon guards wearing civilian clothes mixed in to monitor whether there were suspicious characters. It can be described as well-protected.

Among them, the crossbowmen in the Dragon Armor Divine Army have the least manpower, but the damage is the highest. These crossbowmen are all two people with a crossbow, why is this so? It is because these giant crossbows are not ordinary giant crossbows, but giant crossbows that are specially designed to deal with people in the rivers and lakes, and there are many dense rune formations engraved on them. And in the hands of the divine crossbow, there is a rare elite called the immortal killer, and as soon as the crossbow goes down, it is the full force of the seven-rank monk. However, the speed of the monk is too fast, and ordinary people can't shoot at all, so there are two people with a crossbow, one shoots the crossbow, and the other is responsible for reporting the position after special training, and the two cooperate with each other to suppress the masters of the rivers and lakes.

In this sacrifice of the Son of Heaven, there must be immortal killers secretly preparing to attack, which is also a deterrent to some people in the rivers and lakes with bad intentions.

"It's on!" shouted the taller man in the crowd downstairs excitedly.

When everyone heard that the tigers were no longer talking to each other or drinking and polishing time, they all stretched out their heads to look in the direction of the royal road, and the ten-mile long street suddenly fell silent.

I saw that at the end of the imperial road in the direction of the palace, a middle-aged man wearing a purple dragon robe first appeared, and then he was followed by several purple-clothed immortal crane suits and several red-clothed unicorn suits were all Tiance generals of the Shangzhu Kingdom. Then there are dozens of people from the first grade, such as the prince and the prince, the prince and the king, and so on, and then the prince and the young master, the young master, the young master, the young guard, the metropolitan governor and so on, and then there are the six Shangshu, the left and right squires and others, and then look back, there are thousands of civil and military officials.

As the capital of the empire, Chang'an City has thousands of officials who can enter the palace every day, but only dozens of people can go to court and face saints. These dozens of talents are the core of the real center, determining the operation of the entire empire.

The purple-clothed dragon robe of heaven held his head high, his steps were steady, his pupils as black as ink jade flashed with confident eyes, his sleeves fluttered lightly in the wind, and his complexion swallowed mountains and rivers, although it was unassuming, it made people feel awe.

Behind him, Huang Zi Gongqing, princely generals, and thousands of civil and military officials followed the Son of Heaven, taking almost the same steps, and marching in bursts. The imperceptible momentum surged out, which was quite shocking.

When many scholars and merchants from other countries saw this kind of battle for the first time, they were convinced by the East Pole Empire and fell in love with it.

It is no wonder that in the early years, when this eloquent and brilliant son of heaven first ascended the throne, he had the bold saying that "all the heroes of the world are in my place!".

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" Everyone on the street knelt on the ground and kowtowed, while the people upstairs on both sides of the street bowed deeply and chanted.

Chu Chou didn't salute, looking at this powerful civil and military battle and the look in the eyes of the emperor emperor, he deepened the previous speculation in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"No courtesy!" There was an accompanying eunuch who had been instructed by the emperor in advance, and at this time he shouted loudly in his thin voice.

"Long live the Emperor!" the scholars, the people, the merchants, and the others all kowtowed again, and then got up.

Just as everyone was getting up, a silent old man took out a dagger from his sleeve, then jumped out of the crowd and rushed towards the walking emperor.

Everyone who had just gotten up was stunned when they saw this, this was to assassinate the emperor?

At the moment when the old man took out the dagger and jumped up, several giant crossbows that exuded a powerful momentum shot over with a strong wind, but they were all dodged sideways by the old man, but the sleeves were shot through, rubbing off a layer of skin, and not hurting the roots.

Several people in the crowd near the old man drew their swords and jumped out of the crowd to stop the old man.

"Get out!"

The old man slapped his back, and the few attendants who wanted to get close to the old man were all slapped down by the palm, vomiting blood, and it was difficult to stand up.

On both sides of this street, hundreds of dragon armor god army elites rushed over with swords, and the old man ran forward, only more than twenty zhang away from the emperor.

The old man threw out a few short daggers, stabbed the dozen or so dragon armor elite soldiers in front of him into bloody people, and then rushed over. The old man looked at the emperor who was close at hand, and then a happy smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

"Ling'er, I'm going to avenge you, our family, and our dynasty successfully, can you still see it?" the old man muttered to himself, but his hand did not stop a little, and it was more rapid.

In a noisy exclamation, the old man's figure froze three feet away in front of the Son of Heaven. At some point, an old eunuch in a red robe appeared next to the old man, and the old eunuch slapped his palm on the old man's head, and the old man directly bleed and died on the spot.

Chu Chou upstairs saw this scene and sighed for the old man, when he first started to kill the old man and had not yet made a move, he knew that the old man's assassination would definitely fail, because he secretly noticed four eight-rank cultivators, and one of them was the peak of eight-rank cultivation.

Moreover, in this Chang'an City, because the national fortune is rich and the royal family is mellow, these national fortunes can be blessed on the body of those who loyally protect the emperor with the consent of the emperor, and improve it to a realm, that is to say, the real combat power of those four people is not three eight-grade peaks and one eight-grade peak, but three eight-grade peaks and a nine-grade combat power master!

That old man was a seventh-rank peak monk with a stable realm, so he failed.

Seeing this, everyone calmed down and stopped making noise, and the Son of Heaven did not change his face, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, watching the body of the old assassin being carried away, and then said: "Nothing continues, everything is as usual." ”