After the sacrifice was completed, the driving team began to enter the city. In the impression of modern people, especially the influence of film and television dramas, the ancient emperors were known as the Ninety-Five, and the emperors were also very concerned about their own image, regardless of the degree of food and clothing. On the travel, it is also necessary to put on a full posture, it must be luxurious and magnificent, only the civil and military salty gathering, the hundred officials are complete, the carriages and horses are like crucian carp, the flag covers the sun, the canopy is like a cloud, the royal guards are hugging before and after, so a huge momentum can show the royal prestige.

When Zhao Hao first came to this world, he thought it was like this, but after a period of time, he felt that he had been deceived and was poisoned by film and television dramas. The real emperor's travel is not as vast as in the TV series, in fact, it is a group of people who protect the emperor, although there are quite a lot of people, but it is not like in the TV series.

At first, Zhao Yu didn't believe it, thinking that he was not at the right time, and when he caught up with the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, he was no longer in the mood and did not have the strength to talk about pomp and circumstance. But after Qiongzhou stabilized, he realized that unless the emperor ascended the throne, national events such as paying homage to the ancestral spirit would have the kind of grand scene in the TV series, and the real emperor's travel was actually very ordinary, especially in the Song Dynasty, the emperor's travel was much more casual.

Because at that time, there was a very serious phenomenon of "street invasion" in Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, that is, the shops and vendors on both sides of the road in order to expand their business, expand the scope of the place, and even build illegal buildings, which brought obstacles to the travel of the emperor and officials. Faced with this situation, the countermeasures adopted by the Northern Song Dynasty court were to reduce the scale of the emperor's ceremonial guards, not to forcibly demolish illegal buildings related to people's livelihood, and to levy taxes on illegal buildings of a commercial nature.

This also makes the emperor's travel in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty become a "wonderful" in the past dynasties, no longer has any prestige, but mixed with pedestrians on the road, up to the emperor, down to the hundred officials and honor guards, are mixed in the crowd, "Shishu spectators rate the people who follow the followers, galloping away in the middle of the road, and can't help shouting" The scene is the norm. After crossing to the south, he stayed in Hangzhou, where the conditions were even worse, and basically continued the rules of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Hao is even more of a dislike of this kind of scene, for what sense of ritual and labor and money, stirring up the uneasiness of the neighbors, everything can be saved, and going out is also a light car, and he only takes a few internal guards to go out, and he does not do less, so this rule is very much to his appetite, and naturally there is no idea of modifying it, and there is even a tendency to be simple.

Originally, after more than 50 years of recovering Nanjing, the emperor's worship of the original temple should be a grand event, and it has great political significance, but Zhao Yu did not want to make such a big scene, but thinking that although the current situation is stable, it is still in wartime, it is necessary to show off force, one can boost morale, and the other can deter Xiaoxiao, so he is also slightly relieved, and the ceremony of entering the city and worshipping should be simple and grand but not luxurious. To put it simply, it is to do more with less, cheaply and affordably.

The emperor can be said to be simple, but the people below dare not slack off. Not only was the whole army on guard on the road, always ready to deal with the unexpected, Zhao Mengjin also mobilized all the armaments along the way, and the three divisions of the First Army stationed in Ying Tianfu were all sent fifty miles away to prevent Meng Yuan from attacking and disturbing the holy car. In modern times, when leaders travel, there are usually police cars to open the road, and martial law is prohibited along the way. The same would have been true for ancient emperors when traveling, but this kind of traffic control was called "police entry", that is, clearing the road and prohibiting pedestrians.

The entry and exit of the police began in Qin, and the simple "footing", that is, the road closure warning, began as early as the Zhou Dynasty. The people rushed against the guard of honor and called the offender, and they were punished. There are four lines of small characters on the "Ritual Order": "Cheap and expensive, less and long, light and heavy, and go to avoid", that is, the ancient daily traffic rules, that is, ordinary people should give way to officials, young people should give way to the elderly, lightly loaded cars should give way to heavy vehicles, and those who go out of the city should give way to those who enter the city. Among them, "cheap and expensive" is a system of avoidance according to rank.

Taizu Zhao Kuangyin also stipulated, "When officials meet on the way, those with disparities in official rank will immediately avoid them, the second venerable will lead the horse to stand sideways, and the slightly venerable will go their separate ways." "When officials travel, all officials with low official positions travel in a sedan chair, and when they meet officials with high official positions on the road, they must all stop the sedan chair to avoid the side of the road, and the officials with low official positions must also come to the side of the street to meet the sedan chair of the superior officials, and wait for the high-ranking officials to pass before they can get back on the road. When soldiers and civilians encounter officials passing by in the market, they must immediately take refuge and refrain from colliding, and if they do, they will be punished. This is true for officials, not to mention ordinary people.

The traffic control when the emperor travels is more "high-level", and there are also traffic rules with relatively low strict coefficients on weekdays. Just when the emperor sacrificed to the sky, most of the baggage brigade and the first brigade had entered the city, took over the city defense of the next city, and set up cards and guards at the intersections along the way, acting as a 'clear tour team', and its role was to clear the road. Of course, this is not the unique configuration of the Song Dynasty, but all dynasties have clear regulations on roads, and some dynasties also have special "clear road envoys" official positions, responsible for the planning and cleaning of patrol roads.

There are two objects of the way, one is the road itself, and the other is people.

Road clearing is not only the implementation of traffic control, cleaning up pedestrians on the road, but also the so-called "clean water splashing streets, loess cushion roads". However, this is not just a tribute to the emperor, but a very real necessity. At that time, there were no modern cement and asphalt roads, and they were all made of loess mixed with sand and gravel and built with stone rolling, and when the wind was blowing, the dust was flying, and the road surface was crushed by the wheels and damaged potholes. It is necessary to pave the road with loess, and then pour clean water to reduce dust.

The main thing about people is the avoidance system. It is even more difficult to deal with this matter, and it is very necessary for officials to talk about politics and work methods. Because the emperor not only hoped that the common people would avoid it, so as not to affect the safety and smooth road, but also hoped that the common people could see the face of heaven and show the majesty of the Son of Heaven. Therefore, avoiding is not the same as clearing the field, but also having people kneel on both sides of the road as much as possible.

Therefore, the local officials not only had to restrain the people and not disturb the holy car, but also had to gather the people and organize them to kneel and worship by the side of the road, acting as the emperor's patrol board, which was also the most headache for the officials who greeted the car. In this extraordinary period, Meng Yuan's reassembled army was only fifty miles away from Ying Tianfu, and although the city had undergone several purgies, it was difficult to ensure that there were no remnants of Meng Yuan and outlaws waiting for the opportunity to assassinate the king. This made Zhao Mengjin people have to be more cautious, and take ensuring the safety of His Majesty as the first priority......

The troops entering the city marched into the city in full armor. At this time, Zhao Yu changed into a military dress, and its style was still the basic style of the military uniform in active service, with red and black colors, but decorated with epaulettes and ribbons, the top of the hat was decorated with yellow tassels, long riding boots, a palm-wide rhino belt at the waist, a sword with a hanging handle, and a snow-white high-headed horse, which was very powerful.

The team took the first regiment of the cavalry brigade as the guide, and the musical instruments also abandoned the previous gongs, drums, silk and bamboo, but mainly used military horns to play military music, and then followed up by the first brigade and one regiment of the imperial front guards on foot and lightly armed, singing military songs with the change of music. The pro-guard regiment served as a guard of honor, all changed into military uniforms, holding high various flags, there were nine kinds of flags commonly used in ancient China, according to the "Zhou Li" record, these nine kinds of flags were: "The sun and the moon are constant, the dragon is the dragon, the silk is the silk, the miscellaneous silk is the object, the bear and the tiger are the flag, the bird falcon is the bird, the turtle and the snake are the bird, the whole feather is the feather, and the feather is the feather." ”

And above the nine flags, there is a big flag called Sanchen. The Sanchen flag is the sun, moon and star flag, the sun, moon and stars are called the three chens, painted in the flag, like the brightness of the sky. Sanchen symbolizes heaven, Haotian God, and the way of heaven, and is the most noble symbol representing the Chinese Son of Heaven since Emperor Shun. After the Sanchen Banner, under the canopy is the emperor's car, the guard battalion is accompanied and protected, Zhao Mengjin and Ni Liang accompany the left and right, and the rest of the ministers follow up.

Zhao Yu sat upright on the horse, but his eyes were looking left and right. Ying Tianfu City is the smallest among the four capitals of the Song Dynasty, but it is also larger than a general city, 15 miles and 40 steps back in the week, there is a city in the middle, and the city is related to the east. Needless to say, the prosperity of the past was subsequently destroyed by the Jin Kingdom as the capital, but after the occupation of the Mongol and Yuan Dynasty, the government as a place was rebuilt, and it has gradually recovered after a few decades.

Along the way, Zhao Hao found that the roads in the city were smooth and wide, the main roads were paved with stone slabs, the houses on both sides were adjacent, the wine flags were high, the banners were swaying in the wind, and the colorful sheds were lined up, all showing prosperity and liveliness. It seems that the Yuan army was defeated in Suzhou at that time, and the enemy troops defending the city abandoned the city in panic, and did not have time to destroy the city, so that Ying Tianfu could be preserved.

Another reason is probably because Shangqiu, as the land of Longxing in the Great Song Dynasty, one of the four capitals, has been an important circulation node city since ancient times, and with the improvement of the political status of the Song Dynasty, the prosperity of the city is only a glimpse. In the past, it has always been under the care of the royal family, and the idea of loyalty to the monarch is strong, although it has fallen for a hundred years, but this culture of loyalty to the monarch has been inherited, that is, there is still affection for the Song Dynasty. After the Song army took over, the people did not resist fiercely, and even had expectations.

"Long live, long live, long live...... "Long live, long live" drove by, and the people kneeling on the side of the road shouted in unison. Zhao Hao also raised his hand in the face of 'enthusiasm' and saluted, the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion drew their swords on their horses, and the officers and soldiers who were on guard along the way saluted with guns in return. His eyes swept over, although the people's clothes were not bright, but they were also specially changed into new clothes when they were driving, and some of their eyes were warm, some were novel, and some were confused, but more of them were looking forward to the new dynasty.

This kind of scene of cheering, even Zhao Hao, who doesn't like this kind of scene, is still a little excited, thinking that it is no wonder that the leaders like this kind of scene, which can really make people's vanity be greatly satisfied, and a kind of arrogant mood will rise. Unfortunately, the road to the imperial city was not long, and he drove in through the city gate in half an hour, leaving behind the cheers......

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