Chapter 981: Chang'an Great Reading
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The tenth day of the first month of the second year of Wuding is the day of the opening of the New Year of the Great Wei Dynasty, and it is also the day when the envoys of various countries pay tribute, meet the emperor of the Great Wei, and hold a big parade.
Before dawn, just after the curfew, the head of the workshop opened the door, and the people in Chang'an City became active.
Families hurriedly ate a bowl of hot oily noodles or steamed buns at the breakfast stall, and then went to Taiping Street to grab a place to watch the ceremony.
Taiping Street is a long street in Chang'an City, east-west direction, from Dingxi Gate to Dongqimen, a section in the middle of the street, the north is the palace city, the south is the market, and from the main gate of the south city along the Chang'an central axis to the palace gate of Anding Street, the street is very wide, there are one hundred and fifty steps wide, the street is all paved with bricks and stones.
Why is it so wide?
It's not for the sake of prosperous commerce, the general commercial streets in Chang'an City are only about three zhang wide, and too wide is useless.
The two streets were built so wide mainly for safety reasons.
These two streets, one from east to west, always from north to south, Gao Yihuan must go out of the city, and one of them is one hundred and fifty paces wide, Gao Yihuan's car walks in the middle, and it is difficult to hurt him with bows and arrows and firearms on both sides.
After all, the world is undecided, there are many enemies, and Gao Yihuan often leaves Beijing, so the Ministry of Industry built these two streets for Gao Yihuan to travel.
Today, Taiping Street, a street built for safety reasons, has another mission, which is to conduct a grand parade.
The sun rises in the east, the rising sun of the second year of Wuding, sprinkled in the Chang'an city like a chessboard, the glazed tiles reflect the sun, and the city looks extraordinarily magnificent.
After breakfast, the people in the city dragged their families and brought their own benches to the side of the street, while the literati and rich ladies in the city each chartered the restaurants along the street, and looked down on Taiping Street from the windows while eating wine and food.
After a short time, the envoys of various countries came out from several post houses in the city, along Taiping Street and Anding Street, and gathered on the Chengtianmen Square where the two streets meet, and then under the leadership of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, they entered the imperial city from Chengtianmen.
The crowd walked through the red wall, passing through several palace gates in succession, and each time they passed, they gave the messenger an extra coercion.
Some of them traveled thousands of miles from the Western Regions, and their own country ran through the horses for two days, and they walked for more than half a month, and when they asked passers-by, Chang'an was still thousands of miles away.
Along the way, not to mention anything else, the vastness of the territory of Great Wei alone gave them a great shock.
After walking for a long time, the last gate opened, revealing a wide square, white marble steps, and a huge Fengtian Hall.
For a time, many envoys looked up at the palace, and they were deeply shocked by the yellow glazed tiles and the huge palace, showing the majesty of the empire.
Many Mongolian men who came to China for the first time and slept in tents on the grassland since they were born looked at the main hall, such as looking at the Heavenly Palace, and then looked at both sides of the white stone steps, waving flags, and holding muskets and spears.
After Gao Yihuan arrived in Luoyang, the eastern capital, Chang'an began to build a palace, but the repaired ones were also seen by the ministers to support face, and the harem was still just a few simple solitary halls.
At this time in the main hall, the civil and military ministers of the Great Wei Dynasty stood solemnly on both sides, and Gao Yihuan was wearing a dragon robe and sitting on the throne.
An official of the Ministry of Rites trotted into the hall and saluted Gao Yihuan, "Your Majesty, the envoy has arrived outside the hall." ”
Gao Yihuan sat upright and raised his hand majestically, "Announce them into the hall." ”
"Xuanzhu vassal envoy, enter the palace to meet you!" The official of the Ministry of Rites gave the order aloud.
When the officials of the Ministry of Rites outside the main hall heard this, they led many messengers up the long steps and climbed out of breath before entering the huge Fengtian Temple.
The main hall is very wide, enough to accommodate four or five hundred people to meet at the same time, the beams and pillars in the main hall are all transported out from the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains, and the outer side is wrapped with gold edges, and the atmosphere is brilliant.
"Envoys worship!" Wang Shicong shouted loudly.
"Envoy of a small country, meet the Emperor of Great Wei, long live Your Majesty, long live, long live!"
The envoys who entered the hall knelt down to worship under the leadership of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, including the envoys of Donghu, who were not vassals, and also bowed down with many envoys.
Gao Yihuan raised his hand slightly, and said loudly: "Everyone has come from afar, let's all be flat!" ”
Everyone stood up in unison, "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”
At this time, one of the people in the crowd stood up, and suddenly bowed down again, "The villain Da Yuzi envoy, there is something to play Your Majesty!" ”
Gao Yihuan smiled: "But it doesn't hurt to say it!" ”
The Yuzi envoy looked up at the Great Wei Emperor sitting on the throne, and glanced at the Tian Khan on the grassland, "Tian Khan, Yuzi is a vassal of the Great Wei, but the Rakshasa people have repeatedly invaded Yuz, killed my people, and took my cattle and sheep, and asked Tian Khan to be the master of the Yuzi people." ”
After he had finished speaking, several messengers came out, and they all spoke out against the rakshasas.
Gao Yihuan had a plan in his heart, and said angrily: "The Rakshasa people are so rude, I will not spare them, and I will definitely seek justice for my people." Everyone, please move and follow me. ”
When the next group of people moved to the Fengtianmen City Tower, the square in front of the city gate and Taiping Street, there were already small squares standing one after another.
"Your Majesty, you're ready!" Chen Mingxia said in a low voice.
Gao Yihuan led a group of people to stand on the city tower, there was a row of microphones in front of him, he turned his head to look at the messenger who was talking to each other, and waved his hand: "Let's start." ”
For a time, more than a dozen artillery pieces in the square roared at the same time, attracting everyone's attention, and they saw that in the sound of the general's order, all sides of the Wei army began to march, one after another through the Chengtianmen tower.
The first to pass was the 3,000 shock cavalry, who rode war horses, iron helmets and animal faces, and horse lances of eight feet, and the breastplate in front of them was polished.
Before the cavalry passed through the city tower, they all erected their horse lances, like a steel forest, "The iron cavalry is unparalleled!" Long live Your Majesty! ”
Gao Yihuan waved his hand down calmly, but the envoys behind him were stunned by the sound, and the people along the street also cheered excitedly and waved their fists desperately.
After the assault cavalry, there were dragoons, who carried muskets on their backs, and their horses dragged the cannons, and the horses' hooves clattered forward, and they shouted the same as they passed the towers.
Gao Yihuan watched the soldiers march through the city tower, they formed a horizontal and vertical line, their movements were neat, each row and column were like a person, and the young faces were full of perseverance.
At this time, the phalanx composed of the martial arts warriors of the martial arts academy passed majestically, and the leader shouted: "Look to the right!" Countless pairs of young eyes turned to the city tower, Gao Yihuan raised his right hand and saluted the soldiers, the people on the street were impressed by the majestic posture of the Wei soldiers, and the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law let out an exclamation.
On this day, along Taiping Street, the horse army, the infantry army, the artillery team, and the martial arts courtyard walked through a total of ten cavalry phalanxes, twenty infantry army phalanxes, and five artillery phalanxes, with nearly 100,000 people.
At this time, Gao Yihuan smiled and said, "How is my army better than the Rakshasas? ”
The envoys knelt down in unison, "The Great Wei Heavenly Soldier is too much better than the Rakshasas." ”
Gao Yihuan immediately said: "You can go back with confidence, the Rakshasa people dare to invade, you just have to fight back, Dawei will be your strong backing." ”
The envoys were deeply shocked by the strength of the Wei army, and remembered the deeds of the Wei army that broke through Zhungeer a few years ago, and their hearts were immediately settled.
At this time, among the envoys, the Donghu envoy, who was also shocked, suddenly stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Great Wei Heavenly Soldiers, to the admiration of the small country, the villain has a letter from the Donghu Kingdom, and I want to present it to Your Majesty." ”
Sun Kewang's expansion in Southeast Asia seriously hurt the position of the original overlord Donghu, but the king of Donghu also clearly realized that the Donghu people alone could not defeat Sun Kewang, so they urgently needed allies.
This time, Donghu sent a total of two waves of envoys, one to Nanjing and the other to Xi'an.
When the Donghu envoy saw the mighty Wei army, he immediately knew that he had come to the right place.
Gao Yihuan didn't have a good impression of Donghu, but a fatherly smile appeared on his face, "The envoy can come to my study later to talk!" ”
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