Chapter 141: Archery Competition (Part II)

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"Please show me the token talisman!"

Seeing more than ten people with complete armor and bows and horses, the City Defense Division did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly came out to prevent them from entering the city. The forbidden army of the garrison city defense department is already carrying a spear, and the Pu knife on his waist has been held down, once there is any change, it will definitely be a bloody storm.

The little yellow door behind more than ten people hurriedly pulled the duck male voice and said: "The emperor is here, and the city defense department must not stop it!" ”

The director of the City Defense Division saw the yellow and clear book in Xiao Huangmen's hand, and his heart sank. Xiao Huangmen said proudly: "Your Majesty has a holy decree to specially select the Forbidden Army Marksman to enter the Southern Imperial Garden and compete with the Khitan envoys. The City Defense Division must not block it, give way quickly! ”

The City Defense Division recognized that this Huang Chengcheng's book was indeed Lu Chengqi's royal fold, and he didn't dare to stop it anymore, and shouted: "Get out of the way!" "Those soldiers of the city defense department collected their swords and guns and stood on both sides.

Lu Chenhuan saw that the road got out of the way, grabbed the horse's belly, and slowly entered the city. The forbidden army behind also rushed in, passed through the urn city, and then entered the Mingde Gate.

The residents of Chang'an City saw the forbidden army coming across their horses with bows and arrows, and they were so frightened that they stood on both sides of the street and talked in low voices. Some said they were here to patrol, some said something was wrong in the palace, and some said they were here to eradicate the rebellion...... The rumors spread more and more, and the three of them became tigers, nothing more than this.

Soon after these more than ten people arrived at the Xuande Building, they saw Lu Chengqi's dragon chariot and slowly walked out of the Xuande Gate. Behind him was the Khitan mission of more than 20 people, and behind him were hundreds of civil and military officials. A group of hundreds of people, mighty. Quite royal majesty.

Originally, the emperor traveled. There are a lot of etiquette. But Lu Chengqi has already broken the precedent. Every time they traveled, they were on the premise that they should not disturb the people, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites did not dare to disobey the order, so they omitted a lot of cumbersome steps.

But no matter how omitted, the five hundred imperial guards must be all in number, open the way in front, and protect the vital dragon chariot on both wings and behind, and the emperor in the dragon chariot. Lu Chengqi.

Along the way, the people saw Lu Chengqi traveling again at first glance, and they watched it one after another. After seeing the Huang Luo Imperial Umbrella and the Huang Luo Imperial Fan, the people with good eyesight exclaimed that it was really His Majesty's true face. The rest of them all competed to step on their feet, hoping to see Lu Chengqi's dragon face.

At this time, some people have spontaneously formed a corresponding color, and on both sides of the royal street, there are immediately clusters of flowers. Lu Chengqi stood up in the tall dragon chariot and waved his hand to the people on both sides. At this time, Zhiban Xingmen shouted: "The class is lined up", and the second time he shouted: "Bow down and worship." Bye-bye". This is the etiquette of Emperor Dashun's travel, and he does not worship when he comes back. On rainy days, worship is waived. The first class played the holy bow and ten thousand blessings, and the singing was upright, rather than kneeling down like the Qing court dramas in later generations. The soldiers on the narrow streets shouted "Long live!" Some of the people also shouted "Long live".

Since ancient times, the Han people have not bowed down. In addition to worshiping ancestors, heaven and earth, only when surrendering and confessing sins will it be used to bow down. The traditional gift of the Han people is to sit on the ground first, and then make a bow to the ground, that is, the palm of the hand is upward, not lying on the ground, and finally, the head is to the place where the head is made, so that a big gift is a big gift. This etiquette is very similar to the Japanese practice on tatami mats, but it is indeed an ancient Han etiquette. If you're stupid enough to hit the ground with your head like the Japanese, there's nothing to say......

Even if the courtiers see the emperor, they just give their hands and do not bow down, and generally bow down only when they accept the emperor's reward. When you see the elderly, you can do a long job.

In the hearts of the backbone Han people, they will know that it is an insult to bow down to others, even if it is the emperor, when there is no crime and no reward. Why is it said that "there is no China after Yashan", it is the kneeling ceremony set up by the Mongolians, which made the Han people bend their backbones and break the backbone of the Han people's self-improvement for thousands of years! This kneeling ceremony has affected the Chinese for 700 years, consumed the blood of the Chinese, and implanted a kind of servility in the bone marrow!

At this time, the officials of the Ministry of Rites shouted loudly as they walked, so that the surrounding people could understand the meaning of the appearance. At this time, the rumors that spread rapidly were self-defeating, and the people of Chang'an City followed the holy car to Yujin Garden outside the south gate, wanting to know the results of the archery competition for the first time.

Yujin Garden, also known as the South Imperial Garden, was built by the royal family of the previous dynasty. Yujin Garden is one mile outside the Anhua Gate in the south, the scale is large, it is the place where the Dashun royal banquet shoots and the view of the wheat is also. Some time ago, the pro-farming was also carried out here. Yujin Garden is the largest manor of the Imperial Family, and the emperor once wrote in the garden: "...... Rare fruits offer summer, strange flowers enter spring, hundreds of pavilions and thousands of pavilions, forest waterfront. There are thousands of sand birds, swimming and coming and going, or floating and sinking. The willow cage is shaded on the four banks, and the flowers are fragrant in ten miles...... "The beauty of Yujin Garden can be seen."

The Dashun Dynasty feasted frequently, and every festival or national event, banquets and drinking activities were held in the imperial palace or some royal gardens. Yujin Garden is such a garden, which is generally not open to the people, except for one time, that is, when foreign envoys come to compete with the warriors of Dashun.

Yujin Garden leads the water of the Feng River into the garden, and then releases the water into the water of the Feng River, there are square ponds, round ponds, there are small islands in the pool, willow trees are planted on the edge of the pool, lotus is planted in the pool, the scenery is beautiful. There are many pavilions on the waterfront in the forest. Beyond the flower ponds, large wheat fields are undulating. With its wide area and flat land, Yujin Garden is the "school ground" for the royal review of the cavalry and archery of the armies, and it is also the clubhouse where banquets and shooting activities are often arranged to entertain foreign envoys.

Not long after, hundreds of people came to Yujin Garden. Most of the guards of the garden are supervisors, and many relatives of the emperor and some descendants of nobles who have been related to each other before do not hesitate to attack each other in order to seize the management rights of Yichun, Qionglin Yuan, Yujin and Ruisheng Garden. It is because there are many palaces, pond pavilions, fields and small gardens under the management of these royal gardens, which is a big "fat gap", so that these people want to manage the right at any cost. It's a pity that after Lu Chengqi established the Supervision Department, such gardens were all under the name of the Supervision Department, which caused many nobles to be secretly dissatisfied.

Yeluliang and his entourage, since they saw the prosperity of Chang'an City, were not very interested in these flowers and plants. Along the way, it was a calm appearance.

When he walked to a huge flat land in the South Imperial Garden, Lu Chengqi, under the guidance of the inner servant, got off the dragon chariot and sat in the pavilion at the end of the corridor to watch the "school field". Yeluliang sat next to him, and the rest of the civil and military officials all stood on the corridor. Ordinary people can only watch from outside the school grounds, next to each other. However, there will be a singing noinner attendant who will come out to report the competition in real time, which can be regarded as a way for these people not to run in vain.

Lu Chengqi asked, "I don't know how many stones can the archers sent by Ambassador Yelu shoot?" ”

Yeluliang said with a smile: "Our Khitan warriors, each of us can shoot two stone bows. The warriors sent today can shoot three stone bows, but I don't know how many stone bows can be fired by the warriors sent by His Majesty? There is also water in his words, the horse bow is softer than the foot bow, the two-stone bow is only equivalent to more than one stone, and the Khitan bow is also a labor-saving bow, so the strength is even smaller.

Lu Chengqi knew the attributes of the Divine Arm Bow well, and said lightly: "I, a sergeant of Dashun, can shoot a three-stone bow each. ”

Hearing this, Yeluliang was stunned for a moment, and then sneered: "What Your Majesty said, I'm afraid it goes against the facts, right?" ”

No wonder Yeluliang doesn't believe it, the power of one stone is ninety-two and a half catties, the ancient catties are different from those of later generations, ninety-two and a half catties are equivalent to more than 100 catties in later generations, and three stones means that there must be at least four hundred catties of strength, this is not a myth, where can everyone open a three-stone bow? Yeluliang thought that what Lu Chengqi said was all about the kind of hard step bow, which was neither effortless nor far. (To be continued.) )