The battle of the Northern Expedition did not take long, but the results achieved were unprecedentedly rich, not only the destruction of the once extremely powerful Qi State, but also the annexation of the Yan State in a relatively mild way, and then the real determination of peaceful merger in Handan opened a new mode of expansion, and the Qin State sent members of the royal family to negotiate also made the process of China develop on the better side.

The results achieved are abundant, and the ceremony of returning to the division is naturally grand, so it is impossible to say that the army will enter the city in a hurry as soon as it arrives, in fact, the returning army will temporarily stay outside the city to rest, only Lu Zhe and some civil and military personnel will enter the city first, and the army will stop in place and wait for the welcoming ceremony to be ready. This waiting process will take about three days, and the soldiers will usher in their glory moment in the military uniform of the dress style in the crowd.

There was already a military camp outside Nanling City, so the procedures for building a new camp were saved, and before Lu Zhe led people from the west, there were already 80,000 troops entering the camp in order. After they came, what they saw was a Qianshou who could not be seen at a glance, a mile away from the barracks, and the bursts of cheers from Qianshou did not seem to stop, and the appearance of Wang Qi made the cheers even more enthusiastic.

The leaders of Nanling City were very enthusiastic about the victorious return of the army, and they treated the king who led the army to expand the territory with a kind of warm worship. When Wang Qi appeared, I don't know how many people shouted like thunder, and the ears of the people at the scene were filled with cheers, even if they shouted with the greatest strength, they couldn't hear their own voices, and their eardrums were shaken into a long roar.

"It will take about half an hour for the princess and all the ladies, princes, and princesses to reach the north of the city." When Yan Bi relayed the report, he was sticking to Lu Zhe's ear and shouting.

Lu Zhe nodded to indicate that he understood, his eyes had been scanning the crowd gathered into the sea, watching the Qianshou open their mouths wide and shouting with their faces red and thick necks, looking at the unconcealable frenzy on the faces of the Qiantou, he knew in his heart why the Qianshou was so excited.

On the one hand, the excitement of the Qianshou is that they already have a sense of belonging to this country, and the victory of their army in the outside world gives them a sense of spiritual satisfaction that "we are strong", and it is also because they are proud that the country's territory has been expanded.

Because the territory of the country has expanded, the living space of a member of the country will inevitably increase. It means the growth of shared resources, and many people may not understand the importance and impact of resource growth, but it does not prevent them from feeling happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Lü Zhe's way of governing was to provide welfare to the people while the state made profits, and the Qianshou, who had lived under Lü Zhe for nine years, had long been accustomed to the state getting dividends from expansion. Some of the people in their families who served in the army have already learned from some sources that the casualties of this northern expedition are not large, and the troops returning from the expedition will return with thousands of carts of booty, and people who know very well that the army will get the spoils of war have more reasons to be excited.

"Your Majesty, the love of the head of Qianyi is too excited!" Xiao He's tone was full of worry.

It's too excited, Rao has the Nanling Guards to maintain order. However, there has been a situation where Qianshou has broken through the human wall, and once it gets out of control, I don't know how much chaos it will cause.

Lu Zhe signaled to sound the war drum and blow the horn.

After about a while, the rhythmic sound of "dong dong" war drums and "woo woo" horns appeared, and the sound of drums and horns gradually overpowered the cheers.

In fact, if you have been trained by compulsory soldiers, you can understand that war drums and horns are a rhythm that signals "stability maintenance", and what the sergeants need to do in the rhythm of the battle formation is to consolidate the array.

After all, due to the need for logistics and transportation, compulsory military service has been postponed, and young people are basically busy on various transportation lines, but the charm of music is that even if you can't understand what is "singing", you can feel the "instructions" brought by the rhythm. The leaders were attracted by the joy of the slow battle formation, and slowly quieted down.

It was still a head-splitting noise, and even the sound of war drums and trumpets stopped when people were quiet, and people who had not adapted to the quiet atmosphere for a while usually fell into a trance.

Before the leaders could recover from their trance, a burst of passwords was suddenly shouted from the side of the army. The officers shouted the order, and the sergeant issued a flurry of "promise!" At this sound, one group after another of soldiers began to turn over and dismount, and then drove in groups to all directions. They had been ordered to assist the Nanling Garrison in maintaining order.

Naturally, there will be soldiers who will send the vacant war horses back to the camp, and most of the soldiers of the forbidden army who are gradually replenished to weak positions will also participate in the maintenance of the order.

"Hey, Brother......"

"What?"

Because it is involved in the maintenance of the order. The non-commissioned officers of the forbidden army also began to make contact with the Nanling Guard.

"How's the war going in the north?"

“…… Very good, very smooth. ”

"I'm so envious that you guys can fight! How much is it to get captured? ”

“……”

Lu Juan saw a complicated expression on the forbidden soldier who was questioning, and he felt a little incomprehensible.

"The Qi army and the Yan army collapsed too quickly, and we are ...... again, and I heard that the robes who fought in the Sai War have obtained amazing captures from the Hu people."

The forbidden army is the king's own army, and almost no participation in the battle of the Northern Expedition was carried out in the battle sequence, and the only large-scale operation was the siege of Linzi.

"Really? That's right, the king has long regarded all parts of the Central Plains as a territory that must be obtained, and the capital of Qian, which is divided into those areas according to ethnic groups, is regarded as the same race, and cannot be plundered. Lu Xuan added seemingly smartly: "There are Hu people outside the Saiwai, of course they can be unscrupulous against foreign races?" ”

The forbidden soldier who accosted Lu Qian just nodded, as if he was not interested in talking.

"I have a few small people who also participated in the battle out of the fortress, but unfortunately most of them are in the mixed corps, doing some rear guards and garrison military affairs, and they are rarely able to participate in the combing of the place, if they are in the cavalry corps, if they are in the cavalry corps, they are ......" Lu Juan didn't see that the forbidden army who was talking had no interest in talking, he kept chattering.

Because of the importance of the cultural level of the army, the Han army in non-war times will actually have people who specialize in teaching knowledge, and the premise of acquiring knowledge is literacy, so the pinyin will also be popularized in the army. Regardless of the era, the educated were more respected, and it was the military schools that taught the soldiers to read and acquire culture, and it was extremely easy to mingle in the process of that period. In some ways, it is also a small means of political work.

Because literacy has gradually become widespread, and because the use of paper has become so common, the exchange of letters has naturally become frequent, and as long as it does not involve secrets or the like, soldiers can write letters home, so that the rear is not ignorant of the development of the war on the front, although there is a delay in the development of the war on the front.

In the past, some people suggested that Lu Zhe must strictly control information control in wartime, so as to avoid confusion in the rear due to some situations in the front, or some situations in the rear that shake the hearts of the soldiers and soldiers in the front. Such a building is in line with the regulations of the army, after all, the army is a very special group. Many things are full of control, but there has been no precedent of not being able to write family letters, and Lu Zhe only set up review procedures in his hesitation, and the so-called review procedures are based on the premise of obtaining the consent of the soldiers. What if the soldiers don't agree? Then don't try to get the letter out.

It must be noted that before the advent of the postal system, it was a hassle to even write a letter to your hometown and send it home, and you usually had to ask someone who was going to return home or would pass by to carry it for you. Because of the popularization of the literacy rate, not only the number of letters in the army has increased, but also the number of letters and exchanges among the people has also exploded. After the need, Lu Zhe naturally set up a postal system, but the letters in the army were not handed over to the postal system, but were transmitted by the military's own post system.

The erection of the postal system is based on the official post station, and the reason why Lu Zhe "created the postal system" is to facilitate the society. In fact, the bigger reason is the need to resettle military personnel who have been discharged due to injuries.

Not only is the Nanling Garrison Guard asking the forbidden soldiers about the war in the north, but the Qianshou who is close to the forbidden army is also inquiring, and whether the forbidden soldiers who are not restricted by the secrecy regulations are willing to answer depends on the individual's character.

There are too many people discussing. The sound of chirping began again, because there were too many people talking, and the scene was "buzzing" and showing signs of getting bigger.

"Your Majesty, do you want the show to begin?"

"Let's get started."

That's right. There is a must for the return of the army, and that is to arrange some performances from the mainland. There are many kinds of performances, which can be dances performed by lingren, musicians playing music, and even large-scale Wu dances in the form of witchcraft.

There are too many people on the scene, and under the premise of no stage, it is not destined to be too many people who can see the performance of the singers due to the constraints of the field of vision.

Ryūren does not only refer to female dancers, but men are also called Ryūren at this time. The number of servants is not too large in any era, after all, cultivating a servant in the era of low productivity means feeding a person who is entertaining and not producing, so the servant is generally cultivated by a wealthy nobleman or the state. In the later period, the men among the servants were generally castrated, and this behavior occurred in the East and West at the same time when there was no information communication, and it has to be said that it was simply amazing.

Music was actually relatively abundant by the end of the pre-Qin period in ancient times, but upbeat music was still considered to be a beautiful sound, and only the kind of flat and strict music was the mainstream music.

In the same way as the Lingren, the musician is also a person who does not produce anything, and the identity of the person who has the musician is also strictly limited, so the number of musicians is relatively much less than that of the Lingren, and the phenomenon is not a certain status, and the vast majority of people may only hear irregular music on funeral occasions in their lives, and it is a matter of not thinking about using music to cultivate sentiment, and it is a luxury to want to hear the music of the whole class that conforms to etiquette.

Because it was rare to hear the magnificent music of the whole class, after the musicians arranged by the government began to play collectively, the chatter finally stopped.

At this time, a team appeared from the north gate of Nanling, starting with a square team holding colorful flags, followed by a kind of concubine headed by Zhao Wan and the heirs of Lu Zhe, followed by civil and military officials, and the last batch were attendants, maids, guards, and so on.

Lu Zhe was wondering just now, why the performers such as the servants were not there, and the musicians who went out with the army were still needed to play the music, and when he saw that there were many performers and musicians in the team that appeared, he couldn't guess that they were taken to the west of the city.

Zhao Wan's steps were very fast, followed by Wei Wen, the children of both of them were following Lu Zhe on the northern expedition, and it was natural for them to be more urgent. Behind them were Lu Zhe's other concubines and wives, and a few of them were holding children or babies in their arms, so the speed was not fast.

Lu Pheasant, who was walking behind, saw that Zhao Wan, who was the princess, was too eager to see the child, what did she forget?

Lu Pheasant held her daughter in one hand and the baby in her arms in the other, and she couldn't catch up, and she was not allowed to shout loudly on this occasion, as if she hesitated, she found an opportunity to whisper a few words to Wei Shuang, who was "light".

Wei Shuang has no children, so he doesn't need to hold or hold the child, so he is naturally much more flexible. She quickly caught up with Zhao Wan and relayed Lu Pheasant's words.

"Hurry, hurry! Let them perform. After the order, Zhao Wan turned around and smiled at Lu Pheasant gratefully, if it wasn't for Lu Pheasant's reminder, she really forgot the steps in the welcoming ceremony.

The next scene was lively, and the attendants who got the order did not know where to push out the rotating platform installed underneath, and there was more than one platform, and after the appearance of many platforms, they were arranged according to various directions.

The tables are made of wood and are mostly folded, and it seems that those things are pre-placed? There are also preparations in the camp.

Lu Zhe's position can see the overall situation, he originally wanted to ask what is going on, but as a king, it is enough to master some important things, and he doesn't need to know everything in detail, so he finally gave up.

When almost every platform was fixed, some servants also entered the barracks under the guidance of the soldiers who maintained the order, and after obtaining Lu Zhe's consent, the troops in the camp also marched to the arranged positions in formation. Outside the barracks, the leaders of the Qians were very cooperative and obeyed the soldiers who maintained the order. The result? It is to form a kind of distributed interval military and civilian party, and the host who organizes and plans the program seems to be Zhao Wan, who is the princess.

"Is there such a rule in history?" Lu Zhe was a little confused, and he couldn't understand whether it was an established rule or a new thing.

But that didn't matter, the servants climbed to the high stage and posed, and the musicians from all regions also beat the drums, and a grand celebration could be regarded as the beginning. (To be continued......)