On this day, Nanling was once again empty, because the triumphal ceremony and the prisoner sacrifice ceremony that had been delayed for some days would be held at the White Tiger Gate in the west.

Troops returning from the Northwest with captives would enter Nanling City through the White Tiger Gate, where the rulers and civil and military officials of the empire would inspect the returning soldiers from the White Tiger Gate tower, and watch the many captured foreign kings or tribal leaders.

In the past history of the Empire, a grand sacrifice ceremony has never been held, and that is for two reasons. One is that when Lu Zhe first rose, his main opponents were the Baiyue tribes, but the Baiyue tribes have not been valued by the Chinese people; Second, even if he paid attention to Lu Zhe at that time, he didn't have time to do any grand prisoner sacrifice ceremony, and it was better to develop armaments with all his strength and wait to deal with greater threats when he had so much time.

Now the situation is different, the overall situation of the empire tends to be stable, the enemies that should be swept away inside have basically been cleared, the threat is in the far northern steppes, the Hu people do not dare to violate the borders of the empire at present, but the empire is about to send troops on an expedition, and it is also time to boost the morale of the army, so it is necessary to hold a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners.

"Obviously, I have already returned to Nanling early, but I have to go out again, pretend to be a dusty servant, and then pretend to lead the army back, tsk!" Ji Bu's face was full of surprise, the person he said was Sima Xin and other generals of the grassland dispatch army and the Western Expeditionary Army, and the object of his speech was the common lieutenant, pouting: "Just say that Meng Tian, I don't know what the king thinks, and he even attaches so much importance to him." ”

In the face of Ji Bu's tasteful or slightly jealous tone, the lieutenant smiled silently.

A few days ago, Sima Xin, Meng Tian, He Yi, and Xu Zhi ...... Many generals and colonels were still attending the court meeting in the Yizheng Palace, but yesterday they went out of the city and returned to the troops where they were formed, which was at the behest of Lu Zhe.

The glory and status that he deserves as a king is indeed a just given, and under the double generosity of honor and wealth, Lu Zhe's reputation has always been excellent. It is the image of impartiality that he has established. It made it possible to peacefully annex some countries, and to make people believe that even a merger that surrendered without a war could get the treatment that was confirmed during the negotiations, because of the impartiality that avoided many of the Chinese civil wars.

First there are Sima Xin and some Qin-born generals who took the lead and then won a high position, and after the Qin State was annexed, Meng Tian, Xu Yan, Zhang Han and some other people also had a tendency to be reused, in fact, Lu Zhe's behavior has attracted the attention of some people, but no matter what the attention is. Actually, that's what it looks like.

There are some things that cannot be publicly explained, and many generals in Qindi, whether they defected alone or led their troops to attach, have a great relationship with Lu Zhe's origin in Qindi.

According to the official place of origin, Lu Zhe was born under the rule of Xixian County, Longxi County, Qindi, and can be regarded as a Qin person. Then, cultivating a group of people from Qindi under an open and fair system is a natural phenomenon for anyone.

At the stage when Lu Zhe rose from Yiling, he relied on nearly 20,000 Qin soldiers. It was by relying on this group of Qin soldiers that he was able to conquer the entire Nanjun, and many Qin officers at that time were also currently in high positions.

Sima Xin led the army south to attack Lü, and the two sides fought with each other's victories and defeats, and then an epidemic occurred in Sima Xin's army, and he was forced to surrender Lü Zhe. They were also included in the military group after the surrender of Lü Zhe, and contributed a lot to the later conquests of Baiyue and Chu.

The Qin State has always had a powerful army located in Sanchuan County, but Sanchuan County is less than two hundred miles away from the southern county where Lu Zhe is located. At that time, if the Central Plains Army under Xu Yan was determined to go south to exterminate Lu Zhe, Lu Zhe, who only had about 200,000 troops in his hands, would be able to defeat the Central Plains Army led by Xu Yan in the end. It is really difficult to say what will happen to the Chu State that is controlled by the Xiang clan under the great injury of vitality.

The situation at that time was, on the one hand, that the main focus of the Qin State was in the Central Plains. Who can say that Xu Yan doesn't want to go south to attack Lu? Later, Xu Yan led the army to join Lu Zhe after consultation, although it was because the logistics of the Central Plains Army at that time were controlled by Lu Zhe, but it also allowed Lu Zhe to remove the biggest threat in the northwest, so that he could fully deal with the battle of the Central Plains, so that the war to recover the Central Plains could be carried out without worries, and the battle of the Central Plains could be fought so smoothly.

"The lieutenant is going to be replaced." The lieutenant looked down, and the road below was full of people: "The current lieutenant will be transferred to the Wajima as the first governor." ”

Ji Bu answered, "What's the secret? The hussar general will also be transferred from the grassland dispatch army to Liaodong to sit in the town. ”

The relevant topics have already been decided at the large and small DPRK meetings a few days ago, and who is qualified to participate in the DPRK meeting is not clear?

Lu Zhe's transfer to the Wa Islands was not a kind of exile, because the explorers who landed on the Wa Islands discovered some precious metal ores one after another. So far, there are no less than 20 precious metal mines found in the Japanese Islands, including one super-large gold mine, two silver mines, and more than 10 large, medium-sized, and small-scale gold and silver mines. Lu Zhe's transfer of Kuaitong to the Japanese Islands can actually be said to be a kind of importance.

The reform of the empire's currency has been put on the table, and the implementation of the monetary system of copper, silver, and gold requires a large amount of precious metals, so the gold and silver mining on the Japanese islands has become an important matter.

In the recent plan of the Empire, the Empire sent a legion of troops and 300,000 laborers to the Wa Islands within three years. A legion was sent to capture the natives on the islands, after all, any mining of minerals required extreme labor, and the natives caught in Lingnan and the South Asian subcontinent alone were simply not enough to have manpower.

"That guy Luo Shao is beautiful, he has made good achievements in the battle in Lingnan, and he has captured so many slaves for the empire with troops against the South Asian subcontinent, and he has been directly promoted to the position of the marquis." Ji Bu grinned: "But we are not bad, I have the credit for maintaining the stability of the Central Plains and co-opting Zhao Jun and Chen Shengjun; You have accepted the credit of Longxi County for forming two more legions, and later peacefully incorporated the three counties of Qindi into the territory of the empire. We are also on the list of marquises. ”

The lieutenant looked at Ji Bu with some amusement: "They are all general-level big shots, and they still talk like this." ”

"I am General Zhenbei, you are General Zhenxi, but you are also a general at the level of the word 'Zhen', and there are generals at the level of the word 'Zheng'. There are also General Wei, General Che Cavalry, General Hussar, and then there is the Grand Lieutenant. Ji Bu said and nodded at the approaching army on the outskirts of the city: "There is a hussar general there, and even General Meng, who has just served the king, is also a general of Zhengxi. ”

A huge crowd gathered outside the west gate of Nanling, and they gathered on both sides of the avenue, looking at the scale of the crowd. The shadow of the triumphant army appeared within the horizon of the earth, and a huge cheer was emitted by the crowd of onlookers, drowning out the cheers of what Ji Bu said later.

"Gone. It's time to go to the king's side. Jibu tried his best to speak loudly, not loud, and the cheers were really deafening. Seeing that the co-lieutenant made an expression that he did not hear clearly, he greeted him on the defensive instead.

Lu Zhe was chatting with Fusu, Wei Qi, and Zhao Xie just now, but now he was standing side by side with Queen Zhao Wan on the edge of the female wall of the city tower and looking at the approaching triumphant army.

Standing behind Lu Zhe are three feudal kings, behind the feudal kings are a group of civil and military officials, and behind the civil and military officials are a group of princes and princesses.

Walking at the forefront of the triumphant army were several chariots, each with two flags erected on the left and right sides, and if you look closely, you can see that the flags have the number of the corps and their own positions written on them.

Sima Xin is the highest of all the vehicles. At this moment, he was standing in full armor and holding a sword. Behind him were the lieutenant generals of several legions, followed by knights on straddle horses, and behind the cavalry were foot soldiers on foot.

"Are those the generals who have returned from the Eastern Empire's conquest?"

"Of course, every country holds a triumphal ceremony to put the general in a prominent position and enjoy the honor he deserves."

"I didn't expect that the country's chariot was used to carry generals in some ceremonies."

"It's true that there are no charioteers in this country, they focus on cavalry."

Envoys from Central Asian countries were also arranged in a place on the edge of the Baihumen Tower, and they were all dressed in special costumes representing their own countries or ethnic groups. Therefore, even if it is placed in an inconspicuous corner, it is often looked at by surprised or strange eyes.

In today's world, the charioteer is indeed a class of troops that is taken seriously. For example, the countries around the Mediterranean countries were influenced by Greek culture, and the countries in Central Asia were influenced by Persia, each of which developed its own charioteers.

What is the factual situation? Charioteers are a kind of luxury troops, in the recognized perception of the construction of chariot troops represents a manifestation of national strength, Europa or Central Asia only some barbarians will not have chariot troops, that is related to a kind of mechanical knowledge accumulation and technology accumulation. The side that does not have a chariot unit is often despised by the side that has a chariot unit.

Leaving the crowd a little away, Ta Plati, the envoy from Parthia, and the World Angle, from Bactria, talked in low voices.

"This Eastern Empire held the secret of the use of cavalry, so they abandoned the development of chariots."

"Yes, we have learned the secret of stirrups and saddles from some Huns in the Western Regions, and we must tell the king when we return home."

"The manufacture of stirrups and saddles is not difficult. The difficulty was some of the training methods and tactical use of the cavalry. If you don't master the training methods and the tactics of the cavalry, you will only learn the form of equipping stirrups and saddles, and you will not be able to learn the essence. ”

"It is so, the immature cavalry cannot replace the chariot troops. So we should propose to the emperor of the Eastern Empire to start military exchanges? ”

"It's useless, no country will let its strong side be easily learned, and we don't have anything enough to attract the emperor of the East now."

"So...... It's time to spy on it. ”

"Hmm."

Apparently, they knew about stirrups and saddles, but they still didn't know anything about horseshoes.

There was a trumpet sound of "Woo Woo Woo" in the distance, and then even louder cheers erupted, first the war drums sounded on the wall of Nanling City, and the triumphant army in the distance also played the war drums of "Boom-Boom-".

Taprati and Anglie glanced at each other, and the two of them glanced at the Wusun envoy not far away, exchanged words with each other, and then returned to the Central Asian envoy's side.

It's getting closer, it's getting closer and closer, and in the cheers that erupt from the crowd, a "Wan Sheng!" Wansheng! Wansheng! The slogan was shouted in unison from the side of the triumphant army by one or two hundred thousand soldiers, and the unanimous trumpets overpowered the cheers, gradually quieting the cheering crowd.

In fact, the soldiers who participated in this triumphal ceremony were only a very small part of the army participating in the war, and they were selected to deliberately select collectives or individuals with special combat merits, after all, the hundreds of thousands of troops participating in the war could not everyone participate in the triumphal ceremony, right? In that case, the army would have to walk all day just to enter the city.

The Triumphant Army stopped when it approached Nanling City for about five miles, and there were so many onlookers that the Nanling City Defenses who maintained the order had to carry out some maintenance in order to make enough space for the Triumphant Army to continue to move forward.

The 18,000 soldiers who participated in the triumphal ceremony paused for about 15 minutes before they formed the procession and moved forward again. At this time, the drums of war, which had disappeared, were beaten again.

The sound of the drum, which is no stranger to those with military training, is a marching drum, that is, a rhythmic beating of the war drum, so that one can step along with the drum to achieve a uniform rhythm.

It is estimated that most of the people of the empire have received military training, and when they hear the marching drums, a small number of people first habitually follow the same place, and then more and more people also start to stand still. The sound of the neat footsteps of the 10,000 or so foot soldiers, combined with the footsteps of the crowd, drowned out the drumming of the marching drums.

Too many people are stepping on the ground, "boom-boom-boom-" rhythmic footsteps resounded over Nanling, and at that moment the ground seemed to shake because there were too many people stepping on the ground.

"Look, this is the Eastern Empire!" The expression on Anglie's face was very complicated, with envy and more of fear: "I said that the people of this empire will receive military training, and those who have brain problems are looking for death when they break out in conflict with people on this side of the empire." ”

The expressions of many of the envoys who heard Angle's voice began to turn strange, some of them had received complaints from some people from their own country or tribe, some were maimed in the conflict, and many more died in the conflict.

"Yes, look at their expressions, look at their uniform steps," there was a longing on Taprati's face: "There are at least half a million civilians watching the scene outside the city, and at least 300,000 of them can be armed as soldiers." There were at least 300,000 civilians on both sides of the roads in the city. The entire Nanling City has a population of more than 1.7 million, and if you need to, the Nanling Eastern Empire alone can arm an army of at least 800,000 soldiers. They have a full-fledged military service system! ”，

I didn't say much about the rest of the words, but looking at the eagerness on Tepralates' face, the urgency of learning the imperial military service system was no less than learning cavalry training and tactics, and even more coveted. (To be continued......)