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The warm breeze of May blows through the Bianqu canal, which makes people intoxicated.

A few days ago, the rich people who left Songcheng have returned one after another, and in the blink of an eye, Songzhou has returned to its former prosperity and liveliness. Especially today, the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May is one of the most lively days of the year for Songcheng.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May every year, the Dragon Boat Festival, as the metropolis along the Bianqu Canal and the Bianchuan shipbuilding center on the canal, Songcheng will be quite lively on this day every year, and the most grand dragon boat racing competition will be held. This is not only a non-governmental activity, but also a strong official support every year. Every year, there are hundreds of dragon boats in Songzhou, and the rewards are even more generous.

Originally, this year was attacked by grass thieves, and many large families fled Songzhou. But now, although the grass thieves occupied the four counties of Songzhou, they were defeated by the Zhenguo army in the end, killing and capturing countless people, and Wang Xianzhi fled in despair. For a time, the Dragon Boat Festival Race will be held as scheduled.

Moreover, Zhang Rui, the assassin of Songzhou, intends to use this event to sweep away the previous panic atmosphere, and wants to use this Dragon Boat Festival race to promote the victory of Yucheng and regain people's hearts. To this end, this year will not only continue to hold dragon boat races, but also will be the largest Dragon Boat Race in Songzhou in a hundred years.

For this race, Songzhou specially pulled out a large amount of reward, and the families of the wealthy families in Songcheng also donated a lot of money, and even, the merchants and households, and even some large local clans under Songzhou, also sent their own dragon boat teams to come. In order to be more grand, Zhang Rui also beat Li Jing personally. Please participate in this race.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the morning, a grand military parade will be held by the Zhenguo Army by the river outside the city. Later, it will be the ring competition launched by the Zhenguo Army, whether it is the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army or the people of Songzhou, regardless of identity, they can participate, the last one hundred and eight, seventy-two, thirty-six, eighteen, ninth, top three, the top one and other rankings. You will also receive a generous reward, and those who are not in the Zhenguo army can also be included in the army and awarded military positions according to their rank.

In addition to military parades and martial arts competitions, in the afternoon, there is the most exciting traditional Dragon Boat Race, with equally rich rewards, and there will also be polo matches, Keju competitions, sumo wrestling competitions, archery competitions and other activities on the day. In addition to this, throughout the day. From the morning, there is also a huge bazaar. In the evening, there will be a night market and a lantern festival.

As early as three days ago, this lively Dragon Boat Festival celebration plan had already spread throughout the eight counties below Songzhou, and even Chenzhou, Bianzhou, Caozhou, Maozhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou and several surrounding states and counties have also spread, and countless merchants, dignitaries, peddlers and pawns have come.

This lively Dragon Boat Festival celebration not only attracted a large number of nobles, eunuchs, scholars, but also countless merchants and vendors, and even a large number of prostitutes, dancers, and singers in the vicinity came by horse. At the same time, it also attracted a large number of thieves, robbers, swindlers, etc., and even many hungry people flocked to it.

Since last night, the vicinity of Songcheng has been full of people coming and going, to this morning, when the Zhenguo Army parade, the entire Songcheng inside and outside is already crowded with people, according to Zhang Rui received the report of the officials below, Songcheng is now several times more than the number of people during the Dragon Boat Festival in previous years, according to preliminary statistics, at least 800,000 people have gathered in Songcheng from all directions. If you add the Zhenguo army and their grass thief captives, Songzhou has gathered no less than 400,000 people, and the rest is grinding shoulders one after another, squeezing forward and hugging back.

In particular, the large number of hungry people from all sides far exceeded the expectations of Zhang Rui and others, which once made them very nervous, for fear of any accidents. Fortunately, Li Jingken stepped forward, sent the Zhenguo army to maintain order, and mobilized a horse of grain to set up a hundred porridge sheds outside Songzhou City, and finally pacified these displaced people.

Zhang Huier also knew that today would be very lively, and she grinded in front of her mother for a long time last night, and finally got her mother to agree to take her outside the city to watch the race today. In the past year, during the Dragon Boat Festival race, Songcheng was also empty of thousands of people, even the daughters of noble women, women and slaves, and they would also get permission to go to watch this rare event. However, Zhang Rui is reluctant to let her daughter go out again this year, first, her daughter is getting younger and older, second, it is very chaotic outside this year, and third, she is also worried that her daughter and Li Jing will meet again.

But in the end, she still couldn't resist her daughter's coquettishness, Zhang Hui got the help of A-Niang again, and Zhang Rui agreed after being the most embarrassed.

Zhang Hui didn't have a chance to see the military parade in the morning, and Zhang Rui didn't agree with her to watch it. But she sent Green Sprouts to go, according to the report that Green Sprouts came back, the morning parade ceremony was very lively and grand, and the 20,000 Zhenguo troops had changed into neat and clean military robes, and their armor was also polished, and the team was extremely neat.

Finally got to lunch, Zhang Hui, Lu Ya and Mrs. Aniang Wang rode in a carriage together, and under the escort of the servants and wives of the Zhang family, they went to the martial arts competition on the bank of the Bianqu outside the city.

The curtain of the carriage had two layers, a gauze curtain on the outside and a pearl curtain on the inside, which was extremely fine and precious. Sitting in the carriage, he could see through the beaded curtains and gauze curtains. The people outside could not see what was going on in the carriage.

The royal blue gauze curtain dyes the world outside a piece of blue, outside the city wall, on the bank of the Bianqu, eighteen rings have been erected, and in the north, there is a high stand with an excellent view of the line, on which tents have been erected, divided into small private room stands.

On both sides of the stands, tens of thousands of people came to watch, and the competition had not yet begun, but it was already crowded with people who had arrived early.

Outside the eighteen jousting rings, they were also surrounded by gauze tents. In the field enclosed by the gauze tent, there are already countless heroes who have signed up for the name are making preparations. Zhang Hui's eyes were brilliant when he saw the spectacular scene, the shining armor, the tall horses, the enthusiastic shouts of the people, and the colorful flags fluttering in the wind.

"It's even better than the lyrics!" When Zhang Hui and Wang arrived at the tent arranged for the Zhang family in the stands under the guidance of several family members, she couldn't help but sigh softly. Today's Zhang Hui also spent a long time on serious makeup, wearing a fiery red pomegranate skirt and a large-sleeved shirt with the same gunpowder. The whole person is like a flint pomegranate flower blooming in May. Bright and moving.

Suddenly, a loud cheer rang out from the audience. Through the thin veil in front of the tent, she excitedly saw Li Jing riding a horse to appear.

Li Jing was the focus of the whole audience, he was wearing a set of yellow armor unicorn armor, wearing a jade sword, and a dazzling golden gold woven gold cloak.

Behind him were six times younger than Li Jing. These six people. Zhang Hui immediately knew that they were the six disciples of Li Jing in the legendary Zhenguo Liuya everywhere in Songzhou today. Zhenguo Liuya also attracted a lot of attention from the audience, and they all wore golden armor, but the set of golden armor on their bodies was inferior to Li Jing's. According to his father on the side, Li Jing's set is a royal gift from the emperor, a real golden armor, not gilt or gold paint, but a completely gold-given golden armor made of gold.

"Gold is so soft, how can a battle armor made of gold go to the battlefield?" Zhang Hui was a little unconvinced.

Zhang Rui smiled. "Of course, the golden armor can't be on the war horse, this is actually a set of military generals' dresses. Gold armor is the same as silk armor, and it is not worn on the battlefield. For example, when Emperor Taizong pacified Wang Shichong and returned to Chang'an, he was wearing a set of gold armor. Such armor is generally a reward from the Son of Heaven, and a hundred people dare not make it privately. ”

"Then there is still a set of golden armor for one person in the six yamen of the Zhenguo, and the golden armor Shengjie army of the Zhenguo army is all golden armor!" Zhang Hui was a little unconvinced.

"You know a lot about a girl." Zhang Rui was in a good mood today, and patiently explained to her daughter, "The golden armor in the six yas is not made of pure gold, they are gilded battle armor, and the golden armor of the Shengjie army is just a layer of gold paint painted on the outside." ”

Li Jing led six disciples to enter, and then many Zhenguo soldiers also entered one after another, and they will all be the referees of today's martial arts competition. After all, today's victor can get the rare opportunity to directly enter the town army and be promoted to officer.

The generals of the Zhenguo Army entered the referee's seat after showing a circle on the field, and then Li Jing announced that the samurai who had passed the registration and audition began to draw lots for the competition.

There are a lot of people who have signed up for the competition, and after a round of auditions yesterday, thousands of people still passed the auditions. Some of these people are soldiers of the Zhenguo Army, some are soldiers of Songzhou, and some are the children of some eunuch families and merchants, and even the sons of nearby landlords, and even ordinary traders and pawns. But if you want to come to power, you must at least be able to grasp the two basic levels of lifting a stone lock of 100 catties and walking 50 steps with a weight of 300 catties.

After seeing that many of them were Song Prefecture officials and the children of those big clans, Lu Ya couldn't help but exclaim. There are many people he doesn't know, and sometimes he meets some famous children of big clans, and Zhang Rui will also introduce a few words on the side.

The three sworn brothers, Zhu Wen, Zhu Zhen, and Zhu Cun, were also among the samurai who passed the audition, although Zhu Wen had become the commander and had a hundred brothers under him. But at present, the Xuanfeng Army has just recruited 3,000 new soldiers and horses, and the fifth battalion of the Xuanfeng Army is about to be expanded into ten battalions, and a large number of official vacancies have appeared all of a sudden, and Zhu Wen is now bent on going further. Although I don't dare to expect to become a battalion commander all at once, I still look forward to it if I can become a battalion instructor, or lead a commander and a battalion commander.

Zhang Hui recognized Zhu Wen in the crowd and found that he was the kid who had been looking at her stupidly outside the gate of the mountain temple in the suburbs.

Lu Ya saw Zhang Hui's gaze, so she pretended to be curious and asked, "Big official, who is that person?" ”

Zhang Rui glanced at it and said with a smile: "This person has been very lucky recently, he is from Dangshan County, he signed up for the army last time, and he was very courageous, and he was appreciated by Li Zhenguo and promoted to the head of the team." In the first battle of Yucheng, I heard that he had made great contributions, but he also violated discipline, and he could have been promoted to deputy commander, but he was only promoted to command. ”

It turned out to be a fellow villager in Dangshan, Zhang Hui glanced at Zhu Wen, he only thought he was a stupid boy, but he didn't expect him to be so powerful, and he could actually get his appreciation, and he remembered Zhu Wen's name at once. (To be continued......)