A month after the Zhengyangmen Tower was destroyed by fire, the curtain wall of East and West Chang'an Avenue was finally removed, revealing a near-modern cement road. The pavement, which is made of RCC, is flat and wide, and they are like two long swords with gray and white sharpness, passing through the heavenly streets and coiling in front of the Forbidden City. Its hilt is in Shuimo Hutong, which is close to the old academy of the East City Wall, and the sword body starts from the mutton alley, along the east and west Chang'an Avenue and passes through the Xidan archway, and the sword blade is pointed directly at the entrance of the north downtown area.

Although both ends of Chang'an Avenue have been extended, the name of the street has not changed, and this long street is still called East Chang'an Avenue and West Chang'an Avenue. Street names are not the focus of people's attention, and public opinion is still concerned about this somewhat sudden military parade. The major events of the country, when the sacrifice was in Rong, there was no military parade at the time of the founding of the country, and there was no military parade when the victory over Japan was defeated, but now there is a sudden military parade after the Zhengyangmen Tower was burned down, and many people regard it as a kind of deterrence against the United States - when war cannot be chosen, it can only be through deterrence to make the enemy worry.

However, this view is only a quick tongue. The renovation of Chang'an Avenue began a year ago, when China and the United States were still in normal diplomatic relations. Whether according to the official statement or according to the popular sayings, the Zhengyangmen incident is considered to be an accident, and it is not Mr. Taiyan's turn to play a bitter trick if he really wants to recover the city tower, so it is impossible for the current dynasty to predict that there will be a change in Zhengyangmen more than a year ago, and the military parade against the Americans is completely nonsense.

But if not against Americans, but against whom? Huang Yuansheng, the chief writer of the Imperial Daily, believes that what the dynasty does must have deep meaning. It is believed that the military parade is to show the strength of the Baath Army to the two major groups of the Alliance and the Agreement, and its purpose is to abolish the treaty. And how to break the covenant? That is to participate in the war in Europe, to help one side win, and to abolish all unequal treaties.

In the pen of Huang Yuansheng. The purpose of the parade is actually to participate in the war. As soon as this statement came out, the country immediately boiled. Although China defeated Japan, it defeated Russia. However, the world's great powers do not completely treat China as a great power, but if China participates in the European war and helps one side win, then its international prestige and status will definitely surpass that of Japan and Russia and catch up with the United States.

In the world's conception, the order of the world's great powers is Britain first, then Germany, France, Austria and the United States, Russia and Japan. At the beginning, there is only this tail ......, some people think that Japan is stronger than Russia, and some people think that Russia is stronger than Japan. There are even some people who don't care about who is stronger in Japan and Russia, thinking that both of them are defeated by our Chinese men.

Huang Yuansheng mentioned participating in the war, in its current form, of course, it is to join the side of the Entente and not the Central Powers, if this is defeated, then China will be the fourth most powerful country in the world below Britain, France and the United States, and even some people think that France and the United States are not as good as China, and the former was greatly damaged in the war. Even if it is defeated, it will no longer be able to dominate the world; The latter, with a population of less than 100 million, is only a quarter of China's. From no glorious record, more trapped in a corner, there is no idea of dominating the world at all, so in the end. The literati actually deduced that 'I China' is the second great power in the world, which caused people at the time to be extremely excited.

Abolish the Old Testament, the second oldest in the world. These two temptations aroused the aspirations of countless people with lofty ideals like the radish of the donkey, in the newspapers, on the radio, in the letters and stamps sent to the Inspectorate, the Prime Minister's Office, and the Forbidden City. The call for joining the Entente became louder and louder, but the central officials said less and less about the European war, and it was only when the Prime Minister's Office announced that a military parade would be held on February 15 that the wave of participation in the war stopped a little.

On the eighth day of the first month of February, Huang Kan, a professor at Peking University who scolded Hu Shiqian Xuantong, who advocated vernacular Chinese, for 20 minutes and gave another 30 minutes of class, announced that he would leave class, but did not answer students' questions as before, but picked up the lecture notes, put his hands in his long shirt, and walked out of the campus step by step without taking a car. He went home to bathe, wash, change into official robes, and got into a soft sedan chair under the escort of a eunuch who had been waiting for a long time, and went to the Forbidden City on his own.

When Huang Kan arrived at the Yangxin Palace, Deng Shi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was already waiting for him, perhaps dissatisfied with him coming so late, Deng Shi said: "At this time, this matter, you can still put your mind at ease, and you will definitely come back after class." I'm Ji Gang, the military parade is a major event of the country, once there is a mistake, the uncle doesn't say it, you and I will be pointed at by a thousand people. ”

Zhang Taiyan's fracture does not heal every three or four months, although he can read and write now, but he can't speak, so the internal affairs of the Ministry of Rites are basically entrusted to Deng Shi, and Deng Shi is too busy to be alone, not only pulling Huang Jie, but also pulling Huang Kan.

"This military parade is completely different from the old system, what's wrong?" Huang Kan couldn't understand why Deng Shi always wanted to pull himself. In fact, this military parade is very simple, there are not as many rules as before, and Taiyan Shi has written it clearly, I don't know why Deng Shi is still not at ease.

"Hey......" Deng Shi was busy wiping his sweat, he smiled bitterly: "This matter is not a simple matter, if it is not done well, the prestige of the country in front of the foreigners will be lost, and I am a sinner in the world." Deng Shizheng was talking, but he heard the three rings of the whip, he and Huang Kan hurriedly had plastic surgery and bowed, this was Zhu Kuansu coming.

At this time, Zhu Kuanwei is no longer a little child, his son and daughter have been born in the past few years, and he is already like a father. Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs is focusing on promoting late marriage and late childbearing, and stipulates that men and women can only register their marriage at the age of 18, but this move has not been as good as the ban on foot binding - everyone may have a three long and two short, if you don't get married earlier and pass on the incense, will you wait for the late regret of something?

Zhu Kuanji, who has long been a family heirloom, has gradually become a man, although he is honored as the king of a country, but he is hollowed out, because others can start a business, but his business has nowhere to stand, and state affairs are all in charge of the prime minister, Taiwei, and Tingwei below the Inspectorate, and have nothing to do with him. Fortunately, the government allocated a lot of money to the royal family, and at the same time he was still the nominal emperor of China, and the credentials of those foreign envoys still had to be delivered to him, and he was asked to entertain guests at the minister-level banquets.

And then these honors can not fully satisfy the heart of the gradually maturing emperor, while abiding by his duty, the heart of worrying about the country and the people, and the heart of the king of the world are constantly eroding Zhu Kuanji's young soul. It made his still immature face appear with a layer of divine light, which was very dazzling.

"The two Aiqing are exempt." Zhu Kuansu smiled on his face. greeted Deng Shi and Huang Kan in an increasingly sophisticated tone, showing his majesty.

"Your Highness!" Deng Shi and Huang Kan bowed and thanked them. Only then did the tortuous body stand on its own.

"Fang Cai Bei Aiqing has introduced the process of the military parade, do you want to add the two Aiqing?" Pei Shoutong of the General Staff Department today took the time to enter the Forbidden City to introduce to Zhu Kuansu the process and slogans of the military parade; in a design similar to that of military parades in later generations, the chief's line 'good comrades' was changed to 'good soldiers,' and 'comrades have worked hard' was changed to 'the soldiers are fortunate,' while the soldiers' lines were changed from 'good chief' to 'long live Your Highness,' and 'serve the people' was changed to 'loyal to the country.'"

After these messy slogans were finished, the process of the military parade was still under the report and leadership of Pei Shoutong, chief of the general staff, and Zhu Kuansu rode a horse to inspect the officers and men of various units waiting on East Chang'an Avenue. Then return to the Chengtian Gate to watch the ceremony.

First of all, although the snow stopped and there was little rain in Beijing in February, the ancient parade was in autumn and winter, and there was never an early spring parade; Secondly, although the military parade was held in the city, it was a small parade, and the big parade was mostly held in the royal hunting ground, or in an open place. However, the current parade venue is the Heavenly Street in front of the Chengtian Gate, and although the Heavenly Street is expanded, it is still too narrow to review the troops, and the soldiers have no place to practice martial arts at all. Once the gun is fired, it will hurt the flowers and plants, which is really inconvenient.

The military parade in Yang Rui's heart and the military parade in ancient times are actually two kinds of rituals, and the former is just a formality. The people clapped their hands; The latter is not just a formality, but also a rehearsal. It was Huang Kan who said that this military parade was completely different from the old system. Now seeing Zhu Kuansu asking if there is anything to add, Deng Shi, who was caught by Zhu Kuanji's divine light, had a hot face. He bowed and said: "Go back to Your Highness, the day before the parade, please ask Your Highness to wear regular clothes and tell the inner hall to perform four bows, such as going out of the suburbs." On that day, he wore regular clothes and rode to Chengtianmen, and then went out to inspect the battalions, and then went to Chengtianmen to inspect the soldiers with envoys from various countries, representatives of the Inspectorate and state guests. ”

"No, the chariot has been changed to horseback riding." Zhu Kuansu looked at Bei Shoutong and said with a smile, "The regular uniform has also been changed, Pei Aiqing suggested that it is best to change to a military dress, Deng Aiqing thinks this is against the system?" ”

Somewhat puzzled, he glanced at Bei Shou, and Deng Shi nodded, "Back to Your Highness, it is not against the rules, and riding a horse in uniform is more heroic than riding a chariot." ”

"That's what I thought too." Zhu Kuansu suddenly smiled, he was holding the horsewhip in his hand at this time, and it seemed that he had already prepared.

After a brief conversation with Zhu Kuanji, Deng Shi and Huang Kan began to come to the Forbidden City for their real work, that is, to supervise and assist in the training of those eunuchs in the palace, so that they would not run out of place during the military parade; On the day of the parade, hundreds of representatives of the Inspectorate of Inspectors, envoys from various countries, and various guests will appear here.

After the inspection of Chengtianmen, the two of them went down to a layer of unstained Tianjie, and when they were about to go to the Qianbu Corridor to check, a deafening sound of the machine sounded, and the left gate of Chang'an, which was transformed into a movable wall, was starting a diesel engine, with the roar, the tall wall moved slowly, and the originally closed Tianjie suddenly opened an opening, and the north wind poured in at the same time, and the scenery outside was also faintly visible.

"It's a marine diesel engine, and the horsepower is said to be two thousand horsepower." Deng Shi was startled and introduced to Huang Kan, he looked at the moving left gate of Chang'an, and sighed a little, "In order to keep the Heavenly Street as it is, I really spent a lot of money." ”

Deng Shi sighed, Huang Kan did not speak, in his opinion, this military parade should have been in the Nanyuan campus, if it had to be moved to the city, then the cost of moving the wall was inevitable. "Brother Qiumei, I also promised to do the article, when will we finish it?"

The biggest thing Huang Kan did when he came to the Forbidden City was to write an essay on the Six Dynasties, but Deng Shi hoped that he could meet Zhu Kuansu and look up to Tianyan, but he didn't want him to be too interested.

"Okay, I'll go back right away." Inadvertently stepped on the royal road renovated with white marble, Deng Shi, who knew that Huang Kan was impatient, said with a smile. "However, you not only have to write articles, but you also have to go to Chengtianmen to watch the ceremony on the day of the parade."

"Brother Qiumei, I am timid by nature, and besides, this military parade is a military matter, I am a literati, and I am neither an official nor a parliamentarian, is it appropriate to participate in it?" Because he was not in public, Huang Kan, who had always been casual, put his hands in his sleeves and spoke out against it.

"You, others can't get on if they want to, it's good for you, and you're still pushing back." Deng Shi blamed, "This matter is decided by Uncle Mei, if you don't want to, then go and talk to Uncle Mei." ”

Huang Kan didn't want this matter to be decided by Zhang Taiyan, so he immediately pouted. Although Huang Maniac is not afraid of Zhang Maniac, but now Zhang Maniac is sick after all, if he provokes him to speak excitedly, the mandible injury really doesn't know when it will heal.

"Okay, Brother Qiumei, don't lift Uncle Mei to scare people, go back quickly, as soon as the street opens, it's just leaking everywhere, it's really cold to me." Huang Kan not only compromised, but also stamped his feet in the cold, only to provoke Deng Shi to laugh.

The weather in the capital at the beginning of February is only three or four degrees above zero, the north wind is whistling, and the snow seems to be colder than the moon in the moon; In Jinghe County, 2,700 kilometers away in the Western Regions, the temperature is not only the same cold, but also different from the capital in that the wind and sand are extremely strong when the snow melts, and sometimes the wind even exceeds level 8, and the yellow sand and mud rolled up cover half of the sky.

On the day that Lieutenant General Xu Jingxi arrived at Luntai, he encountered a wind and sand, but fortunately the airship had landed at this time, and the hull was also moored, so nothing major happened, but even so, Governor Yang Zengxin still pinched a cold sweat for him, so he was only willing to ride a horse for the more than 300 kilometers from Luntai to Jinghe, and was unwilling to ride an airship with him.

Jinghe was originally called Jinghe, only Jinghe Hall in the former Qing Dynasty, because it guards the main road from Luntai to Yili, it is the fence of the provincial capital, the gateway of Yili, and the county is set up after the opening of the country, and Fucheng is the county seat of Ding'an. The Western Regions are bounded by the Tianshan Mountains, the north is pasture and the south is cultivated, the north is the south of Mongolia, this Jinghe County is the old land of Mongolian tile thorns in the Ming Dynasty, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, one of its Dzungar rose, and the other part of the Turghut Department was driven to the Volga Valley (now the Republic of Kalmykia), dominating the Western Regions, and the Dzungar Khanate did not want to be destroyed by Qianlong, who was known as the perfect martial arts.

As soon as the Dzungar Khanate was gone, because of the long-term war, the power of the Mongols was greatly weakened, the Kazakhs were dominant, and the Turkut tribe, which had been moved to the Volga Valley for a century and a half, could not bear the blood tax of the tsar and hoped to return to the East. After contacting the Qing court, the first part of the Turghut returned thousands of miles east, wasted half a year's trip, and lost more than 100,000 people to return to Ili. However, the Qing court, which was worried that Turghat would become the second Dzungar Khanate, did not want the Turghat tribe to live in groups, so it was divided into four parts and placed separately, and this Jinghe was one of them.

The Mongolian people of Jinghe were originally a banner of the Turgot department, and they were an alliance of their own, led by the uncle of the Woba lineage, the leader of the Turgot, who returned to the east, and was named Dorobelle in the Qing Dynasty, and was given the name of Zilgarang and Zasak. Since the 36th year of Qianlong, there have been five generations and eleven Baylors. The founding of China, according to the new system, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was formerly known as the Ming system, and Jinghe was close to the border, so the old Gilga Lang Belle Norbo San Pile was actually promoted to the king of the county.

When Yang Zengxin and Xu Jingxi rushed to Jinghe, the king of Norbo Sanpil County was old and weak, so he had to let his son Daxi. Norbo and his confidant Blin Mengde together with Zhang Yingjie, the commander of Jinghe County, prepared to welcome Yang Zengxin and others in the suburbs, but this time Yang Zengxin and Xu Jingxi went to the Western Regions, which was extremely secret, and when they heard that the old county king had made this move, Peng Qingpeng, the commander of the 13th Army, was busy persuading people. You must know that the Turkestan governor on the opposite side, Kuropagent, is a well-known small man, and once he hears that the old county king has received people with great fanfare, the news of the attack will be fully revealed.

In order to keep it secret, Yang Zengxin, Xu Jingxi and his entourage only entered the 13th Army barracks in a dark evening, Peng Qingpeng and Yang Zengxin, who have been on the border for many years, have long been familiar with each other, as soon as Xu Jingxi, an old classmate, came, he hugged him and said loudly: "You little rabbit cub is finally here!" Lao Tzu has eaten sand for so many years, it is time to raise his eyebrows for a while. (To be continued......)