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The New Year has arrived, according to the current custom, since the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month of the previous year, after the stove, each family has to steam dim sum and reserve meat for the expenses of one or twenty days during the Spring Festival.

At the end of the 30th year, they began to greet each other, which is called "farewell to the old year". Drink and munch and drum music to celebrate.

Next to the door, the peach charm board, the general charcoal, paste the door god, and hang the god of fortune, the ghost judgment, Zhong Kui and other paintings indoors. On the bed, hang the eight treasures of gold and silver, the prayer wheel of the western fan, or weave yellow money like a dragon. The turret is planted with sesame stalks, and the cypress branches and firewood are burned in the courtyard, which is called "the year of the year".

From the twilight of the year and the beginning of the New Year, people wear "moths" on their heads, which are cut out of black gold paper and painted with colors.

Or use grass insects and butterflies to the head to respond to the festival scene. Some wear small gourds, which are only as big as peas, called "grass gold", and the two pieces are worth two or three taels of silver.

The royal mansion is no exception, Yang Zhi is busy, although the king of Qin has not yet ascended the throne and claimed the emperor, and his speech is as simple as possible, but as the queen Yang Zhi, there is still little free, on the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, from morning to noon, before handling the affairs of the mansion.

There are hundreds of plays in the market and not to mention, there are a lot of entertainment in the inner courtyard of each house, there are cockfighting, chess, pitching, juju, playing liquor licenses, playing horse hanging, playing double land, kicking shuttlecock, and flying kites;

Qiao'er is active and likes to fly kites, Qin Ye loves to follow her, surrounded by several maids, and laughter in the yard comes from time to time.

When she was having fun, Qiao'er also sang a small song: "Kite, the important thing is a thousand-foot line, it is light and thin, it is fluttering, and I am not afraid that you will go to the sky." A thread, a paragraph, hold you around and wrap around. It's not that I don't let go, when you let go, you won't go back, and after listening to your wind, I will make up your high and low and near and far"

This kind of popular little song was not made up by Qin Mu. It was Feng Menglong who compiled the lyrics in the folk song collection "Hanging Branches", and Qiao'er likes to read books such as "The Surprise of the First Moment" and "Hanging Branches", which have a strong market color;

Of course, not only she likes it, but ordinary people also like it very much, and there are many people who make a living by writing lyrics and songs and writing novels.

Qin Mu sat in the flower hall, watching Gu Hanyan and Li Xiangjun compete in the pitching pot, and asked Han Zanzhou casually: "Old Han, what are the joys of the Ming Emperor in the past for the New Year?" ”

"Back to King Qin. The Emperor Chongzhen that the slaves saw had been diligent and frugal since he ascended the throne, and in retrospect, there really wasn't much to enjoy. However, there were many Ming emperors in the past, and the emperors had different personalities and acted differently. Like Emperor Yongle who fought for half his life, his favorite was hunting. ”

Han Zanzhou is a person with a heart, Qin Mu has personally fought in battle over the years, and Emperor Yongle can be regarded as an emperor immediately, so he singled out Emperor Yongle.

"The minion remembers that the palace contained a hunt in March of the nineteenth year of Yongle. Those hunts were held in Huailai, north of Yanjing, with unprecedented pomp and circumstance, with a total of 100,000 troops. ”

"A hunting army of 100,000?" Han Zanzhou's words made Qin Mu feel a little incredible, the Yongle Emperor really didn't cover it. Maybe the entire Ming Dynasty, only the national strength of the Yongle period, can afford him to do this.

Han Zanzhou saw that Qin Mu's interest was aroused, and hurriedly continued: "Yes." King Qin, there is a clear record in the palace that the hunt lasted a month before it ended. A total of 100,000 troops were dispatched.

At that time, for this hunt, Emperor Yongle carefully selected the elite of the five military camps, three thousand battalions, and Shenji battalions of the Gyeonggi Army, and successively practiced the outflanking of the Ming cavalry, the infantry array, and the combined attack of infantry and cavalry;

Coyote soldiers and white-pole soldiers were also transferred from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan to practice infantry crossbow salvo fire and spear infantry assassination. At that time, the envoys of various countries who watched together were shocked, especially the firearms drill of the Shenji Battalion, and the display of many firearms such as tiger cannons, swarms of bees, and fire dragon cars, which opened the eyes of the envoys of various countries and amazed them. ”

"Envoys?" Qin Mu muttered to himself, it sounded like Emperor Yongle's large-scale hunt was more like a military parade, "I want to come to Emperor Yongle to work so hard, not just for his own fun, right?" ”

According to the minions, because the Ming Dynasty was established by overthrowing the Meng Yuan, a large number of Mongolian and Hui officials who had served in the Meng Yuan Dynasty were exiled to the countries of the Western Regions, and they desperately encouraged the monarchs of the countries where they were located to adopt a hostile attitude towards the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Ming army was far from reaching the Western Regions and the river, and the kings of those small countries in the Western Regions also had doubts about the military strength of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, in order to declare the national strength and military prestige of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Yongle carefully held this grand hunting event.

From the sixteenth year of Yongle, Emperor Yongle took Chen Cheng as an envoy to the Western Regions and Hezhong, and invited the monarchs of those small countries to send a delegation to visit with the Ming mission.

In July of the eighteenth year of Yongle, a delegation of 600 people from 20 small countries gathered arrived at Jiayuguan, and the Yongle Emperor also specially sent 6,000 elite cavalry to escort them all the way along Jiayuguan through the Jiubian military town to watch. The strong military strength of the Nine Border Military Town also left a deep impression on the hearts of the envoys of various countries.

In November, the envoys of various countries arrived in the capital, and the Yongle Emperor received the envoys of various countries in the imperial palace, and all the envoys bowed, but the envoys of Timur insisted on bowing, but the Yongle Emperor did not care. Two months later, the missions of various countries received a notice that the Ming Emperor would begin a grand hunt around Beijing, inviting them to visit.

This grand hunt lasted for a whole month, and the national policy of the Ming army's prestige and good-neighborliness and friendship caused great repercussions in various countries. After that, the friendly relations between the Western Regions countries and the Ming Dynasty continued until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Timurid Empire alone sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty more than 60 times. ”

Han Zanzhou's words caused a great shock to Qin Mu. As a latecomer, Qin Mu suddenly despised himself a little, why didn't he even think of a military parade.

Emperor Yongle's grand hunt was really a military parade, as a show of force, and in this way he surrendered without a fight.

This is much less labor-saving than sending hundreds of thousands of troops on an expedition, and the effect is not necessarily much worse.

It is true that the current Great Qin has achieved great victories, but these great victories are relatively abstract for those who have not been to the battlefield, they only know that Oh, Daqin has won another battle, that's all.

Even those who have experienced a certain war often only know a one-sided view of Great Qin's strength, and how to comprehensively display the overall strength of Great Qin and the power of various weapons is only through this large-scale form of "hunting".

So far, although Great Qin has repeatedly achieved great victories, due to its relatively rapid rise, not to mention the surrounding small countries, even "warlords" like Zheng Zhilong are also in a position to surrender unwillingly. That's telling.

You rise too fast, some of them don't know the Tao at all, and some of them know the Tao and have doubts about you, for fear that you will be happy and angry, and you will be defeated suddenly;

In short, the rapid rise often means that there is a huge gap between hard power and soft power, and if you want others to be convinced, in addition to hard power, soft power is essential.

The military parade can be regarded as a peaceful way to show their hard power, and with some supplements, then it becomes a display of both soft and hard strength.

Qin Mu thought about it for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he needed to have a large-scale hunt to further boost morale internally and enhance the cohesion of the people. Externally, show the military might of Great Qin as a whole and deter the hostile forces.

"Old Han, yes, yes, what you said today is very interesting, there is a reward!"

"Thank you, King Qin."

Qin Mu secretly decided that he would immediately send envoys to visit the surrounding countries after the Chinese New Year, and it would take a few months to go back and forth, and then the palace would be completed, and at that time, he would also have a grand military parade.

Well, you have to read more history books, there are too many things to learn from history, and a person who lacks historical knowledge can be said to be superficial.

At this time, Li Xiangjun and Gu Hanyan's pot throwing competition had just ended, the two of them each threw ten arrows, Li Xiangjun won Gu Hanyan's three arrows, and said happily: "Sister Hanyan, I am willing to lose the bet, and the "Green Landscape Map" you embroidered can belong to me." ”

When Qin Mu heard this, it turned out that the two of them had even gambled.

The "Green Landscape Map" embroidered by Gu Hanyan took several months to embroider, and it was lost. Qin Mu was heartbroken when he heard this, and he also liked the picture very much, so he stepped forward and hugged Li Xiangjun and said: "You, you know that Lu Dao bullied Hanyan, I'll come, let's have a game, I won the painting and embroidered it to me." ”

Li Xiangjun was wearing an apricot-colored embroidered brocade dress, petite and exquisite, pretty and shining, and after listening to Qin Mu's words, he said with disgust: "King Qin is the most eccentric, and he protects his sister with smoke every time, so people don't compare with you." ”

Gu Hanyan was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and said, "If King Qin likes it, the slave will embroider another one for King Qin." ”

Qin Muha smiled, leaned into her ear and whispered: "Hanyan, can you embroider a painting of Tang Bohu's Spring Palace for me?"

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(To be continued......)