Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 595 Failed military parade?
During the time when Wan Guo came to court, the Ministry of Rites was very busy, and apart from the Ministry of Rites, the busiest place was actually the Heaven and Earth in Pingkang Square. The running water actually exceeded [-] guan.

These royal families from outside may be the first time they have come into contact with such an exciting way of gambling. Good guy, they throw a lot of money in the sky and the world every day, and they all look like they don't care.

Also because of this, Li Mingda's heaven and earth are making great progress every day, and Li Mingda's little guy is really happy every day.

Of course, there are royal families who are making big bets, and there are also royal families who are working hard for their own kingdoms, such as Zhu Hong, the third prince of Goguryeo. Zhu Hong is a bit of a bitter person, Zhu Hong has given away a lot of money, but those officials in Chang'an are all arguing with Zhu Hongxu.

None of these Chang'an officials made any substantive promises to Zhu Hong, but only gave some vague promises after receiving the gift, which made Zhu Hong a little dissatisfied. He can hardly touch those high-ranking ones.

This made Zhu Hong a little discouraged, but fortunately, there was a teacher beside Zhu Hong to cheer him up, otherwise Zhu Hong would have been discouraged.

About two days later, Li Shimin announced to the envoys of all nations that Datang Hubenwei would stage a military parade for all envoys. After hearing Li Shimin's military parade, the envoys all understood that this was Li Shimin wanting to show them their muscles. It's about deterring them.

It seems that during the Sui Dynasty, their ancestors also saw the so-called military parade.

The military parade was magnificent, and I even saw Yang Guang’s moving palace. What is a moving palace is actually a literal meaning. In the third year of Sui Daye, Yang Guang got tired of staying in the palace and wanted to go to the border of Yulin to have a look. .But when the Son of Heaven went on tour, he went to the border again, which was naturally unusual.In the Sui Dynasty at that time, no one dared to speak out against the emperor's behavior. Basically, he was lawless and could do whatever he wanted; wherever he thought of, he would go there.

Relevant personnel went on tour for Yang Guang and quickly got ready.A few months ago, Yang Guang ordered Yu Wenkai to go on a tour of Yulin for him, "to prepare for the construction of Guanfengxing Palace."

According to Yang Guang's wishes, Yu Wenkai wanted to build a walking and moving palace.After receiving the order, Yu Wenkai did not dare to neglect, so he recruited skilled craftsmen from all over the world, using wood as the main raw material, and built a mobile palace with a circumference of 2000 steps and a height of tens of meters.

This large mobile palace is assembled from several parts that can be disassembled. There are many axles at the bottom of the palace, so the palace can move back and forth, left and right.The outer walls around the palace are surrounded by curtains, which made the painter draw many exquisite pictures.

Above the palace, it can accommodate hundreds of people.

"Zizhi Tongjian" records: "Yu Wenkai built the Guanfengxing Palace, and there are hundreds of people waiting for the guards on the top. They are separated and reunited, and the axles are used on the bottom. They are pushed suddenly, and they are also used as a walking city, with a thousand steps on Tuesday."

Three steps are equivalent to two meters. Emperor Sui Yang's mobile palace has a circumference of 1300 steps, which is about 500 meters, while the circumference of the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt is only about [-] meters. The Pyramid of Hufu is much larger. If it is preserved until now, it may be another great miracle in the world.

After Yang Guang arrived in Yulin, he quickly assembled a tall and spectacular "moving" city on the prairie of Yulin. Yang Guang stood at the top of this moving city, reviewing the great Sui Dynasty dynasty with incomparable grandeur. border force.

A huge "walking city" suddenly stands in front of the Hu people in the north.

In northern China, some tribes who were not willing to submit to the Great Sui were so frightened that they hurriedly "received their tents and waited for them." Qimin Khan, the most powerful Tuque tribe in northern China, also ran to Emperor Yangdi, begging for peace and mercy. .

Seeing Qimin Khan came, Emperor Yang was overjoyed and composed an impromptu poem. Then Yang Guang was complacent, thinking that compared with Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty, Yang Guang just built a mobile palace and inspected the army once. , let the Hu people kneel, he began to think that he was ten times stronger than Liu Bang, so he asked confidently: "How do I compare with the emperor of Han?"

Liu Bang was only on Shan Yutai in the air, and was almost captured alive. Yang Guangdong built a mobile palace, inspected the border troops, and made the northern Hu people surrender. It is also a bullshit, but Yang Guang’s fate is much worse than Liu Bang’s. , and worse than all the emperors of the Han Dynasty. After the death of the Han Dynasty, the emperor who was posthumously named "Emperor Yang" only had a two-year-old little emperor Liu Long, but Liu Longzhi "Yang" (meaning disaster to the country and the people) was a minister and Yang Guang's "Yang" is the result of tossing about each other's relatives.

At this moment, I didn't expect that these younger generations were also lucky enough to see Datang's military parade performance, so what kind of Datang's military parade performance was it?

The day before the military parade, Li You began to burn incense and pray.

Get up early on the day of the military parade, Baiqi and bad people first send troops to clean up the teaching ground, that is, to implement safety protection measures in case the emperor has any accidents.

After the security check, Tang officials, envoys from all countries, and Baiqi first entered Suzaku Gate and waited for Li Shimin there. After all, the leader always appeared last.

However, this time he was in the palace, so it wasn't so strong. Li Shimin strode out of the palace. After seeing Li Shimin, everyone at the Suzaku Gate bowed to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin smiled slightly and waved his hands, but let everyone look under the Zhuque Tower. At this time, when everything was in order, the Minister of War asked Li Shimin: "Please review the formation." After Li Shimin signaled, three cannons were fired. The parade is just the beginning.

In ancient military parades, armor was usually worn to look mighty, but Li You did not wear armor in this military parade, because the armor was too heavy to perform in line, so Li You's military parade performance was a black armed police uniform.

There is also the color of the military uniform, which has always been a scenery on the military parade.In ancient times, there were red military uniforms, white military uniforms, black military uniforms, yellow military uniforms, purple military uniforms, etc. Modern popular green military uniforms are quite rare.

For example, the military uniforms of the Wei and Jin Dynasties were mainly yellow and white, the military uniforms of the Tang Dynasty were black, red, white, purple and other colors, and the military uniforms of the Qing Dynasty were mainly azurite and blue.Relatively speaking, the military uniforms of the Song and Yuan dynasties are the most colorful, while the Han and Ming dynasties advocated red, and the military uniforms were mainly red. The scene of the military parade in those days was mostly a "sea of ​​red".

Li You's military uniform is black, all black, solemn, solemn, and deterrent!

Just when Li Shimin signaled the start of the military parade performance, on Zhuque Street, he suddenly remembered the Qin King's Breaking the Array.One of the most famous cabaret.

It is a symbol of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, with extraordinary momentum.

In the music of "The Music of the King of Qin Breaking the Array", fifteen Tiger and Benwei phalanx came out. At first, the envoys of all nations and the famous families of Suzaku were a little surprised, because this military parade performance was a bit silly.

Why do you say it is stupid, because the fifteen phalanxes walked over slowly, without any other feeling, very ordinary, you must know that the military parade in the Sui Dynasty was tens of thousands of people, and the fifteen square formations at this time I don't know how much more majestic the phalanx is. Your fifteen phalanxes are slowly walking over. What the hell is that?

But don't say it, you're walking pretty well.

"Hehe. What is this?" Suddenly, an envoy chuckled softly, and this chuckle was also ridiculed by many people.

These slight mocking voices made many officials of Datang blushed slightly, because these officials of Datang also felt that the military parade of the Tiger Benwei was indeed too bad, and they walked quite neatly, but Qi There is a fart, isn't it just walking, who can't.

"What's the situation?"

Soon, the ministers were not calm anymore, and started whispering one after another. These people couldn't figure it out, could it be that this was the military parade performed by King Hu Benwei of Qi? up.

Just when everyone was very surprised and amazed, suddenly, warm cheers erupted from Suzaku Street, and these cheers were the cheers of the common people, because there were their sons, grandsons, elder brothers, and uncles in the phalanx of the military parade. , brother. As soon as the phalanx reached the top of Suzaku Street, cheers rang out. After fifteen phalanxes walked to Suzaku Street, they stopped slowly. 200 meters.

Following the end of the Qin King's breaking formation music, the cheers on Suzaku Avenue were instantly annihilated!

After cheering for an hour, at the Suzaku gate, in the area where the prince and princess stayed, a 'puchi' sound was heard, followed by a contemptuous laugh, followed by Gao Yang's mocking voice: "No more It's over. This is Huben Guard's military parade. It's really ridiculous. King Qi is deliberately humiliating us Datang.

Hey. Look, the faces of those envoys and ministers are almost all green. What kind of military parade is this? "

Gao Yang's voice also aroused the laughter of some princes and princesses. After Gao Yang finished speaking, Li Mingda's face was downcast. However, she did not fight with Gao Yang, because Li Mingda knew that the tiger ben trained by his fourth brother Wei is not so ordinary, even if Li Mingda doesn't know what's behind, but Li Mingda believes that his fifth brother's Huben Wei will make everyone's eyes drop in shock today.

"Si...!" Princess Changle looked at Li Mingda worriedly.

Instead, Li Mingda patted Princess Changle's hand and said, "Sister Changle, don't worry, Fifth Brother will not let us down."

As soon as Li Mingda finished speaking, he saw five horses coming from the other side of Zhuque Street, and Li You was among them on top of the five horses running.

(End of this chapter)