In 73 B.C., this is the name of the new emperor, and it is said that it was originally prepared for Liu He, but now it has been used by Liu Ai.Early in the morning, the princes set out from all the palace residences, followed the ceremonial officials, met in Weiyang Beique, and then went to the northern suburbs with the emperor who lived in a simple place.Liu Xu, as a close relative, got the favor of riding with the Son of Heaven, and he was also arrogant, and he didn't seem to regard himself as a participant, but as the protagonist.I don't have much respect for Liu Aiji's grandchildren, and I like to rely on the old and sell the old, and one mouth is: How was Emperor Xiaowu back then."
Since the second year of Tianhan, the Han Dynasty has not held a ceremony for more than 20 years, but unfortunately His Majesty was not born at that time, and he has never seen it."
Unlike those poor and ugly princes of the distant branches, Liu Xu, the king of Guangling, has seen big scenes.On the second day of the fourth month of the sixth year of Yuanzhen, he was canonized on the same day as his two elder brothers, Liu Hong, the king of Qi, and Liu Dan, the king of Yan.The grand ceremony was held in the high temple, all in accordance with the ancient rites of the Zhou Dynasty, the filial piety emperor each declared the precept with the customs of the land, and the book was hidden in duplicate in the vassal states and the Tianlu Pavilion, which can be described as incomparably beautiful.In the fourth year of Taichu, he was also summoned to the court with King Yan to participate in the triumphant Zhenlu ceremony of Li Guangli's return from Vawan.At that time, tens of thousands of people gathered in the northern suburbs of Chang'an, and hundreds of officials and ministers came to more than 600 stones, and the barbarian envoys were also invited to watch, and the people of Chang'an were even more lively in three circles outside the three circles.On the same day, Emperor Xiaowu announced that the scholars were the masters, and the king's head was captured, and the treasures were all displayed in the que, so that Li Guangli offered the head of the king of Wan, and he sued the temple, and the soldiers gave him 40,000 yuan.There was also a game in the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, where 30,000 generals of the Second Division rode out of Jiuquan, fought with the Right Xian King in the Tianshan Mountains, and beheaded more than 10,000 captives, but they won first and then lost, and the killing and wounding were not as good as the losses.Li Ling's side also beheaded more than 10,000 captives with 5,000 foot soldiers, but it was a pity that he was defeated and surrendered.However, Emperor Xiaowu still forced the second division to perform the gift of revitalizing the brigade, and preached to the outside world that it was also a great victory for the Han army and a fiasco for the Xiongnu, so as to cover up the ugliness of the battle.Liu Xu was talking to Liu Ai about the two celebrations along the way, and Liu Ai was just smiling and not saying a word.I thought that no matter how grand the Zhenlu was today, it couldn't compare to those two, but when the car drove out of Chang'an City, Liu Xu was stunned to find that the snow-swept open spaces in the northern suburbs had become a sea of expeditionary soldiers.In order to ensure that the abolition of the emperor was in good condition, Huo Guang ordered Tian Guangming to take the 30,000 people from Tian Shun to Guanzhong for winter food, and they were stationed in the periphery, and they happened to be pulled out today.Although the two armies basically did not reap the merits of war, and they were mainly ordinary conscripts, and their quality was not high, after all, they were field armies that had been out of the jam, and it was still okay to put on a show.The array of various parts is orderly, one phalanx after another, paving the gap between Weishui and Chang'an.If the two armies can only be filled, then the colonels of the Northern Army are naked showing off their strength.Tun Cavalry, Yue Cavalry, Changshui, Hu Cavalry, add up to only three or four thousand, but they are all elite knights, and under the crotch is a dragon horse mixed with Hequ horse and Dawan horse.The infantry, the Shooter, and the Tiger Colonel, on the other hand, were mainly infantrymen, or wore heavy iron armor, straight-edged ring-headed knives with black scabbards, or carried heavy crossbows on their backs.It can really be said that he was straddled by the light armor and crossed the horse, wielding a long halberd and a strong crossbow.In Liu Xu's view, this momentum is no less than the triumphal ceremony of Zhang Luo, the fourth year of the beginning of Taichu, when Xiaowu exhausted the treasury.Looking at the left and right, all the existing princes of the Han Dynasty have arrived, such as the king of Hejian, the king of Guangchuan, the king of Changsha, the king of Qinghe, the king of Zichuan, the king of Surabaya, and the king of Chu, some of them are seventy or eighty years old and gray-haired, and some are only ten years old and have immature faces, but they are all shocked by this scene.The unambitious faces were happy to feel that there was a big excitement to watch, and the ambitious princes had a reassessment of Chang'an's strength.Even Liu Xu had to admit in his heart: "Compared with the six counties in Guangling District, such as ants and rhinos." ”Now his head was not so high, he shrank silently, took a step back in the car, and gave up the C position to the emperor, but Liu Yi had never said a word, but in fact, it was difficult to hide his excitement.I still remember that half a year ago, when the five generals sent to Chang'an, he didn't even have the qualifications to watch the ceremony, so he reported directly to the army, but today, he is the nominal host of this unprecedented ceremony.The ups and downs of fate are nothing more than this, to be honest, he even felt some gratitude to Huo Guang, the general who greeted him.In addition to the princes and ministers, there is another group of people present today, and that is Siyi.There are Guiyi marquis who surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and the Hun Huhou has been in the Han Dynasty for decades, and they are basically sinicized.The Qiang marquis had just come from the Jincheng vassal country, such as Burndang, and they were talking and laughing with others before, but now they were shocked by the powerful Han army and were silent, and stood aside obediently.Burn Dang completely believed: "It seems that what the Jincheng Han official said is right, the army used by the Han to fight Xiqiang is just a drop in the bucket." ”There is also a group of "Dongyi" envoys, last year, in order to make up for the vacancy in the east on Ren Hong's map, the general sent the envoy Lu Jia of the subject country to explore Buyeo, Wofu, Sanhan, and Wadao.Sanhan Buyeo and others are close to the four counties, and they are familiar with the road of tribute, and Wajima is the first contact.The Han envoys landed smoothly and found that the local area was divided into many small countries, and the customs were similar to Baiyue, and there were different classes in the country, such as kings, doctors, lower households, and shengkou, in fact, they were small tribes, many tens of thousands, and few thousands, who already knew how to use bronze, and a few even had iron tools.At the beginning, there was a small country that robbed the Han envoy Lujia, but the Han envoy took more than 100 armor soldiers to follow, and destroyed the two "countries" in one go, so the Japanese people were afraid and expressed their willingness to surrender to the Han Dynasty.It happened that Lu Jia heard that the Han Dynasty had changed the Son of Heaven, and it was expected that there would be a great court meeting to change the Yuan, and it would definitely need to be supported by the state at that time!
He took matters into his own hands, and after turning around, he brought envoys from the 46 "countries" of Wajima, and on the way, he brought envoys from 54 countries, including Ma Han, Chenhan, and Benchenfan, a total of 100 "countries" to the court, which was so vast that the barbarian mansion could not squeeze in.When the results arrived, it was found that the emperor had changed again.The envoys of Sanhan and Wajima either wore leather clothes, cloth robes and straw shoes, and wore peculiar clothes and hairstyles, and these Japanese people, who were still in the early Yayoi period, only had villages and no castles.Since stepping on the land of the Han Dynasty, the village chiefs have not stopped being surprised, and when they came to Chang'an, they seemed to have arrived in the city of dreams, and they were obsessed, and now they were even more frightened by the Han army and prostrate on the ground.Compared with them, on the contrary, the envoy from the southwest Yi side was much calmer, after all, he had earlier contact with Han, and he no longer had Yelang's arrogant mentality, and even the King of Dian and Yelang had been canceled and turned into counties.Now the largest in the southwest is the king of Jumachi, Jumachi has helped Tian Guangming to quell the rebellion in Yunnan, the Han army in the southwest mountains and jungles are unfavorable, just start the fight and die a lot of diseases, it seems not to be strong.It can be seen that today's scene, after the envoy of Jumachi decided to go back, he strongly persuaded the king of Jumachi to be a prince of the Han Dynasty, and not to follow in the footsteps of Queen Yelang.Among the foreign princes, the closest to the emperor's car were the most favored states of the Western Regions.Other friendly countries came as envoys, but the Western Regions were visited by the kings, and the specifications were naturally different.Headed by the Shanshan Wang Wei Tu Qi who is committed to the Han Dynasty, the Western Regions have gathered thirty-six countries neatly this time, needless to say the states of the north and south, after the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, Fu Jiezi cleaned up and obeyed, who is not honest, the head has the opportunity to go to the North Que.Even the chariot division, Yanqi, and Wei Su, who had just been subdued by the Han army, were also "persuaded" by the Han envoy and personally came to Chang'an to pay homage to the emperor and ask the Son of Heaven to give him a seal.At present, all the kings are secretly glad that they are here, fortunately, otherwise when the spring is warm, these powerful armies, the soldiers are probably pointing at themselves.However, the leader of Shanshan Wang Wei Tu Qi was proud, the red and yellow flag of the Han family fluttering in the wind made him burst into tears, and the armies of all walks of life like mountains and forests made him can't help but touch the left side of his chest, feel the violent heartbeat, only hold his head high, and say to the kings of the Western Regions around him: "Look, this is the power of my heavenly Han!"
”On the Hengmen of Chang'an, there is also a group of people who are busy, the wide and plain white silk is spread out on the wooden frame, the screen is used to block the cold wind at the head of the city, the pigment is warmed with soup water to avoid freezing, and the "painting workers" who are affiliated with the book in Shaofu are busy depicting the scene they see on the silk.The Han Dynasty's painting is skilled, they created the Mawangdui those beautiful, imaginary magnificent silk paintings, and there are wall painters to carve these paintings to the wall, mostly for the "carriage and horse travel" picture "drawing".As a court decoration, or for the nobles to bring to the tombs, those Han tomb murals are still difficult to erase even after 2,000 years.But today, Shaofu issued an errand to ask all excellent painters to cooperate: to draw the first year of the New Year's Day Zhenlu ceremony!
This military parade is the embodiment of the achievements of the general Huo Guang in power for 14 years, and it is also a demonstration of the princes and the four yi, marking the great revival of the Han Dynasty since the decline of the late Xiaowu period.Because the scene is so big, all the painters have to divide the work, and one person paints a part.The greatest responsibility is to depict the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven's car driving the Yellow House Zuoxu, the pure white spirit of the six horses, the west facing the east, the painter to show the emperor's youth and slenderness, big Qiu and crown.King Guangling, who was in the same car with him, erased it for the time being and moved it to another position, anyway, he was not important.And located next to the Son of Heaven, is the general Huo Guang, although the general is short, but here can not be realistically reflected, the painter with a high exaggerated crown to highlight his existence, holding a snake sword, standing on the right side of the Son of Heaven, the position is slightly higher than the Son of Heaven, don't look at them do not learn the Confucian scriptures, but the painter will also look at the situation, understand the Spring and Autumn brushwork!
The two occupy the central position of the entire silk painting, as for the princes and kings, hundreds of officials and marquis, etc.The blank space on the periphery is filled by the kings, marquis, and envoys of the Siyi domain, with different shapes, wearing the characteristics of their respective states to serve, and even artistic processing, so that they can hold them in their hands, with special products on their heads, leading camels, holding peacocks, carrying grapes, and the appearance is exaggerated, and the shape is like a monkey and surrounds Siyi, which is the long Ge long halberd of the Han soldiers, sandwiched on both sides of the avenue.In the painting, Siyi looked at the emperor, his body was prostrate and bent, while the emperor and the general Guang were facing the west, waiting for the last part of today's Zhenlu ceremony to appear, and the painters specially left blank.Ren Hong had obviously returned to Chang'an, and in order to take care of this ceremony, he had to go out more than ten miles and re-enter with the team.As a representative of the Pu Army, Xiliang Tieqi temporarily changed his clothes and wore brand-new armor that was transported out of the warehouse of Chang'an Mansion and had a slight smell of lacquer.The envoys of the Western Regions stood on tiptoe and could see from a distance that the knights were all wearing red cherry blossom shackles, and the foot soldiers were wearing black Liangdang armor, all wearing crimson battle robes and holding iron halberds.It can really be described as Xuanjia Yao Sun, Zhu Qi is in the sky, the halberd is like a forest, and the horse is like a dragon.The most distinctive thing is their war horses, all of which are draped in bright horse armor with tiger stripes, seeing this scene, the Guiyi Marquis of Xiqiang can't help but think of the fear of being dominated by the "Tiger of the River".When you get closer, you can see the details of the different parts of this army more clearly.For example, in Zhao Han'er's Hexi Qu, some people carried a pickaxe with a crane beak and a rope hanging on their shoulders, which made the face of Lao Wang, the charioteer who was captured by them flying on the wall, twitch.The exaggerated horned helmet worn by Han Dangdang on the head of some of his subordinates made King Yanqi cry.Marquis Ren is really a military parade in front of him.And Ren Hong, who took the lead, also put on a striking red coat today, and was galloping with everyone to escort Zhao Chongguo and Han Zeng to the group of Xiongnu nobles who were captured and sent back, and walked slowly towards the Tianzi chariot.Seeing the "Ren" flag, Liu Yi was slightly relieved, stood up straight, and the triumphant song that was to be played later was specially selected by him.The general Huo Guang had a solemn face and didn't know what to think, or thought that his brother had also enjoyed this reputation after the battles of Hexi and Mobei.The painter at the head of Chang'an City smiled, roasted his red hands in front of the charcoal basin, closed his eyes and thought about it, held a paintbrush, sketched a little bit, and let this scene freeze on the silk.In the future, it will be carved little by little, carved into the brick wall, and will remain forever.The painter first drew an unknown war horse that was not a radish, with its head and tail raised and its right front leg raised in a walking shape.The Xi'an Hou Renhong on it took off his helmet, tied his hair in a high bun, wore a dark iron coat, thick and colorful, and the red big coat behind him was blown by the wind, accompanied by snowflakes, and flew out far, far away!
At this moment, Ren Hong became the third protagonist on the screen in addition to the general and the Son of Heaven!
Ren Hong didn't seem to be so conscious, but when he was about to arrive, he gave orders and asked everyone under his command to shout the slogan agreed in advance, and he wanted to let the old general Zhao Chongguo, who was not here, be the protagonist.Accompanied by the Hengmen drumming that hundreds of musicians from Taile and Shanglin Yuefu began to play, thousands of Xiliang Iron Riders sang and shouted in unison: "The general has three arrows to set the Tianshan Mountain, and the strong man has a long song to enter the Han Pass!"
”PS: Tomorrow to end this volume.