A Clash of Gods - Chapter 1081

[Chapter 1071 Jinghong]

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On the sixth day of September in the second year of Longtai, it was the day of Pinglin’s autumn hunting.

Qi Ning had been arguing about how many officials were accompanying him this time, and who would be accompanying him. It was only after he set off that he found that the accompanying officials seemed to be a lot more than he expected.

Except for some old civil servants, such as Yuan Lao Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, it is really inconvenient to hunt on horseback, and most of the officials who can go to the temple are accompanied by a car.

Qi Ning thought about it carefully, but he was relieved.

This time, the autumn hunting of Pinglin is of course a strong morale, but it is also an opportunity to show the emperor’s prestige. After Longtai ascended the throne, there is no real time to show the emperor’s prestige to the officials. Since there is an opportunity for the autumn hunting, he will naturally not miss it.

Emperor Qiu Hunting, the dragon flag is naturally played.

On the very wide streets, flags fluttered, covering the sky and the sun.

At the forefront is a team of Royal Guards cavalry, all of which are iron-clad and cold, and extremely majestic. At the front is Chi Fengdian, the commander of the Guards, with heavy armor. A cavalry next to him holds a dragon flag high, and behind the Guards cavalry, there is another team with long shoulders. The cavalry of the bow also came from the Guards.

Although the number of the Guards is not large, they are divided into cavalry and archers. In fact, the guards are good at riding and shooting. The cavalry can shoot arrows, and the archers can also ride horses.

This time the emperor went hunting, mobilized 500 elites from the guards, and 500 cavalry from each of the Tiger God and Xuanwu battalions, plus the officials who accompanied him and the eunuchs who served, the mighty team was no less than 2,000. All of them, a group of people walked through the street, but they were also majestic. The soldiers and horses of the Tiger God Camp had already formed a human wall on both sides. The people were watching the emperor in two columns. fell to the ground.

The team marched quite slowly, which was also what Longtai did intentionally, to show the majesty of the emperor in front of the people.

Longtai was surrounded by a group of cavalry, dressed in golden armor, wearing a golden helmet, and wearing a sword of the emperor on his waist. Although he was young, he rode on a tall horse, but he was valiant and full of majesty.

The emperor hunts and shows his martial arts, and naturally he will not travel by dragon carriage.

Qi Ning rode on the horse and looked at the people kneeling on the ground respectfully on both sides. The sun was shining brightly, shining on the emperor’s golden armor, shining with golden brilliance, like a god descending to the earth. Through the golden light, Qi Ning saw Longtai standing tall and straight. Can not help feeling.

Under the awe-inspiring eyes of the people, the team finally left the capital and headed southwest.

Pinglin is a royal hunting ground, only a few dozen miles away from the capital. There are officers and soldiers guarding it on weekdays. For this reason, there is a special military town on the edge of Pinglin, and the officers and soldiers guarding Pinglin are stationed in the town.

It was already autumn, the sky was high and the air was fresh. From the emperor to the soldiers, they all rode on horseback, so the road to Pinglin did not take too long. At noon, Qi Ning could see the endless hunting ground in the distance. , before the late autumn, the trees are lush and green, which makes people look open.

Before Qi Ning set off, he also inquired about it. Emperor Qiu Shou was not just hunting with a group of courtiers.

The Son of Heaven has his own way of hunting.

According to the rules, the first two days are actually led by the courtiers to hunt, and the emperor sits in the town, and the winner is judged by the prey harvested by the courtiers, and the emperor will personally decree the award.

Generally speaking, if the emperor has a prince, the prince will hunt on the first day, and if there is no prince, he will hunt with a general.

However, on the day of arrival, it is necessary to perform sacrifices first, all things have spirits, heaven and earth follow the usual, up to the Son of Heaven, down to the common people, and all things in heaven and earth must be in awe.

When the emperor arrived, the Pinglin guards had already set up sentries on all sides of Pinglin. The emperor hunted, no trivial matter, and idlers were naturally not allowed to approach. Moreover, this autumn hunting in Pinglin was not a secret matter, and the streets and alleys of the capital were full of people. As we all know, no one can guarantee that someone will take the opportunity to sneak into the Pinglin, intending to be delinquent to the monarch and ministers, so after the Pinglin Qiu Hunting date is determined, the Pinglin guards have already cleaned the Pinglin carpet several times to ensure that the hunting area is safe. Sentries were set up around Hirabayashi, and there were cavalry patrolling around Hirabayashi almost all the time.

As a royal hunting place, the area of Pinglin is naturally not small. The deep forest is dense, and many animals are kept in it for the emperor’s hunting. After all, no matter what the emperor came to Pinglin for hunting, naturally the more prey he hunted. The better, so Pinglin’s prey is not only numerous, but because it is released into the wild, it is naturally wild.

However, in order to protect the safety of the emperor, the beasts kept in the flat forest are also very particular. Usually, there is no special decree of the emperor, and there are no large prey such as tigers and leopards in the flat forest. kind.

Before the team arrived, Pinglin had already set up the tent. The emperor’s tent was brilliant under the sun, surrounded by the guards’ barracks, and the court’s tent was a few miles away from the emperor’s tent. Unless the emperor called, otherwise. No one can easily approach the tent of the emperor.

A sacrificial place has been set up on the east side of Pinglin. Longtai led the ministers to perform the sacrificial ceremony. It was already dusk. The emperor ordered the ministers to return to the camp to rest and gather at the hunting grounds the next day.

The next day, when the sun was bright and the horn sounded, the ministers had already gathered on the open grass outside the flat forest. Longtai, dressed in golden armor, came to the open space, swept over the ministers, and took their seats. After the ministers had paid their respects, they stood on both sides. , Longtai decreed to give Sima Lan the seat, and then smiled: “I am today with all of you Aiqings, and you also know that this is to show the martial power of my Great Chu. Everything requested by the public letter is also done by Zhen Guo Gong himself, and I am very relieved that my old Guo Gong arranges all this.”

The ministers thought that the emperor had a smile on his face, and his tone was also very cheerful, but they didn’t know whether the emperor was really happy or not.

This time, most of the important officials in the court came with him, but Tantai Huang, the Duke of Yiguo, was weak and naturally unable to make the trip. Although the West Gate of Shenhou Mansion Wuhen was going to the court, as a unique yamen, many ceremonies in the court were performed. The Shenhou Mansion did not participate in the activities, and Ximen Wuhen rarely walked with the ministers in the court.

In fact, all the ministers know very well that the yamen in charge of Ximen Wuhen is mainly responsible for dealing with the affairs of the rivers and lakes. In addition, it is responsible for inquiring all kinds of information. Although the ministers are far away from the Shenhou Mansion, they do not want to provoke the gods of plague. People have always drawn a clear line with the ministers, and try not to interact with them as much as possible.

“Old Prince, what kind of activities should we arrange today?” Longtai seemed to be in a good mood. It seemed that he had been in the deep palace for a long time, and coming out to breathe, also made the young emperor feel happy.

Sima Lan immediately got up and cupped his hands: “Report to the emperor, today the emperor should select a few courtiers and lead a team to hunt for three hours. After three hours, return here with the prey, because there are more prey Whoever wins, according to the past practice, the emperor will bestow the award, and when showing the power of martial arts, it will also make my great Chu a country of martial arts.”

Longtai said with a smile: “Let them go hunting, I and all of you Ai Qing have to wait here for three hours, isn’t that boring?”

All the ministers were stunned, and Sima Lan was also stunned, but immediately said: “I am the first emperor of Chu, all of them are like this.”

“Old Prince, I have an idea. Do you think it is true?” Long Tai smiled and said, “When I was practicing riding and archery in the palace a few days ago, I personally went to the Imperial Horse Supervisor to select horses and found that there are many good horses in the Imperial Horse Supervisor. , Two of the horses are quite strange, I heard that more than a dozen horse trainers can’t tame them, and other horses in the Royal Horse Supervisor dare not share the same groove with them.”

Sima Lan smiled and said, “The emperor was talking about the two horses Jinghong and Heishan?”

“It turns out that the prince knows about those two horses.”

Sima Lan said: “Reporting to the emperor, those two horses are both tributes. One was offered by Xichuan Jin, and that was Heishan. When Heishan was still young, he was galloping with lightning speed, but most horses are good at plains. , but the black flash is able to walk on the ground in the mountains. It is really a good horse out of a thousand miles. No one knows where the black flash came from, but some people often see the black flash galloping in the mountains. , and they all passed by in a flash, and no one could touch its fur. Later, the local officials in Xichuan spent hundreds of people, and it took several months to capture it, and then offered it as a gift. to the palace.”

Long Tai smiled and said, “It was a wild horse. It has been in the palace for many years, but it is still wild and untamed.”

“Zhiruo’s Jinghong was acquired in Chen County when my Great Chu captured Chen County.” Sima Lan said, “When Chen County’s city was broken, Jinghong appeared in the city, and it was as fast as lightning. It took a lot of effort to capture it, and several people were stunned by Jinghong. After it was brought into the palace, the late emperor once wanted to tame the horse, but the old minister advised that the horse was too violent. Touch, the late emperor decreed to put him in the Imperial Horse Prison. However, after Jinghong was admitted to the Imperial Horse Prison, he still could not rest in peace, and several horses were injured, and finally he was separated by himself.”

Long Tai nodded and said: “I saw these two horses, they are both wild and hard to tame. It’s just a pity that these two rare horses have been kept in the Imperial Horse Prison, so I took those two horses with me this time. Come on, let’s not rush to hunt today, but I would like to see if any of you loving gentlemen can tame these two fierce horses? Heroes and steeds, these two are unparalleled BMWs, I am here today to decree , If anyone can tame any of them, I will not only reward them with a hundred taels of gold, but also give them horses.”

There was a lot of discussion on both sides, and the civil servants were nothing more than that, but for many generals who followed, they all showed excitement.

For warriors, treasured swords and good horses will always be attractive to them. Everyone knows very well that the more difficult to tame the horse, the rarer it is. Moreover, since these two horses were originally presented to the palace, it is natural. It is a BMW that is chosen in a thousand miles. Many generals are gearing up for it, thinking about going up and trying it later. If they can tame the BMW in public, they will not only get the BMW, but also be able to show their face in front of the emperor, which will naturally be of great benefit to the future.