Chapter 180: Visiting the Altar to Worship the General

The Ming Dynasty was still red.

At first glance, Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong looked like a burning flame.

The red flag, the red mandarin duck war jacket, the red tassel on the head, the red carpet under the feet, and the red clothes on the senior civil servants are no better than the sun above the head, reflecting each other.

Cheng Guogong felt a surge of blood, as if he was half drunk from wine.

When Duke Cheng Guo stepped onto the red carpet, trumpets and drums sounded loudly, and everyone heard the solemn music in their ears.

He took a step forward, holding all kinds of Han generals beside him. They all took half a step back, knelt down on the ground, and shouted: "Welcome to you, General."

The place where Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, passed by was like cutting grass, and large numbers of soldiers knelt down one after another.

Cheng Guogong strode forward. Zhu Qizhen stood on the general platform.

Duke Cheng Guo came to the audience, knelt down on the ground, and said: "I, Duke Cheng Guo Zhu Yong, pays homage to our emperor. Long live, long live, long live."

Zhu Qizhen said: "The Duke of the country please rise."

After Zhu Yong, the Duke of Cheng, stood up, an eunuch immediately led Zhu Yong, the Duke of Cheng, to the stage.

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand, and Fan Hong, holding a mahogany lacquer tray, walked up to the general platform step by step, and bowed behind Zhu Qizhen. Zhu Qizhen reached out and lifted up the red cloth on the mahogany lacquer tray, and there was an inch-sized inscription on it.

Gold seal.

Zhu Qizhen picked it up with both hands and saw the seal characters written below: "Zheng Guo Gongzhu, General of the Army, Chief of the Army."

Zhu Qizhen handed his hands to Zhu Yong, Duke Cheng, who immediately bowed and held them in his hands.

Zhu Qizhen waved again, and Du Ning, the trusted admiral of the East Factory, came up with a mahogany lacquer tray with a sword on it.

Zhu Qizhen took it off with both hands, only to see that the sheathed long sword was shining with gold. Just by looking at the appearance, it was very extraordinary. As for whether it was really sharp or not, it no longer mattered.

On the hilt of the sword, there are two seal characters "Yitian" engraved on one side and two large characters "Yuzhi" engraved on the other side.

Zhu Qizhen personally attached the long sword to Duke Cheng. He took a step back, bowed and said, "I leave military matters to the general."

Zhu Yong, Duke of Chengguo, immediately knelt down on the ground, not daring to place the seal on the ground with both hands. He held it with one hand, kowtowed and said, "I will never dare to accept this great gift."

Zhu Qizhen stepped forward to help Zhu Yong, Duke of Cheng, and said: "Why do you need to be like this, Duke? The military is now so fierce that we cannot neglect it. It is a lot of haste. But my heart remains unchanged. The Yitian Sword was recently made by the Shaofu."

The sword that comes out is extremely sharp and can cut through gold and jade. This sword can be used with generals, various troops, and general officers to kill them first and then show them off. Anyone who disrespects military orders can be killed immediately."

"I am waiting for the good news from the Duke in Beijing."

This Yitian Sword has Zhu Qizhen's evil taste.

Although many dynasties had the so-called Shangfang Sword, there was no such thing in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial power was represented by the Wangming flag.

It's just that on this occasion, it is not very good to give the king's flag to the Duke of Cheng, Zhu Yong.

After all, the death flag is just a flag.

Zhu Qizhen temporarily changed it to a sword.

However, what Zhu Qizhen said is true. This long sword is the best long sword that Liu Dingzhi led the Shaofu to build.

The material is star iron, which is meteorite. When it was made, although the traditional method was used, a water hammer was used. It took more than thousands of hammerings, tens of thousands of times, even hundreds of thousands of times.

Even the Shaofu probably wouldn't be able to make a better long sword without technological innovation.

This ceremony of going to the altar to pay homage to the general was also extremely hasty.

A real person who goes to the altar to pay homage to a general must first bathe and change clothes for several days. Nowadays, there is no time for this, and as the emperor's status becomes higher and higher, the etiquette of going to the altar to pay homage to a general is rarely seen.

The last time the Ming Dynasty went to the altar to pay homage to a general, it was Emperor Taizu who worshiped Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan, as a general. During the Northern Expedition to Dadu, the Ming Dynasty had just been established, and the etiquette was even more crude, and there were not even many records.

There is no old man who has experienced it.

Zhu Qizhen could only ask the professionals from the Ministry of Etiquette to come up with a hasty plan.

But even so, Duke Cheng Zhu Yong also felt an unprecedented special situation.

As for the civil servants, I don’t know how many. At this moment, there are countless complaints in my heart. I feel that the emperor is too kind to the generals. Many impeachment memorials are tightly held in their sleeves and they dare not take them out. They pretend that they have not written them.

Of course, there are some sensible people, but Hu Hu secretly sighed in her heart: "Your Majesty has gone too far. Many things are too much and too little. It will be difficult for him to become a duke in the future."

With today's incident, Cheng Guo Gongfu will be a thorn in the side of the civil servants from now on. It is estimated that it will always be at the top of the Ming Dynasty civil official impeachment list.

As for what if there is a big defeat.

The Chengguo Duke's Mansion is probably even worse than the Qi State Duke's Mansion.

It's just that even Hu Hui, an old fox, never thought that he would lose the war. Without him, from the Yongle period to the present, the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that the proud people of the great country, from top to bottom, are accustomed to victory, and even think that victory is inevitable.

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Even though Wasi had hundreds of thousands of troops, he unified the grassland.

Even though Wasi supported Tuotao Buhua as emperor and integrated all the Mongolian tribes, the gaps between the various Mongolian tribes were temporarily bridged by the name of the Yuan Empire.

Even though there are all kinds of news like this.

It is also impossible to dispel the feeling that the entire dynasty was civilized and military.

As far as the orthodox emperors in history were concerned, the world was in chaos and was on the verge of collapse. There were a lot of vacancies in the capital camp, and troops were sent out at short notice. The orthodox emperors still dared to fight in person.

This is certainly because the orthodox emperor did not have a basic understanding of military affairs. It also illustrates one thing, that is, the entire court was filled with a sense of inevitable victory.

The orthodox emperor even felt that after winning the battle against Wasi, he had to deal with other matters more.

Now, this emotion will only become more intense.

After all, since Zhu Qizhen came to the throne, although Wasa has gained strategic advantages in the battles of the Seven Guards of Guanxi and the Battle of Mulan River Guard, for many ministers.

What are those? Those are not the Ming Dynasty's official troops, and didn't the imperial court do a good job in the Hercynian Campaign?

For most people who follow blindly, Cao Nai is actually quite sober.

He saw that once a war started, it would inevitably become a long-term trend.

It's just that he was not tolerated by the emperor at the top and the officials at the bottom. The emperor would not need a chief assistant who did not support the war, and the officials would not want a civil servant leader who wanted to compromise with Wa Ci.

In this atmosphere, Cheng Guogong's eyes were filled with bloodshot eyes, and he shouted loudly: "I will go here to make the Ming Dynasty a pure desert, and I will bow down and die exhausted."

Duke Cheng Guo also said something unscrupulously at this moment, but no one paid attention to it now.

At this moment, the ceremony officials on both sides shouted loudly: "Bow."

All civil servants and military generals can only obey the command of the ceremony officer and salute to the general's platform.

Zhu Qizhen held Cheng Guogong's hand with one hand and accepted it calmly. As an emperor, he had attended countless ceremonial occasions, and he was used to this kind of situation where ministers worshiped.

Duke Cheng Guo had never experienced this.

Sometimes, as a distinguished noble, Cheng Guogong also attended some ceremonial occasions on behalf of Zhu Qizhen, such as going to Changping to pay homage to Emperor Taizong, worshiping heaven and earth, praying for rain, etc.

But with the same etiquette, even if Duke Cheng Guo attended on behalf of the emperor, he would not be treated the same as the emperor.

Receiving such a great gift at this moment, what Duke Cheng Guo just said became more sincere. He really had the urge to die for his confidant.

This kind of impulse is actually rare for veteran generals and politicians who are several decades old.

The ceremony of going to the altar to pay homage to the general came to an end in a hurry.

Zhu Qizhen took Duke Cheng Guo to have a speech in the Wuying Hall. After explaining the mission of the expedition here, Duke Cheng Guo went back to prepare.

Because Zhu Qizhen had already prepared it.

The various people in the Beijing camp were not ready for the attack, but they were still on alert. It only took one day for all the people to be ready.

In particular, the cavalrymen from all walks of life brought ten days of dry food and were led by Duke Cheng Guo personally. The three thousand battalions opened the way with Wujin Hou Zhu Mian as the chief general. The fifth military camp was the middle army, led by Duke Cheng Guo personally. There were also other cavalrymen.

Put it in the Chinese army.

The Fifth Army Camp was formed by Emperor Taizong's elite cavalry from all over the world. The difference from the Three Thousand Battalions was that the Three Thousand Battalions were composed of Tatars, while the Five Army Camps were all composed of Han cavalry.
Chapter completed!