The next morning, the sun rose in the east and the sky was clear. However, the golden sunshine did not bring much warmth. The wind was biting and the weather in the twelfth lunar month was chilly. But people's hearts were warm, especially the triumphant return of the Red Guards.
The soldiers in the camp were even more enthusiastic and excited.
Wu Zhi got up early and would soon see Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Xiao'e, Jin Lian and the rest of the family. He was excited and looking forward to it. He first ordered everyone to bury the pots to cook and wait for the meal.
After breakfast (he would never change his good habit of eating three meals a day), he ordered everyone to polish their clothes and armor, carry flags on their backs, pack their things, and after asking Zhang Kai for instructions, they slowly started to walk towards Wanwan.
Shengmen rushed. The post station was only ten miles away from Wanshengmen. They arrived in a carriage in a flash. They couldn't reach the city gate before the emperor left the city, so Wu Zhi had to hurry up and hurry. It couldn't be too early or too hasty. It was very difficult.
trouble!
For the ceremony of entering the city for his master's return to the court, Wu Zhi took great pains to arrange the queue for the entry into the city: Zhang Kai was at the front of the team, and his entourage drove the carriage, followed by Zhang Kai's subordinates.
From; Wu Zhi was driven in the middle by soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion, followed by Lin Chong, Wang Jin, Sun Qi, Li Tingliang, Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, Si Fangguo and others; other officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion followed behind in cars;
The team carrying party members' ears followed the Red Guard battalion; at the end was the escort team of prisoners, with two rows of Red Guard battalion officers and soldiers in front, the prisoners sandwiched in the middle, and two rows of Red Guard battalion officers and soldiers behind. On top of all the Red Guard battalion officers and soldiers
They all carried banners on their backs and hunted in the wind. They were mighty and majestic.
Zhang Kai had some objections to Wu Zhi's arrangement and wanted to ask Wu Zhi to ride with him in the car, but Wu Zhi firmly refused. Zhang Kai was the coach and he couldn't steal Zhang Kai's limelight. Besides, he was the first to win.
, Wu Zhi is still young after all, and he doesn’t want to be the one who gets beat up right now.
Near noon, Zhang Kai, Wu Zhi and his party finally walked slowly to the front of Wansheng Gate.
In the cold wind, I could see a sea of people on both sides of the aisle in front of the city gate. Everywhere was the common people of the capital who came to welcome the heroes back in triumph. In the middle of the avenue, the official Zhao Xu was leading the civil and military officials and the royal family members.
A large group of people were waiting quietly in front of the city gate. On the left side of the city gate, a large waist-high wooden platform had been set up, which was prepared for the construction of the Beijing Temple.
When he saw the triumphant team approaching the city gate, Chen Xian, the Minister of Rites, waved his hand, and there was a sudden salute and drum music. Seeing this, Zhang Kai quickly got off the carriage and walked quickly towards Zhao Xu. Wu Zhi followed suit.
After getting out of the carriage and standing quietly beside the carriage, the entire team returning to the court stopped instantly.
"I have met Your Majesty!" Zhang Qi, who had white hair and beard, quickly stepped forward and saluted with his hands raised.
Zhao Xu took advantage of the situation and gave him a hand, and kept praising: "Old General, thank you for your hard work! Old General, you have done a great job for your hard work!"
Zhang Kai was flattered and beamed.
Zhao Xu and Zhang Kai exchanged greetings for a moment, looked around, and asked with a smile: "Where is Wu Qing's family? Didn't you come back with the old general?"
When Zhang Kai heard this, he understood in his heart, and quickly turned around and waved to Wu Zhi, motioning for him to come over. When Wu Zhi saw this, he knew that he could not escape, and felt a little helpless, so he had to walk over slowly. He really didn't want to be in the limelight now.
Already.
When he came to Zhao Xu, Wu Zhi immediately bowed and saluted, and said hello at the same time, saying with a smile: "I have met your Majesty! Hello, Your Majesty! Hello, all the princes! Hello, all your lords!"
After Wu Zhi bowed to Zhao Xu, he then waved his hands to Zhang Chun, Duan Wang, Hao Sui and others who were standing behind Zhao Xu.
"Okay! Okay! No courtesy at Wu Qing's house!" When Zhao Xu saw Wu Zhi approach and salute, Zhao Xu quickly stepped forward, grabbed Wu Zhi's hands, held them up, and stared at Wu Zhi as if he were a monster.
Be happy and smile.
"Wu Qing's family has worked hard! I have the Qing family's help, and everything is fine! I am very lucky, and the country is very lucky!" Zhao Xu became more and more happy as he looked at Wu Zhi, praising and appreciating him.
Zhao Xu's words were like thunder. Zhang Kai next to him and Zhang Chun behind Zhao Xu and others were all shocked when they heard the words. They felt as if their five-flavor bottles had been knocked over. From the official Zhao Xu's words, everyone knew that from now on,
This Wu Zhi is a famous person in front of the official family, and his rise to prominence is just around the corner.
Wu Zhi heard Zhao Xu's words, but he did not get carried away. While talking to Zhao Xu calmly and calmly, he muttered to himself that Zhao Xu had praised him too highly, and he was going to stand out again this time.
I don't know how much jealousy and hatred it will arouse.
After Wu Zhi chatted with Zhao Xu for a while, the ceremony of building the Jingguan was about to begin. Wu Zhi gestured to Lin Chong in the team. Seeing this, Lin Chong quickly ordered the officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion to carry bags with ears on more than 80 carriages.
After moving them down and carrying them to the wooden platform set up on the left side of the city gate, more than 600 large bags were lined up one after another, almost piled up into a hill.
Seeing that there were only more than 600 large bags placed on the wooden platform, the audience on both sides of the aisle suddenly burst into an uproar. They could not help shaking their heads and sighing to express their disappointment, and jeers and jeers broke out. Zhao Xu, the civil and military ministers, and the emperor's relatives also looked at each other in confusion.
Puzzled and disappointed, the eyes looking at Zhang Kai and Wu Zhi were filled with contempt and pity.
Are you kidding me? There are more than 7,000 or 8,000 people holding more than 600 bags of heads. What kind of victory is this? Isn’t this deceiving the court, deceiving the people, and deceiving the officials? It is a serious crime to deceive the emperor!
"That's all?" Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Kai, then at Wu Zhi, his face immediately dropped, and he asked disappointedly.
"That's all, they're all ears!" Wu Zhi looked at Zhao Xu's disappointed and annoyed look and found it funny, so he quickly replied with a smile.
"Ears? Not a human head?" Zhao Xu was confused and kept asking.
"Not heads! Because too many heads were captured, I asked the soldiers to cut off the two ears on the enemy's head. Each two ears represents a head!" Wu Zhi explained calmly, ignoring the strange looks of the people around him.
"Oh!" Zhao Xu suddenly realized, his face brightened slightly, and he called Hao Sui behind him to find more than two hundred city guards. He used a handkerchief as a mask, covered his nose, and opened the bags one by one in front of everyone, and started
Count the ears in the bag.
When the city guards poured out the contents of the bags, the spectators on both sides of the road discovered that the bags were not filled with human heads, but with pale and pale ears. They couldn't help but be stunned and confused, and the sarcastic and cursing sounds suddenly started.
After hearing the news, he felt that he might have mistakenly blamed the people in the Red Guard camp who had returned to the court, and began to discuss in a low voice cautiously. When Chen Xian, the Minister of Rites, listened to Wu Zhi's explanation and order, he came to the stage and loudly explained the origin of the ears.
.When everyone heard it, they suddenly realized it and suddenly became full of expectations.
More than an hour later, the statistics of more than two hundred city guards came out. There were a total of 329,982 ears stacked on the wooden platform, equivalent to 164,991 ears.
The head of a party soldier!
When Chen Xian told everyone the results, the audience suddenly burst into thunderous cheers. Only then did Zhao Xu and all the civil and military officials turn from anger to joy.
"Must win! Must win! Must win!"
Looking at the piles of party members, the common people in the capital and all the civil and military officials saw that their blood was high, their emotions were high, and their cheers were endless. But the party prisoners who were detained behind the team looked like they were mourning for their heirs, with gloomy expressions. Some of them even looked gloomy.
Tears streamed down my face and I burst into tears.
If there is a war, it means there will be life and death, families will be destroyed, and people will be destroyed. Wu Zhi saw Zhao Xu and everyone shouting excitedly, but he really couldn't bring up much interest. He was neither sad nor happy, and just watched quietly.
Zhang Kai, who was so happy, had been secretly observing Wu Zhi next to him, and couldn't help but be surprised when he saw his calm expression.
After building the capital, the prisoner presentation ceremony came, and the sound of drums suddenly sounded again. After seeing Wu Zhi's gesture, Wang Jin led the team escorting the prisoners, and slowly drove the prison car past Zhao Xu and everyone.
In front of his eyes, the prisoners were passing by under the pointing fingers of the people on both sides of the road, and their faces were ashen. When Li Qianshun, who was about fourteen years old, passed by Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu stopped the marching team and watched quietly.
Li Qianshun was in an incomprehensible mood. After a while, he waved his hand to signal the prisoner-presenting team to continue marching. After the prisoner-presenting ceremony, Li Qianshun and other prisoners were taken away by the imperial guards and taken over.
As for what Zhao Xu was thinking when he saw the captured Li Qianshun, Wu Zhi had no time to think about it. His mind had already flown to home, thinking about ending the farce of returning in triumph as soon as possible and seeing his family as soon as possible.
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After the prisoner sacrifice, Zhao Xu issued an order to reward the three armies and reward the officers and soldiers of the Red Guard Battalion. He then ordered a state banquet to be held at Jiying Hall at 4:00 today. All officers above the head of the Red Guard Battalion could participate, and there would also be a merit discussion.
Award.
After Zhao Xu has issued the order, everyone can enter the city.
The imperial guards of the Imperial City opened the way, with the chariot of the official Zhao Xu in front, followed by hundreds of civil and military officials, relatives of the emperor, and Zhang Kai and Wu Zhi led the team to follow, and entered the Wansheng Gate one by one.
On the way to the capital, there were crowds of people. The people of the capital lined the streets to warmly welcome me. The crowd was extremely excited.
As he walked, when he reached Liangmen, Wu Zhi suddenly found Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Jin Lian, Xiao'e and others crowded in the crowd and looking forward to it. Dahu and Erhu were guarding them on the left and right.
Zhi's heart warmed up, he jumped out of the car and walked quickly towards Jin Lian and the others. The marching team also stopped for them. Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo also followed.
Seeing Wu Zhi coming, Jin Lian and Xiao'e were extremely happy and waved to him excitedly. When they walked in front of everyone, Wu Zhi could not care less about shocking the world and could not help but hugged Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Jin Lian and Xiao'e in turn.
, which made Wu Xiu laugh, Feng Niang scolded, Jin Lian exclaimed with shame on her face, and Xiao'e jumped for joy and smiled. As for Da Hu and Er Hu, Wu Zhi patted the shoulders of the two of them to signal, making the two
Everyone was flattered and overjoyed. Wu Zhi then nodded to everyone else. Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo also came to the crowd and greeted everyone one by one. So did Suo Yanqing and Li Wanchun.
Extremely excited and ecstatic.
Without time to express his feelings, Wu Zhi took Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo and Si Fangguo back to the team and continued to move forward with the team. He also wanted to take the Red Guard camp back to the Dragon Guard right wing camp and settle down.
After that, they had to lead the officers above the capital to the Jiying Hall for the banquet.
As for Zhang Kai and others, since Zhang Chun, his cousin, was there to greet them, there was no need for Wu Zhi to worry about them.