Since the Xia and Shang Dynasties, the heaven-sacrifice ceremony has been the most important ceremony for the kings and princes of China! In the Zhou Dynasty, it had become customized and evolved into a complete set of etiquette and procedures!
Meng Chun worships heaven, Meng Qiu worships ancestors!
These were the two most solemn ceremonies when the ancestors of China occupied this fertile land of thousands of miles in the east! Even surpassing the succession ceremony of princes! Respecting God and not forgetting our ancestors are rooted in the ancestors of China and even the people of Qin today.
In the blood!.
This time, His Majesty the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty held a ceremony to worship the heavens for the first time since he ascended the throne! After the ceremony to worship the heavens, His Majesty the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty will personally lead his ministers into the ancestral temple to hold an ancestor worship ceremony!
The Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony is a time for the princes and nobles to enjoy themselves together with the people! At this time, there is no difference between the princes and nobles and ordinary people, and there is no difference between rich and poor. There is only the same piety of all people praying to heaven to benefit all the people.
heart!
Hu Hai came from the Bashang Camp in a chariot crown!
The ministers in the court and the children of the Ying family had already dressed up and left the city for Liangshan at Yin o'clock in the morning!
Amidst the rumbling sound, under the heavy escort of six thousand Xuanwu Army soldiers who were fully armed and covered with heavy armor and with ferocious face armor on their heads, a bronze chariot slowly drove over. Sitting solemnly under the six-foot hood was a black gold imperial robe.
, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai, who wears a scale crown on his head and carries the Qin Emperor's important sword "Tai'a" on his waist!
This was the first time that the people of Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty and the civil and military officials of the DPRK saw the Xuanwu Army!
This is also the first time that the Xuanwu Army declares its power to the public after Chengwu’s first battle!
The Xuanwu Army was officially made known to the world during the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony. As soon as Hu Hai proposed it, he received an enthusiastic response from Meng Tian and other important ministers! Appropriate display of force and deterrence is a common practice in the world in later generations!
Hu Hai believes that it is also applicable to today’s Great Qin!
The Xuanwu Army, which appeared for the first time in front of nearly a million Guanzhong people, became the focus of the audience as soon as it appeared!
Don't even look at the heavy armor covering these tall soldiers that clanked as they walked. Just the huge wolf-tusked club that was more than a foot long already made people feel chilly!
Such a god-like soldier. Who in the world can take advantage of him?
The ministers of the imperial court, the descendants of the clan, and the nobles of various aristocratic families in Guanzhong, regardless of age or sex, together with nearly a million Xianyang people, have been waiting at the foot of Liangshan Mountain for a long time!
The Liangshan Mountains are not a very high mountain range in the suburbs of Xianyang! There are many higher and more dangerous mountains near Xianyang than the Liangshan Mountains! But the reason why this place was chosen as the location for the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony is precisely because the Liangshan Mountains are very small and resemble an isolated mountain.
The peaks are upright, and the mountains extend only three or four miles around Liangshan. If you exclude these three or four miles, there will be plains for dozens of miles around Liangshan!
Today, Xianyang has gathered hundreds of thousands of people from all the counties in Guanzhong who came to beg the Emperor to offer sacrifices to the sky and pray for rain. If you choose to hold the ceremony in another highland, because of the continuous mountains, there is no place in the suburbs of Xianyang more beautiful than Liangshan.
For the right place!
Only around Liangshan can there be enough space for these countless people to see with their own eyes the grand ceremony held by His Majesty the Emperor! Surrounded by a wilderness, although Liangshan is only more than a hundred feet high, it is enough!
Moreover, even before the coronation ceremony, it was already the bedroom of the empress Li Ji. Liangshan Summer Palace is located between these Liangshan mountains!
There are countless tents in an endless row, all of which are in one area. They are densely packed around Liangshan, and are neatly and orderly arranged around Liangshan with solitary peaks!
In the middle of the tent, hundreds of thousands of fully armed soldiers from the Bashang Camp stood with weapons in hand, maintaining order!
On July 24, the first year of the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, the chariot of His Majesty Hu Hai, the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, arrived at Liangshan at 3:30 pm!
The countless large tents surrounding Liangshan had already been sorted out, and the roads for the emperor's vehicles and the positions of the ministers, clan descendants and nobles of the Guanzhong family had already been reserved!
Their location was, of course, where the emperor's carriage must pass!
As the emperor's chariot drove forward, the people on both sides of the road who had been waiting for a long night prostrated themselves on the ground. Countless soldiers of the Qin army also knelt on one knee and bowed their heads to the Emperor of Qin in the bronze chariot.
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Wherever the bronze chariot passed, no one stood upright!
The car drove through several miles of tent areas and finally entered the foot of Liangshan Mountain!
There is not a single tent or common person within five miles of Liangshan Mountain!
The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is solemn and solemn!
Except for His Majesty the Emperor and the ministers of the Qin Dynasty who are ministers, not even the descendants of the clan or the powerful nobles of Guanzhong can enter the Liangshan Mountains!
Only ministers who have been recognized by God can follow the emperor to worship God!
The descendants of the clan and the nobles of Guanzhong could only look up at the foot of the mountain to watch the emperor leading his ministers to worship God!
"Welcome to His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Welcome to His Majesty the Emperor!"
Under the leadership of Li Si, the leader of the civil servants of the Great Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian, the leader of the military generals, and Ying Teng, the head of the clan, the ministers of the Great Qin Dynasty, the nobles of various aristocratic families in Guanzhong, and the children of the clan clan all shouted loudly!
"Welcome to His Majesty the Emperor!"
As the most prominent group of people in the Qin Dynasty shouted, a wave of shouts came from the nearly one million people and hundreds of thousands of soldiers surrounding Liangshan who shouted at the same time!
The huge sound instantly reached the sky!
Just at this moment, a ray of bright sunshine shone from the eastern horizon! In a moment, the bright sunshine quickly crossed countless miles, crossed numerous mountains, crossed mountains and seas, crossed plains and lakes, and landed on
Above Liangshan!
After a while, the red sun revealed half of its round face!
This is not the first time Hu Hai has come to Daqin to watch the sunrise!
Every day in the Bashang Camp, he practiced with the ordinary soldiers as the sun rose!
However, this sunrise made him feel for the first time that the magnificence of these mountains and rivers and the simplicity and kindness of the Qin people, the ancestors of China, were worthy of everyone's life to guard them!
But, looking at the sun, it seems impossible to pray for rain!
The sun rises, indicating that today is bound to be an unprecedented sunny day. Even if it is a severe drought in Guanzhong, it would be nothing at ordinary times, but today everyone feels a sense of absurdity at the same time!
Some are happy and some are sad!
Hu Hai was already prepared for the worst at this moment! Although he had been praying in his heart that the God who brought him to Daqin would give him some mercy, or be a little angry, and it would be better if he could cry a few times.
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"Get flat!"
Hu Hai looked at the red sun that had completely jumped out of the horizon and was spreading its soft light, and said in a deep voice!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Thousands of Da Qin's top people bowed in front of the car and said in unison!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
These are the countless people and Qin soldiers who are worshiping around Liangshan!
Hu Hai only said these three words from beginning to end, and then he sat on the bronze chariot without saying a word, without saying a single word, and with no intention of getting off the car!
Thousands of Xuanwu troops have started from bronze chariots, followed the stone road on Liangshan Mountain, and formed two rows of steel human walls all the way to the altar on the top of Liangshan Mountain!
There are countless figures standing in a radius of more than ten miles around the entire Liangshan Mountain, but they are silent!
Everyone is waiting for the arrival of Chen Shizheng!
There were still countless people swarming around Liangshan, but everyone consciously did not make any noise! After arriving around Liangshan, under the command of the Qin soldiers who maintained order, they quietly began to wait.
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Time can be said to be fast or slow.
For the countless people surrounding Liangshan, the days are like years! For Hu Hai and the ministers of the DPRK who care about the Qin Dynasty, they hope that there will still be one year or even longer before Chenshi.
However, time has been moving forward after all, not backwards, let alone stopping at this moment!
In this world, apart from death, which can make people pause, the only thing left that can pause is probably memory!
There are naturally people around Hu Hai who are always paying attention to the time.
There's still a quarter of an hour until it's Chen time!
Hu Hai adjusted the scale crown on his head, then stood up holding the "Tai'a" sword in his waist, and stepped out of the bronze chariot!
The emperor's car will always be the center of attention at any time! Let alone now when the ceremony to worship the heaven is about to be held!
As soon as the emperor moved, the people watching from a distance suddenly became commotion. Some people unconsciously wanted to take a few steps forward, but they were stopped by the soldiers of the Qin army who were maintaining order as soon as they took two steps!
The commotion only lasted for a moment, and then calmed down again!
Hu Hai took the lead, followed by Li Si and Meng Tian, who were separated on the left and right. The Chinese civil and military ministers of the Qin Dynasty lined up behind Hu Hai in two columns!
In front of Hu Hai and Da Qin Wenwu, there were dozens of palace maids carrying a large number of sacrifices! Among them were six animals, whole cattle, whole horses, whole sheep, whole chickens, whole ducks, whole fishes, and various cooked millet grains.
And silk and satin and other items!
The sacrifices went first, and Hu Hai led two columns of civil and military officials to follow slowly!
The stone path is not very wide, and it is just big enough for four people to walk side by side! Therefore, the team going up the mountain is very long, and it looks particularly dazzling under the rising sun!
Although neither the palace maids carrying the sacrifices nor the civil and military officials led by Hu Hai walked very fast, the Liangshan stone path, which was no more than two hundred steps long, was still completed in just a short moment!
Dozens of palace maids, led by the etiquette officer, placed the sacrifices in their hands on the altar in order, and then quietly retreated from Liangshan!
This was the first time Hu Hai held a ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven. There was no such thing as a ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven in later generations.
Therefore, this is also the first time he has seen a complete altar!
The huge altar, which is three feet and six feet high and made entirely of white jade, stands majestically on the top of Liangshan Mountain and seems to reach straight to the sky! A foot-wide red carpet spans a distance of more than ten feet, stretching from Hu Hai's feet.
Go to the altar! Five-color flags are fluttering in the wind on the top of the mountain!
The civil and military ministers behind Hu Hai were automatically divided into two groups and lined up in neat rows on both sides of the altar!
Huang Zhongdalu played solemn and solemn music to worship heaven!
Hu Hai finally stepped onto the red carpet, walked onto the altar, and started to climb the steps!!
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