The next day, a red flag was hoisted to announce the official start of the royal ceremony.
The venue for this festival is Jueling Mountain, five kilometers away from Hongying City.
There is a Diling Altar on Jueling Mountain. It is located on a solitary peak 500 meters above sea level. You can overlook Yanjing in the distance and Hongying City up close.
This altar is located at the end of the axis of the four imperial tombs built by the royal family, and it is also right at the place where the dragon vein must pass.
After the founding of the dynasty, it took thirty years and a huge amount of manpower and material resources to build it, specifically to worship the ancestors of the royal family.
At this moment, the arrangements for Zhenghuang Banner were naturally in place, and the car carrying Song Yiming and Han Shuangyue had just arrived at the foot of Jueling Mountain.
After the three people got off the car, they looked up and saw the magnificent Diling Altar standing on the top of the mountain.
You know, in that era, it was as difficult as building an imperial mausoleum to build such a large-scale sacrificial place on the top of a mountain several hundred meters high.
How much manpower and material resources this requires cannot be described in words. It may be regarded as a miracle.
The foot of the mountain was already filled with all kinds of luxury cars, and there was an endless stream of disciples of the Eight Meridians going up the mountain. In addition, there were also many guests invited by the red flag to attend the ceremony.
This royal ceremony is considered a big event, so these guests are actually here to watch the fun.
Especially this first stick of incense, which is the key to Ba Mai's actions in the next few years, is naturally very interesting.
To the outside world, if the eight meridians are unified, then the royal family will change the current situation.
Just as Song Yiming and the others were preparing to go up the mountain, several cars happened to stop nearby, and they saw Hulan Ziyu getting out of one of the cars.
Many men and women also got off the other cars, some old and some young, and some of them even had the aura of the strong men of the sect.
The relationship between this royal family and the major sects in China has always been very close, such as the Xuanyuan Sect, which was the former national sect.
Therefore, there are not a few disciples of the eighth lineage of the royal family who go to the sect to practice. Naturally, they all know the special nature of the sect and can determine the future.
Most of the disciples from the Zhenghuang Banner lineage were sent to the Yunyang Sect.
Before, the Yang family saw Mr. Zhenghuangqi’s
With just one fax, he gave up the idea of marrying the Han family because of the relationship between Yunyang Sect and Zhenghuang Banner.
Naturally, the Yang family does not dare to risk damaging this relationship.
In addition, the royal family has natural barbarian blood. If you have some genes from the Han clan and a little bit of talent, it is normal for you to become a powerful sect.
Today's eight royal families can be considered to be as strong as clouds.
"Isn't this Mr. Song, and Miss Shuangyue and Xinyue? What a coincidence..."
Hulan Ziyu immediately greeted him with his hands.
"Young Master Ziyu, how is Miss Guxue?"
Hulan Xinyue asked casually.
"Miss Guxue, there is nothing serious. Thank you to Mr. Song for his timely help."
"She will also come to participate in the royal ceremony today. She said she would like to thank you properly..."
Hulan Ziyu responded.
"That's good."
Hulan Xinyue nodded.
"Mr. Song, I heard that hundreds of people came to your Zhenghuang Banner this time? This formation is not small!"
"It's not like we put up a yellow flag, so we can only bring so many people."
Hulan Ziyu laughed to himself.
"Really? I don't know..."
Song Yiming replied directly that he didn't care about these things.
Now he just wants to find out whether Xia Yuqin's life experience is related to that little king.
"Isn't Mr. Song a representative of Zhenghuang Banner? Aren't these people all following Mr. Song..."
Hulan Ziyu was naturally puzzled.
"My cousin has always been a loner. Even though he is a representative, it doesn't mean he has to care about those followers..."
Hulan Xinyue said immediately.
She knew that these people must have been brought by her eldest and second uncles.
of.
I deliberately created some battles, not wanting Song Yiming to steal the limelight.
Although Song Yiming has refused to be the successor, everyone in the Zhenghuang Banner family knows that if Song Yiming can show off his talents at this royal ceremony, then he must be the successor.
After all, the eight royal families have always respected blood and the king.
To become a successor, you must first have sufficient strength, otherwise, it will be difficult to convince the public.
Among the younger generation of successors today, there are leaders like Hulan Baijie and Hulan Guxue who are extremely capable in all aspects.
Therefore, naturally no one will question the identity of their successors.
"I'm superficial, why don't we talk while we walk! It takes time to go up the mountain..."
Hulan Ziyu said.
Afterwards, Song Yiming and the others went up the mountain together with Hulan Ziyu and other people holding white flags.
"Mr. Song, this time you, the powerful master of the Yellow Flag, will definitely go all out to win the first stick of incense, right?"
Hulan Ziyu asked tentatively.
"Why don't you just light some incense? Do you need to go to such trouble?"
"Why do I feel that this fragrance is a little exciting!"
When Hanshuangyue heard this, she couldn't help but ask.
"Don't you know anything about this royal ceremony?"
"Miss Xinyue should know something about it, right?"
Hulan Ziyu immediately looked at Hulan Xinyue.
"I have never participated in it. Although my cousin is a representative, he does not know the specific procedures of this festival."
"Please also ask Young Master Ziyu to explain..."
Hulan Xinyue responded confidently that she had never cared about flag veins before.
It would be useless for a woman like her to know about such a family matter!
“Actually, this so-called capture of the first incense stick is also called ‘capture of the flag’.”
"In the past, our royal family was divided into eight armies.
He was born, brave and aggressive, and refused to obey anyone. At that time, these eight armies also had their own banner armies. Once they went to the battlefield, they had to choose a commander from among the eight armies to lead the army of the eight armies."
"So, for the sake of fairness, the royal family decided to determine the commanders of the eight armies by capturing the flag on the battlefield... Whoever can capture the commander's flag first among the eight armies will be the commander-in-chief..."
"But at that time, the soldiers of the Eight Meridians had strong horses, strong horses, and were brave and good at fighting. Therefore, every time they captured the flag, they would inevitably fight with each other, and even kill each other, causing casualties..."
"Later, in order to avoid conflicts, incense was used instead of the flag. Whichever lineage of warriors can successfully light and capture the first incense stick at the royal ceremony will be considered successful in capturing the flag."
"This tradition is a symbol of strength for the Eight Meridians."
Hulan Ziyu explained seriously.
"I see. However, even if you light incense, you still have to fight... The rules of your royal family are really special."
Hanshuangyue sneered.
To put it bluntly, this is simply involution, using force to control force.
Of course, in that era, force was indeed enough to represent everything.
"The Hulan royal family has always worshiped martial arts. Even though the royal family is gone now, the rules of capturing flags at festivals have still been passed down."
"However, the strength of the Eight Meridians has actually already been broken."
"In the past few decades, you Zhenghuangqi has been the most incense-burning person. I think your old man was the most powerful warrior in the royal family back then..."
"Unless he doesn't participate, as long as he takes action, it will definitely be him."
"I see."
"The number one warrior in the royal family, it turns out that the old man had such a famous name before."
Song Yiming never expected that his grandfather would once be the leader among the eight royal families.
It's a pity that I'm older now, my health is not as good as it used to be.
Song Yiming couldn't help but nodded. It turned out that his grandfather really hid it very deeply. Sometimes he really thought that he was an ordinary person.
This chapter has been completed!