"Report to Your Majesty, the navy commander Liu Tuo returned to Beijing to offer prisoners and was waiting for the order outside the palace." Guard Yang Ju came in to report.

"pass!"

"Abide by the order!"

After a moment, Liu Tuo entered the palace with a happy face and bowed: "I congratulate you for your Majesty. I have asked you to leave. The king has been captured. The Tang Dynasty has added new land!" After saying that, he took out a memorial, "This battle is detailed, and you are here to report it. Please read it."

After the war, you must report. This is the rule.

When Li Luo read the memorial, it turned out that Wang Yingzu of Liuqiu was actually a pirate leader. He occupied Liuqiu Island decades ago and was known as Ying's motherland. However, although this country has a population of more than 100,000, it is not a country at all. At best, it is just a maritime tribe.

They had no court or local government. Yingzu himself was like a slave owner and a tribal chief.

Most of his thousands of soldiers were mobs. It was enough to bully the islanders and acted as a blessing, but when they met Liu Tuo's Tang army, they were about to collapse.

Yingzu himself and a group of confidants escaped on a small sailboat. Because the boat was fast, Liu Tuo did not catch up.

However, all the gold and silver left by "King Liuqiu" on the island were seized by the Tang army. The amount was still quite large, and there were millions of silver alone, which shows that Yingzu robbed many merchant ships.

There are more than 100,000 people, nearly half of them are descendants of Han people. They mainly fish and farming as supplements. If they hadn't needed to provide for the thousands of soldiers and horses of Yingzu, their lives would have been bad. But because of Yingzu, they would have been very hard.

This is actually not considered a merit of destroying a country. Liu Qiu at this time cannot be said to be a country.

Now, Liu Tuo left a small fleet to station in Liuqiu Island and controlled the sea chain.

"The order was sent to change the island to Shanhai County, which was under the jurisdiction of Haizhou (Haidong), and the Ministry of Personnel appointed the county magistrate and the ship craftsman's county yamen..."

Li Luo casually dealt with Liuqiu Island. This small place is not worthy of a special court meeting to discuss.

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On the seventh day of the fifth month of the third year of Hongwu, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was Christmas, and the Tang court held a three-day birthday celebration.

According to the arrangements of the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple, the Wanbao Festival is divided into birthday celebrations, ceremonies, palace banquets, dance music, dragon boat races, polo competitions, Cuju races, fireworks nights, palace lantern riddles, etc.

At this time, the entire Jiangling City was decorated with lights and colorful flowers, with stages, colored sheds, and incense tables everywhere. All prefectures, counties, townships, and military camps and ports also set up stages and incense tables, and banquets were set up in front of the Yanhuang Temple.

Even Dongzhou (Goryeo), which has just been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, organized celebrations without exception.

On Christmas, the Emperor should have fun with the military and civilians and celebrate with the whole world.

The 80 million people of the 18 prefectures of the Tang Dynasty and more than 700,000 troops of water and land were together to celebrate the emperor's birthday. This was not the first inventor of the Tang Dynasty. It was like this hundreds of years ago, but it was just that the Tang Dynasty organized more standardized.

At the fifth hour of the 7th day of the lunar month, the bells in Jiangling City rang slowly. The heads of the Political Affairs Hall, Military Advisors' Mansion, Censorate, Tianshi Mansion, and Zhendao Palace led the heads of the Nine Divisions and Twelve Divisions, all wearing dresses, came to the Taishang Dao Palace and the Yanhuang Emperor Palace to pray for blessings and ceremonies for the emperor, burned green poems, and wish the emperor a long life and good health.

At the tenth hour of Yin (new time system), the ministers left the Taoist officials, entered the palace from Qinglongmen, and entered the square in front of Guangzheng Hall.

At the same time, all civil and military officials above the seventh rank in Beijing were standing in an orderly manner.

At this time, the morning sun was rising, the spring breeze was warm, and the gorgeous morning light shone on the not-magnificent palace, which seemed very solemn.

The huge square in front of Guangzheng Hall had been quietly arranged in the ceremony. Hundreds of auspicious beasts such as treasure elephants, horses, pandas, white cranes, rhinoceros, turtles, sika deer, lions, tigers, pythons, etc. were arranged neatly under the supervision of orc tamers.

The difference between the Tang Palace ceremonial guards and past dynasties is that there are more species of animals, including pandas and pythons. According to the simple laws of the Tang Dynasty, these are auspicious animals, and hunting and harm are strictly prohibited.

There were hundreds of Tang Palace guards who relied on weapons such as golden gourds, axes, thrones, spears, and swords.

There are also flag formations, twelve pairs of dragon and phoenix big flags, twelve peacock fan, twelve Xuanwu pagoda, twelve curved umbrellas, twelve straight umbrellas, twelve dragon fans, twelve yellow mail, twelve red mail, twelve red mail, and various flag fans, and more than a thousand flag-taking teams.

There are also musical formations, such as bells, drums, chimes, cymbals, cymbals, flutes, zithers, zithers, zithers, pipas, guizhengs, suona, huzi, huzi, shiji, shiji, gold and other dozens of musical instruments. Hundreds of musicians are used.

The emperor’s birthday is so grand.

The entire guard of honor alone had 3,000 people. This was just a ceremonial guard in the palace, which was relatively simple, similar to the Dharma carriage. If the emperor traveled, there would be more than 20,000 people according to the Tang and Song dynasties.

The emperor of the Song Dynasty worshiped the sky in the suburbs, and the ceremonial guard team reached more than 20,000. Li Luo was quite simplified. He stipulated that his grand carriage book had only 10,000 people, the ritual carriage book had only 3,000 people, and the imperial carriage book had only more than 1,000 people. The carriage book, which usually operates in the palace, was even more streamlined and free.

At this time, Emperor Li Luo and Empress Cui Xiuning had already raised their seats in front of Guangzheng Hall, which was considered to be "congratulations to the Imperial Gate".

Li Luo was wearing a crown dress (the emperor's dress), twelve heraldry emblems, and a high-sounding crown. Cui Xiuning also wore a robe dress, a phoenix crown and a robe robe, and a twelve lines of five-color pheasant patterns.

But seeing that Lord Tang is radiant, he really feels refreshed when he encounters happy events.

However, it would be a big mistake to think that the Emperor's Holy Birth is a festive celebration and can be relaxed and casual.

The Holy Birth of the Emperor is a national ceremony, so how can it be casual? Otherwise, Li Luo could wear regular clothes without having to wear crown clothes.

Li Luo is in the middle, Cui Xiuning is on the right, and Prince Li Zheng, who is also wearing a crown robe, is on the left. The Supreme Emperor Yan Duo is sitting on the back of Li Luo's right because of his noble status.

Below Li Zheng, the eldest princess Li Yuan sat, with the lower heads on both sides, and three little princeses in sequence. The youngest King Zhao and Princess Lin'an were held in their arms by Zhen Shanggong and Yan Chan'er.

The eunuchs of the palace held eight jade pieces and served around the Tian family. The imperial guards surrounded the left and right like stars holding the moon.

Secondly, there are seats for civil and military ministers. The so-called seats are not tables and chairs, but seats. More than one thousand or more civil and military officials in Beijing are arranged according to the official titles, and they are in order.

The front is the seats of the priest, the Taiwei, the Grand Master, the Censor, the Duke, and the Prince.

A huge stage was built from the Wutangzhang of the Imperial Seat. This not only requires singing opera, but also performing dances to entertain the emperor.

Eighteen bronze beasts spit out cigarettes, and the smoke was shrouded in smoke. The scene was very grand, but very quiet.

Li Xuan, who served as the ceremonial officer, stood under the Danban and bowed to Li Luo: "Report to Your Majesty, the auspicious time has come, please give me the order."

Li Luo sat upright in the imperial desk and said calmly: "Qi."

"Abide by the order!" Li Xian stood up, turned to face the square, shouting: "Raise the whip and play music!"

With a crisp "bang", a guard raised his quiet whip and whipped it, and several tribute officials shouted together: "Play music!"

"Dongdong-"

"Dangdang—"

First, the bells and drums were together, and then the chimes were played. Dozens of musicians in dresses elegantly waved the wooden hammers, hit three groups of thirty-nine herds, and played the "Shangyuan Music".

At this time, there were only the sounds of bells and chimes, but no sounds of silk and bamboo.

Then, one hundred and eighty young women wearing colorful cloud dresses took the stage and danced slowly with the elegant sound of bells and chimes. Their dance postures were equally elegant and solemn, and the team was huge, and they looked extremely grand.

Such a grand and elegant Zhong Wu immediately made the aura of a great country come to his face.

"Auspicious day, the Tang Dynasty will open up the heavens and establish the great power of literature and martial arts. The great emperor's birthday is the most saint, and all officials will celebrate the birthday of the holy!" Li Xian shouted in a long voice.

"Afraid!" As soon as the quiet whip sounded, four celebratory officials with loud voices shouted together: "Auspicious day, the Tang Dynasty will open its heaven and set its peak... Congratulations to the holy birthday!"

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Relying on the guards, he shouted loudly.

At the same time, the dance of "Shangyuan Music" on the stage also became more vigorous.

In an emergency, Lin Biju, who was the first-rank official, led the eight civil and military officials to go out and turned around to face the north.

Li Zheng, who had been taught, also stood up with the princes and princesses and stood in front.

"Bay!" Li Qiang shouted.

More than a thousand officials bowed together, and their movements were neat and spectacular.

Li Zhengbai was decent, but Li Lu and Li Wei were not so skilled. Even younger people could only be taken by the palace servants.

"Shanhu!"

"I am congratulating the Tang Dynasty on opening up the heavens and establishing the great power of literature and martial arts, and the great saint emperor, who will live forever, have a healthy body, and enjoy the country's fortune forever!" More than a thousand officials congratulated each other, and their voices shook the sky.

"prosper!"

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With a huh, more than a thousand officials stood up together.

"By again!"

"Shanhu!"

"prosper!"

He bowed twelve times, and the holy birthday ceremony was over. This was the result of Li Luo's simplification. He felt sorry for his ministers and children. Because according to tradition, the emperor's birthday was to bow thirty-three times!

It means thirty-three days, one worships one level of heaven!

Li Luo reduced by twenty-one.

Thirty-three times, it’s so many. You know, even the New Year’s Day dynasty, you won’t worship so many times. If this is an old and weak minister, he will probably worship him to death.

After the twelve worships, the older minister was already sweating.

"After the ceremony!" Li Xian shouted again, his voice also broke. The voices of the four celebratory officials were also a little broken.

After the last time, the officials of the rituals could no longer shout "Xing". At this time, all the officials could only kneel on the ground. Their voices were almost broken. Li Luo's title alone was just twelve words, and they had to shout it more than ten times!

Li Luo stood up, stretched out his two wide sleeves and helped him with a low voice, "I thank all officials for congratulations, flat! Enter the table!"

"Thank you, Kaitian Liji... Your Majesty!" After the officials kowtowed again, they stood up and entered the seat. Li Zheng and others also returned to the seat.

Until this time, not only the chimes, but all the instruments were played together. The entire square was immediately immersed in the grand joy.

The 180 dancers on the stage also stepped down and replaced the 64-person music and dance "Celebrate the Shan Yue".

Thousands of palace people held cups and plates like butterflies, and placed them on the table. On each table were eight dishes and fruits, plus a pot of wine.

This was simplified again. According to the Song Dynasty, the emperor had to hold six consecutive meals for a birthday party. Every time a round of drinking, they had to change dishes. There were a total of forty or fifty dishes and fruits. They had to eat for half a day, but they could not finish them.

However, if you can take it home if you can't finish it, this is actually a reward from the Zhao family to their ministers, so that their families can also eat it. The Zhao family also generously delivered food boxes, and ministers with high status even asked the palace servants to deliver endless food to their homes.

Because there are too many to eat, but for the sake of show, Zhao Guanjia came up with a way to "fake dishes". Many dishes are fake, such as fake turtles and fake bear paws.
To be continued...