The five thousand cavalry led by Luo Shixin were restricted from entering Luoyang City, and a large camp was arranged outside the city. Wang Junlin only led more than 400 special force masters at the front, and behind them were more than 10,000 soldiers escorted by the government soldiers.
Goguryeo prisoners, walking in front of these prisoners was Yuan Taejo, who was locked high in a prison cart. In order to prevent him from committing suicide, his limbs and even his teeth had lost the ability to move.
According to Yang Guang's request, the prisoner offering team had to circle the entire Luoyang City before finally arriving in front of the Imperial City and meeting His Majesty the Emperor Yang Guang.
Wang Junlin ignored the fear, excitement, indifference, disgust, hatred and other emotions of the captive Goguryeo people who were watching on both sides. He sat on the blood-maned horse and swayed forward. According to Yang Guang's intention, naturally he could not go too fast.
to end this procession.
After riding a blood-maned horse for half a street, Wang Junlin gradually put the assassination he had just experienced behind him and began to admire the new capital, Luoyang. After all, this was his first time to visit the new capital after it was built.
The roads were lined with trees, providing shade. After walking a few streets, Wang Junlin gradually discovered that the city of Luoyang was very tall. At a glance, it was clear that it was carefully planned, adapted to the terrain, and carefully laid out.
Especially in the streets and lanes of Luoyang City, no matter where you go, the streets and alleys are arranged in neat squares, like a chessboard. The residential buildings are evenly distributed among the chessboards and are in good order.
After circling along the main streets of the city, Wang Junlin led the prisoner offering team towards the palace city in the north.
There are soldiers with bright armor all along the way. The closer you get to the imperial city, the fewer the people are and it becomes more cold. It shows that the emperor inside is aloof, but it also seems to have set up a thick barrier between the emperor and the people.
, this is a feeling of despair among the people.
The imperial city is nine miles around, with palace gates on all sides.
Tianmen is located in the middle of the south wall, opposite Duanmen to the south and Wumen to the north, and runs through the central axis with the main entrances of the central halls.
Under the roar of hoofbeats, the entire imperial city seemed to be shaking.
Wang Junlin was on the left side of Crown Prince Yang Jian. In front of them were five hundred palace riders, followed by an escort team and twenty to thirty thousand Goguryeo prisoners. It was a majestic spectacle.
Soon, Wang Junlin saw the Tianmen of the Imperial City. The gate was divided into two levels, about twenty steps deep, connected to the left and right, and connected by a city wall about eighteen steps wide. The gate was twelve feet high, and the atmosphere was majestic and majestic.
People look intimidated.
At this time, the middle door of the Tianmen was wide open, and from a distance we could see a large group of people, all kinds of grand arrangements, colorful flowers and grand solemnity.
Yang Jian had a gloomy face all the time, while Dugu Changsu looked calm. While riding, he said to Wang Junlin: "There is Yongtai Gate in Tianmen, and then there is the main hall Ganlu Hall, which is specially designed for holding grand ceremonies and receiving foreign envoys.
Your Majesty is waiting for Duke An of Qin there."
Wang Junlin looked around and saw that at the end of Luoshui River and northwest of Waiguo City, there was the magnificent Eastern Palace.
The imperial palace is divided into two parts: the imperial city and the palace city.
The imperial city is surrounded by the east, south and west sides of the palace city and is in a "concave" shape. The north side is separated from the palace city by a city wall.
The walls of the imperial city are all sandwiched, with two layers of walls. The north side has three layers, which further increases its defensive capabilities.
There are four horizontal streets from east to west in the imperial city, intersecting with three straight roads from north to south. The central avenue is on the central axis. Government offices such as provinces, prefectures, temples, and eunuchs are arranged on both sides of the avenue. They are like stars over the moon, never leaving the palace.
The palace city was the residence of Emperor Yang Guang and the place where he met with his ministers.
To the north of the palace city, there are two more cities, Yaoyi and Yuanbi, which put the palace city under heavy siege. The tight defense is even better than the original imperial city of Daxing City.
The prisoner offering procession circled into the inner city and then entered the imperial city. With chaotic cheers all the way, Wang Junlin and his entourage finally stopped at the Tianmen in the south of the imperial city. This is the place where the prisoner offering ceremony was held. According to the ceremony system of the Sui Dynasty
Only those who presented prisoners came to Tianmen, and Xuan Jie went directly to the court meeting. However, Yang Guang also wanted to make the event bigger, so the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War discussed it and carried out the ceremony according to the specifications of the grandest prisoner ceremony, and arranged everything outside Tianmen.
On the imperial road in front of the Tianmen Gate, the imperial guards have set up ceremonial guards along the east and west sides. To the south of the royal road is the Jiaofang Division's big music band. In front of the Tianmen Gate Tower are the Honglu Temple's ceremonial and system officials, and on the east side are the civil and military officials.
The envoys from the vassal state specially brought by Yang Guang and the ordinary civil and military officials were led by Yinli to the south-east position of the imperial road and stood opposite to each other from east to west.
Wang Junlin marched all the way, and when he got to the front, a guide whispered to him some precautions.
The bells in the imperial city rang, and the leader saluted: "Qin An Gong, the emperor has arrived at Tianmen, you must be ready."
Wang Junlin nodded and agreed. Seeing the solemn scene in front of him, he sighed repeatedly in his heart. Yang Guang created such a big pomp just to scare people. In fact, the imperial city is so grand that the Yamen should also be built grander.
That is to say, we must first calm down the person who is doing the work.
As soon as the bells stopped ringing, the Jiaofangsi's band started playing great music. Until a figure in the imperial uniform arrived at the main gate of the Meridian Gate, the music stopped and all the officials present knelt down and worshiped four times.
After kneeling down, the soldiers knelt down more than 10,000 Goguryeo prisoners on the Tianmen Royal Road. Wang Junlin personally lifted Yuan Taizuo up, kicked him and knelt at the front, and then led the ceremonial officer to lead Wang Junlin to kneel down at the Tianmen Gate.
Yu Shiji went out to report the victory loudly to the emperor. After the completion, the Minister of War requested an edict to cite his merits. Wang Junlin was named the Prince of Qin'an on the spot, becoming the first king with a different surname in the Sui Dynasty since Yang Guang became emperor. However, his official position remained unchanged.
, still the prefect of Fanyang County.
Wang Junlin had already been mentally prepared. He knelt down to thank Yang Guang and shouted: "I am following your Majesty's orders to lead the navy. We are all united and will never retreat. We will follow your Majesty's plans and live up to our emperor's plan."
After Wang Junlin finished speaking, he took a peek at the Tianmen Gate. Yang Guang was nodding slightly. Wang Junlin sighed in his heart. This sentence was purely used to flatter Yang Guang and make Yang Guang happy. But right now, Yang Guang needed Wang Junlin's words very much.
words, because no matter how many people can really believe it, at least this is Wang Junlin in full view of the public, once again blaming the emperor for all his achievements in Goguryeo. This is very important to Yang Guang who was defeated at the hands of Goguryeo.
At least Yang Guang takes it very seriously.
The ceremony ended soon, and Wang Junlin was taken into the imperial city by his chamberlain to further meet with Yang Guang.
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Yang Guang met Wang Junlin at the Ganlu Hall, and Wang Junlin paid homage again. His expressions, actions, words and deeds were all extremely respectful.
Yang Guang stared at Wang Junlin for a long time, the light in his eyes flickering. He already knew about the assassination outside the city, and he was almost angry to death by his own son, because in Yang Guang's view, Yang Jian's stupidity was directly
The effect of this prisoner sacrifice was greatly compromised, so he just called Yang Jian over and scolded him, and even slapped him in the face.