Cheng Yaojin's words left Yu Shinan speechless. He glanced at Li Ke and then said, "If His Highness had asked our Rites Department to participate from the beginning, we would have done a good job."
Cheng Yaojin wanted to say that you should pull him down. It's too easy for the people in your etiquette department to do things, but he held back.
"You can't blame me for this. If I let you participate, I don't know how long it will take to organize this event." Li Ke shrugged. The people in the Ministry of Rites had obsessive-compulsive disorder. To be honest, this was the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. Officials in the Ministry of Rites are a little better. Try it when you are an official in the Ministry of Rites in the middle to late dynasty. They will break all the rules and you won't be able to refute them.
"Okay, let me tell you, the scene today is big enough. If something goes wrong with you, your father and I will be embarrassed." Li Shimin didn't even look back, but said directly.
"Don't worry, Dad, nothing will go wrong!" Li Ke said seriously.
When the time came to nine o'clock in the morning, Huo Gang, who was the temporary host, stood up and walked to the microphone and said in a deep voice: "Please be quiet."
As Huo Gang's voice sounded, a loud sound immediately came from the speakers around the square. Although there was an echo from a distance, everyone was still startled. They didn't know how the sound came out. .
But of course no one asked at this time. Even Li Shimin and the ministers who were on top of the city tower couldn't help but glance at the speakers standing under the walls on both sides.
"Now I would like to invite His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to speak." After Huo Gang finished speaking, he stepped aside.
When Li Shimin heard Huo Gang's words, he stood up from his seat and walked to the microphone. The feeling in front of this row of microphones... was quite good, but looking at the dense crowd below, Li Shimin took a deep breath. It could be said that everyone who could see him now had their eyes on him.
Although Li Shimin said he was not nervous about such a scene, it was actually his first time experiencing it.
"Now, I announce that the Tang Dynasty military parade and the Tang Dynasty hero's soul return ceremony will begin!"
As Li Shimin finished speaking, a group of Royal Forest Army generals who were already standing in the central square in the distance and were selected through rigorous training suddenly roared: "Look left and right!"
"Whoa!" They all turned around in unison.
Then there was a neat three-stage sound of "click" and "click", and a total of 207 members of the honor guard raised their own special ceremonial knives with both hands! The instrument sword with a total length of nearly one and a half meters cannot be hung on the waist.
While they were drawing their knives, the three honor guard soldiers in the middle pulled down the ropes they carried.
The red silk cloth covering the huge stone tablet in the center of the square fell down instantly, and the huge stone tablet carved from pure white marble under the silk cloth was displayed in front of everyone for the first time.
On its front, several large characters are written: Monument to the Heroes of the Tang Dynasty. These words were written by Li Shimin himself.
"Let's move together!" Another loud command came.
"Click" "Click" The dull footsteps resounded across the battlefield instantly. The honor guard was composed of all men with a height of 1.8 meters. They were divided into three types of armor, gold, blue, and black.
The three colors represent the golden Royal Guards, the blue Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty, and the black Royal Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Gold in the center, black on the left and blue on the right.
One of the three soldiers in the middle is holding the flag of the Tang Dynasty on his shoulder, while the two soldiers on both sides are holding ceremonial knives with the length of the standard Tang dynasty knife. Behind them are three leaders holding standard ceremonial knives and each leading a square formation.
There are red feathers on their helmets.
"Ka" "Ka" The uniform footsteps made a dull sound on the bluestone of the square, and everyone who could see the ceremony took a breath.
Especially the envoys from various countries standing on the city tower were dumbfounded. How on earth did these people manage to be as uniform as one person? !
But when the honor guard was still close to a hundred meters away from the national flag, something happened that shocked them even more.
"Goose-step!"
"Click" Following the command of the commander, the pace of the honor guard changed into a uniform goose step. Compared with walking in unison, it was more formal and more shocking, especially when the armors they wore were all steel armors.
When the honor guard walked to the flagpole and tied the flag.
Huo Gang announced the next item: "Now, everyone please stand up."
Following Huo Gang's words, Li Shimin stood up from his position on the tower, and all the people below naturally stood up as well.
"Raise the flag! Play music!"
The Tang Dynasty did not have a national anthem, but it had military music for expeditions, and Li Ke adopted this drum music.
Accompanied by the dull drumbeats, the national flag of the Tang Dynasty rose slowly on the flagpole.
When the national flag reaches the top, the drum music just ends.
"Next, I would like to invite His Highness, King Qin of the Tang Dynasty, to speak." Huo Gang said loudly.
Li Ke stood up from his seat, took a deep breath, walked to the microphone, looked at the crowd below, and then Li Ke spoke loudly into the microphone: "Next, please heroes of the Tang Dynasty, soul. Return!"
Li Ke almost shouted the last two words.
Following Li Ke's roar, 7,723 soldiers in total were already lined up on Zhuque Street, holding an 80 cm long and 30 cm wide urn in their arms.
When they took steps, a soldier standing on the back of the Mingde Gate Tower and on the wall facing Zhuque Street in the city waved a flag in his hand.
All the soldiers who had been paying attention to the flag spoke almost at the same time.
"In the vast sea of people." The uniform voices of more than 7,000 soldiers rang out. At first, their voices were very low.
But as the singing began, their voices gradually began to grow louder.
"Who am I?" The voices of more than 7,000 people gathered into an unprecedented sound that resounded throughout Chang'an City. At this moment in the city, all the people watching the ceremony on both sides of Zhuque Street were stunned!
Every word these soldiers sang was simple and they understood it.
But the shock of the combined voices of more than 7,000 people seemed to be echoed by those heroic spirits.
At this moment, all the people watching the ceremony on the city tower didn't know why they were singing, and it was a relatively unique song, but the sound of the majestic man's deep voice made everyone feel like they were singing. It was as if an electric current surged up and rushed straight to the back of his head.
"In the rushing waves..."
"Which one am I?"
"In the team protecting Datang..."
"The one who fights selflessly is me!"
As these lines were sung, the voices of more than 7,000 people became louder and louder! Getting louder and louder! Until it resounds throughout the sky!
Li Shimin, who was standing there at the moment, although he didn't see the soldiers coming out, heard these songs, which were obviously very ordinary songs, but an inexplicable blood rushed to his head.
