The singing went from being sung alone, to being echoed by the surrounding people, then to being joined by people, and finally becoming one.
The sound of tens of thousands of people shouting under the influence of drunkenness would be a thunderous sound, and it would be even more flavorful.
The song spread out, hovering outside the city of Beijing, and passed over the city wall into the city, shocking the people who were paying attention.
"This is a new military song written by His Majesty. The tune is exactly the same as the previous two songs!"
"Your Majesty is prepared for danger in times of peace. Before the foreign enemies are gone, Your Majesty is thinking about the future and starts to alert the soldiers!"
"Yes, since becoming an ancestor, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have relaxed so much that they have been beaten for more than two hundred years!"
"If that day comes, even if I am not a sergeant, I will go to the battlefield if necessary. If I cannot defeat the enemy, then I will consume their strength and supplies!"
"Yes, when the time comes, we old bones will go up first, and when we are dead, you will go up, and finally the younger ones will come in!"
"Uncle, we don't like to hear what you are saying. If we don't fight our young and strong young men first, who will? You should just teach the boys from behind!"
"But I think we have no chance. Who would dare to provoke Daming at this time?"
"That's right. I still have one breath left and my will to fight is unquenchable. I dare not say anything else. At least within a hundred years, Ming Dynasty will definitely be the strongest."
"Nowadays, the salary of sergeants is really good. In the future, recruitment conditions are expected to be as high as the sky. In the first two years, we thought we were going to die, but we didn't expect that it was our last chance!"
"I heard from the gossip that today's reward banquet is a buffet style. You can eat all the wine and food you want. It is said that the standard is two taels of silver per person!"
"Two taels of silver? My dear, I can't make two taels of silver in a month. They eat two taels of silver in one meal. It's so extravagant!"
"What's this? The soldiers fought desperately on the battlefield, destroyed the slaves, conquered Mongolia, and surrendered Korea. This is a huge achievement. What's the point of eating something good?"
"Yes, this is all paid for with your life. No matter how good the food is, it is never too good. Without them fighting to the death, how can you still be miserable here? Get out of here!"
…
In the open space outside Deshengmen, the soldiers were reveling.
On the contrary, the officials in the capital also followed suit and had a meal.
Upstairs at the city gate, although it was also a self-service style, Chongzhen and his ministers were relatively more polite.
Chongzhen stood at the entrance of the crenel, watching with great interest the soldiers drinking, fighting, and competing in martial arts. His heart was itching, and he wished he could go down and play.
But he knew that the officials would not let him go down.
This celebration banquet lasted from midnight to midnight.
Surprisingly, there were not many soldiers who were extremely drunk during the carnival. The soldiers supported each other and slowly walked towards their respective military camps, leaving a mess on the ground.
After watching the last soldier leave the venue, the two to three thousand chefs all breathed a sigh of relief. After wiping their sweat, they sat down on the ground.
They were in pain and happiness, all grinning.
"Old Wang, how do you feel?"
"It doesn't matter. If I can hold on for another three hours, I will be happy if I can prepare a celebration banquet for the soldiers and exhaust myself to death!"
"Okay, don't hold on, your right hand is going to cramp!"
"Mom, although I was good at this dish in the past, I always felt that something was missing. Today I have made it hundreds of times and I have gained new insights. Maybe I can go further when I go back and think about it!"
"Hey...I feel the same way, but...I don't want to do it within half a month, I almost made myself sick!"
"I don't know who will be among the top ten famous chefs. I thought that my nine-turn large intestine should be there. As you can see, I haven't stopped doing this since the beginning!"
"You can pull me down, it's just to see if your nine-turn large intestine can eat... shit!"
"Regardless of whether I am rated or not, I will make a lot of money this time. All the travel expenses will be reimbursed, and I will be given three times the reward!"
"Yes, it doesn't matter whether you want the reward or not. What's important is that I didn't expect to be able to visit the capital in this life and see His Majesty. That's enough!"
"I think it is our blessing to have a celebration banquet for the soldiers of the Northern Army who wiped out the slaves and crippled Mongolia.
Didn't His Majesty say in the afternoon that he would conquer Fusang from the east, so I will definitely come to the celebration banquet next time. It is a supreme honor! "
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The cooks who were in charge were sitting on the floor, leaning on the legs of the table, enduring the fatigue and joking with each other, and they were very happy.
"Quick, quick, move fast!"
"The scene must be cleaned up within an hour. Once we're done, we can go back to sleep for two hours!"
"Brothers, don't worry. I promise that next time we can eat and drink here and let those idiots from Tengxiang Zuowei stand guard for us!"
"Now they just regained Liaodong. Next time we destroy Fusang, that will be awe-inspiring!"
…
Tengxiang right guard commander Zhou Yuji directed the sergeants to clean the scene of the celebration banquet, with clear division of labor and skillful movements.
In less than an hour, except for the scorched earth left by the burning stove and the aroma of oil and wine soaked into the earth, there was no trace of the banquet in the entire scene.
It was quiet outside the city, but the people inside the city couldn't sleep. Today's celebration party really stimulated them.
Envy, jealousy, regret, and longing are all thinking about how to join the army and serve the country.
After the Jiannu were destroyed, most of the tribes in Mongolia surrendered, and North Korea surrendered, when the emperor crippled Fusang, there would be no place for melee battles. Fusang was the place where the final battles were won.
The military camp that was the most despised and unthinkable in the past has now become a favorite.
With this entanglement and regret, while tossing and turning, dawn came.
However, Chongzhen slept until three o'clock in the morning before he woke up. After the banquet yesterday, he told the officials to rest for seven days before going to court.
If he doesn't rest, then Yuan Keli, Li Guopu and other civil servants who are accompanying him and doing the work themselves also need to rest!
For seven consecutive days, he spent the morning teasing Zhu Cihong in the Kunning Palace, the afternoon in the Dongnuang Pavilion reviewing some of the memorials he had collected during his nearly four months away, and the night in the Kunning Palace.
On the last afternoon of the holiday, Chongzhen slowly climbed up Meishan Mountain.
Standing under the ancient locust tree in Meishan that he ordered to be chained up, overlooking the city of Beijing under the setting sun and with the faint sound of hawking coming from it, my heart was filled with emotion.
Then he patted the locust tree gently and said to himself: "Did you know that I have hardly had a good night's sleep in the past three years or so? I have been working hard, walking on thin ice, for fear that if I make a wrong step, Ming Dynasty will collapse.
I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that after my death, the people of Ming Dynasty will be massacred and enslaved by the slaves, and I am even more afraid that China will be bullied by the world's powers two hundred years later. "
"I destroyed Jiannu and changed the outcome of history. The Ming Dynasty is now prosperous and has no fear of any foreign enemies!"
"However, just rewriting the ending is not enough. Ming Dynasty still has two major difficulties. If it cannot overcome it, Ming Dynasty will be knocked back to its original shape!"
When talking about the two difficulties, a hint of fear flashed in Chongzhen's eyes, and then he fell into deep thought.
