Zhao Bing could read the thick stack of comments carefully at first, but he didn't like red tape, thinking that this was not only a torment to himself, but also a torment to everyone. But he also knew that he also needed a sense of ritual in specific occasions, which could be regarded as a spiritual pursuit of human beings, wanting to leave a bright color in his limited life.

For example, on the 18th birthday, school opening ceremony, flag-raising ceremony, degree awarding ceremony, etc., and even now he remembers that he has to kowtow to his elders during the New Year, so that he can get red envelopes. He always visits the graves of his deceased relatives during the Qingming Festival. In fact, these can be regarded as rituals to express our love, our expectations, our respect and our longing. This is a yearning for a better life and a cherishment of the life journey.

The military rituals of the Song Dynasty basically followed the previous dynasties and were implemented according to the examples. This ritual follows the etiquette spirit of feudal society, and the idea of ​​empowering the monarchs and visiting the emperors on behalf of the emperor is deeply rooted in various activities, and uses etiquette to regulate the various behaviors of the emperor, sacred and mysterious, and thus safeguard the supreme status of the emperor.

Now that such a grand triumphal ceremony is to be held, the process expresses nothing more than the meaning of the emperor living up to the trust of God and his ancestors, thanking the gods for their blessings, and successfully completing the punishment and rebellion on behalf of heaven. The complex rituals and the creation of a majestic atmosphere, highlighting the imperial power, and making the subjects feel awe, so that they dare not develop a sense of resistance.

"Your Majesty, the edict of the triumphant return to the court was promulgated earlier to avoid causing panic in the court and the people!" Liu Fu saw that the young emperor would read carefully at first, but later he simply picked up a pen to read one by one, and the letters after review were turned into the hands of several people and handed them over to them to implement. He saw that the edict was criticized for the word "suspended" and politely said to him.

"It's better to promulgate after passing Xiuzhou. Otherwise, the prefectures and counties will have to greet and see each other one after another, which is too troublesome!" Zhao Bing replied without raising his head.

"Your Majesty, when you left Xiangyang that day, you should issue an edict to the world. Now it has been much delayed and you can't delay any more!" Liu Fu said again.

"The boat entered the canal, and the speed was already very slow. If you have to delay the journey, you will not be able to enter Beijing at the end of the month..." Zhao Bing stopped writing and frowned.

"His Majesty……"

"Xiang Liu, Your Majesty is right, and the fleet was attacked on the way, so Your Majesty ordered the concealment of the itinerary to avoid being plotted by a small boy." Wang Yinglin was with him for a year and adapted to the on-site working method of the young emperor. Many things were decided while discussing, and then immediately drafted an order to implement it. The efficiency was very high. Now that he had a dispute, he quickly explained.

"Wang Xiang, this is the etiquette. It's not easy to make modifications!" Xu Zongren said from the side.

"Well, what Xu Shangshu said." Wang Yinglin stroked his beard and said, "We can make some adjustments and immediately inform the world of the imperial edict of returning to the court, but we can add a sentence of 'Don't welcome the prefectures and counties along the way'. This will demonstrate Your Majesty's kindness and avoid the cumbersomeness of welcoming and seeing off. What do you think?"

"Well, what do Liu Xiang think?" Xu Zongren thought it was good, nodded, and then asked Liu Fu.

"Feable!" This operation did not destroy the etiquette and met the requirements of the young emperor. Liu Fu pondered for a moment.

"I immediately sent someone to revise the edict and promulgate it to the whole world!" Seeing that neither the two deputy ministers had any objections, Xu Zongren asked them to accompany the pen and asked His Majesty to review it, and immediately sent someone to do it.

"I think this one can be changed!" Zhao Bing asked Wang De to pass on another note to them, "After the edict is issued, we will worship the gods along the way, the rivers and lakes. There is no need to do this, we can't go back to the army one by one. Moreover, I was also on the way to the marching, and I also worshipped the Taoist holy land, Xiaomingshan, and went to Jiuhua Mountain, the Taoist temple of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to sing incense and give alms as sacrifices."

"Your Majesty, this is inconsistent with etiquette. You should send a place to worship one by one." Xu Zongren said.

"No need, from Xiangfan to the capital, I passed countless mountains and rivers and lakes on the way, and there were more than a hundred gods and ghosts. And I am the emperor, do they still dare to make things difficult for me?" Zhao Bing waved his hand.

"Puchi..." Xie Fangde has already been removed from office and has no official position now, so it is difficult to interfere in political affairs. But after hearing the little emperor's "high remarks", he couldn't help laughing. On the way, he looked at Mingshan from Leichi, but never worshiped him. He also returned the miracle to the illusion and nothingness, and never believed in it. He was even more excessive in Jiuhua Mountain. Not only Dizang, but even the gods and Buddhas all over the mountain praised and criticized him, and did not even mention the incense. The so-called donation is just the cost of vegetarian food and accommodation for the group. Instead, he gave Lu Xu an idea to smash the monks' jobs and cut off their financial path. Now he swears that he has worshipped, isn't it funny?

"Mr. Xie, don't lose your manners in the palace!" Xie Fangde smiled, which made everyone look at him. Others didn't understand why, but Wang Yinglin knew what he was laughing at, so he quickly raised his face and said 'reprimand'.

"The emperor knew he was wrong!" Xie Fangde quickly claimed the crime, "But the emperor thought that Your Majesty's words were not completely unreasonable. Those mountain gods, Hebo, and the mountain spirits and water monsters worshipped in the countryside should not be worshipped by the emperor. Otherwise, the heaven and earth will have spirits and gods and Buddhas will also blame Your Majesty for not knowing the importance and good or bad!"

"What he said seems to make sense!" Wang Yinglin nodded. He knew that it would be impossible to insist on letting the gods on the road in the future worship it. Not only because he did not believe in the sayings of ghosts and gods, but more importantly, he was reluctant to waste money. However, how to pass the test is to test the wisdom of these ministers, think about it.

"During the Northern Expedition, Your Majesty issued several edicts, allocating silver to rebuild the Fire God Temple, building Fuxi Temple and many temples, rebuilding the schools of various prefectures, and restoring the sacrifices of Confucius. He also issued a goal to collect new prefectures to build temples to commemorate the soldiers who died on the battlefield in the war against foreign invasions, famous scholars and people who died in the country. They have countless merits, and even if they are lacking, God will not blame them."

"Your Majesty has good morals and knowledge, but he cannot be polite. I remember that my Taizu was fighting and going to the court, and he only worshiped the temple within ten miles of the capital, offering wine and jerky!" Liu Fu thought to himself, believing in your words, he would be a ghost. How could the little emperor not know what he could do? He could deposed Yan Shenggong, and he could imagine how much respect he had in his heart. But seeing through but not saying it is the way to be a minister. Naturally, he would not say it out loud, but instead gave it a step.

"Since there is a good example, I have no objection!" Xu Zongren is also an old minister. He is about to retire. Why should he make the emperor unhappy? Besides, two hundred years have passed since the Taizu Dynasty. The document records Dianyi had long been lost in the war. It is said that he can explain the situation clearly at that time. Since he said there is, then there is.

"That's great!" Zhao Bing praised little, "I think this prisoner ceremony can be modified by one or two. Although we won a great victory in this battle, we did not capture the enemy leader. A king of Zhennan even asked him to break through. Several people like that were beaten to death. It was really boring to get a few ten thousand men, small fish and shrimps like Daruhuachi and Privy who were in the pseudo-province provinces to fill the storefront. I also feel that it is a loss of my face."

"Then Your Majesty thinks it should be revised?" Xu Zongren said with a frown.

The ceremony of offering prisoners is the most critical and important part of the ritual. After entering the city, it is necessary to tie the captured enemy chief up to the Taimiao with Bai Lian, and Taishe made a symbolic ceremony, and then perform the ceremony of offering prisoners on the palace gate. The emperor set up tents and seats in the front pavilion of the gate tower, and all civil and military officials and prisoners and prisoners were set up on the left and right downstairs, and a position of offering prisoners a little south in front of the building.

After all the officials arrived, the servants raised the flag plaque upstairs with red silk rope bags to report to the emperor. The emperor took his seat, and the officials shouted long live to salute. The servants announced the "introduction of prisoners" and brought the prisoners to the position of prisoners. The servants read out the "Lubu" (good news) to defeat the enemy in public. The Minister of Justice reported that the prisoners would hold the prisoners in a certain place and handed over to the office for disposal.

At this time, if the emperor ordered the execution of the death penalty, the Dali Qing would be taken to the court; if the emperor ordered the release, the ministers would issue an order to release the bondage first, and then announce the release. The captured people shouted long live the three times and then thanked them. All civil and military officials would also dance again with the scepter (insert the scepter plate on the belt) and shouted long live the scepter, bringing the entire Dianyi to the climax.

If the "providing prisoner ceremony" was missing, Xu Zongren thought that the entire Dianyi would have lost his soul. But think about the little emperor's past achievements, Jiuzhouhai killed the Mongol Yuan general Liu Shen, the Yashanhai Battle, the brothers of Zhang Hongfan, the Xuanwei envoy of the Mongol Jiangdong Dao, and conquered Quanzhou to kill Pu Shougeng, and captured the son of Sodu alive. After that, he lost the Mongol Yuan army in previous battles of defense of Qiongzhou, and finally even Ali Hague, who was in charge of Huguang, was beaten to death. The battle to recover Jiangnan killed countless generals, so compared with the achievements before, this Northern Expedition did not capture any important figures in the Mongol Yuan as the young emperor said.

"I think it can be changed to the 'flag throwing ceremony'," Zhao Bing said, "We can ask the soldiers participating in the war to lift the enemy's chief flags captured when they entered the city, and throw the flags and seals before the Taimiao when they worship the Taimiao to let the people watch. This move can not only demonstrate the achievements of our army, but also boost the morale of the military and civilians, and make the Mongolian Yuan and the foreigners frightened."

"Well, this move is very wonderful. During the Northern Expedition, our army annihilated hundreds of thousands of enemies on various battlefields and killed thousands of generals. The captured enemy war flags could be thousands of captured. The soldiers of our army carried the enemy flag into the city and presented them to the Taimiao, which was seen by millions of people. It was much more spectacular than killing or releasing several enemy chiefs!" Liu Fu first praised that hundreds of battle flags were quite spectacular, and thousands of battle flags were spread out at the same time to cover the sky and the sun. A battle flag represents that a Mongolian and Yuan army was completely wiped out. The scene was enough to make people excited and the feeling was more shocking than killing individuals.
Chapter completed!