It Starts With A Mountain

Chapter 227

A soft jacket on a small coat, armor on a soft jacket, throat guards, elbow pads, shawls, heart guards...the same should not be missing.

Yang Long stopped to put on his armor under the service of the servant, thought for a while, and then held the long-used bodyguard in his hand.

but saw him:

Dressed in bright silver armor, with tiger-headed boots, the monster swallowing pearls is brilliant, the beast's face is inlaid with golden rings, the sword hides frost, and people let go of murderous intentions.

Li Shanyan stared blankly at this scene, and said: "My lord, do you need this?"

"Why don't you need it? It's not too long to do things carefully. It's enough to be paralyzed once." Yang Longting clenched the knife in his hand: "I look like this, I'm sure it's safe."

"So... doesn't the lord feel hot?" Li Shanyan.

"This is indeed a little hot."

In such weather, Li Shanyan was sweating profusely just wearing a cloth, not to mention that he was wearing hundreds of pounds of armor. In fact, during the dressing process just now, Yang Longting was sweating profusely.

In the end, he still took off the heavy armor and changed into a cloth armor. Of course, the soft armor inside could not be taken off. Even though it was a bit boring, Yang Longting felt that it was not important for safety reasons.

There was a queue waiting outside the door. The original arrangement of the Ministry of Rites was for Yang Long to stop riding a tall horse and go around Chang'an Street, so that the people of Chang'an City could admire the demeanor of the God of War. However, this arrangement was stopped by Yang Long, who openly paraded through the streets without a horse that blocked me. What if someone assassinated me? Wouldn't I be reimbursed if someone shoots an arrow from a height.

So the high-headed horse was replaced by a closed sedan chair, and the guards who protected him ranged from 300 to 1,000 people. Every street that walked through was surrounded by fully-armed guards, and there must be strong bows and crossbows at high places. people are vigilant.

But even so, it could not resist the enthusiasm of the people of Chang'an City, and the worship of the Lord of War by scholars all over the world.

How many people are trendy, how many people with tears in their eyes, throw flowers on the street through the barrier of the Praetorian Guards.

"Let's take a look."

"Master God of War, please take care of your health."

"Be sure to drink plenty of hot water and don't stay up late."

Flowers are full of flowers. For today's event, how many flower shops in the city have been sold out, and how many daughters of gold have been worn out because they went to pick flowers outside the city.

Go through the long streets and enter the Urn City of the Imperial City, where the champion of martial arts will be decided today.

After entering here, Yang Longting was completely relieved. He was now in the center of the empire, and the closest to him was His Majesty Emperor Ming. No matter how skilled the assassin was, he probably wouldn't be able to get in.

When Yang Long stopped, Cheng Dalei had been waiting for a long time. His official position is much lower than that of Yang Longting, so on such occasions, it is natural to arrive early and wait for arrangements. Therefore, Cheng Dalei had gone through all kinds of complicated rituals, his patience was exhausted a little bit, and he was so annoyed that he almost forgot the purpose of coming here today.

When Yang Longting appeared, Cheng Dalei glanced over there from a distance.

For a time, that uneasy feeling enveloped Yang Longting again. He looked around, trying to determine where the uneasy feeling came from. Is it because the weather is too hot and you have heat stroke?

And Yang Longting didn't know that there was another person at the moment who felt similar to him. Jin asked sitting on the high platform, and his mood was not good for a moment. Where did this feeling of being dominated by nightmares come from.

Emperor Ming was also present today, including the civil and military officials of the imperial court, as well as the negotiating group of the Rong tribe, and there were many scholars outside. Of course, the origins of these scholars are strictly scrutinized.

Cheng Dalei was not qualified to sit in the stands to watch the ceremony. He was standing in the center of the venue. I don't know why the court was so crazy that he was asked to be the examiner today.

With Cheng Dalei's little political acumen, he would naturally not know that this was the Ming Emperor's way of admiring him. After today, he, Qu Jiujiang, and Liu Qing will become the rising stars of the empire. The future is limitless.

The candidate for the top spot in Wu will be decided between Qu Jiujiang and Liu Qingming. The exam consists of three parts: archery, horse fighting, and questioning.

Archery and horse warfare are easy to understand. The so-called questioning strategy means that Emperor Ming personally asks questions to test their views on national affairs and military strategy. And in the last link, Emperor Ming will decide who is the first in martial arts this time.

The first is the first, and the second is not remembered.

The first round is arrows.

clang!

Cheng Dalei banged the gong heavily, and uttered two words weakly.

"start"

The arrow method is compared to horse shooting. Each person has ten arrows in the arrow basket, and the horse runs fast and shoots all the arrows in a stick of incense. Scarecrows stood a hundred paces away from them, and they scored points based on where they hit, and the winner was finally decided.

Liu Qingming was the first to appear, with a big black horse under him. As the fast horse ran past, the horse's hoof splashed loess, and he drew a bow and arrow, and the feathered arrow burst out of the air.

"Liu Qingming, ten arrows hit the target, one for the head, one for the throat, three for the shoulders, one for the chest, and four for the lower body."

The small school that reported the target reported Liu Qingming's grades, not only to let Cheng Dalei hear, but also to let the surrounding scholars hear.

Liu Qingming was qualified to be proud. Immediately, the archery test was not only in archery but also in riding. It was not easy to achieve such results on an undulating horse with the cooperation of the horses under him.

Liu Qingming unloaded the bow and arrow, recovered his strength to prepare for the next battle, and also wanted to see if Qu Jiujiang could surpass himself.

Qu Jiujiang was a scholar who was good at poetry, poetry, chess, calligraphy and painting. As for his martial arts, no one knew him. However, if you have the courage to participate in this martial arts exercise, your ability should not be weak.

He rode out on a white horse, and this scene made many people envious. Young Master White Horse, fighting for the first place before the rest of the world is so cool. What is the number one, the number one is that I am stronger than all of you, not to mention that today is the number one in the entire empire.

The level of attention of this martial arts in the empire is beyond many people's imagination. According to what Cheng Dalei knew, someone in Chang'an City had already opened a bet, and a lot of people had put money on the two of them, betting on who could win the competition.

"Qu Jiujiang, ten arrows hit the target, two for the head, one for the throat, two for the shoulders, one for the chest, and four for the lower body."

After the results were reported, it can be said that there was an uproar, and Cheng Dalei was also stunned. He did not expect this result himself.

In this competition, three points for the head, three points for the throat, three points for the chest, two points for the shoulders and torso, and one point for the lower body.

Qu Jiujiang's grades were even better than Liu Qingming's. He really pretended to be a pig to eat a tiger.

Cheng Dalei pouted, hit the gong heavily, and shouted loudly.

"The first archery, the winner, Qu Jiujiang."