General, your bun is here!

However, there are still quite a few refugees stranded outside the city. Although they only account for about half of the original number, there are thousands of them at least.Many of them were instigated and still insisted that it was a scam for the court to send them back to their original places. They thought they could tell the difference between a tael of silver and their lives.As for why they persist in believing that they can survive if they stay outside the capital, it is not known.

The gathering of thousands of refugees is still not something to be underestimated. The imperial court increased the guards and patrols of the capital defenders, imperial guards, and the Fifth Battalion of the Northern Army. Like Chen Yu, Zhao Neng was also transferred back to the capital. Ren Qi Duwei, as the emperor's confidant, especially one of the few people who have mysterious worship and admiration for the current empress among the current civil and military ministers, has always been entrusted with important tasks.As early as when a large number of refugees flocked to the capital and attracted the attention of the imperial court, Xuanming gave him full command of the defense of the capital and the refugees outside the city.

However, Zhao Neng's brain circuits were less crooked and straighter, but he did this matter in a serious and orderly manner.People who are poor want to change, especially when tens of thousands of refugees who have no food and clothing and don’t know if there will be tomorrow gather in the outer edge of the capital, a first-class rich and prosperous place, the men and women among them Young and old, those who have a little strength to toss, can give you some moths to toss casually.

When Xuanming entrusted such an important task to Zhao Neng, many veteran ministers in the court were still waiting to see the jokes and bullied Zhao Neng, and Xuanming was still too young to judge and employ people.

But Zhao Nengzhen still did it in a disciplined manner. Although there were younger refugees from time to time, who still had a little strength, they went into the city to steal some food and belongings, but so far no big troubles have really happened.Of course, the defense of the capital city can be like an iron barrel, which is also inseparable from Xuanming's absolute control over the military power in the capital today, and this has been done well, let those with ulterior motives and no big picture view go around fanning the ghostly wind and lighting up will-o'-the-wisps, not watching the excitement No matter how uncomfortable people jump, they will not lose control.

In the blink of an eye, seven days later, the day when Zhang Xiaoqiu went up to the altar to pray for rain.

This ceremony of praying for rain is basically fully guided by Maoji, which is also the condition it puts on Zhang Xiaoqiu and the guarantee to Xuanming.Zhang Xiaoqiu fully thought that this was a necessary ritual to pray for rain with the force of his wish, but Xuanming got Maoji's guarantee, knowing that praying for rain would not do any harm to the two of them, so he couldn't help it. directed.

Those few days preparing for the ceremony of praying for rain was really the biggest event in the palace. Eunuch Lian next to the emperor, Eunuch Bi next to Zhang Xiaoqiu, and the two chief stewards in the palace were handed over to Maoji to direct.

It's just that others can't understand what Maoji said, and Maoji didn't dare to turn on the human language mode easily, so he took his younger brother Zhu Wu into the palace as a sounding board, and by the way, there were two little boys, Qiuqiu and Bao'er, who didn't think it was a big deal. Guys are on the sidelines.

Although the palace people are not convinced by Zhu Wu, they think he is using chicken feathers as arrows.Although Maoji is a popular person next to the emperor, empress and little prince, he is naturally superior, but they don't really take Maoji seriously in their hearts. Even if they think he is a bit unusual, they don't think that Maoji can really understand what they say and can command What's more, I feel that Zhu Wu is using the mouth of a chicken to command them, and I feel a little dissatisfied.However, since the emperor and empress agreed to this matter, they naturally had to obediently obey Zhu Wuchuan's orders.

After Zhang Xiaoqiu was tortured by the chicken for three or four days in a row, he really regretted it a bit, and thought to himself, why does the chicken only have such feathers!

It didn't know where it found the ceremony of the emperor worshiping the ancestors of the heaven, earth, sun, moon, and the country. It found Da Zhu Ling and Da Yu Le Ling to advise him. It chose a chime bell and drum music that it thought was the most pleasing to the ear in the past rituals, and played another song. It is said that the set is a sacrificial dance performed by the great wizard during sacrifices, and Zhang Xiaoqiu was asked to practice there all day long.

Zhang Xiaoqiu couldn't help but questioned, "Maoji, tell me the truth, it takes so much red tape to exchange wish power for a rain?! Back then in the desert, I blocked Brother Xuanming. When shooting an arrow, there is no need for any ceremony at all!"

Maoji's fluffy round face showed no guilt at all, but his dark pudding eyes flickered a little, "cough, cough, you know you are not prepared to block that arrow for Xuanming, so why don't you say so?" You have completely forgotten Xuanming for two or three years! If you still want to forget your elder brother Xuanming, or maybe even forget Qiuqiu, then you don’t need to prepare these rituals!”

Qiuqiu and Baoer, who had been watching the excitement, clapped their little hands and shouted cheerfully,

"Daddy is so pretty!"

"My brother is so pretty!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Qiuqiu heard Maoji's words, he immediately rushed into the arms of Zhang Xiaoqiu, who was sitting tired and resting on the couch, like a little crying bag, and said sadly, "Qiuqiu Daddy don’t forget about Qiuqiu! Daddy don’t forget about Qiuqiu!”

Zhang Xiaoqiu really felt that one head was as big as two, but he was dumbfounded and distressed by the little guy, so he hugged his fleshy and soft body and coaxed, "Daddy won't forget, Daddy won't Forget it, the fluffy chicken is teasing you."

The chicken beside him snorted triumphantly, and continued to instruct Zhang Xiaoqiu what to do.

The time to pray for rain is at dusk and sunset, when the yang energy changes from strong to weak in a day, and the yin qi changes from weak to strong in a day.

In Qilidi from Miyagi to Lingtai, there are lined up on both sides of the street dressed in armor and holding spears, each of them is tall and straight, looking from a distance, they are really not ordinary mighty.These soldiers held torches in the other hand, which had not yet been lit at dusk.

The Lingtai covers a vast area, with a three-story circular high platform in the middle, vermilion turrets at the four corners, and soldiers standing on top of it.There is a long stairway to the north of the high platform. In the middle is an encounter that can accommodate a carriage, and on both sides are auxiliary roads about two steps wide.

At the end of Shenshi and the beginning of Youshi, the sound of horns sounded from Taishe and Taimiao three miles away from Miyagi, and the guard of honor of the emperor and empress set out from Taishe Taimiao.Every hundred steps on both sides of the road, there were soldiers holding horns. After the sound of the horns, all the horns immediately remembered. The ceremony of praying for rain was started by the thick and distant horns. In the atmosphere.

Whether it was on both sides of the streets in the city or around the Lingtai outside the city, except for the civil and military ministers who were waiting earlier, there were people and refugees everywhere, and there were huge crowds of people.Most of them just join in the fun, and there are very few people who really believe that this ceremony can pray for rain.However, there are also fans of Zhang Xiaoqiu, and he felt that he couldn't miss the chance to meet Xiao Qingyi after all.

At the end of Youshi and the beginning of Xushi, basically everything is ready, and the sun basically sets completely.All four torches on the high platform were suddenly ignited, and as if they had received a signal, they went north from the Lingtai to the two sides of a straight and wide street in Taishe Taimiao, and the torches were lit one after another in an orderly manner.

The entire capital suddenly lit up like a long fire dragon, creating a grand sight.

The chime bells and drums above the Lingtai sounded immediately, the sound was thick and desolate, it was not too loud and piercing if you heard it nearby, and it was vague and subtle when you heard it from a distance, and suddenly the whole capital city fell into an atmosphere.

On this day, Zhang Xiaoqiu was wearing a red and white sacrificial phoenix costume, a wide robe with long sleeves, and a jade and phoenix crown on his head. Xuanming was wearing a black and black sacrificial dragon costume, all in the majesty of the emperor.

According to Maoji's arrangement, Xuanming played the piano with Zhang Xiaoqiu at the southwest corner of the high platform.