Chapter 486 Shocking Appearance
In front of Xi'an Gate.

The emperor, who was walking out of the palace, had not yet arrived.

The cabinet ministers headed by Gao Gong, Yuan Wei and Li Chunfang were in a standoff with the court officials headed by the Minister of Rites Yan Ne.

As the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department, Lu Fang just accompanied the factory guards and silently watched the changes on the scene.

They seemed to be waiting for the right opportunity.

After all, it was not the first time that officials of this dynasty had given advice, and people knew very well how the emperor would deal with it.

It's nothing more than the two words "beating with a stick in court".

Gao Gong was very worried that Lu Fang, who had already taken his men out of the palace, would once again use the power of beating in court.

Even if Yan Ne had really compared himself to a treacherous villain in the court, if Lu Fang really used the court cane, he would have to bite the bullet and stop him.

Fortunately, everyone from the Bingmasi was there.

This group of people are not under the direct jurisdiction of the palace, but are under the command of the court. If a beating is really needed, these people can be relied upon to block it.

But Gao Gong was somewhat reluctant to be the military commander to stop Lu Fang's men.

By doing so, he would inevitably be pushed to the opposite side of the emperor because of Yan Ne and his gang.

The position of the top cabinet chair hasn’t even warmed up yet!
Gao Gong's heart was in a mess.

But at this moment.

Outside Xi'anmen Street, there was a sound of orderly horse hooves.

The sound was getting closer and closer, gradually becoming deafening.

Even the Xi'anmen Street, which was paved with bluestone, seemed to begin to tremble. The gravel on the ground was jumping, echoing the sound of horse hooves coming from afar.

Suddenly appearing in the capital, the orderly sound of horse hooves outside the palace instantly attracted everyone's attention.

The common people and civil and military officials on Xi'anmen Street all stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks to see the source of the sound.

The crowd in front has begun to automatically disperse to both sides of the street.

at last.

People saw where the sound came from.

On the street, behind the dispersed crowd.

It was a whole cavalry unit in full gear.

The warhorse was completely dark black, with a polished, shiny vest fixed on its head. Its dark eye sockets seemed to be filled with the gaze of the god of death calling out. From time to time, two streams of hot air spit out of its nostrils, rolling and surging in the team, as if a tangible breath enveloped the entire team.

On the backs of these uniform war horses were cavalrymen wearing full-body visors, half-body iron armor on their upper bodies, face-covering helmets on their heads, and holding long spears with red tassels.

All over the street, the cavalry was lined up in a row, with eleven riders in each row.

The eleven riders in the front had long red ribbons tied to their upright red-tasseled spears. As the cavalrymen advanced, the ribbons fluttered high in the wind.

The cavalrymen's rhythm control was perfect.

No one could see how many people there were in this unknown cavalry team that suddenly appeared.

however.

These people and the horses under them seemed to be just one person and one horse.

Every step forward is a step taken by the horse's hoof.

There are countless war horses, but there is only one sound of horse hooves.

On horseback, the cavalrymen, armed to the teeth, controlled the rhythm of their bodies as their horses moved forward.

They are like waves, one after another, silently and pressing forward like a mountain.

In front of the Xi'an Gate, there was no other sound except the sound of horse hooves and the panting of war horses.

Everything seemed to be silent at this moment.

Silence.

Without anyone's reminder or needing to be driven away, the common people who gathered at the intersection of Xi'anmen Street, the soldiers of the Bingmasi who were blocking the street, and the officials from various departments of the capital who had rushed to watch the excitement, all suppressed their breath and silently retreated to both sides.

Among the officials who retired, the eyes and expression of Yan Shifan, the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice, continued to exude fanatical emotions.

A total of 1,111 war horses and 1,111 armored cavalrymen turned into Xi'anmen Street.

Hundreds of cavalrymen on the left and right sides of the team began to ride their horses forward. Every time they were a certain distance away, a cavalryman at the end of the team would rein in his horse and stop, then turn his horse around and face his comrades on the opposite side, leaving Xi'anmen Street in front of them.

When the two cavalrymen at the front of the team reined in their horses, stopped, and turned their horses around, they had already arrived at the gate of Xi'an!

then.

Among the eleven cavalrymen in the second row, the one in the middle with a taller figure rode forward alone.

He also held a spear in his hand.

It’s just that the spear is longer and the shaft is thicker.

The strap on the gun tip also turned into a huge flag.

The words "Longwu" are written on the flag!

The cavalry held a long spear flag hanging in the air and the reins in one hand. They drove all the way to the back of the official who was kneeling on the ground in front of Xi'an Gate and stopped only ten feet behind him.

Ten feet.

It is enough for these excellent war horses to reach the highest speed and launch the most violent attack.

thump.

The spear flag fell to the ground with a dull sound.

Following this muffled sound, there was a deafening roar.

"Dragon Tiger!"

"Dragon Tiger!"

"Dragon Tiger!"

From the more than 800 cavalrymen behind the cavalry holding spears and flags to the cavalrymen on both sides of Xi'anmen Street, everyone shouted "Dragon and Tiger" three times in unison.

The sound was so deafening that the entire street seemed to be shaking.

The officials kneeling on the ground at the end seemed to see a huge sound wave hundreds of feet high suddenly rushing towards them.

Overwhelming.

These people instantly went from kneeling on the ground to lying prone on the ground under the pressure of the sound waves.

Holding a spear and a flag, he was dressed in the same uniform as his officers and soldiers. He slowly reached out and pushed away the visor on his face, revealing a calm, cold, yet extremely majestic face underneath the visor.

The Great Dragon and Tiger General of the Ming Dynasty appeared with the most splendid, majestic and breathtaking momentum, leading his Dragon and Tiger Army soldiers to appear in front of everyone!
Wherever he looked, everyone's breathing seemed to have stopped.

The atmosphere on Xi'anmen Street froze.

however.

The Dragon and Tiger Army, led by General Yan Hu, fell silent again after those three roars, without making a single sound.

Even the war horses under them were exceptionally quiet, without any movement.

Yan Shifan, who retreated to the crowd on the roadside, felt as if a sledgehammer was constantly hitting his heart, causing the blood in his body to surge.

Such a majestic and invincible division.

It was commanded by his own son!
The crowd also began to recover gradually.

A young Hanlin among the officials of the Hanlin Academy had his pupils constantly contracting and his mouth wide open.

After a sudden violent tremor, the young Hanlin fell to the ground, took out an ink pen from his sleeve, and spread out a book he was carrying on the ground.

Moistened the tip of the pen with his tongue.

The young Hanlin began to draw on the open book.

This Hanlin is best at painting.

"mighty!"

“It is so magnificent that nothing can surpass it!”

"Dragon and tiger...camp out of the town's geomancy map!"

"It's done! It's done!"

The young Hanlin, who was very skilled in painting, lay on the ground, constantly moving his ink pen on the book, talking nonsense but excitedly, like a madman.

However, on the book he was writing, a sketch of the Dragon and Tiger Army marching out of the town was rapidly taking shape. Once it was copied onto the actual painting, it would surely become a painting that would be passed down through the ages!

The Dragon and Tiger Army said nothing, but Yan Ne was terrified.

He kept looking back at Yan Hu, who was riding a horse and holding a flag and suppressing all the officials behind him, and kept looking back and up at Gao Gong and the other two in front of him.

But in Yan Ne's mind, questions kept arising.

Why did the Dragon and Tiger Army, which was clearly stationed in Changping, suddenly enter the city?
Who gave the order?
What are they going to do?
The beating in court was not a strange thing for these Ming Dynasty officials. Today, they dared to kneel and remonstrate in front of Xi'an Gate, and they were ready to be beaten in court, or even die from it.

but!

But the Dragon and Tiger Army that suddenly attacked was different!

Although Yan Ne was only the Minister of Rites and a civil servant, he could see it at a glance.

All the Dragon and Tiger Army needs is a charge at the command of Yan Hu.

All those who knelt in front of Xi'an Gate to protest today will not be able to survive!
Was it the order from Prime Minister Gao Gong?

Or the Emperor...

Yan Ne's back was already wet, and he was terrified.

If it was really the emperor who ordered the Dragon and Tiger Armies to enter the city, did the emperor disregard everything and brazenly create an incident in front of the Xi'an Gate where a large army rushed in to kill and suppress all officials?

Gao Gong, whose mentality and thoughts were similar to Yan Ne's, also became depressed.

The appearance of the Dragon and Tiger Army was obviously beyond his expectations.

Gao Gong swore that no one could have imagined that today, when all officials knelt to make remonstrances at Xi'an Gate, the ones who would appear here would be the Dragon and Tiger Army.

They shouldn't be here!

Even if they didn't say anything!
Looking at the Dragon and Tiger Army cavalry in front of him and around him, Gao Gong felt that a murderous aura was constantly growing and spreading.

What is the emperor going to do?
Gao Gong knew very well that without the emperor's order and dispatch order, no one in the Ming Dynasty could mobilize the Dragon and Tiger Army.

A breath of blood once again pooled in Gao Gong's heart.

Yuan Wei and Li Chunfang were also dumbfounded at this moment.

Neither of them had any idea what the emperor was going to do.

But the fact that the emperor could mobilize the Dragon and Tiger Army into the city was itself abnormal.

For no reason, both of them turned around and looked at the half-open Xi'an Gate.

Then the two of them looked at each other tacitly.

in case……

If the impossible thing really happened, the two of them would have to drag Gao Gong behind Xi'an Gate as soon as possible!
When the two cabinet ministers were thinking that if a large-scale bloodshed occurred in front of Xi'an Gate today because of the sudden arrival of the Dragon and Tiger Army, they would immediately and forcibly drag the Prime Minister behind the palace gate.

The Xi'an Gate, which had been left open because Lu Fang led his men out of the palace, began to move again.

The palace gate was opened little by little from the inside.

Every inch the huge palace gate moved made a dull sound.

The sound attracted people's attention.

Gradually.

slowly.

Under people's gaze, the palace gate was completely opened, exposing the emperor who was alone behind it to everyone's sight.

The emperor is coming!

"My ministers welcome you, Your Majesty!"

Yuan Wei was the first to react. He hurriedly pulled Gao Gong, and he and Li Chunfang were the first to kneel on the ground and greet them respectfully.

Then the officials, soldiers, horses and people in front of Xi'an Gate knelt down to welcome the emperor.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the city gate.

Jiajing had a calm expression as he walked out of Xi'an Gate step by step, accompanied by Huang Jin, who had just served him.

This is the end.

The whole audience was still standing in front of the Xi'an Gate.

Apart from the emperor and Huang Jin, there were only 1,111 Dragon and Tiger soldiers present.

Even Lu Fang did not expect that his master would appear at Xi'an Gate at this time today.

"His Majesty……"

Gao Gong, whose complexion was becoming increasingly grim, knelt on the ground and looked up at the emperor who was walking towards him.

However, Jiajing ignored the calls of his new prime minister.

He just calmly walked between Gao Gong and Yuan Wei and came in front of the officials who were kneeling and making remonstrances at Xi'an Gate today.

Then Huang Jin, the eunuch from the Imperial Household Department who always accompanied the emperor, immediately waved towards the back of Xi'an Gate.

Soon, countless eunuchs in the palace appeared in people's sight.

These eunuchs carried a huge and heavy throne with steps and platforms and walked out of Xi'an Gate.

Everything about today is weird and strange.

When Gao Gong and others saw the huge imperial throne that had hardly been used since the emperor ascended the throne, they hurriedly retreated to the sides with Yuan Wei and others to make way.

There was a bang.

The huge throne fell to the ground, stirring up dust all around.

Huang Jin stood at the back and glanced sideways, then whispered, "Master, please take your seat."

Jiajing did not move, but just swept his eyes across the officials who were kneeling in front of him to make their remonstrances. Finally, looking from a distance, he could see Yan Hu, who was holding a flag and riding a horse, behind the officials who were kneeling to make their remonstrances.

at last.

After seeing his Dragon and Tiger Generals, a smile appeared on Jiajing's face.

He then turned around and continued without saying a word.

Today, tens of thousands of civil and military officials and civilians are watching in front of Xi'an Gate.

step.

step.

He walked up to the huge throne step by step.

Standing in front of the throne that symbolized the emperor's authority, Jiajing stopped, waved his sleeves lightly and turned around.

From the appearance of the Dragon and Tiger Army, to the sudden appearance of the Emperor at the palace gate, and finally the imperial throne that had not been used for decades.

Yan Ne felt as if he was in the cold winter, trapped deep in an ice cave. His whole body was freezing cold, and fear was piercing deep into his body like a knife piercing his bones.

Everything was going wrong.

The emperor in front of him felt extremely strange to him.

Although the emperor has not said a word so far, Yan Ne clearly feels that the emperor today is extremely powerful.

Is this still the emperor I know who is obsessed with Taoism and takes a hands-off approach to state affairs?

A big question arose deeply in Yan Ne's heart.

But no matter what.

The emperor has made his attitude clear today, he is the holy ruler.

Gao Gong and others who had avoided the imperial throne had already arrived in front of the throne.

The officials who were originally watching the excitement at the street corner, such as Yan Shifan, Hai Rui and others, also came from both sides of Xi'anmen Street. Under the watchful eyes of the officers and soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army who were standing every few meters, they bent over, bowed their bodies, clasped their hands together, and quickly ran to the front and knelt on the ground.

Under the leadership of Gao Gong.

Both civil and military officials and the common people began to cheer softly.

"Your Highness, I pay my respects to His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Emperor!"

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"Records of the Grand Historian: Annals of Emperor Gaozu" All the ministers in the hall shouted "Long live the emperor".

According to the Book of Han, in the first month of the spring of the first year of the Yuanfeng reign of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu went to Gaoshi and issued an edict saying, "All the officials and soldiers beside the temple heard me shout "Long live the emperor" three times. All of them responded when I was offered the ceremony."

(End of this chapter)