Chapter 30 King Fu enters Beijing

At this moment, the atmosphere on the street has completely changed. The pedestrians who were still busy earlier seemed to be blown away by a sudden gust of wind.Both sides of the wide street, which can accommodate five horses to advance side by side, are now full of heavily armed military schools.With waist knives on their bodies and leather whips in their hands, they were looking around eagerly.An official wearing black gauze and a green robe with a round collar is leading a group of yamen servants, patrolling back and forth nervously.Whenever he finds something that is not pleasing to the eye, he will point it out with his finger and ask his subordinate government officials or military academy to quickly correct it.Needless to say, under the pressure of such unprecedentedly strict preventive measures, the vast majority of residents have already hid in their houses and dare not show their faces.Even some people who love to join in the fun can only stay behind the wooden fence at the intersection of the street, looking out.Of course, there are still some houses that have been granted permission—mainly the residents facing the street—busily setting up cases and burning incense in front of the door. It seems that they are going to kneel down and salute to express their support when King Fu Luan passed by.

Perhaps affected by the atmosphere in front of them, the members of the community gathered in the restaurant fell silent, looking out the window with their own thoughts, waiting for the frustrating and irresistible scene that was about to appear.At this moment, among them, Huang Zongxi was in the worst mood.It wasn't because of Hou Fangyu's unreasonable ridicule, because right now his mind was not on that, and it wasn't even because of King Fu's entry into the city.In fact, in this contest to support the new king, although the failure of the Donglin faction made him quite frustrated, but then he thought that the Donglin faction abandoned the justifiable King Fu and refused to stand up, and insisted on supporting King Lu and King Gui , put one's own side in a position of being unreasonable and not strong, and as a result, they messed up their positions.If we talk about the reason for the failure, I am afraid that the main reason is that we only consider our own interests and ignore the reason of right and wrong.A few days ago, he followed Zhou Biao and others to see Shi Kefa so passionately, not so much because he insisted on rejecting King Fu, but because he was indignant at the despicable methods of Ma Shiying and his like.When he found that the matter was irreversible, he would rather take a wait-and-see attitude towards King Fu.Right now, he felt in a bad mood, more importantly because of the apparent discord between Zhou Bi and Chen Zhenhui.Originally, in terms of the depth of friendship, he should lean more towards Zhou Bi's side, but so far, judging from Fushe's consistent purpose, he still can't see any obvious derailment in Chen Zhenhui's actions .Because whether it is reforming the government or controlling evil, it is consistent with Huang Zongxi's consistent views.As for letting everyone serve as staff members so that they can exert closer influence on the people in power of the Donglin faction, it seems that it is difficult to determine that the other party is trying to control the social situation.Just because he couldn't see anything wrong with it, but he insisted on resisting it, even openly confronting it, Huang Zongxi felt that he was placed in a situation where he lost the basis for right and wrong, and felt confused, awkward and at a loss from the bottom of his heart.

"Well, it's coming! It's coming!" Suddenly someone whispered excitedly.The surrounding community members also had a little commotion.Huang Zongxi was stunned for a moment, then looked out the window, and found that the street was still empty, but the atmosphere became more serious and solemn, even the officials and servants stopped moving around, and took their positions under the eaves beside the street , and they all turned their faces to the south, holding their breath and waiting... "It's coming? Oh, yes, it's coming!" After waking up like this, Huang Zongxi quickly restrained himself, stretched his neck in the direction where people were looking, opened his eyes wide, and was anxious because he didn't see any further movement. disturbed……

Finally, a slight sound, like autumn rain falling on the ground, broke the unbearable silence—it was the sound of horseshoes, coming from far and near, all the way from the south.After a while, a group of armored soldiers holding banners appeared.They were not running very fast, so Huang Zongxi could clearly tell that the two riders holding red flags passed first.Their appearance is tantamount to an official announcement: King Fu's car is approaching.So, in an instant, the street became more and more quiet, on the contrary, the sound of the horse's hooves sounded more crisp and powerful, and it seemed to be knocking on people's hearts.After the command flag passed, there were four Qingdao flags, each held by a soldier, and they came on horseback.The four flag bearers were obviously carefully selected, each of them was tall and strong, mighty and heroic, just like the four Dharma protectors brought from the temple.At this time, Zhang Zilie who was standing beside him spoke:

"Qingdao flags have as many as four sides, this is the prince's ritual system!" "Although he is only a prince, since he has entered the court and supervised the country, such an arrangement is not considered arrogance." Mei Lanzhong expressed his opinion. "Hey, why is it 'entering the court to supervise the country'? Didn't it mean that he was going to be established as the new king?" Shen Shizhu asked in surprise. "I heard that this is the meaning of Fu Fan." Chen Zhenhui replied, "Actually, it's nothing more than showing humility and following the rules. It's only a matter of time before becoming emperor."

"After the Qingdao flag passed, what's the next turn?" Another person asked, it was Zuo Guofen. It was still Zhang Zilie who answered: "If the prince's ceremonial guard is used, there should be six dragon flags, and then there should be one five-color flag. Each color flag has six sergeants accompanying the flag. If the prince's ceremonial guard is used, there should be only square-colored flags and blue-colored Baize flags." There are two sides each, and there are fewer sergeants accompanying the flag." After hearing what he said, everyone stopped making a sound and continued to watch intently, wanting to see what kind of status Fu Wang used.

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes sounded again in the street that had been silent for a while, and it was much louder and more powerful than before.This indicates that the brigade has arrived.After a while, a team of standard bearers appeared.However, what was fluttering in the wind in their hands was not the six-dragon flag specially used by the prince, nor the flag used by the prince, but five flags of yellow, blue, black, red, and white arranged in a five-element square formation. .Six crossbowmen marched under each flag.The battle clothes on them are also divided into five colors according to the flag - this is undoubtedly a compromise, to show that there is still a certain gap between the identity of King Fu and the prince.Huang Zongxi thought to himself: "The crown prince and the two kings Yong and Ding are still alive and dead. Naturally, he should not call himself the prince. However, it must be Jiang Juzhi, Zhang Jinming and other Donglin ministers who made such an arrangement, and it will definitely not be Ma Yaocao. Huh, yes, there is always a word 'reason' in the world. In fact, as long as I, the gentleman in Donglin, Zhuang Qi speaks and acts, I can stand tall in the court and make the power and treacherous fear. Afraid to use power to seek self-seeking!" Just as he was thinking this way, he suddenly heard Yu Huai say in a low voice:

"Why are there all soldiers and horses behind? What about the banners, halberds and cloaks, pumpkins, and festival axes?" Huang Zongxi quickly fixed his eyes on it.Sure enough, after the flag passed, it was the usual turn for the various utensils in charge of the school captains.For example, the crown prince's ceremonial guard should have a pair of Yiyin banners, three pairs of halberd cloaks, Ge cloaks, ceremonial cloaks, and Yubao buildings, a pair of blue square umbrellas, two pairs of blue square fans and blue and white miscellaneous fans. In addition, there are Banjian, Wuzhang, Ligua, Wogua, Yidao, Stirrup, Guduo, Axe, Xiangjie, Jinjie, etc.; although the prince's ceremonial guards have fewer names, they still have the same. The purpose is different, and the complexity of the guard of honor is also different, but it will not be completely cancelled.However, besides the soldiers in military uniforms, there are still soldiers in military uniforms passing by in front of them...

"Well, it is likely that Fufan fled to the south this time, and all the ceremonial guards have been lost, and those left in the capital are decayed and useless, so there is no way to prepare them in a hurry, so it is so simple!" Zhang Zilie speculated next to him. These words reminded Huang Zongxi.So he stopped talking and continued to read.Now, the team of civil and military ministers appeared.Since today is to escort the future emperor, they all ride on horses without opening their umbrellas behind them, so everyone's face can be seen clearly.However, except for Shi Kefa, Huang Zongxi hardly knew him.On the contrary, after Chen Zhenhui became a staff member of the Ministry of War, she often went in and out of the yamen of various ministries and learned a lot.At this moment, he pointed out to his friends one by one: who is Gao Hongtu, who is Jiang Yueguang, who is Lu Daqi; he can even recognize Wei Guogong Xu Hongji and Chengyi Bo Liu Kongzhao.For a while, he naturally became the center surrounded by his friends.It's a pity that the angle of view in the window is too narrow. Before they can see clearly, the team has already passed by, which makes the members who have always had poor eyesight stretch their necks and stare at the backs of those black yarn and scarlet robes. The previous group was at a loss...

Fortunately, immediately behind the civil and military officials, eight husbands in red silk sedan chairs had joined forces to carry a walking chariot and walked slowly.Everyone's attention was immediately attracted.Because everyone knows that the person sitting in the chariot is today's protagonist—the Fu King who was once fiercely attacked and opposed by them, but still came to Liudu proudly as a victor. This is a huge walking chariot specially used by the prince. It is more than one foot high and eight feet wide. There are four sedan chairs in total, two of which are longer than three feet, and the short one is more than two feet.It was probably found out from the warehouse in Miyagi, and it was renovated and painted temporarily, so it looks brand new.Those red-painted pillars, those cloud-shaped carvings, those pinnacle leaves, as well as the gold-bronze orb-painted chariot roof and the vermilion curtains are shining brightly under the May sun, dazzling the eyes.Since the two doors of the chariot were tightly closed, Huang Zongxi and his friends could not see what the chariot riders looked like.But the noble appearance of this chariot and its majestic style of slowly moving forward are enough to make them feel a kind of invisible pressure, a kind of loss of uncertain future.Even Huang Zongxi, who was quite calm about the situation before him not long ago, suddenly had deep doubts. During the whole time when the chariot passed slowly, he just watched helplessly, unable to say a word.

Finally, the red silk sedan chair of the husband who walked at the back flickered and disappeared.Next, it was the armed soldiers of the brigade.This indicates that the ceremony of entering the city has come to an end.It was only at this moment that the community members seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and began to turn around one after another, talking in low voices.Huang Zongxi didn't intend to participate in the conversation at first, and felt a little tired from standing, so he turned around and planned to go back to his seat.At this moment, he felt his sleeve being pulled by someone, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Gu Gao. "Well, brother, do you want to stay?" Gu Gao asked in a low voice with a cold expression, without raising his eyes. Huang Zongxi was startled for a moment, but then came to his senses.He looked back and found that the members of the club were surrounded by Chen Zhenhui, talking vigorously.He hesitated for a while, and finally nodded: "Okay, then let's go." After finishing speaking, without saying goodbye, he walked towards the door together with Gu Gao.