In a busy life, December is coming to the end of the month in a flash.

The new year is coming. In order to welcome the first New Year's Day after the revision of the calendar, the court prepared a large-scale sacrificial activity and grand celebration.

Parade, floats, fireworks, riddles, lion dance.

Chen Xu even wrote a letter to Emperor Shi, and held a grand military parade in the square in front of the gate of the Chaogong Hall of Xianyang on New Year's Day to celebrate the arrival of the 2488 New Year of Huayuan.

Military parades have existed since ancient times.

The earliest military parade recorded in Chinese history was the Xia Dynasty. Emperor Yu of Tushan Alliance invited dozens of princes and tribes to participate. At the Tushan Alliance, Emperor Yu asked his soldiers to sing and dance with feather crowns and weapons in hand. The scale was huge, rigorous and orderly. Although it seemed very enthusiastic, it was actually showing off his muscles and showing his strength. Therefore, after the Tushan Alliance, all the princes obeyed and obeyed Emperor Yu's command and expressed their consent.

Later, all dynasties had the habit of military parades. When faced with major festivals and alliances, they would pull out troops to show off.

When King Wu attacked Zhou, Mengjin parades the military and announced that he would do his best to act for heaven, and the princes responded one after another.

In the spring and autumn, Duke Huan of Lu read the chariots and horses in autumn, and used thousands of chariots, which were so large that it made the surrounding princes tremble.

Of course, I heard that this military parade was because Duke Huan of Lu wanted to please his wife Wen Jiang.

In fact, Duke Huan of Lu was also a tragic king. His wife Wen Jiang was the sister of Duke Xiang of Qi. But in fact, Duke Xiang of Qi and Wen Jiang had an incongruity. Duke Huan of Lu, who was cuckolded by his brother, was very angry when he found out and scolded Wen Jiang. Wen Jiang told his brother Duke Xiang of the love leaked. So Duke Xiang of Qi sent his son Peng Sheng to kill Duke Huan of Lu on his way back to China.

The most famous military parade in Chinese history was the Huailai military parade of Zhu Di, the Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. A total of 100,000 soldiers and horses were mobilized across the country to practice firearms, encirclement, assault, bows and crossbows, assassination and other military subjects. It lasted for a full month. In this military parade, a total of 27 envoys from the military parade participated in the ceremony. After this military parade, the Timur Empire, which had always been hostile and even contempt for the Ming Dynasty, also quieted down. Until the Ming Dynasty collapsed, several groups of envoys sent to the Ming Dynasty to pay homage with gifts every year, expressing their respect for the strong Ming Empire.

By the Qing Dynasty, military parades had become a norm. A large-scale military parade was held every three years in the Nanyuan Eiduary, and the target of the inspection was the Eight Banners Soldiers.

Therefore, the military parade is not only a celebration, but also the best way to declare national prestige. The highest level of war is to defeat others without fighting.

The scale of the first regular military parade in the history of the Qin Dynasty was not large. There were only more than 10,000 soldiers participating in the military parade. Chen Xu's main purpose was to use the military parade to show the achievements of new military training methods, so as to promote the further development of military training reform.

Chen Xu hopes that through this military parade, the rigorous training methods of the two armies of the Marine Division and the Marine Corps will be extended to the entire Qin army system, so that the military appearance, discipline and combat effectiveness of the Qin army will have a qualitative leap and improvement.

As the arrangements for various New Year's Day celebrations were released one after another, news that excited the entire Xianyang was also circulated.

On New Year's Day, the Xinqing River Park, which has been planned for more than a year, will also open to welcome guests.

This is a great news that has attracted much attention and is expected.

Food streets, small commodity cities, roller skating, billiards, crosstalk, shadow puppetry and other long-awaited novel food and commercial entertainment projects will be launched at the same time. The newly opened Xinqinghe Park will definitely become a place for millions of people in Xianyang to compete for sightseeing.

The opening of Qinghe Park is not only expected by ordinary people. From the First Emperor, the princes and princes, and the owners of the Big and Small Quyuan Gardens all over Xianyang, they all look forward to it. This expectation even exceeded other celebrations on New Year's Day, and even the military parade was ignored by many people.

Some of the best soldiers are good at eating, drinking and having fun.

With peace and tranquility over the years, under the fierce impact of various reform achievements and economic development, the only way to gain merit in the past, which has begun to fall behind among the people, has been replaced by making a fortune and more diverse entertainment activities.

Although this is a common mental change for the people in the peace era, Chen Xu still feels it is necessary to establish the correct concept of joining the army and fighting to win glory for the country, especially young people.

Therefore, Chen Xu decided to use this military parade to show the Qin people a completely different image of soldiers, and these preparations had already begun very early.

The closer New Year's Day is, the busier Chen Xu is, and in recent days he has been so busy that he can't go home all day long.

In the Jingyang camp that guards Xianyang, Chen Xu arrived at the barracks on time every day to watch two thousand Marines, two thousand lieutenant imperial guards, two thousand capital garrison battalions, one thousand elite barracks, one thousand Qinhai Division soldiers, one thousand logistics supply troops equipped with vans, one thousand battle flag platoons and other soldiers participating in the parade training.

All of these generals and soldiers were equipped with brand-new military uniforms of different colors and styles, which were 70% or 80% similar to the military uniforms of various military groups in later generations. They completely abandoned the clothing structures that were inconvenient to move and put on and take off.

Although Emperor Shi Huang had agreed to the military parade, he also believed that the military parade organized by Chen Xu was more inclined to New Year's New Year's Day celebrations and performances, and there was not much difference from the regular soldiers' training. Only what we can expect was that we could see a similar demarcation training as we saw at Langya Haishi Normal University, so that the viewers could illuminate their eyes and feel the majestic and strict orders and prohibitions.

While the court was preparing various celebrations, the people's emotions were also mobilized early. In order to cooperate with this grand festival that could be celebrated in the whole world, in addition to preparing a grand fireworks performance, Chen Xu called on various chambers of commerce, civil groups, five major colleges, newspapers and other schools to organize a team to participate in the people's parade after the military parade.

Chen Xu's call naturally received a warm response.

The Quyuan Joint Chamber of Commerce in Xianyang organized a huge parade team with more than 200 floats, and the five major academies also organized their own parade teams. The newspaper organized a special parade team with 200 bicycles to participate, and all kinds of feedback were reported to Chen Xu, at least seven or eight mass teams, which was already lively enough.

Since returning from his mission to the West, Li Shun, Xibo, who has been committed to promoting suona and hand drum instruments, also volunteered to organize a suona and gong and drum team to perform the musical performance for this unprecedented grand military parade. After obtaining Chen Xu's consent, Li Shun was excited to organize a team of hundreds of musicians, rehearsing in a sealed Qinghou Mansion in Xianyang City all day long, and even invited Shi Xuan and Bo Daocheng and other famous musicians to guide him.

Although Shi Xuan and Bo Daocheng felt that Li Shun was a little bit of a big deal, given the identity of Marquis of Li Shun and the support for the first grand celebration after Chen Xu changed his calendar, the two went to guide him for two days, and then they found that they were a little addicted.

This huge band mixed with silk, bamboo, bells and drums, zither, pipa, suona, hand drums and other different Chinese and Western instruments, which are played together by hundreds of people, while the performance of hundreds of people is extremely complex, and there is also a rich sense of layering. So the two of them each invited a group of friends who are proficient in instrumental music performance to watch and participate in the discussion of the arrangement of the repertoire. A few days later, the number of people in this coaching team was more than the musicians invited by Li Shun. The musicians in the entire Xianyang Quyuan Opera world came to hear the news. Even the musicians in the palace music palace couldn't help but come to watch the fun after hearing this, and only blocked the hundreds of acres of Qinghou Mansion.

Li Shun regretted it a little.

He has no position at all and can't even get into the mouth.

The command, arrangement and performance rights of this band organized by him have been completely emptied.

Originally, Li Shun invited some amateur musicians who were not well-known to play together on weekdays. Those who were truly famous were only at the third and fourth level. The various performances naturally made a group of artists led by Shi Xuan dissatisfied.

The result of dissatisfaction was that Shi Xuan and others patiently guided Dunun to demonstrate at first, but later they simply drove away all the musicians, and all the great musicians took the instruments on the stage.

So the day before New Year's Day, when Chen Xu came to watch the orchestra that he thought was just joining the fun, he found that there was no good guy inside. They were all famous figures in the Xianyang music industry. A group of pioneers were all moving stools next to him like servants to serve tea and water. He was very busy, but they all enjoyed it.

Although Li Shun was not satisfied with his rights being emptied, at least the band retained a suona player position for him.
Chapter completed!