On February 6, 932 in the Black Iron Calendar, the flying boat Zhang Tie was riding finally landed slowly in the airport of Xuanyuan Hill.
Even with Bian Heng's knowledge, when he saw Xuanyuan Hill in the sky, he was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time. It was only after Zhang Tie called him that he realized and followed Zhang Tie towards it. He walked towards the door of the flying boat and prepared to get off the flying boat.
This time, besides Bian Heng, the only people who followed Zhang Tie to Xuanyuan Hill were Zhang Tie's eldest son Zhang Chenglei, Zhang Tie's cousin Zhang Su, others from Jinwu Hall and Tielong Sect, and None of the Yin Yang Sect girls that Zhang Tie had left at the Black Iron Castle came with him.
The girls of the Yin Yang Sect are currently very busy in the Black Iron Castle. Their daily lives are so full that they have no time to take care of other things. Moreover, the holy war has not stopped yet, and the girls do not want to come out for the time being, so Zhang Tie also allowed them to toss in the Black Iron Castle, while Yan Feiqing and the rest of the family, because Zhang Tie came to Xuanyuan Hill this time to discuss and decide on the holy war between Taixia and the human race, not to swim in the water, It was not suitable for them to come with Zhang Tie, so they stayed in Youzhou.
Before the cabin door of the flying boat was officially opened, Bian Heng was instantly startled by the sudden loud bang coming from outside the flying boat, and the protective fighting energy on his body suddenly reacted, "Is there an assassin?"
"It's not an assassin, it's a salute!" Zhang Tie told Bian Heng with a smile.
"Salute, what is that?" Bianheng asked strangely.
There are no gun salutes in the Sky World, so Bian Heng seems very unfamiliar with this kind of etiquette.
The salute outside was still ringing like thunder with "bang", "bang" and "bang". Zhang Tie took the opportunity to explain to Bian Heng what a salute was and its purpose.
"That's weird, that's weird!" Bian Heng couldn't help but shake his head after hearing this, with a look of disbelief on his face, "According to your statement, this cannon was originally a powerful weapon on the battlefield, but you didn't expect that it would eventually become a ritual weapon. It’s really rare to welcome people with cannon fire!”
"This tradition was not originally Chinese, but originated from the Western Continent. I estimate that using cannons as ceremonial weapons is the same as the Chinese using axes and other weapons as ceremonial weapons!"
The salutes of this era are very different from the salutes before the Cataclysm. The salutes of the Black Iron Age were completely pressurized with steam and then released quickly to achieve the effect of producing a loud noise. In order to make it louder, the barrel of the salute was also used The rune technology has been processed to amplify the sound. The salute gun carriages are all specially made behemoths. These things can only be seen in Xuanyuan Hill. They are Taixia's guard of honor.
In order to welcome Zhang Tie's arrival, the airport has been cleared of a more than 20,000-meter spaceship take-off and landing site. A whole phalanx of salute teams was parked not far away, firing salutes in a neat and orderly manner. .
The airport was full of banners and crowded with people. Almost all the big shots gathered at Xuanyuan Hill were here.
Three princes were sent from the royal family. The three princes stood at the front and middle of the crowd. On the left hand side of the three princes were the civil and military officials of the Taixia Manchu Dynasty represented by Sangong and Jiuqing. And behind the three princes On the right hand side are the Chinese nobles represented by the six thrones of Taixia.
At this moment, almost all the officials of the third rank and above who gathered in the Xuanyuan Hill court had arrived to greet Zhang Tie. The reason why I say almost is because there are still two people among the important ministers of the Three Gongs and Nine Qings who have not come. One of those two people is Meng Shidao, the great Situ of Taixia, and the other is in Xuanyuan. Mr. Li Yunji, the court lieutenant in Qiu Da Prison.
It is said that the reason why Meng Shidao did not come to greet Zhang Tie was because of illness. Li Yunji, the Tingwei Qing, was the most unlucky. He was so powerful in Youzhou that day, and the flying boat he was riding in had not sailed back to Xuanyuan Hill. On the way, a commander of the Shang Shence Army was ordered to capture him, and he was directly escorted back to Xuanyuan Hill and thrown into prison. As for his crime, he colluded with the three major sects to concoct an unjust case and framed Zhongliang. As for the Haechi gold talisman that Tingweiqing Li Yunji took out in Youzhou that day, it was also proved to be "fake." After Li Yunji was imprisoned, the position of Tingweiqing of Taixia Jiuqing became vacant.
Among the kings of Taixia, except King Xianhai, King Guangnan, King Xuanwu, King Jingtian, King Dingxi, and King Yi'an all arrived. The five kings stood in the front row, and among the five kings After that, there are the Dukes, Marquises, and Count-level nobles of Taixia, and those below the Count are not even qualified to stand here at this moment.
Guangnan King Bai Runtian stood in the middle of the five princes. Gu Panzixiong, Xuanwu King, Jingtian King, Dingxi King, and Yi'an King stood on both sides of Guangnan King Bai Runtian. Several princes looked at King Guangnan had envy in his eyes.
Originally, among the five kings, except for the Cao family of Dingxi kings whose power declined slightly due to various reasons, the power of the other Xuanwu kings, the Lu family, the Jingtian kings, the Sun family, and the Yi'an king, the Qin family, was no worse than that of the Guangnan Wang Bai family. It is a wealthy family of the same level, especially the Qin family of King Yi'an. Although the Qin family is based in Xuanyuan Hill and does not seem to have much territory, because the Qin family controls the largest Xuanyuan Bank in Taixia, Xuanyuan Bank's influence spreads all over Taixia. The power of the Qin family is vaguely the head of the five kings. But this is already a thing of the past. Now, because Zhang Tie is the son-in-law of Guangnan King Bai Runtian, Bai Runtian naturally becomes the first of the five kings, and no one can have any objection.
And in the Taixia royal family, standing behind the civil and military nobles of the Manchu Dynasty were the envoys and ambassadors from the Western Continent and various subcontinent countries stationed in Xuanyuan Hill, and even figures such as kings and princes. These people had various skin colors. There are so many costumes and clothes at this moment, and the number of these people alone exceeds more than 3,000.
Amidst the salutes, everyone stood quietly and looked forward to it.
Such a grand scene has not appeared in Xuanyuan Hill for at least a hundred years.
After a hundred and eight gun salutes were fired, and the long horn of the honor guard sounded, the hatch of the Xuanyuan-class airship slowly opened, and Zhang Tiecai slowly walked out of the airship with Bian Heng and stepped on onto the red carpet at ground level.
The three princes of the royal family walked up together to meet Zhang Tie.
The three princes who came to greet Zhang Tie were the eldest prince Xuanyuan Changqing of the Taixia royal family, the sixth prince Xuanyuan Xuanyuan Changhong, and the eighteenth prince Xuanyuan Feng.
Of these three princes, Xuanyuan Changqing is already a Sky Knight, and Xuanyuan Changhong and Xuanyuan Feng are already Phantom Knights. It's a pity that the three of them are not practicing the Emperor-level Xuanyuan Shenbian Sutra.
Zhang Tie has never seen the Xuanyuan Divine Transformation Sutra, but he has heard that the conditions for practicing the Xuanyuan Divine Transformation Sutra are very harsh and the qualifications required are also very unusual. Because of this, among all the princes of Emperor Xuanyuan, not all of them can There are only three princes who are qualified to practice the Xuanyuan Divine Transformation Sutra, and can truly practice the Xuanyuan Divine Transformation Sutra and advance to the rank of knight. There are only three princes, the third prince and the ninth prince.
But now these three people, the prince was assassinated, the third prince was killed by himself, the ninth prince was involved in the three major sects and the Imperial Alliance, and has been imprisoned. The entire royal family seems to be withering, and no one can stand in the forefront anymore.
Or using the word withering is too harsh. To be fair, as the bloodline of Emperor Xuanyuan, the three princes standing in front of him at the moment are all heroes of the moment, and their qualifications and abilities should be top-notch choices. If they are placed in other places It is not difficult to stand out in this place, but as princes, the three of them are in a place where heroes and elites gather like Xuanyuan Hill. Since they were judged by Emperor Xuanyuan to be unable to practice the Xuanyuan Shen Transformation Sutra, they were taught to practice other techniques. From that day on, it was destined that they would never be able to succeed in Xuanyuan Hill, let alone achieve great treasures.
After the three princes met Zhang Tie, they stood aside. A young woman with red eyes and a three-screen phoenix crown and a young man with a handsome face and a calm temperament were holding hands with a seven or eight-year-old girl wearing golden royal clothes. The little boy walked to the front from the royal family, and the three of them prostrated themselves to Zhang Tie at the same time, touching their foreheads to the ground.
"Xuanyuan Yunfei has met his father-in-law..."
"Shi Ni has met my father..."
"Xuanyuan Zhu met his grandfather..."
While the seven or eight-year-old boy knelt down to worship Zhang Tie, he raised his dark eyes and looked at Zhang Tie quietly with smart and shrewd eyes. The look between the child's brows was actually 40% similar to Zhang Tie's when he was a child...