"The Emperor has arrived!"
Even from a distance, the eunuch used his duck-like voice to remind everyone.
Everyone's spirits were lifted and they all left their seats. When they saw the Emperor appear, they knelt down and shouted,""Long live the Emperor!"
To be honest, this was the first time Lin Yang had knelt before a living person since he grew up. He was a little unused to it. However, no matter how unaccustomed he was to such an occasion, he still had to kneel. This was the emperor. If you didn't kneel, it would be disrespectful. He would drag you out and chop your head off at any moment.
There were a thousand people on the field, and all of them knelt down to one person. The scene was very grand. The netizens who saw this scene exclaimed," It's so cool to be an emperor " and " It's so much more realistic than the TV series."
Lin Yang's heart was also burning.
He was the Crown Prince. He should have ascended the throne after the Emperor passed away. He firmly believed that even if he was facing many difficulties now, with the help of the system, he would one day be as awe-inspiring as he was today and make tens of thousands of people submit!
"Rise!"
The Emperor stood in the middle of the crowd and said calmly. His voice was not loud, but it was enough for everyone to hear.
This was an internal force voice transmission.
The Emperor was also a Xiantian expert.
Everyone stood up one after another, and the Emperor also ascended the throne at the highest position. Prince Ruyang sat next to the Emperor, and on such a formal occasion, Zhao Min obviously could not stay beside the Emperor and her father. She sat next to the female Empress.
The Empress had a smile on her face as she kept chatting with Zhao Min. However, Zhao Min seemed a little absent-minded and barely perfunctory.
After everyone had taken their seats, a eunuch came forward to read the emperor's decree. He said a lot of beautiful nonsense, with only one meaning: The Emperor wanted to test the princes 'archery skills!
In this world, there were also the Six Arts of a Gentleman. Archery was one of them.
However, the Six Arts of a Gentleman in this world were different from the ancient Chinese. The Six Arts of the ancient Chinese were divided into: Rites, music, archery, driving, calligraphy and mathematics.
In this world, there were martial arts, calligraphy, archery, etiquette, driving, and mathematics.
Every prince had to learn the Six Arts of a Gentleman in order to be qualified to inherit the throne. Not only were the adult princes present in this competition, but the remaining ten princes had to participate as well, except for the Eleventh Prince who was still drinking milk.
Of course, although the Emperor had used the excuse of this competition as a test of his sons 'archery skills, in reality, those who could come here were not idiots. Everyone knew what was going on. It was just a competition of arrows to find a groom. As for those underage princes, they were just there to make up the numbers.
After the eunuch finished his nonsense, the competition began.
According to the rules, the eldest son to the youngest son should take turns to go on stage. However, in order to highlight the second prince, the emperor changed the rules and started with the youngest tenth prince.
The Tenth Prince was only eight years old this year, and he was still a little kid. He found it difficult to draw the small bow that was given to him, so how could he have archery skills? He spent half a day trying to shoot an arrow, but it landed not far from his feet, causing the onlookers to snicker.
However, no one despised the Tenth Prince's archery skills. After all, he was still young.
After the Tenth Prince, it was the Ninth Prince's turn. Although the Ninth Prince was older by a year, his performance was worse than the Tenth Prince's because this child seemed a little timid and timid.
Then the eighth prince and the seventh prince
Just as Lin Yang was watching in boredom, a voice suddenly came from beside him,""Big brother doesn't seem to be in a hurry. He seems to have a plan?”
Lin Yang turned his head and saw a handsome young prince. The prince was handsome and his eyes were bright and intelligent.
Seeing this prince, Lin Yang's memory immediately popped up in his mind. The Third Prince!
Speaking of this Third Prince, he was quite a character. In fact, he was actually the most outstanding and astute person among all the Princes. His talent in martial arts was also outstanding. His current strength was at the late stage of Internal Force Cultivation, and he might even be a little stronger than the Second Prince.
The Third Prince was also the Second Prince's strongest competitor. Even the current Prime Minister thought highly of him.
If it wasn't for the fact that the Second Prince had a mother who was the Empress, he might not have been able to defeat the Third Prince.
"It's Third Brother!" Lin Yang calmly changed the topic.""I haven't seen Third Brother for a long time. I heard that Third Brother is in seclusion, preparing to break through to the Connate Realm? I wonder if it succeeded?"
"I'm ashamed to say that I'm not talented enough. Father said that I still need to hone myself.”
This was a failure.
However, the Third Prince was indeed a character. Even though he had failed to break through, he was still very generous when he told Lin Yang about it. There was even a smile on his face, making him look extraordinary.
"Oh? That's a pity!" Lin Yang said indifferently, but he was secretly vigilant in his heart. The bearing displayed by the Third Prince was enough to tell Lin Yang that this guy was a strong opponent.
The Third Prince smiled and said,""Last night, I heard that big brother's painting skills are superb and have never been seen before. Coincidentally, I am also very interested in painting. I wonder if I can ask big brother for some painting skills when I am free?”
Lin Yang was stunned for a moment, but he immediately understood that the Third Prince's request for painting skills was fake. The main purpose was to express goodwill. It seemed that the Second Prince's power was getting stronger and stronger, and the Third Prince was getting anxious and wanted to rope him in.
"Alright, we brothers should get together more often.”Lin Yang said perfunctorily.
At this moment, the Fourth Prince had already finished his performance. A eunuch informed the Third Prince to go onstage.
The Third Prince stood up and said,"Big Brother, please rest for a while. I'll go on stage first."”
Lin Yang nodded and looked at the Third Prince's performance.
The Third Prince's archery skills were not bad either. All three arrows hit the target, and one of them almost hit the bullseye.
A muscular man from the army who was specially responsible for testing the results sang loudly,"The Third Prince has shot out nine rings, four rings, four rings. A total of seventeen rings, please send out the Second Prince!”
The bullseye was the tenth ring, and the outermost ring of the target was naturally the first ring. The rules of this archery competition were very simple: Each prince had three chances to shoot at a target 50 meters away. Then, the total number of rings hit by the three shots would be calculated to form an individual score.
The Second Prince came to the arena with a confident smile.
He had the capital to be confident. Among the princes, his archery skills were the best. He could almost hit the target at a distance of 50 meters.
Seeing the Second Prince appear, Lin Yang also became serious and stared at the Second Prince.
As if sensing Lin Yang's gaze, the Second Prince turned around and smiled sinisterly at Lin Yang. Then, he suddenly shouted,"Move the target fifty meters back!"
It was unknown if it was due to confidence or arrogance, but this fellow actually wanted to shoot a hundred-meter target.
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