—Peach blossoms scent the road for a hundred miles, all because one man from Thousand Mechanism has come. Sun shines, wind blows, red petals carpet the earth; year after year, they bloom for you on this day!
The grand welcome Zhang Tie received upon arriving at Xuanyuan Hill today could be perfectly described by that poem.
That poem had not been written by Zhang Tie. On the way here, he had seen a group of excited scholars climbing onto the roof of a building by the roadside, using bamboo poles to hold up a red cloth upon which that very poem had just been written with a brush.
All of Xuanyuan Hill was in an uproar. Along the way, peach blossoms fell like rain, and Zhang Tie's motorcade entered Imperial Emperor City amid a baptism of colorful petals and the shouts and cheers of the crowds.
When Zhang Tie's motorcade arrived at the entrance to the Crown Prince's cemetery in Imperial Emperor City, he saw Fang Qingming, dressed in mourning white, standing respectfully at the gates of the royal cemetery, waiting for his arrival.
After Crown Prince Changying had been assassinated all those years ago, he had been given a state funeral and buried in the royal cemetery of Imperial Emperor City on Xuanyuan Hill.
The first destination Zhang Tie had specified for this visit to Xuanyuan Hill was the royal cemetery, to pay respects to Crown Prince Changying. Important members of the Great Xia Imperial Family, along with Crown Prince Changying's family and children, had long been waiting within the cemetery for Zhang Tie's arrival. The civil and military officials and noble dignitaries of Great Xia who had welcomed Zhang Tie at the air harbor, as well as the heads of the foreign delegations stationed at Xuanyuan Hill, had