It is true that Zhao Cheng burned down the plank road leading into and out of the Southern Wilderness, but if you want to enter the Southern Wilderness, you may not necessarily have to take this road.
Just like the five great masters back then, with their immortal bodies, they could walk on cliffs as if they were on flat ground, and they could walk in a straight line wherever they went.
In addition, the mountains and forests are vast. If a team of agile people forms a team and travels lightly, they can cross countless steep mountains and fields to reach the southern wilderness.
It's just that this method is not suitable for marching or doing business.
When marching or doing business, carriages and horses must be used to transport baggage and goods. The army cannot go to the battlefield naked. Otherwise, it will be nothing more than an overwhelming force when attacking. Once it encounters the slightest obstacle, the army will immediately collapse and it will be difficult to recover.
An army of ten thousand might not be able to be defeated by five thousand men.
Therefore, when marching and fighting, the first step when arriving at a place is to build a military camp.
In addition, there are many cliffs in the mountains, which are difficult to climb. If we go around and go all the way down, the distance may be increased by more than two or three times. From Nanhuang to Qingzhou, the mountains are continuous, making the road even more difficult to walk.
As for the main road out of the Southern Wilderness, generations of craftsmen have been digging roads and building plank roads in the mountains for a long time. After countless generations of accumulation, they have opened up such a lifeline.
Therefore, in this case, Zhao Cheng can know the news from the outside, and the powerful people outside can also detect Nanhuang's movements.
Of course, because of the new country's system, many spies have been arrested in the past few years, and the core of the new country has also gone through several rounds of screening and optimization. There are even some enemy spies who have simply been captured by the new country's system.
Assimilate, surrender directly, and even spread false news to the outside world.
Under this situation, the outside world is actually in a state of confusion about many things about the new country.
But there are some things that cannot be hidden after all, such as large-scale mobilization of troops and overhaul of plank roads!
There are many forests in Nanhuang Mountain, and there is plenty of wood. Earlier, when only half of Nanhuang was harvested, Zhao Chenggong began to build logging camps and process wood.
A small part of these wood was used in construction, but the rest was all transported to Yingtian City, saying that it was planned to build a palace.
In Wucheng, there were originally palaces, the earliest being Wu Palace. Subsequently, the kings of the Southern Wilderness kept changing, and the names of the palaces also changed. Until later, the palace was destroyed in a war, and it was never seen again.
It has not been rebuilt.
Of course, building the palace is just a cover. These prepared wood materials have only one use, and that is to build the plank road.
In order to repair the plank road as quickly as possible, this time, Zhao Cheng mobilized a hundred thousand people, or in other words, 80,000 militiamen and 20,000 carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths from the southern wilderness.
Among these 100,000 people, few are thin, but they have all been trained to eat well every day, and now, it is finally time to use them.
Not only that, the people of the new nation also started a vigorous propaganda campaign, allowing young people with strength and time to organize themselves and build plank roads for the new country. The sooner the plank roads are built, the sooner they can conquer Qingzhou.
, to open up territory, and establish a foundation for eternity, starts from this.
It was the leisure time for farmers. As soon as the publicity was announced, many young people in their early teens and fifteen years old eagerly signed up.
Even after strict screening, 200,000 people were selected in the end. You must know that the population of the entire Southern Wilderness is only more than 10 million. Due to the war, the old, weak, sick and disabled accounted for the majority.
Then they sent out women and children, but the number of young men and women was actually not that many.
Originally it took 100,000 people to build the plank road. Because it was not excavated out of thin air, but only the burned parts had to be repaired. With 100,000 people, it could be completed in about half a year. But with the participation of these 200,000 people, it took only a matter of seconds.
It was shortened to three months.
The whole country goes out of the Southern Wilderness!
Such a scene, such a spirit, when such a situation was known to the powerful outsiders and the imperial court, it shocked many people and made them unable to sleep well for many days.
You must know that in the past, similar corvee work required the use of force to force people to do it. There was no situation where people rushed to do it. People did not run away, which was already very good. Every year they were killed for running away.
There are not a few people who died.
But in the Southern Wilderness, it was completely the opposite. Even though only 200,000 people participated in the end, at least 800,000 people were kicked out.
And this was despite the fact that Zhao Cheng continued to recruit troops in the Southern Wilderness and had already drawn a large number of young men.
This is no longer simply a monolith, with the world united to one heart, but something more, which has always only existed in the scriptures of sages, the meaning of the unity of all beings, the true unity of all.
If this is the case among the people, what about the army?!
With such spiritual cohesion, how terrifying must the Southern Wilderness army be?!
And the most terrifying thing is that Zhao Cheng took over the Southern Wilderness in just a few years. This speed was too fast. Throughout the ages, anyone who wanted to gain fame and win the hearts of the people had to spend more than ten or twenty years of subtlety.
It has only been a few years, but it is already like this. It is as if the entire Southern Wilderness has become a fanatic believer in Zhao Cheng.
"Rebellion! Rebellion!"
"Thief!"
"Are you so impatient?!"
In the palace, Liu Guangzheng looked at the folded book and slammed it on the table. The eunuchs serving on the left and right were all frightened.
Over the past few years, Liu Guangzheng has grown from a child to a teenager, and at the same time his power has become more and more powerful.
As for authority, by selling land and guns, he has built an army of his own. Even the once powerful minister Guo Jiu has now ceased his activities. A few days ago, because of a minor issue, Liu was
Just give the order and think about your mistakes behind closed doors.
As for why the uncle is not killed, the main reason is that the relationship in the court is deeply entangled. It would be easy for Liu Guangzheng to kill him now, but once he kills him, it will break the balance of the court. Once the balance is broken, it will be difficult to establish a relationship.
A new balance requires a lot of time and effort, and what Liu Guangzheng lacks most now is time, so he temporarily let Uncle Guo go.
After all, the situation has been decided, and Uncle Guo is nothing more than a chess piece in his hand. Although this chess piece is not loyal, it is at least useful and can be used as a consumable.
Undoubtedly, the training of two lifetimes transformed Liu Guangzheng from an ordinary person into a qualified emperor.
Otherwise, according to his temperament in his first life, as long as anyone who offended him counts, if he were the emperor, he would definitely kill them all.
But now, he understands that killing people has no greater meaning besides letting out a sigh of relief. It is just a matter of impulse. On the contrary, it is better to drain their value first and then kill them.
Even when killing, those who were killed had to shout long live...