Chapter 24 The spring breeze of reform is blowing all over the ground, and the first person to rever
The glory of the Conferred Gods List faded.
After being made such a fuss by the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit, the Beihai army surrendered immediately. They were scared to death. They couldn't even hold their weapons, so how could they fight?
The one who made great contributions to the Dashang army was Jiang Ziya who prevented the massacre of the Holy Mother of Fire Spirits at the critical moment.
Guangchengzi and other golden immortals came down, greeted Wen Zhong, and looked at Jiang Ziya: "Ziya, as the master said, you really got something after coming down the mountain!"
"I don't dare, I don't dare, thank you Senior Brother Guangchengzi for your help!"
Jiang Ziya felt a little embarrassed and subconsciously wrapped himself in his robe, reluctant to give up.
Not only did he miss the majestic means of controlling the hexagrams and defending against enemies, but also the feeling of exploring the mysteries of heaven and earth, which fascinated him.
There had never been a moment when he felt that it was good to be a human being, to explore infinite splendor in a limited life, and to achieve the greatest meaning without necessarily being immortal.
Shen Gongbao: "￣へ￣"
Well, he was ignored again.
I was used to it before, but this time I saw the power of the humane robe, Shen Gongbao's heart also became hot, and he became more determined in his previous thoughts.
One day, I want you to look at me with admiration!
Guangchengzi left quickly and continued to gather together to capture the enemy. Wen Zhong came to the Beihai army and suddenly looked not far away.
Yuan Futong came over on his own horse: "Master Wen!"
Wen Zhong raised his eyebrows: "Master Yuan Hou, have you escaped from Donglu?"
"Jiang Huanchu is old. He is no longer the Dongbohou he used to be. He should have abdicated long ago to make way for someone more worthy."
Yuan Futong smiled, but at this juncture he still did not forget to cooperate with Jiang Wenhuan to cover up his lies, and sighed: "But I heard that the Grand Master's sword is not old, I, Beiyuan, was defeated after all!"
Wen Zhong knew that the rebellion in Beihai was to fight against the oppression of Donglu. He stroked his beard and said: "Follow me to Chaoge to see your majesty. No lives have been lost in this battle. Your majesty is kind and kind. Maybe you will be acquitted of your crime and exempted from the position of a prince."
, Demoted to civilians!”
"Master Wen is pretending to be confused. From the moment I liberated the slaves, the civil and military ministers could not tolerate me. If I join Chaoge, it will only lead to a dead end, and it will also involve the whole family!"
Yuan Futong shook his head and suddenly bowed: "Master Wen, after I die, please protect the safety of my family!"
Just when Wen Zhong was about to bend down to help him, he saw blood spreading from under Yuan Futong's forehead.
The leader of the seventy-two princes in the North Sea seemed to have lost his breath.
"well……"
Wen Zhong looked sad.
He was not only sad that the ambitious and capable prince committed suicide, but also sad that he might not be able to fulfill his last wish.
Those nobles will indeed not let Yuan Futong's relatives go, and will definitely use the most cruel methods to harm them to serve as a warning to others.
All Wen Zhong could do for the time being was to instruct his disciples: "Place the body of Lord Yuan in a safe place!"
The war subsided. In this expedition, they first eliminated Jiuyi's Wushen Guard, who was completely defeated this time, and then defeated the Beihai army, with a perfect record.
Of course, the resettlement of more than 200,000 slaves and surrendered troops is also a big problem. It is even unknown how many people will escape along the way. No matter how powerful Wen Zhong is, there is nothing he can do to stop this. He can only consider the issue after Banshi returns to the court.
However, Wen Zhong had just transferred his army when he received news from Dong Lu: "Did Jiang Wenhuan inherit the position of Dong Bohou?"
Under normal circumstances, this is not in line with the rules. Although the position of princes is hereditary, it must be approved by the Shang Emperor.
But when the war comes, sometimes we don’t care too much.
What's more, Jiang Wenhuan was originally Donglu's heir, so it wouldn't be surprising if Jiang Huanchu really wanted to abdicate and pass the throne to this talented son.
Thinking that Jiang Wenhuan was still the younger brother of the current empress Jiang, Wen Zhong was not prepared to question anything, he would just report it when he went back.
But Wen Zhong never expected that the real storm was yet to come.
Soon, Donglu's reforms spread to all the vassal states at an unprecedented speed.
"Imitate Bei Hai, liberate slaves, transfer into the army, serve as soldiers and civilians, and achieve military exploits, you can become a civilian!"
"Jiang Wenhuan, how dare Shu Zi'an do this! How dare Shu Zi'an do this!"
From countless places, the angry voices of nobles could be heard.
The influence is completely different.
One is the barren land of Beihai, where the seventy-two princes combined have only 30,000 soldiers.
One is the richest vassal state in the world. In Donglu alone, there are more than ten cities and countless villages.
Because when Donglu reformed, not only the former slaves from Beihai poured into the land of Donglu with great joy, but they also radiated to the surrounding areas, causing waves of resistance and flight.
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Kitahara.
Dongbo Hou Chonghou Hu looked at the heads in front of him and uttered a bone-chilling voice from between his teeth: "Are these cheap slaves still on the run?"
The subordinate stepped forward tremblingly and reported: "According to statistics last night, another three thousand slaves escaped, but we only intercepted less than five hundred..."
Chonghou Huhu stood up and gave a cruel smile: "Okay! Okay! Then I will continue to kill until they no longer dare to escape, or until they are all dead!"
"Brother, this is just a matter of impulse, not a good idea!"
At this moment, Chong Heihu walked in.
There is a red gourd hanging on his waist, but he is dressed as a Taoist.
This is also a disciple of Jie Jiao. Although he is an outer sect and has not yet become an immortal, at this moment he took off the gourd from his waist and opened the cover. A stream of black energy rushed out. With a hoarse and hissing sound, a condor spread its wings and flew.
came out.
"This is the Iron-billed Condor, an ancient beast that can travel thousands of miles. Brother, please take a look!"
Chongheihu pointed in the distance, Chonghouhu only felt that his eyes were blurred, and his field of vision rose rapidly. The divine light was indeed like a torch. With the help of the eyes of the divine eagle, he looked towards the land of Beiyuan.
Compared with the prosperity of Donglu, with villages built around the city, Beiyuan is really poor. Except for the city where Chonghou Hu is located, there are only four or five small cities, all of which are in the south.
Donglu, Nanjiang, Xiqi, and Beiyuan are where the four major princes are located. Judging from their names, we can roughly judge whether they are rich or poor. Donglu is the first, which is understandable. Xiqi has a tendency to catch up from behind, but it is still not possible.
To catch up, the southern Xinjiang is full of miasma and dampness, and the northern plains are the most desolate.
However, the number of slaves is the largest in Beiyuan, because ordinary civilians are not willing to live in this ghost place, work in construction, and cannot do without slaves.
Now Chonghou Hu saw anxiously that slave resistance broke out everywhere in Beiyuan, which had caused great chaos and the operation of the entire vassal state had almost come to a standstill.
It can be seen from this that if the slaves really rebelled, Beiyuan would be the first to die. After killing all the slaves, Beiyuan would also be the first to die.
Taoism has its benefits. A clear view is more effective than a thousand words. Chong Houhu finally calmed down and took a deep breath: "What are your long-term plans?"
Chong Heihu said: "Now it seems that there is no other way but to change the system and keep the slaves!"
Chonghou Hu gritted his teeth and said: "Heihu, you won't be deceived by Chaoge's academy, and you want to pursue some kind of humanity, right?"
Chong Heihu shook his head: "Brother, we in Beiyuan cannot afford to lose slaves. I know you want to wait until Donglu is destroyed, but now Donglu is getting stronger. Even if it was besieged by the major princes in the past and was indeed destroyed, by that time
, Beiyuan is also finished, and your position as the four major princes cannot be kept!"
After hearing the last sentence, Chonghou Hu's cheeks suddenly twitched. He was used to being domineering and domineering, but he was not used to being a small prince and being oppressed by other princes.
Chong Heihu knew that his brother was shaken, so he struck while the iron was hot: "Besides, our reforms will also be beneficial to resisting the invasion of dog soldiers!"
The Quanrong were the earliest nomads outside the Great Wall. Compared with the Jiuyi, they had no fixed abodes, their living conditions were harsher, and their behavior was more brutal.
Every time a city or a small vassal state was conquered, they would be burned, killed, looted, and if there was even the slightest resistance, the city would be massacred.
The North Plains are now barren, which is also related to the fact that Quanrong often crosses the border.
The already poor situation has become even worse.
Chonghou Hu hated the Quan Rong as much as the slaves. After hearing this, he nodded: "This is a way. If these cheap slaves can really resist the invasion of the Quan Rong and let them become civilians, it won't hurt!"
Civilians can come and go freely, but rules are rules, and if it really comes down to it, Chong Houhu has a hundred ways to make slaves who have become civilians unable to leave Beiyuan.
It is equivalent to having a name but no reality.
The Chong Chong Black Tiger knows that having a name is already a huge improvement.
When the sparks gather into a rolling wave and surge forward, the obstacles will naturally become insignificant.
Under Chong Heihu's persuasion, Chong Houhu announced the restructuring and became the second of the four princes to support the New Deal.
As soon as this news came out, the world was shocked again.
I didn't expect, I didn't expect, that you, who admire black tigers with thick eyebrows and big eyes, would betray the ancestors?
As expected, the slaves in Beiyuan did not run away. After all, the probability of death was too high for slaves after traveling long distances. Who would want to run away if they could have the status of civilians in their original hometown?
Chonghou Hu kept his promise and began to form an army. The number of the army continued to expand.
Ten thousand! Twenty thousand! Thirty thousand...
Eventually, 80,000 slaves formed a standing army to guard the border of the Northern Plains and guard against dog soldiers. They drilled day and night, and their momentum was like a rainbow.
This reform achieved immediate results.
Only three months later, the Quanrong customarily came to plunder the border.
When looking at the fierce smoke in the distance, the soldiers in Beiyuan were so frightened that they could hardly hold their weapons.
In this era, the cavalry was really terrifying. Those horses on the grassland were marching with vigorous steps, creating a majestic spirit that shook the earth and the mountains. The tall and powerful barbarians shouted majestic war trumpets to the sky, making a surging noise.
Tear apart the vastness and kill them all.
There are only a few hundred cavalry, but they can create an momentum comparable to tens of thousands of infantry. Who can resist this?
Slaves can!
They were also afraid, and the hands holding weapons were trembling, but their desire for freedom finally defeated these fears, causing them to form unskilled battle formations and rush forward.
Boom!
Blood and flesh splattered, and amid the wild laughter of the barbarians, the first soldier flew up to death like a clay figure, completely unable to point his head straight.
But the barbarians soon discovered that the remaining soldiers did not flee as before, but instead straightened up their flesh and blood bodies and stabbed them hard with their spears.
They didn't take it seriously at first, relying on the speed of their horses to kill them quickly, letting the death spread and ravaging them back and forth.
But these cavalrymen were too excited and went too deep.
When they woke up, hundreds of cavalrymen were drowned in the sea of fighting. Ten soldiers rushed towards one cavalryman one after another. If that didn't work, then twenty or thirty!
Without freedom, I would rather die!
In the end, this dog cavalry who underestimated the enemy was eaten instead. When the barbarian's body was lifted high, the border of Beiyuan erupted in cheers.
To be fair, in the case of lack of equipment, the advantage of cavalry over soldiers is still overwhelming. However, in this era, Quanrong's cavalry is also a scarce treasure. There are not many, and the number of good horses is even more precious.
When the total losses in various places exceeded a thousand, they were so heartbroken that they could not breathe. They immediately withdrew their troops and did not dare to engage in this lose-lose strategy again.
Beiyuan's record once again shocked everyone.
This time I tasted the sweetness of reform.
As a result, the third person in Southern Xinjiang responded.
Nanbohou's environment is even worse, with barren mountains and rivers, and insects everywhere, but he also has a large amount of cultivation materials. Seventy percent of the cultivation materials obtained in Dashang came from southern Xinjiang, but they were also accumulated by countless slaves with their lives.
of.
Now through reforms, slaves have become herb collectors. Although they still have to turn in the natural materials and treasures they produce, they can still get a part of the profits. At the same time, the disciples of the Academy have also gone to southern Xinjiang to teach them the skills of collecting medicines.
So much so that Nanbohou E Chongyu soon discovered that such a model could actually earn more profits.
The great advantage was that he became very energetic and immediately became the most active promoter of reform.
For a time, the spring breeze of reform was blowing all over the land, and the people of Dachang were really motivated.
The tide rises.
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Xiqi.
In the Xibohou Mansion.
Ji Chang is in the main position, with his mother Tai Ren and Yuan Fei Tai Ji at the head. More than ninety sons are standing in many rows. At a glance, the scale is very spectacular.
The first few people were the elegant Boyikao, the heroic Ji Fa, Ji Xian, Ji Dan and other brothers ranked in the top ten.
Coupled with the fact that many of Xiqi's ministers gathered together in this way, we can see the seriousness of the situation.
The other three realms are all undergoing reforms, but Xiqi is quiet, as if it has been disconnected.
There is no way, Xiqi can't change.
When Ji Chang first became the Marquis of Xibo, because his father was imprisoned and killed, his status was not stable. In order to rectify the administration of officials, Ji Chang took strict measures to deal with the phenomenon of slaves escaping, and conducted a large-scale inventory of escaped slaves to ensure that they would be hunted down.
The slaves are returned to their original owners.
Later generations carried out a census, while he carried out a census of slaves. In this era without household registration, it was extremely difficult to implement. However, Ji Chang carried it out with all his strength and won the unanimous support of the nobles, which played a great role in consolidating his rule.
When Ji Chang secured his position as Xibohou, he began to be virtuous and cautious about punishment, reducing the punishment of slaves, and turned to loving the people as his sons. The implementation of various policies was the best time to unite every class around him.
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The nobles trust him, the common people love him, and the slaves fear him. Only when every move is supported to the greatest extent can Xiqi take off.
In terms of their ability to govern the country, the gap between Emperor Yi and Ji Chang was about as big as ten kings of Zhou.
However, as a result, Xiqi's current prosperity is based on the detailed management of slaves, making it the vassal state least likely to change the system.
Fortunately, after the previous slave census, coupled with the farthest distance between the east and west and the blockade of information, the slaves in Xiqi were still living their daily lives, and there was no momentum for rebellion.
But paper cannot cover the fire. Soon, the raging wave of reform outside will spread to the territory of Xiqi. Those slaves will know that slaves in other vassal states have the opportunity to become free, and the previous torture can still be used.
Does it scare them?
But even so, Ji Chang still said in a decisive tone: "The laws of our ancestors are immutable, and I, Xiqi, must follow the laws of our ancestors!"
As soon as these words came out, all the officials in the hall breathed a sigh of relief, and then they became united and unanimously spoke to the outside world.
General Nangong Shi said: "Master Hou, our primary crisis now is how to repel the Quanrong!"
Speaking of Quanrong, it can be said to be Xiqi's old enemy. Historically, Xiqi founded the Zhou Dynasty. It sounds like an eight-hundred-year-old dynasty, but it is divided into Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou. During the three-hundred-year Western Zhou period, the Emperor of Zhou was actually the real
As the emperor, he won the support of all the princes. When King You came to Zhou Dynasty, no matter whether the story about the beacon fire play on the princes was true or false, starting from his generation, dog soldiers invaded the capital, King You was killed, and the authority of the Zhou Dynasty disappeared. Entering the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it was conquered by the Spring and Autumn Period.
The overlords of the Warring States Period took turns playing tricks.
Therefore, the real reign period of the Zhou Dynasty was actually more than three hundred years. Its prosperity and decline were certainly detrimental to the suppression of the princes in the country, but Quan Rong also gave a severe blow to this nomadic people who came and went like the wind.
The threat to the farming nation is indeed too great.
When Xiqi was strong before, Inu Rong picked up the weak ones and plundered Beiyuan. Now Beiyuan uses slaves as an army to guard the border, like a hedgehog. After Inu Rong was stung, he immediately turned to Xiqi.
Nangong Shi's worries are completely justified. If Xiqi is attacked by the Quanrong, and other vassal states take advantage of it, or even launch a two-sided attack, their armies will definitely not be able to cope with it.
Seeing that all the generals were frowning, San Yisheng, the senior official, suggested: "Master Marquis, if you want to resolve our danger in Xiqi, we need His Majesty King Zhou to issue an order!"
Historically, when Ji Chang was imprisoned in Youli by Zhou, it was this person who came to admonish Ji Fa, solicited beauties and rare treasures from all over the world, presented them to King Zhou, redeemed Ji Chang, and later assisted King Wu to destroy him.
Shang was one of the four friends of King Wen along with Nangong Shi.
He volunteered: "I would like to enter the imperial court and make a bitter confession. If your majesty orders me, I, Xiqi, to bring order to the chaos!"
Ji Chang thought of the smiling Majesty the Human Emperor, and was not optimistic about it, but he nodded: "Then I'll leave it to Dr. San!"
The ministers had several discussions, but since the law had not changed, there were really not many strategies that could be implemented, and they dispersed in the end.
Ji Chang looked at the empty lobby, the look in his eyes was still firm, and the phoenix energy in his body spread its wings and ignited with unprecedented brilliance.
Is it really flying high?
Or is it a flashback?
Only time will tell!
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Biyou Palace.
Leader Tongtian's sight fell on the territory of Dashang, and he saw that the major princes had different national auras, were intertwined with each other, and were chaotic. Then he looked up and down Xiqi and Fengming Qishan. They were still the same. Combining the developments in the strategy, he finally made a decision in his heart.
He summoned Taoist Duobao and the Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit, and issued an order: "Xiqi was originally destined for heaven, but now there are people who can act as merchants. You should enter Xiqi and help Ji Chang and his son to fulfill the destiny!"
Our Lady of Jinling was startled: "Master, my disciple Wen Zhongnai is a master of the Great Shang Dynasty. Most of my disciples are officials in the Great Shang Dynasty. Why do you want to help Xiqi rebel?"
The leader of Tongtian Cult said coldly: "It would be best if King Zhou expelled Wen Zhong from the court and the public. If not, you should not have any scruples. This is a killing disaster in the immortal way. If you have even the slightest thought about the friendship with the same sect, you will definitely end up."
Extremely miserable!"
Taoist Duobao and Holy Mother Jinling gritted their teeth when they saw what Master said, and quickly lowered their heads.
The leader of Tongtian Cult said again: "There are thirteen thousand two hundred and seventy-two tips here. The master's instructions are all on them. You each take them and distribute them to all the disciples of the inner and outer sects. After opening them, you must follow the instructions above.
Do it!”
Taoist Duobao and Holy Mother Jinling each picked up a thick pile of brocade bags. Their whole heads were invisible, but their hearts were filled with warmth.
Master is really kind to his disciples. With Hunyuan Daluo taking such painstaking care, why are you still afraid of losing this battle?