Chapter 1283 The World Is in Your Hands

Outside Yingtian City, in the direction of the southern wilderness, the tall Temple of Heaven began to be built several months ago. It was supervised by Wang Shouzheng and was finally completed in October after several months.

The Temple of Heaven was built on Zihua Mountain outside the city. The mountain is more than 300 meters high. From here, you can overlook Wucheng.

On November 1st, all the civil and military officials under Zhao Cheng's command did not sleep all night. Before dawn, they had already climbed Zihua Mountain and waited under the Temple of Heaven.

At the foot of the mountain, the front row was the two thousand armored soldiers of the Taiping Camp, and behind them were the Yingtian Army of 200,000.

The 200,000 Yingtian Army, except for the 70,000 at the beginning, the remaining 130,000 were all recruited in less than a year. The composition of them was very complicated. There were good family men with clean backgrounds, and there were also surrendered soldiers from the Feng, Chen, and Wu families.

Among them, good family children and surrendered soldiers are all in the reserve force of Yingtian Army. Only after they have made meritorious service and accumulated enough qualifications can they be promoted. In terms of treatment, there is a big difference between them and regular soldiers.

As for those surrendered generals, the same is true. Only after they have made meritorious service can they be promoted.

Of course, Yingtian Army does not want all the surrendered soldiers. All the surrendered soldiers were sent to mine by Zhao Cheng at the beginning. There are many mines in Nanhuang. In the past, these mines were in the hands of the powerful. Now they all belong to him.

As long as they mine for two consecutive months, they can choose to either take a travel fee to return home or take the assessment and become the reserve force of Yingtian Army.

It is also the case that the assessment of Yingtian Army is getting more and more difficult now. Otherwise, with Zhao Cheng's current prestige in Nanhuang, the number of Yingtian Army is definitely far from being only 200,000.

Guns and bullets kill people, thunder and fire break the city. In less than a year, Nanhuang was unified without encountering any effective resistance.

Whenever he arrived at a place, Zhao Cheng killed all the powerful people, rebuilt the system with political officials, agricultural officials and other officials, and carried out infrastructure construction. He selected talents from the people and distributed gold, silver, money and grain from various channels to improve people's livelihood. There were also Taoist officials who summoned the people to attend classes every few days, explained the power, detailed the evils of the powerful, and talked about the way of Huang Tian. He kept saying that only the general of Yingtian could lead everyone to prosperity. With the general coming, there would be no shortage of money and food.

Ordinary people don't really understand the truth, but there is one thing that is beyond doubt, that is, life has indeed become better. Not only is there more money and food, but even the ruffians on the street are no longer seen.

When a sheriff of the Yingtian Army takes office, he doesn't even need to bring people with him. He just needs to go around the place and randomly select a few people, and the people will naturally be there.

In this situation, as long as those few people are not extremely cowardly by nature and have the support of the Yingtian Army, as long as the sheriff gives an order, they dare to kill people, and there is no place for the arrogance of the ruffians.

This is the power of power.

Even if these people were still oppressed by the ruffians before and dared not resist, once they have power, the ruffians are nothing.

At the same time, the chaos of the times emphasizes the use of classics. For the ruffians, the first time they are caught, they will be beaten to death. The second time is to be caught and dig for half a year. If there is a third time, they will be beaten directly.

With such kindness and power, there is no need to worry about the world's dissatisfaction.

And people all yearn for power. Now it has been spread in the South Wilderness that the Yingtian Army is a divine army sent from the sky. After ordinary people enter, they don’t even have the opportunity to fight on the field. They only need to wave flags and shout in the back to get military merits. At the same time, one person joins the army, and the whole family benefits. Blood relatives will get extra merits when they work.

Not only that, this is also a talisman. If there is injustice, you can directly bring military documents and cross-level complaints. If an official dares to obstruct, once it is found out, all officials of the three levels above and below will be punished. If the situation is serious, the three clans will be killed.

Zhao Cheng attaches great importance to the army, especially when the world is not settled now.

And such a system, for now, can be said to be very effective. Many families want to have a soldier in their family to obtain various privileges and benefits, but the assessment of Yingtian Army is constantly tightening. Ordinary people are not wanted by Yingtian Army at all.

But the more they don't want it, the more ordinary people want to squeeze in.

In this case, if Zhao Cheng opens the door, I am afraid that the number of Yingtian Army will triple or even more in an instant.

It's just that Zhao Cheng would rather have a shortage than a waste, and he doesn't blindly expand the army.

The night was very dark. Although there were more than 200,000 people gathered on Zihua Mountain, it was extremely quiet. The weather in November was so cold that all the birds and animals died. Occasionally, some animals that were out of season had already sensed the strong military evil and were scared away from here.

The occasional sound of the wind made people know that time was indeed flowing.

The weather was very cold, especially the top of the mountain. Those military generals were fine. They were strong, so a little cold was nothing. But those civil officials were not in good physical condition. The rolling cold made them shiver, especially Li Tonghai, a strange man who was famous for his strange strategies. He felt that his whole body was stiff and his face was ashen, but his heart was hot.

Become king. When Huang Tiandao swept the world, he skipped this step and went straight to capture the capital of the gods and then become emperor in one fell swoop. Who would have thought that the situation would change suddenly and he failed in the end.

Now, Zhao Cheng has occupied the Southern Wilds and claimed to be the king. Although the territory and population of the Southern Wilds cannot be compared with the territory of Huang Tiandao at its peak, he is deeply aware that many things in the Southern Wilds today are completely incomparable to the former Huang Tiandao.

The former Huang Tiandao seemed to have swept the world, but in fact, its foundation was very shallow, or it had no foundation at all, so once the luck was gone and the opportunity was lost, it would be defeated and destroyed quickly.

But now the Yingtian Army has a deep foundation, sitting in the Southern Wilds, and its words are the law. No one will disobey its orders.

Even if the Yingtian Army fails in the future outside the Southern Wilds, it will be difficult to shake its base in the Southern Wilds.

If the Huang Tiandao at that time had such a foundation, it would have unified the world long ago.

Of course, Li Tonghai also knew that these were difficult to replicate. Let's talk about killing the tyrants. The Yingtian Army could easily do this because at the beginning, the soldiers of the Yingtian Army were all from other states, not from the local soldiers of the Southern Wilderness. If local soldiers were used to kill local tyrants, I'm afraid the army would mutiny in an instant.

This is also a matter of chance. If Huang Tiandao had not retreated to Qingzhou and wanted to advance to the Southern Wilderness, it would be impossible to have the current situation.

And now, although he is only the king of the Southern Wilderness, not the king of the world, Li Tonghai seems to have foreseen the future of the Yingtian Army's soldiers pointing to the invincible future.

The world is just in the palm of your hand!