Chapter 1312 Mingxiu Plank Road

Therefore, many times, he also envied Zhao Cheng's start. Although he had nothing, it was because he had nothing that he had a blank sheet of paper to paint on.

He could kill whoever he wanted to kill and whoever he wanted to chop, unlike him, who had to find an impeccable reason to raid a house.

Fortunately, the Dacang family was large and powerful, and it relied on selling a lot of land to ease the financial crisis. It could afford to raise more termites. As long as the court system could still operate normally, it would be worth it.

If the whole system collapsed just because of cleaning up termites, that would be the worst and stupidest.

After all, Liu Guangzheng was not the founding ancestor of the country, so he could not act recklessly. Even if he was unhappy, he had to endure it.

Liu Guangzheng was still clear about this.

While vigorously building factories, Liu Guangzheng also launched various labor-saving agricultural tools that could greatly improve production efficiency. These things were taboos in the past because they would free up some manpower and affect the stability of the world.

But now, Liu Guangzheng wants to develop industry, and what he needs is manpower.

Only by freeing up some manpower can we support a sufficient number of workers.

As expected, this year, the world ushered in a bumper harvest. Under normal circumstances, low grain prices should hurt farmers, and grain prices would be suppressed very low, which would make farmers starve.

But because the court had money from selling land, it stabilized the price of grain, so many farmers, on the contrary, ushered in a respite.

Part of the grain bought by the court was used as military rations, and another part was used to select workers from the public. As for the conditions offered, they were free to eat and the salary was 30 wen a month.

In this situation, countless people were tempted.

And this is not the end. In order to expand the army, Liu Guangzheng started selling arms in the second year.

At the beginning, Zhao Cheng had only a few Taoists, and they rubbed out 2,000 guns by hand in more than half a year. Liu Guangzheng now has thousands of Taoists under his command. When they are fully operational, the productivity is very terrible.

It’s just that most Taoists are self-righteous and don’t want to burn the stove.

For this reason, Liu Guangzheng simply used amnesty to tempt, of course, he did not directly amnesty the Heavenly Master, but directly divided the luck and paid wages by piece.

Liu Guangzheng gave very little luck, not because he was reluctant, after all, if the court was destroyed, no matter how much luck he had, it would be empty.

It was because the production capacity of steel was limited, the raw materials were not enough, and not many guns could be made.

But even though most Taoists looked down on such a little luck, there were still more than a hundred Taoists willing to do this hard work.

In the second year, the output of steel increased, so Liu Guangzheng also increased the "salary" of the Taoists burning furnaces.

Therefore, in the second year, the court issued a decree allowing individuals to buy guns, but bullets were more expensive than guns.

As soon as this decree came out, the court's orders were directly scheduled for next year.

Under normal circumstances, if Liu Guangzheng developed industry and manufactured guns, he would definitely not be able to sell them. He would only arm himself and then use this power to conquer the world.

It is better to rob the enemy directly than to let them spend money to buy it.

But now, with Zhao Cheng as an enemy in the Southern Wilderness, he is no longer allowed to stir up civil strife.

Selling the guns will make it more difficult for Zhao Cheng to attack the court.

After all, Zhao Cheng can also make these guns, and even if they are seized by Zhao Cheng, they are useless.

The biggest disadvantage of the Southern Wilderness is that there are few people, while the biggest advantage of the court is that there are many people. As long as the court is fully armed, even if it is ten for one, it is profitable for the court.

In this way, until the third year, the number of Canglong Guards in Liu Guangzheng's hands has expanded to 100,000. Everyone is equipped with a gun and has been trained for a long time. If there is no Taiping Army of Zhao Cheng, this is undoubtedly the strongest army in the world.

After all, the army is money, and raising an army is burning money.

Liu Guangzheng, on the other hand, sold land and arms, which can be said to be the two most profitable things. In this case, he also owns the world. If he still can't raise such an army, it can only prove that he is too incompetent.

Not only that, as early as the first year, he ordered that local officials and prominent families across the country could train their own militias and even collect armor.

Originally, this kind of thing was opened up by the court for a period of time because of the Huang Tian Rebellion, but it was banned later, and now it is open again.

In this case, local forces naturally work hard to train in order to protect themselves.

Indeed, this is weakening the court's control over the local areas and weakening the local authority, but in order to resist Zhao, Liu Guangzheng has no time to care about these.

Even if Da Cang becomes like his previous life, with local forces separatist and the royal family just becoming a mascot, he will not hesitate.

His experience tells him that when fighting against something like the demon, there can be no luck at all. Only with the heart of burning jade and stone together can there be a little hope of winning.

Under such circumstances, within three years, the military strength of the small forces in Da Cang, the total number of troops in the eleven states of the world, was at least one million.

In addition, the governors of various states, those aristocratic families, and the powerful people, added up to at least two million.

As for the reason, it was naturally because those ambitious people, seeing this opportunity, did not hesitate to recruit troops and horses, and had the intention of rebellion.

After all, from ancient times to the present, the one with the strongest soldiers and horses is the emperor.

The imperial court, with the garrisons in the eleven states of the world, plus the troops in the capital, was only more than 600,000.

The pattern of a weak ruler and strong ministers has already emerged.

In this situation, people naturally can't help but imagine.

After all, because of the battle of Tianjueguan, the powerful families suffered heavy losses. If the court continues to press forward, it may be possible to greatly strengthen the centralization of power and weaken the powerful.

But Liu Guangzheng, on the other hand, wants to "go against the grain".

The smart people in the world naturally know that this is an idea of ​​using their power to weaken Zhao Cheng, which is a wise strategy. After all, looking at the new country, the powerful families have never had a good end.

Even if they surrender, they will probably lose their current wealth and honor. Although their lives will not be difficult, they will not be as prominent as they are now.

And with foreign enemies, even if the local powerful families become stronger, they will not attack the court first, otherwise they will be immediately eliminated by others in the name of clearing the court, and a balance will be formed.

It can be said that Liu Guangzheng's political wisdom is now not bad at all. If there is no Zhao Cheng in this world, he may really become a saintly monarch and continue the national destiny for Da Cang for hundreds of years.

And just at the end of the third year and the beginning of the fourth year, Zhao Cheng, who burned the plank road and remained silent in the southern wilderness for three years, finally took action.

He sent a large number of craftsmen to start repairing the plank road!

His action immediately attracted the attention of the whole world, and for a while, the whole Shenzhou was shaken by it.