Chapter 1313 Rebellion

Indeed, Zhao Cheng burned the plank road in and out of the Southern Wilds, but if you want to enter the Southern Wilds, you don't necessarily have to take this road.

Just like the five masters at the beginning, with the body of human immortals, the cliffs of thousands of feet are as flat as the ground, and they can go directly to any place.

In addition, the mountains and forests are vast. If agile people form a team and travel light, they can also cross countless steep mountains and reach the Southern Wilds.

But this method is not suitable for marching or business.

Marching and business, carriages and horses are needed to transport baggage and goods. The army can't go to the battlefield naked. Otherwise, the attack will be unstoppable, but once it encounters a little obstacle, the army will immediately collapse and it will be difficult to recover. A hundred thousand troops may not be defeated by five thousand people.

Therefore, whenever marching and fighting, the first step is to build a military camp at a place.

In addition, there are many cliffs in the mountains, which are difficult to climb. If you take a detour, the distance may increase by more than two or three times. From Nanhuang to Qingzhou, the mountains are continuous and the road is even more difficult to walk.

The road out of Nanhuang was built by generations of craftsmen in the mountains for a long time. After countless generations of accumulation, this lifeline was opened up.

Therefore, in this case, Zhao Cheng can know the news outside, and the powerful outside can also find out the actions of Nanhuang.

Of course, because of the system of the new country, many spies have been caught in the past few years, and the core of the new country has also gone through several rounds of screening and optimization. Even some enemy spies have been assimilated by the system of the new country, surrendered directly, and even passed false news to the outside world.

In this case, the outside world is actually in a state of fog and fog about many things in the new country.

But some things can't be concealed after all, such as the large-scale mobilization of troops and the overhaul of the plank road!

There are many mountains and forests in the South Wasteland, and there is plenty of wood. Earlier, when only a small part of the wood was taken from the South Wasteland, Zhao Cheng began to build a logging site and process wood.

A small part of these woods were used in construction, and the rest were all transported to Yingtian City, saying that they were going to build a palace.

There was originally a palace in Wucheng. The earliest one was the Wu Palace. Later, the king of the South Wasteland kept changing, and the name of the palace also changed a lot. Until later, the palace was destroyed in a war and was never rebuilt.

And building a palace is naturally just a cover. These processed woods have only one use, that is, to build a plank road.

In order to repair the plank road as quickly as possible, this time, Zhao Cheng mobilized a full 100,000 people, or in other words, he drew 80,000 militiamen from the South Wasteland, as well as 20,000 carpenters, stonemasons, and blacksmiths.

There are few weak people among these 100,000 people, but they have all been trained and have enough food every day. Now, it is finally time to use them.

Not only that, the new country also began to promote vigorously among the people, so that young people with strength and time would spontaneously organize themselves to build plank roads for the new country. The sooner the plank roads were built, the sooner Qingzhou could be conquered, the territory could be expanded, and the foundation for eternity would be started.

It was the slack season for farming at this time, and as soon as the promotion started, many young people aged 15, 16, or 17 signed up enthusiastically.

Even after strict screening, in the end, there were still 200,000 people selected. You know, the population of the entire Southern Wilderness is only more than 10 million, among which the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled account for the majority due to war disasters, and the number of women, children, and young and strong people sent is actually not large.

Originally, 100,000 people built the plank road, because it was not excavated out of thin air, but only needed to make up for the burned part, 100,000 people could complete it in about half a year, and with the addition of these 200,000 people, the time was suddenly shortened to three months.

The whole country is working hard to build the Southern Wilderness!

Such a scene, such a spirit, when such a situation was known by the powerful outsiders and the court, it made many people horrified and inexplicably, and they couldn't even sleep well for many days.

You know, in the past, any similar corvée needed to be forced by force to force the people to do it. There was no such thing as the people rushing to do it. It was already very good if the people didn't run away. There were not a few people killed every year because of running away.

But in the Southern Wilderness, it was completely the opposite. Although there were only 200,000 people participating in the end, there were at least 800,000 people who were eliminated.

And this was when Zhao Cheng continued to recruit soldiers in the Southern Wilderness and had already drawn a large number of young and strong people.

This is no longer a simple iron plate, the world is at peace, but it has a few points, which has always existed only in the scriptures of sages, the meaning of the unity of all beings, which is truly one heart.

If the people are like this, what about the army? !

With such spiritual cohesion, how terrifying would the army of the Southern Wilderness be? !

The most terrifying thing is that Zhao Cheng conquered the Southern Wilds in just a few years. This speed is too fast. Throughout history, it takes more than ten or twenty years of subtle influence to build up reputation and win the hearts of the people.

Now it has only been a few years, but it has become like this. The entire Southern Wilds is like a fanatic believer of Zhao Cheng.

"Rebellion! Rebellion!"

"Thief!"

"Are you so impatient?!"

In the palace, Liu Guangzheng looked at the memorial and slammed it on the table, scaring the eunuchs serving on the left and right.

After a few years, Liu Guangzheng also grew from a child to a teenager, and his power became more and more important.

As for authority, relying on selling land and guns, he trained an army of his own. Even the former powerful minister, the uncle of the state, has now stopped his activities. A few days ago, Liu Guangzheng ordered him to reflect on his mistakes behind closed doors because of a problem that was neither big nor small.

As for why he did not kill the uncle of the state, it was mainly because the relationship in the court was complicated. It was easy for Liu Guangzheng to kill him now, but once he was killed, it would break the balance of the court. Once the balance was broken, it would take a lot of time and effort to establish a new balance. Now Liu Guangzheng lacked time the most, so he temporarily let the uncle of the state go.

After all, the general situation was set, and the uncle of the state was now just a chess piece in his hand. Although this chess piece was not loyal, it could at least be used and it was not bad to be a consumable.

Undoubtedly, the training of two lives transformed Liu Guangzheng from an ordinary person into a qualified emperor.

Otherwise, according to his temperament in the first life, as long as he offended him, he would kill them all if he was the emperor.

But now, he understood that killing people had no greater meaning except to vent his anger. It was just an impulsive act. It would be better to squeeze out their value first and then kill them.

Even when killing, those who were killed had to shout long live...