Chapter 1347 Heavenly Fairy

In early February of the fourth year of Yingtian, the war in Qingzhou ended, and the two states of Qingnan were all returned to Xin. Since then, Xin has occupied two of the twelve states in the world.

After conquering Qingzhou, Zhao Cheng did not continue to expand his territory blindly, but turned from development to fixed income to build a stable rear area.

In this regard, he fully absorbed the experience of Huang Tiandao's failure.

If Huang Tiandao had played steadily and not blindly expanded, he would not have been defeated so thoroughly.

Even if the army was defeated, the damage was only superficial, not a complete defeat.

Of course, it is not an easy thing to do this, whether it is to disperse local forces, establish new administrative agencies, win over people's hearts, catch spies..., all these can be said to be a myriad of things, and it is definitely not something that can be done overnight.

At the same time, if all this is to be done, it must be suppressed by a large army, otherwise, all kinds of chaos will surely arise.

In troubled times, classics are used again, otherwise, it is not enough to suppress those who once had prestige.

Of course, Zhao Cheng was even more brutal because of the limited time. If the lowest-level officials encountered resistance in their work, they could report the list, state the situation, and make it clear who was doing it.

After the explanation, the road officials would investigate. If the situation was true, the army would be dispatched to arrest the person.

The arrested people would be tried on the spot and sent to the mines according to the severity of the crime. As for the sentence, it would start from five years and there would be no upper limit.

If there was resistance, they would be killed on the spot. Not only would they die, but their entire family would be directly implicated.

There was no such thing as a father being killed for a crime and the son hating the court. Once killed, they would be killed, and there would be no root of trouble left.

As for the situation where the official was killed, if he died in the area under his jurisdiction, all the people in the entire area would be implicated.

Such a law cannot be said to be not strict, but if it were not so, it would not be enough to eliminate the chaos.

After all, what Zhao Cheng is doing now is to directly break up the local forces that are deeply rooted in the local area. Among them, various population migrations will undoubtedly cause resistance from the local old forces. After all, these places have long formed a tight network to ensure the prosperity of them and their families, so that ordinary people can only be cattle and horses forever, and the imperial power can only be superficial.

These local forces have money, people and food, and they are also fence-sitters. They will side with whoever is stronger. They can be said to be the biggest unstable factor.

Therefore, Zhao Cheng simply does not need the support of these things, but directly breaks them up to free up manpower.

As for resistance, you can resist, it depends on whether you resist hard or I kill hard.

And when the local people ignore the killing of the new officials, it is no longer innocent when the innocent are implicated.

After all, the first thing the local officials do when they take office is to popularize the law, state the pros and cons, and tell everyone that they are here to save the world and the people.

In this case, if they still ignore it, don’t say they are innocent.

Even under such strict laws, there were still two cases of killing officials in Qingzhou.

Although the murderer surrendered to the government after the killing, saying that he had a personal grudge with the other party, in fact, it was just a test by the local tyrants.

One of them happened in the village, so the whole village died.

The other happened in the city, so the city was empty.

The effect of so many deaths was that no similar incidents happened later, not at all.

Because the local forces found that Zhao Cheng didn't care about his reputation at all. No matter whether you use hard or soft tactics, the other party will choose to kill you directly. In fact, in order to ensure that no one is killed, the whole place is wiped off the map.

Such brutality is unprecedented.

After doing this, Zhao Cheng didn't hide it, but published the whole thing in the newspaper, describing the whole story, so that everyone in the two states of Nanhuang and Qingzhou knew the situation.

Among them, the Southern Wilds were fine. There were similar laws in the Southern Wilds at the beginning, but because the local forces in the Southern Wilds were not strong, or in other words, the strongest ones were all killed, and the smaller ones did not have the intention to resist, so they did not test the law.

In addition, the propaganda work in the Southern Wilds was done well, and more people with knowledge became more and more people knew that it would not be enough to deter the villains if they did not do so. Therefore, although they felt that the killing was too much, it was just too much, and they did not think that those people were wronged.

After all, when others came to save you, you were unwilling to save yourself, and you died.

As for Qingzhou, after this killing, Qingzhou was directly stabilized, and many policies that were originally impossible to implement were implemented very smoothly.

It was not because of the high moral character of the Yingtian Army or its prestige, but simply because the Yingtian Army really dared to kill people and dared to kill them all.

Even the anti-king who killed the powerful according to the genealogy in history was not so fierce.

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In this case, by June of the fourth year of Yingtian, the atmosphere of Qingzhou had completely changed.

In four months, the population migration has been completed, and each place has recruited a group of clean militiamen. With the establishment of the militia, at this time, even without the suppression of the army, the administrative agencies of the new country have enough prestige in the local areas.

The so-called prestige, prestige refers to power and strength, and as for trust, it is naturally credibility.

If one has power but no credibility, he is just a king of grass, no different from a bandit. However, if one has credibility but no power, he is just a puppet controlled by local forces.

Only when both are combined can the imperial decrees be truly implemented in the local areas.

And in four months, training militia and enforcing laws, two things done together, both power and credibility are achieved.

Of course, the time is still short now, and although there is prestige, it is not much.

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In September of the fourth year of Yingtian, Zhao Cheng led the people to offer sacrifices to the sky, Huangtian and Houtu on Yuntian Mountain, the highest mountain in Qingzhou, to announce the mountains and rivers of the earth, so as to leave his mark on the earth.

As Zhao Cheng offered sacrifices, vast power surged from the earth and from people's hearts, and was melted into his Tao seeds.

In a moment, his realm also climbed up step by step, and finally bloomed to the 25th grade, and even the 26th grade was condensed halfway, and then it finally stopped.

Such progress is undoubtedly far beyond that of Huang Tiandao. On the one hand, Zhao Cheng's Taoism has surpassed Huang Tiandao, and the conversion rate of external forces is higher. More importantly, it is the essence of the earth during the sacrifice.

After all, Huang Tiandao really swept the world at the beginning. Except for one divine capital, all the twelve states in the world nominally submitted to him.

Under this situation, Huang Tiandao settled for more than half a year, and then condensed the thirty-sixth grade of golden immortal fruit.

And Zhao Cheng, now only has two states, has already achieved the heavenly immortal fruit.

This situation means that he can offer sacrifices ten times in the future, especially the tenth time. When the world is unified, it is not just a single state that resonates, but the whole earth that resonates with him.

Perhaps, this is the correct way to open the Taoist country on earth.

When the sacrifice was completed, Zhao Cheng looked at the mountains and rivers, the sun rose in the east, and the world was full of fire.