Chapter 264: Recovering the Territory and the Development of the Celestial Empire

Although they needed to allocate some troops to garrison because they occupied the Kazakh Khanate.

But with only the remaining troops, the Yarkand Khanate did not hold out for much longer, and soon could not hold out under the fierce attack of Wang Dahu's army.

Seeing that the army was retreating step by step and was about to be attacked by Wang Dahu into the royal court, the Khan of the Yarkand Khanate immediately led the remaining troops to flee to the southwest.

However, as the core of a country, how could Wang Dahu let them go?

They only escaped a few hundred miles before being caught up by Wang Dahu's army, defeating the royal court army in one fell swoop, beheading the Khan of the Yarkand Khanate, swallowing his national destiny dragon energy, and completely destroying the Yarkand Khanate.

When Wang Dahu attacked the Yarkand Khanate, Hong Chengchou, Zhou Lanying and others had already led their troops to attack Dosigandusi.

Basically, when Wang Dahu captured the Yarkand Khanate, they had also captured Dosigandusi.

The remaining U-Tsang Dusi, facing the two sides' continuous division of troops but still powerful armies, naturally could not hold out for long.

In the eighth year of the Celestial Empire, the Celestial Empire not only recovered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but also expanded it.

For example, the Ming Dynasty had never occupied Yarkand and the Kazakh Khanate.

In these places, the dynasty re-established provinces and set up the Chengxuan Zhengshisi.

And Dorgon and others in the Qing court mainly led the army to attack Central Siberia, and Li Zicheng entered Eastern and Western Siberia.

The remnants of the Yarkand, Kazakh and other khanates in the west entered the Yuejibe Khanate.

The remnants of the U-Tsang Dusi and other places went west and south into Kashmir, Nibala and other places.

In the ninth year of the Celestial Empire, Wang Shi, Li Shu and others led their troops westward, and Wang Dahu, Zhou Lanying and others led their troops northward to jointly attack the Mongolian Tatars and other tribes, completely covering the vast grassland.

At this time, the Celestial Empire stopped its rapid expansion.

Still the same problem, even after five years of development, occupying so many places at once, the manpower began to be stretched.

And these places also need some time to build and develop.

So, the dynasty temporarily suspended its expansion.

At the same time, in the three years of conquest and war, everyone also won a lot of merits, and their positions and titles were promoted again and again.

In the ten years of the Celestial Dynasty, these places were completely stabilized, and the rest was in-depth construction and development.

As for the Celestial Dynasty army, in addition to the regular garrison troops scattered around, the dynasty established eight armies and one guard as well as the Heaven and Earth Army.

The eight armies are the Eight Direction Legions.

The Eastern Azure Dragon Corps, under the command of the Left Army Governor's Office, is led by the second-class duke, Li Shu, Duke of Jinghai;

The Southern Suzaku Corps, under the command of the Front Army Governor's Office, is led by the first-class marquis, Zhou Lanying, Marquis of Zhennan;

The Western White Tiger Corps, under the command of the Right Army Governor's Office, is led by the second-class Wu'an Duke Wang Dahu;

The Northern Black Tortoise Corps, under the command of the Rear Army Governor's Office, is led by Wang Shi;

In addition, there are the Southeast Corps, Li Yu, under the command of the Left Army Governor's Office, the Southwest Corps, Hong Chengchou, the Northwest Corps, Chen Zhengyang, the Northwest Corps, and Zu Dashou, the Northeast Corps, under the command of the Rear Army Governor's Office.

This is the Eight Directions Corps established by the dynasty, which protects the territory of the Heavenly Dynasty from all directions.

In addition, the dynasty also established the Zhenwu Guard in the capital to protect the capital. It is under the command of the Central Army Governor's Office. There are only 10,000 people, but they are the elite among the elite selected by each army, and there are no soldiers below the magical powers.

And every once in a while, there will be military exercises, and the capable ones will be promoted and the weak ones will be demoted.

In addition to the eight armies and one guard, which guard various places, there are also two armies of heaven and earth, which are the heavenly soldiers belonging to the fairy world and the ghost soldiers belonging to the underworld. Both are also assigned to the Central Military Governor's Office for dispatch.

Their main responsibilities are to patrol various places, suppress the rebellion of the strong in various places, and arrest powerful demons and ghosts.

Although at present, there is basically no large-scale rebellion of the strong in the Celestial Empire, the local public security management department and the patrol department are enough to suppress all illegalities, even demons and ghosts.

Of course, those nearly immortal ghosts, even if they are suppressed by the patrol department, are sent to the local land gods and city gods, and are suppressed into the underworld.

However, whether it is needed now or not, preparations must be made.

And with the special nature of the heavenly soldiers and the ghost soldiers, once there is a situation that requires military suppression, they can also descend to various places at the fastest speed, saving many matters of mobilizing troops.

In fact, the dynasty is already preparing to hand over all the demons and ghosts and the rebellion of the strong in the Celestial Empire to the heavenly soldiers and the ghost soldiers.

At that time, the regular garrisons in the Celestial Empire can be disbanded one by one, or incorporated into other armies.

On the surface, there will be no army in the Celestial Empire, only eight major legions on the border, and the central town guards that are not even considered a battle sequence.

After all, with the current strength of the Celestial Empire, who can fight to the capital?

In addition to the reorganization of the army, the development within the Celestial Empire is also extremely rapid, and it has not been affected by foreign wars at all.

In fact, it has promoted many related developments.

For example, road traffic, transportation tools, etc., are even more advanced than those in later generations.

High-speed trains, small aircraft, etc. have all been developed.

Everything in the Celestial Empire is moving closer to later generations, and even has the shadow of the future science fiction world.

In the city, many high-rise buildings gradually appeared.

Farmland outside the city began to develop towards centralized contracting.

With various rune instruments and magical powers, it often only takes three or two people to contract hundreds or thousands of acres.

And with the increase of power, more areas can be contracted.

In general, except for some deliberately preserved ancient city buildings, etc., there is basically no big difference from later generations.

The population of the Celestial Empire also ushered in explosive growth in these ten years.

According to some historical research in the previous life, in the early years of Chongzhen, if the hidden population was counted, the Ming Dynasty had a population of about 165 million;

However, various natural disasters and wars broke out in the late Ming Dynasty. By the time the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, the death toll reached about 40 million, and the population was about 120 million.

Later, with the Qing Dynasty entering the pass, a large number of casualties were caused again.

By the time of Shunzhi, there were only more than 70 million Chinese people left, and the total number of deaths was close to 100 million.

This shows the cruelty of the war in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

However, in this life, because of the intervention of the Dynasty's Salvation Army, it took only about ten years to sweep across the entire Ming Dynasty.

In this way, casualties were reduced to a minimum.

There were only millions of casualties.

By the first year of the Celestial Empire, the population was still 150 to 160 million.

In addition, over the years, the people no longer had to worry about their lives. With the encouragement of the country and various preferential policies, the enthusiasm for raising offspring was naturally extremely high.

In ten years, every family had three or five, five or six or even more children.

In addition, the people who continued to join the Celestial Empire as they expanded their territory.

Today, the population of the Celestial Empire has reached more than 485 million.

You should know that the global population at this time, excluding the Celestial Empire, is only about 500 million.

In other words, the population of the Celestial Empire at this time basically accounts for half of the world, and it can be said to be the most populous country.

With such a large population, as long as the newborns grow up, the Celestial Empire will have enough confidence to conquer the world.

In addition to the population and the development of construction in various places, the status of heaven and earth has also been basically popularized.

In addition to infants and young children, whether it is literati or peasants, they all have their own status of heaven and earth.

Some people even derived various new magical powers and some special items based on the existing magical powers, which provided a lot of help for the evolution of spiritual power rules.

Among them, there are scholars and peasants.

Some scholars, based on literary spirit, deeply analyzed various magical power rules and evolved into writing flowers.

With pen and ink as the guide, mountains and rivers appear when painting mountains and rivers, and poems and songs are derived from poetic moods. Attack, defense, and suppression of demons are all in one stroke.

Some scholars sublimate it and derive it into words and laws. When a word is spoken, the sky changes, and attack, defense, and demons are all in one word.

Of course, this is a world of difference from the words and laws of the dynasty.

The dynasty can pry the rules of heaven and earth within the entire territory of the Celestial Empire with one word.

And the words and laws of the scholars are resonating with the literary spirit, and then using the literary spirit to pull the power of rules, which can only cover a few hundred meters at most, which is equivalent to the realm of magical powers.

As for the titles of scholar and juren, they are naturally not obtained by passing the examination as before.

Well, because in the Celestial Empire, there is no imperial examination system, so there are naturally no titles such as scholar and juren.

However, some scholars who still think about the previous glory put the titles of scholar and juren on the realm of literary cultivation.

Equivalent to the schoolboy in the meditation realm; the student in the condensation realm, or the tongsheng; the scholar in the qi training realm, the juren in the supernatural realm, etc.

The dynasty did not interfere with this.

He just evolved a heavenly status, the champion.

However, this champion is no longer the champion of the imperial examination.

Instead, the top talents in various schools, subjects, and even various industries can all be called champions.

There can be literary champions, martial champions, and other champions.

Astronomy and geography, physics and chemistry, supernatural powers and magic, etc.

Even a primary school student can become the champion of their school.

Suddenly, the champion became the title of a person who excels in a certain aspect.

While the title has a greater influence, it has also become more common.

Many scholars are naturally dissatisfied with this.

In particular, some farmers and common people may also become the champion in some aspects of farming, which makes them feel even more unfair.

You say that you are a mud leg who farms the land, how can you be called the champion?

However, no matter how dissatisfied they are, they can't twist their arms and thighs, and can only suppress all their thoughts in their hearts.

Wang Chao just smiled at this.

To be honest, although Wang Chao's evolution of the status of the champion is related to them, it is not specifically aimed at them.

Everything Wang Chao did was for the development of the Celestial Dynasty and the progress of the people under his rule.

The status of the champion was derived from this.

It's just that Wang Chao suddenly thought of the champion after hearing what they did.

And since it is for the cultivation of the people under his rule.

Then the title of the champion is naturally not a simple honorary title.

The title of the champion can double the speed of the champion before the next champion is born next year.

In this way, year after year, the best talents can be selected naturally, allowing their strength to improve faster, reach the level of supernatural powers, comprehend the rules, and in turn promote the progress of the dynasty.

After having this kind of fame and fortune, the competition atmosphere in all walks of life has been greatly promoted.

In a short time, everyone's practice has made great progress, and all kinds of magical skills have evolved.

In addition, rune machines, rune items, etc. based on rune arrays have also emerged in an endless stream.

In Xincheng, Henan, in a huge farmland, golden wheat waves are rolling.

An old man wearing coarse linen clothes but with a rosy face, facing the oncoming heat wave, is looking forward with hope.

Where he is looking, a straw scarecrow is standing quietly in the middle of the rice field.

With the help of magical powers and rune machines, it is indeed only three or two people who can plant hundreds or thousands of acres of land.

However, there are also many inconveniences.

The Cordyceps disaster is good, and it can be easily eliminated with the power of magical powers.

However, the pecking of birds and the destruction of wild beasts are a bit difficult to drive away.

After all, they are not like Cordyceps. As long as the weeds in the field are removed and the pests are killed, they will basically not appear again in a short time.

The nests of birds and beasts are not in the fields. They come and go suddenly, and it is really difficult to drive them away.

They can't stay in the fields all the time, right?

Moreover, as the energy of heaven and earth gradually becomes richer, the birds and beasts today have evolved again and again.

Not only have their appetite and destructive power increased greatly, but they also have a certain degree of intelligence. Ordinary driving methods have no effect at all.

Just like the scarecrows in the past, they will only become a place for birds to stay, not a weapon to drive them away.

Therefore, those who contracted the fields may not need to worry too much about planting and harvesting.

However, the destruction of birds and beasts has become a big problem.

In recent years, they can be said to have fought with birds and beasts.

Magical powers, magic arrays, and various means are used together.

However, on the one hand, these means cover a small range, and on the other hand, the duration is limited, and the effect is not good.

Even when using the magic circle, because it is too mechanical and rigid, some birds and beasts can forcibly break through the magic circle through their own strength, or even the innate magical powers that are born by chance.

The power when the magic circle collapses will cause greater damage.

The magical powers are flexible and have strong targeting. Even if the birds and beasts have mastered the innate magical powers, they are not the opponents of the people who use the magical powers.

However, that requires someone to use it.

However, those birds and beasts that destroy the farmland will immediately scatter once they find someone.

After the farm owner leaves, they will quickly surround him.

In this way, it is like guerrilla warfare, which makes the farm owners very annoyed, but somewhat helpless. (End of this chapter)