Chapter 225: Admiration for Dashang (1/2)

"So all the food and grass are hidden here. Then I'll go get the food and grass first." Feng Tianzong swept his spiritual sense and took in the entire county.

The food and grass storage place for the 200,000-man army was not far from where the army was stationed. It was just a city a few dozen miles away. Although the defense was tight. A strong city with more than 30,000 people stationed, it cannot be said that the generals who commanded the troops this time were incompetent.

However, no matter how strong the ability to command troops is, in front of the cultivators, the mundane means are still as different as heaven and earth.

Feng Tianzong didn't even need to take action himself. After the strongest stone armor pig heavy cavalry used the innate magical power of stone armor, it charged and broke through the city gate. With the stone armor pig heavy cavalry as the vanguard, the giant wolf knight followed closely and rushed into the city.

Unlike ordinary cavalry, they could not charge after entering the city, lost the advantage of speed, and their combat effectiveness decreased in the city. The monster cavalry has no shortcomings in this regard.

Although the city is narrow, it cannot hinder the speed of the giant gray wolf. After all, the giant gray wolf is a monster. Even if it is the lowest among the monsters, it is still a monster. It can jump onto the roof with one jump. Fighting in the city, these giant gray wolf knights are more flexible.

As for the stone armor pig heavy cavalry, it is even more invincible. Although the roads in the city are narrow, those civil buildings can't become obstacles for the stone armor pigs? Just a charge can easily destroy all the buildings in front.

Even houses made of stone can't stop these powerful stone armor pig heavy cavalry. Don't look at the number of stone armor pig heavy cavalry, which is only thirty, but these thirty stone armor pigs are enough to crash the city into ruins.

In the absence of monks standing up to stop them, the power of the monster is so strong.

The gentry families inside the pass are different from those in the northern border. Most of the gentry families outside the pass are unsophisticated and don't even have monks in their families. Only a few top families can support monks.

The gentry families inside the pass are different. If they don't support monks in their families, they can't gain a foothold in this rich place. The gentry families without sufficient strength have been swallowed up by others.

Feng Tianzong is not the only one in the world who has set his eyes on the money and land of the gentry families. Most of the gentry families that can survive have the inheritance of monks in their ancestors. Although the descendants may not have the qualifications, the family will also leave some resources of monks as a foundation to recruit some monks as offerings to protect their interests.

In this city where the Daxia army used to store food and grass, there were two gentry families with monks. When the monster cavalry of the Shang Dynasty rushed to the city, all these gentry families did not move.

But when Feng Tianzong was about to search and confiscate these gentry and wealthy families, the two cultivators actually stood up boldly and tried to negotiate with the army of Da Shang.

"Dear soldiers of Da Shang, we are just ordinary people. We are willing to support the rule of King Shang, but we hope that Da Shang can allow us to retain our family's industry." An old Qi-refining cultivator in the middle stage of Qi-refining stood up and said with full energy.

Although they knew that Da Shang was powerful, when he stood up and spoke, he was still a little arrogant, with a feeling of being high above, but I am willing to humble myself to you.

To put it bluntly, he felt good about himself. Although he was old and weak, he was an immortal master after all. In this mortal world, immortal masters should be high above. Even if he has been drinking and having sex for so many years, he should be above mortals.

Even if he knew that Da Shang was strong now, the habits he had developed over the years were not so easy to change.

Feng Tianzong didn't even need to show up for this matter. The leader of the Stone Armor Pig Heavy Cavalry, Wang Meng, a martial arts innate strongman, stabbed the old monk who wanted to negotiate to death with one shot.

He was just an old hand, but he dared to rely on his seniority in front of the army of Da Shang. He really didn't know how to live or die. He didn't understand at all that the reason why the immortal master could be so high and mighty was because the immortal master had power far beyond that of ordinary people. When he didn't have that power, this high and mighty attitude would only make him a ridiculous joke.

"Facing my Da Shang, you have no right to negotiate. All you need to do is kneel down and surrender. You can keep your life, otherwise, die!" Wang Meng said loudly.

Feng Tianzong was still very satisfied with Wang Meng's performance. He was worthy of being the first batch of students admitted to the martial arts academy that year, and he was also taught by Feng Tianzong himself. He studied the immortal skills of transformation very thoroughly.

Although they were both martial arts innate, the gap between them was also very large. As for Wang Meng now, he has the strength to fight with cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining without riding a mount. Wearing bone armor, he can fight with foundation-building cultivators.

A mere Qi Refining cultivator, in front of Wang Meng wearing bone armor and riding a stone-armored pig, killed him like a pig or a dog. Wang Meng is also the most promising younger generation of Feng Tianzong. The hope of martial arts breaking through the bottleneck of foundation building still lies in these people.

If martial arts can break through the bottleneck of foundation building one day in the future, allowing warriors to compete with foundation-building cultivators without relying on their bone armor. Then his Great Shang will be able to play a certain role in the future when fighting against the immortal world.

Soon the power of the gentry in the city was suppressed, and the remaining soldiers also laid down their weapons and surrendered. It was not that these soldiers were not elite enough, but that the monster cavalry was so powerful that these ordinary people despaired, and they could not see a glimmer of hope for victory. Resistance could only increase casualties, and they had no way to cause any harm to these monster cavalry.

At first, these soldiers of Daxia also tried to achieve their goal by killing the knights on the backs of the monsters. Unfortunately, these knights were covered with puppet armor, and all members were innate warriors, which was also not something that mortals like them could resist.

The generals of the Daxia Dynasty had no choice but to surrender. With more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers, and the surrendered servants, guards and tenants from the gentry families in the city, the total number of people exceeded 30,000.

Soon these surrendered soldiers were organized and began to move food and grass, not only the food and grass stored in the city by the army, but also the original inventory of the city's treasury, and of course an important part, which was the huge family property accumulated by the gentry families in the city for thousands of years.

Among them, gold, silver and treasures are not counted, and these are only a small part. The big part is still in terms of food and grass. There are five granaries for the food and grass stored by these gentry and wealthy families. They all know that the world is not peaceful now. Although it has not reached the level of chaos, there are already signs of this.

The duck knows first when the spring river water warms up. These gentry and wealthy families are the most sensitive to such things. Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, as long as there is something wrong, they will be the first to store food. Anyway, there is food in hand, and there is no panic. They also know that in many cases, holding food in hand is more useful than money.

The food that the Dashang army took out from the food and grass of these gentry and wealthy families is three times more than the treasury in the city. Compared with the military rations of 200,000 troops, it is only half less.

The food in the homes of these gentry and wealthy families can at least supply 100,000 troops with food for a year. This is just a city, and there are so many harvests, which makes Feng Tianzong have a new understanding of this rich land inside the Great Xia Pass.

Compared with this side, the northern border occupied by the Great Shang Dynasty is indeed just a poor and remote place. No wonder the Great Xia Dynasty does not pay attention to it at all. This broken place is still plundered by the Hu people from the south every year, but it can't collect much tax.

Input and output are completely disproportionate. Most of the time, it is even possible to subsidize a lot of military expenses. It is not strange that the Great Xia Dynasty gave up the northern border.

Feng Tianzong really wanted to order the people in the city to be taken away, but now the 200,000 troops of the Great Xia Dynasty have not been resolved, and this side is the rear of the Great Xia Dynasty after all, and it is not convenient to transport a large number of people.

However, Feng Tianzong was very satisfied that he could get so much food and grass this time, and there are more than 30,000 young and strong. With the current population of the Great Shang Dynasty, if you want to increase more than 30,000 young and strong, it will take several years to rely on natural growth.

After all, the monster cavalry is small in number. The efficiency of the team is extremely low along the way, escorting 30,000 surrendered soldiers to transport such a large amount of food and grass, and people will choose to escape from time to time.

Unfortunately, Feng Tianzong's puppet Jinshi was in the sky, and no one could escape his consciousness, and those who escaped could not outrun the monster cavalry. Some people even planned to escape collectively several times, but in front of Feng Tianzong's consciousness, they all became jokes and ended up in a miserable way. In order to alert others and make them dare not escape again, the army of Dashang hanged all those who chose to escape on the side of the road.

This is the disadvantage of a small number of people. With a small number of people, the evil spirit of escape must be killed. If everyone escapes, even if Feng Tianzong orders the monster cavalry to kill everyone in the end, what should be done with these grains and grass?

"Do you know that in our Dashang, farming does not require manpower, as long as the old people at home command the wooden men who can move by themselves to do the work." A monster cavalry walked and told the surrendered soldiers who were transporting grain and grass around him about the good days of the people of Dashang.

"Wooden figures that can move by themselves? Can they also cultivate the land by themselves? In that case, will the landlords still look for tenants? Then won't people like us who don't have land starve to death?" A surrendered soldier who was born as a tenant not only did not envy, but showed a worried look.

"Landlords? We don't have that in Dashang. All the land in Dashang belongs to His Majesty the Emperor. The common people only need to pay taxes to His Majesty the Emperor, and we don't have to worry about all other expenses. Moreover, we have a lot of land in Dashang. As long as you want to farm, the government will allocate land to you.

I tell you, you are lucky this time. You follow us back to Dashang, and then you will be the people of His Majesty the Emperor of Dashang. It's much better than living a hard life in Daxia." The monster cavalryman talked about the life in Dashang and introduced it to these surrendered soldiers with pride.

"It's good to farm for His Majesty the Emperor. We are not afraid of paying taxes. As long as we have food to eat and the young and old at home are not cold, that's a good life." A surrendered soldier said with a tone full of longing.

"Of course there is food, and all the children of our Da Shang people can be sent to school in the future. Whether it is learning literature or martial arts, His Majesty the Emperor will take care of it. There is no need to pay tuition, and the school also provides free meals for children." A soldier from Da Shang introduced.

"Ah? Is there such a place in the world? Isn't it a lie to us? It was made up to prevent us from escaping? If there really was such a good place, wouldn't it have been overcrowded long ago? Where would it be our turn?" Some soldiers said in disbelief.

Listening to the lives described by Dashang soldiers, it was simply a life they could not even imagine in their dreams. That was like going to heaven. Would such a good thing really happen to people like them?

"Don't worry, look at the martial arts of us people, we all learned martial arts in the martial arts academy. As long as we are Dashang people, we can go to the martial arts academy to learn martial arts.

As long as you study well, you can get ahead! "The Dashang soldiers said proudly. When it comes to martial arts, these monster cavalry are the most outstanding people in the entire martial arts academy system.

Only after passing five levels and killing six generals, crossing thousands of troops and horses on a single-plank bridge, and defeating many peers, could he become a monster cavalry. This is also the thing they are most proud of.

"Can our children really learn martial arts for free in the future? I don't want it to be free. Even if it means spending money, even if it means bankrupting my family, I still want to learn martial arts." A soldier said with admiration.

In the Great Xia Dynasty, it was certainly hopeless to learn to cultivate immortality. Families with a legacy of immortality will also pass on their ability to make a living. The best way out for ordinary people is to learn martial arts, join a gang in the future, or become a nursing home for a wealthy gentry family.

After working for decades, you can accumulate some family property. Later, you can find a place in the countryside, buy a few acres of land, inherit martial arts skills, and become a small landowner.

However, learning martial arts is not that easy. You have to either join a wealthy gentry family as a slave, or join a gang and work hard to see if you can be appreciated.

"It's not just children. Those of you who are soldiers are still young. It's not like you don't have the opportunity to learn martial arts. We in Dashang's army will also teach martial arts. If you are willing to serve for Dashang, as long as you are willing to learn, we It can be taught to everyone in Dashang’s army,” the monster cavalry said.

As long as you join Dashang and become a subject of Dashang, those who want to farm can be assigned fields, and those who want to practice martial arts can also learn martial arts. In just a few words, these soldiers were filled with longing and admiration for the great merchants.