Chapter 226: Nineth Level of Golden Core (1/2)
Some people were worried that the soldiers of Da Shang were deceiving them, but now they were captured and could not escape. Despite the worry, they were still thinking about the good side. What if?
What if Da Shang was really as beautiful as these soldiers said, then wouldn't they have hope for the future?
As long as there is a hope in people's hearts, no matter how small this hope is, they will continue to move forward firmly, even if they are deceiving themselves.
Although it was only the explanation of a few monster cavalrymen, the legend of Da Shang soon spread among the surrendered soldiers. In just two days, more than 30,000 surrendered soldiers knew everything.
With hope in their hearts, even the marching speed increased a lot. The transport team of more than 30,000 people is a very large team. Most of the towns along the way stayed closed and guarded the city gates tightly. They just hoped that this team would not attack them.
The news that the Shang army looted the gentry soon spread throughout the surrounding states and counties. If they had killed a few tenants, no one would have spread the news, but the news of the Shang looting the gentry spread very quickly.
The closed-door defense of the towns along the way was played by many gentry and wealthy families. With these people, even if some officials had the Great Xia Dynasty in their hearts and were willing to be loyal to the Great Xia Dynasty, they would be stopped by these gentry and prohibited from sending troops out of the city. What if they attracted the attention of the Shang Dynasty?
Although there are many disadvantages to being notorious, there are also advantages. At least now no one dares to attack and provoke them. In fact, the officials and gentry along the way, some of them can see that this is a transport team.
But because they are afraid of the revenge of the Shang Dynasty, even if those people see that this team is not strong in combat, they cannot attack the grain transport team.
Let this team return to Jiemen Pass smoothly, and then all these surrendered soldiers were placed in the rear. The young ones who wanted to learn martial arts joined the army. It happened that the army of Dashang was expanding to snatch people.
Those who were a little older and had no ambition and wanted to live a stable life of farming were also arranged to farm in the rear. Every year, Dashang would organize various places to open up wasteland, expand the area of fields, and increase grain production.
These people also have places to be settled. Moreover, these people are young and strong, so it is not just a matter of resettlement. The fields cannot be distributed for free. These people are all divided into various places to build houses. In the next two or three months, there will be a large number of people coming. These people, as the vanguard, must build more houses.
These houses and fields can be rewarded to them as the fruits of their labor. When people later divide the fields and houses, they can slowly pay off their debts.
After learning that all the grain reserves in the rear were robbed by Dashang, the 200,000 troops on the front line surrendered quickly. Without enough food and food, what can they fight with?
With these 200,000 surrendered soldiers, Dashang suddenly became rich in manpower, and all of them were transferred to the rear to build villages. With these young and strong laborers, the villages in the rear were built very quickly.
But now the iron and wooden puppets are in short supply again, and they are being built everywhere. The iron and wooden puppets that were relatively abundant before are needed at all construction sites. At the same time, a large number of laborers are also needed in newly reclaimed fields.
Now the three states and counties in Guannei, without the protection of 200,000 troops, have become a little girl in gauze, timidly appearing in front of the young and strong man of Dashang.
Without a single means of defense, they can only let Dashang take whatever they want.
Dashang mobilized almost all the people, not only the army, but also many young and strong people, who also went out collectively in villages and towns. Just highlight one word: rob.
Rob money, rob food, rob women! No, rob people. Of course, many young guys also completed their life events in this process. Some families with relatively wealthy families even completed it several times.
The sweep lasted for two months before the Great Xia Dynasty reacted and mobilized another 200,000 troops, under the command of Wan Honggang of the Wanfa Sect, stationed a hundred miles outside the Jiemen Pass.
In two months, Dashang, from top to bottom, from the government to the people, all made a lot of money. Everyone had a happy face, as if it was the New Year, no, it was more festive than the New Year.
As for those who were robbed back, they were not too disappointed. The rich people, landlords, and gentry were basically wiped out. As for the tenants and poor farmers who had no money. It was like heaven for them to arrive in Dashang.
Not only land was distributed here, but also houses were distributed. This house looked much better than their previous home. As for many families' daughters being married off, that was not a bad thing. Most of the families in Dashang were relatively wealthy, and they were not unhappy to be able to marry their daughters to such a family.
In the feudal dynasty of the Great Xia Dynasty, most of the wives married by common families were not pretty. Ordinary families could not keep pretty wives. Sooner or later, they would be coveted by the gentry and wealthy families, and their families might be destroyed.
In the Great Xia Dynasty, beautiful women were also a kind of resource. Of course, most of them were won over by the gentry and wealthy families.
The people did more than Feng Tianzong expected. Now within a hundred miles outside the Jiemen Pass, not to mention that nine out of ten houses are empty, it is basically ten out of ten houses. There is no one living there, no chickens or dogs left, and the houses have been burned down, completely turning into white land. When it snows, it can be described as a vast expanse of white and clean.
"Your Majesty, we are not short of food this time." Prime Minister Wang Mingyuan reported to Feng Tianzong happily. During this period, officials in the government office have been sorting out the harvest.
It is certain that some of it was hidden by the people and the army. Feng Tianzong was not prepared to investigate. Such things could not be investigated clearly. If he really wanted to be serious, everyone would be guilty, and he could not kill everyone.
However, most of it still belonged to the government office, that is, to him, the emperor of the Great Shang. Gold and silver are easy to store, and some precious calligraphy and paintings, jewelry and other things are all classified and stored in the warehouse of the Great Shang.
In the world of immortal cultivation, there is no concept of antiques, and antiques are not valuable. Similarly, in the secular world, antiques are also worthless. In any sect of immortal cultivation, there are a large number of things that are hundreds of thousands of years old.
Rarity makes things valuable. When things are not rare and have no practical use value, they are naturally worthless. It is nonsense to say that antiques are history in the world of immortal cultivation. Many old predecessors in the sect have lived longer than antiques. What mortals call antiques are nothing more than things made before the last retreat in their eyes.
"Now our inventory of money in Da Shang is enough to cover ten years of taxes. As for food, it is enough for all the people of Da Shang to eat for three years without doing anything." Wang Mingyuan happily reported the good news to Feng Tianzong.
This time, Wang Mingyuan, as the prime minister, also made a lot of money in the national carnival. This guy even organized a group of people from his family to go out and rob with his servants and guards. The whole family can be said to have become rich overnight.
Wang Mingyuan himself has been in charge of the political affairs of the northern border for so many years, and his family has long been rich. This time, the entire family assets have tripled. This organized robbery is really a good opportunity to make a fortune.
Feng Tianzong also saw that Wang Mingyuan's family was already a gentry of Dashang. He knew everything that had been done over the years, and his decision to confiscate Wang Mingyuan's family after his death was further strengthened.
Originally, seeing Wang Mingyuan working hard for the development of Dashang, Feng Tianzong felt a little reluctant and thought that it was right to leave some money to his family in the future. But now, this idea is completely gone.
"What about the population? How many people are there now? Have they all been settled? Is there enough arable land?" Feng Tianzong asked. Compared with gold and silver, population is what Feng Tianzong values most.
The more people under Dashang's rule, the faster his strength will increase.
"Your Majesty really loves the people like his own children. At this time, he still cares about the lives of those people. It's really the Holy Emperor in the world!" Wang Mingyuan said flatteringly.
"Let's talk about business!" Feng Tianzong waved his hand and said.
Wang Mingyuan said solemnly: "Reporting to Your Majesty, our Dashang now has a population of more than 2,253,700 people." Because people are born and die at any time, this is a number that changes at any time, so Wang Mingyuan dare not say it for sure, and can only give an approximate number.
Feng Tianzong finally showed joy on his face when he heard this. After one battle, the population of Dashang doubled. In just three months, the population increased by one million. What does this mean? It means that Feng Tianzong can collect taxes once before the New Year. And he can collect it again during the New Year.
Just thinking about the taxes that are about to be collected, Feng Tianzong is very happy, and the whole person exudes a sense of joy from the inside out.
This battle has made Dashang famous, and other cultivators who are preparing to fight for the dragon have paid attention to Feng Tianzong, the first disciple of the Puppet Sect to participate in the dragon fight in thousands of years.
They also accelerated the process of rebellion. Smoke of war broke out in various parts of the Great Xia Dynasty. Some people wanted to drive out Feng Tianzong, the biggest rebel king, first, and naturally some people wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to rise.
The Great Xia Dynasty was able to maintain a superficial stability, relying on a large army to prevent rebels from all over the country from showing their heads. Now the balance is completely broken, and Wan Honggang has drawn elite troops from various places, which has caused many places to be short of troops and can no longer suppress the surging rebels. The entire Great Xia Dynasty is in complete chaos.
Wan Honggang, who was born sacred and the leader of this generation of disciples of the Wanfa Sect, did not care about the rebellion in other places. He had 300,000 elite soldiers and was stationed more than 100 miles away from the Jiemen Pass.
It seemed that he had given up the fight for the dragon this time, and all other enemies were ignored, and he was going to fight to the death with Feng Tianzong's Great Shang. Even if the Great Shang had no intention of taking action now, he would block the way for the Great Shang to go south.
No matter what he thinks, Feng Tianzong is not in a hurry now. Seeing that the New Year is coming soon, he wants to collect a wave of taxes before the New Year.
Collect taxes!
Taxes: 11,300 years.
Feng Tianzong thought about it and decided to improve his cultivation first. Anyway, with the dragon energy of Da Shang, no one knows how much dragon energy blessing he has obtained, let alone what kind of luck he has obtained.
Although his cultivation has improved a little faster, Da Shang has just experienced a great victory and gained a large number of people. All these performances show that Feng Tianzong is now in a good luck.
It is normal to have a sudden enlightenment once or twice.
After consuming taxes for 1,800 years, his cultivation level was raised to the seventh level of Jindan.
After consuming taxes for 2,150 years, his cultivation level was raised to the eighth level of Jindan.
After consuming taxes for 2,480 years, his cultivation level was raised to the ninth level of Jindan.
A moment of effort was stretched to 6,430 years. A long time passed in the blink of an eye, and Feng Tianzong's magic power broke through the bottleneck of the late Jindan period. The surging power became stronger and stronger, and the three Jindan became more and more perfect.
Feng Tianzong raised his cultivation level to the ninth level of Jindan in one breath, and then stopped. The mortal world has a large formation restriction, and any fluctuation in the cultivation level of the Nascent Soul stage will attract the attention of the entire cultivation world.
Moreover, after reaching the Nascent Soul stage, there is no reason to stay in the mortal world, and the cultivation world does not allow Nascent Soul cultivators to participate in the dragon fight.
"My cultivation cannot be improved any more now. I will live in the mortal world and develop peacefully for a few hundred years. Then I will accumulate taxes and show my fangs when I have enough strength to challenge the entire cultivation world." Feng Tianzong thought happily.
He planned to use the remaining taxes to improve the all-powerful magical power of Yiqi Hua Sanqing, which is the most important magical power to save lives. Although it consumes more taxes to practice, it is definitely worth it.
Consume taxes for 3,200 years to improve Yiqi Hua Sanqing, and get started - proficient.
In a moment of hard work, three thousand years passed in a flash. Feng Tianzong understood this all-powerful magical power more and more. He pinched the spell with his hands, and two faint figures gradually appeared beside him, and the figures gradually solidified.
They were two other people who looked exactly like him.
In fact, this magical power can be used since the beginning, but when it was just getting started, the two external incarnations were slow to use and their strength was much worse.
Now that he has mastered this magical power, it can be considered as one completely divided into three. However, his original three golden elixirs have also been separated, and each incarnation has a golden elixir.
In fact, the incarnation is made from his own golden elixir. In terms of combat power, although there are now three incarnations, they are not much stronger than when he was alone.
This magical power needs to be truly powerful, and the magical power seed needs to be cultivated. Only then can it be considered as three completely identical incarnations.