Chapter 154: (Conquering the World) Finale
Supported by huge wealth, Shu stepped up its conscription efforts.
Xue Xuan carefully selected and formed 10,000 Tingyu Guards, plus the 10,000-strong Jiangyu Dark Guard Battalion led by Xu Huai.
In addition, Changshan recruited a total of 300,000 new soldiers in Shu, who were undergoing emergency training every day.
The discovery of iron mines in the southwest of Shu greatly improved the soldiers' armor and weapons.
In the first and second years of the Jingchu reign, Queen Mother Xu issued several decrees to levy taxes on Shu, but they were all rejected by the King of Shu.
Queen Mother Xu was furious and forced the King of Shu to pay taxes, otherwise he would be charged with treason.
However, the King of Shu still refused to fall for it and only said that he would wait until the summer and autumn grains of the third year of Jingchu were collected and then hand them over to the state treasury.
Empress Dowager Xu was furious and immediately ordered the whole country to recruit soldiers, preparing to gather a million troops to attack Shu.
However, under the rule of Queen Mother Xu and the new emperor, the treasury of Dali Kingdom has suffered losses year after year.
Plagues and famines occurred frequently in the southeast region. Corrupt officials plundered people's wealth while collecting taxes, and as many as one million people starved to death.
It would have been better if the court had not issued the decree to recruit soldiers. Once it did, it immediately triggered riots among the people and the emergence of various uprising forces.
The largest uprising army, under the banner of "Empress Dowager Xu has misled the country and the people", killed the conscription general and led tens of thousands of people to the Shunyi granary outside the capital, where grain was stored.
In the spring of the third year of Jingchu, Jiang Yu and Jiang Qi divided their troops into two groups and led a total of 500,000 troops out of Shu.
Jiang Yu personally led an army of 300,000 to march towards the capital. Xue Xuan led half of the Tingyu Guard and the Dark Guard Camp soldiers to distribute "The Ten Crimes of Empress Dowager Xu that Misled the Country" in various areas of the capital, ordering her to abdicate and give way to others.
Jiang Qi led an army of 150,000 to garrison in Shanxi and other places to prevent the Northern Rong from taking advantage of the opportunity to launch a surprise attack.
On the fifth day of the sixth month of the third year of Jingchu, Jiang Yu entered the capital, and a giant golden python appeared in the capital.
A giant python poked its head out from the ground, as big as a small mountain, and uttered in human language: "The Demon Queen will be destroyed, and the punishment from heaven will cease."
Watching the brick and stone roads for dozens of miles outside the imperial city being lifted up by the giant python's head, countless gravel and rubble fell into the abyss below, and in the fallen abyss, the army of snakes were also eager to try, rushing out madly.
The people were terrified and fled everywhere, shouting, "Kill the Demon Queen! Kill the Demon Queen! Only then can we stop the earth dragon from turning over."
The guards in the capital dared not breathe a word as they watched the giant python appear.
The next day, Empress Dowager Xu and the young emperor disappeared, and Jiang Yu took control of the capital.
In the southern Xinjiang region, Xu Xin'an, Duke of Xu and General Protector of the Nation, invited Old Man Kudu to help. Countless spider armies guarded the border to prevent the southern Xinjiang region from taking the opportunity to riot.
On the way north, Xu's army recruited the various scattered rebel forces they encountered.
Cartloads of grain from Shu were transported to food-scarce areas in the southeast. The people were grateful for the kindness of the King of Shu, and the Kingdom of Dali was temporarily stabilized.
One year of the new dynasty.
In his former capacity as the Crown Prince of Li State, Jiang Yu recommended the Prince of Shu, Jiang Qi, to ascend the throne as emperor, while he himself retreated to the second line and became the regent, assisting the new emperor in securing his throne.
All parts of the Dali Kingdom followed the model of Chenxinli in Shu and began the long process of restoring people's livelihood.
Because everyone inside and outside the court was worried.
The two brothers Jiang Yu and Jiang Qi are very busy every day. Chen Xinli shares with them all the new books on the shelves in the space. Jiang Yu makes adjustments according to the time and place based on the current situation of leaving the country.
The Dali Kingdom encouraged the reclamation of wasteland and the state provided compensation.
The south planted rice and vigorously cultivated ratoon rice. The emergence of water wheels solved the problem of water shortage for irrigation.
In addition to the original crops in the north, the large-scale planting of potatoes and sweet potatoes, coupled with the use of compost, has greatly increased grain production.
The people no longer have to go hungry.
Transportation.
It only took two days to travel from Shu to the capital by horse carriage. This was thanks to the Ministry of Works, which had successfully developed lime and cement after hundreds of experiments. The country's main roads began to be built in an orderly manner.
After the road was opened, it boosted the commercial prosperity of prefectures, counties and towns, and merchants came to and from the south and the north in an endless stream.
In the summer, people in the north can eat lychees from the south, and wild ginseng and deer antlers from Changbai Mountain can be transported to Fuzhou, the southernmost city.
The economy of Dali Kingdom has developed unprecedentedly and is thriving.
The Ministry of War also established a new weapons research and development department, recruiting craftsmen from all over the country to develop weapons.
Chen Xinli's pistol and tranquilizer gun are the focus of research.
Although the Dali Kingdom did not yet have the ability to produce these weapons, with the emergence of flintlock rifles, grenades and biological and chemical weapon bombs (grenades with extremely spicy chili powder and arsenic), the Beirong army was hit by the Dali Kingdom's guns for the first time.
The Khan of Beirong was still terrified whenever he thought of the earth-shattering explosion and the choking and poisonous smoke.
He directly negotiated a new contract with Dali: as long as they did not drive him away, Beirong would never invade the borders of Dali and would not plunder the people again.
However, Chen Xinli proposed: "We cannot give up even an inch of our country's land."
Jiang Yu deeply agreed with this.
The third year of the Xin Dynasty.
The regent of Dali Kingdom, Jiang Yu, personally led an army of 500,000 to march to the northwest.
The elite cavalry of the second prince of Beirong, Zhazhahe, were beaten to a pulp by the gunfire and artillery fire of the Dali soldiers.
The Khan of Beirong and the eldest prince fled with their remaining soldiers, their tails between their legs, and continued their days of eating sand on the grassland.
The northwestern hinterland of the Dali Kingdom, which had been lost for nearly ten years, was finally recovered.
The people in the north cried loudly and kowtowed to the Dali soldiers again and again.
They didn't expect that after becoming the lowest-class two-legged sheep of Beirong, they could once again become people of Dali.
The Ministry of Industry was not willing to lag behind.
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