After receiving guidance from Li Ting, Zakmu assembled all the troops in Ulan City on the morning of the fifth day.
They discussed how to confront Li Ting.
Someone in the crowd said, "Why don't we just surrender? We can't win!"
The two generals beside Zakmu immediately drew their swords to silence the crowd.
"You who eat the king's salary must be loyal to him. How can you speak of surrendering without a clear conscience?"
"If you hear the word 'surrender' again, I'll take your life!"
More than ten other people also drew their knives.
With a signal from Zakmu, he took advantage of the dozen or so men's inattention and captured them all.
Zakmu took out more than a dozen pills from his pocket and fed them to them one by one.
In an instant, more than a dozen people collapsed to the ground.
Then, Zakmu took out a talisman and stuck it on the foreheads of the dozen or so people.
A blue light was seen attached to the talisman.
Zakmu then had several more rats caught.
The talisman was pasted on the mouse's back, and the blue light on the talisman went directly into the mouse's body.
Finally, the mouse was released.
Inside the palace of the Great Yue Kingdom, the Grand Preceptor found nothing amiss.
Those dozen or so of Huangfu Chuxiong's spies remained unconscious and would not wake up anytime soon.
After dealing with these people, Zakmu ordered the city gates to be opened to welcome the Nan Chen Kingdom army into the city.
After Li Ting went to war, Xiao Sheng announced the tax revenue of Nan Chen Kingdom over the past three years.
Without collecting taxes from farmers, but only from merchants, the national treasury had a surplus of 98.6 million taels of silver and 350,000 taels of gold.
In these three years, no one in Nanchen Kingdom has starved or frozen to death.
All children of school age were enrolled in school.
Young and middle-aged people were learning various production skills in schools jointly run by the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Ministry of Agriculture was established shortly after Xiao Sheng ascended the throne, and it was responsible for all agricultural affairs in the Southern Chen Kingdom.
In this way, both handicrafts and agriculture had labor.
The imperial court had a special agency to purchase agricultural output.
Then, using preservation technology, they are transported to sell throughout the entire territory of Nanchen Kingdom.
Farmers don't need to pay taxes, so they have extra money in their pockets and can expand their land holdings.
Finally, Xiao Sheng issued a decree that in farming families in Nanchen Kingdom, the eldest son must remain in the family, regardless of whether he is a legitimate or illegitimate son, and inherit farmland and mountains.
The imperial court would provide compensation to the eldest son who remained in the family to inherit farmland and mountains.
Of course, if the eldest son could pass the imperial examination, then the inheritance of the farmland would pass to the second son.
Although this law sparked a reading craze in the Southern Chen Kingdom.
However, passing the imperial examinations was extremely difficult.
Farming can support a family and even generate a surplus. With various tools available, farming is no longer considered hard work. Therefore, the situation of farmland being left uncultivated has not occurred.
After three years of dormancy, the Nan Chen Kingdom has made a leap forward, with its national strength far surpassing that of the Da Liang Kingdom and the Da Yue Kingdom.
Although the Great Liang Kingdom followed the Southern Chen Kingdom in engaging in overseas trade, for some reason, it was always unable to obtain more profits.
On the contrary, each voyage at sea was not so smooth.
Xiao Sheng's move to announce the state's revenue shocked King Yuchi Mingjun of the Great Liang Kingdom.
Because of this financial statement, people in Cangxuan Mainland can see it.
This is no longer a secret of the royal family.
The news that ordinary people can see the wealth they have created is inspiring, motivating them to work even harder to improve their lives and increase production.
Xiao Sheng's next move excited the Southern Chen Kingdom for quite some time.
The allocation of these revenues was further outlined in a detailed plan.
As can be seen, taxes are used for the military, agriculture and handicrafts, education, and national infrastructure.
There is one thing that the people don't understand.
That is road construction.
Isn't the road already like that? Why do you need to repair it?
Little did anyone know that, under Li Xingran's guidance, Li Ruizhang had developed cement.
Although the output is not high, with the accumulation of experience and time, it can definitely be expanded.
From now on, it will be much more convenient for the people of Nanchen Kingdom to travel by horse-drawn carriage.
On the smooth road, the speed increased more than twice.
These messages, transmitted through the Qianji Gate, reached every corner of the Cangxuan Continent.
Some small tribes and small countries came to seek refuge.
Xiao Shengrang the envoy to receive him.
Li Ting captured Wulan Town on the front lines, while Xiao Sheng absorbed forces from various factions within the country.
Seeing this situation, the King of Liang had no choice but to write a letter of state, stating that Liang was willing to become a vassal state and submit to Nanchen.
After Li Ting led his troops to capture Wulan Town, he retrieved the crystals for the garrison and the people of Wulan Town.
After everything was completed, the imperial advisor in the palace discovered it, but it was too late.
Those people were no longer under his control.
Imperial Advisor Huangfu Tao hurriedly informed Huangfu Chuxiong of the news.
Huangfu Chuxiong looked at the various tax and military details of the Southern Chen Kingdom that Xiao Sheng had just issued.
I was caught completely off guard.
It turns out that Xiao Sheng had kept the news under wraps for the past three years.
Under his rule, the Southern Chen Kingdom became incredibly prosperous.
When Huangfu Chuxiong saw the Nan Chen Kingdom's treasury revenue from the past three years, and then looked at his own treasury...
Twenty Great Moon Kingdoms cannot compare to one Southern Chen Kingdom.
How can we fight against the Southern Chen Kingdom?
After passing through Wulan Town, the entire Great Yue Kingdom knew what the Huangfu family had done to them.
It is now impossible to recruit soldiers from the civilian population.
Faced with absolute power, the Huangfu family's methods are insignificant.
After settling things in Wulan Town, Li Ting left 50,000 troops to be stationed there.
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