In late March of the second year of Hongwu, the first battle between Qi and Youqi ended in the victory of Qi.

Escaping back to the poor concubine, he still can't figure out why he was defeated.

However, for the current poor people, the most important thing is not to think about why they were defeated, but to deal with the rebellion of the various subjugating tribes.

Like those barbarians in later generations, Youqiang, a force formed by violent conquest, was invincible and gradually grew in strength, and fell apart when defeated.

Just like the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian in later generations, he was only defeated once, and the Nuoda empire was wiped out in a blink of an eye.

This is the common problem of all barbarians and the forces without faith.

Yang Hao, who has already become a king, naturally knows the importance of unifying thoughts.

He can live for hundreds of years and thousands of years, and he can only have a limited vitality, and before he enters the soil again, let the people in the land know what a nation and a country are.

This is far more difficult than conquering a large piece of land, Yang Hao already knew from the battle report sent back that there was a defeat, this northern tribe that made him a little sleepless was defeated.

It was only at this time that Yang Hao truly realized that the Qi State had become a behemoth in his own hands, a powerful existence above all the forces in Middle-earth.

With the ability to be poor, you can unify the Northern Plain, and this poor and powerful Qi country naturally wants a larger territory.

It's just that Yang Hao understands that the tribes of this era do not have the concept of unification at all, and those who have the same sense of national identity are still thousands of years away from him under normal circumstances.

A thousand years is too long, and in the face of such a span of time units, the short life of human beings is simply not worth mentioning.

Yang Hao wants to spend decades to complete the journey of thousands of years before him, and the difficulties can be imagined.

For him, the most important thing for Qi now is not to expand its territory, but to unify the idea of Qi State.

Although thought cannot be eaten as food, nor can it be used to stab people, but sometimes, this ethereal thing can even change the color of heaven and earth.

If the land of the Central Plains that has fallen apart is forcibly unified, in the end it will only follow the path of its predecessors.

The State of Qi will spend a lot of time to quell the rebellion in the country, which seems to be a quagmire, once it is trapped, although it will not immediately drag the State of Qi down, but this is like a slow poison that will lead the State of Qi into the abyss of destruction.

Yang Hao is very happy, so that there is no enemy in the southeast, north and south, and the three directions, and the Qi State only needs to eat away at the power of the Xia Dynasty a little bit when developing internal affairs.

The defeat of the poor made Yang Hao realize that the military strength of the Qi State was completely unafraid of any opponent, and he should also focus on other places.

For a long time, Yang Hao has been worried, for fear that everything he does is a flower in the moon mirror in the water.

But now he didn't have to worry, the enemy was so weak that he could only laugh at himself for being too cowardly.

Nowadays, Qi State sits on part of Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Anhui.

Taken together, the area is even larger than that of a province in later generations.

This bit of territory can only be regarded as a local separatist force for later generations of Huaxia, but for today's Qi State, the territory is really too big.

Except for a few cities, it is a deserted and primitive environment.

Wild beasts can even be seen in the vicinity of human settlements.

The rampant beast means the scarcity of the population.

After the First World War, Yang Hao felt that there were no special circumstances, and there would be no major wars in Qi in a short period of time.

Although Yang Hao shifted his energy to the construction of internal affairs, how could he not know the truth of being prepared for danger in times of peace.

Now there is no disarmament and return to the fields, and the extent of the southern mountains of Nanshan, although the enemy is weak, they still exist there.

At the beginning of April of the second year of Hongwu, this year's spring came much later than usual.

But when the army returned triumphantly, the farmers outside Chang'an began to be busy in the new year.

For those who had just risen from savage to citizen farmer at the beginning of the year, farming was something to celebrate.

As long as you work hard for a year, when it comes to the New Year in Qi country, you may be able to do the same as those old Qi people, pull a few pieces of new cloth, make a good clothes, drink two sips of wine, and lie comfortably on the kang to enjoy the good days of eating and waiting for death, if there can be a woman again, it will be more perfect.

Unlike these peasants, for the soldiers who participated in the war against the poor, returning to Chang'an City was the beginning of their good life.

For the soldiers of Qi State, what is the purpose of being a soldier to defend the country? Sacrifice your life for righteousness? This is all.

The only thing they know is that they can win battles if they are paid as soldiers in Qi State, and if they win battles, they can be promoted and make a fortune.

Follow the Qi army to fight from south to north and from east to west.

Nor are they people who spend their entire lives in their own acres of land.

They have seen many cities, all kinds of forces, and all of them have one thing in common, that is, backwardness, although they do not have these two words in their vocabulary.

But they can clearly feel that these forces are incompatible with the Qi country, and they themselves are also incompatible with these forces.

People are happy things, no one is born to want to be a wild man, born to want to kill, what to live for, maybe only the word survival can make the best interpretation.

The efficiency of the imperial court of Qi was still okay, and within a few days, the military department issued the reward for this battle.

The soldiers who died in the war were given pensions by their families, and those who had their heads cut off alive were given a lot of rewards, which were even worth half a year's hard work of the peasants.

As for what glory is the icing on the cake, only the golden copper coin that is actually held in the hand is the most morale-boosting thing.

And this battle also made the grenadiers of the Shenji Battalion in the limelight for a while.

Legend has it that Yang Hao invited the gods of the heavens, and the gods are passed down among the people.

The person who got the inside story wanted to get some grenades from Yang Hao and equip them in his army.

It's just that they were all vetoed by Yang Hao.

Just kidding, how could he spread out at will with this kind of cock bombing thing.

No matter what they said, Yang Hao had made up his mind that the strongest and best equipment could only be in the Praetorian Guard.

And Qu, the leader of the Praetorian Guard, although his ability is not the most outstanding, Yang Hao knows that Qu is the most loyal person to him.

From the first day his consciousness passed through this world, Qu was the first person he knew.

During the most depressed period of time, he also trusted himself unconditionally.

Even if you suddenly hang up one day, you can have a minister who supports you.