Two days later, the fleet sailed into the Po Song River, the tall and magnificent Po Song City towered on the riverside, it was spectacular and breathtaking, and the scale of the momentum was not even inferior to the scale of the six main cities of Qianyue Mountain.

At this time, Jiang Jie was shocked and rolled his chin, and the other veterans of the Central Plains Coalition Army were all shocked.

"Good boy, my lord, this wall is comparable to the city of Galloping!"

"Like the Central Plains, the Jinxuedi people were also wary of the invasion of their homeland by coalition forces in their early years, so the main city established in the early days outside the Guanxi was very huge, and it has been continuously expanded over the centuries to reach its current size. However, the further it went east, the smaller its city became, which shows that after discovering that the coalition forces could not move south, it categorically stopped building on a large scale, and instead consolidated its territory and developed northward step by step. ”

"It is said that the white-haired thief is rich, such a big city, let alone hundreds of thousands of people, if he enters the city one day, it is not a mountain of gold and silver piled up in front of him!" All Bai He thinks of is money, in his eyes, Po Song City is a lump of gold and silver, and any piece of it is money.

The navy slowly sailed across the river, and at this time, Gudapa stood at the head of the south gate and looked like ashes, stunned as he watched the warships flying the battle flags of the coalition forces sail across the river, and said in despair:

"My moon god, the northerners actually drove our warships on the river unhindered, did the moon god turn his back on us!"

Kabias suddenly shouted:

"How did these pigs break into here, what about our water army, are they all blind, are Mooney and Temir crazy, they are fully responsible for this!"

Ignoring Kabias's hysteria, Gudapa immediately called in auxiliaries to withdraw the merchants and coolies of the docks to the city, closing the four gates to prevent the coalition troops from landing and harassing them.

Bailiyan continued to sail, that is, he was not interested in plundering the merchant ships that docked at the port, and he did not intend to attack Posong City without his own strength, the city wall was more than six zhang high, which was enough for the coalition army to be very nervous, even if it could be blown up with gunpowder, the earthwork after its collapse was three or two zhang high, and it still couldn't go up, but it did not prevent Bailiyan from taking a closer look.

The Jin Xuedi people built the city after ramming the earth wall, wrapped with square bricks mixed with alum earth, and the Central Plains countries only the capital city, the city wall of the important town will be covered with bricks, and the ordinary city is still the earth wall.

In China, it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the brick wrapping of the city wall officially became a system. Prior to this, the walls of various places were mainly adobe cities, and only the capital and important towns would be covered with bricks.

The cost of bricks is very large, in addition to financial and material resources, manpower is very important. The vassal states of the Central Plains fought for many years, the loss of manpower was great, the financial and material resources were not abundant, and a large number of people were requisitioned to serve as hard labor to wrap bricks on the city wall, which undoubtedly increased the burden on the people, and abandoned farming, so the gains outweighed the losses.

Coupled with the backwardness of productivity and technology, brick-wrapping requires a lot of manpower and forests. In other words, all that is consumed is food and money, and at the same time, the loss of agricultural output and the resources consumed by the people is double the expenditure when manpower is out of production for a long time.

The Jinxuedi people had an abundance of slaves, developed metallurgy and iron tools, high productivity, and an astonishing amount of animal power to use, and continued to expand and repair the city for hundreds of years, and its cost was much lower. At the same time, there were no strong enemies in the domain, and the army was mainly used to suppress slave rebellions, and it was not surprising that it was covered with bricks.

The fleet left Posong City one after another and continued to sail west against the current. It wasn't until half a day later that the Kinshidi navy sailed by, and the consul Kabias called out to stop the fleet, summoned the commander of the navy into the city, and scolded the army for its incompetence, and put all the blame on Mooney and Temir and others.

At the same time, Gudapa is the only one doing the facts.

As soon as the coalition warship left, the municipal government urgently held a meeting to reiterate the matter of army expansion. The coalition forces passed through Posong City, which greatly stimulated the officials and wealthy people in the city, and undoubtedly helped Gudapa a lot. Almost unsurprisingly, a bill for the expansion of the army was passed quickly, and a new force of 100,000 light cavalry was built at the joint expense of officials at all levels, lords of the estates, nobles, and churches, and all the costs of maintenance were shared equally among each family.

But Gudappa never dreamed that the emergence of this army would eventually lead to the birth of the Jinxuedi mercenaries, laying a huge hidden danger for future turmoil.

Obviously, the lords of the manors, the nobles, the eunuchs, the merchants, and the church were all a group of mercenary interest groups, and they were asked to pay for an army and provide military pay and expenses, and the nature of this army changed from state-owned to private, and the nature of this army changed radically.

The movement of the Allied convoy was transmitted back to Mooney's camp by Maxima through the gallop road, and the news of the Allied army's passage through Posong City reached Govins two days later.

"Your Excellency, the fleet of the northerners has neither landed nor plundered the villages along the way, and there is still no sign of stopping the westward march and returning, and in another eight hundred miles, it will enter the jurisdiction of the province of Songdia, where we can almost use our troops, after the transfer of Cartensen to the east, there are only a negligible auxiliary troops in the province, they don't want to start a riot in Songdia, there are millions of Central Plains citizens there!"

Norenga seemed to have opened his mind, and said with a nose and eyes, and Mooney's face turned pale, and he said in frustration:

"You can think of it, could there be any other answers! But I didn't expect that the northerners would get rid of this poisonous plan, they dared to risk being divided, and the troops were divided into four ways and went deep alone, what did they rely on, could they really predict things like gods! ”

"Your Excellency, what should we do now, if they really kill Bensundia, our order outside the gate will be ruined."

"Don't worry!" Mooney soothed: "The Central Plains people of Songdia are all three, four, or even five generations of Central Plains people, and they are far less irritable than the Central Plains people in Posong Province. In addition, the Central Plains people in Posong Province are all second-generation people whose parents were killed, and they are all strong men, not old or weak.

The Central Plains people in Songdia are full of old, weak, women and children, and the middle-aged men are only three to forty percent at best, and if they want to take away the strong men, they must take away the whole family, which means that every time they take away a strong man, they need to take away at least one woman, two old people, and two children, and the efficiency will be greatly reduced. ”

"Your Excellency really expected things like a god, so to speak, our army is not in a hurry to pursue."

"No, we must pursue it immediately, we want it, and the people of the Central Plains want it. Temir was now struggling, and the army of the Northerners who had advanced west from the Falls had now grown to more than 200,000 men, and the Pavins would not be able to take it for a long time, and if they stabbed them in the back again at Sundia, the consequences would be unimaginable.

You personally go to Posong City to see Gudapa, that guy from Kabias is no longer reliable, if it is not a nobleman, I really suspect that he was bought by the northerners.

You tell Gudapa to go to Sondia himself, to the consul Cahorn, and ask him to take all the women and children of the Central Plains into the city as hostages. And tell the men that this is to protect their women and children from the demons from the north, and that if they kill the demons from the north, their wives and children will be kept by the moon god. ”

"But it takes time, the city of Sondia is close to the inside of the pass, far away from the outside of the pass, from Parvins is to ride the fastest horse, gallop to Sundiya, it will take four or five days to go endlessly, more than two days ago they have passed through the city of Posong, and in a few days they will be able to enter Songdia, and when our decree reaches all parts of the city, the implementation will be completed, not to mention that it will take twenty days or even a month."

"Huh!" Mooney sneered: "It's so easy, you don't want to think about it, after leaving the Posong River, other waterways need to be detoured, and the gallop road is not to be detoured, they are not familiar with the place, and the boats are limited, at best, they can only carry tens of thousands of old and young, which does not hinder the overall situation." It's too late, so I ride a thousand miles of horse. ”

"Oh...... The subordinate immediately went to Posong City. ”

"Well, go ahead."

A few days later, the coalition forces entered the province of Sondia, plundering dozens of merchant ships along the way, and the prosperity of the transportation was astounding. However, as Mooney expected, the coalition forces encountered considerable resistance when they plundered the Central Plains.

Different from the second and third generations of people in Posong Province, the third and fourth generations of people in Songdia Province are seriously out of touch with culture, and many people have converted to the Moon God Religion.

Bailiyan's strategy is very simple, the three generations of people in the coalition army, the fourth generation of the people show up to say, those who are willing to go, those who stay stay, whether you believe in religion or not, you will never be forced.

The reason is very simple, there were a few third- and fourth-generation people from Songdia in the coalition army, and most of the rowers and slaves were from Songdia, and the situation of the original people in Songdia in the coalition army was well known in advance, and there were many religious and non-religious people, and the so-called moon god was completely vulnerable in the face of hunger and death.

The simplest question, people have to eat, can God solve the problem of food and clothing, can't! Can God solve the pain and exploitation of the flesh, no?

With regard to religion, Bailiyan's principle is that unless it is a heinous cult, all other cults that have historical retrospectives should be lenient, and all cults should be banned under the premise that religion is allowed to preach without interfering in politics, the economy, or the military.

Evil forces such as the so-called Heavenly Fathers of the Black Turban Army, in the name of founding religions, practice persecution and enslavement, but cults that have no historical foundation and religious logic are all banned.

Of course, most of all religions that worship gods are superstitious in nature, and the essential difference between legitimate religion and illegal religion is legitimate, and it has historical retrospectiveness and continuity.

For example, the Luna Cult, which has ruled among the Jinxuedi people for thousands of years, has its own set of religious logic. The more ignorant and ignorant the era, people's instinct requires that people's spiritual world have a reasonable explanation and sustenance for the unsolved phenomena of reality.

In particular, the real suffering caused by oppression and suffering often causes political turmoil, so the ruler needs spiritual measures to transfer the public anger caused by political turmoil and slavery and oppression, to mentally anesthetize the exploited people at the bottom, and to interpret the actual suffering through the so-called God's will as suffering in this life to enjoy happiness in this life, or suffering in this life to repay the sins you did in your previous life, and so on.

In any case, as long as the ruler cannot solve the contradiction, it can be pushed onto the head of God.

Therefore, the creation of gods is undoubtedly a universal explanation for all unknown mysteries, but all phenomena that cannot be explained are called the masterpieces of God, so there is a fundamental impetus for the emergence of religion.

At present, when primitive religion is in power, it cannot be overthrown, and the more it is suppressed and overthrown, the more it proves the fear and cowardice of the rulers. The greater the rebound of this kind of religion, which has a long history and a large base of believers, the best measure is to civilize and use scientific and technological means to make the divinity and superstitious speech of religion self-defeating.

The Jinxuedi people consider themselves to be the descendants of the moon god, but if one day they see that the surface of the moon is a pothole, lifeless stone, the myth of the so-called moon god will be destroyed.

So a few years later, Bailiyan spent Juzi to build the first observatory in Miaotian Mountain, so as to correct the sight and hear.