Volume 10 Chapter 26 The world is peaceful
Lu Xiangsheng is still as fierce as ever, under his leadership the Tianxiong Army is as fierce as a group of tigers, the rebels on the city wall have already been bombarded and scattered, where is the opponent of this gang of killing gods, looking at it from a distance, the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army are simply like a tide surging up the city wall, and the rebels on the city wall are falling like raindrops.
Seeing this scene, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong glanced at each other in despair, and said almost at the same time:
"Let them surrender."
"Order, all lay down their arms and surrender."
A huge siege battle ended like this, the rebels on the northern city wall were almost killed without leaving a piece of armor, and the other three city walls and the rebels who changed the guard in the city were not damaged, but they were already frightened, and as soon as they received the order to surrender, they immediately threw away their weapons with relief, and honestly waited for the officers and soldiers to come and take them in.
Zhu Cijiong also put down the binoculars with relief, it was over, it was finally over, the peasant uprising in the northwest that lasted for nearly ten years was finally over, there were no more rebels and rebellions in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the world of the Ming Dynasty finally ushered in a rare peace.
These peasant rebels were notoriously capricious, and rejuvenating sentences was almost commonplace for them, so why was Zhu Cijiong so sure that the peasant uprising was over?
Of course, he knows that these people have the bad habit of surrendering and rejuvenating, and he already has a perfect plan for this, if these people want to resentence, there must be a premise, that is, the court will send them back to their hometown, Zhu Cijiong has already thought about it, and none of them will be allowed to go back!
If he didn't let them go back, would he kill all the more than 400,000 rebel prisoners, that would be able to completely solve the problem of the peasant uprising once and for all, but if he did this, he would definitely become the most famous tyrant in history! The slaughter of more than 400,000 people at one time can be regarded as rewriting history, I don't know if the system will give him a big glorious reward, or will it directly destroy other people.
Jokes, jokes, of course he is not a tyrant, and there is no need to kill them all, these rebels are good laborers, and he is planning to build a railroad, and the captured ordinary rebels are just using it. The biggest cost of building a railway in the Ming Dynasty at this time was the labor cost, if you recruit ordinary migrant workers, you will not only be responsible for his food and drink but also start the construction money, it will be different with these captives, as long as they are fed, the salary is not a penny, so the cost of repairing the railway is saved by at least half.
As for those leaders, then I'm embarrassed, they can't eat the emperor's grain and build the railway, in order to prevent future troubles, Zhu Cijiong decided to kill them all, and all of them were executed.
Just said that he was not a tyrant, why did he put so many people to death? This is not his idea, the "Da Ming Law" stipulates that the leader of the rebel Ling Chi will be executed, he is just implementing the law formulated by Taizu, and he also thinks that it must be severely punished in order to serve as a warning, so, what he didn't say, all Ling Chi was executed, to see who dared to take the lead in rebellion!
After conquering Xiangyang, Zhu Cijiong did not stay long, and after a few days of rest, he returned to the DPRK with the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard Army and the Tianxiong Army, as for the Dingliao Army, he stayed to assist the Wuwei Army to escort more than 100,000 prisoners of Xiangyang City to Fengyang, the central capital, and the Qin army also wanted to go back to Xi'an to escort the prisoners there to the vicinity of Kaifeng Mansion, because he wanted to build the main road between the north and south first, that is, from the capital to Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, and then from Kaifeng Mansion to Fengyang Mansion in the central capital.
The emperor's triumphant return to the capital is naturally a celebration of the city, the scene is even more lively than the New Year's Festival, these ordinary people are happy in their hearts, the Jiannu in Liaodong was beaten away by the emperor, and the red-haired ghost in the east was also cleaned up by the emperor, and now the anti-thieves in the northwest have also been exterminated by the emperor, and the Ming Dynasty has finally entered a rare peaceful and prosperous era, can they not be happy.
Of course, the happiest people are not the common people, the civil and military officials of the imperial court, Zhu Cijiong's relatives are happier than the common people, the happiest one is the foreign beauty Princess Anna, since Zhu Cijiong set out on the expedition, she has been worried, she can't even sleep, she can't even sleep when she is worried, she can't eat the food made by the imperial kitchen, and the scenery of Guanghan Palace has become bleak and boring, she feels that the whole person is about to collapse.
Now that the emperor is finally back, she jumped up and down excitedly, sticking to Zhu Cijiong's arms and calling her crazy, fortunately Zhu Cijiong is not a casual person, otherwise she would have to be corrected on the spot.
Although Zhu Cijiong did not correct Princess Anna on the spot, some people were corrected by him, the leader of the rebel army who was captured earlier had already been secretly escorted to the capital, and now Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong and others were also brought back by him, and they had a long night, and announced to him the next morning that all the leaders of the thieves would be pushed to the noon gate and executed by Ling Chi!
This leader of thieves is not divided into large, medium and small, because small ones can also develop into big ones, so as long as it is the leader of thieves, all of them are pulled outside the noon gate, and there are not hundreds of people in total, but fortunately, the place outside the noon gate is big enough, otherwise it really can't be arranged.
There were nearly 100 people at a time, which was the first time in history, and the scene was ...... and too cruel, so I won't go into detail here.
For such a cruel thing, Zhu Cijiong naturally would not be present at the scene, but an unexpected benefit came to him.
I don't know when, maybe it was the moment when Li Zicheng was killed, and the long-lost voice of the system beauty suddenly sounded in his mind: "Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the fourth glorious task to exterminate the anti-thief, and now the reward will be issued: the manufacturing method of cement." ”
Zhu Cijiong only felt a burst of dizziness, and a bunch of drawings poured into his mind suddenly: what rotary kiln, crusher, ball mill, mixer, packaging machine, and what Portland cement, slag Portland cement, porosyl Portland cement, fly ash Portland cement .......
Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but be surprised, cement, good thing, the usefulness of this thing is simply too great! However, he always had a question in his heart, what were the conditions of this glorious mission, as if he would not have the reward of the glorious mission when he subdued North Korea.
The next hint of the system beauty just answered his question: "Ding Dong, friendly reminder: to get the reward of the glorious mission, you must change the trajectory of historical development, come on to rewrite history, the system will provide extremely rich rewards." Tips are over, happy playing. ”
Zhu Cijiong was stunned when he heard this, no wonder there was no reward at all after redefining North Korea as a vassal state, because North Korea was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and Dongying was different, in history, Dongying had never paid tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and even the Yuan Dynasty failed to conquer Dongying, so after he conquered Dongying, the system gave him a great reward.
In the end, what places are there rewards for conquering, he couldn't help but let Cao Huachun turn out all the maps of the Ming Dynasty and take a closer look, good guys, the territory that the Ming Dynasty once occupied is really not ordinary, east to the Bering Strait, west to Islamabad, north to the Arctic Ocean, south to Jakarta, such a large area, it was once the territory of the Ming Dynasty, or the vassal of the Ming Dynasty, that is to say, even if he conquered the entire Southeast Asia and the north of the desert, there is no glory task reward, because this does not change history at all, just repeat history!
Of course, these have to be recovered without rewards, if not for anything else, because it was once the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Can Zhu Cijiong recover all the lost territory and restore the territory of the Ming Dynasty to its heyday? At the end of this volume, please see the breakdown of the next volume.