Section 542 Long live the emperor
Shi Yong's expression was a little complicated, but more excited.
"Thank you for keeping me alive at that time." He hugged Tianhao tightly with open arms and whispered in his ear: "You are a respectable person, a true hero. β
Tianhao responded with a smile: "You should thank yourself for making the right choice at the right time." β
Wu Lin was dressed in a white robe, waiting for Tianhao to come to him, knelt down on one knee respectfully, and then stood up, his eyes obviously shaking with a different brilliance: "I finally waited for the emperor who unified the entire north, and I witnessed all this with my own eyes. β
"You'll see more." Tianhao laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "Next, it's the south." β
Wu Lin bowed again, and he made a call-to-action voice: "Long live my emperor!" β
Everyone in the hall was shouting: "Long live my emperor!" β
Tianhao walked out of the main hall with a smile and saw the people standing in the square who were shrouded in sunlight.
Today is an extremely important day, and all the residents of Roaring City have stepped out of their homes and outside. The square was crowded with people, and the streets were full of people. People from the nearby walled cities came, and there were millions of them.
It's hard to imagine a city full of people like a crowded fishpond if you don't see it with your own eyes.
It is impossible for Tianhao to shake hands and talk to everyone, but he can walk around the city and let everyone see himself.
As an emperor, it's a duty, and it's the hardest work in the world.
As the residents of Roaring City watched the ceremony, they felt the incomparably strong enthusiasm of those outsiders.
Panseong, Black Corner, Sindu, Cheonggyeong, Yeonju, Jeju Island...... Even the cities of the Northern Lakes District, which are in a state of development, sent representatives, with a total number of hundreds of thousands.
Tiger, Pig, Deer, Eagle...... All the conquered tribes participated. They once succumbed to the might of the dragons, but now they are unified members.
The former hostility is difficult to disappear in a short period of time, but the gods have shown their favor for Tianhao in a special wayββββ the southern whites have invaded at a critical time, and in the face of a common enemy, the hidden Eagle Clan opposition can only and must choose to cooperate with the Dragon Clan, temporarily identify with Tianhao's identity, and fight against foreign enemies together.
They saw with their own eyes the brutality of white people on the battlefield, saw the fierce and powerful biochemical weapons, and also saw the greed of the lion king, as well as a series of changes after the start of the war in the tiger king Yaoxian.
Since the capture of Eagle City, the team of dragon priests and wizards has been busy in Eagle territory. With their overwhelming publicity, they established the status of Tianhao, the new king of the whole clan, in the hearts of the Eagle Clan. With slogans and slogans, Tianhao ordered a large number of supplies to be transported from the territory of the Dragon Clan, so that the defeated and surrendered Eagle Clan survived the winter.
An eagle man standing at the window of the building in the distance put his right hand on his left shoulder, and bent down to face Tianhao, who was slowly coming from the main entrance of the palace hall, and bowed respectfully.
The expression on his face was very complicated, but the etiquette was complete and he maintained enough humility.
He is the head of an eagle clan and one of the uninvited guests of the enthronement ceremony. There are many others like this...... Although Tianhao ordered the beheading of all the nobles who were extremely angry after the war, it was impossible to cut off the people who were inextricably linked to these nobles in a short period of time. Even the most wicked person will be shown a favor to a particular person at some point, and then he will be regarded as a benefactor.
The owner of the Eagle Clan was dead, and he thought about avenging it. However, he did not see a large-scale killing of civilians in Eagle City, which was occupied by the Dragons, or a massacre of the city. The dragons traveled thousands of miles to bring flour, rice, potatoes, and corn, as well as huge quantities of peat (honeycomb coal). Was last year's winter particularly cold? Instead of causing any civilians to die due to freezing and starvation, the people of the whole city have corresponding jobs? So much so that the whole city was unexpectedly full of unprecedented vitality in the ice and snow.
The regent at the time ordered the rebuilding of the city of Flying Eagles.
Remove all kinds of garbage? Bricks are fired, stones are sanded, foundations are excavated...... Only worried about the lack of people? Don't worry about not having a job. The remuneration given by the dragon officials is also reasonable? Just do things honestly? With hard work, an adult man can feed a family of three.
What is even more surprising is that the dragon conqueror has completely changed the logic of the past, and does not eat the war dead as before. Later it was learned that it was an order from the regentββββ that all the tribes were brothers of the same root, and that this was an internal dispute that we had to settle behind closed doors. Therefore, it is necessary to collect the bodies of all those who died in battle, and return their skulls to their families if necessary? The rest of the centralized cremation? Scattering the ashes? Or go into a mass cemetery to landfill.
This edict was approved by almost all the Eagle Clan? It became the basis for them to identify with Tianhao and be willing to accept the rule.
The room was located high up and could see most of the main street downstairs from afar. The head of the Eagle Clan straightened up? With an emotional gaze, he followed Tianhao, who was moving forward, and said to himself: "Give up prejudice and hatred between tribes? Unify all the tribes? Become a strong nation...... There have been countless people in history who have done this, but only you have succeeded. β
In his heart, he has already admitted Tianhao's imperial identity, but he is still a little unwilling, and there is also a little disobedience from the depths of his subconscious.
Only time will grind everything in.
"I'll keep an eye on you...... Do a good job, don't let me look down on you, don't let me find a chance to pull you off the throne. I will obey your edict, and I will take the Eagle Clan warriors to fight in the south and take merit from those damned whites. You must be just and wise, and you must be the wisest king in everyone's eyes...... No, it should be the emperor...... Long live our emperor......"
He stood quietly on the edge of the bed, his hands apart on the windowsill, his eyes slightly swaying with a little liquid.
On the side of the street, which was far away from him but only a few meters away from Tianhao, an old man of the leon clan in new clothes knelt down in front of Tianhao.
Tianhao hurriedly walked over and helped him up.
"Thank you...... Thank you, Your Majesty. The old man was a little at a loss, because he was so excited that the muscles in his face were twitching all the time.
Various stories about the young king were circulated in Roaring City as early as last winter. Mainly about the war, many of the Lion Clan officers and soldiers who withdrew from the front line were full of praise for the Dragon Regent, and unanimously believed that it was his wisdom and insight that completely saved everyone and completely changed the situation of the three clans alliance being pressed and beaten by giant red monsters.
The leonites have their own kings. Although Shi Rui's stubbornness caused the collapse of the currency system, which caused a lot of complaints within the lion clan, he was the lion king after all, and he had an innate sense of identity within the clan.
After killing Shi Rui and annexing the Lion Clan, the team settled in the Leon Clan's walled cities and carried out propaganda and related work under Tianhao's orders.
"I have six children in my family, and the reason why they are alive is ...... It's all thanks to Your Majesty! β
There are three babies in the family, and the other three children are between the ages of five and seven. The high neonatal mortality rate among the northern barbarians is mainly due to maternal and infant undernutrition, and even the most stable food supply of the lion tribe cannot solve the problem at its root. After all, newborns can't feed on potatoes and corn like adults, they need refined toddler food, as well as breast milk.
The Lion Clan is far from being as glamorous as it seems on the surface, and the monetary system vigorously promoted by Shi Rui only partially benefits from basic materials, especially the cloth from the Deer Clan and the War Horses of the Tiger Clan. However, this changed with the extermination of the deer tribe, and the foreign trade surplus maintained in previous years on the basis of dried potatoes and cornmeal was completely reversed. What's worse is that since Tianhao became the regent, almost all grain trade items with the lion clan have been cut off.
According to the logic of the civilized era, in fact, this dilemma is not difficult to solve. On the premise of satisfying the daily consumption of the common people, the large amount of potatoes and corn produced can be used as feed, and poultry and livestock breeding can be vigorously developed. Pigs, beef cattle, chickens and ducks...... As long as there is enough feed, it is easy to form a new large-scale breeding economy. In fact, everything Tianhao used to do in Rock City was based on the same principle.
Once insight and understanding form a closed circle in the mind, it is difficult to break through. After the end of the war against the whites in the south, the reason why Shi Rui insisted on returning to Roaring City with a large number of prisoners of war in advance despite the alliance was to solve the problem of the collapse of the lion currency. As long as he is given enough time, Shi Rui can completely change the unfavorable situation at that time.
Tianhao never intended to give Shi Rui a chance.
After taking control of the Lion Clan, Tianhao increased the treatment of the Tiger Clan and the Leon Clan civilians according to the Dragon Clan's standards. This is an indispensable Huairou policy, and it is also to collect the hearts of the people in a short period of time. After all, in the eyes of the Lion and Tiger civilians, these newly promulgated decrees are closely related to them, and they have too many benefits that they would not dare to think of during the reign of the Lion King.
All mothers and pregnant women are required to report their population and receive weekly (daily) distribution of eggs and dairy products from their sub-district offices.
Each person can get one egg per day. Depending on the situation of each family, it can be collected once every week or half a month.
Staff in their jurisdiction will take dragon soldiers to check from time to time to make sure that eggs and dairy products belonging to pregnant women and mothers are indeed being eaten and not falling into the belly of the impostor.
There were more than a dozen similar incidents in Roaring City during that time. This relates to the issue of domestic violence, as well as certain long-standing stereotypes. For example, there are always some old women who teach young daughters-in-law as people who have come over: This is how it was when I gave birth, and it was the same without milk and eggs, so these things should be enjoyed by me and your man.
It's obviously not worth killing for an egg, but these people who jumped out one after another gave Tianhao a reasonable excuse. Overnight, many people were sentenced to 10 days of heavy labor for eggs. According to the warning of the court of the jurisdiction: if the offender repeats, he will be sentenced to a more severe exile.
For this reason, most of the lion women have sworn allegiance to Tianhao.
As we walked on, more people knelt down on both sides of the road.
All civilians dream of their children having the opportunity to go to school, but not every child has such qualifications. Only the priests were qualified to choose a shaman, and according to the previous ratio, there would not necessarily be one shaman out of a thousand people. In particular, the limitations of status and financial resources make the practice of witchcraft a special profession.
There are many reasons for this, but none of the biggest obstacles come from the sorcerers themselves. Especially those who have become priests and shamans, who are well versed in the principle that "scarcity is precious".
This situation does not exist in the dragon clan, and Tianhao has been working on solving it since the civil war. Today, the dragons have a large number of sorcerers. Of course, if you follow the strict definition of the lion and tiger clans, these dragon witch practitioners can only be regarded as "literate" at best, rather than a high-end intellectual group in the true sense.
It takes time for any framework to be broken, and this is the original intention of Tianhao's insistence on implementing six-year free education. In the era of civilization, which had already perished, New China performed a miracle in just a few decades, eliminating a huge group of illiterate people. If it weren't for those great people who formulated and adhered to this policy at the beginning of the founding of the country, we would not have been able to talk about the later scientific and technological power.
The children go to school for free, and the knowledge is taught by real shamans...... The leonins didn't even dare to think about such a thing.
They saw miracles. In the words of some old leonins: this is simply the divine grace given to us by the lion god.
As new decrees were enacted, there was less and less opposition from within the lion clan.
Unlike the aristocracy, the common people's understanding of life was simple: to be well fed and clothed.
Their understanding of happiness is equally simple: stable, long-lasting, and promising.
All of this can be given, and as long as the entire dragon society continues to develop, people can get everything they want.
Land distribution is not a problem, as long as the war is waged against the whites of the South, as much as you want.
The same is true of the production of resources, and as all the tribes are unified, a new social division of labor emerges. Among the most industrious will be the first people who will get rich in the truest sense of the word, and among the brave soldiers will be new nobles.
Inevitably, society needs more consumer industries, especially various different types of special services (harmony), but as long as it is strictly controlled, in Tianhao's view, it is a useful supplement to the entire dragon clan and the whole country.
He moved on.
A veteran shouted the slogan "Long live the Emperor" as Tianhao walked in front of him.
The same voice was shouted from more mouths, and gradually converged, forming wave after wave of sound ups and downs.
The attendants and Praetorian Guards around Tianhao were excited, and the ministers who followed in his footsteps became excited and eager.
Soon, the same words echoed over the city.
Long live the Emperor!