The fierce battle of Burning Beanzaka ended with the defeat of the Shenxiao Mikawa Coalition Army by the Shentang Army with inferior troops.

The coalition army lost more than 2,000 people, and it was basically the Shenxiao army. Because Li Xun allowed the Sanhe soldiers to withdraw from the battlefield in time and preserved their strength, the losses of the Sanhe Army were extremely small.

The Shentang army lost more than 600 men, more than a third of whom died in the surprise attack launched by Li Xun.

There were twice as many wounded soldiers as there were killed in battle.

Because the recovery ability of soldiers is far better than that of ordinary people, most of them can recover their combat strength after recuperation, but if they are seriously injured by broken hands and feet, they will inevitably be disabled for life.

The rout of the Shenxiao army was not all collected immediately, according to the practice of troubled times, the rout would often return after a few votes to vent the resentment of defeat and make some extra money.

The soldiers of the Bone Forging Realm and above are undoubtedly considered to be strong in the countryside. When they become a rout of the army, even if it is only a few people, they can cause a lot of damage.

The soldiers were supposed to protect the people, but at this time they were no different from the bandits, and even more vicious than the bandits.

In this dark and dangerous chaotic world, the boundaries between man and beast, soldier and bandit, always seem very blurred.

Therefore, no matter what kind of war, the first will be successful, and the most suffering is always the people who live at the bottom and have little ability to resist, followed by the soldiers.

Li Xun's surprise attack seemed to have killed and wounded only a few hundred people, but it caused a great shock to the Shentang army, making them realize that the Three Rivers Army still had tenacious combat power.

Su Mengzhen originally wanted to enter the remnants of the Sanhe Sword Sect's territory with the victorious army to sweep again, but the leaders of the Hao clan were like arrows, and he had no choice but to order a celebration in Anxiang City, and then the army returned to the western Henan region of the shrine.

After the war, there were also a few small wealthy families who defected, but there were not many.

After the battle of Anxiang City, the lords who are still on the side of the three rivers have a lot of loyalty.

Since the Shenxiao Army has not suffered a fatal blow, and the Sanhe Army still retains its combat strength, for them, it is not really desperate, and it is worth continuing to fight for the glory of Sanhe and the kindness of the ancestor Li Qing.

After the war, Su Mengzhen talked about meritorious deeds, and the generals received different rewards, and the casualties of the soldiers were all compensated.

Su Mengzhen seemed to be in a very good mood, and even Su Guang, who was defeated by Jing Zhisheng, was not reprimanded, but ordered him to continue to guard Anxiang City, and was responsible for encircling the big and small lords and wealthy clans who had returned to him.

Su Guang is not the opponent of Jing Zhisheng's generation of famous generals, of course Su Mengzhen knows this very well, and now that he wins, of course he will not deliberately embarrass him.

Wu Feng's meritorious service was extremely high, and he was praised by Su Mengzhen first, and received a lot of favors, and his territory was finally increased by one-half.

However, for Wu Feng, gold and silver property are not important.

He has a special financial source and does not rely very much on Su Mengzhen's reward.

In terms of territory, his current territory is still much less than Su Can's.

With Wu Feng and Su Mengzhen making a comprehensive plan together this time, and luring Jing Zhisheng to take the bait, leading the whole army to victory, and fighting in the final stage to repel Li Xun's surprise attack and prevent the Sanhe surprise attack team from causing greater damage, it is really extraordinary.

Su Mengzhen praised Wu Feng with a lot of fanciful, but in fact, this reward still seemed to be a little less.

However, the embarrassing position as the heir made it impossible for Wu Feng to export and ask for more territory.

After all, when he inherited the Divine Temple, all the territories of the entire Divine Hall belonged to him.

The army of the Divine Hall was neatly arrayed, like a long dragon returning to the western part of Henan. Blowing and blowing along the way, the triumphant song is high, and it is not lively.

In Xiangyang County, the people cast fearful and even hateful glances.

In addition to being an intruder, there must be more or less disturbance to the people. In order to send troops, Su Mengzhen also asked the wealthy families who came to take refuge to contribute, and the wool came out of the sheep, of course, all this money had to be squeezed out of the people of Xiangyang County.

But when the army crossed the territory of the Mizuno Pavilion and entered the shrine, the people greeted each other with joy.

In this troubled era where human life is as cheap as grass, the cultivators oppress the samurai, the princes oppress the wealthy clans, the monks oppress the believers, and the common people are the oppressed at the bottom, the targets of bullying and oppression by all those who have power.

If it were elsewhere, the people would hate war.

Regardless of victory or defeat, it means that taxes must be increased and conscription must be arranged, and when soldiers march, they often disturb the people and do evil, and the chickens and dogs are restless wherever they go.

And the war will kill people, which means that after the war, there must be families who will lose their relatives, wives will lose their husbands, children will have no fathers, and old people with gray temples will send white-haired people to black-haired people.

But in the eyes of these people in the Divine Hall Domain, the troops led by their hall master are the real kings. They sincerely hoped that Su Mengzhen would conquer the whole world with the army of the Divine Hall and bring good governance to all the people in the vast Middle Earth.

Su Mengzhen has developed commerce over the years, the treasury is full, there is no need to raise taxes, and the military funds for the expedition and the property used for rewards are sufficient.

The four people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and their living conditions became more and more affluent, so they naturally revered and admired Su Mengzhen, as if they were gods.

And the military discipline of the Shentang Army can be called the first in the world. There may be occasional murder and disturbance of the people outside the territory, but in the skill, there is no such thing - Su Mengzhen has a clear order first, if someone harms the people in his ability, no matter how severe, he will be immediately beheaded and shown to the public, and his immediate boss will also sit down and be removed from his post for investigation.

"Congratulations on your victorious return!" said the merchant dressed in a fine costume and wearing a melon-skin satin hat with a beaming face.

Su Mengzhen attaches great importance to business, and under good governance, their lives are becoming more and more nourishing.

"When will the hall master calm the world and save the suffering people of the whole world......" said the scholar in a Confucian robe.

This is not a deliberate sycophancy, but it is true.

The scholar was ill-informed, and only thought that if he captured a place, he would immediately implement good governance, but he did not know that for the newly occupied areas, Su Mengzhen, like other princes, first digested them in a squeezing way and calmed down the resistance forces in them before he could implement good governance.

Although Su Mengzhen is a generation of heroes, this process will inevitably bring suffering to the people. The so-called Wang Shi in the ancient books who made the people eat pot pulp to welcome him was just the imagination of pedantic literati.

Autumn is the harvest season, and the farmers carry the burden of rice, various sweets, and meat and wine made from the newly harvested grain to the soldiers of the Jindo Army.

Su Mengzhen did not put on a show at all, but ate a piece of pastry first, praised the deliciousness, and asked the farmer how the harvest was, whether there were any disasters and epidemics recently, and whether the lords and officials could satisfy them with their governance.

Several beautiful girls even saw the ripples in their eyes, and they exchanged their heads and said, "The hall master is almost fifty years old, but he still looks so handsome and chic, and he has the spirit of a mature man!"

"I really want to marry the hall master and be a side room, no, even if I am a concubine or even a maidservant without a name......

"But I heard that the hall master and his wife are deeply affectionate, and although they have no son, they will never take a concubine...... Having said that, with the appearance of the hall master, how many women in the world are he can look up to?"

"But people heard that the hall master secretly stayed in Lianhua Street and Willow Lane, and he had an unpleasant quarrel with his wife for this. ”

"Tsk, you Nizi, what a wise and martial person the hall master, don't spread these cool words for no reason, and ruin his old man's reputation. ”

"What kind of cool words, the handsome little brother next to the hall master, his current heir, I heard that he is his illegitimate son. You see, he was born so similar to the hall master. Young people have the taste of youthful beauty, and people are also very tempted to see it......"

"Phew, look you're again. Wu Feng's fiancée is the daughter of Xue Yiren of Tianzi Peak, and she is peerless, and she is so beautiful, she looks at the city, Rao is so, I heard that the two of them have not yet had a round house, where can I get you?"

Su Mengzhen looked at such a scene of harmony and happiness among the people, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

At that time, because he had just taken the throne, he implemented good governance, lightly punished the meager endowment, which led to a lack of financial use, and encountered a strong enemy like Li Qing to attack, which was a danger of repeated defeats and almost extinction of the temple.

Li Qing died in a counter-plot, but Shentang was also not lightly injured. There are Hao clans in Nanyang County who plan to pull the flag for independence, but the people protest and demonstrate, and take the initiative to provide information to Su Mengzhen, so that these Hao clan leaders are not allowed to wear white clothes and return to Su Mengzhen's army to beg for their lives. In a short period of time, Su Mengzhen revitalized the shrine and had the ability to send troops to retaliate against Mikawa.

Later, the implementation of good governance was on the road, and the operation of funds gradually became smooth, not only the taxes were light, the people were grateful, the official treasury of the shrine was also full, and the corn and gold silk were piled up like a mountain.

Listening to the laughter of the people and looking at their sincere expressions of gratitude, Su Mengzhen felt that the hard work of more than 20 years was worth it.

He patted Wu Feng beside him on the shoulder: "Feng'er, there is the Wuzu Shrine in front of us, let's hold a prisoner sacrifice ceremony inside." ”

"The best thing that the master can leave you is this big shrine. In the future, when you master the shrine, you must remember that the heart of heaven is the heart of all the people, not only to treat the people well, but also to grasp the correct way to do good governance, so that the people can get benefits, so that the hearts of the people can be gathered, and the shrine can continue to grow and develop. ”

Wu Feng nodded and said, "Listen to the teachings of the master." ”

In front is a beautiful archway, and the large plaque on the top is made of pure gold, which is shining and shining to the eye.

This Wuzu Shrine has existed for more than 8,000 years, but the proudest thing about Su Mengzhen's life is also this.

It can be used lightly for many years, and it can attack Anxiang City three times to lose soldiers and lose generals, consume a lot of military funds and the people have no complaints, relying on this Wuzu Shrine.

In ancient times, there were demon barbarians who rebelled, killed and ate human beings, and human beings lived in dire straits.

Although there are several ancestors who were born later, they can only be suppressed for a while. The power of the human ancestor exceeded the limit of what this world could hold, and finally flew through the sky, and after that, the demon barbarians, who lived much longer than humans, continued to cause chaos.

It was not until 9,000 years ago that the Martial Ancestor came out of Taiyue, washed the demons in blood, established the Divine Dynasty on the Tianshan Mountains, and overwhelmed the world, and since then the human race has become the master of the vast continent.

The remnants of the demon barbarians either hid in the deep mountains and poor valleys, or escaped into the vast East China Sea, and since then they have been in a state of collapse and can never be revived.

Although the newly-born Xiuzhen line is now above the samurai, the merits of the martial ancestors cannot be erased, and the cultivators need to rely on ten times the number of samurai to help them maintain their rule while oppressing the samurai, so they have to allow the samurai to perform the sacrifice of the samurai.

Among the martial ancestor shrines in the whole world, this one in the west of Yuzhou is the largest, the oldest and the most influential, and it is famous in the whole Middle Earth, and it is the holy place of the world's warriors.

However, during the period of the rise of the cultivators, the leaders of the samurai who fought back against the cultivators were all smeared, and they were called careerists and traitors, and those who dared to sacrifice these people would be executed or even their families would be harmed. Even the Divine Hall and Tianzi Peak were downplayed by these people, and they did not dare to risk being besieged by the cultivation sect in the world to sacrifice.