Chapter 196: Post-War Aftermath
readx; A nationwide war between the Chu Empire and the steppe barbarians, the steppe barbarians were defeated by the Chu Empire after the original advantage. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this war, the steppe barbarians lost not only 600,000 standing troops, but more importantly, all the nobles of the steppe barbarians were almost slaughtered. The eighteen lesser barbarian kings, led by the Great Barbarian King, were either killed on the battlefield or publicly beheaded afterwards.
After the war, the iron cavalry of the Chuba Empire penetrated two thousand miles into the grassland, and almost swept every inch of the entire grassland with iron hooves!
All the relatives of the barbarian king, according to the custom of war, were not reduced to slaves and waited for ransom. It is also said that their heads of families have been beheaded, their families have been destroyed, and there are ransoms for fart. All were killed. Their wealth also fell into the treasury of the Chuba Empire to make up for the loss of the name of the Chuba Empire in this war.
Under Qin Qing's proposal, every Chuba citizen who lost his relatives in the war, as well as those soldiers who fought bloodily, received compensation that was generous enough for them to die willingly. And those who maintained a wait-and-see attitude at the beginning and did not participate in the war, and finally under Qin Qing's force or emotional persuasion, the forces of Chu Ba who were united with the outside world also gained enough benefits from it.
After the war, the Chuba Empire adopted two completely different attitudes towards the remnants of the aristocratic class in the steppe. Any nobleman who did not participate in the war, if he is willing to change the name of Chu Ba and move into the country of Chu Ba, the Chu Ba Empire can recognize his legitimate Chu Ba nationality. And they can use their wealth to buy a certain amount of land and non-war resources from the Chuba Empire, and survive as Chuba nationals from then on.
Of course, the price of buying supplies and land is scary. In the past, the landlords and nobles who were high on the side of the steppe barbarian country, perhaps their wealth was only enough to buy a few acres of thin fields and two grass houses in the countryside of the Chuba Empire. Those families and sects that owned land in the Chuba Empire also made a fortune because of this!
This is the case with the Tianhe Prefecture Alliance. After the war, the territory under the actual control of the Tianhe Alliance. It is no longer confined to one prefecture. Instead, with Tianhe Mansion as the center, the influence radiates to more than a dozen surrounding provinces, and the actual control range is full of four provinces. It is almost the number one big force under the Chu Ba royal family!
Tianhe Province and the nearby hundreds of thousands of acres of scattered inferior land,
It was bought by dozens of small nobles on the steppe vying for bidding. They were all sold for a sky-high price! Those were simply useless before. I still have to hire people to spend money to take care of the land, and the final income is even worth the total income of the Tianhe Mansion Alliance for more than a hundred years!
This can be regarded as putting those small aristocratic families for many years. Even the hundred-year-old savings and strategic reserves have been looted, and from then on, if they want to survive, they can only rely on the Tianhe Mansion Alliance, look up to their snorts, and act with a look on their faces!
Moreover, Qin Yixiong kept an eye on it, these lands are not for sale, but for rent! It is okay to build houses and farm on the land, but those poor grassland people only have the right to use, not the right to land, and they are limited to 70 years!
Regarding the behavior of the Tianhe Mansion Alliance, there were also people in the court who raised different objections. After all, an alliance is so blatantly expanded, it already has enough strength to threaten the rule of the Chu Ba Empire, and after more than ten years, once the Tianhe Mansion Alliance grows, as long as it raises its arms, it can easily subvert the royal family, and it doesn't even need to fight!
For these voices, Emperor Chuba's methods and crispness made Qin Qing a little impressed. All the opposing twists and turns, Emperor Chu Ba put them all in the high-rise building and ignored them. Emperor Chu Ba knows better than anyone else that the most important reason why the current Chu Ba Empire can win in the war is actually to rely on Qin Qing!
Without Qin Qing, the Chu Ba Empire would have perished a long time ago, and the fate of the grassland barbarian country today is the fate of the Chu Ba Empire! In the future, the Chu Ba Empire is a royal family on the surface, but in fact, in the bones, it must also hold the thighs of the Tianhe Mansion Alliance tightly.
Now it seems that Qin Qing is almost destined to enter the second-layer continent, and holding the Tianhe Mansion Alliance is equivalent to hugging Qin Qing. As long as Qin Qing is willing, not to mention the future, even now, he can easily subvert the Chu Ba royal family!
This is the terrible thing about a cultivator, a free master, not restricted by any force, can easily destroy a country!
Fortunately, Emperor Chu Ba also saw that Qin Qing was a person who valued love and righteousness, he and his crown prince were friends in distress, and the two had a good relationship, as long as the Chu Ba Empire did not do anything to be sorry for Qin Qing and the alliance between the Qin family and Tianhe Mansion, Qin Qing would never have the idea of destroying Chu Ba.
In terms of dealing with the grassland barbarians, Emperor Chu Ba was iron-fisted and ruthless. Those nobles on the grassland, as long as someone in the family participates in the war against Chu Ba, or is unwilling to submit to Chu Ba, there are only one or two words: exterminate the clan.
150,000 soldiers, more than 1 million characters from various tribes, were uniformly beheaded on the banks of the Tianshui River!
It is said that the entire decapitation operation lasted for ten whole days!
In the early morning, the smell of blood rose to the sky, and the entire sky turned blood-red, and for ten days, the Tianshui River, the largest in the Chuba Empire, was directly dyed blood-red! The corpses and heads of the people almost blocked this river, which was 100 meters deep and 2,000 meters wide!
As a slave society, the aristocracy of the grassland barbarian country is the essence and vitality of this country, it can be said that once the nobility of the grassland barbarian country is lost, then the grassland barbarian country will exist in name only, and it will not be long before it will completely disappear from the territory of the Xuanyuan continent.
The remaining tens of millions of slaves of various tribes in the steppe did not mourn the death of their master, but rejoiced!
Therefore, the Chuba Empire gave them a new identity, that is, 'mercenaries', and from now on, they will no longer be slaves without human freedom, nor will they be different from the commoners of the Chuba Empire. It's a being in between. The Chuba Empire gave them food and work, as well as the right to move within a certain range.
As long as they promise to work for the Chuba Empire for twenty-five days a month between the ages of fourteen and fifty, they will be able to obtain a certain amount of food, the right to survive, and doctors, and the Chuba Empire will not beat and scold these people at will.
But their lives are regulated, not completely free, and the punishment for rebellion is severe! Have special talents. Or if they are found to have a talent for cultivation, they can even be specially approved and have Chuba nationality!
Since then, the steppe. It will become the largest pasture and production area of the Chuba Empire. Troop source. Every year, there will be countless war horses and ores, which are transported from the grassland to the Chuba Empire!
Mineral deposits are always limited. Once the mineral deposits in a certain area of the grassland are hollowed out, then this piece of land will be included in the territory of the Chuba Empire and become a city or farmland!
For the real high-level, what they get is far more than that! The aristocrats of all sizes on the grassland, the martial arts, exercises, elixirs, trap beasts, and all kinds of genius treasures accumulated over decades, hundreds, and even thousands of years, are innumerable, all of which have been accepted and divided up by the high-level of the Chuba Empire.
It can even be said that the nobles of the steppe barbarian country have worked hard for several lifetimes, dozens of lifetimes, and finally all made wedding dresses for the Chuba Empire!
This is the war wealth, a national war, the victorious side, the national strength surges, worthy of the development of normal generations or even more than ten generations, and the defeated side, the country is ruined, and the eternal life can not be superborn!
Soldiers, the sharp weapon of the country, is also the weapon of the country, when the country, use it with caution!
Of course, in the process of carving up, the Tianhe Mansion Alliance also got the greatest benefits, countless treasures of all kinds, every day in an endless stream of transported to the Burning Sky Valley, although the current Burning Sky Valley has been expanded tenfold, it still seems a little insufficient.
Emperor Chuba was simply generous, and directly canonized Tianhe Mansion to the Qin family as the base camp of the Qin family. This gift is not insignificant, Tianhe Mansion is now a country within a country in Chuba, in addition to not being able to recruit soldiers, it has completely ** various rights.
Just kidding, the Tianhe Mansion Alliance, or the Qin family, is a family of cultivators, what do you want soldiers to do? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Emperor Chu Ba would rather not have a land than make friends with Qin Qing!
In just one month, dozens of overlord masters and more than a dozen king masters have emerged in the Tianhe Mansion Alliance! Some of these masters have been tempered by war, some have been directly promoted with various treasures, and even a few people are expected to impact the realm of cultivation.
In the past, in Tianhe Mansion, the peak of the Nine Heavens was considered a great master, but now, even a Shar Pei dog that Qin Sha kept as a pet was already a beginner of the hegemon. The peak of the Nine Heavens, in Tianhe Mansion, can only watch the door, and it is not the door of the inner courtyard, it can only be the city gate.
On the side of the Tianshui River, Qin Qing'an sat on the ground.
A stream of Xuan Qi gushed out of his body, supporting him to slowly rise into the air.
"The elixir treasured by this Great Barbarian King is really effective, it helped me break through the Xuan Cultivation Realm and officially enter the Xuan Realm!"
Qin Qing smiled and nodded, he used the Tongtian Pill to enter the Tongxuan many times, and he was no stranger to the Tongxuan, so after taking the pill obtained from the Great Barbarian King's treasury, he entered the Tongxuan without difficulty. If you change to someone else, even if you have an elixir, it will be difficult to advance.
On the surface of the Tianshui River below, there are schools of fish surging wildly!
Most of the more than one million grassland people have some Xuanqi cultivation, and many of them are nobles, and their Xuanqi cultivation is not low, and all of them have been eaten by tens of thousands of sharp-toothed monster fish, and there is no scum left!
"If this continues, these sharp-toothed monster fish can almost become demon beasts!" On the side, Ba Fierce floated in the air with some difficulty, and he also took a lot of pills, but he was still a pseudo-Xuanxuan, and his blood knife killing strength was about the same as that day.
Although the monster fish below were only the lowest-grade monsters, there were a large number of them, and the thought of being besieged by tens of thousands of sharp-toothed monster fish that had become demon beasts made him unable to help but ooze a drop of cold sweat on his head. (To be continued.) )u