Chapter 476: The Western Expedition
If you really want to do it, Jiangnan is also weak and weak - poor middle peasants and tenants are not idiots and brainless, after a few times, of course, it can be seen that the old men are using them as guns, and the emperor of Shengming is also targeting these old men instead of their bitterness haha. Of course, it was not done, so the chaos was not big at all - there were military households in the south, but they had already been in ruins after only a few decades of hard work.
The king of Nan'an County buried the army he used to suppress the southern barbarians, and the little decent army that he had trained in the past few years was also sent in the Bailang Zhengnan Campaign. Now these gentry are going to make trouble, and the soldiers in their hands will not help—the only trouble is that they are familiar with the terrain and will fall into the grass if they disperse. In some places, the gentry were able to pull up some ambitious and fierce prisoners, miners, etc., and they still had some combat effectiveness.
These guys are not very capable of fighting, but there are too many ups and downs, and this is the headache of the white leopard and Bai Biao, and they spend far more time on the road than quelling the chaos.
Bai Lang sits on the throne and governs the country but only gives it up - he has recently learned the expressionless methods of those guys he has seen in court meetings and cabinet meetings, and he has found this method to be really super useful. "Try to talk as little as possible, and it's better not to talk at all. Isn't this majesty and mystery coming out?" "As the founding emperor and a guy with unparalleled martial arts, he is already full of majesty.
After a few drives, he didn't go—the atmosphere was so bad that several of the ministers were trembling as if they were going to die of a heart attack at any moment. So "forget it, just look at the records when the time comes." Bai Lang felt that in the future, unless there was a major military event or a fixed date for the meeting, he would not attend this kind of executive state meeting. A generation of martial arts masters has now become a "faint king" who can only mess around in Xiyuan all day long, Bai Lang feels really boring.
That's right, at this moment, the anger on his body is almost gone, he feels that he is a faint monarch - especially taking the concubine of the first emperor to enjoy it for himself, of course, he didn't touch Yuanchun, but it was also because he didn't enter his eyes. Yuan Chun was released from the palace by him to live with his parents...... This kind of behavior of governing the country and holding back hands is actually considered by the upper and lower levels to be done only by a virtuous emperor.
In the mouths of his ministers and some scholars and many people, Bai Lang is almost the same as Li Er. Obviously, in terms of ferocity, Bai Lang's court is much more fierce than Li Er, who only kills a dozen death row prisoners a year - at least there is a beheading show at the entrance of the vegetable market. The whole country at least in the north reported that Dali Temple and the Criminal Department reviewed, how could there be thousands of people on the list of preparing for the autumn execution......
It is no wonder that Bai Lang is "virtuous", because he abolished most of the execution methods, such as Ling Chi and the beheading, even if it is a rebellion and a great rebellion, it is just a beheading. The death penalty was reduced to beheading and hanging, followed by imprisonment and flogging for varying periods of time. To this end, Bai Lang also asked the imperial court to allocate funds to rebuild prisons in most of the northern prefectures and counties, and demanded that the unconvicted prisoners be separated from those who had already been sentenced, and the latter were forced to serve all kinds of hard labor arranged by the county.
Five years have passed since Bai Lang's career as a dull emperor, and his two younger brothers and two younger sisters have taken turns to attack and finally pacify the south and promote the imperial decrees. For this reason, many gentry were killed, and many shanty people who hid in the mountains in the previous dynasty and refused to obey the king. This is the hand of Wu, and the hand of Wen is that Bai Lang opened the branch to take the scholar, and it is the same as the civil and military department.
Its Chinese subject also needs to test the six arts of the gentleman, and the martial arts subject also needs to test the military book battle array - it is impossible for the literati to be powerless and the warriors to be illiterate. As soon as the imperial examination was opened, the group of scholars in the south immediately lost their voices and hurried to start the exam. "If you give it to an official, you can do anything. Bai Lang burst into laughter, of course he said this in the harem, it was really bad to say it in front of all the elders, and Bai Lang didn't do such boring things.
Bai Lang saw that his younger brothers and sisters had already returned to the dynasty - by the way, the princess and side concubine of the two younger brothers had already given birth to children, he already had three nephews and two nieces, and the two younger sisters also caught Ruyi Langjun, "You are not allowed to beat your husband at will, and you are not allowed to kill your husband and change people at will!" This is what Bai Lang has secretly and solemnly explained, as for the younger sister, if she wants to find a lover to cuckold her own horse, to be honest, Bai Lang can't control this matter...... The upper beam is not right, do you still expect the lower beam to not be crooked?
"I have to say that the two of them have the demeanor of my big man and the princess of the Tang Dynasty, otherwise what else can you say?" Bai Lang couldn't cry or laugh.
After they returned to the court, Bai Lang handed over all the political affairs to them, the cabinet and the palace supervisor, and he brought soldiers and horses out of the fortress, "It's time to fight to the west and north." His mother relied on Lao Tzu to unify the world, and first swallowed Lao Tzu's Western Regions Protectorate and Dingbei Governor's Department, this time Lao Tzu didn't hit you Baikal and the Caspian Sea, I won't be surnamed Bai!" "This time, Bai Lang brought 3,000 armored horses, 3,000 artisan battalions and 5,000 infantry, carrying more than 40,000 horses and more than 100,000 cattle and sheep on the move......
He fought first north to Lake Baikal, then westward, and then south and east to the Caspian Sea, and along the way he was ready to burn, kill, and plunder, especially against the Cossack barbarians who came from the west, and he was prepared not to leave a single one behind—if he wanted to stay, it would be enough to keep some women. He decided to follow the original rules of Temujin, that is, the steppe, to execute the wheel beheading, and to kill any man who was taller than the wheel.
The infantry wore chain mail, and the weapons in their hands were fire guns and spears, while the cavalry was spears and sabers, and the men and horses were all armored, and the artisan battalion repaired and built weapons along the way, and was also responsible for the use of ten small and medium-sized Fran cannons. Bai Lang didn't bring a woman into battle this time, and he also refused his younger siblings' so-called "invitation to fight" - "Reluctantly, I know that you all want to stay in the imperial capital." "Besides, this is the fun of the white waves, where will it be given to those guys.
After marching very fast in the country, and then waiting for the cattle and horses to be delivered at the back of the Yumen Pass, it was only after two months that Bai Lang led the mighty army and advanced towards the north at a not fast pace, aiming at Lake Baikal. This road used to be Mongol land, but now some Cossacks have arrived, and it is these people that Bai Lang wants to kill. "This time, what we have to do is not only to cut off the tentacles of the Cossacks and Dongzheng, but also the first step to restore the Buddha Kingdom in the Western Regions - first cut down all those people, and then force them to change their names and destroy all the temples and scriptures!"