Chapter 543: The New Master
Zhang Ning has no virtue, but he is indeed quite talented. www.biquge.info As Qin Feng said, Yuejing City was so calmly delivered to the hands of the Taiping Army, and there was no more bloodshed, and the people in the city also accepted this fact peacefully, and Zhang Ning did a lot of work.
With his own prestige, he suppressed the gentry and aristocratic officials in the capital of Yuejing, controlled the prices in the city with strict temporary decrees, especially the stable supply of grain, and ordered all shops not to close their doors, creating a false image of peace.
And whoever the one in the palace was, it was too far away from their lives.
Yuejing is the largest city in the north of the mainland, thousands of years ago, in order to deal with the countless nationalities in the deep mountains, Emperor Li Qing set a strategy of suppressing and appeasing together. Not only the city defense is strong, the city wall as high as 30 meters is only the capital of the Tang Empire at that time Chang'an can be compared, and the buildings in the city almost gather the essence of the Tang Empire's huge territory, both the rough atmosphere of the north, the buildings with hard and sharp angular lines, and the small bridges and flowing water in the south of the Yangtze River, gentle and supple garden buildings.
Appeasement, not only economically, but also culturally. With the economic temptation of being countless times better than that in the mountains, the aborigines in the mountains gave up the bitter life in the mountains, went down the mountain into the capital of Yuejing, and then infiltrated and assimilated the Tang culture little by little since childhood, which is an extremely long-term plan, but the long work has achieved amazing achievements. The aborigines in the mountains have been disintegrated and eaten away little by little, and now, in the Yuejing City, it is impossible to distinguish who is the ethnic group that migrated from the mountains, and they are now collectively called the Yue people.
Of course, in the depths of the mountains, there are still some diehards who stubbornly adhere to the original tradition and do not go down the mountain, but they are weak, let alone challenge the rule of the Tang Dynasty, even if they do some harassing things.
A thousand years later, the Tang Empire collapsed, and the Wu clan built the Yue Kingdom in the Yue Capital City, the country changed, but the cultural heritage did not change, and there were even many extinct traditions that could not be found in the successors of the Tang Empire, which still existed in the Yue Capital City.
Walking from the city gate to the palace, Qin Feng seemed to feel that he had already appreciated the style of the entire continent, and he had the illusion of chaos in time and space. The streets were very clean and deserted, except for the soldiers who were three steps and one post and five steps and one sentry, there were almost no people to be seen, in the shops, in the homes of the people, because of Zhang Ning's temporary decree, the doors were wide open, and the shopkeepers, the guys, and the most ordinary people, stood in the house with some fear, watching the rows of majestic warriors walking by a young man.
This is their new emperor in the future. That's what everyone thinks.
The Taiping army that followed Qin Feng into the city only had Qin Feng's own personal guard camp and the wild dog's blue wolf battalion, and all the other departments were stationed outside the city. Qin Feng didn't want to let a large-scale army enter the city and cause panic among the residents of the city, not to mention, once the army as an occupier entered the city, something unexpected might happen.
The victor always feels that he has the right to ask for something from the loser, and not all of the nearly 100,000 troops will strictly abide by military discipline, and as long as there are one or two guys fishing in troubled waters, it is very likely that a good pot of soup will be ruined.
What Qin Feng needs now is stability.
The security guard in the city is still in charge of the city gate army in Yuejing City, although Zhang Jian is dead, but the deputy commander Jian Fang is still there, the battle of Longyou has made the prestige of this little-known county soldier general reach the peak, plus a Xiao Ning is on the side, and most of the generals of the city gate army are the children of the gentry and magnates in the city, but they are also calm, Qin Feng heard that Jian Fang just dealt with a few Zhang Jian's henchmen.
Of course, in the coming days, these things will be taken over by the Taiping army one by one, and the fate faced by this city gate army will only be the end of being dismissed.
Standing in front of the palace, Qin Feng was very emotional, the splendid and huge palace of the golden wall almost dazzled his eyes. He had seen the palace of the Chu people, which was far less exaggerated than the one in front of him.
The Chu people are rich, even if they are from the Qi country, they have to admit this, but the emperor of the Chu country has always had the habit of being diligent and thrifty, whether it is Min Wei or Min Ruoying, the material needs seem to be very low, they are the emperors, and even there are only two wives, like Min Ruoying, the newly married imperial concubine is still under his reluctance, and the eldest princess of Qin Feng has to meet for the sake of the overall political situation.
For an ambitious person like Min Ruoying, there are more women and more children, and it takes his own time to spend it. And he would rather spend his time dealing with government affairs and practicing martial arts diligently.
From this point of view, Qin Feng still admires Min Ruoying. There are very few emperors who can do this, even if it is the emperor of Qi State, he has a reputation for prostitution outside, and he is famous for liking women.
Among the four countries, the Yue State is the weakest, the financial strength is only better than the Qin State, and the army is at the bottom of the four countries, but their imperial palace, even if it is not as good as Chang'an, the capital of the Qi State, but it also throws Qin Feng's Yongdu and Chu State's Shangjing out of a few streets. Or this is the result of the fact that the emperors of the Yue Kingdom were aware of their own strength, but because of this, they did not want to forge ahead and blindly enjoyed themselves.
Of course, they paid the price for it, and this splendid and incomparably magnificent palace has now been replaced.
"How much does it cost?" Qin Feng shook his head again and again, "Master He, you said that if I live in such a place, will I be like Wu Jian, and I will slowly degenerate?" ”
He Rentu smiled: "As long as you still have something in your heart, you will not be confused by external objects and will not lose your mind." ”
Qin Feng laughed: "Master He is right, the Buddha family has clouds, wine and meat have passed through the intestines, and the Buddha sits in his heart, right?" ”
"I didn't expect General Qin to have research on Buddhism?"
"I don't like them, I don't like them." Qin Feng shook his head: "I don't like anyone who doesn't produce anything, and just relies on a mouth to know the lotus flower." ”
Hearing this, He Rentu couldn't help laughing.
Outside the palace, headed by Father-in-law Le, a large number of eunuchs and palace maids knelt on the ground densely, seeing that Qin Feng frowned, there were so many people? Although he has never been to a place like the palace, his wife is the princess of the Chu State, and he has also told him about the general situation in the palace of the Chu State, but compared to the current situation, it seems that it cannot be compared.
"Grandpa Le, get up!" Qin Feng waved his hand.
Father-in-law Le's face was pale and pale, Zhang Ning and his son were killed by Wei Zhuang in front of countless people, which made him tremble, you must know that this time, he is also one of the masterminds. If Wei Zhuang wants to take his life, he has no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. After spending a difficult time in fear, Wei Zhuang never came, and now seeing Qin Feng standing in front of him, he finally put his heart in his stomach, it seems that this life has been saved.
"How many people are there?" Qin Feng glanced at the eunuch maid who was still kneeling.
"General Hui Qin, no, Hui Your Majesty, there are a total of three thousand and fifty-eight people!" Grandpa Le stammered.
Qin Feng glanced at him, "What Your Majesty?" You still call me General Qin. ”
"Yes, yes, General Qin." Grandpa Le was a little at a loss.
"What do you want so many people for?" Qin Feng asked casually as he walked inside. "Doesn't it cost money? Let's cut half of it first. ”
Father-in-law Le was slightly shocked, he didn't expect that the new emperor had not yet entered the palace, so he would cut so many people first?
"General Qin, among these people, there are different classifications and different jobs, if so many people are laid off at once, I am afraid that many things will not be done." He explained in a low voice.
"You don't have to do unnecessary things." Qin Feng ignored Grandpa Le's explanation, "As long as it can ensure normal operation, all other institutions related to enjoyment will be laid off for me." ”
"But General Qin, the eunuchs here, if you let them out, I'm afraid it will be difficult to survive. Even if it's a palace maid, I'm afraid that most of them won't be able to find their families, and it's a big problem to release them! ”
Qin Feng paused for a moment, and then remembered that the eunuchs in the palace were not very different from normal people, and if they went out of the palace, they were afraid of being discriminated against, not to mention that it would be difficult to survive. He hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, damn Wu Jian, what are you doing with so many eunuchs and palace maids entering the palace?
"In that case, let's put this matter aside for a while, and deal with it after my wife comes." His wife is the princess of Da Chu, and she is familiar with these palace affairs, so she is too lazy to worry about it. Anyway, the palace must not retain so many people, the money has to be used on the blade, when he was only Shayang Changyang before, he still felt that he was a little rich, but now standing at the top of the entire Yue country and looking at it, he suddenly turned into a poor man. It's a very uncomfortable feeling.
I need money! But where does the money come from? There is no way, before we find a way to open source, we can only intercept the stream.
"Auntie, Xi'er, they should leave, right?" He turned his head to look at Aunt Ying.
"It's almost time to go. But with Xiaowen Xiaowu, I'm afraid it won't be fast along the way, it will take ten days and half a month! Aunt Ying said.
"Father-in-law Le, this is the aunt, you also know it, in the future, the aunt will be the chief manager in the palace, you are the deputy of the aunt, if there is anything, go directly to the aunt, do you know?"
"Yes, the slave knows." Glancing at Aunt Ying, Grandpa Le lowered his head in fear. (To be continued.) )