Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 11 Are you going to play Investiture of the Gods?

Confiscating the house...

No one resisted when their house was searched.

The Duke's Mansion of the State of Wei.

"Two hundred and seventy-seven years later, the bloodline of heroes has turned into insects."

Yang Feng looked at the descendants of Xu Da crying inside with emotion.

Even now, no one dares to resist. They just cry and beg for mercy, or even hold on to their gold, silver, and jewelry and refuse to let go. No one dares to resist. They are like a group of insects in their pupae. There is no trace of the bravery of their ancestors who roamed the world.

"You know what? Their ancestors weren't actually any worse than you. In fact, judging purely by their achievements, their ancestors far surpassed you. After all, you were basically kicked out after fighting for Liu Bang at the Battle of Gaixia, but their ancestors not only swept through Yan and Dai, but even continued northward, fighting all the way to the Xiongnu Chanyu Ting during your time."

He said.

Of course, Xu Da lost that time.

“But do you think they are ashamed now?

In history, one of them even fell into the situation of having to take the beatings for others for a living. That is, someone was sentenced to caning by the government and paid him to take the beatings for them.

He just lived like this.”

Yang Feng continued.

Then he turned around and looked at the people watching behind him.

Of course, it’s mainly military households.

"Look at these people. I gave them three hundred years of glory and wealth, but the bloodline of King Wuning of Zhongshan has become what they are today. King Wuning of Zhongshan died with regrets. Today I take back their wealth and give them another chance. Back then, King Wuning of Zhongshan was just as poor as I was, a peasant. I grazed cattle for the landlord, and he farmed for the landlord. But neither he nor I accepted our fate and were content with poverty. He and I fought for our country with our bare hands, sword and spear. Today I take back their glory and wealth, but give them a piece of land and recruit them as soldiers. Let them, like King Wuning of Zhongshan, fight for glory and wealth with their own hands. If they can make achievements again, the title of Duke of Wei will still be reserved for them, and this Duke of Wei Mansion will also be reserved for them.

So do you.

Your ancestors all followed me to conquer the world. Now that the world is in chaos again, I will lead you to conquer the world again and fight for wealth and glory."

Yang Feng shouted.

The people quickly knelt down and shouted "Long live the emperor!"
However, the momentum was obviously perfunctory. After all, most of their ancestors did not have wealth and glory. They did not know what life was like during the time of Zhu Yuanzhang. That was too long ago, more than two hundred and seventy years. But the life of their ancestors in their memories was obviously not related to wealth and glory.

"Give out silver to all the young and strong, everyone will have a share!"

Yang Feng immediately pulled over a box and shook out the contents.

But it's not silver.

But gold.

Looking at the golden light all over the ground under the sun, the kneeling people were all stunned, followed by a tsunami of cheers.

"Give them silver, land, and women. Their ancestors followed me and used their military achievements to bring their descendants three hundred years of prosperity and wealth. Now you can also follow me and use your military achievements to bring your descendants three hundred years of prosperity and wealth."

Yang Feng continued shouting.

……

In less than a day, he completed the militarization of the city.

Very simple.

Just reorganize the guard post.

There are eighteen imperial guards in Nanjing alone, but there are not only imperial guards here, there are also other guards affiliated with the Five Military Commandery. Although the latter are not all in Nanjing, a large part of them are still there, so just reorganizing these guards to make them reach full strength, there will be an army of 200,000.

The method of organization is to make those military households brave enough to fight, and let them fight against the original hereditary officers.

If you win, you will replace it.

Then they solve the problems of their subordinates themselves.

Not fully staffed...

This is inevitable.

It was the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was not uncommon for only a few hundred military households to escape to the point where they were left in the entire Wei.

But this is not difficult to solve.

Conscript the men!

There were plenty of young and able-bodied men in the city, and they were authorized to find their own way to fill the vacancies. No matter what method they used, whether it was coaxing or conscription, they had to fill the vacancies for Taizu. Anyone who dared to resist would be killed without mercy. Now you are giving me the opportunity to follow Taizu Gaohuangdi to conquer the world, and you actually refuse. Are you being disloyal to Taizu Gaohuangdi? In reality, no one resisted. After all, Taizu was actually giving out money, and he had confiscated mountains of gold, silver, and jewelry from the homes of the nobles.

I'm too lazy to count.

In short, under the supervision of those armed eunuchs, carts of goods were transported to the palace in an endless stream.

royal palace.

"Damn, these bastards!"

Yang Feng looked at the mountains of silver and gold in front of him.

Countless gold and silver ingots were piled up in the Daqing Hall.

This hall has been in disrepair for many years and has never been used. Hongguang has always used Wuying Hall as his main residence, and now it is used by Yang Feng as a warehouse. All the gold, silver and jewelry brought from the homes of the nobles are piled up in it. Because the quantity is too large, it is impossible to sort them out. There are just piles of gold and silver, and the jewelry are thrown all over the floor.

He originally wanted to give out silver directly, but was stopped by Han Xin because if he gave out silver directly, there would be too many speculators joining, and they would bribe the officers in order to join, which would affect the quality of the soldiers.

So they didn't send them out first, and then let those officers who had just seized their positions by force recruit soldiers to fill the vacancies.

Will send it out again after it is completed.

"Grandpa, Earl Chengyi and Eunuch Lu are waiting to see you."

Han Zanzhou said.

"Let them in!"

Yang Feng said.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Kongzhao, the Earl of Chengyi, and Lu Jiude, the second eunuch, were brought into the hall.

The former escaped back from upstream. He originally ran to find Hongguang, but the Qing army immediately attacked Wuhu. Liu Kongzhao fled downstream with dozens of warships, wanting to cross Nanjing to Zhejiang, but when he arrived in Nanjing, he learned that Emperor Taizu Gao had passed away and the Qing army had been expelled from Nanjing, so he anchored at Longjiang Pass and then went into the city to meet the emperor. As for whether he believed that Emperor Taizu Gao had passed away, he at least had to go into the city to take a look.

As for Lu Jiude, he took advantage of the chaos to escape, but he soon received the news and returned.

Originally, he disappeared from history.

He was a military commander, and he was the commander of Chongzhen's Yongwei Camp.

He was also one of the commanders of Hongguang's Beijing camp.

The three commanders of the Beijing Camp are the military governor of the Beijing Camp, the assistant minister of military affairs of the Beijing Camp, and the eunuch commander of the Beijing Camp.

Then two surrendered and one ran away.

Yang Feng took the whip and whipped Lu Jiude decisively.

The latter lay on the ground, trembling and not daring to make a sound.

"Get up, at least you haven't surrendered yet!"

Yang Feng shouted.

"I thank you, Great Ancestor, for your grace."

Lu Jiude stood up with blood on his face and stood aside in fear.

"As for you, Hongguang?"

Then Yang Feng looked at Liu Kongzhao.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Duke Jingguo Huang Degong was escorting Your Majesty and attempting to break out. His subordinates, Tian Xiong and Ma Degong, rebelled and attacked Duke Jingguo. Seriously wounded, he committed suicide. The two bandits then abducted Your Majesty. Tian Xiong held Your Majesty's body, while Ma Degong held Your Majesty's legs and delivered them to the Jiannu. Seeing the situation was hopeless, I was forced to evacuate with dozens of warships. I had originally intended to reunite with the Empress Dowager in Zhejiang."

The latter said tremblingly while lying on the ground.

He had just come in from Chengtian Gate and had admired the big vat on the way.

"So you ran away?"

Yang Feng sneered.

"I deserve to die a thousand times. I deserve to die a thousand times." Liu Kongzhao was so scared that he kowtowed quickly.

"Forget it, at least you didn't surrender. You bastards, I gave you three hundred years of wealth and glory, and now you haven't surrendered. This is the best. Since you originally wanted to go to Zhejiang, then go ahead. When you get there, tell the ministers that I have returned to the palace. You have ruined the Ming Dynasty, and in the end, I will have to clean it up myself. Defend the city well, and have them send all the royal family members here."

Yang Feng said.

"The minister obeys the order."

Liu Kongzhao said with a cold sweat on his face.

At this moment, the whistling of a cannonball suddenly sounded, and the next moment the cannonball penetrated the roof and crashed into the hall.

However, it hit the silver mountain and then disappeared in an instant. After all, its kinetic energy was not enough to support the estimated hundreds of tons of silver.

This actually scared Liu Kongzhao and others quite a bit.

"Where are you calling from?"

Yang Feng said.

Lu Jiude looked at the hole above his head and the place where the shell landed.

"Replying to Master Taizu, it should be the direction of Xiaoling Mausoleum. The Jianlu have set up artillery at Xiaoling Mausoleum. The cannons on Yuhuatai cannot reach here."

He said.

"Go, gather five thousand elite soldiers and follow me out of the city to recapture the Xiaoling Mausoleum!"

Yang Feng stood up and said.

Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou were both stunned.

"Grandpa, our guards are all in the process of being organized. We are only barely able to defend the city. We may not be able to go out and fight."

Han Zanzhou said quickly.

"Why, aren't they my soldiers? I don't raise soldiers to wait until they are ready to fight, but to be able to fight when I need them. If the enemy attacks, should I wait until they are ready before attacking? Five thousand is not enough, then ten thousand. You, go and gather ten thousand soldiers and wait inside Chaoyang Gate. I will lead them to fight the enemy. This is their chance to make great achievements. Anyone who dares not to fight will be killed without mercy for fear of the enemy."

Yang Feng glared and said to Lu Jiude.

After saying that, he stood up and walked out proudly. As soon as he walked out of the door, the second shell whizzed past.

And he also saw the source of the shells.

The Qing army did set up artillery positions in front of the Xiaoling Mausoleum, and smoke from the artillery fire was rising there.

It was also the only location from which the imperial palace could be bombarded. Yuhuatai was too far away and beyond the range of the Red Cannon at that time.

"Do you understand how to fight at this time?"

He asked Han Xin.

The latter has been observing silently. It is true that he is a military genius, but he is also outdated by the times.

"This weapon is extremely important. It can easily shatter infantry formations from miles away."

Han Xin said.

"Correct."

"Then the Ming cannons are inferior to the enemy?"

"Not only that, but they are dozens of times more powerful than the enemy. Moreover, the cannons used by the enemy were actually brought over by the Ming army after the rebellion. The casting and use of cannons were all brought to them by the Ming army after the rebellion. The chief general who led these Ming troops has been crowned king by the Jianlu."

"Did the captives give too much?"

"It can't be said that the captives gave too much. It would be more accurate to say that the Ming gave too little."

Yang Feng sighed with emotion.

Indeed, it was not that Huang Taiji gave too much, but that Chongzhen gave too little.

It may not be that Chongzhen gave too little, but that it was exploited at every level, and after passing through the hands of countless Smith commissioners, too little fell into the hands of the soldiers. No matter what happened later, Huang Taiji officially conferred the title of king on Kong Youde and others. On the one hand, he would be humiliated for eating a chicken from a gentry's house, and on the other hand, he conferred the title of king on himself. Kong Youde's choice was actually very normal.

Lu Jiude ran anxiously behind Yang Feng. It was obvious that Eunuch Lu also knew that the time had come to show his abilities.

He had to gather 10,000 soldiers for Emperor Taizu.

Ten thousand...

A mob of ten thousand.

Ten thousand civilians who had just been excited for less than two hours.

They were indeed military households, but they had been abandoned for over two hundred years. Even a hundred years earlier, even a small band of Japanese pirates could have sent Nanjing into a state of panic. And now they were leaving the city to confront the Qing army. It would have been a miracle if they could even reach the Qing formation. But that wasn't Lu Jiude's concern; his priority was to assemble this army for his great-grandfather as quickly as possible.

Yang Feng looked at his back.

"You need a mount for this!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and a spear immediately appeared in his hand.

Liu Kongzhao, who followed behind, couldn't help but shudder when he saw this unscientific scene.

But then something even more unscientific emerged.

The spear released light in Yang Feng's hand, and then quickly changed its shape in a dazzling manner, turning into an exaggerated Fang Tian Hua Ji in the blink of an eye.

“I still like this.”

Yang Feng said.

"There are no good horses here, and even the ones the enemy rides are quite short."

Han Xin said.

The war horses of the Ming Dynasty were certainly no match for those of the early Western Han Dynasty.

The war horses of the early Western Han Dynasty or the Qin Dynasty were the modern Hequ horses. Of course, the Hequ horse's ancestor was called the Qin horse back then. The Qing army basically used Mongolian horses, and the Ming army, depending on the situation, might even have used Dian horses or Shuixi horses in the south. There were only a few Hequ horses in the north, so at least as far as Han Xin could see, the cavalry horses were not as good as those of their time. The standard shoulder height of a Western Han Dynasty warhorse was 5 feet 9 inches (1.36 meters). The lowest shoulder height of Ming and Qing Dynasty warhorses was 3 feet 8 inches (1.29 meters). Horses that met the Western Han Dynasty standard were considered the best.

and so……

A Shire horse?

"It would be better to have a rhino!"

The so-called God's voice sounded faintly.

"Are you going to play Investiture of the Gods? Also, do you think I can control a rhino?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

"I can make it communicate with you, and it will do whatever you want it to do."

said the latter.

"Then hurry up!"

Yang Feng suppressed his excitement and said.

The next moment, a huge rhinoceros suddenly appeared in front of him.

Liu Kongzhao was so scared that he sat down on the ground.

Yang Feng looked at this obvious Javan rhinoceros with shock.

"Can you tell me what's going on with this armor on it, and what's going on with the gas tank on its head? This thing is an oxygen tank, right? You're actually giving it oxygen? Are you also going to add nitrogen to speed it up?"

He said.

This rhino has obviously been used!

Not only is it covered in heavy golden armor, but it also has a saddle and complete control rigging. What's even more speechless is that there's an oxygen tank on its head, so it can be sprayed with oxygen when necessary...

"This thing isn't actually slow, but it lacks endurance. It can't run fast for long. Spraying it with oxygen can perk it up and increase its endurance. Thinking back to when I rode it, it's such a painful memory!"

The so-called God also said excitedly.

(End of this chapter)