Ancestors, please don't crawl out again.

Chapter 54 God Emperor
"So, what can this thing do? Is it just the same as the Fang Tian Hua Ji?"

Looking at the two golden dragons hovering over the Xiaoling Mausoleum, Yang Feng asked the so-called god.

The so-called God did not answer.

but……

Yang Feng suddenly found that his vision had changed. He was overlooking the Xiaoling Mausoleum and could even see himself standing next to the pool of blood.

"Fuck, this is possible? But these are two golden dragons, right?"

He said in astonishment.

The next moment, his vision split into two, like a split screen. Both overlooked the Xiaoling Mausoleum, but from slightly different angles. A long dragon and a short dragon appeared in each. As he thought, the two golden dragons vanished from the other's view, and the ground in his field of vision shifted eastward and westward, respectively. Nanjing City and the top of Purple Gold Mountain appeared, and then, continuing, the mighty Yangtze River and the rolling mountains appeared.

He quickly switched his vision to himself.

"I feel like you have a conspiracy. This tactic is obviously not just targeting ancient mortals!

You won't really put me into that mythical world, will you?
You're playing bigger."

He looked at the two golden dragons above Nanjing City and on the top of Purple Gold Mountain and said with a deep expression.

This is obviously a conspiracy!
From the beginning to the end, these so-called artifacts are actually the toys of this so-called god. Maybe they were made by him for fun, and even the abilities were given by him. But just traveling through a few ancient worlds is like using anti-aircraft cannon to kill mosquitoes against mortals.

Just crush it.

A single Overlord Halberd can destroy the world.

Really.

With the absorption ability of the Overlord Halberd, we can go to Australia to suck the Monolith Mountain over, and then smash it all over the world for fun, destroying a city with each smash.

Even in modern times...

It seems that modern people can also destroy a city with one blow.

Of course, there was no certainty as to whether one would be blasted to pieces by a missile or vaporized by a tactical nuclear bomb.

But in theory he could really swing a mountain and wreak destruction in modern times.

And that was just the Fang Tian Hua Ji's. The two golden dragons even gave him beyond-visual-range strike capabilities, similar to those of long-range missiles. It certainly couldn't be just a reconnaissance aircraft. Yang Feng's vision shifted to the long dragon, which was circling over Nanjing. He immediately spotted the summit of Yuhuatai, and without hesitation, he dived down. At the same moment, he switched back to himself, watching the golden dragon crash into the terrace. As if carrying immense kinetic energy, it instantly impacted the roof of Yuhuatai, creating an effect similar to a heavy bomb explosion. It continued forward amidst a cascade of dirt, rocks, and trees, until it flew out of the terrace and rose again.

A shocking-looking groove was left on Yuhuatai.

The so-called god still did not answer Yang Feng's question.

"Whatever you say, I don't care. I just want to have fun. Life is short, why think too much.

By the way, I haven’t had enough fun here yet. I won’t leave until I have had enough fun.”

Yang Feng said.

After saying this he raised his hands forward.

The two golden dragons flew back immediately.

They automatically shrank and coiled around Yang Feng's arms.

"Long live the Divine Emperor!"

Han Zanzhou watched this scene and shouted with all his might with a trembling voice.

"Long live the Divine Emperor!"

Everyone around shouted.

Yang Feng raised his arms proudly, and the golden dragons coiled around his arms swam towards his hands. The next moment, the two golden dragons turned back into spears in his hands.

Chengtianmen.

God Emperor...

Emperor Taizu Gao has automatically been promoted to the Divine Emperor.

After all, he can already control the dragon. This is not summoning a rhinoceros. The rhinoceros is just a strange beast, and it is not a legendary creature. Although there are indeed no more in the south at this time, there are still some in Yunnan. Many people in Nanjing have been to Yunnan, and they must have seen it. Rhinoceros horn is also an important tribute.

But this is a real dragon.

Emperor Taizu Gao holds two dragons in his hands. If this isn’t a divine emperor, then what is he?
If he can control two dragons, he must be a god.

Since he is both a god and an emperor, he should of course be called the Divine Emperor.

Of course, before he issued an edict, the ministers should still call him Taizu Ye.

But the soldiers and civilians don't need to worry about this.

At this moment, the Divine Emperor, wearing a crown with twelve tassels, sat on the Chengtian Gate.

Two spears stood on the left and right.

It's even in a suspended state as if there is no gravity.

These two are different from the Fang Tian Hua Ji. The Fang Tian Hua Ji has weapon attributes. It is invisible at ordinary times and appears when used. However, it can be used normally and still needs to be swung in battle. Even the flying halberd needs to be thrown first. However, these two are summoned beasts. The spear is just their daily form. In essence, they are actually two golden dragons.

It can shrink and coil around Yang Feng's arm, or it can transform into two spears to accompany him.

Just like the weapons that come with the game.

At the feet of the Divine Emperor, outside Chengtian Gate, a row of tables stood across the gate.

Behind the table, the civil servants worked on an assembly line, checking the merit books and the completed yellow book. Of course, it was only partially completed. This was a huge task and could not be completed in a short time. They could only survey the land and compile new yellow books while distributing the military merit land. These civil servants drafted the imperial edict for granting land for military merit, which was then passed to the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department to write the real imperial edict based on their draft. It was then passed to the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department, and then to the civil servants of the Imperial Household Department. Under the joint supervision of the eunuchs and the female officials of the Imperial Household Department, the imperial seal was affixed. The imperial seal was not affixed by the eunuchs, but by the civil servants. The Imperial Household Department wrote the imperial edict, and the civil servants of the Imperial Household Department asked the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department for the use of the imperial seal. The eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department asked the emperor for permission, then took the imperial seal from the female officials of the Imperial Household Department, handed it to the civil servants of the Imperial Household Department, and watched him affix the seal.

After finishing, take it back and return it to the female official of Shangbao.

The imperial seal was kept by the female official of Shangbao.

This is a whole process.

It doesn't mean that the emperor has to take out the imperial edict and seal it, nor does it mean that the Imperial Household Department has to seal it for the emperor. Everything has to go through the complete process. In fact, the imperial seal is stamped an average of hundreds of times a day, and more than 30,000 times a year. It's just the total number of times that many imperial seals with different purposes are stamped.

But now it has been simplified to the maximum extent and turned into an assembly line operation among various departments in front of Chengtian Gate.

The first imperial edict granting land for military merit was also handed over to those who were waiting to receive it.

The latter held the imperial edict with trembling hands, which allowed him to go from being a poor soldier who could not even get enough food to owning 200 acres of fertile land, and then he walked to the feet of the Divine Emperor and knelt down in tears.

"I thank the Divine Emperor for his grace. From now on, my descendants will worship him, and my descendants will fight for him for generations to come. Let the whole world worship him."

As he spoke, he bowed his head to the ground and held up the imperial edict with both hands.

"Go ahead. This is what you deserve. You beheaded two Qing demons, so you should get these two hundred acres of land. This is my gift to you and your descendants. It is given to you by me, so you are not allowed to sell it to others. You can only distribute it to your descendants. You are not allowed to increase the rent privately. You must take whatever I tell you to take. Otherwise, you will be disloyal to me."

Yang Feng said.

This was a property right confirmed by an imperial decree. Furthermore, it was an imperial decree from Emperor Taizu Gao, and subsequent emperors had no right to overturn it.

This also meant that unless there was a change of dynasty, no one could change the situation, and the military groups that owned these lands would become the most loyal defenders of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this also brought about problems. After the land in Jiangnan was distributed, it would be difficult for the tenants who farmed for the military groups to get rid of their tenant status, at least in Jiangnan.

Although the imperial edict also stipulated the land rent, it was 30%.

The tax is paid by the landowner.

Tenants are only responsible for paying 30% of the rent to the landlord.

Furthermore, landowners were forbidden from charging any other fees under any pretext, as otherwise they would be disobeying the imperial edict, which could rise to the level of disloyalty, punishable by the execution of their entire family. Tenants could then sue them and, through Zhu's system of reporting, obtain their land. However, if tenants wanted their own land, they could only rely on the same path of military merit, which was to participate in the industrial production of military supplies, serve in foreign wars, transport supplies for the army, and then obtain their own military merit land. In effect, this forced the already densely populated Jiangnan population to move outward for the sake of military merit land, but this process was gradual and lengthy, so Jiangnan would not be short of arable land in the short term.

Waiting until the time is short...

In fact, it is difficult to have a shortage of time, after all, the population growth rate is there.

Fifty years from now, the population of Jiangnan may be much larger than it is now.

After all, there are not so many alien heads out there for the soldiers to chop off.

Killing all the loyal farmers of the Qing Dynasty would only allow 200,000 more people to obtain military merit land. With 100 mu per person, the total amount would be only 20 million mu, which could not even be divided into Nanzhili. Killing all the Japanese men would only allow several million soldiers to obtain military merit land, which could not even be divided into the two capitals and thirteen provinces. If we want to divide the military merit land into Hezhong, we probably have to kill all the people who can be killed around it.

This expansion is very slow.

The natural population growth rate during this period is sufficient to offset the labor shortage caused by the outflow of population.

This problem will definitely occur in the north.

But then it would be time for the slaves to come on board.

The soldier held the imperial edict in his hands, knelt down and retreated with gratitude to the Divine Emperor, then stood up and left to establish his own power on the land granted to him by the imperial edict.

Of course, the landlord to whom his land originally belonged might not let it go easily.

That way...

Then what is the purpose of the flintlock in his hand?

This was granted to him by the Divine Emperor through imperial decree. Not even the local gentry, not even the county magistrate, prefect, or even the future emperor, had the power to change it. So if he refused to give it up, then forget it. In reality, these soldiers assigned to the same county would form a group to take over the land. Anyone who tried to obstruct them would be shot, so this was effectively an armed takeover team. The division of these lands would otherwise be a massive undertaking, but now it was much simpler to let the soldiers form groups to take over. If they refused, they would be shot.

They will give it their all.

This actually left the court's work to them.

But because it is for themselves, they will complete it as quickly as possible.

Isn’t it just a volley of gunfire?

My Qing Dynasty can kill so many people in Jiangnan, and my Ming Dynasty Imperial Camp can do the same.

As the assembly line operation continued, imperial edicts were written out one after another, and in the hands of the stamping machines they became imperial edicts with the highest legal effect. They were then issued to those who had meritorious service in obtaining these lands, becoming authorization for them to inherit these lands for generations.

Because he holds the dual identities of Emperor Taizu Gao and the Divine Emperor, this authorization carries a divine nature.

These recipients aren't just soldiers either.

And there are craftsmen.

businessman.

Even women.

In fact, there are quite a few women.

After all, most of the male members of the military households in Nanjing have joined the army, so a large number of female workers must be used to manufacture military equipment in factories. According to the military merit accumulation system similar to points, many of them have already accumulated military merit.

In fact, there are also Confucian scholars.

After all, the military also needs some civilian positions, including military doctors and even veterinarians. All of these positions can be awarded land based on their military merit points system. As for generals, they also have their own point system, but their military merit is more used to confer titles and promotions based on military merit. Civil servants at all levels also have a similar point system, which is also tied to military merit.

The promotion of local officials can also be calculated based on military merit.

The more military merits the people in the jurisdiction gain, the better the local officials manage the area.

Then he also has merit.

Of course, the calculation of these military merits is relatively complicated.

Therefore, the future Ming Dynasty will be seriously short of all kinds of mathematical talents. It is already lacking now because the calculations are too complicated and beyond the capacity of the mathematical talents that the capital can recruit. Yang Feng has had to open special schools to train talents using modern mathematical knowledge, including the mandatory use of Arabic numerals.

In the future, the scope of this military merit points system will continue to expand. For example, if farmers contribute more grain, they will also receive military merit points. Soldiers can win battles only if they eat the grain they grow. Isn't this military merit?
National military merit.

Military merits for all ranks.

Then the whole nation's war frenzy made foreign war a unanimous pursuit of the entire country.

"This is a monster!"

The Divine Emperor on Chengtian Gate sighed while holding a teacup.

As for the consequences of such a monster...

Why think so much? At least there will be no problem until all the people around are killed. The only flaw of this system is that it cannot be stopped. Once it stops, it is easy to implode, but fortunately, this world is big and there is enough space.

I don't think anything will happen within one or two hundred years.

From now on, we can only trust in the wisdom of future generations.

"Grandpa, the Governor of Fujian, Zhang Kentang, and General Zheng Zhilong have come to the court to pay homage to you. Our fleet has now arrived in Jiangyin, awaiting your summons."

Han Zanzhou walked up to him and said.

"Ah, it seems that Prince Nanyang has already reached an agreement with Zheng Zhilong."

Yang Feng said.

Zheng Zhilong's appearance before the emperor meant that the Fujian gentry had officially recognized him as the Taizu Gaohuangdi. This also meant that they had already reached an agreement with Longwu to assist him in his Northern Expedition to the throne, and the first step in this process was to recognize the Taizu Gaohuangdi. In fact, the Fujian gentry didn't care about him asking for half of their land. Given the limited arable land in Fujian, there weren't many landowners with more than a hundred acres. Furthermore, their clans were large, so a small share of the land wouldn't be enough.

The Fujian gentry were the most relaxed on this issue. After all, they really didn't have thousands of acres of fertile land.

As for Xu Jie's 400,000 mu...

There are more than 10 million acres of arable land in total, and one family has 400,000 acres. Do other gentry want to survive?

The entire county is given to your family!

"Let them come."

Yang Feng said.

(End of this chapter)