Reclaiming Wasteland: Carefree Mountain Farmer

Chapter 223 Four Seasons City

Building is not a simple matter.

Arctic Martial Arts has rarely used his brain in recent years.

It's easier to solve problems by taking action than by using your brain.

Intrigues and schemes, strategic planning—these are all laughable in the face of overwhelming military power.

The Wen Dynasty's strategy, involving hundreds of thousands of troops, had been in place for several months, but it was exposed as soon as they met.

There are countless conspiracies and schemes both inside and outside the court. What will happen if you provoke the Northern Martial Arts Academy? Don't you have any idea?

The civil officials' old tricks for dealing with the emperor were ineffective against the Northern Army. They were killed for shirking their duties, killed for shifting blame among themselves, and killed for insulting the emperor's entire family!

Over the years, Arctic Martial Arts has become accustomed to solving problems without using their brains, so they can resolve any problem quickly and easily.

However, when it comes to things he wants to do, Arctic Martial Arts always shows his diligence.

If you want to eat meat, just go out and hunt for yourself.

If you want to keep more women for fun, then you should diligently cultivate dozens more acres of land.

If you encounter someone you want to kill, travel for seven days and seven nights to get there and kill them yourself.

If I want to eat lychees, I'll go to the place of origin myself to eat them.

After autumn, Beiji Wu personally surveyed the palace to find a suitable location to build the Imperial Clubhouse.

The autumn air is crisp and clear, and the Arctic Martial Station is even higher and more refreshing.

A man stands atop the Wanshang Shrine, overlooking the entire harem, while Beijiwu, pencil in hand, jots down his thoughts on a drawing board.

While they were busy, several palace maids walked over from behind.

"Your Majesty, Consort Wan and Consort Xiao request an audience."

Consort Xiao was Yelü Poluo. Now, the nobles of the Liao tribe have all changed their surnames to Han surnames and become completely assimilated into the mountainous agricultural society.

There will be opposition to localization, but there won't be much opposition to mountain agriculture.

They killed too many people.

They were clearly intent on wiping out the entire clan.

Luckily, I knelt down quickly.

After kneeling, they no longer wanted to be Khitans. In addition, the culture and system of the mountain farmers were more in line with public opinion and easier to gain recognition.

After the Arctic military forced the change of name, the name has been completely translated into Chinese in three or four years.

Because of the experiences of the Lin-yi Kingdom, Nanzhao Kingdom, Zhenla Kingdom, and other Western Regions kingdoms, the Hu tribes of the Gui Nong tribe also quickly completed their assimilation into mountain agriculture.

This group of people went out to fight Westerners, killing them and leaving corpses strewn everywhere.

However, after returning, they all obediently accelerated the transformation of the mountainous areas into agricultural areas, fully aware of the consequences of continuing their unruly behavior.

So close to the hometown of the mountain farmers, who among the three major departments could escape?

If we were to rank the awareness and sense of duty regarding tax payment, among all the provinces under Beijiwu's command, the most proactive and conservative would still be the Ministry of Agriculture.

The agricultural province was exceptionally compliant in terms of paying taxes and obeying orders.

Even the Huanghuai Province wasn't so obedient; they always needed supervision to keep their hands off disaster relief funds, and they were forced to pay taxes.

The commercial tax and poll tax of the agricultural province have always been paid on time and even in advance.

Every year, the Western Expeditionary Army had to pay taxes on the livestock, treasures, and women they plundered before they could bring them back.

If you want to bring it back, you have to pay taxes. Bringing it back without giving Arctic Martial Arts a commission is a capital offense.

While collecting taxes, Arctic Army also spends money to buy land that these people conquered but were unable to manage.

Even if they don't manage to steal the treasure, cleaning up the land can at least cover their travel expenses.

For a people who live on horseback, this is a very profitable business.

This type of warfare, similar to a mercenary system, has been attempted before, but those attempts failed to control it and ended up supporting their own enemies.

Unlike their predecessors, Arctic Martial Arts forced these people to integrate as quickly as possible and gave them a deadline.

Once a deadline is given, things become much easier.

Everyone, from top to bottom, had to obey, and Consort Yelü was renamed Consort Xiao.

Changing her surname was nothing to Yelü Poluo; it's normal to change one's surname after marriage.

"Your Majesty is well."

Two concubines, accompanied by female officials and palace maids, came over to pay their respects.

Beijiwu continued with his own business without looking back.

"whats the matter."

As the only two women who could be considered concubines, the fact that they were served by palace maids and had female officials to command them was largely due to their value as tools.

As a tool for marriage alliances, Arctic Army gave them the treatment they deserved.

This treatment made a group of women outside the palace extremely envious.

Arctic Wu's attitude was not disheartening; he has always been like this.

On the contrary, now that the Wan family and the Khitans have completely lost their ability to resist, the fact that Beiji Wu can still treat the two with respect as always is already a great sign of respect.

Yelü Poluo smiled and said, "We heard that His Majesty came to worship Buddha, so we sisters came to see him."

Beijiwu has no interest in worshipping Buddha. He usually just accompanies some Buddhists to burn incense. He never comes here to burn incense and worship Buddha when he has nothing else to do.

"I'm looking for a place to build a palace for the palace maids to play in. I've chosen a place, come and take a look."

Consort Wan and Consort Xiao were delighted to hear this and went over.

The two approached Bei Jiwu from the left and right, looking at the sketchbook he had placed on his lap. The sketchbook contained a rough draft of a building design, Bei Jiwu's initial concept, which was why it looked somewhat messy.

Looking at Beijiwu's painting, Yelü Poluo asked curiously, "Your Majesty, is this a painting of a tall building?"

Consort Wan immediately said, "His Majesty's painting skills are unique and will surely become a style of its own! The paintings of the mountain farmer are indeed different from those of the Han people!"

Beijiwu frowned, revealing a look of disgust.

"This is a draft. It looks a bit messy because it's for design purposes. Just tell me whether it looks good or not. There's no need to keep talking nonsense to me."

Even though Consort Wan was less than 1.5 meters tall, she wasn't much taller than Beiji Wu when she stood up. At this moment, she lowered her head and admitted her mistake, "Yes, Your Majesty, I know I was wrong."

Yelü Polu helped change the subject, looking at the easel that Beijiwu had placed there, "If His Majesty likes painting, there are many female painters in the palace who can paint."

Arctic Martial thought of something good, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Hmm, that's good. I'll have them observe the painting process when I'm handling things in the future."

"However, I don't need anyone to teach me how to draw. I have developed my own style, which is mainly based on realism. When I correspond with craftsmen, I draw the tools they need. For example, when I was researching combine harvesters using trains to transmit messages, I mainly used physical design drawings."

“Architectural design drawings are different from landscape paintings; they are for the people who do the work, so it’s normal that they don’t understand them.”

He enjoys playing martial arts in the Arctic, but he also gets serious when it comes to business, and he never lets women interfere with his work.

Even when harvesting wheat, one should harvest one's own wheat first, instead of letting a woman cry and say a few nice words and then losing control and going to help other people's work first.

Anyone who threatens Arctic Martial Arts with their family members will surely suffer a terrible fate.

Consort Wan's mother, the lady-in-waiting Cui Qing, said gently, "Why doesn't Your Majesty build a palace for yourself first? Those palace maids are just playful children. Besides, you are the supreme ruler. If you don't build a palace for yourself to play in, how can those lowly servants possibly have a place to play?"

Beijiwu casually said, "That makes sense. I plan to practice first and see how to transport and allocate resources."

"Nowadays, we use fireproof cement and steel bars to build houses, but we still need a lot of huge stones. I need to find out how to transport the huge stones, where to quarry them, and what quality of stones to collect before making any decisions."

"I didn't design Jiangxia Palace myself; I plan to design a palace for all four seasons myself."

“Establish a spring city in Nanzhao, a summer city in the South China Sea, an autumn city in Yunzhong, and a winter city in Liaobei.”

"You've never seen the ocean before, have you?"

Beijiwu's question made both Consort Wan and Consort Xiao quickly shake their heads.

"I've never seen it. Your Majesty, have you ever seen the ocean?"

Beijiwu smiled and said, "I've seen you before. I'll take you to the beach to escape the summer heat next year."

The women were all delighted and began to look forward to seeing the legendary sea.

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Zhang Xianwen, the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, received an imperial edict.

[Distribute land, houses, and oxen; forcibly relocate all residents of Qiongzhou to the northern inland region; the entire island will become King Wu's private island; construct a temporary palace in the south, where King Wu will spend the summer next year. Troops can be mobilized; funding is 1000 million strings of cash.]

Zhang Xianwen dared not delay and quickly found several commanders to mobilize troops for the migration.

Hundreds of thousands of islanders began to leave their homes, and the entire village moved.

Under the search of 10,000 regular troops and 90,000 local militia, all the indigenous people were forcibly relocated within a month.

If we can't communicate, then we won't communicate. We're not doing charity work.

The imperial court is essentially a violent institution. The Northern Army wields the strongest violence, but has extremely high moral standards. They are willing to spend money to relocate people, providing them with land, cattle, and houses, and are also willing to offer jobs.

They still don't know what's good for them and insist on thinking they can be the masters of their own land. Well then, Arctic Martial Arts will show them who the real masters of this land are!
Most of the people sent to fill the borders were not there voluntarily. If the Arctic Army could be so ruthless as to send its own people out to stabilize the territory, it would be even more so to send a group of islanders who had not made any contributions.

The moral standards of the Arctic Army are relatively high, and the people who carry out the tasks are of normal quality.

The reason why the border regions have always been chaotic is that most rulers did not regard other ethnic groups as human beings, nor did they regard the Han people as human beings.

They always use the same tactics they use to bully Han people in remote border regions far from the emperor's reach.

The envoys and officials had always treated those vassal states with extortion.

After Shan Nong Ren grew into a powerful force, the officials reverted to the arrogant attitude of the Han Dynasty envoys.

The Arctic warriors' original intention in their attitude towards foreign tribes was to strengthen themselves and become independent, but their subordinates always acted arrogantly and domineeringly.

The Han official in charge of immigration quickly led his troops to warn the mountain tribes.

"If not one person moves, the whole village will be reclaimed from the sea!"

Despite the officials' extremely arrogant attitude, the local people still tolerated it and moved to the mainland with their families, taking the money with them.

The relationship with the mountain farmers has always been good. The mountain farmers provide food and drink, and this time they also provide money, land, cattle, and sheep.

Moreover, they are no match for the mountain farmers.

The local people, skilled in mountain warfare, dared to oppose corrupt Han officials, but they didn't have the guts to oppose the authority of the mountain farmers.

The mountain farmers are definitely more skilled in mountain warfare than the locals, especially with the constant reports of their invincible army coming from neighboring Annam province, which makes the locals dare not make any rash moves.

Most importantly, the new location is a good one, not far from Qiongzhou, and a place where we used to do business.

Beijiwu was well aware of the wasteful and wasteful nature of such things, and had always tried to avoid them, as well as prevent his subordinates from abusing their power.

Now, after nearly ten years of hard work, I suddenly realize that I started out by killing and rebelling.

Beijiwu had always known how to become emperor, but he never took it seriously.

As he remained emperor for longer, he realized that his very essence lay in violence.

The only reason someone can rule over a machine of violence is because they are more violent than it.

He was neither the emperor of the Han people nor the emperor of the Shan Nong people, but the emperor of the Shan Nong Kingdom.

Everyone is exercising their own power, and Arctic Martial Arts is certainly entitled to do so as well.

The wheels of history keep turning forward, and whoever gets in the way will perish.

(End of this chapter)