RPAGF Chapter 393: Going to Welcoming the Bride in the Golden Autumn
Chapter 393: Going to Welcoming the Bride in the Golden Autumn
More than a year has passed since the death of Emperor Benevolent, Gu Cangsheng.
After more than a year of chaos, most of the original rebels and armies had been wiped out, either eliminated or absorbed by various forces of the former court.
The remaining rebel troops all had considerable scale and strength, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands or even millions.
Most of them have also trained a group of elite soldiers with considerable combat effectiveness, which together occupy one-third of the territory and one-quarter of the population of the neighboring country.
The original Great Chen Dynasty is now apparently split into three factions, namely the self-proclaimed rebel faction, the Northern Emperor faction, and the Southern Emperor faction.
The three original government factions and the rebel army were roughly divided according to the banners they fought under. If they were further divided, they could be divided into nearly a hundred separatist forces of varying sizes.
The large ones cover an area of a state, the medium ones cover an area of a county, and the small ones cover an area of several counties.
They formed alliances and fought against each other.
It was in this context that the six wedding rituals of Liu Feiyun and He Jingqing finally reached the final stage of welcoming the bride.
The fact that eight thousand cavalrymen went to welcome the bride had already shown the Liu family's attitude:
The Liu family no longer cared about the emperor's suspicion and openly displayed their strength and voice.
In this chaotic world, the Liu family has the ability and determination to protect themselves. Any person or force that wants to harm the interests of the Liu family will be met with a resolute and effective counterattack from the Liu family, including the nominal lord of the Liu family, the Northern Emperor Gu Huairen.
In fact, the Liu family has become a separatist warlord that does things completely on its own. They regard themselves as the rulers of Anya and completely sideline Lin Cong, the chief minister appointed by the Northern Emperor.
Now the military and civilians in Anya County only listen to the words of the Earl's Mansion and not the orders of the Prefect's Mansion.
In fact, most of the prefectures and counties under the names of the two emperors in the north and the south are like Anya County, and there are only a few brave people who are truly willing to work for the two emperors.
Moreover, these separatist forces may change their identities at any time. Yesterday they said they were loyal to the Northern Emperor, today they changed their allegiance to the Southern Emperor, and tomorrow they may rebel again.
The current situation in the world cannot be described simply as chaos.
Late August is the autumn harvest season.
Because the fighting in Anya County this year was concentrated in Linshui and Jinyun Pass, its territory was not affected by the war.
Under the strong promotion of Liu Feiyun, taking advantage of the opportunity when the old nobles and wealthy people in the territory were severely weakened, a large-scale reform was started.
The core of this policy is to redistribute land, encourage industry and commerce, reduce slaves and increase civilians.
Although the Liu family was originally a landed noble family, they were not one of the top landlords in Anya County, and they did not actually own much farmland. The Liu family became wealthy through industry and commerce.
Therefore, the Liu family did not attach much importance to land properties. Instead, they opened many shops, built many workshops, and employed far more workers than tenant farmers.
Now, Liu Feiyun used swords to threaten with one hand and sold his own property to lure with the other. He used two approaches at the same time to take control of the land that was originally controlled by other nobles and wealthy people.
Then, the land was handed over to landless people in the form of low-rent fields for cultivation, and they were provided with seeds, farm tools and livestock, in an effort to expand the arable land as much as possible, increase grain production and solve the food problem.
After all, no matter how much food the Liu family has in stock, they can't just sit back and eat it all.
Now, after more than half a year of hard work, we are finally seeing results.
The wedding procession marched among the wheat waves and rice fields, passed through the green gauze tent that had already dried and turned yellow, and passed by the vast fields of potatoes and sweet potatoes, which made Liu Feiyun extremely happy and relieved.
The same scene also brings peace of mind to the marching cavalry soldiers and the people busy with the autumn harvest along the way.
These cavalrymen are not all from Chen. A small half of them are from the northern wilderness barbarians, including 2,000 skilled barbarians and 1,000 unskilled barbarians.
The Chen soldiers were naturally relieved and happy about the good harvest in their hometown.
And the barbarians also knew that the better the harvest from these fields, the less likely their people would go hungry.
Nowadays, there is constant fighting in the Northern Wilderness, and ordinary barbarians are also in danger of their lives. Even if they can save their lives in the melee, they still have to face the problem of food shortage. It is unknown how many people have starved to death on the Northern Wilderness grasslands.
Now they increasingly feel that their tribal leader did the right thing by bringing them to join the Liu family.
"As long as I can use the sword in my hand to protect the peace of this land! The harvest of this land! Then my people can safely survive the cold winter! Survive year after year! No longer have to fear the white disaster, drought and war on the prairie!"