Chapter 651: Going South

What Bai Lang established was still a feudal dynasty, and the relations of production had not changed from the previous dynasty. This person's dynasty was usurped, and congenitally it should have been either like the Great Song, which was soft on the public opinion of the scholars because of problems, the so-called "sharing the world with the scholar-officials," or simply madly learning from the Tartars to abuse literary prisons, and high-pressure oppression for a few generations.

However, Bai Lang didn't take either path. In terms of public opinion, the folk were almost unscrupulous and the control was very loose, but in the court, there was not a single bit of chaos. What Bai Lang said was what it was. Although he didn't make many suggestions, every word he said was truly a heavenly rule. From top to bottom, there was no one who dared to oppose or dare to disobey.

This was the authority that only the founding martial emperor could possess. Bai Lang suppressed the country alone, and reached this level purely by terrifying martial force. He was so strong that he was too lazy to splash dirty water on the two late emperors of the previous dynasty, and was completely too lazy to cover up the fact that he usurped the world. Although it could not be said in the court, Bai Lang directly stated that if anyone wanted to "set things right," they were welcome to fight.

It didn't matter if you didn't be an official and said it in the folk, and if you didn't obey and raised a pole to rebel, Bai Lang also welcomed it. It was just that when you were broken by Bai Lang and killed your whole family, don't beg for mercy. "A man should do things by himself, and it is normal to kill the whole family for rebellion." Bai Lang sat high in the court like this, waiting for those warriors who dared to oppose him.

Unfortunately, there was not one.

Not only was there none, but his reputation was surprisingly good... Although this guy usurped the throne, his reputation was now catching up with Li Er... First, he killed a large number of landlord bureaucrats, which was equivalent to redistributing the land in the north, and once again created a large number of self-cultivating farmers. Then officials and gentry served and paid taxes together, eliminating most of the tax-exempt privileged classes, which also slowed down the trend of land annexation.

Adding these two together, even if Bai Lang only exempted the head tax, and the land tax and grain tax were the same as the previous dynasty, it was considered light corvee and thin tax... And he basically threw everything to the cabinet to do, which made him considered a holy emperor who ruled by doing nothing... It was just that the army was divided into central army, county soldiers, and border soldiers, and the compulsory military service was restarted during the slack season of farming, which was considered a regression.

It was just that no one dared to persuade Bai Lang. This martial emperor was a murderer. Anyway, it was just a matter of soldiers, so let the emperor like to do it.

Anyway, the original behavior of drinking soldiers' blood was gone. Those guys had already turned their heads into skulls. The military quota after streamlining was now the actual quota. Compared with it, the money spent was much less. The ministers in the court were now most concerned about whether Bai Emperor could find a few more beauties to stay in the harem? It was enough to see everyone at the big morning court on the first and fifteenth of the month, and it was enough to summon the small morning court of the cabinet every day. It was best to spend the extra time in the harem to have children.

This emperor didn't stay in the Forbidden City no matter what, he just lived in the West Garden—as for him summoning the concubines of the late emperor in the Forbidden City to the West Garden from time to time, everyone pretended not to see such behavior. Even Bai Lang buried the two late emperors in a mausoleum—it was still the late late emperor's, and everyone pretended that this didn't exist.

The biggest instability in the court was not the fake dynasty in the south—that imperial court was now fighting for power and profit, and it looked like the Eastern Jin Dynasty, a performance of medicine pills. And the Bai Emperor of the new dynasty was a fierce general unparalleled in the world. After one strike across the river, the fake dynasty would be destroyed, and the world would be unified in five years. But the biggest problem was that Bai Emperor had no children until now...

This problem was too serious. The two princes had just married not long ago, and their wives were all well-read and beautiful daughters of official families—originally they were sent into the palace when the emperor chose concubines, but they didn't expect that this emperor not only didn't use eunuchs, but even stopped choosing concubines. This was very embarrassing. Fortunately, there were two princes who could marry.

Bai Lang, this emperor, was very contradictory now. This person was really cut from the same cloth as Aman and the Gao family in terms of playing with women, but he didn't choose concubines widely in the court and the folk, and even when the wives of the officials entered the palace to see the Empress during the New Year's banquet, this emperor never appeared to avoid gossip. In this point, he was very upright, and looking at it together with him messing with the late emperor's concubines, one would think it was two people.

Not long after the wedding, the two princes' wives were already pregnant, and the emperor's harem didn't even have a fart. And the marriage of the two princesses had no clue yet—with the martial arts of the two princesses, I'm afraid that ordinary military family children couldn't handle it. These two "younger sisters" of Bai Lang, their appearance could be said to be above average, but their height was already above many men before they were adults...

These two were sixteen, and their height was only 1.65 meters in Bai Lang's view, but there were more short men in this world... When they were adults, they could grow to about 1.75 meters. In that case, most men were not as tall as them. And both arms had the strength of a thousand catties. In terms of martial arts alone, they were not inferior to Bai Bao and Bai Biao.

These two princesses were both skilled in archery and horsemanship, and they were wild girls who flew eagles and horses all day long, and their temperaments were tough—they were real female generals who followed their big brother to charge the battle formation and killed quite a few people on the battle formation. The new dynasty didn't say that the princess consort had no future in the future, which was a bit like the Han and Tang Dynasties, so although the two princesses were popular, it was really unknown who they would marry.

The Emperor seemed to be ready to let them choose for themselves.

The situation coming from the Southern Dynasty was four words, "drunk and dreaming of death," and Bai Lang only said one sentence after hearing it, "Singing in a leaking boat, drinking heavily under a burning house, without knowing that the drowning is coming, it is sad!" Those who heard it were quite surprised. This emperor actually had such a level of writing?

Three years, the world was well-governed. The imperial court's annual income far exceeded the previous dynasty, and the granaries were also full of grain and grass. Bai Lang's various armies had all been trained and prepared. With an edict, Bai Lang personally led the army south to the Yangtze River. "Condolences to the people and crusade against the crime! Mix the world!" Then Bai Lang laughed, "A strip of water... beside the couch, how can others snore. Hahahaha."

Then he waved his horse whip and pointed, "Cross the river!"

It was impossible for the Yangtze River to break the flow with a whip, and the army Bai Lang brought was not many. The main elite cavalry was five hundred, and three thousand, and the others were troops belonging to the two princes and two princesses. Over the years, the north of the river had been building warships, but three years of time could not build many, not to mention having to face the sudden attacks of the Southern Dynasty navy from time to time.

The Southern navy was rampant on the river. They didn't dare to go ashore, but they could sink the Northern warships in the river water, so the shipyards could only stop the ships in the lakes, and the river mouth water gates were lowered and heavily guarded, for fear that the Jiangnan navy would break in. ===== CHAPTER 652 =====