Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

Inside the main hall of Baidi City, all the civil and military officials of Beishang Kingdom heard that King Hongxuan of Zhenbei had given them a way to live.

At first they couldn't believe it was true.

There is no difference between the subjects of the defeated country and slaves.

It is not impossible to brand these officials and civilians of Beishang Kingdom who could not escape as slaves or castrate them to become eunuchs.

But they didn't expect that

King Hongxuan of Zhenbei, who sat high on the throne, only asked them to leave Baidi City within three days.

It didn't embarrass them at all.

Officials of the Northern Business State thought:

"Does the King of Zhenbei want to drive us out of Baidi City and kill us on the road?"

Although only some people speculate so.

But the vast majority of people fell to the ground and kowtowed:

"Thank you, King Zhenbei, for not killing me!"

"Thank you, King Zhenbei, for not killing us!"

A bearded official knelt on the ground and shouted:

"King of Zhenbei, I am willing to stay in Baidi City to assist King of Zhenbei and serve you at your service!"

Hongxuan looked at the sincere expression of this Beishang official who wanted to join him.

Smiled:

"Don't worry! In the near future, when I rule the Northern Shang Kingdom, I will use you. Now! I can't give you rewards or official positions, so you should go back first!"

"Baidi City is a strategic location, and only military commanders are suitable to be stationed here. You should go back! Go back and tell your king Ba Xin that I will personally lead the army to attack Beishang State. If you resist, you will only die!"

Hongxuan doesn't care whether the officials of Beishang Kingdom are talented and can assist him. Even if the officials are good at governing the country, they are not worth mentioning to Hongxuan.

The real official system was created to develop social productivity and improve food and people's welfare.

But whether it was the Dafeng Kingdom or the Beishang Kingdom, they all used enslavement and exploitation of the people as a means of political system for officials.

Officials formed in such a system will not be of any use to Hongxuan at all, but will instead become parasites in the future.

Therefore, Hongxuan reformed the official system and divided it into only five categories.

Moreover, these five categories focus on developing food production capacity with food officials as the main focus.

Hongxuan ordered the Qilin Guards,

Within three days, all these officials from the Northern Shang Kingdom will be driven away.

Anyone who wants to stay will be treated as an enemy spy.

After all the officials from the Beishang Kingdom had left the hall.

The soldiers from the four camps discussed each other in great shock.

War is cruel.

In previous wars, captured enemy officials were either enslaved or castrated.

But Zhenbei King Hongxuan released them all.

The King of Zhenbei was not just talking empty words about not killing those who surrendered.

"Why doesn't our prince kill these officials from Beishang? That's because our prince will soon attack the entire Beishang Kingdom, and let these officials from Beishang Kingdom bring fear!"

"Attack the city and attack the heart!"

When all the subjects of Beishang Kingdom learned about the news of Baidi City, how terrified they would be.

Someone will definitely be scared to death.

Hongxuan ordered the Qilin Guards to count all the spoils of war in Baidi City.

Qilin Guards quickly counted the supplies in Baidi City as requested by King Zhenbei

The war is over.

Counting the loot

The Qilin Guards counted out the 100,000 taels of gold and 500,000 taels of silver that had piled up like a small mountain.

The Qilin Guard had six million dan of grain and two hundred thousand dan of beef and mutton in the granary of Baidi City.

Three hundred thousand jars of fine wine brewed from grain.

They obtained 200,000 high-quality war horses and 80,000 cattle, sheep and other livestock.

All these supplies were transported from Beishang Country.

From these supplies, it can be seen that Ba Xin of the Northern Shang Kingdom had already built Baidi City into an important city for attacking the Dafeng Kingdom.

The Qilin Guards also counted out eight hundred dancers and singers.

There are also three extremely beautiful imperial concubines.

When Baxin, the king of Beishang, fled, he did not take his concubine with him.

After counting the supplies, Qilin Guard reported all the information about these supplies to King Zhenbei.

Hong Xuan said to Qilin Guard:

"Qilin Guard, allocate 400,000 taels of silver and divide it into two parts. The first part of 400,000 taels of silver will be divided into 240,000 taels of silver, so that each soldier participating in the war can receive 2 taels of silver. This amount of silver will be distributed by your Qilin Guard on a per capita basis."

"The remaining 160,000 taels of silver will be given to the four army commanders, 40,000 taels of silver to each commander, and they will be asked to distribute them to the officers at their discretion."

After hearing this, Qilin Guard immediately did as he was told.

Qilin Guard said:

"King of Zhenbei! These singers and dancers..."

Hongxuan ordered the Qilin Guard to reward their soldiers and give out some wine and meat.

Another Qilin Guard reported back:

"King Zhenbei, how do we deal with the eight hundred singers and dancers we counted?"

In this era, women are resources.

Of course, King Zhenbei would not let them go. Anyone who let them go would be a fool.

"Leave the singers and dancers to Princess Murong Yan." It would be best to leave the eight hundred soldiers and their weapons to Princess Zhengbei.

"Qilin Guard! Send the battle report to my father!"

"It's the King of Zhenbei! Your subordinates will immediately arrange for an expedited delivery of the victory report to the Imperial City of Kyoto!"

King Hongxuan of Zhenbei, with his incredible and brilliant achievements, annihilated the 180,000 cavalrymen of the Northern Shang Kingdom without losing a single soldier.

This is an incredible victory in war,

The Northern Shang ruler, Ba Xin, was completely driven out and the city of Baidi was occupied.

Baidi City was the first city captured by Hongxuan in foreign wars.

After Hongxuan rewarded his army soldiers, he celebrated with a banquet together.

The imperial city of Dafeng State.

The emperor of Dafeng State was holding a morning court session, and almost all civil and military officials were present.

The court meeting was about the Southern Barbarians' harassment of the southern border. The Southern Barbarians have been very active recently. They came to the southern border of Dafeng Kingdom to rob food and women.

Emperor Dingwen sat high on the throne, looking at the civil and military officials in the hall.

"These southern barbarian rebels are really giving me a headache!"

"It is autumn now, and the southern barbarians want to take advantage of this time to disrupt the grain harvest in Dafeng. They really deserve to be punished!"

Zhang Shoufu stepped out.

"Your Majesty, I think that now is the autumn harvest, and we should focus our military forces on the southern border!"

"There are many soldiers guarding the northern border. Your Majesty, why don't you send 50,000 men to support General Zhaowu?"

Emperor Dingwen shook his head and said:

"Absolutely not! The 300,000 cavalry of the Northern Shang Kingdom are invincible! Pulling out 50,000 men from the northern border to support the southern border would be courting death, wouldn't it? Chief Zhang, what kind of crazy idea is this?"

Chief Zhang bowed and said:

"Your Majesty, you don't know! I am not talking nonsense."

"Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan has withdrawn 30,000 Yuzhou troops from Yuzhou, and there are already 100,000 border troops at the northern border."

"Anyway, Zhenbei King Hongxuan has so many troops and it's useless just to guard the city and the border. It's better to solve the urgent problem first."

After hearing what Chief Zhang said, Emperor Dingwen was indeed somewhat tempted.

The ministers in the hall reconsidered the matter.

"Captain Zhang is right. Now is the autumn harvest season. If the rebels from southern Xinjiang come to disrupt the harvest, it will definitely affect this year's grain collection. This is a very dangerous signal!"