Quick Transmigration: Knowing I'm a Bad Woman, Yet Still Liking Me?
Chapter 696 Not a foolish ruler, but a tyrant
Over the years, there have been many outstanding generals in the military, and Bai Yuan never puts all her eggs in one basket.
Yu Fengjiang led his army north and quickly occupied various tribes in Liaodong and Liaoxi, as well as Fuyu and the northern frontier.
Meanwhile, Lei Xing led several generals to support Yizhou County. After quickly taking over the Ailao Kingdom, they reorganized for two months and began to slowly advance towards the Qiang people.
However, they certainly couldn't fight as fast as Yu Fengjiang, because he had a system and space, making him too mobile.
Not only can it carry food, but it can also replenish his supplies remotely if Bai Yuan is absent.
Wherever he went, he could also plunder the wealth of powerful clans and send it all back to Hong'an City.
The war was about conquering the surrounding area in one fell swoop. As soon as the people sent by Hongan City to the northern border settled down, Yu Fengjiang immediately moved east and quickly took down the Wei clan and the various tribes of the Three Han.
Then, without pausing, he began to submit a memorial to Bai Yuan from afar: "Your Majesty, there is an island to the east of the Three Hans, inhabited by a group of Wa people who have established about a hundred small city-states. I offered them allegiance to my Great Ye Dynasty, but they are ungrateful and have uttered arrogant words. I sent people to investigate and learned quite a bit that the island is extremely rich in resources, with various mineral deposits such as gold, iron, and copper. However, I observe that their people are treacherous and cunning; keeping them alive will surely cause great trouble. I hereby request that the entire clan be exterminated."
Yu Fengjiang believed he understood His Majesty's temperament and thoughts very well; His Majesty was tough on the outside but soft on the inside, and too soft-hearted.
He was ordered to fight his way through the land to appease the people, and was only allowed to kill a few stubborn and unruly clans.
He was also worried that His Majesty would hesitate or even reprimand him this time, so he prepared a whole bunch of excuses.
He even harbored malicious intentions, thinking that if he couldn't persuade His Majesty, he would act first and report later, saying that the other side would strike first when attacking.
To everyone's surprise, less than two minutes after the message was sent, His Majesty replied with two words: "Granted."
After defeating the Japanese, Yu Fengjiang turned to head west.
Bai Yuan has been spoiling Luo Zhi lately, the prince that the Chanyu sent back then.
This guy has grown up, and his appearance is alluring and captivating.
Knowing that Bai Yuan was going to attack his hometown, he cried and made a scene, and Bai Yuan had to coax him for several days.
Finally, he turned around and slapped her twice before turning and leaving.
In six years, the Great Ye Dynasty conquered Dingling in the north and occupied the entire Lake Baikal. In the west, it conquered Kangju, Dayuezhi, Parthia and other places, doubling the territory of the Great Ye Dynasty.
The workers who had been saving up for several years had all gone out to work, and they were still struggling to make ends meet.
Stabilizing the rear takes time, so the war was suspended and all efforts were focused on border defense and development, continuing the military settlement system.
In terms of governing the border regions, His Majesty's decree has only two points: have more children and cultivate more land.
Encouraging more births and reclamation of wasteland led to increased grain production and reduced taxes. Coupled with advancements in medicine, the infant mortality rate among ordinary families decreased significantly.
Population is the foundation of all development, and the population of the Great Ye Dynasty was too small.
Hong'an City was expanded to twice its original size. Not only were the old city walls repaired, but a new wall was also built around them using cement and red bricks. From then on, Hong'an City was divided into an inner city and an outer city.
The four buildings that Bai Yuan built earlier have become iconic buildings in Hong'an City.
Bai Jin managed the business very well, making a lot of money every year.
Bai Yuan was actually very wealthy. Once the war ended, in addition to the subsidies given to the soldiers by the imperial court, she personally provided additional compensation to the families of the deceased soldiers.
Bai Yuan's reputation soared, and she no longer dared to sneak out of the palace to play.
Another thing that surprised Bai Yuan happened in the past few years: Wei Ting got married, and the person he married was none other than the girl she had sent back then.
She always felt that if anyone were to get married, it should be Jiang Yao and Yu Fengjiang, since she had promised them that they could find several more partners.
It is said that conquering a country is easy, but maintaining it is difficult. After conquering a territory, it does not take long to recuperate and rebuild, but it takes a full twenty years to develop new territories.
Of course, it doesn't have to be so many years. Bai Yuan seeks stability and doesn't want to leave any future troubles for the next emperor.
When the conquest began again, Bai Jin had already married seven wives and had more than thirty children, nearly twenty of whom were adults.
All ten of her adult daughters were sent to the Imperial Academy to study with other children.
She looked around, but none of them satisfied Bai Yuan.
Bai Yuan looked at those children and felt afraid at the thought of giving birth herself.
As time went on, many people began to set their sights on Bai Jin after discovering that the emperor had no biological children.
Anyway, it was all voluntary. Bai Yuan didn't force anyone, except for Bai Jin.
When the King of Qiong was forty years old, he became a monk and went to live in a temple.
Bai Yuan ultimately chose Bai Jin's eleventh daughter, who was also his late-life son, nearly forty years old, from his first wife.
Not only is she intelligent and physically strong, but she also doesn't follow the rules. Bai Yuan calls her a genius of ideas.
The aristocratic families have been suppressed for many years and have tried to resist, but without success.
It was also because the Great Ye Dynasty was developing too fast that they had to make some changes in a timely manner, recruiting many disciples and working hard to cultivate them, hoping that they would occupy various important positions in the court.
However, to pass the imperial examinations, one had to diligently study new mathematical and physical subjects, which were becoming increasingly difficult.
Confucian academies were overcrowded, and people were willing to learn even when they were well-fed, so private schools began to open in many places.
The earliest academies appeared around Hong'an City, and now they have developed into small-scale academies.
But breaking through the ranks of aristocratic families is no easy feat!
When Bai Yuan was forty years old, it was not until she was from a noble family that someone from outside the imperial examinations made it into the palace examination.
Just as she thought, once this opening is torn open, there will only be more and more.
The first to pass away was Jiang Yao, who was seventy years old. When she was dying, she was so emotional that she cried uncontrollably.
She began teaching at the Imperial Academy just a few days after she transmigrated, and taught there for over fifty years before finally finding liberation.
She never got married, and she was sick of seeing all those kids at the Imperial Academy.
For over fifty years, she had nurtured countless students. The funeral procession was so large that it couldn't fit the entire street. Bai Yuan also kept her promise and took her home.
However, Bai Yeqing exploited a loophole in her system when it was cutting energy. She returned, but her system remained behind.
The second was Wei Ting, whose health deteriorated the year after Jiang Yao left.
The Wei family is now considered a prominent and powerful family in the Great Ye Dynasty.
The last one is Yu Fengjiang. He never married in his life, not because of Bai Yuan. Now, the group is more like old friends.
His thoughts were the same as Bai Yuan's; he was terrified that after he left, his child would remain in this world and might even die before him.
When Bai Yuan saw Yu Fengjiang off, she was actually quite reluctant to part with him. She told the little system that all her friends had left, and she wished she could keep one of them.
If she could, she would rather be the Ding Wanqiu she once was, but unfortunately she has family, and her family is waiting for her.
As for Bai Yuan, she felt that passing the throne after her death was very unreliable.
He abdicated at the age of fifty-one to support the new emperor, and he never interfered in matters that were not too serious.
The new emperor did not disappoint her. He did not act rashly after ascending the throne. It was not until the ninth year of his reign that he began to continue the western expedition.
Upon returning to the modern world, Wei Ting went directly to find Jiang Yao; they had already exchanged contact information.
The two met at a coffee shop, sat facing each other, and smiled as they looked at each other's much younger faces.
Jiang Yao even slapped the table and joked, "So young, yet already so old."
After Bai Yuan left, the people's evaluation of her was: ruthless and decisive, strict in governing her subordinates, and the court was bleak. Most people regarded her as a tyrant.
However, internally, he rectified the bureaucracy, reformed the land, planted new grains, and stabilized the people, ensuring that there was no hunger in the world and that his blessings extended to all people.
However, this is only from their perspective; later generations will naturally have different views.
A good deed lasts a thousand years, a bad deed is committed in a moment.
He was called a tyrant, but in reality a sage ruler.
Netizens even joked: "Do these people from the Great Ye Dynasty even know how to be officials? They can't keep up with Emperor Ye Hong's thinking, otherwise our country's territory could be even larger. If I time-traveled, I'd kill them all."
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