The heavens start from the red building

Chapter 185

But they were really lucky, Niu Dazhu and the others killed Fang La and Fang Jie, but they still had some loyalists.

Originally, they were looking for an opportunity to avenge Fang La, but they happened to encounter Qin Ming and others who came to deceive the city gate in the name of delivering letters.

Originally, the man guarding the city was going to inform Niu Dazhu and the others, but it happened that Fang Jie's subordinates had seen Qin Ming on the battlefield.

He knew Qin Ming's identity and felt something was wrong when he saw Qin Ming wearing soldiers' clothes. Originally, he wanted to alert the man guarding the city.

But on second thought, didn't he want to avenge Fang Jie? This was an opportunity, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb. After Qin Ming entered the city, he helped Qin Ming kill the general guarding the city.

In this way, Qin Ming successfully opened the gate of the city and let the army in. Niu Dazhu and the others couldn't figure out how those imperial army came in.

After Qin Ming cleared up Fang La's influence, he sent someone to deliver the letter of surrender to Chen Dong. Chen Dong was overjoyed.

Originally, I thought that a big battle would be inevitable, but I didn't expect that Qin Ming would take the initiative to vote and solve Fang La's problem.

Now the domestic problems are solved, although there are still some small rebellions, but they are not serious, as long as people are sent to suppress them, most of the thieves will run away.

Then he can spare his time to deal with the Jin and Liao Kingdoms.

Chen Dong went to Muzhou and met Qin Ming and the others first, but he didn't expect there to be a surprise.

"You said your name is Ling Zhen, but you are Thunderbolt Ling Zhen? Are you good at making cannons?"

Chen Dong looked at the mighty-looking man in front of him with surprise.

Ling Zhen didn't expect Chen Dong to have heard of him, so he replied a little flattered, "Back to the general, the last general is indeed Ling Zhen. I dare not say that he is good at it, but he does have some experience in artillery."

After hearing this, Chen Dong looked at Ling Zhen with great satisfaction. He didn't think about it at first, but now that he saw Ling Zhen, he would make good use of Ling Zhen no matter what he said.

In fact, Da Song's current gunpowder technology is still very advanced, but Da Song is a civil servant. These idiots think that artillery is very lethal, saying that it is harmful to the world, and gunpowder is basically used to study fireworks.

Talents like Ling Zhen are not only not valued, but they think he is a heretic, and they are discriminated against on weekdays.

When Chen Dong knew this, he wanted to dig out the brains of those civil servants to see what was inside.

If such a powerful weapon is not used well, it must be known that if Da Song seriously studied artillery technology, he would not be beaten so badly by Jin Guo later.

Chen Dong didn't care whether it hurt Tianhe or not, if he had artillery, it would be easier to conquer Jin Kingdom.

So Chen Dong sent a lot of money and people to Ling Zhen, and asked him to be responsible for researching and improving artillery.

Ling Zhen has always been underestimated by others, thinking that he is doing crooked ways. Chen Dong regards him so much, and he is very grateful to Chen Dong.

And he himself is very interested in artillery, otherwise he would not risk other people's pointers to study this.

Now with Chen Dong's support, his artillery research is going more smoothly.

Originally, Chen Dong had seen Qin Ming and the others, and after appeasing them, he wanted to directly organize his army to go to Liao Kingdom to kill them.

But Wu used them to stop him, and everyone asked Chen Dong to ascend the throne first, and then talk about other things after becoming the emperor.

Although Chen Dong is not very interested in being the emperor, he feels that he is actually in control of the entire country now, and the emperor is just a name.

But the people under his command were very concerned about this title, so he fulfilled everyone's wish and left for Liao Kingdom after the enthronement ceremony.

Although Chen Dong repeatedly emphasized that the ceremony should be simple, Wu Yong and the others were still busy for more than two months before they were ready.

However, there is also good news during this period. Ling Zhen's artillery research has made great progress, and he actually made a simple grenade.

When Chen Dong heard the news, he immediately dropped other things at hand and went to Ling Zhen's workshop to check.

But it was a grenade, Chen Dong felt that it was actually a large detonator, which needed to be ignited and thrown out.

Although a little disappointed, Chen Dong was very satisfied with the lethality of the detonator. He saw that the detonator was thrown out, and a dirt slope used as a target was completely blown away.

If this is thrown in the crowd, it will kill a lot of people!
Chen Dong praised Ling Zhen fiercely, and asked him to continue to work hard to produce a grenade that does not need to be ignited, but only needs to be pulled.

On the day of the enthronement ceremony, Chen Dong changed into a cumbersome dress. After wearing it once, he made a decision that he must change the dress in the future. It was simply too troublesome.

Chen Dong boarded the throne, and everyone knelt down to salute. Chen Dong also understood what his subordinates were thinking.

After the enthronement ceremony was completed, the order to reward the meritorious officials was directly issued.

But thinking about fighting Liao and Jin in the future, Chen Dong didn't give everyone the highest titles.

Among them, the ones with the highest titles were Lin Chong and Yang Zhi, both of whom were granted the title of Third-Class Duke.

Chen Dong was very annoyed by those various titles. It was very simple for him to change his rank and title after he took office.

The titles are the five ranks of male princes and uncles, and there are three ranks if there is no rank, and there are 15 ranks in total.

In order to avoid too many titles in future generations, what Chen Dong implemented was to downgrade the titles to the titles, and those who received titles had to participate in the assessment.

If he passes the exam, he will be demoted to a lower rank. If he fails, Chen Dong is not so unkind and will not directly deprive him of the title, but he will be demoted to a higher rank.

Chen Dong directly told these generals that this was also to make their descendants feel good, and stop thinking about being a dude.

Many of these generals are bachelors now, even if they have children, they are not very old, and they have no objection to Chen Dong's policy.

After all, no one would think that their future descendants would be prodigal sons.

As for the military ranks, it is simple, just take out the modern military rank system and borrow it.

After the enthronement ceremony was completed, Chen Dong was only thinking of going to Liao and Jin to practice.

All the generals under his command are gearing up for promotion.

In order to commemorate Liangshan, Chen Dong established the country, and the country name was Daliang.

Daliang was totally outclassed compared to the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty valued culture over martial arts, but Daliang was a bunch of martial men from the beginning.

The civil servants were all recruited later, and after they were recruited, Chen Dong devoted himself to the war, and his attitude towards these civil servants was mediocre.

Some civil servants felt that Chen Dong did not respect them and resigned directly.

But Chen Dong agrees with the words of the leaders of later generations. Power grows out of the barrel of a gun. As long as the army is under his control, if these civil officials don't do it, someone else will do it.

Anyway, Daliang seems to be emphasizing martial arts and despising literature at present, and military commanders have more voice than civilian officials.

That's why Chen Dong proposed to fight the Kingdom of Jin. Although most of the civil officials objected, they said that Daliang and the Kingdom of Jin have always kept their waters in check, so it is really unrighteous to start a war rashly.

(End of this chapter)