Chapter 1440 Recovering Lost Territory

Faced with the empress' question, Qin Tian did not show panic. Instead, he smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I know that you love food, so when you travel to various places, you select local food and bring it back. Your Majesty might as well try it!"

While speaking, Qin Tianxin waved his hand, and a huge table suddenly appeared in the imperial study room, and the table was filled with various steaming delicacies.

Seeing this, the empress felt warm in her heart, but she still had a sad face: "Don't let me forgive you just because you get some small favors!"

Qin Tian did not answer the question. He had many wives and had accumulated a lot of experience in dealing with women. The empress was indeed an emperor, but she was also a woman. When a woman is angry, never reason with her. No matter how reasonable you are, a woman Nor will they listen (an experience passed on to the majority of male compatriots).

"Your Majesty, have a taste!"

Qin Tian picked up the wine bottle, poured two glasses of wine, and handed one to the empress.

After looking at the hundreds of delicious foods on the table, the empress still couldn't resist the temptation: "For the sake of the general's sincerity, I will reluctantly try it!"

After taking the wine glass and picking up the chopsticks, the empress gracefully picked up some food and put it into her mouth, then nodded with satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, drinking alone will inevitably lead to unhappiness. Why don't you let me accompany you?"

Qin Tian smiled.

"allow!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Qin Tian sat down, picked up another wine glass, and raised it: "Your Majesty, you have worked hard these years, I respect you!"

"You know how hard I worked?"

The empress said angrily, but she still raised her wine glass and touched it with Qin Tian.

It had to be said that the empress did prefer delicious food. She tasted almost all the dishes Qin Tian brought back, and the smile on her face became thicker and thicker.

Finally, after having had enough wine and food, the empress put down her jade chopsticks and stared at Qin Tiandao: "In the past few decades, the empire has been recuperating and its national strength has recovered a lot. When does the general think we should regain the lost territory?"

"Any time!"

Qin Tiandao.

"How to recover?"

The empress' eyes lit up.

"If Your Majesty trusts me, how about leaving this matter to me?" Qin Tiandao.

For this reason, the empress was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Qin Tian would take the initiative to ask for help. However, she was very happy in her heart, and the previous resentment also disappeared.

The next day, in the court hall, the empress announced that General Qin Tian would lead the army to regain the lost territory.

In fact, after the fall of the gods and demons, the rebels had suffered heavy losses. The main reason why the Fengling Empire did not eliminate them in one fell swoop was because of its weakened national strength. Even if they were eliminated, taking over those territories would still be a burden.

Now, after decades of recuperation, the national strength has barely recovered.

However, in Qin Tian's view, the military systems of the three major forces are all very backward. There is no need for a city to maintain so many city guards, because these city guards will not play much role in the face of real enemies.

Therefore, Qin Tian decided that after taking down all the rebels, he would prepare to reform the army with the Empress's constitution.

After more than ten days of preparation, Qin Tian led an elite army of tens of millions to set off.

There are still nearly a thousand rebels in the Fengling Empire.

However, only a dozen or so rebel groups have become popular. These rebel armies have occupied more than a dozen states and have tens of millions of troops under their command. However, only one rebel army has the Holy Emperor as its commander.

One day later, Qin Tian led his army to the royal city where a rebel army was located.

He did not send troops to attack the city because it would be too troublesome. With a thought, the temple space began to overlap with the void of reality. In an instant, the rebel royal city fell completely under Qin Tian's control.

He then forcibly stamped his mark on the minds of the rebel leaders and higher-ups.

"General, when will we attack the city?"

Deputy General Ning Hao asked. On this expedition, Qin Tian only brought Deputy General Ning Hao with him, while Hu Yanzhuo stayed in the imperial capital to guard the army.

Qin Tian waved his hand relaxedly: "No need, they will soon activate the formation and come out to surrender!"

"What?"

Chang Ninghao was a little unbelievable when he heard this. However, he knew that the general's methods were extraordinary. Although he had doubts, he was not doubtful.

Half an hour later.

The defensive formation on the rebel royal city was suddenly closed, and then the rebel leader led a group of senior officials to arrive and knelt before Qin Tian to surrender and plead guilty.

This scene made Chang Ninghao dumbfounded.

Later, Qin Tian accepted the surrender of the rebel leader and ordered him to surrender all the cities under his command. To this, the rebel leader did not resist at all.

In less than ten days, the Fengling Empire captured all two states and cities belonging to this rebel army without spending a single soldier.

The news spread back to the imperial capital, and the empress was very happy.

Next, Qin Tian started his legendary showmanship.

Two days later, Qin Tian led his army to the capital city of another rebel army. Not long after, the leader of this rebel army also led his senior officials to open a large formation to surrender and plead guilty.

As a result, Qin Tian easily regained two more states and cities.

This made the soldiers under his command very depressed. They originally wanted to follow him and make contributions, but they didn't expect that they didn't need to do anything at all. It was just like traveling.

In the next two years, wherever Qin Tian went, the rebel leaders would come out with their senior officials to surrender and plead guilty. Therefore, in just a few months, 800 prefectures and cities had returned to the embrace of the Fengling Empire. The key was that thousands of cities had returned to the Fengling Empire. Wan Dajun still has no place to use.

However, the empress became troubled.

It is indeed a good thing to take back more than 800 state cities, but paying the military expenses of the city guards of 800 state cities is a huge expense.

At this time, Qin Tian gave the empress a suggestion.

He suggested that the empress abolish part of the city guard system of the city guards, leaving 30,000 city guards in the state city, 10,000 city guards in the county city, and 3,000 city guards in the county city.

Then select the elite and form a corps.

Each corps has one million people, and one corps can take care of the military of three states.

In this way, not only the military strength is improved, but also the military expenditure can be greatly reduced.

You know, a state has at least hundreds of county cities, and a county city has 100,000 city guards, which means tens of millions of people, and there are many county cities. Therefore, for each state, the empire has to pay 20 million people's military pay, and three states have 60 million people.

And to be honest, the role of the city guards is really not great.

If Qin Tian's proposal is followed, the city guards can be completely controlled within two million, which greatly reduces the expenditure.

Therefore, after receiving Qin Tian's suggestion, the empress began to implement this policy. However, she followed Qin Tian's suggestion and did not implement it in the original 3,000 states, but in the newly recovered 800 states.

Because the rebel leaders and senior officials were controlled by Qin Tian, ​​they naturally did not dare to disobey the orders of the empire and fully cooperated.

In a blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed.

Most of the lost land has been recovered by Qin Tian, ​​and only five powerful rebels have not been dealt with. Feeling the threat of Qin Tian, ​​these five rebels chose to join forces and gathered more than 50 million troops to attack Qin Tian. (To be continued)