Xuzhou is located on the coast of the East China Sea.
It is a place near the sea of Kyushu, located on the land of Qilu in the Central Plains. It was also the place where the Four Wars were.
Of course, this East China Sea is not the other East China Sea. The East China Sea in Kyushu is just an inland sea, not the four seas of the Three Realms.
However, deep in the East China Sea in Kyushu, a spring also connects the four seas. From the spring, one can step into the Three Realms and Four Seas.
Of course, the spring is not something that ordinary people can pass by. If you don't have strong cultivation, you will be torn apart by the spring.
After all, the spring is very scary.
The four major springs in the three realms and four seas need to be suppressed by the ancestor dragon's physical body before they are finally relieved. Otherwise, the springs will shake and the four seas will be unstable.
Xuzhou on the East China Sea was originally the most prosperous place in the land of Qilu. Today, Xuzhou is also one of the most prosperous places in the southeast of the Liu Han court.
Xuzhou's area can only be considered medium, but its population is even higher than that of Jizhou, with a full 500 million, and the number of merchants is even higher than that of Jizhou.
There are several major merchant families in Xuzhou who will be among the best in the world in the future. Among them, the Mi family will be the top merchant family in the world.
He was named one of the top ten merchants by Yu Wei and Liu Han.
The Mi family has been in Xuzhou for thousands of years. In terms of background, it may not be as good as those first-class aristocratic families. However, because of the business, the family's wealth is rare, which also contributes to the power of the Mi family.
After all, in this extraordinary world, more wealth also means more resources. Although the Mi family's background is not as good as those of the old aristocratic families, the family inheritance is also not as good.
But in the past thousand years, the Mi clan has given birth to many strong men, including three in the realm of refining gods.
A cultivator in the realm of refining the gods has a lifespan of at least three thousand years, and even a martial artist has a lifespan of a thousand years. Even if someone leaves Kyushu, at least one of the Mi family is stationed in Xuzhou.
Naturally, the safety of the family is ensured.
It is also because of this that even though some people covet Mi's huge wealth, they dare not take action easily.
After all, no one knows how many people in the Mi family are in the realm of refining gods. If all three of them are here, even the imperial court will not take action easily.
The three God Refining Realm members may not be able to defeat the Earthly Immortal Realm when they join forces, but it is still possible to block them for a moment.
Once they escape and wait for an opportunity to retaliate, even the imperial court will definitely have a hard time.
Unless the power of the imperial court is at its peak, as in the Emperor Wu's period, many of the families that were indeed wiped out were in the realm of refining gods.
However, those connected to the realm of refining gods will be suppressed when the court says to suppress them, and destroyed when asked to be destroyed by the imperial court.
But it can only be Emperor Wu, because Emperor Wu himself is a powerful man who transcends the Earthly Immortal Realm. In addition, the empire also has an unparalleled general, the Champion, who is even the top general. Even in the Earthly Immortal Realm,
They killed many of them.
It was that unparalleled general who was in charge, and no one in the world dared to refute it. Those kings of the opposite sex and the princes of the Liu family did not dare to have any dissatisfaction with the imperial court.
However, it was a pity for Emperor Wu, because he became obsessed with practicing martial arts, or was plotted against him, and finally died at the age of 800.
After this Emperor Wu, the emperors after the imperial court did not live long. It was as if this Emperor Wu had exhausted Liu Han's luck. There were not many emperors in the succeeding generations who were talented and wise, and the ones who were ignorant and unprincipled were not so many.
few.
This consumed too much power of the Liu Han court.
Up to now, the imperial court once again consumed a lot of Liu Han's strength because of the rebellion caused by his relatives. An elder of the Liu Han clan who was at the state level was also seriously injured because of the rebellion by his relatives. So far, Liu Han once again lost a governor.
A strong country.
This is also the case, which is why the imperial court's control over local areas is so weak.
After all, the central government lacks the strongest power, and its deterrence to the local areas has declined, and a series of weakenings have made the power of the imperial court weaker and weaker, eventually leading to the current situation where the government apparently belongs to the imperial court, but in fact the local governments have become autonomous.
Xuzhou is no exception. Xuzhou is thousands of miles away from Luoyang, the divine capital. Maybe for those monks, it won't take long.
But if it is really a large army, even if it is an elite one, it will take more than half a year.
Of course, during the Qin Dynasty, traveling a hundred miles a day was nothing. The Chidao of the Qin Dynasty had special chariots for transporting troops. These chariots were made with monk runes and could travel long distances very quickly.
More than a war horse.
Now Liu Han naturally does not have this ability.
This is one of the reasons why the imperial court lost control over local areas.
As one of the most fertile states in the southeast of the imperial court, Xuzhou was naturally a place where aristocratic families gathered, and there were quite a few aristocratic families in Xuzhou.
There are even many top aristocratic families in the world.
The Mi family is a merchant family and is already among the aristocratic families. In this era, there is no hidden rule that merchants are inferior.
Because merchant families also have strong power, as long as they have strong power, no one dares to underestimate them. Even if no one from these merchant families is an official, no one in the local government dares to underestimate them.
Of course, the Mi family cannot be just a family of merchants. Since they are in the limelight, there must be disciples who want to become officials.
Therefore, in the past thousand years, there have been officials of the three-gong level in the Mi family.
In the Liu Han court for thousands of years, one or two three princes were actually nothing. Four generations and three princes could not even become the standard for a first-class family.
After all, many first-class families have produced dozens of three-gong officials. The Yang family of Liu Han has had hundreds of three-gong-level officials, and even held the position of Sikong ten times in a row. It can be said that it is infinitely prosperous. Compared with another top-notch family, Yuan
As far as I'm concerned, it's even more powerful.
As a top aristocratic family, the Yang family has mostly reached the limit of being a civil servant.
Of course, the evaluation of aristocratic families is not only based on the officials in office, but also the strength of the family. If the family does not have a strong person in charge, it will only slowly decline.
There is no such aristocratic family.
For thousands of years, for those families who were not born in the God Refining Realm or were born in the God Refining Realm but died due to accidents, without such a strong person sitting in charge, they would only slowly decline.
The situation between aristocratic families is cruel, even very tragic, and there may even be wars between them.
There used to be two aristocratic families fighting each other, and even people in the God Refining Realm were killed because of this. The victorious party could plunder the other family's inheritance and heritage.
Liu Han was not Da Qin. Da Qin had very strict control over local nobles, but in Liu Han, it was different.
And this is also the calculation of Liu Han's court. Only if they have a fierce relationship with each other can the Liu family secure this position.
Unfortunately, they underestimated the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family did see Liu's sinister intentions, but they could also use this to go further and become even more alienated from the court. ()
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