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Before Chu Xisheng went to the north to search for the secret medicine, he paid special attention to the situation in Hezhou.
Among them, the progress of Bai Lingxi No. 2 is gratifying. In just over two months, this "deputy recruiter" has captured most of the southwestern part of the Nuclear State.
There are a total of 129 counties in Hezhou, and Bai Lingxi No. 2 has swept through a quarter of them, occupying a vast area of nearly 32 counties for the Dalu Court.
Just five days ago, this 'deputy envoy' requested an order from the imperial court, asking the imperial court to send officials to manage the area and organize immigrants to the nuclear prefecture to fill the area.
Bai Lingxi No. 1 chose to land in the northwest corner of Nuclear State.
She landed a full three days earlier than Bai Lingxi No. 2.
In addition to the 500,000 Daning surrendered troops given by the court, this subordinate also spent his own money to recruit troops near Penglai Island after asking the cabinet for permission.
Penglai Island is located in the south of Shenzhou, covering an area equivalent to two Dongzhous. It is a lawless land beyond the control of the imperial court.
Penglai Evernight City, located on the southeast side of Penglai Island, is one of the three most powerful overseas forces in the world.
Penglai Island itself is in an excellent location, connecting China and the South China Sea Islands. It is rich in products, with the most abundant mineral deposits in the world, and there are countless spiritual fields that can be used to prepare various elixirs.
Therefore, Penglai Island is not only home to countless maritime merchants, but also has a dense population.
Since there is no household registration system, the specific population there cannot be estimated, but it is said that the population is no less than that of Heluo Prefecture, with a population of more than 20 billion.
The forces on the island are intertwined, with dozens of kingdoms, large and small, and hundreds of tribes with long histories living together.
It is precisely because of the special environment of Penglai Island that the people on the island are strong and strong in martial ethics.
In order to compete for spiritual fields, business routes, and minerals from various places, the many kingdoms and tribes over there, as well as the wealthy merchants in Penglai Evernight City, were constantly fighting with each other.
On Penglai Island, there are no fewer than a thousand small and large battles involving more than a thousand people every year.
As a result, the area around Penglai Island is full of martial arts, there are swarms of thieves, and there are countless pirates operating in the surrounding waters.
For tens of thousands of years, countless martial arts cultivators who could not make it in China were attracted by Penglai Island's high salary, and traveled thousands of miles to Penglai Island to find a living, working there as mercenaries, bodyguards, trading company guards, or doing various other things.
Capital transactions.
The imperial courts of all dynasties had nothing to do with Penglai Island.
Although Penglai Island is usually scattered, once it encounters a crisis, the entire island can pull out more than 10 million coalition forces in an instant.
The foundation of Penglai Evernight City is particularly exaggerated, and its overall strength is even higher than that of the Far East Ice City.
If it were not for the inability of the many wealthy merchants in the Evernight City to work together, the Evernight City alone could have organized more than 20 top experts on the Heavenly Ranking and tens of millions of soldiers and horses - and their overall combat power was even better than that of the Daning frontier army.
Elite. They claim to be able to defeat a country with one city.
In short, Bai Lingxi took out more than 20 million magic silver on the 1st, and shouted the slogan of going to Nuclear State to make a fortune and make contributions on Penglai Island. He easily raised an army of nearly 600,000 people and hired thousands more.
A sea-going warship.
It's just that Bai Lingxi No. 1 is more unlucky.
The co-owner of Hezhou just a thousand years ago, the ‘Juri Clan’ who originated from the Sun Golden Crow lineage, also moved back to Hezhou at this time.
They organized a coalition of hundreds of ethnic groups in Nuclear Prefecture and fought with Bai Lingxi No. 1's counter-rebellion army in the northwest area of Nuclear Prefecture for more than a month.
Although Bai Lingxi No. 1 had won several battles in a row, she was still superior to Bai Lingxi No. 2 in terms of military prowess. The number of giant spirits she killed alone reached half a million.
However, the territory occupied by the Northern Route Army was only four counties.
However, both Bai Lingxi's methods are generally cool.
Both of them have near-god-level combat prowess. At least on the surface, they are not inferior to Wen Suyi, and are even superior to Wen Suyi, who conquered Nuzhou back then.
They have no decent opponents in the Nuclear State, but they are invincible on the battlefield.
The problem is that both of them have too few soldiers and horses. The 1.1 million troops under Bai Lingxi's No. 1 command have lost nearly one-tenth after several consecutive battles. And because they are alone overseas, they have never had any troops.
Replenish.
Bai Lingxi No. 2 is slightly better.
She landed in the Nuclear State about three days later, but she recruited nearly 600,000 soldiers and horses. She later rescued some of the Ice City people who had stayed in the Nuclear State, and organized and trained an army of nearly 200,000 people.
However, these more than one million people spread over a vast area of 32 counties in the southwest of Hezhou are somewhat insufficient.
Therefore, the two of them unanimously adopted the cruelest and most domineering methods to wipe out their enemies with brutal and bloody killings, shocking all the tribes in the nuclear state.
Bai Lingxi No. 1's North Route Army organized no less than three traps and killings, burying all the prisoners alive and killing them, so that the expressions of the tribes in the northern part of Hezhou changed and their willingness to resist became less and less.
If it weren't for the 'Juri Tribe' who had obtained a large amount of assistance from who knows where, the entire Northland of Nuclear State would have surrendered at the feet of Bai Lingxi No. 1.
However, judging from the current situation, the time to pacify the nuclear state is coming soon.
The further we go, the weaker the resistance in the Nuclear Prefecture will be. It is expected that in two to three months, the 129 counties in the Nuclear Prefecture will be completely pacified and suppressed.
After reading this information, Chu Xisheng felt confused. What were these two "Bai Lingxi" trying to do?
Don't they know that the identity they use will never gain his trust?
Even if they prove that they are really Bai Lingxi in the future, Chu Xisheng will be wary of them.
Isn’t it better to stop losses in time and change your identity? Why do you have to cling to this identity?
At this moment, Chu Xisheng even began to suspect that his judgment was wrong.
Could it be that these two women really came to help him and help him achieve the great cause of the Holy Emperor?
Chu Xisheng was confused and couldn't think of the reason, so he didn't bother to pay attention anymore.
At this time, the political situation of the entire Dalu Dynasty, as well as the states under its rule, had stabilized.
Although there was chaos for a while because the Dalu Dynasty forced the New Deal. However, as the officials of the imperial court were sorted out and the powerful families in various places were subdued by the imperial court, the policy of equalizing land, equalizing taxes and equalizing households gradually spread, and all regions
The public sentiment has stabilized.
Although the effects of these new policies will not be seen in a short period of time, the people at the bottom are not fools.
The taxes collected by the Dalu court from them were less than one-third of what they had been before, and all the local sects were wiped out.
In addition, a large number of fields have been sold off in various places, and the prices are so low that they exceed everyone’s imagination.
Those aristocratic families did not want to be heavily taxed by the court, and did not want their fields to be sold at low prices, so they took the initiative to lend money to their tenants to hire workers, so that they could have money to buy their fields.
The interest rates are not high either, with a base of 20% and a maximum of 30%.
Chu Xisheng has calculated that in Dongzhou alone, based on the current land price per acre, if the weather goes well, ordinary people can repay the principal and interest in five or six years.
This resulted in a significant improvement in the popular reputation of the Dalu Dynasty and Chu Xisheng, the First Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
This change in people's hearts was also directly reflected in Chu Xisheng's secret method of the imperial way.
A month ago, Chu Xisheng's 'Twelve Dragon Gods' Heavenly Guard' was still in decline; a month later, the power of the Twelve Yinglongs had completely returned to its old form, and even strengthened a little.
In addition, the improvement of the power of the imperial secret method is also related to the imperial court's military reorganization.
This matter was mainly presided over by the Privy Council headed by Chu Yunyun and Changsun Ruolan.
After nearly three months of army reorganization, training and expansion, the Dalu Dynasty had organized a total of 3 million forbidden troops, 17 million border troops, 5 million state troops, and 9 million local guards. County Army.
Not only do each ministry have a unified organization, unified orders, and unified military laws, but all kinds of armor, crossbows, weapons, and other ordnance are also continuously being replenished.
The results of more than two months of training are even more gratifying.
The main force of the frontier army not only mastered various battle formations skillfully, but also had nearly 1.1 million soldiers who gradually improved their skills during this period.
So much so that the savings that Wen Suyi left for Chu Xisheng were almost completely consumed.
Chu Yunyun had previously sent troops to Yanzhou Shuangzhou in the north, and used many low-level elixirs that she had snatched from the northern giants and other foreign races.
Correspondingly, the overall military strength of the Dalu Dynasty increased a lot, which made Chu Xisheng's "Twelve Dragon Gods Guard" even stronger.
Especially near the capital, surrounded by three million imperial guards, the power of dragon energy was extremely overbearing.
The key is that this time the entire army completed the rotation of generals among various ministries, avoiding future disasters caused by soldiers becoming generals, and allowing the imperial court to initially control this huge number of soldiers and horses.
Although the four major factions within the Dalu Dynasty still existed, including Chu Xisheng's weak direct lineage that supported the emperor, but after being disbanded and reorganized, the traces of these factions were no longer as obvious and distinct as before.
Chu Xisheng was also helpless about this situation.
He realized that if his Dalu Dynasty wanted to have long-term peace and stability, then he, the First Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, would have to be the first emperor for a long time.
At least all those faction bosses must be killed, otherwise Xiao Qiang will be in trouble sooner or later.
With the completion of the army reorganization, the financial pressure of the Dalu court was also on the verge of reaching its limit.
Although the Dalu Dynasty under the rule of Chu Xisheng had an astonishing annual income due to the expansion of tax sources and the rectification of officialdom.
Even with light corvee and low taxes, their estimated total tax revenue in a year was actually higher than that of the Ning Dynasty, which had a complete territory not long ago.
However, the total number of 34 million troops and the reform of the academy that was already in progress overwhelmed the Dalu Dynasty.
Fortunately, several people in Dalu's cabinet were capable ministers and good at managing finances and politics; several Yipin Shenzong also understood the righteousness and used part of their savings to lend to the court, otherwise the Dalu Dynasty's finances would have been on the verge of collapse.
However, it is expected that next year, as the new policies of the imperial court take effect, the finances of the Dalu Dynasty will be much better.
A very simple truth is that people have different enthusiasm for cultivating their own fields than renting other people's fields.
The tax source will also increase greatly. Only when the people have income and have extra money, can the court be able to collect a large amount of commercial taxes.
At the same time, the enemies of Dalu Dynasty were not idle either.
Emperor Jianyuan not only reorganized the more than nine million remnant troops of Daning, but also organized and trained another seven million soldiers and horses in Heluo Prefecture, and the country's power was recovering.
Now the main force of the Ning Dynasty is pressing in the direction of Xiangcheng with the intention of suppressing the rebellion, which greatly increases the pressure on King Xiang who is separatist in the four states.
I have pity on the people of Heluozhou and Luozhou. Under the suppression of the Hidden Dragon's Dream Law, they not only stupidly accepted the money issued by the imperial court, but were heavily taxed and exploited by the imperial court. They also believed from the bottom of their hearts that Emperor Jianyuan was still the same person he was twenty years ago.
A wise king who worked hard to govern Guo Anbang.
As a result, everyone from the Daning Dynasty to the princes and high-ranking officials, down to the common people, turned a blind eye to the hungry people dying in the fields and the countless hungry people outside Wang'an City.
However, this also caused a large number of high-level martial arts cultivators and important military generals who were not controlled by the dream law to flee out of the Heluo Prefecture and join the Dalu banner.
In Daning, almost all the aristocratic families were angered by Zhilong's actions.
They would rather accept the harsh rule of the Dalü Dynasty than be manipulated by Hidden Dragon's dreamy methods and become its puppets.
As time went by, rumors about the current situation of Heluo Prefecture spread throughout the entire north and south of China, and all thirty-nine prefectures.
The increase in power of Chu Xisheng's secret method of the Emperor's Way is also related to this.
The fear of Daning and the Dream Method can also help Chu Xisheng unite people's hearts.
What's more, happiness comes from comparison.
Under the current rule of Dalu, although the life of the people is not that good, it is much better than the miserable situation in Heluo Prefecture.
In Chu Xisheng's view, the Ning Dynasty is no longer a threat. His real opponent is still in the north.
In the past two months, an army of giant spirits from Middle-earth has been moving south one after another. Their number has reached 3.7 million, all of which are elite soldiers dispatched from the four sacred mountains of giant spirits.
Although the population of the djinn is small, their individual combat prowess is very powerful, especially those of the ethnic groups in Middle-earth, whose combat prowess is comparable to that of the Royal Guards of the Night Wolf Clan.
This 3.7 million giant spirit army is enough to rival the 20 million human army on the battlefield.
To the north, the giant spirit clans headed by the 'Yuan Yi clan' are also preparing their troops for battle.
They are continuing to organize the various giant spirits, conduct training, and even loosen the shackles and restrictions on all slave tribes, just to maximize their military strength.
Not only did they work day and night to build various weapons, they also built various cities and forts along the border north of the Iron Bi Mountains, with deep ditches and high forts, and they were ready for battle.
These giant spirits have obviously noticed the Dalu Dynasty's Northern Expedition plan and are trying their best to deal with it.
After Chu Xisheng saw the news from the north, he was not surprised but overjoyed.
Although the war has not yet broken out, the power gathered by both sides before the war is enough to significantly increase the power of various war-related heavenly rules.
Chu Xisheng couldn't help but look up at the sky and towards the Rahu star.
Before the great war that affected both the mortal and divine realms came, there was only so much he could do for Zang Tian, and he hoped to be of some help.
However, according to this information, why is it that the Yuan Yi tribe is engaging in large-scale intermarriage with the mountain tribes near the Tiebi Mountains?
This is very strange. The Yuan Yi tribe is indeed a race of giant spirits mixed with a large amount of human blood. Especially the Jiuli Alpine Tribe, which originated from Li Tan. There is not much difference in height between them.
The tallest Yuanyi clan is only two feet tall, and the shortest is only one foot two feet, so the two clans often intermarry.
However, in previous years, there was no such large-scale intermarriage happening now.
In addition, the Yuanyi tribe also gave preferential treatment to the Gaoshan tribe in all aspects, almost treating them as the same tribe, and their status was much higher than that of the various foreign slave tribes under their rule.
Chu Xisheng couldn't help but frown, feeling quite annoyed.
He has high hopes for the approximately 20 million Jiuli Mountains near the Tiebi Mountains.
The physical fitness of the Alpine Tribe is the best among the entire human race. As long as they are equipped with sophisticated armor weapons and good secret medicines, these Alpine Tribe tribe members can basically be promoted to around the fifth level and can confront giant spirits on the battlefield.
.Not only is the strength not inferior to the wind, but the reaction speed is even better.
But now, the excellent source of soldiers that Chu Xisheng had planned was likely to be taken away by the Yuan Yi clan. How could he not be annoyed?
However, the methods he can use are very limited at present. He can only ask Lu Chen, the commander of the three yamen, and Ji Qianqian, who is in charge of Tianya, and Liu Ruoxi, who is in charge of Ouchi Tingtian Prison, to send more people to the north to fight with those from the high mountain tribes.
Clan leaders and elders should keep in touch with each other to build relationships.
After all, they were members of his own race. As a last resort, he didn't want to have to attack these members of his own race on the battlefield one day in the future.
But beyond that, there is good news to the north.
Lu Luanli, who had secretly headed north to the Middle-earth half a month ago, had completed his promotion three days ago and was successfully promoted to the second rank, and was currently on his way back.
But the two of them probably won't meet again next time.
Lu Luanli took the sea route, taking a detour from Wuzhiyang to return to China. Next, she would stay in the Sea of Clouds Immortal Palace for a while.
Lu Luanli, who is at the second level of cultivation, is already qualified to completely control this Yunhai Immortal Palace.
She no longer plans to keep this Immortal Palace, and plans to spend some time moving the things in the Immortal Palace, as well as the "Shen'ao Sanren" as a whole, to Qinhuai City, so that all the thirty-six Yunhai Sword Puppets in the Yunhai Immortal Palace can be moved.
Come out and become the cornerstone of her combat power.
Including the twenty-four in Lu Luanli's hands and the four subsequently built by the 'Shen'ao Sanren', the number of the Sea of Clouds Sword Puppets will reach as many as sixty-four. The power of the Sea of Clouds Sword Array they have arranged is extremely impressive.
.Coupled with Lu Luanli's powerful spells, at least close to the gods, there are few opponents.
On the second day after the retreat, Chu Xisheng held a symbolic meeting, accepted the worship of the ministers, and then went north to Hanzhou alone.
Three days later, Chu Xisheng found the main ingredient of his second-grade secret medicine in the north of Hanzhou.
It was a first-grade pure-blooded 'chaos' beast that had its three orifices opened and moved around Hanzhou.
There are also many kinds of main ingredients for the secret medicine of the second level Wuxiang Gong. However, among the many main medicines, pure-blood ‘Chaos’ is undoubtedly the best choice among them.
Chu Xisheng used the heart essence and blood of this chaotic beast to prepare a secret medicine, and easily broke through to the second level.
The whole process was lackluster and uneventful.
Although at the moment of the breakthrough, the sights of dozens of powerful gods penetrated the nine layers of clouds and fell on him. However, no gods showed up to interfere, and no forces in the mortal world tried to stop him.
In the past, when Chu Xisheng was promoted to a martial arts body, a large group of masters followed behind him to monitor and follow him, but this time, only a few people watched from a distance.
After being promoted, Chu Xisheng was looking forward to opening up his martial arts treasure house and started brushing Tianyuan Points continuously.
The harvest this time is also very small, but it is far less than last time.
The 22nd level of the Hand of Controlling Wind and Lightning - requires 15 Tianyuan points to redeem.
Take the 23rd level of Hand of Wind Control - 45 Tianyuan points are required to exchange.
The 24th level of Hand of Controlling Wind and Lightning - requires 135 Tianyuan points to redeem.
The hand that controls wind and lightning is also a top bloodline power, and it also awakens an ability at the twenty-fourth level.
This is a constant ability that works all the time. It can not only greatly increase Chu Xisheng's knife speed, but also increase the number of times the Immortal Wind Thunder Body can be used.
After mastering the 24th level of Wind Controlling Hand, he could fire more than 20,000 strokes in one breath without any pressure from his divine power.
Next there is the twenty-second level of Shenshang - which requires 15 Tianyuan points to redeem.
Level 23 of Divine Sorrow - requires 45 Tianyuan points to redeem.
Level 24 of Divine Sorrow - requires 135 Tianyuan points to redeem.
The ability of the twenty-fourth level of the Divine Shang is the Divine Blood Flame, which is a weakened version of the Anti-God Fire. It can not only trace back, reverse, and decompose divine power, but also strengthen the power of the God-killing Blood Gang.
Chu Xisheng also switched to the 25th level of Shenyang - which requires 10635 Tianyuan points to redeem.
Shenyang level 26 - requires 31905 Tianyuan points to redeem.
The twenty-sixth-level ‘Shenyang’ bloodline had just been promoted, and Chu Xisheng sensed the ‘Taiyin Divine Source’ in his mind, and more Taiyin source power flowed out.
Chu Xisheng burst into laughter and asked Suyi that she had indeed been restraining herself and restraining her strength.
The power of Chu Xisheng's 'Shen Yang' could not match Wen Suyi's 'Shen Yin'.
If he could raise the rank of ‘Shenyang’ as soon as possible, it would be of great benefit to Wen Suyi.
At this time, his character panel also changed.
Character: Chu Xisheng
Reputation: Second-grade upper grade (Burial Sky)/Excellent grade (Burial Sky)
Martial Arts: Divine Will Touch Death Sword (twenty-fifth level), Formless Heaven-Destroying Sword (twenty-sixth level), Divine Will Ruxin Sword (twenty-fifth level), Chaos Heavenly Sword (twenty-third level), Divine Movement has no form
(twenty-sixth level), Ten Thousand Tribulation God's Finger (twenty-sixth level), Woxue Divine Sword (twenty-ninth level), Nine-wheeled Divine Sword (twenty-first level), Nine-wheeled Sword Control Secret Technique (twenty-nineth level)
Double/sealed)
Martial Intent: The true meaning of Jiajue (twenty-nine levels), the true meaning of Zhutian (twenty-eighth level), the true meaning of Ruyi (twenty-seventh level), the true meaning of chaos (twenty-fifth level), the true meaning of Vajra (twenty-fifth level), eternity
True meaning (twenty-five levels), Immortal true meaning (twenty-two levels), Zhanzhenyi (twenty-two levels), Eternal Tianyi (twenty-two levels), Cutting off the true meaning (twenty-two levels), Simulating Heaven
True meaning (twenty-two levels), Han Tianyi (twenty-two levels), Feng Tianyi (twenty-two levels), Forbidden Tianyi (twenty-two levels), Frozen Tianyi (twenty-two levels), Tong Tianyi
(twenty-two levels), capturing the true meaning (twenty-two levels)
Yuan Gong: Chaos Vientiane Gong (eighteenth level/second level), Nine Revolutions God of War Art (nineteenth level)
Tianyuan point:6201933
Wishing stone: 1320
Talents: True Source of Chaos (Level 15), Blood of the Buried God (Level 25), Blood of Eternity (Level 28), Origin God (Level 25), Shenyang (Level 26)
), Taishang Tongshen (Twenty-sixth level), Yazhu (Twenty-fourth level), Shen Shang (Twenty-fourth level), Time and Shadow's body (Twenty-fourth level), Hand that controls wind and lightning (Two levels)
Fourteenth level)
Status: Six Yin Resurrection Curse, Symbiosis (ninth level), Li Tan War Seal (extreme), Taichu Divine Luck (extreme), Blood Pine Divine Core, Divine Heart (eighth level/Gou Chen), Polu Order* Earthquake and Earthquake
, wishful magic spell
Lifespan:52014 days
Chu Xisheng just glanced at it and then looked away.
At this time, the various martial arts and various martial arts in the panel have been greatly improved, and are basically close to the boundaries of mortal gods, or even beyond the levels above them.
This is the result of Chu Xisheng using the wishing stone and conducting research for three months.
The main changes this time are the physical body and bloodline strength.
Several months after the battle against the Divine Tree of Creation, his combat power once again underwent transformation.
But this is not over yet——
Chu Xisheng released the Sun-Bathering Divine Boat, and drove the spaceship through the sky, flying to the Taiwei Yuan in the south near the Wuxiang Mountain.
This chapter has been completed!