Dear book friends:

Because of the plot of the latest chapter, some readers were "inexplicably surprised." In order to eliminate unnecessary doubts, I think we should take this opportunity to sort it out.

In fact, some book friends have already explained it to me, and it’s quite correct.

In the latest chapter, the new martial arts saint, the old man in gray clothes, is of course the former martial arts immortal Zhuangman Zhuangxian, the one who was sent to Taiyin Youlian by Jiang Yao.

Not only is this point clearly written in the book, but it is also foreshadowed several times. Anyone who is not a book lover who skips reading or is too forgetful will know of his existence.

So, first of all, I want to clarify that there is no such thing as a sudden appearance of a martial saint out of nowhere. It is not objective to say so.

The second is that an army of 50,000 was destroyed by Wu Sheng's two swords. Therefore, some book friends believed that the army was useless and there was something wrong with the setting.

Is there really a problem?

First of all, what is the size of an army of 50,000?

In the real world, it is just a small army.

In fact, it is the logic of quantitative change to qualitative change.

The book clearly states that the Martial Saint must be very wary of facing a battlefield with hundreds of thousands of troops. Moreover, the military domain can gather very quickly. This point has been emphasized before in the book.

Just imagine, what if Zhuang Xian faced not the 50,000 Song Army that had lost its fighting spirit and a weak military field, but the 100,000 Qing Army led by Jiang Yao with high morale and a strong military field?

Or what about the 180,000 troops led by Le Po Di before their morale collapsed?

Can he still destroy the opponent so easily?

Seeing that Zhuang Xian easily wiped out 50,000 demoralized troops, he said that there was no army, threw out the theory that the army was useless, pointed out that there was a problem with the setting, and then said that the reform was useless. Is this tenable?

You know, the armies in the book so far are mainly samurai armies.

That's right, it is an army composed of warriors. And when you reach the level of Wu Zun, you are an officer.

It is said in the book that a warrior with a middle-level cultivation level can serve as a soldier. It is also said that the average cultivation level of the surrounding martial arts armies is a late-stage warrior level.

But in the era of women from ancient tombs, only Jindan (Wuzong) could serve as a soldier!

In other words, in ancient times, it was Jindan monks who formed the army, but now, it is warriors (Qi training monks) who form the army.

It can be seen that the quality of the army's soldiers has dropped greatly.

So here comes the question, the Martial Saint can easily destroy an army of 50,000 warriors, but what if he faces an army of 50,000 Martial Lords?

Will Wu Sheng run away?

Could it be that the army can only be an army of samurai, but not an army of warriors?

Could it be that an army composed of warriors is called an army, but an army composed of warriors is not an army?

Does it make sense to say that the army is useless in front of the Martial Saint? Does it make sense to say that the army is useless? Can it be said that there is something wrong with my setting?

So is there an army composed of Wu Zun in the book?

Yes. The book says that the Wuzun Army is the standard configuration of Class A martial clans, which means that Class A martial clans all have Wuzun armies, ranging in number from tens of thousands.

An army of tens of thousands of Martial Saints is worth hundreds of thousands of warriors. It can definitely suppress ordinary Martial Saints.

As for the second-class martial clans, they also have martial masters. However, the number is not large, certainly less than ten thousand, which is not enough to compete with the martial saints. However, when the martial masters of several second-class martial clans unite, there are still twenty to thirty thousand soldiers.

After Jiang Yao's reform, the number of new Wu Zun monks among the people increased greatly. He clearly said through the mouth of Lord Bo Chuheng: "For the record, Prime Minister, there are now 170,000 new Wu Zun monks in the thirteen counties..."

The number of civilian Wuzun monks increased rapidly and they had enough soldiers, so Jiang Yao was able to recruit a new army of thirty thousand Wuzun.

In other words, the Qing clan, as a second-class martial clan, has formed a 30,000-strong martial arts army according to the standard configuration of a first-class martial clan.

The cost of Wu Zunbing was much higher than that of a samurai, and it was too expensive. The book said that the Jiang Yao court could only support it for two years, and after two years it could no longer afford it.

But what Jiang Yao means is to raise it first, and wait until there is no money.

It can be seen that the 30,000 Wu Zun recruits are an important military achievement of Jiang Yao's reform. Once these 30,000 Wu Zun recruits complete their training, they will be enough to equal an army of 300,000 warriors, enough to suppress most Martial Saints!

If the law remains unchanged, Jiang Yao will have neither the money to raise an expensive army of 30,000 warriors, nor enough soldiers with martial arts skills.

Right?

Therefore, the ginger medicine reform can greatly improve the average cultivation level and improve the combat effectiveness of soldiers. After many years of reform, the power released can compete with the Martial Saint.

How can we say that the ginger medicine reform method is useless in front of the Martial Saint?

The power of the collective is great.

If the territory is large enough, the population is large enough, the average cultivation level of casual cultivators is further improved, and the central finance is further increased, can Jiang Yao recruit an army of 10,000 Wuzong (Golden Elixir)?

Only ten thousand!

Facing an army of ten thousand Wuzong, even the Great Sage would have to run away!

It can be seen that because a martial saint destroyed 50,000 Song troops, the three conclusions drawn: "the army is useless", "the reform has no future", and "the setting is problematic" cannot withstand scrutiny.

Third, in addition to resisting the strong, the army also plays an extremely important role that has been ignored.

That's the domination machine!

With such a big market and so many casual cultivators, how can we maintain our rule? How can we collect taxes?

If we don’t rely on military suppression from various places, what else can we rely on?

No matter how powerful the Martial Saint is, in such a large territory, do you just do nothing and patrol everywhere by yourself every day? Which county should you go to today and which county tomorrow?

Are you too busy to come?

Even if you have the skills to separate yourself, can you see it?

Therefore, the army is necessary!

Just because the Martial Saint is powerful doesn't mean the army is useless.

Nuclear weapons are powerful, aircraft carriers are powerful, and missiles are powerful. Do we no longer need the police? No need for conventional troops?

These words are actually mainly spoken to the very few book friends who are too lazy to think about the problem. The vast majority of book friends can figure it out.

As for what you still don’t understand, I won’t explain it anymore.

Some plot settings depend on the environment and the character's psychology at the time.

For example, a book friend said that I eat books. The reason is that Deng Jiu told Jiang Yao that every great realm is divided into four levels, and there is no quasi-sage.

But now, a quasi-sage appears in your book, and the martial saint is divided into nine levels.

His basis was Deng Jiu's words.

But the question is, who is Deng Jiu? He was completely perfunctory about Jiang Yao at that time, and there was no need to explain it so clearly to a dying Yao Yinzi.

Can his words become a standard?

What I want to ask for is that you have to believe in the author, his IQ and logic. Give me more patience. It is really not good for individual readers to immediately publish remarks that will affect other readers as soon as they discover the so-called problem.

Because you don’t know what the author will write later. If you rush to conclusions, you will most likely make mistakes.

Finally, thanks to everyone’s support, I can persevere until now.

The monthly vote list is the line between life and death. Keep asking for monthly votes and help me fight in September. I hope all the lords will always support me.

I have faith.

I'm in a bad mood today. I'll tease you lords another day when I'm in a good mood.

Crab!

Today's update will be late because my mood is affected. Sorry.

Don't hit me.
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