As the war was approaching, Jiang Hua hurriedly hoeed the ground for spring plowing and then hurried back to Yancheng.
Today, Yancheng's positioning has completely changed.
At the beginning, Dongning Island had not yet been discovered. At that time, Yancheng was surrounded by mountains on three sides and close to the sea on one side. It was a dead end, a dead end, and it was impossible to escape. Therefore, at the beginning, no one put Yancheng free at all.
In his eyes, the monarch did not care at all whether Yancheng raised troops to resist at that time.
Later, when Dongning Island was established, the people of Yancheng began to migrate to Dongning Island. At that time, Dongning Island was only used as a fallback route. Its main function was to stabilize people's hearts and prevent everyone from panicking, so as to unite.
People's hearts, those who dare to resist will stay, and those who are afraid of death will go to Dongning Island to engage in production.
Later, all the Taoist priests from the 173 Donghai families were attracted. With enough Taoist priests, there was a foundation for vigorously developing Dongning Island. Slowly, Dongning Island became different day by day. By that time,
The importance of Dongning Island is actually higher than that of Yancheng.
Today, four months later, with the arrival of insightful people from all over the world, the importance of Dongning Island has completely surpassed that of Yancheng.
However, this also led to the rise of some voices.
"Nowadays, most Taoists have taken advantage of this winter to come to Dongning Island. Although they have blood feuds, there are also many Taoists who feel that the Chao Kingdom is too powerful and they can just stay on Dongning Island honestly from now on. As for revenge on the Chao Kingdom
, they no longer want to kill the foolish king."
"Some people say that it is enough to develop Dongning Island well. As for Yancheng, we can give up first, and then make peace with Hunjun without interfering with each other. We can develop for ten years, hundreds of years, and thousands of years, and then go back to fight for Hunjun. What does the old star master think?
?" Jiang Hua asked slowly.
This old star master is the old master of Ziwei Palace. This generation of Ziwei star master is also a genuine Taoist priest with rich experience and high strength. The only shortcoming is that he has less fighting experience with masters of the same level. He has always been
I have been abusing food for a long time. I have rich theoretical experience, but my actual combat experience can only be said to be insufficient (at the Taoist level).
The old star master poured himself a cup of tea and said calmly: "I don't agree with this view."
"Today's Yancheng is in a state of retreat."
“Since the Lord put forward the slogan of bringing Taoism into life and started to practice it, Yancheng has attracted too many people’s attention.”
"Especially four months ago, after the publication of that issue of the journal, Yancheng began to attract the attention of the entire world. As far as I know, since then, Yancheng's journal has become a monthly subscription for many powerful people in the world.
thing.”
"There are even many young geniuses who have begun to write letters to Yancheng and have begun to find ways to submit articles to Yancheng journals."
"So far, we have received thousands of submissions from outside the Chao Kingdom. There are hundreds of submissions, all of which are valuable."
"In addition, there are senior experts such as Tai Hong who have contributed to the journal, which has extremely important influence."
"Today's Yancheng, to be exaggerated, has the potential to become the fourth holy land for Daoist people in the world."
"Although this may not be big enough, it does already have a prototype."
Facing such a future, even an old Taoist like the old master of Ziwei Palace, who is almost a thousand years old, feels full of passion. If Yancheng can successfully become the fourth holy land for Qigong practitioners of the Fourth Dao Sect in the world, then Ziwei Palace
Wouldn’t it be easy to realize the dream that the palace has had for generations?
"At this time, there will inevitably be noise!"
"Indeed, some Taoists were frightened out of their courage after their disciples were wiped out, their brothers were killed, and their masters and disciples were killed. This is understandable."
"These Taoists have lived too peacefully before. They only saw the harmony and beauty on the surface and did not see the struggle at the bottom. So they suddenly experienced the disaster of destroying the Taoist order and chose to escape and wanted to stay on Dongning Island.
On the other hand, it is human nature to devote oneself to running one’s own tradition.”
"But these people didn't actually speak out. At most, they just stayed silently on Dongning Island to develop Taoism and prevent Taoism from becoming extinct."
"The people who are really shouting slogans for peace talks now are most likely not Taoists from Dongning Island but spies from other countries."
"The development trend of Dongning Island is very good. The concept of Taoism entering life and the concept of selecting good seeds for the world are both very good. These are two concepts that are likely to produce destiny. The value of these two concepts is in the eyes of many people.
It is much more valuable than Dongning Island today."
"However, although the Three Saints are old, they are not dead after all. With the Three Saints watching, many people are reluctant to go too far. So, what they can do is to make us give up voluntarily."
As long as Jiang Hua can't hold himself up to the wall and gives up voluntarily, then even the Three Saints of Qi Refiners will have nothing to say.
"So, I actually believe the authenticity of these rumors. If the Lord is willing to negotiate peace at this moment, someone will indeed take the initiative to find the Hunjun of Chao Kingdom for peace talks, and ultimately provide guarantees to ensure that the peace talks can proceed smoothly."
"But in this way, without the banner of Hun Jun and the enemy of Hun Jun, can Dongning Island really develop as fast as in the past?"
Hearing this, Jiang Hua shook his head directly: "I'm afraid that's not possible."
"Today's Yancheng is much more powerful than in the past, but it is also much more complicated internally."
"The local people in Yancheng always want to be superiors. They always think that they have followed Yancheng in the past. They always feel that they have suffered so much with Yancheng, and now it is time to enjoy themselves!"
"One hundred and seventy-three families in the East China Sea often regard themselves as loyal ministers and look down on Taoists from other parts of the Chao Kingdom. They often stick together internally and maintain a tacit understanding with each other to exclude new Taoists. They also call themselves old nobles and treat the newcomers
The orthodox call them the new aristocrats. They always feel that these new orthodoxies are here to rob them of their money."
Hearing this, the old master of Ziwei Palace took a helpless sip of tea.
He was deeply touched by this.
But there is no way, Ziwei Palace has been set up as a model by Jiang Hua.
Today's Ziwei Palace is a flag, a flag that Yancheng uses talents in an eclectic way.
No matter what your background is, no matter whether you are from the 173rd family or from outside, as long as you are willing to abide by the rules of Yancheng and be loyal to Yancheng, then I, Jiang Hua, am willing to reuse you!
For this reason, Jiang Hua took the position of headmaster of Ziwei Palace in order to give Ziwei Palace a righteous name. Otherwise, the general orthodoxy would be afraid that one day in the future, one hundred and seventy-three families would join forces to retaliate after losing power.
"And the Taoists and nobles who have arrived one after another in the past four months come from all over the world. Most of them are elites. Doctors and Taoist priests can be found everywhere. There are also many ministers and Taoist priests."
"They are aloof and despise everything. They feel that everything in Yancheng and Dongning Island is just a small country. They were just lucky enough to meet this outstanding person, so they achieved their current status."
"The powerful strength, endless secret techniques, and treasures far beyond the ordinary people's knowledge make these friends from all over the world always subconsciously maintain a sense of pride. They look down on everyone!"
"This is just a conflict between the top management. If you add the middle and bottom levels, then there will also be conflicts between Taoists and nobles, conflicts between Taoists and old bureaucrats, conflicts between Taoists and common people, and conflicts between common people and old officials.
Bureaucratic contradictions..."
Jiang Hua himself laughed when he said this.
Smiling, Jiang Hua poured himself a cup of tea.
As the tea was brewing, pieces of tea leaves were flying up and down. Smelling the fragrance of the tea, Jiang Hua closed his eyes and took a long sip silently, and then continued: "So, how can I dare to have peace talks?"
"Today's Yancheng seems to have great momentum, but in fact there are many internal problems. If it weren't for the Hunjun as an enemy to unify the internal affairs and direct the efforts of various forces in one direction, Yancheng itself might have self-destructed."
Good luck soared.
Unlucky, Yancheng itself died in an internal struggle with a bang.
"So, in Gu's opinion, the war between Yancheng and Chao Kingdom must continue."
"To defeat the unjust, we must continue shouting the slogan to punish the Hun Lord!"
“This slogan must be shouted not only now, but also in the future!”
"When we have completely solved the internal problems, completely turned everyone into a family, completely allowed Taoists from the academy to dominate, and downplayed other origins, then will the Hunjun lose its role."
Hearing this, the old headmaster took a sip of tea silently. At the same time, he concentrated and waited for Jiang Hua's next words.
After all, since ancient times, when the monarch talks to you from the bottom of his heart, the emphasis is on the back rather than the front.
"What's more, Chao Kingdom is not that easy to deal with. With Yancheng's current strength, it is no problem to deal with Young Master Yangsheng, and we are also sure of Bo Chang, who is born in the Ji family. However, it is still very difficult to deal with Hun Jun himself."
"I have no doubt that when necessary, the Hunjun can unleash a power comparable to that of the first generation monarch."
Looking at the sun in the distance, Jiang Hua poured himself some tea again: "So, Gu decided to show his power and kill Bo Chang himself."
Hearing this, the old headmaster suddenly stood up and stared at Jiang Hua. Jiang Hua smiled directly, and then showed his aura, which shocked the old headmaster and was speechless: "Master, you
When did it actually break through?”
Jiang Hua nodded slightly: "I'm just lucky, so when I saw the sun in the sky a few days ago, I accidentally had an epiphany."
"Now that Gu Lun is already a Taoist priest, he will be able to establish his authority by killing Bo Chang himself."
"After establishing authority, Yancheng will be completely independent. Gu Ye plans to officially become a feudal lord and use Yancheng and Dongning Island as fiefdoms."
"But I don't have much confidence in how to kill Ji's Bochang smoothly, so I leave it to the old star master!"
The old headmaster nodded without hesitation: "No problem! The headmaster's affairs are our Ziwei Palace's business!"