In the same year, Song State declared its surrender to Yan State.
The people of the Song Dynasty were not stupid. They saw that the situation on the continent had changed and that the power of the Yan Kingdom was unstoppable.
Even if the Song State is now an ally of the Yan State, if it still cannot see the situation clearly, it will be destroyed by the Yan State sooner or later.
There is no real friendship between countries.
Instead of having a stalemate with the Yan State and eventually being destroyed and annexed by the Yan State, it is better to take advantage of the good relationship now and submit to the Yue State, so that you can get the same treatment as the Yue State.
Almost at the same time, Taixuanzong could not sit still. After Qiyuan and Baidi City, he also broke the rules of Wuliang Mountain and sent troops to the barbarian country to help the barbarian country rebuild the royal court and resist the Yan Kingdom.
Now the Yan Kingdom has merged the three kingdoms of Zhao, Yue and Song, becoming a super overlord.
This situation made all the forces in Wuliang Mountain afraid.
Only in ancient times did a unified great power appear on the continent. At that time, even the major holy places in Wuliang Mountain had to obey the orders of the great power.
The major holy places in Wuliang Mountain are afraid. If they don't stop it, when the Yan Kingdom completely unifies the seven countries and becomes the unparalleled overlord, their natural status will completely disappear.
Taixuanzong's descent did not frighten the Yan State, but instead accelerated the expansion of the Yan State.
On the continent, in addition to the seven major overlords, there are actually hundreds of small countries.
In the past, the seven major hegemons restricted each other and had no time to pay attention to these small countries. Otherwise, they would easily give other hegemons leverage and excuses.
The Yan Kingdom was very fast, and before other forces could react, it annexed more than thirty small countries, which was equivalent to adding more than thirty large states.
In this expansion campaign, one thing became famous all over the world, and that was the gunpowder presented to Ning Qingyu by the Nebula Sect.
It was precisely with the help of gunpowder that the Yan army was able to withstand the siege of the four countries at the beginning, and later it was able to break through the defenses of each country so quickly.
But at this time, other forces in Wuliang Mountain also came to their senses, and did not allow the Yan Kingdom to continue to expand, and came out one after another.
There are more than 60 small countries left, and each small country has the support of a holy land or a giant. This also makes the expansion of Yan State unable to continue and can only be stopped.
However, since then, the stability of Wuliang Mountain and other places on the continent has been completely broken.
The original rule that Wuliang Mountain established with the Seven Kingdoms not to interfere in the affairs of the Seven Kingdoms has become in vain.
After the Seven Kingdoms War, all the voices opposing Ning Qingyu in the Yan Kingdom completely disappeared.
Ning Qingyu's methods and talents have frightened those who opposed him.
A woman actually accomplished a hegemony that countless kings had been unable to accomplish since ancient times, annexing the three kingdoms and merging the four kingdoms into one.
Moreover, if the demons and Wuliang Mountain forces hadn't intervened, I'm afraid Ning Qingyu would really have unified the Lingwu Continent.
In the first year after the end of the Seven Kingdoms War, Ning Qingyu adopted the suggestions of Song Xu and others to create the central emperor system.
He no longer calls himself a king, but embraces all rivers and embraces the cultures of all countries and races. He uses the "emperor" from the ancient realm and the "emperor" from the highest realm of warriors to form the title "emperor".
Since then, she has become the first female queen in the history of the continent, and also the first emperor in the history of the Lingwu continent, and was called the First Emperor.
After that, she combined her own and Song Xu's suggestions and abolished the Taifu and Taishi to implement the Three Gongs and Nine Ministers to manage national affairs.
He also built roads to connect the whole territory of the Yan State to encourage farmers and mulberry trees. He paid little tax to the corvee and spread the word about the road. He stopped the expansion of slander and stopped the expansion, so he could rest and recuperate.
In addition, the establishment of the imperial examination system allowed warriors to participate in the imperial examination based on their strength, which changed the previous recommendation system, put more emphasis on poor families, and broke the monopoly of aristocratic families in government affairs.
The calendar was standardized, and the first lunar month after the reunification of the four kingdoms was the first month of the first year of the Shenlong. The national flag was designated as the five-clawed Shenlong flag, and the Shenlong was designated as the national animal.
With the implementation of the household registration system, every citizen of the Yan Kingdom needs to be registered and included in the household registration system in order to count the number of people. In addition, every citizen of the Yan Kingdom needs to have an ID card.
This policy met with great resistance at first, especially from the people of the original Zhao, Song and Yue countries, who believed that it restricted personal freedom and was a tyrannical act. The opposition was so loud that Ning Qingyu and Lin Mu did not expect it.
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Later, Song Xu came up with a method, saying that this was actually to prevent the infiltration of demons.
This method is extremely effective. Once it is mentioned that it is to prevent demons, all objections disappear. The trauma caused by demons to the creatures on the continent is too huge.
But only Ning Qingyu, Song Xu and others knew that many of the suggestions, such as the title of emperor, the Shenlong Flag, building roads to connect the country, the imperial examination system and the household registration system, were all ideas put forward by Lin Mu.
Ning Qingyu almost completely adopted Lin Mu's ideas.
However, Lin Mu's ideas were not actually thought of by him, but were learned from Shen Beilu's stories relayed by Li Ruoyu.
He thought these ideas were very good, so he told Ning Qingyu.
There is another secret that no one in the world knows. The first day of the first month of the first year of Shenlong happens to be Lin Mu’s birthday. On this day of the year, Lin Mu turned eighteen.
It can be said that the Shenlong Flag and the Shenlong Calendar are Ning Qingyu's birthday gifts to Lin Mu, because Lin Mu's favorite thing is dragons.
"Four years have passed in the blink of an eye since the day I fell into the Falling Star Lake and obtained the Immortal Killing Flying Knife."
Lin Mu was in the royal study room of Yan Kingdom, reading the martial arts books collected by the emperor of Yan Kingdom over the years.
After reading another book, he suddenly sighed.
Four years ago, King Yan was still out of reach for him, a god-like existence.
He still clearly remembered how shocked he was when he saw the battle scene between Ning Qingyu and Ye Qianche in the Taiwu Mountains.
Now, King Yan has been beheaded, Concubine Ning has become his "Sister Ning", and his own cultivation has also been promoted to the peak of martial arts in this nearly year of battle.
For a moment, he actually had a feeling of loneliness in his life and uncertainty about his future.
"The most important thing in martial arts practice is to be firm-minded. But now, my mind is wavering. Is this a sign of an upcoming disaster?"
Lin Mu woke up quickly.
He is no longer a rookie who has just entered the martial arts. In the eyes of countless people in Lingwu Continent, he is already a supreme figure, and his knowledge has long been different from what it used to be.
With this thought, he soon realized that it might not be long before he would face a catastrophe.
Once he begins to transcend the tribulation, it also means that he has entered the realm of the Martial Saint.
However, there was no joy in his heart, but his face was solemn.
"Bad timing."
If in a peaceful time, one could overcome the tribulation and become a martial saint, this would naturally be a good thing.
But now, with demons running rampant and the major forces in Wuliang Mountain emerging, once he starts to overcome the tribulation, he will fall into weakness and it will be easy for others to catch him.
"Hey, no matter what, the natural disaster is beyond human control. No one knows when the natural disaster will come. We can only let nature take its course and take it one step at a time."
If you can predict and control it, it is not a disaster.
"It's time to subdue those two monsters on the Shenge Continent."
Lin Mu no longer worries about the natural disaster. The most important thing in martial arts practice is the state of mind. You should not be disturbed by external objects too much, including the natural disaster. Otherwise, it will become a knot in your heart, which will be more serious.