Gao Wu: You have science, and I have magic!

Chapter 273: I went out and found a female emperor

On June 5th, Ye Qingzhou offered sacrifices to heaven and earth in Luoyang and officially ascended the throne as emperor.

The divine fortune teller Lu Gongming predicted that there would be heavy rain on that day, so he wanted to persuade Ye Qingzhou to find another auspicious day, but was ultimately rejected by Ye Qingzhou.

On the day of the coronation ceremony, dark clouds appeared in the sky and a heavy rain was about to fall, causing panic among the people.

Ye Qingzhou drew his sword and slashed the sky. The magnificent sword energy pierced through the clouds and shook the sky. In just a moment, the sun was shining brightly, the sky cleared and the rain stopped. Such amazing sword skills shocked the dignitaries and common people who came to watch the ceremony.

Everyone knelt down and bowed their heads, shouting "Long live the emperor".

Afterwards, Ye Qingzhou named the country Qi and established the reign title Shenwu.

The reason why the country was named "Qi" is because it means "the world is equal and there is no difference."

After ascending the throne, the first decree issued by Ye Qingzhou was to nationalize all the land in the world and have it distributed uniformly by the government. Contracting for farming was allowed, but free buying and selling was not allowed.

Land annexation has been a chronic disease throughout the dynasties. The landlord class always displays the evil of human nature to the fullest in years of disaster and famine. In order to make huge profits, they do not hesitate to force the poor to sell their children and even artificially create food shortages.

Just because the greater the famine, the higher the price of food!
Therefore, private ownership of land is definitely the greatest evil in the world. If martial arts want to develop, population is the most important asset. Ye Qingzhou needs to ensure that the people of Da Qi have enough food and clothing, so he will never compromise with anyone on this matter.

As soon as this decree was issued, voices of opposition arose one after another. Even in the court, countless so-called wise ministers and celebrities stood up to stop it.

But Ye Qingzhou was unmoved: "The lands of the noble families and powerful clans were originally acquired through annexation. Now that they are annexed by the imperial court, what's wrong with that? I have made up my mind, and this matter cannot be debated."

After the court session, the father-in-law Shen Huaimin was gloomy and worried. He even went to the palace to find his daughter Shen Jingyi, hoping to get some advice from her.

Shen Jingyi is now the queen, the mother of the country, but she is a woman with her own ideas. She obviously chose to stand on Ye Qingzhou's side and persuaded Shen Huaimin: "Father, your majesty must have a deep meaning for this move. In terms of wealth, my Shen family is now the richest in the world. We own a large ranch in Youzhou, and my eldest brother and brother Peng are also given important positions. Why do you still want to hold on to the mere land in your hands?"

People are greedy, always wanting more and not liking to lose.

The same goes for Shen Huaimin. By investing in Ye Qingzhou, he has already obtained unimaginable huge returns, but now he is reluctant to part with the Shen family's land.

If he was like this, the powerful and wealthy people inside and outside the court would complain and even be in an uproar.

On this day, Wang Junfeng, Nie Shixiong, Xu Buyi, Xu Wenshan and Zhang Shunchen gathered together to talk about the new policy.

The five of them were accepted as Ye Qingzhou's personal disciples. Apart from Ye Qingzhou, they were the ones with the highest cultivation level. Each of them was a true 'enemy of ten thousand men', and therefore they were called the 'Five Tiger Generals' by the world.

'Golden Winged Tiger' Wang Junfeng was born into a noble family, 'Liaoyuan Tiger' Nie Shixiong was born into a general's family, 'Jade-faced Tiger' Xu Wenshan was born into an aristocratic family, and among the Five Tigers, 'Flying Star Tiger' Zhang Shunchen and 'Batian Tiger' Xu Buyi were both born into humble families and their families were quite poor.

Xu Wenshan couldn't help but sigh: "The world has just been pacified, and now there is chaos. Once the new policy is released, the noble families and powerful families will definitely not obey obediently."

Wang Junfeng has a wild personality. Although he was born into a wealthy family in Xiling, he is a staunch follower of Ye Qingzhou. He is very disdainful of the noble families and wealthy families: "Even if the whole world rebels, what can we do? Master has unparalleled magical powers. He can wipe them out with one man and one sword. We might as well go back and persuade our families not to try to stop a chariot with a mantis arm."

He obviously said this to Nie Shixiong and Xu Wenshan, especially Xu Wenshan. He had only been in Xinwumen for a short time, and as a young master of a noble family, he was not very clear about Ye Qingzhou's style of doing things.

"Master, there is nothing that cannot be done. Wenshan, you have great opportunities and great fortunes, so don't make mistakes."

Nie Shixiong also tried to persuade Xu Wenshan: "I don't want the 'Five Tigers' to become the 'Four Tigers'. Anyway, I have already planned to go back to Liaodong in person and persuade my family members to hand over their land and properties so that the government can redistribute them."

They were not actually very resistant to Ye Qingzhou's new policies. After all, Daliang was in chaos because of land annexation.

Although Ye Qingzhou has taken a tough stance in nationalizing the land, in reality the wealthy and powerful families are still able to rent land from the government by paying money through contracting.

What is really affected is the land that was concealed and embezzled through illegal means. Ye Qingzhou will not acknowledge these bad debts. The aristocratic families must spit out the same thing they took.

Xu Wenshan had witnessed the fighting power of the Shenwu Army with his own eyes, so he understood that no matter how much resistance the noble families and powerful clans in the world put up, it would be futile.

A new emperor appoints new ministers. Daliang has perished, and the new Qi naturally has new rules.

Accept it or die.

"I'll go back and persuade my people."

Xu Wenshan let out a long sigh, feeling powerless.

In the following three years, in order to resist the new policy, rebels were everywhere in the fourteen states of the country. The noble families and powerful families first sent their clansmen to disguise as bandits, plundering the local areas and creating trouble.

Some of the noble families and powerful clans even rebelled openly, raising the banner of "How can we give our ancestors' foundation to others?" and calling on "people of insight" to resist the "tyranny" of the Great Qi.

After reading the memorial, Ye Qingzhou immediately dispatched more than 10,000 soldiers, divided them into five groups, and attacked from all sides. He appointed Wang Junfeng, Nie Shixiong, Xu Buyi, Xu Wenshan and Zhang Shunchen to lead them, and ordered them to go to various places to quell the rebellion.

In any county where a rebellion occurred, regardless of the reason, all the noble families and powerful families in the county were slaughtered, and all their land and property were confiscated.

The Wu soldiers were brave and valiant, and their generals were invincible. Wherever the Shenwu Army went, the so-called "righteous army" of the aristocratic families were killed and their armor and weapons were abandoned, and their army was completely defeated.

After the Shenwu Army successively massacred the five states of Ji, Liang, Yu, Yan, and You, the remaining aristocratic families and powerful families finally chose to surrender, obediently handed over their land and properties, and no longer mentioned the "ancestral foundation".

After all, if they continue to fight, they will have to meet their ancestors in person.

In just three years, during the third year of Shenwu, the empire was finally settled and the four seas were at peace.

Ye Qingzhou didn't even have to do anything himself, his 'Five Tigers' had already killed all the noble families and powerful clans. Looking at the victory report sent back by the five disciples, Ye Qingzhou smiled coldly: "A bunch of cheap bones, are you going to behave yourself now?"

The new land policy was successfully promulgated, and the court of Da Qi was able to control a large amount of means of production and successfully solve its financial difficulties.

Politics, in essence, is a game of dividing a cake.

The emperor must hold the knife in his hand to cut the cake of the aristocratic families and the wealthy, and then distribute the cut cake to ordinary people so that they can survive and even live a fulfilling life. This is the so-called prosperous age.

Once the emperor loses the power to divide the cake, and even the cake originally allocated to the court is divided away by others, then the country will not be far from its end.

Now, what Ye Qingzhou has to do is to redistribute Da Qi's cake.

The first step is to cut meat from the aristocratic families and wealthy families, that is, to confiscate their land and property.

This step has been completed, so we have to proceed to the second step, which is to distribute the cut cake to the people of Da Qi.

In order to achieve this, Ye Qingzhou selected the soldiers in the Shenwu Army through examinations and sent them to local areas to supervise the implementation of government orders.

Fortunately, when training the Wu Zu, in addition to the Xinwu Sect's skills, Ye Qingzhou also compiled a lot of teaching materials, and carried out cultural literacy for the Wu Zu at night.

It not only teaches them how to read and write, but also teaches them how to understand the world, while also imparting various management knowledge.

Therefore, most of the soldiers are proficient in both civil and military affairs, and because of the power of thought, they must stand on the side of ordinary people, otherwise they will be excluded by the power of thought. At the very least, their cultivation will stagnate, and at the worst, their cultivation will regress and they will become useless.

Therefore, it is very difficult for the Wuzu to be bribed by the aristocratic families. The characteristics of their power of thought determine that they cannot go against the interests of the people, at least not openly.

In the sixth year of Shenwu, Ye Qingzhou established martial arts academies in all counties across the country to recruit talents based on their martial arts.

A warrior has eight gates in his body. Those who can open one gate are called tongsheng, those who can open two gates are called xiucai, and those who can open three gates are called juren.

After passing the imperial examination, one will be eligible to be sent to serve as an official in a remote area. However, the promotion process is relatively slow. If one wants to make further progress, one must continue to improve one's cultivation.

Those who opened four gates were called Gongsheng, and those who opened five gates were called Jinshi.

Only by becoming a Jinshi can one participate in the martial arts discussion in front of the palace and receive personal instruction from Ye Qingzhou. This alone is enough to attract martial arts candidates from all over the world.

In the eighth year of Shenwu, the Central Plains entered an unprecedented period of prosperity.

The "Golden Winged Tiger" Wang Junfeng swept across the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions. Those kings who dared to kill the envoys of Qi had their heads hung on the Northern Palace.

Nie Shixiong, the "Liaoyuan Tiger", annihilated the eight tribes of the Donghu Tianyu. Any tribe that dared to kill the envoys of Qi was immediately executed.

Xu Wenshan, the Jade-faced Tiger, suppressed the barbarians of Nanyue. The barbarians dared to kill the Qi envoys and were slaughtered into nine counties. Xu Buyi, the Tyrant Tiger, and Zhang Shunchen, the Flying Star Tiger, led more than a thousand soldiers each to tour the country, investigate lawlessness, and appease public opinion.

After eight years of diligent governance, the country of Da Qi was peaceful and prosperous. Doors were left unlocked at night and no one picked up lost items on the streets. Although the people could not have enough food and clothing, they could at least get by, and there were few cases of people dying of hunger and cold.

Looking at the memorials sent back by Xu Buyi and Zhang Shunchen, Ye Qingzhou sighed: "It is true that when the noble families fall, the world will be full."

The reason why the world was in tatters of famine during the reign of Emperor Liang was not because there was a lack of food. Although the population was indeed expanding, it had not yet reached the point of famine.

The main reason for the widespread refugees was land annexation, and the most direct consequence of land annexation was that the landlords controlled the vast majority of grain output.

In order to make money, they hoarded food and continuously raised the price of food, allowing large numbers of people who lost their land to starve to death, bringing about one human tragedy after another.

Ye Qingzhou just dealt with them and successfully fed the people of the world.

In the prosperous and peaceful times, good fortunes gathered, the capital was located in the center of the world, and the hearts of the people in the fourteen states all turned into rivers of thoughts and energy, surging in like a hundred rivers returning to their homeland.

"Nine Nine Returns to One, which means that ninety-nine percent of the luck in the world will be attributed to me alone."

Ye Qingzhou absorbed and exhaled a vast amount of mental power, his spirit was infinitely elevated, and his mind also rose to the sky, like a god, overlooking the vast territory of Da Qi.

Ye Qingzhou even felt that he had become a fish that could jump out of the river of time and saw the reflection of the old days, which was the 'shadow of the past' of the Cang Yuan Realm.

The former Cang Yuan Realm was nothing more than a foreign and wild land, with only wild beasts but no humans.

Then the Holy Sword Xuanyuan fell from the sky and pierced into a majestic mountain. The shining holy sword light also illuminated the minds of a group of monkeys, allowing them to successfully awaken their wisdom.

People began to appear on the earth.

They surrounded the Holy Sword Xuanyuan, kneeling and praying constantly, absorbing knowledge.

Xuanyuan is the sword of the holy way, and therefore has the attributes of spreading civilization and establishing order. The sword light shines in all directions, constantly spreading the fire of civilization.

At first, the ancestors of the Cangyuan Realm learned how to make fire by drilling wood, used tools, made stone spears to hunt wild animals, and collected wild fruits to store for the winter.

Later, they learned to make bows and arrows, traps, weave fishing nets and clothes, and even learned to farm.

Finally, civilization and order were established. The Central Plains had similar topographical features to the Eastern Kingdom of Blue Star, with two large rivers running east-west.

The rivers flood regularly, so the ancestors of the Cangyuan Realm had a need to control floods. Organizing people to control floods created a management need for unified dispatch of human resources.

The great unified system came into being over a long period of time, which enabled the Central Plains region of the Cang Yuan Realm to eventually establish a centralized imperial system and a great unified country based on the county system.

"Is this the history of the civilization evolution of the Cang Yuan World?"

Ye Qingzhou saw the history of the Cang Yuan Realm through the "shadow of the past" in the long river of time, and was surprised: "The Xuanyuan Sword came to the Cang Yuan Realm about 200,000 years ago, but on Blue Star, the loss of the Xuanyuan Sword was only 5,000 years ago. It seems that the speed of time in the two worlds is different, with a difference of nearly 40 times."

At the same time, Ye Qingzhou saw a new 'shadow of the past'.

In the Central Plains region of the Cangyuan Realm, the population has been migrating outward continuously over the long years. They moved northward into the grasslands and became nomadic tribes such as the Donghu and Tianlang. They also moved eastward across the sea and settled on the archipelagoes, becoming islanders who mainly engaged in fishing and hunting.

The other branch that moved southwards migrated to the Baiyue region, where they lived alongside jungles, streams and rivers and became the Southern Barbarians.

Finally, there was another group that continued to move westward. They not only established the countries in the Western Regions, but also became the people of the sunset in the more distant land of sunset.

After leaving the Central Plains, these ethnic groups lost the guidance of the Holy Sword Xuanyuan, the fire of civilization gradually went out, and they continued to fall into the abyss of barbarism.

They became bloodthirsty and brutal, believing that 'the strong prey on the weak' as the way to survive. Without the restraints of morality and etiquette, they lost their inherent kindness and became beasts in human skin.

When Ye Qingzhou saw this scene, he couldn't help but think of a saying in his heart: "If a barbarian is Chinese, then he is Chinese; if a Chinese is a barbarian, then he is a barbarian."

Civilization has never been divided by bloodline. The way of civilization of Holy Sword Xuanyuan is the open and inclusive way of the Holy King. As long as you are willing to accept civilization and order, and willing to accept education, you are a Chinese.

On the contrary, if you want to break the shackles of morality and culture and pursue so-called freedom and nature, then you are a Diyi.

"Civilization and barbarism represent two completely different 'Tao's. Once the Holy Sword is born, it will inevitably lead to disputes among the Taos."

Ye Qingzhou felt a strong sense of crisis. By tracing back to the "shadow of the past" in the long river of time, he finally knew that the Holy Sword Xuanyuan was on the top of Mount Dongyue.

But he also saw that the Cang Yuan Realm was not just the Central Plains, but an entire huge "Pangu Continent". All the land plates were connected, with only a few scattered islands surrounding the "Pangu Continent".

Because of the mountain barriers, there is no direct military conflict between the several continental plates.

However, the existence of "Dao Zheng" made Ye Qingzhou realize that once Xuanyuan Sword was born, it would bring about a catastrophe between heaven and earth.

With just a little deduction, Ye Qingzhou understood that this time's "Tao dispute" came from the spiritual world, and the person who caused all this was none other than himself.

"Because I opened up the spirit world and founded the Xinwu Sect, while I gained benefits, I also brought disaster?"

Ye Qingzhou was speechless.

There is really no free lunch in this world.

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In September of the eighth year of the Shenwu reign, the three armies that had gone to attack the Donghu, the Western Regions and the Nanyue returned to the capital almost at the same time and demanded the surrender of captives at the Jinque Palace.

In front of the Golden Palace, the sound of armor and leaves clanged.

"Your Highness, Wang Junfeng."

"Your Highness Xu Wenshan."

"Minister Xu is not easy."

"Greetings to Your Majesty!"

"Get up."

Ye Qingzhou raised his hand and a force was transmitted to the three people through the earth, lifting them up from the ground. The three people were shocked and secretly surprised: "Master's cultivation has improved again!"

This was followed by the presentation of captive nobles from the Donghu, Nanyue and Western Regions, most of whom were of royal origin, especially beautiful women.

The eight Donghu tribes, who were once good at fighting, can only sing and dance now and entertain people with their beauty. Otherwise, if the emperor of Da Qi gets unhappy, there will probably be millions of corpses in the land of Donghu.

Standing among a group of captives, Wu Ya secretly felt suspicious, because the man sitting on the dragon throne had killed her most beloved brother Wu Wei.

But before leaving, her father asked her to serve the Shenwu Emperor of Da Qi wholeheartedly.

Just as Wu Ya was looking at herself in the mirror and feeling sorry for herself, Ye Qingzhou's eyes fell on her, and his eyes were quite surprised: "The destiny of heaven is falling, and its color is pure green?"

Wang Junfeng and the other five great generals had great fortunes, but compared with the girl in front of them, they were still slightly inferior.

Ye Qingzhou opened his divine eyes again, his gaze penetrated the long river of time, and he glimpsed a hazy "shadow of the future" on Wu Ya's body, and saw a part of her future destiny.

"In the original timeline, is it the female emperor of Donghu who will conquer the Central Plains in the future? Nie Shixiong is quite lucky. He went on a long journey and actually brought back a female emperor."

Ye Qingzhou was naturally delighted to have found another person who could take advantage of his luck. "Your name."

"Your servant Wuya greets the Emperor of Daqi."

"Haha, Donghu has already surrendered to me. You are from a noble family, so it's okay for you to call yourself my daughter. I ask you, are you willing to become my disciple and learn martial arts from me?"

(End of this chapter)