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In the following period of time, rumors about Zhou Guo's sudden inner meditation were still spreading.

In his registration edict, the new Zhou emperor included some special content in addition to official articles such as praising ancestors, amnesty for the world, and promulgating policies to benefit the people.

For example, it is emphasized that the people of Zhou State are poor at the moment, officials are disturbing the people, and the situation of land annexation is particularly serious. His ascension to the throne is the result of the emperor's brother's order, and the prince's civil and military officials, military and civilian seniors, and the result of hard work and persuasion.

He will limit the extravagance and enjoyment of the royal family and nobles, limit the search of the bottom by the powerful, limit the abuse of power by officials, and deprive monks and Taoists of privileges, reorganize the army, change the military system of the government to a recruiting system, expand the army, and improve armaments.

In the process of rectifying the army, there will be people from Taihao Mountain to guide them.

The imperial edict also severely reprimanded the State of Yu. It is precisely because Yu State did not respect Haotian, developed the so-called Confucianism, questioned and disobeyed the principles of heaven (such as suspecting that creatures were not created by Haotian, but naturally conceived and evolved),

Only then will it lead to the moral corruption of the world.

The catastrophe that happened in Chang'an last year was the punishment from Haotian.

For this reason, Yu State had to make a series of compensations, such as canceling Neo-Confucianism publications, allowing priests from Mount Taihao to enter the academy, and the emperor went to Mount Taihao to repent to Haotian.

If not, Zhou Guo will defend Haotian's dignity by force.

The issuance of the edict confirmed Li Ang's conjecture - there really was the shadow of Taihao Mountain behind this inner meditation. With the arrival of inner Zen, there must be war.

The state of Zhou adopted the Fubing system, that is, soldiers belonged to the local military government, worked for the people at ordinary times, plowed and farmed, and trained daily under the leadership of General Zhechong. Materials such as bows, arrows, clothing and food are not provided by the state.

In the event of a war, they are transformed into soldiers, led by another general sent by the imperial court, to go to a place to fight.

It is equivalent to the fact that the generals who train and command soldiers are not the same person, which can reduce the personal authority of the generals, prevent local separatism, and save manpower and military expenses.

However, there are also a lot of problems in the Fubing system. Because soldiers bring their own dry food and bows, there is a huge gap in equipment between soldiers from rich families and soldiers from poor families.

Some local governors will deliberately deduct the treatment of soldiers (such as buying the cheapest and low-quality sheets) to save costs and make money for themselves.

They even blackmailed soldiers and demanded money.

And because the government soldiers are soldiers in war and civilians in peacetime,

In some places, the dignitaries will ask the general Zhechong of the military mansion to change the daily training tasks of the soldiers to building houses for the nobles and keeping the houses for the nobles.

Treat the government soldiers as private servants, calling them around and bossing them around.

The oppression of the powerful and the deterioration of the treatment will seriously affect the enthusiasm of the soldiers to join the army, resulting in a deficit in the number of soldiers in each army.

Any well-to-do family with some connections will find a way to escape military service, or pay someone to join the army on their behalf.

The result of this is that the combat power of the government soldiers has declined rapidly, and it has become a concentration area for the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Such a situation had already happened in Yu State more than a hundred years ago.

The practice of the State of Yu is to strictly prohibit the rich and powerful from using the government soldiers as servants, and does not require the government soldiers to bring their own food bows and arrows, but to pay the government soldiers on time and improve the treatment of the government soldiers. The image of the military system among the people.

The state of Zhou has now abolished the government army system, and instead recruited all staff,

Military costs will inevitably increase rapidly, but correspondingly, only recruiting young and middle-aged men with strong bodies and full will will also increase military strength.

And, with the support of Taihaoshan elites, money is not a problem,

The Court of Justice in Taihao Mountain will also rely on its cruel and indifferent style of conduct to restrain the middle and lower officials of Zhou State, so that they dare not steal, rape and play tricks in it (such as using the old, weak, sick and sick as strong people. Bullying and enslaving soldiers, deduction of military pay, etc.).

What Li Ang can see, there is no reason why the princes of Yu Guo Chang'an can't see it.

Zhou State is the second largest country in the world after Yu State in terms of land, manpower, wealth, and culture.

During the three hundred years between the two countries, dozens of wars broke out, large and small, and Yu State won more than it lost, but every time because of the existence of Taihao Mountain, it failed to expand the results of the war, and even eliminated Zhou State.

There is no way, Haotian's faith covers almost every corner and every country in the known world.

The bells and bells of Haotian can be heard from the north to the ice field where day and night cycle endlessly, and from the south to Java, which has a hot climate and hangs over the vast ocean.

For thousands of years, the priests of Taihao Mountain have built countless temples all over the world, allowing hundreds of millions of people to believe in Haotian.

Every year, the money donated by devout believers will flow to Taihao Mountain like a trickle, and this terrifying wealth will be transformed into immeasurable talismans, armor, and arrows.

Among the four courtyards of Sacrament, Judgment, Juyu, and Xinxiu, there are nearly 100,000 judges in just one court. All monks.

And if you count the demon hunting army that assists the judge in hunting demons, the number of people is as high as one million.

Every demon hunter has received rigorous training, and their belief in Haotian is extremely fanatical and pious, and they are willing to sacrifice their lives for Haotian.

And their fighting skills are far better than ordinary soldiers.

Four hundred years ago, there was a demon cultivator who cast a shocking sorcery, turning all the subjects in the entire state of Jing into fanatical believers who worshiped him.

Hundreds of thousands of people who are not afraid of death and who are full of evil spirits easily broke through the military town on the border of Jing State, and plundered the armor and swords inside to arm themselves. Continue to march towards the mainland of Jingguo.

However, the practitioners of Jing country, considering the lives of the people in their own country, have not been able to do it for a long time.

Under such circumstances, Mount Taihao sent ten thousand demon hunting troops.

The two sides met in the wilderness, and the people on the Moxiu side clamored wildly, chanting the magic scriptures that insult Haotian, and laughing at everything in Mount Taihao.

The demon hunting army was silent, and everyone drew their long knives expressionlessly.

In just one round of charging, the demon hunting army was as powerful as a bamboo, easily piercing through the army formation of hundreds of thousands of people, and then scattered in the center of the army formation, brandishing their long knives to slaughter the enemies who rushed forward.

Find out the magic cultivator hiding in the crowd.

After receiving the information from the demon cultivator about the magic cannot be reversed, and the common people cannot be saved, 10,000 demon hunters killed all the remaining ones.

The blood on the battlefield covered their insteps,

The soaring bloody aura even drifted to the imperial city of Jing Kingdom with the wind.

According to subsequent statistics, the number of all casualties of the Demon Hunting Army soldiers was only one hundred and ten.

Now, even if it is impossible for Taihao Mountain to devote all the Demon Hunters to the war with Yu State in order to maintain its own existence,

But as long as 100,000 or 200,000 troops are invested on the battlefield, the gap in national strength between Yu State and Zhou State will be completely smoothed out and even reversed.