Chapter 368 Centralization

After the Central Forbidden Army became more and more powerful, it was obvious that it could help the imperial court and strengthen the centralization of power.

Take back the local forces in Pingzhou and Jizhou, strengthen the authority of the government, and let the local affairs be managed by the government, such as reducing private revenge and reducing lynching trials within the local forces. This can be effective Reduce the control over members of some small sects, small families, and small forces; strengthen the inventory of local resources and industries to ensure tax revenue; major forces need to submit lists of personnel for recruitment.

These items correspond to legal power, financial power, and personnel power respectively.

Of course, these changes were not implemented all at once, but bit by bit.

For example, the first thing we did was to check the industry. This matter was because the court was facing financial difficulties at that time.

In previous years, it was not that the Great Yan court had made such attempts, but there was a lot of resistance. How could it be so easy for various local forces to accept that their fate should be handed over to the imperial court?

Of course, the imperial court has deep control over them, and even the imperial court is them in a certain sense. Most of the officials in the imperial court system come from these local forces, and some emperors and scholar-bureaucrats mean to rule the world together.

To attack them, on the one hand, these local forces themselves will fight; on the other hand, it also means to let the court kill itself.

This is due to the resistance within the imperial court itself.

The problems of the Lu dynasty in this regard are not serious. Their basic base was not built on the court like the original Li Dynasty, but from the northern border. What's more, after the previous catastrophe, the whole court has been washed up and down. There may be internal resistance, but it is not that great.

And after the internal resistance becomes smaller, those local forces are less likely to rebel openly; some methods secretly used have become smaller and harmless because of the destruction of the No Face Society.

But in this matter, there is another trouble, which is external resistance: Yunxiaozong.

Of course, these small families and sects are more inclined to maintain their independence within Dayan's system. And Cloud Firmament Sect also supports this to a certain extent.

The consideration of interests is not to say that there are too many, the most important thing is the human relationship. The forces of all parties always like to send their talented juniors into the Yunxiao Sect. All kinds of cooperation also often convey benefits to some senior monks in Yunxiao Sect. Just looking at the relationship of a certain family in Yunxiaozong, it may not be that strong, but when the number reaches a certain level,

When they gathered together to speak out, many senior monks in Yunxiao Sect would always react.

In the past, whenever the central court had the idea of ​​centralizing power and harming the interests of local forces, they would always go to Yunxiaozong, someone from the same sect, or some acquaintances, to help speak out. In the end, Yunxiaozong formed pressure on the imperial court and hindered the advancement of centralization.

Objectively speaking, this is also weakening the imperial court, which is also beneficial to Yunxiaozong.

But in the past ten years or so, Lu Chaoxi has actually settled a large part of financial power. This was recovered by taking advantage of the financial difficulties of the imperial court after the war, and the difficulties that even the offering to Yunxiaozong could not be maintained.

The Lu family has just come to power, and they have maintained a honeymoon period with Yunxiaozong for a period of time. Including now, it is actually still in this honeymoon period. After all, no matter what, the Lu family helped Yunxiaozong a lot at that time, and since becoming the emperor, they have been quite obedient.

Taking advantage of that period of time, by solving the financial problems of the imperial court, the industries of various local forces have gone through a round of inspections, and the amount of taxation has been clarified. It also uncovered many industries that had been concealed and tax avoidance in the past.

And these things, now that they have been in their hands, even if the financial situation of the imperial court eases in the future, there is absolutely no idea of ​​returning them.

The forces in various places no longer have the help of Yunxiaozong to speak, and in this matter, there is much less room for resistance.

But going one step further, it is impossible not to arouse opposition if it is necessary to take back the power of law enforcement and personnel, and disintegrate the control of those local forces over the monks under their command, so that the court can use more abundant manpower.

Moreover, at this point, the Lu family also lacked the same reason to convince Yunxiaozong as they had previously withdrawn their financial power.

At that time, the purpose of taking back the financial power was to solve the financial difficulties of the imperial court and facilitate better support for the sect. Then take back the power of law enforcement to the government and ask those local forces to hand over the list of personnel. What is the purpose of this?

To put it bluntly, it was really difficult for the Lu Dynasty to advance this matter.

However, one thing to note is that Yunxiaozong's objection is not a serious objection to the imperial court's direct promotion of this series of policies in the name of the sect. The form of their objection was which one came to intercede. In the name of that one, a senior monk of the Yunxiao Sect sent a letter to the imperial court, either to intercede or to inquire. It's not easy for the imperial court to force it, so it can only let it go for the time being.

Lu Chaoxi was actually very upset about this.

Not to mention the status of the emperor, even if it is an ordinary person who does things normally, it is still impossible for him to feel refreshed when he is dictated like this.

But what can be done? You can't turn your face but you can't turn your face, it's hard to stand a hard top, things have to be done...

Then you can only pinch your nose, let it go first, and then speed up the processing. And those who are let go are not simply let go, and pressure can be exerted from other directions. For example, making their business difficult, and the government looking for faults from other angles...

As far as Lu Qing was concerned, he only paid attention to this matter by listening to reports and the like, and his conscious body did not go there.

As for the matter itself, my son can handle it well, and it will be fine if he takes it step by step. This kind of thing, Lu Qing thought about it, even if he personally interfered, it would be difficult to have a particularly large impact on the overall situation.

Moreover, he has his own affairs.

In the past, there were only four-star kungfu in the two disciplines of Good Fortune Book and Ascension Star Jue. In his fused Taikoo kung fu, they were two shortcomings. He broke through to Nascent Soul only by getting the five-star Holy White Sword Code. These two skills were originally weak. After being promoted to the five-star level and making up for the shortcomings, Lu Qing's practice speed is much faster than before.

It's only been a few more years, and his cultivation at the third level of the Nascent Soul has the meaning of being diligent.

Next time, when he can go to practice outside the starry sky, or enter the Temple of Gathering Spirits, he may not only break through to the fourth floor of Nascent Soul. Perhaps, it is not impossible to rush to a higher level in one go.

As for the younger generations of other families, they all have achieved further results in their cultivation.

Ming Chao and Chao Xi both stepped into the middle stage of Golden Core and became monks at the fourth level of Golden Core. Yan Ling pressed one head, now it is the fifth level of Jindan. Chaohe is slightly worse, and it is still the second floor of Jindan.

Although Mingchao, Chaoxi, and Yanling stayed in Yandu for a long time, they would return to Yuyan Mountain every certain time. One year at the Juling Temple can be exchanged for ten years of practice experience, and you still can't give up.

However, compared to the four who have entered the golden core stage, the fastest growing family members are still the two little guys of the literary generation.

Wen En is still close, but Wei Wen has reached the ninth floor of Qiming and is ready to break through the golden core.

She has no outer alchemy, but even so, Lu Qing's confidence in her is still sufficient.

The materials she needed to break through the golden core were prepared luxuriously by the family. The cost of materials alone has reached more than 150,000. If you include the help of alchemists, weapon refiners, and formation masters of all levels to make arrangements, the cost may be even higher.

Of course, for ordinary monks, without the help of Wai Dan, it is still very difficult to achieve a breakthrough. But for her, it's not a big problem.

The Jintian Linggen plus the Jinde Spiritual Body, and the indestructible sword body supernatural power that is more in line with the metal attribute and has been upgraded once. The talent bonus she could get before entering the order has been fully exhausted. In a normal state, it's hard to imagine that before Jindan, there would be any other ways and means to obtain a more powerful talent than Weiwen's now.

Relying on these, she can obtain a very high probability of breakthrough by directly relying on those relatively conventional preparations without using the outer alchemy.

What's more, Lu Qing also prepared a four-star rare breakthrough bottleneck for her.

In fact, Lu Qing has plans to do one thing recently: the exploration of the underground Spirit River in the Spirit Lake vein.

The underground spirit river was discovered a long time ago. In the beginning, there was still a lake infested by water ghosts. Lu Qing found a piece of yin marrow water jade in it, and found an underground spirit river with plenty of spiritual energy underground, and connected it with the ground to divert water to the outside. , forming the Linghu vein.

It was a treasure.

Without that yin marrow water jade, Ming Dynasty's achievement of Qiming would not be so smooth; as a third-order water spirit vein itself, the Lu family also brought great help to the Lu family when it first started to rise. Although this place is not the key to the rise of the Lu family, it is also a place that has helped a lot.

Moreover, it is very clear that when Lu Qing explored the underground Linghe for the first time, he clearly felt that the end of the Linghe in the future might not be too simple. At that time, due to the time limit of leaving the body, his flying speed was not fast enough, so he did not explore the end of the Ling River. But just for the part she explored, the concentration of aura has already reached the fourth level.

But precisely because of this, Lu Qing did not continue to explore.

On the one hand, the affairs of the following family are one after another, and they are all very important; even if there is idle time, Lu Qing's attention must be placed on his own practice.

In addition, there is another very important point. It was the first time he explored the underground spiritual river, but he was only halfway there. The richness of the spiritual energy he could feel had already reached the level of the fourth-order spiritual vein. Then it is conceivable that at the end, the intensity may rise a bit.

There may be some very important secrets hidden there, and there may be great benefits, but at the same time, opportunities come with risks, and the degree of danger there may not be too low.

In the past, the Lu family was far less powerful than it is now. Even if I explored in the state of consciousness and found something, based on the situation of the Lu family, I want to complete the development of it and transform it into the benefits that I can use. An easy thing to do.

But now the time is very ripe.

Lu Weiwen is about to make a breakthrough in the golden core stage, but it takes a little preparation time before that. Lu Qing planned to take advantage of this time to explore first. And in the future, if Weiwen can get the golden core, maybe he can help in this matter.

Now that you have made up your mind, do it.

The current Linghu vein is no longer of any special help to the Lu family. However, the aura here is special after all, it is very suitable for monks with water spirit roots to practice in it. At the same time, it is also suitable for some water-based elixir to be planted there, so the Lu family still has a little property there, and there are also some clansmen who practice in it.

This made Lu Qing a lot more convenient.

He directly activated the experience mode, locked a family monk in the Linghu vein, teleported there, and quickly found the entrance of the underground Linghe, and got in.

This Linghe River flows from low to high, and Lu Qing follows the direction of the flow of the Linghe River and flows down the river.

His flying speed in the state of consciousness is much faster than it was back then. It didn't take long for him to surpass the position where he himself gave up exploring.

Without stopping too much, Lu Qing continued to fly to the distance.

But soon, he felt that his time of leaving the body this time had come to an end.

Not in a hurry to spend karma to supplement the time of leaving the body, he first opened the map function in the system interface and checked it. He found the location of the nearest family member, which was not far away, so he teleported there directly in the experience mode, and used a wave of extra time supplements for nothing, then continued to drill into the ground, found the location of the underground river, and continued to swim against the current .

In this way, a lot of karma can be saved.

Although Lu Qing has a lot of karma now, after all, after all, the replenishment price of the time spent outside the body will become very expensive after doubling many times.

Who knows how long this underground river is? This time, since Lu Qing is determined to explore, he doesn't want to give up halfway.

Of course, sometimes you can’t find the family members nearby, so you have no choice but to spend karma to replenish the time of leaving the body, and then continue to fly.

In this way, after a not-too-short period of time, Lu Qing headed east all the way, and came to Donghai County, Linhai.

This underground river actually came from the sea?

"I didn't expect that."

Lu Qing's curiosity grew stronger.

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