Chapter 168: Great Unification
Amid the cheers of hundreds of millions of soldiers and civilians, Jiang Ruyue re-ascended to the position of palace master.
This turmoil lasted for nearly a month.
The nine heads of state quarreled every day because of the uneven division of interests, but they did not take much away.
However, the normal order in the jurisdiction of Xiaoyao Palace has been completely disrupted.
During this time, the receivers sent by the nine heads of state went around robbing and encroaching, like robbers entering the country, wanting to take good things when they saw them, and taking them when they saw good things, not only being arrogant and rude, but also competing with each other, and eating extremely ugly.
If the people brought by the Nine Heads of State were a little more civilized, pay attention to their appearance, and pay attention to appeasing the people's emotions, the situation would not be so bad.
It's just that they are too destructive to order, which has aroused the extreme disgust of one billion people in the direct jurisdiction, which has greatly boosted the people's nostalgia for His Royal Highness the palace master.
So it completely responded to Jiang Ruyue's evaluation of the nine heads of state: nine idiots!
However, the impact damage of the nine idiots to the direct jurisdiction was still relatively large, many jobs were interrupted, a small amount of technology and talent were robbed, and it took Jiang Ruyue three months to fully restore normal order.
The development speed of Dongyuan Continent this year has been significantly slower.
"Nine traitors, idiots, I'll clean you up sooner or later!"
Jiang Ruyue couldn't help but scold in private.
In fact, before the Nine heads of state planned to force her to abdicate, she was fully prepared to deal with it.
Her background is indeed a huge stain, and she is not easy to refute anything, if she is exposed by the Nine Heads of State, she will indeed be extremely passive.
Origin is indeed very important, and people often do not evaluate a person by looking at whether he/she is good or bad, but will relate to the relatives around her.
If your parents are criminals, your brother has killed someone, and your sister is not serious...... It will have a great impact on you personally, and even alienate and neglect you.
Because people think that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and you come from a family that is not very glamorous, and you will not be able to hold your head up.
And many people have a "perfectionism" mentality, hoping that they worship a respected idol and be a perfect person in all aspects, just like a piece of jade, once there are any flaws and stains, it will definitely be difficult to accept.
The Nine Heads of State had decided on these points and thought that Jiang Ruyue would definitely be able to get Jiang Ruyue down.
ignored her special situation - her mother was very bad, but her father was a savior, and Zhang Shengren's influence in Dongyuan Continent was no less than that in Wancheng Kingdom.
This gave Jiang Ruyue hope to reverse her passivity.
And the female devil was suppressed by Zhang Shengren, and Zhang Shengren is obviously much more powerful than the female devil - the offspring born from the combination of the two must be inherited Zhang Shengren.
Combined with the various good deeds that His Royal Highness the Palace Lord has done for the people in the past few decades, this can be fully proven.
In the face of this theory of "genetic repression", not only 99% of the people were willing to accept it, but the nine heads of state also knelt down in front of them and fled.
So Jiang Ruyue was very emotional in her heart: everything she has now, in a sense, was given by her father who didn't approve of it before, although she hadn't seen him for a day, but she really received the precious inheritance he left behind.
After the situation in the Xiaoyao Palace was basically stabilized.
Jiang Ruyue turned from defending to taking the initiative to attack.
Attack on what?
Of course, the Nine Heads of State and the nine forces behind them.
The battlefield mainly takes place between the mortal world, the nearly 5,000 cities that are not directly under the jurisdiction.
Jiang Ruyue is ready to integrate all these 5,000 mortal cities into the management system of Xiaoyao Palace.
And this integration work actually started as early as five years ago.
The routine adopted is economic cooperation + central support + political party infiltration + leadership charisma, as well as appropriate interest temptation, threats and intimidation of the recalcitrant, crackdown and assassination.
In short, it is to take advantage of the good environment + different treatment for different characters.
The implementation effect is very good.
There are a few cities that are extremely difficult to penetrate, and more than 70% of the city controllers have begun to look to the Xiaoyao Palace.
After Jiang Ruyue's "life experience" turmoil, the proportion of cities with their hearts towards Xiaoyao Palace increased to 90%, and the rest wavered.
What Jiang Ruyue has to do now is to incorporate all the cities that are in the Xiaoyao Palace into the Xiaoyao Palace system, so that they can get rid of the control of the nine heads of state.
How to get rid of the control of the nine heads of state?
In a word: let these cities no longer offer to the nine heads of state.
In fact, within the control of the nine major forces, the burden of those mortal cities is quite heavy, and the annual offerings of goods are about 20% of the GDP of that year.
Some of these offerings were used by the nine major forces to expand their own strength, and the other part was used for the extravagant enjoyment of the high-level leaders.
About 50% of the expenses are spent on extravagant indulgence.
This is the reason why many of the controllers of mortal cities are interested in the Easy Palace, under the governance of the Nine Heads of State, they are burdened, stressed, and have been poor, and they also watch the Nine Heads of State they are drunk and extravagant, and from time to time they increase the amount of offerings, if you offend a certain immortal, he has a way to kill you.
If you join the Xiaoyao Palace system, you do not have to make financial contributions, and the central government will also provide assistance or preferential loans, and all kinds of benefits are quite numerous.
It can be said that he ran from hell to heaven (in fact, Xiaoyao Palace will also collect some taxes, but the way is civilized, the burden is lighter, there are institutional norms, and it is far less rough than the nine major forces).
If it weren't for the strict prohibition of the Nine Heads of State, they would have thrown themselves into the arms of the Xiaoyao Palace.
And this time, those city lords were much bolder, and they agreed on a time to join the Xiaoyao Palace together!
Because His Royal Highness the Palace Master let people assure them: as long as they join the Xiaoyao Palace system, the nine major forces will never dare to touch them!
In order to prove that what she said was true, not long after saying this, Xiaoyao Palace did a big thing!
Instigated the Lingyuan fleet among the nine major forces to join the Guards Legion.
This action is called "Operation Loyalty".
It was a great success very quickly!
There are 3,000 Lingyuan warships to join the Guards Legion.
Nearly a million soldiers defected to the side of Xiaoyao Palace.
These warships and soldiers are equivalent to about 60% of the military strength of the nine major forces.
Coupled with the military strength of the original 500 Lingyuan warships of the Xiaoyao Palace, the balance of strength completely fell to the side of the Xiaoyao Palace.
There was chaos within the Nine Forces.
"My battleship, my legion, come back, come back!"
The Nine Heads of State shouted desperately, and their bodies were like falling into an ice cave.
They couldn't have imagined why the generals and soldiers in their hands, who were well paid, well-equipped, and had never been treated badly in all aspects, would suddenly jump to the side of Xiaoyao Palace on a large scale.
Give them a huge blow.
Why?
It is mainly composed of the structure of the legion in their hands, and it has not yet departed from the traditional sectarian thinking, and it is not a normal army at all.
Because the legion in their hands is the elder as the commander, the personal disciple as the general, the inner disciple as the captain, and the outer disciple as the main captain, as for those who account for the vast majority, the mortal monks recruited from the mortal cultivation school, do all the dirty work, tiring and hard work, and basically have little room for improvement.
The best of them don't stop at the co-captain/helmsman, and the ceiling is above.
With such an army structure, the middle and upper strata can maintain stability, but the strong dissatisfaction in the hearts of the middle and lower strata, who account for the majority of the numbers, has been suppressed for many years.
Even on the verge of an outbreak.
It was many outer disciples who also joined this job-hopping operation, intending to be loyal to His Royal Highness the Palace Master.
Of course, the success of the implementation of this "Loyalty Operation" is also related to the extremely successful infiltration of the party loyal to her founded by Jiang Ruyue in the Nine Fleets, almost all the middle and lower legions have been attracted to join, and the low-level soldiers are extremely supportive, coupled with the thoughtful and meticulous planning of the action plan, the "Loyalty Action" has achieved great success, which is completely expected.
Soon after, there were 3,996 cities in the mortal world, and within two or three days, they successively announced that they would join the Xiaoyao Palace, saying that they would not give any more offerings to the nine heads of state.
In this way, Jiang Ruyue, who has gathered a large number of troops in her hands and is supported by eighty percent of mortal cities, what other forces can stop her from integrating and unifying Dongyuan Continent?
Nine heads of state?
Now they are the existing military forces in their hands, and they are all somewhat immovable, for fear of another mutiny below.
Preparing to join forces, take out the core power at the bottom of the box, and suppress the Xiaoyao Palace, among the nine heads of state, there are two or three people, not only have they been washed into something, but they actually plan to agree to Jiang Ruyue's conditions for peace talks, agree to learn the model of Wancheng Kingdom, and implement "separation of immortals and non-interference".
The nine major forces that collapsed in one corner began to collapse in an all-round way.
Then after two years of small-scale civil war, the nine major forces, completely wiped out four, chose to surrender two (and were finally eliminated), and three of those who promised peace talks remained.
It took about five years before and after, and Jiang Ruyue, who had eradicated all the stumbling block forces, basically completely integrated Dongyuanzhou.
Her long-cherished dream has finally come true.
It's just that......
The Wancheng Kingdom in the west will allow the emergence of an Eastern Yuan Continent that has completed the unification, no, the Eastern Yuan Kingdom?
Moreover, in the past ten years, Dongyuanzhou has developed rapidly, its strength has doubled, and now it is quickly reunified, and the threat in the future is bound to be great!
Do you want to interfere?
Do you want to interrupt by force?
The high-level of the Wancheng country was mired in controversy.