"Well done, in the future, all the affairs of Chixing Mountain will be handed over to Shen Quan. ”

After learning the news that the people of Chixing Mountain were persuaded by Shen Quan to agree to join the Wancheng Kingdom, Zhou Ming nodded and was very satisfied.

Shen Quan's kid has his own true inheritance in many ways, and Zhou Ming has always been very relieved of him.

Zhou Ming also looked at the general process of the negotiation in the telegram, and as expected, it was not much different from what he thought.

Studying abroad is the biggest point of controversy and conflict.

Any sect that joins the Ten Thousand Vehicles Kingdom will definitely have a resistance and opposition attitude towards the disciples sent by the mortal world to go up the mountain to occupy their own spiritual vein cave mansion.

After all, this kind of disciple has nothing to do with the sect, and most of them don't belong to the sect at all, and most of them stay for a few years and leave, and they don't bring much benefit to the sect.

So it's very normal to be unwelcome.

But did the country of Mangya have to send these students up the mountain, and there was no other way?

Of course not.

With the current financial resources of the Ten Thousand Vehicles Kingdom, it is not much of a problem to build the Gathering Spirit Pagoda to meet the spiritual energy needs of all students, and the 11 cultivation academies in the mortal world have also built the Gathering Spirit Pagoda at present.

In the past 20 years, there have also been 22 students who have broken through in the Spirit Gathering Pagoda and successfully become immortals.

However, the environment of the Gathering Spirit Pagoda was closed and dark, and there were thousands of students cultivating together, which was very noisy, crowded, and very disturbing, and the environment was quite bad.

In this environment, it is difficult for many students to practice with peace of mind.

For some students, the so-called "breakthrough" sometimes requires an absolutely quiet and comfortable environment, isolated from all noise and distractions.

It is better to have fresh and sweet air and pleasing scenery.

Going to the Xianshan Sect to study abroad has become a better choice.

This is also one of the most important cooperation projects of the various sects that have joined the Wancheng Kingdom.

Then someone is going to ask, why didn't Zhou Ming destroy a few sects and occupy a few immortal mountains for students to break through, why did he engage in any cooperation, make such trouble, and give so many subsidies.

I occupied all the fairy mountains, and I could use them as much as I wanted, and I could develop them as I wanted.

Isn't it beautiful to save a lot of money?

Having said that, Zhou Ming still deliberately kept those traditional sects and did not destroy them.

Why?

Fear of creating a new privileged class.

The students in the various cultivation academies, those who have achieved outstanding achievements, after cultivating immortals, are strong in force, and the individual is very independent, not subject to the constraints and control of any force, and the Ten Thousand Vehicles Kingdom also has no ability to coerce and restrain them, so they can only be guided.

Let's ask these free and easy "immortals", if they stay on the immortal mountain full of spiritual energy for a long time, form a gang, and condense into a force, once they have terrible thoughts, these "humanoid nuclear bombs" will produce huge destructive power, who can stop and match?

And in any team or group, there are roles such as "careerists" and "conspirators".

I can only think of some way to "separate" them.

Moreover, many industries and factories in the mortal world also need the participation of high-level monks and even immortals, so that they can be better developed, and staying on the immortal mountains for a long time is also a waste of resources.

To take the simplest example: if an immortal wants to build a "Spirit Gathering Tower" worth one billion spirit coins in the mortal world, he must create a value of more than one billion spirit coins in order to save this money...... The economy of the mortal world is enlivened.

Therefore, the most fundamental purpose of the "Overseas Disciple Dispatch System" of the Wancheng Kingdom is still for the benefit of mortals.

From this point of view, Wan Chengguo did have a request for each joining sect, asking them to accept Wan Chengguo's "overseas disciples" and pay a certain subsidy.

Of course, the various sects that accept "overseas students" can also reap huge benefits, and before each overseas student leaves, those "notes", "self-created exercises" or "experiences" in the nature of "graduation theses" will be put into the library after passing the defense, and every reader will benefit from them.

The various sects have also greatly expanded their knowledge and skill reserves.

Most of the overseas disciples will continue to create their value after returning to the mortal world.

Eliminate hidden dangers.

Of course, after taking Chixing Mountain, it is not enough to increase the number of joining the sect to two, and it has not yet reached his number requirements.

Zhou Ming's gaze was aimed at the next target-

Guanglei Mountain!

He was ready to take down Guanglei Mountain and force him to join the Wancheng Kingdom and become the third sect to join.

But......

Guanglei Mountain is not easy to deal with.

The strength is very strong.

They have 3 ancestors in the Divine Stage.

There are 109 immortals in the Gudan period.

There are more than 5,000 elite disciples.

and more than 10,000 outer disciples of the nature of miscellaneous fish.

There are a total of 91 mortal annex cities.

And with the mandatory requirement of training 100,000 elite soldiers in each mortal city, a huge army of nearly 10 million people was formed.

Its comprehensive strength is stronger than that of Chixing Mountain in its heyday.

Among the four major sects, Guanglei Mountain is a well-deserved first.

And in the past twenty or thirty years, in dozens of small and medium-sized conflicts with Wanchengguo (and the predecessor of the Hundred Cities Alliance), Guanglei Mountain, which had suffered many big losses (but did not damage the fundamentals), quickly adjusted its response strategy and decided not to provoke Wanchengguo anymore, and aimed the spearhead of expansion at Qingyun Mountain.

Under the harassment year after year, Qingyun Mountain was miserable, and the mortal cities and mines fell one after another, and it seemed that there was a tendency to be swallowed up.

The annexation of Qingyun Mountain, the enhancement of its own strength, and the resistance to the rise of the Wancheng Kingdom in the east are the strategies that Guanglei Mountain has been firmly pursuing over the years.

And in the bones of Guanglei Mountain, there is already an expansion gene, which makes them uneasy about the status quo.

When they encounter a crisis, they also have a certain ability to accept new things and have the courage to carry out certain reforms.

Especially after seeing that the strength of the Wancheng Kingdom was growing at the speed of light, and after one day was greater than one day, under the huge sense of crisis, Guanglei Mountain actually introduced the disciple training model of the "academic school", and sent immortals to steal Lingyuan guns and Lingyuan cannons for imitation, so as to prevent backwardness from being beaten.

Investing in scientific research to tackle key problems, the output of Lingyuan guns in Guanglei Mountain is very considerable, and the power should not be underestimated.

In addition to the Lingyuan warship, Wan Chengguo can also exert a strong deterrent on Guanglei Mountain, and in other aspects, Guanglei Mountain is not afraid at all.

It is foreseeable that it will be an extremely difficult task to take Guanglei Mountain.

These days, Zhou Ming also held discussions and meetings with intelligence officers and staff officers in the secret conference room all day long, discussing how to make Guanglei Mountain submit and agree to join the Wancheng Kingdom.

"Head of the country, we have dealt with Guanglei Mountain many times over the years, and they do not have the slightest intention of being equal to mortals, but have increased intelligence infiltration, and they are very protective against our Wancheng country. ”

"Not only that, in the mortal world, in recent years, Guanglei Mountain has also increased its control over the mortal city, integrated the power of mortals, and vigorously excluded the economic community and trade route plan of our Wancheng country, resulting in the influence of our country's economy is very weak in the territory of Guanglei Mountain, which can be said to have reached the level of strict blockade. ”

"In terms of military affairs, Guanglei Mountain has not stopped preparing for a day in recent years, not only has a legion of more than 10 million people been formed in the mortal world, but Guanglei Mountain has also been preparing day by day and has never slackened. ”

In addition, he also adopted a cannibalization strategy to constantly suppress Qingyun Mountain in the west, and seemed to have the intention of swallowing Qingyun Mountain and enhancing his own strength. ”

"All kinds of actions, it is clear that the Guanglei Mountain is just trying to oppose my Wancheng Country, but I don't intend to give in!"

In the face of such a stubborn adversary, it is unlikely that any other means than the use of force will bring it to its knees.

"Fight it! The head of the country, with the military strength of our Wancheng Country, it is not difficult to destroy Guanglei Mountain, as long as Guanglei Mountain is destroyed, its cities are seized, its population, and its resources are occupied, the strength of our Wancheng Kingdom in all aspects can be doubled!" said a staff officer excitedly.

"You can fight, my Wancheng country has a strong army, but I have enjoyed decades of peace, except for the first battle of Dongyuanzhou, I have never participated in any major wars, although the soldiers are still elite, but sooner or later they are lax and tired, I don't know what war is, a real battle, can play a significant role in exercise. ”

A veteran general also said that he advocated using a war to sharpen the combat skills and war awareness of the soldiers.

After all, a long period of peace will wear down the combat effectiveness of an army.

From the hostile and defensive attitude of Guanglei Mountain towards Wancheng Kingdom, the temptation of various resources in the boundary of Guanglei Mountain, and the consideration of tempering the combat strength of the army......

Conquering Guanglei Mountain by force is indeed the best choice.

In the conference room, the vast majority of the participants were also supporters of "conquest by force".

But......

Zhou Ming had a different idea.

I don't even want to use the means of military conquest to take Guanglei Mountain.

Why?

Conquest by force is not very nice to say, it is aggression and plunder.

Aggression is tantamount to injustice.

If there is no sufficient reason and excuse to start a war, aggression will inevitably meet with stubborn resistance and losses.

Of course, it is a natural law for the strong to swallow up the weak, and it is not the same as the so-called "aggression", and you are weak, which is the reason for me to conquer you...... This point of view can completely convince oneself and completely eliminate the psychological burden.

But Zhou Ming's concerns are not limited to this.

The big question is: after the conquest, how to remove potential hidden dangers, break up the unyielding resistance, and reduce the cost of maintaining the rule without worrying about the headache.

Because it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to govern the world.

Therefore, brutal conquest by force is absolutely undesirable...... Even if it can be done with strict military discipline, it will not take a stitch from the people.

Also, in the injection mode, the first indigenous character "Ye Kong" bound by the system is now the elder of Guanglei Mountain, with a high status, and he is also quite prestigious in Guanglei Mountain, and he is also grateful and loyal to Guanglei Mountain and Ye Kong.

If you conquer Guanglei Mountain by force, if you block it, will you have to kill it?

On a psychological level, Zhou Ming didn't ruin his thoughts either...... He has been Ye Kong's "grandfather" for more than 60 years.

Therefore, under all kinds of concerns, conquering by force, Zhou Ming really didn't want to be listed as the first and only way to deal with Guanglei Mountain.

So what to do?

What else can be done to take Guanglei Mountain more peacefully?