The group walked and stopped, with heartfelt smiles of joy on their faces, until it was completely dark, and they stopped in front of a large screen projection next to the square.

"Huh!"

Tang Yi looked at the projection content and couldn't help but be surprised: "Tomorrow night in this square, the official will hold a folk celebration and selection event from all walks of life."

"At that time, the Son of Heaven will bring the emperor and the queen and the imperial concubine, ten highnesses, and one imperial grandson to come"

"Wow, the Son of Heaven will come!"

Lil couldn't help but be amazed.

"The top three in the selection of special activities will be received by the Son of Heaven!"

"And the Son of Heaven personally awarded the prize!"

"The prize for the first place turned out to be a second-order war horse!"

"Wow!"

"The prize for the second place is a space equipment with a radius of ten zhang dimensions!"

"Good stuff!"

The people around them were all amazed.

"Second-Order Warhorse! I'm afraid this is the first second-order warhorse to flow into the people, right? Priceless! ”

"There is also space equipment within a radius of ten zhang, which is also priceless!"

Tang Yi also exclaimed.

Second-order warhorses he can only look up at all, and space equipment, although it has been popularized in the empire. But the space equipment in a radius of ten zhang, how valuable is that?!

I'm afraid that if he sells his family's ranch, he may not be able to buy it!

Looking at the content of the prizes on this projection light screen, Tang Yi showed envy on his face. But he could only watch. He doesn't perform folk shows.

Liu Tong was also moved, but in the end he could only sigh.

"Coveted, it's a pity" Liu Tong's expression suddenly moved, and said: "Brother Tang, the prize is so rich, and the official will hold such an event every year, and the prize is getting better and better every year." Why don't we try it next year? ”

"This" Tang Yi was also very moved, thought about it, nodded and said: "Okay, after we go back, we will design a show, and we will come over next year and make a bright appearance!" ”

"Good. Tomorrow night the Son of Heaven will come, but you can't miss it. ”

Liu Tong said: "The Son of Heaven of our Origin Empire, that is a god-like figure, I can look up closely, my Liu Tong is enough in this life!" ”

Tang Yi also nodded thoughtfully.

Although the people of the people never knew how strong the Son of Heaven Li Zheng was. But it didn't prevent them from guessing - how powerful it must be to be able to end a huge war with the power of one person?!

So many people are proud to see Li Zheng.

Tang Yi and Liu Tong are no exception.

"Let's go. Check it out there. ”

As he spoke, Liu Tong pointed to the bright park next to the square and strode forward.

There is a pedestrian street next to the park next to the square. This pedestrian street is usually used as a shopping place for surrounding residents. And now, during the New Year's holidays, this shopping street is even more prosperous.

It's indescribable.

And on both sides of the street, there are many food stalls.

There are sugar gourds, candy people and other snacks from all walks of life. There are also a variety of fried and baked foods that are full of aroma. Blanket the entire street.

Tang Yi bought four sugar gourds, one for each of the four, and after eating, he ate stinky tofu, a specialty snack of the No. 5 world, as well as delicious cooking cakes from the No. 3 world, mutton skewers, grilled steaks, and so on. Look at the population of the water flow.

Many people are tired of playing in the square, so they come here for a meal.

After eating and drinking, I went back to the square and continued to play.

Don't be too laid-back!

A group of four wandered until midnight, only to remember that they had not yet found a place to live, so they went to look for the inn in a hurry.

"Find an inn to rest first. Tomorrow morning, I will visit the Altar of Heroes and the Altar of the Sage, and if I still have time, I will go to the Academy City to have a look."

But it's a pity that the inns around here are all full.

Although it was expected by the four of them, they were also quite disappointed.

In desperation, he had to accompany Liu Tong to his friend's house to spend the night

Not to mention the excitement of the New Year in the early 35th year of the first century, nor who won the prize on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve and was received by Li Zheng.

After all, it is just a trivial matter, although it can reflect the atmosphere of the people of the empire today, but for Li Zheng, it is indeed not a big deal.

Time is like flowing water, never to be returned.

In Li Zheng's attention, the empire's first five-year plan was finally completed.

In the past five years, the situation in the empire has been completely stabilized.

In the past five years, Li Zheng has not had a moment of free time. After the Spring Festival of the thirty-fifth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, Li Zheng left the empire, and then, it took five years to refine the law cores of each plane world one by one, so that Li Zheng controlled all the subsidiary plane worlds in his hands at the law level.

As Li Zheng refined more cores of the plane world, he became more and more powerful, more and more experienced, and the refining was handy, and the speed became faster and faster. Therefore, it took five years for the law cores of dozens of dimensional worlds to refine, which was many times faster than before.

During this period, Li Zheng first took down the nine dimensional worlds that were burning in the flames of war, imprisoned 'them' in captivity, closed the space-time passage they opened, and hid the space-time landmarks of the plane world.

In the process, Li Zheng also fully demonstrated his powerful power as the master of the plane. That kind of powerful power that destroys the heavens and the earth, like the gods who create and destroy the world, makes the more than 100 billion elven armies stationed in the nine plane worlds happy and convinced.

Naturally, after Li Zheng's strength was witnessed and spread, the reorganization of the imperial military affairs went much smoother.

At the same time, because of refining the core of the laws of the plane, the Origin Tree also grew rapidly again by taking root in the cores of the laws of the world of multiple planes.

Dozens of dimensional worlds, all of which were rooted in the Origin Tree, were shrouded in its influence, and began to be fed back by the Origin Tree.

By the spring of the fortieth year of the early Yuan Dynasty, the number of plane worlds that the empire had completely owned and that had been refined by Li Zheng had reached seventy-eight—in the past five years, the empire had successively conquered more than ten new plane worlds. With the addition of the original sixty-three, the total number is as high as seventy-eight!

And in the past five years, as far as the imperial government affairs are concerned, Zai Fu Zhuge Liang has successfully completed his five-year plan - in five years. The government institutions from all walks of life, from low to high, are completely built and plump.

In the meantime, the education system has also been rolled out.

In the past five years, the education system from all walks of life has trained 15 million qualified government officials for the Government Council. These fifteen million qualified government officials. He was successively dispatched to serve in various planes of the empire, governing the people, spreading cultural ideas, and gradually making the name of the Origin Empire deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The specific division of political districts, census statistics, and land distribution related to all walks of life have also come to an end.

Even Zhuge Liang has overfulfilled a certain amount of political tasks -- in agriculture and industry, he has already laid a good foundation system, and he can directly popularize and implement it as long as the next high-level government officials take office.

In terms of military affairs, Zhou Yu's five-year plan is also fully in place.

First of all, in the number of troops. From more than 180 billion earlier, it has been reduced to the current quota of 10 billion. The 10 billion army, including the garrison corps, the 106 military regions at the district level and the three general military regions have also been put in place.

The corresponding officers of all levels have also undergone advanced studies at the military academy, a branch of the education system, and after passing the examination, they have been appointed one after another.

In the process of Zhou Yu's reorganization of the army. There have also been some accidents. Most of them are stubborn elven officers who disobey the orders of the Empire and cause local conflicts.

But this conflict. After Li Zheng showed his explosive power, he disappeared completely.

Today, the empire's 10 billion army, the three major general military regions, the 106 district-level group armies, the 1,000 and 30 boundary-level group armies, and the 10,300 domain-level legions, their respective defense areas are also completely divided.

The new military system was established by Zhou Yu.

However, in terms of the combat power of the army. The empire is far from being at its full level.

The great army of the Empire, based on war horses.

And the number of war horses that the empire now has, excluding zero-order war horses such as green armor war horses, the total number of first-order to fifth-order main battle horses is only a little over 10 million.

Compared to the total number of 10 billion troops. Ten million horsemen are not enough.

According to the calculations of the Military Affairs Yuan, it will take at least thirty to forty years to fully equip the 10 billion army with war horses!

That is to say, after thirty to forty years, the empire's 10 billion army can fully form a truly powerful combat force.

After all, the combat power of the imperial army is based on the war cavalry, and the battle formation and the skills of the war cavalry can only play a role under the premise of the war cavalry troops.

Without Warhorse, Warhorse, and Warhorse skills, it is invalid.

And without the battle array and war horse skills, the combat effectiveness of the imperial army will drop by at least more than half!

In comparison, non-war cavalry units are better than war cavalry troops, that is, a rabble!

For this point, Zhou Yu has no way to solve it.

Even Li Zheng couldn't solve it.

In fact, up to now, the development of the empire has reached a stage where it cannot be leapfrogged.

What is needed now is accumulation.

Accumulate horses, accumulate supplies, accumulate everything!

The so-called accumulation is thick and thin, and when the accumulation is deep enough, the empire can enter explosive development again.

Of course, in the process of accumulation, although the empire will not continue to expand aggressively, the pace will definitely not stop.

The No. 2 Great World of All Races ignored it, and Li Zheng had already closed the space-time passage to the No. 2 World. With the merger of fifteen elven civilizations and the ability to search the dimensional world independently, Li Zheng no longer coveted the resources and achievements of other civilizations in the No. 2 Ten Thousand Races World.

On the contrary, World Two is still a security risk for the Empire, so it is only natural that the passage will be closed.

What the empire has to do now is to close off the country, focus on internal strength, and supplement it with expansion.

The goal of the expansion is the new dimensional world that Li Zheng is searching.

The plane worlds that Li Zheng selectively searched for were all primitive plane worlds that had not given birth to cross-plane civilizations, and most of them were plane worlds with yellow skin, black eyes, and black hair. To balance the population structure of the empire, it needs to inject non-elven races.

However, Li Zheng has always controlled the pace of this expansion and did not let it expand too fast.

The empire did not need to expand rapidly during the time period of the first five-year plan.

However, after the completion of the first five-year plan, in Li Zheng's plan, the speed of this expansion will gradually accelerate.

As the empire grows within and the empire grows stronger, the speed of expansion will naturally get faster and faster.

After all, with the power of less than a billion people, the empire swallows thousands of times its own fat in one bite, and with Li Zheng in charge, although it will not cause indigestion, it will take some time. Only when the internal stability is completely stable can we spare more energy for expansion. (To be continued......)