The Shenwu Continent is incomparably huge, and there are hundreds of empires in the entire continent, and these empires are big and small, strong and weak, and the closer the empire is to the center, the stronger the strength.

Of course, it does not mean that all the great powers are concentrated in the center, and in all directions, there are great powers, and among these powers they are no weaker than some empires in the center.

The Holy Cloud Empire is one of these powerful empires that does not belong to the middle of the Shenwu Continent, and the territory of the entire empire is almost the size of three Heavenly Fire Empires, and Wuzun is several times the size of the Heavenly Fire Empire.

The Heavenly Fire Empire plus the Sword Sect Sect Master Duanmu Sheng, the newly promoted Martial Venerable, is only four Martial Venerables, and the Holy Cloud Empire alone has five Martial Venerables in the Holy Cloud Sect, the first major sect, plus the Martial Venerables of other sects, there are as many as seventeen Martial Venerables in total.

In the entire southern part of the Shenwu Continent, the only empires that can compete with the Holy Cloud Empire are the other two major powers in the south, the Shining Empire and the Weishan Empire.

These three major powers can be said to be the southern part of the Shenwu Continent, a hegemon-level existence.

However, although the Holy Cloud Empire is one of the three major powerhouses in the south of the Shenwu Continent, this military strength is quite bad, at least Zhang Chenfeng can't see the appearance of a strong country.

Zhang Chenfeng had already heard of the three major powers in the south, and he had always wanted to see how strong these powers were, but after Zhang Chenfeng entered the territory of the Holy Cloud Empire today, he was completely disappointed.

However, although the Holy Cloud Empire is one of the three major powerhouses in the south of the Shenwu Continent, this military strength is quite bad, at least Zhang Chenfeng can't see the appearance of a strong country.

Zhang Chenfeng had already heard of the three major powers in the south, and he had always wanted to see how strong these powers were, but after Zhang Chenfeng entered the territory of the Holy Cloud Empire today, he was completely disappointed.

The soldiers of the Holy Cloud Empire are so bad, they are so rotten that they are home, compared with the soldiers of the Heavenly Fire Empire that Zhang Chenfeng saw in the Heavenly Fire Empire, they are not at all a grade, not in terms of personal force, but in terms of personal force, the soldiers of the Holy Cloud Empire are indeed strong.

But in terms of military discipline and equipment, the soldiers of the Holy Cloud Empire are too far behind, when Zhang Chenfeng entered the pass, he found that the army of the Holy Cloud Empire had almost no military discipline, and the weapons and equipment were even worse at home, Zhang Chenfeng even saw that many soldiers did not even have weapons in their hands.

The army of the Holy Cloud Empire really wants to fight with the Heavenly Fire Empire, and it is estimated that one legion of the Heavenly Fire Empire can deal with more than three of the Holy Cloud Empire.

Zhang Chenfeng looked at such an army, he really couldn't imagine that these troops would be the troops of the Holy Cloud Empire, one of the three major powerhouses in the south, and said to Du Qian: "Brother, have we really entered your Holy Cloud Empire? These soldiers are really from your Holy Cloud Empire? What do I think, even if we encounter those bandits on the road, they are stronger than them!"

When Du Qian heard Zhang Chenfeng ask about this, he smiled bitterly and said, "This, Brother Zhang, our Holy Cloud Empire and your Heavenly Fire Empire have different national conditions. ”

Although Zhang Chenfeng had heard of the Holy Cloud Empire, he really didn't know much about the Holy Cloud Empire, wasn't it all an imperial system? How could the national conditions be different?

Du Qian sighed and said: "The founding emperor of our Holy Cloud Empire is one of the ancestors of my Holy Cloud Sect, and he is a disciple of my Holy Cloud Sect.

"After the founding of the People's Republic of China, our ancestor was crowned a hero, and almost all the brothers who followed him from the beginning and helped him build the country did not fall behind, not to mention, and even the military power was not recovered. ”

It was the first time Zhang Chenfeng had seen this kind of founding emperor, whether it was those dynasties on the earth or these empires in the Shenwu Continent, which founding emperor didn't try his best to take back his military power?

"yes, it's just too righteous!"

Du Qian smiled bitterly: "If it is nothing if you just don't take back the military power, as long as there are two wiser emperors in the future, with our Holy Cloud Sect as a backer, it will not be difficult to recover this military power, but our ancestor has set a very strange rule, which has caused the current situation of our Holy Cloud Empire." ”

Zhang Chenfeng looked surprised and said: "What are the strange rules? What kind of rules? It won't be that nobles are allowed to recruit private soldiers, right?"

"If only that were the case!"

Du Qian shook his head with a wry smile and said: "If you just allow the nobles to recruit private soldiers, it is impossible to appear in the current situation, the ancestor of my Holy Cloud Sect is afraid that the descendants of his brothers will not have a good life, when the country was founded, not to mention the official positions, the fiefs were sealed and sealed, almost all of them were hereditary, and made a blood oath to allow these nobles to recruit private soldiers, and all the fiefs were decided by them, and the imperial family was not allowed to intervene." ”

And, most importantly, at that time, the founding of the country divided 60% of the empire's territory. ”

Zhang Chenfeng was speechless, completely speechless, even when he was on earth, with so many countries and so many dynasties, he had never seen such a strange founding emperor.

Now Zhang Chenfeng has also confessed all the time, why are these armies so bad.

The Holy Cloud Empire has a strong military force, and the royal family is even more of the same as the first major faction, and there is no strong country around, these nobles are not worried about someone attacking their empire at all, where do they still have the heart to spend a lot of money to train their own troops or something?

After Du Qian finished explaining, he looked at Zhang Chenfeng's speechless face, and couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart, Du Qian also felt annoyed by the appearance of his empire, but he couldn't help it.

Now these nobles in their own country are involved in various major sects, and they can't move if they want to, unless they reshuffle the cards, but if they reshuffle the cards, in the case that Wuzun can't make a move, who can guarantee that the new royal family will be from their own Holy Cloud Sect?

It was not easy for his Holy Cloud Sect to cultivate a royal family from his own family, where would he be willing to give it up like this?

If this is reshuffled, how can his Holy Cloud Sect still be the same as now, and it can occupy more than one-third of the empire's martial arts resources.

Although his own Holy Cloud Sect is the number one faction in the Holy Cloud Empire, the martial artists of the Holy Cloud Empire are not all from the Holy Cloud Sect.

There are a total of seventeen Martial Venerables in the Holy Cloud Empire, and there are only five in the Holy Cloud Sect, plus those countless small sects.

and those nobles, once the cards are reshuffled, it is not the people of their own Holy Cloud Sect who come to power, and they will be thankful that their Holy Cloud Sect can occupy two percent of the resources.

(End of chapter)