During the time when Cheng Xiuyi went all the way south, her brows wrinkled day by day, and when she just came down the mountain, the people under Sanqing Mountain lived relatively wealthy.

Because they didn't have to pay high taxes to the empire like the people in the rest of the empire.

They only need to pay a small part of the offerings to the Guanyu on the mountain, and of course this is only the case at the Infinite Sect Altar.

In other parts of the empire, these believers were not much kinder than the tax collectors of the empire, after all, not everyone could become a saint-level powerhouse or even a god through their own hard cultivation.

They still need to live in a secular world, and many people squeeze the blood and sweat of ordinary people in the name of religion.

As mentioned earlier, refining magic weapons and pills all require a lot of money as support, and the reason why Sanqingshan, the head altar of the Infinite Sect, is better than other places is not the reason why Yuan Yangzi is in charge.

Because for a saint-level powerhouse like him, ordinary people are like ants, and he will not take it seriously, the reason why the foot of Sanqing Mountain is so peaceful.

This is because the worldly practitioner who is in charge of worldly things in the Immeasurable Sect is a very strict person.

(Note: Worldly walkers are the stewards of the religious world who specialize in the management of worldly affairs)

Therefore, when Cheng Xiuyi found that the farther away from Sanqing Mountain, the more difficult the people's lives became.

The empire is already terminally ill, and the nobles live in luxury, and they can eat more than 100 taels of blue silver in an ordinary meal.

And an ordinary person, the cost of living in a month is not even a few ordinary copper coins, this is still a rich place in the south of the empire, it is difficult to imagine how the people living in those poor places in the north and southwest of the empire live.

The nobles and those Zen novices lived in luxury, and ordinary people couldn't even eat their stomachs.

(Shami is the name given to ordinary Zen practitioners.)

(Immeasurable Venerable is the name that people call ordinary practitioners of Immeasurable Buddhism)

Such an empire will one day have big problems, and although she hates his father for leaving her mother, she is the princess of this empire after all.

She didn't want to see her people living in misery every day, although they were dozens of years old, but for a half-elf, her current mental age was just a teenage girl, kindness, innocence, jealousy and hatred were her innate nature.

So she suddenly had the idea that instead of going to see her mother, she would return to the capital of the empire to meet her father and tell him everything she saw.

She believed that her father, as the supreme ruler of the country, still hoped that the country could get better and better.

So Cheng Xiuyi turned around and went straight to Shangjing, Sanqingshan is still very close to Shangjing, only more than 2,000 kilometers.

Riding a deer, horse, and beast for more than ten or twenty days came to Shangjing, when she stood outside the gate of Shangjing, she saw the tall city wall that she was familiar with and unfamiliar with when a burst of tears flowed out.

It's been more than twenty years, and she was just eighteen years old when she left here, and she was a child who didn't know anything.

Eighteen is not yet an adult for a half-elf, and this is the place of her sadness, where she sees her father having to break up with her mother in the face of the pressure of the entire court.

At that time, she cried and wanted her mother, but the ministers of the empire separated her from her mother on the grounds that the royal blood could not be exiled to a foreign country.

And her father has a lot of things to do every day, and he has no time to be by her side at all.

Here she saw her father and another woman holding a grand ceremony, so that the short time that her father had been with her was occupied by another woman.

Because the courtiers who were waiting beside her told her that His Majesty should make due contributions to the reproduction of the royal heirs.

So here she saw the birth of his first half-brother, and she decided to leave.

In her life eighteen years ago, the two teachers did not occupy a very important place, because all the skills she learned were taught by her parents, her magic was taught by her mother, her bow and arrow skills were taught by her mother, and her poetry and songs were all from her father.

At that time, the two teachers spent most of their time wandering, and even if they taught her skills, it was only symbolic, after all, although her status was very noble, but the two masters who had attained the Tao would not put all their energy on a little girl.

Because she doesn't need these powers to protect herself at all, because her father is the prince of the empire and has countless masters around her, and her mother is a strong man of the elven race.

But in the last twenty years of her life, the teachings of these two teachers have been indispensable, because they have taught her what power is.

What can this power bring to a person, as long as you have this power, then whether it is a noble, emperor, or an ordinary person, they will maintain due respect for you.

Because it is very necessary, because the power you have can influence their fate.

Now that she has returned to Shangjing, she wants to use the power she has at her disposal to change the country and change her father.

So she stood in front of the gate of Shangjing, which is the oldest city on this continent and even on this planet, and there is no one, with a history of nearly 10,000 years.

The ancestors of the Xia and Yuan Empire first lived in the Qing Plain, which was 3,400 kilometers west of Shangjing, and the ancestors mainly hunted and gathered, and relied entirely on the sky for food.

However, due to the reproduction of the race, the Qing Plain, which covers an area of only a few dozen square kilometers, is not enough for the life of the ancestors.

So the elders of the clan decided to leave there to find a more suitable place for the tribe to live, and they went all the way east to the place where the capital city was located, where there was nothing at that time, but the water and grass were abundant, and there were three water systems around it, Xia Shui, Wei Shui, and Yuan Shui.

These three water systems all originate from the Dengyun Peak at an altitude of more than 13,500 meters, and the mountain dwarves call the sacred mountain Team Mountain, the snow on the top of the mountain all year round, the snow water merges into small streams, and the small streams converge into rivers, and the rivers finally converge into large rivers.

The surging river created a huge plain, which was later called Samsuwon by the ancestors.

Ancestors multiplied on this plain, established tribes, then established towns, and finally established Shangjing City here when the ancestors founded the country.

It stands to reason that Shangjing is not very suitable as the capital of a country, and if a city wants to become the capital of a country, it must meet the following conditions, first of all, it is dangerous, secondly, it is convenient transportation, and then it is necessary to have a certain cultural heritage.

The latter two points are available in the capital, because the three rivers are surrounded, so the traffic in the capital is very convenient, and because the depth of the three water systems is not particularly deep, there is no water life in these three water systems.

There are many rivers in the Xia Yuan Empire, and ten percent of them are inhabited by water tribes, and water tribes, like sea tribes, are naturally powerful water magicians.

They claim to be the descendants of the river gods, and in a great river they are the masters of this great river, and they are the gods of this great river.

The races that live on land, even the Sages, are difficult to compete with in their water system.

Of course, it is difficult for them to come to the land, a water tribe saint-level powerhouse, when they get to the land, even ordinary swordsmen can't compete with them, except for the land rangers.

These aquarists, in the water system where they are located, often sit on the ground to collect money, of course, the blue silver used on land, star gold, these things are useless to them.

All they need are all kinds of rust-resistant metal weapons and armor used by humans, which are what the Aquarium needs.

However, since most of the water system where the water tribe is located is inland, they also need to maintain due respect for the nobles and powerful people on land.

It's as if people on land will respect the strong in the water tribe, and there is no water tribe living in these three water systems where Shangjing City is located, which ensures the traffic safety of Shangjing City.

The Sanshui Plain, where Shangjing City is located, has been hundreds of thousands of years since the beginning of human life, and it is the ancestral land of the Zhongzhou people.

Therefore, there is no problem in terms of cultural heritage, but the only deficiency is that there is no danger to defend in the capital.

But because the people of Zhongzhou have been operating here for more than 10,000 years, they don't want to give up here easily, although Cheng Chuyang wanted to move the capital to another place, but the ministers of the empire collectively opposed it, so they gave up.

Later, when the empire was unified, the founding emperor of the empire also planned to move the capital, but once again met with collective opposition from the ministers.

Later, several strategically minded emperors wanted to move the capital, but without exception they were opposed.

We cannot say that these ministers are all short-sighted people, but there are many of them who are eloquent and strategic, and many of them are talents who govern the country and the country.

But sometimes the ass decides the brain, and the political form of the Xia Yuan Empire is the dual politics of the emperor and the aristocracy, and the aristocracy enjoys very high privileges in the empire, and this is especially true in politics.

If the emperor's decision is opposed by more than 60 percent of the nobles, then the emperor's decree is useless at all, and the governors of the various ministries can remain in the middle of the country.

Shangjing, as the capital of the empire, there are countless nobles living here, and someone once joked that if a magician uses a thunderbolt in Shangjing and kills ten people, he can kill eight princes, a prince and a marquis.

The noble marquis here is nothing at all, and the rest of the counts, barons, and viscounts are countless.

Therefore, Shangjing is a place where these nobles themselves and their families have been running for generations, and if they leave, then their previous business will be in vain.

And those who can become officials in Shangjing are basically big nobles, and the position of the children of the poor family basically does not matter.

Therefore, they are soft-spoken, and even if they support the emperor's decision, it is useless.

Therefore, in order to make Shangjing more dangerous, and with the increase of population, Shangjing has been expanded again and again.

The earliest Shangjing City is only more than ten kilometers in circumference, and the height of the city is only a few meters.

There are 1,800 families living in the city, and there can be 10,000 people, and then with the increase in population, the city continues to expand, and at first it is convenient because of the small expansion of the city.

A few earth magicians can tear down the original city wall in a few days, and then continue to extend a few hundred meters on this basis, and the original city wall will be a few meters higher, and a city will rise again.

And at that time, there were very few people who mastered magic, and those who could master magic were called powerful, which was a great thing.

But now there are tens of thousands of magicians in the empire, and there are about 10,000 earth-based magicians living in Shangjing.

These people joined forces, and with the help of some magicians and ordinary people from other departments, it would take a long time before the walls could be rebuilt.

The most recent expansion was 300 years ago, as the permanent population of Shangjing was 8 million, and the floating population and the number of people who depend on the city for their lives are more than twice as large as the permanent population.

Therefore, the emperor and his ministers decided to expand the Shangjing City, which is now divided into the imperial city, the inner city, the outer city, and the front and back four moats.

The Imperial City is divided into the Inner Imperial City, the Outer Imperial City, and the Arch City, among which the walls of the Inner Imperial City are the highest and reach an astonishing height of 435 meters, and the thickness reaches 95 meters.

And in order to defend against the attack of spells, there is a perennial spell array in the middle of the imperial city to protect the capital.