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You must know that although Ye Chen was seriously injured, his strength was still not to be underestimated, plus the innate jade gourd was a magic weapon that the Evil Emperor had been operating for many years, and its power was far from being comparable to the two in the hands of Han Xue and Wei Piaopiao, how could Qi control the Soul Eater Shuttle in a distant place, how could he break free from Ye Chen's clamps?

However, he was also generous, and seeing that he couldn't break free, he simply ignored the Soul Devouring Shuttle, and directly let him be taken in by the innate jade gourd and fall into Ye Chen's hands. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ye Chen stretched out his hand and wiped it, took the Soul Eater Shuttle out of the Innate Jade Gourd, and threw it into the Blood Demon Ding, allowing the Blood Demon Ding to refine the Yuan Shen that Qi had left on the Soul Eater Shuttle.

However, after doing all this, Ye Chen couldn't support it anymore, spit out a mouthful of blood again, and fell into Shan Candle's arms and passed out.

This time, Ye Chen's injury was so serious that he was in a coma for more than half a month before he woke up. As soon as he opened his eyes, Ye Chen saw that his bedside was full of people, his parents Ye Zhanlong, Yun Yun'er, Shan Zhu, Allure, Jingxin, Han Xue, Ling Hexin, and Ye Chen also noticed that there was residual blood outside the door, Long Wu Longxin, Wei Piaopiao, Ning Nannan, and they seemed to have been waiting for Ye Chen to wake up.

"Xiao Chen!" Han Xue, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, was the first to notice that Ye Chen had woken up, and rushed over to hug Ye Chen in surprise, her voice a little choked.

"Brother!"

"Wake up!"

"Master, how are you?"

Ye Zhanlong and the others were also overjoyed, and they all gathered around and stood beside Ye Chen's bedside.

"Everybody's here. Ye Chen smiled weakly and wanted to sit up. "Don't move, you're still weak. Allure hurriedly said.

"Come on, go and invite Yao Lao and the Taiping County Lord!" Jingxin shouted out the door.

Outside the door, a maid immediately went down, and the remnants of blood and others also hurriedly swarmed in, seeing that Ye Chen had woken up, they all let out a sigh of relief, but they were busy saluting Ye Chen.

"You don't have to do this in private, if you really want to say it, the dragon is the dragon emperor. Ye Chen said with a smile, motioning for everyone to get up, "How long have I been in a coma?"

"More than half a month, thanks to the medicine, otherwise you would have died by now!" Jing Xin glanced at Ye Chen and said, "I think you are unwilling to give away your life, right?"

Ye Chen smiled, but he also knew that Jingxin was caring about himself.

"How is the Phantom Dragon Continent, has anything happened recently?" Ye Chen asked again.

"The Leaning Moon Immortal Mountain has been suppressed, the seven ancestors were killed by the Emperor Shakti, the elders of the Leaning Moon Immortal Mountain died dead, the wounded were injured, most of the disciples fled to the East China Sea, the imperial dragon said that the poor Kou Mo chased, I didn't let the East China Sea Dragon King lead the troops to encircle and suppress, but they are still greatly injured, and their current strength is not even as good as the Guishui Blessed Land, and the Nine Sects of the Phantom Dragon are one less. The fief that originally belonged to the Leaning Moon Immortal Mountain was now sealed to the remnant blood, and it was guarded by him. Jingxin said.

"Natural and man-made disasters continue to occur, and more and more large and small forces have risen up to establish a country, trying to divide the Phantom Dragon Continent and annex the surrounding forces. Yulong adopted the method of offering rewards to deal with them, and the major sects went to rehabilitate, and those who successfully suppressed the rebels could be named the county king or city lord according to the size of the merit. ”

The method of the dragon is still good, originally the Phantom Dragon Continent was divided and controlled by the princes of the eight directions, two princes per state, and Zhongzhou was controlled in the hands of the Royal Dragon Palace, and then the princes of the eight directions divided the county kings in their respective fiefs, and then the county kings sent city lords to the cities in their respective fiefs.

In terms of management, each county king can have 30,000 troops in his hands, and the princes can have 200,000 troops in his hands. The lord of the city must obey the dispatch of the king of the county and pay a certain tribute tax to the king of the county every year, while the king of the county must obey the dispatch of the princes and pay tribute to the princes, and finally the princes must pay the annual tribute tax to the Royal Dragon Palace, which will be filled into the treasury and used to govern the Phantom Dragon Continent.

But there is a drawback in this, that is, the power of the princes of the eight directions is too great, the county kings and city lords in the fiefdom are firmly in their hands, and after Ye Chen abdicates, the princes of the eight directions will be able to raise troops and establish a country, turning the originally free Phantom Dragon Continent into eight empires, which are controlled by the Phantom Dragon Eight Sects, recruiting troops and horses, and strengthening themselves, but Ye Chen is helpless, after all, if he abdicates, he will have no identity to stand up and interfere in these things.

If the monarchs of the eight empires are all Ming monarchs, then it's nothing, anyway, didn't Bai Fengyun also have a Fengyun empire before. But in case there is a faint tyrant in the eight empires, the Phantom Dragon Continent will fight again, competing for interests and territory, and setting off a war that is even bigger than the war of the gods.

And if the dragon does this, it can weaken the rights of the princes of the eight directions to a certain extent, for example, if a second-rate force suppresses many rebels, its suzerain or family head can be crowned as the king of the county, with fiefs and military power. Originally, the Phantom Dragon Continent was three counties in five continents, with six counties in each state, and each county had four hundred to six hundred cities.

For example, the fief of each prince will be changed from three counties to six counties, and then three county kings will be added under each prince, and the city lords of the larger cities in each county king's fief will be replaced, so that the military power in the hands of the princes can be reduced.

Now each of the princes of the eight directions has 200,000 troops in his hands, and he has 30,000 troops for each of the three county kings in his fiefdom, and he still has 110,000 troops in his hands. And if there are six counties, the 200,000 military power in the hands of the princes will be divided into six parts, and even if the military power of each county king changes from 30,000 to 20,000, here is the military power of 120,000, and the princes can only leave 80,000 military power.

In addition, the city lords in the relatively large cities of each county are not controlled by the county king, and when the time comes, they will have a certain amount of strength if they form a party under the county king, and the county king will suppress these forces, so it will become a mutual containment.

In this way, if Ye Chen abdicates, he will first take back the military power in the hands of the princes and the county king, disband the army, the military power in the hands of the city lord is smaller, and there is the suppression of the county king, no matter how much the power swells, it will not become too big, and when the time comes, as soon as Ye Chen abdicates, whether it is the princes, the county king, or the city lord, they can only go back to their respective homes and find their own mothers.

At most, it is just to let the Phantom Dragon Continent have a few more powerful second-rate sects, and these second-rate sects will not pose a threat to the Phantom Dragon Continent, and then the status will be the same as the status of the Hanhai King before. In this way, after Ye Chen abdicated, the Phantom Dragon Continent could return to the state before the God Slaughter Tribulation, even if there were one or two heroes who could still raise troops and establish a country in such a situation, it would be similar to the Fengyun Empire at most, and even inferior to the original Fengyun Empire.

"As for the natural disaster, the imperial dragon handed over the task of disaster relief to the princes of the eight directions, and then the imperial dragon palace allocated a part of the money, the princes of the eight directions must relieve the victims in their fiefdoms, and some sect forces have also come to help, plus the imperial dragon palace sent a strong person in the Nirvana realm to control a part of the natural power of heaven and earth, and the disaster was temporarily controlled. Kagami continued.

The taxes collected from the people of the Phantom Dragon Continent naturally had to be used on the people of the Phantom Dragon Continent, Ye Chen would not embezzle a Yuan Qi Pill from the treasury of the Royal Dragon Palace, and the princes of the Eight Directions would not want to fill their pockets and take the taxes collected layer by layer to their respective sects!

To put it bluntly, Ye Chen is a coolie, Ye Chen is the Dragon Emperor, and his own food cannot be deducted from the tribute tax, either with the Dragon Sect's, or with the gifts and gifts sent by the princes of all parties along with the tribute tax, these things are given to the Dragon Emperor, not to the Dragon Palace, Ye Chen can use it or not.

The annual tribute tax is used to pay the army, pay the civil and military officials of the Royal Dragon Palace, and store the rest in the treasury for disaster relief or the construction of cities. The same is true of the princes of the Eight Directions, whose army is to be paid from the tribute they leave every year, and there is no money.

However, the princes of the eight directions are a little better than Ye Chen, and the tribute paid by each county in their fiefdom can be kept by themselves, of which, forty percent must be used to pay food and salary to their respective soldiers and horses, and to pay money to the hundred officials under them, and one percent will be left in the treasury for disaster relief, building cities, etc., and one percent will be left to them to dispose of by themselves, whether it is handed over to the sect behind them, or whether it is kept and squandered, Ye Chen will not care.

The same is true of the king of the county, and the lord of the city is a feast. For taxation, Ye Chen also has strict regulations to prevent harsh taxes and heavy taxes, if such a situation is found, he will lose his official position at the lightest, and he will be beheaded at the worst!

"What about the Yellow Sky Puppet, is there any movement?" Ye Chen nodded, quite satisfied with this series of methods of the Imperial Dragon.

"Nope. Ye Zhanlong took over and said, "After the Yellow Heaven Puppet was born, there has been no movement until now, and our sect's Heavenly Machine Hall and Heavenly Star Pavilion have been paying close attention to the Phantom Dragon Continent, but they have not found the slightest clue about the hiding place of the Yellow Heaven Puppet. ”

Ye Chen squinted his eyes when he heard this, and kept reasoning and guessing in his mind, trying to figure out what the Huang Tian puppet was planning, or rather, what Qi was planning.

"Ye Chen, Qi said that there is still one last chess piece, isn't it Gongzi Cliff?" Just as Ye Chen was concentrating on thinking, Jing Xin suddenly asked on the side.

"It's not. Ye Chen squinted his eyes and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Qi's last move is probably on the Huang Tian puppet, of course, it is not ruled out that it will be on Murong Xiu's, but this possibility is smaller." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, looked at each other for a moment, and finally Allure asked with some worry: "Doesn't that mean that if you pull out Qi, you will have to kill the Yellow Sky puppet first?"

"Hmm. Ye Chen nodded, "Also, I plan to wait for the injury to heal, and then hand over the affairs of the Phantom Dragon Continent to the Royal Dragon, and set off to the extraterritorial void to find Xiaoyaotian by myself." ”

"Are you going to find Xiaoyaotian?" Allure was stunned when he heard this, "That's where the Dragon King of the Xiaoyao God lives, it has always been mysterious, even during the reign of the Dragon God, not many people know where Xiaoyaotian is!"

"Do you know the Joyful Dragon King?" Ye Chen was also stunned, looking up at Allure.

He knew that the first life of Allure was the Pojira Divine Dragon King, which was a Divine Dragon King during the reign of the Divine Dragon, and the second life was called the Nine Yin Demon Emperor, also known as the Candle Dragon, which was the Demon Emperor of the Holy King Realm during the reign of the Warcraft, and the third life was called Allure, and after breaking through the Void Realm, he lived thirty-three days away, that is, in the extraterritorial void, and opened up a space, which did not often appear in the Phantom Dragon Continent, and did not come back until the Yellow Sky Tribulation appeared in the Phantom Dragon Continent.

Since Allure was also a Divine Dragon King during the Divine Dragon Reign period, I think there will be some contact with the rest of the Divine Dragon Kings more or less, you know, it is extremely difficult for the Saint King Realm powerhouse to break through, I am afraid that even in the late stage of the Divine Dragon Reign, when the Phantom Dragon Continent was at its most powerful, there were only one or twenty Divine Dragon Kings at most, and there were only six left in the Yellow Heaven Tribulation, Ye Chen could name them, after all, he relied on their dragon jade to improve his cultivation almost all the way.