Chapter 380: The Shikoku Era

Twenty years! In just 20 years, the whole world has completely changed. The old world is like a bubble that bursts at the slightest poke under the new political strategy, and there is almost no ability to resist.

In the past twenty years, the four kingdoms of Xu, Feng, Zhou, and Wu have expanded wildly, and the human realm has ushered in an unprecedented pattern. Even Confucian soldiers must rely on the power of the state to survive.

In the east, the Xuguo has a radius of millions of miles, with a population of hundreds of millions, and in addition to the Han Zongfa family and the Mo family, the Xuguo has also annexed the medical family; Shushan -- forget it, it is still half-dead, but there are a few old immortals who are indeed very powerful; but there is no aura, everything is in vain! In addition to these, there are also schools of thought cultivated by Xuguo himself that are completely loyal to the royal family; such as Akiba Wutong Mountain, such as Chivalry, and there are many large and small schools born in Xuguo because of the ideological enlightenment movement and the integration of other schools of thought.

The whole kingdom of Xu is like a wild jungle, and Xiao Hao is the king of the whole jungle, but there are fierce tigers and lions in the jungle (Han Zongfa and Mojia), cheetahs and bears (such as Qiuye Wutong Mountain and Xia Ru), gentle and majestic elephants (such as doctors), and other animals large and small (other schools). The whole Asahi country looks chaotic, but that's just the surface. In fact, the country is in order, and has reached a kind of "ecological balance"; of course, those grass, trees, mountains and rocks are equivalent to civilians.

The development of Xuguo is obvious to all, the domestic highways shuttle, the new capital of the city is "Tianjing", a huge city already close to the Central Plains, with a population of more than 100 million -- this is a city with a radius of 150 miles; a wide road like a square spreads out of the city, like blood through the whole of Xuguo.

After moving the capital several times in the past 20 years, Xuguo left behind a "sword road"! This road started from the East China Sea, passed through Xishan Town, passed through Liguang City, passed through Shangqiu of the former Song Kingdom, and passed through the capital city since Xuguo migrated, and unintentionally formed a "sword road." The sword points to the Central Plains, the sword points to the West, this road seems to condense the footsteps and wisdom of the development of Xuguo, exuding a momentum called pride and pride -- a road, there is a little wisdom, which is equivalent to Xiao Hao artificially creating a dragon vein, but this dragon vein is a bit special.

In addition to these, in twenty years. After the completion of the four five-year plans, the masters of the domestic purple qi rising to the east were stunned to be used by means similar to pig raising, making the streets all over the streets! This was unimaginable in the past, and the difficulties of the purple qi rising to the east were almost universally recognized; but Xiao Hao was stunned to open people's horizons through popular education, through ideological enlightenment, and through the promotion of scientific thought.

After twenty years, Xuguo's purple qi has risen to the east...... Unemployed! Yes, a lot of Purple Qi Donggao is unemployed; no way, there are too many. Of course, this so-called unemployment refers to at the middle and high levels. Purple Qi Dongsheng will never again be respected beyond the norm as it used to be.

In addition, Xuguo's commerce and industry have also made great progress, but because of the existence of supernatural powers and immortals in this world, Xiao Hao has not developed any gunpowder weapons (do you believe it, in fact, it has not been revealed in secret); For example, the railway!

Asahi now has a territory of more than one million kilometers from east to west, north and south, making trains the most popular means of transportation. With the help of supernatural masters, these trains can travel at speeds of up to 150 km/300 miles even though they only use steam engines, and they can achieve a high level of precision in their craft. Of course, steam ships are indispensable.

In a word. Xiao Hao combines the characteristics of the two worlds to develop a social system and a political system, so that the surrounding countries ...... I don't understand it.

That's the problem. For example, Fengguo! Fengguo has always imitated and borrowed from the development of Xuguo, but when the development of Xuguo suddenly accelerated, and the railway ships rolled in a hurry, Fengguo was dumbfounded-because the relevant industrial handicraft schools had long been secretly poached by Xiao Hao through merchants and so on, and enjoyed the treatment of scientists in Xuguo.

It doesn't matter if you can't keep up with the pace of Xuguo all of a sudden, and Fengguo, who has been imitating the development of Xuguo, can't do it at the root, so there will be a problem -- wrestling! This wrestling will make your nose blue and your eyes swollen!

In fact, it was not only Fengguo who wrestled, but also Zhou and Wu, who also fell with blue noses and swollen eyes.

Needless to say, what happens when transportation can't keep up when commerce is highly developed? Economic crisis! The outbreak of an economic crisis is multifaceted, but one thing is certain: a free market economy is sometimes fragile, and as long as a corner is leveraged, sometimes a chain reaction will occur! And Xiao Hao, of course, took advantage of this economic crisis to make a big profit. Take advantage of the convenience of transportation. Xiao Hao insisted on messing up the three countries with low-priced goods.

In addition, Xuguo monopolized the eastern coast, and the merchants of Xuguo, under the guidance of Xiao Hao, directly used sea salt to impact the relatively high price of salt in the mainland, and controlled the secret salt market in various countries. Subsequently, Xiao Hao did not raise the price, but started an information war! The use of salt is the basis of daily necessities, and the merchants of Xuguo often engage in promotions -- in the process of promotion, of course, it is necessary to publicize Xuguo.

Believe it or not, your salt supply will be cut off tomorrow! Come on, come on, a few luck coins don't become a tribute, hahaha......

In addition, using economic warfare and so on, Xiao Hao was stunned to hype up the newly produced royal red gas luck coins of Xuguo into high-priced currencies -- one top three! You see, what is luck? Xuguo alone is more influential than the other three countries; and Xuguo's luck coins are king-red, this is because it is a fusion of the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and other luck coins are actually heaven and earth luck, without the luck of 'people', this thing would be incomplete, you say yes. Under such propaganda and hype, Xiao Hao shamelessly tripled the value of his country's Qi Luck Coin out of thin air, and people from other countries screamed.

In addition to Xuguo, Fengguo is indeed the best developed, and Xuguo is like two hegemons in the east and west, and it also has a land diameter of more than one million. However, the miscellaneous family here in Fengguo and the Li Zongfa family are more xenophobic, and they have been learning to imitate Xuguo and have suffered a lot of losses - in fact, they don't know that they have suffered a lot of losses. For example, the price of salt in Xuguo is unified, the price of seafood is very low, and because of the sea, plus railway transportation and other means, the people are very satisfied. But these things are different in other countries, because transportation and the deliberate control of the country of Xu, etc., make the prices in different regions of other countries very different - this makes the people dissatisfied.

And the trap in this is: it opens up the wisdom of the people. But this problem, obviously, Fengguo did not realize it, they only saw that the country was thriving, but they did not chase the roots of the tree as if they were poisoned.

In addition to the Xuguo, the two countries of Zhou and Wu, which developed later, were not bad, but they were a little small, and the diameter of these two countries did not exceed 300,000 li. However, the martial arts are the masters of the military family. The whole country is a big barracks, and even Xiao Hao has a headache when facing this country. The Zhou state was very strong in terms of civil governance, and this allowed them to give birth to many, many supernatural masters, although their folk were not very good.

Now the Terran Territory, in addition to the four huge countries, is the Central Plains. The Central Plains is surrounded by four families in the middle, and now there are some rat throwers. The Central Plains is 100,000 miles in diameter, and there is a ring of "small" countries around it -- in fact, these countries are not small, many of them are more than 10,000 miles in diameter, but they can only tremble in the face of the four great powers of today.

Sky. Although many people in the Central Plains believe it, when the borders of the four countries are pushed to the Central Plains, everyone is still at a loss. Central Plains is different from other places, it has always been a form of management similar to an association or a consortium, so the people of Central Plains don't expect much from Shikoku - we are already doing well. In fact, part of the Central Plains instinctively opposed the rule - our free life is very comfortable!

But obviously, the four countries will not give up the Central Plains! In fact, everyone now understands that the next era of unification of the human race is coming, and this will inevitably appear in one of the four countries. Maybe. The worst of wars is coming.

However, there is a difference in the Central Plains, which is the center of the human race. It is a place of great fortune - it is a good place to set the capital, and most importantly, it is definitely a hot potato - but it is also a sweet potato!

The Shikoku era has arrived, but no one knows how long it will last. In the same way, Nakahara is also paying attention to the surrounding situation.

Finally, a storm swept in, and the four emperors of the four countries were ready to meet in the Central Plains. The first negotiations between the two sides began. This negotiation is said to have been initiated by Xiao Hao first, and the other three countries then agreed to meet under the attention of various schools of thought in the Central Plains. The place where the Quartet met was the Central Plains. In the past 20 years, there has been a lot of turmoil, and the four empires have dominated the world; now the emperors of the four empires want to meet in the Central Plains, and I don't know how many people have attracted attention.

"Have you heard? Now the four most powerful countries are going to meet in the Central Plains. I don't know how wonderful it is, huh?"

"I think Asahikook is good. Everything started with Asahikook, and the countries that followed it were nothing more than imitations. ”

"Which eye do you see? Is the military family's martial arts also imitating? The martial arts are also completely developing their own. ”

"Don't argue, don't argue, let's just go and see. In fact, what I hate the most is Fengguo, who has betrayed the interests of the human race since the beginning of the miscellaneous family, and then shamelessly plagiarized Xuguo. I heard that Xuguo has had trouble with Fengguo many times because of some patent issues, but Fengguo's face is really not ordinarily thick. ”

"Of course you should be thick-skinned, otherwise you will be the emperor. Tsk, these four emperors today are said to be very old, and Xiao Hao is less than forty years old now. It is said that Xiao Hao has now reached the peak level of Danxin, and has at least a few hundred years of life. In the future, Xuguo will definitely continue to grow and develop. Speaking of which, if the world is finally unified, I also hope that it will be Xuguo. ”

"I hope it's Wu Guo. In this way, we will be able to fight foreign wars and unify Dongsheng Shenzhou!"

"Phew, you have bad eyes, Wu Guo is just a reckless man. A group of people who know how to fight, I believe that as long as Xuguo has an empty hand, a few economic strategies can drag down the military country. "Well, Xiao Hao has really changed the world, and even ordinary readers know about the economic war.

"Prepare for the light and shadow recording ball, the meeting of the four emperors, the scene will definitely shock the world. The four great powers have initially possessed some of the prestige of the ancient Xia and Shang dynasties, and they will be very exciting after all. ”

"Light and shadow record jade ball, this seems to be something developed by Xuguo and Shushan, this thing is really expensive, one costs three luck coins. ”

"In Xuguo, sell a gas luck coin. ”

"People's Xuguo is a treasure coin, the treasure red luck coin is a treasure coin. It's not the Qi Luck Coin that is deducted. ”

"Ahh ”

"......Shhh I don't want to live anymore. Hurry up. ”

This kind of situation has happened again and again in the Central Plains, and in fact, such a situation has happened a lot in the past 20 years - of course, Xiao Hao is driving behind it!

Another day, the sky was clear and dotted with white clouds. It looks like a fairytale sky, but on a plain in the Central Plains, a plain that is thousands of miles long, people are overcrowded, and all kinds of voices come and go, and everyone is exchanging their ideas. The influential schools in the Central Plains tradition, such as the Nine Streams of the World and the Hundred Workers, all sent people (all of whom were heads of the families sitting in the Central Plains) to greet them, and of course these people were also intermediaries in the four-party negotiations.

At noon, when the sun was just in the middle of the sky, the west was the first to change, and endless blue light rose to the sky, as if to compete with the sun in the sky. Then I saw a black line appear at the end of the heaven and earth in the distance, and at the intersection of heaven and earth. The black line was thin and thin at first, but soon it began to thicken - and everyone was stunned. Where is this black line, it is simply an army of black armor! But this army is all stepping on clouds and mist, flying rapidly.

"An army of millions!"

"All of them are masters of Purple Qi Ascension! This world is crazy!"

"Fengguo is mighty, mighty, mighty!" The mighty voice came from afar, like a roar of thunder from the sky. Under the roar of these millions of supernatural masters, the sky was turbulent, and countless leisurely white clouds were torn apart, and finally turned into broken feathers and dissipated.

The heavy coercion came from afar, and many ordinary people, and even some little masters who had just risen in purple qi, were trembling. Even the weak-hearted knelt down.

"Fengguo, Your Majesty Wuwei has arrived!" a loud voice. A voice peculiar to eunuchs came. Of course, eunuchs could not have such great abilities, and this was done with the help of other people's power - the power of eunuchs certainly came from the emperor.

His Majesty Emperor Fengguo Li Ziyu, called Wuwei. Sitting on a huge throne carved of gold, the throne sits in the clouds, and is guarded by countless masters, all of whom are Danxin masters. There are also eighteen low-level Sun and Moon Tonghui masters behind him.

Millions of heavenly soldiers are mighty. There is no shortage of clouds and mist, cavalry and infantry, etc., all of them are masters after the purple qi rises eastward. The mighty power shocked the entire Central Plains.

This is the real king, no longer the king of a small country in the past - everyone who sees a purple qi rising in the east has to laugh; now, the people who obey the orders are all the masters of Danxin - the purple qi ascending in the east. You can only be a small soldier.

However, before everyone had time to think more, there was a sudden change in the north.

The sound of heavy war drums resounded through the sky, and the breath of Xiao Killing instantly enveloped the sky; the sky was still sunny, but it seemed to be extremely depressing, as if the sky was about to collapse, as if the sun was about to fall, as if the earth was trembling.

The long, tragic trombone sound of "Woo Woo ......" resounded, and the tragic atmosphere rolled in like a tidal wave, and a blue light appeared on the horizon -- but although it was blue light, it gave people a sense of slaughter, misery, and coldness. Ordinary people only seemed to feel their souls directly exposed to the cold wind, shivering.

The people who had just knelt down under the momentum of Fengguo were suddenly farting and urinating at this time, and some of those who didn't kneel down just now finally knelt down tremblingly.

A cyan cloud with a blue and black color slowly drifted from the north, and a row of drummers and a row of soldiers blowing horns above were working hard; everyone was surprised again! Because here is also an army of millions, and they are all masters of purple qi rising eastward! You must know that this martial country is barely one-tenth of the area of the two countries of Fengguo and Xuguo, but it can still come up with a million supernatural masters!

Compared with ordinary people, those family schools and so on, their faces began to be solemn. Is this a real dynasty? No, this is only a preliminary dynasty, and it has not yet completed a unified dynasty! A dynasty, the whole Central Plains is under a strong rule! It is not like a royal court -- a small local government. The two sides are not comparable at all.

"Wuguo, His Majesty Jingwu has arrived!"

This time the voice was not that of a eunuch, but of a majestic man, and everyone could see that in front of all the troops, at some point, a general in black armor and a dark red cloak appeared behind his back. Seeing this person, everyone's first reaction was - iron-blooded and mighty!

The first general of the Wu Kingdom, Sun Peng, the general of Tiance, the younger brother of the emperor Sun Wei!

Thundered...... This time, it was not the emperor's throne that appeared, but the sweat and blood horse! Dressed in blood-red armor and a black cloak with dark stripes on his back, he led a kind of cavalry to gallop through the sky. Under his feet is an ever-expanding cyan cloud road, and the cavalry above is crisscrossed.

All the cavalry with black armor and black cloaks, horse lances, long knives and bows and arrows, were influenced by the military of the Asahi Kingdom, and the cavalry of the Martial Kingdom also changed. However, all the cavalry were all masters of the Purple Qi East. The war horses under him have also been treated with high cost - luck infusion!

As soon as this group of cavalry came out, there was the sound of gasps everywhere. It seems that a long sword is rushing towards you, with a tragic murderous aura!

The emperor right away, Sun Wei, the emperor of the martial kingdom!

The West and the North appeared one after another.

The crowd began to look to the east and south.

Living up to expectations, the South was the first to change.

Dao Dao Qingguang ...... No, it was waves of blue light, as if it were waves, but when they saw this kind of light, everyone suddenly felt pure and peaceful. The sound of reading came one after another, and if you listened carefully, you could hear the recitation of the Analects, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Yi and so on, and these voices were mixed together. It sounds cluttered, but if you hit the spirit, you'll notice that all the other sounds are gone, leaving only the classics you want to hear.

A peculiar blue light emerged from the south and then spread rapidly. I saw a ...... There is a driver and a scholar in every carriage, but the driver is a master of purple qi and a scholar is a master of Danxin! And there are 200,000 such carriages! 200,000 Danxin masters!

And because of the large size of the carriage, the team is more dispersed, but the formation is even larger. Almost obscured the southern sky.

At the very center of the procession is a six-horse purple chariot, all dressed in various shades of purple. At first glance, it is as if you have seen the most noble thing in the world.

There is a circle of cavalry next to this most noble carriage, and the cavalry is also dressed as scholars, but there are masters of Danxin, and even more masters of the sun and the moon!

"Zhou Guo, Your Majesty Lechang has arrived!" this time it was also the voice of the eunuch. The emperor of Zhou was Kong Qingyun, the first young talent of Confucianism in the past.

As the shouting ended, waves of blue light rippled. It was as if the water of the lake was wrinkled, clear and beautiful, and under the ripples of this blue light, the ordinary people who had been frightened by Fengguo and Wuguo before were suddenly terrified, as if they had seen the light, and the dirt on these people was completely removed, and everyone was in good spirits.

Moment. Countless people were full of good feelings for Confucianism and the Zhou Kingdom.

"Hmph!" "Hmph!" Two slight snorts came faintly, and it was obvious that Feng Guo and Wu Guo were very dissatisfied with Zhou Guo's behavior.

The golden throne in the west, the iron-blooded war horse in the north, and the purple emperor in the south, each of which surprised and excited people! Over the years, especially the younger generation, they have almost grown up in this era of change, and they have been influenced by the ideological storm from the Rising Kingdom, and their minds are lively and active, and they are full of a yearning and curiosity that the old people do not understand about these four empires.

These young people watched the ancient countries collapse like bubbles, and then watched the explosive growth of the four empires, and the little pride in their hearts was also detonated. A lot of young people seem to be going to serve in the four empires.

It's just that why hasn't anyone from the East come at this time?

One moment, two moments...... The day is in the middle of the day, and the best time is near.

"What is Xuguo doing?" Not to mention ordinary people, even the heads of various schools and the three major empires that have come are a little confused.

The noisy and shouting gradually became louder, and many people began to wonder, could it be that Xuguo wanted to break the appointment? If he really failed to make an appointment on such a grand occasion, Xuguo's good reputation would fall by half!

"Xuguo, Your Majesty Dewu has arrived!" Finally, seeing that the hour was about to pass noon, a voice finally came.

But what about people? only voices? and the eastern sky is nothing wrong?

"Did you look for me earlier?" Xiao Hao's calm voice came now. Everyone looked down and saw Xiao Hao walking in front with Empress Qingyue on horseback, and there was a team of less than a thousand people behind, including men and women, old and young, who were slowly coming from the east on ordinary horses.

"It's ...... What's going on?" (To be continued......