Slowly opening his eyes, Xiao Hao looked at the light of the eastern sky, and his heart was infinitely emotional. With the help of the change in luck caused by the official establishment of the country and the sacrifice of heaven and earth, Xiao Hao actually entered the high-level third grade of Purple Qi Dongsheng in one fell swoop. But the most important thing is that with the help of this opportunity, many people around Xiao Hao have completed the leap.

Xiang'er, Qingyue, Xiao Hao's parents, uncles, some relatives, and some generals, such as Han Sheng and Zhang Yun, Yang Qianjun, who took refuge in the later period but was widely respected, were all "forced" to be sent to the state of Purple Qi Dongsheng and became masters of Purple Qi Dongsheng. For the human race of this era, after the purple qi rises eastward, it means the road to heaven, and the kingdom of Xu has once again achieved a legend.

On the front line, even in winter and early spring, Xuguo is still using troops abroad! When other countries are still paying attention to spring ploughing, Xuguo's offensive has not stopped in the slightest; because Xuguo is no longer adopting the traditional system of combining soldiers and the people, but an independent "volunteer soldier system."

The volunteer system made the military power of Xuguo unprecedentedly strong and united - every soldier was not the kind of militia with complaints, and the country had a well-established military merit and welfare system. In such a situation, the general does not have to fear the soldiers running away halfway - the "miracle" of 100,000 soldiers at the time of departure and only 30,000 soldiers left when they arrive at the target will not happen (deserters were too normal in ancient times. Some armies, having arrived at the front, did not even have enough combat effectiveness). The army commands are fluid and the soldiers' discipline is perfect.

In Xuguo, soldiers are no longer told to be loyal to the king, but to fight together for everyone, for the future! People are always selfish, for these Xiao Hao is not as fearful as others, but to guide them with good intentions, and appropriately improve a little - for example, in addition to self-interest, there is also fighting for the future, everyone is a fighter and the like. It was even more exciting for these recruits to scream.

Moreover, Xuguo's military is definitely not reckless, but strictly calculated. The number of soldiers attacking was not large, but with the addition of a few masters of purple qi rising eastward, and the spread of Xuguo's reputation, Xuguo's army marched high. The well-disciplined army of Xuguo will not have a situation of "over-fighting", but will not be guilty of opening warehouses to release grain, punishing treacherous evil, and even dividing up part of the land. Even, this won Asahi a broad popular base - in order to ensure the benefits of the hand, these civilians broke out into a frenzied fighting spirit.

In addition, the means arranged by Xiao Hao also began to play a role, when the Song State and the Cai State began to imprison the merchants and commoners, they did not know that they were cutting off the future! The influence of those big merchants was definitely beyond the imagination of all the nobles, and many merchants because of their good reputation (it was enough to be better than the nobles), as long as they had a word, a promise, and even various "promises" from the Xu Kingdom, many soldiers rebelled.

Although the soldier is a "soldier", he is also the lowest noble, the most undignified noble; according to aristocratic tradition. Unless they can make a significant contribution or are appreciated by the nobility, their descendants will be permanently clay legs! These nobles who are faced with the final choice of life are more open-minded, even radical, and more discerning - because they are looking for a future for themselves.

Under such circumstances, it was often the Asahi Kingdom that made a slight promise, and these people would be "excited"! As a result, the Asahi Kingdom inadvertently rebelled against many scholars! Then, with these scholars as a breakthrough, they could easily achieve a major victory.

The promise given by Asahi was simple - we would not accept the rank of nobility in the future, but even as commoners. You can live well in Asahi Country. And this, for most people. When there is no aristocrat, there is nothing if you are not a nobleman -- and Xuguo has proved his "promise" with facts. Sometimes promises are not high, but they are more credible.

On the other hand, the Asahi Kingdom is constantly waging wars abroad, but internally it is a different way of governing. All the farmland was turned over and seeds planted by the farmers in the midst of songs and laughter, and the fortune of the Asahi Kingdom is now strong enough to ensure that every piece of farmland is a bumper harvest!

And on the coast, the Han Patriarch and the Mo family worked together to expel the forces such as the Sea Clan and the Dragon Clan along the coast. Let the 500-mile coastal area become the territorial waters of Asahi Country. In this prosperous ocean, the seafood caught every month is almost 30% of the food demand of Xuguo. Under the guidance of Xiao Hao's golden finger and Wang Fei's leadership, more than a dozen shipyards were established along the coast of Xuguo, and the shipbuilding industry was unprecedentedly busy. With simple guidance. Coupled with some traditional techniques, there are thousands of medium and large fishing boats along the coast of Xuguo, and small fishing boats are available in every household. At the same time, currencies, weights and measures, official language accents, scripts, and so on began to be unified.

In terms of business, the National Bank was formally established - in order to meet the requirements of the times, the official name is: National Monetary Center, and various corresponding commercial systems and laws began to be perfected, and a large number of selected talents from the private sector were filled into the operation of the Ministry of Commerce, so that the business of Xuguo was more healthy. In just two years, strong business has replaced agriculture as a taxpayer and contributed more to the country's tax revenue.

In addition, something called "industry" began to rise. Shipbuilding is only part of the story. Digging mountains and mines, barrage and bridges, etc., are all changing rapidly. Larger and lighter carriages and generous incentives for invention allowed the people to constantly improve their means of production. The instinctive desire for wealth, coupled with Xiao Hao's correct guidance, the power of capital began to rise.

The power of capital has just appeared, showing a strong life, and this power has become a powerful driving force for the development of the country. When Xuguo introduced the patent law in the late spring, it pushed this power to the extreme! Unprecedented enthusiasm exploded, and the merchants replaced most of the national logistics and paid for the logistics of the army, so that the soldiers of Xuguo on the front line enjoyed unprecedented treatment. Having eaten and drunk enough and had no worries, the soldiers who fought for their dreams and ideals, as well as their own future, burst out with enthusiasm that shocked both the Han Patriarch and the Mo family.

One soldier after another awakened in battle, and a few of them even rose to the east! Most of them became awakened warriors and elite soldiers, and these elite soldiers continued to expand and attack, and the Song and Cai kingdoms were defeated and retreated, and there was hardly the slightest ability to resist. Thirty percent of the wealth captured in battle went to the soldiers, and the remaining seventy percent went to the nation.

At this moment, within the Asahi country. Roads large and small are crisscrossed, and countless roads are under frantic construction. In the past, the construction of the Great Wall Canal and the like was purely "export", just to build a channel for gas transportation and transportation, which cost the people and money; The construction of roads is not just to transport luck, these roads have become the blood vessels in the body of the country, transporting wealth and nurturing wealth.

Nowadays, the construction of roads planned by the state, and the frenzied bidding of businessmen -- roads are the source of wealth in this era! In the past, only a few families were responsible for the construction of the roads, but now the wealth they have earned has already surprised countless people. With the boom in commerce, the profits from road construction have almost doubled. Road construction has become a recognized first-order wealth market in Xuguo.

The power of capital and people's own desire for wealth, happiness and freedom. It has become the force that pushes Asahi to fly. If you look from the outside at this time, you can see that the land of Xuguo is shrouded in a layer of royal red light that can only be seen after the purple qi rises eastward.

After the official establishment of the Xuguo and Xiao Hao's official accession to the throne, the development of the Xuguo has rapidly exceeded everyone's expectations, and even many traditional officials do not know what to do. Lan Hai and the others have found Xiao Hao many times, and they will not deal with the current government affairs, and the people of the Han Sect and the Mo family are also a little at a loss-under Xiao Hao's guidance, the sudden birth of capital forces caught everyone off guard.

And in such a situation, Xuguo is expanding externally and improving internally. All sorts of politics, things, and so on that are beyond people's imagination are beginning to appear.

When it comes to April. Under Xiao Hao's guidance, an unprecedented ideological enlightenment movement broke out. People began to think. Think about heaven and earth, think about life, think about the country, think about everything. Driven by this ideological enlightenment movement and under the guarantee of the healthy physique of the whole society, Xuguo himself actually set up a scene of a hundred schools of thought!

Civilians participated, businessmen participated, retired soldiers participated, and officials were personally involved. There are even slaves who have just gained free status, and there are reckless men in the rivers and lakes......

In just a few months, Xuguo has become a stranger to everyone! Countless officials have had to retire in disgrace -- they really don't know how to deal with it. But then countless social elites took their place, and a healthy country is never short of talent! It also provides a large number of talents for Xuguo.

Eventually, the Enlightenment spread to all corners of society, schools, the military, government, commerce, agriculture, and the emerging industrial ...... People began to think that in the land of Xuguo, which was relatively pure and had not been "polluted" by the ideology of the Nine Streams and Hundred Workers, people began to look at the supernatural powers and fortune from a new perspective, and think about social life. to think about the future.

The most important thing is that suddenly there is no oppression in the feudal era, and people find that they are already blue sky and white clouds above their heads, and people are eager to find their new positioning and meaning.

Xiao Hao only gave simple guidance and prevention in this, and did not interfere specifically. The ideological enlightenment is the most important thing in Xuguo today, and it is related to the future development of Xuguo. Xiao Hao did not use the thoughts of another world to force people to accept anything, it was guidance, and it was only guidance. Of course, those dangerous thoughts, etc., must be guarded against and, if necessary, even stifled.

And the benefits of Xu Guo's previous killing of 11 Sun and Moon Tonghui masters finally showed at this time, that is, people no longer worship! If you don't worship others, of course, you have to think about yourself. Countless people wandered and gave speeches, and a large number of books began to be published; with Xiao Hao's impetus behind the scenes, books began to be cheap and unbelievably cheap! Newspapers were also quietly unfolded, and in just one month, newspapers became an important platform for the Enlightenment.

But on the other hand, Xiao Hao also clearly realized that the Enlightenment was of course good, but if it was not well controlled, it was easy to change - in the past society that had been suppressed for an unknown number of thousands of years, people's thinking had actually been distorted, and only such an ideological Enlightenment could lead people out of the quagmire; but it was also because it had been suppressed for tens of thousands of years, and once it was liberated, the mind would often go to the other extreme. And this needs Xiao Hao to grasp.

In addition, the brother of capital, the economic crisis, Xiao Hao also has a vision for this. However, with the situation of Xuguo and Dongsheng Shenzhou, it is estimated that there is no need to worry about the economic crisis in a hundred years.

In this new Asahi country, all changes are fast. Perhaps people will just open their eyes and realize that the world has changed a lot. However, under Xiao Hao's guidance, people are not overly crazy, but maintain a sober sanity.

"Driving ......" a team of chariots and horses rolled in from the north, and looking at the decoration of the chariots and horses, you can know that it is not Xuguo's. After seven months of visiting and studying, Nangong Zhi finally decided to return. Seven months. Nangong Zhi really doesn't want to go back, there are still many, many things to learn here. But...... But he was very helpless, as the commander of the north, he himself needed to go back, and on the other hand, it was the most common drama in the court - infighting!

Even Xu Guo knew that there were rumors within Chen Guo that Nangong Zhi was going to commit treason.

Under such circumstances, even if he won the trust of King Chen, Nangong Zhi had to go back. The most important thing is that in the past seven months, Nangong Zhi has seen too many changes in Xuguo, and with the comparison, he has become more soberly aware of the crisis -- a new era is inevitable! Just like the rising sun in the east, when he is still under the surface of the sea, he does not feel it, but when the sun rises in the east, it not only releases its own light, but also illuminates the world, expels the darkness, and the darkness no longer has the ability to expel the radiant sun back into the darkness!

A tiger is easy to say when it doesn't come down the mountain, but when it does, it will be frightened. This Asahi country. It is this fierce tiger! And only Nangong Zhi, who has lived in Xuguo for more than half a year and has paid attention to the changes before and after the formal founding of Xuguo, has a more profound understanding of this "tiger"! If Chen Guo does not follow in the footsteps of Xuguo, then the future prospects of Chen Guo are worried.

When I heard that Asahi was on the front line one victory after another. When he heard about one after another easy unimaginable battles, Nangong Zhi woke up in horror.

Under the battle of Xuguo from the political and social systems, and the all-round so-called three-dimensional warfare mode, the old feudal system is like a rotten wood, which is chaotic and crumbling when gently poked. In many cases, the so-called battle is that thousands of soldiers of the Rising Kingdom come to the city with their banners held high, and the gate will be automatically opened!

As an old general. Nangong Zhi is not afraid of war, whether it is a brutal war of attrition or a sudden outbreak of encounters, or even a war of death, it cannot make Nangong Zhi afraid. But Nangong Zhi was afraid of such a battle -- the battle of detachment from Germany! Nangong Zhi was awakened from the night countless times, and the scene in his dream was: A small group of soldiers from the Xuguo Kingdom came. Then the gates of Chen's country were opened, and people rose up one after another - and at this time, the monarchs and generals of Chen's state did not know that their rear had rebelled!

As Xiao Hao said, this is a fire, and now this fire can no longer be extinguished, and it has begun to burn the prairie state!

And now, when the ideological enlightenment movement of Xuguo was unfolding in a mighty way, it had gradually exerted a serious influence on the surrounding countries. Even Nangong Zhi saw students from Chen Guo in Xuguo's school, who came to Xuguo to seek learning opportunities at the cost of one luck coin a year and a thousand taels of gold. For these foreign students who have already paid expensive tuition, Xuguo is ...... Alike!

Yes, without discrimination, after they have paid all their tuition fees, Asahi has completely opened up the education that they have now produced to complete the training of these young people. Then it is conceivable that when these young people return to Chen Guo, they will inevitably stir up the storm and make Chen Guo stormy.

In fact, Nangong Zhi very much hopes that Xuguo will not do his best to educate Chen Guo's students, but the reality is ...... Xiao Hao personally spoke, governing the country according to law, honor and reputation are equally precious, and since he has made a promise, he must implement it. Of course, this is Xiao Hao's statement to the outside world, but as an old fox, how could Nangong Zhi not see Xiao Hao's deep meaning - this bastard is cultivating elements of Chen's internal strife!

At most, two years, when these young people who have been trained by Xuguo will return to Chen Guo, and then start their life struggle.

Although Xuguo did not explicitly send troops to Chen Guo, they could cultivate so-called spokesmen in Chen! What kind of pro-Xuguo regime, or even local power, should be cultivated!

It is said that after learning about these plans customized by the military staff within the Xuguo Kingdom (for other countries), Nangong Zhiyi had no one at night. Now, Nangong Zhi has to prepare to return to Chen Guo quickly, ready to rely on his knowledge over the past seven months to promote the reform of Chen Guo. Nangong Zhi has already thought of how to change the law, to a limited extent, slowly improve the status of commoners, merchants, and slowly restrict the rights of some nobles - mainly those rights that are completely illegal, such as such absurd and even crazy things as the right to **.

Nangong Zhi is also a veteran of playing politics, otherwise he would definitely not be able to sit firmly in his current position. Therefore, in the past seven months, Nangong Zhi has repeatedly thought about and speculated, coupled with continuous learning of Xuguo's current thoughts, and has really found a feasible way, that is, to slowly change from two aspects; the top level starts to change from the king, the emperor's relatives, and the second great nobles, and the lower class starts from the commoners, and tries to gradually liberate some slaves. The two directions are pressed together towards the middle layer - the middle layer is always the most critical.

This method is slow and the most suitable method for Chen Guo, and the only drawback is that it takes time, which may be ten or twenty years. However, does Chen Guo still have 10 years to spare? Perhaps, when Xu Guo is strong enough, even if Xu Guo does not send troops, a few random stirring up will be enough for Chen to cause chaos in the country! And Xu Guo can completely provoke without a trace, and no one can find a problem.

"Driving the ......" Nangong Zhi was anxious and led the team to gallop. Although the presence of horse-drawn carriages in Team 5 severely affected the speed, the speed of the convoy was still very fast.

While riding a horse, Nangong Zhi looked at the surrounding environment, and the road he was taking now was the road that Li Guangcheng connected to Xishan Town and led directly to Chen Guo after turning a corner. Because the founding time is very short after all, the road from Li Quang Cheng to the south from the state capital and then connecting Qinzhou and Chen is under construction.

But even if you turn a corner, it's still a pleasure to run on such an avenue. But looking at these avenues, Nangong Zhi seemed to see blood vessels, which flowed with people's enthusiasm and the wealth of the country. It is a ten-zhang wide avenue divided into two sides, and each side is a one-way passage with a width of five zhang. And the passage of five zhang is divided into three small roads, respectively one zhang, two zhang, two zhang, the most central one zhang width is the fast channel, here is the post station fast horse special channel; the rest is the ordinary passage. Because of the carriage dragging, this Nangong Zhi can only take the ordinary passage.

But every 20-50 miles there will be a big disk, that is, a small square with a radius of 50 zhang suddenly swelled out in the middle of the avenue, where you can turn the direction, switch roads, etc., and it is often a transportation hub of a large road.

Along the way, you can see countless large and small caravans moving on this avenue, some fast and some slow, and the caravans here are very conscious, avoiding the innermost fast lane, the slowest automatically go on the outermost road, and the slightly faster ones pass in the middle. Looking at this orderly society, all Nangong Zhizhi did was purse his lips - the pressure was too great!

In just three years, Xuguo has turned the mess left by the Dali royal court into the pearl of the Orient; three years ago, everyone wanted to gnaw a piece of meat on the Dali royal court, but now everyone has begun to fear this Xuguo that has exploded. There are also those who sell forage and clean roads next to the road, after all, there are three main types of convoys now: cows, horses and mules, oxen have great strength, horses are fast, and mules are the cheapest.

Since it is operated by animal power, of course, it is necessary to gnaw grass, urinate, etc., which requires cleaning the road surface. But the surrounding villagers like this work, it's easy, and they can earn a little extra money, and cow dung and the like are good fuel in the countryside. Even in some rural areas, cow dung and horse manure are still building materials because they contain a lot of fiber.

Looking at the smiling businessmen passing by, Nangong Zhi only felt a lot of pressure in his heart.

The expansion of the Xu Kingdom frightened Nangong Zhi, because he didn't know how to stop it! The upper echelons had the support of the Han Patriarchal Sect and the Mo Family, and there was also a Feng Guo who followed suit in the West, as well as the Miscellaneous Family and the Li Patriarchal Family; on this, the opponents of these two aspects were surprisingly unanimous, and they jointly ignited the flame of the new era, and the East and the West competed with each other.

What should Chen Guo do in the future? This heavy topic has always been entangled in Nangong Zhi's head. (To be continued......)