After the central forbidden army became stronger and stronger, it was obvious that it could help the imperial court and strengthen the centralization of power.

For example, reducing private revenge and lynching within local forces, this can effectively reduce the control of some small sects, small families, and small forces over their members; strengthen the inventory of local resources and industries, and ensure tax revenue; and the major forces need to hand over a list of personnel in order to be ready for conscription.

These items correspond to legal rights, financial rights, and personnel rights.

Of course, these changes are not implemented in one go, but little by little.

For example, in the beginning, we were engaged in the inventory industry. This incident was due to the financial difficulties faced by the imperial court at that time.

In previous years, the Dayan Imperial Court had not made such attempts, but there was great resistance. How could it be so easy for various local forces to accept handing over their lives to the imperial court?

Of course, the imperial court's control over them was also deep, and even the imperial court was them in a sense, and most of the officials in the imperial court system came from these local forces, and there were quite a few emperors and scholars who ruled the world together.

Attacking them, on the one hand, these local forces themselves will fight, and on the other hand, there is also some meaning to let the court change its own life.

This is due to the resistance of the imperial court itself.

The Lu Dynasty had little problem in this regard. Their basic plate was not built on the imperial court like the original Li Dynasty, but came from the north. What's more, after the previous catastrophe, the court has been washed up and down, and there is internal resistance, but it is not that big.

And after the internal resistance has become smaller, those local forces are unlikely to rebel openly, and some of the methods they secretly have become smaller and harmless because of the collapse of the Faceless Society.

But in this matter, there is another trouble, which is external resistance: Yunxiao Sect.

These small families and small sects, of course, are more inclined to maintain their own independence within Dayan's system. And the Cloud Sky Sect also supports this to a certain extent.

It is not that there are too many considerations in terms of interests, the most important thing is the relationship. The forces of all parties always like to send their genius juniors into the Yunxiao Sect. All kinds of cooperation often convey benefits to some high-ranking monks in the Yunxiao Sect. Just looking at the relationship between a certain family in the Cloud Sky Sect, it may not be so iron, but when the number reaches a certain level, they gather to speak out, which will always make many high-level monks in the Cloud Sky Sect have some reactions.

In the past, whenever the central court had the idea of centralizing power and harmed the interests of local forces, they would always go to someone from the Yunxiao Sect, or some acquaintances, to help talk. In the end, from the Yunxiao Sect, pressure was formed on the imperial court to obstruct the advancement of centralized power.

And objectively, this is also weakening the imperial court, and it is also good for Yunxiao Sect.

But in the past decade or so, Lu Chaoxi has actually settled a large part of the financial power. This was taken back by taking advantage of the financial difficulties of the imperial court after the war, and it was even difficult to maintain the offering to the Yunxiao Sect.

The Lu family has just ascended to the throne, and they have maintained a honeymoon period with the Yunxiao Sect for a period of time. Even now, in fact, it is still in this honeymoon period. After all, no matter what, the Lu family had done Yunxiao Sect a great favor at that time, and since becoming the emperor at the same time, they have been quite obedient.

Taking advantage of that time, by solving the financial problems of the imperial court, the industries of various local forces went through a round of inventory and a clear amount of taxes. This has also uncovered many tax-evading industries that have been concealed in the past.

And these things, now that they have been in their hands, even if the imperial court eases its financial situation in the future, it has no idea of returning them.

The various local forces did not have the help of the Yunxiao Sect to speak, and in this matter, the room for resistance was much smaller.

But further, it is impossible to take back the power of law enforcement and personnel, and to dismantle the control of those local forces over the monks under their command, so that the imperial court can call on more abundant manpower, which is not to arouse opposition.

Moreover, at this point, the Lu family also lacked the same reason to convince the Yunxiao Sect as before to withdraw the financial power.

At that time, the financial power was withdrawn in order to solve the financial difficulties of the imperial court and facilitate the better support of the sect. What is the purpose of taking back the law enforcement power to the government and letting those local forces hand over the list of personnel?

The Lu Dynasty is indeed very difficult to promote this matter, to put it bluntly.

However, it should be noted that the opposition of the Yunxiao Sect is not in the name of the sect, opposing the direct promotion of this series of policies by the imperial court. The form of their opposition is which family comes to intercede, and a certain senior monk of the Yunxiao Sect will send a letter to the imperial court in the name of which family, or ask for mercy or inquiry. Then the court is not easy to come hard, so it can only be let go for the time being.

In this regard, Lu Chaoxi is actually very unhappy.

Not to mention the identity of the emperor, even if he is an ordinary person who does things normally, being criticized like this, it is impossible to feel much refreshed in his heart.

But what can I do? I can't turn my face, it's hard to top hard, and I have to do things down......

Then you can only pinch your nose, let go of some first, and then speed up the processing. And what is let go is not simply let go and it is over, but can exert pressure from other directions. For example, let their business not do well, and the government will find fault from other angles......

As for Lu Qing, he only paid attention to this matter by listening to reports and the like, and his own consciousness did not go there.

The matter itself, the son handled it well, steadily, step by step. This kind of thing, Lu Qing thought about it, even if he personally intervened, it would be difficult for him to have a particularly big impact on the overall situation.

Moreover, he has his own business.

In the two exercises of Creation and Ascending Star Decision, which were only four stars in the past, in the Taigu Exercises after his fusion, they were two shortcomings. He broke through to Yuanying, and he only came up after he got the five-star Holy White Sword Codex. These two exercises that were originally shortcomings were originally shortcomings, but after being upgraded to the five-star level and making up for the shortcomings, Lu Qing's cultivation speed was much faster than in the past.

It's only been a few years since then, and his cultivation at the third level of Yuanying has the meaning of refinement.

Next time, he can go outside the starry sky to cultivate, or he can enter the Spirit Gathering Temple, and he may not just break through to the fourth layer of the Yuan Infant. Perhaps, when the time comes, it is not impossible to rush to a higher level in one go.

As for the several juniors of the other families, they have also achieved further results in their cultivation.

Ming Chao and Chaoxi both stepped into the middle of Jindan and became monks on the fourth floor of Jindan. Yan Ling pressed one head, and now it is the fifth layer of Jindan. Chaohe is a little worse, and now it is still the second floor of Jindan.

Ming Chao, Chaoxi, and Yanling, although they stayed in Yandu for a long time, they would return to Yuyan Mountain once at a certain time. The one-year-for-ten years of spiritual experience in the Gathering Soul Temple still can't be given up.

However, compared to the four who have entered the Jindan period, the fastest growth rate of the family is still the little guy of the two literary generations.

Wen En is still a little close, but Wei Wen has already come to the ninth layer of Qiming and is ready to break through the golden pill.

She didn't have a foreign pill, but even so, Lu Qing's confidence in her was still very sufficient.

The materials she needed to break through the Jindan were very luxuriously prepared by the family. The cost of materials alone has reached more than 150,000 yuan, and if you count the arrangements made with the help of alchemists, refiners, and array mages of various levels, the cost will probably be even higher.

Of course, if it were for an ordinary monk, without the help of Waidan, it would still be very difficult to complete a breakthrough. But for her, it's not much of a problem.

Jin Tianlinggen plus Jinde Spirit Body, and there is also a non-bad sword body magic power that is more suitable for metalwork and has been upgraded once. The talent bonus she was able to obtain before entering the order has been completely full. In a normal state, it is hard to imagine that before Jin Dan, there are other ways and ways to obtain a talent that is more powerful than Wei Wen's current one.

Relying on these, she doesn't need to be a waidan, and directly relies on those relatively conventional preparations, and she can also get a very large probability of breakthrough.

What's more, Lu Qing also prepared a four-star rare breakthrough bottleneck for her.

In fact, Lu Qing has been planning to do one thing recently: the exploration of the underground Spirit River in the Spirit Lake Vein.

That underground spirit river was discovered a long, long time ago. At the beginning, there was still a lake where water ghosts were entrenched, and in it, Lu Qing found a piece of mistle water jade, and underground, found an underground spirit river with sufficient spiritual energy, and opened it up with the ground, leading the water outside, forming a spirit lake vein.

It's a treasure trove.

If it weren't for that piece of yin marrow water jade, the Ming Dynasty's achievement of enlightenment would not have been so smooth, and the Linghu vein, as a third-order water spirit vein itself, had also brought great help to the family when the Lu family had just begun to rise. This place, although it is not the key to the rise of the Lu family, is also a place that has helped a lot.

Moreover, it is very clear that when Lu Qing first explored the underground Spirit River, he clearly felt that the end of this Spirit River would probably not be too simple. At that time, due to the limitation of time out of body, he did not fly fast enough to explore the end of the Spirit River. But just the part she had explored, and the aura concentration had already reached the level of the fourth order.

But it is precisely because of this that Lu Qing did not continue to explore.

On the one hand, the things of the family behind are one after another, which are very important, and even when he is idle, Lu Qing's attention has to be on his own cultivation.

In addition, there is also a very important point that the first time he explored the underground spirit river, he was only halfway through, and the intensity of the spiritual energy he could feel had already reached the level of the fourth-order spiritual vein. Then it is conceivable that at the end, I am afraid that the intensity will rise again.

There may be some very important secrets hidden there, and there may be great benefits, but in the same way, opportunities come with risks, and the degree of danger there may not be too low.

In the past, the Lu family was far less powerful than it is now, even if he was in the state of consciousness to explore and find something, with the situation of the Lu family, it was not easy to complete the development of it and transform it into the benefits that he could use.

But the time is very ripe.

Lu Weiwen is about to make a breakthrough in the Jindan period, but the preparation time before this also needs a little. Lu Qing plans to take advantage of this period of effort to explore first. And in the future, if Weiwen can Jindan, maybe she can help in this matter.

Now that you've figured it out, do it.

The current Linghu vein is no longer of any special help to the Lu family. However, the aura in this place is special after all, and it is very suitable for the cultivators of the water spirit root to cultivate in it. At the same time, it is also suitable for some water elixirs to be planted there, so the Lu family still has a little industry there, and there are also some clansmen who cultivate in it.

This made it a lot more convenient for Lu Qing.

He directly activated the experience mode, locked a family monk in the Spirit Lake Vein, directly teleported over, and quickly found the entrance to the underground Spirit River and drilled into it.

This Spirit River flows from low to high, and Lu Qing follows the direction of the Spirit River's flow and goes downstream.

He is now flying much faster in his state of consciousness than he was back then. It didn't take long for him to surpass the position he had given up exploring.

Without stopping long, Lu Qing continued to fly into the distance.

But soon, he felt that his time out of body this time had come to an end.

Without rushing to spend karma to replenish the time out of his body, he first opened the map function in the system interface and checked it. He found the location of the nearest family member, not far away, so he directly teleported over in experience mode, prostituted a wave of out-of-body time supplements, and then continued to drill into the ground, found the location of the underground river, and continued to go downstream.

In this way, you can save a lot of karma.

Although, Lu Qing has a lot of karma now, but after all, in the future, the replenishment price of the out-of-body time will become very expensive after doubling many times.

Who knows, how long is this underground river? This time, since Lu Qing was determined to explore, he didn't want to give up halfway.

Of course, sometimes you can't find a family member nearby, so you have no choice but to spend karma, replenish your out-of-body time, and continue flying.

In this way, after spending a not too short time, Lu Qing went all the way to the east and came to Donghai County, the location near the sea.

This underground river actually came from the sea?

"I didn't expect that. ”

The curiosity in Lu Qing's heart became even heavier.

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