Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 230: The First Step of Dividing the Primordial World, the Formation of a Large Domain
Although strength is the main factor in the prehistoric world, background is also very important. It is not that all strong people have backgrounds, but in the prehistoric world, it is difficult to become a strong person without a background.

Daji was born a fox, so theoretically, it was impossible for her to be favored by Tushan Niangniang. But Ao Bing was the descendant of Emperor Yu, so to Tushan Niangniang, he was her direct descendant.

Since Daji is related to Ao Bing, he will naturally take more care of her out of love for her.

This is the relationship! Even in the primitive times, relationships are very important and can easily change one's destiny.

"Well, I won't let Long Bo down."

Daji was a smart person. She knew that to Ao Bing, her greatest value was not her beauty or status, but her talent that far exceeded that of ordinary people.

If you want to get more of his attention, you must fully demonstrate your strengths.

Practicing the Way of Creation and inheriting the Tushan legacy will certainly earn Ao Bing's attention, but practicing the Way of All Things and walking one's own path will make one a powerful person.

Daji doesn't want to be a vase. It would have been fine if she didn't have the conditions before, but now that Ao Bing has given her the conditions, she naturally wants to go further.

For Ao Bing, the stronger Daji is, the better. So, seeing that she was willing and he was free, he began to guide her in her practice.

In a flash, half a year has passed.

After such a long period of sorting out, the affairs of the State of Su finally came to an end.

According to the original agreement, the territory of Yousu State belonged to Dashang, and the resources obtained were also distributed between Dashang and the princes. And all the slaves of Yousu State belonged to Ao Bing, which amounted to more than 100 billion people.

In fact, the number could have been even greater, but because of the war, most slaves were either sacrificed or died of illness or starvation.

In short, many people died. Except for Sucheng, only one in ten slaves in other cities survived.

Even so, after conquering Su City, Ao Bing promptly dispatched personnel to various major cities in the State of Su to take over the slaves.

Otherwise, even more people would die.

How could the group of princes who attacked the city and the nobles in the city care about the lives of the slaves? If Ao Bing hadn't sent people to keep an eye on them, it would not be an exaggeration to say that only one in ten would survive, or even only one in a thousand would survive.

Hundreds of billions of people may sound like a lot, but in the ancient times, they are like dust in the desert or waves in the sea, not worth mentioning at all.

But no matter how insignificant it is, for Ao Bing, these hundreds of billions of people are also a burden. Not only does he have to provide them with enough food, but he also has to find a place to accommodate them.

Longzhou can accommodate so many people, but Ao Bing does not plan to take them to Longzhou. First, there are too many people. Longzhou can support hundreds of billions of mortals, but may not be able to support hundreds of billions of cultivators.

Secondly, Ao Bing felt that the transformation of the human race into mortals would actually be more beneficial to the human race. After all, mortals are more fertile than cultivators, and the more mortals there are, the larger the population base will be, and the higher the probability of the birth of geniuses.

At the same time, the more mortals there are, the more incense, wishes and luck they can provide. If the incense and fire Shintoism wants to flourish, it cannot do without a large number of mortals.

It was with this idea in mind that Ao Bing decided not to take these slaves to Longzhou.

Moreover, Longzhou is considered to be half a innate holy land. In Ao Bing's conception, this is the origin of humans and dragons, and also the kingdom of humans and dragons. Only humans and dragons are qualified to enter it.

Inside Longzhou, Ao Bing wanted to remove those cultivators who had not transformed into human-dragons little by little as time went by, not to mention those mortals who had no cultivation.

Both publicly and privately, Ao Bing did not want these slaves to enter Longzhou. It was not that he looked down on them, but their existence would hinder the development of Longzhou.

Ao Bing's idea was to find a place to settle them, then impart knowledge to them and educate them with morality.

Then they will select the best ones to teach them the way of becoming human-dragons, so that they can gradually transform into human-dragons and obtain tickets to enter Dragon Island.

As for those who are not qualified to practice, they continue to live the life of ordinary people, struggling for food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and by the way praying to gods and Buddhas, contributing to the growth of incense and Shintoism.

Separation of man and god!

This is what Ao Bing thought. Longzhou is the fairyland, and the place where these slaves live is the human world. And the entire human world is the cradle of the fairyland. The more prosperous the human world is, the more powerful people will be bred for the fairyland.

The stronger the fairy world becomes, the more benefits it can give back to the human world, thus forming a virtuous circle.

According to Ao Bing's idea, the ideal state is that the incense and vows provided by the human world can completely replace the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

In this way, the monks' strength is not dependent on spiritual energy, but on the incense and wishes of mortals. In this way, the relationship between monks and mortals has changed from the original superior-subordinate relationship to a supply-demand relationship.

In order to obtain more incense and vows, monks must not only not slaughter mortals wantonly, but must do everything they can to protect them and provide them with the best possible living environment, so that they can reproduce more offspring.

The amount of incense is not only related to the piety of the believers, but also to the number of believers. In short, the more believers there are, the more incense you will get.

The number of believers is the most important thing. Only when the base number of believers is larger, more devout believers can be born.

Of course, this is Ao Bing's ideal state, and he is not sure whether it can become a reality.

After all, he was also trying to change the relationship between monks and mortals as much as possible, and strive to improve the status of mortals in the hearts of monks, so that they were no longer dispensable, but mutually needed.

In this way, when monks face mortals, they will be cautious and dare not act recklessly.

At the same time, Ao Bing did this to save himself. Since the power of incense and vows can replace spiritual energy, it will undoubtedly reduce the pressure of heaven and earth to support the monks.

For Honghuang, this is open source!
Open source is a great achievement!

Moreover, after Ao Bing became a prince, he would inevitably face backlash from the three realms of heaven, earth and man.

Using the power of incense to open up new sources of income can not only alleviate the backlash from the way of heaven, but also alleviate the backlash from humanity by improving the status of mortals.

This is the most important thing for Ao Bing, as it allows him to remain in power, unlike other princes or even the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

After being in power for a period of time, he had to abdicate due to the backlash from the three realms of heaven, earth and man.

In short, if Ao Bing's method is successful, there will be many benefits. In fact, even if it fails, there are still benefits.

At the very least, educating so many mortals can not only accumulate a lot of teaching merits and fortune, but also gain the favor of the Saint Taiqing.

If you succeed, the benefits will be huge, and if you fail, there will also be benefits. This kind of thing is definitely worth a try.

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Now that we have an idea, the next step is to turn it into reality. First, we need to find a piece of land to house these slaves.

This issue was quickly resolved.

After counting the harvest, Emperor Xin finally began to reward the meritorious officials. The meritorious officials included Ao Bing, Huang Feihu, the soldiers they led out, and Su Hou who turned against the enemy in time.

Among them, Ao Bing won the first place, followed by Huang Feihu, then Su Hou, and then the soldiers who attacked the city.

The best way to reward merit is to give titles and fiefs. Ao Bing and Huang Feihu already had titles, so in order to reward them, Emperor Xin granted them a large amount of fiefs. The fiefs used for rewards mainly came from the Yousu State. The Yousu State had a total of one city, nine large towns, a hundred secondary towns, and a thousand small towns.

Among them, Sucheng was granted by Emperor Xin to Ao Bing as his new fiefdom. Two of the nine major cities were granted to Huang Feihu and Su Hou respectively.

The remaining seven large cities and one hundred secondary cities remained unchanged and belonged to Emperor Xin, while the thousands of small cities were granted to meritorious generals.

At this point, the reward process was over and everyone was satisfied, having gotten what they wanted.

Although Ao Bing only has one Su City, Su City is very large, occupying nearly one-tenth of the territory of Su State, and it is also the place with the richest resources.

It is no exaggeration to say that the nine major cities combined are not as important as Sucheng. It is more than enough to accommodate hundreds of billions of people.

Why did Su City only have a population of 10 billion before? First of all, that refers to the city, not the vast land outside the city.

Secondly, raising slaves also costs money, especially management costs, and the nobles cannot afford too many of them.

Therefore, whenever the number of slaves reached a certain level, regardless of whether the city could accommodate them or not, the nobles would sacrifice a group of slaves in order to limit the number of slaves to within their capacity.

Ao Bing is different from the nobles in Su City. In order to protect their own interests, the nobles dare not raise slaves freely, but Ao Bing is different. The more slaves he has, the greater his interests will be.

Therefore, he would not restrict the population of slaves. As long as they were willing to have children, it didn't matter how many they had. If they really couldn't afford to raise them, Ao Bing could help raise them.

To him, the resources consumed in raising slaves were not even a drop in the bucket.

Of course, this does not mean that Ao Bing will become the nanny of these slaves. In fact, Ao Bing has limited energy and cannot take care of everything. The most he can do is to give these slaves some land and teach them how to farm.

The rest depends on themselves.

Ao Bing is raising people, not pigs, so he will only provide them with the most basic conditions. As for how they survive next, it depends on their own wisdom.

At most, he could provide guidance at critical moments to gain faith.

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After the rewards were given, the meeting of the princes came to an end, and the princes returned home excitedly, carrying the resources they had plundered from the State of Yousu.

Ao Bing took Daji and Su Hou's family, boarded the dragon boat and headed towards the State of Su.

The State of Su was the fief of Marquis Su.

The State of Yousu was destroyed and the title of Marquis Su was removed, but he had made contributions after all, so Emperor Xin chose one of the nine major cities of the State of Yousu as his fiefdom, changed it to the State of Su, and re-enthroned Marquis Su.

The city of Dayi, which was granted to Marquis Su, became the new city of Su. Thus, the State of Su completely became history and was replaced by the State of Su.

From this point of view, Su Hou's title has not changed, but his territory has at least decreased by one percent. It is impossible to say that Su Hou is not depressed.

But compared with the fate of other nobles, his situation was undoubtedly much better. Not only was he still a prince, but he also preserved his ancestral temple and the country.

Overall, Su Hou was still satisfied. Even if he was dissatisfied, he did not dare to show it.

After all, he committed the serious crime of treason. It was a stroke of luck that he was in his current situation, and he couldn't expect too much.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the titles of nobility in the Shang Dynasty were different from those in later generations. There were only three, namely Duke, Marquis, and Earl, and there were no sons or men.

Also, there is no distinction between the three titles in terms of high and low, they are just used to distinguish between regions and origins.

The descendants of the previous dynasty were dukes, the princes around the Shang Dynasty were marquises, and the princes far away from the Shang Dynasty were earls.

In the Shang Dynasty, the three ranks of duke, marquis, and earl were equal. It was not until the Zhou Dynasty that the three ranks were differentiated into high and low.

The Su Kingdom was near the Shang Dynasty, and Longzhou was located in the East China Sea, far away from the Shang Dynasty. Therefore, Su Hou was a marquis, and Ao Bing was an earl.

This only means that Ao Bing's fiefdom was farther away from the Shang Dynasty, but it does not mean that Su Hou's status was higher than Ao Bing's.

"I also want to thank Uncle Long for pleading for me."

On the dragon boat, Su Hou thanked Ao Bing sincerely.

He was truly grateful to Ao Bing, because he knew that if Ao Bing had not pleaded for him, Emperor Xin would never have continued to enfeoff him in Yousu, but would have moved him to a barbaric land instead.

When rewarding him for his merits, many ministers suggested that he be exiled to the border. However, Ao Bing pleaded for him, saying that the people of Yousu were unstable and needed to be appeased by the Marquis of Su. Only then did Emperor Xin make up his mind to continue to enfeoff him in Yousu.

If not for this, Su Hou didn't dare to think about how many years he could live after arriving in the borderland.

The so-called borderland refers to the edge of Kyushu, where there are a large number of foreign races who often cross the border and plunder the population.

If Su was still at his peak, Su Hou would not be afraid of the foreigners. But Su was already destroyed. Given his current situation, if he went to the borderland, he would probably be destroyed by the foreigners in no time.

"We are all family. If Lord Su says this, it means he is alienating me."

Ao Bing replied in a friendly manner that he was helping Su Hou for a reason.

Originally, he wanted to join forces with Su Hou to dominate Jizhou. But now, looking at Daji beside him, Ao Bing's thoughts changed, and he regarded Su Hou's territory as his own.

You know, Yousu is a semi-matrilineal clan. What does that mean? That is, women also have the right of inheritance. It can even be said that in Yousu, women's inheritance rights are higher than men's.

In this case, if Ao Bing and Daji have a child in the future, then this child will be You Su's legal heir.

Ao Bing seemed to be planning for Su Hou, but in fact he was planning for his future child with Daji.

After all, there is a layer of separation when cooperating with Su Hou, and some trouble might arise in the future.

But if it was his own son, it would be different. Even if he handed over the entire Yousu to him, Ao Bing would not be reluctant to give it up.

Therefore, Ao Bing's idea was to let Su Hou come forward first to help him integrate Yousu's power, and when he had a child with Daji in the future, he would let the child take over everything of Yousu.

Of course, at that time You Su was no longer called You Su, but Nine-headed Dragon Domain.

area!
Don't forget that the Heavenly Dao once gave Ao Bing a mission, asking him to follow the example of Emperor Yu and divide the world into nine states, dividing the prehistoric world into three thousand Dao states and all the realms of the heavens.

And Yousu, in Ao Bing's view, is the prototype of a large domain. Because it is self-contained, this is why it can become a large domain.

Previously, Ao Bing had planned so much and took great pains to transform the Sucheng Dragon Vein into a Nine-Headed Dragon Vein, all for the purpose of opening up the first large domain in the prehistoric world.

(End of this chapter)