The gods began by supporting Guo Jing to become emperor

Chapter 255: The Golden Age Arrives, Conquering Japan
"Master Uncle is back!"

Inside Chongyang Palace, an old man with white hair and beard was standing in the main hall with his hands on his waist, muttering to the statue of Wang Chongyang, "Brother, I'm sorry for you. The old naughty boy didn't keep the Nine Yin Manual. Someone stole it away."

"I have been guarding it for more than ten years. However, it should be okay if that person only took away one general outline. There can't be another Madam Huang in the world. I have now fulfilled my request to you."

"Don't worry, I have hidden the secret book. I guarantee no one will find it."

When the Seven Quanzhen disciples learned that the old naughty boy had returned, they immediately came to Chongyang Palace and called out, "Uncle Master."

When the old naughty boy heard someone coming, he immediately stopped talking and pretended to be an elder and walked around them a few times, with a bit of disgust in his eyes, "Hey, you don't seem to have made any progress in all these years, it's not fun."

Qiu Chuji smiled bitterly, "Master uncle is teaching me that we, the unworthy disciples, have humiliated the master's reputation."

In the past few years, the Quanzhen Sect has developed at a very fast speed. Even Sun Buer, a quiet and secluded person in the sect, has been giving lectures everywhere and has become the representative of Kun Dao. When Qiu Chuji went south, it opened up an opportunity for communication between the northern and southern Taoist sects.

Since then, the Tianshi Mansion has set foot in the north, which it has not set foot on for a long time, and established a branch here. The Quanzhen Sect has also moved south, and Taoism has flourished. In contrast, the current situation of Buddhism is much worse.

The imperial court issued a list of monks and Taoists and various restrictions. Regulations were also made on the construction of Taoist temples and land, making unlimited expansion no longer possible. Even the Quanzhen Sect had to stop its expansion.

Thanks to the bet made by Quanzhen Sect back then, they reaped rich rewards. Quanzhen Sect became the state religion of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the leader of the northern and southern Taoist sects. Therefore, Qiu Chuji did not give up his power and remained the head of Quanzhen Sect.

Moreover, due to the busy teaching affairs, their martial arts skills actually declined.

"Where has Master gone all these years? We have been looking for you for a long time and couldn't find you."

Speaking of this, the old naughty boy was furious, "Humph, it makes me angry just talking about it. I was trapped on Peach Blossom Island by Huang Lao Xie, and I will settle the score with him when I get out."

Qiu Chuji and the others smiled bitterly again, "Uncle Master, Senior Huang is no longer the same as he was before. He is now the Prime Minister of the imperial court. You should not go."

The old naughty boy blew his beard and glared, his face full of anger, "So what if he is the prime minister of the court? He trapped me in Peach Blossom Island for more than ten years, are you going to let it go like this?"

Qiu Chuji didn't know how to explain to him the relationship between Quanzhen Sect and Da Zhou, let alone how important Huang Yaoshi's status was. As the head of Quanzhen Sect, it was inevitable that he had to get involved in politics, but the old naughty boy still had the mindset of a man of the world.

In the end, it took several people a lot of persuasion to persuade him to come down.

……

On the back hill of Zhongnan Mountain, there are two tombs close to each other. The autumn wind blows the leaves and they fall on the tombs.

There was a thatched hut nearby. An old man was sitting in the sun not far from the grave. The wrinkles on his face were as vicissitudes of life as the tree rings. His rough fingers kept stroking the things in his palms, as if grasping the passing time.

"Dad, I'm here to see you."

Mu Nianci walked out of the woods carrying a basket, her eyes fell on the old man, feeling neither sad nor happy. She had seen such scenes many times in the past.

That year, she brought the remains of her adoptive mother Bao Xiruo and her adoptive brother Yang Kang. Yang Tiexin closed the tavern at the foot of Mount Zhongnan, went up the mountain to build tombs for them, and lived there.

To this day, Mu Nianci, who is in her thirties, still looks no different from a young girl, with smooth and delicate skin and a cold expression between her brows. After paying her respects to Mu Nianci, she left the basket and left.

As soon as I returned to the Tomb Sect, a cheerful voice jumped out from inside, "Senior Sister, you are out again."

Mu Nianci's eyes were full of doting as she pulled a young woman out from the darkness, "Mochou, you are naughty again."

Li Mochou was only a few years old back then, but now she has grown into a great beauty with a soft and gentle voice, a charming demeanor, bright eyes, white teeth, and fair skin. She is truly an outstanding beauty.

Even the Jade Maiden Swordsmanship of the Ancient Tomb School could not suppress Li Mochou's girlish nature. Her cleverness was unforgettable. "Sister, when can I travel the world like you?"

Mu Nianci nodded quietly, "I'll take you out in a few days."

Last year, Maid Lin of the Ancient Tomb Sect passed away, and Mu Nianci became the second-generation leader of the Ancient Tomb Sect. Now, besides her, there are Granny Sun, Li Mochou and Junior Sister in the ancient tomb. She shoulders the heavy responsibility of the sect, and it is time for her to go out and look for the next generation of disciples of the Ancient Tomb Sect.

Suddenly, Li Mochou's eyebrows curved, and he was very excited, "Great, we can finally get out."

"Don't worry, how are you and your junior sister's Jade Girl Pure Heart Swordsmanship going?"

Li Mochou pouted and complained, "This sword technique is too demanding. My junior sister and I are still unable to communicate with each other, and we can only practice it with difficulty."

Mu Nianci frowned, "Once you have mastered the sword technique and have the self-defense skills, you can travel the world. Our Ancient Tomb Sect has very few people, with only two or three disciples in each generation. You and your junior sister are so beautiful. If you don't have high martial arts skills, how can you protect yourselves?"

Li Mochou's face shrank, and she said pitifully, "I know, Senior Sister."

……

After Guo Jing returned to the court, the situation in the imperial court changed dramatically. First, corrupt officials were punished and many people were killed. Then, the princes were enfeoffed and a large number of people and officials were moved to the border.

Places like Dai Viet, Ryukyu and the Lancang River basin further away were divided into fiefdoms of varying sizes. In the past, these were barbaric lands, but now they have welcomed the dawn of civilization of the Celestial Empire.

At the same time, after the signing of the alliance, official trade between Mongolia and the Great Zhou became increasingly prosperous, and the ancient Silk Road regained its vitality. With the development of Southeast Asia, maritime trade routes also became increasingly prosperous. As a result, the amount of trade, both private and official, increased, and official and private factories experienced a labor shortage.

However, because of the imperial tax laws, the people's household registration and place of origin were firmly tied to their farmland.

Due to the rapid expansion of state-owned capital and the expansion of private capital, the problem of labor shortage was imminent. Guo Jing took the opportunity to launch the Single Whip System, which merged taxes and labor service, and collected land tax and various types of labor service together. At the same time, part of the labor service burden was spread over the land.

The previous system of labor service based on households and adult population was changed to a system of apportionment based on the number of adult population and land tax; all taxes and labor service burdens, except for rice and wheat that the government needed to collect, were now collected in cash; farmers and households burdened with various labor service burdens could pay money to replace their labor, and the labor service would be undertaken by people hired by the government.

At the same time, the government relaxed its control over household registration, allowing people to earn money by participating in state-run and private factories.

With the previous civil service reforms, and the fact that the court had held imperial examinations every year in recent years, which had accumulated a large number of available talents, the Great Zhou launched a vigorous reform. Land was remeasured in various places, and the number of people on the land was checked. This process lasted for two years.

…In Ganlu Palace, Guo Jing looked at the map on the screen and muttered to himself, "Teacher once said that Japan has a large amount of silver. In the past few years, I have been sending people to investigate openly and secretly. As expected, there are many silver mines on the islands of Japan. If we can obtain them for the court, it will greatly alleviate the silver shortage."

The reform of the Single Whip System had entered deep waters. The court used salt notes and silver to exchange for discounts, but the country still inevitably fell into a silver shortage.

Immediately, Guo Jing summoned all his ministers to discuss attacking Japan.

Wakoku was originally a vassal state of the Central Plains court, and so was Goryeo. However, at this time Goryeo was suffering from the ravages of Mongolia. The Great Zhou was not very interested in Goryeo and had no intention of sending troops to aid it. After all, the direction of the Great Zhou's expansion was in the south, not the north.

When all the civil and military officials in the court heard that Japan had silver, they were immediately excited. The military generals wanted to fight, and the civil officials were even more eager. To destroy a country would be an event that would go down in history.

What, Japan is a vassal state?
Sorry, since the founding of the Great Zhou, the Japanese have sent envoys, but the Great Zhou has not recognized them. What kind of vassal state are they? Moreover, there is silver on the Japanese territory. If you can't beat Mongolia, can you beat the small Japanese?

Therefore, all the civil and military officials in the court decided to destroy Japan, with General Wang Shan as the commander-in-chief, commanding 20,000 infantry and cavalry. Naval General Shi Tianze led 20,000 naval forces from the Ryukyu Islands to the north to attack the Japanese mainland.

In this battle, the imperial court also intended to train troops. Although the world was at peace, it was far from the time to put away weapons and let horses go to the mountains. The vast territory of Mongolia stretched across the north. Guo Jing hung the map in the Ganlu Palace so that all the officials could see it every time the imperial court discussed matters.

Anyone who sees the giant in the north will inevitably feel hostility, not to mention that the old land of Yanyun is still in their hands. It's like in the future, even if the old Russians are no longer strong, don't we still miss the land they took away? It's just that we can't get it back due to the international situation.

……

In 1245, Guo Jing, the Shenwu Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, declared war on Japan in the name of the Battle of Baijiang Village during the Tang Dynasty, on the grounds that Japan did not respect the Central Plains.

The Central Plains dynasties were good in every way except for one thing: they loved to record history. When Zhu Di later fought the Tatars, he even brought up the Siege of Mount Baideng. Now that Guo Jing wanted to fight Japan, he brought up the Battle of Baekgang Village. This was also very reasonable. The main point was that the war had a legitimate reason.

As the Great Zhou's land and sea armies launched a joint attack on the Japanese mainland, the Japanese emperors at that time were Emperor Go-Saga and Emperor Go-Fukakusa, and the Shogun of the Kamakura shogunate was Fujiwara no Yoritsugu.

Upon learning that the Great Zhou army had set foot on Japanese soil, the Emperor's shogunate panicked and first mobilized the entire country's army to resist. However, in front of the organized Great Zhou infantry, the Japanese army was like a child playing house and was directly defeated. The army was unstoppable and captured thirty cities in a row.

For example, the Warring States Period that was famous in Japan in later generations was just a village fight in the Central Plains, it was just exaggerated. At this time, the Great Zhou sent troops to attack, which was like a dimensionality reduction attack.

With the cooperation of the navy and the army, the Japanese shogunate was destroyed in less than a year, and the so-called emperor was even beheaded.

After the fall of Japan, the Zhou Dynasty court sent officials to change the native peoples into Han people, relocate the population, and take control of the explored silver mines. A year later, Japan's silver output greatly alleviated the silver shortage in the Central Plains.

……

Mirror Owner: Su Ming

World: The Legend of the Condor Heroes
Identity: Guo Jing's teacher

Origin of the World: Ninety-nine Eight Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-eight

Degree of world collapse: 99.88 percent.

Number of time and space reflections captured: zero
On Peach Blossom Island, Su Ming's mind moved, and he pulled away from the Kunlun Mirror. Looking at the rolling clouds in the sky, he let out a long breath, "It seems that I can't stay in this world for much longer."

"Well, it's time to go back and see those old friends. Now that Jing'er has unified the world, the so-called Huashan Sword Contest seems to be over."

Thinking of this, a hint of strangeness appeared in Su Ming's eyes. Is The Legend of the Condor Heroes still The Legend of the Condor Heroes without the Huashan Sword Contest?

A few days later, a small boat left Peach Blossom Island.

Misty Jiangnan, a prosperous old place.

Su Ming was walking in the alley holding an oil-paper umbrella. The rain fell down the umbrella and splashed on the ground, but his sleeves and shoes seemed to be isolated from the ground and were not stained by any water.

On the street, there are all kinds of shops, the shop assistants are dozing off on the counters, and a thin curtain of rain covers the sky.

Suddenly, a voice broke into his ears, "Miss Li, I have no ill intentions. My father is the Privy Councilor. If I did anything wrong, I would have taken action against you long ago."

Another gentle and cold voice echoed in the alley, "Mr. Lu, please respect yourself!"

"interesting."

Su Ming's heart moved, and he passed through the rain and came to the source of the sound. He saw a girl in a white dress holding an oil-paper umbrella under the eaves not far away, with impatience on her pretty face. Next to her, a young man in brocade clothes was looking at him with fascination, and the shadow of Lu Guanying could be vaguely seen between his brows.

This woman was naturally Li Mochou. She traveled around the world with her senior sister. Unexpectedly, she met Lu Zhanyuan in the Jiangnan area. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhanyuan started pursuing her after just one meeting.

Seeing this scene, Su Ming showed a faint smile. Fate is indescribable. Even though the world is different, they still met.

In the following time, he traveled around Jiangnan and met Mu Nianci, who had become the leader of the Ancient Tomb Sect. From her, he learned that Yang Tiexin was still alive and that the Quanzhen Sect had inexplicably gained a new uncle, which caused a lot of farce.

In a temple, he accidentally met Master Yideng who was becoming a monk there. Before the fall of Dali, Master Yideng lived in seclusion among mountains and rivers. After the fall of Dali, the Zhou court treated the Duan family with courtesy, and Master Yideng also went to travel to the Central Plains.

In the temple, Su Ming used the Shocking Soul Finger to spar with Master Yideng's One Yang Finger. Even though Master Yideng's One Yang Finger had reached the highest level, the masculine finger force was still as sharp as the sword energy and even injured his finger.

Seeing this, Su Ming sat down with him to discuss and exchange martial arts.

……

Western Regions, White Camel Villa.

The door of the secret room in the fortress suddenly made a noise. As the door opened, a stern figure walked out. Ouyang Feng looked up at the sky and breathed a sigh of relief. "After ten years, I finally succeeded. Huang Laoxie, old beggar, this time, I must defeat you!"

Ouyang Ke, who was waiting outside the door, was overjoyed and kept congratulating his uncle on his great martial arts achievements.

(End of this chapter)