Gao Wu: You have science, and I have magic!

Chapter 223 Lian Hongying: Accompany Me Tonight
Martial arts value private interests. For the strong, great power belongs to themselves, so they do not need to rely on organizations or groups. Therefore, they can often act completely based on their own interests without having to compromise or give in.

In today's Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, vested interests are intertwined. There are various factions within the kingdom. Four circles have been formed around four veteran martial gods, and the power struggles between them are becoming increasingly fierce.

Although Lian Hongying is a princess and a martial god, she has actually been outside the "system" for many years.

The reason is very simple. The power and resources of the royal family are mainly in the hands of the king. As long as Lian Huozhi does not abdicate, the power in her hands will not fall into the hands of Lian Hongying.

What's more, even if Lian Huozhi resigned from the throne and went to Yujing to wait for the orders of the Queen Mother of the West, it might not be Lian Hongying's turn to be the ruler of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom.

The reason is very simple. The First Princess Lian Qixia has now become a powerful figure. She has worked hard in the royal capital for many years and has won the support of more powerful people in the country.

In addition, Lian Qixia herself also possesses the realm and cultivation of the tenth level of the Heavenly Ascension Realm, so she can be said to have an advantage in the fight for the right of inheritance.

In contrast, Lian Hongying has been obsessed with cultivation over the years and has no other forces or connections except his fiefdom Huajian City.

Within five years, according to conventional competition, it would be impossible to attract more supporters than Lian Qixia, because Lian Qixia would never sit idly by and watch Lian Hongying overtake her.

This is the biggest dilemma facing Lian Hongying.

The solution proposed by Ye Qingzhou was very simple and crude. If he could not win over the nobles, he would try to win over the lower classes, especially those civilian heroes who were excluded by the ruling class.

"What should I do specifically?"

It has to be said that Lian Hongying was very excited at this moment. Although she was born into the aristocratic class of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, she has now become a martial god, so naturally she is more concerned about her own interests.

Especially the advice given by Ye Qingzhou was closely related to forging her own magic weapon. In this case, it would be even more difficult for her to give up Refining Hongying.

"It's simple, a martial arts exam."

"Martial Arts Examination?"

"Use martial arts to recruit the common people and heroes of the Rakshasa tribe, and give them the steps to advance. Naturally, they will be able to gather new destiny and form a decisive force."

The spiritual power of Kunlun Cave Heaven is basically monopolized by West Kunlun and divided up by the "Hundred Gods" headed by the Queen Mother of the West. The eight hundred feudal states are not qualified to intercept it, and are not allowed to privately worship other gods besides the "Hundred Gods". Otherwise, it would be considered an obscene sacrifice, which would bring about the wrath of heaven and punishment from heaven.

Therefore, Ye Qingzhou could only find another way and start from the "national destiny" of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom.

In the current Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, the fate of the country is controlled by the royal family and the nobility, while the people are cruelly exploited to the extreme and have almost no power to resist.

Therefore, if a savior appears and is willing to help the lower classes, he will immediately receive the response and support of the people.

Lian Hongying frowned after hearing Ye Qingzhou's suggestion: "Martial arts examination? Our Luosha Female Kingdom has already established martial arts academies in various cities in the country to select talents for the kingdom. Why do we need to do this and hold a martial arts examination?"

"This is different."

Ye Qingzhou patiently explained the difference: "Although the establishment of the martial arts academy teaches martial arts, it is only to select soldiers. The martial arts examination I am talking about is to select talents through martial arts examinations, and grant advanced martial arts moves. After that, they will even be awarded titles based on military merits, so that the lower-class civilians can also have the opportunity to become new military nobles."

"A title based on military merit!?"

After understanding the core of it, Lian Hongying was instantly surprised.

These four words had a great impact on the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, which was still mainly based on aristocratic fiefdom.

Even though the Rakshasi Women's Kingdom already possesses powerful warriors at the level of Martial God, in terms of civilization, it still has an extremely backward feudal aristocracy system.

Bringing the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues here can be considered an advanced idea.

You must know that in the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, classes divide the entire country's people into different levels. Civilians are cruelly exploited, and slaves are even more miserable. They don't even have the dignity of being human beings, and their status is even lower than that of cattle and horses.

At least cattle and horses were usually worth more than slaves.

What’s even worse is that there has been no social change in Kunlun Cave Heaven. The feudal system has lasted for thousands of years, and there is a lack of a selection and promotion mechanism similar to the imperial examination.

As a result, the entire society becomes stagnant.

People at the bottom will always be at the bottom.

People in the upper class will always be in the upper class.

There is no flow of talent between classes in the entire Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, nor any innovation or change. There is only eternal oppression and exploitation.

This is also the reason why the two Martial Saints, Yuan Jinyou and Duan Qianfeng, rose up in resistance. Even if they were promoted to Martial Saints, they did not have the status of nobles. They would still be cruelly exploited by the royal family and the nobles and would never get the respect they deserved.

"Do you know what this means?"

Lian Hongying looked at Ye Qingzhou with burning eyes, as if she wanted to see through his thoughts.

Ye Qingzhou, on the other hand, acted nonchalantly. After all, he would be the beneficiary if things went on as planned, but the ones who would pay the price would be the royal family and nobles of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom.

In this way, my fellow Taoist will die rather than myself, so why not do it?

Facing Lian Hongying's questioning, Ye Qingzhou acted calmly: "Your Highness, everything in this world has a price. If you don't want to take any risks, how can you achieve great things? Magical weapons will not automatically appear in your hands. If you want to forge magic weapons, bloodshed and sacrifice are always inevitable."

Lian Hongying remained silent for a long time after hearing this.

In the past, how many members of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom died in battles over thousands of years in order to gain acceptance from West Kunlun and recognition from the Queen Mother of the West?

Even the immortal God of War who coexists with the world has to join the game and go to Yujing to "serve labor service", and can only enjoy the wealth and luxury of the human world for 800 years. Is this price too small?

How much blood of the Rakshasas has been stained on the blades of the Luanfeng twin swords, the national divine weapons?

From this we can see that the road to becoming a king is always built with countless corpses.

Once the policy of military examinations is announced, the Rakshasa Kingdom will be in turmoil.

Allowing civilians to be promoted to nobles based on their military merits is undoubtedly a move that will disrupt the original aristocratic political ecology. To put it bluntly, it is destroying the jobs of the nobility and even the royal family.

But the benefits are also very obvious...

If the policy of martial arts examination can be implemented smoothly, the civilian martial arts talents of the Rakshasa tribe will automatically gather around Lian Hongying and continue to move closer to her.

If a king wants to accept the destiny, he must gather talents, because talents often carry the luck of their tribe. Only by gathering enough people can "harmony among people" be formed, and even take this opportunity to unite as one, so that he can accept the destiny and become the king of men.

"Your Highness, wealth and honor are achieved through risk."

Ye Qingzhou's words made Lian Hongying completely determined.

Her phoenix eyes were full of brilliance, and when she looked at Ye Qingzhou, her expression was even more amazing: "You are better at bewitching people than the devil, but this suggestion is too tempting, I simply cannot refuse it."

A martial god who has reached the tenth level of heaven, holding a divine weapon, can possess the combat power of the eleventh level, which is the level of a king of heaven. Who can not be tempted by such an improvement?

The reason why Ye Qingzhou was so active in planning for Lian Hongying was naturally that he wanted to use Lian Hongying's resources to improve his proficiency in forging.

At the same time, in order to accumulate double the resources, in addition to creating an exclusive magic weapon for Lian Hongying, he would use the extra "scraps" to secretly create another magic weapon and gain unimaginable benefits.

Anyway, Lian Hongying was the only one who knew the contents of "The Heavenly Casting Sutra". Even Lian Hongying himself didn't know how much materials were needed to forge the magic weapon.

It was too easy for Ye Qingzhou to do something.

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Two days later, at the Fengshen Terrace in the western suburbs of the royal capital.

The sun shines golden light, and the mountains are dyed with colors. It is the season when locust flowers are in full bloom. The mountain flowers are in full bloom, and birds are flapping their wings. From time to time, there is a cool and pleasant spring breeze blowing, brushing the temples.

Today is the ceremony to crown Lian Hongying as king.

Therefore, almost all the dignitaries in the royal capital were present, and the king, Lian Huozhi, personally presided over the enthronement ceremony for Lian Hongying as a monarch.

On a high platform made of white jade, a beautiful woman with a hot body, wearing gorgeous clothes and dragging her long skirt, walked slowly towards them.

She had a peerless appearance, a pair of sword-like eyebrows slanting into her temples, and her whole body was filled with an air of elegance and luxury, while at the same time possessing the majesty and domineering aura of a king.

This person was none other than the ruler of the Rakshasa Female Kingdom, Fiery Feather Blade Phoenix Lianhuozhi.

"See my king!"

There were roars of thunder and sea all around. No matter what the nobles thought, they could only be respectful to Lian Huozhi, the top expert of Luosha Women's Country, and dared not to act presumptuously or disrespectfully. If the king got angry, he could kill anyone he wanted.

In Kunlun Cave Heaven, a world of martial arts where great power belongs to oneself, there are not many people and things that can make the strong worry and compromise.

After that, there was the ceremony of crowning the king, which was full of strange customs and practices.

Ye Qingzhou joined in the fun, eating melons and watching the show from the side.

But he didn't know that in this coronation ceremony, the most watched person, besides Lian Hongying, the real host, was this "outsider" with a special identity.

At this time, there was already a lot of discussion in the aristocratic circle.

"Who is this boy?"

"I heard that he is the concubine of King Chan."

"No way? Didn't they say that Queen Chan was obsessed with martial arts and had never been close to any man?"

"That was in the past. Now that Queen Chan has ascended to the Tenth Heaven and has been successfully deified, she is not allowed to enjoy herself? Moreover, she has moved into Queen Chan's mansion, how can she take a vacation?"

"He is indeed extremely handsome, and has a unique temperament. No wonder he is favored by Queen Chan."

"Alas, the two most beautiful flowers in our Luosha country have now been picked by the human race. When will the men of our Luosha tribe be able to stand up again?"

Many nobles sighed, as they all wanted to have their outstanding sons marry Lian Hongying.

If a family can win over a martial god, wouldn’t it be able to take off?

It’s a pity that Lian Hongying is now “sticking together” with Ye Qingzhou all day long. There are even rumors that the two of them spend the night in the study. It’s impossible for a man and a woman alone to just chat in the study and do nothing, right?
Anyway, everyone has now determined that Ye Qingzhou is Lian Hongying's lover, and privately says that he is the male traitor of the Rakshasa Female Country, and will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people in the future.

In a sense, they were not wrong.

After all, in the current Rakshasa Female Kingdom, apart from the royal family and the nobles who are the "people", ordinary Rakshasa people are not considered "people", they are just a bunch of grass.

If Ye Qingzhou's plan succeeds, the nobles of the Luosha Women's Kingdom will not have many good days to live. Isn't this a disaster for the country and the people?
Then a noble who was close by carefully looked at Ye Qingzhou's profile and said, "Hey, do you think he looks like someone else?"

"Like who?"

"The king's wife."

"?"

"Is it possible that all humans look similar?"

"No, they really do look alike. I've met Mr. Wang a few times, so I wouldn't make a mistake."

After the ceremony of crowning the king, Lian Hongying came back and took Ye Qingzhou's hand: "Accompany me to the palace tonight for the dinner."

"Ok."

Ye Qingzhou looked reluctant, but unfortunately he couldn't refuse the client's request.

At night, the palace walls of the royal capital are brightly lit, reflecting the stars in the sky, creating a breathtaking beauty.

In contrast, the slums outside the royal capital are silent and desolate in the darkness, with only the pungent stench drifting around in the evening breeze from time to time.

The palace is magnificent and its walls are flawless white.

Just by getting close, Ye Qingzhou could smell a rich milky and sweet aroma through the curtain of the carriage.

Lian Hongying looked at the magnificent palace walls in front of her and said to Ye Qingzhou in a mocking tone: "You must find it hard to imagine that this royal city was built in a year of famine with starving people everywhere. The reason why the palace walls are so white is that they are made of a mixture of milk, lime, honey, and sugar. The dye was poured on over and over again for many years to create the wonders you see before your eyes."

Ye Qingzhou felt a chill down his spine when he heard that.

In the years of famine when people were starving to death, using milk, honey and sugar to paint the palace walls?
How insane this behavior is!

In the prison of Dongji Kingdom, those extremely evil death row prisoners are simply a group of harmless babies compared to the nobles of Luosha Women's Kingdom.

It is hard to imagine what kind of life the people of the Rakshasa tribe live in such a country.

The fact that they are still alive today is a biological miracle.

Many royal members of the Rakshasa Kingdom like to show off the "white wall" in front of them to demonstrate how noble their status as royal members is.

Only Lian Hongying felt nauseous and disgusted by this.

Where is the milk and honey being poured on the snow-white palace walls?

They are clearly piles of bones of the Rakshasa people!
"I couldn't understand it, but I was shocked."

The white wall in front of him made Ye Qingzhou's soul seem to be "cleansed" in some way, and his brain almost went into a state of shutdown.

Lian Hongying looked at Ye Qingzhou and said in a deep voice: "Every Rakshasa noble who came to the capital from his fiefdom would come here for pilgrimage. Therefore, this white palace wall is also called the 'holy wall' by them. They believe that it represents the holiness and nobility of our Rakshasa clan. What do you think?"

"I don't see holiness and nobility..."

Ye Qingzhou sighed, then shook his head and said, "The sweet aroma of milk and honey is intoxicating, but in this pure white, I only saw two words - cannibalism."

The so-called holy wall before us is neither holy nor noble. It should not even be painted white, but should be dyed blood red to be appropriate.

Because it was built on the bones of the Rakshasa people, and was built by devouring the flesh and blood of countless Rakshasa people.

Cannibalism is by no means a rhetorical device, but a realistic description.

In the extremely backward productive force of the Rakshasa women's country, milk, honey and sugar were used to build the six-meter-high and twelve-mile-long white palace wall in front of us...

Without treating millions of corpses as firewood, this magnificent spectacle would never have been possible.

Originally, Ye Qingzhou thought that he was already a heinous villain for instigating internal strife in the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom. However, when compared with the royal family and nobles of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom, he realized that he was still too young.

These inhuman bastards deserve to be overthrown.

Ye Qingzhou looked at Lian Hongying: "Do you want to change the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom?"

"I do not know."

Although Lian Hongying is a martial god, he still showed some confusion at this moment: "I just think that this world is not right."

She had witnessed with her own eyes a three-month-old baby starved to death due to malnutrition.

She once witnessed a group of Rakshasa peasants who were trying to defend their own land being thrown into a raging fire and burned to death by the domineering nobles.

She had encountered too much injustice, so the red lotus fire ignited in her heart and gave rise to the desire to purify the world.

But even someone as powerful as the God of War cannot wipe out all the filth in the world, because even if the old filth is removed, new filth will still be born.

Just like when the Rakshasi Women's Kingdom was first established, there was no distinction between nobles and commoners, and everyone was equal. Even the first generation of monarchs was a member of the Rakshasi royal family who was in trouble. They fled to the Kunlun Cave Heaven, living in fear and uncertainty.

It was not until the Queen Mother of the West extended a helping hand and accepted the Rakshasas who were on the verge of extinction that the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom was established.

In the beginning, everyone was struggling to survive.

Farmers grow crops, herdsmen raise livestock, craftsmen make weapons and armor, and nobles go into battle to kill enemies and expand territory for the emerging kingdom.

At that time, demons and monsters were rampant in Kunlun Cave Heaven. They attacked villages, hunted people, and constantly threatened the integrity of the Rakshasa Women's Kingdom.

Finally, it was the royal family who stepped forward and led the heroic Rakshasa nobles in a bloody battle, and finally eliminated these bloodthirsty monsters.

But after the demons and monsters disappeared, after so many years, the atmosphere of national unity disappeared, and was replaced by cruel oppression by the royal family and the nobility.

When Lian Hongying was a child, she lay in her mother's arms, listening to the teachings of her ancestors and witnessing their greatness. She naturally looked forward to all of this and fantasized about how to write her own epic chapter in the future.

However, when she grew up, what she saw and heard during her travels in the Kingdom of Rakshasa Women was completely different from what was described in the book.

(End of this chapter)