From the world of martial arts

Xuzhou is located on the coast of the East China Sea.

It is a place near the sea of ​​Kyushu, located on the land of Qilu in the Central Plains. It was also the place where the Four Wars were.

Of course, this East China Sea is not the other East Sea. The East China Sea in Kyushu is just an inland sea, not the four seas of the Three Realms.

However, in the depths of the East China Sea in Kyushu, a spring also connects the four seas. From the spring, one can step into the Three Realms and Four Seas.

Of course, the spring is not something that ordinary people can pass by. If you don't have strong cultivation, you will be torn apart by the spring.

After all, the spring is very scary.

The four major springs in the three realms and four seas need to be suppressed by the ancestor dragon's physical body before they are finally relieved. Otherwise, the springs will shake and the four seas will be unstable.

Xuzhou on the East China Sea was originally the most prosperous place in the land of Qilu. Today, Xuzhou is also one of the most prosperous places in the southeast of Liu Han's court.

Xuzhou's area can only be considered medium, but its population is even higher than that of Jizhou, with a full 500 million, and the number of merchants is even higher than that of Jizhou.

There are several major merchant families in Xuzhou who will be the best in the world in the future. Among them, the Mi family is the top merchant family in the world.

One of the top ten merchants of Liu Han by Yuwei.

The Mi family has been in Xuzhou for thousands of years. In terms of foundation, it may not be as good as those first-class aristocratic families. However, because of the business, the family's wealth is rare, which also contributes to the power of the Mi family.

After all, in this extraordinary world, more wealth also means more resources. Although the Mi family's background is not as good as those of the old aristocratic families, the family inheritance is also not as good.

But over the past thousand years, the Mi clan has given birth to many strong men, including three in the God Refining realm.

The lifespan of a cultivator in the realm of refining gods is at least three thousand years, and even martial arts can have a lifespan of a thousand years. Even if someone leaves Jiuzhou, at least one of the Mi family is stationed in Xuzhou.

Naturally, the safety of the family is guaranteed.

It is also because of this that even though some people covet Mi's huge wealth, they dare not take action easily.

After all, no one knows how many people in the Mi family are in the realm of refining gods. If all three of them are here, even the imperial court will not take action easily.

The three God Refining Realms might not be the opponents of the Earthly Immortal Realm when they join forces, but it is still possible to block them for a moment.

Once they escape and wait for an opportunity to retaliate, even the court will definitely have a hard time.

Unless the power of the imperial court is like at its peak, during the Emperor Wu's period, many of the families that were indeed wiped out were in the realm of refining gods.

However, those in the realm of refining gods were suppressed when the court said they were suppressed and destroyed when they were asked to be destroyed.

But it can only be Emperor Wu, because Emperor Wu himself is a powerful man who transcends the Earthly Immortal Realm. In addition, the empire also has an unparalleled general, the Champion, who is even the top warrior. Even in the Earthly Immortal Realm, Many of them were killed.

It was that unparalleled general who was in charge, and no one in the world dared to refute it. Those kings of the opposite sex, the princes of the Liu family, did not dare to have any dissatisfaction with the imperial court.

However, it was a pity for Emperor Wu, because he became obsessed with practicing martial arts, or was plotted against him, and finally died at the age of 800.

After this Emperor Wu, the emperors after the imperial court did not live long. It was as if this Emperor Wu had exhausted Liu Han's luck. There were not many emperors in the succeeding generations who were talented and wise, and those who were foolish and unprincipled were not so many. few.

This consumed too much power of the Liu Han court. Up to now, the imperial court once again consumed a lot of Liu Han's strength because of the rebellion caused by his relatives. An elder of the Liu Han clan who was at the state level was also seriously injured because of the rebellion by his relatives. So far, Liu Han once again lost a governor. A strong country.

This is also the case, which is why the imperial court's control over local areas is so weak.

After all, the central government lacks the strongest power, and its deterrence against local governments has declined, and a series of weakenings have made the power of the imperial court weaker and weaker, eventually leading to the current situation where the government clearly belongs to the imperial court, but in fact the local governments have become autonomous.

Xuzhou is no exception. Xuzhou is thousands of miles away from Luoyang, the divine capital. Maybe for those monks, it won't take long.

But if it is really a large army, even if the elite can make hundreds of miles a day, it will take more than half a year.

Of course, during the Qin Dynasty, traveling a hundred miles a day was nothing. The Chidao of the Qin Dynasty had special chariots for transporting troops. These chariots were made with monk runes and could travel long distances very quickly. More than a war horse.

Now Liu Han naturally does not have this ability.

This is one of the reasons why the imperial court lost control over local areas.

As one of the most fertile states in the southeast of the imperial court, Xuzhou was naturally a place where aristocratic families gathered, and there were quite a few aristocratic families in Xuzhou.

There are even many top aristocratic families in the world.

The Mi family is a merchant family and is already among the aristocratic families. In this era, there is no hidden rule that merchants are inferior.

Because merchant families also have strong power, as long as they have strong power, no one dares to underestimate them. Even if no one from these merchant families is an official, no one in the local government dares to underestimate them.

Of course, the Mi family cannot be just a family of merchants. Since they are in the limelight, there must be disciples who want to become officials.

Therefore, in the past thousand years, there have been officials of the three-gong level in the Mi family.

In the Liu Han court for thousands of years, one or two three princes were actually nothing. Four generations and three princes could not even become the standard for a first-class family.

After all, many first-class families have produced dozens of three-gong officials. The Yang family of Liu Han has had hundreds of three-gong-level officials, and even held the position of Sikong ten times in a row. It can be said that it is infinitely famous. Compared with another top family, Yuan As far as the family is concerned, it is even more powerful.

As a top aristocratic family, the Yang family has mostly reached the limit of being a civil servant.

Of course, the evaluation of aristocratic families is not only based on the officials in office, but also the strength of the family. If the family does not have a strong person in charge, it will only slowly decline.

It’s not like there are no such aristocratic families.

For thousands of years, for those families who were not born in the God Refining Realm or were born in the God Refining Realm but died due to accidents, without such a strong person sitting in charge, they would only slowly fall.

The situation between aristocratic families is cruel, even very tragic, and there may even be wars between them.

There used to be two aristocratic families fighting each other, and even people in the God Refining Realm were killed because of this. The winning side could plunder the inheritance and heritage of the other family.

Liu Han was not Da Qin. Da Qin had very strict control over local nobles, but in Liu Han, it was different.

And this is also the calculation of the Liu Han court. Only if they have a fierce relationship with each other can the Liu family secure this position.

Unfortunately, they underestimated the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family did see Liu's sinister intentions, but they could also use this to go further and become even more alienated from the court. (End of chapter)