Starting from Comprehensive Martial Arts: Bu Dao Lu

Chapter 280 Untitled
Since the 13th year of Xiaokang, the Ming Empire has been immersed in sorting out its internal affairs and thoroughly digesting the newly merged territories!
The Ming Empire focuses on domestic affairs!

The other empires on the Chinese continent are extremely concerned about the Ming Empire!

There is no way, the rise of the Ming Empire is too fierce!In two years, the territory of the Ming Empire almost expanded three to four times, annexed six empires, killed seven land gods, and surrendered one land god!
While the major empires were taking a nap, the Ming Empire became the first empire in the Chinese continent.

This is really too magical. If there is no accurate news, the major empires will not believe it!

Therefore, at the beginning of the 13th year of Xiaokang, the Qin Empire, the Han Empire, the Tang Empire, as well as the Hun Empire in the northernmost part of the Chinese mainland and the island countries in the East China Sea, one after another, envoys arrived in the capital of the Ming Dynasty!

In addition to the mission of making good friends with the Ming Empire, these missions also shouldered the important task of inquiring about news about the Ming Empire.However, in the 13th year of Xiaokang's reign, everyone in the Ming Empire was so busy that they didn't have much energy to pay attention to them!
The violently expanding Ming Empire had so many things to do!Courts, localities, armies, rivers and lakes, etc., all of them require a lot of energy to sort out!
However, these disturbances cannot affect Zhu Qi!

At the end of the 12th year of Xiaokang's reign, after Zhu Qi killed Nurhaci with nine punches at the border pass, he returned to the imperial capital with Zhang Sanfeng and Xiaoyaozi!

After returning to the imperial capital, Zhu Qi stayed in the palace and could not come out!

On weekdays, except for Emperor Xiaokang, who discussed the great cause of the empire with him, only Dao Yan, who was in charge of Daye Pavilion, could see Zhu Qi!

Monk Daoyan is good at planning and has great talents!

So Emperor Xiaokang discussed with Zhu Qi and put him in charge of Daye Pavilion!
Daye Pavilion is under the name of the Royal Council of Presbyterians. Although it is not as famous as the Cabinet and the Fifth Military Governor's Mansion, its power is not bad at all!

In addition to the five directly affiliated Martial Arts Alliance, Daye Pavilion has the right to mobilize the guards, Jin Yiwei and Liumen of the Fifth Military Governor's Mansion under Daye Pavilion!In addition, Daye Pavilion can also send messages to soldiers directly under the Fifth Army Governor's Office to request support; Daye Pavilion can also share information about East Factory and West Factory!
The current Daye Pavilion can be said to be the vanguard of the Ming Empire's external affairs, and its power is naturally overwhelming!

Although the monk Daoyan comes from Buddhism, he is not a master of fasting and chanting Buddha's name!

Since the rise of the Ming Empire and its crazy annexation of the six countries, Dao Yan has truly seen Zhu Qi's hope that the Ming Empire will unify the mainland of China!
Therefore, this monk is very energetic in Daye Pavilion!They are planning the Martial Arts Alliance's infiltration into major empires every day!
With the support of the entire Ming Empire, the Martial Arts League expanded rapidly. The talent, resources, money and food of the Ming Empire allowed the Martial Arts League to grow steadily!The current Martial Arts Alliance not only has a large number of strongholds in major empires, but also many empires have been penetrated by the Martial Arts Alliance!

Zhu Qi is happy to see the development of the Martial Arts League!

After all, the Martial Arts Alliance was established by him.

However, Zhu Qi has little involvement in the specific plans of the Martial Arts Alliance!
With the support of the royal family, the Martial Arts Alliance is now full of talents, and there is no need for Zhu Qi and Dao Yan to do it themselves!

Dao Yan now only controls the general direction of the Martial Arts Alliance!

In September of the 14th year of Xiaokang's reign, Zhu Qi's fifth soul was perfected and he began the practice of his sixth soul!In June of the 16th year of Xiaokang's reign, Zhu Qi's six souls were completed and he began to practice the seventh soul!
In the 16th year of Xiaokang's reign, Prince Zhu Xiongying, who had been in charge of the Western Grasslands for three years, was recalled to the imperial capital by Emperor Xiaokang!In the past three years, the prince has been in charge of the grassland and has stabilized the empire's rule over the grassland. Everyone in the court is extremely satisfied with the prince!
Also in this year, Emperor Xiaokang once again retreated to practice and handed over the empire that had been initially sorted out to the prince to manage!
After the prince took charge of the country, he recalled the kings of Qin, Jin, Yan, and Zhou who were guarding the place.The Supreme Emperor Hongwu personally issued an edict to confer the four kings as royal elders to assist the prince in governing the country!

The four kings returned to the imperial capital to assist in the administration, and the prince issued another decree: the emperor's sixth son, Chu King Zhu Zhen, was in charge of the northwest region, the seventh son, Qi Wang Zhu Zhu, was in charge of the southwest region, the Bazitan king Zhu Zi was in charge of the western region, the tenth son Zhu Tan was in charge of the northern region, and the eleventh son was in charge of the north region. Zhu Chun is in charge of the Southern Territory!
The six regions of the Ming Empire, except for the imperial capital and the western capital in the central and western regions, all built regional imperial cities for the royal family to guard the place!

Emperor Xiaokang had already summoned the royal family to discuss the decision for the prince to be in charge of each domain!The reason why the prince issued the edict was just to increase the prince's prestige!Moreover, the royal family's branching out of towns was not the work of the Ming Empire alone. It was the same for all the major empires on the Chinese continent.

Although the kings of Qin, Jin, Yan, and Zhou were nominally assisting the prince in governing the country, their thoughts were not on the court!
Since returning to the imperial capital, the four kings have been practicing in the palace!
After studying the "Dragon Martial Scripture", the four kings' cultivation has improved rapidly and they have been promoted to the Grand Master level. Seeing that there is hope for land gods, the four kings have no intention to participate in political affairs.If the empire hadn't expanded too fast in the past few years and the place needed them to guard, they would have gone into seclusion to cultivate!
Once they are promoted to land gods, they will have hundreds or even thousands of extra years of life out of thin air, and have the opportunity to break through to land gods. How can they think about doing anything else!
The prince has grown up after several years of experience!Therefore, even if the four kings went into seclusion and practiced cultivation, they would not have much impact on the Ming Empire!The Ming Dynasty's Dinghai magic needles are Emperor Hongwu and Zhu Qi. As long as these two people are safe and sound, there will be no problems in the Ming Empire!

The Ming Empire has always had the tradition of the prince supervising the country, not to mention that this is not the first time that the prince supervises the country.Therefore, the war in the Ming Empire did not stop at all!

With the passage of time, the three regions of Middle-earth and the three regions of the grasslands of the Ming Empire have become more integrated, and the national power of the Ming Dynasty has gradually increased during the integration!

Livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses from the grassland entered the Middle-earth in large quantities, providing sufficient meat and livestock power for the people of the Middle-earth.Ironware, tea, grain, etc. from China also poured into the grasslands, improving the lives of grassland herdsmen!

The improvement of the Grassland Guard also provided the Ming Dynasty's military with a large number of elite cavalry and war horses!It can be said that the current Ming Empire would not lose a single cent even against the Xiongnu cavalry!

In January of the 18th year of Xiaokang's reign, Zhu Qi's seventh soul was initially completed!
No one knew that an existence closest to ancient mythology was born on this day! 'Immortal', something that countless heroes pursue, is not far away from Zhu Qi!
After the initial completion of the Three Souls and Seven Souls, "Martial Arts Record" sent Zhu Qi new information!
There are three paths to spiritual cultivation and life transition, namely: the transformation of the Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and God, and the final life transition!

The essence is the physical body, and it is the raft for the life transition of living beings!

Qi is energy, the paddle for the leap of life of living beings!

God is the soul and the rudder for the transition of life!

The physical body is real and the soul is empty. The transformation of these two is the most difficult!

Therefore, most people in the world start their practice with Qi, and Zhu Qi is no exception!

Although the exercises deduced in "Martial Arts Record" do not slacken the physical and spiritual cultivation, in fact Zhu Qi mainly uses energy to temper the body and soul!

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