If I fail to overcome the tribulation, I can only return to the Ming Dynasty and become a prince.

Since the plan was to wipe out all the Japanese gods in one fell swoop, Zhu Zhanqi naturally did not expect to completely solve the problem just by relying on the Jin Yiwei he brought.

They indeed play a very important role and will be responsible for cleaning up and destroying the weaker Japanese gods in this battle, but in order to wipe out all the Japanese evil gods that are full of pits and valleys, the army still needs to be used.

Originally, Zhu Zhanchun had no intention of mobilizing the Jade Guards, but seeing that there were so many Japanese gods here that the Jinyi Guards he brought alone could not cope with them, Zhu Zhanchun still had to consider the opinions of King Ning. The troops planned to be mobilized were mobilized.

However, in order to prevent King Ning from mistakenly thinking that he was here to seize territory, Zhu Zhanyu specifically asked the Qingyu Guard to take the sea route.

Not by boat, but directly from the sea.

Now that they have been upgraded by Meng Qinglin to Fan Jiangwei, walking on the waves is just a basic skill, and even marching directly in the sea is possible.

After all, he is a water-type Taoist soldier of Dragon Palace. Even if he is completely incapable of water, with the blessing of Taoism, he can move freely in the water, and even fight and kill enemies.

Moreover, Meng Qinglin also focused on training them in water combat, ensuring that although this unit spent most of its time fighting on land, it did not lose the real skills of the Dragon Palace Taoist soldiers.

But even if the army has been mobilized, the number of Qingyu Guards alone is still not comparable to the number of Japanese gods gathered in Izumo.

The so-called 800 million gods in the Japanese country are just an imaginary number, and most of them are not very powerful. However, there are tens of thousands of these monsters and monsters that appear in front of Zhu Zhankui now.

And even if they are just a few gods, their strength can almost reach the level of refining Qi. Even if most of them don't even have golden elixirs, they are in the early stage of refining Qi. There are only a few that even Zhu Zhancheng listens to. The being who has passed the name has a golden elixir cultivation level and has entered the realm of refining Qi to restore the spirit. There are so many refined Qi that cannot be killed by the Jade Guard and the Jinyi Guard.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanqi wanted to exterminate them all at once. In addition to using Taoist soldiers such as Qingyu Guards and Jin Yiwei, he also needed to set up a large formation throughout Izumo to restrain them from escaping, and at the same time, he could Use the power of the formation to cleanse these low-level but numerous gods.

"Take the array map, follow the position of the solitary mark and the professor's method, and drive these magic weapons into the ground at the eye of the array, and then guard there to prevent these evil gods from destroying them." Having made up his mind, Zhu Zhanqi followed. He took out a formation diagram from his sleeve, then opened it and divided it into several pieces: "This formation can seal off this world, leaving these evil gods with nowhere to escape. All you need to do is guard the formation." If the magic weapon in it is not destroyed by the evil gods, Gu can use the power of the formation to kill all these evil gods."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, even if you die in battle because of your humble position, you will never lose the magic weapon!" Qianhu, the Jin Yiwei guard who received the formation map, expressed his determination loudly.

This is not to flatter Zhu Zhanchen or anything, but his true thoughts.

In addition to his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, he was also because everything he saw was full of demonic aura, and he could tell at a glance that he was an evil god.

From the perspective of this Jinyiwei Qianhu, letting one of these evil gods go would be a disaster, let alone so many of them!Once they harm the people of Ming Dynasty, it will be a disaster!
So since Zhu Zhanchun has a way to completely eliminate them, even if all of them are dead, they must ensure that Zhu Zhanchun's plan is foolproof.

Perhaps in the minds of the people and officials, the Jinyiwei were just the emperor's black gloves and the court's eagle dogs, specializing in bringing evil to the good and good, and even many Jinyiwei themselves thought so.

But these Jin Yiwei who were retrained by Zhu Zhanquan were indoctrinated into the idea that they were just the guardians secretly guarding the country of the Ming Dynasty. Every corrupt official and evil person they eliminated was making the country of the Ming Dynasty become worse. better.

Of course, this kind of statement is a kind of politically correct brainwashing to a large extent, but it is not wrong from the perspective of Jin Yiwei, and it is much easier to use than words such as loyalty to the emperor and meritorious service.

After all, people with a sense of faith and mission tend to have stronger beliefs and work more efficiently than those who are purely motivated by profit.

Although Zhu Zhanjuan didn't know much about the ways of serving his subordinates, some insights from later generations still allowed him to understand how to build a better spy agency.

Judging from the current situation, the belief he instilled in these Jinyiwei has indeed worked in some aspects.

At least, many of them have a belief in protecting the Ming Dynasty, but the intensity of this belief needs to be strengthened.

In Zhu Zhanqi's view, the current battle is the best opportunity to strengthen their belief.

As long as they can win this battle, and these Jinyiwei see the results of their hard work, they will naturally have a sense of honor in their hearts and add a strong belief. Even those who originally joined the Jinyiwei just for profit will be influenced by the atmosphere. Influence, let yourself have more or less a sense of honor.

As for the guy who is really untouched... Zhu Zhanquan is not an evil person. He is just sent to a remote area on the border to sit on the bench.

For the core part of Jinyiwei, it is still necessary to establish a strong atmosphere of belief in protecting the Ming Dynasty, so that members who join Jinyiwei in the future will have this belief from the beginning and pass it on.

In this way, Jinyiwei can transform from the sword in the emperor's hand to the shield that protects the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanjun did not expect to make them the patron saints of the Ming Dynasty, but at least the Jinyiwei should become a cleaning mechanism to protect the Ming Dynasty.

Even if it is an immortal dynasty that can live forever, with the blessing of national luck, it will not have the problem of corrupt officials, but the country's cystic worms can be found in any environment, and the function of Jin Yiwei to supervise all officials is the best way to deal with these guys. Line of defense.

In the original history, the Ming Dynasty died largely due to the influence of the civil administration system on the court. In the late Ming Dynasty, starting from Chenghua, the five emperors Hongzhi, Zhengde, Taichang, and Tianqi all died due to various unnatural reasons. There was no civil servant group behind this. No one believes in the struggle with the imperial power.

Apart from anything else, the two emperors of Chenghua and Hongzhi were put to death by the same imperial physician. However, the imperial physician did not receive any punishment and was protected by the cabinet at that time. Is there any problem in this?Treating people as fools!

Not to mention the Battle of Yingzhou during the Zhengde period. The little Tatar prince led 16 troops to invade the border. The Zhengde Emperor personally led the army to fight. The two sides fought fiercely for several days. Even the emperor himself hacked an enemy to death. As a result, the civil servants compiled "Wuzong Shilu" records that "52 people were killed in the Mongolian army and [-] people were killed in the Ming army" to discredit the emperor.

This shows how bad the civil service group was in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The so-called Donglin Party, which was boasted to the sky as "all the people are upright and prosperous in the dynasty," did not bring many changes to the Ming Dynasty when they took control of the court. On the contrary, when the Ming Dynasty fell, Qian Qian, one of the representatives of the Donglin Party However, Qianyi made a joke about "itchy scalp and water too cold", and he was not even as upright as a brothel girl. One can imagine what this so-called "uprightness" is all about.

Zhu Zhanquan did not deny that there were good officials in the Ming Dynasty civil service system who were truly dedicated to the people, but as he had always said, there were four types of officials in the world: those who were talented and incorruptible, those who were talented and corrupt, and those who were incompetent. Talented and incorruptible, talentless and corrupt.

Among them, those who are talented and honest are rare. Throughout the ages, all those recorded in the history books are famous ministers who will be remembered throughout the ages. In the year 270 of the Ming Dynasty, the reign of Zuo, the only one who can truly bear this evaluation is Hai Rui and Haigang Feng. .The vast majority of officials in the imperial court are of the latter three types, and the majority are the latter two.

Those who are talentless and corrupt are what the common people hate the most and what the rulers hate the most.

After all, minor problems with officials are not a bad thing for the emperor. As long as they can perform their duties and bring benefits to the country and the emperor, the emperor can tolerate minor problems that are innocuous.

As for being untalented and incorruptible, it is also useful for the emperor, that is, to set a moral example and let the court and the country have correct values.

It is precisely because of this that those who are talentless and corrupt really deserve to be killed.

A qualified emperor needs to make good use of the remaining two types of officials and let them play their role for the country.

The existence of Jinyiwei was an important tool used by the Ming Dynasty emperor to control and supervise these civil servants.

Throughout the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, those emperors who made great achievements and made some achievements were all emperors who made good use of the tool of Jinyiwei.

Even if they are not using Jinyiwei, they are using similar tools, such as eunuchs and east and west factories.

It's just that compared with Jin Yiwei, the East and West factories, which were controlled by more eunuchs who were favored by the Ming emperor, were not favored by Zhu Zhanchun.

This is not to say that there is discrimination against eunuchs. There were many talented and loyal eunuchs in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, in Zhu Zhanchun's view, eunuchs were all physically handicapped, which in itself was an inhumane existence.

However, due to the general environment of the feudal dynasty, it was impossible for him to say that the emperor would not use eunuchs.

People with physical disabilities will have some psychological effects, such as greed for money and cruelty.

Although under the control of successive emperors of the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs became a sharp weapon for the emperor to fight against the civil servant group, just like Wei Zhongxian could be considered a loyal minister compared with the Donglin Party in the late Ming Dynasty, but this does not mean that that Nine thousand years old is what a good person.

He is just relatively less rotten than those civil servants who are more thoroughly rotten.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Zhanjun chose the Jinyiwei, a member of the emperor's personal army, as the "night watchman" he imagined secretly guarding the Ming Dynasty.

"Profit can only be driven temporarily, and only faith can last forever." Zhu Zhanqi stared at the ghosts and monsters in the sky, but his mind was not here. His eyes had already penetrated the shackles of time and looked towards the longer time. Future: “What maintains a country’s long-term prosperity is not a wise king and wise ministers, but a sound and perfect system that can continuously evolve itself.

The system of civil and military affairs, the struggle between eunuchs and civil servants, and the party struggles among civil servant groups are all just appearances.

In the final analysis, the emperor was behind the scenes, and it was a struggle between officials and imperial power.

The imperial power cannot be too strong, otherwise the emperor will lose his restrictions. A wise king can strengthen the country, but a faint king can also destroy it.

Officials also cannot be too strong. Once they are above the imperial power, they will also lose restraint and quickly expand into a monster that can devour the country.

Before the country truly develops to the point where the common people are intellectually awakened and can withstand democracy, the king and officials are like two ends of the scale, and a balance must be maintained so that the country can operate stably without problems. "

While muttering to himself, Zhu Zhanchun stretched out his hand from his sleeve, put the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of his right hand together, and the nine knuckles turned into nine palaces, and his thumb counted among them, which was called Jiugongfei. The future development of Ming Dynasty is deduced by the method of divination of stars.

Although there are Jiuding to suppress the national destiny, and the current Ming Dynasty has a long-lasting country, as long as the destiny does not decline, there will be no danger of national subjugation, but even in the world of immortality, there is no immortal dynasty that will never change.

If a dynasty continues for too long and the country loses its vitality, the country's fortunes will also decline due to various reasons, eventually leading to the country's demise.

Even if they did not make any mistakes, the king was wise and the ministers were loyal, but when a country has completely decayed, no matter how wise the king and ministers are, they cannot save a dynasty from destruction.

"If Jinyiwei can be made into the guardian of the Ming Dynasty in the darkness, although it does not significantly increase the national fortune, it will extend the Ming Dynasty by [-]%. Gu's plan is indeed correct." Zhu Zhanqi realized the result he had deduced, Finally nodded with satisfaction: "The civil servants have supervisors, and the three legs that maintain the stability of the Ming Dynasty are finally in place. So now it is time to clean up the trash like you and add another fortune to the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Zhanjun said, his eyes finally overflowing with murderous intent.

Although the evil gods of the Japanese country in front of him were not taken seriously by Zhu Zhankun, they were the gods of the Japanese country after all, and they also carried some of the luck of the Japanese country with them.

If we kill them all, we can plunder the Japanese luck from them and add it to the Ming Dynasty's luck.

Just like sealing the mountain and slaying the dragon in Langjuxu Mountain before, plundering the luck of other countries can benefit the luck of one's own country.

It's just that the grassland nomads don't have a god to protect them. The so-called Immortality Sky is more similar to a concept than a specific god.

That's why the fate of the grassland nomads gathered on the sacred mountain of Langjuxu Mountain, allowing the nomads on the northern grasslands to prosper again and again, bringing continuous wars and disasters to the Central Plains dynasty.

Therefore, even if we do not consider the merits brought by killing these demons and monsters, just being able to plunder luck has already made Zhu Zhanqi determined to kill these Japanese evil gods.

Not to mention, killing these Japanese evil gods will allow Ming Dynasty to completely control this land, and it will also be able to obtain the good deeds of killing demons and monsters. (End of chapter)