Fish swimming around the world

Thinking about the Buddha Kingdom, he wanted to go south more and more. Not only because of the so-called Buddha Kingdom, but also because he was eager to see Master Wenren. This old man was so elusive that it was too difficult to find him. Fortunately, he was going to Cangling at the end of the year, and Jiang Fan didn't want to miss it anyway.

But it was definitely not possible now, because there was something he had to go back to participate in personally.

Ding Taohua was getting married.

Originally, he was told to return in half a year, but he didn't expect to be delayed for so long. It was not until before going to Taibai Mountain that he received his message to return to Fanrenju to prepare for the marriage.

Counting the days, there is at most one month left, and there are many things to prepare. And according to Ding Shaoan's information, he should be going with Baxiong to get the generous "bride price" at this moment.

Tens of millions of silver, 100,000 sets of armor, and 100,000 combat soldiers are extremely important resources for Daqin. Ding Shaoan has made great contributions.

Of course, even if there were no such things, as a friend he met when he first entered the world of martial arts, Jiang Fan would definitely attend his wedding ceremony in person.

Without further delay, Jiang Fan and the Empress set off immediately under the escort of the Dragon Eagle Guard after settling the Yuzhou Army and bidding farewell to Pei Yunjin.

With a light load, the sun soon rose in sight, and the Empress studied the geomancy map all the way.

This puzzled Jiang Fan, and he asked her if she was also interested in the so-called dragon veins.

The Empress shook her head: "This geomancy map not only records the distribution trend of the earth veins in the world, but also points out that those earth veins can be called natural formations, just like the dragon veins of the Great Zhou Dynasty. These natural formations are very beneficial to the practice of formations."

Jiang Fan was surprised. After the Empress's instructions, he found that it was indeed the case. He couldn't help but laugh at himself. It's a pity that he was still practicing formations. He looked at it several times and didn't see it.

As for the inheritance of Taizai, there are not many. Taizai mainly relies on wisdom. In terms of martial arts, he is a bit like Jiang Fan, not very strong. If it weren't for the artifact such as the Beating Whip, his combat power would not be outstanding, but just like Jiang Fan, there are many strong people around him, and even mountain and sea beasts guard him, such as the mount he mentioned, Thunder Roc.

And his so-called inheritance is mainly his status and the Beating Whip artifact. The others are some secret records and wisdom insights.

First of all, the status, according to the will of Emperor Taizu, who can get the Taizai Beating Whip is regarded as the inheritor of Taizai, and the Great Zhou should respect him as the chief assistant. He can beat the tyrant and the slanderous ministers with the whip, without the punishment of the king and the restraint of etiquette.

This sounds very powerful, but now it has been almost a thousand years, and the Great Zhou has fallen into this state. In fact, no one will take it too seriously. Especially when Jiang Fan has not exposed his identity, the Beating Whip can only be regarded as stolen, and he dare not show it.

Of course, having inherited the inheritance of the Grand Master, he should naturally be regarded as the descendant of the ancestor of the Jiang family. However, the same reason applies. Even the Dragon Guards of the Longmen Jiang family have found another master, so this deterrent power is 99% no longer there.

Under normal circumstances, if this inheritance wants to have some nominal influence, Jiang Fan probably needs to confirm his identity as the grandson of the emperor and re-enter the imperial court. Some of the elders of the Great Zhou may still look at his face, provided that the inheritance of the Grand Master has the method to revitalize the Great Zhou.

As for the secrets of the inheritance, there are only a thousand words. Among them, what Jiang Fan and the empress are very interested in is a list. The Grand Master calls it the list of conferred titles, which is the list of three hundred princes after the establishment of the Great Zhou. This thing exists in the Dragon Head Secret Collection.

Of course, this list has long been out of date and has no great effect. What really makes them feel interesting is the political intention of the Grand Master.

From a few words, Jiang Fan understood that the reason why the Grand Master did this was because of the establishment process of the Great Zhou. As everyone knows, Zhou Taizu was able to abdicate the throne during the Fenghuang Dynasty, but in fact, during this period, there were countless bloody struggles among all parties. In order to minimize the killing, the Prime Minister agreed with Taizu Renhuang to implement the feudal system in order to seek support from all forces and make the transition as smooth as possible.

However, the Prime Minister also proposed that this move would inevitably lead to hidden dangers in the future. He hoped that after the Great Zhou Dynasty was stabilized, he would find a way to eliminate the bad policies as soon as possible, but it was obviously not done. The most fundamental reason was that after Taizu ascended the throne and the foundation of the country was stabilized, he did not mention the abdication system that he promised to implement, which made some powerful vassal states lose their hope of becoming emperors and feel dissatisfied.

Then, under the situation of the family world, the Zhou Dynasty began to deliberately weaken the vassal states in order to strengthen the imperial power, but there were many problems in the operation, which triggered many confrontations, and the vassal states began to vigorously merge and develop themselves.

Fortunately, the list of vassal states included those strong men who followed him at the beginning. Many of them followed the will of the Prime Minister and sat on the throne for the Great Zhou. But as time went by, as the first generations gradually passed away and the old and new generations took over, things slowly changed.

Finally, after the heyday of the Great Zhou Dynasty, when the suppression began to weaken, as the power of the princes became stronger and stronger, a truly fierce war inevitably broke out, and then it went through a turbulent era of more than 200 years, which is now secretly called the Later Zhou Dynasty.

"It can be seen that no system can last forever and be suitable for any era."

The empress made her final comment.

Jiang Fan agreed: "So, what we need to explore is what system is more suitable for today and can maintain stable development for a long time. As for future generations, it depends on future generations."

The empress pondered: "It would be best if this system has greater plasticity and higher growth space."

He suddenly looked at Jiang Fan, thoughtfully: "You closed the city in Mount Li, and the political system and laws you implemented were much ahead of the times. Have you been thinking about this issue a long time ago?"

Jiang Fan shook his head. He really didn't have that kind of awareness. It was purely because of the memory books of later generations. Those books had evolved over a long period of time and seemed to be much ahead of the times.

But just like the three revisions of the Lishan Law discussed with Shang Chu last time, it seemed that they had gone back a lot. Jiang Fan finally understood that it was impossible to be too out of touch with the times and too aggressive.

Looking back, looking at the history of previous lives, there were many failures caused by such aggressiveness, such as Wang Mang and Yang Guang.

Compared with the treasure, the two discussed more about these.

In the constant discussion, they finally returned to Yangdu, and because the discussion was not over, the empress also moved into the mortal residence. She planned to stay for a few days to thoroughly study the inheritance of the Prime Minister, and also study the magic whip.

The problem was that Xiao Xixi was not interested enough. Fortunately, Jiang Fan had a way. He quickly asked Hu Xiaoling to use medicinal wine, Jiang Xiaoyu and Maoqiu to coax her into a happy smile, and she left the magic whip to play.

The empress shook her head and reached out to pick it up.

But once touched, his expression changed slightly.

"So heavy?"

Jiang Fan nodded: "It's the same as the thunder, without the blessing of the innate Qi, it's extremely heavy."

But the next moment, a faint light shone on the empress's body, and the next moment the divine whip was lifted up by her finger.

Jiang Fan was immediately shocked, because in that short breath just now, Jiang Fan actually felt something similar to the innate Qi.