The emperor is a symbol of centralized power in the feudal era.

But in fact, imperial power still cannot go to the countryside.

In the countryside, clan power is the emperor.

Not to mention that Daqian has long since decayed, and it can only be held up by the extraordinary.

In this context, the local government is sweeping the snow, and some people are full and others are hungry. This is simply a normal phenomenon.

During this period when the evil spirits came to land, the Yucheng area where most of the government troops who guarded the homes and courtyards were bitten by the sly army was not even the most miserable place in Daqian. However, watching the forces from all sides harvesting what should have been theirs My own leeks still make me feel painful and anxious.

At one time, local vested interests also tried to send their own private armies to make up the numbers.

But soon, they discovered that this was actually a very unreliable operation.

It's not that private armies cannot be fought, but the word "private" makes them appear to be different from each other, and there is no basic trust between soldiers at all. Both of them want to cheat and protect themselves, and the result is to push the blame when things happen, and do not work hard. Wait.

Therefore, the overall performance is not good, and it is even better to spend money to let the dynamic clubs participate.

However, although the lives of members of the Vigor Society are not valuable, and they dare to fight hard, it is not without problems.

For example, make it bigger!

That's not a home-raised dog.

Once armed and baptized by blood and fire... anyone with a little bit of brain would know what would happen to a wild dog that has eaten people and is accustomed to eating people without fresh meat.

In short, it is difficult.

And these, from a certain perspective, have become a foil for Zhou Zhuo and his actions.

He took in the old, weak, sick and disabled who were despised by others, and did not let these people attack the towns and villages that were still under the control of the local government.

He organized production and construction, and while he was self-sufficient, he also provided half-step extraordinary combat power like the Immortal Soldiers at critical times.

It was precisely because the Wuhou Mansion relied on three hundred loyal soldiers as the backbone, five thousand immortal soldiers as combat soldiers, and the servants of the squires and wealthy families as auxiliary troops that the Divine Cult Army took a high look and agreed to cooperate.

Afterwards, this unit, which was slightly integrated, first held off the army's grave-digging recruitment.

The conspirators during this period basically only had light infantry.

The trait of immortality means that the more you fight, the stronger it gets. The Guijun does have this advantage.

But don’t forget about fuel.

That is the kind of black oil that Zhou Zhuo repeatedly stole directly and indirectly.

The Guijun can indeed produce this thing, but it requires manpower, facilities, time, and raw materials.

The Guild Army captured Daxing Town because it had the psionic energy they needed.

This is a metaphysical extraordinary resource. In the eyes of the Wei army, it is a kind of poisonous green smoke. Whether it is on the ground or underground, the city-state of the Wei tribe can only be built on this kind of nether energy mine, not where it wants to be built. Just build it there.

In short, this sneak army in the Yucheng area is also my team that has just opened up, with more than a dozen people and seven or eight guns...

If not for this, he would not have gone into a rage when he was attacked by Zhou Zhuo's warriors in Xiaoxingzhuang.

In the starting stage, combat power is precious, and the cost of annihilating more than 10,000 imperial troops is not much greater than this wave of losses.

And this is the result of ten people. It is understandable that the commander of the Conspiracy Army is unbalanced.

So, when the local government in Yucheng had a relatively reliable fighting force, the momentum of the secret army was actually curbed. The gentlemen were not only relieved, but also a little surprised.

Afterwards, this force, temporarily named the Security Army, cooperated with the Divine Cult Army to suppress the rise of the White Lotus Sect, a cult that would show up whenever chaos breaks out.

And here, Zhou Zhuo also needs to be credited with a big credit.

For an organization like the White Lotus to rise rapidly, social turmoil and chaos are essential prerequisites.

The most common cause of social unrest and chaos is the impact of refugees.

There were not many intensive industries in this era, and the population was mainly distributed in villages and towns.

However, the small-scale peasant economy determines that the coordination and cooperation between villages and towns is not close. On the contrary, disputes and conflicts arise over the water resources and duration of farmland, pastures, and fights.

In this context, even if these villages and towns understand the truth of the situation, they may not be willing to reach out.

Self-cleaning is not only reflected at the local government level.

On the other hand, the secret to almost all powerful people becoming superiors is to provide the service of ‘organization’ to the group.

The patriarch can dominate the countryside because he provides organizational services to the people, the local government provides organizational services to each clan, and the imperial court provides organizational services to the place, that's all.

Now that organized services exist in name only, villages can easily be overrun by refugees.

People will not wait to die if they don’t have enough to eat. Driven by hunger and cold, honest and good people can turn into beast-like mobs, not to mention that the bottom class of this era has little to do with kindness.

The affected villages and towns will produce more refugees, and a vicious cycle begins...

As a result, in the Yucheng area, Zhou Zhuo was born, and all the refugees were gathered and digested by him. Later, some even took the initiative to come to seek refuge because of lack of security.

The soil needed for the White Lotus Sect to grow suddenly disappeared.

However, Zhouyi's actions had little impact on the divine religion.

The doctrine of the divine religion focuses on doing good deeds and cultivating merit. After death, you can go to the Kingdom of God to enjoy blessings, and your virtues can be used by future generations.

This kind of proposition is complementary to the royal power.

The teachings of the divine religion make people behave like leeks.

The royal power’s strategy of maintaining stability first creates a religious environment for theistic religions.

For most people, if they don’t have enough to eat and are hungry, have no hope of rising and can’t make a fuss, they find ways to soothe their spirits and alleviate the despair like phantom pain. Religion is one way.

In this way, God will gain faith and the king's power will be secure.

However, God does not care about worldly things, but clergy live in reality. They need to eat, drink and wear clothes. They have divine power, organizational power, and certain appointment power, decision-making power, and distribution power. Naturally, they want to match it.

Status and treatment.

The status is easy to talk about, but the treatment is not easy to satisfy. This is the key point of the conflict between divine power and royal power. It is not easy to say too much about the gods. After all, if you want the horses to run, they have to eat grass.

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After the gods lost contact, at first the clergy thought it was some kind of test, but now, it has become a wolf crying.

The religious sect began to let themselves go, in the name of rescuing people in distress, and at the same time seeking leadership for the believers of the god, expanding the influence of the sect in the secular world. It was a common practice to establish parishes, and some people even began to seriously consider the possibility of establishing a theocratic state.

The power of the divine religion in the Yucheng area has always been relatively weak.

The main reason is that this area is close to the northwest and is an underdeveloped area. The place is not wealthy and the people have strong customs. When working here, it is difficult to complete the religious tasks and there is not much money. It is recognized as a hard job within the divine religion.

But correspondingly, the professional level of the clergy sent here is generally above the horizontal line.

This can be regarded as a kind of bad money driving out good money.

Of course, the group with the best skills are still in prosperous areas, where the wealth, treatment, and various events including grinding tasks can better retain people.

And those who are talkative and showy, although they rely on their ability to deceive people and gain business, do not mean that they do not understand the importance of fists. Naturally, the strongest ones should be kept by their side so that they can hug them when needed.

But they themselves call it a strong alliance. The strongest mouth and the strongest hands, there is nothing wrong with it.

The branch of the divine sect in the Yucheng area, whose business capabilities are above the average level, generally seems to be not courageous enough. Their actions after the demons came to land were quite satisfactory.

Appease the parishioners, encourage believers, send personnel to serve as links, and establish cooperative defense in villages and towns...

This should have been done by the government, but local officials failed in their duties.

It’s not that you go from top to bottom, you do everything except personnel matters.

In fact, they are still very good at co-managing when things happen and co-managing when things go wrong.

However, local government affairs involve various forces and interests and are very complicated.

There is also the difficulty of going to the countryside since ancient times.

There are no decent roads in remote villages, and it is extremely unsafe to travel there. How can you earn a little money and risk your life to carry out government orders?

As for co-management, it doesn’t matter what you say. The village king and the village tyrant have plenty of ways to deal with it.

The clergy are different. They come with power and can slay demons and evil.

Therefore, what the local government failed to accomplish, the divine religion accomplished.

It is reasonable for clergy to look down on local officials.

However, the number of clergy is limited. After the gods lost contact, the main business of exchanging faith power for divine power became intermittent, and the clergy had to be cautious in using their power.

It is precisely because of this that how to use divine power as the basis to develop extraordinary power that can replace divine power to a certain extent has become the biggest issue in the divine religion.
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