After the Central Imperial Army became more and more powerful, it was obvious that it could help the court and strengthen centralization.

Reclaim the local forces in Pingzhou and Jizhou, strengthen the authority of the government, and let the affairs of various places be managed by the government, such as reducing private revenge and reducing lynching trials within local forces. This can effectively reduce the control of members by some small sects, small families, and small forces; strengthen the inventory of local resources and industries to ensure tax revenue; major forces need to submit a list of personnel for recruitment.

These items correspond to legal power, financial power and personnel power respectively.

Of course, these changes were not implemented in one breath, but were done bit by bit.

For example, the beginning was to investigate the industry. This was because the court was facing financial difficulties at that time.

In previous years, the Dayan court had made such attempts, but there was great resistance. How could local forces so easily accept handing over their life gates to the court for control?

Of course, the court had a deep control over them, and even the court was them in a sense. Most of the officials in the court system came from these local forces, which meant that some emperors and scholars and officials ruled the world together.

When attacking them, on the one hand, these local forces themselves will fight; on the other hand, they also have the intention of letting the court take their own life.

This comes from the resistance within the court itself.

The Lu Dynasty had little problem with this aspect. Their basic foundation was not based on the court like the Li Dynasty, but originated from the northern border. What's more, after the previous disaster, the court was washed away, and there were internal resistance, but not that great.

After the internal resistance becomes smaller, it is unlikely that those local forces will rebel openly; some means will become smaller due to the destruction of the faceless confrontation, which is harmless.

But there is another problem in this matter, which is external resistance: Yunxiao Sect.

Of course, these small families and small sects prefer to maintain their own independence in the Dayan system. And to some extent, the Yunxiao Sect also supports this.

The consideration of interests does not mean that there are too many things, but the most important thing is relationships. All forces always like to send their genius juniors into the Yunxiao Sect. Various cooperations often provide benefits to some senior cultivators in the Yunxiao Sect. Just looking at the relationship between a certain family in the Yunxiao Sect, it may not be so strong, but when the number reaches a certain level, they gather together to speak out, which will always make many senior cultivators in the Yunxiao Sect have some reactions.

In the past, when the central government and the court had the idea of ​​centralization and harmed the interests of local forces, they would always find people from the Yunxiao Sect from the same sect or some familiar people to help speak. In the end, from the Yunxiao Sect, pressure on the imperial court was formed and the promotion of centralization was blocked.

Objectively, this is also weakening the court and is also beneficial to Yunxiao Sect.

But in the past ten years, the financial power has actually been solved by Lu Chaoxi. This was taken back by taking advantage of the financial difficulties of the court after the war, and even the difficulty of offering sacrifices to Yunxiao Sect was unable to be maintained.

The Lu family has just taken office and has maintained a honeymoon period with Yunxiao Sect for a period of time. Now, it is actually still within this honeymoon period. After all, no matter what, the Lu family helped Yunxiao Sect at that time, and since becoming the emperor, they have been quite obedient.

Taking advantage of that period of time, by solving the financial problems of the court, the industries of various local forces have undergone a round of inventory and clear tax quotas. This also found out many industries that were concealed and tax avoidance in the past.

Since these things have been taken in hand, even if the court's subsequent financial situation eases, there will be no idea of ​​returning them.

The forces in various places have no help from Yunxiao Sect to speak, so there is much less room for resistance in this matter.

But further, we must regain the power of law enforcement and personnel, and dismantle the control of those local forces over the monks under our command, so that the court can call for more abundant manpower. It is unlikely that this will not arouse opposition.

Moreover, at this point, the Lu family also lacks the same reason to convince Yunxiao Sect as before.

At that time, the reclaimed financial power was to solve the financial difficulties of the court and facilitate better support to the sects. Then, the law enforcement power was taken back to the government and those local forces and submitted the personnel list. What was the purpose of this?

To put it bluntly, it is indeed quite difficult for the Lu Dynasty to advance this matter.

However, one thing to note is that the opposition of Yunxiao Sect is not a serious objection to the court's direct promotion of this series of policies in the name of the sect. Their form of opposition is that which family comes to plead for mercy, a senior monk from Yunxiao Sect will send a letter to the court in the name of which family, whether to plead for mercy or inquire. The court is not going to force it, so they can only let it go.

In fact, Lu Chaoxi was very unhappy about this.

Not to mention the status of an emperor, even if you are an ordinary person who does things normally, you will never feel much more comfortable when you are pointed at it like this.

But what can I do? If you turn against me, you will not turn against me. It is difficult to take it hard. Things have to be done...

Then you can only pinch your nose, let go first, and then speed up the processing. Those who are let go are not simply let go and put them over. You can put pressure from other directions. For example, making their business difficult, the government will find fault from other angles...

As for Lu Qing, he only paid attention to this matter by listening to reports and other methods, and his consciousness did not go there.

The son handled the matter itself well, and it was enough to do it step by step. Lu Qing thought about this kind of thing. Even if he interfered in person, it would be difficult for him to have any particularly big impact on the overall situation.

Moreover, he has his own affairs.

In the fortune book, the two sects of the Star Restoration Decision only had four-star skills in the past, and in the ancient sects he merged, they had two shortcomings. He broke through to the Nascent Soul, and only came up after he got the five-star Holy White Sword Classic. These two sects were originally short-term skills. After being improved to the five-star level and filling in the shortcomings, Lu Qing's cultivation speed was much faster than in the past.

It was only a few years later, and his cultivation at the third level of Nascent Soul also means diligence.

Next time, he can practice outside the starry sky or enter the Spirit Gathering Temple. He may not be as simple as breaking through to the fourth level of the Nascent Soul. Perhaps it is not impossible to rush to a higher level in one breath.

As for the younger generations of other families, they have achieved further results in their cultivation.

Ming Chao and Chaoxi both entered the middle stage of the Golden Pill and became cultivators at the fourth level of the Golden Pill. Yan Ling was pressing on her head, and now she was the fifth level of the Golden Pill. Chaohe was a little bit different, but now she was the second level of the Golden Pill.

Although Mingchao, Chaoxi and Yanling stayed in Yandu for a long time, they would return to Yuyan Mountain once every time. The year of the Spirit Gathering Temple changed to ten years of practice experience, and they still could not give up.

However, compared with the four who have entered the Golden Pill stage, the fastest growing family is the two little guys of the literary generation.

Wen En is still a little short of it, but Wei Wen has already arrived at the ninth level of Qiming and is ready to break through the golden elixir.

She has no external elixir use, but even so, Lu Qing still has sufficient confidence in her.

The family prepared the materials needed for her to break through the golden elixir. The cost of materials alone reached more than 150,000. If the alchemists, weapon refiners, and formation masters of all levels helped to make arrangements, the cost would probably be higher.

Of course, if it is for ordinary monks, it is still very difficult to complete a breakthrough without the help of external alchemy. But for her, this problem is not big.

The Jintian spiritual root plus the Jinde spiritual body, and the take-out also has a more metallic, indestructible sword magic power that has been upgraded once. The talent bonus she could get before she entered the order was completely full. Under normal circumstances, it is hard to imagine what other ways and ways could be obtained before the Jindan to obtain a talent that is stronger than Weiwen at the moment.

Relying on these, she could also obtain a very large probability of breakthrough without using external pills, relying on relatively conventional preparations.

What's more, Lu Qing also prepared a rare four-star breakthrough bottleneck for her.

In fact, Lu Qing has planned to do something recently: Exploring the underground Linghe River in the Linghu Vein.

The underground Linghe River was discovered very early and long ago. At the beginning, there was a lake where water ghosts were entrenched. Lu Qing found a piece of Yinmarrow Water Jade in it, and found an underground Linghe River with sufficient spiritual energy underground, and opened it to the ground, diverting water outside, forming the Linghu Vein.

That is a treasure land.

Without that piece of Yin Marrow Water Jade, Mingchao would not have been so smooth to achieve Qiming; as a third-level water spirit vein itself, the Linghu Vein also brought great help to the family when the Lu family first began to rise. Although this place is not the key to the rise of the Lu family, it is also a place with great help.

And, it is very clear that when Lu Qing first explored the underground Linghe River, he clearly felt that the end of the Linghe River would not be too simple. At that time, due to the limitation of the time left the body, his flight speed was not fast enough, and he did not explore the end of the Linghe River. But just the part she explored, the concentration of the spiritual energy had reached the fourth level.

But it is precisely because of this that Lu Qing did not continue to explore.

On the one hand, the family affairs are very important one after another; even when you are free, Lu Qing has to focus on his own practice.

In addition, there is another very important point. He explored the underground spiritual river for the first time, but he had just walked halfway through the way. The level of spiritual energy that he could feel had reached the level of the fourth-level spiritual vein. It can be imagined that at the end, the intensity may increase a little further.

There may be some very important secrets hidden there and there may be great benefits, but equally, opportunities accompany risks, and the level of danger there may not be too low.

In the past, the Lu family was far less powerful than the current one. Even if you were exploring in a state of consciousness, finding something, and based on the situation of the Lu family, it would not be easy to complete the development of it and transform it into the benefits you can use.

But the time is very ripe now.

Lu Weiwen is about to make a breakthrough in the Golden Pill stage, but it will take a little before preparation time. Lu Qing plans to take advantage of this period of time to explore first. And then, if Weiwen can get Golden Pill, he may be able to help in this matter.

Since you have decided, then do it.

The current Linghu Vein has no special help to the Lu family. However, the spiritual energy here is special after all, and it is very suitable for cultivators with water spirit roots to practice. At the same time, it is also suitable for some water-flowing spiritual medicines to be planted there, so the Lu family still has some industry there, and there are also some tribe members who practice it.

This made Lu Qing much more convenient.

He directly activated the training mode, locked a family monk in the Linghu vein, teleported it directly, and soon found the entrance of the underground Linghe River and drilled in.

The Ling River flows from low to high, and Lu Qing goes downstream along the direction of the Ling River flowing.

His current flight speed in the state of consciousness is much faster than that of the past. Not long after, he has surpassed the position he gave up on exploring.

Without stopping for a long time, Lu Qing continued to fly into the distance.

But soon, he felt that the time he left the body this time had come to an end.

Without rushing to spend karma to supplement the time of ex-body, he first opened the map function in the system interface and checked it. He found the location of the nearest family member, not far away, so he directly teleported it in the training mode, and had a free wave of ex-body time supplementation, and then continued to drill into the ground, find the location of the underground river, and continue to go downstream.

In this way, you can save a lot of karma.

Although Lu Qing has a lot of karma now, after all, after all, the supplementary price of ex-body time will become very expensive after doubling many times.

Who knows how long this underground river is? This time, since Lu Qing has made up his mind to explore, he doesn’t want to give up halfway.

Of course, sometimes when you can't find the family members nearby, there is nothing you can do. You can only spend karma, replenish the time you leave the body, and then continue flying.

In this way, after a while, Lu Qing went east and actually arrived at Donghai County, the location in the sea.

This underground river actually came from the sea?

"I didn't expect this."

Lu Qing's curiosity became even stronger.

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