This time the Great Chao Meeting lasted for a whole day and night before it ended.
Fortunately, the officials who can participate in the Great Court Meeting are all extraordinary people in various ways. Otherwise, if they attend the Great Court Meeting without sleep for such a long time, some people would have died suddenly from exhaustion.
But even so, when they walked out of Fengtian Hall, everyone still looked tired.
"Your Majesty, you are getting more and more angry!"
"Old Xu, do you think that if the Ming Dynasty's spiritual energy is revived a few more times, is it possible for one meeting to last ten days and a half?"
Chang Yuchun asked while beating his waist.
Xu Da pondered for a moment, smiled and nodded: "It's very possible!"
"This mainly depends on His Majesty's energy. If His Majesty can handle official duties for ten days and ten nights without sleeping, then we will naturally follow suit."
Chang Yuchun couldn't help but feel a pain on his face when he heard this.
"If I really didn't sleep for ten days and ten nights, how could my old arms and legs be harmed?"
He will celebrate his 120th birthday in a few years, and he is indeed qualified to call himself an old man.
"Then you retire and return home!"
"Wouldn't it be nice to take my wife and children to the Jiajing plane to become a large farmer and have fun with my grandchildren?" Xu Da said with a smile.
When Chang Yuchun heard this, his head suddenly shook like a rattle.
"impossible."
"I'm only one hundred and twenty years old!" Chang Yuchun pretended to be old without beating his waist or legs. He straightened up and heard constant cracking sounds from his bones.
As a sixth-grade martial artist who advanced before the third resurgence of spiritual energy, he now has a lifespan of three hundred, and one hundred and twenty years is indeed the right age for him.
"That's okay, you still need liver when you need it, but don't really think of yourself as an old man!"
"If you and I, martial artists, don't have the determination to keep moving forward, our cultivation will really come to a standstill."
"Not many of the old guys who were knighted in the third year of Hongwu are still in the army. Old Chang, you must not fall behind!" Xu Da said with emotion.
It is now the seventy-seventh year of Hongwu.
Seventy-five years have passed since Hongwu was knighted in the third year of his reign.
Starting from Li Shanchang, except for a few warriors who had reached the sixth level of cultivation, the rest of the group of old people had retired and returned to their hometowns one after another.
It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang is unwilling to use them, but because they are indeed old.
Among the current Ming Dynasty's new armies, the intensity of competition is no longer what it used to be.
You can't always maintain strong energy and keep suppressing the generals below in terms of cultivation and combat power. No matter how high your title is, you still have to step down.
This is a rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang, and there is a strict assessment system.
This assessment system extends from princes, princes and ministers down to hundreds of households, including small flags.
Among the current Ming Dynasty's new army, there is no such thing as relying on the old and showing off.
If your strength cannot keep up with the progress, you will have no choice but to retreat.
Although this is somewhat unkind, only in this way can the Ming Dynasty's new army always maintain strong combat effectiveness and high morale.
Of course, even if you retire from the military, the lord's annual salary and pension insurance will still be paid.
It just means leaving the center of power.
Chang Yuchun naturally knows the intensity of competition in the military now, and he also understands that once he retreats from the center of power,
Especially for warriors, once they retire from the army and lose their pressure and motivation, no matter how many precious medicines they have, it will be difficult to go further.
"Don't worry, Lao Xu!"
"We can still withstand it within one or two hundred years!"
"I'm not sure which of us can survive the other!" Chang Yuchun said with a smile.
"Yeah?"
"But don't forget, His Majesty is about to open the next dimension."
"With the example of Zhang Juzheng, the current chief minister of the cabinet, do you think the only people competing with you are these military generals of the Ming Dynasty?"
"According to His Majesty's temperament, will he easily let go of Guan Yu, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and other famous generals in the Three Kingdoms?"
"Old Chang, I have a hunch that soon these characters who only live in history books will join us and compete.
"Ha ha!"
"Competition is competition. Are we afraid of them?"
"When the time comes, I'll see the real seal in my hand!" Chang Yuchun said with great enthusiasm.
Although it was an understatement, it was obvious that his fighting spirit, which had been extinguished after a truce for more than ten years, had been completely ignited again by Xu Da's few words.
Seeing Chang Yuchun like this, Xu Da couldn't help but laugh.
He finally completed the task assigned to him by His Highness the Crown Prince.
"Biao'er, you are responsible for the fire domain and the ice domain. How did you explore these two places?" In Fengtian Hall,
After a group of civil and military ministers left, Zhu Yuanzhang did not leave the meeting immediately, but asked Zhu Biao again.
The Fire Realm and the Ice Realm are two of the three alien realms that came to Earth before.
The remaining one has merged with the sea, and many strange beasts have also entered the sea directly.
The other two foreign lands formed two continents after integrating into the earth.
These two continents are very large in area, almost the same as Eurasia, and were named Ice Domain and Fire Domain by Zhu Biao.
The task of exploring these two continents is Zhu Biao's next task.
“These are two treasures!“
Zhu Biao smiled and said: "Those alien beasts in the ice realm are very special. They have a very unique ice crystal in their bodies."
"This kind of ice crystal has the same rich ice-attribute spiritual energy as the spirit stone, but it is better than the spirit stone.
Ice crystals can fuse with each other to form higher quality ice crystals."
"Theoretically, there is no limit to the fusion of ice crystals."
"What's the use of this?" Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not too keen on these things after all, asked doubtfully.
"Charge the high-precision, high-energy-consuming small weapons!"
"For example, a mecha used for individual combat."
A glimmer of light flashed in Zhu Biao's eyes and he said: "The mecha developed by our Ming Dynasty is a product of spiritual energy and technology. It is different from ordinary magical weapons in that the user himself provides spiritual energy. This kind of thing must have a continuous, stable and steady flow."
Only a constant source of energy can be valuable in actual combat."
This energy source has extremely demanding requirements and must be both small and powerful.
At this point, neither the spirit gathering array nor the spirit stones are qualified.
But this kind of ice crystal is no problem at all.
The emergence of this kind of thing marks that high-precision, high-performance and powerful individual combat weapons have officially entered the production sequence.
Zhu Biao has reason to believe that in the future Ming Dynasty, there will definitely be scenes of warriors riding mechas and releasing immortal cultivators' spells to fight each other in the sky.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was listening carefully, Zhu Biao continued: "There is also the Fire Domain!"
"There are a large number of various spiritual fires during the period!"
"Deep in the Fire Domain, there are even high-level spiritual fires that already have spirituality."
"These spiritual fires are rare treasures for both weapon refiners and pharmacists."
"What currently limits the development of weapon refiners and alchemists to higher levels is the flame temperature they can control. Ordinary mortal fire has lost its value, and the various attributes of spiritual fire in the fire domain can just make up for this shortcoming and problem."
"For example, a mecha being researched by the Academy of Sciences has not been able to produce its core components.
With the help of Spirit Fire in the future, the problem should not be big."
"If my prediction is correct, within ten years, our Ming Dynasty's new generation of individual combat mechas should be available.
"Why does it sound like these two places were specially prepared for our Ming Dynasty?" Zhu Xiongying muttered next to him.
"That's how it's always been!"
Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice: "Although the arrival of the alien beasts before was a disaster, it is undeniable that it is also an opportunity."
"After all, if there were no large-scale alien beasts coming, so that my Ming martial arts no longer have to worry about food, how could my Ming martial arts be as prosperous as it is now?"
“It’s just that opportunities are often accompanied by crises and challenges!”
"Just like the previous chaos of alien beasts, if we were unable to exterminate the ashes, the Ming Dynasty would still be in a state of chaos."
"Perhaps extraordinary people have the ability to survive in such an environment, but mortals may not."
"If it really develops to that point, will Ming Dynasty still be the Ming Dynasty it is now?"
"The same is true for these good things in the Fire Realm and Ice Realm. If you don't have the ability to integrate and distribute them, you will either get no benefit at all, or it will be the source of disaster."
Zhu Biao heard this and nodded with deep sympathy.
Take ice crystals and spiritual fire as examples. These two things can indeed assist in the manufacture of mechas, but they can also provide great help in improving the cultivation of immortals.
For example, ice crystals can be directly absorbed by immortal cultivators and used to strengthen the Qi Sea.
Spiritual fire is used to refine elixirs and weapons, and the refined elixirs and magic weapons are used in the real world of cultivating immortals. Those who benefit the most are also the cultivators.
It's just that in the Ming Dynasty, the immortal cultivators had been completely led astray by Zhu Yuanzhang and became researchers, alchemists, and weapon refiners serving warriors.
"Father, my opinion is to immediately send elite troops to these two areas to build base areas, from where we can continuously obtain ice crystals and spiritual fire."
"And at this stage, it is best not to disclose information about these two areas to the public to prevent people from venturing out to sea privately.
After all, the strange beasts in the sea are now more powerful than before. Except for the aircraft carrier fleet of the Ming Navy, the current sea is probably no longer possible for any ship to conduct ocean voyages.
Zhu Biao didn't think there would be any other consequences for those who were forced to go to sea besides death.
"Okay, let Fu Youde and Geng Bingwen each bring 30,000 elite troops there. They are veterans, so I can rest assured in their work!" Zhu Yuanzhang directly ordered the generals without any hesitation.
These two are the veterans who have followed him to fight against the few remaining advanced sixth-grade martial artists in the world.
Although these two tasks are a little more difficult now, as long as you are careful enough, there will be no big danger, and you can still get a lot of military exploits. The first thing Zhu Yuanzhang thought of was these old guys.
The last thing has been discussed, and this time the imperial meeting can finally come to an end.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and looked at Zhu Xiongying and said: "Dasun, the government affairs of Ming Dynasty will be left to you. You have done well before, and you will continue to work hard in the future."
"Yes!" Zhu Xiongying said respectfully.
"Biao'er, what are you doing now?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao again.
"The peak of the sixth level of martial arts is only one step away from the fifth level!"
"You can climb up to 2,364 steps on the Immortal Platform, and the stars in the sea of qi will light up 683."
"I'm very strong now." Zhu Biao said seriously.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Okay, we will officially open the space channel of the Three Kingdoms plane next. Don't stay in seclusion at home. Come with us to the Three Kingdoms to see the powerful people in that world!