Spring comes in the east, and in the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed since the armistice agreement was signed between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the two major rebels.
During this period, Bai Yutian also began to carry out drastic reforms on the system of dividing provinces, and implemented it in all parts of the Zhou Dynasty.
This reform targeted all the territory currently controlled by the Zhou Dynasty. Except for Tailin City, a total of nine provinces were divided.
In addition to the planned five major provinces of Central, Guanzhong, Huainan, Jiangbei, and Mingshan, Bai Yutian also divided the ten southeastern states into four major provinces: Lin'an, Lingxi, Lingnan, and Taoxi.
As the capital of the country, Tailin City enjoys the same level of treatment as a province.
Bai Yutian also established a governor and a fusi in each province to take charge of local affairs.
Moreover, Bai Yutian also announced a new administrative level, townships, and changed all smaller cities in Dazhou into towns.
There were many cities in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but many of them did not have the scale of cities, but only occupied the title of cities.
This time, after Bai Yutian's drastic reforms, the entire Great Zhou territory became clearer and clearer.
In addition, Bai Yutian's martial arts training plan was successfully launched, and the first batch of disciples such as Jin Yan Yinxue and Dugu Sheng successfully entered the realm of masters, shocking the entire Great Zhou world.
Not counting Zhao Chuxue, Dian Wei and others, there has not been such a young master in the Zhou Dynasty for more than a hundred years since Shen Jingshan.
The breakthroughs made by Jin Yan Yinxue and others undoubtedly gave the warriors of the Great Zhou Dynasty a shot in the arm, making everyone practice even more crazily.
Kong Ling and other figures of the older generation gradually retired, and young people began to emerge in today's world. After learning martial arts inheritance, they gradually formed their own martial arts schools and began to carry forward the martial arts of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Since Jin Yan Yinxue and others, new martial arts geniuses have begun to appear in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they have begun to show their talents.
In addition to the Martial Arts Academy, the reputations of the three major academies in Tailin City, Qizhou City, and Yongzhou City have also spread throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty. In the latest enrollment, there were even students from several major southeastern provinces.
Although talents emerged in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the number of troops did not increase much.
Dashun Kingdom and Dachuan Kingdom each have an army of 400,000, totaling 800,000.
The total number of major armies including the Fenghuo Camp, City Guard Camp, and Dingbei Army of the Great Zhou Kingdom only amounted to 700,000 people.
This includes the Zhenxi Army that guards the Western Regions and the Dingbei Army that is now in Yingcheng, totaling 250,000 people.
In other words, the army that Zhou Dynasty can mobilize now is probably more than 500,000.
Moreover, the Dashun Kingdom was a civil uprising and received support from many civil forces, as well as nobles from aristocratic families such as the Lin family. The number of troops among them was naturally more than the 400,000 on the surface.
However, Da Zhou was still able to gain an advantage on the battlefield with its weapons such as artillery and muskets.
What's more, although the Zhou army had magical elixirs like the Wound-Removing Pill, they could use one person as if they were two people.
However, you cannot take too much of the Qushang Dan. After taking it once or twice, your body will become resistant to the medicine, and the effectiveness of the Qushang Dan will gradually decrease or even disappear.
And just like Huataan, it cannot be taken continuously within a short period of time.
This is the limitation of the elixir, but even so, the effect of the elixir is powerful enough.
Recently, Bai Yutian also heard the news that Dachuan and Dashun countries seemed to have developed artillery and muskets.
Bai Yutian looked out the window and sighed in his heart. He brought artillery and guns to this world in order to make Dazhou stronger and drive away all the enemies.
Now that it has been used on one of his own people, Bai Yu really doesn't know whether he is right or wrong, or what impact it will have on future generations.
Everything can only depend on God's will.
"Your Majesty, Jie Yukang would like to see you." Lin Yuan's voice sounded outside the door.
Bai Yutian slapped his forehead, shook his head and smiled bitterly, almost forgetting what was going on.
He and Jie Yukang made an appointment to meet today to discuss the Shanu Kingdom Alliance.
Jie Yukang served as the leader of the Shanu Kingdom Alliance five years ago. According to the rules of the Shanu Kingdom Alliance, Jie Yukang should now step down as leader and replace it with the next tribal leader.
According to the sequence, the next leader of the Shanu Kingdom Alliance is the leader of the Barbarian Blood Tribe, Barbarian Tu Wu Gu.
Each of the four major tribes in the Shanu Kingdom has its own unique tribal secrets. The Rock Tribe can turn its body into stone, while the Shadow Tribe can be strengthened in the dark.
As for the Barbarian Blood Tribe, they can control wild beasts. To be precise, the Barbarian Blood Tribe can control wild beasts through their own blood.
It is said that the ancestor of the Barbarian Blood Tribe was transformed by the blood of the legendary beast Qilin and had the power to suppress all beasts. His descendants inherited a trace of his power and were able to control wild beasts through blood.
At the beginning, the environment of Shanu Kingdom was harsh, with flying sand and rocks everywhere. Not to mention wild animals, there were not even a few living animals to be seen.
Later, the Shanu Kingdom occupied the northern part of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the Barbarian Blood Tribe went to the three northern states of the Great Zhou Dynasty, where they used blood slavery to control many wild beasts and became the most powerful tribe in the Shanu Kingdom.
After the Rock Tribe and Shadow Tribe were defeated by the Great Zhou Kingdom, their strength dropped significantly, while the Barbarian Blood Tribe became even more arrogant and had the potential to unify the entire Shanu Kingdom in one fell swoop.
Today Jie Yukang came to Bai Yutian for the succession ceremony of the leader of the Shanu Kingdom Alliance.
The Dachuan Kingdom and the Dashun Kingdom have not yet been eliminated, and the countries in the north and south are eyeing them, so the Shanu Kingdom and the Great Zhou Kingdom have to join forces.
As time went by, many voices of resistance to Zhou Dynasty emerged in the Shanu Kingdom.
Not only did the Great Zhou Dynasty have a blood feud with the Shanu Kingdom, but the Great Zhou Dynasty also had a blood feud with them.
The grievances between the two sides can be traced back to hundreds of years of history. These radicals will not think too much at all, and even plan to directly invade the Great Zhou Dynasty and carve it up like the Five Kingdoms did when they disrupted the Zhou Dynasty.
Compared with those people, Jie Yukang at least sincerely formed an alliance with the Great Zhou Kingdom and was willing to be friendly with the Great Zhou Kingdom.
In the war a year ago, the Shanu Kingdom did make a lot of efforts under the rule of Jie Yukang, preventing two actions by the Nanyuan Kingdom and the three northern countries, and verbally rejected the alliance requests of several countries.
Therefore, Bai Yutian would naturally not refuse Jie Yukang's request.
If possible, he also hopes that Jie Yukang can continue to serve as the leader of the Shanu Kingdom Alliance so that he can continue to cooperate with Da Zhou.
At least before the Dachuan Kingdom and the Dashun Kingdom are destroyed, it is best not to have any surprises on the Shanu Kingdom.
"As the leader, I don't know much about the Shanu Kingdom Alliance, but I also know that the position of leader of the Shanu Kingdom changes every five years, and the four major tribes take turns taking the position."
"I want to let Leader Jie Yu continue to be the leader, but I don't know how to do it."
Behind Bai Yutian stood Zhao Chuxue and Dian Wei, while behind Jie Yukang stood Jie Yunaling.