Chapter 1319 Prelude
Xiqi City.

In the study room where numerous bamboo slips are placed, the light from the setting sun shines in from the window and falls on the figure behind the desk.

Ji Fa looked at the report coming from below and felt a little relieved.

Seven years ago, he originally wanted to lead an army to attack Xiqi.

The food and fodder were prepared before the troops moved out. As a result, when they were preparing the food and fodder, they suddenly found that the treasury of their country was empty.

I don’t know if it was because the treasury was empty, the fields were empty, and there was not a grain of food. At that moment, Jifa was completely panicked.

At the same time, for the first time in his history, he felt a chill in his heart towards his enemy, King Hui Zhou.

Before he knew it, he was under the control of King Zhou.

Just when he decided to burn his boats and immediately mobilize the entire country, coordinating the power of the [Space Suspended Ring], he launched a blitzkrieg attack on Chaoge City.

Yang Jian came to Xiqi.

Yang Jian's arrival gave Ji Fa new hope, and his determination to perish together with his foe disappeared.

Yang Jian did not disappoint his expectations and invited Zhenren Huanglong to Xiqi.

With the help of Huanglong Zhenren of Xiqi, Xiqi's agriculture has regained its vitality.

After several years of farming, Xiqi finally got rid of the crisis of being cut off from food at any time.

Ji Fa looked at the red sunset in the sky, and said to himself with a dazed look in his eyes: "King Zhou, you didn't expect it!
Your evil scheme to use commerce to hollow out the vassal states ended up helping me, Ji Fa. "

Wang Ming emptied the vassal states of their money, resources, minerals, and grain, leaving only their territory besides their population.

It can be said that the economies of the vassal states have collapsed.

After realizing what was happening, a large number of princes immediately sent letters of surrender to Chaoge, but Chaoge completely refused to accept their surrender.

People take food as their heaven!
In order to prevent rebellion among the people, the monarchs of this era suppressed the people's desires.

Apart from the most basic survival needs, there is simply no energy or ability to demand any spiritual needs.

As long as the people have food to eat and can survive, they don’t care who sits on the throne.

But if even survival becomes a problem, the people will not care about whether there is a king or not and will just rebel.

Ji Fa was one of the first people to discover that Wang Ming had hollowed out the vassal states through business, and he was also the only one who could invite immortals to come and do coolies.

After Master Huanglong planted enough food for Xiqi, Jifa spread all of Wang Ming's little tricks without hesitation.

moment,

The vassal states of the world were in chaos.

The princes did not have enough food to feed the army and the people, so they hurriedly sent people to neighboring countries to borrow, or to the Shang merchant caravans to buy.

The surrounding countries are short of food themselves, how can we sell to them?

Of course, we can only buy it from the Shang Dynasty.

Wang Ming clearly saw Ji Fa's thoughts, but had no intention of stopping him.

Not only did he not stop it, he also ordered the caravan to raise the price of food, deliberately cooperating with Jifa.

At the same time, make a lot of money.

Relying on the advantages of having immortals under his command and sufficient food, Ji Fa finally unified all the territories except the city of Chaoge after five years, and no princes were lost.

There are signs that feudal monarchy is about to emerge.

Jifa looked at another report and his face darkened. What was written on it was the results of the newly smelted weapons.

Wang Ming's methods were so cruel that he abducted all the craftsmen from the vassal states.

Now Xiqi can only be cultivated from scratch.

It was also the first time that the vassal states realized how important craftsmen were.

In recent years, Xiqi has been trying to find a way to completely get rid of the material restrictions of the Shang Dynasty.

"Oh! I hope everything goes well for my father-in-law!" Ji Fa said secretly in his heart.

He glanced at a pile of bamboo slips placed in the most conspicuous position on the bookshelf in the distance.

“It is said that among the masters of strategy, each skill is only passed on to two people. If you want to inherit the whole skill, you need to defeat your fellow apprentices.

Old Guigu, you didn't teach me the complete "Huangji Jingshi Jing" back then, so let me get it myself!" After seven years of dormancy in Xiqi, Yijing had made all the preparations for the war.

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Kunlun Mountains.

After seven years of seclusion, the second generation disciples of the Chan sect gathered in the hall again.

"Ziya sent word that he was going to send troops to Chaoge immediately after the autumn harvest this year to destroy the Shang Dynasty.

"My fellow disciples, what do you think?"

The Immortal of the South Pole sat at the top seat and slowly told the news.

Everyone frowned when they heard this.

Master Cihang hesitated, but finally took the lead and asked, "Big Brother!

Attacking the Shang Dynasty is probably not a wise choice, right?
The quality of the Shang Dynasty's army was obviously far superior to that of Xiqi, and its weapons and equipment were not comparable to those of Xiqi, and its logistical supplies were even worse.

The most crucial ones are Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun, these two evil stars. Have Zi Ya and the others figured out how to deal with them?

Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun are both human cultivators with the strength of Taiyi Golden Immortals. Yang Jian, Li Jing, Nezha and others are no match for Nie Feng and his friends.

Although Junior Brother Huang Long has recovered his Daluo Jinxian cultivation after these years, he will be suppressed by Emperor Xin's [Humanitarian Standpoint]. At that time, he can only use the cultivation of Taiyi Jinxian at most.

We didn't dare to go out of Kunlun Mountains to help.

It is not wise for Ziya to start a war at this time."

The Immortal of the South Pole was silent, and so were the other second-generation disciples.

Taoist Master Cihang didn't want to take the lead, but he had to.

He was an isolated existence in the Chan sect at this time. It would be fine if he did not confront the Shang Dynasty head-on. If a war really broke out, he would definitely be thrown out as cannon fodder.

Nanji Xianweng said: "Ziya and his men have already thought of solutions to these problems.

Zi Ya said that the individual quality of the army was not as good as that of the Shang Dynasty, but it could be compensated by numbers. It was not difficult to exchange the lives of ten Xiqi soldiers for one Shang Dynasty soldier. "

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.

They were not merciful people, but they were not murderous devils either, so they were shocked to hear this.

"Based on Ji Fa's ability, he is indeed qualified to become the emperor of the world," said Guangchengzi.

"Indeed! The emperor can never use secular morality to restrain him. Jifa has obviously transformed into a qualified emperor." Chi Jingzi nodded.

Nanji Xianweng added: "Ji Fa knows that military equipment is not as good as that of the Shang Dynasty, so he hopes that Junior Brother Yun Zhongzi can help refine a batch of weapons and equipment for mortals."

Jade Ding Zhenren frowned: "Junior Brother Yun Zhongzi is the best among us at refining magic weapons. It is natural that it is easy to use the methods of refining magic weapons to refine and rebuild weapons.

but,

This is a killing weapon after all.

As Junior Brother Yun Zhongzi is a True Immortal of Fortune and Blessing, he can stay out of this killing calamity.

If this batch of weapons is refined, even if he does not survive this catastrophe, he will be involved in the next catastrophe.

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Everyone was silent.

Guangchengzi was also a little ashamed. Originally, only the Twelve Golden Immortals were in danger of death. In order to help the twelve of them, the Immortal of the South Pole was also involved in the disaster.

The Immortal of the South Pole is the eldest senior brother of the Chan Sect.

His cultivation is the most powerful and he is only one step away from the quasi-saint realm.

But because of them, he was affected by the catastrophe and fell from the peak of Daluo Jinxian to the Taiyi Jinxian realm.

During these twenty years, Nanji Xianweng consumed all of his accumulated resources.

Only then did he recover to the realm of Daluo Jinxian.

The immortals of the orthodox sect are very ruthless to the people of the evil sect, but they still have real feelings for their own people.

Now they are talking about dragging Yun Zhongzi into the disaster, they feel a little embarrassed indeed.

(End of this chapter)