Chapter 452 Hunting Demons
In the next period of time, rumors about Zhou Guo's sudden inner meditation were still spreading.
The new emperor of Zhou State, in his registration edict, in addition to the official articles such as praising the ancestors, amnesty the world, and promulgating policies to benefit the people, he also wrote some special content.
For example, it emphasizes that the people of Zhou State are poor at the moment, officials are disturbing the people, and the situation of land annexation is particularly serious.
He will limit the extravagance and enjoyment of the royal family and nobles, limit the search of the bottom by the powerful, limit the abuse of power by officials, and deprive monks and Taoists of privileges, reorganize the army, change the military system of the government to a recruiting system, expand the army, and upgrade the armament.
In the process of rectifying the army, there will be people from Taihao Mountain to guide them.
The imperial edict also severely reprimanded Yu Guo. It is precisely because Yu State did not respect Haotian, developed the so-called Confucianism, questioned and disobeyed the principles of heaven (such as suspecting that creatures were not created by Haotian, but naturally conceived and evolved),
will lead to the moral corruption of the world.
The catastrophe that happened in Chang'an last year was the punishment from Haotian.
For this reason, Yu State had to make a series of compensations, such as canceling Neo Confucianism publications, allowing priests from Taihao Mountain to live in the academy, and the emperor went to Taihao Mountain to confess to Haotian.
If not, Zhou Guo will use force to defend the dignity of Haotian.
The issuance of the imperial edict confirmed Li Ang's conjecture—the shadow of Taihao Mountain was indeed behind this inner Zen. With the arrival of inner Zen, there must be war.
The State of Zhou adopted the Fubing system, that is, the soldiers belonged to the local military government, worked for the people at ordinary times, cultivated the land, and trained daily under the leadership of General Zhechong. Materials such as bows, arrows, clothing and food are not provided by the state.
In the event of a war, they will be transformed into soldiers, led by another general sent by the imperial court, to go to a place to go out.
It means that the generals who train and command soldiers are not the same person, which can reduce the personal authority of generals, prevent local separatism, and save manpower and military expenses.
But there are also a lot of problems in the government military system. Because soldiers bring their own dry food and bows, there is a huge gap in equipment between soldiers from rich families and soldiers from poor families.
Some local governors will deliberately deduct the treatment of soldiers (such as buying the cheapest and low-quality sheets) to save costs and make money for themselves.
Even extorted soldiers and demanded money.
Because the government soldiers are soldiers in wartime and civilians in peacetime,
In some local dignitaries, the general Zhechong of the military mansion will change the daily training tasks of the soldiers to "build houses for the nobles" and "look after the homes for the nobles".
Treat the government soldiers as private servants, calling them around and bossing them around.
The oppression of the powerful and the deterioration of the treatment will seriously affect the enthusiasm of the soldiers to join the army, resulting in a deficit in the number of soldiers in each army.
Any well-to-do family with some connections will find a way to escape military service, or pay someone to join the army on their behalf.
The result of this is that the combat power of the government soldiers has declined rapidly, and it has become a concentration area for the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Such a situation had already happened in Yu State more than a hundred years ago.
The practice of the State of Yu is to strictly prohibit the rich and powerful from using the government soldiers as servants, and does not require the government soldiers to bring their own food bows and arrows, but to pay the government soldiers on time and improve the treatment of the government soldiers. The image of the military system among the people.
The state of Zhou has now abolished the government army system and changed it to full recruiting.
Moreover, with the support of the Taihaoshan elites, money is not a problem,
The Court of Justice in Taihao Mountain will also rely on its cruel and indifferent style of conduct to restrain the middle and lower officials of Zhou State, so that they dare not steal, **** and play tricks in it (such as using the old, weak, sick and sick as strong people. Bullying and enslaving soldiers, deduction of military pay, etc.).
Things that Li Ang can see, there is no reason why the princes of Yu Guo Chang'an can't see it.
Zhou State is the second largest country in the world after Yu State in terms of land, manpower, wealth, culture, etc.
During the three hundred years, dozens of wars broke out between the two countries, large and small. Yu State won more than lost, but every time because of the existence of Taihao Mountain, it failed to expand the results of the war, and even eliminated Zhou State.
There is no way, Haotian's belief covers almost every corner and every country in the known world.
The bells and bells of Haotian can be heard from the north to the ice sheet where day and night cycle endlessly, and from the south to Java, which has a hot climate and hangs over the vast ocean.
For thousands of years, the priests of Taihao Mountain have built countless temples all over the world, allowing hundreds of millions of people to believe in Haotian.
Every year, the money donated by devout believers will flow to Taihao Mountain like a trickle, and this terrifying wealth will be transformed into immeasurable talismans, armor, and arrows.
Among the four courts of Sacrament, Judgment, Juyu, and Xinxiu, only one court has nearly 100,000 judges. All monks.
And if you count the demon hunting army that assists the judge in hunting demons, the number is as high as one million.
Each demon hunting army has received rigorous training, and their belief in Haotian is extremely fanatical and pious, and they are willing to sacrifice their lives for Haotian.
And their fighting skills are far better than ordinary soldiers.
Four hundred years ago, there was a demon cultivator who cast a shocking sorcery, turning all the subjects in the state of Jing into fanatics who worshiped him.
Hundreds of thousands of people who are not afraid of death and are full of demonic aura, easily broke through the military town on the border of Jing State, and plundered the armor and swords inside to arm themselves. Continue to march towards the mainland of Jingguo.
The cultivators of Jing State, taking into account the lives of the people in their own country, have not been able to do it for a long time.
In this case, Taihaoshan sent 10,000 demon hunting troops.
The two parties met in the wilderness, and the people on the moxiu side clamored wildly, chanting the magic scriptures that insult Haotian, and laughing at everything about Mount Taihao.
The Demon Hunting Army was silent, everyone was expressionless, and drew out their long knives.
In just one round of charging, the demon hunter army was as powerful as a bamboo, easily piercing through the army formation of hundreds of thousands of people, and then scattered in the center of the army formation, wielding their long knives to slaughter the enemies who rushed forward.
Spotted Moxiu hiding in the crowd.
After getting the information from Moxiu that "the magic cannot be reversed, and the people cannot be saved", 10,000 demon hunters killed all the remaining ones.
The blood on the battlefield covered their insteps,
The soaring **** aura even drifted to the imperial city of Jing Kingdom with the wind.
According to subsequent statistics, the number of all casualties of the Demon Hunting Army soldiers was only one hundred and ten.
Now, even if it is impossible for Taihao Mountain to devote all the Demon Hunters to the war with Yu State in order to maintain its own existence,
But as long as 100,000 or 200,000 troops are invested on the battlefield, the gap in national strength between Yu State and Zhou State will be completely smoothed out, or even reversed.
(end of this chapter)