For nearly five hundred years, Zhongzhou has divided the world based on the "state-city system".
The sworn alliance between Kyushu has been prosperous for decades, but the "nine" in "Kyushu" is only the extreme number.
Zhongzhou is not just nine states, but thirty-six states.
The thirty-six states are divided into states, regions, and territories based on their population, infrastructure, and economic development.
Under the state is the city, which is divided into three levels: city, capital and county.
There are approximately ten cities in each state.
Therefore, whenever people talk about Zhongzhou, they generally refer to it as "Zhongzhou is huge and has fertile fields thousands of miles away."
If you ask how you can see it?
Just answer "Zhongzhou is divided into thirty-six states, more than a hundred cities, thousands of small towns, and countless villages."
Three miles east of the old temple is the east gate of Luzhou County.
Just like Zhongzhou copper coins, they must be round on the outside and square on the inside.
Regardless of their level, size, or internal layout, more than a hundred cities all have the same square walls, symbolizing the roundness of the place and the sky.
The county ranks at the bottom of the urban hierarchy.
The height and thickness of the county wall are lower and thinner than those of the city wall and the capital wall, let alone the border city walls.
Border walls are often called large walls, while county walls are small walls.
Compared with the need for rituals, the city wall is of greater significance as a defensive fortification in Luzhou County, which is located at the junction of Sichuan, Guizhou and Chongqing.
As long as the three states do not rebel together, no matter which state shows signs of unrest, Luzhou County can serve as a bridgehead to suppress the rebellion.
Therefore, the height of the city wall in Luzhou County is not too low, it is five meters high and seven meters high.
Upstairs in Dongjun, four city guards were paying close attention to the night movements inside and outside the county wall.
Tonight's vigil leader, Xiaoqi, was born with an old look. He was only over 100 years old, but he had the kind face of an old man.
Fortunately, I didn't grow old early, otherwise I would have become a real old man.
At this moment, the old prime minister, Xiaoqi, was facing the city, with his hands on the edge of the wall. He seemed to be staring at somewhere in the distance, but in fact he was dozing off, which fit his image of an old man very well.
This is really not his fault.
Half a month ago, the superiors dispatched a large number of manpower for the first time and strictly ordered to strengthen internal and external patrols.
Although it has not reached the level of martial law, this posture is enough to show that the determination from above is not small.
Things that happen in the arena will more or less become the subject of conversation after dinner. Old Prime Minister Xiaoqi has heard a little bit about the Hundred Flowers Conference.
But he never thought it would have such a profound impact that even his almost unchanged livelihood would have a big change.
A series of measures have only one benefit for the potbellied man who is over forty years old.
With four more capable younger brothers under his command, Xiao Qi, who has been working for most of his life, is finally worthy of his name.
However, with the increase in manpower, there are only a few people below them, but there are more than one generation at the same level and above.
There are more people bowing their heads, more people are competing for jobs, but less money is being allocated to them.
Each tower only needs two pawns on night duty during the day, but the little boss has no one to hold him accountable for not being able to stay up all night for a whole year.
At present, there is a shift every five days, and you must be on duty.
Tonight is the third round of strict enforcement, and Lao Xiang Xiaoqi obviously hasn't adapted well yet.
After walking around the county building boredly for a while, I felt tired and sleepy.
Just then I heard a small noise from the far side of the city, and I immediately got excited.
However, the place where the incident occurred was far away, and with his eyesight he could only see that no fewer than twenty officers were dispatched from the Yamen.
It was a huge disappointment to see no reason why.
There was no movement for a long time, and I became even more sleepy.
Fortunately, I closed my eyes and took a nap.
I don’t know how long it took, but I suddenly felt itchy on my face and raised my hand to scratch it.
His eyes opened slightly, and there was still silence under the moonlight.
There is no reason for the eyes to be bright and dark for a moment.
Although he had a big belly and could break stones with his sword, Xiaoqi, the old prime minister, leaned out of the wall alertly and turned to look at the horizon.
With just one glance, the old prime minister Xiaoqi retracted his body into the county building.
He gave himself a silent but heavy slap.
He keeps mumbling, he is old and useless, his eyes are dazzled, his eyes are dazzled.
He closed his eyes again, seemingly to rest his mind.
After waiting for a moment, he slowly opened it.
He breathed a long sigh of relief while caressing his heart.
The clothes inside the lightweight armor felt as if they had been soaked in water, completely wet!
The old prime minister Xiaoqi, who thought he had saved a small life, was grateful, but he had nowhere to express his sorrow.
Ever since his grandfather's generation, Zhongzhou has respected martial arts, and the competition was based on whose fist was bigger.
Between the imperial court and the Jianghu, the imperial court's fist was originally the fist, but gradually it became the Jianghu's fist.
Fortunately, there are good and evil in the world, and the evil faction will always be suppressed by the decent faction, while the decent faction is less likely to threaten the rule of the court.
Nonetheless, the party with the bigger fist will always have more reason to argue.
The imperial court gradually became unable to control the Jianghu people.
Jianghu people slowly began to disobey the rules set by the court.
From the imperial court to the arena to the marketplace, everyone has slowly adapted to such changes.
In a short period of time, it is not easy to reverse what has become a natural habit.
The wall of the county building where the old prime minister Xiaoqi was staying was already five feet high, and the upper structure of the county building was even seven feet high.
However, no houses are allowed to be built within three feet of the small city wall, and buildings within five feet cannot be higher than two feet.
The person who just passed by, even if he is neither a fairy nor a ghost, it is not an exaggeration to call him an expert.
He was required to strictly abide by the orders, stop people and ground them regardless of the reason, report them to each level step by step and wait for instructions, otherwise he would lead the crowd to kill them, which he would never dare to do.
Treat it as if nothing happened, and live a few more years or more depending on your ability.
If I try to stop him, I wonder if anyone will come to visit my grave in a few years or more.
He even wished he could dig out his troublesome eyes that insisted on seeing what happened.
He couldn't see clearly whether the other person was male, female, old, young, fat or thin, and the feeling of oppression almost killed him on the spot.
Although the imperial court has been sending people aggressively recently, from the perspective of Lao Xiang Xiaoqi, Jianghu should be considered as skinny as a camel is bigger than a horse, right?
Being incompetent and having to pretend to be tough is like trying to pretend to be fat. It’s a real misfortune!
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The ghostly enchantress’s surname is Ji.
Ji Mucheng's Ji is also the Ji who was the former leader of Qiantaki Kingdom.
Zhongzhou has a history of more than two thousand years, so its territory is naturally not static.
More than three hundred years ago, the country of Juli spent several generations of efforts to finally build a new country on the old land of the country of Lihan.
This new country is a piece of flesh cut off by Juli from Zhongzhou, and it is also the wall that Juli uses to fight against Zhongzhou.
The name of the new country is Qianlong.
Long means rapids, and Qianlong means thousands of rapids.
Juli's original intention was to rely on Qianlong to create a steady stream of troubles, so that Zhongzhou, which had been suffering from long-standing problems, would have no time to go eastward to enclose territory and expand its borders.
Unexpectedly, Ji Naluoyan, the leader of the Qianlong Kingdom, was ambitious and unwilling to be a puppet. He pretended to be the power of Zhongzhou and refused to interfere in the internal affairs of Guoli. He asked Guili for resources to challenge Zhongzhou. In just twenty-four years, Qianlong Kingdom was destroyed. Build a strong country.
After Ji Ying succeeded to the throne, Qianlong Kingdom was still prosperous.
At that time, Zhongzhou was not yet dominated by the Zhu family, and several head-on collisions between the Qianlong Army and the Zhongzhou Army did not fail at all.
If we can work step by step and fight steadily, it will not be difficult to divide the northeastern region of Zhongzhou with Juli and govern it within twenty years.
However, Ji Ying was overjoyed to achieve great success, and her internal and external measures that were too eager for quick success and instant benefits excessively consumed the national power, which gave Zhongzhou an opportunity to take advantage of her family, split Qianlong from the inside out, and thirty-eight years of glory came to an abrupt end.
Qianlong blocked the river, and the old land was regained by Zhongzhou.
The bloodline of the subjugated country fled in all directions because of their prior insights and avoided the genocide.
Dozens of Ji family bloodlines have gone through many twists and turns, either dying of old age or illness on the way to escape, or taking root in various parts of Zhongzhou.
Some descendants of the Ji family cannot forget the old country, encourage their aspirations with poems, and plan to restore the glory of the past through the efforts of generations.
Today, the bloodline of the Ji family's subjugation has been passed down for nearly twenty generations. Even the surname in Zhongzhou is no longer Cheng but Zhu. How many people in the Chitaki Hime family, which has not successfully spread its branches and branches, still harbor such illusory thoughts? The ambition of rejuvenating the country?
Even if a descendant of the Ji family who was not afraid of life or death jumped out and threatened to restore the old country, they would all be regarded as a joke by the people of the time.
As the direct line of the Chitaki-hime family, there are also those who wish to be immortal.
The great-grandfather of the ghostly enchantress was a witness to the most prosperous era of the Sentakihime family after the dynasty changed in Zhongzhou.
At that time, the Ji family was famous and unparalleled in Zhongzhou with its one sword, two swords, three punches, four legs and five heart skills.
He was elected as the leader of the martial arts alliance by all the heroes in the world, taking over from the old man in the demon palace.
At that time, my great-grandfather, who was still just a young boy, imagined that when he became the leader of the martial arts alliance, would he be able to realize his ambition to restore the country?
But contrary to expectations, after the head of the family grew old, although there were many strong men in the Ji family, none could master their own martial arts.
New talents who respect martial arts are emerging in large numbers, and heroes are rising together. Updates and iterations are only as fast as they are slow.
The Ji family, which could not keep up with the pace, soon found it difficult to convince the public. It was replaced by the Ji family within ten years of reaching the top, and its prosperity quickly turned into decline.
Although it sounds a bit naive, my great-grandfather still had some idea of relying on his reputation in the martial arts to build momentum for the restoration of the country.
When Father Ji arrived, he had no such thoughts at all.
As a handsome man, Ji's father only cared about bringing beautiful women into his house one by one, lingering among flowers all day long, and died young.
With such a father and a mother who has no status or status at all, it would be great if the ghostly enchantress could not be ashamed of her embarrassment, let alone the unreachable restoration of the country.
Most of them are romantic children with the same father and mother. After being seriously injured and leaving the gods, without a sister to watch them all the time, they basically followed the old path of Ji's father.
His uncle Ji Mucheng turned against Ji's father when he was in Guanqian, and went far away to the west of Chu. He devoted himself to witchcraft and driving corpses, causing people to become neither human nor ghosts.
Unexpectedly, he really made a name for himself, but he was just one of the notorious Fourteenth Evil Person.
The uncle looks down on romantic men who "carry on his father's ambitions", but he admires his eldest niece quite a lot.
Because in this world, I am afraid that only this eldest niece can clearly see that everything his uncle has done is to restore the Qiantaki Kingdom.
I have approached my niece several times in private to try to join forces with them, but they have all been declined.
Ji Mucheng is not annoyed. He knows that his niece is not willing to be an ordinary woman. He has been walking north. If he can help Wala successfully invade Zhongzhou, even if he can only take 20% of Zhongzhou's mountains and rivers, the nomadic country that prefers to divide the territory and grant kings will be happy. Hand over the land.
At this time, I would go with the flow and ask my niece to be the king of the New Chitaki Kingdom. I thought she would not refuse.
The founders of the temples more than a hundred years ago wanted to destroy the gods in the temples and eliminate the gods in their hearts. They hoped for help from others instead of seeking self-help.
More than twenty years ago, the ghostly enchantress in her prime chose to enter the temples, taking a big step forward on the path opened by her predecessors.
——Anyone can be his own god.
The gods are no longer just gods in ruined temples and gods except the gods in the heart, but gods who are their own gods!
The originally mediocre temples of the gods have since taken advantage of the wind and continued to grow and develop. At one time, they were a major supporter of the Four Seas Alliance.
Even though the Four Seas Alliance fell apart under the pressure of the imperial court, the strength of the temples that still exists cannot be underestimated.
Based on this, Ji Mucheng is convinced that once his niece can take the position of the new Qianlong King, then another empress in Zhongzhou will be just around the corner.
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The ghostly enchantress admits that she is unwilling to be ordinary.
But she also has no unrealistic illusions.
Many people in the world know that her surname is Ji, but few people associate this surname with the surname of Chitaki Hime who lost her country.
She really never thought about restoring the country.
She is happy to be the leader of the martial arts alliance.
Especially after learning about her family's past, she was destined to have a down-to-earth nature.
Few people in the world connect her with Ji Mucheng, because the two of them behave in completely different ways.
She couldn't say she liked her uncle because she felt his wishes were unrealistic.
But she doesn't resent her uncle, because he is a bit like her in that he is moving forward in a down-to-earth manner.
At the Hundred Flowers Conference, she missed the chance to meet the leader of the martial arts alliance and was severely injured. So far, she has only recovered 80% of her strength.
But she wasn't bothered by it.
Just because she can imagine that the road to power must be full of thorns.
If you are not careful, your body may be bruised and bruised, but your life may be in danger.
Old rival Feng Chen fell into trouble because of this.
Between her and Feng Chen, they would often want to tear each other apart because of their different stances.
But if they can put aside the shackles of their respective identities, the two of them will naturally cherish each other.
The ghostly enchantress thinks she is not smart enough. After all, the world is treacherous and there are too many obstacles that are difficult to see through.
Fortunately, she is a woman. In addition to being extremely rational, she still retains a few emotions.
Such as intuition.
The ghostly enchantress could almost conclude that Feng Chen's death had little to do with those evil demon sects.
They should be just tools to be used.
The development of the current situation in Jianghu is the best evidence.
The Nether Sect is unable to retreat, and it is obvious that it does not want the imperial court to take advantage of it.
The Tushita Gang and Buji Island had their own wishful thinking, and I don't know who they were secretly connected with.
The seemingly hard-working Red Sect and the Twelve Heavenly Evil Sects were willing to go to great lengths because they didn't want to take advantage of the situation and split their profits with the imperial court.
Similarly, intuition also told the ghostly enchantress that the missing killer Ye Xiao must be in the east.
In her opinion, those who can be put in the same category as Smiling Maitreya and Xie Feihua are either Ye Shang, Crying Lady, or the old man and Luo Piaoling.
"Howling Judge" Lu Hao died in Wuziping, which means that Hei Wuchang will never return to the Nether Sect.
Where Jiang Yichen went was either Juyuan or Tingyu Pavilion.
The ghostly enchantress also has the sensibility of being a calf protector.
This may be due to the protection and care of his biological brother.
The Ji family's family background is not bad, but when the siblings were sensible, no one looked after them.
Rather than saying that the romantic child was raised by the ghostly enchantress, it would be better to say that the romantic child was raised by the ghostly enchantress.
The elder sister naturally always follows and protects her younger brother.
Until one day, my younger brother said it would be nice to stay outside, so my sister let him go.
As long as the younger brother can live well, the elder sister will not interfere too much.
However, her brother still left earlier than her.
The always rational ghost enchantress has used a lot of power in recent years to search for the romantic son's body and information about the murderer.
Unexpectedly, he learned the key information from Yin Li at the Hundred Flowers Conference and gathered the clues.
The one who killed his brother was Night Owl Jiang Yichen!
The ghostly enchantress wants to avenge her brother.
She missed it at the Hundred Flowers Conference, and she thought this time would be a great opportunity.
But it was still too late, the guy had already escaped.
In this case, she chased after him!
They say that this new Hei Wuchang is the real Hei Wuchang and can always survive disasters. She wants to try it out!
If he can't be killed once, he will kill him twice or three times!
After failing to succeed three times, the other party did not come to seek vengeance. The mortal feud was wiped out and he became just a stranger.
