In the following period, rumors about Zhou Guo's sudden inner Zen were still spreading.
In his registration edict, in addition to the official articles such as praising his ancestors, offering amnesty to the world, and promulgating policies to benefit the people, the new Zhou emperor also wrote some special contents.
For example, it was emphasized that the people of Zhou were poor, officials were harassing the people, and land annexation was particularly serious. His ascension to the throne was the result of the emperor's brother's instructions and the repeated persuasion with the prince's civil and military ministers and senior military and civilian officials.
He will restrict the extravagant enjoyment of the royal family and nobles, restrict the rich and powerful from plundering the bottom, restrict the abuse of power by officials, deprive the monks and Taoists of their privileges, rectify the army, change the government military system to a recruitment system, expand the army, and upgrade military equipment.
In the process of reorganizing the army, there will be people from Taihao Mountain to guide them.
The edict also severely reprimanded the State of Yu. It was precisely because the Yu State did not respect Haotian and developed the so-called Neo-Confucianism, questioning and disobeying the laws of nature (such as doubting that living things were not created by Haotian, but evolved naturally),
This will lead to moral corruption in the world.
The disaster that happened in Chang'an last year was punishment from Haotian.
For this reason, the Yu State had to make a series of amends, such as canceling Neo-Confucian journals, allowing priests from Mount Taihao to settle in the academy, and the emperor going to Mount Taihao to confess to Haotian in person...
Otherwise, Zhou will use force to defend Haotian's dignity.
The issuance of the edict confirmed Li Ang's suspicion that there was indeed a shadow of Mount Taihao behind this internal meditation. With the arrival of inner meditation, there must be war.
The Zhou State adopted the government army system, which meant that soldiers belonged to the local military government. They worked for the people in peacetime, farmed the land, and trained daily under the leadership of General Zhechong. Bring your own bows, arrows, clothing, food and other supplies, which are not provided by the state.
When a war breaks out, they are transformed into soldiers, led by generals sent by the court to go to a certain place.
This means that the generals who train and command the soldiers are not the same person. This can reduce the personal authority of the generals, prevent local separatism, and at the same time save manpower and reduce military expenditures.
However, there are also a lot of problems in the government military system. Because soldiers bring their own dry food, bows and arrows, there is a huge gap in equipment between soldiers from wealthy families and soldiers from poor families.
Some local governors will deliberately deduct the benefits of soldiers (such as buying the cheapest and low-quality quilts) to save costs and make money for themselves.
They even extorted soldiers and demanded money.
And because the soldiers of the government are soldiers in war and the people in peacetime,
Some local dignitaries would ask the military officials to change the daily training tasks of the soldiers to "building houses for the nobles" and "looking after the homes and courtyards of the nobles."
Treat the soldiers as personal servants, calling them around and giving orders.
The oppression of the powerful and the deterioration of treatment will seriously affect the enthusiasm of the soldiers to join the army, resulting in the number of soldiers in each military government being always in short supply.
Any well-off 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 effectiveness of the government soldiers has declined rapidly, and it has become a gathering place for the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Such a situation had already happened in Yu State more than a hundred years ago.
The Yu State's approach was to strictly prohibit the powerful from treating the soldiers as servants, and did not require the soldiers to bring their own food, bows and arrows. Instead, they paid their salaries on time and improved their treatment. It took decades to slowly improve the state of the government. The image of the military system among the people.
Zhou State has now abolished the imperial military system and replaced it with recruiting troops from all over the country.
Military costs will inevitably increase rapidly, but correspondingly, recruiting only those young and middle-aged people who are physically strong and full of will will also increase military strength.
Moreover, with the support of Taihao Mountain elites, money is not an issue.
The Tribunal of Taihao Mountain will also rely on its cruel and indifferent style of conduct to restrain the middle and lower-level officials of the Zhou Dynasty, so that they do not dare to engage in adultery (for example, using the elderly, weak and sick patients as physically strong people, oppressing and enslaving sergeants, Withholding military pay, etc.).
Even Li Ang could see things, and there was no reason why the Dukes of Chang'an in Yu State couldn't see it.
In terms of land, manpower, wealth, culture, etc., Zhou State is the second largest country in the world after Yu State.
Over the past three hundred years, the two countries have fought dozens of wars, large and small. The Yu State won more and lost less. However, every time because of the existence of Mount Taihao, it was unable to expand the results of the war, and even wiped out the Zhou State.
There is no way, Haotian's faith has enveloped almost every corner and every country in the known world.
From the ice fields in the north where day and night cycle endlessly, to Java in the south where the climate is hot and suspended in the vast ocean, there are the bells and bells of Haotian.
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, money donated by devout believers will flow to Taihao Mountain like a trickle of water, and this terrifying wealth will be transformed into immeasurable talismans, armor, and arrows.
Among the four houses of Sacrament, Judgment, Judgment, and Faith, the Judgment House alone has nearly 100,000 judges. All are monks.
And if you include the demon-hunting army that assists the inquisitors in hunting demons, the number reaches millions.
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 used a shocking evil spell to turn all the subjects of the Jing Kingdom into fanatical believers who worshiped him.
Hundreds of thousands of people, fearless of death and filled with demonic aura, easily broke through the military town on the border of Jing Kingdom and plundered the armor and swords inside to arm themselves. Continue towards the mainland of Jingguo.
However, the practitioners of Jing Kingdom, considering the lives of their own people, have not taken action yet.
In this case, Taihao Mountain dispatched an army of 10,000 demon hunters.
The two sides met in the wilderness, and the people on the demon cultivator side made a crazy noise, recited magic scriptures that insulted Haotian, and laughed at everything in Taihao Mountain.
The demon-hunting army was silent, and everyone drew their swords with expressionless faces.
With only one charge, the demon-hunting army was overwhelming, easily cutting through the military formation of hundreds of thousands of people, and then spread out in the center of the military formation, wielding their long knives to slaughter the enemies who came forward.
The demon cultivator hiding in the crowd was discovered.
After receiving the information from the demon cultivator that "the evil spell cannot be reversed and the people cannot be saved," the 10,000 demon-hunting army killed all the remaining people.
The blood on the battlefield has covered the insteps of their feet,
The bloody smell soaring into the sky even drifted to the imperial city of Jing Kingdom on the wind.
Afterwards, statistics showed that the number of casualties among the Demon Hunter Army soldiers was only 110.
Now, even if Taihao Mountain cannot devote all its demon-hunting troops to the war with Yu State in order to maintain its own existence,
But as long as one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand troops are invested on the battlefield, the gap in national power between Yu and Zhou will be completely smoothed or even reversed.
