Mu Sheng asked: "Naqi, I have always had a question, why does this old thief keep taking other people's bodies to survive? Is he so greedy for everything in the world? You must know that taking other people's bodies requires a huge burden. Cause and effect, maybe the spirit will collapse, the soul will be scattered, and there will be no chance of reincarnation."
"If a monk doesn't have deep hatred, he usually won't do this. Even if he enters reincarnation, he will never take his body easily. Hasn't he lived enough after living for more than seven hundred years?"
Muyinaqi smiled slightly and said: "When you have been the emperor for a few days and feel the benefits of power, you will understand why the old ghost is obsessed with it and keeps taking away his body to extend his life."
When Mu Sheng heard this, he didn't comment...
A few days after the wedding, Mu Sheng, as the 2.0 version of the Immortal Emperor, met with city lords from various places and tribal leaders who were attached to the mountain puppets in batches. He also roughly understood the current situation of the mountain puppets. Compared with the social system of the mountain puppets, Mu Sheng The Central Plains Dynasty was still in a relatively primitive semi-slave and semi-feudal state.
Slavery is easy to understand. The so-called feudal system is to build a country by enfeoffing the land. The emperor enfeoffs the princes, the princes enfeoff the officials, and the officials entrust the officials below. Level by level, it goes down. It is similar to the political system of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and is very similar to the European Middle Ages. (The feudal system here does not refer to the feudal society defined by Western thought)
Yucheng was the political center of the Shanpup tribe. Before the Changsheng Emperor usurped power, it was originally a co-management of the aristocrats in the councils of elders of all ethnic groups in the country. In fact, it was the original version of an aristocratic oligarchic republic.
After Emperor Changsheng officially came to power, he killed all the original aristocratic elders and replaced his cronies as city lords in various places. In the past three hundred years, he mainly relied on his extremely high folk reputation and personal prestige to rule the mountain puppets, but he was restricted Due to the limitations of the times, he did not establish an effective bureaucratic system.
Moreover, judging from the current actual situation of Shanpup society, it is simply unrealistic. The prerequisite for establishing a bureaucracy is that you must have a large number of literate intellectual elites to serve the country.
The basic operation of Emperor Changsheng after he came to power was that in addition to reusing his own cronies and old subordinates who had fought in the army before, he also used a group of monks to protect him. This may also have something to do with him being a monk himself. This has something to do with the Central Plains. The way the monks basically stay away from politics is completely different.
What Mu Sheng has to do now is to re-establish the system of the Presbyterian Council. Anyway, there is already a tradition of aristocratic republic. What he has to do is to initially transform the absolute monarchy and dictatorship of Emperor Changsheng into an aristocratic republic and Dual monarchy in which the monarchs share power.
The elders at the top will continue to use the tiger-skinned fox of the Immortal Emperor to pretend to be a tiger. Mu Sheng is giving them, the tribal leaders and city lords from various places, to share part of the country's power. They are also happy to see this happen, and then form a relatively mature and stable long-term operation. model.
In fact, Muyinaqi is right. Once he leaves here for a long time, the people who are most capable of rebellion are the city lords and tribal leaders from various places. They have soldiers and territories, and they can basically be said to be potential careerists. , is also the new aristocratic class re-cultivated after the Emperor Changsheng killed all the original aristocratic elders.
Especially when these ambitious people cannot restrain themselves from rebelling, it is better to invite them all in to share power. Even if they still want to rebel against themselves, it doesn't matter. There are a bunch of people in the Presbyterian Church, and not one person has the final say.
The interests of the careerists cannot be consistent, and they do not have the strength to completely crush their opponents. When they fight to the death, he will be back by then. With the past prestige of the Immortal Emperor, Isn’t it easy to take down a few rebel thieves?
At the same time, Mu Sheng also felt that even if they, the city leaders, took power, they would not easily tear off the extremely intimidating tiger skin of the Changsheng Emperor. Among the Southern Barbarians, the overall strength of the Shan Puppet could only be considered above average, not to mention There are also powerful foreign enemies such as the Xi tribe and the Taisha Dynasty, plus General Lu Sheng from Lingnan. It can be said that we are besieged on all sides, and the international environment is quite harsh.
The Mountain Puppet Clan, in particular, has a feud with the Tessa Dynasty, and it has been a century-old feud. Borges, an old thief, once captured the capital of the Tessa Dynasty, almost leading to its downfall. After plundering countless treasures and beauties, he burned the capital to the ground. , the forced Taisha Dynasty was forced to move its capital far away to avoid its sharpness.
He also captured the king of the Taisha Dynasty alive on the battlefield, and cut off his head to make drinking utensils. Now he has seen this cup made of skulls in his bedroom. This blood feud, Mu Sheng estimates that even in a few years The centuries-old rulers of the Tessa dynasty will not forget it either.
With such a powerful foreign enemy, the city lords of the various tribes of the Shanpuppet tribe will never tear off this layer of tiger skin easily as long as their brains are not kicked by a donkey. The Immortal Emperor is both a rallying force and a deterrent. As long as he is there In Yucheng, the Taisha Dynasty, the overlord of southern Xinjiang with millions of soldiers, would never dare to easily provoke the mountain puppets.
Having said that, as long as the golden sign of Emperor Changsheng is there, no matter what happens in Yucheng, he, Mu Sheng, can still show off his power when he comes back, and respond to a hundred responses. This is influence, this is prestige.
In the afternoon, Mu Sheng, accompanied by Muyinaqi, took a chariot to the site of the former Upper Presbyterian Church in Yucheng. This hall, which could accommodate hundreds of people, although ordered to be tidied up, still looked shabby. rotten.
After all, no one has taken care of it for more than two hundred years, and even the roof is leaking. When the old thief was in power, this place was used as a warehouse.
Nowadays, all the leaders and city lords have been summoned by the emperor to gather here. Everyone is a little confused. It is okay to hold a meeting in the castle. They are called here to announce the good news of the re-establishment of the Council of Elders. It has special meaning. Wait. After the official announcement, funds were allocated to renovate this place. From now on, this place will become one of the cores of power in Yucheng.
When all the city lords saw the arrival of the second-generation Immortal Emperor, they all knelt on the ground and shouted, "Long live the Emperor!" Not daring to raise his head to look at the Emperor, Mu Sheng glanced at the crowd of mountain nobles kneeling at his feet. At this moment, he really felt like he was in control of everything.
Is this what it feels like to be a king? Is this what power feels like? No wonder the old thief, the Emperor of Immortality, is reluctant to let go of all that he is doing right now, and will continue to fight for his life even if his soul is lost.
Mu Sheng slowly walked down the chariot, holding the hand of Empress Muyinaqi and sitting on the main seat in the hall. With a gentle wave of his hand, everyone thanked him and stood up and sat back in his seat.
Mu Sheng took off his mask and put it aside. When he met with local leaders like them, of course he had to let them know what he looked like now and what kind of skin he had changed into after his rebirth.
Mu Sheng winked to the side, and the attendant who came with him bowed, turned around, took out the edict and read it out on the spot.
When the waiter finished reading the edict, the scene could almost hear the drop of a pin. Everyone looked at each other in confusion, and some people even took out their ears to see if they were hearing hallucinations...
More than two hundred years have passed, and the emperor wants to reestablish the Presbyterian Church again? What kind of international joke is this? It's you who killed all the elders, and it's you who reopened the Presbyterian Council. How about fun? Are they going to lift us up and look for an opportunity to slaughter us? We haven’t lived enough yet…
Mu Sheng saw that their expressions changed slightly, their eyes, nose, mouth, and mind were all looking at each other. They were all like old monks in meditation, without saying a word.
Mu Sheng had no choice but to speak first to set the tone and said: "My dear friends, although we can speak freely about what we are discussing today, I will never use my words to undermine others."
After waiting for a long time, these old thieves still looked at each other in confusion. No one dared to come forward to speak. Mu Sheng couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this situation. When this old thief was in power, he was actually quite good to the people under his rule and often showed kindness. , in order to maintain his glorious image as the Immortal Emperor among the people. The old thief was also a national hero before he usurped the throne.
However, he has never had a good look towards these city lords and leaders. If they are even slightly suspicious, they will kill everyone. The three guardians of Borlantay under him are his three most trusted executioners. It can be said that they are full of people. Hands bloody.
The emperor's reputation among the people was extremely high, and his reign was extremely long. In the eyes of the people, he was no different from a living god.
Although these city lords have great local power and are almost equal to the local emperors, it is very difficult to incite soldiers and common people to rebel against the Changsheng Emperor. Maybe they are still in the plotting stage and will be reported by the masses the next day. Three days later, the three guardians led their troops out, and the heads of the city lord and his whole family were hung in the Yucheng Square for public display.
Mu Sheng's current image in their eyes was actually not much different from that of the Living King of Hell. No wonder these people were all scared like little chickens when they saw him.
When Mu Sheng met them in batches before, they all spoke carefully and carefully, for fear of making him unhappy. If they did something like this today, they might think they were just fishing for law enforcement, and they might still be looking for opportunities to find reasons to mess with them. Woolen cloth.
Which of the city lords from various places who are lucky enough to survive to this day are not hardened souls? They didn't want to go up and get into trouble with the emperor first.
When Mu Sheng saw this situation, he never expected that this old thief's rule would be so unbreakable. Seeing that they still didn't say a word, he could only pretend to glance at them with cold eyes and snort!
In the end, all these old youtiaos turned pale and could no longer sit still. They knelt down one after another, kowtowing like garlic, and said in unison: "Long live the Emperor, re-establishing the Presbyterian Council will be a disaster for the country. I beg the Emperor to take back his life." .”
Seeing this situation, Mu Sheng was extremely helpless. He stopped following them in circles. No matter how much they went on, they would definitely be too scared to speak like little chickens, so he simply spoke clearly.
Mu Sheng imitated the tone of the old thief and said: "I will take my wife to the Central Plains for an important trip in a few months. It may take ten years or five years, so basically no one will deal with the big and small matters in Yucheng. Bo The traitors Erlangtai and Huktila actually dared to rebel against me, and you have all seen what happened to them."
"So I have thought about it, and I want to entrust the affairs of the deceased to all of you here. The purpose of reopening the Council of Elders is to let everyone come together to discuss state affairs, and to keep this city in order, so that I can safely travel with my wife. In the Central Plains, all of you, dear friends, are loyal people who have withstood the test, and I still trust you. I am calling you here today because I sincerely want to discuss everything with you, so you can feel free to speak freely and boldly."
After hearing what the emperor said, the city lords finally understood what was going on. It seemed that the living king of hell was afraid that there would be a fire in the backyard after he left his hometown.
The city lords from all over the country raised their heads and took a cautious glance at the emperor's face. It seemed that it really didn't look like he was faking it. Then they all secretly breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a little.
