Just a few months ago, she was still a powerhouse ranked among the top seven in the world.
Now, she's fallen to who knows how many thousands!
She can only compete with a group of semi-saints for limited positions.
The huge gap made her feel a pang of sadness.
Inside the imperial palace.
Xuan Ming had been watching the reactions of the Farmer Saint and the Qingqing Saint.
Seeing that they had finally decided to go to the Ministry of Revenue to compete with others for the position of assistant instructor at Dongtian Academy, Xuan Ming looked at the national fortune surging above Nan Zhou and secretly focused his eyes.
As he advanced to the Heavenly God, the national fortune of the dynasty was further controlled by him, and the national fortune was taken from the people and the territory of the country. In the land shrouded by the national fortune, a kind of general trend of heaven and earth would be formed.
This kind of general trend will guide everything in it to a direction that is beneficial to Xuan Ming in the dark.
Xuan Ming had already sensed the meaning of the general trend from the matter of the Farmer Saint and the Qingqing Saint.
It was as if driven by the general trend. The stronger the foundation of the dynasty, the less Xuan Ming needed to pay attention to some trivial things. The national power condensed by the dynasty would make them autonomously return to a certain thing, become a part of the dynasty, or be wiped out.
This trend of national fortune has the same effect as the way of the emperor governing his subordinates.
It's just that the latter is controlled by Xuan Ming alone.
The former, however, is driven by the entire dynasty.
“Your Majesty, the Minister of Personnel requests an audience.”
Just as Xuan Ming was carefully experiencing the meaning of the Dao.
A guard in front of the palace respectfully walked into the hall and reported.
“Let him in.” Xuan Ming rubbed his brow, temporarily putting the matter aside.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” The guard in front of the palace respectfully withdrew.
Soon, Li Yuanfang, the Minister of Personnel, walked into the hall.
“Your Majesty, I have not failed my mission and have successfully broken through to the Saint Realm!”
Li Yuanfang kowtowed deeply and said respectfully.
“Mm.”
“There are two locations for your trial: the North Spirit Canyon, four thousand miles north of Kaiyang County, and Qingyu!”
“These two locations already belong to the dynasty's rule!”
“However, the dynasty does not yet have a definite and feasible governance method.”
“The Sword Saint, your Majesty's Imperial Guard Commander, will take people to these two locations to investigate separately. After you return, give me a set of governance methods that can both control these civilizations far away from Nan Zhou and make them submit.”
Xuan Ming instructed slightly.
Whether it was the North Spirit Canyon or Qingyu.
Both have ancient inherited civilizations.
Although now, they have all become affiliated to the dynasty.
But in essence, they are still individuals and have not been integrated into the dynasty.
Xuan Ming needed a practical plan to integrate these two civilized places, and even other civilizations conquered in the future, into the dynasty.
Relying on force and faith to deter them could naturally firmly control these civilizations.
But making them completely submit and regard themselves as subjects of the dynasty was a once-and-for-all method. In comparison, the latter was far more beneficial to the dynasty than the former.
However, it was extremely difficult to accomplish this.
The North Spirit Canyon was still okay to say.
Whether it was population or time, it was weaker than Nan Zhou.
But Qingyu's civilization had been inherited for nearly 30,000 years, and its cultural heritage was twenty or thirty times that of Nan Zhou. It was now a truly meaningful external civilization controlled by the dynasty.
If it could not be integrated into the dynasty.
Then in the future, the dynasty would come into contact with even more ancient civilizations in the Tianxu Realm and even the boundless starry sky, and it would basically be impossible to integrate them into the dynasty.
Once a crisis or other change occurred.
The vast power structure composed of the entire dynasty might be the first to collapse, with all kinds of different voices appearing.
This was not the result Xuan Ming wanted.
Xuan Ming was not afraid of foreign enemies, but he did not want to be distracted by internal forces.
Therefore, Xuan Ming was prepared to solve this problem from the root from the very beginning.
And without a doubt, the Minister of Personnel's test would be the most difficult test among the three ministers.
Although the Minister of War had to lead troops to attack the extraterritorial regions.
The accompanying personnel not only included the Sword Dao God and Demon Wuming, but also various ancient strong army generals from previous lives. In secret, there were even methods left by Xuan Ming. According to the information from the explored extraterritorial world, it could be said to be a certain victory.
The Minister of War was just going through the motions of an extraterritorial war to victory.
If his performance was extremely high, then he would be an indispensable member of this war.
If his performance was extremely poor, then this war would be dispensable.
Therefore, the Minister of War's test only concerned his own abilities.
The Minister of Personnel was different.
He not only had to accept the test of his own abilities, but also had to confront the civilization of Qingyu, which had accumulated for 30,000 years, as well as the foundation for the dynasty to target all ruled civilizations in the future.
If he could do it.
Then, in the future, the dynasty would rule the boundless realm.
The Minister of Personnel, as the head of the hundred officials, would naturally be worthy of being one of the three dukes of the dynasty who would control the establishment of hundreds of millions of officials in the future, above trillions of living beings, and watch the evolution of the world and the birth and death of all spirits along with the dynasty.
But if he could not do it, depending on the difficulty of the matter, Xuan Ming would not treat the other party badly.
“I accept the decree, Your Majesty, and I will definitely not fail your Majesty's trust.” The Minister of Personnel took a deep breath and kowtowed again.
He already knew about the North Spirit Canyon.
Qingyu was also obviously another external civilization under the control of His Majesty.
Although His Majesty had mentioned it before, he had never allowed the court to intervene.
But now, it was obvious that he was preparing to delegate power to the court.
This was a good thing recognized by His Majesty for the court.
“You should go to the post station in the imperial capital and wait for a moment. The Sword Saint will be there soon,” Xuan Ming instructed slightly.
“Yes, Your Majesty.” The Minister of Personnel then withdrew.
Not long after the Minister of Personnel left.
The Minister of Revenue requested an audience.
After obtaining Xuan Ming's permission.
He respectfully entered the Xuanhuang Hall.
“I pay my respects to Your Majesty.” The Minister of Revenue bowed.
“Rise, please.”
“Your test is about foreign trade.”
“The establishment of the Pill God Hall requires an endless supply of medicinal materials.”
“However, the dynasty's current reserves of medicinal materials are completely insufficient!”
“Therefore, I plan to let you go to Qingyu to trade with the Qingyu human race and the surrounding civilizations near Qingyu.”
“This is a list of medicinal materials, as well as the composition of each medicinal material, the number and quality of pills that can be refined. Take a look.”
Xuan Ming waved his hand, and divine power evolved a piece of white paper, stating the ability of the spiritual wood to refine pills, as well as the names, efficacy, and identification methods of various pills and medicinal materials.
It fell into the hands of the Minister of Revenue.
The Minister of Revenue respectfully accepted it.
“Ordinary pills below the God and Demon level can produce five pills of superior quality.”
“Even pills at the God and Demon level can produce five pills!”
“Is there such a pill refining ability in the world?”
The Minister of Revenue, Lin Fangyuan, scanned the contents above, but he became more and more shocked as he read.
Taking a medicinal material for condensing intent pills of semi-sacred grade as an example.
The medicinal effect it contains can produce up to five pills.
But the maximum and the result of refining pills are not the same.
Each pill requires the alchemist to pour his heart into using the heat to blend the medicinal power of the medicinal materials.
But for five pills, basically they are condensed at the same time from the melting of the medicinal materials. Ordinary alchemists can control one pill to form, which is extremely strong, let alone five pills, and the quality is even more difficult to guarantee.
With the decline of the dynasty's pill refining industry, it is no wonder that the Minister of Revenue would be shocked.
And this is still without knowing that the spiritual wood can refine tens of millions of medicinal materials with one thought.
“Your Majesty, may I ask what kind of trade system is needed?” The Minister of Revenue put away the white paper and asked respectfully.
From the contents recorded on this white paper.
The pill refining ability of the Pill God Hall has reached the top configuration of the pill refining industry.
No matter how you trade, the dynasty can make a steady profit without losing.
But the Minister of Revenue did not dare to act arbitrarily. This matter should be in accordance with His Majesty's wishes.
“Qingyu is a civilization belonging to the dynasty's camp. The exchange ratio of pills and medicinal materials to divine stones can be appropriately lower, but the civilizations near Qingyu are not yet under control.”
“I want you to use this information gap of pill formation to bring all the medicinal material reserves of Qingyu and even other civilizations into the territory of the dynasty to supply the Pill God Hall. At the same time, the pill refining industry is a scarce industry. If you can use this ability gap to make these civilizations that do not belong to the dynasty have the idea of joining the dynasty, then that would be the best thing.”
Xuan Ming said slowly.
