As time passed, news about the battle between the Buddha and Demon in Chongzhou quickly spread out.
First, the Buddhist holy monks of the Western Regions of Tantric Buddhism transformed into demons, which caused the joint resistance of the demon cultivators in Chongzhou.
Then there was a monk named Jinghui who took over the body and burst out with the combat power comparable to that of a monk in the Purple Palace.
Su Jie, the blood demon ancestor who appeared in the end, emerged from Qingzhou's strongest demon, and showed his strength to suppress the entire audience, exposing the real purple palace cultivation level, and directly suppressed and killed all the monks from the Western Regions.
These news was too shocking, especially Su Jie's promotion to a cultivator in the Purple Mansion Realm, which was even more earth-shaking and super news, making the news like it had wings and flew into the thousands of households, major sects, and powerful families of the Dali Dynasty.
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Dali City!
As the capital of the Dali Dynasty, it seems to be out of touch with the disaster victims in other parts of the Dali Dynasty.
While countless people in other major states were frowning for winter food and cold clothes, Dali City was still full of singing and dancing.
The wealthy and powerful people spend money like money, enjoying the luxury of luxury in high-end restaurants, flower boats, and theaters. They travel like spiritual beasts, and they drive in groups of slaves, bells and cauldrons, living a luxurious life that the lower class cannot imagine.
Even though there were many crises and difficulties in the Dali Dynasty, there were refugees everywhere, which shook the foundation of the country, and there were the Condor Empire plundering border states and cedes land for compensation, this still could not affect their freedom, and they would never spend all their wealth in a hundred lives.
In the center of the city's central axis, it is a rectangular city in the city.
The city is more than three thousand meters long and has a width of one thousand eight hundred meters. It is built with fifteen-meter-high walls. The walls are not ordinary walls, but are built of spiritual materials Kongtong stones, with various formation patterns painted on them, which condenses the majestic spiritual energy of the dragon veins under the ground.
Inside the city, magnificent buildings are built, forming a sacred and solemn atmosphere.
This is the Dali Palace, the location of the core power center of the Dali Dynasty.
At this time, in the Forde Hall of Dali Palace, the bronze incense burner was surging with light smoke, and a conference in front of the hall was underway.
A hundred civil and military officials were arranged on the left and right. On the jade stairs in front of him, a middle-aged man was wearing a black embroidered cloud dragon robe, with a lazy expression, showing tiredness between his eyebrows and eyes, and slowly spoke: "My dear friends, the southern demons are aggravated, and a great demon in the Purple Palace emerged from the sky, killing the holy monks of the Western Regions, and integrating the demonic path of Chongzhou. Now Su Jie of Guiling Palace occupies Qingzhou and Chongzhou. What do you think?"
The person who spoke was not someone else, but the emperors of the Dali Dynasty, Emperor Yongren, and Wei Sheng.
The civil and military officials below were in a state of turmoil. Everyone heard that Su Jie was a great demon in the Purple Palace Realm, which is also the biggest hot spot in Dali City recently. "Report to the emperor, I think it is better not to make big moves about Su Jie in Guiling Palace, and everything is up to stability."
Zuo Min, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, took a step forward, bowed slightly, and told his own philosophy: "The South is our weak influence. We no longer have enough energy to pacify it. As long as the devil Su Jie does not act randomly, we can limit his sphere of influence to the south and focus on solving problems in other directions first."
"No, I think Su Jie is not simple. He is growing too fast. He has achieved the Zi Mansion at a young age. If he does not step up the treatment, he will not know how much disaster it will cause in the future."
The Minister of the Ministry of Works Xu Qing immediately expressed his opposition. If he uses force against Guiling Palace, their Ministry of Works will receive a large order and make a fortune. "Hmph, what Lord Xu said is easy. He is the devil in the Zifu Realm. The other party is carrying the Demonic Swallowing Sea of Blood. He is one of the best in the Zifu Realm, both in the means and in the life-saving manner. If you act rashly, you may suffer heavy losses." "Do you have to watch the Guiling Palace grow bigger? The south is an important source of tax revenue for our Dali Dynasty. Once the demonic crisis swept across, how can the gap in the national treasury be filled?"
At first, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works quarreled, and soon more and more civil and military officials joined in, but most of them did not agree to send troops directly to pacify Guiling Palace.
The current Dali Dynasty is like an old man who lacks enterprising spirit and energy. "Yue Aiqing, you are the Minister of War, what do you think?" Wei Sheng was impatient and upset in the messy scene, and suddenly looked at Yue Zhifeng, the Minister of War. "Report to the emperor, if you want to pacify Guiling Palace, you need at least 3,000 Xuan Iron Dragon Cavalry, mobilize more than ten flying magic boats, launch 80,000 martial arts soldiers, and coordinate with the Taoist generals.
Now most of our troops are deployed in the north to guard against the Condor Empire. There are very few troops in the south and can only be drawn from the Northern Military Camp, the Western Military Camp and the Beijing Camp. It takes a long time and we need at least half a year of preparation.
The most important thing is that the Inspection and Tianshi Department has to send enough experts to fight against Su Jie, a great devil in the Purple Mansion Realm. Our Ministry of War now has no strongman in the Purple Mansion Realm, and cannot serve as the main force to solve Su Jie. "
Yue Zhifeng stood up and told the difficulties of the Ministry of War.
Last year, the Condor Empire in the north attacked the border, and the Dali Dynasty's Ministry of War was defeated, and the city and land were lost, and the soldiers suffered serious losses.
The soldiers under the Dali Dynasty's Ministry of War were not ordinary government soldiers like ordinary prefectures and counties.
The military soldiers managed by the Ministry of War are all practitioners. The Dali Dynasty War Department recruited talented soldiers, used blessed land, martial arts and spirit stones to cultivate and win over, and promoted based on the achievements of killing enemies and their cultivation.
Elite like the Xuan Iron Dragon Knight, each with a cultivation level of above the sixth level of the Spirit Realm, and is matched with a spiritual beast, dragon, blood horse, black iron armor and magic weapon. The elder must be the cultivation level of the Secret Realm. The centurion is at least the fifth level of the Secret Realm. Only the strong ones in the Daotai Realm are qualified to be. "My Dali Dynasty military soldiers are registered for 500,000. How can it be so difficult to draw 80,000? Even if you have to guard the north and guard against the Condor Heroes Empire, you can't be so slow to transfer troops!" A member of the Ministry of Rites suddenly spoke and said in confusion.
Not long ago, he transferred from Anzhou to Dali City to the east and did not know much about the court.
Many officials in the Forde Hall had strange eyes, saying that they were 500,000 military soldiers on the list, but how could they have so many?
Many military soldiers are just a name on the roster. In fact, there is no such soldier at all. This soldier will only exist on the roster forever.
Eating empty salary is very serious in the Dali Dynasty. This is something that all the civil and military officials in the dynasty know each other well, that is, the small officials from other places are still stupid.
The Dali Dynasty paid the military pay for the military soldiers. If one salary is empty, it would be at least fifteen low-grade spirit stones per month.
Now the National Bureau is in trouble, and the military pay is reduced every year. The powerful and high-ranking officials have worked, and the officials below have to work, and the military pay is given by them. The military pay is given by 60% or 70% of the military pay is given. What should I use to support so many military soldiers? It would be better to just eat the empty salary. Hello, I, everyone, even the Censor turned a blind eye.
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No one paid attention to this mentally retarded problem. Zuo Min suddenly sneered and made a suggestion.
"Three thousand black iron dragon cavalry and eighty thousand martial soldiers. With such a huge mobilization and consumption, our Ministry of Revenue has no money, but I know that everyone is rich, so it is better for everyone to donate a spiritual stone to share the worries of the emperor and the dynasty. Lord Xu, I heard that you have not taken another beautiful concubine recently, so why don't you give me a sample to everyone first and set an example?"
As soon as these words were said, the scene immediately became quiet.
Just now, Xu Qing, who was indignant and was bound to eradicate Guiling Palace, changed his face. He glared at Zuo Min angrily, then quietly looked at Wei Sheng who seemed to be half awake and half asleep on the dragon chaise, and laughed dryly: "Master Zuo is joking, I am a clean official, how could I get such a big spiritual stone?"
As he said, he gritted his teeth and expressed his generous expression, saying, "But I am a commoner in the world, I am willing to take out all my savings and personally invest 1,000 low-grade spiritual stones to boost the morale of the army."
Zuo Min quietly watched Xu Qing's performance. What a good guy, he could take out all his lower-grade spiritual stones. This little money is not enough to support a Xuan Iron Dragon Knight.
He knew how rich this old guy Xu Qing was. There were dozens of houses and mansions in Dali City alone. The Xu family also operated a caravan, and there were many people below who respected him. The assets were five million spirit stones as the foundation. This was calculated as less. It might be possible to increase it several times. After all, it is difficult for the extra people to know the specific amount of the embezzlement handled, and Xu Qing could not even rank among the real powerful people.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, you know me! I have always been honest and loving the people, and I have helped all the money to those poor people."
"Your Majesty, our family has been farmers for generations. I didn't spend a penny of the money I earned. They all existed in the family. There were only about two hundred spirit stones. I am willing to donate them all to the national treasury to help Your Majesty resist the demons in Qingzhou."
More and more senior officials and powerful people came forward. You donate three hundred, I donate five hundred, and there are dozens or even ten cents left. Soon, I raised a huge amount of 8,000 yuan in low-grade spirit stones.
Well, these spirit stones are about equivalent to the military pay of 500 low-level military soldiers per month. "This matter will be discussed later."
Which Emperor Wei Sheng, the Dali Emperor, was blinded by the number when he heard the huge sum of 8,000 spirit stones, and left in anger.
Soon, the news about the emperor was about to recruit officials and the news of collecting military salaries for the devils was circulating.
I was afraid that the emperor would be serious, and the civil and military officials in the court cried in various ways, crying for poverty.
The prime minister of the dynasty hung up his house for sale, and the Minister of Rites deliberately put on worn-out clothes to go to court. The officials and powerful people also changed from riding in luxury sedans and pulling carts to walking to work.
The most exaggerated one is the father-in-law Cai Fangyi. In order to show his sincerity, he voluntarily donated 20,000 spirit stones, but only 500 of them were taken out by him. The rest was crying for poverty from his daughter, which is the queen of the current Dali Dynasty.
In order not to be ashamed of the face, the queen took out her jewelry and sold it, raising money for her father.
However, she raised a total of 50,000 spirit stones, but only 20,000 spirit stones donated to the national treasury. As for the other 30,000 spirit stones, I don’t know where to go.
In contrast, people and classes from all walks of life in the Dali Dynasty responded to the call. The spiritual stones donated by those brothels that went to the wrong place alone exceeded 100,000, which was twice as much as those donated by civil and military officials in the dynasty.
In the end, the donated spirit stones were not enough to meet military expenditures, and it was too much worse.
Because the national treasury is empty, the matter of attacking the unjust officials, conquering the demonic path, and pacifying the Guiling Palace is naturally left unresolved. (This chapter ends)