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Three days later, Mingdou Mountains.
At the junction of the original Douluo Continent and the Sun-Moon Continent, which stretches for thousands of miles, it is the solemn and murderous time of autumn. In recent years, there have not been many wars between the two empires, and the air is still filled with a cold and hard atmosphere.
The Sun-Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy and the Star Luo Royal Academy arrived at the center of the two armies one after another. The students, wearing the uniforms of the two schools, lined up in a row, standing straight and looking forward, unwilling to lose out in spirit.
"Master Hongchen, I haven't seen you for two years, but you are still as charming as ever."
"No, no, I didn't expect His Majesty to come here in person in simple attire. We have great confidence in the sincerity of the Xing Luo Empire."
Jing Hongchen and Xu Jiawei shook hands and chatted, reminiscing about old times. What should have been a scene of intrigue and deception actually had a certain sense of reality.
Jing Hongchen really didn't know that Xu Jiawei would come in person. He thought that having a prince come was enough.
However, if a prince really came from the other side, they, Sun and Moon, could not produce an equal person, so he would be the only one to go and greet him.
After all, the princes of the Sun and Moon Empire are now crying in prison, and the rest have left their heads in the vegetable market at the city gate.
Three days have passed. Tianxi should have cleaned up all the bodies of those people, right?
Jing Hongchen glanced at Xu Tianxi beside him aimlessly, and felt a chill in his heart.
Mr. Kong asked Xu Tianxi to be in charge of confiscating the property and exterminating the family, while he and Ye Yulin watched in secret.
I witnessed with my own eyes how Xu Tianxi, like a cold-faced devil, led people to seal off the palace one by one, and sent all the men, women and children in the palace except the babies to the imperial prison, and then slowly convicted them.
More than a dozen princely palaces and more than thirty county princely palaces were all sealed off within just five days. Then Xu Tianxi didn't say much and directly took the beautiful silver-haired girl from the Star Dou Great Forest to start the mental memory recovery technique.
After a thorough investigation, more than 5,000 people who deserved to be killed were found.
Such a huge number is unprecedented since the founding of the Sun-Moon Empire. Those royal relatives cried and wailed in prison all day long, shouting that they wanted to see the emperor and reminisce about the past. There were also a few old princes who said that they were too old and their crimes did not deserve the death penalty.
As a result, Xu Tianxi was quite reasonable and settled accounts with each of these people according to their crimes and contributions.
No merit list of death penalty cases will be considered, all those who deserve to die will be put to death, and the execution will extend from the entire family to a comprehensive purge of his followers over the years.
You like to talk about your good deeds, don't you? Let's look back at your bad deeds.
Originally I was going to execute your entire Family, but now I am going to punish your entire clan! Let's go to hell together!
Those whose crimes did not warrant death could choose to undergo labor reform. Princes who had made some military achievements when they were young were sentenced to exile to a military area instead of having their entire family executed, that is, to the Mingdou Mountain military camp and the naval camp in the west.
Some of the contributed soul guides are sent to the Offering Hall to be used as illegal businesses, where ninth-level soul guides select the nuclear-powered donkeys and focus on making the best use of them. If they are useful, they will be used to death, and they will work as soul guides for their entire lives.
The remaining princes, dukes, and princesses who had neither merit nor the ability to create new productive forces for the empire were all sent to the execution ground, regardless of gender, age or status. Eight princes, more than twenty dukes, and more than twenty princesses and county ladies were all beheaded.
During the killing process, Xu Tianxi, like a pioneer, called the people of Mingdu to watch and publicly pronounced the crimes of each prince, duke, princess and princess.
The most important thing is to disclose the property. Xu Tianxi made the huge assets of these people public and announced it widely, welcoming the general public to report the illegal activities of royal criminals.
Xiao Hongchen brought his penmen over, made the photographed footage and confessions public, and finally killed them cleanly.
This killing feast controlled by Xu Tianxi killed more than 5,000 people. The wailing at the execution ground lasted from the rising sun in the morning to the setting sun. The executioners and the sword soul guides were replaced several times.
The most terrifying thing is that this first major case since the founding of the country shows no signs of stopping, and Xu Tianxi is no longer satisfied with clearing out the royal family members in the Ming capital.
The people he sent out to liquidate the properties purchased by these royal family members across the country have not returned yet. By the time they come back, I am afraid that more than 5,000 people will lose their heads.
Of course, after seeing the property of those princes, dukes, princesses and princesses, whether it was the emperor above, or Kong Deming, Jing Hongchen and others, they all felt that Xu Tianxi was right to kill them.
The combined assets of these people exceed the total tax revenue of the Sun-Moon Empire in ten years!
It is much more profitable to kill a group of people and collect taxes for ten years than to kill the New Year pig.
As far as Jing Hongchen knows, after seeing this astronomical figure, the officials of the Sun Moon Empire's finance department have become loyal supporters of Xu Tianxi. They are eager to submit memorials every day, supporting Xu Tianxi to confiscate more fat pigs, and even better, chop off all the big pigs' heads...
The reason is simple. Xu Tianxi always advocates fairness in his work. Forty percent of the money went into the Worship Hall, thirty percent went into the national treasury, twenty percent went into the Mingde Hall, and the remaining ten percent was set by him to be used for public relief and charity work.
For example, building large-scale water conservancy facilities and national roads, and... promoting free martial arts awakening across the country.
Using more than a year's income from the Sun and Moon Empire to do these jobs was something that was unimaginable before. Countless people flocked to these assets, hoping to get some of the benefits.
If the person in power was not Xu Tianxi, a special person with a triple background of Worship Hall, Mingde Hall and the royal family, and who also has outstanding strength and a tough personality, no one could withstand such pressure.
Driven by interests, the upper echelons of the Sun-Moon Empire reached a strange consensus - for the sake of the empire, the royal kings are requested to sacrifice themselves!
There were eight level nine soul masters in the Worship Hall who were willing to follow Xu Tianxi to check the accounts of the royal family members in the country's industries, not to mention the level eight soul masters. The eunuch Wang in the palace also followed him out with a group of eunuchs.
Now that he thinks about it, Xu Tianxi's move of announcing his property was the most ruthless. He did not bet that the upper class in the country would hate the crimes of the princes because of this, but he bet that others would be willing to follow suit to make the pie bigger and grab the money. Whoever kills fewer people will fall behind.
Whenever he figured out this key point, Jing Hongchen sometimes felt a chill. If Xu Tianxi didn't take action, it would be fine, but when he did, it would be earth-shattering.
Sometimes, he even felt that the time and place when Xu Guozhong, that idiot, blew up his eighth-level fixed-type soul guide shell was too coincidental. After all, he was a ninth-level soul guide, so how could he make such a low-level mistake...
Well, we can't think about it too much, let's just look at Mingde Hall's recent skyrocketing research funding.
It's not that Xu Tianxi designed this well, it's that he designed it better. Anyway, Jing Hongchen is the biggest beneficiary.
With that funding, Jing Hongchen is confident that he can achieve the same results as in the previous five or even ten years in just three years, greatly adding luster to his resume.
The researchers no longer have to worry about funding for the next twenty years and have become natural supporters of Xu Tianxi. It is said that Xu Tianxi's version of the God of Wealth souvenirs has just been released.
Such a vibrant and prosperous situation made Jing Hongchen feel very proud, and even he felt happier when looking at Xu Jiawei.
Hehe, the students of my Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy can change the world, I'm afraid that the students of you Xing Luo Royal Academy don't have such courage, right?
I heard that the other party had improved his cultivation after coming out of seclusion a year ago, so he immediately began to inspect the officials of the Xingluo Empire and disciplined many nobles. Occasionally, he beheaded a few marquis and earls to make an example of them, and sent a few extremely evil dukes to prison.
In theory, these actions can be regarded as the behavior of a wise monarch, but Jing Hongchen, who is used to seeing princes, dukes, princesses, and princesses beheaded and crown princes imprisoned, thinks that these scenes are too small.
You haven't even killed a duke, and you still have the nerve to call it anti-corruption?
You still have to practice and learn.
In the crowd, Xu Tianxi, as the one seeing off the guests, looked calmly at the people coming from the opposite direction.
In addition to Xu Jiujiu and ten students, there was also a Super Douluo accompanying him, who was his old acquaintance, Broken Star Douluo, who was looking at him with interest.
Except for Xu Jiujiu, all students of Xingluo Royal Academy are dressed as soul mentors, with fourth- and fifth-level soul mentor badges on their chests.
Xu Jiujiu didn't have a badge on her chest, but her soul power had reached level 70, which surprised Xu Tianxi a little.
Did I act too harshly at the beginning, and stimulate the princess to become a cultivation fanatic like me? The other party should be around 20 years old, right? Not slower than Long Aotian.
Moreover, Xu Tianxi felt an inexplicable sense of affinity from her.
"Strange, this feeling seems to come from the martial spirit, but I didn't have this feeling when I was in contact with her before. What's going on?"
Xu Tianxi thought to himself that it was strange. Of course he knew what this inexplicable feeling of affinity was about. It was the prerequisite for the two people to produce the martial soul fusion technique.
Generally speaking, when two soul masters encounter this situation, they only need to try to fuse their soul power and martial souls for a period of time, and they will naturally be able to unleash a powerful martial soul fusion skill, becoming invincible in the same level and undefeated across levels.
"Is it because of the potential of my own martial spirit that the change occurred, or is there some other reason?"
Xu Tianxi thought about himself carefully. After they left Xingluo City, he developed his own martial soul fusion technique at sea. Could it be that this was the reason that made it possible for him to develop martial soul fusion techniques with other people?
The opponent's Star Crown Martial Soul is the top-level star martial soul, and it is possible to merge with his own Fantasy Moon, which is not incomprehensible.
But Xiao Hongchen obviously also has the spirit of a divine beast, so why didn't he merge with his Xuanwu?
Thinking of this, Xu Tianxi looked at Xiao Hongchen in the team with disdain. He felt that it must be because this guy didn't practice hard enough, so the potential of the three-legged golden toad was not stimulated.
Just wait, you will have a share of the underwater meal in the future, and you will have a lot of good things to enjoy.
Xiao Hongchen sneezed for no reason. He suspected that someone was cursing him or thinking about him behind his back.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Meng Hongchen asked with concern.
"It's okay, maybe someone cares about me." Xiao Hongchen wiped his nose and said nonchalantly.
After thinking for a while, he transmitted his voice: "Don't forget our mission to Xingluo City this time. We have to shoulder the responsibility of intelligence workers behind enemy lines. During our training in Yuan Sanguo, we should find out more information about Yuan Sanguo."
"Don't worry, I won't forget." Meng Hongchen had a relaxed smile on her face. There were no enemies inside the Sun and Moon Empire for the time being. Everything was fine. The next step was to set their sights on the original three kingdoms.
With a wave of gaze, Meng Hongchen looked at Xu Jiujiu opposite him. Xu Jiujiu's eyes moved slightly. The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and then looked away at the same time.
"His cultivation is improving quite fast, but he is still a little behind me… When I go back, I will defeat that sword maniac and get my soul bone." Meng Hongchen said to himself.
Xu Jiujiu was thinking about the information that Meng Hongchen "has a very good relationship with Xu Tianxi, but not as good as Xiao Hongchen" and "may have already merged with the soul", and he thought of the news about the soul.
He glanced at Xu Tianxi aimlessly, then felt that it had been two months since he had broken through to the Soul Saint level. His brother's instructions came to his mind.
While several people were thinking, Xu Jiawei and Jing Hongchen finalized the relevant agenda, and both sides set off with their people.
Before leaving, Xu Jiawei looked at his sister and Xu Tianxi with a smile, and said with a faint smile: "Master Hongchen, Duke Zhenguo, I would like to trouble you two to take good care of my younger sister during her cultivation in your country. Your Majesty the Broken Star will only watch over her safety in secret and ensure that nothing will happen."
Jing Hongchen smiled and nodded, opened the soul-guided plane, and set off with ten students from Xingluo Royal Academy on board.
Xu Tianxi did not ask for any special treatment and just sat in the soul-guided plane.
Not long after, a pleasant and respectful voice came to my ears.
"Duke Zhenguo, I have something I want to ask you for a long time. I wonder if you are willing to answer my question?"