Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

In order to change the status quo of the Great Ling Empire in one fell swoop, Mu Zhaoyang went even further, appointing dozens of Mu-surname princes every year and sending them to various parts of the Great Ling Empire.

Objectively speaking, Mu Zhaoyang's idea was indeed good. If the people he sent out could do as he asked, although conflicts with local forces would still be inevitable, overall stability could be guaranteed.

However, Mu Zhaoyang never expected that the problems that arose when the plan was implemented would be far more serious than he had anticipated, and that the Mu family royal family would be far more greedy than he had imagined.

Not everyone is like him, the emperor, who only thinks about the future of the empire.

The Mu family, under the guise of royalty, extensively interfered in local affairs and, in the process of carrying out orders, seized and plundered, thereby reaping substantial benefits for themselves.

One by one, local powerful families were taken down by the imperial princes, and the conflict between the local and central governments intensified in the process, even leading to small-scale rebellions in remote areas.

The officials in the court were busy with power struggles, and although they noticed the problem, none of them took it to heart.

The Great Spirit Empire is vast and rich in resources. Blessed by the Great True Lord, it is truly a nation favored by Heaven and a genuine celestial empire.

The Great Ling Empire was a true reflection of the saying "All nations pay tribute, and the world reveres it."

The deaths of a few ordinary people are of no importance whatsoever.

As for those local warlords, they're just a bunch of nobodys from some backwater. How could they possibly cause any trouble?

Only Qin Ge, the current leader of the Great Harmony Sect and a Grand Scholar, realized the seriousness of the problem.

He repeatedly wrote to the new emperor, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the policy, pointing out the possible consequences, and earnestly requesting the new emperor to postpone the reduction of the power of the princes and to change the current predicament in a more gradual way.

The new emperor was furious and reprimanded Qin Ge, who was demoted three ranks and made governor of Changzhou, thus removing him from the power center of the Great Ling Empire.

……

In the same year, a large-scale rebellion broke out within the Great Era Empire. The Transmigrators Alliance raised the banner of rebellion and ignited war throughout the Great Era Empire.

The Bai family reacted immediately, mobilizing the empire's elite forces to annihilate the Transmigrators Alliance.

Emperor Bai Ran of the Great Era Empire personally took action, overwhelmingly eliminating the transmigrators within the Great Era Empire and leaving them no chance to develop.

There was no buffer, no wave after wave of reinforcements to quell the rebellion, and no space for the Transcendent Alliance to grow in the war.

The Bai family's move was a game-winning one.

On the third day of the rebellion, three terrestrial immortals from the Bai family appeared and crushed all the rebellious forces with unstoppable force.

This was because when Bai Ran was young, Ye Lin had told him countless stories of powerful people failing.

The powerful characters in the story are often arrogant and conceited, neglecting the extraordinary protagonists, allowing them to grow stronger step by step, ultimately leading to their own destruction.

Under Ye Lin's influence, Xiao Bai Ran understood a principle from a young age.

Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit; when facing a potential enemy, we must never give them any room to grow.

On his deathbed, Ye Lin held Bai Ran's hand and urged him not to let his guard down, to make good use of these transmigrators while also being wary of them.

If something is wrong, eliminate it completely at the first opportunity.

The Bai family and the Great Shi Empire are their foundation.

Bai Ran kept her father's instructions firmly in mind and never let her guard down for two hundred years.

It wasn't until the Transmigrator Alliance headquarters was destroyed that these transmigrators from the Realm of Ingenuity realized that the Great Empire had long ago listed them as hypothetical enemies.

Every move they make is under the control of the Bai family.

Their original spiritual leader, Ye Lin, who had founded the Transmigrators' Alliance and heavily relied on them, had regarded them as potential enemies from the very beginning.

As one of the best time travelers, Ye Lin knew better than anyone what kind of people his compatriots were.

……

The news quickly reached the Great Spirit Empire.

The transmigrators from the Clever Realm within the Great Spirit Empire cried out their innocence, stating that they were wholeheartedly devoted to the country, had unwavering faith in the Great True Lord, and were loyal to the Great Emperor of the Empire, with absolutely no intention of rebelling.

Considering that the transmigrators from the Realm of Ingenuity had made great contributions to the empire and that they had not done anything particularly serious, the new emperor, Mu Zhaoyang, did not carry out the same extermination of the transmigrators as the Great Shi Empire had.

The Great Spirit Empire is a country that values ​​law and order; there is absolutely no reason to kill someone without cause.

At least he, as the emperor, cannot lead by example in doing so.

But Mu Zhaoyang was also worried about these transmigrators who were always looking to cause trouble.

To this end, Mu Zhaoyang made a grand gesture and established a force called the Black Fish Guard, responsible for controlling and monitoring all registered transmigrators within the Great Ling Empire.

If the situation changes, the arrest can be carried out immediately.

The first task assigned to the Black Fish Guard was to monitor the daily lives of the transmigrators for ten years.

If no unusual behavior is observed within ten years, the surveillance standards for these time travelers will be appropriately lowered, and their freedom will be restored.

……

A large forest has all kinds of birds.

With so many people being granted fiefdoms, it's inevitable that some tyrannical and greedy individuals will emerge.

270th year of the Gregorian calendar.

A tragedy occurred in the western part of the Yin Yin Domain. Overnight, Zhuangjia Town, where more than 3,000 people lived, was targeted by bandits. Of the town's 3,632 residents, only a two-year-old child from the Zhuangjia family line survived.

The day after the incident, the Marquis of Longyue, who was closest to Zhuangjia Town, was furious and sent troops up the mountain to suppress the bandits, beheading more than 600 "mountain bandits".

Because there are no living people left in Zhuangjia Town, only the head of the family line has one or two-year-old children left.

According to the laws of the Great Spirit Empire, all the wealth of Zhuangjia Town should be inherited by that child.

However, being so young, he is ill-suited to shoulder such a great responsibility.

The benevolent Marquis of Longyue immediately decided to adopt the baby who had miraculously survived, and to return the family property to the baby once the baby grew up.

During this period, the area where Zhuangjia Town was located was taken over by the retainers of the Marquis of Longyue, and the fertile fields and properties in the town were all "protected" by the Marquis of Longyue.

As luck would have it, Zhuangjia Town has a superior geographical location, backed by a small spirit mine, with a river flowing through the town, and the mountains behind the town are rich in spirit wood for making cloud boats.

Within a radius of hundreds of miles, Zhuangjia Town can be considered one of the most prosperous areas, generating enormous economic benefits every year.

Such a prosperous place, suddenly attacked by bandits, and with only a two-year-old child left behind, it's hard not to make others suspicious.

Because the emperor was far away and the mountains were high, the court was completely unaware of the matter due to the deliberate cover-up by Marquis Longyue and local officials.

The officials in charge of the matter didn't even pay attention to it, thinking it was just an ordinary accident, and that the town wiped out by the bandits was just an ordinary town.

The Great Spirit Empire is so vast that the existence of bandits is perfectly normal.

It's good that they've wiped them out.

As for a small town, it's a trivial matter, and it doesn't matter who takes it. Rather than handing it over to the local prefecture, it's better to go with the flow and do a favor for the Marquis of Longyue, who comes from the royal family.