Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"So Shangluo, I'm still in the flowerpot. Should I jump out and send them to the sky?"

"Wait a minute. But when did you get on board?"

"They didn't know they were out of the border. I encountered them in the waters of Ryukyu. Anyway, this does look like Xu Fu's doing. It seems that the 'big formation' mentioned by the Dragon Palace has now been reversed to deal with their own people. I wonder what would happen if I touched that 'border' again."

"Do you want to try it?"

"Xu Fu. It's not impossible to try. But I plan to play with them first. Since Xu Fu's killing methods are everywhere, they must be distributed on this ship. I will give you an answer after I walk around the ship."

"Then you have to be careful, we don't know Xu Fu's cultivation level yet."

"Don't worry. How can his pre-Qin alchemy, which has not changed for many years, defeat the cutting-edge modern Taoism? At that time, there was not even such a thing as the foundation-building stage and the golden elixir stage. He is no match for me. I have the blessing of my master. If there is any problem, my master will come down to save me. How can I be afraid of this old antique?"

Chapter 1117 Xu Fu's Strategy

"Interesting. Shangluo, I took a look around. Guess what I found on this ship?"

"Have you discovered any ninja or other spies?"

"I found nothing. The ship is operating normally, and there are no Xu Fu's spies on board, at least not with my level of detection. I can ask the master to spare some time to tell a fortune, and maybe he can choose something."

"That's not necessary. I won't bother Master Sa. But if you calculate it this way, it's very strange. What principle did Xu Fu use to drive the formation of this 'mechanism'?"

"Could it be that Xu Fu only targeted those 'aristocratic families'?" Fu Yuanshan guessed.

This is very strange. Shangluo felt as if he had seen it, but also as if he had not seen it.

I say “I haven’t seen it” because what is happening in Japan now seems to be happening only “selectively” to the samurai class.

For 8000 million people, everything was the same as before, as if nothing had happened.

Because the common people usually lived in their own territories and had few opportunities to travel far, they would not directly deal with Edo. Even the citizens living in Edo Castle rarely left their city.

In other words, as long as they don't leave the land where they live, then everything that is happening in Japan now is the same as if it didn't happen - or in other words, they don't notice it. And if something is basically not noticed, it means that it actually has no immediate impact on daily life.

So who was affected by the "immediate effect"? Only the samurai class. Now the samurai class has become like the common people and cannot move freely. Their various lifestyles and career choices have been completely taken away. They are now no different from the common people in their own territory.

"Ah," Shangluo thought for a moment, "Does this mean that Xu Fu treated everyone equally and included them in his plan?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"What I mean is that Xu Fu didn't actually 'target the samurai specifically'. The restrictions he imposed on everyone were equal. But the restrictions he imposed on everyone were no different from the restrictions the shogunate imposed on the common people in the past. However, he extended these restrictions equally to the samurai class, and now everyone is equal."

"Ah," Fu Yuanshan thought for a moment, "You know what, this reminds me of some interesting stories about Tokugawa Ieyasu."

"Senior Fu, do you know anything about Tokugawa Ieyasu?"

"Because there are such reading materials, we have a lot of them here, for example, there is a book called 'Japanese Studies'. During the Wanli period, the Jinyiwei went to collect intelligence about the Wa Kingdom, but after returning, the information was sealed. But later, an unknown censor from the Censorate came across it and found it very interesting. He retrieved all the relevant files and wrote a book of miscellaneous talks about Japan, which is 'Japanese Studies'."

"The censors still do this kind of work? They still publish?"

"That's how the history department is. The Censorate, where many censors gather, has been a famous publisher for hundreds of years. They printed the best versions of the Four Great Books, especially the one about Pan Jinlian. You're going to study at the Imperial College, right? You'll know once you learn it.

"If you study history, you will be exposed to knowledge including but not limited to historical materials, literature, philosophy, aesthetics, politics, sociology, secretarial science, intelligence science, and even military command science. You can see graduates of the history department everywhere in the court. The only equivalent majors in science are bioengineering or chemical engineering, which are also everywhere. Some of them even become the emperor of the country and have the surname of the emperor."

"Why do I feel that the prospects of this subject are so slim?"

"Ah, that." Fu Yuanshan quickly changed the subject. "Let's talk about Tokugawa Ieyasu. He said an interesting point of view. He said: People should not be allowed to starve, but they should not be allowed to eat enough. Because people will cause trouble if they are not full, but they will also cause trouble if they are too full. In order to ensure the long-term rule of the shogunate, it is better to keep the people between being full and not full. Do you know what's interesting about this?"

"I feel like I've heard this somewhere before. Wait, give me a chance, this is from the textbook!"

"Oh, that's right." Fu Yuanshan replied, "Because it's taught in our textbooks, it would seem disrespectful if I said it again. Let me remind you, it's in the second volume of the first-year history textbook in middle school."

"Ah!" Shang Luo recalled the history lessons he had learned recently. "Shang Yang's five methods of controlling the people, right? Weak people, poor people, tired people, humiliated people, and ignorant people."

Shangluo remembered that this was the content highlighted in the textbook. History classes were set by the Ministry of Rites and were important courses for shaping students' worldviews. From the perspective of the Ministry of Rites, these parts were highlighted mainly to express a critical attitude towards Shang Yang - although it is hard to say whether it was done or not, it was definitely necessary to criticize. If it was not criticized, there would be no way to show the "benevolence" of benevolence.

"Very good, you still know this level of knowledge. It seems that you don't need to take back your graduation book. When you mentioned Xu Fu's 'equality of all beings' just now, I thought of this passage by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu may have read the relevant content, and the plan he proposed is indeed very similar to Shang Yang's plan. And Xu Fu, as a Qin Dynasty man, may very much agree with the framework established by Tokugawa Ieyasu."

"Ah, so to speak, Tokugawa Ieyasu did have such intentions. And he didn't just tire the people, he was also not very polite to the samurai class. He made the samurai class fulfill an obligation called 'Sankin-kotai', which made the samurai class run around, making them run back and forth between Edo and their own residences, which dispersed their attention. But this doesn't seem to be enough to tighten the reins."

"So I think Xu Fu finished the job - Tokugawa Ieyasu might have wanted to win over the samurai class, because he couldn't turn against himself. But for Xu Fu, everyone was the same, so he implemented the strategy of treating everyone equally, which was originally the law of the shogunate. But this time, the fish that slipped through the net last time were also included."

"That's really... really wonderful, absolutely wonderful." Shangluo shook his head, "The old Qin people really stand out wherever they go."

"You know what, this is also my first time dealing with the Qin people. Now it seems that although the Qin people have the same blood as us, they seem to be more 'determined'."

"Well, I think we can call it efficient. I think Xu Fu did a pretty good job. Why bother with him? If you want to mess with the Japanese, then mess with them. It's time to mess with them long ago."

Chapter 1118 Minions

"Then we retreat?"

"Hey, hey, we are not here for the Japanese. This is their own internal affairs, we will not interfere, whether it is the shogunate or Edo, they all chose it themselves. If they did not choose Tokugawa Ieyasu, how could someone set up a platform for Xu Fu? The Emperor Taizu Gao said it well: do not refuse those who come, and do not chase those who leave. To put it bluntly, it means 'let go of the complex of helping others and respect the wishes of others' - we are here for Xu Fu."

"I see that you don't want to let him go. It seems like you want him to torment you for a while longer."

"Well, if I can ignore it, I really won't. But you see, Xu Fu has started to restore the Qin regime now. It's not even the real Qin regime, it's the Qin regime in the stereotype, the Qin regime in his imagination. He is already tossing around like this now, I dare not imagine what he will do in the future! Is he trying to please Qin Shi Huang?"

[Let me help you calculate - the result is true. This is easy to judge, and you are right. But the matter may not be as simple as "pleasing", he may be preparing for Qin Shi Huang's return. ]

"That's true. If I were to commit telecom fraud, I certainly wouldn't dare to meet the victim. As one of the oldest and most tragic victims, our old Mr. Xu Fu really had to "please" the First Emperor, otherwise I don't dare to think about who the First Emperor would target first after he came back to life."

Shangluo also conveyed Apollonia's words to Fu Yuanshan:

"Eh? Then can we infer this way--" Fu Yuanshan replied, "Is it that Xu Fu himself has no way to control the resurrection of the First Emperor? Because if he could control it himself, then he would not have to face the creditors at all."

"Then we have to ask Xu Fu himself about this matter. So, General Fu, let's dismantle the ship."

"Still demolishing? Shangluo, do you have some destructive desire that you want to vent on these Japanese? After hearing what you said, I feel a little sorry for these Japanese."

"Hey, if you don't dismantle the boat, how can you suppress Xu Fu's claws? Although they are driven, the essence of claws is also the cuticle, and it is driven by the nervous system to scratch people. There is nothing wrong with the claws themselves, but in order to prevent Xu Fu from scratching people, his claws should be cut off."

"Okay, okay. I can't argue with you." Fu Yuanshan looked at the cabin above his head, "Then wait a moment, I'll start dismantling it."

"Master Shimazu, did you hear any noise?"

"What's that noise? Mizuno-sama? What did you hear?"

"Here. Come to me."

Mizuno made way. There was a copper tube megaphone on the ship, and one could shout to the whole ship from the cockpit. And now, a series of sharp explosions were coming from the megaphone.

Suddenly, with a loud bang, a steel nail pierced through the board and passed out in front of them.

"What?!!!" The two men were so frightened that they fell to the ground, but more and more steel nails were hammered up from the bottom of the ship. Many of the steel nails were stuck in the armored compartment of the command room, and their tips still had red-hot burn marks, as if they had been thrown out at a very fast speed before.

"Ahhh!" Mizuno screamed, blood gushing out from his body. A steel nail had pierced his thigh, the blood at the tip of the nail was boiling, the red-hot temperature was burning his flesh and making it sizzle.

"Oh my, sorry!" A voice came from the receiver - the next second, a white gust of wind tore through the planks. A "General Wang" wearing a Northern Army uniform slowly rose from under the planks, "Did I hit anyone? It was you. I'm really sorry, I apologize to you. Can you forgive me? My merits are very important, can you please stop hating me? If one apology is not enough, I can apologize again?"

He bowed slightly to Mizuno: "I am not only kind-hearted, but also principled. If you let me dismantle the ship, I will spare your life."

He waved his hand fiercely, and Mizuno screamed again—the steel nail was yanked out from above by a powerful force. The nail, entangled in a white gust of wind, spun at high speed in midair, using the centrifugal effect to remove the blood and bone fragments from it before being collected into Fu Yuanshan's sleeve. As for Mizuno, lying on the ground, a large gash had been torn open in his thigh.

"Hey, how did it become like this? Why are you so unlucky? If you continue like this, you will lose my merits and affect my fortune." He stretched out his hand -

"Ahhhhhh!" Mizuno screamed and crawled while dragging his broken leg, trying to get away from this killer.

Everyone else in the bridge stood still, no one daring to move.

"Why are you running! Don't move!!" Another steel nail penetrated from under the deck and went out of the bone - Mizuno opened his eyes wide, and no sound could come out of his throat. His will and body had been in shock due to the heavy blow.

"I told you not to move! I have calculated your positions. If you had just stood still, you would not have been hit by me. Alas, I am cultivating the Way of Blessings, and I do not want to commit the karma of killing. But you want me to lose my merits and to die in order to commit the karma of killing me? Ha, I will not let you do as you wish."

Fu Yuanshan suddenly stretched out his hand, and with great force, he lifted Shui Ye up into the air. The blood that flowed out was also gathered by a breeze and formed into a blood ball.

"Get well!!!" He dragged the blood ball with his strong wind and sent a huge force pushing the blood ball back into Mizuno's body.

"Hiccup!" Mizuno was knocked back from shock. He gasped for air and looked at the "good man" in front of him who was smiling at him. There was a trace of blood on the good man's face. In the dilapidated ship island, as the initiator of all the destruction, he was not furious or resentful, but smiling.

"Ahhhh!"

Mizuno screamed, his mind going into a state of self-protection due to the huge impact.

"Alas, you mortals are too weak to withstand a fight. Fortunately, the person is saved. It doesn't matter if he scares you or not, as long as I don't lose any merit."

He looked around: "Who's in charge here?"

No one said anything.

"Who else! Who else wants to make me lose merit? Come out!"

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"Ah, I almost forgot. You don't understand human language." He waved his hand casually, and a sailor flew over. Fu Yuanshan used his divine sense to instill information into his brain. The sailor foamed at the mouth and pointed at Shimazu who was lying on the ground beside him and dared not move.

"Ah, it's you." He threw the sailor aside and beckoned Shimazu to him. "Hand over your flag so I can report. I, the kind-hearted man, will go to another ship."

Chapter 1119 Great Good Deed

The celestial beings soared in the sky, and the warships on the sea were wailing. Countless steel needles fell from the sky at hypersonic speed, and the tips of the steel needles rubbed violently in the air into red-hot meteors. Thousands of falling meteors accurately penetrated the vital points of all warships, breaking all mechanical structures along the way. But after calculation, these steel needles stopped before penetrating the bottom of the ship.

Shangluo said he wanted to dismantle the boat, so Fu Yuanshan just dismantled it. He did not sink the boat, but stopped at the last inch before breaking through the planks. As for human lives, under his control, not a single one was killed.

"May the Blessings of Heaven be Born Immortal~~" He chanted a Taoist name, "This general has done a great deed today, so I will definitely gain a lot of merit. Maybe something good will happen tonight."

Pulling out his cell phone, he checked the signal: "The signal is really getting better now. There was no signal at sea before. Let me take a picture first."

Facing the smoking fleet below, Fu Yuanshan steadied himself in mid-air and took a selfie. He held his phone in one hand and the other hand held the flags of each ship in the fleet, which he had pulled out at some point.

——"Okay." Shangluo waited for the news and put down the phone, "The matter has been resolved."

"Solved?" Governor Li was stunned for a moment, "Now the masters of the Imperial Palace are getting faster and faster in doing things."

"So what level of people were those who went to Lingbei to do business in the past?"

"They are all in the Qi training stage."

"That's right. The people I called are in the Foundation Establishment Stage, so they can get things done faster."

"The later foundation-building stages are all available on call?"

"If General Fu is free, he will be here all the time. If he is not free, then I will do it - but I am different from General Fu. I can't stop fighting. It is better to let him do such a delicate task."

"General Fu, you are such a virtuous man, such a virtuous man." Hearing that he paralyzed the entire fleet without killing anyone, this was no longer as simple as "doing it with ease" - this was completely the suppression of mortals by gods, even if the real gods came down to earth, they would be no more than this.

At this level, Fu Yuanshan can decide when to fight, how to fight, and what kind of results to achieve at will. Not only can ordinary people not beat him, they can't even catch up with him.

Although all this had been confirmed in the last "exercise", let alone the Japanese army, even the king's division could not do anything to a genius like Fu Yuanshan. But it was just an exercise after all, and Fu Yuanshan was just practicing with the air defense system with a "teaching" attitude.

Now when he really attacked, even if he had considered his "merit" from the beginning to the end and did not kill the enemy, it was no different from killing the enemy. Instead, he tortured the enemy mentally again. Because his "forgiveness of the flesh" was undoubtedly a destruction of self-esteem. Living is definitely better than dying, but the person who was beaten today may never forget the strong wind he controlled in his life.

"The world is really going to change." Commander Li looked back at the map. "But even so, the Royal Army still needs to be dispatched. First, we have to be on guard against the possibility of masters of the same level on the opposite side. Second, General Fu can't be everywhere. Where he is not, the Royal Army will still have to fill in. But having said that..."

He thought for a moment, "This time, the Royal Division's fighting style may need to be revised. In the past, our goal was to annihilate the enemy and ensure victory. But now that 'fighting' is no longer a problem for the Celestial Beings, the Royal Division's mission should shift to another direction: ensuring victory."

"So, this is similar to the relationship between the aviation force and the land force?" Shangluo asked.

"Yes, yes, yes, Shang Tianjun, you are very insightful. It seems that our school has accepted a talent. The relationship is indeed the same as you said. We once had the idea of ​​separating the aviation force from the army and navy, because the aviation force has long been able to win independently. But winning is not enough. After winning, we must ensure occupation. The most important thing is negotiation. All wars must end in negotiation. If the air force kills all the people, there will be no one to negotiate. So our aviation force and the army. After the aviation force resolves the battle, the army will go up to ensure the occupation of the target."

"So, Commander, are you planning to use the Celestial Beings as a 'super air force'?"

"It was actually the same in the past. When we deployed Qigong practitioners in the past, most of them did not go directly to the battlefield, but drove fighter planes. A formation of several Qigong practitioners was enough to suppress the air force of an entire country. After that, we needed something to use the bombs - rockets, bombers, or cannons, as long as they could project the explosives. After projecting a certain amount of explosives, our infantry and tank units would go to occupy the battlefield. However, from here, it seems that Tianren himself can complete the tasks including fighting and bomb dropping independently, so the infantry can just go up and finish it off. Ah, this."

He shook his head. "I just kept saying it. Why do I always feel like it's a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers? The fighting is between Erlang Shen and Sun Wukong, and the hundred thousand heavenly soldiers are cheering on the side, and then they just need to clean up the battlefield after the fight is over."

"That's also very important. Even though we are cleaning up the battlefield, someone has to go. If we don't occupy the battlefield after the battle, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

"That makes sense. But considering this, it seems that there is really no need for Master Wang to maintain the current organization."

"By the way, what is the current organization of Master Wang?"

"You suddenly asked this question, but it's not so easy to answer. The Imperial Guards and the Army, and the Southern Army and the Northern Army in the Army are organized differently. And the Army in the capital and the border troops guarding the Tianchen are also different. So we don't have a unified army. Generally speaking, it can be regarded as the Imperial Guards, the Northern Army, the Southern Army, and the border troops of various towns such as Beiting, Xiyu, and Nanyang. Finally, the navy can also be counted in it - all of the above are the royal army."

"Then what about the Five Military Commandery?"

"The Five Military Commandery is not responsible for combat affairs. It is responsible for the construction of the garrisons and the army. In other words, the Five Military Commandery is a miniature version of the Six Ministries, and each Commandery manages the garrisons on its side. When it comes to a real war, except for the Imperial Army and the Border Army, which are drawn one by one from the Imperial Army garrisons and the Real Land Garrisons, the Southern Army, the Northern Army, and the Navy are all drawn from the scattered groups. The real decision-making is generally managed by officers rather than military officers."

"So we still have a distinction between military officers and military attachés?" It was the first time Shangluo heard of this.

"That's right. Officers and military attachés are two completely different groups of people. It was fine before there was no fighting. Now that the fighting has started, everyone has to look in the mirror."

Chapter 1120 Reorganization