Dragon's Origin

For several days in a row, the Emperor and several important ministers were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, constantly researching something every day, even postponing the court meetings for several days.

That wasn't all. After discussing for a few days, several important ministers took the lead and directly rounded up all the learned scholars in the capital, bringing them all to a large academy and sequestering them there, starting to mysteriously research some grand ceremony.

The academy only allowed entry and not exit, with the Imperial Guards surrounding it, but the scholars and students inside the academy all appeared extremely excited. Occasionally, when people outside saw figures passing by through the cracks in the door, they were all trotting with a gust of wind, never having seen them so energetic before.

Grand ceremonies couldn't be created overnight, nor could they be produced by a few people researching for a few days. Wang Sheng didn't say much when he was in the forest, but he did mention a few key points. Leaving aside the etiquette, at least one or several schools of thought had to support it wholeheartedly, with the words and profound meanings of sages. Therefore, one to several 《Classics》 were indispensable.

In Wang Sheng's words, there had to be theoretical support! There had to be scholars to spread it! There had to be those who controlled the right to speak! And so on and so forth. As for what it was specifically, that wasn't Wang Sheng's specialty; the royal family would figure it out themselves.

After a few more days, great scholars from various schools of thought across the country received invitations. Everyone gathered together, first arguing to establish a hierarchy. Anyway, the purpose was whoever praised the royal family, whoever praised the Emperor, the Emperor would adopt that school of thought's learning. Which school's classics could then become the classics, and which school's ancestors could become saints.

Just this alone would take who knows how many days of arguing. Anyway, the royal family would be busy for the whole year.

Wang Sheng also specifically reminded Eunuch Li not to stick to conventions and exclusively support one family. Instead, they should learn from each other's strengths from various schools of thought and integrate them into one, lest they repeat the academic disaster of the Yuanhun world, where a hundred schools of thought were dismissed in favor of Confucianism.

The royal family's mysterious actions certainly couldn't escape the eyes of the various aristocratic families, but after discovering that the royal family was just gathering a group of scholars and tinkering with something, they stopped paying much attention.

A bunch of bookworms, who only knew how to spout bookish knowledge all day long. Even if they joined forces, that was all they were capable of. It wasn't that the aristocratic families looked down on them, but among these scholars, the most powerful ones, known as great scholars, usually only cultivated methods of nourishing the body and mind. The strongest of the strong were only at the seventh or eighth level of cultivation, but that was just cultivation. If it really came to a fight, any family could send an eighth-level expert to sweep them all away, leaving none behind.

Was such a group of bookworms worth guarding against? What they discussed, after all, were just things related to learning, and not worth paying attention to at all.

While the royal family was holding back to make a big move, Wang Sheng had already returned to Worry-Free City.

Just as the old eunuch had guessed, Wang Sheng was fearless when confronting the Qianjue Land and the Imperial Guards, relying on the insects that Eunuch Li had mentioned.

Compared to those large demon beasts, the smaller and less intelligent insects were more likely to feel close to Wang Sheng. Wang Sheng had discovered this when he used the Nine Character Incantation on the small hilltop.

The "Array" character could make Wang Sheng emit an aura that made animals feel close, which was why he had abducted the little monkey of the jungle giant ape last time. After using it many times, he became more and more skilled.

During practice, Wang Sheng found that some insects would sometimes fall on his body, but they would stay quietly and didn't intend to attack Wang Sheng. This made Wang Sheng realize that this was also a secret weapon in the Qianjue Land.

The current "Array" character formula was not enough to control large demon beasts, at most it could only abduct small demon beasts that had just been born for a few days, but it was enough to control simpler insects.

Wang Sheng didn't ask for much, as long as they could follow him discreetly. As for launching an attack, Wang Sheng only needed to say the word "Array" to the target.

The "Array" character formula, when used on oneself, increased friendliness, and when used on others, it reduced or even increased hatred. As long as Wang Sheng said a word to the Imperial Guards, those insects would immediately attack desperately.

The old eunuch was smart and had a sharp eye. He finally realized the inappropriateness before Liu Jie, the commander of the Imperial Guards, could act, and discovered Wang Sheng's arrangement, hurriedly calling for a stop, which could be considered to have avoided a disaster. However, the subsequent killing of Liu Jie was purely to curry favor with Wang Sheng, because he knew better than anyone else the benefits that the enfeoffment system would bring to the royal family.

The major aristocratic families would never object. The royal family seemed to have not changed, thinking that the imperial orders could not leave the capital as before, and it was still the same situation when it became the Son of Heaven, but it was completely different for the major aristocratic families.

In the past, the territories they controlled could only be called the territories of each family, but if they were really enfeoffed as lords, then the Tang family's territory would be the Tang State, the Song family's territory would be the Song State, the Shi family's territory would be the Shi State, and so on and so forth. This name sounded much better than someone's territory.

Most importantly, the heads of the families would be the rulers of a country in the future. Even if the heads of the aristocratic families could live like rulers in the past, no matter how arrogant they were, they would not dare to call themselves the rulers of a country. Where was the prestige of the Marquis of Tang and the Marquis of Song?

With the Son of Heaven's enfeoffment, the territory was still the original territory, but there was a world of difference in status. Which head of the family could resist such temptation?

Moreover, with the name of a ruler, the officials who controlled the territory could be appointed by themselves, without having to make some transactions and compromises with the royal family as they do now. As long as they decided, they could submit a list to the Son of Heaven for record. This would definitely help each family strengthen its control over the territory, and no one would object.

It was precisely because the royal family saw this clearly that they realized that Wang Sheng's idea was simply a stroke of genius, extremely brilliant. As long as they grasped the power of enfeoffment, they might be able to intervene in the struggles between the heirs of the various aristocratic families in the future, and support those who were biased towards the royal family. In a few generations, the royal family would definitely be much more prosperous than it is now.

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Of course, Wang Sheng didn't tell Eunuch Li how the Zhou Son of Heaven acted according to the faces of the vassal states in those years, and how miserable it was. This was not important. What was important was that the royal family's appetite was also whetted. As long as the royal family began to implement the enfeoffment system, it was estimated that the major aristocratic families would be distracted, and Wang Sheng could take this opportunity to use their power to explore the secrets of the Qianjue Land's core.

But now, Wang Sheng still needed to complete the promised matter. He had already received the reward from Triumph Palace and eaten the Qi Gathering Powder, so now he had to take their team into the Qianjue Land.