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Chapter 157: A game of chess that has been played for 500 years (1)

Qiankun Academy, located in the western suburbs of the imperial capital, is one of the core of the Huawu Empire. There has never been a civil official or a military general here, but it has a significant weight in the entire Huawu. Qiankun Academy, which condenses the most advanced and cutting-edge mechanisms of the entire empire, is the well-deserved No. 1 academy in the world.

In ancient times, horse-drawn lights were used to describe the vastness and prosperity of the temple. Even lighting the oil lamps of the entire temple required horse-drawn to complete it. It is conceivable how vast and prosperous such a temple was. However, such a temple that was extremely prosperous in the eyes of the ancients was nothing more than a witch in the Qiankun Academy.

The entire Qiankun Academy is located in the western suburbs. It does not fall on the ground, but has erected one hundred or eight stone pillars, each of which is at least a hundred feet high, and the radius ranges from ten miles to hundreds of miles. The cloud bridge is connected in the middle. The entire academy is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. From a distance, it is like a city in the clouds that support the giant pillars of the sky.

Under the stone pillars of Qiankun Academy, there is also an imperial capital satellite city attached to Qiankun Academy. This city has been expanding for five hundred years since its establishment. Today, it has become a united city with the imperial capital.

As an affiliated city of the academy, it is connected to the imperial capital, but it is not under the jurisdiction of the imperial capital, but under the jurisdiction of the academy. Even after Zi ascended the throne today, he personally ordered the city to be in the city, with the military officers returning their swords and the civil servants returning their seals and letters entering the warehouse.

But don’t underestimate the military officer’s swords and the civil servant’s seals and letters are placed in the warehouse. This means that in addition to the emperor’s orders, civil and military officials in such a city under the Qiankun Academy are all equivalent to civilians after entering!

The city with such a transcendent status in the extremely powerful Huawu land is only one in the world, and there is no other semicolon. All these privileges can be formed, and that is Mo Zi, the founder of Qiankun Academy.

Speaking of this Mozi, he is a very legendary figure. He was a scholar in his early years, obsessed with Confucianism and advocated self-cultivation and governing the country and pacifying the world. But his age was when aristocratic families were rampant, sects occupied famous mountains and rivers, and he spoke of the immortals and gods on earth.

In this era, if no one was introduced to an important minister and had no strong family, it would be impossible to be an official in the court. It would be a joke to cultivate oneself, govern the country and pacify the world. Mo Zi, who had encountered all kinds of cold acceptance, angrily abandoned Confucianism when he was seventy years old and studied the art of mechanism.

In the past ten years, Mozi studied the mechanism of the time thoroughly and innovated it. He combined the mechanism with the martial arts of the time to create the martial arts of Yuwu. The founder of Yuwu never cultivated any martial arts throughout his life, but no one doubted his attainments in martial arts. After his death, he was honored as the Martial Saint Mozi by the martial artist.

Five hundred years ago, Emperor Guangwu Zhu Xiu, who controlled a large number of warriors in aristocratic sects, colluded with local officials, gradually influenced the throne during the empire's rule. At that time, the Huawu Empire was like a staggering giant, still invincible, but was full of holes inside.

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Xiu, the Emperor Zhongxing, did not follow the traditional emperor's minds, and used the method of fighting, pulling, neutralizing, and cultivating a group of backbones to stabilize the empire. Instead, he used the strategy offered by Mo Zi to replace the imperial martial arts that were popular in the world at that time, and threw all the aristocratic families and high sects into the garbage dump.

This Emperor Guangwu was indeed an amazing emperor. He had the courage to face the most powerful interest groups at that time and carried out drastic reforms and finally implemented them. In order to express his gratitude to Mozi, the Emperor Zhongxing promised him to stand shoulder to shoulder with the emperor's crown and all officials would like to welcome him.

This is an honor that has opened up a precedent for generations of dynasties. The ancients had a king who had one word to stand shoulder to shoulder, and was the title of equality for generals who conquered the country and made great achievements.

The same is true for shoulder-to-shoulder emperor crowns and all officials to welcome him. However, the former is a prelude to the meeting between the emperor and the ministers and the soldiers, while the latter is a noble honor and a gorgeous name written in history and has been remembered for generations. Simply put, it means enjoying the title and respect of the emperor, but without real power.

After Mozi founded Qiankun Academy, he never took a step forward in his life, nor had he mastered a slight military power. After Mozi's death, Qiankun Academy never participated in any major affairs of the court, and only focused on studying the mechanisms, thus gaining the trust of every generation of emperors. In order to make the academy work harder, each generation of emperors also constantly exerted favors, so that today's military officers' swords are returned to the sheath and civil servants' seals are placed in the warehouse.

The tallest pillar in Qiankun Academy, surrounded by clouds and mist, is not the largest one, but the thinnest one. The top, which is as high as 150 meters high, is not like other pillars. The top is cut into planes with manpower, but a cone shape. When it reaches the top, it is a small platform less than ten meters in radius.

On this small platform is a idyllic farmhouse. The cottage is the most common thatched hut in the countryside, with a yard surrounded by wooden boards.

It is said that such a thatched hut is completely impossible to exist for a long time at an altitude of 150 feet. I am afraid that a gust of wind will blow over it, and the roof and foundation will be able to end the thatched hut, the roof and the foundation, but it stands here, and there is no trace of wind and rain at all.

At this time, an old man with a crane hair and a young face was standing in the yard with a crutch, looking at the scene of the rising sun floating in the clouds. The golden light shone through the layers of clouds, reflecting a colorful cloud bridge, hanging upside down on the sun, indescribable beauty.

"Dean, this is the news from the local network. Please check it out." The old man stood for two hours, and looked at Asahi, who seemed to be able to touch with his hand. It almost made people think that this was not a person, but a vivid statue. A voice pulled the old man out of the distance, and it also made people understand that this was not a sculpture, but a real person.

"Oh? I didn't expect that the empire's intimidation for these stingy people is so low now that there are so many snakes, heavy rats and ants running out to challenge the tiger and the eagle?" The old man turned his head and took a piece of paper full of words from the owner of the voice. After reading it, he sighed with surprise.

If Chi Shuai and Yingwu Hou were here, they would definitely be very shocked, because the piece of paper in the old man's hand was densely written on it, which was a detailed analysis of the many detected forces on the Tianyuan by the General Staff, and it was more comprehensive and perfect than what they knew...
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