Chapter 502: The Empire Is Founded! Empresses Meng Ying and Sister Qing Ling!

The people of the Wudajiao Society left.

They took with them a large number of core church personnel, as well as the church armies willing to follow them.

Meng Ying did not stop them.

The combined church armies of the Wudajiao Society totaled nearly thirty thousand, about six thousand per sect on average.

More than the former church army of the Lingwangguo Society.

Recently, about half of those who followed the Wudajiao Society were orphans, raised from childhood by the Wudajiao Society.

The other half were mostly people with elderly parents and young children, and naturally did not wish to leave.

Those who stayed voluntarily disarmed and would be temporarily detained.

Immediately after, the Lingwangguo Society's army entered the territory of the Hunhe Duchy.

Along with the Lingwangguo Society's army came news: the Lingwangguo Society would open its supply of Divine Beans to the Hunhe Duchy, and from now on, the Hunhe Duchy would be incorporated into the realm of the Flame Lord, enjoying the same laws as the Flame Lord's other realms.

This news sent the entire population of the Hunhe Duchy into a frenzy, so that wherever the Lingwangguo Society's army arrived, civilians lined the roads to welcome them.

This made many Lingwangguo Society soldiers feel they were not at war.

It felt more like inspecting the king's domains.

On this day, a large quantity of Divine Beans was delivered by Lingwangguo Society nobles, fulfilling the Lingwangguo Society's promise.

It could be said that the Hunhe Duchy was the easiest realm to conquer.

The resistance from both commoners and nobles was the lowest.

After months of trade, these commoners and nobles had long desired to become subjects of the Flame Lord's realm.

There was no way around it—anyone who saw the subjects of the Flame Lord's realm living such a good life became envious.

Commoners were envious, and nobles were equally envious.

In the past, these nobles could only earn money from their land.

Land did indeed bring in a good deal of gold coins.

Now, these nobles had all learned that trade brought even greater profits than land.

The nobles of the Lingwangguo Society no longer managed their lands at all; their daily activity was expanding their caravans, and the speed at which they earned gold coins had made the Hunhe Duchy's nobles green with envy.

Of course, they spent gold coins just as quickly.

Large quantities of special goods from Yan Country, along with sorghum liquor and diamonds, drained their wealth away.

Additionally, recently the Lingwangguo Society has been widely promoting mulberry cultivation and silkworm rearing!

These mulberry trees need only be planted along the edges of commoners' land and do not significantly encroach on farmland.

Yet they can support vast numbers of silkworms.