Chapter 170: The Establishment of the Seven Sovereigns of the Mortal World (Subscribe!!)

"Old man, we don't like war either."

"But we're not afraid of war either!"

"Since the nation needs us, we should charge forward without hesitation!"

"Right. In this era, apart from us in Liyue, fighting keeps breaking out everywhere else. We've been blessed with the protection of the Geo Archon and the Adepti and others. Now the nation needs us — there's no reason for us to step back!"

"Exactly! Enlist! Serve the nation!"

A surge of hot-blooded passion rose in these young people, and every one of them wore an excited look on their face.

Watching them, the old man fell into a daze.

Under Jiang Yan's vigorous development, what flourished was not just Liyue's commerce.

In terms of re-education, Jiang Yan placed special emphasis on the importance of family and nation being one, sparking a new wave of thought among the youth.

Without a nation, how can one speak of home?

For a time, the enthusiasm of Liyue's young people for enlisting ran high.

But at the same time, this also made the common folk believe that their nation was about to go to war.

Jiang Yan issued another announcement.

It stated that this conscription was a normal recruitment and not the nation opening a war.

The establishment of the Navy this time was to ensure the safety of future maritime trade; with the Geo Archon's protection, Liyue was at peace.

Liyue would not actively intervene in a war, nor would it lightly start one.

Only with this announcement did the rumors among the common folk gradually fade away.

Actually, for the common folk, whether or not troops were conscripted didn't matter — what mattered was whether or not there would be a war.

As long as it wasn't about going to war, that was fine.

It wasn't that the common folk feared fighting.

With the Geo Archon and the Adepti and a host of other immortal beings, Liyue's military strength could be called unprecedentedly powerful.

Especially in this period when the other six nations had yet to be established.

And so, the recruitment of the Navy was proceeding in full swing.

Jiang Yan did not intend, at the start, to immediately expand it into a force on the scale of the Ten Thousand Rocks Gui Li or Ten Thousand Rocks Qing Ce, armies numbering close to a hundred thousand.

The initial Navy recruitment would only enlist ten thousand people.

On the gathering ground of the Geo Spears (hereafter uniformly called Guyun Pavilion), Jiang Yan built a stretch of houses to serve as the Navy's first training base.

These people stayed on Guyun Pavilion off Liyue's coast every day, training without cease.

Two months later, the first warship, jointly designed by Jiang Yan and Cloud Retainer, was successfully launched.

Jiang Yan named it the Gui Li!

And at this moment, the Liyue Navy was officially formed!

And with the continued production of warships, the day would come when Liyue's Navy would be as grand in scale as the army!

In the 304th year of Liyue, the neighboring Mondstadt snowfields officially became the nation of Mondstadt, with the capital Mondstadt City established on the island in the middle of the lake.

Barbatos exerted his great power, blowing away the blizzards of the Mondstadt snowfields, and fierce winds shaved away range upon range of mountains.

The once barren and desolate Mondstadt snowfields were transformed into a land of birdsong and fragrant flowers, with gentle, balmy breezes.

Then, after roughly another ten-odd years, the remaining five nations were established one after another.

That same year, a supreme power descended from the sky, summoning these seven victors of the Archon War to Celestia.

No one knew what happened on Celestia.

Jiang Yan did not go with them, because he knew that after this summoning, the world would be divided into seven nations, and the era of the Seven Sovereigns of the mortal world would officially arrive.