Chapter 344: The Prosperous Age of Great Shang

Under Yin Qi's governance, the Great Shang was developing at an unprecedented speed, and its national power was flourishing day by day.

It only took three years to complete the eradication of illiteracy within its borders.

At the same time, the Martial Hall spread across every prefecture and county, and through large-scale suppression of bandits and the hunting down of demons and heretics, the internal security environment improved greatly, with basically no evil cultivators remaining.

Not only the Martial Hall, basically all prefectures and counties also established public schools.

Every public school had both literary and martial arts subjects.

As long as the grades were excellent, one could take the exam to enter the Yin Shang Martial Academy or Academy, thereby entering the Yin Shang court.

Because the imperial court encouraged the development of factories, coupled with the spread of *Tiangong Kaiwu*, countless factories were born throughout the Great Shang, which greatly prospered the market economy and improved the people's standard of living.

At the same time, because of the popularization of teleportation arrays, transport spaceships, and spirit energy vehicles, the circulation of goods was accelerated.

Even the local specialties of the border regions could be seen for sale in Zhaoge.

And by collecting commercial taxes, the imperial court also constantly lowered the taxes of the people, making the people even more wealthy.

It can be said that in just three years, Yin Qi brought the Great Shang into an unprecedented prosperous age, and his prestige among the people reached an unprecedented peak.

Countless people spontaneously enshrined spirit tablets for Yin Qi in their homes, allowing the third layer of the fortune altar to accelerate its opening.

Di Qi's second year, December 20th.

In two days, the various departments of the imperial court would seal their seals and rest.

Zhaoge.

Imperial Palace.

Zichen Hall.

Yin Qi took off the jade slip stuck to his forehead, and there was a small pile in front of him on the table.

Compared to paper, the information density of jade slips is higher.

It was approaching the end of the year, and not only the Cabinet, the Military Secretariat, the Censorate, and other departments, but also the Martial Hall, the Tianluo Hall, and the Equipment Department had sent their annual inventories.

If paper were used, for the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty, the various data would probably exceed ten thousand pages.

Using jade slips, one slip per department was enough.

What Yin Qi cared about most was still the data of the Martial Hall, the Tianluo Hall, and the Equipment Department.

The Martial Hall had developed for three years. Besides Zhang Shaokang and Ding Ce and the others, there were thirty-five offerings above the immortal realm, nearly one hundred thousand Heavenly Realm martial artists, and over seven million Earth Realm martial artists; fifty thousand Nascent Souls, and over three million Golden Cores.

It can be said that the Martial Hall had developed into the Great Shang's number one force, even exceeding the military combat power.

If it were not for Yin Qi possessing endless thunder water, he really would not have been able to support the Martial Hall, nor would he have been able to attract so many people to join.

The Yin Shang was the ancestral land of the human race, having developed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Perhaps the level of civilization was the highest, but the various cultivation resources were almost exhausted, which instead restricted the cultivation of the cultivators, which was also the reason why the Martial Hall could develop so rapidly.

Without spirit stones, immortal water had a better cultivation effect, attracting countless cultivators.

The Tianluo Hall also developed rapidly, with over one hundred thousand spies of various kinds, spread throughout the various vassal states, among which the Four Great Earls and the Nine Provinces Marquises were the focus of infiltration.

In this era, people did not have much anti-espionage awareness, so the development of the Tianluo Hall was unusually smooth.

The development of the Equipment Department was also gratifying, possessing nearly one hundred various factories, and over five hundred thousand artifact refiners, more than half of whom were cultivated by Ma Benqi, basically all having Foundation Establishment cultivation.

After a few more years, when they cultivated to the Golden Core Realm, the Great Shang would once again usher in a great explosion.

Now, the various spirit tools and weapons and armor stored in the treasury had exceeded ten million sets, enough for the entire army to complete the replacement.

As for the identity plates, the inventory was still less than one hundred million, unable to be fully promoted.

However, Yin Qi also began to change his thinking, not preparing to carry out free promotion, but selling them as commodities, believing that this kind of identity plate with communication would be highly sought after.

In this way, he could also let the imperial court earn another wave of money.

An attendant walked in quickly and bowed to report: "Great King, the Prime Minister, the Grand Tutor, and the Grand Preceptor have arrived and are waiting outside the hall."

Yin Qi raised his head, his voice full of majesty: "Hmm, please invite them in."

Having been the Human Emperor for three years, his demeanor became increasingly stern.

At the same time, with the help of the Human Emperor's fortune, his cultivation progress was also good, just one step away from the Mysterious Immortal Realm.

If he were not already at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm, I am afraid this heavy Human Emperor's fortune would have already begun to extinguish his life force.

Making him quickly move toward aging, and even death.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

A moment later, Shang Rong, Wen Zhong, and Bi Gan walked in.

"Pay respects to the Great King!"

"Three beloved ministers, no need for formalities, sit."

"Thank you, Great King!"

Shang Rong and the others sat down as ordered; the three grand master chairs here were prepared for them.

Yin Qi smiled warmly and said: "Three beloved ministers, this time I have summoned you, it is to discuss the reform of the military."

Wen Zhong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he expressed his position first: "How does the Great King intend to reform?"

Although they were all old ministers with outstanding achievements.

But facing Yin Qi, even Wen Zhong did not dare to be negligent, and even felt awe, because they had long since witnessed Yin Qi's methods and wisdom, which even the Holy Ancestor Shang Tang could not compare to.

And precisely because of this, they gradually had some confidence in Yin Qi's past bold words.

In these three years, Yin Qi had been handling government affairs with a calm heart.

Now that the country was rich and the people were strong, it was indeed time to reform the army.

Yin Qi said sternly: "First point: implement the recruitment system, and all new recruits must undergo training in the new recruit training camp for one year. Only those who pass the assessment of the new recruit training camp can officially enlist.

Local garrison troops are not allowed to recruit soldiers privately.

Second point: implement the military merit and title system, with military titles divided into nine ranks, each rank divided into upper, middle, and lower grades.

Each rank of military title enjoys different rights.

For example, how much residential land, how much farmland, being able to see officials without bowing, being able to speak directly about national affairs, etc.

Third point: change the military establishment, five people for a squad, ten people for a platoon, fifty people for a company, one hundred people for a battalion (Battalion Commander), one thousand people for a regiment (Regimental Commander), ten thousand people for a division (General), one hundred thousand people for an army (Great General), one million people for a group army (Marshal).

Above the battalion level, staff officers must be set up.

Fourth point: carry out full army replacement, the Equipment Department has already stored ten million sets of spirit-level weapons and armor.

Fifth point: all generals above the battalion commander level must enter the Yin Shang Martial Academy for advanced studies in batches, with no time limit, and only those who pass the assessment can return to the army."

Through these reforms, he hoped to firmly grasp control of the army.

Even if there were generals who wanted to surrender, the soldiers under their command would not agree first, because there would be education on loyalty and patriotism in the new recruit training camp, and staff officers could also balance the generals.

"Ten million sets of spirit-level weapons and armor?"

Wen Zhong and the others, after hearing this, could not help but exclaim, revealing a look of disbelief.

One must know that for a battalion commander in the army to have spirit-level weapons and armor, that was a person with a wealthy family background.

As for ordinary soldiers, it was good enough to have leather armor.

Ten million sets of spirit-level weapons and armor, this was simply an astronomical number; how much manpower and material resources would it take to refine them?

They naturally also knew that Yin Qi valued artifact refining, and even recruited hundreds of thousands of artifact refiners.

But as far as they knew, these artifact refiners also had to refine teleportation arrays, transport spaceships, spirit energy vehicles, etc.; how could they still have the ability to refine ten million sets of spirit-level weapons and armor?

A set of weapons and armor must at least contain a spear or a sword, plus armor.

Especially armor, which was more difficult.

As for swords, there were very few people in the army who used swords; it was either a saber or a spear. ===== CHAPTER 345 =====