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"Well done. From now on, all matters related to Chixing Mountain will be left to Chen Quan."

After learning that the people on Chixing Mountain were persuaded by Shen Quan and agreed to join the Wancheng Kingdom, Zhou Ming nodded and was very satisfied.

That boy Shen Quan was very much like him in many aspects, and Zhou Ming had always felt at ease with him.

Zhou Ming also read the general process of the negotiation in the telegram. As expected, it was not much different from what he thought.

Students studying abroad are the biggest point of controversy and conflict.

Any sect that joins the Wancheng Kingdom will definitely resist and oppose the overseas disciples sent to the mountains to occupy their own spiritual vein caves.

After all, this kind of disciples have nothing to do with the sect. People who do not belong to the sect mostly stay for a few years and then leave, which does not bring much benefit to the sect.

So it is very normal to not be welcome.

However, does Wan Chengguo insist on sending these students up the mountain and has no other way?

of course not.

With the current financial resources of Wancheng Kingdom, it is not a big problem to build a Spirit Gathering Tower to meet the spiritual energy needs of all students. The 11 training colleges in the world have also built Spirit Gathering Towers.

Over the past twenty years, 22 students have made breakthroughs in the Spirit Gathering Tower and successfully became immortals.

However, the environment in the Juling Pagoda is closed and dark, and there are thousands of students practicing together. It is very noisy, crowded, and disruptive, making the environment quite bad.

In this environment, many students find it difficult to practice with peace of mind.

For a considerable number of students, the so-called "breakthrough" sometimes requires an absolutely quiet and comfortable environment, isolated from all noise and interference.

It is best to have fresh and sweet air and pleasant scenery.

Studying abroad in the Xianshan Sect has become a better choice.

This is also one of the most important cooperation projects for the various sects joining Wancheng Kingdom.

Then someone may ask, why didn't Zhou Ming destroy a few sects and occupy a few fairy mountains for students to break through? Why did he need to engage in any cooperation, make it so troublesome, and give so many subsidies?

I have taken over all the fairy mountains, and I can use them however I want, and develop them however I want.

It also saves a lot of money, isn’t it wonderful?

Having said that, Zhou Ming still deliberately preserved those traditional sects and did not destroy them.

Why?

Fear of creating a new privileged class.

Students in various training academies who have achieved outstanding achievements, after cultivating as immortals, are powerful in force and very independent individually. They are not subject to any restrictions or control by any force. Wancheng Kingdom has no ability to force them and can only guide them.

Let me ask these free "immortals", if they stay on the spiritual mountain for a long time, form a gang, and condense a force, once they have terrible thoughts, these "humanoid nuclear bombs" will cause huge damage Power, who can stop and rival it?

In any team or group, there are characters such as "careerists" and "conspirators".

We can only think of some ways to "separate" them.

Moreover, many industrial factories in the mortal world also require the participation of powerful monks and even immortals in order to achieve better development. Staying on various immortal mountains for a long time is also a waste of resources.

Let’s take the simplest example: an immortal wants to build a “Spirit Gathering Tower” worth one billion spiritual coins in the mortal world. To save this money, he must create a value of more than one billion spiritual coins... ...The economy of the mortal world has become active.

Therefore, the most fundamental purpose of Wancheng Kingdom's "dispatch system for studying abroad" is for the benefit of mortals.

From this point of view, Wanchengguo is indeed asking each sect to join, asking them to accept Wanchengguo's "study abroad disciples" and pay certain subsidies.

Of course, various sects that accept "students studying abroad" can also reap huge benefits. Before each student studying abroad leaves, those "notes", "self-created exercises" or "experiences" in the nature of "graduation thesis" are stored in After passing the defense and being stored in the library, every reader will benefit.

Each sect has also greatly expanded their knowledge and skill reserves.

Most of the students who studied abroad will continue to create their value after returning to the mortal world.

Achieve multiple goals with one stone and eliminate hidden dangers.

Of course, by winning Chixing Mountain and increasing the number of sects to two, it was not enough, and it had not yet reached his quantitative requirements.

Zhou Ming's eyes were focused on the next target——

Guanglei Mountain!

He planned to take down Guanglei Mountain and force him to join the Wancheng Kingdom, becoming the third sect to join.

but……

Guanglei Mountain is difficult to deal with.

The strength is very strong.

They have three ancestors in the trance stage.

There are 109 immortals in the Gudan period.

There are more than 5,000 elite disciples.

There are more than 10,000 outsider disciples who are of a miscellaneous nature.

There are 91 auxiliary cities in the mortal world.

And with the mandatory requirement to train one hundred thousand elite soldiers in every mortal city, a huge army of nearly ten million people was formed.

Its overall strength is stronger than Chixing Mountain in its heyday.

Among the four major sects, Guanglei Mountain is the well-deserved number one.

In the past twenty or thirty years, in the dozens of small and medium-sized conflicts that broke out with Wancheng Kingdom (and the predecessor Hundred Cities Alliance), Guangleishan, which suffered many heavy losses (but did not damage the foundation), quickly adjusted its response strategy. Decided not to provoke Wan Chengguo anymore, and directed all expansion efforts at Qingyun Mountain.

Under years of harassment, Qingyun Mountain suffered terribly. Mortal cities and mines fell one after another, and seemed to be on the verge of being swallowed up.

Annexing Qingyun Mountain, strengthening its own strength, and resisting the rise of Wancheng Kingdom in the east has been the strategy that Guangleishan has been firmly pursuing over the years.

Qie Guangleishan has a gene for expansion in their bones, which makes them uneasy about the status quo.

When faced with a crisis, they also have a certain ability to accept new things and the courage to carry out certain reforms.

Especially after seeing the strength of Wancheng Kingdom growing at the speed of light, becoming stronger day by day, and under a huge sense of crisis, Guanglei Mountain actually introduced the "academic" disciple training model and sent immortals to steal the Lingyuan Spear. , Lingyuan cannons are imitated to prevent falling behind and being beaten.

Investing in scientific research to tackle key problems, the current output of Guangleishan Lingyuan guns is very impressive, and their power cannot be underestimated.

In addition to the Lingyuan battleship, Wanchengguo can exert a powerful deterrent on Guangleishan. In other respects, Guangleishan is not afraid at all.

It can be foreseen that taking Guanglei Mountain will be an extremely difficult task.

These days, Zhou Ming also held discussions with intelligence personnel, staff officers, and military representatives in secret conference rooms all day long, discussing how to make Guangleishan surrender and agree to join Wancheng Kingdom.

"Captain, we have dealt with Guangleishan many times over the years. They have no intention of being on an equal footing with ordinary people. Instead, they have increased their intelligence penetration and are very on guard against our Wancheng country."

"Not only that, Guanglei Mountain has also increased its control over mortal cities in recent years, integrating mortal forces, and vigorously rejecting our Wancheng Kingdom's economic community and trade route plans, resulting in our country's economic influence being very large in the Guanglei Mountain boundary. Weak, it can be said to have reached the level of a strict blockade.”

"In terms of military affairs, Guanglei Mountain has not stopped preparing for a day in these years. Not only has it formed a legion with tens of millions of people in the mortal world, but Guanglei Mountain has also been preparing day by day and never slackened off."

"In addition, they also adopt a cannibalization strategy to continuously suppress Qingyun Mountain to the west. They seem to have plans to swallow up Qingyun Mountain and enhance their own strength."

"All kinds of actions have made it clear that Guanglei Mountain wants to go against our Wancheng Kingdom and is not going to give in!"

In the face of such a stubborn opponent, it is impossible to make him surrender by any means other than using force.

"Fight! Head of the country, with the strength of our Wancheng Kingdom, it is not difficult to destroy Guanglei Mountain. As long as we destroy Guanglei Mountain, seize its city, its population, and its resources, our Wancheng Kingdom's strength in all aspects can be Double the expansion!" a staff officer said excitedly.

"We can fight. Our Wancheng country has a strong military, but it has enjoyed decades of peace. Except for the battle of Dongyuanzhou, it has never participated in any major wars. Although the soldiers are still elite, they become slack and tired sooner or later. I don't know why. War, an actual battle, can have a significant tempering effect."

An old general also said that he advocated using a war to sharpen the combat skills and war awareness of soldiers.

After all, long-term peace will wear down the combat effectiveness of an army.

Therefore, from Guanglei Mountain’s hostile and defensive attitude towards Wancheng Kingdom, the temptation of various resources in Guanglei Mountain’s territory, and the consideration of improving the military’s combat effectiveness...

Conquering Guanglei Mountain by force is indeed the best choice.

In the conference room, the vast majority of the participants were supporters of "conquest by force."

but……

Zhou Ming had different ideas.

He did not want to use force to conquer Guanglei Mountain.

Why?

Conquest by force, in a less pleasant way, means invasion and plunder.

Aggression is tantamount to injustice.

If there is no sufficient reason or excuse to launch a war or invasion, it will definitely be met with stubborn resistance and there will definitely be losses.

Of course, it is natural that the weak eat the strong. The strong annexing the weak is a law of nature. It cannot be equated with the so-called "invasion". You are weak, which is the reason why I conquer you... This view can be completely convinced and can be eliminated. psychological burden.

But Zhou Ming's concerns are not limited to this.

The biggest problem is: after the conquest, how to eliminate potential dangers, disintegrate the unwilling resistance forces, and reduce the cost of maintaining rule without causing headaches.

It is easy to conquer the world, but difficult to govern it.

Rough conquest by force is absolutely not advisable...even if military discipline can be strictly enforced and the common people are not taken advantage of.

Also, in the injection mode, the first indigenous character "Ye Kong" bound to the system is now the elder of Guanglei Mountain. He has a high status and is quite prestigious in Guanglei Mountain. Ye Kong is also grateful to Guanglei Mountain. , very loyal.

If Guanglei Mountain is conquered by force, will Ye Kong also be killed if he stands in the way?

On a psychological level, Zhou Ming has not destroyed his thoughts yet... He has been Ye Kong's "grandpa" for more than sixty years.

Therefore, with all kinds of concerns, Zhou Ming really didn't want to use force to conquer Guanglei Mountain as his first and only method.

so what should I do now?

Is there any other way to capture Guanglei Mountain more peacefully?