With all three measures at once, the jianghu forces would be thoroughly drawn into the Imperial Court's camp.
Establishing a sect ranking system and granting official status was equivalent to the Imperial Court incorporating all sect forces wholesale.
Establishing Martial Dao academies was equivalent to building a warrior-training system that belonged to the Imperial Court, just like training scholars by setting up prefectural schools, provincial schools, county schools, and so on.
The warrior supervision agency would be both a shackle upon the sect forces and a ladder for their advancement. According to Yang Zhengshan's idea, the official posts and yamen runners of the warrior supervision agency would be selected from among the sect forces.
In this way, the Imperial Court would possess powerful binding force over the sect forces among the people.
If any force rebelled against the Imperial Court, the Imperial Court would not even need to mobilize a great army. Only Need To issue a single command, and the other jianghu forces would be able to wipe that rebellious force away.
At the same time, a Large Number of sect forces turning toward the Imperial Court would also help the Imperial Court gather information from the jianghu.
Take the Shenyang Sect, for instance. In truth, many jianghu forces were better informed than the Imperial Court. Though the Shenyang Sect's movements were secretive, they could not be hidden from everyone; there would always be people who discovered a few spider threads and horse tracks.
It was just that these spider threads and horse tracks were very difficult to deliver into the Imperial Court's hands.
But with the warrior supervision agency, things would be different. Any sect force could pass information to the Imperial Court.
With the sect forces under all heaven serving as points for gathering intelligence, what matter