War Settled, Focus on Development
[The previous chapter was banned; I'll revise it later.]
After the Xihua Army swept away the Western Barbarians, they moved south and wiped out the South Sea Tan Family.
At the same time, the Great Xia army also dispatched troops from the southeast and destroyed the newly independent Nanming Island.
Thus, the Great Xia's westward expedition came to an end.
This expedition increased the territory of the Great Xia from 89 million square kilometers to 356.89 million square kilometers, and the population under its jurisdiction increased from 64.2 billion to 87.5 billion.
There were almost no dissenting voices across the entire continent.
The remaining sects are either far away or very conservative, so there's no reason for them to launch an attack for the time being, and they can only put the matter on hold for now.
Of course, the main reason is that we just acquired such a large area, and we need to digest it properly.
Throughout the entire campaign, the Tianyi Sect kept grumbling on the sidelines but showed no intention of intervening.
With the strength of the Tianyi Sect, they were certainly capable of taking over the Great Xia, but they also noticed that the Taiheng Sect had already been occupied, and the civilians of Taiheng had been relocated.
So the question is, where did the cultivators of Taiheng go?
Yang Ning's black hole has only appeared above Taiheng. Given the size of the Tai Heng Star and the deterrent power of Taiheng, no sect dares to monitor the situation in Taiheng.
Except for Yang Ning.
Therefore, Tianyi Sect was unaware that Taiheng had absconded.
So from their perspective, this is terrifying.
How did the Great Xia manage to eliminate Tai Heng so quietly and without anyone noticing?
What kind of tactic is this? Is it Nuclear Bomb?
But Space Divine Abilities is already usable, so how could that hydrogen bomb possibly travel to the other side of space?
The unknown is the most terrifying. Tianyi Sect was afraid that Great Xia would do the same to them. Therefore, even though they knew it was wrong to sit idly by and watch Great Xia expand like this, they were helpless.
No, they weren't completely idle either. The Tianyi Sect invited the leaders of several sects, including the Myriad Beast Sect, the Walrus Sect, and the Yiyuan Pill Cauldron Sect, overnight, hoping to unite them.
Logically speaking, these sects all originated from the Tianyi Sect, so there shouldn't be any problem with them uniting back.
But after being masters for so long, who would want to come back to be a subordinate?
And what's this talk of a threat from Great Xia? Great Xia hasn't even attacked yet!
The Tianyi Sect is essentially a sect formed by the union of numerous schools. Its governing style is inherently weak, and it doesn't know how to use methods to subdue other sects. After several meetings failed to achieve any results, the Tianyi Sect simply gave up and resigned.
That's right. The leader of the Tianyi Sect is neither hereditary nor elected by the people. He is a teacher from one of the sect's several academies.
Not even the principal.
This kind of leader is good for all the colleges, because the leader himself does not have much power, which makes it easier for the colleges to develop on their own.
After all, school is where freedom is most valued.
However, once war breaks out, this leadership system will run into serious problems, because when faced with major events, no one can make decisions or coordinate the overall planning. With too many factions, they will also shirk responsibility!
Temporary reforms are impossible because this system has lasted for over five thousand years, and various interest groups are deeply entrenched. Unless you use a hydrogen bomb to purge them, any reform will be like Wang Anshi's Reforms, unable to reach the very bottom.
However, in order to protect themselves, each college at least took action, preparing supplies, recalling graduates, and preparing for war.
Whether Tianyi Sect perishes or not is secondary; the academy cannot be abandoned.
If all else fails, we can just apply directly. Anyway, there are many schools in Daxia, which means that Daxia is not opposed to the academy system.
However, while they were making a big fuss here, the Great Xia Dynasty calmed down.
To allocate residents, build cities, construct roads, schools, and hospitals, and promote education.
The Great Xia Cabinet stated that from the 51st to the 55th year of Great Xia, Great Xia would spend five years to fully popularize education for all citizens and to connect all of Great Xia with railways and highways, ensuring that every city and village is connected by a road.
In water conservancy, the Great Xia Dynasty also began to exert its efforts. Various powerful cultivators, or those who had created their own water-based Divine Ability powers, stepped forward to dig canals and canals, create lakes by artificially generating rain in desert areas, and manage deserts using earth-based Divine Ability.
One hundred thousand earth-element cultivators healed the desert that had existed in the Western Barbarian lands for over ten thousand years in just three months.
Four hundred thousand water-based cultivators solved the water shortage problem for more than three billion people in the Northern Plains and Demon Plains in just two months.
The area around the Tan family's residence is also characterized by jagged rocks and dense Gobi desert.
The Tan family ruled here for 60,000 years, and never built a single school, hospital, highway, or river.
The Great Summer has arrived! Schools have sprung up, hospitals have been built, highways have been constructed, canals have been created, rain has begun to fall, crops can grow on the land, and ordinary people can afford affordable mobile phones!
The people who initially helped the Tan family resist the Great Xia army now see the Great Xia soldiers in their khaki uniforms as if they were seeing their own relatives. They throw away the eggs they usually wouldn't eat or the cotton clothes they usually wouldn't wear to the Great Xia soldiers.
Because the territory of the Taiyin Sect is a peninsula with no high mountains to block it, typhoons from the sea come and go every year. The Taiyin Sect only built protective formations for the sect, but who cares about the common people!
Therefore, the people in the Taiyin Sect's territory live in floods for five out of the twelve months of the year.
If it weren't for the sea and the opportunity to fish, such an environment would have been wiped out long ago by continuous floods and plagues.
Fortunately, the Great Xia Dynasty has arrived!
The Great Xia Dynasty used the abundant Water Spiritual Energy from the ocean as its energy source and built a super barrier in the Taiyin Sect and along the border of the Great Xia Dynasty. This barrier can block typhoons of level 18 and below. Furthermore, this barrier, which incorporates Great Weather Arts, can also draw water vapor to the inland areas according to production needs.
For the first time, the people of Taiyin, as well as the people living along the coast of Daxia, experienced what it meant to have a guaranteed harvest regardless of drought or flood, and to enjoy favorable weather.
Previously, when the sect was in power, ordinary people had virtually no extra income other than farming and engaging in small handicrafts.
How can a child at home, who is barely able to eat or even stand steadily, possibly engage in spiritual practice?
It's important to know that the first stage of the Body Refinement Realm cultivation requires a very high level of food!
But now, with Daxia vigorously developing its aquaculture and industrial sectors, parents can work, and their combined salaries can easily support three or four children, with enough left over to build a decent house.
Moreover, the school provides meals and parents don't need to spend extra money to buy Cultivation Method, so young people today not only develop at an incredibly fast pace, but are also 1.78 or 1.89 meters tall at a young age, and have extremely strong physiques.
Regardless of whether they have talent in cultivation, even if they don't, with this physique, they can farm at a speed dozens of times faster than their parents!
Within the territory of the Taiyin Sect, the Great Xia Dynasty renamed this place Yinzhou Prefecture.
Because Yinzhou Prefecture had many natural deep-water ports, six shipyards were built here. The local people went to work in the shipyards and became rich.
Although there is still fighting outside, the internal situation of the Great Xia Dynasty has indeed become basically stable.
Survival, food, and avoiding freezing to death are no longer the main concerns of life. Going to work, spiritual practice, education, and wages have become the main topics of discussion in various villages.