Hyper-Dimensional Player

Chapter 872 - 91: Great Unity, The Foolish Monarch Ascends [End of Volume 4]_3

As for the Fire Division, Finance Division, Epidemic Division, and so on, leaving them vacant temporarily is not an issue.

"After all, the Heavenly Dao Law will operate on its own."

After handling the matters of the two Yuan Shen avatars, Duncan’s attention shifted towards Yanjing.

In fact.

Recovering Yan Yun and pacifying Liaodong were easier than imagined, especially after thoroughly defeating the Liao emperor Yelü Jing. Almost all the Han people in the north rose up in rebellion, and Duncan, apart from a few hard battles with Liao’s elite, faced little resistance.

The reason is simple.

The Han people in the Northern Land still remember the glory of the Han and Tang. When Duncan showed the ambition and power to unify the world and restore Huaxia’s territories, the Han people in the north immediately responded en masse.

This is the power of popular support.

The psychological changes of the Han people in the Northern Land underwent several phases. The first phase was when the Liao state was established; during Hou Zhou’s northern expedition under Chai Rong, the Han people in the north responded vividly, holding onto the heritage of the Han and Tang. The second phase was during Zhao Song’s northern expedition. Although twenty years, or a generation, had passed, many Han people in the north still responded to Zhao Guangyi, until the Northern Song army’s massive defeat at Gaoliang River, with casualties in the hundreds of thousands.

The third phase came a century or two later. Without Zhu Yuanzhang consolidating the territory, the northern Han people had lived through over a dozen generations, having forgotten the past.

Time was just right for Duncan to retake the north.

Han people in the Northern Land still remembered the great Tang, seeing Duncan’s establishment of the Ming as the rightful continuation of Han and Tang dynasties because the victor is the rightful ruler.

At this time, Duncan’s human form had fought for years, nearly restoring the unified dynasty map of the Central Plains.

——"Annex Yunnan, reform land among various tribes."

——"Manage the Western Regions, restrain Tibet."

Duncan had fought nearly all necessary battles. After destroying the Gaochang Uighur, heading further west was possible but economically unsustainable, risking collapse of the Central Plains’ finances.

Anyone who has played the Europa Universalis series knows, capturing remote poor lands without economic benefit is meaningless and could bankrupt you.

The best approach is to settle immigrants while expanding territory, transform it into core regions (claims from time immemorial) to secure financial income, then advance steadily.

"I keep my word."

"Include ’Debate on the Potala Palace’ in the religious reformation resolution."

Once Duncan set the major policies for the upcoming years, he opened the national page to handle various affairs, such as ’Imperial Examinations’, ’Factory Guard System’, ’Complete Cabinet System’ among other national decisions.

Duncan was very familiar with these national resolutions. Once confirmed, the managed human form would automatically execute them and even select suitable talents.

However, Western and Eastern management systems differ; many national resolutions are not the same.

Even national political systems differ.

The system of the Second Roman Empire Duncan established in the West was an ’Empire’, while the Ming Dynasty this world he established was a ’Celestial Dynasty’. Within the political system menu, future directions can be designated, such as constitutional monarchy, aristocratic republic, mental empire, revolutionary empire, revolutionary republic, etc.

——"Promote Neo-Confucianism." (National Resolution)

——"Oppose Neo-Confucianism." (National Resolution)

——"Yangming’s School of Mind." (Not Achieved)

These are fairly standard national resolutions.

The entity of the national page was much like Duncan had seen before; only some parts of the Eastern world were different, having unique Eastern transformative fortune.

——"Mighty Ming (Not Achieved): Preconditions, activate high-martial civilization, explore other worlds, complete a grand expedition, establish a cross-world Ming colony, construct a complete martial cultivation system, etc."

——"Celestial Tao Dynasty (Not Achieved): Preconditions, activate cultivation civilization, achieve Spiritual Qi Revival, explore other worlds, establish celestial and divine cultivation systems, suppress the nine continents’ fate with the authority of the Heavenly Emperor, control at least three Small Thousand Worlds, possess cross-world celestial Tao colonial points, etc."

——"Spiritual Energy Tide (Not Achieved): Preconditions, world upgrade, energy tide surge, restart Mythical Era."

Hiss.

Indeed, after passing the level, the nation was along the same route as the first human form, ultimately deciding the future direction of civilization.

Duncan pondered with his chin in hand, musing: "How many years will it take to achieve that?"

"Could it be?"

"Will my human form this life have to reign for several hundred years?"

"No."

"If truly a Celestial Tao Dynasty is established, then an emperor living one to two thousand years is quite normal, right?"

But if the emperor indeed lives for one to two thousand years.

Then what about the mundane world?

How many more will pursue immortality and seek the eternal life path?

We can say that an emperor living a thousand years is the beacon for the entire cultivation civilization, and because of his existence, countless will aspire to the path of immortal cultivation.

"Both Heavenly Emperor and mundane ruler, wouldn’t that sever the Severed Communication?"

Duncan’s thoughts were endless, so he chose not to think anymore.

"Someone, come."

"Return to the palace."

With just a change in Duncan’s gaze, Lu Qiongxi by his side immediately understood and arranged for Lady Huarui, Empress Zhou Ehuang, and others to be summoned, as His Majesty was presumably weary from state affairs, needing proper rest. Secretly, she had been selecting concubines for the palace; once trained, His Majesty will enjoy new company.

No wonder emperors liked traitorous officials throughout history. Duncan had planned to return his consciousness to the dimension above, but suddenly changed his mind; returning later would be fine.

After all, his various human forms were well arranged. Returning would mean merely managed processing.

Until discovering new dimensions, Duncan simply macro-managed his various human forms’ directions from above.

Currently, Duncan had quite a few human forms.

Some fully matured human forms virtually stayed hidden, not concerning themselves with mundane affairs, as if they were background figures from a myth, only activating when needed by Duncan.

Founding Day of Ming, Day Thirty-Six.

No events today, enjoyed the harem.

Imperial Examinations, Day Three.

No events today, enjoyed the harem.

Cabinet Reformation, Day Five.

No events today, enjoyed the harem.

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