He said with a serious look: "This time the matter is very serious, you are afraid that you will have to wait for a long time... to wait for him to come back."
Feng Wu: "I want to know what happened."
Feng Wu's current strength may not be enough, but her medical skills, formations, etc., may be able to help
Emperor Junwu did not answer Feng Wu, but asked for no reason: "Do you know why Dongsang is a small country with less than one-tenth of our Junwu Empire, but it has repeatedly violated my border, even fourteen years ago. Are you still invading our Junwu Empire?"
Feng Wu thought for a while: "...their ancient technological capabilities such as medical skills, spiritual formations, and inscriptions are stronger than ours?"
Emperor Junwu: "Do you know why it is better than us?"
Feng Dance shook her head.
Emperor Junwu: "Because they have a father!"
Feng Dance: "Ah?"
Emperor Junwu: "On our continent, there are indeed only a few of our countries, but in the far east, there is another continent, where there is a more powerful country."
Feng Wu: "Ah? I have never heard anyone mention it."
Emperor Junwu: "Because with your previous strength, you have no qualifications to know."
Feng dance silently.
Emperor Junwu: "That country is far overseas, and it's a few years away from us, so it's easy to communicate with each other, so you don't need to be afraid of them. But—"
Emperor Junwu thought for a while and said, "But their support for Dongsang Kingdom is not small. The ancient technologies of Dongsang Kingdom all come from that overseas country."
Emperor Junwu seems to be very reluctant to mention the name of that country, so he just mentioned it in one stroke.
"Stop talking about this, let's continue talking about Dongsang Country."
Feng Dance nodded.
Emperor Junwu said again: "In addition to the ancient technologies such as formation inscriptions, do you think there is any other powerful place in Dongsang Kingdom?"
Feng Wu recalled that Jun Linyuan once forced her to read Dongsangguo's books, so her eyes lit up: "Blood tax system?"
Emperor Junwu nodded: "It is indeed the blood tax system."
What is the blood tax system
Simple to say, but also cruel.
Every five years, the Dongsang government selects five to seven-year-old children from the city's merchants, craftsmen, and farmers.
Pick one of the smartest children out of every fifty households.
The children recruited were the emperor's own army, and they were trained and trained by the officers and eunuchs for military uniformity.
Never allow them to fall in love and marry!
Except for eating and sleeping, all the time is used for study, training and training.
At the end of the elimination system, the last surviving person will become a learned and powerful guard!
Because they are all of civilian origin and have no personal connections, they are absolutely loyal to the emperor.
Because of their absolute loyalty to the emperor, all officers, officials, and even prime ministers were recruited from this guard.
Feng Wu said: "In fact, Emperor Dongsang also has a means of holding back. These guards can only retire when they are forty years old before they can become biological children, and it is stipulated that their children are not allowed to enter the guards."
Emperor Junwu nodded: "Because of this, Dongsang Kingdom has been able to maintain its prosperity for so many years."
Because if you don't get married and don't have children, you are just one person, so you must be completely loyal to the emperor.
Emperor Junwu is envious.
Who doesn't want their army and courtiers to be strong, powerful, knowledgeable, and completely loyal to themselves.
PS1: The blood tax is not made up, it has a real history. Ottoman Turkey has used this blood tax system to prosper for three hundred years. The data comes from [English] Patrick Belfort's "Six Hundred Years of the Ottoman Empire"~ ~
PS2: The schedule of the selected children in Dongsang country is similar to the schedule of Maotanchang Middle School~ If you are interested, you can download it on Baidu, "Maotanchang Middle School Schedule", it will definitely shock you and then immediately Going to do homework hahaha~
(End of this chapter)