Ancestor Above

At noon, the sun was shining brightly.

In fact, today's weather should not be so good. According to the observations of people who are good at observing the sky, today should be cloudy and rainy.

But under the great power of the monks, these are not a problem.

Because the cloud was blown away and degraded, in short it was resolved.

The old emperor gave way, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the dynasty changed. How could it be a rainy day?

Li Chengzong, wearing the emperor's crown and a golden dragon robe with a black background, looked solemn and dignified.

The majestic Zhengyang Palace is right behind him; under the long steps, there are many important officials in the court, including some local officials, some local forces, such as some sects, families and so on. In addition, people like Qingfengmen and Yunxiaozong were also present.

Clouds and mist curl up, fairy sounds linger on beams, huge chime bells, mighty warriors...

Li Chengzong looked at all this, this is the world of my royal family. Ancestors have ruled for thousands of years...

He remembered how proud he was when he was just established as the prince. He had imagined more than once how he would lead the country to a stronger state one day in the future when he was crowned emperor.

Unifying the country, conquering the outside world, and even dreaming, he never thought that maybe one day, my Dayan might be able to achieve the level of the Great Zhou Dynasty that unified the entire practice world countless years ago.

Even after the death of his father, when he was competing with his nephew for the throne of the emperor, to be honest, he did not completely give up these ideas. Although he clearly knew that even if he succeeds to the throne, he is only a puppet, but after all, he is the most orthodox heir to the throne with the blood of the Li family on his body, so what if he temporarily becomes the puppet emperor? Externally, there are still many people who support the Li family. In the history of the Yan Dynasty, it is not that there have been such top officials who were extremely powerful for a while. At best, the Lu family can be regarded as a stronger and special official. In the future, there may not be no chance to slowly solve this problem.

But now...

Under such a solemn atmosphere, Li Chengzong could only feel a great sense of sadness in his heart.

The Li Dynasty is about to end in his own hands.

How should I explain to my ancestors after my death?

Those ambitions of the past,

Those ambitions, those imagined futures, will all dissipate like bubbles.

With such a thought, a huge impulse even arose in his heart.

He looked down at the roll of silk paper in his hand that was full of words, wishing to tear it to pieces, and then scolded the Lu family for their shamelessness in front of countless people, and made the Lu family's already The three-month abdication ceremony was prepared, which completely messed him up.

But impulsiveness is just impulsive, of course Li Chengzong dare not really do this.

Of course, this would make the Lu family look bad, and even make the abdication ceremony obsolete, but for the Lu family, at best, it could only be regarded as some minor troubles and lose some face. For the most fundamental big picture, nothing substantive will change at all.

On the contrary, the price he paid may not only be as simple as his own life, but also the entire Li family, and I don't know how many people will be buried with him.

If he dared to do that, he would definitely die.

No matter how naive he was, Li Chengzong would not feel that he really had any choice now.

With two long breaths of relief, Li Chengzong finally put all his delusions back to the bottom of his heart.

The mighty bell rang, and it spread throughout the entire palace, and even the whole city could hear it.

Time is up.

Li Chengzong opened the roll of tissue paper in his hand and read from the beginning.

This is a long essay.

At the very beginning, it started when the Li family founded the Yan Dynasty. Li Chengzong recited many great achievements of his ancestors; then he changed his words and talked about the various ills of the court in recent hundreds of years; , has an inescapable responsibility. And as the emperor, how much responsibility he feels, to the point of being overwhelmed...

Then, the topic turned to the Lu family, all kinds of compliments were used.

At the end of the article, it mentioned the most important thing this time: as Emperor Dayan, he willingly surrendered the throne to Lu Chaoxi of the Lu family.

After reading an entire article, Lu Chaoxi walked out from the Zhengyang Palace behind Li Chengzong.

Lu Chaoxi was also wearing a golden dragon robe with a black background, basically the same attire as Li Chengzong. But there was no crown on his head.

The two stood facing each other, and Li Chengzong slowly took off the emperor's crown from his head.

During this process, Lu Chaoxi could see the other party's hands shaking.

He could understand Li Chengzong's current mentality, but there was really nothing to be pitiful about.

He waited patiently and watched Li Chengzong take off the crown completely, and then walked in front of him with strides. Li Chengzong lifted the emperor's crown high and put it on for Lu Chaoxi himself.

After doing all this, Li Chengzong bowed, stepped back from the steps, and stood among the important officials below. And with everyone except the cultivators of Yunxiaozong who watched the ceremony, they shouted long live and knelt down on the ground.

At this point, the most ceremonial scene in the entire abdication process is over.

Lu Chaoxi's eyes did not look at Li Chengzong again. He was wearing the emperor's crown, looking forward, his eyes were full of determination.

The bright sun was right in front of his eyes.

From now on, the world of Dayan will be the world of the Lu family.

...

Apart from Lu Chaoxi, Li Yanling was among the people dressed up today.

She is Lu Chaoxi's regular wife, and now she is Dayan's mother.

She never thought that such a day would come to her.

Back then, she married the man in front of her for a golden elixir. Even afterward, the two developed a deep relationship over a long period of time, and her sense of identity with the Lu family grew deeper and deeper. But no matter what, at the very beginning, the combination between the two was more about interests first.

It turned out that she was married to an emperor.

Outside the Zhengyang Palace, as the head of the Qingfeng Sect, she watched Lu Chaoxi become the Emperor of Dayan.

Afterwards, as a queen, she followed Lu Chaoxi on the emperor's chariot, set off from the gate of Zhengyang Palace, took off, followed by hundreds of imperial guards, at a height of about ten feet, slowly flying.

Next, the emperor and queen will tour the city, and even the whole country, to personally announce to every citizen of Dayan that Dayan has a new emperor.

This is also an old example.

When the Li Dynasty was still in existence, every emperor of the Li family would come and do this after they came to power.

During this process, in order to express their support for the new emperor, and also to show their status, Yun Xiaozong will also send senior monks to accompany him.

This actually reassured Lu Qing a lot.

Before, when he heard that there was such an arrangement to travel across the country, Lu Qing felt a little uneasy.

Needless to say, after the Lu family came to power, the following opponents would definitely vote one after another. Chaoxi and Yanling are both early and middle Golden Core stage monks. Maybe it would be quite troublesome to encounter an assassination situation.

But if he was accompanied by senior monks from the Yunxiao Sect, then the problem would not be a big deal.

...

Lu Chaoxi succeeded to the throne, and the Lu Dynasty was formally established. During this process, Lu Qing, as the patriarch of the family, was strongly invited by the Yunxiao Sect, and hoped that he could be present in person.

Of course, in the end this was rejected by Lu Qing.

But in fact, of course, he watched the whole scene in the state of consciousness.

In this regard, he himself will be very emotional.

Even he never thought that one day, his family would become the royal family of Dayan Kingdom.

It's okay to be the emperor's father instead of being the emperor.

And after the entire abdication ceremony was completed, a new prompt popped up in Lu Qing's system.

He took a look, and a smile inevitably came to his face.

Sure enough, just like his original thought, after Lu Chaoxi became the emperor, a new system interface would be released.

He had thought about this matter before.

Back then, after Li Yanling became the head of the Qingfeng sect, Lu Qing's system jumped out of the 'Zongmen subsystem'. Is that after the Lu family became the royal family and Lu Chaoxi became the emperor, there will be something like a national subsystem? ?

He thinks it is very possible.

Sure enough, it came.

He opened the system interface that popped up.

[It is detected that a family member has become the leader of the country and has reached the conditions for opening the country subsystem. 】

【National Subsystem】

【Country name: Yan】

[Level: Six Star]

【Territory: Jizhou, Jinzhou, Wuzhou, Xingzhou, Pingzhou, Feiyunzhou, Xuezhou】

[Income: 4.81 million spirit stones/year]

[Expenditure: 5.23 million spirit stones/year]

[Net income: -420,000 spirit stones (year)]

[Inventory: 130,000 spirit stones]

[The Lu family's dominance over the Yan Kingdom: 19%]

...

Seeing the system interface that popped up, Lu Qing's face turned dark.

"So miserable???"

He thought that Dayan, which the Lu family took over, would be a mess, but he didn't expect to be so lazy.

This situation is even worse than he imagined.

There is no problem with six-star national level. It stands to reason that the Yunxiao Sect is also under the rule of the Great Yan Dynasty. The Yunxiao Sect has over 100,000 masters and monks, and they are all elites. Yan Guo is indeed not weak.

But looking further down, the financial situation of the imperial court has become bad to a certain extent.

Only a few hundred thousand spirit stones are left in the imperial court's inventory? Why is it poorer than the Lu family?

Negative net income of 420,000?

Every year, the Lu family puts more than 400,000 spirit stones into it? How is that possible! This is definitely not worth it.

To be honest, the expenditure of more than five million spirit stones a year is still within Lu Qing's expectations. To maintain such a huge country, personnel expenditures and maintenance of various materials are not small expenses.

In addition, there is another thing that has to be mentioned, that is, every year the court of the Yan Kingdom has to bear a huge amount of "allocation", and this allocation is of course for Yunxiaozong.

This is an indispensable sum of money. Although it is very heavy, it has to be borne.

If Yunxiaozong is obedient, it must be worth the money. But even if they don't listen to the court's words, but still want to point fingers, the court has nothing to do, they can only pinch their noses to admit it, and the money has to be paid.

This Lu Qing was mentally prepared.

However, if the expenditure is still within the range that he can bear in his heart, then the income will be so low that Lu Qing finds it unbearable.

For such a huge Great Yan Dynasty, the annual income is only about four million?

This is absolutely not the way it should be.

Back then, when Li Yanling first took over Qingfeng Sect, Feiyun Prefecture experienced some turmoil. Before, there was the white ghost from Xuezhou who had not been fighting for too long, and then there was the internal turmoil in Feiyun Prefecture, and then there was an expedition to Beihuangsen...

These, of course, will have an impact on Feiyun State's production capacity.

In these years, the internal problems have been integrated by the Lu family, and the entire Feiyun Prefecture can finally be twisted into one rope. After upward development, the past losses are quickly made up for, and there is further development.

Now, Lu please open the Zongmen sub-system, and you can clearly see that the income of Qingfengmen can reach about 1.1 million. In addition to the income of Lu's family, the income of the entire Feiyun State is rushing. One and a half million went.

The financial situation has become richer and better, and the overall strength has increased. This is one of the confidences that the Lu family dares to directly intervene in the face of changes in the south.

Then this can be used for comparison: Yan Kingdom, the entire imperial court, nominally sits on the land of seven states, and the states in the south are theoretically richer and more powerful than Feiyun State. But why, under such circumstances, the yearly income of the Yan Kingdom's court is only a little more than three times that of Feiyun Prefecture?

After calming down, Lu Qing opened the detailed section of income from the system interface, and began to check it carefully.

The information provided in the system interface does not fully reflect all the details of a huge country. However, the summation of various data can still explain some problems.

The inventory is low. For this reason, Lu Qing did not see it from the system's data summary. After all, the system does not display past information.

But Lu Qing can also guess some.

It took a lot of money!

Li Shiwen wanted to break through, and Lu Qing also saw the whole breakthrough ceremony. All kinds of precious materials, plus the platform that is still floating above the palace, he spent at least 20 to 30 million spirit stones.

This huge sum of money, come to think of it, when Li Shiwen was collecting it, he often shaved off his hair.

In addition, it was the war with Wei Guo when he made a breakthrough.

Yun Xiaozong did not fight for nothing. At that time, the two sides had not yet reached the point of falling out, and at the beginning of the war, Yun Xiaozong did not know Li Shiwen's plan for the time being. When their army of monks is dispatched, the imperial court must allocate funds for military expenses.

And the 30,000 Habayashi Imperial Army marched to the front line, and in the end there were almost no casualties, and they were almost wiped out. Naturally, this also cost a lot of money.

Whether it's military expenses or post-war pensions...

Inventory, of course, was emptied.