The palace is magnificent and is in no way inferior to the royal palace of Yan State. It's strange to say that although the ministers of Yan State have proposed it countless times, especially Wang Shi who is very concerned and mentions it at every meeting, Duan Tianming is unwilling to repair and expand the palace.
At this time, the royal palace of Yan State was called a royal palace, but in fact, apart from the conference room in the front and the hall specially for holding public events, there was not even a harem in the back, just a few large houses.
The people of Yan suggested to Duan Tianming countless times that he choose a wife, but he refused vaguely every time. There were no elders above him, so no one dared to force him to marry.
It’s not that Duan Tianming has no desire, but mainly because his concept has not changed yet. More importantly, his marriage is highly political, so he needs to consider it carefully. What’s more, his life expectancy has been extended now, so he doesn’t need to worry about this.
During the discussion with King Shangyang, the soldiers of Yan State took over the defense of the city-state in a friendly manner. Since most of the troops originally stationed in Yan State also followed, with the strength of tens of thousands of troops plus the support of the city-states they now controlled, there were still enough troops to garrison the five cities.
Moreover, even though it was clearly stated that they would provide military support, the monarchs of these countries had no good way to resist. They did not even realize that Yan State's goal was not only to have them join the Luonan Confederation, but also to covet their population.
Of course, all this is based on a huge gap in strength. In terms of equipment, Yan State, which liberated productivity by recruiting agricultural population, directly went all out, massively increasing the number of steelmakers and mining iron ore in the Luolong Mountains. Although there was no help from mechanized processes such as steam engines, under the collective operation, the simple process of iron smelting also increased production to a certain extent.
In traditional feudal society, the iron-making process was mainly carried out by one workshop or one person, from raw materials to iron-making to iron-casting. This was inevitable under the relatively scattered conditions at the time. However, through Duan Tianming's new thinking, Yan State used centralized iron-making to increase the output of ironware to a certain extent.
On this basis, from civilian to military use, Yan State's ironware basically met Yan State's own market needs and continued to expand the market to neighboring countries.
Now, more than half of the more than 20,000 troops controlled by the Yan State system are equipped with iron armor, and all members of the Xianzhen Camp are equipped with heavy iron armor as defensive equipment.
Everyone had an iron weapon. Compared with the difficulty of making iron armor, iron weapons were actually very easy to make. Moreover, on the battlefield, iron armor was obviously more useful.
In feudal dynasties, the control of weapons also focused on iron armor rather than other iron weapons, which indirectly reflects the bonus of iron armor to combat effectiveness.
In the past few months, Duan Tianming had tried to do this. He went to the Shenqi Kingdom to find a few second-level spiritual power units that had been captured, and asked them to attack the armored Xianzhen Camp. One second-level spiritual power unit could make three or five Xianzhen Camp soldiers lose their combat effectiveness, and this was without activating the military soul.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of this type of secondary unit cannot be compared with the combat effectiveness of those secondary units of the gods' followers that have racial heritage and military support, but it can also objectively show the blessing of weapons and equipment on combat effectiveness.
In the current material age of the God-Forsaken Continent, ironware has not been developed much, and soldiers still mostly use bronze tools in battle. Even in large countries, there are not many armies with fully armored soldiers. As long as this time difference can be grasped, the entire Central Plains can basically be controlled.
It’s just that the combined armies of some martial and immortal clans in some major countries pose a certain threat, but this threat can be completely addressed with weapons and equipment.
Now, this battle is the one that will make Yan State's power known in the Central Plains. As long as we gain momentum in this battle, the rest of the work will be easy.
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When Duan Tianming led the army to the front line, Zhao Yuqing, who was far away in Shenqi Kingdom, also began the promotion assessment.
"Yuqing, are you ready?"
On the Divine Realm website, there was a message from Xia Liuli.
"The army is ready. We've even brought 1,000 elven soldiers with us."
Zhao Yuqing explained.
These 1,000 elven soldiers were arranged by Duan Tianming. Originally, they were to be arranged to participate in the war in Yangcheng, but because Zhao Yuqing led 5,000 Danyang troops to participate in the assessment this time, their long-range capabilities were not strong, and Duan Tianming did not have much need for long-range capabilities. In order to be on the safe side, he arranged 1,000 elven troops to support Zhao Yuqing in participating in the war of gods.
This can be considered as a contribution to the promotion of the gods. He had already stood up. Although Duan Tianming could accept all the resources after Zhao Yuqing's promotion with peace of mind, and Zhao Yuqing would not say much.
But in the end, we still have to consider the common interests. After all, promotion is quite difficult. Although it is a team competition and we have the help of Xia Liuli, we also bring a "burden" like Zhao Shi'an. So we still have to prepare what we need to prepare, otherwise it will be too embarrassing.
"Hey, here I come."
In the promotion space organized by the school, Zhao Shian walked in with a smile. His productivity this year just reached 160,000, which was very good. Naturally, he also had the opportunity to participate in this exam.
"Haha, why don't you ask your goddess to help you? Instead of joining us and being a burden."
Zhao Yuqing joked intentionally.
This promotion exam is still a bit difficult considering Shen Qiguo's strength. He originally had to rely on his best friend to lead him, and now Zhao Shian insisted on squeezing in.
"It's okay, there's just one more person. It won't be difficult to match them up."
Xia Liuli hurriedly stepped forward to mediate.
"How can you call me a burden? I can now awaken a giant slime and a military unit."
Zhao Shi'an explained.
In the last war of gods, he finally understood that he really couldn't do anything without strength. After the productivity arrived this year, he directly used the excess productivity to explain the new types of troops and combat slimes. Now he has a certain ability to protect himself.
"Okay, okay, you've been bragging for days, but you've been busy awakening the troops. You haven't given me any supplies these days, right?"
"Aren't we still preparing? After all, exchange opportunities are precious, and we definitely need to bring more supplies for each exchange."
"Okay, you are right..."
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The brother and sister started to quarrel, but Xia Liuli next to them just quietly did her own thing and began to prepare her own troops and other units participating in this war of gods.
As a god of the ocean clan, he is relatively restricted in many aspects, and his divine domain is still mainly based on the continent.
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