In the 80th year of the Xia calendar, the strength of Xia State was growing day by day. After the new population census, the population of Xia State exceeded 1.5 million. The population of Xia Capital alone exceeded 100,000. From the perspective of Xia Capital alone, it was already a prosperous era

. At the same time, Lin Jiang supported those warriors who left Xia State to develop, and also gave Xia State a great return. They occupied many tribes outside, had developed a good strength, and asked to be incorporated into the territory of Xia State.

Lin Jiang also conferred titles on them all, including Viscount and Duke. These forces were all considered semi-independent, and Lin Jiang would not send people to them, so their population was not counted in Xia State. Otherwise, the population of Xia State would exceed 2 million.

Lin Jiang put forward several conditions for these people. The first one was that within their forces, they could only speak Xia language and write Xia characters, and they were not allowed to issue currency privately. Trade with Xia State must use Xia State's currency.

At the same time, their legitimate sons must live and study in Xia State for more than ten years. In the future, their legitimate sons would inherit the family business and the title, and they would need the Xia State's monarch to confer titles.

The annual tribute must also be paid, but it is not a tax, just a fixed fee, which is very small and equivalent to symbolic.

In fact, these forces are vassals of the Xia Kingdom. The influence of the Xia Kingdom has further expanded, and everything is going according to Lin Jiang's plan.

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In the autumn of the 80th year of the Xia calendar, Lin Jiang, after careful consideration, promulgated the division of the martial arts realm, naming the martial arts realm from low to high as the acquired martial artist, the innate martial artist, the martial arts master, the martial arts grand master, and the martial arts saint.

Practicing martial arts and successfully refining internal strength is an acquired martial artist. When the internal strength grows to a certain extent, it can penetrate the whole body and release the internal strength, which is the innate martial artist.

The internal strength continues to accumulate, enough to cover the whole body, forming a strong qi, ignoring ordinary swords and arrows, which is the martial arts master.

When the internal strength continues to grow, it is strong enough to infuse the internal strength into dead things, picking leaves to kill people, which is the martial arts grand master.

As for the Martial Saint, there is no specific standard. Lin Jiang's description of the Martial Saint is that he can ignore the army of mortals, fight one against a thousand, and take the head of a general in the army as nothing, which is extremely Martial Saint.

This set of realm divisions is actually quite rough. In the future, when martial arts develop, someone will definitely improve it, but Lin Jiang doesn't care. He will talk about the naming rights first. Anyway, future martial artists will follow this set of systems when practicing martial arts, and to follow this set of systems, they must know Lin Jiang. Of course, future generations may not pronounce his name, but only call him by his honorific title, Emperor Xia.

"Your Majesty, I have broken through."

Zhang Ran came to Lin Jiang one day and happily told Lin Jiang that his martial arts realm had broken through and he had become a martial arts master.

"You have the foundation of a cultivator, so it is very easy for you to break through to the level of a martial arts master. I want you to break through to the level of a martial saint within ten years. Only then can you take over from me."

"Your Majesty, I don't want to be the king."

"Why not?"

"It's too tiring. Not counting the years of sleep, I have lived for more than 900 years. For the first 500 years, I was either earning resources or practicing. Now the great way is gone, and I've worked for you for more than ten years. I want to rest."

Zhang Ran shook his head. He used to be a Nascent Soul cultivator and had enjoyed the taste of power. The most important thing was that he had seen the prosperity of the world of cultivators. What was Xia Country like in his eyes? He simply disdained to be a king.

"You're right. I don't want to be a king anymore. There's not much benefit and I'm exhausted. I decided to retire in the hundredth year of the Xia calendar. During these years, you help me find some people and train them for a dozen years to take over."

"Your Majesty, why don't you marry a wife and have a few children to inherit the throne?"

"How dare you make this suggestion? When ancestor Cao Ying of Zhonghang Sect wakes up, he will dance on your grave."

"Uh, just pretend I didn't say anything,"

Zhang Ran said immediately. How could he have forgotten this? Ancestor Cao was very close to Lin Jiang in the last one or two hundred years of his time in the world of immortal cultivation. Everyone knew their relationship.

"Train a few more people. After awakening, most of the immortal cultivators have innate strength. It is not difficult to become a martial arts master and a grand master. Therefore, the successor, or the Xia Kingdom, must at least guarantee three or five grand masters to ensure the stability of the Xia Kingdom's inheritance,"

said Lin Jiang. The immortal cultivators have tempered their bodies and are strong. The immortal cultivation techniques are more advanced than martial arts. Basically, they are innate after practicing casually. Martial arts masters and grand masters are also common. Only martial arts saints are more difficult.

"Your Majesty can actually rest assured. Now the awakened ones are mainly golden elixirs. There are very few Yuanying and Huashen, and they are all our own people. I will not leave the Xia Kingdom. If someone really comes to seize the country, I will explain to them,"

said Zhang Ran. He felt that Lin Jiang was too worried. It was just some golden elixirs. What's so great about it? He is still a Yuanying. When the time comes, he will not be weak.

"What you said makes sense. Then you can help watch over Xia State. If anyone dares to seize my Xia State, I will deal with them."

"Well, Your Majesty can actually send someone to invite a few immortal cultivators back. Many immortal cultivators still miss Yunzhou very much, but they just can't find the way home."

"I will go there in person at that time,"

Lin Jiang said. After about a hundred years of the Xia calendar, he will retire, but he will not go back to sleep immediately. Lin Jiang will go north. If there are any acquaintances, he will ask them to come back.

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In the eighty-third year of the Xia calendar, Lin Jiang established the Xia State Martial Arts Academy in the capital of Xia, referred to as the Martial Academy.

The Martial Academy recruits a certain number of disciples every year, mainly from the nobles of Xia State and a few wealthy civilians, and the Martial Academy teaches advanced martial arts.

Lin Jiang personally served as the dean, responsible for teaching advanced martial artists, and the threshold for admission was martial arts master.

Two years later, in the eighty-fifth year of the Xia calendar, Lin Jiang had five disciples, but they were still not candidates for the monarch. They were trained by Lin Jiang to protect Xia State.

In the same year, Lin Jiang selected 20 people from the Xia Kingdom as the reserve personnel for the monarch, and brought them to study. They had five years of study time. After five years, Lin Jiang would arrange them to work in various places to test their abilities, and finally choose one person as the second generation monarch of the Xia Kingdom.

"Hu, hu"

On one side of the martial arts academy, several martial arts masters were practicing against each other. Every move and style made a huge sound. The profound martial arts made the ordinary martial arts academy disciples who were peeking from a distance dazzled.

They envied these people very much. After all, it was a very happy thing to be taught by the monarch in person.

But these five people are not happy now, because Lin Jiang would toss them to death every day. Their internal strength would be used up every day. He would even deliberately seal their meridians and acupuncture points, so that they could train with pure flesh. If it were ordinary people, they would have died long ago due to the huge amount of training.

On the other side, there were 20 reserve monarchs. Lin Jiang put more energy on them. They were also strictly trained and assessed every day.

It is still the first year, Lin Jiang just wants them to become versatile. They have to learn poetry, songs, music, chess, calligraphy and painting. They don't need to be proficient, but they have to understand them.

This is just one of them. There are many other courses, such as analyzing human nature, analyzing situations, etc. If you manage people, it is a big project. If you really want to study it in depth, you can't finish it in ten or eight years.

Time passed day by day, and soon it was the ninetieth year of the Xia calendar. The twenty reserve monarchs completed the courses they learned from Lin Jiang. Next, it was time to practice. Lin Jiang arranged them in various positions in the Xia Kingdom. Some were responsible for foreign trade, some were responsible for farming, some were responsible for flood control, building water conservancy measures, and some were teachers in the martial arts academy. In

ten years, Lin Jiang will not provide them with any more help. It all depends on their own abilities.

In the ninety-second year of the Xia calendar, as the influence of the Xia Kingdom increased dramatically, another awakened cultivator arrived, and at the same time brought Lin Jiang an angry news.