When faced with the harem of the Great Min Emperor, if you feel that exiling them to the army or sending them to the Ministry of Education is too inhumane, send someone to use the Heart-Searching Formation to take stock, then kill those who should be killed and release those who should be released.
But having finally become emperor, the harem is an unavoidable part of the journey.
"This is a perfectly legitimate channel! It would be a real shame not to use it." You decide to select volunteers from various regions to enter the palace.
They may enjoy wealth and luxury, but they shouldn't rely on their sons for status.
"Then what about the continuation of this dynasty?"
As for the fact that you have no heirs, causing your ministers to worry about succession, simple!
"Why don't I just become the greatest emperor of all time?"
[You have decided to reside in this domain for a thousand years, until you have completed the thirty-odd reliable paths. At most, you will occasionally visit relatives in the Azure Domain and the Sky Domain, interrupting that person's ascension to immortality 3500 years ago.]
[You sit on the imperial throne, knowing that once you sit on this golden throne, it cannot be taken by anyone else for at least a thousand years...]
[But unlike a certain mummified corpse, you can get up whenever you want, without needing to burn a thousand summoners every day, and you won't expose your manhood to the warp.]
"Only Shi remains among the wild ones."
[In the sixth hour of occupying the old capital, you cast an invisibility spell on yourself and went out for a while.]
Half an hour later, you returned to the palace and continued handling various matters as if nothing had happened.
However, for many years afterward, the neighboring kingdoms of Dayu and Dazhi, which had frequently invaded your territory, became extremely friendly, and even sent high-ranking officials to your dynastic change ceremony to sign a treaty of never attacking each other again.
[Those who know, know; this kind of note is just a waste of paper.]
However, it will further enhance your prestige, especially in border regions.
[Even Da Min didn't make them come up with this kind of agreement, and you did!]
Five years have passed in the blink of an eye; it's now 3089.
[Your path to becoming the River Lord has reached its third rank: Elephant Guide.]
[I need to endure four more years of CD training before I can advance from the third to the second tier.]
[Additionally, during your cultivation on the Path of the River Lord, your life form is altered, specifically reflected in the bonuses granted by your Bloodline Holy Body.]
[Your mech mode now comes with additional features such as gravity fluid, increasing the multiplier from 60x to 73x.]
[If you continue cultivating at this pace until you reach the sixth realm, it's estimated that your second stage will unleash 150 times your combat power.]
[Year 3090.]
Over the past few years, you have governed the Great Shou Dynasty exceptionally well, and it is now flourishing.
Because you used AI.
"So, you're ruling the country with AI?"
【Use the gold spirit ore you brought from the Azure Domain to download various governance strategies, and then let it handle national affairs for you.】
[The ore is a golden spirit computer, capable of multitasking through a special life form, without needing to cultivate the Myriad Thoughts System.]
"Multi-threaded operation, isn't that amazing?"
It helps you manage policies while simultaneously playing the game.
[The Azure Domain's elemental network can't connect to the Nightmare Domain; it's playing a single-player game.]
[Sometimes when the game got boring, he would communicate with the ministers who submitted memorials to him; he was known as the "talking iron box."]
In 3091, you made some changes.
[The Heart-Questioning Array is a lie-detection tool from the Azure Domain, used to detect whether officials in various regions have harbored evil intentions, such as abusing their power to forcibly seize women or embezzling excessive amounts of money.]
Every year, a large number of people are eliminated, and then others take their place.
[Until this year, you realize that this is happening a little too fast...]
"Oh no, I think I set the problem too extreme!"
Judging by actions, not intentions, reveals no saintly character.
[In the "Questioning the Heart" formation, some questions require officials to answer whether they want to be corrupt, etc.]
But that was just a thought, never put into practice... Who wouldn't have a fleeting thought of taking all the money for themselves when faced with a large sum of money? But very few actually do it.
In other words, who hasn't dreamed of finding money on the street and being noticed by a handsome man or beautiful woman?
But that's not very realistic.
With power comes unrealistic fantasies of finding money or being noticed by handsome men and beautiful women, which naturally transform into realistic fantasies like, "Someone is giving me money because of my high status," and "I'm so awesome, it's not unreasonable for me to find a good-looking partner, right?"
When others don't offer it to us willingly, it evolves into the thought, "Even if they won't give it to me, I can use my power to get it."
However—these are all just thoughts; there exists something in this world called self-control.
"Just glancing at a pretty girl on the street gets you swept up in the star-making frenzy."
"To be fair, Twelfth Brother, you were indeed wrong."
[The vast majority of such thoughts only flash through their minds; less than one in ten thousand would actually act on them, because there is still a moral bottom line. Even if the other party has no bottom line, there is a "moral judgment array" hanging over their heads.]
[So you changed the question to "Have you ever done it before?" and "If you haven't, would you do it regardless of others' feelings?" These two extreme questions spared many people who would otherwise have been forced to step down.]
"No one is perfect, and nothing is flawless." You shake your head.
"Okay, there's another reason for changing these issues: we're short-staffed."
The first few batches of officials were the cream of the crop, representing a generation's most outstanding talents. You kept replacing them with others, and while the later appointees were also exceptional individuals, they were clearly inferior to the former.
"He Shen was a notorious corrupt official, but he was also undeniably capable." Those you dismissed weren't as greedy as He Shen, and some even only considered it but didn't act on it, but they all shared one thing in common: they were all capable individuals.
Yun Shou recalled the classic story of He Shen's wise move of soaking sand into disaster relief grain to prevent wealthy people from claiming it.
"However, if he were to take out the money he embezzled, he could feed all the truly poor people, as well as the wealthy people who fraudulently claim rations, until they all suffocate."
[Xiangyang was born in 3100.]
[Faced with this boy who loves fighting and can't sit still as he grows up, you might as well enhance his essence, making him even more invincible in the future.]
"Let's start by increasing it to a normal 20 times."
In 3101, a summoner of gods seeking the path to flesh transformation attempted to advance to the first rank in the Great Longevity Dynasty.
[The Great Longevity Dynasty was just one of the locations he arranged for the ceremony. Prior to that, he had quickly completed the procedures at the neighboring Great Fiery Dynasty and the Great Righteous Dynasty next to Great Fiery.]
[However, he didn't expect that Da Shou had a complete and rapid long-distance communication system, which you established within the country's borders after the founding of the nation: the Zun Yuan system's array warning system.]
[When the Cloud Emperor travels, you crush him with a flick of your wrist.]
[In 3110, you were promoted to Super Rank.]
You feel... something's not right.
...
(Four o'clock? (ˉ﹃ˉ?))
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