Realizing This Is Wuxia World After Cultivating For 300 Years
Chapter 74
Hongwu
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The name Hongwu reminds Cui Heng of the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty on Earth.
At the same time, he was also looking forward to hearing more. Could it be that Hong Fugui has changed his name?
But if it was Hong Fugui, how could the world leader be the Great Jin?
Has he failed?
Liu Litao and Xu Feng'an thought that as otherworldly Gods, Cui Heng had never heard of Heavenly King Hongwu.
Therefore the question.
After all, it was almost 300 years ago.
Too much time has passed.
Moreover, after Great Jin was established, they tightly controlled the information about the previous dynasty. Naturally, very few people know about it.
At this point, not to mention an ordinary person, even a county magistrate might not know.
Just because one of them was a regional governor and the other was an expert from a top sect with a history of over a thousand years, they had an understanding.
Therefore, the two of them looked at each other. They wanted to answer Cui Heng's question, but they were unable to speak first.
Cui Heng looked through their minds and nodded with a smile. "Master Xu, please continue.”
“Thank you, Milord.” Xu Feng'an first bowed before continuing the story about Heavenly King Hongwu. “According to the records of the Yuhua Sword Pavilion, the Heavenly King Hongwu first appeared in the 12th year of the previous dynasty, which was 288 years ago…
Back then, it was a period at the end of the dynasty, and there were countless revolutionary forces. At that moment, Heavenly King Hongwu was the head of the revolutionary army. He was a military officer who could manage a hundred people.”.
In his description, Heavenly King Hongwu started from an ordinary military officer.
Through the accumulated benefits of battle, he became a commander, a company officer, and then a general, step by step. After he married the daughter of the revolutionary army leader, he fully controlled 100,000 soldiers.
After taking control of the army, Heavenly King Hongwu broadly bound the hearts of the people. In a very short time, he gathered a large number of citizens and bound them to his cause. Within a few years, he had expanded his army to one million soldiers and started to spread around the world. Gradually, he was given the title of Heavenly King.
The war at the end of the dynasty inevitably affected the various major sects and aristocratic families.
As Heavenly King Hongwu flourished, the interests of some sects and families suffered.
Hence, the sect and aristocratic families sent someone to negotiate with him. After the negotiations failed, they wanted to use force and even kill the son of Heavenly King Hongwu.
It creates a life and death feud. Heavenly King Hongwu began to recklessly kill martial artists.
None of the world-renowned factions escaped his anger.
This was especially true for the Langya Wang Clan. They were the culprits that caused the death of the eldest son of Heavenly King Hong Wu. Facing a million troops, no matter how strong their martial cultivators were, no matter how shocking their martial techniques were, it was useless. Their entire clan was almost wiped out.
In the end, a Divine Realm expert took action and took away some direct descendants from the Wang Langya Clan. Only then did they manage to maintain the bloodline.
After that battle, many sects and families completely understood that Heavenly King Hongwu did not care about them at all.
Hence, countless sects and families joined in.
First, they slandered Heavenly King Hongwu in public. At the same time, they used their own strength to gather an army.
They even sent experts to kill him repeatedly.
Many sects and noble families often used this way, wanting to instantly resolve the root of the problem.
However, no one expected Heavenly King Hongwu to have a peerless divine weapon with him.
He could kill a Divine Realm expert with a sweep of his sword!
It was impossible to kill and cut off his head.
However, it was precisely because of the actions of these sects and aristocratic families that Heavenly King Hongwu became furious.
He personally ordered the death of all the Divine Realm experts in the world, regardless of which sect or family they came from!
An unprecedented martial world disaster is triggered.
Cui Heng frowned slightly after hearing this.
From Xu Feng'an's description, this Hongwu Heavenly King seemed to be only the slightly stronger leader of the Revolutionary Army.
He did not sound like Hong Fugui at all.
Back then, Hong Fugui had learned more from him.
After Xu Feng'an finished explaining what he knew about Heavenly King Hongwu, he saw Cui Heng think hard.
This made him a little confused and nervous. He instinctively felt that he might say something wrong, but he did not know what he said was wrong.
“Hongwu Sky King mentioned by Mr. Wu is not actually a complete description.” At this moment, Liu Litao suddenly spoke. His tone was even filled with respect. “To be exact, it was only the Heavenly King Hongwu in the eyes of the martial sect.
In fact, the true strength of Heavenly King Hongwu was not in his military strength, nor was it in the god weapon in his hands. It was in his mind, his military government, and his administrative ideals.
For the first hundred years of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Imperial Court prohibited anyone from reading any information relating to Heavenly King Hongwu. They are afraid of their dreams. Just because of the recent chaos then there are no more restrictions.”
As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face. It was a smile filled with admiration. “I usually like to read some blank books, so I understand more about this.
In fact, as long as you carefully study the history of Heavenly King Hongwu, you will find that he is different from all the leaders of the Revolutionary Army and even all the Emperors and generals from ancient times.
There had never been an Emperor or a general who actually stood with people like him, let alone an army that would never snatch money and food from the people, never humiliate women, she said, and even pay for food.
There had never been anyone who did not bind aristocratic sects and families or seek their support. Instead, he targeted them, suppressed them, and even killed them. Then, he distributed the land and property to an army of ordinary people.
No army has ever taken the unification of the world as their responsibility. Even the most ordinary soldiers knew what they were fighting to protect, and because of their similar ideals, they would never leave the army even if the entire army was wiped out.
Heavenly King Hongwu attacked the martial arts sect and noble families not out of personal grudges, either, but because he wanted to reclaim the livelihoods and businesses that affected the people of the world from this large faction.
Only when the livelihoods of the people are no longer controlled by these sects and families can the community live stably. And the killing of all the Divine Realm experts in the world was also for this purpose.”.
Hearing Heavenly King Hongwu being touted, Liu Litao seemed to have become chatty as he continued to speak.
His words were filled with admiration and even contained a subtle trace of adoration.
Eyes shine.
It may have something to do with his own experience.
Liu Litao knew very well that he was a shy person who was less courageous. When faced with a problem, he always wanted to protect himself and did not dare to go forward.
Therefore, while being the governor of Lu County, he did not dare to quarrel with the various sects and families.
He could only protect the people here so that they could live stable lives and not starve.
But the more cases he had, the more he admired Sky King Hongwu.
What kind of courage, what kind of heart is needed to pursue such a high goal?
Only such a person could let the world flourish with such brilliant brilliance at the end of a dynasty!
After hearing Liu Litao's story, Xu Feng'an fell silent.
It might be because of their different positions, or it might be due to the restrictions of the Great Jin Imperial Court.
The Sky King Hongwu record of the Yuhua Sword Pavilion was indeed too one-sided.
"So that's what happened."
Cui Heng whispered softly, as if he was a little emotional.
Then he fell silent and said nothing for a long time.
After a while.
As Liu Litao and Xu Feng'an were feeling a little nervous,
Cui Heng suddenly asked.
“How did this Heavenly King Hongwu fail in the end?”