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Chapter 734: Chapter 324: Alliance and Marriage_2

Even if they could come up with another two or three hundred million silver taels, it wouldn’t surprise Ruyuan.

After all, it’s normal for tens of millions of people to accumulate such wealth over hundreds of years.

However, this doesn’t mean that one hundred million silver taels is a small amount.

With this money, Lu Yuan could now expand his army by 500,000 soldiers, and cover their military expenses for three and a half years.

If you also consider the silver reserves and accumulated surpluses from Chu State’s treasury, it would be enough to support the additional 500,000 soldiers for seven years.

In other words.

With this silver, Lu Yuan could expand Chu State’s standing army to one million strong, and maintain them for seven years without disrupting the country’s financial balance or hindering domestic development.

If Chu State could maintain an army of a million soldiers for seven years, the benefits it would bring would be immeasurable.

Most simply.

If Chu State had an army of a million, sending out hints about their strength would be enough to solidify their control over the currently disputed Hanzhong region, with no further resistance.

As long as the Zhou People knew that Chu State had an army of a million strong, their hearts would be filled with anger and unwillingness, but in the face of being surrounded by such a powerful enemy, they wouldn’t dare stir the pot and bring disaster upon themselves.

Meanwhile, over at Ning Country and Nanhai Country.

Originally, with Chu State’s strength, it would have been difficult to annex these two small Lingnan countries.

But if Chu State had an army of a million, they could casually command 500,000 soldiers to traverse mountains and ridges to march south in force, swallowing these two territories as easily as flipping their hand.

As for Su Country’s reliance on Su Xuange, a mere Inborn Grandmaster of the First Realm, both Huang Xuan and Qingyunzi could easily cut him down without Lu Yuan even needing to lift a finger.

Once they lost this Inborn Grandmaster, Su Country’s national power would be even weaker than that of Nanhai Country, and they would pose no obstacle to Chu State.

As for the issue of there being no one to control the newly conquered Lingnan region, someone has already conveniently solved it for you.

The Barbarians from the Snowy Plains are eagerly offering a spiritual woman.

Ever since the Snow Plains Barbarians and Zhou Country began warring in the harsh winter, Lu Yuan has been continuously sending out spies to gather information about the Barbarians and conduct in-depth research.

So he has a lot of understanding about the spiritual women of the Great Mohism.

As one of the dual spirits of the Great Mohism, the spiritual woman is regarded as a devout attendant of the Great Dharma God and his envoys in the mortal world.

Simply put, you could treat her as the personal maid of the Great Dharma God and his personal attendant.

Of course.

As a divine servant, the spiritual woman’s status cannot be compared to that of ordinary mortal maids, even in name.

In ancient times, during the period when immortals and mortals appeared together in sanctity, the Great Dharma God who created the Snow Plains Barbarians was said to have been on par with the Three Emperors of the Nine Provinces and had contended with Emperor Hua Guang in battle.

Although he was ultimately defeated, he managed to preserve the foundations of one of the ten realms – the Snowy Plateau – and transformed into the creation god of the Barbarians, with his divine name still being passed down to this day.

Emperor Hua Guang was the first emperor of the human race in the Nine Provinces, and he established the foundation and rightful rule of the human race in the Nine Provinces.

Although the Great Emperor’s own cultivation was not as advanced as the later Emperor Xia Xi and Emperor Hao Tian due to not standing on the shoulders of his predecessors, he still touched upon the Earth Flower, being placed in the first class of Earth Immortals.

The Great Dharma God, who rivaled the Earth Immortal Emperor Hua Guang, would naturally also be a figure at the same level – an Earth Immortal.

Being a maid to an Earth Immortal naturally entails extraordinary strength and status, something that only a Human Immortal can achieve.

Of course, this was during ancient times when spiritual energy was abundant and all things were flourishing.

Back then, opportunities were endless, and various divine beings roamed the land.

By the peak of the ancient era, during the reign of Emperor Hao Tian, the Heavenly Flower Immortal was considered unrivaled.

Not to mention Human Immortals, even Earth Immortals were a dime a dozen.

Now, as time has passed and divine beings have disappeared, spiritual energy has been exhausted, and the once world-creating Great Dharma God has vanished without a trace.

The spiritual woman who once needed to be at the Human Immortal realm to serve at their side has now fallen to the rank of Martial Arts Xiantian.

The experiences during this period are truly lamentable.

However, even though the spiritual woman now only possesses the strength of the Innate Realm when compared to her peak, she is still quite remarkable.

As for Lu Yuan, if he could marry an Innate spiritual woman, it would undoubtedly be a great deal.

First of all, marrying a spiritual woman would undoubtedly improve the relationship between Chu State and the Snow Plains Barbarians, not to mention future benefits as well as mutual interests.

Over millions of years, the Great Dharma God has long become a legend, and no one can say for sure whether there actually was such a deity.

However, as a divine servant, the role of the spiritual woman has been passed down through countless generations.

With each generation of inheritance and the cultivation efforts of countless spiritual women, the spiritual woman has gradually gained a degree of divine status in the snowy plains, similar to a living Buddha in the highlands in Lu Yuan’s previous life.

At most, as a leader of the faith, the spiritual woman has another figure alongside her called the spiritual son, who shares her power as a religious leader and doesn’t give her absolute authority over the highlands.

Nevertheless, the significance of the spiritual woman to the Barbarians is beyond doubt.

Marrying her would mean that in the future, Lu Yuan could directly appeal to the Barbarians in the name of the spiritual woman, rallying a large number of believers and fighters to serve Chu State.

These are just the long-term benefits.

In the short term.

News of the spiritual woman marrying the King of Chu would quickly spread to the recently annexed Hegu region, quelling the discontent of the Barbarians who originally wanted to restore their tribal rule and retake the Snow Plains from Chu State.