At the beginning of the year, right after the Lantern Festival, Bing'er went to Qiongzhou County to observe the politics. In the blink of an eye, a year had passed.
Looking at the girl who ran into the study, Ouyang Shuo was in a trance. His face was warm. It seemed that every time he saw Bing'er, she would always bring him a surprise.
After a year of experience, the girl had become capable, but it didn't hide her lively nature. As soon as she came in, she took a chair and sat next to Ouyang Shuo, telling him about the interesting things in Qiongzhou.
Because Bing'er was still young, Ouyang Shuo let her go to Qiongzhou to observe the politics. Bing'er was also very happy. She had seen everything in the past year.
According to Bing'er, she had lived in a village and experienced farming. She had followed the tax officer to the market, been to jail, and lived in a civilian house. Her life was colorful.
These things couldn't be learned from books.
Ouyang Shuo just listened silently and didn't express any opinions. He didn't want to limit Bing'er's growth with his own principles and values.
Every individual should be unique.
Seeing that it was noon, Ouyang Shuo stood up and interrupted the girl. He smiled and said, "Let's go for lunch. Your sister-in-law has prepared your favorite vinegar duck."
"Okay."
Bing'er didn't jump around like Ouyang Shuo had imagined. She just responded crisply.
Ouyang Shuo was startled and then smiled.
...
After accompanying Bing'er for lunch, Ouyang Shuo didn't rest and returned to the imperial study again.
Tomorrow was the imperial ceremony, and it happened to be New Year's Day. There were many complicated things that Ouyang Shuo had to decide on. The highlight of the event was the new round of crowning ceremony.
For every ceremony, no matter if it was to reward meritorious people or to gain good luck, there would always be a round of conferring titles.
This time, Ouyang Shuo was prepared to follow the example of the Tang Dynasty's Lingyan Pavilion and set up the Mountain River Palace to select 24 meritorious officials and generals to stay in as a reward for their contributions to Great Xia.
There were many talents in Great Xia, including the essence of China. It was much more difficult to select 24 from these talents than during the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, the Mountain River Palace wasn't limited to 24 people, but in order to ensure its authority, the next batch of people to stay had to wait until Great Xia became an imperial dynasty.
The selection criteria was naturally based on merit.
After much deliberation, Ouyang Shuo finally came up with a list of 24 meritorious contributors before the ceremony. They were Bai Qi, Jiang Shang, Xiao He, Huo Qubing, Han Xin, Wei Yang, Zhang Liang, Du Ruhui, Jia Xu, Shi Wansui, Fan Li, Zheng He, Shen Buhai, Sun Bin, E Lai, Zhang Yi, Cui Yingyou, Liu Mo, Zhang Han, Di Qing, Yu Dayou, Tian Wenjing, Fan Zhongyan, and Xu Chu.
Other than the head of the 7th Research Institute, Liu Mo, everyone else was a genius in history.
The 7th Research Institute led by Liu Mo had made great contributions to the development of firearms and the industrialization of the dynasty. It was only natural for it to be included in the list.
Without a doubt, the historical talents that were included in the Mountain River Hall would be Ouyang Shuo's priority targets.
Just yesterday, Ouyang Shuo had purposely logged off to meet with Jiang Shang, Bai Qi, Zhang Liang, and Jia Xu, who had successfully materialized into homo sapiens.
They were indeed intelligent people. Under Gaia's guidance, they quickly adapted.
However, the space of the spaceship was limited, so they couldn't do much. After greeting each other, they returned to their respective positions. Because of this, Ouyang Shuo realized that materializing historical talents in advance did not have much benefit.
The only benefit was that when Jiang Shang and the others entered the game again, they would have the same "immortal body" as the players. Moreover, they would also be able to obtain achievement points.
Ouyang Shuo bluntly said that their achievement points could be used freely. For example, they could materialize a relative. In the game world, they had a large family, or even a clan.
The choice of Bai Qi and the others greatly exceeded Ouyang Shuo's expectations. They indicated that they would only materialize one or two relatives at most. Jia Xu even indicated that he was not willing to materialize any of them.
Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered what Jia Xu had said at that time: "Your Majesty, actually, we know that the moment we were created by the Mother Goddess Gaia, we were considered to be brand new people. Our lives also began from that moment. As for the memories in our minds, they are merely memories. I and the historical Jia Xu are essentially people from two different time and space. "
"Rather than saying that the relatives in the game world are relatives, it would be better to say that they are a kind of tie in the memory. They are not true kinship. If it really materializes, it might not necessarily be a blessing. "
Ouyang Shuo somewhat understood their thinking.
Bai Qi added, "The reason why I plan to materialize Wei Lan is not because we are husband and wife in history, but because we truly have feelings for each other in the game world."
Ouyang Shuo was completely enlightened.
Because of this, Ouyang Shuo decided to stop materializing starting from the seventh year of Gaia. He would only materialize once in the ninth year of Gaia, which was a year before they arrived at Planet Hope.
After a year, Ouyang Shuo's achievement points had increased by more than five million points, leaving ordinary players in the dust. In the future, with the rapid development of Great Xia, this number would only increase in an exaggerated manner.
…
Gaia seventh year, 1st January, Shanhai City.
With the grand ceremony at hand, the entire Shanhai City had become a sea of joy, with lanterns and streamers everywhere.
At eight in the morning, Ouyang Shuo specially rushed to the main hall, opened the territory interface, and applied to be promoted to a dynasty. The moment he clicked on it, he heard a series of system notifications.
"System notification: Testing Great Xia dynasty promotion conditions …"
"Condition 1: Lord's title is at least a King. After testing, player Ouyang Shuo's title is the highest level, Son of Heaven's Title, meets the requirements!"
"Condition 2: Lord's reputation is at least [Renowned Across the World]. After testing, player Ouyang Shuo's title is the highest level, [Brilliant Empire], meets the requirements!"
Not long ago, after inheriting the title, Ouyang Shuo's reputation had also reached five million points, and he had been promoted to the highest level, [Brilliant Empire].
"Condition 3: The dynasty occupies at least one-third of the territory of this region. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty occupies 42% of the territory of Huaxia, meets the requirements!"
The submission of Xixia Country had allowed the territory of Great Xia to exceed one-third of the quota.
"Condition 4: The dynasty's population exceeds 50 million. After testing, the real-time population of the Great Xia Dynasty is more than 401.35 million, meets the requirements!"
With the submission of the East Sea Province and Xixia Country, the population of Great Xia directly exceeded the 400 million mark, rapidly approaching the historical population record of Huaxia.
"Condition 5: The dynasty owns at least one overseas territory. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty has conquered 14 countries, established one city, three counties, and eight provinces, meets the requirements!"
Apart from the Great Xia Dynasty, no one else had such achievements.
"Condition 6: The dynasty's luck is at least at the third level [Purple Luck]. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty's luck is at the fourth level [Golden Dragon], meets the requirements!"
With the continuous expansion of the Great Xia Dynasty, the advancement of the Dragon of Luck was really a matter of course.
"Condition 7: Occupy at least one royal city in this region. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty has successively conquered five royal cities: Dali, Luoyang, the capital, Quanzhou, and Chengdu, meets the requirements!"
The submission of the dynasty was also included in the quota.
"Condition 8: Destroy at least one country. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty has successively conquered 14 countries, meets the requirements!"
Destroying a country did not mean establishing a territory, just like how the Great Xia Dynasty conquered Morocco and eventually lost it. Similarly, establishing a territory did not mean destroying a country, just like the establishment of a county.
Therefore, condition 5 and condition 8 did not conflict.
In other words, as long as the operation was done properly, condition 5 could be changed.
"Condition 9: Possess at least one secret treasure of Jin Country. After testing, the Great Xia Dynasty has the secret treasure Jiuzhou Royal Cauldron, meets the requirements!"
Among the nine basic conditions, the Great Xia Dynasty had exceeded all of them except for the secret treasure of Jin Country.
"System Notification: Test complete. The Great Xia Dynasty has met the conditions to become a dynasty. Do you want to promote?"
"Promote!"
As soon as Ouyang Shuo's voice fell, a strange phenomenon appeared in the sky.
A ray of colorful light that was as thick as a millstone rose into the sky from the Xia Palace. In an instant, it shot into the sky. Then, groups of colorful auspicious clouds appeared in the sky, mixed with rays of colorful auspicious lights.
An auspicious sign from the sky.
As soon as the auspicious sign appeared, a system announcement spread all over the world.
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