Free Web NovelChapter 1829: Chapter 868: The Emperor Personally Leads the Expedition!
The honors ceremony at Purple Gold Mountain has come to a complete end, and Chen Yuan awarded all the meritorious ministers according to their deeds, including two State Preceptors, one Grandmaster, and four other dukes with different surnames.
Various Dukes, Marquises, Earls, representatives of the National Religion, Sect Leaders, and Pillars were all honored, bringing joy to everyone. All those who were alive received their honors.
Even individuals like Zhang Xuan and Ye Chenbai received honors, along with former Jin Dynasty ministers who defected. Most of them were properly arranged.
However, due to limited time, most of their honors would not be announced at the grand ceremony at Purple Gold Mountain.
Aside from rewarding the meritorious ministers, Chen Yuan granted amnesty throughout the land and exempted the Central Plains Thirteen States from taxes for ten years. This further heightened the atmosphere to a climax!
This ignited the populace into a frenzy.
This wasn’t merely an exemption from levies but also from the most stringent taxes!
Throughout history, even during the founding of new dynasties, exemptions were primarily levies, not taxes.
This time, the exemption lasts for ten years, an event unprecedented and may never be repeated, causing Great Yan’s national fortune to soar like oil on a blazing fire.
It is foreseeable that once this news spreads across the realm, it will cause massive upheaval.
The people might even honor him as a Saint without any hesitation.
Although national finances would be deprived significantly, the resources seized from the Southern and Northern campaigns, the Grasslands of the Western Regions, Japan, and many Jianghu factions have covered these losses.
Without such a surplus, Chen Yuan wouldn’t have exempted taxes for ten years.
All of these are fruits of territorial expansion.
Northern Barbarians, Western Regions, Japan—they are ideal places.
Their amassed wealth over a thousand years has been entirely swept away and selflessly dedicated, worthy of eternal remembrance by all Central Plains people, regardless of whether these local populations suffer adversity...
What has that to do with him?
He is the Emperor of the Central Plains Human Race, not the Heavenly Emperor of the entire Human World.
After ten years, slightly granting them benefits will suffice to dissolve all dissatisfaction, potentially deepening their reverence for Chen Yuan.
Chen Yuan’s actions were not only empathetic towards the long-suffering Central Plains people but also intended to unite the hearts of the entire region.
When the time comes to consolidate the Human Emperor’s fortune, it would be stronger.
The duration of ten years coincides with the Immortal Domain’s expected arrival in nine years.
Chen Yuan stands not alone, but with the Human Race of the entire Central Plains, to mobilize the maximum force of the people’s will.
This.... is his purpose!
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In the first year of Great Yan’s Holy Martial Era, on July 16th, the founding ceremony inevitably stirred up stormy waves across the Central Plains and indeed the entire Human World.
Countless people spread the word, extolling Chen Yuan’s benevolent governance, a tax exemption for ten years, meriting contemporary saint status.
Most of the populace’s desires are simple, wanting to live well and survive, an opportunity that the previous dynasty did not offer, whereas Great Yan now does.
Naturally, they embrace him.
In many places, people established ancestral shrines for Chen Yuan, a founding Emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty, offering daily tribute, treating him as a once-in-a-millennium unparalleled Saint.
Such actions undoubtedly caused Great Yan’s national fortune to skyrocket like a rocket, and although it may eventually recede, this level of fortune is undeniably unprecedented.
As for whether it will be bettered by successors, nobody knows.
Chen Yuan’s prestige has reached its pinnacle, and the title of Holy Martial Emperor is gradually becoming a widely recognized proverb.
Since Chen Yuan is now the Emperor, it is a great offense to call him directly by name.
While ordinary people focus on tax issues, Jianghu Martial Artists are concerned with the grand honors ceremony.
Martial Emperor Lu Chengfeng also stepped into the limelight for the first time; only then was it revealed that the Martial Emperor, from the same era as Chu’s Grand Ancestor a thousand years ago, did not die.
Not only alive, but now he’s also a State Preceptor of Great Yan!
Truly formidable!
Additionally, with support from Spirit Mountain’s Holy Buddha Ksitigarbha King, two mighty Earth Immortals, multiple Sixth Realm Immortals surrendered, countless True Masters and True Monarchs in the Yang Transformation Realm joined the court.
At this moment, Great Yan is virtually invincible.
Even in prosperity, it surpasses the founding of Great Chu a millennium ago; Great Chu only secured the backing of several Immortal Sects to stabilize its reign.
Whereas Great Yan has united all Immortal Sects under its banner, those supposed Immortal Sects have now become Great Yan’s National Religion, and Sect Leaders listed on the Heavenly List.
All have become affiliates of Great Yan.
The term "Imperial Hounds" from yesteryear has vanished because, when meticulously calculated, all top Jianghu forces are essentially Imperial Hounds.
Anyone daring to express the slightest discontent faces the threat of extermination.
The dynasty is at its strongest right at inception!
Many prophesy that Chen Yuan, this Great Emperor, will eclipse Chu’s Grand Ancestor, reaching the level of the Human Race Martial Emperor and may one day ascend to the Immortal Domain.
With such imperial might, capable of subduing all directions, it is sufficient to perpetuate for thousands of years.
In other words, with Holy Martial enduring, Great Yan shall never perish.
All will forever live under the shadow of the Holy Martial Emperor, some excitedly seeing it as an unprecedented Golden Age for the Human Race, the most glorious moment.
