Chapter 35: Reasons to follow
Long before Yan Wuya set out on the expedition, he prepared a lot of food.
Of course, this food was mainly prepared for the army.
In the past month or so, Yan Wuya has already laid down five cities near Luoxia City, and the team has grown stronger and stronger.
Cheng, who was sitting in the rear, had to consider a series of issues such as the increase in troops, the growth of military supply, population growth, and the stability of the rear.
Every newly conquered city must have an army to garrison, and a large number of young men from the occupied areas will be conscripted.
As a result, with the transfer of young and strong laborers, the quality of farmland cultivation by the elderly, weak, women and children will inevitably decline.
If there is another famine, the harvest in the land may not be enough for the landlord class to fill the warehouse, and the ordinary people will inevitably not have enough to eat.
The army needs to eat, to replace weapons and armor, and the common people also need to eat and produce, whether it is grain or salt and iron, they must be guaranteed, so that they can have the ability and confidence to fight and win this war.
In this world, the status of the people who farm the land is not high, and the damage caused to the people is self-evident when the war starts.
However, the vast majority of rulers did not care so much, they only collected grain from the landlords, so that the front army could be fed to maintain its combat effectiveness.
As for the ordinary people, waiting for the war to slowly pacify, or violent suppression, is not to spend too much energy and materials on the people during the war.
However, the policy of returning the land to the people proposed by Wang Chen is precisely to distribute the landlord's land to the people who are not taken seriously, which is also unanimously recognized by Yan Wuya's decision-making level.
Today's landlord class is actually a small family with a large amount of land, and they do not produce and rely on land for the common people to cultivate to feed them, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are parasites of the times.
Although these landlord families supported the taxation of a state, it was not their output at all, it was only because they had land in their hands.
Under normal circumstances, the outlawing of this class would inevitably break the bones and even cause great chaos.
However, this is a time of war, and it is the right time to implement land reform.
As early as after Wang Chen put forward the views of "returning land to the people" and "encouraging industry and commerce", Yan Wuya's think tank had a heated discussion on this.
Then, a large number of field surveys were carried out to summarize the opinions of many landlord families, and finally decided to implement these two policies.
There will certainly be labor pains, but in the long run, this step must be taken first.
However, another plan proposed by Wang Chen to "encourage industry and commerce" happened to give the majority of the landlord class a chance to transform, make the policy of "returning land to the people" appear less rigid and strong, and avoid the desperate resistance of the landlord class.
The emergence of the hospital plan is tantamount to turning the pie that was previously drawn for the landlord class into tangible benefits that can be tasted.
The model of a hospital driving a business district has already tasted the sweetness during the construction period, so that most of the landlord families affiliated to Luoxia City began to bid enthusiastically.
When the business of Luoxia City develops, it will inevitably have a positive and far-reaching impact, and it will be easier to replicate this model in other cities.
In this way, the landlord family will hand over the land to Yan Wuya in exchange for commercial projects, and the resistance will be much smaller.
If you can't eat enough grain, it is easy to become moldy and spoiled, but the money earned from business can buy fresh grain from farmers at any time, and it also saves the part of the expenditure of storing grain.
Of course, these are long-term plans, not something that can be completed overnight, and there will be many problems in the middle, which requires Yan Wuya's wise men to deal with them.
And the grain storage plan proposed by Wang Chen in front of him is an imminent matter.
A lot of food was collected before, and even if the number of troops has increased now, it will be enough to deal with it.
However, if there is a famine, the life of the common people will be very difficult.
Yan Wuya not only has to fight for imperial power, but also has to drive away the invaders, although there is the support of Zixia Mountain and Guanxia Mountain behind him, but the cultivation sect only recognizes your qualifications to compete for secular imperial power, and will not give much substantial help, everything has to rely on himself to fight.
The upper aristocratic class is protected by the current imperial power, and even if they are defeated again and again, they will not easily change their position and support some civil forces, which will damage their vested interests.
This part of the people could not be won over, and Yan Wuya could only win the support of the most populous peasants and the lowest-status industrialists and businessmen in the cracks.
To do this, you have to give people reasons to follow you:
-- It is necessary to let the peasants have land to grow and food to eat, to let the craftsmen have something to do, and to let the businessmen have money to earn.
Otherwise, why should others follow?
However, without the corresponding policy support, this matter will not be able to be done.
Fortunately, Yan Wuya has Wang Chen's ideas, and there is also a think tank to give him advice according to the situation, and now it seems that the execution is not bad.
If the stratum with the largest number of people and the lowest status is won over, there will be a broad mass base, and then Yan Wuya can be regarded as standing firm in the footsteps of dominating the world, and only then can he attack and retreat, and only then can he have the capital to continue to move forward.
Of course, today's imperial power tree has deep roots, and it will not be so easy to overthrow it, and the invasion of foreign enemies is even more menacing, and it is not easy to retreat.
How to rise in the cracks depends on Yan Wuya's will, strategy, and vision.
For the hegemony of the world, Wang Chen has no experience, no courage, and no need.
Some of the insights he makes are also based on the history of another world, known to most people.
Whether it is helpful or not requires Yan Wuya and his team to make judgments and decisions that are favorable to the current situation after argumentation.
At least judging from some of Yan Wuya's current actions, Wang Chen thinks that he is a qualified and wise leader.
As for what he can achieve in the end? Wang Chen estimated that he would not be able to see it, he just wanted to go home.
Now, Lu Shuangsheng has brought the seafaring fleet to the harbor of Luoxia City, and has brought a large number of books on spatial rifts, as well as hollow silver needles and animal tendons for the blood transfusion of Hua Langying.
As long as Hua Langying's divine soul is completely repaired, he is ready to go and see those spatial cracks, as long as he finds the crack back, he will pass on the soul attraction trick to Hua Langying, so that she can completely get rid of the shackles of the Heavenly Body.
I have to say that Hua Rongying is really a genius, she didn't spend too much time studying the spatial crack, but every time Wang Chen raised a question, she could give specific guidance, which benefited Wang Chen a lot.
What made Wang Chen even more grateful was that she actually summed up that spatial rifts were roughly divided into three types: teleportation, relic, and death rifts.
Teleportation rifts send intruders to unfamiliar worlds or regions, and are the safer of the three types of rifts.
The relic-type crack is a cave or enchantment left behind by some ancient cultivators or certain ethnic groups, and there are many opportunities to break into it, and it may also be extremely risky.
As for the death rift, it is not actually a literal expression of death.
It is somewhat similar to the ruin-type rift, which is the fragmented space of some ancient battlefields that have been shattered, and if you accidentally break into it, you will encounter various death threats, and if you are not careful, you will die.
But if you can come out of it alive, the harvest will definitely not be small.
The great-ancestor of Flower Shadow once entered the Death Rift and brought out the trick from it, giving the Empty Trap Island an extra kind of arrogant reliance.
However, according to the historical records of Hollow Island, there were more than 100 leaders of their period who entered the spatial rift with their great-ancestors back then.
Only her great-ancestor came out alive with his superb formation attainments, but not long after he came out, he still couldn't survive because he was too seriously injured in the death rift.
From Hua Langying's induction, Wang Chen believes that the crack in the original world must be the first kind of teleportation crack.
Of course, he will also carefully study the other two cracks and try to be as prepared as possible.
In the courtyard, Wang Chen asked Chen Mo to buy a new topaz stone table back, and equipped with four stools of the same material, this topaz has a warm texture, according to the person who sold it, this topaz has the effect of warming in winter and cooling in summer.
Wang Chen usually checks the soul of Hua Rongying here, and also studies the spatial rift with her here.
Before you know it, three months have passed.
Under the effect of the second grade gathering and dispersion, most of the souls of Hua Rongying have been completely repaired, and now only the head soul is still broken, and she can completely rest according to the routine of normal people, and will not overdraw the innate blood at all.
Hua Langying can also clearly feel that his mental state is getting better and better, and he is even more grateful to Wang Chen, and from time to time he will cook in person and cook with Professor Wang Chen's cooking method to express his gratitude.
I have to say that Hua Langying is worthy of being a heavenly body, and he is also super talented in cooking, and many dishes have far exceeded the level of the chef, which made Wang Chen greatly appreciated.
can get Wang Chen's recognition and praise, Hua Rongying is also very happy, so he has more and more time to cook.
Of course, only Wang Chen, Jiang Ling, and Cui'er can eat the dishes she makes, and the big men outside are very interested in making their own dishes.
Now there are only four of them in this backyard, and the pharmacy has been acquired by Jiang Cheng under the management of Jiang Cheng, and they have all moved to live next door, and rarely come to the backyard if they have nothing to do.
On this day, after Wang Chen examined Hua Rongying's body, it was rare that he did not continue to study the spatial crack with her, but returned to the room to practice.
Now if he wants to repair Hua Langying's head divine soul, he needs to use the three products to gather the divine dispersion in order to achieve the repair effect, and he must reach the third-order pharmacist level as soon as possible.
After Wang Chen washed his muscles and cut the marrow that day, his cultivation had reached the first level of soul shaping, and after three months of cultivation, he thought that he would have to reach at least three or four realms, but it was still one level.
Although the divine soul power was growing, it was slow to break through to the soul shaping triple, which couldn't help but make him a little suspicious of the identity of the genius he once boasted of.
The soul attraction technique is the only practice for cultivating the soul in the Taishang Immortal Sutra, and it is also specially prepared for pharmacists and pill masters.
Using the Soul Attraction Technique to increase the level of Divine Soul Power is not like ordinary cultivators, where cultivation increases simultaneously with Divine Soul, but determines when the level will be promoted according to the strength of Divine Soul Power required for the promotion of the pharmacist.
For example, at the pharmacist level, the divine soul power required to reach the second-order pharmacist must be doubled compared to the first-order, and the same third-order must be doubled on the basis of the second-order.
Therefore, Wang Chen actually didn't know that his current Divine Soul Power strength was only strong and not weak compared to the Soul Shaping Fivefold among ordinary cultivators.
If he was promoted to a third-order pharmacist, the strength of his divine soul power would be comparable to that of an ordinary six-fold soul-shaping cultivator.
Wang Chen was just about to enter the state of cultivation when he suddenly felt the air become hot.
The sky outside the door also turned red in an instant.