Chapter 56: Founding of the State
"It's worth the money!"
Wei Qian and Tao Ping cruised in the South China Sea on three warships. More than a dozen cannons slammed into the pirate ship in the distance, sinking them before they could get close.
Fighting to feed the war, this is Wei Qian's idea from the beginning. Pretending to be pirates, the two destroyed all obstacles in the course of the Canghai Merchant House with the help of warships, and also seized a large piece of jewelry from their lair.
Wei Qian sat at the bow of the boat, surrounded by boxes of gold coins and pearls. Not only the merchant ships of Shenzhou were robbed, but even the ships that came from the West to trade were also robbed, and now they are all cheaper Wei Qian.
"These three warships cost me tens of thousands of taels of silver, and now with these gold coins and jewels, I can build new sea ships again." I can't help but covet the mysterious person "Mr. Kuzhu" who designed this kind of sea boat.
"How can this kind of talent not be recruited?"
The emperors of all dynasties did not set their eyes on the sea, because Shenzhou is vast and rich, and it is difficult to take care of the land of Shenzhou alone, let alone the sea area?
Therefore, although the navigation technology of Middle-earth continued to improve, it was gradually overtaken by the Western Ocean. Now is the critical moment for the two sides to catch up with each other.
"This kind of shipbuilding talent must be found, and we must also try to support it, only in this way can the technology of our dynasty not be left behind by the West."
Wei Qian, who came from later generations, knew one thing clearly.
Dominating the sea area also controls the world's right to speak. In the previous life, before the decline of a certain European country, it was with the help of the sea to lay the foundation of its first power.
Thinking in his heart, he was a little more eager for that talent. Over the course of the year, he had provided three drawings of the ship, and even the shipyard had provided valuable advice.
"There is no shortage of capable people in Middle-earth, the key is bad luck!"
"Young master, there is a port ahead!" A sailor came up to remind Wei Qian: "Do you want to dock now?" โ
"Let's go ashore." Wei Qian dressed up as a man, got up to pack up the gold, silver and jewelry, and prepared to move to Midway Island to continue his great cause of founding the country.
At present, Midway Island has only a shipyard and a lumber yard to accompany it. Although they found an iron ore on the island, they could not mine and smelt it because they did not have the corresponding technology.
"Talent! Every qiฤ needs people! "Wei Qian can say that he is not short of money.
However, without the manpower of no relevant parties, it is too easy to be blinded by the eyes of the imperial court, and I am afraid that in the end, only a group of "pirates" will need to occupy Midway, and then the imperial court will be able to return Midway Island to the territory with great fanfare.
This is not what Wei Qian expected. What she wants is a paradise, for herself and for the Wei family, to leave a way back.
Commanding three ships to transport the jewels down one by one, a person dressed as a butler ran out of it: "Young master." You're back. โ
This housekeeper's surname is Zhang, and he was originally a wronged death row inmate, Wei Qian went to Jiayu Village to rescue him and put him on Midway Island to help manage him.
This is also the only way Wei Qian came up with it.
"How's it going on at Midway?" Looking at the sea, Tao Ping was directing everyone to place jewelry.
"It's okay, these people that the young master brought from the mainland are quite diligent. After all, they can't survive on the mainland, and they were rescued by you to work on Midway, as long as they have a bite of food, they can survive. Just ......"
"Just what?"
"A lot of people here used to beg for a living, and they became cheeky. Sometimes, the guards are not easy to manage. โ
Hearing this, Wei Qian sneered: "Ben Shao is not a benevolent hall!" What were those โกโก archers for? There are really people who dare to make trouble, Ben Shao doesn't mind taking a few people to stand up! Left but a hundred people? As long as you kill a few first, you will naturally be convinced by then! Working honestly and honestly, it is natural to get rid of the precarious life in Middle-earth. If you don't want to, shoot and drown! โ
When Steward Zhang heard this, his heart settled down. I thought that this young master tossed this Midway Island because it was fun. Now it looks like it's going to be a big deal.
"The most taboo thing in the early foundation stage is that there is no systematic planning. As long as these 100 people are honest, someone will come over in the future. Seeing these examples, it is natural to work honestly. After all, the masses are blindly obedient. Steward Zhang's heart was like a mirror, and he immediately ordered to go down.
"It's a little bit of murder in the dark!" After he left, Wei Qian's face immediately collapsed, looking at the top of his head faintly.
The pale golden clouds were mixed with wisps of gray gas, which were the sinister actions she had created when she founded Midway. Including the interception and killing of pirates in the South Seas, there are also killings. However, pirates usually do a lot of evil, and in addition to killing, there is also a golden merit that constantly counteracts the ashes.
"But whoever cultivates the Tao will have bad luck. It's just that we know how to try to suppress the bad luck and not let it affect us and damage the Daoji at all. Xuanyun took the sword and floated from the air: "Senior sister, get ready, the master will go overseas in person." โ
Lingyun out of the mountain?
Wei Qian was shocked, Lingyun hadn't walked out of Nanshan for many years, and now he actually wanted to leave the open sea for the matter of Midway?
Hurriedly set up a futon on the only hill in Midway, clean it with water, spread flower petals, burn incense and wait.
After a short time, a huge crane soared in the air, and there was a lotus throne on its back supporting the Venerable Lingyun. There are four people standing around: Xuanzhu, Xuanyun, Xuanyu, and Xuanjuan.
These are all the most outstanding female disciples of the Xuanling Dao line.
The people came down and stood on the top of the hill and looked down on the whole island. Ling Wan smiled and pointed downward, "What did you see?" โ
The four of Xuan Yun fixed their eyes.
On the vast island of Midway, people are clearing wasteland for farming. Not far away, smoke rises from a thatched house. In the distance, there is a logging factory and a shipyard.
Xuanyu said: "It's orderly, like a paradise." โ
Xuan Juan was a little unwilling and said: "It's just that there are too few people, there are only 100 people at present, and there is not even a complete production system." It is also the younger sister who has money, so that she can continue to transport resources from the mainland. โ
Ling Wan was noncommittal, and said to Xuanzhu and Xuanyun: "What about the two of you? โ
Xuan Yun smiled slightly: "The disciple sees a country. โ
And Xuanzhu looked at the sky, where there was an illusory and invisible beast: "The country is a country, and only a country can have a home." Small can be big. But all living beings have luck, and the so-called lord of the country is to gather luck into one and refine it into dragon qi. The dragon qi of the Son of Heaven is, in the final analysis, nothing more than the will of the people. Although the gathering of hundreds of people in this area is a drop in the bucket, but the leopard in the tube, the initial prototype has been formed, as long as the junior sister will be good in the future, a small overseas country will not be able to run. โ
Inadvertently looked at Tao Ping in the distance, and above Tao Ping's head was a wisp of mysterious dragon energy. This is the unique power of the next generation of queens of Pengsang country, and she is protected by the national fortune, and she can turn evil into good fortune. It's just that there are wisps of blood under the fortune of the country, which is the murder she committed in Pengsang Kingdom, which was suppressed by the dragon qi.
"It's a pity that this woman only cultivates the unknown avenue of supernatural powers, and if she loses the protection of dragon qi in the future, she will inevitably suffer a tragic calamity and be killed by the karma of the past."
This is also the reason why kings of the past rarely died well after losing their thrones. The dragon qi disappeared, and he couldn't suppress his past sins. To put it bluntly, it was the enemy who came to the door in the past and asked you for liquidation.
Wei Qian's face changed, Ling Yun caught a glimpse of her face, and said to a few apprentices: "You know how to scare your junior sister." She has just had the prototype of a nation, and you are just hitting it like this. โ
"Girl." Ling said to Wei Qian: "Everyone knows that the three emperors and five emperors of ancient times are unparalleled in virtue and are respected as holy emperors, but do you think they are soft-hearted and vegetarians? โ
"Naturally not, Ci is not in charge of the army, and if this is the case, they will not be able to sit on the throne."
But in the end, they set up a great cause that was not easy for eternity, and the merits were completed and flew into the sky by the dragon, which is the so-called way of the human emperor. People in the world say that the way of the emperor is difficult to cultivate immortals, but in the eyes of the teacher, it is nothing more than inferior to the true way. โ
Wei Qianfu was blessed to her heart, and hurriedly knelt down: "Please teach the master." โ
"I'm good at dragon qi in Lishan, and I know a lot about the way of the human emperor. Even the patriarch personally established a tribe in ancient times, which was the predecessor of Yanhuang. In the past, I heard your ancestor mention it, and your ancestor heard three generations of old mothers mention it, saying that when Nuwa Niangniang talked with the great god of Dou Mu, she talked about the art of the human emperor. The reason why the Emperor of Man was able to finally attain enlightenment was that the most important point was the degree. โ
"Degrees?"
"That's right, everything has a measure, and it has its measure. It is not terrible to kill evil, when the ancient wilderness, generations of holy emperors led their tribes to annex and kill, even the two emperors of Yan and Huang, who were the most respected by later generations, were united by iron and blood, and finally had the name of Yan and Huang. The point is that they have a good grasp of the measurements, they have a clear conscience, and everything they do is to strengthen their tribe, so the dragon energy generated by the tribe will shelter them and suppress the factors that they ignore them. This is the principle that the Son of Heaven has no taboos. โ
Lingyun helped Wei Qian up: "It doesn't matter if you build a country in the open sea, but why did you build a country that day, was it for yourself or for the world?" Whether it is selfish or public, there is a heavenly lesson in the dark. โ
The old woman reached out and grabbed Wei Qian's head, and a tiny, barely visible insect was in her hand.
"You see, this is the dragon qi you have accumulated in Midway, gathering the strength of a hundred people to form this long worm. When will you be able to turn into a flying dragon in the future, and when will it be the time for you to establish a human emperor and fly to the sky. โ
Wei Qian's heart was clear, and he immediately understood what the path ahead of him was, and hurriedly thanked Lingyun.
"That's it, calculate the time, the people over there in Chang'an should be in a hurry. Go back as your teacher. โ
Chang'an went to Jinling to announce to Wei Qian that the people who surveyed the sweet potato orchard were about to arrive. And the reason why Wei Qian was able to work here on Midway Island was because he used the name of Doumu Temple Qingxiu to hide in Doumu Temple.
If Jia Mei really sent someone to find it, she would be exposed immediately.
With a wave of Lingyun's big sleeves, the five-colored auspicious clouds wrapped everyone in the sky.
After a short time, he returned to Doumu Temple, and it happened that two officials came to Nanshan to invite Wei Qian.
The sweet potatoes offered by Wei Qian are beneficial to agriculture and belong to the household department according to the six-department system. These two officials were the heads of the household department, and they came to the Doumu Temple together with the eunuchs who announced the decree.
"It's inconvenient to accept orders in the place of Qing Xiu, so please bring it with your father-in-law." Wei Qian walked out of the Dou Mu Temple, only then did he receive the holy decree, and after taking the county lord's ribbon ritual weapon, the tiny dragon qi above his head immediately grew a little stronger, hovering above Wei Qian's head like a small snake. Jinling, the ancient capital of the emperor, is even more wisps of earthly qi used from all directions, full of Wei Qian's true dragon energy.
"Only the name and the instrument should not be lightly allowed! Could it be that the current emperor is looking at my daughter's body, so he doesn't care about giving me this title? Now he's different. Wei Qian squinted his eyes and calculated his life, if he got the title of county lord, it was only to share some dragon qi from the Dragon Court, and it was not enough to condense the dragon life. If you can go further......
Thinking in her heart, Wei Qian's phoenix eyes looked at the two officials of the household department, and she had her own demeanor in her gestures: "The two adults are here to survey the sweet potato orchard?" Come down with me. โ
Seeing that Wei Qian was about to salute them, the two hurriedly dodged away: "The county lord doesn't need to be like this. โ
"The county lord of Jinling is the future princess of the side, and she has a second grade, so what you say should be the two of us to meet you." Seeing Wei Qian's demeanor, the two of them thought of the secret instructions of some adults before they came, and they knew how to reply.
The two sides excused each other, and after some tossing, Wei Qian took them to his farm. Even the father-in-law who announced the decree was left by Wei Qian: "Father-in-law will come and take a look, and if His Majesty asks after he goes back, it will be easy to answer." โ
As soon as the big eunuch thought about it, he followed the two of them to the ground with Wei Qian.
Wei Qian tossed the fruit farm and spent a lot of effort. occupies a hundred acres of land, except for the purchase, they have the shame to occupy the fields of Weifu.
Everyone followed her to the sweet potato orchard: "I have twenty acres of sweet potatoes planted, two adults take a closer look." There are detailed records of soil and moisture, which should be helpful for the promotion of the whole country. โ
That's a great merit! If it is really promoted across the country, how much benefit can Wei Qian get? The small abacus crackled, and he was a little more eager for the two heads of households.