"Do you think I should agree to this dignitary's proposal to marry Irla to him?" King Urs was holding what he called the "Imperial Council", and now standing in front of him were the three ministers he usually valued the most, who played the most important role in his smooth accession to the throne and the succession of his reign. The three ministers were his cousin, Simon's father, Koster Urs, the Grand Priest of Jongmyo Temple, and Ruth, the Minister of Finance in charge of the nation's finances.

Just ten days ago, Jiang Minghong explained to him quite tactfully the progress of his relationship with Princess Erla in the past two years, and hoped to further their friendship.

"Absolutely not, even though he brought us a railroad, these outsiders are as unreliable as the outside tribes say, and they will only plunder our wealth. How can we deliver the princess into his hands? Koxter Urs also went out for a while, but only for a short time, and to the same backward neighbouring countries, far less than his brother knew about the outside world. But he had heard a lot about it, including the history of the enslavement of the tribes outside.

"But we don't have much wealth for them to plunder," the Chancellor of the Exchequer retorted, adding that he knew best the country's finances, barely enough to sustain the royal family's annual expenditures, military expenditures, and rituals, and that for many years there had been no major construction projects such as water facilities. The foreign experts hired by the king had not been able to explore for any mineral resources, otherwise there would not have been a railway to the foreign country until now.

"In any case, I don't believe that these outsiders will help us selflessly, as they say." Kester insisted on his opinion.

"But if we don't change, we can only guard the desolate land forever, watching our people die every year from common diseases, grieve every year with drought, and have to starve their own children to death every year." The Chancellor of the Exchequer's eyes welled up with tears as if he had just seen an open door of hope gradually closing.

The two argued, and the king turned his attention to the high priest, who had not yet spoken.

"Sacrifice Ulun, please show me a clear way." The king's eyes were full of anticipation. These days, after thinking about it, if they do not join forces, then it is difficult to ensure that the country can get help from the other side in a stable manner, and maybe the other side will regret it soon if they find out that they do not have any benefits, so there is no reason to ask the other side to continue to support.

"After three days of sleepless divination, I finally heard the message brought by the supreme god Rang Feng." Ullen's face was solemn, and the dark sockets of his eyes could prove that he was not lying. In fact, no one here dared or would suspect him of panicking.

Upon hearing this, King Urs, who had been sitting on the throne, stepped down, and after performing strange rituals like the other two, he reverently knelt before the high priest, ready to listen to the instructions from the gods.

"The pearl stored in the box is about to shine; The person who opens the box is right next to us. Uren chanted with a serious expression.

After hearing the instructions, King Urs got up and returned to his throne, where he sat without saying a word for a long time.

Koster and the Chancellor of the Exchequer no longer quarreled, and equally quietly pondered the meaning of the parable.

"I have decided that I will marry the pearl of the kingdom, my most cherished daughter, to this man who will change our country. Although he is an outsider, I think he is the one who opened the box, and I also believe that he will cherish our country as much as he cherishes my daughter. King Urs finally made up his mind.

"Great King, you have made the wisest decision, and this decision will make you the greatest leader the Urs tribe has ever seen." The Chancellor of the Exchequer fell to his knees and praised loudly.

"My dear brother, I will only obey the decisions you make; But I advise you, in my honour and loyalty, that you must not let your guard down on them, and that the people of our country must not become slaves of aliens. Koster Urs also fell to his knees and made his last reservation.

"Well, my cousin, I'll consider your suggestion. Luz, the preparations for this wedding are left to you. In two days' time, at a meeting of the courtiers, I will announce that I will marry my daughter to our most honorable benefactor. With a final remark, King Urs ended the short meeting. As always, he needed someone to help him strengthen his faith, even though he himself was equally inclined to affirmative.

The same exquisite building as the royal palace, in the capital of the country of Urs, there is only Jiang Minghong's villa, and the finance minister is in Jiang Minghong's living room at this time.

"With my persuasion, the King is ready to agree to your proposal to Her Royal Highness, and will take the initiative to do so at the meeting of his subjects in two days' time." At this time, the Minister of Finance Luce no longer had an expression of worrying about the country and the people on his face, and became extremely excited, as if it was not Jiang Minghong who became the king's son-in-law, but him.

"I can't thank you enough for your kindness. Your Excellency should have taken some time to rest after many days of hard work, but now that the railroad to the outside has been opened, and the country wants to develop, it should not be able to examine and learn from the situation of foreign countries. You have a lot of responsibilities and you want to be going abroad often in person in the near future. Jiang Minghong said politely with a smile on his face.

"That's true, I heard you mention a lot of foreign scenery, I really want to see it, but ,......" the Chancellor of Finance looked a little embarrassed.

It seems that no matter how small the place is, no matter how closed it is, there will always be people with flexible minds. As soon as Jiang Minghong heard the other party's words, he knew that he understood the true meaning of what he said.

"Lord Luce, don't worry, although the despicable company has a small reputation, it has many subsidiaries in many countries. Your Excellency's overseas investigation, if you believe me as a friend, please leave it to me. Jiang Minghong said this, and the other party would definitely understand what he meant.

Sure enough, the Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately frowned, he stood up, and said repeatedly: "Mr. Jiang is indeed generous, and I thank you for your actions on behalf of the king and his subjects." ”

"This is a handicraft that I asked people to bring from South Africa, of course, it is far worse than royal supplies, so please don't refuse." After some gossip, Jiang Minghong asked people to hand over a box containing a beautifully shaped antelope wood carving and handed it to the Minister of Finance. Originally, African friends often sent this kind of handicrafts to foreign visitors, but in Jiang Minghong's case, it was the other way around.

"There are quite a few such things in the palace, but this is the first time I've seen such exquisite." The Chancellor of Finance said politely, his hand kept touching, and suddenly he felt that there was something strange in the eyes of the antelope, and when he pressed it carefully, a smile appeared on his face, but it disappeared in an instant.

"Then I thank you in advance for your kindness. It wasn't early, Mr. Jiang had a lot of things, so I went back. After closing the box and carefully inserting it into his sleeve, the Chancellor of the Exchequer took his leave after Jiang Minghong got up to see him off.

"It's too easy." Jiang Minghong looked at the figure of the Minister of Finance leaving in a hurry, and said to himself.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer entered his house and let the slaves close the door. When he came to the bedroom and closed the bedroom door again, he took out a knife, opened the box, took out the wood carving, looked it up and down carefully, and then touched the antelope's eyes. Finally, he pointed his knife at the antelope's eye and dug it down, and as he expected, a diamond the size of a little finger refracted its brilliance in the somewhat dimly lit room. He didn't know where the diamond was produced, but he vaguely knew that this small thing could be worth the country's annual revenue.

Is there another one? After repeatedly admiring this treasure that was enough for him to enjoy for a lifetime, Luce's greedy eyes stared at the other eye of the antelope.

And in the house of the great priest Ulun, there are people who do the same thing as Luz. This courtyard in the center of the western part of the capital is clearly different from ordinary natives, which are used for divination, and strangely shaped animal bones occupy all the open space.

"Thank you Mr. Jiang for your kindness, please reply to him, no one will know about this matter." Ulren spoke, not turning her head, her eyes fixed on a box of shining jewels, and she kept stroking them with her hands, as if she were her most cherished child.

At the same time, a black servant quietly withdrew.

"Done?" Xue Yunchu opened his eyes and asked Jiang Minghong, who walked into the study.

"Yes, most people have been persuaded that no one will object to my marriage to the princess except the stubborn cousin of the king, and that if all goes well, the marriage will be officially celebrated in a month's time." Jiang Minghong took out a book "World History" from the bookshelf against the wall and flipped through it casually.

"Then I have bad news, the person who kidnapped 'me' two years ago doesn't seem to have a very good patience, although no one has made it clear, but through their many times to let 'me' speed up the progress of the experiment and ask about the progress of the experiment, they should be a little anxious." Xue Yunchu synthesized Xue Ying's work records during this period of time and found this problem.

"So what are we going to do? Originally, Xue Ying was put there in order to easily copy all their high-tech in the future, if the other party became suspicious and did some investigation, even if it was impossible to find out the truth, I am afraid that this peaceful situation would be broken now. You know, it's okay if there is no hope, but what people are most afraid of is that there is hope but it is broken, in this case, it is possible to do anything. Jiang Minghong was a little surprised, these people who had learned from immortality, if they knew the truth, they would cause great trouble.

"Yes," Xue Yunchu clasped his hands together and looked out the window, "After all, those people are not as easy to deal with as the people of this primitive tribe, and they will soon find that if they continue according to the research plan proposed by 'me', then they will not see any hope while they are alive." At most, you can change your body and live for more than ten years, and you have to risk brain dementia. ”

"They should know that an ordinary scientific achievement, experts often spend a lifetime exploring and demonstrating, to obtain, like the requirements they put forward, it is impossible to be perfectly solved within a hundred years, these people are too anxious." Jiang Minghong said with some grievances, "Even if a genius like Einstein eventually died without completing the unified field theory, how can he be too harsh on us?" It's only been two years, and it seems that some of those people are old enough to die. ”

"This matter can drag on for a few years, but there is no need to take immediate steps to deal with it. The main problem now is to establish a basic system for this country first, but they lack the most basic conditions, the vast majority of them are illiterate, and it is very difficult to even carry out vocational training, which greatly slows down our steps," Xue Yunchu read the report handed over by the Capital Central Hospital, in the past two years, about 6,000 newborn children were born in that hospital, and the instrument worked normally, and while entering information, it was indeed checked that a considerable number of children were born with various physiological defects, This is because the situation of consanguineous marriages is still very serious. The number of people is about 120, which is already a fairly high ratio, and if any large country with such a population has such a ratio, it will undoubtedly cause extremely serious social problems. These people will excel in their later education, and they can also openly support them in various names, such as scholarships, so as to occupy the middle and upper classes of the country more quickly, and form the basis of future rule. There's no need to cover it all. In modern society, only a very small part of the decisions of each country are really influenced, although the consequences are borne by all people. This is true even in the most democratic countries, where the so-called national consent is nothing more than convincing the lower classes of people to make a decision and giving them at most a few options after they have made a decision. And in this civilization, there are people who can find a valid reason for doing everything.

"That had to be solved through immigration, but it will take more than ten years for this situation to be changed, and now that the railway is connected, all kinds of teaching resources needed by the school can be successfully reached, and a group of teachers can be recruited in the name of support." Jiang Minghong counted them one by one.

"Now that the king has approved the nuclear power plant plan we have submitted, while you are preparing for your wedding, let's get this up first, it will be completely in our hands, and they will not have the funds and manpower to manage it themselves." Xue Yunchu finally said.