Chapter 32: The Growing Influence
"Yo ho, such a handsome little lady, it's better to go back to the mountain with a certain person and make a ...... for a certain village"
A standard mountain king with a face full of flesh, a beard like a steel brush, a frank shirt, and two big axes, before this sentence was finished, the leader of the big bucket had already flown into the air.
On the opposite side, Li Yun, known as the "handsome little lady", had a pretty face full of frost, and pinched the sword trick in her hand to summon a sword light back to her side. In fact, this was just one of the many bandits and bandits she had met during these days as Ye Zan traveled around.
After leaving the prosperous circle centered on Sheng'an City, the footprints of Ye Zan and his party gradually extended to the so-called "poor countryside". Li Yun never thought that there would be so many bandits and bandits outside Sheng'an City, where singing and dancing. Although, in those prefectures and counties, it seems that they are still prosperous, but out of the city, maybe on a certain mountain, there is a group of grass robbers who occupy the mountains as kings.
Although most of these grass cowards are not climate-dependent, some even go up the mountain to farm for the cowards. However, this also reflects the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty, either going up the mountain and falling into the grass, or enduring the oppression of both sides of the officials and bandits. In some places, the government is not inactive, but the officers and soldiers went, the bandits ran away, the officers and soldiers withdrew, and the bandits returned.
Li Yun is both a princess of the Tang Dynasty and a disciple of Yuqing, but no matter which identity she is, she is superior to the people at the bottom. As a result, she had never been so close to the bottom of this world, which was also the majority of this world.
Originally, Li Yun still didn't understand Ye Zan's approach, and felt that Ye Zan's cooperation with Datang was too much of a loss. Although she is a princess of the Tang Dynasty, as a disciple of Yuqing, she naturally has to consider the interests of the Yuqing Sect.
In Li Yun's opinion, Ye Zan does not have to give up his greatest interests to Datang at all. After all, the refining of this magic weapon, as well as the plan of Datang Communication, are all from Ye Zan's hands, and there is no reason for the benefits to be taken by Datang.
However, the experience and experience along the way made Li Yun finally understand Ye Zan's intentions. Some of those base stations are placed in the cities of the prefecture and county, and some are to be placed on the top of the mountain in the wild. Look at these grass robbers who occupy the mountains everywhere, and if the base stations in the field are not garrisoned by officers and soldiers, who knows what will happen to them.
There is a saying that "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", these grass cowards are all kings of the mountains, how much reverence can there be for the imperial power? Not to mention, for ordinary people, it is more ethereal and more lofty than the imperial power. They will only see that there is something here that seems to be quite valuable, even if it is smashed and sold for scrap metal, it can be exchanged for a drink.
Anyway, for them, one person has a head on his shoulder, which is only enough for one person to cut, the county official wants to cut it is a knife, the emperor wants to cut it is a knife, and Yuqingzong comes to cut it is also a knife. In this case, in their eyes, what is the difference between the emperor and the county official, and what is the difference between Yuqingzong and the emperor?
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, it is necessary for the government to send officers and soldiers to garrison it, and if the Tang Dynasty does not have enough interests, how can it be possible to do its best in this regard. Moreover, this sufficient interest is not a small piece of cake, but it must be big enough for them to feel that it is their own benefit, so that they can really care.
Although the Tang Kingdom can only be regarded as a lower-average country in this Shenhua Domain, its territory is also quite broad, and it is not much worse than the Ancient China Kingdom of the Earth Age. In order to make the communication signal cover the whole of Datang, even if Ye Zan calculated the best distribution of base stations, it took half a year to run the whole territory of Datang.
With the expansion of signal coverage, the popularity of Qianli Transsion is also centered on Sheng'an City, rapidly spreading to all around.
The largest single order, of course, came from the Tang Dynasty, and the public offices of various prefectures and counties, and all the military towns in the passes and towns had set up public Qianli Transmission Voice, which was specially used for government affairs liaison. Even, those civil ministers and military generals who were in charge of the affairs were also assigned personal thousands of miles of voice.
And the purchasing power of the people should not be underestimated, there are many poor people in Datang, but there are also many rich and noble people. Maybe their initial idea was just that it was a thing to show off their wealth, some people wanted to show it off, and some people might think it wasn't worth it. However, when people who feel worthless see that they are talking about things with thousands of miles of sound around them, but they have to run around in order to talk about one thing, they naturally have to go into the pit.
There were even businessmen who found a business opportunity and bought a number of Qianli Chuan Sound, and then opened a shop for people to use, which became a primitive public phone convenience store. This makes it possible for those who cannot afford it, or who are not cost-effective to buy, to enjoy this convenient communication.
Originally, after the appearance of the public phone convenience store, Li Haoran and many people in Datang Communications still felt that their interests had been infringed, and even wanted to use the power of the government to close it.
On the surface, it seems that this is indeed the case, you can enjoy such convenience without buying Qianli Transsion, so who will buy Qianli Transsion?
But after Ye Zan found out, he asked them to stop this practice, and even asked Datang Communications to make special regulations to support this kind of public convenience store in the private sector.
People in this world are accustomed to handing over money with one hand and delivering goods with the other, so their horizons are naturally limited. If you can't afford it, you won't let him use it, and he can't afford it either. And the person who can afford it but is reluctant to buy it, when he becomes more and more dependent on this method of communication, it is only a matter of time before he enters the pit.
Of course, in the past half a year, Ye Zan's own cultivation has not fallen, and he has already reached the cultivation of the second layer of foundation building. Half a year to reach this cultivation is already very good, after all, the true yuan he needs at each level is far beyond that of ordinary foundation building monks. For example, Li Yun, who was running around with Ye Zan, although he didn't have his special cultivation method, with the help of the best Ning Yuan Dan, he also reached the second layer of foundation building.
As for Li Haoran, when he passed by the Yuqing Sect when he placed the base station, he was directly taken to the mountain by Ye Zan, and he performed the etiquette of the entrance, and he was already regarded as an outer disciple of the Yuqing Sect. It's just that as soon as he became a disciple of Yuqing, he was taken down by Ye Zan again, and while he began to practice Yuqing's Qi Refining Technique, he continued to run Datang Communications.
When the construction of the entire Datang communication network was completed, Ye Zan and the others returned to Sheng'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and the various sects in the Datang finally couldn't sit still. It's not that we value the worldly interests, maybe there is a little bit of it, but more importantly, I hope to use this fast and convenient way of communication.
Ordinary people can transmit sound for thousands of miles, and cultivators who think they are not mortals are still using paper cranes to transmit messages and flying swords to pass books, which makes them feel that they have become primitive people.
Although according to Ye Zan's instructions, the Datang side had already passed on the refining methods of thousands of miles of sound transmission and base stations to various sects through various channels. Moreover, during this period of time, some of the sects they may have also refined finished products. However, if you want to communicate in Datang without hindrance, you still have to use Datang Communication's network, and this needs to be talked about, and you can't behind closed doors.