Chapter 128 Road to Development
Finally, Zheng Tai Biao took the confused He Ling away.
Li Yuan once again fell into a dull and leisurely life.
On my own hilltop, I can stroll around here and there, and feel very comfortable.
Li Yuan was idle for more than half a year.
Sometimes, Li Yuan couldn’t help but think: This is the life that gods should live!
It’s plain and boring, but it’s the true meaning of life!
The weather is sunny and the earth is warming up.
The spring rain does not care about the mountains and rivers, and the cold wind dissipates and returns home.
The remaining snow in Anshan melted, and the slightly frozen Khan River began to flow again.
The temperature difference between day and night in this area is extremely large, with hot days and cool nights.
Fortunately, people living here have adapted to this rhythm.
The end of the year passed in a lively manner, and Li Yuan made a lot of money from the incense offerings.
Out of caution, Li Yuan painted a "Heavenly Scroll" on the wall behind the mountain temple.
Most of them are blurry, with only a golden figure standing in the middle.
Li Yuan told the people that he was the Emperor of the Three Realms and the Supreme Being of all spirits.
And he was just a small mountain god under the Emperor of Heaven.
It was because of the appreciation of the Heavenly Court and the title bestowed by the Emperor of Heaven that Li Yuan was able to be named the Mountain God.
At Li Yuan's request, when the people offered incense in the mountain temple, they would always think of the supreme Heavenly Emperor.
In addition, Li Yuan asked Emperor An Yue to build a Jade Emperor Temple and an Earth Mother Temple in the most prosperous area of Anshan today.
Li Yuan popularized the great achievements of the Emperor of Heaven and Mother Earth to the people, making their originally vague understanding much clearer.
After the common people paid their respects, Li Yuan went to pay his respects separately and offered some incense and candles.
The portion provided to the Emperor of Heaven should, in theory, be handed over to the Jade Envoy.
But Li Yuan really didn't trust that guy, so he finally recited the Emperor of Heaven's taboo and tried to offer sacrifices.
Of course, because a certain middle-aged man in white was in the mortal world and did not care about the affairs of heaven, after those merits floated up to the sky, they could not find this big guy in the sky and soon returned.
Li Yuan was worried about this for a long time.
He really couldn't understand whether it was because his operation method was wrong and he couldn't skip the Jade Order Envoy; or whether he really offended the big boss, the Emperor of Heaven.
Fortunately, the merits and incense offered to the Earth Mother were taken away by the statue in the Earth Mother Temple.
This made Li Yuan feel a little relieved.
After doing all this, Li Yuan erected a statue for Zheng Tai Biao and officially named him - Biao.
Like the Cloud Demon, Shota Biao, Big Demon Biao, Black Hand Biao... those are all jokes and nicknames.
Only what is on the statue is the true name of merit.
In addition, Li Yuan placed the statue at the border of Anyue, using the evil spirit of the Biao to guard the border, and regarded it as a great demon guarding the border.
From now on, Anyue's fate will be linked with Zheng Tai Biao.
As long as Anyue does not perish, Anshan will not fall.
Zheng Tai Biao will always be a virtuous demon with status and background.
After hearing this, Zheng Tai Biao punched Li Yuan a few times with a complicated expression, but he didn't use any strength.
Li Yuan's move officially turned it into one of the objects of worship by the people of Anyue.
From then on, as long as the people still remember its good points, the power of Biao's incense will never be extinguished.
Although there are no regulations regarding offering sacrifices to monsters in the rules of heaven.
But Zheng Tai Biao can see the real benefits of merit and protection.
Of course, if Anyue is in trouble, it, as a great demon protecting the country, cannot remain indifferent.
but......
In this world, apart from powerful immortals and gods, who can defeat the big monster Biao?
Anyue, if you don't cause the wrath of heaven and the resentment of the people, and don't provoke a calamity from heaven and overthrow the general trend, you will basically be immortal.
No matter what, the country will not be destroyed.
And being a Zhengtai Biao basically means enjoying incense and offerings forever.
After more than half a year of hardship and suffering, the people of Anyue finally waited for the mixed rice to mature.
The high-yield mixed rice has greatly alleviated the food pressure on the people of Anyue.
It's the taste, I really can't praise it.
Boiled like chewing wax, steamed like a grain of dirt.
But the people have their own ways.
Since it didn't taste good when steamed or cooked, they ground it into powder and made it into dry food cakes.
Or it can be steamed into dumplings or made into pickled balls.
Or you can add salt and vinegar and make fried rice.
Someone else, by coincidence, discovered a kind of sour wild grass with a strong taste, white roots, long stems and few leaves.
If you eat it alone, you will feel sour and uncomfortable in your mouth. You can add some vinegar water and pair it with the tasteless mixed rice. It will taste much more refreshing.
After hearing this, Li Yuan went to take a look out of curiosity.
Wow, this is the otherworldly version of Houttuynia cordata!
The people took the mixed rice in their hands and used it in various ways, with endless new ways of eating it.
Answered that sentence:
I'm not afraid of it being unpalatable, I'm just afraid of having nothing to eat!
Once there is food, we will always find a way to make it taste good!
Long Jun’s research is still full of uncertainties, especially for rice, which is just the beginning.
He could only ask Emperor Anyue to ask the people to plant another season of mixed rice.
We will try to develop a high-yield and delicious rice variety before the next harvest.
With the nourishment of the spiritual energy of the elixir, the rice seedlings planted in the experimental field grew much faster than usual.
Of course, the acceleration of spiritual energy will also subtly affect the actual growth of rice seedlings.
All practical effects still depend on careful study and observation by Long Jun and others.
Only when the people had food in their hands could the Anyue court take out part of the money used to buy rice to exchange for meat from the outside world.
Only in this way can we nourish the people's bodies.
When Emperor Anyue told Li Yuan a piece of information, some thoughts about breeding suddenly popped up in Li Yuan's mind.
Outside of the Anshan 'wasteland', between the Qian countries, there is a vast expanse of wasteland.
It's like a wasteland prairie.
However, due to the shortage of supplies and the fact that it was easy to attack but difficult to defend, the Qian Kingdom, which was the closest to it, had never had any idea.
The vastness of the wasteland is not smaller than the Anshan area, and is even wider.
And just recently, Emperor Qian ordered that the barren land be ceded to Anyue in return for Anyue's military assistance several years ago.
Although the wasteland was actually completely unattended, the people of Qian still considered it to be Qian's territory.
Emperor Qian's move not only gave Anyue great opportunities for development, but also revealed some attitudes to the internal situation of Qian State.
Emperor Anyue knew that Emperor Qian could not hold on any longer.
Contaminated by a deadly poison, and having tried every possible means to extend his five-year life span, Emperor Qian now only had less than a few months left.
Not many people knew about this, only a few confidants of Emperor Qian, Emperor Anyue and others.
Everyone else only knew that Emperor Qian was ill, but they didn't know what the illness was.
Emperor Qian’s heart, perhaps only Emperor Anyue can fully understand it in the world.
That was the emperor's final leap before his death.
This mediocre emperor spent most of his life in mediocrity.
But after experiencing the rebellion war and being poisoned, he knew that he had not much time left, and his temperament changed drastically.
Become ruthless and decisive.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
The roots of the Qian Kingdom have already rotted.
Moreover, he doesn't have time to change slowly.
Emperor Qian found that he could not save the Kingdom of Qian.
So he decided to clean up all of this before his death and take away as much corruption as possible from the country of Qian.
But after that, the people of Qian Kingdom, who were plunged into chaos, still needed a benevolent emperor to lead them.
Compared with the incompetent people in the royal family of Qian Kingdom and the ferocious and ferocious Xu Kingdom.
Emperor Qian would rather hand over the country to Emperor Anyue.
These two emperors may not have met each other often, but they already know each other's character.
Emperor Qian did all this and was willing to hand over the land of Qian to Anyue, with only two conditions.
First, he hoped that after Anyue occupied Qian State, the Emperor of Anyue would not massacre the people of Qian State. He hoped that the people of Qian State could live together as the people of Anyue in the future.
Secondly, he hoped that Emperor Anyue would treat the royal descendants who came to Anyue well, and give them a worry-free status and a way out.
Nothing else I ask for.
The heart of an emperor may be very complicated.
But the heart of a leader and a father can sometimes be pure.