Chapter 102 Selecting a Successor
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Lin Xing was tied up and put on display in public, with a sign next to him stating his crime.
Lin Xing did not expect that Jin State had undergone earth-shaking changes. It was completely different from the defeated state when he escaped. The people here were all in high spirits and dressed in bright and beautiful clothes, unlike before when they were dressed in rags, with pale faces, dull eyes, and were in a daze like the living dead. He always heard people say that Jin State had become rich, but he had no substantial feeling at that time. Now seeing the changes in the people, he believed it.
In addition to the changes in the people, the streets have also changed. He has never seen a cement road before. It is so flat and smooth. Someone sweeps it every day. It looks like the floor of a house, not the road outside.
The people could understand the sign hanging next to him without anyone reading it to them. He also heard that the Emperor of Jin allocated funds from the national treasury to build schools in various places, where there was no tuition and enrollment was free.
Women can also read, and they can learn magic from Lin Baige. After learning the magic, they can also be appointed as officials.
At that time, when the officials of Jiang State heard that Jin State had given official titles to women, they all laughed at Jin State, asking whether the men had lost their courage to allow women to become officials, serve as soldiers in the military camp, and serve as military doctors. Before the army of Jin State entered Jiang State, they were still mocking and saying with a smile that if the army of women from Jin State entered, they would capture them alive and take them back for fun.
As a result, they were frightened to the point of peeing their pants by the deafening sound of cannons before they even saw the shadow of the Jin army.
At this moment, Lin Xing saw the changes in Jin State with his own eyes and was completely convinced.
He suddenly thought of the night when Lin Baige assassinated Fu Jiangyu. After his residence was surrounded by secret guards, he saw Lin Baige again. At that time, Lin Baige was completely different from before. At that time, Lin Baige was no longer the mortal he used to be.
From the moment the immortal came down to earth and stayed in Jin to assist the king of Jin, everything he did was in vain.
Lin Xing's spirit was completely gone at once. No matter how people insulted him, threw rotten eggs and stones at him, he seemed to feel no pain at all. His greatest pain was that he had lost completely and became a loser.
The next morning, his body was stiff. Fu Jiangyu wanted to display it for a few more days, but Lin Baige said forget it: "It stinks and affects the city appearance too much. Let's take it off and leave it at the mass grave."
"He got it so easy." Fu Jiangyu had been observing Lin Baige's expression. When he saw Lin Baige asked him to drag Lin Xing out and throw him away as if he were throwing away garbage, he finally let go of the anger in his heart.
"It's just right for the land of Jin." Lin Baige was completely relieved. The hero of the book was gone, so who was he afraid of? No one could threaten his life anymore.
"When can we go to Jiangguo to have a look?" Lin Baige couldn't wait to go over and take a look. He wanted to make tires, eat seafood, and eat tropical fruits.
"It's not possible now. We just finished the war. If there are still remnants of the rebels, it will be very dangerous to go there." Fu Jiangyu wanted to stabilize the situation for a few years before taking Lin Baige there.
"Okay, let's lay the rails first and take the train there." Lin Baige thought that he could make some muskets recently and make the weapons more advanced, so that it would be safer to go out.
"My wish is fulfilled, and I am ready to go back with you at any time. Before that, I will train the prince first." Fu Jiangyu went out to fight this time, and he was accompanied by several princes. Those young men performed well.
"Yes, a successor. This is very important. I can't have children. You can call your brother's children and see which one is better." Lin Baige thought that now that the country's area has expanded, there are more talents to select, and the progress of his mission will definitely be accelerated. He may go home in about ten years, so he has to train a successor quickly.
"If you can give birth, why would you still need them?" Fu Jiangyu lowered his eyes and looked at Lin Baige's belly. "Is there really no other way?"
Lin Baige took a step back. "What's the solution?"
Fu Jiangyu: "The method for you to bear a child for me, your future medical skills will be so powerful, and you will also be able to cast spells..."
Before Fu Jiangyu could finish, Lin Baige quickly raised his hand and said, "Stop! No matter how advanced I am, I can't give birth. Even if I could, the child I give birth to wouldn't necessarily be better than the one I raised. We're doting on our child so much, so we're bound to raise a rebellious son. Even if he's a rebellious son, you have to make him emperor. The whole world we fought so hard for will be squandered by this prodigal son. It's better not to have children."
Fu Jiangyu: "Oh? So you really fantasized about giving birth to a child for me? And you also fantasized about how I would raise this child? Don't worry, I will definitely raise your child well."
"Are you willing to let him go to the battlefield for training? Just like when your father threw you into the military camp as a child?" Lin Baige asked him.
Fu Jiangyu hesitated. After all, the child born by Lin Baige was as sweet and soft as Lin Baige. How could he bear to give it up?
But then again, Lin Baige's child must be as clever as Lin Baige. In this war, he hardly needs to fight in person, but uses explosives and artillery. "Your child may be able to develop more powerful weapons. He uses his brain, not like me."
"That's true," Lin Baige clicked his chin. "By the way, speaking of this, the next king doesn't rely on force, but on brains. Can my students also participate in the selection? Many of my students have royal blood, and they are very smart."
After Lin Baige finished speaking, he saw Fu Jiangyu frowning. It was over. Fu Jiangyu had such a feudal mind. Last time, when he asked his student to be an official, Fu Jiangyu was unwilling to do so. It was only after he pretended to be pitiful and wasted a lot of eye drops that he got it.
"You said before that everyone is equal over there?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"Yes." Lin Baige nodded, "What's wrong?"
"Ask those princesses to enter the palace and compete fairly with the princes in the selection. I cannot guarantee that they can win. The final solution will be decided by me." Fu Jiangyu said.
"It's good that you can give me this opportunity." Lin Baige felt that now was the best time. His students were currently studying how to make guns. If anyone dared to object, he would shoot him and make him shut up.
When Lord Zhang heard the news, his eyes went dark, but what could he do? The situation in Jin State had changed.
Lord Zhang knew from the beginning that once the loophole was opened and girls were allowed to go to school, Lin Baige would gradually cross the line, and they would gradually compromise. By the time they had compromised to the point where she could become a candidate for the crown prince.
Fortunately, the final selection right is in Fu Jiangyu's hands, and Fu Jiangyu will never do anything stupid.
Moreover, Lord Zhang knew that Fu Jiangyu had already found a satisfactory candidate for the attack on Jiang State this time.
Fu Jiangyu's nephew, seventeen years old this year, named Fu Hechen, went to the front line with Fu Jiangyu. This man is meticulous, brave, resourceful, and kind. He can fight on the battlefield and care about the people. Fu Jiangyu is very satisfied with this man.
Lord Zhang and other ministers were also very satisfied and thought that he was the crown prince. However, they did not expect that after Fu Jiangyu went back and slept with Lin Baige for a few times, the crown prince position would not be passed on to Fu Hechen. Instead, all the princes and princesses were called to the palace through selection.
Lin Baige's methods are still powerful.
Those princes had no intention of competing. In the past, they looked down on their cousins, but now they were fairies who had learned magic from Lin Baige. If the fairies wanted to be emperors, then they could be emperors. How could they have the qualifications to compete?
Moreover, the fairies here are different from the fairies in myths. For example, the fairies in myths weave cloth, and the clouds in the sky are woven by them, or they dance and use musical instruments. The fairies here use explosives and cannons, which are so powerful, how can they be compared?
These princes and princesses entered the palace together. On weekdays, Fu Jiangyu would assign them homework and assess them, such as giving them government affairs to handle and seeing who handled it better.
Lin Baige would not get involved in Fu Jiangyu's selection plan. He had to complete the task while also putting the policies he proposed into use in Jiang State.
There are also people going to Jiangguo to mine, open factories, and farm.
Pass over the sweet potatoes, corn and other things, as well as the curved plow.
He had too many things to do. Except for the method of manufacturing weapons, which he had to keep in his own hands, everything else could be passed on. He would completely assimilate Jiang State into Jin State. In this way, there would be no Jiang State in the future, only Jin State.
In the future, when the people of Jiang mention it, they will also say that they are from Jin.
In a poor mountain village in Jiang State, there was a time traveler who looked at the corn and sweet potato seeds sent by the government and asked them to sow them, and he smiled bitterly.
When he first came here, his first task was to plant corn and sweet potatoes. The system gave him seeds. He planted them himself at first and harvested a lot. After making his first pot of gold, he bought land and expanded the area of planting.
In the past two years, his fellow villagers didn't believe that he could make money by growing this kind of crops they had never seen before. Later, when they saw that he made money, they did not follow him to grow crops, but secretly pulled up his crops, or secretly set fire to them in the middle of the night and burned them all.
It's useless for him to live in the fields. He can't keep his eyes open all the time. If he is not careful, the seedlings will be destroyed.
When he first came here, his fellow villagers laughed at his poor family. Later, when his family became rich, his fellow villagers became jealous and did all kinds of bad things to him. He felt that if he continued to plant, they would not only destroy the crops in his field, but would also kill him.
It was impossible to grow crops in the village where the original owner grew up, let alone go to other villages to grow crops. People in other villages all stick together, so how could they allow him to become rich?
Later he gradually gave up, but he didn't expect that after the State of Jin occupied the State of Jiang, it would promote these seeds again.
At first, he wanted to get his fellow villagers to plant crops together, but no one followed him. The people in his village had no ambition at all. They were already in the quagmire, and they wanted to drag others into the quagmire and degenerate with them.
What's the point of distributing these seeds now? Can they make the lazy people in their village plant crops? If they could, their village would have become rich long ago.
He thought that the officers and soldiers of Jin State came to help with the poverty alleviation and begged them to farm. However, the officers and soldiers of Jin State came and arrested everyone and watched them farm. Whoever was not good enough was taken to mine. If they didn't want to farm, they would mine. If they didn't want to mine, they would go to the factory. There was always a job waiting for them. The officers and soldiers of Jin State would never allow a lazy person to exist and forced everyone to support themselves.
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