Chapter 89 When will you attack Jiang State?
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Lin Baige threw back the quilt. Now that he had spoken out, he might as well speak his mind: "... Stop lying to me. Why did he stab you last time? Wasn't it because you thought he called you over to serve you in the bedroom? You were so happy that you didn't even know your last name. You ran over and got stabbed. Now you tell me that you've always liked me? If you said you liked him before and you like me now, I could accept it. But you said you've always liked me. There's no need to lie like this."
After he finished questioning, he found that Fu Jiangyu actually laughed: "What are you laughing at? What's so funny?"
"You care about me so much? You even knew I went to see him?" Fu Jiangyu held his face, looked into his eyes and said, "I thought it was you who came. He wouldn't ask me to go to his bedroom, only you would."
"What do you mean only I can do it? You make me sound so hungry!" Lin Baige said angrily.
After saying that, he remembered that he had just traveled through time to when Fu Jiangyu was seventeen or eighteen years old. He kept staring at Fu Jiangyu like an old gangster, looking at his face, then his mouth, then his chest and abdominal muscles. He even stayed close to Fu Jiangyu at night. With that anxious look, it was no wonder that Fu Jiangyu would misunderstand him.
"I learned all that from you!" Lin Baige said stubbornly, "I used to be such a simple person, but you corrupted me. In your memory, we met when we were six or seven years old, and then we met every few years. But in my memory, I saw you as an adult first. When he stabbed you, that was the first time we met."
"I taught them all by myself..." Before Fu Jiangyu could finish his words, Lin Baige covered his mouth.
Lin Baige glared at him angrily. Although what Fu Jiangyu said was not wrong, he felt embarrassed to hear Fu Jiangyu say it. But he couldn't say that he understood it very well. After all, he had just said that he was naive and it was all Fu Jiangyu's fault that he was defiled.
"You are worthy of being the emperor. Whatever you say is reasonable. I can't argue with you." Lin Baige pouted angrily. Seeing him pouting, Fu Jiangyu kissed him directly.
Lin Baige was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand and patted him: "I'm pouting not because I want to kiss you."
Fu Jiangyu held his hand and kissed his palm again.
Lin Baige rubbed his palms hard on Fu Jiangyu: "Just wait, wait until I come back, when you are seventeen or eighteen years old, I will kiss you and defile you, so that you will never have that clear eyes again!"
The way he scared people was like a little kitten baring its teeth and claws, but it didn't scare anyone. Instead, it looked very cute in Fu Jiangyu's eyes.
"What do you think you will do for the remaining five times? You were the one who trained them all." Fu Jiangyu said with a chuckle. When he said these words, he seemed to have thought of many interesting things.
Lin Baige: "!??? You teach me, I go back and teach you using your method, and then you teach me using my method. What kind of weird cycle are we stuck in?"
After he said that, he was stunned for a moment. Does Fu Jiangyu really like him?
Before, he had always worried that Fu Jiangyu would find out that he was not the original owner and kill him in anger. But now that Fu Jiangyu found out that he was not the original owner, he did not kill him and still liked him so much. To be more precise, he had always liked him...
Wouldn't that mean he has no worries and can do whatever he wants?
Fu Jiangyu looked at his big eyes rolling around and asked, "What are you thinking of now?"
"No, I think we should build the roads first, starting with the main roads. We should pave the official roads in various places with cement, connect each city, and then pave the roads between small villages and cities." Lin Baige was very excited when he mentioned infrastructure. "After the roads are built, both commercial transportation and military transportation of food and fodder will be faster."
Fu Jiangyu watched him get up from the bed, rush to the desk and write furiously. He took out a map and wrote something while looking at it. "Are you still awake at this hour?"
"I'll write down the cement formula first and ask them to make some tomorrow. We'll start here later and repair the road from the palace to the school. My butt hurts from riding in the carriage every day." Lin Baige had complained to Fu Jiangyu before. Fu Jiangyu ordered people to repair the road the next day. The road surface was paved according to the palace's floor tile regulations. The residents and shops around the road all benefited from Lin Baige's help.
Most of the roads here are still dirt roads, even in the capital, there are very few stone roads.
At that time, Lin Baige discovered that Jin State did not pay much attention to infrastructure construction, but this also gave him a lot of room for development.
In addition to the road, Fu Jiangyu also asked someone to make a mat for him, but Lin Baige still said that the road was uneven.
In fact, part of the reason is because of the wheels, and the carriage does not have shock absorption.
Lin Baige didn't know whether the system would give him such a detailed task.
Fu Jiangyu had originally wanted to take advantage of this evening's conversation to inquire about Lin Baige's past and where she came from. With such delicate skin and tender flesh, she ate and used the finest imperial possessions, yet sometimes she complained about uneven roads, poor fabrics, and the taste of her food. Could it be that she was, as people say, a deity sent from heaven?
Now seeing Lin Baige writing furiously, I couldn't bear to disturb him.
Lin Baige just thought about transportation and the problem of horse-drawn carriages. After conquering Jiang State, he could get rubber from Jiang State to make tires.
He has had a horror of horse-drawn carriages since he came here. Every time he was shaken around in one, he felt like his whole body was falling apart. He also hated the smell of horse manure, and it was even worse than riding a bicycle.
After we conquer Jiang State, we can make bicycle tires. Otherwise, without tires, he will still feel bumpy when riding a bicycle.
Traveling long distances by train, especially steam trains, directly brought the State of Jin into the steam age.
Wherever he wanted to go, it would only take him a few days to get there before it took him several months. He would no longer have to face the situation where Fu Jiangyu would object and not let him go wherever he wanted to go.
Thinking of this, he looked up at Fu Jiangyu. With Fu Jiangyu's possessiveness, he would probably be rejected even after two days.
Fu Jiangyu doesn't allow him to stay out overnight. I don't know where Fu Jiangyu gets such a strong possessiveness from. He won't tolerate him not coming back for one night.
Could it be that the few times he used props to travel back in time, he disappeared suddenly, and Fu Jiangyu had a psychological trauma. When he couldn't see him one night, he was worried that he had disappeared again, and once he disappeared, he would disappear for several years before coming back?
"What are you looking at me for? What do you want?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"When will you attack Jiang State?" Lin Baige asked him.
"There has to be a reason, otherwise it will be difficult to start a war." Fu Jiangyu had discovered before that Lin Baige hated Lin Xing very much.
He used to say that he would attack Jiang State just to let Lin Baige eat seafood. In fact, he also had a blood feud with Jiang State. The brothers who had fought on the battlefield with him were either dead or injured. Some were captured by Jiang people and tortured in front of him. He would never forget these hatreds in his life.
In the first two years after he ascended the throne, he found that the court officials looked down on him because of his age and wanted to control him. There were also many spies from the Jiang State in the court. The court was like a piece of wood that was about to rot. He wanted to make drastic reforms, but his mind was always confused. At that time, he suspected that someone had poisoned him, but the investigation could not find any problems.
He was like a puppet. Many times he couldn't concentrate and think, and the things he did were not what he meant to do. He only realized what stupid things he had done after he had done many things.
This situation continued until the original owner stabbed him and Lin Baige appeared, only then did he regain control of his body.
"Isn't it hard to find a reason to go to war with Jiang State? Can't we just make up a random excuse..." Lin Baige supported his chin and thought: "Maybe we don't need to start a war with real swords and guns. We can use other methods."
Lin Baige thought of how Lin Xing often brainwashed people in the book. When he chopped off the original owner's head, he gave an impassioned speech, brainwashing the people, making them believe that if he became emperor, they would live a prosperous life. Who knew that after believing his words, all the people of Jin became slaves of Jiang. Everyone was like livestock, chained, fed slop, and forced to crawl on the ground to work. They were not allowed to speak their own language, wear their own clothes, and their heads were shaved off. The people of Jiang even planned to feed the people of Jin and eat their meat...
Lin Baige became angry when he thought of those plots. When he was reading the book, he cursed how a person like Lin Xing could be worthy of being the protagonist. Now he has traveled through time and lived in Jin State for such a long time. He has been with officials, common people, fellow teachers and his students for such a long time. He has gradually integrated into the life of Jin State and regarded it as his second hometown.
Especially since the customs and habits here are so similar to those in the ancient times in the real world, it makes him feel at home. He will not allow the State of Jin to become like what is described in the book.
Even if the Jiang State has surrendered now and dares not to confront them, their ambitions will not be extinguished. In ten or twenty years, when Fu Jiangyu is old, they will still take action, or when the next monarch of Jin State ascends the throne, they may still fall into the situation described in the book.
Especially now that Lin Xing was still alive, he was the protagonist, with the aura of a protagonist. As long as Lin Xing was alive, he would not be at ease. He had to incorporate Jiang Kingdom into their territory before he could feel at ease. Moreover, he would not be like Lin Xing, who came to the other three kingdoms to be a slave. He just wanted to merge the two kingdoms together and govern them together. He would not favor one over the other. Naturally, no one from the royal family of Jiang Kingdom could be left alive. A nest of bad seeds would only bring troubles.
"What are your plans?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
"Spread the good life of Jin to Jiang, and let the common people of Jiang know that the people of Jin earn a lot and eat well. Yes, tell them that we provide housing and free medical care, give out cattle for farming, and exempt agricultural taxes." Lin Baige patted Fu Jiangyu on the shoulder. "Find some people to infiltrate Jiang and spread the news. First, disturb people's hearts, so that the people of Jiang will envy the life in Jin and want to sneak across to live with us. You can also make some promises, such as what benefits will be given to those who come to Jin."
Fu Jiangyu looked at him: "Shall we split up the house?"
"Yes, several of our factories have built employee dormitories now. We have captured a lot of people to work in the factories. They were homeless and beggars outside before. I asked the officers and soldiers to capture them to work, pay them wages, provide them with three meals a day, and provide them with dormitories. These are also houses." Lin Baige knew that it was unethical to capture people to work, but in this era, those beggars were factors of social instability. Moreover, they became beggars because they had no land and their families had misfortunes. He captured them to work, which, on the one hand, stabilized the society, and on the other hand, made these people's lives stable, so that they could have enough food and clothing and not starve to death. His factory also had employees.
"We are going to build a road right now. We can trick the poor people from Jiang State into coming here to build the road for us. It won't be in vain. We will pay them wages, provide them with dormitories to live in, and give them the identity of Jin people." Lin Baige wanted to make the people of Jiang State think that their Jin State is good and that everyone will yearn for it. He first made their hearts demoralized, just like Lin Xing had undermined the people's hearts from within their Jin State. He would treat them in their own way.
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