Chapter 90: Is this your purpose for coming to the mortal world? ...
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After Lin Baige finished speaking, he wondered if his pretense of being innocent and kind in front of Fu Jiangyu had collapsed. Would Fu Jiangyu think he was scheming? Would he be wary of him in the future?
After all, the ideas he had proposed before were all good for the people of Jin, but now he is talking about scheming against people.
Lin Baige asked Fu Jiangyu cautiously, "Do you think I'm a bad person? Do you think I'm calculating? I'm no longer the innocent and kind person I used to be?"
"Simple?" Fu Jiangyu asked him back.
"Am I not simple? Sometimes I feel that I am stupid and always fall into other people's traps." Lin Baige couldn't help but feel sorry for himself, "Otherwise, I have always wanted to serve as an official in the court, but Lord Zhang schemed against me and I never got the chance."
"..." Fu Jiangyu pinched his face and said, "You are just a cunning little fox. You can't be an official. It's not because you set up the imperial examination system and wanted to participate enthusiastically, but you didn't study all these years and didn't pass the exam."
"I think this imperial examination system still has its drawbacks. It's all about writing essays, and everyone has their own strengths. Studying these old-fashioned essays every day, will they really be useful in the end?" Lin Baige only studied seriously in his first year. After that, he focused on developing his career, forgetting all about exams and writing essays. Whenever Master Zhang asked him to write an essay, he got a headache. He wrote in plain language and often told Master Zhang, "It's okay as long as the meaning is close enough. After all, aren't these essays meant to select talents who can contribute to the court? Am I not talented enough?"
Every time Mr. Zhang heard him say this, he would be furious.
"Your Majesty, can you take the exam for me? I think you will definitely pass. I have been different from you since elementary school. If I take the exam we have, no one here can compare to me." Lin Baige said aggrievedly, "I am not a liberal arts student at all."
"How about we reform the exam according to your way?" Fu Jiangyu was also curious about what Lin Baige's school was like and how it could produce someone as simple and smart as Lin Baige.
"That's complicated." Lin Baige's school follows a modern teaching model, but if this new style of education is really suitable for the current system, it will probably be resisted again...
"There's no rush for this. It needs to change slowly. People's mindsets have already changed. They've accepted my factories and girls going to school. Let's start by appropriately taking our school textbooks to government-run schools for children to read. This will slowly change generation after generation." Lin Baige felt there was no rush. He urged Fu Jiangyu, "The most important thing now is for you to send people to infiltrate Jiang State and make the people there envy the life in Jin State. Let's give it a code name: Brainwashing Project."
"This is not difficult. Do you think that only Jiang Kingdom has sent spies to our side?" Fu Jiangyu has sent many people to Jiang Kingdom in the past few years. From the day Lin Baige traveled through time, Fu Jiangyu took back the autonomy of his body. While he was uncovering the spies lurking in Jin Kingdom, he was also sending spies to Jiang Kingdom. Every move of Jiang Kingdom was under his control.
In fact, before Lin Baige and Fu Jiangyu proposed the brainwashing plan, the people of Jiang State longed for the life in Jin State.
Especially in the past two years, there have been constant natural disasters, and they can't sell the salt there, which has reduced a lot of income. At the same time, merchants brought new things from Jiang State to Jiang State.
Those merchants not only brought glassware, wine and other things, but also told them how good the lives of the people in Jin were. When Jin encountered natural disasters, the court distributed food and built houses for them. Children could go to school for free, and after graduation they could work in the government offices or take the imperial examinations to become officials. The elderly, orphans and disabled people were all taken care of by the state. Beggars without money and homes were taken in to work in factories, with stable wages and three meals a day.
Many people in Jiang State were extremely envious after hearing this and regarded Jin State as heaven. Especially after several major disasters, many people were now hungry and naked every other day and were forced to become refugees. They envied Jin State for having a good monarch, especially the recent rumors that made Lin Baige a god who had descended to earth.
Even gods came down to earth and became the empress of Jin State. She also accepted a bunch of students as fairies and made elixirs that ordinary people could buy and that could cure any disease.
At first, the rumor was that the medicine could cure the disease, but later it was rumored to have brought the dead back to life.
Just at this time, many brokers appeared and said that they could help take them to Jin State and find them jobs in road construction. Jin State would provide them with dormitories, wages, and meals. If they saved their wages for a few years, they could buy a house in Jin State.
Before coming to Jin State, many people thought about making money in Jin State for a few years and then returning to their hometown to buy real estate and land.
Before coming here, I didn't fully believe that the working environment and conditions in Jin would be so good. No matter how much hardship I have to endure, it doesn't matter as long as I get paid.
Before coming to Jin State, they thought they would just sleep in a large dormitory and eat food that was better than泔水 (swilling food), as long as they could fill their stomachs. They could work and then just sleep at night.
After arriving in Jin State, the broker took them to the government office, which scared the group of people. They thought they were being cheated and that the broker was going to sell them to the government to work as free laborers.
Some people thought that if they really couldn't get out of it, they would just fight with them, or turn around and run away. However, the government office only registered their information and told them that if they became Jin citizens, their salary and benefits would be the same as those of Jin people. If they didn't, they could only stay for one year, their salary would be halved, and they would not be able to leave the construction site dormitory even on weekdays or weekends.
Rest day? This word sounds so unfamiliar. Someone asked curiously, but the factory here works six days a week and has one day off, and the same applies to road construction.
They didn’t have this kind of treatment in Jiang State before. They had to work all year round. If there was anything happening at home, they had to tell the manager. If they got sick or injured due to exhaustion, they could only blame their bad luck.
But here they not only have days off, but if they get injured during work, they can get free treatment for their injuries. Unlike in Jiangguo before, if they were injured during work, not only would they not receive any compensation, they would also have to pay for their own treatment, and the employer would not hire them because of the injury.
When they were in Jiang State, they never felt that they were treated as human beings. It was only after they came to Jin State that they felt that they were treated as human beings.
Many people immediately joined the Jin State's citizenship. Most people were cautious and wanted to wait and see for a year. How could they believe what the government said?
After completing the registration, they were taken to the dormitory. It was not a large dormitory, but several people in one dormitory. Each person had an independent bed. They were provided with proper dry food and daily necessities. It was like a dream.
Lin Baige would not completely trust the people from Jiang Country, and would not let the Jiang people do the processes of making cement. He would only leave them the work of carrying cement and paving roads.
First, disturb the people of Jiang State, disgust Lin Xing and others, and then attack them. Lin Baige said to Fu Jiangyu: "We conquer Jiang State to save them. Their people are living in dire straits. If they merge with us, they will live a good life with us."
Moreover, the languages, customs and habits of these two countries are very similar in all aspects, so they should be integrated together.
Lin Baige also found an ancient book to show Fu Jiangyu: "Three hundred years ago, the two countries were one family. Later they split into two countries. Their royal family is not orthodox. You should correct the chaos and let your people return home."
Fu Jiangyu looked at the ancient books he found. When Jin and Jiang were still one, there was no place for their Fu family.
Their Fu family became the masters of Jin State from the generation of Fu Jiangyu's great-grandfather, and it has only been over a hundred years. What happened five hundred years ago has nothing to do with their Fu family.
If we really talk about orthodoxy, the Fu family is also a traitor.
Lin Baige heard Fu Jiangyu say this and waved his hand: "Why bother with that? History books are written by the victors. What people believe depends on how you write it."
Fu Jiangyu pinched his cheek and said, "Who said he was simple and stupid before? Is this what you call stupid? You little fox are so cunning that you are about to rewrite the history books."
"When did I say it was rewritten?" Lin Baige pointed at the monarch recorded in the ancient book: "This originally records the deeds of your ancestors. Five hundred years ago, you were one family, and your family was a branch of theirs, so you don't share the same surname. You are the legitimate monarch, a god descended from heaven, a true monarch."
When Lin Baige said this, he felt that he was a bit too good at deceiving people, but he could still continue to deceive people: "Now the people all say that I am a fairy from heaven. If you are not the legitimate emperor, why should I choose you?"
Lin Baige snapped his fingers. "That's right. We can start from this and spread the word. We can attribute the natural disasters that have hit Jiang Kingdom in recent years to the fact that their emperor is not legitimate. That's why the gods are angry and sent me down to help Jin conquer Jiang Kingdom and let Jiang return to its homeland."
After Lin Baige finished speaking, he turned around and saw Fu Jiangyu staring at him seriously: "What I said is not working? Is there a loophole? Or is it difficult to implement?"
"Is this your purpose in coming to the mortal world?" Fu Jiangyu asked him, "I thought you came to the mortal world because you fell in love with me, for me as a person."
Lin Baige couldn't help but twitch his lips. Fu Jiangyu was a love-brained person who could understand everything as love: "..." Why do I love you so much that I came down to earth for you?
Lin Baige was already used to coaxing him with sweet words. He put his arm around Fu Jiangyu and said, "All that was just made up. Of course, I came to see you because I like you."
"Do you like me so much that you'd compete with him for me?" Fu Jiangyu asked him.
Lin Baige: "..." Am I a mean person? Before I came here, I wanted to slap you a few times and beat you both to death. However, the idea of slapping Fu Jiangyu and the original owner a few times was just an angry remark made out of frustration. The person he really wanted to kill was Lin Xing.
Sometimes he wondered if it was because his desire to kill Lin Xing was too strong that he traveled through time and space...
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