Daqian Dynasty.

February, the 4409th year in the Yellow Emperor’s calendar.

It has been three years since Xu Huaping traveled through time.

The little maid in Prince Yong's mansion in the past has now become the Empress of the Daqian Dynasty.

Over the past three years, earth-shaking changes have taken place in China.

The barbaric Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had occupied the country's sacred tools for sixty-six years, was overthrown by the wise and great Empress.

All members of the royal family, the Aixin clan, regardless of gender, age or status, were killed and completely disappeared from the world.

Other Manchu clans were also reduced to slavery, with male slaves and female maids never to rise again.

Just like how the Qing Dynasty treated the descendants of the Zhu family, the royal family of the former Ming Dynasty, they killed them all and left no future troubles.

After unifying the country, Xu Huaping launched a vigorous reform.

The first step was to promulgate the Daqian Code, which stipulated that everyone was equal and that land was publicly owned. Basically, it was the Qian Code from the Jiangnan period that was taken over and implemented throughout the country.

Everyone is equal under me, there is nothing wrong with that.

At the same time, operations to investigate the country's land and population were also carried out in full swing.

As Xu Huaping expected, the wealth and resistance power of the North were greater than those of the South.

But no one can disobey what she has decided, not even the emperor.

Under the tough measures and suppression, all the opposing families were executed, including the Kong family, which was known as "seventy-two generations of family slaves and twenty-five dynasties of traitors", and the Eight Great Shanxi Merchants who had funded the growth of the Qing Dynasty during the early Ming Dynasty.

What the hell are the titles of Duke Yansheng and role model of literati? None of these titles work for her.

Let's take a look at what the Kong family did: Let's talk about the origin of Yanshenggong first. Thirty-five years after Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty ascended the throne, in order to express the grace of the wise monarch to the descendants of the saints, he specially issued an edict to confer the title of "Yanshenggong" on the direct descendants of the Kong family.

The purpose of Emperor Renzong's action was to set an example for scholars all over the world and promote the integrity of scholars of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism", so as to maintain the long-term stability of the Song Dynasty.

But what did the Kong family do? Originally, they were conferred the title of "Yanshenggong" by the Northern Song Dynasty. After the Jingkang Incident, Wanyan Jiumei fled to Lin'an Prefecture to continue the Southern Song Dynasty, and Kong Duanyou, who followed them to the south, inherited the title of "Yanshenggong".

At this time, the fallen north was occupied by Liu Yu's pseudo-Qi supported by the Jin people. Liu Yu imitated the emperors of the Central Plains and created a new "Yanshenggong" Kong Fan, forming a situation where the Kong clan in the north and south coexisted.

More than one hundred years later, the rise of the Mongols drove the Jin Dynasty southward. The Northern clan's 'Duke of Yansheng' Kong Yuancuo could not escape with the Jin people, so the Mongols established Kong Yuanyong as the new 'Duke of Yansheng' in Qufu. At the same time, there were actually three 'Dukes of Yansheng' in China.

The funniest thing is that when the Yuan Dynasty was about to collapse, the 55th generation descendant of the Kong family, Duke Yansheng, Kong Kejian, actually offered advice to Emperor Shun of Yuan: There are quite a lot of soldiers coming to support the king now, if we fight a decisive battle with them, the bandits can be defeated.

The "thieves" referred to here obviously refer to the rebels such as Zhu Yuanzhang.

After Kong Kejian offered advice to Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty, he sent his eldest son Kong Xixue to secretly visit Nanjing to meet Zhu Yuanzhang.

This kind of behavior of betting during the Two Song and Five Dynasties was really indecisive and was despised by the world.

Later, when the Qing and Manchus entered the Central Plains, Kong Yinzhi, the "Duke of Yansheng" who had followed the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty for more than 300 years, once again demonstrated his keen insight and rushed to the Qing court without stopping. He expressed his loyalty in two memorials, "The First Memorial" and "The Haircut Memorial".

Dorgon saw that a man of insight was a wise man, so he issued an imperial edict to confer the title of "Duke Yansheng" on Kong Yinzhi.

In fact, before the Jurchens entered the Central Plains, when Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, took the lead in conquering the north, the Kong family had already made preparations to "welcome the royal army with food and drink".

No wonder later generations called the Kong family "slaves for 72 generations and traitors for 25 dynasties"! Xu Huaping was not willing to tolerate this bad habit and exterminated the Kong family, which was called "a model of literati" but was actually "a disgrace to literati", and swept it into the garbage dump of history.

However, the power of overthrowing the Confucius Temple was far greater than Xu Huaping had imagined.

Literati and scholars all over the world spoke out together, cursing Xu Huaping as an inhuman female devil.

There were even radicals who committed suicide, leaving behind ancestral teachings that their descendants would never serve in the government.

Xu Huaping knew these people's nature too well. Did they think they could force her to surrender in this way?

You're overthinking! How can I relieve my worries? Only by killing!

These scholars did not want to be officials, and Xu Huaping looked down on them.

She first arrested all the leaders, then announced the crimes of the Kong family and these people, and then beheaded them in public.

Only then did the world realize that the Kong family, the so-called model of literati, was so despicable.

This move not only destroyed the Kong family physically, but also completely wiped out the Kong family's influence spiritually.

Afterwards, she took advantage of the situation to implement five years of compulsory education and sent the new scholars trained in the south in the previous two years to serve as officials all over the country.

In short, Xu Huaping, holding a knife in his hand, is not arrogant at all. He is the one who sticks to his word and is the only one who is independent.

After clearing away obstacles with a tough attitude, land reform, population census and land distribution were carried out smoothly.

Construction work such as building roads, schools, hospitals, and factories also proceeded smoothly without any opposition.

At the same time, the promotion of high-yield rice, high-yield wheat, high-yield potatoes, high-yield corn, and high-yield sweet potatoes also filled Daqian's granaries with grain, and no one in the world starved to death anymore.

Finally, it was exported. The textiles, porcelain and glass produced by Daqian were exported to Southeast Asian countries by sea.

This move not only brought back local specialties for Xu Huaping, but also brought a lot of wealth.

She then invested these foreign wealth into the market and gave back to the people, thus achieving the goal of "using the wealth of other countries to support her own people."

Looking back suddenly.

Xu Huaping looked down at Daqian and found that all the people in the world had land to farm, food to eat, houses to live in and clothes to wear.

She has initially realized her original ideal: a world of peace and harmony.

Today's Daqian looks like it did in the 1960s and 1970s.

Both in terms of economy and people's livelihood, it is far ahead of today's Western countries.

"But the negative impact of Daqian's industrialization cannot be ignored."

"I don't want to be like some officials who are eager for success, spend money before it's due, and let their descendants suffer."

Looking at the pile of memorials in front of the imperial desk, Xu Huaping rubbed his brows.

Industrialization will inevitably bring about a series of serious impacts, including damage to the ecological environment, damage to mineral resources, and environmental pollution.

The thick black smoke emitted by major factories has become a black spot that can never be erased from Daqian’s beautiful blueprint.

"Is it wrong for me to choose the path of industrialization?"

Xu Huaping couldn't help but ask herself and reflect on herself.

At this moment, she was no longer the powerless maid in Prince Yong's Mansion.

Instead, he is a great cultivator who has entered the gate of immortality and has reached the third level of foundation building.

At the foundation-building stage, regardless of strength, he is invincible in the world anyway.

Laying the foundation for immortality, with a lifespan of 300 years, one begins the initial journey to immortality.

Even if she never makes any further progress in this life, she can still overlook the world for three hundred years.

"Should I open the gate to the immortal way?"

Thinking of Guo Daocheng passing on the magic to Qin Shihuang Ying Zheng with the intention of building the Immortal Qin, Xu Huaping also became interested.

The advanced version of the immortal method modified by Xie Lin has solved the problem of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. As long as there is solar energy, electrical energy, geothermal energy, magnetic energy, and nuclear energy, one can step into the immortal path step by step.

In other words, Xu Huaping can transform this demon-free world into the immortal world by his own strength.

But she still had concerns in her heart. If she opened the Pandora's box of the immortal path, the future would be unpredictable!

"Forget it, just ask everyone."

After pondering for a long time, Xu Huaping sent this question to the group and solicited opinions from group members.

Seeing what Xu Huaping suddenly said, Su Qing frowned and thought for a while, then said:

"You want to abandon the industrialization path you envisioned before and switch to the immortal way to become a powerful country?"

"But you're still undecided? I know what you mean!"

“You are afraid that if you take the path of becoming a powerful country through the Immortal Path, you will not be able to continue to suppress the world, but you are reluctant to give up the temptation of the Immortal Dynasty, right?”

Su Qing only thought about it for a moment and understood Xu Huaping's concerns.

Everything has two sides, and transforming a mortal dynasty into an immortal dynasty is no exception.

The transformation of a mortal dynasty into an immortal dynasty can not only enlighten the people and greatly improve productivity, but also promote the progress of society and civilization. In simple terms, it is to make cakes bigger and stronger and create more glory! The original mortal dynasty is just a small 1-inch cake, but if it evolves into an immortal dynasty, it will be a big cake of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of inches.

As an emperor of a secular dynasty, he might only get seven points of the pie, and the people would get even less.

But if it were to become a huge cake of hundreds or thousands of inches, the emperor of the Xian Dynasty would still occupy 70% of it, and the people's share would remain the same, but the total amount would increase.

In short, there are many benefits for both the emperor and the people of the world to transform from a mortal dynasty to an immortal dynasty.

But on the other hand, there are also many disadvantages.

If the immortal methods were to be popularized among the general public, what if someone regarded them as evil?

As the saying goes: Confucians use literature to disrupt the law, and knights use force to break the ban.

From the perspective of the ruler, it is natural to hope that the people under his rule are all docile cattle and sheep, to restrain their ambitions, soften their fighting spirit, and cool their blood. Use moral etiquette to restrain their thoughts, use strict laws to restrict their actions, use religious doctrines to fool their souls, and artificially create camps to divert the main contradictions. It is best to turn the people under his rule into cattle and sheep without any ability to resist. Even if the butcher knife is stretched out, the sheep are willing to be slaughtered.

But if the cattle and sheep turn into ferocious tigers or even vicious wolves, then it will be the rulers' turn to lose sleep.

This point is vividly reflected in the "Book of Shang Yang" written by Shang Yang in the pre-Qin period, which talks about the policies of making the people stupid, weak, tired, humiliated and impoverished.

so.

Xu Huaping was caught in a dilemma. He wanted to increase productivity, but was afraid that the cattle and sheep would turn into tigers.

"Yes, I currently have an absolute advantage. I don't have to worry about anyone rebelling, and I can sleep peacefully every day."

Xu Huaping nodded and said in embarrassment: "Once the immortal method is popularized, I'm afraid I will have trouble sleeping day and night!"

Su Qing's words really touched her heart, like a worm in her stomach.

"Do you remember Brother Guo Daocheng's live broadcast two days ago? He passed on the first three levels of the immortal technique to Ying Zheng."

"The Immortal Technique is in your hands. Even if you want to popularize it, you should popularize the first level first!"

"If they want to learn the following immortal techniques, they will have to pledge allegiance to you and serve the court."

"In this way, you can firmly control high-end military forces in your own hands and continue to have an absolute advantage."

"Then, based on the needs, slowly release the second and third levels, and lead Daqian to become an immortal dynasty step by step."

Su Qing discovered that solving this problem was actually very simple; all he had to do was pay attention to the way he divided the cake.

How can you take out a big cake and divide it up at the beginning? Wouldn't that be stupid? You have to do it step by step, you can't feed everyone all at once.

"Hey, this method seems to make sense!"

"Guo Daocheng: I have taught you everything, but you still haven't learned it?"

"Ha ha!"

The group members all laughed.

"Well, can I say that I didn't think so much about it at the time?"

Guo Daocheng said weakly.

"Ha ha!"

The group members were even happier.

"Su Qing, what you said makes sense. I understand. I had never thought of this before."

"First, cultivate your own trusted forces, maintain absolute overwhelming power from beginning to end, and then gradually spread the immortal law."

Hearing this, Xu Huaping suddenly understood and her frown relaxed.

Just as Su Qing said, we have to do it step by step. Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, we can't be impatient.

"Well, maybe it's because those involved are confused, while those who are on the sidelines can see more clearly."

"Even if I don't say it, you will think of it sooner or later."

Su Qing smiled faintly and replied.

"Anyway, thank you."

Xu Huaping smiled broadly.

"Aunt Xu, who was once innocent, has now turned into an evil master."

Xiao Yichen sighed, feeling a little upset.

"You call me naive, but you are the naive one!"

Xu Huaping sneered and said sarcastically.

"Human nature is like this. The butt determines the head."

"As a member of the lower class, I naturally consider the lower class. One day, with a sword in hand, I will slaughter all the unjust people in the world!"

"But if one day one becomes a master, then one's mindset will change, and one will naturally work hard to maintain one's rule."

"He who slays a dragon will eventually become a dragon!"

Su Qing shook his head, without mixing in any notions of good and evil.

The other group members didn't say anything, they naturally understood what Su Qing meant.

No matter what your identity was before traveling through time, it doesn’t matter anymore.

What’s important is that the identity gained after time travel has brought huge benefits to everyone.

Then, group members will naturally work hard and strive to safeguard their own interests.

In the adult world, there is no right or wrong, only interests and positions.

"Hey, I understand the reason, but it still makes me uncomfortable when I think about it."

Xiao Yichen opened his mouth and argued weakly.

"Brothers, the class reunion begins today."

At this time, Li Shen appeared and said excitedly: "I'm leaving now!"

He heard from group members that the class reunion would be a turning point in his life, so he agreed to attend the reunion.

At the same time, he also actively established good relationships with the protagonists Ye Fan Pangbo and others.

Now, more than half a month has passed, and the class reunion three years after graduation from university has finally arrived.

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