Chapter 419 The three-year competition period is up!
Adi and Huanniang's family have been staying in the Mu Yuanzhu space for three years.
Their children are three years older.
Originally, Jiang Yao had long wanted to release this family and let them practice cultivation.
It's just that in the past few years, in order to get the "Wanxiang Gu Jing" to survive the second calamity, he had been running around everywhere, and his life was precarious. In addition, the alliance of military clans was encircling the Ming Dynasty, and the outcome was still unclear. Therefore, for the safety of Adi's family, he did not let them out.
.
It was only now that he was relatively stable that he decided to release a few people.
However, the four of them stayed in Mu Yuan Zhu's space and were nourished by Mu Yuan Zhu's vitality, and their physical condition improved a lot.
As for Xiao Hei, due to chance, he transformed from a mortal dog into a first-level monster. This time, he stayed in Mu Yuanzhu for two or three years and actually cultivated into a second-level monster.
This dog is truly a blessing.
It's obviously very ordinary, but it's just the qualifications of an ordinary dog.
What surprised Jiang Yao even more was that Adi and Huanniang turned out to be Qi (warrior) monks!
"Adi, you guys..." Jiang Yao couldn't help but be a little surprised.
The two of them have been staying in the bead, and I haven't started teaching them how to practice. Could it be...
Sure enough, the little cotton-padded jacket Jiang Lingyun took the credit and said, "It's me! Dad, I taught them how to practice. Anyway, I'm bored. It's such a big place inside and I have to walk all over it. It's so annoying."
Her cultivation is already at the level of Martial Master...
Jiang Yao immediately touched Jiang Lingyun's little bun and said lovingly: "It turns out to be Lingyun. Lingyun is really smart, well-behaved and clever. She knows how to share the worries for her father."
Jiang Lingyun snorted, her mouth a little deflated, "Didn't Lingyun worry about dad a long time ago? Not just today? But dad actually kept me locked up in Yuanzhu World for such a long time!"
At this point, I felt like crying again.
The dog Xiao Hei stood beside his little master, wagging his tail desperately to show that he felt the same as his little master.
That aggrieved look clearly said: "Master, don't you want me anymore?"
"Haha!" Jiang Yao felt distressed and amused at the same time, "Well, it's dad who is sorry for Lingyun. Now Lingyun, you are free. As long as you don't leave Jun's house, you can go anywhere. But..."
"But you must not show off your skills and say that you are a medicine elf. Do you understand?"
Jiang Lingyun burst into tears and smiled, nodding like a chicken pecking at rice: "I know, daddy, Lingyun is not stupid. Ha, you don't have to stay in there anymore."
Jiang Yao said to Jiang Xiucheng: "Xiucheng, take Lingyun and the two children around the palace to let them relax and be happy."
Jiang Xiucheng liked Jiang Lingyun very much, "Let's go out to play with my aunt."
After Jiang Xiucheng and the three children left, Jiang Yao said to Adi: "Adi, I have wronged you. From now on, you will stay in the palace, and I will allocate you a set of caves so that you can practice in peace."
After speaking, he took out two rings and said, "These are the rings given to you. The resources inside are enough for you to cultivate to Nascent Soul (Wuzhen)."
He will not be stingy with Adi, he is just this country friend, and they get to know each other even when they are small.
Lingyun Boring teaches them how to practice, which saves them a lot of effort. At least they don't have to worry about getting started. However, Lingyun's practice methods are definitely not suitable for them.
Jiang Yao took out two more sets of exercises, as well as knives and swords, "These exercises and magic weapons are very suitable for you. Adi, you are suitable for using knives, and Huanniang is suitable for using swords."
"Two children, you can teach them how to practice. If you don't understand anything or are missing something, you can tell me at any time."
Adi and Huan Niang were very happy and took it over without any pretense.
"Xiaoyao, we won't say thank you. Anyway, we will listen to you." Adi was very excited and didn't know what to say.
Jiang Yao arranged for the two of them, allocated a high-quality cave, and settled Adi's family nearby.
But Xiao Hei, just like before, followed him like a shadow.
Wherever ginger medicine goes, it follows.
So when Duke Jiang went to court, a puzzling scene occurred.
Ming Guogong, who was in the late stage of martial arts cultivation, was followed by a low-level black dog who was only at the second level.
This black dog is not only low in level, but also very weak in strength. But it can actually follow the master step by step.
Shouldn't the lord's pet reach at least level five?
"Exactly." Qin Yu said with a smile, "When I learned that my lord was back, I temporarily left the military affairs of Suolong Pass and immediately returned to the capital to pay my respects."
Jiang Yao knew that Qin Yu must have something important, and he just wanted to talk to him in private.
After Qin Yu finished speaking, he sat down.
Jiang Yao suddenly discovered that Qin Yu was already a medicine saint, and his medicine skills were one cauldron of medicine saints, only one cauldron less than his own. This showed that his medicine skills were really scary, probably only a little worse than Yao Ling's.
Qin Yu was only sixty years old, and he was already a Medicine Saint and a Martial Arts Immortal. Such a master of both medicine and martial arts was considered a monster-like talent.
Jiang Yao looked around at the ministers and said, "Let's discuss the matter. Let's talk about the reform first. Have all the New Deal matters in the newly occupied states and counties been implemented?"
Shangshu Zuopu shot Shang Xuan and said: "Lord, don't worry, all sixty-four counties have implemented the reform and new policies, and industries such as spiritual mines and mines in various places have also been taken back to state-owned enterprises."
"Resources to support poor families have been distributed, but the money is just flowing like water."
Chu Heng, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said: "I have been carrying out reforms for many years in the Ming Dynasty. The ministers have already had experience. Promoting the reforms can be said to be a matter of course. All the ministries in the imperial court can do it step by step. It's just..."
"It's just that the major things my Ming Dynasty did were not just the reform, but also military training. In recent years, the task of military training has been extremely heavy and consumed a lot of resources. Although the reform and new policies have greatly increased the revenue of the treasury, it is still not enough to spend the huge military expenses.
So we are in deficit every year.”
"If my lord hadn't made money in a righteous way, repeatedly used his private life to benefit the public, and used massive resources to assist the national treasury, we wouldn't be able to survive now."
"However, always spending the Lord's money and the jade shop's money is not a long-term solution after all."
"I have calculated that it will cost more than 10 billion this year just to provide relief to the poor monks. In order to increase the average cultivation level of the Ming monks and provide high-quality soldiers, tens of billions will be spent in relief in the next few years."
Everyone was shocked when they heard that it cost so much money.
Although the Ming Dynasty occupied the entire Qiunan, Qiunan was not a wealthy place rich in resources.
Nowadays, the national population has greatly increased, but it is not what it used to be. It takes several times the resources to provide relief to poor families.
To blame, we can only blame the Wu family aristocrats for being too exploited, and the poor families being too miserable and poor. As a result, the foundation of the people was too weak, the starting point was too low, and there was too much debt for cultivation resources.
Although the reform and new policies have improved their cultivation conditions, if they want to improve everyone's cultivation in the short term, they must provide massive financial aid.
Only in this way can the average cultivation level of the people be improved rapidly, and the court can recruit more masters to join the army.
To put it bluntly, it is for the sake of the quality of the troops. We have to spend a lot of money. There is no way around it.
With Pankang's promised assistance, Jiang Yao didn't panic and asked calmly: "Zhu Yan, have you ever calculated how much the court will tax and spend in three years?"
Zhu Yan had already done her homework, stood up and said: "Master Qi. If you don't count this year, starting from next year, the income in the next three years will be between 13 billion and 15 billion, on average
Four to five billion a year.”
"But the expenses are terrifying. The Ming Dynasty's new territory has a population of at least 100 million monks who are extremely poor. They have lacked cultivation resources for many years. There has been no breakthrough in cultivation, and there is not enough spiritual food to eat."
"In order for them to quickly improve their cultivation, we need to vigorously provide relief. Relief alone will cost at least 40 to 50 billion in three years. The revenue from the national treasury is far from enough to do this."
"If we can ensure that the relief is in place, I estimate that the average cultivation level of the people of the Ming Dynasty will be raised to the level of warrior perfection within three years. In this way..."
Feng Ke, the Minister of War, couldn't help but interjected: "In this way, in three years of the Ming Dynasty, we will be able to recruit hundreds of thousands of Wuzun soldiers and tens of thousands of Wuzong soldiers."
Zhu Yan continued: "Besides relief, the biggest expense is military expenses. According to the master's military training plan, the cost will be at least 20 billion in the next three years. Based on this calculation, there will be a loss of about 50 billion in three years!"
Everyone understands. There is nothing the court can do with the 50 billion. This means that if the lord cannot come up with such a large amount of money, then the court's large-scale military expansion and relief plans will be scaled back!
But how can ginger medicine be reduced?
Once Pankang's aid arrived, he was only short of 20 billion. Although 20 billion was a lot, he still had a way. He didn't have money, but Yaodao Shrine did.
The Yaodao Shrine has plenty of money. Fairy Luo is the Daozi of Yaogong. Isn’t it hard to get money from Yaogong?
"Army expansion, relief, reform, mining, education, weapon refining, etc., none of these major events can be left behind, nor can peace be reduced. Don't be afraid of losing money. Money matters will be solved by just a few people."
Everyone was speechless. Is the Lord really a good boy? Where did he get so much money?
Chu Heng came out and said: "My lord, there is another matter that I don't know how to solve. To improve the average cultivation level of the people of the Ming Dynasty, resources alone are not enough. We need enough spiritual food. If the spiritual rice is not enough, it will take a long time to increase the energy and blood levels."
Unfortunately, it’s difficult to improve your strength.”
"When the Wu Clan was there, they had a monopoly on spiritual rice. Not only did the people have to eat the high-priced spiritual rice, but it was often not enough. According to the output of spiritual rice in our country, if we want to meet the people's cultivation needs, we must purchase it from outside."
"The scale of this outsourcing is probably 30 million stones per year, worth billions of spiritual jade. That's not the problem. The main problem is that Wu Clan simply won't sell us spiritual rice of this scale."
Hearing this, Jiang Yao felt a little weak.
so hard.
In order to unify the Western Regions from a corner and defeat the majority with a few, he must improve the average strength of the people.
However, how difficult is it to increase the average strength of the people of the entire country by a large margin? How many resources will be consumed?
But if we don’t do this, how can we defeat the many with less and swallow the big with the small?
Jiang Yao thought for a while and made an important decision.
Now, it is time to improve farm roads.
He has an ancient species: Gui Ling Yuan Valley!
That is the ancient divine seed obtained from Adi. It is far from comparable to today's spiritual valley. It is a Tao Sui that can be exchanged with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth!
Although Gui Ling Yuan Gu is dead, he has the Mu Yuan Pearl, the Medicine Saint, and the Shennong Whip, so he has a way to resurrect Gui Ling Yuan Gu.
"I have my own way of dealing with spiritual rice." Jiang Yao showed an enigmatic smile.
Seeing this smile in the eyes of the officials, they thought that the lord had found someone willing to sell Da Ming Ling Rice.
That’s tens of millions of stones!
The court meeting lasted for two hours. Jiang Yao listened to and arranged many important matters before the court dispersed. Jiang Yao returned to the inner court, and all the officials returned to their respective offices.
When Xiao Hei saw Xia Chao, he followed Jiang Yao like a shadow again, with a lively look, shaking his head and wagging his tail.
This dog has sensed that his master is the strongest in the court. What is he afraid of?
nonexistent.
Qin Yu followed Jiang Yao into the Sun and Moon Hall and said bluntly: "My lord, the day of the three-year competition with the divine sect Gula has arrived!"
Jiang Yao knew it well.
Three years ago, he and Gula competed for the position of the Holy Son of the Tianping Cult.
The final agreement was to fight at the headquarters of the cult three years later.
Whoever wins is the Son of God!
Now, three years have passed and it is entering the fourth year. The Divine Sect will notify the headquarters to compete at any time.
Qin Yu said: "According to my informants in the teaching, the competition time has just been set today, it will be the first day of next month, there are still ten days!"
"Instructions from several saints will arrive soon. Also, my informant reported that Nagula was already a seventh-level blood demon a few days ago."
"In order to quickly revive his strength, Gula has absorbed the essence and blood of many monks in the past few years. He also said privately that the essence and blood of the Shenzhou girl is the most nourishing, and he never tires of drinking it."
Gula didn't cultivate so quickly, he just woke up.
It is basically the process of a big blood demon waking up. No matter how fast you practice, how fast can others wake up?
"There are still ten days!" Jiang Yao's eyes were filled with confusion, and his eyes flashed with a dangerous aura. "If I kill this person, will the saints blame me?"
"No!" Qin Yu smiled, "A saint never cares about a person who has lost his use value. For example, a dead person."
Although Gula had just awakened as a seventh-level blood demon, Qin Yu firmly believed that the loser must be Gula.