Or does Jiang Hua really have the right to choose?
The more senior Jiang Hua is, the more he understands that the butt determines the head, or that people can't help themselves when they are floating in the rivers and lakes!
At Jiang Hua's current status, many times his choices cannot be based on his own temperament, but must consider the entire Yancheng. He cannot make a choice based on his own personal likes and dislikes, but must consider the gains and losses of the entire Yancheng after making this choice.
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Isn't this a widower?
Any qualified monarch is a widower in the true sense!
They cannot consider their own private thoughts in anything they do. If they are not a few people, what are they?
Jiang Hua shook his head without hesitation: "There is no need to choose, of course it is impossible to give up Yancheng!"
Once you give up on Yancheng, it’s really over!
As Jiang Hua once said before, everything seems to be going well in Yancheng today, but there are actually many internal problems.
The conflict between the old bureaucrats and the new Taoists!
The conflict between the One Hundred and Seventy-Three Family and the Taoists of Chao State!
The conflict between Yancheng Taoists and Taoists all over the world!
The conflict between the original people and the newcomers.
There are so many contradictions. If it weren’t for the great enemy like King Xi who stood in front of them, internal fighting would have started long ago!
If a country, an organization, or a force cannot work together to spread the poison to the outside world, it will only be drawn inward and internal friction.
Most of the involutions are meaningless. In addition to making themselves more tired, they cannot improve the harvest. A very small number of involutions can achieve a win-win or even a triple win, but they are no longer called involutions at that time.
That's called hard work, that's called struggle.
Involution with results is effort, while involution without results is just involution.
Most of the five thousand years of history in the previous life were involution. There were various reasons for involution, but Jiang Hua did not want Yancheng to be involution. This was not good.
"Xiang Liu is here, in fact, he is a formidable enemy. With this formidable enemy, the internal strife in Yancheng can be nipped in the bud. Only when a formidable enemy is by his side, can people from all departments truly unite.
Get up and guard Dongning Island and Yancheng."
Having said this, Jiang Hua gently patted the sea water in front of him, and a projection appeared. This was the terrain of the entire Chao Kingdom.
Jiang Hua pointed to the Chao River and said: "To the east of the Chao River, there are five counties. Now they have gradually fallen into the hands of Yancheng. However, the risks of these five counties are too high, so how to manage them has always been a problem.
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Nobles and nobles can send experts in small teams to cross the Chao River at any time to carry out sneak attacks on the five counties.
This kind of team is very difficult to detect, unless the entire Chao River is fortified, and even every piece of air, every plant, and every drop of dew in the five counties is sacrificed into something with an owner, but this is too time-consuming.
It takes a lot of effort, but it can't be achieved in a short time.
At that time, the Chao Kingdom only needs to continue to send doctors and Taoist priests to form small teams with treasures, and they can easily destroy towns one after another. After they destroy the towns, they will run away immediately and cannot catch up. Even if they catch up, they will not be able to catch up.
You have to worry about whether this is a trap set by the enemy.
By then, the security war alone will consume most of Yancheng's energy, so how can there be time and energy left for development?
"Until the security issues are completely resolved, the five counties cannot be developed at all."
As for peace talks, peace talks are impossible!
These are five counties. Who will be responsible for the loss of land?
If the king likes to take responsibility, then the king will have to step down if he likes.
If you are not willing to completely give up these five counties to Yancheng, then you can only fight.
It would be impossible to ask Yancheng to vomit out five counties.
Today, the land of the five counties has become a piece of bad land that cannot be effectively developed and can only be left vacant. It is very distressing to see.
"In the past, I had an idea in my mind, but I never put it into practice."
"These five counties are Guyang County, Yang County, Chunmu County, Liu County and Dong County. Dong County and Liu County are adjacent to Yancheng, Guyang County and Yang County are adjacent to Chaohe River, and Chunmu County is in the middle.
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"I plan to take out Guyang County and Yang County and directly invite outstanding young Qi practitioners to come over and show off what they have learned!"
Jiang Ju's eyes suddenly widened. She already somewhat understood Jiang Hua's thoughts. How could there be such a wicked, oh, no, such a cunning person in this world? Wasn't it obvious that he was taking advantage of them?
These two counties are close to the Chao River and their defense lines are too long to be defended. However, once there are several Taoist priests working as free labor to guard here day and night, then these two counties will become a natural line of defense.
With such a line of defense in front, and the three counties behind and Yancheng, these four counties can develop well.
Nowadays, five counties have been developed on Dongning Island, but the total population of Yancheng has reached 7 million.
It was okay during the land reclamation, everyone worked together, but what about after the land reclamation ended a few years later?
What's more, now that Dongning Island is powerful and Yancheng is weak, Jiang Hua has to stay in Yancheng for a long time. There is not even a formal prefect's mansion on Dongning Island, only temporary ones. This is also Jiang Hua's plan to strengthen Yancheng.
One of the measures of status.
However, no matter how many measures are taken, they cannot withstand the growing imbalance between Dongning Island and Yancheng.
A large number of people on Dongning Island are not the original people of Yancheng. They are common people or savages, and there is no blood feud between them and the monarch.
As time goes by, people will become comfortable, and hatred will be completely washed away by the comfortable life.
At that time, what will these common people think of the Western Expedition in Yancheng?
Why should we use our money to go west to conquer Chao Kingdom?
Wouldn't it be better to just maintain peace with the Chao Kingdom and continue to develop rapidly?
Why go to war with Chao Kingdom?
Isn't it good to use the money from the war with Chao State to improve people's livelihood?
We fight with Chao Kingdom every day, so many people die, and we get nothing at all. Why?
Western Expedition? Western Expedition!
Where is the Western Expedition? They are clearly trying to steal money in the name of the Western Expedition!
All kinds of weird things will definitely come out by then!
Comfort is not only wanted by the people at the bottom, but also by the middle-level warlocks and Taoist priests!
Wouldn't it be better to just develop Dongning Island obediently?
It's safe and the future is very bright!
You have been fighting back and forth with the Chao Kingdom, so many people have died, but you have gained very little. Are you mentally ill?
Once this trend of thought becomes mainstream, what can even Jiang Hua do?
Therefore, in Jiang Ju's opinion, the secret of this move is that it can directly develop Yancheng and the four counties of Dongjun, Chunmu County and Liu County!
At that time, there will be four counties on the land and five counties on the islands, and a balance will be formed between them.
Instead of like now, Jiang Hua led the top management to work hard to suppress the local will of Dongning Island.
Moreover, in this way, after defeating the Chao Kingdom in the future, we can do this. The counties and counties on the front line will be directly left to those outstanding Qi refiners for them to practice.
Then the rear can absorb their advantages and discard their shortcomings.
The most important thing is that with real-life examples, the resistance to reform at the rear will be much smaller.
If a certain reform has been proven to be very effective in a certain place, who can publicly stop it from being promoted at this time?
It is understandable to block it in private, but to block it publicly is a serious political mistake.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ju took the initiative and nodded, looking at Jiang Hua with a very satisfied look.
Perhaps, Jiang Hua in front of him has hope of saving Qi?
No, it’s still too young, it’s impossible, it’s just too difficult…
As I was thinking about it, Jiang Hua's voice came to my ears again.
"The key point for a bloodline noble to become the first generation monarch is the recognition of heaven and earth, and it is to carry a certain kind of power of heaven and earth. The key to gaining recognition lies in the path and the thought."
"In fact, every kind of mythical beast has a symbol behind it. Some mythical beasts symbolize law, some mythical beasts symbolize greed, and some mythical beasts symbolize auspiciousness."
"As for powerful mythical beasts such as dragons, phoenixes, and unicorns, their symbolic meanings are far more than one."
"Whether a mythical beast is powerful or not, just check the meaning of the beast."
"Those who inherit the path of their ancestors are advancing along the road pioneered by their ancestors. Those who blaze a trail are actually looking for a new path."
"Even for Xiangliu, there are several types. Some Xiangliu focus on water, and some Xiangliu focus on disasters."
"Every Xiantian has his or her own path. The key to the overcoming of the acquired and the innate is actually whether the world recognizes it. It's just that the Xiantian people don't directly use their bodies to carry the power of heaven and earth like the first generation of nobles. Instead, they choose to use spiritual treasures.
Spiritual roots or one’s own Tao fruit can carry the power of heaven and earth.”
"Both approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages. I'm not in a position to comment."
"But I know that the key to becoming an innate celestial being is actually to be recognized by heaven and earth for your own way. But Li Sheng once said: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as stupid dogs."
"Whether heaven and earth are superior, or ruthless and cruel, as long as a mortal does not destroy the world or do something beneficial to the future development of the entire world, how can heaven and earth care about you? How can they think highly of you?"
"So, the Qi Refiners have to settle for the second best. Since it is difficult to be recognized by heaven and earth, they should be recognized by the world first. Over time, they can also go from people to heaven, and finally gain some power from heaven and earth. A little bit can make a lot.
Use the power of heaven and earth to polish your own Taoist fruits, spiritual treasures, and spiritual roots."
"It's just that in the past, the Qi Refiners were at a disadvantage compared to the princes. They were at a huge disadvantage, so they could only travel around to study. They could only work hard to gain the recognition of the monarch first, and then they could slowly spread the word, and their influence became greater.
Only when your reputation is high can you govern a place and govern an area."
"But there are only a few who can govern a place, and there are also a few who can use their personal ideas to govern a place."
"I plan to use the two counties of Guyang County and Yang County to give the outstanding young generation of Qi practitioners in the world a chance to show themselves."
"There should be quite a few Qi Refiners in the entire world who are stuck at the limit of Taoist priests. What they lack is an opportunity to show off their talents. However, this opportunity is generally not available!"
Hearing this, Jiang Ju nodded repeatedly: "Over the past ten thousand years, there have been quite a few Qi refiners who have stayed at the limit of Taoist priests in the entire world."
"However, there are also many Qi practitioners who, in order to show their talents, took the initiative to defect to various princes, were given blood essence, changed their personal bloodlines, and even changed their personal surnames, and even married the legitimate daughters of princes.
There are quite a few sons-in-law of princes who govern the country."
"Their behavior is humane and there is nothing to criticize. Moreover, after they became the sons-in-law of princes, most of them served the princes wholeheartedly and were loyal to their father-in-law or their brother-in-law. This approach is not wrong at all.
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"There are indeed many Qi Refiners who successfully broke through and became the first generation monarchs, and then became Xian Tianren."
Speaking of this, a person appeared in Jiang Ju's mind.
"But there are many people who can't stand the nobles and are unwilling to change their bloodline!"
"Especially many strong people have their own arrogance. If you ask them to change their bloodline or even change their surname, they will not be able to swallow it!"
"Then if there is a county..."
Speaking of this, Jiang Hua shook his head: "If there is half a county, no, if there are three counties, all of them are governed by them. These three counties will all operate according to their wishes. The official system inside, and the promotions inside
Demotion and criminal law are all decided by them, allowing them to conduct experiments as much as they like. Senior sister, do you think such an experiment can attract Qi Refiners?"
"Isn't the land of three counties a bit small? At least it doesn't sound good. Let's change the map!"
Having said this, Jiang Ju gently tapped the map in front of him, and the areas of Guyang County and Yang County were enlarged: "Look carefully, there are actually many mountains, rivers, mountains and jungles in these two counties.
, if the demons and monsters inside are wiped out, at least seven or eight more counties can be created."
"The two counties together originally have twenty-five counties. With these extra counties, there are still thirty-three counties."
"Let's divide these thirty-three counties into ten counties on the map. As for the actual area being smaller, there are rules for each place. I believe they can understand it!"
"In this way, when we speak to the outside world, we will say that there are ten counties here, and invite the strong men from all over the world to come and govern them."
"If you want to recruit talents, if you don't have enough titles now, junior brother, then you can issue a request for help."
"You just said that Yancheng suddenly acquired so much land and couldn't find many talents to manage it, so we issued a request for help to the whole world and asked the wise men to come and help manage it."
"Furthermore, we can also make a three-part agreement with the great sages. First, try not to kill people. They can experiment with their own ideas, but there must be a bottom line. The bottom line is that people cannot be killed casually. They can be given a certain number of targets, but they cannot die too many.
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"Secondly, the orders they issue when governing a country cannot be too outrageous. If their decrees are as outrageous as those of the nobles or some unreliable Taoists, then it will not work."
We provide you with a place for free so that you can carry out social practice. As a result, the first order you issued is that all women in the county are my wives...
Then you are not more shameless than a noble?
Or the first order issued is that all the people in the county are consumables for my experiment, and you must all contribute obediently to my experiment on the elixir of life...
It's so dark that you can't help but look at it!
"Junior brother, your idea is that Taoism changes life and Taoism enters life. Whether it is their reforms or their governing philosophy, they must be more or less added to your philosophy, junior brother. Furthermore, you need to agree on three chapters in advance. This is called ugly talk.
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"Otherwise, who knows what kind of trouble they could cause?"