Under the violent thunder, the man's liver and gallbladder in the black mist were about to burst. It pointed at Liu Huaian and roared: "You damn monster, monster!"
"A monster actually called me a monster?" Liu Huaian said with a smile, "Thank you for the compliment."
"Do you think you can kill me?"
"This is inevitable!" Liu Huaian asked with a smile: "Let me ask you, who harmed you, is there any evidence that can help you reverse the case?"
The person in the black mist was stunned, and it asked doubtfully: "You want to help me?"
"No, there is no such thing as someone helping someone in human society." Liu Huaian smiled and said, "I'm just helping myself. In my eyes, all altruistic behaviors are self-serving.
Helping others is to hope to be helped when you are in trouble, and selfless dedication is to gain the respect and admiration of others and improve your status in society. On the contrary, if there is no benefit at all from helping others, or even retaliation, then people should not help
others.
Creatures that are blindly altruistic should not live in this world. Even if they do exist, the cruel laws of nature will quickly eliminate such genes."
"Aren't you quite capable?" The man in the black mist sneered and said, "I've been dead for several years, who knows if the evidence is still there?"
Liu Huaian smiled and said, "Let's talk about it. What if we can find it? After that, you can say your last words."
"Hmph!" The man in the black mist smiled contemptuously and said, "My name is Yue Jianshui. There is a ledger that I hid on the beam of the Yue family's old house."
Liu Kesi immediately said: "The Yue family has been burned down, and there probably won't be any clues."
Liu Huaian nodded slightly and said, "Okay, Yue Jianshui, do you have any last words?"
"I am at the seventh level of the Three Qi Realm."
Liu Huaian teleported to Yue Jianshui. In its frightened eyes, Liu Huaian inserted a Purple Sky Thunder into its body, causing Yue Jianshui to lose his soul.
"What boring last words." Liu Huaian looked at the piece of black flesh and blood in front of him. He picked it up and put it away, and then said, "Check if there are any living people here."
After some inspection, Liu Kesi shook his head and said: "Sir, there is no living person."
Liu Huaian raised his right hand, and the whole village was burning. He walked towards the capital, "Let's go, there will be no plague here."
After returning to the capital, Liu Huaian asked Xiaotao and Xiaoyao to tell Qinglong about the incident, while he went back to find Zhou Ji.
"What is this?" Liu Huaian put the black flesh and blood on the table.
Zhou Ji picked up the black flesh and smelled it and said, "This is the flesh and blood of Corpse Ancestor Hanba. You can give it to Nan Jinping to eat. It will help her improve her realm and allow her to evolve."
"Nan Jinping was eaten by me." Liu Huaian took a sip from the tea cup and looked at the frightened Zhou Ji very calmly, "Are you worried? Are you worried that I will eat you that day?"
Zhou Ji nodded lightly and said, "Ever since you asked, there have been earth-shaking changes. It's like going crazy."
Liu Huaian relied on him and said: "It should be said that I am closer to my true self. If I were not such a person, my way would not choose me."
"But do you know what the consequences of doing this will be?" Zhou Ji picked up the tea cup and took a sip and said, "If you kill one of your own people, it is very likely that you will be betrayed by your relatives."
"I have always believed that no matter what you do, there is a corresponding price. Once you do it, you have to bear the price." Liu Huaian took out his cigarette and took a puff and said with a smile: "However, as long as you can bear any price, then you
can do anything.
Is this matter important to me? The more I advance, the fewer things can restrain me. They, the sect, the empire, including you, are no longer important to me."
Zhou Ji suddenly smiled with relief. She smiled bitterly and said, "You are really becoming more and more like my father. He is also such a beast and doesn't care about anything."
"Then can you call me daddy?" Liu Huaian exhaled a puff of smoke again and said, "Do you want this piece of meat? If you don't want it, I will use it to train other people."
Zhou Ji said with a smile: "How could I not want it? Am I a fool? Liu Huaian, I want to tell you something. Its appearance here means that Hanba is not too far away from here."
"It doesn't matter, it's just that there are millions of refugees in Chidigan." Liu Huaian said with a sneer: "Then the empire will die. They personally planted a bomb, a bomb that can kill themselves."
"What bomb?"
"Tax and Silver Bill." Liu Huaian took a sip from his teacup and said, "Now the empire's taxes are collected on a per-acre basis. This is an extremely stupid act."
"Why?" Zhou Ji was very excited. She really wanted Da'an to die.
Liu Huaian exhaled a puff of smoke again and said: "This bill is a good thing for the South and a good thing for the empire as a whole. All taxes are paid, which will make people give up farming and work to earn money.
The merchants obtained cheap labor and thus obtained a large amount of silver, and then distributed the silver to the workers so that they could pay taxes, and the workers could keep some for themselves.
The prosperity of the southern part of the empire is based on the entire bill. Fuso, Luzon, North Korea, and even the West all like Da'an's tea, porcelain, calligraphy and painting, and silk, and their silver comes to Da'an.
And where Daan's goods go, this is a good thing. The empire is about to move from the agricultural era to the next more prosperous era."
"What about the disadvantages?" Zhou Ji said with a smile, "I prefer to hear the disadvantages."
Liu Huaian sneered and said: "The northwest, and even the areas of the empire far away from the sea, will suffer. Just imagine, because the south has money, it can pay taxes and raise taxes. Is this the case across the country?
Obviously not. When an acre of grain cannot pay taxes, people will abandon cultivated land on a large scale. This is a market choice. Without land and food, they can only rebel.
As long as someone rebels, taxes must be raised to redress the rebellion. Once taxes are raised, more people will rebel. This is a dead end.
This is not the most terrifying thing. If one day, foreigners do not buy our products, if Fuso closes itself to the country, if there is a war in the West.
Da'an will lose a lot of silver, and without the silver, the south will also face the previously increased taxes, and they will give up farming and join the rebel army."
Zhou Ji frowned and asked, "Is there no silver in Da'an?"
"Not that much. Da'an is a silver-poor country, and gold itself is scarce. This is like a joke made by God. Fusang Land Insurance has insufficient products, but it has a large amount of silver mines. Da'an is rich in products, but there is not much silver.
Mine." Liu Huaian smiled relievedly.
He did not expect that Da'an would complete the Ming Dynasty's life in just a few decades. The tax and silver bill was very similar to Zhang Juzheng's whipping method.
It did bring short-term prosperity to the empire, but it also pushed the empire to its end.
People often say that Zhang Juzheng extended the life of the Ming Dynasty for fifty years, but after one whip, the Ming Dynasty only lived for more than fifty years.
Fifty years, Liu Huaian could afford to wait, but if he intervened a little more, he wouldn't even have to wait fifty years.
Zhou Ji smiled and said: "That would be great. When the time comes, I hope you can destroy the empire."
Liu Huaian nodded lightly and said: "Of course, I need troops and strength now, but I can't keep them in the empire."
Zhou Ji thought for a moment and said, "Let Lingruo do this. She is a smart person and knows how to do business. How many troops do you need?"
"I want 50,000 heavy cavalry and Da'an's Vulcan Army."
Zhou Ji rolled her eyes at him and asked, "What are you doing? Do you want to fight Da'an?"
"Fifty thousand is a lot?"
"Oh, it turns out you also have a weakness." Zhou Ji said with a wry smile: "I have been reading history books during this period. Emperor Da'an took 40,000 heavy cavalry and entered the Central Plains. Do you know what heavy cavalry means?"
Liu Huaian shook his head gently.
Zhou Ji sighed: "Heavy cavalry means that they are completely invincible against armies other than the Vulcan Army. They mount their horse-drawn bows and break formations fiercely. They dismount their horses and form formations to strangle all enemies. Bows, arrows, and blades are basically ineffective against them.
Every heavy cavalryman is an enemy of ten thousand people."
The corner of Liu Huaian's mouth twitched twice and he asked: "Are they really that powerful? Can they charge through the spear formation?" Liu Huaian's understanding of heavy cavalry was still limited to TV dramas.
"Isn't this nonsense? The spears of the heavy cavalry are at least half a meter longer than the spearmen's spears. They will not rush directly to the spear formation, but will run to the edge and stab the front row to death, and then leave. Follow-up
The heavy cavalry will be added to make up for it. Once the enemy's formation is in chaos, they will charge with the whole army.
Even the Vulcan Army cannot kill the heavy cavalry with an attack fifty meters away. Therefore, the Vulcan Army needs to form a formation with spearmen and shield soldiers to resist the heavy cavalry.
But even so, the heavy cavalry can use its speed advantage to bypass the Vulcan army and attack the rear. Speed, strength, destructive power, and impact are all reasons why the heavy cavalry is invincible."
Liu Huaian was silent for a long time and asked: "How much does it cost for 50,000 heavy cavalry, 100,000 cavalry, and 180,000 Vulcan troops?"
Zhou Ji made a calculation and said: "Every year, we need almost 900,000 tons of fodder, 400 million tons of grain, and countless money. Let me calculate it for you. It means death at the beginning."
Liu Huaian shook his head in despair and said: "It seems that we can't take too big a step. I'll leave this matter to you. You should know better."
"This is natural." Zhou Ji said after a long silence: "First of all, it is a horse breeding land. Da'an has very strict control over horses, especially high-quality war horses. It is basically difficult for you to get them. Boy, you have to be rich first."
Liu Huaian handed her ten pieces of gold sand and asked, "Is it enough?"
Zhou Ji swallowed her saliva and asked, "That's enough. Leave the horse breeding land and other issues to me. By the way, why do you have so much money?"
"You can go to the north to buy horses you got from the God's Tomb. After all, they are suffering from drought and are short of money. The horses will probably be sold to you at a low price." Liu Huaian shrugged helplessly and said: "If there is a war, you probably won't be able to buy them.