My diary of transcendence from the heavens

Chapter 116 114. Ten years of peace, expedition to Southern Zhao!

Time waits for no one.

The most destructive thing in the world is time and years.

Ten years have passed by in a hurry.

Unknowingly, ten years had disappeared, and the changes brought to the Northern Wei Dynasty during this period were extremely huge.

During this period, the national power of the Northern Wei Dynasty grew rapidly.

There are no more corrupt officials, no more rebellious ministers and traitors, no more princes and kings. Even the centuries-old aristocratic families that have taken root in the country and sucked blood have been wiped out, and the powerful landlords who have oppressed the people have also been wiped out.

How could the country not prosper?

In this way, the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Under a series of measures taken by the imperial court to encourage childbirth, people gave birth to a large number of children. The population growth rate was more than ten times that of the past, and the population became large.

Moreover, everyone’s minds are refreshed and they already have sufficient patriotic spirit!

That’s right, it’s patriotism!
In these years, Zhao Xuanqi has been developing the education industry crazily, developing teaching, educating people and imparting knowledge with iron-blooded methods.

There is even a rule that if a scholar wants to become an official, he cannot just study dead books. He must go to the countryside to work for a year before he can become a qualified official.

Zhao Xuanqi turned the monopolized reading industry into a mass industry and sent a large number of scholars into the countryside to teach and educate people for free, teach people to read and learn about national affairs for free.

Thanks to his reputation and the hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under his command, including the illustrious achievements he has gained over the years, no one can stop his actions.

At the same time, the people were forced to read and write to cultivate loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. The court would also give generous rewards to villagers who studied well.

If a young person has the potential to study, the state will pay for the study for free and subsidize the family.

You know, ordinary people in the past could not read and learn calligraphy at all. This is something that only Wenquxing can do, and only the children of wealthy families can do. As a result, every ordinary person has the opportunity to learn.

Therefore, the people were extremely excited and moved. They studied very hard, took the initiative to learn to read, and were very happy to send their children to study.

Once people have knowledge, they can think better, promote social progress, understand the concept of family and country, and have collective thinking.

Under Zhao Xuanqi's operations, many people had a national concept of the Northern Wei Kingdom, cultivated sufficient patriotic spirit, and were willing to contribute and make sacrifices to the country.

At the same time, we hate corrupt officials very much. Many people have developed good moral character. The society is very stable and there are far fewer crimes.

As the past ten years have progressed, the country has become stronger and stronger, and more and more patriotic people have become more and more patriotic, so the calls for unification have become louder and louder.

At that time, the Han Dynasty collapsed and turned into Southern Zhao and Northern Wei.

It has been hundreds of years since the split.

Driven by this kind of patriotic thought, many people can't wait to unify the country, restore the glory of the Han family, and make the men of the Han family great again!

The public is agitated and longs for unification!
Perhaps, this can be called the first cultural enlightenment.

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Today, ten years later, Zhao Xuanqi continues to grow older and is already 45 years old.

There are many wrinkles on his face, and the white hair can be seen on his head, and the whole person is showing his age.

The body gradually becomes thinner, the skin becomes dull, and the appearance of youth is no longer the same. Even the thinking ability is declining.

In these ten years, because the country was stable and needed stability and development after the chaos, Zhao Xuanqi did not bother the country too much in other aspects.

Governance by doing nothing is the most suitable for today’s national conditions.

Zhao Xuanqi allowed the people to develop. What he did was more of teaching, perfectly playing the role of the emperor's teacher.

As the emperor's teacher, he carefully studied teaching and educating people every day, studied perfect copywriting, and then conveyed his own theories and thoughts to the little emperor.

He slowly taught Emperor Qinglong about his own ambitions, his own ideas, how to govern the country, and how to distinguish between loyal and traitors.

In terms of educating Emperor Qinglong, Zhao Xuanqi devoted a lot of effort and spent a lot of time in trying to cultivate him into a wise king.

In ancient times, a wise king was the most important thing to the country!
Education alone is ineffective. The emperor also needs to truly understand the suffering of the people and have real contact with the people at the bottom, so that he can understand that the people are not simple and can work hard to make progress.

For this reason, Zhao Xuanqi even took Emperor Qinglong to the countryside for a period of time to work in the fields, eat the unpalatable food eaten by the common people, wear the rough cloth worn by the common people, and feel the suffering of the common people.

He also led Emperor Qinglong to secretly inspect officials, cultivate official relations, learn to handle government affairs, and learn to analyze things.

Huang Tian deserves a caring person.

Zhao Xuanqi's hard work was not in vain.

Because Emperor Qinglong was indeed a good emperor.

Emperor Qinglong lived up to his heavy responsibilities, studied hard and absorbed knowledge crazily.

He has a very kind personality and noble moral character. Not only is he very polite, but he also has clear and logical thinking, a flexible mind, and learns knowledge very quickly.

He kept everything Zhao Xuanqi said in mind, and could even draw inferences from one instance to another, and had unique insights.

Emperor Qinglong would not be led by Zhao Xuanqi alone. He had his own independent thinking ability and was very steady in doing things.

After years of training, he has developed the ambition to revitalize the country, and has very good governance skills, with almost full marks in political ability.

The most important thing is that Emperor Qinglong respected the teacher Zhao Xuanqi very much. He would ask Zhao Xuanqi about anything and would take the initiative to ask Zhao Xuanqi for advice if he didn't understand something. He was very polite.

The monarch and his ministers are very close to each other.

Zhao Xuanqi felt that with the current ability of Emperor Qinglong, he would definitely be a wise king in the near future!
He will be a more powerful emperor than Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of China!
Under his leadership, the entire country will definitely become more prosperous and more glorious!

Therefore, when Emperor Qinglong was 20 years old, Zhao Xuanqi had gradually begun to delegate power to Emperor Qinglong, and slowly let Emperor Qinglong begin to rule personally.

He gradually handed over the power in his hands to Emperor Qinglong.

From the powerful minister who covered the sky with one hand, he slowly handed over all the power in his hand to the emperor without any concealment or secret.

This kind of thing would be explosive in any era.

Zhao Xuanqi's moral character has been praised by countless people, and countless officials regard Zhao Xuanqi as their ultimate role model and learn from him.

"Your Majesty, that's the end of today's lesson. Let's take a good rest. I will retire now."

Zhao Xuanqi ended today's lecture and slowly left.

Emperor Qinglong stood up, saluted Zhao Xuanqi respectfully and said, "Teacher, walk slowly."

In the eyes of Emperor Qinglong, Zhao Xuanqi slowly left the room, left the courtyard, and then left the Brilliant Palace.

After Zhao Xuanqi left the palace, he was in a good mood because Emperor Qinglong completed today's lesson perfectly.

Judging from the assessment, Emperor Qinglong already had the ability to handle government affairs independently.

Even without himself, he was able to deal with the ministers perfectly, suppressed those civil and military ministers, and firmly controlled the government.

"Your Majesty can now govern alone."

"Just wait for a chance, and then you can do the next thing!" Zhao Xuanqi returned home, his eyes sparkling.

In these ten years, the country has been stabilized.

The entire country seemed peaceful, as if it had given up force, stayed away from war, and only cared about stable development.

However, this is only on the surface.

Secretly, Zhao Xuanqi never stopped cultivating the army.

Over the years, he recruited troops for the imperial court, trained powerful armies, summoned warriors who could conquer and fight, looked for generals who were good at fighting, and all kinds of strategic planners.

Including raising large numbers of horses.

Under his cultivation, the 40 elite soldiers ten years ago have developed into [-] million elite soldiers and generals!
The firearms unit has been fully equipped, and the army already has the most advanced musket units of this era.

At the same time, even various cannons that were most suitable in ancient times, such as the red cannon, were produced in large quantities. As long as the cannonballs were installed, they could fire out the most terrifying power.

Able to break strong city walls!

It can knock people and horses into pieces!

Including various kinds of explosives, they were also produced in large quantities and equipped in the army, forming a terrifying combat power.

Among these 30 elite soldiers, in addition to infantry, most of them are cavalry!
The cavalry is the ace army of this era.

Only with cavalry can we have the ability to go on expeditions!

The powerful mobility of the cavalry can support it to stay away from its homeland and go to other areas to fight. It can move around in a short period of time and come and go freely.

With these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and tens of thousands of elite cavalry, we are ready for expeditions!
But in this kind of feudal ancient times, it was more difficult than imagined to go on an expedition.

The cavalry only has the preliminary ability to conduct expeditions. What really determines the importance is food!

Once there is a war, the soldiers in the army will not have time to farm, and they will need food for eating, drinking and sleeping.

People eat horse chews and consume astronomical amounts of grass every day.

War is not a child's play, any mistake may result in total loss. As long as you have food, we can support your expedition!
Therefore, as early as the beginning, Zhao Xuanqi had already found experienced agriculturists and agriculturist families to teach them the theory of hybrid rice.

Zhao Xuanqi has advanced theories for later generations and various knowledge about hybrid rice. It can be said that he stands on the shoulders of giants and directly feeds these agriculturists!

This kind of knowledge was absolutely earth-shaking to ancient people!In the eyes of agriculturists, Zhao Xuanqi is simply an immortal, who can actually come up with such a terrifying theory!

Hybrid rice, by selecting seeds with excellent genes and cultivating excellent offspring, can increase food production dozens of times, thereby ending famine and allowing everyone in the world to have enough to eat!
This great thing has been the pursuit of agriculturists of all ages!

Agriculturalists view Zhao Xuanqi as they view heavenly beings. They learn hybrid knowledge very well, and then use this knowledge to study rice crazily, conduct experiments crazily, and succeed one after another.

Many people would rather die in order to perfectly cultivate an excellent rice plant. For this ideal, they are willing to sacrifice everything!

Under the continuous cultivation of countless capable people.

After several years of development, the Northern Wei Dynasty already had its own hybrid rice.

This kind of hybrid rice is a weakened version, and it is not as powerful as the hybrid rice of later generations. However, in this period, it was also a dimensionality reduction blow.

Grain production increased several times!
With this rice, the imperial court selected areas suitable for rice cultivation and promoted rice cultivation on a large scale.

With the popularity of hybrid rice, grain production has skyrocketed in recent years. People everywhere have stored grain, and it is difficult for people to starve to death at home.

Although it won't be full, at least people won't starve to death.

All the people couldn't believe that hybrid rice could have such a terrifying yield. One acre of land could be used as ten acres of land!

The hybrid rice developed by Zhao Xuanqi has been sought after by everyone and praised by everyone.

Countless people who have experienced famine and the suffering of hunger all regard Zhao Xuanqi as a god.

This is a living god!

Zhao Xuanqi received a new title: saint.

The achievements of hybrid rice can be regarded as academicians in future generations, which will also be a famous figure.

In ancient times, it was like directly consecrating a god and consecrating him immediately. Countless people spontaneously created statues, carved Zhao Xuanqi's appearance on them, and continued to worship him.

Every year when there is a good harvest and when grain production increases greatly, the people will worship the statue, thank Zhao Xuanqi for the harvest, and offer various sacrifices to attribute all the credit for the harvest to Zhao Xuanqi.

And every time there is a famine or a bad harvest, the people will defeat Zhao Xuanqi and hope that Zhao Xuanqi will bless everyone to have a good harvest and good weather.

It was vaguely apparent that Zhao Xuanqi had a brand new title besides the title of God of Thunder at the beginning:

The god of harvest.

Some scholars circulated a saying that Zhao Xuanqi was a god from the upper world, because he saw the hunger and disasters in the world, saw the people displaced, and starved to death because they were not full to eat.

So he risked his life to steal the God King's harvest treasures. After going through 81 hardships, he successfully obtained the treasures and came to the human world.

He selflessly dedicated the precious treasure of the God King to all ordinary people, and selflessly handed it over to all humans in the world!
This treasure is hybrid rice!

This is food only gods can eat!

This legend spreads further and further, becoming more and more outrageous, and even a myth system was born for it...

In addition, the overseas fleets sent by Zhao Xuanqi and the Silk Road opened up. Over the past few years, they also brought back goods and plants from other places, bringing back the plants described by Zhao Xuanqi.

The caravans went through many difficulties and dangers, traveled to several countries, brought back potatoes and sweet potatoes from other areas, and found all these ancient high-yielding life-saving plants.

The Northern Wei Dynasty had begun to cultivate these plants on a large scale and achieved good profits.

In addition, various spices, as well as various gold and silver and other precious items, were transported back to the Northern Wei Kingdom almost continuously.

Zhao Xuanqi has long brought glass making, paper making, and refined salt manufacturing methods to this world.

Therefore, in terms of trade, all you need to do is to make those not-so-valuable glass into beautiful handicrafts, and then you can exchange them for precious items in other countries, which is a real profit.

Thanks to the method of making refined salt, the people did not lack salt to eat, and it was also very good refined salt. Their bodies developed very healthily, and they were able to farm more vigorously.

In recent years, with the help of potatoes and sweet potatoes, including hybrid rice, the Northern Wei Kingdom has no shortage of food. Countless food has been piled up in the government granaries.

Food is piled on the ground and the granary is full!
Now we are just waiting for an opportunity, a perfect opportunity, and the Northern Wei Kingdom can march south!
Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!

It’s not just the people who yearn for unification.

In fact, Zhao Xuanqi is the one who desires unification the most.

Time waits for no one, Zhao Xuanqi is already in his 40s.

In modern times, this age would naturally be nothing.

But this was ancient times when medical conditions were backward. In ancient times, he was already considered an old man, with almost half of his body already buried in the ground.

If something unexpected happened one day, I might just kick my legs off, close my eyes, and lie down, dead.

Zhao Xuanqi wants to take advantage of the time he is alive and the time he is able to go to war to do something even more earth-shattering!

It’s like restoring unity!
As long as the great unification is restored, and Zhao Xuanqi still has achievements in his current status, the reward points he will receive after returning to the real world will definitely not be low, and he will definitely be able to change his life and change his destiny!

His desire for unity is stronger than anyone else.

Just wait for an opportunity.

Wait for an opportunity and start the southern expedition.

Just when the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty were looking forward to it, just when Zhao Xuanqi was painstakingly waiting for the opportunity, the east wind came.

The time you have been waiting for has finally arrived!
On this day, Xi Zuo, who was lurking in the Southern Zhao Kingdom, rushed 800 miles, took a fast horse, and returned to the capital with a piece of good news to pass on to Zhao Xuanqi.

Due to natural and man-made disasters, a severe famine broke out in the Southern Zhao Kingdom!
A most horrific famine spread across the Southern Zhao Kingdom. People were displaced and mourners everywhere were eating bark from trees and eating each other.

People everywhere have begun to revolt.

However, due to corruption and corruption in the Southern Zhao Kingdom, the officials from all over the country were all corrupt and had no ability to suppress the uprising. The whole court was extremely busy because of the domestic uprising!
This is a great time!
This is the east wind that Zhao Xuanqi is waiting for!
In the room, Zhao Xuanqi held the information in his hands tightly and asked the spy in front of him with a voice trembling with excitement:

"Are you sure this information is true?"

The spy knelt on the ground, raised his head high, with an excited look on his face, and answered without hesitation in a sonorous and powerful voice: "I assure Mr. Wu An with my head that the information I told you is all true! "

Zhao Xuanqi laughed loudly: "Okay, okay!"

Amid the surprise, Zhao Xuanqi hurriedly entered the palace, conveyed the good news to Emperor Qinglong, and expressed his intention to lead an expedition.

After hearing this, Emperor Qinglong did not do anything to stop him. Instead, he very much agreed with Zhao Xuanqi's decision.

Zhao Xuanqi has long gained the deep trust of Emperor Qinglong over the years.

In the eyes of Emperor Qinglong, Zhao Xuanqi was not only his teacher, but also more like his father. The two parties had long had deep feelings and were attentive to each other.

Although there is no blood relationship, it is better than blood relationship!
Emperor Qinglong fully supported Zhao Xuanqi's expedition and never thought about Zhao Xuanqi's possible independence, and even expressed concerns.

Emperor Qinglong said worriedly: "Teacher, you are already over 40 years old. You are going on an expedition to other countries. It is a tiring journey. You must take care of yourself!"

Zhao Xuanqi nodded and said: "I'm only at this age. I have been taking care of my body and practicing martial arts over the years, and I am not aging at all. Even now, I still need to eat three pounds of meat and one pound of rice!"

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I will definitely lead our army to conquer the Southern Zhao Kingdom and restore the great unification!"

Having said this, Zhao Xuanqi looked at Emperor Qinglong and said sincerely: "I am doing this just to clear the way for His Majesty."

"While I can still move, while I haven't died of old age, I will help His Majesty complete the unification of the country and accomplish this difficult task."

"I hope that before I leave, I can hand over a complete country to Your Majesty, and hand over a healthy and prosperous country to Your Majesty, so that Your Majesty can promote the country to develop even more in the future."

How can such a minister not be moved?
These words were like needles piercing into the heart of Emperor Qinglong. In his eyes, Zhao Xuanqi was like a meticulous old father who would clear obstacles for his son even when he was about to die.

Emperor Qinglong was deeply moved after hearing this. Tears fell from his eyes, and his eyes were mostly red. He said movedly: "I already know the teacher's good intentions, please accept my respect!"

He saluted Zhao Xuanqi solemnly.

Zhao Xuanqi immediately supported Emperor Qinglong's hands, held his hands tightly, helped him up, and warned:
"I need to go to another country remotely. Your Majesty can personally govern the country. I will probably not need long-term assistance in the future. I hope that Your Majesty can stabilize the rear and stabilize the government. This is a test for Your Majesty. I believe in Your Majesty's ability."

Emperor Qinglong understood the importance of the matter and said solemnly: "Teacher, please rest assured that I will not let you down. During the days when you are gone, I will try to stabilize the country and prevent any accidents!"

"When the teacher returns in triumph, I will hold a celebration banquet for you, and I will personally drink for the teacher!"

After hearing this, Zhao Xuanqi showed a smile on his face and replied: "Then I can wait for your majesty's celebration banquet and your majesty's wine. Moreover, your majesty should also get married at this age. When my daughter reaches the right age, I will wait for your majesty to drink." How about getting married after you come back?"

Emperor Qinglong agreed: "It's a dream come true."

"I hope that the teacher will come back safely and host the wedding for me, so that we can get closer..."

At this point, Zhao Xuanqi said his final farewell to Emperor Qinglong, explaining all the things that needed to be explained to ensure that everything was flawless.

After saying the good things, Zhao Xuanqi slowly left the palace with brisk steps.

"Pure away thousands of miles, unite the eight wastelands; bring peace to all countries, and calm the four directions. Clear up the obscurity of the nine realms, and determine the great achievements of thousands of years; clear up what the previous generations did not clear, and submit to the previous kings who did not submit!"

Southern Expedition!

Zhao Xuanqi ordered his troops and generals, and with great ambition, he led the army of the Northern Wei Dynasty and headed south with this group of elite soldiers and generals who longed for great unification.

Everyone is full of fighting spirit, and everyone is not afraid of death!

Conquer Nanzhao Kingdom in the south!
Sharpening knives does not miss woodcutters.

Ten years of peace and security, ten years of sharpening the sword, right now!
It’s time for this country that has been divided for hundreds of years to be reunited!

　Asking for monthly tickets for tens of thousands per day~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)