In a manor in Shannan County, many nobles, a large number of ministers, and even real second-generation people came here today.
Except for the real big names like the first generation and Zhenren, everyone else who could come came. Just looking at the size of the banquet, it was almost the same as the annual state banquet. After all, the real person and the first generation are not free to attend the state banquet every year.
This banquet adopted the Yancheng model, which is the so-called self-occupied model.
A large number of delicacies that had been prepared long ago were placed in different places. In the banquet hall, the guests chatted while eating, in small groups, discussing things.
In fact, many nobles of the Lu Kingdom felt that this was vulgar, rude, and not aristocratic at all. They were really nouveau riche!
However, no matter what he thinks in his heart, he is happy on the surface. The world is bustling, and everyone is going there for the benefit of others. The world is full of hustle and bustle, all for profit. With common interests, everything can be discussed.
"I heard that Yancheng plans to open a factory in Shannan County. By then, can we also open a few veins of minerals and make a fortune in the future?" said a certain minister.
Although this prime minister is a prime minister in terms of status and has a county as a fiefdom, his personal strength is only that of a doctor. By the time it reached his generation, it was long gone.
Therefore, he was particularly envious of Lin Feng. By spending money, he became a real minister and a Taoist priest. It was really enviable. Not to mention anything else, the prime minister can live for three thousand years, but the doctor may only live for three to five hundred years.
Even if a minister's foundation is damaged, he can live for eighteen hundred years. If a doctor's foundation is damaged, he may only live for one or two hundred years.
Even if it is not for the sake of our ancestors, but just for the sake of living a few hundred more years, we must work hard to become the prime minister!
What's more, the method of Hedao was also introduced in Yancheng. It is said that this method of Hedao originally came from the Ziwei Palace in Yancheng.
Later, after the sublimation of many real people in Yancheng, the current secret method of Hedao came into being. Using this method, you can directly combine the treasure with your body. You can buy a top-quality magic weapon of good enough quality, and then combine it with your body.
After combining the treasures, oneself is equivalent to the spirit of the treasure and can fully exert the functions of the treasure.
A top-quality magic weapon that performs completely or even supernormally may not be as good as a real minister, but at the level of a doctor, isn't that just a massacre?
Even if you are facing the real prime minister, you can stand for a while, and you can have a few moves, right?
What's more, there are also good ones among the best spiritual treasures. Will those better treasures, after combining them, be comparable to ordinary ministers?
The most important thing is that in addition to the secret method of combining Tao, there is also a secret method of Tao transformation.
It is said that before death, if you use the secret method of Taoism, you will be completely transformed into Taoism and leave no trace in the world. But the treasure itself will evolve accordingly, and over time, this treasure will become a family inheritance treasure that can only be used by the patriarchs of the past generations and can be compatible with it.
In this way, from generation to generation, the power of this inherited treasure will continue to grow stronger.
"I heard that Lin Qing's wife was originally just a doctor. Later, she went to Yancheng. Lin Qing's master, Lin Zhenren, personally took action and soon became the prime minister. It's really enviable."
"Love, I don't ask for such an opportunity. If you can give me the secret method of Hedao, and let me find a better and longer-lasting top-quality magic weapon, I will be satisfied."
"Aren't you afraid that there are Yancheng's hands and feet in this secret method? From now on, you will be controlled by Yancheng?"
"It's okay if you have it. There is a great terror between life and death. If I can live another seven or eight hundred years, and if I can display the strength of an ordinary minister, I can inspire the family. As for Yancheng's hands and feet, at worst, I will secretly be Yancheng in the future. I’m a spy, so what can I do?”
"Anyway, it's not just one or two people who did this. It's impossible for Yancheng to let me die directly. At most, when Yancheng attacks Lu and destroys Lu in the future, they can let me raise troops in advance or let me take refuge. But that will only take a long time. It’s a long time coming.”
"I am now over five hundred years old. Now I worry every day whether I will completely grow old overnight and become incompetent. What will happen next? Then I can't even guarantee my own fate. No one can You know, I will die with dignity, or I will be brutally killed."
"If I have a choice, I don't want to die!"
Some people do it to survive, some do it for the secret method, and some do it for the next generation.
It was a victory party and everyone was happy.
Qi Xin is the dean of the Lu State branch, and Lin Er will also send a real-life avatar to sit in the college. These two real people are already very strong. If they were any stronger, they would not be here to build a branch, but to destroy the place.
The only one who was unhappy was Marquis Lu. The nobles of Lu State went behind Marquis Lu's back to cooperate with Yancheng. One or two of them were about to be bribed by Yancheng. Do they still have Lu State in their hearts? Is there still him, the Marquis of Lu?
Is there any royal law left in this world?
It’s really unreasonable.
However, Marquis Lu has lost power for a long time. The contemporary Marquis of Lu is just a first-generation person who took the secret medicine, relied on the heritage left by his predecessors, and followed the old path of his predecessors before making a breakthrough. If you are not a pioneer, it will be difficult to make progress in this life.
The only effect of this first generation is to lower the gold content of the first generation and lower the lower limit of the first generation.
Let him have a fight with Xiang Yu before the breakthrough with real swords and guns. He probably won't be able to defeat Xiang Yu. He is a typical target of being attacked.
Qi Xin allowed him to easily beat him with one hand. This incarnation of Lin Er can easily defeat him.
If a guy like Lu Hou encountered Pang Juan before the breakthrough, and commanded a group of Xuan-level Taoist soldiers, they would be able to surround and kill him, which was really nothing to worry about.
After this banquet, a large number of teachers from Yancheng will come to some noble territories to lead the new with the old to establish new junior schools. These junior schools will use Yancheng's characters, Yancheng's weights and measures, Yancheng's teaching materials, and Yancheng's standards.
Cultural unification is advancing steadily!
Soon, intermediate schools and advanced schools will be established in Shannan County.
If you seize the next generation, you seize the future.
Just like Jiang Hua today, talents from the younger generation come to join him from time to time. Many young people are willing to fight for their ideals. As for what this ideal is, some think it is unification, some think it is world harmony, and some think it is the establishment of a new world of Qi practitioners.
No matter what the original intention was, the result is that Yancheng has never lacked talents since Baijia thirty years ago. Therefore, Yancheng can open one research institute after another and establish one research project after another.
There is no shortage of money or talent in Yancheng, and there are all kinds of research projects.
Just like today, Jiang Hua began to communicate with the younger generation of geniuses again, and the first person he communicated with was Brother Liang.
After Brother Liang invented the wooden ox and horse, he was directly pulled into the cabinet by Jiang Hua and served as the chief minister of the cabinet. The cabinet used to be a very important department, but fifteen years later, as everyone broke through and became the first generation and real people, the cabinet failed to keep up. Slowly, the cabinet fell behind, and this backwardness lasted for more than thirty years.
"Are you still getting used to it?" Jiang Hua asked with concern, looking at Brother Liang in front of him.
Brother Liang smiled slightly and shook the feather fan in his hand: "Everyone is very friendly. I had friendly communication with many seniors and finally gained their approval."
Hearing this, Jiang Hua smiled directly. The news he got was not like this.
After Zhuge Liang became the new chief minister of the cabinet, many people were unconvinced, and many people were holding back their bad intentions and wanted to deliberately embarrass him.
No matter how capable you Zhuge Liang is, you can't suddenly become the chief minister of the cabinet? Are you still talking about the rules? Don’t you know that before this, how many people dreamed of taking a step further and becoming the chief minister of the cabinet? How can you parachute a person? Do you still have martial ethics?
They didn't dare to beep with Jiang Hua directly, but they still had the courage to secretly attack Zhuge Liang.
If it was just to create difficulties, Zhuge Liang would quietly resolve the difficulties.
If it was a dirty trick, Zhuge Liang would quietly deal with it and return another one in return. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
In addition, Zhuge Liang also did a big thing. After this big thing was done, no one in the cabinet was dissatisfied with him.
Zhuge Liang organized some people to take the lead in checking the accounts!
He checked all the accounts from the establishment of the cabinet to today's Baijia 51st Winter!
"When I heard that you wanted to check the accounts, I was a little worried and thought about sending someone to help you. I didn't expect you to do such a good job!"
Zhuge Liang smiled and waved the feather fan in his hand: "This is all due to the trust of the master and the cooperation of colleagues."
Cabinet accounts, many of which are private accounts, are extremely confidential and have higher authority than the previous ones. These accounts cannot be checked casually. Once checked, they will be exposed. The more people know about it, the more difficult and costly it will be to keep it secret. The higher it is.
In principle, the less you know about this kind of account, the better. Many times, even if they know that there are many pitfalls in these accounts, they still admit it for the sake of better confidentiality.
Otherwise, when you check the accounts, there will be many people involved. Many times, one person cannot understand the accounts clearly. You have to mobilize information from many departments at the same time. The more actions you take, the greater the possibility of loopholes. Ultimately, there is a greater chance that some hidden projects will be exposed as a result of an audit.
Once exposed, who bears the responsibility?
Just like the training of prefecture-level Taoist soldiers, everything related to this project is subject to the highest level of confidentiality. Including what soldiers eat, drink, what they do when they sleep, how they usually train, from the selection of soldiers to their daily lives and training processes, and even the specific information of being sent out for drills, as well as the final process of successful training, all are of the highest level. level of confidentiality.
Yancheng does not want any of it to be leaked.
There are only two people who know the whole process, one is Wu Qi, a trainer of prefecture-level Taoist soldiers, and the other is Jiang Hua.
Others, at best, can only know the part they are responsible for.
Many people even don't know that the work they are responsible for is related to prefecture-level Taoist soldiers. Many people are responsible for purchasing, but they don’t know where the spiritual rice they purchased will be sent. Many people are responsible for making magic tools for training, but they don't know where, when and how long the magic tools they make will be used.
If you check the accounts at this time, the possibility of leaking secrets will increase dramatically.
In the past, Xiao He went to engage in government affairs and became a minister, and only Feng Qingyang, Qu Wu, and Feng Yi were left in the cabinet.
Now the three of them are just ministers and Taoist priests, not real people or the first generation.
This has caused the cabinet to feel aggrieved many times over the years. No one listens to what I say, and the voice is not loud enough. Many people even have the attitude towards the cabinet that my research involves confidentiality, involving real people and first-generation secrets, so it is not convenient for more people to know. Therefore, the accounts will not be detailed.
The implication is: If I report in detail, the three of you will not be able to keep the secret. Who told you three that you are not strong enough? Just pay me honestly and that's it, the rest is none of your business!
By the time Zhuge Liang took over the cabinet, the cabinet was in ruins and anyone could step on it.
However, I don’t even think about it. What is the cabinet? It is the place of the heart. Even if it has declined, can you step on it casually?
Then Zhuge Liang began to check the accounts, and found out a lot of chicken feathers.
"Have you been investigating Baijia for thirty years?" Jiang Hua said lightly.
"That's what the public said. In fact, the investigation was just completed last night." With that, Zhuge Liang handed over a jade slip.
"There are records here of all the cleanups of the audits. Some of them are really too greedy, which is shocking!"
Jiang Hua didn't look at the jade slip, but asked directly: "Are Qingyang and the others okay?"
Zhuge Liang shook his head directly: "No, the three bachelors have always strictly abided by the laws of Yancheng. They have never bent the law for personal gain, nor have they deliberately given privileges to their clansmen. They have never benefited from so many projects."
"Moreover, the three bachelors have been actively cooperating with me during this audit. The master Shiwu personally led the cabinet members to help the minister audit the accounts, and the master Shiyi personally asked other departments to ask for files, with a tough and uncompromising attitude. Although Grand Scholar Qingyang has been in seclusion for a long time, before he went into seclusion, he also left behind a Grand Master's token, entrusting me with full authority."
"If it weren't for the cooperation of the three bachelors, this audit would not have been so smooth."
"Are there many capital crimes among these accounts?"
"If we strictly follow the laws of Yancheng, there will be many people guilty of death, tens of thousands of people. Among them, there are more than a thousand Taoist priests and ministers, and some of them are from other countries. If they are not handled well, the impact will be Profound.”
"Some people deliberately falsify and include many irrelevant funds in confidential accounts. The project research may have cost only 3 billion, but they dared to report 30 billion on confidential projects."
"Some people even secretly colluded with people from other countries to directly betray Yancheng's interests and some core secrets."
(End of chapter)
