Ball Ball Cultivation

Chapter 88 Becoming the Emperor 11

First of all, he must be from a poor farming family. Secondly, he must come from a family with a good reputation and good deeds. Finally, he must have a certain literary foundation. If he really doesn't have one, he must have a skill.

In the end, over 130 men and 150 women were selected. Later, Li Dafu secretly searched for over 20 genuine scholars with real talent but no connections to officialdom. One was Wang Yang, a man who had been a servant for five years, much to the envy of his master. He was exceptionally talented and had a photographic memory. Another was the last disciple of a down-and-out scholar, whose master had died before he could be recommended for officialdom, forcing him to return to farming and weaving.

There was another one who improved the loom from hand-cranked to foot-operated. He was the scholar Zhu Qiao. The others were all people with special talents in certain areas. Even though they were over 20 years old, Li Dafu bribed Eunuch Li to allow these "talents" to enter the academy, and everyone turned a blind eye.

Eunuch Li was brought up under Liu Fu, and he knew how eager the current emperor was to seek talented people, so he would take things like this lightly, even if they only required a glance!

Each team added four or five teachers, teaching them separately based on their strengths and weaknesses! However, numbers and letters were taught personally, and in the spring, experimental plots were divided and cultivated. Everyone had their own area of ​​responsibility, and the growth charts were the focus of the assessment!

Three years passed in a flash. Some students left and new students joined, and there were always no less than two hundred people!

The experimental fields have also been expanded on a large scale. The original area of ​​more than 30 mu has now increased to nearly 30,000 mu. Moreover, in this arid and barren land where the general yield does not exceed 200 kilograms per mu, the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes has reached 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms, and the yield of corn is also 600 to 700 kilograms. It can be promoted throughout the county immediately! Sweet potatoes are made from mountainous land and

The wasteland was planted under the pretext of praying for blessings and accumulating merits for the emperor and empress, and all the grain grown was used as seeds. However, this high-yield grain was still coveted by the aristocratic families. However, due to the help of the Dragon Guards, Phoenix Guards, Jinyiwei, and a eunuch who handled miscellaneous matters, after a thousand days, the grain could still flow into the bowls of the aristocratic families and be used by them.

All Qiuqiu needs is three to five years of time! We also need to select a thousand outstanding male and female students to go to the capital for a new review!

The emperor and all the civil and military officials in the court played a game of chess, with the country as the board, and winning it was the fate of the world!

Qiuqiu spent a year and a half slowly integrating the Heavenly Soul from the Three Souls and Seven Spirits. Emperor Jin's divine soul was truly powerful, requiring such a long time to fuse. Now he could open his storage ring, and whether it was his own or the spoils from the four storage rings he'd taken during his pursuit, he'd reaped a bounty! He used the countless high-grade spirit stones within to construct a high-grade spirit gathering array, providing a constant flow of spiritual energy for the wooden stick to absorb! Years of nurturing had given rise to a spirit, and though immature, it could already clearly express itself!

When Qiuqiu's dantian suffered a fatal blow, the wooden stick took 90% of the attack on his own initiative. However, the spiritual consciousness could not be protected, so Qiuqiu, whose spiritual soul had reached the strength of the Nascent Soul Stage after taking the Vitality Soul Cleansing Grass, was almost killed by the huge attack. In addition, the attack was too strong, and the surrounding space barrier was much weaker. The wooden stick took the initiative to lead Qiuqiu through the weak point of space into this small world. What attracted the wooden stick was the "delicious food" found in the tiankeng, and the wooden stick absorbed it without hesitation. Absorption and fusion requires a large amount of spiritual energy, which is why Qiuqiu has been taking drugs desperately in the past two years, and the reason why his dantian cannot store spiritual energy!

The recent use of a high-level spirit gathering array has allowed the wooden stick to complete its upgrade and successfully unlock its spiritual intelligence.

Qiuqiu, still pretending to be unconscious, flew to Nanyun in less than half a day using an interstellar spacecraft. He discovered the secret room where the Ouyang family hid their silver and stored it all in his storage ring. Using his meager spiritual power and relatively advanced martial arts, he plundered the intelligence network in just five days, uncovering over twenty wealthy merchants and aristocratic families who were unkind, accomplices of the evil, and indulged in extravagance and debauchery. Behind all of these people were the shadows of the aristocratic families controlling them. Without the support of the aristocratic families, local forces simply couldn't afford to act so arrogantly!

In more than a year, based on the new secret recipes provided by Qiuqiu, some of these secret recipes were secretly discovered by the Jinyiwei, and most of them were improved by skilled craftsmen based on Qiuqiu's later experience. Especially the various recipes provided by Qiuqiu, the business of high-end restaurants and inns can be monopolized!

In the past, they secretly gathered skilled craftsmen and business talents to conduct experiments in secluded places, slowly putting improvements and innovations into practice. Everything was proceeding in an orderly manner, and the only thing missing was a large amount of gold and silver to be invested in mass production.

Qiuqiu's heist not only plunges the aristocratic families into an economic crisis, forcing them to sell off their assets at a discount, but also leaves them feeling insecure and unable to unite against the imperial court. Meanwhile, merchants favored by the emperor are secretly seizing a piece of the pie, using their newly developed and improved recipes. A tug-of-war for commercial dominance is about to unfold, and the outcome remains uncertain.

The Qian family's ancestors were servants of the Yang family, a prominent family. In the last years of the fallen dynasty, the country was in turmoil, and a flood unseen in a century struck. After years of war, the Qian family's ancestor, who had considerable wealth, sold himself to the Yang family. The Qian family possessed considerable wealth, including land and silver. Their children were literate, engaged in business and finance. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, natural disasters, and man-made disasters, the Qian ancestor was the only one left in the family to join the Yang family. His skills and good nature endeared him to the head of the Yang family, and he rendered significant service to the Yang family during their support of the founding emperor. The Qian family became the family's most trusted confidants, and now even the family's financial resources. Although the Yang family ranked last among the aristocratic families, their financial resources were only slightly inferior to those of the silver-mining Ouyang family.

Qian Weichao is the eldest son of the current head of the Qian family. Qian Weichao's mother is the only daughter of a century-old winery in Hedong. She married the second son of the Qian family with a large dowry and various wine-making secrets.

At the time, the Qian family had other businesses, limited to a few shops and farms. Qian Weichao's father was ambitious, and naturally disdained his older brother's limited role in maintaining the status quo. He desired to take over, setting his sights on the lucrative winemaking industry. The Hedong Shui family, however, was renowned for its wine, but their family was dwindling, leaving only one daughter, a skilled businessman, to raise. Qian Weichao's father, handsome and elegant, and a skilled seducer, soon married the Shui family's daughter, and then spent three years learning the family's secret winemaking recipe.

Five years later, he married the illegitimate daughter of the Yang family as his second wife.

Yang, the seven-month-old concubine, gave poison to her mother, who had retreated to the Buddhist temple! She made no effort to conceal her malice: "Sister, you can go without worry. If you can't bear to leave the eldest young master, I will send him down with you and reunite with you soon!"

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