Zhou Yongcheng thought for a while and said, "Actually, you've already been doing it. By holding the imperial examination, you're weakening the power of aristocratic families in the court. But that's far from enough. Their power isn't just in the court; their power in the provinces is the mainstream. After hundreds of years of development, those aristocratic families have become closely united and have become interest groups."

The only way to dismantle them is to kill them, wipe them out completely. They have been merchants for generations, and their wealth is comparable to that of a nation. If you were to acquire their wealth and use it to develop the country, the Sui Dynasty would surely enter a golden age.

Of course, you must always put people first and prioritize the well-being of the people. Li Shimin once said something you must always keep in mind: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it." The world may belong to you, Yang Guang, but it also belongs to the people. If you make the people suffer, they can make you suffer too.

Yang Guang bowed to Zhou Yongcheng and said, "It's not easy to eliminate powerful clans. Since they have formed interest groups, if you take action against one, the other families will lend a hand."

"So you need to develop your own power. As the emperor, you must keep control of the army in your own hands. At the same time, you also need to develop your own secret agencies. You can have the eunuchs set up a department specifically for collecting intelligence, collecting information that officials don't want you to know. You need to know that you are in a high position and have lived in the palace for a long time. What you know is basically what the court officials want you to know. What they don't want you to know will definitely not be known to you."

Yang Guang understood immediately. The gentleman's words made a lot of sense. The things he knew had all been screened by the court officials. Some things that were not good for the officials would certainly not be reported to him; they would definitely be withheld. But those who wrote the memorials would suffer.

Zhou Yongcheng and Yang Guang talked a lot. After all, he was a man of the real world and knew more. Many of his views made Yang Guang's eyes light up.

After chatting for an hour or two, Yang Guang offered Zhou Yongcheng a drink of water.

Zhou Yongcheng waved his hand and said, "I don't like the tea here. You wait here."

Zhou Yongcheng returned to the real world and brought over a packet of tea from his home.

“This is the tea we drink; you can just brew it with boiling water,” Zhou Yongcheng said.

Yang Guang summoned eunuchs to brew tea for them. After a short while, Yang Guang tasted the tea and exclaimed that this was the true taste of tea.

"Sir, please teach me the method of making tea."

"I'll bring you a book when I come over sometime. You can have someone do what's in the book."

"It's getting late, I'm leaving now. Oh, by the way, I've acquired a nice treasure, I'm sure you'll like it."

Zhou Yongcheng dropped the He Shi Bi jade and disappeared.

Yang Guang's eyes lit up as he looked at the He Shi Bi jade on the table. The He Shi Bi jade, the Imperial Seal of the State, was a priceless treasure to him.

At this time, Cihang Jingzhai and Jingnian Chanyuan discovered that their secret manuals and treasures were missing, and began searching for them within their respective sects.

Unable to find it within the sect, their disciples emerged and began searching for their lost items in the martial world.

Back in the real world, Zhou Yongcheng bought several copies of "Tiangong Kaiwu" online. "Tiangong Kaiwu" was considered cutting-edge technology in the Sui Dynasty, not to mention modern items.

Zhou Yongcheng thought for a moment and asked Honghou to purchase a batch of crop seeds that did not exist in the Sui Dynasty online. Since it was fate that they could travel back to the Sui Dynasty, they should help if they could.

Standing by the window and looking out at the construction site in the distance, I saw a bustling scene with many construction vehicles transporting earth.

Zhou Yongcheng released his divine sense to glance at the construction site. The two underground levels of the research center were still being dug. Although there were only two underground levels, the depth was not shallow, at least tens of meters deep. The first underground level was not high, only a few meters high. The deepest level was the second underground level. Zhou Yongcheng wanted to put the AI, along with its equipment and robots, into the second underground level. In Wakanda in the Marvel universe, the AI ​​was to manufacture spacecraft in the underground base. One could imagine how high and big the second underground level would be.

Withdrawing his divine senses and no longer focusing on the construction of the research center, Zhou Yongcheng looked into his storage space. He needed to organize all the books he had obtained from Yang Guang.

The study inside the house was too small to hold so many books, so Zhou Yongcheng went to the pavilion in the bamboo forest behind the mountain. Although the two-story ancient building did not occupy a large area, less than 100 square meters, it was much larger than the study inside the house and could hold many books.

There are no bookshelves yet; we need to bring some in.

As for bookshelves, let robots make them. There are so many trees in the unknown world, and they are all good timber. We might not even need a single tree to make bookshelves.

Upon arriving in the unknown world, Zhou Yongcheng found a tree that he considered to be good material. He used magic to cut it into several sections, cast a spell to turn the tree into dry wood, took it to the place where the robots produced weed powder, had the AI ​​input the blueprints for them, and then took out the necessary equipment to have them build bookshelves.

Using aircraft manufacturing equipment to produce bookshelves is truly a waste of talent.

The robots produced the bookshelves incredibly quickly; within just a few hours, all the bookshelves Zhou Yongcheng wanted were produced.

Back in the real world, I went to the bamboo forest pavilion in the back mountain, put the bookshelves in place, and then put all the books in the space back onto the bookshelves.

Sitting by the window in the attic, Zhou Yongcheng brewed a cup of tea and began to read a book.

Zhou Yongcheng sipped tea and read a book. There was a faint fragrance in the room, a special scent emanating from the bookshelves.

After some time, Zhou Yongcheng went to the unknown world to cultivate and comprehend supernatural powers and magic. He studied books in the pavilion in the bamboo forest, and when he rested and relaxed, he went to the world of Twin Dragons of the Tang Dynasty to have a long talk with Yang Guang. He also delivered the things that Yang Guang wanted to him, as well as the gifts that he had given to the people of the Sui Dynasty.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

That day, Zhou Yongcheng was reading in the bamboo grove pavilion when Zhang Haibo called to say that the shoes had been produced.

Zhou Yongcheng sent the Red Queen's virtual number to Zhang Haibo, asking him to contact the Red Queen.

It took several days for the shoes to be stored in the warehouse. Zhou Yongcheng took all the shoes to the Sui Dynasty and gave them all to Yang Guang so that he could make some money.

In an unknown world, Zhou Yongcheng, having completed a day of training, arrived in the world of kung fu.

Something unexpected happened to Zhou Yongcheng: the concentration of spiritual energy in this world actually increased. It seems that if the number of powerful people in a world exceeds the world's limit, it can indeed trigger a major change in the world, leading to a revival of spiritual energy.

Zhou Yongcheng thought for a moment and came to the world of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber to find Zhang Sanfeng.

"Has my young friend become an immortal?"

Zhang Sanfeng was utterly horrified when he saw Zhou Yongcheng. Zhou Yongcheng seemed to be one with heaven and earth. If he hadn't seen Zhou Yongcheng in front of him, he wouldn't have been able to detect his existence.

"Not quite, I've just transcended the boundaries of mortals, but I haven't become an immortal yet," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

Zhang Sanfeng was filled with emotion. In just a few years, he had transformed from a martial artist who had reached the peak of the Acquired Realm to a mortal being, and should now be considered a terrestrial immortal.

"Young friend, is there something you need from this humble Taoist priest?"

Zhou Yongcheng recounted the events that had transpired in the world of kung fu to Zhang Sanfeng.

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