Chapter 509 The Qin Court
The master and the spirit beast promote each other. Hua Kai's strength improvement can affect Xiao Qiang and Wu Kong's strength improvement, and Xiao Qiang and Wu Kong can also affect Hua Kai in turn.
Hua Kai was in retreat, and he suddenly felt a fluctuation in Xiao Qiang's mental power. Not long after, the mental power fluctuation became stronger and stronger, and soon entered a new realm. Hua Kai knew that Xiao Qiang had broken through, and a strong mental power was fed back to Hua Kai. Hua Kai felt that his strength was rapidly improving. After a while, when that feeling disappeared, Hua Kai opened his eyes.
He checked his attributes.
Hua Kai: Jindan Realm Level 7
Qualification: SSS+
Constitution: 80
Strength: 79
Will: 77
Mysterious Ice Will: Level 7 (1%)
Resistance: Advanced Ice Antibody (72%)
Magical Powers: Illusionary World, Domination Power
Family: Sage
Confucianism: Master
Taoism: Master
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Mental Method: Jingxin Jue (Heavenly Advanced Mental Method) Great Perfection
Spear Method: Sky-Splitting Spear (Heavenly Advanced Spear Method) Great Perfection
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Hua Kai's strength has been raised to Jindan Realm Level 7. He now often devotes his mind to the world of Journey to the West. He feels that his willpower may be improved recently. There is still nearly a month before April 1st. Hua Kai took out a piece of more than ten kilograms of dragon meat from the [Portable Space] and ate it quickly, then took out a porcelain jar, drank half a jar of dragon liver soup, closed his eyes and began to practice again.
In March, the topic of the dragon banquet was everywhere in China. This year, the number of merchant groups from Huaxia to Xiongnu, Yuezhi, Qiang, Dayuan, and Wusun has decreased a lot, but the scale of each merchant group is extremely large, most of them are teams with more than 10,000 people and more than 1,000 carriages and horses, and all of them are led by Xiantian Realm.
This is mainly because Qin gave up Yiqu County and the northern part of Zhao and Wei. This year, the number of wild beasts in this area has increased several times compared with before. Merchant groups without strength can only cross the North Mountain to Linhu to do small business. Only those with strength dare to go a long way. Now Huaxia has merchant groups going to Wusun.
The Hua family blocked the migration of Qi family to Huaxia, but could not stop the refugees from south to north. In mid-March, the number of refugees in Xiacheng began to increase. The Civil Resettlement Department began to arrange these people to various urban areas in Huaxia. Huaxia also has its own set of management methods for refugees. If you don't have special skills, you can only obey the allocation. If you work in Huaxia for a certain period of time and pass all assessments, you can be allocated your own house.
This year, the Military Affairs Council has stepped up the construction of pavilions and post stations in Huaxia. Pavilions are the smallest administrative units in Huaxia. One pavilion manages the stability of a region and ensures the safety of merchant groups, convoys, and messengers. It is officially organized by the Military Affairs Council.
Huaxia selected more than 3,000 people with the strength of Qi training realm and above from the six major legions and various aristocratic families, and established more than 3,000 pavilions in the 22 districts of the four counties of Huaxia. Each pavilion has 100 elite soldiers and more than 300 auxiliary soldiers.
More than 30,000 people with the strength of Qi dynamic realm and above were selected and assigned to these more than 3,000 pavilions. If there are people living around each pavilion, each pavilion must send a village head to protect the village safety. In this way, Hua Kai is going to keep all wild beasts out of Huaxia.
You should know that the military force used to build pavilions and post stations is almost the same as the strength of the seven legions of Huaxia. Huaxia's attitude is also very clear. The domestic focus is to ensure people's livelihood first. All people can go out of the city to build their own villages and open up wasteland, and they will be protected by the pavilions. Their safety can be protected to the maximum extent. After a busy year, they can return to the city in winter. At that time, all the post stations and pavilions will be abandoned. In this way, the Hua family can squeeze the living space of wild beasts in Huaxia to a greater extent.
By the end of March, the whole Huaxia was busy. The Yuezhi and Xiongnu countries had reached the foundation-building stage. They were all placed in the tower ship in the central lake. This time, they set out at the beginning of spring, bringing thousands of masters from the two countries to see Huacheng for the first time.
The streets of Huacheng are full of people dressed in grassland ethnic groups who are shopping in a big way. Huacheng is the capital of Huaxia, and there are few blessed places in the world. The quality of all goods is not comparable to those of the merchant groups. Of course, the price is much more expensive than those ordinary goods.
On March 28, the King of Chu came to Huacheng, China, accompanied by 51 foundation-building realm masters, which showed the strength of Chu now.
Even the foundation-building realm masters from Yan and Qi who were at odds with the Hua family also came one after another. The Hua family used the dragon as a guide, which made it impossible for everyone to ignore it. If the noble families discussed some major events in the world and did not participate, it might be detrimental to their entire family and even the country, so they had to come anyway.
The only one who did not come was Qin Zheng. When everyone was speculating whether Qin Zheng would come, Qin Zheng was sitting in the main hall of the Qin Palace in Xianyang, listening to the report of the prime minister Li Si.
"Your Majesty, last winter, because we moved all the people to the big cities in various counties, now one of the 61 cities in Qin was broken last year, and three of the outer cities were broken. There are 17 cities with losses of more than 10,000 people. More than 90,000 soldiers died in Qin last winter, including about 10,000 elite soldiers of Qin, and 260,000 ordinary people lost." Li Si said.
"Very good. This year, we must increase the defense construction of 61 cities and train all the people in the city to resist the attacks of the stronger wild beasts in the future.
How are the major families being appeased?" Qin Zheng asked.
"The families of Zhao, Zheng, Chen and other countries have great opinions. They have contacted each other privately and are planning to organize riots among the people in various places. However, I have already placed people in their ranks. Wei, Han, Zhou and other countries are relatively stable. It's just that the families hope to be compensated. After all, their families have lost the head of the foundation-building realm. If we ignore them, they will definitely hate them." Li Si said.
"Compensate them? How much compensation do you think a foundation-building realm master should receive? Send ten precious pills and two hundred taels of gold to each family whose foundation-building realm has fallen. It's all my heart.
How are you preparing to organize the cleanup of all the wild beasts in Qin?" Qin Zheng said.
Li Si shook his head. Ten precious pills and two hundred taels of gold were used to compensate the life of a foundation-building realm master. This is really a "small token of my heart". He also knew that Qin had a hard time in recent years. The area south of Hanzhong County had always been under the control of Chu. Qin lost the granary of Bashu, but the grain production in the newly occupied areas had not increased due to the increase in the number of wild beasts. In recent years, they have been buying grain from Huaxia.
"I guess those noble families dare not say anything. We have started to eliminate wild beasts since the end of February, but the effect is not very good. Because Qin is too large, many original city areas have been completely occupied by wild beasts. The casualties of the elimination are very large. More than 20,000 Qin soldiers have been killed in this month, and the first round of wild beast elimination has not yet been completed." Li Si returned.
"Forget it! Just clear the wild beasts near each city. The walls of 61 major cities are built to the thickest. All people, regardless of gender, age or age, must learn to fight. Those over 16 years old need to train for at least three months every year." Qin Zheng said.
"Your Majesty, now the fifth-class people need to do corvée for half a year, the fourth-class people need to do corvée for three months, and the third-class people need to do corvée for one month.
In this way, the fifth-class people need nine months a year to complete corvée and military service. How can they have time to farm? If they don't farm, they can't pay the public grain. Both corvée and military service require their own food. How can they survive?
The fourth-class people account for the largest proportion. After the corvée and military service, they have six months left each year. Four of these six months are winter. Military service and corvée take more than a month on the road.
Your Majesty, how can the people have time to farm?" A Qin official said in a deep voice.
The Qin officials under the stage were silent. Qin Zheng sat on the throne and looked at the officials. Many of them were new faces, because many important officials in the past died in the fight for the dragon last winter.
"Everyone, is there any way to solve the problem of heavy grain for the people?" Qin Zheng asked loudly.
"Your Majesty, there are three major countries in the world today, Qin, Chu, and Huaxia. Huaxia is the weakest but has the most abundant food and grass. This year, the price of grain in Huaxia has dropped to 160 bone coins per stone, and the price of wool purchased by Huaxia has reached 12 bone coins per catty. We can raise more sheep around the city in the non-winter. We only need one million sheep and the annual profit is enough for half of the people in Qin to buy grain. Sheep can also be used as food..." The official had just said half of it when Qin Zheng's face turned very ugly.
"Your Majesty, this minister's plan is to destroy Qin! Please kill him. Huaxia's reduction of grain prices is a vicious plan to seize the world. How can we be fooled?" Li Si interrupted the Qin official.
"Take him down and chop him off!" Qin Zheng said coldly.
Two blood dragon guards entered the hall and pulled the official down. No matter how the official begged for mercy, Qin Zheng was unmoved.
"Okay, adjourn the court! We will discuss training and military service later." Qin Zheng said and left directly.
Officials in the court left one by one. Although Qin was large, everyone saw the drawbacks of the Qin system. In the past, the food in the hinterland of Guanzhong could feed the entire Qin. Now the number of wild beasts has increased, and fewer and fewer people are farming outside the city. Most of the newly added arable land is in the hands of the aristocratic families. It is very difficult for Qin to take back all the land, and they have to feed more people than before.
Qin cannot solve the food problem. Relying on buying from other countries is like drinking poison to quench thirst, which will only make Qin weaker.
Li Si and several important officials of Qin did not leave. They came to Qin Zheng's study together. At this time, Qin Zheng was waiting for them in the study. Qin still needs them to make decisions on key issues. Most of the other people in the court can only execute orders.
"Your Majesty, the harm of Huaxia is greater than that of Chu. This time they invited the kings of the world to hold the [Jiaolong Banquet], which is very unfavorable to Qin. The voice of Huaxia's emphasis on the people has been heard in many places in Qin. If it is not stopped, it will become a big problem for Qin." Li Si looked at Qin Zheng and said.