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Chapter 218: In the eighth year of Wanchang, Prime Minister Zhang passed away (Subscription required)

"I do not believe."

Prime Minister Zhang met Lu Jing's gaze and said firmly, "I don't believe that my government will perish after my death. Although many historical records have proved this, there are also the examples of Duke Shang and King Huiwen of Qin."

"And I have carefully disciplined and taught Your Majesty over the years, and Your Majesty and I have worked together and helped you in everything."

"Your Majesty not only entrusted me with important tasks, but also treated me with great respect and courtesy, always addressing me as 'Mr. Prime Minister Zhang' or 'Mr. Zhang', never calling me by my name. Even in the first few days after I took office as Prime Minister, Your Majesty summoned me alone on the platform to discuss major plans. Such treatment! Unprecedented!"

Your Majesty was only ten years old when he first ascended the throne.

But His Majesty was very intelligent when he was young, and even at the age of ten he already had the bearing of an emperor.

In order to control the power of the emperor, he even forced out the regent Gao Su... Although there were also factors such as the great eunuch Feng Bao and his Zhang Juzheng who secretly fanned the flames, making Gao Su suspected of monopolizing power and being in the emperor's favor.

But this shows that His Majesty is wise.

Therefore, Prime Minister Zhang firmly believed that even if he passed away in the future, the current emperor would maintain the decrees he issued for the sake of the country.

This is not just a rational judgment.

More emotionally focused.

The friendship between Prime Minister Zhang and the present emperor is just like the friendship between Gao Su and the late emperor.

So whether from a rational judgment or from an emotional bond, Prime Minister Zhang was unwilling to believe what Lu Jing said.

Lu Jing didn't want to argue about this.

He stood by the window, holding a glass of wine in his hand: "Let time tell. I estimate that when you die in the future, you will most likely be enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple."

This is the privilege of the Prime Minister.

As for the Temple of Literature...

Lu Jing smiled and looked at Zhang Shoufu again: "You want to fully promote the cooperation with Ehuo City in Dayu, and the Shilin people will not tolerate you. You can't enter the Confucian Temple. Even if you enter the Imperial Temple in the future, your offering tablet can be removed with an imperial decree... But you can always go through these and see what happens after your death."

Prime Minister Zhang: “…”

The restaurant was filled with the aroma of rich food, and the temperature was even a little hot.

But Zhang Shoufu felt cold all over.

There was such certainty in Lu Jing's words that it was as if he had already seen the future.

Could this also be the power of the supreme master?

Zhang Shoufu suddenly felt a little tired. He looked across at the other side and asked, "Did you see anything through your magical powers?"

Lu Jing shook his head: "No, this is just the future I deduced based on my newly learned historical materialism."

New school...

Could new learning have such power?

Zhang Shoufu smiled with an ambiguous meaning: "Now, you are becoming more and more like the saint of the Wen family..."

Say it!

Prime Minister Zhang stood up with a wave of his sleeves, and his aura of a great and dignified prime minister suddenly emerged: "But I still don't believe it. The emperor is also a human being, and humans are not plants or trees. Who can be heartless?"

If a ruthless person rules the world, disaster will surely follow.

The disaster will not happen now, but will happen in the future.

Prime Minister Zhang didn't believe that he would be treated like this in the future.

Therefore, Zhang Shoufu looked directly at Lu Jing and said, "Let's cooperate for now, and as for the rest... we'll wait and see."

Lu Jing also nodded: "Okay."

Zhang Shoufu stood up and walked out, but when he reached the door, Lu Jing couldn't help asking, "You haven't told me yet, when the two waves collide, which side will you choose?"

Zhang Shoufu's raised hand stopped in mid-air, but he felt proud and happy in his heart.

Look!
He still cares about me.

Prime Minister Zhang said in a mysterious way: "Why should I choose? It depends on how the world chooses me!"

After saying this, Zhang Shoufu left without looking back.

Thus, Lu Jing was the only one sitting at the table in this old but lively restaurant.

Hot soup is boiling in the charcoal copper stove, and mist is rising in front of my eyes.

Through the fog, others could not see Lu Jing's face clearly, and Lu Jing...also seemed unable to see Prime Minister Zhang clearly.

Not long after Prime Minister Zhang left, groups of people came to this restaurant one after another.

Some of them were night watchmen, some were gangsters escorting escorts late at night, and some were policemen patrolling the streets late at night.

These people were crowded and noisy in the small restaurant, pushing out the cold air from outside that was trying desperately to get in.

Lu Jing ate slowly until he finished everything, then paid the bill and left.

The moment the door was opened, the wind and snow outside rushed in, causing the heating in the restaurant to go out and causing the diners to shout.

Lu Jing apologized, quickly closed the door and went out.

There was no one to be seen on the quiet street, and only a few lonely lights stubbornly illuminated the small area in the night.

Lu Jing took a deep breath and then exhaled.

Seen from here, this world is truly magnificent and full of hustle and bustle.

but--

Lu Jing took a step forward and in the blink of an eye he was high in the sky.

Under his feet was a vast, slightly curved land.

Seen from here, the world seems so small.

Lu Jing looked up at the deeper and darker sky. Would those beings from outer space come to visit this mortal world?

No. They don't.

It's not necessary.

A hint of murderous intent suddenly emerged in Lu Jing's eyes, because they were outside the sky, so he killed all those high-ranking celestial beings.

……

At the end of the fourth year of Dayu Wanchang, after Prime Minister Zhang, who had a secret meeting with Lu Jing, returned to the cabinet, he began to prepare for the alliance with Ehuo.

The first thing to deal with is Shilin.

Many officials of the Dayu Dynasty today are actually spokesmen for scholars from all over the country.

As long as he can deal with the Shilin people, it will be much easier for Prime Minister Zhang to do anything in the court.

It didn't take much effort or thought to convince Shilin.

With just one sentence "Learn from the left's strengths to control the left", Zhang Shoufu made most of the literati school agree with his next move.

Only introduce Okhotsk's technology, strictly guard against Okhotsk's knowledge and theories, or even impose more stringent bans.

The scholars, aristocratic families, and wealthy people will be the first to benefit from the technology and products obtained from Okhotsk.

With the interests of the people paving the way and Lu Jing posing a huge threat, the gentry who used to be at odds with each other and trip each other up in the government and the country actually put aside their prejudices and united together.

Then, after the New Year, the Dayu court sent envoys to Ehuo to discuss cooperation matters with Ehuo.

After the delegation arrived in Okho City, there were naturally some twists and turns.

But Lu Jing is now the lord of Okho, and he doesn't care about such trivial matters at all.

After a heated debate, the two sides reached an agreement on the conditions for cooperation.

First: With its increasingly abundant resources, the city of Ehuo can sell all kinds of materials to Dayu every year, and the price is slightly lower than the market price.

Both parties are very satisfied with the achievement of this cooperation.

Second: Okho City sent special envoys to Dayu to provide special technical support, and then Dayu had to pay for various materials and money.

The two sides engaged in a fierce confrontation over the prices of supplies and money.

Third: Ohuo sold various beast eggs to Dayu, and even gave away "Life Refining Technique" and "Unpolished Jade Secret". Dayu built public schools every year to provide compulsory education.

Among the various cooperation items discussed by both sides, these three are the most important.

The rest are just details.

With the successful negotiation of the cooperation intention between the two parties, the cooperation between Ohuo and Dayu officially began.

Okhot specialties were transported to Dayu via sea trade routes.

While gaining tremendous benefits, Dayu also contributed a large amount of silver, skills and special products to Ehuo.

In addition, Dayu also built many public schools every year so that people from all over the country could go to school and read books at a price they could afford.

Of course, they still read the teachings of Confucius and Mencius.

This is also a problem that the various forces in Dayu are confused about.

This clause was included in the deal reached between the cabinet and Ehuo, but other than making the local gentry spend more money, what benefits did this clause bring to Lu Jing and Ehuo?
What does Lu Jing want to do?

Although they couldn't guess what Lu Jing was going to do, in order to obtain beast-taming eggs and cultivate the combat power of the lower and middle levels of the family, local gentry and nobles still built many public schools.

Originally, the local gentry and nobles only wanted to recruit their own children to come over, as a way to train and reserve talents for themselves.

But the court seemed to attach great importance to this matter.

It is required that every public school must enroll 1,000 students each year, but the teaching quality does not need to be too high.

Per year!

Thousands!

In this first year, I was able to send my own children to school.

But where do so many children come from over the years?
The key is that there is the Zhen'ansi Du Yutai following behind to supervise. He will not check anything else but whether the number of students admitted each year is sufficient, and then rank the schools based on the number of students admitted each year.

Then the distribution of the sold Beast Tamer Eggs will be decided based on the ranking.

The one ranked first will naturally be eligible to purchase the most beast eggs.

The last one is naturally the least.

As a result, local gentry and nobles had to scramble for admission places in order to strengthen their family power.

As a result of these operations, the local gentry and nobles were forced to scramble to raise school standards and compete for enrollment.

In the first year of the cooperation, Dayu had over one million new students.

With such momentum, coupled with the effects of Prime Minister Zhang's implementation of new policies over the years, Dayu's national fortune has continued to rise.

But unlike the increasingly prosperous Dayu, Prime Minister Zhang's health was deteriorating.

This is actually unreasonable.

Prime Minister Zhang is an important official of Dayu, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. He lives a life of luxury on weekdays. In addition, this is a world of magical powers, so the lifespan of ordinary scholars and practitioners is not short.

Even if an ordinary practitioner only has the level of inner strength cultivation, if he takes good care of himself, he can often live to be sixty or seventy years old.

Even if scholars do not practice cultivation, they can live to be seventy or eighty years old by relying on the skills of nourishing their qi.

But why!
High-ranking officials and emperors who were favored by the dynasty's fortune and in charge of the world often had short lives.

If this happened in a world without magical powers, it could be explained by someone plotting against him.

But in this world full of magical powers, why is it that the richest man in the world, who should live forever, has a short life?

Those who succeed because of the fortune of the dynasty will also perish because of the fortune of the dynasty.

Soon, the powerful and tyrannical Prime Minister Zhang died in the eighth year of Wanchang.

(End of this chapter)