The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 164 Secret Development and... Writing a Book!

Xu Xingchen can be a fierce general and charge into battle, but he cannot command troops and deploy them.

Because he could do the former with his powerful martial arts, but he had not yet learned or practiced the latter.
In the future, if I really want to lead troops to fight, I may be able to do it, but definitely not now.

However, as a new leader of the Ming Cult, a spiritual leader of a huge force, he does not have to do everything himself, nor does he have to be proficient in everything.

As long as you learn how to identify and use people, have a comprehensive view of the overall situation and grasp the major strategic goals, things will be possible.

So in the initial stage, he did not take any action or make any changes, but just asked the White-browed Eagle King to send a large amount of information.

Know thyself, ever-victorious!
These materials include not only the rules and doctrines of the Sky Eagle Cult, its operating mechanism, the number of members, funding sources, personal temperament, etc., but also a series of contents such as the geographical environment of the Sky Eagle Cult's stronghold, the number of enemies, the opponent's goals, public sentiment, etc.

When he told the White-browed Eagle King that he needed the information, the White-browed Eagle King understood some of it but not some of it. However, he did not say much and just ordered his men to carry out his orders.

Afterwards, truckloads of information were continuously sent to the back mountain of Butterfly Valley, and gradually piled up higher and higher in Xu Xingchen's wooden house.

Xu Xingchen spent the entire day studying the materials, except for his two practice sessions in the morning and evening, and excluding time for eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

He buried himself in books all day long, diligently studying information from all sides, and then made summaries using mature statistical methods.

Yin Tianzheng and Xie Xun were amazed and impressed to see how hard-working their leader was, but also felt a little ashamed of themselves.

The two of them, one was once one of the Dharma Kings, and the other is the current vice leader of the Sky Eagle Sect, no, now it has been changed back to the Ming Sect. Although they are knowledgeable and know how to handle some affairs, compared with the diligent attitude of the new leader towards church affairs, their way of handling church affairs can be described as perfunctory and careless.
After studying diligently day and night for a month, Xu Xingchen already had a general understanding of the Sky Eagle Sect's affairs, big and small, as well as the cultural environment around its base.

After that, he meditated for three days and three nights, and began to issue three orders.

The first order was to take root among the people, vigorously develop new followers, and carry out covert and extensive propaganda with the slogan of "equal distribution of land and light labor service."

For the poor people who have lived on this land for generations, no slogan can compare with the power of this slogan.

Especially in today's world ruled by the Yuan court, because of the privileges of the Mongolian nobles, because of the differences in the system, because of the lack of laws, and because of the insatiable greed of the rich and powerful, a frenzy of land annexation has been sweeping across the country. The process is so intense and serious that it has surpassed many dynasties.

Distribute land equally and reduce corvée labor!
This slogan will inevitably attract a huge amount of attention among the lower-class people who can't make a living, and attract many people to join it.

In this era, wars are fought based on population. The side with a larger population has better soldiers and more food, and has a huge potential for war. Even if it is injured, it can recover quickly.
Therefore, the first priority of Xu Xingchen's new Ming Cult, which was established based on the Tianying Cult, is population! Population! Still population!

The second order was to formulate a series of plans such as winning over and dividing the local officials in each stronghold according to their character and temperament.

If you can win over someone, you must win him over. If you can’t win over someone, you must try to make him deaf or blind. Even if you can’t cut him off from outside information, you must use fake information to confuse him.
All of this was done to assist the first order, as a cover-up means to quietly expand the New Ming Cult, and also to prepare for future rebellion or overthrow of the rule of those officials.

The third order was to form alliances and actively contact the surrounding rebel forces, to promptly convey to them the news of the Yuan army's deployment, and to provide some help when necessary, so as to make them appear to be thriving and prosperous, in order to attract the attention of the Yuan court.

The only purpose of these three orders is to let the New Ming Cult build high walls, store up food, and slowly claim the throne.
With the presence of White-browed Eagle King, the deputy leader appointed by Xu Xingchen, all three orders were perfectly executed.

The newly born Ming Cult, like the roots of a plant hidden in the soil, quietly began to take root downwards and spread more roots in all directions to absorb more nutrients.

Apart from these three orders, Xu Xingchen did not issue any other new orders, nor did he change the primitive and backward operating system such as the hall master.

The methods used to manage people are different in different times.

The system that conforms to the times is the best and most suitable system!

In addition, Xu Xingchen began to recall the knowledge he had learned in his first life about war systems, military theories, political struggles, etc.

Although it was only during his college years, when he and his roommates and classmates were writing, discussing international situations, and discussing historical battles, he occasionally read or heard some of the content, and he also dug it out from the corner of his memory, summarized it, and recorded it on paper. In addition, his knowledge of war also came from a series of things such as the Thirty-Six Stratagems, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, film and television novels, etc.

Now, he has gained great power and wisdom, and it is not difficult for him to recall the knowledge he had learned in his first life. The difficult part is to summarize and apply it in practice.

So, while planning his strategy, Xu Xingchen began writing a book about all the factors of war.
After finishing the book on war, his desire to write became unstoppable. He began to recall his knowledge about weather and geography, farming, forging steel, glass soap, and Jenny loom.
The first life was an era of information explosion!
From birth to school, and then to graduation and work, everyone hears and sees a lot of knowledge every day.

Among them, some knowledge is useful, some is useless. Perhaps you will never use it in your life, or when you need to use it, you may not even remember that you have learned that knowledge. But it does exist deep in everyone’s mind and becomes everyone’s knowledge base.

Xu Xingchen is extremely intelligent and can recall every memory deep in his mind.

He originally just wanted to write a book about the war, but the more he searched through his memories, the more treasures he found.
Thus, he summarized and concluded all kinds of farming knowledge from previous dynasties and later generations, from the shapes of farm tools such as the curved plow, to the selection of grains, to the time of planting, to the importance of piled manure and fertilization, to the effectiveness of deep plowing, to the necessity of annual rotation of planting to cultivate soil fertility, to simple management methods for insect and pest control, and all the knowledge that could be recalled was written into a book on agriculture.

In the first life, the contents of the book were all ordinary knowledge, nothing profound.

But for the farmers of this era, it is a holy book on farming and an agricultural treasure!

Even Xie Xun and Yin Tianzheng, two pure warriors, knew the importance of farming for food.

When they saw the Book of War written by Xu Xingchen, they read it day and night and could not put it down; but when they saw the Book of Agriculture, their hearts were shaken violently, knowing that this was a treasure book for the survival of mankind and needed to be treated with caution.

After watching it, under the instruction of Xu Xingchen, he immediately had people hand-copy the book, bind it into a book, and distribute it to the literate believers in the local forces, asking them to follow the book and guide the farmers to try it out.
In his first life, Xu Xingchen had farmed when he was a child and knew some knowledge about farming, but he was still young at that time. After he grew up, he did scientific research and his knowledge about farming was still superficial.

The contents written in the agricultural book now are partly from childhood practice and partly from knowledge from various sources. He doesn’t know if all of them are effective. Does he still need to adapt to local conditions and act in a convenient way? !

Therefore, I specifically instructed my subordinates to consider and try it out carefully, and not to copy it verbatim.

After finishing the book on agriculture, he thought that the development and growth of a force cannot be separated from the support of a large amount of money, so Xu Xingchen began to write about the manufacturing methods of glass, the making methods of soap, the purification methods of sea salt, and even the shape and model of the primitive steel-making blast furnace.

These things are relatively simple for him.

With the specific operating steps, the people below were able to make the product smoothly and they succeeded after several trials.

Afterwards, there are people who are good at business to operate these things, sell them and turn them into money.

Xu Xingchen no longer needs to worry about this process.

Besides that, what made Xu Xingchen hesitate the most was actually the spinning jenny.
People in this era lacked food and clothing. They had nothing to wear in the winter, and more people froze to death than starved to death.

For ordinary families, a cotton-padded jacket can be passed down as a family heirloom. Even a torn cotton-padded jacket or torn leather coat can be pawned for silver at a pawnshop.
High-ranking officials often used silks and satins as bargaining chips or gifts to reward their servants.

It can be seen how people in this era were short of clothes and cloth, and how inefficient the looms were.
The emergence of the spinning Jenny would definitely allow more people to wear clothes and would also make clothing fabrics cheaper, but what about those families who made a living by weaving cloth?
The world is difficult, and the careers available are extremely limited. Some families have passed down their careers from generation to generation, and make a living from them.
If it were an era of abundant business and numerous choices, the emergence of the spinning jenny would not have had much impact.

But in this era when the lower classes were struggling to survive, the emergence of the Jenny spinning machine would definitely send many poor families to hell.
Inappropriate advanced manufacturing will bring more unrest to society and more human suffering!

Weigh the pros and cons and think twice!

Xu Xingchen still decided to manufacture it, and then asked the White-browed Eagle King to find a deserted island overseas and organize people to produce it secretly, and the cloth put on the market must not be discounted to disrupt the market.

In addition, the White-browed Eagle King issued a fourth order.

As long as you join the Mingjiao, you can get a piece of cloth as a reward. The specific size will be adjusted according to the production situation and the number of Mingjiao members.
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