Picking up souls to live from Douluo

On January 11, the 1th year of Weisman in the Douluo calendar, in the secret room of the Xu family in Xingluo, Dai Mubai met Lingxi through the Xu family's residence. Lingxi looked at Dai Mubai who bowed to him and said: " If you just want to learn these things, I can teach you, but you need to wait until tomorrow after you officially become my teacher. There will be nothing else to do next, so I will leave first."

Dai Mubai hurriedly greeted him: "Teacher, go slowly, I'll see you off." After that, Dai Mubai followed Lingxi to see him out of Xu's house.At the door of Xu's house, Dai Mubai stood there wondering what he was thinking. Xu Miaomiao came over at this time, looked at Dai Mubai and said, "Mubai, it seems you succeeded. Congratulations."

Dai Mubai looked back at Xu Miaomiao and said, "I have achieved my goal. I hope it will be useful. Let's go back to the room. I want to continue reading books on government affairs." After that, he took Xu Miaomiao back to the room. .

On the other side, our protagonist Lingxi returned to the Zhu family, called Zhu Zhuqing, and said: "Zhuqing, I asked you to come because I have to ask your opinion on something. Today, the Xu family invited me to be a guest. It was actually Dai Mu. Bai asked, and he took this opportunity to show me his second martial spirit, which is an extremely rare main body martial spirit, and wanted to become my disciple. I really need this research material, but if you don't like it, then I won't Received."

Zhu Zhuqing looked at Lingxi with tender eyes and said: "Brother Ling, I have looked away from the matter with Dai Mubai a long time ago. Since you need this research material very much, just accept it. And I will leave tomorrow. Let's We can officially be together." After saying that, he hugged Lingmeng, and Lingmeng also hugged Zhu Zhuqing. The two hugged each other for a while, and then practiced separately.

The next day, the Zhu family held a solemn ceremony for Zhu Zhuqing's graduation. Half of the residents of Xingluo City came to watch. Zhu Zhuqing showed off his five-ring cultivation and strength, successfully boosting the momentum of the Zhu family.In the afternoon of the same day, Lingxiao went to the Xu family again, and the Xu family also held a grand apprenticeship ceremony for Dai Mubai. Although Dai Mubai only had a fourth-ring cultivation level, he believed that with Lingxiao's teaching ability, he would definitely become a talented person and successfully conquer the world. Return to Yicheng.

Starting from the third day, Lingxiao would go to Xu's house every day and stay for about four hours to teach Dai Mubai.

"I have directly written the direction of your cultivation in this book. The direction of your White Tiger Martial Spirit's cultivation, as well as the direction of your original Martial Spirit's cultivation. I hope you can thoroughly read this book. During this period, I will mainly teach you about government affairs, and I hope you can follow suit." After Lingxi finished speaking, he threw a pamphlet to Dai Mubai.

Dai Mubai took the book and said to Lingmao: "Teacher, there is a kingdom in the south of our Star Luo Empire, which is rich in food and is the empire's granary. But in the past two years, I don't know what happened, and the food production suddenly began to decrease, resulting in The entire empire began to run out of food. The royal family assigned this problem to me and asked me to come up with a solution as soon as possible. Please ask the teacher how to deal with it."

"Don't ask me this kind of question again in the future. I will only teach you how to view and analyze government affairs. You need to solve the problem yourself. I will not give you a solution."

Lingxiao looked at Dai Mubai expressionlessly: "Based on the question you just asked, first of all, you don't understand the local situation. This is the first thing I want to tell you - intelligence, the first step in handling government affairs. The first point is that you need to know all the information related to government affairs. If you know all the local information in the past two years, you can analyze the reasons for the reduction in grain production as soon as possible."

"I've looked for it."

Dai Mubai looked bitter: "But the Minister of Agriculture and the local nobles are my eldest brother's people now. I can't see them at all, let alone get his information."

"It's not just the Minister of Agriculture and the nobles who know this."

Lingxi asked at this time: "Have you ever asked those who are working in the fields? Have you personally visited those places to check?"

"I haven't asked in person, I just asked my servants to investigate." Dai Mubai took out a thick paper manuscript from his leg bag: "This is the investigation of the servants. I and all the people around Xingluo City can find Farmers have confirmed that the reduction in production is most likely due to the "drying up of the earth." To solve this problem, either find a soul master with the ability to restore the earth, or temporarily stop planting on the land for a few years and wait for the land to recover naturally. "

After hearing this, Lingxi said: "Put the things aside, I will show it to you later. Now that I have finished talking about the intelligence, let's talk about the next point, talents. The execution of government affairs requires people to control it, and every aspect of government affairs needs People are also different, so you need to cultivate a group of talents under you who can help you complete government affairs. As you said, you cannot get the support of ministers, so you do not have such talents to handle government affairs for you. Of course, these two These are all theoretical empty words, and you understand it more or less now. I’m just trying to wake you up and make you really pay attention to it.”

Lingxi cleared his throat, covered his voice with mental energy, and said: "The last point, and the most important point, is that you have to understand who your government affairs are being handled for, and who you are handling these government affairs for the benefit of." ? Royal family? Nobles? None. You are the emperor of the empire, and you are seeking the welfare of the entire empire. I have a word for you, water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it."

After hearing this, Dai Mubai froze on the spot, repeating what Ling Xi had just said: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it... Thank you teacher, Mubai has learned a lesson. The teacher is really a great sage in this world, You deserve to be worshiped by me." After saying that, he knelt down and worshiped Lingmao.

Lingxiao controlled his soul power and asked Dai Mubai to stand upright: "I teach you only if you worship me as your teacher. At the same time, I don't like the current appearance of the Star Luo Empire and the Tiandou Empire. Therefore, I don't want this empire to maintain its current appearance. .”

"What is it about the empire that makes teachers dissatisfied?"

Dai Mubai asked seriously: "I strive to make the empire reform."

"Remember what you said now."

Lingxiao gained a little more energy: "But right now, you don't have that ability, and neither does the Star Luo Empire. For the time being, you still have to solve your problem."

Lingmao said, "The land in your Star Luo Empire is indeed very fertile, but planting large quantities of the same food crops for a long time will lead to a decline in soil fertility..."

Seeing Dai Mubai's dull expression, Lingxi thought for a while and put it another way: "The reason why those farmers call 'the land is exhausted' is because they keep planting the same crops. To solve this problem, it will take several years to let the earth rest and recover. In addition to the recovery of the soul master, there are other ways to restore the earth and slow down the consumption rate as much as possible. Specifically, this is the only way..."

Lingmao gave Dai Mubai a brief introduction to the basic operations related to agriculture and the principles behind them.

"Unexpectedly, there are so many ways in the seemingly simple farming!"

Dai Mubai said with deep emotion: "I used to think that all you need to do to cultivate the land is to plow the land, then sow the seeds, water and fertilize, and finally pay attention to deworming."

"There are many things you can't think of."

Lingji said: "Next, what I want to say is, don't be surprised. The real cause of the depletion of the earth is actually the nobles of Xingluo."

Dai Mubai had a serious face, pretending to be listening attentively.

"I was ordered to exterminate wolf bandits in Star Luo territory, and I took a brief tour of the empire. I found that the taxes collected by the nobles of Star Luo Empire were about twice that of Tiandou. In order to support their families and pay taxes, farmers We can only grow more food on the land, which leads to the depletion of the earth."

Lingmao's face gradually became serious: "I know that the empire's taxes are actually not that high. But I hope that the noble fiefdoms can be restrained and not over-squeeze the people."

"Understood. I will express this intention to the royal family and the emperor."

Dai Mubai assured, then asked: "But teacher, why do I feel like you have some objections to the nobles?"

"No, no, Tang San and I were both born in a remote mountain village. The difference is that his father is a titled Douluo. My parents are just ordinary people. Because of the empire's high taxes, my father took risks and wanted to become a spirit master. , there is no news at all, and my mother finally passed away from me due to Yusicheng disease, so I don’t have a good impression of the nobles. "

Lingmao continued: "And when I was in Tiandou, I was betrayed by a group of nobles in the fiefdom, and the fiefdom was almost attacked."

"sell?"

Dai Mubai didn't understand: "Why would the nobles in their fiefdom betray the teacher? Are the nobles so unbearable?"

Ling Ming recounted a fact: "Not all nobles are inherited soul master families, and some are directly canonized by the empire. This type of nobles generally do not understand the rules of the nobility. But no matter how powerful the noble soul master is, he is still a human being, and he must have Eat. Even food-based soul masters cannot fill their stomachs with their strength."

"Some people grow food, some people raise poultry and livestock, so that people can fill their stomachs; some people produce materials, some people weave cloth, some people make clothes, so people have clothes to cover their bodies; masons build houses, so people will not sleep in the open; They are merchants who are not engaged in production, and they also play a role in allowing various materials to circulate in different regions.”

"These people are indeed weak in combat. However, they are strong in areas other than combat. So, Mubai, can you understand what the water I just said is?"

"Teacher, I understand. I promise you that one day, Xingluo will become what you are satisfied with." After Dai Mubai finished speaking, he wrote on his memorial the method that Lingxi had just taught him, and took it with him. He went to find his father.

Lingmao ended the first day of classes and returned to Zhu's house.Because they accepted Dai Mubai as their disciple, the Zhu family no longer had any enthusiasm for Lingxi. In order to give the Zhu family some comfort, Lingxi gave Davis and Zhu Zhuyun each a training guide.

After teaching Dai Mubai for a week, Lingmao set off with everyone, and soon after the departure, Dai Lumao became seriously ill, giving Davis and Dai Mubai a sense of urgency.

In a few months, Xingluo will start to be in chaos. I hope that within five years, they will be almost completely destroyed, so that Wuhun Palace can take over directly, so that the unification of the mainland can be completed as soon as possible.