Mission system: The ultimate class begins

Chapter 389

"Okay, then I'll go see her first."

Speaking of which, Lin Yang stood up, picked up the teapot at the side, and put it away in the gazebo outside.

He did this because he knew that Ying Zheng would come later, and the other party had come several times, and every time Lin Yang would wait for him here, and then went to the flower garden.

Lu Su was watering the flower garden with a kettle, when she noticed Lin Yang approaching, she quickly put down the kettle and greeted him.

"Master, are you back?"

Looking at Lu Su who had changed slightly from before, Lin Yang nodded with a smile.

"Susu, how does it feel after breaking through to the first level of Qi Refining?"

Lu Su smiled. Although her voice was still soft, it was not difficult to hear that the other party was very happy.

"I feel as if my body has been sublimated, and even my mood has improved, and I find that these plants seem to be very friendly to me."

Speaking of this, Lu Su leaned his hand towards the branch beside him, and the tree seemed to sense it, and the branches and leaves slowly leaned towards Lu Su.

"You have a wood-type physique, so as long as plants are friendly to you, now you have broken through to the first level of Qi refining, and the next task is to practice spells more frequently."

After thinking for a while, Lin Yang said.

"From now on, spend two hours every day to practice spells, as for the cultivation level..."

As he spoke, Lin Yang took out a porcelain bottle from the system space and handed it to the other party.

"There are 10 spirit-gathering pills in here, and using them all should be enough for you to break through to the next level."

Lu Su took the porcelain bottle, opened the bottle cap and smelled it, a fresh fragrance spread into the nostrils.

"Master, is this taken one by one?" Lu Su put the cap on the bottle and asked how to take it.

"Well, Juling Pill can increase the speed of absorbing spiritual energy, and one pill can last for 30 days."

As he spoke, he pointed to the canyon in the distance outside the manor. Below the canyon was a lake, and there was a waterfall beside the lake.

"The other side of the canyon is where the dragon veins of the small world are located. After you take the Gathering Pill, you can absorb spiritual energy there."

Putting away the porcelain vase, Lu Su nodded.

"Thank you master."

Lin Yang looked at the other party, and saw that Lu Su, who was originally very happy, suddenly had his thoughts written on his face, and always felt that the other party seemed to have something to say.

"Susu, is there anything you want to tell me?"

Seeing that he was spotted, Lu Su nodded.

"Master, you have been away for so long, I don't know if you have seen my father and sister."

Hearing that it was this, Lin Yang said that he had visited Lu Gong.

The little girl nodded after listening, with all her thoughts written on her face.

Seeing this, Lin Yang thought for a while. Although the other party's current life trajectory has changed, if he suddenly appeared outside, he might be remembered by Tian Dao.

Cultivating immortals is to go against the sky, and there is no native in this world who cultivates immortals. If Tiandao finds out by then, maybe the other party will take action to suppress it.

Therefore, Lu Su must not be allowed to go out, at least until the cultivation base has not reached a certain level, the other party cannot be allowed to go out.

"Okay, master knows that you miss your family, but you are in a special situation now, and you may have trouble if you are let out. How about I go back with you to see them next time?"

Lu Su shook his head.

"No need, master, since I have already worshiped you as my teacher, I won't think about anything else, and I will practice with peace of mind."

Lu Su would say this because she was actually afraid that Lin Yang would think that she was not concentrating on her cultivation, and she would be homesick after only 10 days since she came out. In other words, she was afraid that the other party would think that she was hypocritical.

Lin Yang also understood, and shook his head with a smile, planning to see if he should take Lu Gong to Beiming Village to settle down later.

This will save Lu Su from thinking about his family every day.

Lin Yang didn't talk to Lu Su much after that, because Ying Zheng was coming soon.

After sitting down in the gazebo for a while, Ying Zheng and Li Si walked in through the portal.

"Lin Xianchang, the widow is here."

Ying Zheng walked into the manor with a smile, and sat down in the gazebo, but intentionally took a seat away from Lin Yang, leaving the middle seat for Li Si.

Li Si bowed to Lin Yang.

"Immortal Lin."

Lin Yang nodded and motioned Li Si to sit down.

The latter originally wanted to sit on the other side of Ying Zheng, but before he walked over, he was pulled by Ying Zheng.

"Li Si, come and sit here."

Being pulled to sit between the two of them, Li Si looked confused, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and looked at Ying Zheng.

The latter gave him a wink, the meaning is obvious, if Lin Yang wants to blame later, you give me all the rest.

Li Si wrinkled a bitter face, and said why Ying Zheng suddenly asked him to come with him today, it turned out that he was the one to take the blame.

There is no way, His Majesty has issued an order with his eyes, and I am afraid that if he does not recite the blame, he will have to recite it.

Lin Yang looked at the strange performance of the two, thought to himself, and immediately understood what the two were thinking, and shook his head with a wry smile.

Just as he was about to say something, Li Si said at the side.

"I'm sorry Lin Xianchang, I am in charge of managing the slave camp. Today, my subordinates offended Xianchang, please forgive me."

Lin Yang shook his head, and stretched out his hands to subdue Li Si who was bowing.

"You misunderstood, I didn't come to you to ask questions."

Hearing what the other party said, Ying Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Then what did Lin Yang ask them for?

"The soldier in charge of guarding the slaves said that the Immortal Elder took a slave away. Isn't that slave an old acquaintance of the Immortal Elder?"

Li Si was also a little confused, he was ready to be scolded by Lin Yang, now this means it's all right?

Hearing the question, Lin Yang shook his head.

"It's not an old acquaintance, but a friend of an old man."

"Then I don't know what the so-called immortal elder is looking for the widow this time?"

Lin Yang smiled slightly, brought over the tea from the side, and poured a cup for the two of them.

"Have a cup of hot tea first, and I'll tell you slowly."

Ying Zheng looked at the tea in front of him, picked it up, blew on the hot air, and took a light peck.

"It's like this. I'm looking for Your Majesty this time, just to talk to Your Majesty about the slave trade."

"I think that since His Majesty has unified the six countries, the people of the six countries should be regarded as the people of Daqin, and the people of the six countries should not be traded as livestock."

"It's easy to arouse the anger of the people, and make the people of Daqin feel no sense of belonging to Daqin. They know that the king is a boat, and the people are water. The world of the people."

Ying Zheng nodded. He quite agrees with Lin Yang's sentence that the king is a boat and the people are water. In fact, he would not want to do this if he could, but he also has his own difficulties.

Just as he was about to explain, Li Si on the side took the lead in explaining.

"What the fairy said is good, but this is also not self-satisfied."

"Nowadays, although the Great Qin has a strong army, there are very few domestic constructions, and a large amount of manpower is urgently needed to build domestic facilities and the Great Wall used to resist the Huns in the north."

"But the people are not willing to do it. After we discussed it, we can only conscript the people of the other six countries to serve as corvee."

Lin Yang shook his head when he heard the other party's words. What Li Si said obviously did not regard the people of the six countries as his own.

No wonder Daqin will be rebelled by so many people in the later period. To put it bluntly, it is still the people in the court who don't treat the people as human beings.

"Prime Minister Li, what do you mean by that, are the people of the previous six countries not the people of Daqin now?"

Li Si shook his head and cupped his hands. "I have absolutely no intention of doing so. It's just that compared with the original Qin people, we can only choose the people of the other six countries as corvee collection."

On the surface, Ying Zheng didn't say a word, but he also had the same thoughts as Li Si in his heart, and he would more or less favor the people of his own country.

This is a common problem in this era. Leaving aside these dignitaries, even the people of the original Qin State looked down on the people of the other six countries.

Sighing, Lin Yang looked at the two of them.

"I know that there is no absolute fairness in this world, but such oppression is really wrong. Don't forget the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang I told you about before."

Speaking of which, Lin Yang looked at Li Si.

"You said that the people are not willing to help with the work, so you can only impose corvée. Then I want to ask, do you pay the corresponding remuneration for the people to work?"

Hearing Lin Yang's words, Li Si said neither humble nor overbearing.

"Doing things for the country has never asked for anything in return since ancient times. It is a gift to give food and clothing."

Lin Yang shook his head.

Although Daqin now has high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes that he gave, the people of the Gyeonggi generation have no problem solving food and clothing, but to put it bluntly, the Gyeonggi generation is the people of the original Qin State.

Although it is being promoted in other places, it is difficult to see results in a short period of time, so many people outside Gyeonggi are still hungry.

"If it is really possible to provide food and clothing, I don't think there will be people running away, and maybe they will scramble to help."

Now that the Great Qin has just been established for a few years, the national strength is relatively weak. Generally speaking, the people can still barely eat enough by farming, but if they have to pay taxes, that is another matter.

In ancient times, tax was collected according to the head of each household. Based on the tax standard of the Han Dynasty, a family of five would need to pay about 20 shi of grain.

Without high-yield crops, a hundred mu of fertile land can produce about 100 shi of grain at most.

From this point of view, although there are not many, ordinary people can have a hundred acres of fertile land, and they basically help the government to work. After a year of hard work, it is not bad to get 20 shi of grain. from the taxation.

Not to mention that this is the Qin Dynasty, which is older than the Han Dynasty, and the taxation will only be more than that of the Han Dynasty.

If things go on like this, the people will not have enough to eat, and they will be forced to serve. Sooner or later, they will rebel. Throughout the 5000 years of China, the vast majority of dynasties were destroyed because of the fish and meat of the people.

"Prime Minister Li, do you want to go down to find out someday, and see what the corvees that you confiscated eat?"

"I saw it. The corvee only eats one meal a day, a bowl of rice soup, and a bread. They do so much work every day. Can this fill their stomachs?"

"This..." Li Si didn't know how to answer the words for a while, he really didn't know what Lin Yang said, because he didn't care about this aspect, and looked at Ying Zheng who was aside.

The latter frowned. "The widow clearly said that the corvee eats two meals a day, two pieces of bread and one bowl of rice porridge for each meal."

From this point of view, it seems that someone is filling their own pockets.

Yingzheng was a little angry in his heart. It was only a few years since he founded the Great Qin Dynasty, and yet someone was corrupted.

Thinking of going back, we must thoroughly investigate this matter.

"I just heard what the elder said, and I think it makes sense, but the construction of the Great Wall in the north urgently needs a lot of manpower. How to solve this matter, I also ask the elder to give me some advice."

Hearing that the other party asked him to give advice, Lin Yang sat up straight and said.

"First of all, reduce taxes, speed up the promotion of sweet potatoes and other crops, and spread them to the whole country as quickly as possible. Now that people can't even afford food, how can they pay taxes?"

"The order of compulsory service was canceled and it was changed to voluntary service. The corvees who built the Great Wall in the north were liberated, and they were allowed to return to their hometowns and paid."

"I think as long as this is done, the emotions accumulated by the people in the past few years will be released, and the public anger will not be aroused."

After a pause, Lin Yang smiled and said. "In fact, the people's thinking is very simple. As long as they can eat enough and the country treats them well, they will be satisfied, and no one will rebel when they are full."

"As for the construction of the Great Wall and domestic construction, you can post notices across the country to expropriate some common people and pay them."

"The notice must state what the expropriation is for, what the compensation is, how long it will take to return home, etc. It must make the people feel that the state asks them to help, not compels them to help."

Ying Zheng nodded. According to Lin Yang, this will indeed calm down the public anger that is about to stir in the country, and it will also make it difficult for some nobles from the six countries who are trying to restore their country.

As Lin Yang said, if the common people can eat enough and have surplus food at home, only fools are willing to rebel with the nobles of the six countries.

"Immortal Chief, if you say so, it is indeed possible, but there are Xiongnu cavalry in the north, and the people on the border of our Great Qin have been plundered all the year round. If the corvee to build the Great Wall is dissolved, it will be difficult to collect so many people to build it in a short time.

"How can the people on the border of my Great Qin save themselves?"

Seeing that Li Si said this, Ying Zheng also took advantage of the opportunity and proposed to buy the construction machinery that he had seen in Beiming Village earlier.

"Immortal Master Lin Yang, just now Li Si and I passed Beiming Village and saw that the villagers seem to be building houses with artifacts. Presumably those artifacts were provided by the Immortal Elder. I wonder if the Immortal Elder can sell these artifacts to widows."

Lin Yang thought about it. If it is a truck, he still has more than 10 trucks in the system space. This can be given to Ying Zheng, but there are some construction machinery that must use electricity to run. It's useless to give to the other party.

Thinking about opening the mouth.

"Yes, I can provide Your Majesty with 15 trucks. Your Majesty can find some people to come to Beiming Village to find Er Niu, and learn from him how to drive a truck."

After a pause, he continued.

"As for other machines, I can only provide some that don't need electricity, because it's useless to give you the ones that need electricity."

"Electricity?" Ying Zheng and Li Si were a little puzzled, this was the first time they heard this word.