I Rely on Beauty to Stabilize the Country - Chap 165

The Overland Silk Road came back early three years later due to the war between Kang State and Fuci. The ministers who returned after completing the mission entrusted by the Holy One received the rewards they deserved.

The leading three ministers were rewarded according to their merits and promoted to high positions. Xue Yuan signed a letter to become a member of the Privy Council, received a military official of the third rank or above, and was granted the title of second-class Bo Yuanhou.

The Privy Councilor who signed the letter was the deputy to the Privy Councilor’s deputy, and was a candidate for the Privy Councilor in the future. He was in charge of important military affairs and had full power to assist the Holy One.

Xue Yuan has no external transfer experience but he has been able to jump into the ranks of third-rank officials. Although it is due to Silk Road’s merits, it is more due to his own strong ability and the Holy Emperor’s expectations and respect for him.

The Privy Council and the Political Hall were directly under the orders of the Holy Father and were not under the control of any minister. The power in their hands is completely controlled by Gu Yuanbai, and he can take it back as soon as he can put it down. This was difficult for Xue Yuan to bear in the past, but now he is happy with it.

Compared with the land Silk Road, the Maritime Silk Road traveled slowly for five years. After five years, Lin Zhicheng and his party returned with an overwhelming number of ships waving the Daheng flag.

They brought huge wealth. In addition to millions of taels of gold, silver and copper, there were also goods exchanged by various countries. But more important than the wealth was the current situation of other overseas countries.

Lin Zhicheng presented a thick booklet, which detailed the experiences and geographical location of each country. There are still some unoccupied islands. Lin Zhicheng said with a sense of urgency when he met the Holy Spirit: “Your Majesty, we can occupy these islands.”

Gu Yuanbai also had a sense of urgency. He nodded affirmatively, “You are right.”

He asked Lin Zhicheng many questions, and Lin Zhicheng answered them one by one, “Although some countries outside are very rich, their national conditions are very complicated. The food in some places is very different from ours, and they even drink blood like hair. We followed the old route, Some countries that were not famous during the Tang Dynasty now have extraordinary strength, but they are not as good as our Daheng Celestial Dynasty. This time, Daheng’s power has become famous at home and abroad. Many small countries admire and respect Daheng very much. After paying tribute, I also intend to establish a stable trading fleet with Daheng.”

Lin Zhicheng’s return trip also brought back people from various countries who were very curious about Daheng. They wanted to see this land in the far east and experience something about this country that can produce tea, silk, and porcelain. How prosperous and civilized it is.

Gu Yuanbai thought to himself, in today’s era, there is no maritime hegemony. The countries in Europe are still in the chaotic medieval era, and no one realizes the importance of the ocean. At this time, China is still number one in the world, and Daheng has matching capabilities. Ability, with ships that shock the world.

Lin Zhicheng’s trip to sea this time will shock the entire Daheng Dynasty just by the wealth it brings.

Perhaps one day not too far in the future, the flag of Daheng will be floating everywhere on the ocean.

Gu Yuanbai smiled and asked about some seeds he paid special attention to. The old route does not reach the Americas and Europe, so high-yielding crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes should not be brought back.

But to his surprise, Lin Zhicheng really brought him a surprise!

Gu Yuanbai suddenly stood up from the dragon chair.

Lin Zhicheng was startled by him, “Your Majesty?”

Gu Yuanbai stared at the three small bags of seeds on the table, confused and dizzy by the surprise, “Where did these crop seeds come from?”

“One of the countries I went to claimed to be from a country called Spain,” Lin Zhicheng said. “This country seems to be very far away from us. According to this person, a battle to expel the invaders is currently taking place in their country. . And he drifted to a foreign country alone due to an accident during the battle. He used these seeds to exchange with me and asked me to bring him to Daheng. When I saw it, I felt that the seeds in the yellow bag were the same as those of the Holy Master. The ‘corn’ I mentioned is the same, both are gold-colored and have the shape of grains of rice the size of teeth, but I can’t recognize them.”

Gu Yuanbai’s heart was already agitated at this time. He looked through the corn kernels repeatedly and opened the other two bags. One was yellow and the other was dark. They were all dry and lacked water. They were clearly potatoes and sweet potatoes. seed.

These humble-looking seeds were like priceless treasures in Gu Yuanbai’s eyes. Gu Yuanbai was surprised and became solemn. These seeds looked quite bad. Who knew if they could still be planted?

Opportunities are in front of us. If we don’t survive, won’t we die of depression?

Gu Yuanbai made a decision immediately: “Here comes someone!”

Whether they can survive or not, they have to try first. As long as there is a glimmer of hope of survival, Gu Yuanbai will try his best to make these crops grow on the land of Daheng.

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When His Majesty the Emperor found a treasured land to farm, the world was not as expected because of Lin Zhicheng’s departure to the sea.

Well-connected merchants and officials from North Korea and China all invested a certain sum of money in this voyage. After five years of waiting, the money had completely doubled several times. People who were stunned by such a huge benefit looked at the maritime trade with new eyes.

Then a letter was written to Gu Yuanbai’s desk, and the letters like flying snow were all asking when the emperor would go to sea next.

Without strong troops and ships to protect them, their caravan would not dare to go too far on the ocean.

There has been a craze among the people for going overseas. Overseas travel notes have bloomed like a hundred flowers overnight. They are not only travel notes, but also more detailed biographies compiled by people who have gone overseas.

The more of these things there are, the more everyone can know. When people from the Ministry of Husbandry and the Ministry of Punishment transported gold, silver, copper and goods from the ship’s cabin to the treasury, many people realized one fact – overseas is a cornucopia.

They were ready to make a move, but Gu Yuanbai had no time to pay attention to them.

Now it was the farming season. He summoned hundreds of farmers who had the most knowledge about planting methods and handed them three small bags of less than 100 seeds. He looked serious and repeatedly warned, promising that those who succeed in planting will be prosperous and wealthy. .

Hundreds of farmers looked at each other and slowly opened their mouths. After they reacted, their eyes became intense.

The farmer started thinking about it enthusiastically, and Gu Yuanbai paid great attention to this matter. He remembered that these three crops were suitable for sowing in April, among which corn was a drought-tolerant crop, and the probability of successful planting should not be too low.

He also talked about this matter at night, “Sweet potatoes are also drought-resistant, but not as good as corn. Potatoes use a lot of water. I will think about it again and see what else I can come up with…”

Xue Yuan couldn’t help but stood up and scratched the soles of his feet. Gu Yuanbai trembled all over and cursed with a smile: “What are you doing!”

Xue Yuan slowly moved up from his calf, sniffing the smell of His Majesty just after taking a bath with fascination, and complained, “Sir, your mouth is full of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn. It only takes a few days to talk about it. Today What time has it been? Can you still look at me?”

Gu Yuanbai stretched his legs on his legs, “Give me some pressure. Xue Jiuyao, how old are you? You have always looked like a jealous husband.”

Xue Yuan squeezed his leg, his expression stiffened when he heard this, and he tried his best to smile a gentle smile that was not so jealous of his husband, “Your Majesty, how can I be a jealous husband?”

His tall figure held the comfortable Gu Yuanbai in his arms, and kissed his ear from time to time, “If I were jealous of my husband, wouldn’t I be so jealous even if you talked to someone else today? ”

Gu Yuanbai asked calmly: “How many times did I laugh with the editor of the Hanlin Academy today?”

Xue Yuan’s eyes darkened, and his knuckles crackled, “You laughed twice.”

After saying that, his whole body froze.

Gu Yuanbai snorted in his heart, jealous of his husband.

Xue Yuan suddenly said: “I saw it by chance. When the Holy Master smiled, my eyes couldn’t help but stick to my eyes. Was it really twice?” He pretended to touch his chin, “Or was it three times?”

Gu Yuanbai cooperated with him and suddenly realized: “I wrongly blamed Xue Qing. However, the editor who came to the hall today has a dignified appearance, quite a bit like Jiuyao when you were young.”

Xue Yuan’s smile paused. After a long time, he licked Gu Yuanbai’s ear beads and said lingeringly: “Your Majesty, I’m right here. It’s enough for you to look at me. Why else should you look at other portraits of me when I was young?” Human? Am I not better than what I used to be?”

He held Gu Yuanbai in his arms, held his hand and touched his neck, slowly walking down, “When I was young, ten of me couldn’t beat one of them.”

His chest is warm, his muscles are strong, and his tentacles are very elastic. His shoulders are wide and his waist is narrow. He is a real man.

Xue Yuan places great importance on physical strength and appearance. He has always been proud of being able to serve the king with sex, and he does not relax even when he is standing. He was sweating profusely during daily exercises, and the steaming sweat beads would collect along his sharp chin. He liked to practice the push-ups taught to him by the Holy Father on his back. He could do more than three hundred ups and downs every day. Gu Yuan Bai was swaying on his back, the tip of his nose was filled with the smell of Xue Yuan’s sweat, and the clothes under his buttocks were soaked with the sweat from Xue Yuan’s back.

Gu Yuanbai was disgusted when he pulled him on his back for the first time, but later on, without Xue Yuan’s words, he became a regular sex aggravation tool every day.

Because Xue Yuan was sweating heavily, Gu Yuanbai would occasionally become dizzy, his heart was pounding, and he was also sweating.

Sometimes I wonder in my heart, what did this guy eat to grow up? How could it be so fierce?

The long-term training in all weathers has given him the strength contained in his tight and powerful arms and thighs to kill a person with one punch. It is not difficult for him to shake heavy objects that are difficult for others, but ten of them can’t beat him? Gu Yuanbai really didn’t believe it, “Your abilities were already scary when you were young.”

Xue Yuan looked at Gu Yuanbai’s serious look, and he actually felt a strong jealousy towards himself in the past. His dark look was revealed when Gu Yuanbai didn’t touch him. Did the Holy One think he was too old?

But every time, the Holy One couldn’t stand his physical strength. How could this be called old?

Xue Yuan blamed the source on today’s editor of the Hanlin Academy. He sneered twice in his heart, then calmed down, held the Holy Emperor’s hand and said seriously: “Your Majesty, you should continue talking about sweet potatoes and potatoes.”

Stop saying things that make your jealous husband feel jealous.

Gu Yuanbai: “…”

Haha, man.