Chapter 359: Strange skills and tricks, smooth and magical road!
[Five years in the New Heaven, you concluded the grand "Lin Liu's Trip to Japan" operation. Millions of soldiers followed you around the world, and finally returned to your hometown Xiniu Hezhou empty-handed...]

[Strictly speaking, this Eastern Expedition was obviously a failure, because you neither achieved the strategic goal of conquering Southern Continent by force, nor the economic goal of stimulating domestic demand through war, and you didn't even fight a decent battle during the entire process.]

[Millions of young people who wanted to make great achievements, but in the end, got nothing. They just followed you around the world, and the public travel group was established...]

[Everyone complained about it privately.]

[However, with the introduction of your "Great Development of Northeast China" strategy, the most active response came precisely from these soldiers of the Eastern Expedition who returned empty-handed! ]

[The reason is simple, because these soldiers have truly followed you around the world. They have personally witnessed the islands in Dongsheng Shenzhou that are covered with spices, and have also seen the vast uninhabited plains and clusters of gold, silver and iron mines in Beijuluzhou... No one knows better than them what kind of wealth-making opportunities are hidden in the other two continents! ]

[Now that you are encouraging private companies to go out to sea for development and are willing to provide safe routes and basic support, they will definitely not miss this good opportunity to make money...]

[Soon, the first batch of civilian development teams were ready. Their main members were the soldiers who had previously participated in the Eastern Expedition. With the "dream of gold", "dream of manor" and "dream of spices" in their hearts, they either formed a "development company" with a few or dozens of people, and sailed to the open sea with their fleets.]

【…】

[While encouraging the private sector to engage in large-scale development, you also continuously innovate production technology, making the productivity of ordinary people leap forward! ]

[In the sixth year of the New Heaven, you and the gods under your command invented a new type of textile machine, which greatly improved the efficiency of textile production. You then used it to build a spinning mill, which not only provided jobs but also greatly reduced the prices of cotton yarn and other related products, thus satisfying people's needs.]

[That year, you and the gods invented a new steelmaking technology, which increased Xizhou's original steel production by nearly ten times at one time. As a result, agricultural tools and other products were updated and became more durable and easy to use, greatly promoting the development of various industries.]

[That year, you invented new farming techniques and fertilizers again, which greatly increased grain production...]

[Under the ingenuity of you and the gods, inventions that are beneficial to the development of mortals have been newly created, injecting strong momentum into the thriving Xiniu Hezhou! ]

[More importantly, you have fully learned the lessons of your previous life in this life, so all your inventions can be copied by mortals, and there will no longer be "divine technology" that exceeds the upper limit of mortals...]

[Of course, the reason why you do so much for mortals is not to support the productivity of mortals by yourself, but just to be a "guide" who inherits the past and opens up the future, inspiring the trend of independent invention and creation among mortals! ]

[And your goal has obviously been achieved...]

[The following year, ordinary people followed your example. While directly using your ready-made technology to set up factories, they also made many related inventions and creations with their wisdom and experience, thus making the benefits even higher! ]

[Having tasted the sweetness, they quickly seized the opportunities of the times and became the flying pigs on the vent of the wind. ]

【Factories are springing up one after another, and inventions are coming out one after another, bringing about all-round progress in the economy and industry! 】

[Moreover, these advances are no longer achieved purely by the power of the gods, but are established by mortals. This alone proves that they are on the right track! They are full of vigor and fighting spirit! ]

[A brand new era is showing its dawn...]

【…】

[After seven years of the New Heaven, the first batch of "development teams" that went overseas are back. However, they are not returning dejectedly in failure, but are coming back happily to sell goods! ]

[The situation in Beizhou and Dongzhou is better than they thought. The resources such as spices, gold mines, land, etc. are almost inexhaustible. ]

[When their boat loaded with goods arrived at the shore, these good goods from other continents were snapped up almost instantly! ]

[The considerable profits made these seafarers very satisfied, and also excited the Xizhou civilians who were still cautiously watching: the opportunity to make a fortune is right in front of them, so hurry up! ]

[As a result, the shipyards were flooded with orders for large ships. The shipyards could not meet the demand even if they worked overtime, and they were so anxious that they were sweating...]

【Since the shipbuilding market is vast, many wealthy people have seized the opportunity to enter the market and build large shipyards. As a result, they have made a lot of money! 】

[The shipyard owner is very satisfied, and the merchant caravans eager to go out to sea to make a fortune are also very satisfied. Everyone has a bright future...]

[In this wave, a group of people saw business opportunities, so they bought new machines and technical staff and followed the fleet to Dongzhou and Beizhou! ]

[They have a sharp vision: the other two continents are in urgent need of development, and the demand for food, clothing, housing and transportation must be huge. Although the market is not big enough at the moment, as long as it continues to develop at this pace, there will definitely be a bright future! ]

[If you take advantage of this opportunity to enter a weak market and grow with the development team, won’t you become a local tycoon in the future? ! ]

[Opportunities are rare and will never come back...]

【The free market is booming! 】

[Thus, the flourishing trade and development of the three continents seemed to be regulated and promoted by an invisible hand...]

【Great, Lin Yek! 】

[Of course, facing this seemingly booming free market and the invisible hand above it, you are very cautious: a booming free market will inevitably lead to disorder and chaos, and even the occurrence of evil events.]

[So, you must stretch out your visible big hand and firmly grasp that invisible big hand! ]

[So, in the tenth year of the New Heavenly Court, you formally established the "Eastern Continent Company" and the "Northern Continent Company", allowing these two institutions, which were called "private companies" but were actually "state-owned units", to uniformly control the development of the two continents.]

[It can promote orderly development through normal business means, and can also suppress illegal companies through violent means, fully guaranteeing the order of reasonable development! ]

[The two companies are located in two different continents, acting as visible hands very well...]

[So, you have two big hands, one invisible and one visible, and these two hands jointly maintain the positive and rapid development of the world. ]

【Even greater, Lin Yek! 】

【…】

[Industry, economy, technology, population, all have achieved rapid development under the caress of your two big hands. ]

[And when these benefits truly benefit the entire people, the people of Xizhou, who originally thought you were an incompetent tyrant, will gradually change their views of you.]

[Your reputation gradually changes from being so bad that it becomes normal, then becomes excellent, almighty, and caring about the people, until you become a living saint! ]

【"loyalty!"】

[“Pasha’s kindness is not over yet!”]

[“Great, Augustus! Great, no need to say more!”]

【“…”】

[People are praising his merits! ]

[But you just smiled, and then immediately issued a new decree...]

[“The Sultan heard that there are very beautiful magnolias in the south, but due to the inconvenient land transportation, he has never had the opportunity to see them. Therefore, from now on, he will recruit 4 million men and women to dig a large canal connecting the north and the south, so that the Sultan’s eagle-flagged black ships can travel freely in the south to see the magnolias!”]

【People: ……】

[“The Pasha has issued an order. In view of the fact that the land routes were previously blocked, which made it inconvenient for the army and merchants, from now on, one million men and women will be conscripted to build a highway for the Pasha, connecting all the major cities in the world, so that all vehicles can run on the same track!”]

【People: ……】

[“Augustus issued an order. Since irrigation is difficult in the world and there are frequent floods and droughts, he ordered all counties and prefectures to repair water conservancy facilities such as canals and reservoirs. No mistakes should be made!”]

【People: ……】

[“The head of state has ordered that my pyramid is still not big enough, so I am conscripting 700,000 people to rebuild the pyramid. There must be no mistakes!”]

【People: ……】

[“Pass down Sultan Lin’s order! This is all for now, and we’ll add more later depending on the situation…”]

【People: Slow down! 】

[People: What can I say? 】

[You have performed such a series of great wonders that the people who were originally praising you for your kindness suddenly started to curse...]

[But fortunately, the present is different from the past. After your careful management, the productivity of the people has changed a lot. In addition, you will more or less use your divine power to help in these aspects. Therefore, although the construction of the wonders has caused chaos and constant criticism everywhere, it has not cost the people money and labor.]

[Besides, apart from rebuilding the pyramids, these engineering wonders are all good things that benefit the country and the people. With limited labor, they will not cause much opposition if they are built.]

[Just like that, Xizhou under your rule is getting better and better...]

【…】

[In the 20th year of the New Heaven, the common people of Xizhou improved the papermaking technique based on past experience, which greatly increased the output of paper! ]

[In the 22nd year of the New Heaven, the common people of Xizhou invented advanced printing technology, making it possible to spread knowledge on a large scale! ] [While you were building large-scale projects, you also promoted compulsory education early on, and personally compiled textbooks, organizing a lot of scientific knowledge into a complete system, and taught it to the people in different categories... However, due to the high cost of learning, your compulsory education was not very effective. ]

[So as soon as you discovered papermaking and printing, you applied them to compulsory education, thus greatly reducing the cost of learning! ]

[This approach may seem to have no short-term benefits, but in fact it is a real long-term plan that will bear fruit in the future...]

[In the 25th year of the New Heaven, someone invented a new and more powerful gunpowder based on the black gunpowder of the Southern Continent, so it was quickly applied to infrastructure construction: mountain splitting, mining, road construction, and other tasks that were previously very laborious, suddenly became a lot easier! ]

[After discovering the great prospects of gunpowder, people became interested in it and studied it more vigorously, while researching more powerful gunpowder and thinking about its more uses.]

[Soon, people began to apply it to military affairs…]

[When you first saw the two things, the musket and the cannon, you were surprised! ]

[Although this thing cannot threaten the true gods who possess the incense and fire body, if used well, mortals can also use it to threaten monks! ]

[The Shinto monks who are still burdened by their mortal bodies are very likely to have their bodies destroyed if they are caught off guard...]

[Faced with this dangerous item, the Shinto monks blushed and cursed the mortals for being so bold as to create such a dangerous thing! ]

[Troublemaker! What is your purpose? Why did you choose to invent something like this?]

[While cursing, the monks petitioned you to burn these strange and ingenious techniques and to kill the inventor's entire family...]

[Of course you understand their fear and anxiety. After all, an ordinary farmer holding this thing is enough to threaten a monk who has practiced for many years. It is really too dangerous! ]

[But you thought a lot and finally rejected the proposal of the gun burning pit craftsman. ]

[Not only did you reject the proposal, you also encouraged the timid inventor by rewarding him with a large amount of research funds, so that he could keep working hard! ]

[Many people are puzzled by you, but you just smile and say nothing...]

[In the 30th year of the New Heaven, you placed a large number of orders for the emerging musket and artillery factories, and trained a group of new troops to re-equip them.]

[After a certain period of training, you sent the new army to various places in Xizhou and suppressed many of the remnants of the old days! ]

[The effect of the suppression was quite good. The mortal rebels fell to their knees at the speed of light, and the monk rebels were wiped out at the speed of light. Their mortal bodies could not stop the bullets and shells at all. Only the Dharma images were left helpless and furious, and then they were easily killed by the monks accompanying the army...]

[The first battle was a victory. You are so happy that you immediately deployed troops throughout Xizhou, eliminated the old troops and weapons, and trained new troops using new weapons! ]

[With the new weapons, the independent administrative capabilities of ordinary people have been greatly improved, and the need for the power of the gods has become smaller and smaller. Whether it is suppressing bandits, eliminating rebels, or enforcing the law by police officers, the difficulty has been greatly reduced...]

[In addition to the large-scale replacement of equipment in Xizhou, you also sent a lot of muskets and artillery to the "Dongzhou Company" and the "Beizhou Company", which greatly increased their strength in suppressing the indigenous rebellion and the evil caravans, and the development project also progressed more smoothly! ]

[It is obvious that your efforts in this life have been extremely effective. Ordinary people are really blazing a new trail with their own strength...]

【…】

[Thirty-five years into the New Heaven, your old crippled body finally died at the age of one hundred and eight.]

[On the day when the "Pharaoh" died, the whole country celebrated! ]

[Then everyone began to prepare this great "body of the saint": first, according to the custom of the ancient desert country, they emptied the body into a hollow shell, then tied linen bandages all over the body and dried it in the air...]

[After the body is formed into a mummy, it is tied to a cross according to another ancient custom, sprinkled with "holy water" and "holy oil", and then left to rest for three days before the "resurrection" ceremony is performed...]

[After doing these bizarre things, you watched them soak the body in a coffin full of honey...]

[Finally, amid the desert high priest’s excited blessing, they filled the coffin with scarabs again…]

【Now it’s well-marinated! 】

[Fortunately, after completing all the above steps, the ceremony finally reached the last step: burial! ]

[Several desert natives carried the coffin and slowly placed it into the already built grand pyramid to the sound of the local cheerful coffin-carrying song...]

【“…”】

[After watching the entire ceremony, you are really speechless: Why do the customs of this Western Continent always have to deal with corpses? The old cripple's body that has been with you for more than fifty years has been tormented over and over again. It's really pitiful...]

[You shook your head, and then turned around, just in time to see a bunch of envious and jealous priests from other ancient cultural countries. They all looked at you expectantly, as if they were saying: Your Majesty, what are you going to do next time? ]

[Your Majesty! Please die quickly! We have long wanted to chop the desert priest to pieces, take your body, and cook it ourselves! ]

【you:……】

[In the end, you can only sigh helplessly: Never mind, the people like it, who am I? ]

[Let’s just leave it alone…]

[Your new body is that of a blond, blue-eyed young man from Xizhou who died unexpectedly. After obtaining the consent of his family and sending his soul to the eternal wilderness as a token of gratitude, you naturally attached yourself to his body. With a change of divine power, your body was resurrected! ]

[But because this young man has been suffering from a strange disease for many years, which has caused his limbs to atrophy and even his head to be crooked, so after you possessed him, you sat in a carefully made wheelchair...]

[Everyone is puzzled. You can obviously change to a healthier body, but why do you always like to find disabled people? The old cripple last time was like this, and this time the wheelchair guy with a crooked head is also like this... Is this some strange habit of the great Sultan? ]

[But you smiled, saying that it was unjust for you to take someone's body, so you used your disabled body to do this, and sent his soul to the eternal wilderness where he could live forever, which was also a way to repay him for his hard-working life! ]

[After listening to your explanation, everyone exclaimed: So great, Augustus...]

[You are serious, I cry to death! 】

【…】

[You sit in a wheelchair and continue to use your two big hands to jointly maintain the current development plan of the three continents. ]

【Looking at the three continents that are changing with each passing day, you can't help but have great ambitions: get up where you fell! 】

[Now that the mortals in the three continents have developed at a higher and higher level, they have completely crushed the Southern Continent by a large level. It is time to launch a strategy against this last "old empire"! ]

[But you still remember the shame of the past, and you know that you still don’t have the strength to face those True Gods head-on. Therefore, this strategy cannot be based on force, but can only be achieved through breakthroughs in commerce, industry, culture, weapons and other aspects of people’s livelihood, and gradually implement the occupation strategy...]

[So, with your order, a large delegation of envoys was organized, and they carried your "letter of credence" across the Nanshanbu Continent to the East Land of Dashun, to pay their respects to the Emperor of Dashun and discuss matters of trade.]

[On the gift ship, you carefully prepared many gifts, including muskets, cannons, soaps, globes, microscopes, steel furnace drawings, etc.]

[They are all new products in recent years, representing the highest scientific and technological achievements of Xizhou! ]

[And the reason you are investing so much money is, of course, not just for trade, but more importantly, you want to use this to boost the productivity of Dashun, and then unite the East and the West, and go further and further on the path of mortal progress, until you break free from the restrictions of the gods and achieve unity and move forward for the whole world! ]

[You believe that the Emperor of Dashun will definitely see the beauty of this and work with you to get rid of those true gods who are like shallow-water turtles...]

[You hand over a handwritten "letter" to the envoy with anticipation, and ask him to complete the mission. The envoy is also very excited, and repeatedly bows and swears to the great "Augustus II"! ]

[Then the fleet gradually drifted away...]

【…】

[You waited for a full year, and a year later, the envoys finally returned. ]

[But the envoy's expression is very depressed...]

[Your heart skips a beat: "What did Emperor Shun say?"]

[The messenger handed you a letter with his head down, which was written by the Emperor Dashun himself.]

[You solemnly opened the letter and then read it carefully. You want to see what the attitude of the Dashun Emperor is...]

[In the letter, he first expressed his satisfaction at your birthday wishes to him, and thought that you, the chief of the Western barbarians, were sincere and loyal enough to come thousands of miles away to pay your respects! ]

【But trade...】

[“My Celestial Empire is vast and rich in resources. We do not need to trade with foreign countries… Besides, the things you have in the West are all strange and ingenious. My Great Shun Empire has its own smooth and prosperous path. I appreciate your kindness, but let’s forget about trade…”]

【you:……】

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(End of this chapter)