Chapter 274: Rapid Development

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[In the third year, after three years of rapid development, the entire Chinese Ghost Story Universe underwent a completely new transformation. The Ming dynasty’s Dragon Vein received a wave of blood transfusions from you and became strong once again.

[At present, the Ming dynasty was rich, and the people were strong. Not only was its technology the best in the current era, but the birth of the latest research in shipbuilding technology also made the Ming dynasty target overseas and began to expand crazily.

[You were still the Ming dynasty’s Regent and favored by the empress. Not only was it because of your stunning looks, but it was also because of your talent that allowed the Ming dynasty to develop to its current strength.

[You were rather satisfied with this Holy Empress. Many of your reforms were aimed at the interests of the royal family, but the empress did not say anything.

[There was only one thing that made you very depressed. The empress seemed to have unintentionally asked for your opinion.

[She actually wanted to raise the heads of the household?

[You were instantly furious. After some investigation, you discovered that it was the son of the current Prime Minister who wrote a few explicit love poems that touched the heart of the empress.

[Only now did you remember that because you paid too much attention to the development of the Ming dynasty, you had already neglected the empress for a period of time.

[That night, you taught the empress a harsh lesson. The next day, the Prime Minister of the dynasty was jailed for eating dumplings without dipping them in soy sauce. His son was found to be having an affair with a palace maid and was sentenced to death by a thousand cuts.]

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[In the 10th year, due to the birth of the steam engine, the first train was finally born in the Ming dynasty.

[You even had the ability to transport, which affected the lifeline of a large country. The first time you built the first railway between the capital city and Nanjing.

[Because of your rule, the Ming dynasty became more and more powerful, and its population increased by many times. In order to encourage the birth of the population, you even set strict laws.

[If a husband and wife gave birth to a child within three years and could no longer give birth, they would be fined 50 taels of silver. Within five years, the family’s a.s.sets would be confiscated. The man would directly become a soldier, the woman would be sent to an official prost.i.tute, and they would not be able to raise the child. The Ming dynasty would be in charge of raising the child.

[This punishment would undoubtedly cause a great rebellion no matter what era it was in. 50 taels of silver were enough for a normal family to live for a few years.

[However, although there would be opposition under your dictatorship, it was nothing.

[Of course, you also proposed a reward rule, and it was very generous. To put it simply, if a couple gave birth to a child in a year, the reward alone would be enough to make this family very rich.

[You were not worried about food. Your name had already occupied more than half of this world at this time. The fertile land of the Eastern Sea had already become the Ming dynasty’s territory.

[At the ceremony of the 10th anniversary of the empress’ ascension, you spoke even more heroically. “The sun and moon shine on the Ming dynasty’s territory…]

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[In the 25th year, there was only one country on the entire planet, and that was the Ming dynasty. You made the most of the system and rules.

[The people were divided into different grades. The Ming dynasty people, in the beginning, were first-cla.s.s citizens. They did not have to do anything. They only had to serve in the military. There were a few grades after that that were jointly supported.

[You knew the importance of shifting the conflict. Other than stipulating that the lazy and ugly people would always be at the bottom, there was enough room for other people to advance.

[They could even become first-cla.s.s citizens after making great contributions.

[For those who were not originally citizens, becoming first-cla.s.s citizens of the Ming dynasty was their highest honor.

[After all these years of rapid development, missiles, tanks, and other powerful military weapons had long been created.

[Relying on these cold war weapons, all the demons of the Ming dynasty had collectively moved.

[There was nothing they could do. Even a 1,000-year-old demon would find it hard to accept being bombarded by missiles and tanks.

[And this year, a nuke slowly rose, indicating that the current scientific research level of the Ming dynasty was infinitely close to that of the modern era.

[You gathered all the elites in the world and used only 25 years to walk the path of hundreds of years of development.

[You knew that the time was almost up. On this day, you came directly to the empress.

[Although the empress was over 50 years old, her appearance didn’t change much when she first met you under your meticulous care.

[After a bout of affection, you gently stroked the Empress’s beautiful hair and didn’t say much. The short separation was naturally for a better meeting later.

[You knew that when you met the empress again, you would be with her forever, taking her on the path of immortality and living forever in this world.

[Subsequently, all the spies of the Ming dynasty were sent out on this day.

[Led by Yan Chixia, the Chief Constable of the Hexa-Gate Organization, they searched for the traces of the 1,000-year-old Tree Demon and the Old Demon of Black Mountain.

[There was nothing they could do. Every inch of land in the Ming dynasty was worth a fortune.

[Even the once dilapidated temple had been developed into real estate and a tourist resort.

[When the Lanruo Temple was developed, it was due to the son of an expedition general. His ancestors were all martial artists for three generations. After pa.s.sing the imperial examinations with great difficulty, a scholar came out. This son was naturally favored by the general.

[Although his son had only become an ordinary county magistrate, this general was not fl.u.s.tered at all. He even chose a good place for his son on the land that had been colonized in advance.

[With his personal relationship in the military and the acc.u.mulated battle achievements, it would not be a problem for him to help his son when the time came.

[However, he had never expected that his son’s first decree when he took office would be plagued by evil and even threaten his son’s life.

[This was not only to destroy his son’s future but also to destroy his family’s hope.

[When the general saw the letter, he was immediately furious. He immediately brought 20 warships and snuck back. Then, he brought 50 modified tanks and 300 heavy cannons and charged toward the Lanruo Temple.

[On that day, the sound of the cannons shook the sky. It lasted from noon until late at night.

[The explosions flattened the entire mountain the Lanruo Temple was situated on.

[However, the Tree Demon did not die. When she realized that she could not afford to offend anyone and that it was becoming more and more difficult for the Ming dynasty to mingle with demons, the Tree Demon packed up her belongings and fled the country.

[This general, who had secretly used his army, was reported because of the huge commotion he caused.

[Then, he had been reported to you.

[You really didn’t know what to say to this general who had almost helped you complete your mission. Considering that this general had worked hard and made great contributions, you only demoted him to an official position.

[However, as a reward, within two years, his son had been transferred from a small seventh-rank county magistrate to the wealthy Jiangnan Province to take up the position of Inspector General.]