Mortal Mage

"Your Majesty, the grand ambition of our Taicang Empire is to continue the foundation of the ages. If we sell the spirit veins like this, after a thousand years, the spirit stones will be exhausted, and our dynasty will have no spirit veins. At that time, how will our descendants continue the foundation? How will they believe in the way of heaven? How will they revive the Canglang land? How will they break through the shackles of the interface!"

Wang Mingde put down the snake-head cane in his hand, fell to his knees on the ground, and kowtowed to Li Si, who was taking the palace examination, with a deafening bang.

Zhang Mingxuan only felt that the hall seemed to be buzzing, but when he looked at Wang Mingde, his head was covered in blood.

"My Lord! My Lord! Send for the imperial physician!"

Li Si lost control of his emotions, stood up hurriedly, and shouted speechlessly.

Zhang Mingxuan stood on tiptoe to look, only to see that Wang Mingde had collapsed to the ground.

Not long after, a group of senior officials from the Imperial Medical Bureau hurried into the hall. These doctors did not take Wang Mingde's pulse. Instead, the leading doctor opened his medicine box and took out a wooden box. There was a pill in the box. The doctor simply put the pill into Wang Mingde's mouth, then moved a chair for Wang Mingde to sit down in the hall. Finally, after kneeling and paying homage to the Emperor Li Si in the hall, the group hurriedly retreated.

The blood that was flowing on Wang Mingde's head solidified at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the broken skin on his forehead healed slowly.

After a long time, Wang Mingde took a deep breath and came to his senses.

The Minister of War Li Xucheng stood aside respectfully with a stern face, but did not respond.

"Ugh."

Seeing Wang Mingde recover, Emperor Li Si took a deep breath and gradually calmed down his excitement. "Minister Wang, there is no need for that."

Then he glanced at Li Xucheng and the other four ministers behind him, and said slowly, "If Minister Wang disagrees, then you six ministries cannot be considered to have reached a compromise, so let's discuss it again."

"His Majesty!"

Li Xucheng suddenly fell to his knees, followed by the other four ministers behind him.

"Selling spiritual veins today! Our dynasty owns 100,000 mid-grade spiritual stones, which can occupy the spiritual veins of Tianze Nation in one fell swoop. Our descendants will surely prosper, and the revival of Canglang is just around the corner. The shackles can be easily broken!"

Wang Mingde sat on the chair, raised his finger and pointed at Li Xucheng, and slowly uttered four words: "Your Majesty, if it doesn't work, then reform and open up!"

"Reform and opening up?"

When Li Si heard a new word he had never heard of, his curiosity was immediately piqued.

“What is reform and opening up?”

Li Si was standing in the hall. His excitement had gradually subsided and he was ready to sit back on the dragon throne. However, when he heard the four words Wang Mingde uttered, he suddenly became interested again and stood up again with his butt halfway touching the dragon throne.

More than 300 officials were discussing the matter at the small court meeting.

"This national policy is the one proposed by the newly crowned number one scholar, the doctor in charge of etiquette, Zhang Mingxuan. I have been thinking about it for many days and think it is generally feasible. Let's let the newly crowned number one scholar Zhang Mingxuan speak in person."

Wang Mingde breathed slowly, squinted his eyes and said tiredly.

More than 200 officials of the third rank and above in the hall were looking for Zhang Mingxuan everywhere.

Soon, a group of officials made room for a large open space in the corner of the last row. Zhang Mingxuan leaned against the pillar in the corner with a confused look on his face.

"I……"

He just wanted to take some time off from court and find some time to practice Taoism, but now he was inexplicably dragged out again.

"My humble servant..."

Zhang Mingxuan gritted his teeth and took a step forward.

"Tell me, what is reform and opening up?"

Li Si stood under the four majestic plaques of Mingde and Dalon in the main hall and asked solemnly.

Zhang Mingxuan's eyes went dark. He spent almost the entire night studying the formation and did not sleep at all.

Li Si saw the dark circles under Zhang Mingxuan's eyes and said with a slightly angry tone, "Go ahead."

Zhang Mingxuan was exhausted and had to bite the bullet and slowly said, "Reform and opening up also include, first, land reform, second, nationalization reform, third, education reform, fourth, economic reform, and fifth, sustainable development."

When the ministers in the hall heard these new words, they became very alert and listened attentively.

Zhang Mingxuan stared at the sleepiness and then squinted his eyes and talked a lot.

He thought about some of the core social values ​​from his previous life, the Eight Honors and Eight Shames, the Five in One, and national strategies such as the new development pattern, and he transformed and processed them, then spat them out like a running account.

These national strategies may seem ordinary, but they were all developed by many elites of his previous life. After repeated review, research, and investigation by many departments, they are absolutely feasible policies that conform to the actual situation.

Although it seems incompatible with the Taicang Empire, its core points and concepts are definitely forward-looking and valuable theories.

Before they knew it, more than a dozen new historians had been transferred into the hall to record the events.

The civil and military officials in the court were stunned, and their hearts were filled with turmoil.

They were already shocked and terrified when they saw Zhang Mingxuan's test paper on "Currency Wars and Marginal Politics and the Theory of National Economy and Capital". Now that there are so many national development programs and strategies, they are even more shocked and prostrate themselves on the ground.

This kind of person is hard to find in the Taicang Empire in a thousand years, no, ten thousand years, right? Li Si listened attentively.

"All local government offices should adhere to the Four Cardinal Principles, support the basic line, program, principles, and policies of the Taicang Empire, and be consistent with His Majesty the Taicang Empire and the six ministries;"

"Set up the design, the Taicang Empire's song and national flag." Zhang Mingxuan said slowly;"

By the way, I have already thought of the song. I will sing it for you and you can see if it suits you."

"Morning and evening virtue, Yuanming shines."

"Faithfulness, loyalty and courage."

"If your ambition remains unchanged, the world will rise."

"Open up the territory, cultivate virtue, and become a holy king."

"Adhere to the Way of Heaven and it will last for eternity; follow the Way of Heaven and blessings will come naturally."

"I obey the will of heaven to transform the eight wastelands, I obey the will of heaven to make my name last forever, I obey the will of heaven to transform the whole universe."

Zhang Mingxuan used his ten years of liberal arts knowledge in this world, combined with some poems and songs from his previous life, to create the national anthem of the Taicang Empire. He then took the tune of a similar song from his previous life and sang it with his duck voice.

"Take note! Take note! Have you written it down? Have you written it down?"

The ministers on the side excitedly gave instructions to the historians beside them.

Before he knew it, Zhang Mingxuan had been speaking for three hours.

"What I have said is only my personal opinion. To be able to control the enemy's army without fighting is indeed the best strategy;"

"But the truth is always on the edge of the sword, so we have to resort to force."

Zhang Mingxuan was so sleepy that he just closed his eyes and recited the text.

"Coax~"

Manchao was shocked.

Zhang Mingxuan will not stop until his words shock people.

"But the truth is always on the edge of the sword, so we have to resort to force."

Li Xucheng suddenly crawled in front of Li Si excitedly, "Your Majesty! This boy! This boy!"

Li Xucheng was so excited that he didn't know how to describe Zhang Mingxuan.

"This man has quick wit and is well-versed in ancient and modern knowledge, as well as literary classics. He must have read a lot of books and would not be confused by his small achievements!" One of the ministers in the court said excitedly.

"This man also uses words as a pen, he is very knowledgeable and talented!"

"What you said is very meaningful and shocking!"

“It has profound meaning!”

"This guy is truly a great talent in literature!"

When Zhang Mingxuan uttered the last sentence, all the ministers in the court began to discuss loudly.

Emperor Li Si's solemn expression was mixed with shock.

"But the truth is always on the edge of the sword, so we have to resort to force."

Li Si was stunned for a long time, then uttered Zhang Mingxuan's last words.

"But the truth is always on the edge of the sword, so we have to resort to force."

Wang Mingde closed his eyes after hearing this. He was somewhat tempted to sell the spiritual vein. "Your Majesty, this boy is very talented and what he said makes sense. If we don't sell the spiritual vein today, Tianze has been coveting our spiritual vein for a long time."

"Ugh."

Wang Mingde took a deep breath and took out the memorial in his hand. The names of the five ministers were still signed on the memorial, agreeing to sell the spiritual vein.

Wang Mingde held the memorial in one hand, bit his tongue hard, lifted up the corner of his clothes to get some of the donated blood, and slowly wrote his name.

"Wang, Ming, De."

From today on, there will no longer be any spiritual vein in the entire Taicang Empire.

And the war with the Tianze Empire is about to begin.