Jie teaches the Immortal Sweeping Heaven’s Cultivation of All Heavens

"You're the Liu Tong who ran away from home and went to the border all by yourself? You're indeed a smart and courageous child."

Liu Tong nodded obediently and greeted the Prince of Jingbei.

He sized up the Prince of Jingbei.

This prince is still very young because he has just come of age.

But as members of the royal family, no matter how young they are, their minds are far more sophisticated than those of ordinary young people.

He had a kind smile on his face, as if he really liked children.

But in reality, everyone just keeps quiet about it.

Prince Jingbei asked Liu Tong about her experiences on the road.

Liu Tong answered, and aside from mentioning the incident of secretly buying food from the restaurant, she told him everything else.

Uncle Pei felt heartbroken upon hearing this.

The other two confidants also marveled at Liu Dong's good fortune and luck, as he hadn't encountered any bad people on the road.

Prince Jingbei: "With such good luck, he must be a little lucky star."

Otherwise, how could he have brought him "Tiangong Kaiwu" (The Exploitation of the Works of Nature)?
Prince Jingbei instructed Liu Qiu not to tell anyone about "Tiangong Kaiwu" (The Exploitation of the Works of Nature), and Liu Qiu nodded vigorously with a serious face.

"Your Highness, rest assured, I know what I'm doing."

The Prince of Jingbei laughed: "You're such a lovable child."

The Prince of Jingbei bestowed one of his personal jade pendants upon Liu Tong and made her a promise.

"When you grow up, you will serve by my side."

Liu Dong accepted the jade pendant.

The jade pendant is made of top-quality Hetian jade and is quite valuable; you can accept it.

As for getting things done?

Then forget it.

Infrastructure construction has begun at the border.

Given that Prince Jingbei had not yet fully controlled the people on the border, and to avoid making any big moves that might arouse the suspicion of the capital, Prince Jingbei only selected a few things to do.

Weapon forging is the most important.

Coincidentally, the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" records that there are iron mines in this border region.

The Prince of Jingbei sent his most trusted men to investigate, and they indeed found an iron mine.

The Prince of Jingbei ordered the man to be stationed near the mine, where he could smelt iron and forge weapons after mining.

As for the red-coated cannons, Prince Jingbei coveted them greatly.

However, the current conditions are insufficient for him to create such a powerful weapon.

They did hire someone to study gunpowder.

The Prince of Jingbei ordered his soldiers to clear wasteland and cultivate the land, and all the planting techniques came from the book "Tiangong Kaiwu" (The Exploitation of the Works of Nature).

Both the planting techniques and agricultural tools used there are more advanced than those in this world.

Even in newly reclaimed, low-grade land, the yield can match that of ordinary medium-grade land after using advanced planting techniques.

Not to mention the original fields, yields have generally increased by at least half.

This made the soldiers and the people on the border very happy.

The soldiers, in particular, were finally able to have enough to eat at every meal.

The Prince of Jingbei ordered them to reclaim wasteland, and the soldiers had no complaints.

Because clearing land leads to grain production.

Prior to this, the soldiers' provisions were allocated by the Ministry of Revenue and transported from the interior.

How many people lined their own pockets during this process?
If half of the grain is still left when it reaches the border, that would be considered good.

With insufficient food supplies, how can the soldiers get enough to eat?
Therefore, the soldiers were very supportive of reclaiming wasteland.

Today, we see so much grain being harvested from the reclaimed fields.

The soldiers were filled with pride and joy.

The Prince of Jingbei was very happy that the food problem had been solved.

Although he was impeached by court officials for having soldiers clear land.

However, the emperor suppressed those impeachments.

The emperor regretted his actions after the crown prince's death, while the princes who remained in the capital fought each other like antagonists, much to the emperor's dismay.

The emperor then decided that the Prince of Jingbei, who was living in another region, was a better option. Therefore, he suppressed the impeachment against the Prince of Jingbei.

Moreover, some court officials supported the Prince of Jingbei's land reclamation efforts.

The ministers of the Ministry of Revenue were the most supportive.

With the border areas now open to new development, the Ministry of Revenue no longer needs to transport grain and fodder there.

We have provisions and weapons for clearing land; now all we need is money.

Prince Jingbei set his sights on the glass.

There is no glass in this world, only crystal, and its price is astronomical.

Let's look at the glass manufacturing process and cost...

Prince Jingbei: Immediately open a glass manufacturing workshop.

The secrecy surrounding this matter was second only to that of the weapons manufacturing workshop, and the Prince of Jingbei chose Pei Erjiu to be in charge.

Liu Dong wrote down the glassmaking process in great detail, and the craftsmen quickly produced the glass.

The craftsmen were very skilled, making glass into various exquisite shapes and even creating mercury mirrors.

There aren't many wealthy people here on the border, so you can't exchange them for much money.

The Prince of Jingbei dispatched two teams, one to the capital and the other to Jiangnan, to sell glass products.

Both groups stirred up a storm.

Those nobles were all snapping up glass products with their silver notes; any household that didn't have glass products would be looked down upon.

In a household in the capital, someone was looking at a mercury mirror over and over, his eyes filled with amazement and disbelief.

"What a wonderful thing! But how come I didn't have something this good in my past life?"

This person thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out, so he put the matter out of his mind.

It's not a big deal after all.

The two groups of people returned to the border with a huge amount of silver notes.

To avoid being traced back to the source of the glass, they all took detours.

People from Jiangnan pretended to go to sea by boat, while the group from the capital pretended to be heading to the Western Regions.

This misled those who were greedy for glass products, leading them to send people out to sea and to the Western Regions.

Prince Jingbei counted the silver notes and found that there were more than one million taels.

simply……

The Prince of Jingbei was at a loss for words.

I knew glass was a highly profitable business, but I never imagined it would be a profit of ten thousand times the profit!
With so much money, there's no need to worry about running out of funds, whether it's bribing officials in the court or purchasing supplies.

If the Crown Prince were still alive, the Prince of Jingbei would not covet that position.

But the crown prince died, so why didn't the Prince of Jingbei fight for him?

Of all his brothers, he only respected the Crown Prince.

He would never submit to any of his brothers who became emperor.

For Prince Jingbei, ascending to that position was far more difficult than for the other princes.

It's because he's not in the capital anymore.

In order to control the situation in the capital, he needed to have enough informants and people who could speak on his behalf.

So, Uncle Pei set off.

He led a group of people to the capital to help Prince Jingbei develop his power in the capital.

Of course, not as a member of the Pei family. The Prince of Jingbei issued him a new household registration certificate, giving him a new identity.

Liu Dong approached Pei Sanjiu before he set off.

"You're going to the capital?"

Liu Tong nodded: "I want to go see how my father is doing."

Pei Sanjiu fell silent, then reached out and patted Liu Tong's head.

He's still just a child!

Although he resented his father for not protecting him and for coldly watching his mother die, as a child, even though his mother was no longer there, he still missed his father.

Liu Qiu: "I just wanted to see how he was doing; I didn't want to acknowledge him as my father. After all, he has other children; he doesn't need me..." (End of Chapter)