Terra Martial God and Merit System

These two things conflicted with each other, so they naturally thought that Luo Chen had shown his true colors and was starting to do real bad things.

As a result... now you, the agricultural master who has guarded the Great Wasteland City for a thousand years, tell me that there are really evil demons here?!

*Yan country dialect*, why don’t I know this?!

"Ah..." The wound was clearly healing under the power of God, but the old Taoist still felt a tightness in his chest and almost vomited blood again.

"What on earth is going on?!" she said angrily, "I knew the fragments were not trustworthy... What secrets are you hiding?"

Shu sighed slightly and slowly told the story of Shennong.

Shennong did everything he could, and went to the north to find new seeds for a better future.

As his guide, Shu had deep feelings for Shennong.

Regardless of her instructions or her love for this land...she chose to hide the secret and endure the pollution of the evil alone.

But now...she no longer has any reason to hide it.

"It turned out to be the evil demon from thousands of years ago..." the old Taoist muttered to himself, "It turned out to be like this... It turned out to be..."

"Then——" Her eyes turned cold, "How did Luo Chen know that?!"

"I don't know." Shu shook his head. "He seems to have some way of sensing evil spirits... He can even attract evil spirits to his location."

“This…” The old Taoist priest fell silent for a long time before speaking.

"Help me up, I'm going to see the Master. This matter must be clarified!"

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"We lost..." The Grand Tutor sighed slightly, "Even if all the elite imperial guards were deployed, with you leading the team, we would not be able to stop the other side from leaving..."

"Cough cough..." The old Taoist coughed violently, "That guy... doesn't even look like a human being."

"Luo Chen..." The tutor looked into the distance outside the window.

"There is actually evil demon pollution under the Great Wilderness City - why didn't you tell me about this in advance?"

"Heh..." Shu laughed bitterly, "What good does it do to tell me? Do you have any good ideas to eliminate these evil demons once and for all?"

"If Dahuang City is relocated, many things will be affected, especially the supply of the front line. What kind of problems will arise?"

“…” The Master was silent.

He really had no better way.

If the previous situation continued, using Shu's own divine power to suppress the evil spirits would indeed be the most convenient and economical method.

And judging from her appearance, there would be no problem suppressing her for another ten years.

But now everything has changed.

Luo Chen actually helped them solve this big problem, and left without leaving anything behind.

why?

The tutor didn't understand.

Why did Luo Chen travel thousands of miles to help Yan State solve this serious problem?

Yes, destroying the evil spirits is good for everyone. But why did he come to Yan Country?

The Taifu believes that he is serving the country and the people. If he has the opportunity to sacrifice himself so that the people can live a better life, he will sacrifice himself without hesitation.

However, the people here are only the people of 'Yan Country'.

Asking him to break through the restrictions between countries, such as saving the people of Ursus and Victoria... Taifu would never do that.

But Luo Chen did it.

This kind of broad-mindedness, doing things for the people of the world, and having no regard for one's own life... has a name in the ancient language of Yan State.

That is the 'saint'.

Of course, in most cases, a 'saint' can only be called a saint after he dies.

What is Luo Chen's situation now? Is he a living saint?

Are you kidding me?

"Knock, knock, knock." There was a sudden knock on the door, and a man dressed as a messenger pushed the door open and walked in. "Sir."

The Master took the letter and opened it directly.

This letter was sent from Yumen, and it contained the results of their exploration to the north.

"Have all the evil demons...really disappeared?!" The Grand Tutor looked at the final result in disbelief.

This matter cannot be faked, because in the end there was the jade seal of Zuo Xuanliao as the commander of Yumen, which means that the real result was like this.

Then the evil demons in the north of Tianji Pavilion were also defeated by Luo Chen...

"Ahem..." The old Taoist priest spat out a mouthful of blood, "Luo Chen has left, we must launch a nationwide..."

"No need for that." The Grand Tutor closed the letter, "Luo Chen should have left the territory of Yan State."

"Why?" The old Taoist frowned, "He left like this? Is he so kind?!"

"Maybe... I'm just that kind." Tai Xiafu said calmly, and he seemed to have aged a little. "You should go back to Tianji Pavilion."

"When we get to the Tianji Pavilion, we'll commission soldiers to go out of the city to investigate in the north to see if the density of the evil spirits is any different from before."

"It's time for me to go." He stood up.

'The cause and effect of Dahuang City has ended... maybe I should too...' Shu thought.

However, she did not express this idea aloud, because after all, her departure would require scrutiny from multiple parties.

That was not something that could be solved with just one word from the Grand Master. And I...was I really going to follow their orders and stay in the Great Wasteland City?

"Maybe I should go talk to my brother..." Shu made up his mind.

The farce in Dahuang City ended with a special result.

The Grand Tutor did not pursue Luo Chen's actions. After all, based on what he did, if it was done by a Heavenly Master of the Yan Country, he would probably be directly awarded the title of Marquis.

He boarded the car bound for the capital of Yan State. What had happened in the past few days was really bizarre and changeable, and he needed to have a good talk with the real dragon.

The Grand Tutor wrote down in detail everything he had experienced, heard, and seen, and of course included many of his own speculations about Luo Chen.

As he wrote, he seemed to feel a little tired.

It was not physical fatigue, but mental fatigue.

The Master was thinking...what would happen if the person leading the Terra Union was not Tallulah, but Luo Chen...

The result...may be more terrible than you imagined.

Halfway through the journey, the tutor suddenly received a letter.

This letter was from no one else but the real dragon in the capital. Interestingly, this letter was not delivered by a regular courier, but was delivered by the Yan Kingdom's imperial guards.

At this point, the Grand Tutor also guessed something.

This is a private letter to myself. I guess what's written inside is unusual...

The Master opened the letter and read it. The more he read, the more surprised he looked. By the end, his entire face had turned completely red.

"Short-sighted! Really short-sighted!!!"

He cursed angrily, the envelope in his hand had been crushed into a ball.

Chapter 372: Change

"Your Majesty!" The Grand Tutor walked into the room. Even though he had been sitting in the car for a long time, when he thought of the letter he had seen, he still felt a strong sense of anger and uneasiness in his heart.

"It seems that you should know something about the situation." Zhenlong put down the newspaper in his hand, "What do you think?"

"This group of people are so short-sighted." The Grand Tutor snorted coldly.

After he finished his visit to the Terra Union, the fertilizer incident quickly spread to the capital, and then caused a lot of discussion.

Using this cheap fertilizer can increase grain production by 20%.

This is not a small number.

This should have been a major event that benefited both the country and the people, but some people's way of thinking was obviously quite strange.

Many high-ranking officials who participated in the meeting began to make a very special logical inference in their minds:

The use of chemical fertilizers has increased grain production, increased grain production has increased the harvest, the harvest has increased - the tax system is unreasonable, the tax system is unreasonable - taxes must be increased!

In other words - 'using fertilizers = tax must be increased'.

This line of thought is strange, but in a way it makes perfect sense.

However, this group of officials did not directly raise the issue at the court meeting. After all, fertilizers have not yet been produced, but there is an excuse.

If I say it now, wouldn't it be a tacit admission that Yan Country wants to cooperate with Terra? Then I will inevitably be accused of being a "Yan traitor".

As for how Zhenlong knew it... naturally he relied on the imperial guards intelligence network in the capital.

After learning the news, he was very disappointed.

It is shocking that the high-ranking officials in the Yan State's court have reached such a level of corruption.

This is not just a matter of holding a position and doing nothing. In the eyes of the real dragon, these people will inevitably be the future "surrenderists".

For fertilizer, they are happy to work with Terra.

As for why....naturally it's because the tax increase brought by fertilizers is in their own interests.

You know, not all officials in the Yan Kingdom's court were from grassroots backgrounds. Many of them came from large families in various places and were extremely powerful.

The tax increase seems to be beneficial to the country, but the big families are rooted at the grassroots level and can do whatever they want when the time comes.

Maybe the central government’s order is to collect 30% tax, but they dare to collect 50%!

The real dragon has no way to deal with this.

A thousand years...Yan State has been established for so long that the local forces have become a terrifying behemoth.

To completely separate them from Yan Country...that is not an easy task.

"Our system has developed to its limit. If we want to go further, we must reform it." Zhenlong said solemnly.

"What reforms does Your Majesty want?"

"I have no idea for now." Zhenlong sighed, "I have been reading the newspaper recently..."

The Grand Tutor then realized that the newspaper in Zhenlong's hand was not from Yan Country, but from Ursus.

"This is...."

"A newspaper from the Terra Union," Zhenlong replied. "Pravda. It's different from the previous Morning News, which focused on news propaganda. This newspaper uses a lot of simple and easy-to-understand words to explain some complicated political situations."

"Even I feel like the clouds have been cleared and the sun has appeared."

"Terra Union is truly full of talented people." The Grand Master said with emotion.

"That's not the case." Zhenlong shook his head slightly. "The editor-in-chief of this newspaper is a Lateran. He was on a business trip to Terra Union. Because of some things, he refused to return to Lateran and stayed in Terra Union."

“He delved into theory and came up with a lot of things.”

"This 'Andorn' is a natural genius and a reformer. It's just that Lateran didn't realize it, and ended up being intercepted by the Terra Union."

“This is not about the emergence of a large number of talents, but about the recognition of pearls with wisdom.”

"The land of my Great Yan is so vast, and the people are so numerous." The real dragon sighed, "I don't know how many amazing geniuses there are... but now there is no way to dig them all out..."

Although Yan State had a strict imperial examination system, after a long period of development, it was no longer clean.

The local big families control many things. Although they dare not interfere with the assessments such as the "Tianshi", they have already begun to collude with other small assessments.

What the True Dragon wants is not high-end combat power, what he wants are officials who can govern the local area.

But... judging from the performance of these guys in the court, I don't know how rotten the place is.

"Wait, even if I don't take the initiative to discover them, they will be able to jump out." Zhenlong sighed again.

The Master remained silent, for he knew this was impossible.

He saw something else in Pravda.

That is, not only is Luo Chen, the founder, "selfless", but the Terra Union that inherited his spirit is also "selfless".