I'm full of rebellion against fate

Chapter 132: Continue the Counterattack

Chang Ningchen stayed up all night thinking about it. Finally, he figured out one thing: if he couldn't be a wise ruler, then he wouldn't be one! But he couldn't be a mascot either! He wanted to be a great emperor!

Although he can't rule the country or command soldiers to fight, he has technology, vision and knowledge that are beyond this era! With these, he can also make this country strong!

So the next day, Chang Ningchen, with panda eyes, handed the gunpowder formula to Qiu He. The man was very shocked when he received the formula. He asked, "Your Majesty, what is this?"

Chang Ningchen replied very proudly: "This is a secret weapon that the gods gave me in my dream! It's extremely powerful and is called the Thunderbolt!"

Qiu He was very surprised to hear Chang Ningchen's words. He touched his chin and said, "Your Majesty, please don't let others know this secret recipe. It would be dangerous if others knew it."

Chang Ningchen nodded seriously and said, "I understand! Lord Qiu, I'll leave this matter to you!"

Qiu He held the recipe and said with a smile, "I will definitely live up to your Majesty's expectations!"

Having a national treasure wasn't enough! Chang Ningchen also wanted a prosperous nation and a strong people! He then found Zhang Chenhe and gave him the methods for making glass and soap candy.

He found Wei Canghe and gave him diagrams of eye exercises and radio gymnastics. Wei Canghe asked curiously, "What is radio?"

Chang Ningchen pulled a man over. He had been searching for a long time and finally found this man. Chang Ningchen said to Wei Canghe, "This man is called Broadcasting. He can shout slogans for you every day when the time comes."

For this purpose, Chang Ningchen even made a big loudspeaker for the broadcasting comrades. Although he couldn't make a real broadcast, he had tried his best!

Wei Canghe scratched his head as he looked at the skinny-looking broadcaster in front of him. The broadcaster was so frightened by the strong-as-a-mountain Wei Canghe that he felt like a sieve.

Chang Ningchen saw that Ke Baihe taught him some hygiene precautions and asked him to help spread these hygiene habits.

Finally, he came to Lian He. He found that the official selection system in this world was a recommendation system. As a result, official positions were monopolized by the upper class. If people in this world wanted to become officials, they had to rely on their fathers. The lower class would never have room for advancement. He wanted to change the recommendation system to the imperial examination system.

Lian He looked at Chang Ningchen with a very strange look when he heard what he said. Lian He said to Chang Ningchen, "Your Majesty, I will pretend that I have never heard of what you said. Your Majesty, please don't think about it anymore, let alone tell anyone about it."

Chang Ningchen said unhappily, "The existence of the recommendation system can easily lead to the sons of officials becoming officials, while the sons of commoners can only be commoners. The existence of such a system will only make officials more and more mediocre!"

Lian He comforted Chang Ningchen and said, "There's no need to change the system. If commoners have talent, they will naturally shine, just like the late king's appreciation of Qiu He. As long as Your Majesty chooses him, there's no need to change the system."

Chang Ningchen shook his head and said, "Even my selection has its limitations, but the imperial examination is a good system that can bring tangible benefits to ordinary people. Such a system can last for thousands of years!"

Lian He stopped Chang Ningchen and said, "Your Majesty has given benefits to the common people and also taken benefits from others. I have said something disrespectful. I am afraid that Your Majesty will die before this system is promulgated..."

Every new institutional reform will trigger a lot of conflicts, and the person who proposes this new system will inevitably be a thorn in the eyes of those with vested interests!

Chang Ningchen was stunned for a moment after hearing Lian He's warning. This system was indeed too radical to be introduced now, so he would put it aside for now. His purpose was not to accelerate his own death.

Lian He was relieved to see Xiong Chen give up the idea of reform. Then he asked Xiong Chen worriedly, "Your Majesty, have you told anyone about this idea, or something similar?"

Chang Ningchen smiled awkwardly and said, "No! No! I only told you."

Lian He looked at Chang Ningchen's expression and knew that he must have said it, but it was all a matter of time and fate, so it all depended on Chang Ningchen's own luck.

Soon, glass soaps and various desserts began to appear in Chang Ningchen's country. Chang Ningchen was very happy to see these things gradually increasing around him, but there was a strange thing. At the daily court meeting, Zhang Chenhe and Qiu He allocated more silver to the disaster-stricken areas.

If the country is rich and the local areas have money, then disasters can be solved by local finances. If the local areas cannot solve the problem, then the higher authorities should be notified for help, and the amount of money allocated should not be so much.

After leaving the court, Chang Ningchen, full of questions, went to Lian He to analyze the matter. Lian He looked at the book and said to Chang Ningchen, "The reason is actually very simple, that is, the court is rich but the people are not."

Chang Ningchen frowned and said, "I gave all the recipes for getting rich to Zhang Chenhe, and he didn't keep them for himself! And I have a lot more glass products around me, don't you have some here too?"

Picking up the water cup with a handle on the table, Chang Ningchen still didn't understand what was going on.

Lian He grabbed a handful of tea leaves and sprinkled them into the glass. He pointed at the tea leaves floating on the water and said, "Because Your Majesty, Zhang Chenhe, and I all belong to the upper bureaucratic class, only a small portion of the products will flow into the aristocracy. The aristocracy has less to live on, let alone the common people. Therefore, Your Majesty's way will not enrich the people."

Chang Ningchen felt particularly disappointed when he saw the few tea leaves that had fallen to the bottom of the cup. It seemed that even if I was a time traveler, some problems could not be solved by my arrival.

Lian He looked at Chang Ningchen's sullen face and tried to comfort him, saying, "Your Majesty, don't be upset. When there are too many things and they become less valuable, they will naturally seep out. It's just a matter of time. By the way, that guy Wei Canghe has been quite noisy lately..."

Lian He told some gossip to ease the atmosphere. After all, Chang Ningchen also liked to listen to gossip.

Chang Ningchen immediately perked up when he heard there was melon to eat. He asked, "What happened to Wei Canghe?"

Lian He whispered, "I heard that he fell in love with a young man named Guang, but that young man doesn't like Wei Canghe..."

Shit! Chang Ningchen stood up suddenly. He asked the broadcaster to go to Wei Canghe to spread the word about gymnastics, not to give him private gymnastics!!!

Ahhhh! Chang Ningchen hurried to find Wei Canghe, and while Wei Canghe was away from home for something, he brought back the much fatter broadcasting comrade.

The radio did not say anything about Chang Ningchen's question, but only reflected the results of the dissemination of the two sets of health exercises. No one learned the eye exercises taught by Chang Ningchen because everyone's eyesight was still good, and no one learned the gymnastics because it was too simple.

Because no one was doing radio gymnastics, radio did other jobs, which were quite useful for transmitting messages and giving orders. Then radio became Wei Canghe's bodyguard, and then Wei Canghe fell in love with Rijiu, but radio was only focused on his career and wanted to carry forward the important gymnastics task given to him by His Majesty.

It was the emotional entanglement of him loving him and him loving his career, which left Chang Ningchen stunned.