Chapter 32: Growing Influence
"Yo ho, what a handsome little lady, why don't you go back to the mountain with me and make a house for me..."
A standard mountain king with a full face, a beard like a steel brush, naked clothes, and two big axes in his hand, before he could finish his sentence, the leader of Dou Da had already flown into the air.
On the opposite side, Li Yun, known as the "handsome little lady", had a pretty face covered with frost, and drew a sword light back to her side with a sword formula in her hand. In fact, this was just one of the many bandits and thieves she had met as Ye Zan traveled around these days.
After leaving the prosperous circle centered on Sheng'an City, the footprints of Ye Zan and his party gradually extended to the so-called "backcountry". Li Yun never imagined that there would be so many bandits and bandits outside Sheng'an City, where the singing and dancing was peaceful. Although, in those prefectures and counties, it seems that they are all prosperous, but when they leave the city, maybe on a certain mountain, there is a group of grassroots who occupy the mountain as king.
Although most of these grassroots bandits are not successful, some even go up the mountain to work for the bandits and go down the mountain to farm. However, this also reflects the living conditions of the people at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty, either going to the mountains and falling grass, or enduring the oppression of both officials and bandits. In some places, the government did not do nothing, but the officers and soldiers went, the bandits ran away, the officers and soldiers withdrew, and the bandits came back.
Li Yun is both a princess of the Tang Dynasty and a disciple of Yuqing, but no matter what her status is, she is superior to the common people at the bottom. Therefore, she has never been so close to the bottom of this world, and this bottom is also the majority of this world.
Originally, Li Yun still didn't understand Ye Zan's approach, and felt that it was too much for Ye Zan to cooperate with Datang. Although she is a princess of the Tang Dynasty, as a disciple of Yuqing, it is natural to consider the interests of Yuqingzong.
In Li Yun's view, Ye Zan does not need to give up the greatest interests to Datang. After all, the refining of this magic weapon, as well as the plan of Datang Communications, all came from Ye Zan, and it didn't make sense for Datang to take all the benefits.
However, Li Yun finally understood Ye Zan's intentions through the experience and knowledge along the way. Some of those base stations are placed in the cities of prefectures and counties, while others are to be placed on wild mountain tops. Look at these grass bandits who occupy the mountains everywhere. If the base stations in the wild are not guarded by officers and soldiers, who knows what they will do.
There is a saying that "the sky is high and the emperor is far away". These grassroots have taken over the mountains and become kings. How much reverence can they have for the imperial power? Not to mention, for ordinary people, Yu Qingzong is more ethereal and lofty than imperial power. They will only see that there is something here that seems to be quite valuable, even if it is sold for scrap iron, it can be exchanged for a meal of wine.
Anyway, for them, one head is carried on one shoulder, which is only enough for one person to chop. The county magistrate wants to chop it with one knife, the emperor wants to chop it with one knife, and Yu Qingzong comes to chop it with one knife. In this case, in their eyes, what is the difference between the emperor and the county magistrate, and what is the difference between Yu Qingzong and the emperor?
Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, the government needs to send officers and soldiers to garrison. If the Tang court does not have enough interests, how can it be possible to do its best in this regard. Moreover, this sufficient interest is not to share a small piece of cake, but to make them feel that this is their own interest, so that they can really put their heart into it.
Although the Great Tang Kingdom can only be regarded as a lower-middle-level country in this Shenhua Domain, its territory is also quite large, not much worse than the Ancient Hua Kingdom in the Earth Era. In order for the communication signal to cover the entire Datang, even though Ye Zan calculated the best base station distribution method, it took half a year to cover the entire Datang.
And with the expansion of signal coverage, the popularity of Thousand Miles Transsion also centered on Sheng'an City and spread rapidly to the surrounding areas.
The largest single order, of course, came from the Tang court. Public offices in various prefectures and counties, and military towns in each pass have set up public voice transmissions for thousands of miles, which are specially used for government affairs liaison. Even the civil servants and military generals in charge were allotted with personal voice transmissions from thousands of miles away.
And the purchasing power of the people should not be underestimated.
There were many poor people in Datang, but there were also many rich people. Perhaps their initial thought was that it was something to show off their wealth. Some people wanted to show it off, while others might think it was not worth it. However, when people who feel worthless see that everyone around them is talking about things through thousands of miles of sound transmission, but they have to run around to talk about one thing, they naturally have to fall into the trap.
Some businessmen even found a business opportunity, bought several thousand miles of sound transmission, and then opened a shop for people to use, which became the original public telephone convenience store. This makes some people who can't afford it, or those who don't buy it worthwhile, also have the opportunity to enjoy this convenient communication.
After the public phone convenience store appeared, Li Haoran and many people in Datang Communication still felt that their interests had been violated, and even wanted to use the power of the government to close it down.
On the surface, it seems that this is indeed the case. If you can enjoy such convenience without buying a thousand-mile transmission, then who would buy a thousand-mile transmission?
But after Ye Zan knew about it, he asked them to stop this practice, and even asked Datang Communications to make special regulations to support this kind of private convenience store.
People in this world are used to paying money and delivering goods, so their vision is naturally limited. People who can’t afford it, even if you don’t let him use it, he can’t afford it either. For those who can afford it but are reluctant to buy it, when he relies more and more on this communication method, it will only be a matter of time before he gets into the pit.
Of course, in the past six months, Ye Zan's own cultivation has not fallen behind, and he has already reached the second level of foundation building. It took half a year to reach this level of cultivation, which is already very good. After all, the true energy he needs for each level is far more than that of ordinary foundation-building monks. For example, Li Yun, who followed Ye Zan around, did not have his special cultivation method, but with the help of the top-grade Condensing Yuan Pill, he also reached the second level of foundation building.
As for Li Haoran, Ye Zan took him directly to the mountain when he was passing by Yuqingzong when he placed the base station, and he went through the etiquette for getting started. He is already regarded as an outer disciple of Yuqingzong. However, as soon as he became a disciple of Yuqing, he was brought down by Ye Zan again, and he continued to operate Datang Communications while starting to practice Yuqing's qi refining formula.
When the construction of the entire Datang communication network was completed, and Ye Zan and others returned to Sheng'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the various sects in the Tang Dynasty finally couldn't sit still. It's not that I value the interests of the world, maybe there is a little bit of it, but more importantly, I hope to use this fast and convenient communication method.
Ordinary people can transmit voices thousands of miles away, but practitioners who think they are not ordinary people are still using paper cranes to send messages and flying swords to send books, which makes them feel like primitive people.
Although according to Ye Zan's instructions, Datang has already passed on the refinement method of Qianli Sound Transmission and base station to various sects through various channels. Moreover, during this period of time, some sects may have refined finished products. However, if you want to communicate in the whole Datang without hindrance, you still have to use Datang Communication's network, and this needs to be discussed carefully, you can't play with yourself behind closed doors.
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