"Your Majesty, take a look. What is this?" Ren Baqian returned to the palace and excitedly placed a picture in front of the empress.
The empress looked at him disdainfully. She had been to the universe, traveled to other planets, and even hunted down the king of that planet for a few months.
Do you think I'm a country bumpkin?
She stretched out her hand and gestured a few times.
"Is this Zixiao Planet? It doesn't look very round! "
"Where is my Dayao?"
"Tsk tsk, it's only the size of a fingernail. I will conquer the huge territory in the south while I'm still alive. That place is pleasing to the eye and can be the foundation of the country."
"Your Majesty, it's good to be ambitious, but you still have to restrain yourself and think about it when you can defeat Goddess Stainless!" Ren Baqian didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
You usually watch TV series, eat snacks, drink, and play around, and don't even care about court affairs.
If you put your mind on cultivation … you might already be able to run amok in the foreign regions.
"Is there no one in such a big area in the north?" The empress turned her gaze to the north, which was a large area of alternating yellow and white.
"There seems to be a small number of nomads in the north of Great Xia, but they are few in number," Ren Baqian said. "In fact, Great Xia doesn't care about the nomads in the north and just takes some precautions. After all, the environment there is too harsh. From the map, there are mostly deserts, rocky areas, and ice fields. There are very few green areas, and it's not suitable for survival. "
"Aborigines?" the empress muttered.
Ren Baqian was slightly stunned. Her words gave him a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly thought of something.
Some questions that had always existed, but he hadn't thought much about it.
There were actually aborigines in this area.
For example, Great Xia and Dayao were the descendants of humans who originally went north. However, the Chen Nation was established by the refugees of Great Xia and the aborigines.
Where did these aborigines come from?
Why were they all humans?
It was understandable that the aborigines in the area where the Chen Nation was located were suitable for survival, but why were there aborigines in the uninhabitable area in the north of Great Xia? Before the arrival of the humans, Great Xia was a barren land without the existence of civilization.
Ren Baqian thought about it and decided to send people to the Chen Nation to investigate. He also had to investigate more in the northern region to see if there were any gains.
"What are you thinking about?" the empress asked when she saw that Ren Baqian was distracted.
"I'm thinking about the natives." Ren Baqian came back to his senses and told her what he was thinking about just now.
"There are many things I don't know. I don't even know where my brother is wandering in the wilderness! The whereabouts of my father and the late emperor are also unknown … "The empress's expression did not change much. Some things had happened a long time ago, and there was no need to be anxious.
In other words, unless she was willing to throw everything aside and dive into that door, there was no point in thinking about it any further.
Ren Baqian was silent. Until now, he still didn't know what was behind the door that his brother-in-law had entered.
He only knew that it was a one-way door that led to an unknown area.
There were indeed too many suspicious points in this world.
…
"Did you send the detector over? Did you find anything? "
Ren Baqian asked after a day.
"The detector has been sent over. Just as we calculated, the crimson moon is fake. It's just an illusion, and the detector directly entered it. However, there seems to be some interference inside, and we haven't received any news yet. "
"However, there is something strange. Although it's an illusion, from the trajectory of the detector when it entered it, there is an obvious curve, which means that there is gravity inside."
"Continue to pay attention and inform me immediately if there is any news."
Ren Baqian knew that the crimson moon was very mysterious. After all, it could hang in the sky for tens of thousands of years without anyone noticing that it was fake. After all, such a peculiar existence wasn't that easy to detect.
However, there was no progress at all, which disappointed Ren Baqian.
It couldn't be said that there was no progress. At least he knew one thing. The existence of gravity meant that it wasn't purely an illusion, and there must be something inside.
After pondering for a while, Ren Baqian contacted the Sixty Thousand Mountains.
"Continue to put five signal transmitters into the door every hour for three days. Tie them to any animal and throw them in."
Three days was the time it took for the "Heavenly Eye" to circle Zixiao Planet.
Although it wasn't a communication satellite, it had a certain ability to receive signals. If Zixiao Planet was still behind the door, it might be able to receive signals and find the location of his brother-in-law and the late emperor.
Ren Baqian didn't mention this matter to the empress for the next two days. Since there was no signal, there was no need to mention it.
In addition, the pictures of Zixiao Planet that came later attracted most of Ren Baqian's attention.
"Are you still looking? You have been looking for a day. " The empress walked into a hall and saw Ren Baqian standing in front of a wall with pictures hanging on it.
"Are there flowers on it?"
"It's very strange!" Ren Baqian frowned.
The other side of Zixiao Planet was very strange. There wasn't a large piece of land, only a few scattered islands, and the ocean was almost all black. Five huge whirlpools were distributed on the surface of the sea like the mouths of giant beasts, swallowing an immeasurable amount of seawater every second.
Even satellites could clearly see the existence of the five vortexes from high up in the sky. One could imagine their size.
"These five whirlpools have never changed and haven't moved," Ren Baqian said in a deep voice.
"Moreover, the distribution of these five whirlpools is just right. Four of them are at the four corners and one is in the middle, as if they are guarding. I suspect that this isn't naturally formed! "
Ren Baqian was a little uncertain.
After all, the wonders of nature were sometimes difficult to speculate with ordinary thinking.
"No matter what the reason is, you have no other way but to think about it. What's the use of thinking about it?" the empress hit the nail on the head.
Ren Baqian opened his mouth. This attack had hit the nail on the head.
"It's better to think of ways to get more money. Tu Wan came to me again. Too much money is invested in the Sixty Thousand Mountains every year. Even if we extort money from other countries, it will be difficult to support it. I think the lottery is a good idea! "
"They are all your people. It's not good to think of ways to get money from them, right?" Ren Baqian was still thinking about things like the problem of the black seawater, but these things were thrown aside by the empress.
"Since they are my people and I have difficulties, shouldn't they have the money to pay for it? Also, those aristocratic families and rich merchants have amassed a lot of money over the years, especially the biggest ones. If they weren't content with their lot, I would have taken the sword and taken it myself. Since they are so content, why not introduce an inheritance tax … "
Ren Baqian smacked his lips and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Then force them to rebel, and you can take the sword yourself?"
This was Dayao, not Earth or those modern countries. Dayao's development was radical enough. If something like an inheritance tax was really introduced, I'm afraid that the court officials would be the first to jump in anger.
"Or can we reduce the investment in the Sixty Thousand Mountains? After all, the sea route is now open, so the investment is much smaller and the transportation time isn't considered long. "
"No, there are turbulent currents deep in the coast. Ships can only go near the shore, and the transportation volume can't be increased. The investment in the Sixty Thousand Mountains must continue. Not only can it not be reduced, but it should also be increased. "Ren Baqian decisively rejected the idea.
"Rather than collecting an inheritance tax, it is better to collect a wealth tax. Families with an annual income of 100,000 yuan will have to pay a certain percentage of the tax. The higher the income, the more wealth, and the more they have to pay. At the very least, this will clearly tell those people that the country needs money and that if they have money, they should take more. "
"Then, let's collect a wealth tax!" The empress made the final decision.
She was least afraid that someone would dare to rebel.
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