Ying Yiren was also quietly observing Zhang Beichen's actions. She noticed that the numerical values of Zhang Beichen's attributes were improving very quickly. He was also very loyal. If she nurtured him well, he might become her most important official!
Now, Zhang Beichen had encountered a crisis of trust in the new law.
Speaking of which, this crisis was caused by her father. Her father had once thought of reforming the country to become stronger, but in the end, every reform had met with various obstacles and ended up with nothing. This also caused the reform to lose its credibility among the people.
"Zhang Beichen, can you handle this?" Ying Yiren observed.
[Zhang Beichen set up a 30-foot log at the south gate of the capital and announced that it would be moved to the north gate. He would reward 10 gold but the people remain unmoved. Zhang Beichen increased the amount to 50 gold. Some people were tempted to move the logs to the north gate. Zhang Beichen rewarded them as stipulated. Thus, his reputation and prestige increased greatly, and the people began to believe in the new laws.]
"Wonderful, I've really underestimated him. He always gives me surprises!" Ying Yiren watched with great interest. She knew that a thousand gold could not buy a person's trust, but Zhang Beichen only used 50 gold to buy the people's trust. He was a genius!
At that moment, a notification popped up from the game, indicating that a new skin had been unlocked.
[Won the trust of the people: Zhang Beichen ]
On the skin, Zhang Beichen stood in front of the high platform and rewarded the log movers with 50 gold. The people below the platform cheered and praised him!
Ying Yiren's eyes lit up when she saw that the skin had a purple frame.
"Purple card!" Ying Yiren exclaimed, "Zhang Beichen is such a useful subject. He actually managed to raise himself to a purple card!"
This was her first purple card. Ever since she issued the request for talent, she had recruited some talents, but most of them were blue cards with average attributes.
Zhang Beichen also saw the notification. The effect of this skin was that his cultivation faction had been changed to 'Legalists'. The speed of legalism cultivation increased by 10%, and his personal reputation directly increased by 100 points!
Zhang Beichen continued his plans.
[You've started the first reform and issued the 'order to cultivate grass'. The decree emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, weakening the privileges of nobles and officials, allowing nobles to join in agricultural production; unifying the taxes, and prohibiting private fighting among the people.]
[The implementation of the 'order to cultivate grass' encountered many obstacles, and you finally overcame these difficulties. Kingdom Qin's food reserves and population have both increased, and the nation's strength has improved.]
Zhang Beichen's attributes increased further. At this time, a star appeared on his purple card.
A purple card had a maximum of five stars, and every star increase represented an increase in attributes.
At this time, Zhang Beichen had reached the third realm of his cultivation.
"Continue, continue." Zhang Beichen continued to simulate. As long as Kingdom Qin was stable, he could start to make a move on the empress of Kingdom Qin.
[You've started the second reform. This time, you have abolished the well-field system, the slave system, and the national ownership system of the land, and implemented the private ownership system of the land. You've abolished the enfeoffment system, implemented the county system, and set up counties and villages throughout the country; Moved the capital, unified the measurement system, set up the household registration system; Bad social customs are prohibited.]
[After several years of reform, Kingdom Qin's strength has increased greatly and reached an unprecedented peak. The empress of Kingdom Qin was overjoyed and made you the Senior Minister, leading the ministers!]
The position of the Senior Minister was almost the same as Meng Yuan's. At this time, Meng Yuan chose to semi-retire and announced that he was bedridden.
Zhang Beichen's card had already become a four-star purple card! His attributes, strategy, and bravery had all increased by several times. His cultivation, in particular, had risen from the third realm to the seventh realm!
The cultivation of legalists was to implement their own laws. The better the effect of the law, the faster the cultivation.
In this simulation, Zhang Beichen had already become a great legalist cultivator!
"In the next few years, as long as Kingdom Qin follows the prescribed order and trains the new army, they will be able to recover their lost territory and then attack the surrounding kingdoms." Zhang Beichen finally heaved a sigh of relief. After more than ten years of reform, Kingdom Qin had finally become strong!
At this time, of course, he had to start his main mission, which was to make the empress of Kingdom Qin become his wife!
The game had an intimacy option, and interacting with the character would increase their intimacy level.
Intimacy was divided into several levels: hatred, estrangement, average, friendly, concern, trust, love, and until death.
Currently, the intimacy between Zhang Beichen and Ying Yiren was at the trust level.
Thus, Zhang Beichen began to focus on increasing their intimacy level.
Ying Yiren looked at the series of messages in her information bar and frowned.
[Zhang Beichen has a gift for you. It's good silk. (Message: Your Highness is a beauty of the kingdom. It's time to make yourself some new clothes.)]
[Zhang Beichen invites you to hunt in the hunting ground. (Message: The weather is good today. Your Highness, would you like to go hunting together?)]
[Zhang Beichen invites you to go to the lantern show. (Message: Today is the Qixi Festival. Your Highness, let's go for a walk. Don't tire yourself out.)]
[Zhang Beichen has a gift for you. A mink coat. (Message: The weather is getting cold, this mink coat is a gift to you, Your Highness.)
[Zhang Beichen invites you to cultivate together. (Message: Your Highness, I've encountered some difficulties in my cultivation recently, please enlighten me.)]
...
And so on. All of the following messages were similar.
Ying Yiren had a headache. "What is Zhang Beichen doing? I had him preside over the reform and train the new army. But now, if he's not giving me gifts, he would be inviting me to go on an outing with him?"
She rejected everything she could, but she accepted all the gifts from Zhang Beichen and even returned them sometimes.
However, this meant that the intimacy between Ying Yiren and Zhang Beichen was still increasing, and it was almost at the love level!
"No, no, even if it's a simulation, I can't do this with my own subjects... I can't!" Ying Yiren's face was filled with embarrassment and anger. "All presents will be rejected as well! We can't increase intimacy anymore! Otherwise, the simulation would lead to other consequences."
Ying Yiren didn't even dare to think about it. After all, every simulation would give her the memory of the simulation. If there were memories of her and Zhang Beichen dating, that would be too awkward!
"The empress of Kingdom Qin has rejected your gift."
"The empress of Kingdom Qin has turned down your invitation."
"The empress of Kingdom Qin has rejected your gift." A series of notifications popped up in front of Zhang Beichen.
"What's going on?" Zhang Beichen saw these notifications and was a little confused, "I'm clearly about to reach the love level, why can't I level it up? This game is doing this on purpose, isn't it? It's stopping my progress!"
"What should I do?" Zhang Beichen thought about it. Now that the intimacy level couldn't be increased, he had to find another way.
"Could it be that the empress of Kingdom Qin doesn't like my gift, or that my way of inviting her out is wrong?" Zhang Beichen changed many gifts and invitations, but he was still rejected.
Until he saw a message.
[The Rongdi Tribe presented ten jars of wine as a tribute. The empress of Kingdom Qin was unable to attend the morning court session because she had been drinking all night. ]
"Drinking? Right, it seems like the empress of Kingdom Qin really likes to drink!" Zhang Beichen seemed to have found a blind spot. Kingdom Qin was located in a bitterly cold place, and the local people had the habit of drinking strong alcohol to ward off the cold. There were a lot of people who loved alcohol, and Ying Yiren was probably one of them.
There were many records of the empress of the Kingdom Qin drinking.
For example, when Ying Yiren led her troops to battle, she was actually drinking in the tent and even drank strong wine before she went to the battlefield.
At that time, Zhang Beichen thought that she was drinking to boost her courage. Now that he thought about it, perhaps she liked drinking.
So, Zhang Beichen gave her another gift.
Ying Yiren received a new message.
[Zhang Beichen gifted you ten jars of wine. (Message: I heard that Your Highness likes good wine. This is an old wine that I bought from Kingdom Wei with a lot of money. I present it to Your Highness.)
"Zhang Beichen is really stubborn. He insisted on giving me a gift. I refuse!" Ying Yiren chose to reject the gift but realized that there was no such option.
She looked at the introduction: "Due to my love for wine, I can not refuse this gift."
Although this simulation game had a lot of autonomy, the individual's attributes were there and could not be changed.
[The empress of Kingdom Qin has accepted your gift and warned you not to give her any more wine.] Zhang Beichen realized that he had made the right bet. The intimacy level was increasing!