The Empress’s Gigolo

Two days later, a trembling Ren Baqian walked out of the palace with his hands on his waist.

After seeing the sun, which he hadn’t viewed in a long while, the feeling of a new lease on life sprang up.

Apart from that, he still felt a little terrified even though it was already over.

“I have already restrained myself!” The empress walked out behind him dressed in red muslin. She sounded a little apologetic.

She had indeed restrained herself. Otherwise, Ren Baqian’s hips would have already broken into countless pieces.

However, that wasn’t the problem!

He felt that he had lost almost half a kilogram of bone marrow and that he would fall over now when the wind blew.

“Your Majesty, Your Highness, lunch is ready. Do you want it served now?” Qing Yuan asked.

“Send it over…” The empress looked at the surroundings and felt that she couldn’t stay here any longer. The interior seemed to have been run over by a road roller, and it looked as if it would collapse at any time.

“Send it to Yaohua Palace Hall. Send people to clean that place up. Hong Luan, go notify the clinic. We really need to build a new palace.” The empress felt a little troubled.

The roaring emperor dug so many holes underground that it looked like a sieve. It would be alright if they were to live normally in the palace, but if other circumstances arose, there was no telling when it would collapse.

They couldn’t allow buildings to simply collapse once every few days, right?

“Let’s eat first.” Currently, Ren Baqian was too exhausted to think about the new palace and city.

When they arrived at Yaohua Palace Hall, he looked around and saw that most of the surroundings were decorated in pink. There were some small clay figures as well.

He couldn’t help but ask, “Is there someone living here?”

The two previous aboriginal emperors didn’t have any concubines and only had a few offspring as well. The majority of the palaces, which had been seized from the Hao Nation, were left vacant.

Even though the vacant palaces were tidied up, they weren’t frequently cleaned, so dust would inevitably accumulate. Since they were left vacant for a long time, they felt very cold and gloomy. Some of them were already dilapidated.

However, this Yaohua Palace Hall looked quite different. It appeared as if it was cleaned every day.

Ren Baqian turned around and saw a porcelain vase on the table with a flower in it.

The empress looked at the decorations around her. Her eyes glowed as she recollected, “I lived here when I was a child. A few years ago, I used to come back here occasionally, but over the last two years, I have visited less frequently. However, the decorations still look similar to what they looked like back then, even that flower in the vase.”

“Your Majesty, you used to like pink? I thought that you have always liked red!”

“Pink doesn’t suit me,” the empress replied simply.

Ren Baqian immediately understood what she meant.

Pink was a color for a young girl. In her position, she naturally couldn’t act like she had before.

Especially when she had been an ignorant young girl back then.

“Let’s make this the temporary quarters for now,” she said.

“The land below the palace that had collapsed previously has been dug up, flattened, and rebuilt. You’ll be so sad if this place were to get destroyed. Besides, it will take a long time to build a new palace,” Ren Baqian said.

The empress stared at him angrily after he finished talking. Wasn’t it his fault that it collapsed?

After eating breakfast and drinking a bowl of freshly brewed supplement soup, Ren Baqian finally felt alive again.

He looked in the mirror and saw that he hadn’t lost that much weight this time around. He had probably lost about ten kilograms, but compared to the 90 kilograms that he lost last time, this would be considered… basically nothing. He had never heard of people losing dozens of kilograms when having sex!

As for his internal body, the vitality that was previously transferred from the empress to him hadn’t been fully digested yet. More had been transferred to him this time as well. He received a much lower amount of it this time, only ten percent of what he got back then.

After lunch, she summoned all the officials to the palace to discuss some matters. On the other hand, Ren Baqian listed down the things that he needed to do on a piece of paper.

First was the top priority of education.

It would be very difficult to promote education by himself. Even with the help of his students, it would still be too slow.

He recruited dozens of students each year, and the number increased year by year. Even if these students became junior teachers, it would take at least ten more years to have enough teachers to promote education extensively.

However, the various departments of the imperial court also lacked manpower. How would it be possible for all the students to become teachers?

Even so, the level of education that they could provide in a short period of time wouldn’t exceed the third grade of junior high school.

It would take decades to nurture a large number of college graduates.

Ren Baqian’s goal was to nurture a large number of junior high school and even high school students within ten years as well as some college-level talents.

For this to happen, he needed to receive external help.

There were only a few options for him if he wanted to spread basic education to the whole world in a short amount of time. One was through the robots. Now that it was already 2029 on Earth, educational robots had already become quite mature. Right now, they were being used as helpers most of the time, so it would be difficult to program them to provide college-level education.

Besides, if they broke down, there was no way to repair them. It would be very difficult to use robots as teachers.

The second option would be distance learning. However, the downsides were very similar to robots and even more troublesome.

Even if all of these could be achieved, there was still another very important factor. Although Ren Baqian was able to record all the books that he had read using the planet in his sea of knowledge, this didn’t mean that he was capable of producing college-level students.

After thinking about it, he placed this matter aside and wrote down another thing.

Develop science and technology that bore the characteristics of this world.

This wasn’t Earth. The composition of the air and elements here was different from Earth’s. Currently, there were several more known elements in this world compared to Earth. Plus, it was still unknown if anything was lacking. Other than that, there were still no signs of petroleum, and situations like this were bound to happen again in the future.

Therefore, it was impossible to completely imitate the technology of Earth, and it was necessary for them to develop something unique that conformed to the circumstances of this world.

Ren Baqian pondered over this and wrote down the word “kidnap.”

Indeed, kidnap people from Earth to set up a laboratory and study the differences between the two worlds. At the same time, they would also develop alternative or similar technologies.

After all, it was impossible to rely entirely on the research institute on Earth.

Furthermore, there was another advantage of doing this. The highly talented people that he kidnapped and brought over would be able to teach students at a college-level or even higher.

If this was the case, Ren Baqian would have to have a capable assistant on Earth.

Neither Ren Wannian nor Ding Jie could do this job.

The winged cavalry couldn’t do it either.

Firstly, this person couldn’t be too conspicuous. At first glance, they should at least not look like someone from outer space. Secondly, this person must have enough wisdom and competence to do things well. Lastly, this person must be highly skilled in martial arts. The winged cavalry warriors couldn’t fulfill the first two criteria.

Ren Baqian already had a candidate in mind, but needed to seek their opinion first. Once they were sent to Earth, they wouldn’t be able to come back to this world anymore. This was the only way he would be able to gain full control.

The third thing that Ren Baqian wrote down on his list was to expand the scale of the Embroidered Uniform Guards of the Rearguard Commandery since they were currently facing a shortage of manpower. In addition, other than the market situation of the Yun Nation and Tianjing Basin, it was necessary to investigate the many sects and experts in this world as well as recruit highly talented youths.

The fourth point was to earn money, which was much easier.

The fifth was to find a place to situate the new palace and capital before carrying out city planning. This would be considered extremely difficult for others, especially when a lot of considerations had to be made for the planning of the new palace and capital city. However, Ren Baqian felt that all of this was too simple for him.

He simply needed to pick a site and visualize it on the planet in his mind. With this method, he could build the city and palace at will and see how it turned out.

It was much easier than doing 3D rendering with a computer.

The sixth point was to investigate all the mineral deposits in Dayao and the Yun Nation and to make arrangements to expand production capacity.

The steam powered equipment for the mines had to be developed. After all, manpower was valuable, and there were too many areas where manpower was needed.

The seventh point was to gradually immigrate the aboriginals out of the Sixty Thousand Mountains and reduce the population density of that region. On one hand, this would expand the hunting area of the original mountain villages and improve the living conditions of the aboriginals. On the other hand, it would be much easier to handle these immigrants. Besides, Dayao was lacking manpower everywhere…