To prevent the leisurely King Zhou Jing from lingering before her eyes daily and spoiling her mood, Ding Yun specifically arranged some work for him.
This work was the planting and cultivation of high-yield grain seeds.
Ding Yun had already finalized the detailed planting and cultivation plan. King Zhou Jing only needed to follow Ding Yun’s plan, do the work, and keep records. This was considered allowing him to participate in the plan and gain some prestige, thereby increasing his reputation.
This was to avoid him being unrecognized when he went out.
Furthermore, Ding Yun didn't want him idly loitering under her nose all day, so she sent him to the planting base. It was convenient to keep him out of sight.
Under Ding Yun's planning, after the Zhou Kingdom achieved initial economic prosperity and military strength, efforts were also directed towards cultural prosperity and universal basic needs, with gradual progress towards a better future.
Within a year, the illiteracy eradication work in the Zhou Kingdom was largely completed.
The enlightenment work was also more than half done.
Three years later, a wave of specialized talents, such as junior manufacturing personnel and junior craftsmen, who possessed a certain level of education and skills, began to emerge. Most workshops were no longer mere shells but could genuinely begin to produce and sell various basic industrial products.
Concurrently, the diligent cultivation of high-yield grain seeds was gradually being promoted and developed near Luoyang.
Six years later, the first batch of students from the Son of Heaven's Academy successfully graduated. Some, without many attachments, chose to stay for further studies. Others, urged by their families to marry or to return and inherit their family's power and status to repay their country, had no choice but to leave.
They would bring back the knowledge they had learned to improve national strength.
In addition, most school-aged children within the Zhou Kingdom had reached the elementary school level, and the knowledge base and professional skills of artisans of all levels had also improved.
Most importantly, the high-yield grain seeds and new cultivation methods that could increase crop yields had long since spread beyond the Zhou Kingdom over the past few years, gradually radiating to all surrounding countries. However, some countries were constantly worried that Ding Yun and her associates had ulterior motives and would not generously spread the high-yield grain seeds and new cultivation methods easily, so they never dared to promote them on a large scale.
They were afraid of some hidden trap awaiting them.
Only the State of Song, which was actually under Ding Yun’s control, fully replicated the changes Ding Yun had made within the Zhou Kingdom, such as universal education and the promotion of high-yield grain seed cultivation, etc.
Another six years later, which was twelve years after the Son of Heaven's Academy officially began its courses, the first batch of high-end talents was finally cultivated. They could be considered the future pillars of the nation, each knowledgeable in astronomy and geography, proficient in mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and skilled in various arts. Da Feng Novel Network
With these high-end talents leading the way, combined with the other specialized talents cultivated in recent years, Ding Yun soon began industrial upgrading.
Skipping the steam age, she entered the electrical age.
She prepared to construct broadcasting stations on a large scale.
There was no other way; the transportation speed and information circulation speed in those days were too slow. If Ding Yun did something world-shaking, it might take months to spread across the land. By the time it spread, areas closer to Ding Yun's location would have already been shocked, even forgetting about the event. This resulted in Ding Yun's influence fluctuating for years.
Rising and falling, rising and falling, it never reached the level of being engraved as a brand, but it didn't drop too much either.
Under these circumstances, she estimated that only by unifying the world could her influence be smoothly elevated to the level of being engraved as a brand. However, Ding Yun really didn't want to expend that effort, nor did she want to worry about the issues after unifying the world.
Resolving the integration problems of nobles and commoners from various countries.
She just wanted to complete the mission and leave.
She didn't want too much psychological burden.
Therefore, she decided to seize the time to get the broadcasting stations set up, then promote them to various countries at a low price or for free, thereby increasing the speed of information dissemination.
This would also be more conducive to enhancing her influence.
With ample talent, industrial upgrading was relatively easy. Coupled with Ding Yun's occasional assistance from the golden finger, the Myriad Realms Takeaway software, she ultimately only took three years to complete the corresponding upgrades.
The complete set of broadcasting station manufacturing technology.
Was also successfully broken through.
And then came the nationwide promotion in various countries.
This time, it was different from the previous promotion of high-yield grain seeds. At that time, Ding Yun did not strictly require all countries to promote them together; it was up to them to promote or not, it didn't matter if they didn't.
But the promotion of broadcasting stations was different.
This related to the completion of Ding Yun's mission.
Therefore, Ding Yun directly used military deterrence, forcibly ordering all countries to build them quickly. The rulers of the major vassal states, though angry, dared not speak out and could only obey.
Ultimately, it took less than a year to widely promote broadcasting stations in all the major vassal states.
Ding Yun could broadcast programs at fixed times and locations, and the vast majority of the common people in the major vassal states could also receive the broadcasts at fixed times and locations. In just a month, broadcasting stations became the daily pastime for most people in the land.
If a day passed without broadcasts, they would feel unaccustomed.
However, even so, Ding Yun still couldn't accumulate enough influence. Even if she publicized her great achievements on the radio every day, her influence, after rising to a certain level, was still not enough to be engraved as a brand.
It was only enough for two-thirds.
But there was still a deficit of one-third.
Fortunately, Ding Yun quickly reacted. She realized that perhaps this world wasn't limited to the cultural sphere where she was currently located. There might be other cultural spheres overseas, which were unaware of her. The level of civilization development in those cultural spheres was likely not much lower than hers. In this case, it was natural for her influence to have a deficit.
After understanding the situation, Ding Yun quickly purchased a children's satellite launch and successfully discovered two other cultural spheres overseas: the Peacock Empire and the Furong Empire. These two empires were not weak; at least they were no weaker than the surrounding states of the Zhou Dynasty before Ding Yun's appearance. But now, things were different.
Now they were a generation behind. No wonder the combined population of the two empires only caused Ding Yun's influence deficit to be less than one-third.
To complete her mission as soon as possible, Ding Yun convened the third tributary celebration two years early. At the celebration, she presented a world map and detailed maps of the other two empires, demanding that the allied forces of various countries eliminate those two empires, and she would provide sufficient assistance.
She promised that after a successful conquest, the Son of Heaven of Zhou would be proclaimed the Human Emperor, and all kings could be enfeoffed as emperors.
Most importantly, Ding Yun specifically promised the great nobles within each country that if they rendered great service, she would directly bypass the kings and enfeoff them as kings.
In the past twenty years, the strength of various countries had greatly increased. Many nobles and wealthy merchants, in terms of economic power and other strengths, had surpassed their current status, but they lacked promotion channels.
Or they were suppressed by the feudal lords, which forced them to remain compliant.
But in reality, who didn't want to improve their social status?
If someone else made such grand promises, they would definitely not believe it. But Ding Yun's grand promises were too convincing to ignore because Ding Yun truly had the ability. Her enfeoffment of kings would surely gain the recognition of most people. Therefore, while the feudal lords might not have been particularly excited, the great nobles and wealthy merchants, whose fortunes rivaled that of nations, were different.
They also wanted to advance further!
They also wanted to experience the taste of being enfeoffed as kings.
Therefore, Ding Yun's proposal was unanimously approved without any objection. Following this was a year of preliminary preparation for logistics and troop mobilization.
And then a decade-long cross-border campaign.
And a cross-state campaign.
The result, of course, was success. Ding Yun's broadcasting station construction team had been advancing with the allied forces of various countries. After the downfall of the two empires, Ding Yun's fame had spread throughout the territories of those two empires.
This finally earned her sufficient influence.
And she successfully had it engraved as a brand.
Afterward, Ding Yun, as expected, did not rush to leave. Instead, she specifically stayed behind to bestow land and titles upon the meritorious officials returning from the campaign. The lands of the original seven states remained unchanged; they were merely elevated from royal status to imperial status. As for the lands they conquered outside, they were allowed to enfeoff their children as kings.
In addition, Ding Yun also enfeoffed the remaining one hundred and ninety-two meritorious officials as kings, dividing and enfeoffing the conquered lands and the lands that had not yet been conquered but were undeveloped.
The Zhou Kingdom did not claim a single piece of land for itself.
It only required all countries to pay tribute on time.
And to establish a new covenant: any country that dared to attack Zhou would have the right and obligation of the other countries to protect Zhou and jointly attack that country, dividing it up.
The reason for doing this was mainly that Ding Yun had gained an experience over the years: in a nominal monarchy, the king or the royal family tended to last longer.
The more autocratic the regency, the shorter its existence.
The Son of Heaven of Zhou was the weakest Son of Heaven throughout the dynasties, but the royal family had the longest lifespan.
After completing these matters, Ding Yun left some foundation for her son, King Zhou Jing, and then, at a new tributary celebration, in front of more than two hundred feudal kings.
She ascended, transforming into light and entering the celestial gate.
(End of this chapter)