"Brother Zhuang! You promised? The seller jumped up on the spot with joy.

"I didn't say yes!" Zhuangzi smiled: "I support you!" ”

"Brother Zhuang! What do you mean? Whining! ”

"I said it! After I have given you gold and silver, it will be yours. You can do whatever you like! That's your own business, I can't control it! I'm concerned, you don't care about my food tomorrow morning! You promise me! Whatever I eat! I'm counting on you for the rest of my life! Sell your sister! ”

"Woooooo She was so moved that she burst into tears again!

"Brother Zhuang! Woooooo ”

"But? Sell! O gold and silver! Don't rush to send it away yet! In a few days, Brother Zhuang will go to Qi Kingdom, and I will help you hide a good place, a place that absolutely no one knows. ”

When it comes to hiding gold, this makes Zhuangzi think of a good place, that is, the Tibetan scripture cave of the Mojia branch altar in Mengxian County. Hidden there, except for Shigong and a few people who know, absolutely no one else will know. Even if someone knew that it was hidden in the Mo family's scripture cave, they wouldn't be able to take it out.

The Mohist technique is famous all over the world.

If you don't have a mechanism map, you won't be able to get in, and even if you get in, you won't necessarily be able to get out.

"Where? Brother Zhuang? Tell me! Tell me! The seller jumped up and asked, anxiously.

Zhuangzi glared at Mai'er and blamed: "I can't tell you for the time being!" ”

"Brother Zhuang?" The seller didn't get an answer, and he was very unhappy. But at this moment, she suddenly remembered something that made her even more uneasy.

"Brother Zhuang? You? You're going to Qi Kingdom? Really went to Qi country? ”

When she asked this, she didn't cry, she endured her crying and pretended to be strong. In fact! She wanted to cry inwardly.

"Hmmm! In a few days! I went to Qi to find my mother, Rong'er, and Sister Qing'er. ”

Seeing that Mai'er suddenly wilted, Zhuangzi hugged her and said, "I'll take you with me, you live in the Mojia branch of Mengxian County first, and I'll go to Qi alone." The country of Qi is so big, I will let it go, if we can't meet in the country of Qi, let them go back to the Mojia altar first. The Mojia branch is a point of contact! ”

"Hmm!" The seller nodded vigorously and agreed.

Speaking of going to Qi Country, the black-clothed senior brother and the two gray-clothed mages suddenly lost their voices. They all knew that Zhuangzi was going to Qi State, but they didn't want Zhuangzi to go now. The current lacquer garden is a critical period, and it is inseparable from Zhuangzi, where can he leave now?

"You? Are you really planning to go to Qi right now? The black-clothed senior brother asked.

The two gray-clothed mages also looked at Zhuangzi with wide eyes.

"Brother Zhuang! Your fingers! ”

Suddenly! The seller cried.

Only then did she realize that Zhuangzi had a problem with her fingers and was bandaging the handkerchief she had given him.

"It's all right! Scratched a piece of skin! Zhuangzi struggled and didn't let the seller see it. And then! When I came to the bed, I took off my shoes and sat cross-legged on the bed.

"You put it all away and put it in the cupboard. We'll be gone in a few days, so don't hide under the bed. ”

The seller had no choice but to keep silent and go and collect the big bag of gold and silver. And then! Let the brother in black help her and put the bag of gold and silver in the closet.

"Sit down, y'all!" Zhuangzi greeted.

When he had gathered up the gold and silver, he went to the bedside and sat down on the edge of the bed.

"Get on the bed!" Zhuangzi beckoned again.

Mai'er looked at Zhuangzi, then turned his head to look at the black-clothed senior brother and the two gray-clothed mage protectors, took off his shoes embarrassedly, climbed onto the bed, and sat down cross-legged.

Zhuangzi shifted his body to make room for the seller, and the two kept a certain distance.

The black-clothed senior brother and the two gray-clothed protectors also sat back in their respective positions, waiting for Zhuangzi to deliver an important speech.

"It's been almost a month since I came to the Paint Garden, and I haven't officially preached yet. Alas! This official doesn't even have time to preach. So! I don't want to be this town clerk anymore. No! I don't want to go on like this anymore. Later! The affairs of the town officials are still up to me in name, and you protectors are to do it. What about me! I'll preach later. I want to preach like Master, with all seriousness. It's up to you to be an official and manage society!

Back in the day! Confucius was the same! He encourages his students to 'learn and excel', and he himself! It's about lecturing and preaching! I think that's good! As the inheritor of Taoist doctrine, I can't just be an official and preach as an official. I think that will only get smaller and smaller.

So! I want to learn from Confucius. I preach with all my heart, and you protectors will be the rulers and run the country! In the future, the lacquer garden will be handed over to you. As for what happens and what is difficult, I can help you think of a way to deal with it......"

Zhuangzi decided that he would no longer be confined to the place of the lacquer garden, no longer stick to being an official, and how to manage the lacquer garden well. He still thinks that one month is enough to manage the small place of Qiyuan. And the fact is that it took him less than a month to finish the paint garden.

But? If you want to have long-term peace and stability here in Qiyuan, it is not within his reach. If Qiyuan adopts Taoist ideas and manages it well, it may encounter attacks from other schools, difficulties from the Song side and joint difficulties from the surrounding vassal states of the Song State.

Whether it is the Taoist rule of the world, or the Legalism of the Qin State, or some other doctrine sect in the other princes' country to rule the world, as long as you govern that country strongly, there will be people who feel threatened. Or! There will be people who will take advantage of the strength of this country to compete for world domination.

So! At the present stage of history, no matter what doctrine and ideology you want to use to manage the country and make a country strong, you need a strong military force to protect it.

The only way to develop military strength and protect the law with force is to do so.

Master Yang Zhu once said: Use soldiers in troubled times, use methods to govern the world, use Confucianism in prosperous times, and Taoism to govern the heart.

In fact! Taoism can also rule the world. It's just that! Taoism also needs to use force to escort the world. Just like Taoist preaching, you need a protector to protect you.

As the inheritor of Taoism, his duty is to preach, not to practice wholeheartedly and to do everything. He only preached, and how to use Taoist doctrine and thought to manage society, practice, and promote it on a larger scale should be the business of the protectors. As Dharma protectors, their duty is to protect the smooth preaching of the preachers and to protect the practitioners who use Taoist ideas to manage society......