The emperor laughed very tastelessly, and some of the people in the room laughed knowingly, and some were relieved, the emperor was happy, and it was estimated that he could pick up a life.

"Li Ruolian, you said it very well, very good, I will depend on you for this matter, those six people, let's do it this month. Li Ruolian, the matter of putting the money in the seal is done well, and it is also your credit, I will not be stingy, do it well! "Yang Reform is very happy, it seems that this money is still very promising.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Li Ruolian won the emperor's appreciation, very happy, his own, it seems, is the right bet, as the emperor said, this thing of putting money in the seal can make money, it must be valued by the emperor, presumably, his own status will also rise!

"Your Majesty, the minister still has a word, I don't know whether to say it or not." Li Ruolian's confidence exploded. Ready to say more. Win bigger "profits".

"Oh? Hehe, Li Ruolian, what else do you have to say? "Yang Reform really wants to see what else this guy can say.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this month's mother's money, Weichen thinks, can be doubled, to 1.2 million taels, think that now this loan is so popular, presumably, this month, the harvest must be rich." Li Ruolian was ready to add a scoop of oil to the burning fire. Completely let this matter become popular, so that the emperor can't pay attention to it.

With one-third of the Ming Dynasty's annual income to put in the money of Yinzi, this bold idea, even Yang reformed himself, I have to say that it is a bit crazy!

"Li Ruolian, in this way, money is not a problem, the question is, how sure are you? At that time, if the profit is meager or the thing is messed up, it will be a waste of joy. "Yang Reform is ready to see how bold this guy is.

Li Ruolian faced the emperor's question, looked very calm, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this country is so popular now, many people in order to enter the prison as soon as possible, with less money, they must borrow, Weichen here, it is only a mere 1.2 million taels, it is nothing at all, not to mention, not all 1.2 million taels are borrowed to the people, this ordinary Indian money is business, it is still good, Weichen is willing to guarantee with his surname, this month's profit must be rich, if it does not reach the level of two cents of interest required by His Majesty, Wechen is willing to be punished! Li Ruolian also saw the opportunity, and was ready to place a heavy bet and play a fierce game, so as to achieve the effect of letting the emperor look at it and remember it, giving the emperor an impression that he could be competent for the task, and using this seal money as a magic weapon for himself.

Crazy, crazy! Yang Reform didn't comment on this person, thinking that at the beginning, when he asked how large the capital seal money was, Li Weiren said that it was about five or six hundred thousand taels, but now, not counting the seal money put by other people, there are 1.2 million taels here, which is already twice the original scale, if you add other people's seal money, this scale, I'm afraid it will be more than three times! But thinking about it again, with the "business" of this national eunuch, I am afraid it is also the reason why Li Ruolian has such courage.

Yang Reform couldn't help but look up to Yiyan This Li Ruolian, this young man, with brains and courage, is exactly the kind of henchman and person he has cultivated, and now he will give him a stage.

"Good! Since Li Qing's family is so bold, I am not stingy, if you can do what you said, I will give you a promotion as a compliment. Yang Reform also decided to be "generous" and threw out a bait of a thousand households.

Li Ruolian was overjoyed, and immediately knelt on the ground, shouting: "Weichen will definitely do his best to serve His Majesty." ”

The monarchs and ministers are very happy, Li Ruolian has won the emperor's high opinion and the emperor's guarantee, Yang Reform is happy that he has a person who can do things, and he is now worried about the lack of people. The six people in charge of the loan shark were even more happy, and now it seems that the emperor will not kill us. The happiest person is the one named Zhang Degui, who originally thought he would die, but he didn't expect that he walked in the palace of Hades and came back.

…… The fifth day of the fifth month of May.

Dragon boat festival.

In the 21st century, many people will like it, because there will be a holiday, and you can eat and drink well. But at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the court, this is not very good, this is a bad word, a very taboo word.

On this day, the palace summoned Zhang Xianyong, a real person who was ordered by the imperial court, to pray in the palace and do things to ward off evil spirits and drive away disasters. Zhang Xianyong danced, sang, and sang on the Dharma stage for most of the day, and only then did he finish the ritual of praying for blessings, driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters.

"Zhang Zhenren, Zhang Zhenren." A little yellow door called.

"Amitayus longevity, the poor road is polite, I don't know what this father-in-law has to do with the poor road?" Although this mediocre official is very high, in the palace, he still puts his posture very low, kind, and approachable, even if the other party is a little eunuch, he still makes good manners and postures.

"Zhang Zhenren doesn't need to be polite, Your Majesty invites Zhang Zhenren to the palace back garden." The little eunuch told Zhang Xianyong the purpose of his visit.

"Go to the palace garden? Summoned by His Majesty the Emperor? Zhang Xianyong was excited, although he was a real person who was enshrined by the imperial court, but it was really not so easy to see the emperor, and now it was a joy to be summoned by the young emperor in person.

"Zhang Zhenren don't have to doubt, come with our family, don't let Your Majesty wait for a long time." With that, the little eunuch took Zhang Xianyong to the palace garden.

…… Wanchun Pavilion of the Palace Garden.

Today, Yang Reform not only invited Sun Chengzong, but also invited Xu Guangqi, his two right-hand men are not busy with state affairs, and it is the first time that they have come to the palace to enjoy the flowers.

Zhang Xianyong took a look, in this Wanchun Pavilion, in addition to His Majesty the Emperor, there was the great eunuch Wang Chengen, and two old men, and if you looked closely, they were the two real "emperors", not the kind of emperors who carried the name of an emperor. These two emperors were called masters by the emperor in person! It's not something that ordinary people can compare.

"Amitayus longevity, poor road Zhang Xianyong knocks to see my emperor, long live, long live, long live!" Although he is the head of Taoism in the world, when he sees the emperor, he still has to kneel.

Yang Gai stared at the forty-year-old Heavenly Master, his expression was calm, wearing a luxurious Heavenly Master robe, wearing a Heavenly Master hat, looking carefully, he really had a bit of a "fairy wind bones", but Yang Reform knew that if he was a human, he had to eat, drink and Lazar, how could he be "immortal"? It's just a glamorous face.

Yang Reform is also a little worried, for fear that like many episodes written in the books, an old Taoist priest can see at a glance that he is a little different from the ordinary "masses", what kind of dead person, what fate is rewritten, and the other day is against fate, if that is the case, Yang Reform may have to abandon atheism and change to superstition.

However, obviously, this guy who is dressed very richly is not a strange person, nor does he have any abnormal abilities, and he does not have the ability to see that he is "abnormal" at all, and he is very diligent in kowtowing. Yang Reform was relieved.

"Hehe, real people don't need to be polite, get up." In this pavilion, the space is not wide, except for the emperor who sits alone, everyone else is standing, and there is no place to sit.

Zhang Xianyong wondered, why did the emperor invite himself to this back garden? Flowers? Although the flowers in May have already been seen, it is obvious that this palace back garden is not a place to talk about business!

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Hehe, Zhang Zhenren? Asking for rain for the people of the world? How's it going? Yang reform's understanding of the guy, still in the past, in the court, there was an old minister, proposed to let this guy ask for rain, alleviate the drought, he was scoffing at the time, but later learned that this guy is not the actual drought, the solution is the drought in people's hearts, in the face of drought, even if the court has no way to deal with it, even if this rain is impossible to achieve, but, the court still has to do this, because the people of the world believe this, if you don't do it, the people of the world will believe, The imperial court did not care about them at all.

With this, Yang Reform was also inspired, this guy, although he looked down on it, was actually very useful, and he was not as useless as he imagined, so he hit him with a lot of ideas. For him, Yang Reform was not less prepared.

"Back to Your Majesty, the poor road has already done the law to ask for rain, but the poor road's mana is meager, I'm afraid that this rain will be difficult! It's hard! ......" Zhang Xianyong, who was immortal, looked like he was doing his best, showing that his ability was limited and he could not relieve the drought for the imperial court, indicating that he was powerless and had done his best.

Zhang Xianyong is not a fool, this Emperor Yanjing has already predicted, the celestial phenomena in Shaanxi predict that there will be more than ten years of drought, how can he dare to predict that he can solve the drought? Isn't that looking for death? Therefore, I will follow the emperor and say, anyway, there is nothing to do with himself, and the legend that the emperor who is said to be divine has a legend of a god professor in his dream, which makes Zhang Xianyong scruples, if the rumors are true, then the emperor has really seen a god, and he is nothing.

Yang Gai scolded this god stick in his heart, pretending to be quite similar, as if he could really ask for rain. However, Yang Reform is not ready to ask about these things, nor is he ready to debunk them. I called him here today, but it was not for any reason to ask for rain, because even in the 21st century, there is still no good way to ask for rain, at most it is to hit rain bombs or something, which is not much better than his prayer for rain to relieve the drought in people's hearts.

"Zhang Zhenren, I invited you here today, I want to talk to you about the Tao, I have the heart to seek the Tao, but I don't know what the Tao is, where the Tao is, I want Zhang Zhenren to be in charge of Taoism in the world, presumably, there should be some understanding."

When Zhang Xianyong heard it, the emperor wanted to find the way? Could it be that among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there is another guy who wants to live forever? Hehe, if that's the case, then this Taoist family can be beautiful again. At the moment, my heart is like eating honey, sweet.

When Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi heard that the emperor wanted to find the way, they were puzzled, the emperor looked like a very shrewd person, how could he believe those scoundrels? Do you believe that people can live forever? Could it be that God no longer favors the Ming Dynasty? Let this very shrewd-looking emperor fall in love with alchemy, longevity? The face was black at the moment.

"Your Majesty asked?" Zhang Xianyong obviously didn't believe that the legendary Son of Heaven would ask him to seek the Tao, this is not a legend, is there a god in this Son of Heaven in his dream? Can natural disasters be predicted? Zhang Xianyong actually wanted to ask the emperor, what does this god look like, can he exchange his experience in cultivating the Tao, and now the emperor asks him what the Tao is? Ask the blind question, ask the blind question! It seems that His Majesty the Emperor's dream god doesn't often go to work! ...... "Well, exactly, I thought, what is the Tao?" I can't figure it out, can Zhang Zhenren solve my confusion? Yang Gengai looked puzzled.

Zhang Xianyong is ecstatic, this emperor likes Taoism, presumably he is also thinking about immortality, attaining Taoism and other things, whether it can become another thing, as long as the emperor likes it, the status of this Taoist family will rise greatly, and this Taoist family will be better. At that moment, he said mysteriously: "Your Majesty, the Tao is Tao, the Tao is very Tao." It's famous, it's not famous...... The beginning of the nameless heaven and earth, the mother of all things. Therefore, there is no desire to observe its wonders...... "Zhang Xianyong secretly proudly memorized the Taoist "Tao Te Ching" as a holy text, I believe that this esoteric "Tao Te Ching" will definitely make the emperor fascinated by this road of seeking the Tao, presumably although the emperor has a dream of the god to teach, I am afraid that he can not see the god every day, so there is a matter of asking himself, Zhang Xianyong thought proudly.

Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi, with black faces, looked at Zhang Xianyong fooling the emperor with a smug face, although they were annoyed in their hearts, but there was no way, this was asked by the emperor himself, and it was not easy for him to interfere.

What does this mean? What does it have to do with the Tao? Yang Gai pretended not to understand and asked Zhang Xianyong what this meant.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the meaning of this sentence is 'Dao', if it can be expressed in words, then it is Chang 'Dao', and if 'name' can be named in words, then it is Chang 'name',......" Zhang Xianyong began to explain the meaning of this "Tao Te Ching" in a long list.

Yang Reform is very impatient, if you listen to this Zhang Xianyong talk about the "Tao Te Ching", it will be a hundred years, don't want to finish this "Tao Te Ching", and immediately said: "Zhang Zhenren don't say it too complicated, simple and popular, I can understand." ”

Zhang Xianyong was happy to accept the emperor's request, which was a good opportunity to show his profundity of Taoism, and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, the meaning of this sentence is that 'Dao' can be used to explain the original universe, and 'Dao' is the way to unlock all mysteries. ”

The Tao can be used to explain the universe, and the Tao is the method of all mysteries. This guy still thinks he is a little white, holding the "Tao Te Ching" to fool himself, but he doesn't know his origin, for the famous sentences in the "Tao Te Ching", he has seen a lot, listened to a lot, all kinds of explanations, and knows some, and he knows no less than him.

"Is Zhang Zhenren saying that 'Tao' can explain the original universe? Where are all the mysteries? ”

"Your Majesty, it is true."

"So what is the universe?" Yang Reform continued to pretend to be a white.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the word universe was originally two words, which were explained separately, and Yu refers to the upper and lower four directions; The universe represents the past and the present, and together it means that the upper and lower four directions have ...... the past and present, representing all the world, all the ,......" Zhang Xianyong explained very well.

"Oh, I see, the meaning of this universe is space, and the meaning of space is time, which adds up to time and space, so understandable, right?"

"Indeed, indeed, Your Majesty is really a saint, and you can have such an insight, it can be seen that Your Majesty's Dao roots are not shallow......" Zhang Xianyong wanted to fool the emperor into believing in Taoism, so the power of Taoism was about to rise, and he began to pour [***] soup into the emperor.

"Well, very good, since this Tao represents space and time, represents everything in the universe, and is where all the mysterious methods are located, then I think, that Taoism is in the name of 'Dao', and I want Zhang Zhenren to be the bull ear of Taoism in the world, obviously understand a lot of 'Dao' between heaven and earth? Do you understand the many mysteries and methods in the universe? Yang Reform said to Zhang Xianyong very mysteriously.

Zhang Xianyong saw that the emperor looked mysterious and asked himself about the truth and mystery of the "Dao", and immediately thought in his heart, what did the emperor want to say? Say it is the mystery of heaven and earth? I'm afraid, I'm still thinking about how to live forever. This thing has always been loved by emperors. Zhang Xianyong understands the cosmic principle of a fart, the mystery of heaven and earth, and has heard of the idea that the emperor wants to live forever countless times.

Zhang Xianyong felt that he had not misunderstood what the emperor meant, and said to the emperor very mysteriously: "Your Majesty is looking for immortality? ”

"Huh?" Yang Gai's heart is full of sunshine, this guy is really a god, and he still fools himself into immortality, you know, he has gone through nine years of compulsory education, and he despises these things that violate the objective development law of things the most, if you can live forever, what kind of ghost are you running to be a real person for yourself?

Zhang Xianyong obviously didn't understand the emperor's "um", with how disdainful and with so many questions, he said mysteriously at the moment: "Your Majesty, it's not easy to seek longevity!" This method is hard to find! ...... "Continue to be a god stick and fool the emperor at the moment."

Yang Gai felt that this guy was shameless enough, and he was also disgusted by his performance, and felt that this play could not be performed, and if he performed it again, he had to vomit.

"Zhang Zhenren, I came today, I have a lot of puzzles, I want to seek Taoism from Zhang Zhenren, I want Zhang Zhenren to be the leader of Taoism in the world, and I will definitely be able to explain the truth of this, and explain the mysteries and methods of the universe." The word "Dao" in Yang Reform's mouth will be light for a while, heavy for a while, and he will pronounce the word "Dao" mysteriously.

Zhang Xianyong was confused, the emperor did not seek immortality, he asked himself what "Tao", asked himself what mysteries and methods, it was really a hell. I know the mysteries of a fart, and if you want to say chanting and meditating, then you are a good hand.

Yang Gengai looked confused when he saw this guy who pretended to be a god stick, and he felt a burst of contempt in his heart, if you want to say that you are pretending to be a god stick, you are not our opponent through the crowd! We are the super god stick who can predict the development of history, your god stick is a small god stick, a pseudo god stick, we are the big god stick!

(To be continued)