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The search for alternatives to firewood soon spread from regular monastic gatherings in various places.

In a monk's meeting, a monk took out a piece of hard as pig iron, covered in pitch black stone, and said, "This thing is called charcoal, ignite the fire, lasting and violent, this thing has been used very early, burning fire for heating, smelting iron, there are many places in the former Han Dynasty to use, the Western Regions also have people to use, two hundred miles north of Quci, there is a mountain, people take this mountain coal, smelt this mountain iron." There are still few people in the Central Plains to use it, it is nothing more than inconvenient to come and go, the coal is heavy, and the long-term transportation consumes too man, horses and animal power, unless there is a nearby coal mountain for mining, it is convenient to push it to the farmers."

Some monks curiously took it and saw it, as Ling Chen expected, many things were also available in this era, but those who knew and could use them were limited by transportation and communication conditions, and only a small part could be used, and the real large-scale use of coal would not be until the Song Dynasty.

But coal, a basic industrial raw material, in the feudal era can only be used as iron-making and heating fuel, no one can further show its intrinsic value, although it was used hundreds of years earlier than Western civilization, but this extra time, but did not go further, digging it as the source of industrial power, the power of steam, is not highlighted, it is nothing more than because this thing, no longer simply see the phenomenon can be imitated and used, but must be clear about the essence, built on the deep research soil, in order to succeed.

"Where did this come from?"

"It's in an iron-making workshop near Luoyang City, but it burns with a huge smell, and you need to repair the flue to avoid it."

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Ling Chen soon learned about the matter of coal, and he preached about it in the big temples in various places, so that the monks who were responsible for studying the affairs of agriculture and labor began to think about how to push this thing to many peasants and citizens.

"One is to renovate the earthen stoves for their living and heating, and the other is to set up a special trading house to sell these coals, but the farmers have no money in their hands, there are free trees to cut down, and they will not buy these coals, if the citizens buy coal cheaper than wood, then they will buy coal, but it has caused the livelihood of some woodcutters to not be settled, so it is too difficult for them to leave their hometowns to dig coal."

Expecting a group of monks who still have compassion to do these things that require letting go of their pity for some people and objectively considering the economic exhibition as a whole, Ling Chen also felt a little big, but he quickly crawled out of this pit because he knew very well what he was here for.

He came here not to solve any food and clothing problems for the people here, but to complete the task and get higher authority, in this case, it is necessary to use more efficient methods, to promote Buddhism, to update the teachings, in order to lay the ideological foundation for reforming society, in terms of specific means, of course, he does not need to continue to use the backward economic methods of the local natives. If the native is too slow to execute, then use the people he brought in.

"Ling Qi, you organized the 10,000 people I brought in, transferred out 3,000, and set up a chamber of commerce that helps the world, it is called the Four Seas Chamber of Commerce, as for the taboo thing, don't worry, the emperor has already understood, practicing in this life, there will be blessings in the next life, and there will be no destruction of the Buddha, let alone obstruction of this matter, the only thing to worry about is the interests of those feudal landlords, and they need to plan it slowly, but as long as it does not involve land and grain for the time being, they will not immediately notice it, this class is not well informed, slow to react, and they are divided......"

Ling Qi, who is very familiar with modern logistics knowledge, is naturally very easy to do this, and there are temples around the country as support points, and they can directly use their temples as warehouses, as well as bazaars and sources of market information, before it was just to avoid the emperor's taboo and prevent the big turmoil, so there was no world-wide linkage, and now in Ling Chen's instructions, this restriction has been put aside, and there is naturally no difficulty in doing it, compared with ordinary business travelers, they have a deep background in Buddhism, With a large number of believers as a source of market and not afraid of government oppression, it can be said that the innate conditions for engaging in commercial activities have accumulated more than enough in the past 30 years.

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Emperor Han issued an edict to allow monks from all over the world to do business, farming, mining, and being officials, and they can rely on the degree disc to travel to and from various places and pay various taxes normally, obviously the Han Emperor himself has been on Ling Chen's ship, he wants to continue to be the emperor in the next life, and he has been doing it for more than 30 years in this life, and he is not satisfied.

The ancient emperor had the highest lifespan of more than eighty, and he was more than 6o this year, and he could still be twenty years.

This edict can be said to have comprehensively led to a huge conflict between the new Buddhism and the ruling class. Confucianism has become a way for the landlords of the Han Dynasty to become officials, and now Buddhism is not only preaching doctrines and competing for believers, but also meddles in secular power, which they must not bear.

What should the emperor do if he presses, then abolish the emperor, since the Han Dynasty, this kind of thing has not been born, before Wang Hao became the emperor, Wang Mang's usurpation of the Han is an example, from the perspective of Wang Mang's policy, he is not a simple careerist, but a political family with lofty ideals, but unfortunately he does not have a deep foundation, and was violently counterattacked by the feudal landlord class, and finally failed.

Time passed, under the emperor's edict, there have been two years of effort, Ling Chen's Sihai Chamber of Commerce has also been established for more than two years, the proportion of monks infiltrating the local agricultural and industrial production and transportation is getting higher and higher, they are not to persuade people to burn incense and worship the Buddha, but when reading Ling Chen's teachings for further development, the body lì line, through guò to assist agriculture and industry in the way of cultivation, to carry out the practice of this world.

Ling Chen's further teachings were exactly what he preached to the dustless monks, but they were more popular.

"First of all, everyone has an afterlife, only in this life can we enjoy more wealth in the next life, if we work hard and accumulate wealth in this life, we will be lazy in this life, and our descendants will be poor in the next life, and we will not be blessed in the next life.

Secondly, the true Buddha is only in the heart of each person, and the Buddha only cleans away the superfluous distractions in the individual's heart, so that people can strengthen their minds and practice hard, that is, they must strive to forge ahead in this life. To worship the Buddha is to worship oneself, to seek good fortune and fortune, that is, to seek oneself. If you don't sort out your thoughts, if you don't work hard to get wealth, then the Buddha doesn't respond to himself, blames the Buddha for not being compassionate, stingy, and ineffective, and blames himself for being lazy, cowardly, and not working hard.

Furthermore, the original intention of cultivation is to pursue the Buddha-nature of all things in this life, the origin of all things, and accumulate and improve little by little, so that in a certain future life, we can attain enlightenment and understand a qiē, and finally attain positive results and enjoy the path of eternal bliss. Relying on the mouth cannon alone, staying in the temple to fool the believers, it will not be able to achieve positive results for thousands of years, and it will only be consumed and cleaned up in the future life."

This is his synthesis of the achievements of the past few decades, re-condensed, that is, it can fundamentally solve people's expectations in the afterlife, and can also solve the problem of the cultivation of the present world and the development of human beings, the combination of the two, can achieve a two-way balance between material civilization and spiritual civilization, this kind of teaching, can pass through the ancient and modern future, far from the religious gods and Buddhas, more than pure science.