Li Chengfeng, as a guest invited by the crown prince, was naturally in a different position from ordinary people, neither had to stand in the square with the monks, nor did he have to crowd on both sides of the road or on the roof trees like ordinary people.

The viewing platform under the high platform presents a trapezoidal shape, the narrowest trapezoid is the top, which is also the place where the high platform is located, the long staircase of the high platform is full of red carpets, flanked by orange and yellow flags and wooden pillars, behind them are the VIP seats placed on the north and south sides, the north side is the dignitaries and dignitaries, and the special guests invited by the royal family, and the south side is the monks who did not participate in the Dharma Fighting Conference in Shenjing.

On the west side are the various sects arranged in large and small phalanxes, their costumes are different, each one is distinct, each sect is separated from each sect by at least ten meters, and in the middle stands a monk of the Qiankun Divine Sect wearing a black robe, which not only shows division, but also indicates deterrence.

There were a total of seventy-three large and small sects present, and among them, there were 538 monks who did not have a sect but participated in the Dharma Fighting Conference, a total of 7,492 people.

These people watched the secret fight between the prince and the national teacher on the stage, and secretly shouted in their hearts, but their faces were like a peaceful lake, and they could come here through the layers of selection of the sects, all of them had two brushes in their hands, and after a certain assessment, they naturally would not make a fuss at such a juncture.

Li Chengfeng saw the open and secret struggle between the two in his eyes, and secretly worried in his heart, according to this view, the conflict between the power of the prince's line and the power of the gods and religions of the national teacher's line was inevitable and irresolvable.

The prince wants to refresh the rule of officials, but this is not a cure for the symptoms, the biggest problem of today's Daqi is that it is beyond its means, and there is a serious imbalance between expenditure and income, which is a very simple arithmetic problem, even a child can understand it.

Just like an adult, the energy generated by what he eats every day is less than what he consumes, then first of all, he will lose weight, and after losing weight to a certain extent, he will begin to consume his vitality, and slowly in the long run, he will become disembodied and die.

It has been more than 500 years since the founding of the Great Qi Kingdom, and people with a discerning eye can see that he has already reached a stage of old age with a broken shape, but because his coat is gorgeous enough and majestic enough, it can be regarded as a deterrent, but once another external force suddenly tears off this coat, then everyone will see the devastated interior of Great Qi.

And the fundamental reason for all this is one of the main reasons that the prince firmly believes: the cultivation sects and the wealthy families are too powerful, and their existence has squeezed the living space of the Great Qi court, and then squeezed and affected the living space of the common people.

The prince can deal with the wealthy family, but it is difficult for him to deal with the cultivation sect.

And to reform the cultivation sect, the first thing to bear the brunt of is the Qiankun Divine Sect!

The crown prince must make the Qiankun Divine Sect bow its head, and through the reform he proposed, it is possible to make other sects follow the reform, so as not to cause a terrible blood disaster.

However, what the prince wants to move is not a matter of small interests, but the prince holds his guillotine high and wants to cut off a large part of the interests of the cultivation sect: to tax the cultivation sect, and to pay a heavy tax according to the number of grams per head!!

Only in this way can we curb the evil behavior of cultivators and wealthy families who constantly absorb the common people and annex the land.

The crown prince has rich practical experience and governing experience, he knows very well that his reform will inevitably touch the interests of the vast majority of this society, and if he is not careful, he will be crushed, and once he sits on the throne, his policies will inevitably lead to a frantic protest by the wealthy families, and they will definitely encourage the villagers who depend on them to take the lead in resisting taxes.

Everyone's thoughts will be: What is the attitude of the Divine Cult? If the Divine Cult does not obey, then we will not be afraid and will continue to make trouble! Once the whole world is in chaos, the crown prince's policy will certainly not be able to continue.

As for how the world is and how the people are, these high-ranking officials and nobles, the monks and lords will not care, and they will not be the ones who starve to death anyway.

And if you want to make the Divine Sect bow its head, what you must defeat is the old man who looks thin and weak in front of the prince, but his back is as majestic as a mountain.

After the prince hit the bell, he stopped and looked at the national teacher Chang Yuan in the air, and both of them saw firmness and strength in each other's eyes.

One of these strengths comes from faith, and the other comes from self-confidence.

The national teacher Chang Yuan stared at the prince for a while, then turned around, didn't pay attention to the prince, just raised his hands towards the audience, and everyone in the audience and the people around him got up.

The prince was left to dry, but he was not discouraged, but walked back to his throne and raised his hand to the national rite team beside him, and this huge orchestra of two or three hundred people immediately met, and the thirty trumpeters led by it immediately blew the huge brass horn.

The national teacher Chang Yuan was just about to speak, when suddenly a low horn sound rolled in, and then, in other places in the entire Shenjing City, other trumpeters placed in the city also blew the horns one after another.

Immediately after the drum sounded, the orchestra began to play music, this is the special music of the Great Qi royal family "Heavenly King's Victory Song", for a time the drums sounded in unison, lively and noisy, in this majestic and grand music, the national teacher Chang Yuan was stunned for a moment, he did not continue to speak, because once he spoke, he violated the ancestral system, just like the prince should salute him according to the ancestral system, and he does not have to salute the prince.

Once the music is up and he speaks again, it's a violation!

Although the national teacher Chang Yuan could easily crush the crown prince with a single finger, he also knew that once he did so, the prestige and legitimacy of the Divine Sect would be over.

Without its majesty and legitimacy, no matter how powerful the behemoth is, it will be constantly attacked and challenged, and then abandoned by the world, and eventually decline and perish.

Throughout the ages, no huge country or force group has escaped this law.

Here, he has to dance to the rules of the game within this system, they can play on their own, but they are very careful not to break the rules completely.

Fighting but not breaking, this is the bottom line of the tacit understanding between the two at present.

However, through this brief confrontation and staring at each other, they understood a fact: this secret battle has only just begun, and the next will be an even more brutal struggle.

The national teacher Chang Yuan gave up the lecture, he slowly walked next to the prince, stood beside him, smiled and looked at the audience in front of him, did not squint, and said slowly in a voice that only two people could hear: "Your Highness has really grown up." ”

This sentence was a pun, and the prince naturally understood it, and he also whispered without squinting: "The national teacher has worked hard for Daqi for so many years, and it is time to rest." ”

The national teacher Chang Yuan remained silent, and then said: "Yes, it's time to rest, but the tree has deep roots and the wind moves the roots." ”

Of course, the prince understands that the meaning of this sentence is to accuse the prince of being eager for quick success and quick profit, touching the foundation of the Qiankun Divine Cult, and at the same time secretly threatening the prince, the Divine Cult is "big and deep-rooted", the power is huge, and the interests are closely related to the entire Great Qi.

But who is the prince? He naturally thought all this clearly!

This is a prince who dares to stand up and fight at the front in the face of thousands of corpses in Taiyang City, how can he retreat at such a juncture?

The crown prince said softly: "The state affairs are difficult, time is not waiting for me, Master Chang is the national teacher, shouldn't he think more about serving the country? ”

This last sentence is very powerful, because its power lies in the subtext that is contained but not spit out: the Divine Cult is the Divine Cult of Great Qi, and the Great Qi is not the Great Qi of the Divine Cult!

Although the current comparison of strength, the priorities of the two have long been reversed, legally speaking, the priorities between the two cannot be confused!

The national teacher Chang Yuan has lived for more than 500 years, and he has never dealt with any scenes, he smiled slightly, and said lightly: "Serving the country is a matter of course, but governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, sometimes it is too hasty, but it is not beautiful." If His Royal Highness thinks that the old man is old and frail, and he is in the way, then why don't you go boating on the South Lake with the old man, ignore the world, and be at ease, okay?"

This sentence instantly hit the prince's life!

The national teacher wants to "exchange sons" with the prince, is it okay?