Chapter 55: It's the beginning of the month again
Ye Qingxuan, who was discussing with the leader of the craftsman, naturally noticed these two people with the rest of his eyes, but he soon left these two people behind.
The number of pilgrims who come to listen to the book, come to play, and come to offer incense is increasing day by day, even if Ye Qingxuan knows that there may be traitors among these people, he has no time and can't take care of it.
Counting Yuan Zhen, who has just started in the Jade Void View, there are only three or two kittens, so as long as he doesn't make trouble in the Jade Void View and his strength is insufficient, Ye Qingxuan has to turn a blind eye.
Now there is a troublesome matter in front of Ye Qingxuan, his silver is not enough!
More than 2,000 taels of silver in hand, more than half of which were used to exchange for Qinglian Dao Palace, and the remaining 500 taels of silver were used as advance payments for the construction of the wall and bluestone slab road of the new jade void, as for the remaining trivial silver taels, Ye Qingxuan handed them all over to Yuan Zhen, and asked him to go to Xiangyang City under the mountain to buy daily necessities for food and drink.
In this way, the silver, which was originally thought to be a huge amount of property, was spent by him in just half a month at this time.
Even so, it was still not enough, after the completion of the new construction work of the Jade Void Temple, Ye Qingxuan had to pay these craftsmen another five hundred taels of silver.
The gap of five hundred taels Ye Qingxuan thought to himself that it was easy to fill in, but it was a big deal that he worked hard to say more words every day, plus some incense money, and he could always make it up.
However, Ye Qingxuan also wanted to build a bluestone slab stone step from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, which was a huge project that cost money.
Even if the materials could be mined in this mountain, the labor cost alone would be an astronomical amount! Therefore, the leading craftsman persuaded Ye Qingxuan to give up this unrealistic idea.
However, the concept of building a road first to get rich has been deeply rooted in Ye Qingxuan's mind, and repairing this stone step means that more pilgrims can come to the door at a faster speed, and at the same time, it can also lay a good foundation for Yuxuguan to become the ancestral court of Daomen in the future.
This matter is related to his life and death, so he Ye Qingxuan must grit his teeth and complete it!
The leader of the craftsman is also a sincere person, and he has witnessed the "miracle of Tianzun" in this jade void view, so under Ye Qingxuan's strong request and promise not to default on wages, he finally nodded reluctantly and agreed, and after completing the new construction work of the jade void view, he will find more people to start the work of building stone steps.
The next thing is Ye Qingxuan's turn to have a headache, the new construction work of the entire Jade Void View will last for almost three months according to the calculation, so no matter what, Ye Qingxuan must also earn the balance of five hundred taels of the project during this time.
In the front yard of the Jade Void Vision, Ye Qingxuan specially instructed the craftsmen to give priority to the construction of a square platform, and after more than half a month of construction, this platform has been completed.
The platform is about three feet high and is generally circular, with stairs on all sides, surrounded by a ring of white marble railings, on which are beautifully carved stone statues of Rui beasts.
If someone can look down on this circular platform, they can find that the platform as a whole is a huge Taiji diagram.
At this time, Ye Qingxuan was sitting on the platform in the center of the platform, and around him, there was a lot of black pressure, and these people all came here to listen to Ye Qingxuan's story.
In Xiangyang City, the owner of the drunken immortal building will finish the condor drill, after the lecture in the tea shop restaurant under his command, it is liked by more and more people, these people pass on ten or ten hundred times, and it is not surprising to trace the source to know the jade void, so they come to visit, whether it is to play or worship God, in short, every day when Ye Qingxuan speaks, this platform is always crowded.
The story of the eagle shooting has long been told by Ye Qingxuan, but at this time, he is not talking about any grievances between the rivers and lakes, and the love between children and daughters has grown.
Once Qingyuan asked Ye Qingxuan why he called the narration book a sermon, and Ye Qingxuan told him, "The avenue is difficult to understand, don't say that you and I, even when the master is alive, I don't dare to say that I can fully comprehend the few remaining Taoist classics."
Since even professional Taoist priests are not able to catch it, let alone those ordinary people, if they blindly tell them the Taoist scriptures, I am afraid that they will yawn for a long time and walk away, how can they be so interested?
Therefore, if we want to preach and promote Taoism, we must start from the shallow to the deep, starting from the places that these pilgrims and believers are most interested in, so that we will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."
At that time, the little Taoist priest of Qingyuan accepted the "crooked reasoning and heresy" of his senior brother with suspicion, but he always felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, in the eyes of Qingyuan, who was dedicated to the Tao, at least the story told by Ye Qingxuan was like the kind of philosophical story when Yuan Feng was ignited, that was the real preaching, and it was a good story.
However, now when Qingyuan sees the current situation of Jade Void, he has to admit that Ye Qingxuan's "crooked reasoning and heresy" really has some truth!
"The king of the Shang dynasty was shameless, built a wine pond and meat forest, and carried out the punishment of cannon branding, which made everyone in the Great Shang court endanger themselves, and the country will not be ......."
Ye Qingxuan sat on the Taoist platform, telling a wonderful story with his unique indifferent voice, at this time he was telling a new story that blended Taoist mythology and Fengshenbang novels in modern society.
Ye Qingxuan's idea is very simple, only by popularizing the Taoist mythological system first, even in the form of a story, as long as everyone is interested in this mythological story, then when they see the gods in the story and appear in reality, they will have a deep sense of substitution, and then after remembering the power of the gods in the story, it will be possible to involuntarily have a sense of worship.
Moreover, myths and stories are easy to understand and are the easiest to disseminate, and the reason why some believers questioned the existence of Taoist gods in the past is because the stories of Taoist gods do not have a broad base of people.
Now, what Ye Qingxuan has to do is to tell the mythological system of Taoism, and then in the process of discussing and conveying it to each other by these pilgrims, he will leave an initial impression for these gods among the people in this world.
Taoism is generally a very tolerant religion, in which the system of gods is very chaotic, in Ye Qingxuan's original world, even real historical figures can be absorbed into the Taoist god system after being mythologized, such as Guan Shengdi Jun Guan Erye, so chaos can be seen.
Therefore, after Ye Qingxuan sorted out and summarized, he eliminated all the miscellaneous gods except for the orthodox gods, and then blended all kinds of biographical novels, so that he finally summed up and sorted out a wonderful mythological story.
Among them, there are demons and monsters, gods and immortals, and even his little junior brother of Qingyuan sat under the platform with admiration on his face at this time and listened intently.
It took more than half a month to talk like this, but this mythical story was not even a tenth of it, but the prompt sound of the system echoed in Ye Qingxuan's mind again.