Chapter 55: Shinto is Dead

After leaving for three months, Liu Qing returned to Liuzhen.

He found that the incense here was even stronger, and he could smell the incense from a distance in the air.

As a deity, he liked this taste the most.

Next to the Land Temple is a larger Deshan School, which has hundreds of students, and every morning, noon and evening, under the leadership of the teacher, they have to worship the land god, which is the most stable source of incense.

Hundreds of people and hundreds of incense sticks, when they are about to go out, they will be put on again, and the incense is continuous throughout the day.

There are also some nearby villagers and believers who also come to offer incense every day.

Coupled with the people in the Liu family's compound, they must come over to offer incense.

Under normal circumstances, there are about 1,000 copies of incense burning at the same time in this temple.

Liu Qing returned to his idol and felt an unprecedented sense of comfort.

This statue was originally just a piece of wood carved out, but in his name, after so many incense offerings and such a long period of deposition, it has become extremely close to his consciousness, giving him a sense of flesh.

Consciousness was attached to the idol, and he even felt that with a little more effort, he could make the idol move.

But he didn't.

He knew very well that it was just a piece of wood, and although the limbs and facial features were carved, they were all connected together, and it was impossible to move.

The sensation of consciousness entering the statue was so comfortable that within two minutes, he actually fell asleep.

After becoming a god, he has lost his physical body, and he is a pure consciousness body, which sometimes slows down his thinking, and sometimes he even goes into a daze, but there is no way to sleep.

At this moment, he attached his consciousness to this statue, and he had that feeling of having a body, and at this time, he also had that feeling of tiredness, and wanted to fall asleep deeply.

I'm awake all the time, but I'm actually quite tired.

I didn't feel like I wanted to sleep before, probably because this statue didn't receive much incense offerings, and it didn't fit so well with his consciousness.

This time I came back, and the fit improved a lot, just like I really had a body, and I also had the need to sleep.

The first thing he did was sleep.

I slept for more than a day.

Sleep deeply.

Most of the time there are no dreams, like a sleeping fetus.

It's just that occasionally some fragments of sound, light and shadow will flash in my mind, and there will be some broken dreams.

In that dream, there is a huge body, like a hand that can pick up stars and take the moon.

There is a presence surrounded by thunder and lightning between the raised hands.

There are giants that roar in the midst of fire.

There are all kinds of strangely shaped giant beasts.

And there is war.

In the dream, he saw huge bodies falling, their trunks turning into the earth, their blood veins turning into rivers, and their eyes turning into the sun and the moon.

I also faintly heard a sigh:

"The end is coming, Ragnarok."

There was also a majestic voice, as if it came from above the nine heavens:

"Shinto is dead, and the Immortal Dao should stand."

I also dreamed of an extremely dazzling light rushing towards me, and then, I lost consciousness and fell into endless loneliness.

I don't know how much time has passed in the dream.

Maybe it was a moment, maybe it was millions of reincarnations, and suddenly he smelled the smell of incense again, and Liu Qing woke up leisurely again.

After waking up, Liu Qing recalled the fragments in the dream, and suddenly felt a little confused:

"Who am I? Where am I? ”

The smell of incense, as well as the sound of hundreds of children reading aloud outside the temple, slowly pulled him back to reality, and gradually remembered who he was and how he came here.

The fragments in the dream, he didn't know if it was something that really happened, or if it was an illusion spelled out by watching too many film and television works and online novels before.

The world inside gave him some yearning and some fear.

That is the real power, with the power to destroy the world and destroy the world, even the gods can slaughter.

He is such a humble little god, and when he arrives in such a world, it is estimated that it is only a five-second shot, and then he will receive a boxed lunch.

After a good night's sleep, I feel clearer and more energetic.

He now has a lot of divine power, sitting in the shrine, his divine consciousness is released, within three miles, everything is within his coverage.

Next to the Land Temple, there is the Deshan School.

This school has already erected five monuments of merit.

The first is a merit monument erected for Liu Qing, the land god of Liuzhen, which records his meritorious deeds of asking the Liu family to come forward to build this school in his dream.

The second piece was set up for Xu Qingfeng's group of scholars who came to visit the black starling, and they donated a total of more than 100 taels of silver.

How much each person donated is recorded on the tablet.

In addition, there are three pieces, which are donated to the school by the people behind one after another.

One of them was specially for Xu Qingfeng, a new science and technology scholar, because his father, Mrs. Xu, donated a few hundred taels of silver to Deshan School in his name.

There are also two pieces, one is for the other person who came with Xu Qingfeng at the beginning, after he went home, he did two things, one is to invite the Liuzhen land god statue home, and the other is to donate one hundred taels of silver to Deshan School.

The school also erected a monument to him for this.

There is another piece, which is that after Xu Qingfeng invited the statue of the land god of Liuzhen to worship at home last year, after the news came out that he was a high school jinshi this year, some wealthy scholars in Bowu County came to worship God together, and donated two hundred taels of silver by the way.

Although these donations did not get back the cost of building this school, they at least saved their expenses.

With these donations, Deshan School has made a decision to provide three meals a day for the children studying here.

There is nothing good to eat, but at least to keep them full.

A few hundred children can't consume much food.

The donations they receive pay for these and it is enough.

When news like this comes out, families who don't send their children to school regret it.

Some wanted to send their children now, but they were rejected by the school - if they wanted to send them, they had to wait until next year, and this year they could not accommodate so many people.

In the second half of the year, the school will continue to be expanded, and now there is no room for so many people.

With these donations, the Liu family's financial pressure is less, but it is not completely absent.

However, the Liu family found a new profit point by building this school - book publishing.

Inspired by Liu Qing's dream-making technique, the Liu family invested a lot of money, and after many experiments, they finally came up with lead movable type, which was successfully used last month.

With this kind of printing technology, the cost of plate making has been reduced a lot, and the efficiency has been greatly improved.

In addition, with this printing technology, it is possible to print smaller fonts and save paper.

For the same content, with block printing, a book is about a hundred pages, and with their new printing technology, the paper only needs half of the original paper, or even less than half.

And it looks very clear.

This also saves a lot of printing costs.

The Liu family is already planning to use the low-cost advantage to drive away other bookstores in Gyeongju and occupy the entire Gyeongju textbook market.

Even if they sell a book at half the price of their competitors, they can make a lot of money.

This is quite gratifying to Liu Qing.

If he wants to expand his belief in incense, he needs a lot of money, and if the Liu family wants to cooperate with him, the economic pressure will be quite great.

Only can't get in and out, and it won't be long before the Liu family will be hollowed out.

Now we can find new profit points and make the balance of income and expenditure tend to be the long-term way.