Great Heavenly Realm Temple.

On the high peak, Dao Yan looked at the long sacrificial procession, stretching like a swarm of moving black ants.

The early morning breeze blew, and the black robe on Dao Yan's body was blown up, and his eyes were a little frozen, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.

Just then, footsteps came from behind.

Dao Yan turned his head to look, only to see his eldest disciple Huikong walking up to him.

The delicate-looking Huikong was dressed in an apricot-yellow monk's robe, but he was dressed as a warrior monk, revealing half of his arms with extremely clear muscle outlines, and saluted him with his hands folded.

Strangely, Huikong didn't say a word.

Dao Yan is also a return of gifts.

On the peak, the two were silent for a long time.

"Huikong, your closed-mouth meditation will come in handy next year."

Huikong nodded, still silent.

The so-called closed-mouth meditation means to reduce the karma of the mouth, eliminate sin and avoid disasters, reduce one's own sinful karma and open the mouth is sin, and the closed-mouth meditation is to open one's own body to the extreme, and the heart is also enlightened.

And monks who practice this kind of meditation have another advantage.

- Confidentiality.

"Jiang Sheng will come out of the edict next year, when the time comes, you will need some people around you, you are smart by nature, and your body and mind are empty, take this closed-mouth meditation to protect Jiang Sheng, listen to his arrangement. Listen more and don't say anything, this is the reason for choosing you for the teacher, and it is also your chance. ”

Dao Yan motioned to sit down and rest on the big stone at the top of the mountain, but Hui Kong did not do it, but took out a paper document rolled into a cylinder from the apricot yellow monk's robe and handed it to Dao Yan.

Dao Yan took it, shook it away, looked at it, and handed it to Huikong.

Huikong didn't shirk it, the master asked him to see it, and he watched it.

When Huikong finished reading it, he was a little surprised, and looked up at Master Daoyan, with a slight doubt in his eyes.

"Speak slowly for the teacher, and you listen slowly."

Dao Yan spread the paper out on the somewhat cold rocks again, and looked at it word by word.

"You roughly think that being so calculating as a teacher is a little ridiculous, right?"

Ignoring Huikong's reaction, Dao Yan continued to say to himself.

"If the so-called Xiaoice River period can be proved through historical materials and calendar changes, then the immortal dream, probably no one believes it anyway."

Huikong was silent.

"In fact, the key here is that the important thing is not what dreams the immortals have, but who the immortals are."

Huikong narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at his master.

"On the contrary, if you are a minister, what you are concerned about must be what the emperor has dreamed and what he wants to do under the guise of the immortal's dream."

"I believe that not only Your Majesty and His Royal Highness the Great Prince think so, but I am afraid that all civil and military officials think so."

"But it's not this ridiculous dream that I want for my teacher."

"It's to let Jiang Sheng appear in front of the world!"

Dao Yan calmly looked at this closed-mouthed monk who had been raised by him since he was a child and knew almost all his secrets.

"With Your Majesty, he needs an immortal; In the teacher, it doesn't matter whether Jiang Sheng is an immortal or not, the important thing is that his knowledge can open up a new world like the Pangu giant axe. ”

"And according to Jiang Sheng's somewhat lazy temperament, if he is invited to go out of the mountain to be a national teacher like His Majesty, Jiang Sheng will definitely refuse."

Dao Yan paused, and he gave another example.

"And from the incident of 'writing in prison', it can be clearly seen that Jiang Sheng's humanity has not only not been extinguished, but has become more and more complicated."

"In other words, when Jiang Sheng preached and received karma, he seemed to be the incarnation of the Heavenly Immortal Buddha, omniscient and omniscient."

"But once Jiang Sheng gets out of this state and turns back into an ordinary mortal, then he will certainly have less greed for worldly money, beauty, and status, but his own humanity has never been extinguished."

Dao Yan's gaze became a little complicated, and he looked in the direction of the Imperial Prison.

"The teacher has been paying attention to Jiang Sheng."

"There is a juvenile impulse, a traveler's exhaustion, a rare sense of empathy, and the helplessness of lying flat and accepting the mercy."

Dao Yan stood up, and Huikong looked at him seriously.

"In this world, there is no shortage of a Jiang Sheng who does things, what is lacking is a Jiang Sheng who can give full play to his greatest characteristics and spread his thoughts to all parts of the world."

"I smiled at the sky with my horizontal knife, and went to save the liver and gallbladder two Kunlun."

"Jiang Sheng wants to be better than Kunlun, and he is given it as a teacher, and it just so happens that Zhang Yuchu proposed to drop the fertilizer elixir in the name of the immortals."

"The name of the immortal is not inferior in any way."

"And only in this way, by putting Jiang Shengxian in this high and unbearable position, can he be qualified and motivated to do what he should do."

"Otherwise, Jiang Shengruo is just a mortal in the eyes of the world, and the things he does, no matter which one they are, will be criticized so much that it is impossible to start."

After listening quietly, Huikong understood what Master Daoyan meant.

In Dao Yan's view, Jiang Xinghuo's attributes of 'immortal' and 'human' are extremely distinct, when Jiang Xinghuo is in a state of lecturing, it is the posture of a real immortal, and when Jiang Xinghuo returns to normal, his human nature is also easy to understand. is like a young traveler who has been "going to the country with a sword and leaving his relatives and traveling" for a long time.

Too long and too far away from home, he walked on the way home, thinking about his hometown, recalling the past experience, but still facing the difficult journey of the present.

He doesn't care about the treasures he encounters on the journey, which he can't take with him, he will brag seriously with his companions, and he will think about how he can die decently in the face of danger, and in the same way, he will give sympathetic help when he meets people on the road, maybe he has fallen to this point in his past journey.

And in the face of a young traveler who wants to go home, what can be done to keep him?

In the eyes of his master, the best thing to do was to let him have to stay for the time being because of his high name, rather than give him the power he saw in ordinary people.

There is no shortage of people in this world who want to gain power, and there is no shortage of people who can do things.

The world lacks a person who can guide them to the right future.

After all, every idealist whose blood in his heart has not cooled down needs nothing at all, such as money, beauty, and position, what he needs is to realize the ideal in his heart.

"Seventy years of life are rare."

"I don't know if I can live for a few more years, or more than ten years."

"The desires of this world are not nostalgic for teachers."

"A few months ago, as a teacher, I felt that I had finished using the dragon technique with my own hands, and I had no regrets in this life."

"But now as a teacher, I hope that I can live a few more years, which will pave the way for the teacher's new ideals and make a good start."

Dao Yan pinched the rosary in his hand and said leisurely with his back to Huikong.

In the past, the ideal in Daoyan's heart was to abandon his family and business to rebel and prove his "dragon mastery".

And now Daoyan, the ideal in his heart is to shape the future with his own hands in the last stage of his life, and guide the Ming Dynasty to that "Datong society." ”

He's going to perform

- Dragon Slayer!

Yes, that's why Dao Yan didn't go crazy, but began to handle official business normally.

Because after a long period of thinking, Dao Yan finally realized that he was destined not to see the dawn of a similar "Datong Society" in this life.

But it doesn't matter, there is no need to be depressed about this, because his life has changed dramatically since he listened to Jiang Xinghuo's lecture.

The "Datong Society" did not appear out of thin air, but was the result of the progress of the productive forces and the evolution of history.

Just like the phoenix nirvana, the new society is always born from the body of the old society.

The historical mission given to him by Dao Yan is to promote the progress of the productive forces and incubate the strata that will make up the next new society in advance, in other words, he will also promote the necessary class foundation of the "Great Harmony World" in advance.

And the basis of this class is the merchants.

Therefore, Daoyan must go all out to promote the colonization and trade of the West and overseas.

In Dao Yan's judgment, if Da Ming continues to follow the old road, then according to his understanding of Da Ming, with the strong inertia of the agrarian society, I am afraid that it is almost impossible to embark on this new road, unless there is an external force that forcibly interrupts the old road.

At that time, I'm afraid it will be the blood-stained Stone City that Jiang Sheng said.

Therefore, Dao Yan has the obligation, ability and responsibility to follow the direction guided by Jiang Xinghuo, quietly reverse the path of the future progress of the Ming Dynasty, and lead the old Ming Dynasty to a new road.

But you must know that when you go to the Western Ocean, hundreds of civil officials are already unwilling, and for this reason, it is the money raised by the emperor and the vassals and nobles that the shipbuilding plan necessary for the first time to the Western Ocean has started.

And if you want to conquer Japan, and if you want to expand trade and colonization overseas, this amount of money is simply not enough.

As for the so-called existence of gold and silver in Japan, the civil officials will not believe this reason at all.

Therefore, if you want the civil servants to agree to spend such a large amount of money out of thin air, which is also the necessary start-up capital for the cultivation of a new class, Dao Yan has to plan a bureau, a bureau that seems ridiculous, but can make all the civil officials jump into it unconsciously and be grateful to him.

"Jiang Sheng still knows too little about the way of scheming."

"Today, as a teacher, I will first explore the way for Jiang Sheng."

Dao Yan had made up his mind, and gave Huikong a few more words, and Huikong left quietly.

And then there was another expected person who came to report.

Jin Youzi was dressed in a green robe and wearing an official hat, and walked up the stairs with grace.

"How?"

Dao Yan didn't put on a show, twisted the bead string in his hand, and asked with a smile.

Looking at Dao Yan's smile like a sick tiger staring at food, Jin Youzi said repeatedly: "Everything is going well, everything is going well." ”

"After learning the 'truth' of Xia Shangshu's proposal for the Ming national debt, what was the reaction of the hundred officials?"

Jin Youzi laughed jokingly: "They all look ashamed, but it is estimated that these old foxes are all pretending." ”

"Just put on a show."

Dao Yan said disappreciatively: "The civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty, there should be a lot of criticism of Xia Yuanji in the morning, right?" ”

"Of course." Jin Youzi nodded.

"What do you think they all do?" Dao Yan's words carried a bit of the meaning of the school examination.

Jin Youzi thought for a while, and then said: "There are some people who do not deal with Xia Shangshu and take the opportunity to make trouble, but these people are only a very small minority, and some are wall grass that falls with the wind. ”

"Then you say." Dao Yan turned the rosary in his hand, "Those squires and scholars, why do they want to speak with their status?" Since they are not wall grasses that fall with the wind, they have no grudges against Xia Shangshu, let alone any conflicts of interest. The most important thing is that if it is really said that who is affected by the deduction of a month's 'Ming national debt', it will definitely not affect them, which of these big officials is not a wealthy family? deducted a month's salary, and starved to death, but those petty officials really can't open the pot. ”

"Referring to Sang and scolding Huai."

Jin Youzi is straightforward and crisp.

"It's clear that he is scolding Xia Shangshu, and he is scolding His Majesty, isn't it all Xia Shangshu who deceived the saint and lived up to the saint's grace?"

"But." Jin Youzi's face finally became a little puzzled, "Master Daoyan, there is something I really don't know, and I ask the master to give advice." ”

"Let's talk about it."

The wind swept by, and the black robes on the hill hunted and moved.

"Deduct 100 officials for a month to subscribe to Daming treasury bonds, this thing is done, on the surface, it is ridiculously stupid."

Jin Youzi said helplessly: "You don't know the rules of the imperial court. No matter how difficult the country is, it cannot open a knife on the officials' misfortunes. ”

Seeing that Dao Yan didn't speak, Jin Youzifu continued.

"Moreover, even if he thinks of an exemplary role, he can't deduct all the money for a month, can some petty officials force him to starve to death?"

Dao Yan patiently listened to Jin Youzi's words, and then said.

"It just makes them feel like they're almost starving to death."

Jin Youzi was stunned for a moment.

"It doesn't make sense." Jin Youzi said earnestly, "Even officials who subscribe a lot, and give some worthless honors, are much better than rushing to kill them like this." ”

Dao Yan looked at each other, his eyes were extremely cold.

"The eight words that the old man asked you to tell Xia Shangshu before, repeat them again."

"Bright plank road, dark Chen Cang." Jin Youzi said.

Dao Yan bowed slightly and asked, "How do you understand?" ”

"It is to use the 'Ming treasury bonds' to suppress the civil and military officials, but in fact, it is to follow this wind and guide things to the 'fertilizer elixir'."

"You only know one thing, but you don't know the other."

Dao Yan shook his head and said indifferently: "Your guess is true, in Lao Wei's layout, there is indeed this meaning, but the most important thing is another meaning. ”

"Master Daoyan, please come on, and the lower officials will listen to you."

"Most of the officials are from the gentry class, their nature is like this, they can't take care of the things in front of them, and no one will care about the things that will happen in the next hundred or even hundreds of years, so they only pretend to be guilty about Xia Shangshu, and they will also be indifferent to the purpose of the fertilizer elixir to really fight against the Xiaoice River Period."

"They are concerned about only one thing, their own interests."

"What the gentry class depends on for maintenance is nothing more than farming and reading."

"The greatest benefit of the elixir of chemical fertilizer is that it can increase the yield of their grain per mu!"

Dao Yan said a word that broke the sky.

Jin Youzi nodded, although he said it more bluntly, but it was true, he said: "Baiguan may not believe that this is really given by the immortals, and they may question whether it is effective at first, but as time goes by, they will naturally discover the value of the fertilizer elixir, and then change their attitudes." ”

Jin Youzi's speculation was naturally correct, but Dao Yan's next words surprised him even more.

"The so-called fertilizer elixir, the cost is not as high as imagined, the reason why it wants to become the 'elixir' in His Majesty's mouth, is because the civil and military officials do not know this, and subconsciously think that the elixir that can double the yield per mu must be worth a lot. The old man wants to take advantage of the psychology of the hundred officials, so that they can truly realize the benefits they have obtained. ”

"Benefits?" Jin Youzi frowned.

Dao Yan said with a smile: "The reason why these Ming national bonds should be deducted with the money of the hundred officials of the Jingshi civil and military forces is that these national bonds are actually used to establish the first batch of fertilizer elixir refining workshops, and the hundred officials of the Jingshi civil and military forces will have a part of the income of this workshop." ”

"What?!"

Jin Youzi's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Isn't this a great benefit for nothing? You must know that the fertilizer elixir must be more expensive to sell at the beginning, isn't this just a profitable deal? ”

"It is precisely because of a book of great benefits that we should be broad-based."

Dao Yan's smile became more and more incomprehensible: "Although you are a close minister of His Majesty, you are also one of the hundred officials, what kind of changes will your psychology produce after going through this process?" ”

Jin Youzi said frankly: "Naturally, from angry and puzzled to ecstatic. ”

At first, the officials learned that their next month's money would be forcibly withheld to subscribe to the Ming government bonds, and the officials' anger was needless to say.

The worker works hard for a month, and the boss tells you that your next month's salary will be used to buy the company's own bonds, and you will get it back after five years.

Whoever is replaced is angry!

But if after you are angry with the boss and even scolded, the boss tells you that this bond is bound to the company's latest product, and you know that this latest product is the only one on the market and has a monopoly effect, the listing will definitely explode, and the income will be tenfold, hundredfold, and thousandfold.

So what is your mood at this time?

Be chuffed to bits!

Feel deeply grateful!

Long live the boss!

The company is my home!

"What the old man wants is that they will be happy and sad, and they will have no time to guess the old man's true intentions."

Dao Yan said calmly: "And next, Your Majesty will announce that there are a large number of materials necessary for refining fertilizer elixirs overseas, but they will need to be funded by the imperial court for several years, and the new construction includes ports, docks, docks, as well as hiring sailors, training sailors, and other expenses. ”

"Do you guess that at this time, the civil and military officials who have tasted the sweetness will agree to this plan that they would not normally agree to without thinking?"

Jin Youzi clenched his fist in his sleeve tightly.

It turns out that this is Master Daoyan's Ming Xiu Plank Road, and the darkness is Chen Cang!

At this time, Dao Yan turned around, looked at the team that was stretching towards the big altar, and muttered in his heart.

"With this money, the facilities and personnel needed to go to sea will be satisfied, and the facilities established and the talents cultivated will become the first step for Daming to enter the maritime trade."

"As long as the first voyage to the West is over, the Ming dynasty and the opposition begin to realize the benefits of maritime trade, then as soon as this opening is opened, the future maritime trade will bring about the progress of productivity, and then promote the growth of the merchant class, that is a matter of course."

"Perhaps, in a few hundred years, when the merchant class grows large enough, the economic base will determine the superstructure, and the merchant class will inevitably seek a change in political status."

"At that time, it was the time when the dragon of feudal empire was slaughtered."

"Old man, although I can't see the day coming, I have personally waved the first knife of this dragon slayer."

Dao Yan closed his eyes, as if he saw that he had slashed an invisible knife at the huge bloodsucking worm that had been entrenched for thousands of years in the heavenly dome.

The body of the bloodsucking worm was cut through a small opening.

And it is still unconscious, and there is even a little bloodsucking worm in its belly, drinking the blood of its mother, and gradually growing.

"However, when the merchant class takes control of the country and forms a new society, then there will be a new class that will become the next butterfly to struggle out of the silkworm chrysalis of the old society."

Dao Yan's gaze became extremely deep, and he seemed to see the future.

A bloodsucking insect that pretends to be safe from humans and animals gradually grows, and hidden in the body of this bloodsucking insect is a red butterfly.

"The day the butterfly spreads its wings is the time when Datong comes."

Dao Yan looked in the direction of the edict in a daze.

Looking at the bottom of the mountain, the clouds and mist, the many complicated lights and shadows in his eyes finally turned into a light.

(End of chapter)