From the battlefield to the capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it only took half a day for the flying boat to travel in the clouds.

Before the sun had time to rise its first rays of brilliance, Ji Taowei and Gu Xiuyuan came to the majestic palace.

"Who's coming?"

When the patrolling forbidden soldiers saw the strange man and woman who suddenly appeared, they couldn't help but shout.

"Immortal cultivator, where is your emperor? We have something to talk to him. Ji Taowei's expression was indifferent and cold, like a kaolin flower, which was the same as when Gu Xiuyuan first saw her, always giving people a feeling of impersonalness.

"This ——!" The soldiers of the forbidden army looked at each other, not knowing whether it was true or not, as mortals, they naturally did not dare to offend immortal cultivators, but who knew if they were true or false?

Seeing this, Ji Taowei stretched out a finger and pointed towards the sky.

Bang!

A huge and terrifying purple thunderbolt jumped out of Ji Taowei's fingertips, turned into a purple dragon, and rushed towards the sky, the terrifying and loud voice directly resounded throughout the capital, and the dazzling light shone on the earth like the sun descending, waking up the sleeping city.

If this lightning strikes on a city, it will be enough to destroy half of the city!

As soon as the soldiers of the forbidden army saw Ji Taowei casting a spell, they immediately knelt down and worshipped, not daring to look up.

"I guess the emperor should be in the dormitory over here." Gu Xiuyuan got the information from Tianshu and looked directly at a solemn hall with glazed tiles and heavy eaves.

They went straight away, and no one dared to stop them.

broke into the emperor's bedroom in full view.

Because of the sound of the terrifying thunder and lightning just now, the elderly emperor who was in Mei Ji's arms had already been awakened, and he didn't know what happened, and asked the palace maid and eunuch beside him blankly.

At this time, Gu Xiuyuan and Ji Taowei directly pushed open the door and walked into the dormitory.

Gu Xiuyuan looked at the emperor on the bed, and couldn't help but sigh that the world was impermanent, a month ago, he was still a national of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and he should bow down in front of the saint, but now his status is reversed, and he can even ignore the dignity of the other party and enter and exit his dormitory at will.

"Who are you? What are the intentions of trespassing on the court! ”

Through the heavy gauze curtains, the old emperor of the Southern Tang Kingdom caught a glimpse of two figures, realized that they were not from the palace, and immediately scolded.

He was surprised why the 100,000 forbidden troops in his palace didn't stop these two?

"Gu Xiuyuan, a person from the Southern Tang Kingdom, is now the Salvation Venerable, I wonder if Your Majesty can you need me to explain what the Salvation Venerable means?" Gu Xiuyuan said.

Of course, the old emperor knew about the Salvation Venerable, since a year ago, a group of immortal cultivators frequently appeared and walked around the four continents, narrowing the distance between mortals and immortal cultivators, and the matter related to the thousand-year-old Heavenly Demon Tribulation and the Salvation Venerable would inevitably become a gossip in everyone's mouths.

It's just that he can't imagine that there will be a savior Venerable coming to him.

"What does His Holiness have to say?" The old emperor asked, wrapped in a quilt.

"How about making peace with Chen Guo's strike and not starting the war lightly? Can it be done? Gu Xiuyuan asked.

"This ......," the old emperor shook his head, "Venerable is also from the Southern Tang Kingdom, don't you know what I am crusading against the Chen Kingdom for?" ”

"Some insignificant territory, a senseless vanity, a grand feat that needs to be recorded in history?"

Gu Xiuyuan said sarcastically.

The old emperor's face was a little ugly, but he said: "What the Venerable said, yes and no, in the final analysis, it is that the population that the land of the Southern Tang Dynasty can carry has reached the limit, if I don't fight against other countries and ask for land, then how can the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty survive?" ”

"Because the population is swelling rapidly, and the food is overwhelmed, it will take a natural disaster, that is, starvation is everywhere, there are groups of bandits, and it is not my people in Nantang who are unlucky at that time?"

"What's more, our army has won more and lost less, with war, not only can consume a part of the surplus population, but also make many poor soldiers use this opportunity to be promoted, and many people can make a fortune with the help of a big battle, why should such things that benefit the country and the people be stopped?"

"Even if I obey His Holiness's orders and cease fighting from now on, the contradictions are there, and if they are not resolved, the flames of war will burn out sooner or later, even if it is not launched in my name, the people of all parts of the country will not act on their own for the sake of interests and organize private soldiers to go to the state of Chen to provoke war?"

Gu Xiuyuan was silent, what the old emperor said was unreasonable, although there were many whitewashes in the words, but in the final analysis, it was the irreconcilable contradictions between the two countries that caused the war to spread.

And this contradiction is that there are too many people, and there is too little land to cultivate and feed people.

A thousand words in one sentence, insufficient productivity.

The country's resources are eaten up by the ever-expanding population, and the only way to use war to alleviate contradictions and rob other countries of resources is the only way to use war.

This is also a way out that many countries have chosen after their development has reached a bottleneck.

"If the land is not enough to support the people, how about increasing production? Originally, one acre of land could support 100 people, doubling the output and feeding 200 people, thus fundamentally eliminating the root cause of the war between the two countries. Gu Xiuyuan thought for a while, combined with some knowledge in his previous life, and gave an answer.

"Venerable, if there is a way to make the existing land feed the people, then there is really no need for me to start a war, but how can I do this? It must be known that my Southern Tang Kingdom has far surpassed other countries in the cultivation technique, and it is proud of the others, and the cultivation skills have long developed to the bottleneck. ”

The old emperor keenly grasped that Gu Xiuyuan might have a way, and immediately said.

"What if there is an immortal cultivator who cuts the mountains and fields for you, and introduces water sources containing spiritual energy to irrigate the rice fields?" Gu Xiuyuan thought of a simple way, and mortals had no way to do it, so let the immortal cultivators come.

Anyway, according to his understanding, in fact, many immortal cultivators who are not high in cultivation and have little combat power are extremely proficient in other skills, and farming is also counted among them.

"Is that true?" The old emperor's eyes lit up.

"I have this authority to mobilize immortal cultivators to help you, but for a thousand years after that, the Southern Tang Kingdom still wantonly waged war and invaded the land of the Chen Kingdom, and then the Venerable One destroyed your clan and made the Southern Tang Kingdom disappear completely."

Gu Xiuyuan emphasized the consequences.

The old emperor sighed: "If there are really immortal cultivators who come to help our people, so that everyone can be fed and clothed, who in the world is willing to fight." ”

All in all, the old emperor of the Southern Tang Kingdom is an understanding person.

After a conversation with Gu Xiuyuan, he was willing to stop fighting from now on.

Immediately, Gu Xiuyuan urged the Haotian jade card in his mind, directly imagining Li Chenwei's appearance, and in this way, he contacted the real person in charge of the Qingwei Dao Palace.

"Hey, hey, did Sect Li hear it, give me an answer?" Gu Xiuyuan asked playfully.

"It turned out to be Venerable Gu, according to the time, you and my good apprentice should have already arrived at your hometown." Li Chenwei didn't know what Gu Xiuyuan was suddenly looking for him, and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, we are in the Southern Tang Palace at the moment, and there is one thing that needs to be mentioned to you, in other words, the Venerable is going to exercise the power of the Salvation Venerable." Gu Xiuyuan said with a smile.