God Weird Fairy

Chapter 364: Dali Court Meeting First Meeting with the Emperor

On July 1st, the great departure meeting was held.

The Dali court usually held a court meeting in the Hall of Supreme Harmony on the first day of every ten days unless there was an urgent matter.

The matters to be discussed at the court meeting were not limited to Nan Yi's Qigong. So Nan Yi was currently waiting outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

To be precise, it is below the thirty-nine steps outside the hall.

Nan Yi pricked up his ears and faintly heard some voices in the hall, which seemed to be talking about things related to the Kan Dynasty.

However, there was a radio receiving array in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Although it was not completely soundproof, Nan Yi could still hear it intermittently and not very clearly.

He secretly guessed that it might be related to steam technology.

Suddenly, a minor official came to greet Nan Yi and invited him into the hall.

Nan Yi then straightened his clothes and walked into the Hall of Supreme Harmony with his head held high.

Inside the hall, the atmosphere was solemn and dignified.

The elegant civil servants and the dashing military officers were divided into several rows and lined up in the hall.

Nan Yi sensed it briefly and realized that all the civil and military officials had transcended the ordinary world.

Although they were facing Li Huang and had their backs to Nan Yi, they all subtly suppressed their aura.

Nan Yi remained calm, silently chanting "Quan Yu", and walked briskly to the position in the middle aisle of the hall to face the emperor.

At the top of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, behind an almost transparent pearl curtain, was Emperor Li sitting on the throne.

Emperor Li was wearing a yellow robe and a golden crown. He looked dignified and his eyes were deep and sharp, as if they could see straight into people's hearts.

He is obviously just an ordinary mortal, but his aura is not inferior to those mortal monks.

His gaze pierced through the beaded curtain, staring at Nan Yi who was entering the hall, and unexpectedly made Nan Yi feel a pressure that was even more dignified than the aura of the hundreds of officials and monks.

At this moment, all officials stood in silence, without making any sound, as if time had stopped.

In the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony, only Nan Yi walked along the aisle with light steps, each of which seemed to have been measured.

He stopped at the place where he faced the emperor, bowed slightly, and saluted to the emperor: "I am Nan Yi, your humble servant, and I am honored to meet the emperor."

Emperor Li nodded slightly, uttered the words "no need for formalities", and motioned Nan Yi to stand up.

Next, it is Nan Yi’s undisturbed advertising time.

He spoke sincerely and began to introduce Qigong to the emperor, especially the Qi of Longevity. He started by saying that the Qi of Longevity could prolong people's lifespan, and then he talked about how this method would make people buy more meat to absorb the essence, which could increase labor, promote consumption, and stimulate the economy, and it was a method that benefited both the country and the people.

Emperor Li had a calm expression on his face, and he just listened silently.

At the same time, the civil and military officials were also listening to Nan Yi's statement silently. They either lowered their heads in deep thought or exchanged glances with each other, as if they were discussing something in secret.

Nan Yi knew that what he was saying now was just a formality.

It has been more than two months since the spread of Zhenqi martial arts began. There is no need for Nan Yi to introduce the specific changes it will bring to the people. All civil and military officials as well as Emperor Li have already understood it clearly.

But he still wants to elaborate on it here.

Because of the rules, no matter what the Emperor Li or the officials think, they have to follow the etiquette and wait for Nan Yi to finish his speech and go through the formalities before they can move forward.

For example, if any official wanted to refute Nan Yi, no matter how opposed they were, they could not interrupt Nan Yi or prevent him from expressing his views.

Correspondingly, even though Emperor Li admired the true qi martial arts, he had to ask Nan Yi to convince all the civil and military officials to approve the spread of the true qi martial arts before he could order Nan Yi to stay in the palace for secret talks.

This is also the constraint of the power of the scholars on the power of the emperor. Although the emperor has a high status, he cannot do whatever he wants and must still abide by the rules and respect the etiquette.

Anyway, after Nan Yi finished speaking, Emperor Li nodded and looked at the others: "My dear ministers, what do you think?"

Immediately, officials from the Ministry of Commerce took the lead and expressed different opinions based on economic laws. They believed that the effectiveness of Qigong in promoting consumption and stimulating the economy was just empty talk.

Eating more meat can indeed absorb essence and strengthen the true qi in the body. However, as long as you maintain a regular schedule and rest normally, you don't need to eat more meat on purpose to have enough essence for cultivation.

Therefore, ordinary people do not have much spare money and will not really eat large amounts of meat. They just practice longevity qi in their spare time.

If we want to boost the economy and enhance national strength, we must still start with improving productivity, innovating all industries and expanding production capacity.

Another official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs came forward and talked about how the increase in people's life expectancy will lead to a decrease in the desire to have children, which is not conducive to social governance and that we need to be vigilant about the problem of population aging.

There were also officials from the Ministry of Justice who came forward and talked about the incident of "knights breaking the law with force". They believed that although the Longevity Qi itself only had the effect of prolonging life, those who practiced the Longevity Qi could easily switch to practicing other Qi out of curiosity, thus becoming an unstable risk.

It is suggested that for the sake of social stability, the law should not be passed on lightly, and Nan Yi should remove the mechanism of distributing martial arts to develop downline, and change the true qi martial arts into a secret one.

In short, apart from the official from the Ministry of Culture who had said "give it a month and see what happens", many officials were looking for various reasons to try to prove that Qigong should not be widely spread and should be restricted.

But even if the officials from the Ministry of Culture did not come forward, and it was other officials who found fault, Nan Yi would find it difficult to gain the upper hand in a debate with all the officials to refute them one by one.

Before he felt that Nan Yi was about to fall into a disadvantage, Emperor Li spoke up: "Since the opinions of all the nobles are not yet unified, please come down and discuss it among yourselves. Once you have reached a consensus, come back and report to me."

Emperor Li really wanted to ask Nan Yi to stay in the palace as soon as possible and explain in detail the practice of true qi martial arts.

But before the Qigong martial arts was completely given a legitimate status at the court meeting, Emperor Li could not do so.

After Emperor Li spoke, the clerk who had welcomed Nan Yi into the Hall of Supreme Harmony led Nan Yi out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony again.

Inside the hall, they immediately began to discuss the next rule, temporarily leaving aside the topic of Qigong martial arts.

Nan Yi, who no longer needed to enter the palace, was led by a minor official to leave the palace.

For Yu Nanyi, today's court meeting was mainly just a formality to put the issue of legalizing the Qigong martial arts project on the agenda.

However, how to approve the project still requires Nan Yi to persuade officials from various departments one by one in private.

As the saying goes, all the hard work is done outside the court. The court meeting is not a debate. As long as the nine ministers hold their own opinions and cannot reach a consensus, then ordinary matters can only be put on hold and brought to the court for discussion after negotiation.

The so-called negotiation and consensus, whether it is private exchange of interests or persuasion by force, are all off-field efforts.

For Yu Nanyi, the real struggle only begins after completing the process.

As he expected, based on the verbal battle in the Hall of Supreme Harmony today, the biggest obstacle indeed came from the Ministry of Commerce.

The arguments in the other works are mostly just for the sake of opposition, and there is no particularly strong conflict with Qigong.

The only one is Lin Ye, the current Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Commerce and Director of the Department of Finance. He always talks about material productivity but never mentions economic driving force. Not only does it give Nan Yi a headache to deal with him, but he is also obviously thinking about promoting steam technology and competing with Qigong for the hearts of the people.

After all, Qigong is a method of cultivation, and ultimately it is a way of allocating power to oneself. It is impossible to compete with steam technology in productivity innovation.

Unless Nan Yi immediately tinkers with a machine suitable for Qi operation.

But the Qi machine is not impossible to exist, but it obviously cannot be produced in a short time.

Fortunately, if you want to convince officials from the Ministry of Commerce or other officials, the most serious way is not to convince them with reason, but to convince them with force first, and then with benefits.

First, get rid of Lin Ye, who has the most hardline attitude, support Su Guang to recover, and turn enemies into friends with the Shang Department; then, through the exchange of interests, reach a consensus with other departments that have a relatively soft attitude and room for communication, and finally promote the legalization of the Qigong martial arts project.

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(End of this chapter)