I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 477: Cultivating the True and the False

After coming out of the Daming Dao Palace, Zhou Tieyi went straight to the "Tianjing News" of the Zhushen Division. Now, the "Tianjing News" has become an independent organization within the Zhushen Division and is still managed by Hu Wenlang.

"I didn't expect you to still dare to stay in Tianjing."

If Zhou Tieyi didn't have something special, he wouldn't come to see Hu Wenlang, so this would help Hu Wenlang cover up his identity.

Or in other words, since he came back, he has been intentionally distancing himself from people close to him and only meets them for official business, so that he can better protect them.

Today, as the official business requires the use of the Tianjing News, it is reasonable for Zhou Tieyi to go to Hu Wenlang.

Princess Mo beside her placed the wine and food on the table.

Hu Wenlang picked up a cup of hot wine and took a sip. "When I left Tianjing, only four people in the world knew about it: you, Gongshu Ting, Tian Fu, and Mo Jian."

Zhou Tieyi nodded and said in a thoughtful tone, "I didn't expect Mo Jian to not make your identity public."

Hu Wenlang thought for a moment, "We are not plants or trees, so we are not heartless. Father Tian let him go. Although Mo Jian wants to open another sect outside of the current Mohist School, he certainly doesn't want to completely destroy the situation left by Father Tian. Besides, helping me, the reincarnation of Emperor Wu of Wei, hide in Tianjing will definitely be much more useful in the future than forcing me away directly."

Zhou Tieyi thought about it and realized that indeed, if Mo Jian wanted to achieve his path of "knowing ghosts" now, he must assist or build an underworld like himself, and make people in the world fear the world after death, so as to correct the morals of people in the living world.

There is nothing wrong with this idea, it can even be considered the right path, otherwise Zhou Tieyi would not have chosen this path.

However, the biggest obstacle to establishing the Yin Court is the Great Xia court that currently suppresses Shintoism. So in the matter of the Great Xia court, Mo Jian helped Hu Wenlang, the reincarnation of Emperor Wu of Wei with ulterior motives, to hide in Tianjing, which would bring more benefits than disadvantages.

"Are you still pursuing the path of a novelist?"

Zhou Tieyi looked at Hu Wenlang with an uncertain tone.

If it were in the past, he would certainly be sure that Hu Wenlang would be reluctant to give up the path of a novelist, but now, having inherited the legacy of Emperor Wu of Wei, Zhou Tieyi would not be surprised even if Hu Wenlang opened up a holy path on his own.

Hu Wenlang looked at Zhou Tieyi but did not answer directly. He stretched out his hand and a green bamboo slip was pulled out from the dream, with "Wei Wu Zhushen" written on it. However, on the bamboo slip, a relic turned into an illusory bright moon, guiding the dreams of the people into the slip, allowing the story in the slip to continue changing.

Zhou Tieyi observed it carefully.

The Mingyue evolved by Hu Wenlang obviously borrowed the power of the Mingyue System. Although he is the current ruler of the Mingyue System, Hu Wenlang, who participates in the Mingyue System and guides the dreams of the people, also has the authority to mobilize power.

With the help of the Mingyue system, which is close to the status of a saint, Hu Wenlang is also collecting the dreams of the people, but he does not manifest these dreams. Instead, he pours them into "Wei Wu Zhushen" and lets the world inside evolve independently, completely becoming a dream world. He, as Hu Wenlang, truly exists in the real world. The two are divided into two by the relics left by Monk Zhi.

"Entering the truth, no, you should call this cultivation of the truth."

Zhou Tieyi said thoughtfully.

The fourth level of a novelist is "entering the truth", which is the beginning of making the fake look real. At this time, one only needs to make people believe in their own senses and dreams, and then the originally illusory harm will appear in reality.

But Hu Wenlang's current state is obviously beyond the general state of entering the truth. He is building a real dream world. This dream world is derived from the sub-sage achievements of Emperor Wu of Wei in his previous life. It absorbs countless people's dreams and evolves into a dream Wei Kingdom. This dream Wei Kingdom is not even controlled by Hu Wenlang, the novelist.

But correspondingly, all illusions related to Hu Wenlang will be absorbed by the dream world, so Hu Wenlang will become extremely real, and at the same time, Emperor Wu of Wei will be constantly trapped in a dream world.

Zhou Tieyi couldn't figure out where this road would lead, but at least now he was certain that all the illusions in the world, even those at the level of Taixu Illusion Master, would have very little influence on Hu Wenlang, and illusions below the level of Taixu Illusion Master would not even be able to affect Hu Wenlang.

"What if your previous life, the Emperor Wu of Wei in the bamboo slips, found himself in a dream world?"

Zhou Tieyi asked.

Hu Wenlang used the "Great Wisdom Sutra" to divide his past life and this life into two in order to prevent the will of Emperor Wu of Wei from completely taking over his personality in this life. However, completely separating the personality of the previous life and placing it in the dream world is equivalent to giving the personality of the previous life complete independence, which can be seen from the fact that Hu Wenlang could not control the evolution of the world in the scroll.

"If he is awake, I will naturally become illusory."

Hu Wenlang replied with a smile that he was now using the dreams of all living beings to create a dream prison world for the will of Emperor Wu of Wei, letting the will continue to sink in it, until his own practice became true and he was sure to completely absorb the memory of Emperor Wu of Wei with the personality memory of this life.

During this process, if Emperor Wu of Wei in his dream wakes up, it means that he has failed in his cultivation. His personality memory in this life will be even worse than the previous fusion and will disappear completely.

The path of spiritual practice is full of dangers and challenges, especially when one has to blaze one's own trail.

Zhou Tieyi sighed in his heart, then returned to his work, "The Juma City has been lost."

Hu Wenlang's expression remained unchanged, "I already know this."

Although he did not directly inherit everything from his previous life, through the events in Taihang Mountain, he was able to subdue the second-rank general, the Lord of the Prison Gate, and the resources in Hu Wenlang's hands increased significantly.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it and agreed. The matter of Juma City must have spread like wildfire among the gods at this time. It could be easily known through the Taixu Illusion Realm and it could not be concealed.

While he is promoting the enlightenment of people's wisdom, he will naturally suffer the backlash of people's wisdom. Nowadays, people are paying attention to politics, and their enthusiasm for military affairs is unprecedentedly high. The news of the fall of Juma City will surely spread throughout the city tomorrow.

If it were normal times, Zhou Tieyi wouldn't care too much. He only had a vague understanding of the military affairs on the front line, but he knew that even if a strong pass was lost, it would be impossible for Yuan Meng to win a big victory. As long as Da Xia could build a strong defense and hold a new line of defense, it would be able to fight back slowly.

The three Confucian officials are unable to exert their full strength when they leave their own places of governing the people, which is why Daxia has never been able to completely defeat Yuanmeng.

But the reverse is also true. The third-grade gods who own the kingdom of God are more severely restricted in this regard. Even if they send out divine generals to capture cities, if they cannot stabilize the occupation and establish a new kingdom of God, then the chances of holding on will become smaller and smaller.

Therefore, the failure of a local battle was not an unacceptable failure for a war of a great empire, so Zhou Tieyi was not panicked. What he was really worried about was that the failure on the local battlefield would cause panic within the empire, allowing the radicals and peace-seeking factions to gain the upper hand and even dominate the war, which would be the beginning of a real disaster.

For example, in the current situation, the country is implementing internal currency reforms. Confidence is most needed at this time. A huge setback on the front line will inevitably affect the market.

If we force the front line to attack for the sake of domestic confidence at this time, we will fall into the enemy's trap. Therefore, the situation on the front line can only be judged by the front line. Even Zhou Tieyi can only stabilize confidence from the rear. At the same time, he also has to stop the voices of dissatisfaction with the military strategists in the court.

"Now that you know this, what should you write in tomorrow's newspaper?"

Hu Wenlang took out a newspaper that had already been written from the bookcase next to him, and Zhou Tieyi flipped to the military edition titled "Encircle the enemy on three sides and leave one side open to lure the enemy deep into our territory."

Zhou Tieyi read the article carefully and nodded slightly. This was a typical case of celebrating a funeral. The fall of Juma City could not be concealed, but it could be described as a strategic policy for the front line.

In this article, the loss of Juma City not only did not cause any harm, but instead became a major weakness for the Yuanmeng army that was approaching. The above words are of course fabricated, but journalism has always been about serving politics.

Zhou Tieyi hesitated for a moment, "Where are the newspapers from other companies?"

Hu Wenlang replied, "They probably won't dare to write about this tomorrow."

Although all the philosophers can now publish newspapers and publicize their own theories in newspapers, they are managed by the Newspaper Department. Ke Anran has established the Newspaper Department in the past two months, which can at least control the mouthpiece in Tianjing.

At the same time, the fall of Juma City was a tragic event for all the schools of thought. Publicizing this matter at this time would only benefit Shintoism and would not be of any benefit to the various schools of thought.

“Let them write.”

Zhou Tieyi thought for a moment and said, "It's just that their newspaper will be published half an hour later than the Tianjing News tomorrow because of the urgent news."

"They have to write, too?"

Zhou Tieyi said, "If you want to conceal something, you can either do it without anyone noticing, but we can't do that with Ju Ma City, so the second way is to cover up the real information with a lot of junk information. The amount of information a person can process in a day is extremely limited. Many times, even if they know we are lying, when the lies are flooding like a tide, it will be difficult for those who want to tell the truth to refute them. Let the philosophers write from another perspective, emphasizing how great the losses of Yuan Meng are at this time, how exhausted the soldiers are, and write about the recent battle results on the front line in great detail."

"Front-line results?"

Hu Wenlang hesitated for a moment and asked, it was precisely because of the reduction of troops on the front line that the Juma City was suddenly breached this time, so where was the result of the battle in the past two months?

"Even if the battle lines shrink, there will always be scouts who can kill the enemy. Write about them! Isn't this what novelists are best at?"

Only scouts can kill a few enemies. Zhou Tieyi even asked to write these reports in the style of novelists, which is almost equivalent to falsely reporting military achievements. This was something that novelists would not even dare to think about in the past.

Novelists interfere in military and political affairs?
But seeing Zhou Tieyi's serious expression, Hu Wenlang understood that he had to do this now.

He immediately said, “I’ll do it right away.”

It is now past midnight and there is not much time left.

Zhou Tieyi got on the carriage and returned to the Central Bank. In the carriage, he sighed softly. What he did today had undoubtedly set a bad precedent. However, when it comes to governing a country, many times it is a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. One can only choose between one bad thing and another.

Wangluo Garden.

The Chamber of Commerce is the most well-informed place, and they also got the general news after Zhou Tieyi left the Zhushen Division.

"The Juma City has been lost. How come there was such a huge mistake on the front line?"

"Now is not the time to discuss the problem of loopholes. I am worried that the stock of the Railway Chamber of Commerce may not be stable tomorrow!"

"Should we sell some as well?"

The shares of the Railway Chamber of Commerce have been extremely tense these past two days, and have been defending the bottom line of seven taels and five cents, hovering around eight taels, and it looks precarious. Even Qian Guangyun himself hinted yesterday that the price could be lower, seven taels of silver would be fine. But with this news coming out today, I'm afraid that tomorrow even seven taels of silver won't be able to be defended?
At this price, many small and medium-sized traders who bought in later suffered losses.

Qian Guangyun had extremely sharp ears. When he heard someone say that they wanted to sell some, his eyes were like an eagle's. The terrifying pressure directly silenced the noisy hall around him.

"Someone, strip this man of his clothes and throw him out, and remove him from the Southeast Chamber of Commerce!"

Everyone was stunned when they heard Qian Guangyun's words. You know, even though they had gone too far during the discussion before, and Qian Guangyun had scolded them, he didn't have the premise to blame them for just one sentence.

"President Qian, I made a mistake, I made a mistake!"

Those who can be called up tonight are the core members of the Southeast Chamber of Commerce, or even Qian Guangyun’s confidants.

Qian Guangyun sighed, "I'm saving you, what's wrong? No one understands me? Do you want me to repeat it again? Strip him and throw him out!"

When the guards heard Qian Guangyun repeat what he said, they knew that this was serious, so they had no choice but to take action. They stripped the businessman, who kept admitting his mistakes, and threw him out of the gate.

After establishing his authority in this way, many businessmen also shut up.

Qian Guangyun spoke at this time, "Everyone is practicing the business way. Because of Zhou Hou, you have also felt that the business way is easy to practice now. Zhou Hou also intends to give us businessmen the right to speak, but you should speak when you should speak. Even if everyone complains about Zhou Hou behind his back, I will let it go, because this is Zhou Hou's intention. But now it is time for you to obey orders. You must know when to speak and when not to speak. Just obey orders and you will understand the principle of the fourth level 'Cang Xu'."

Qian Guangyun was still scolding the merchants when he heard a manager coming in with a clerk from the Central Bank. The clerk said without further ado, "There are four carts of silver notes outside. Find more people tomorrow and use the silver notes to buy stocks. Don't worry about the cost. Tomorrow the Railway Chamber of Commerce's stocks will return to 9 taels and 5 cents per share!"

(End of this chapter)