I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 480: The Scene of Cooking in Oil
Xuandu Mountain is located in the south. Even though it is December, the dead of winter, the mountain is still covered with green, like a giant green lotus blooming on the ground.

This is the fiefdom of the Heavenly Master and has always been the ancestral home of Taoism.

The so-called Heavenly Master is the bloodline of the Daoist Master’s family. Under his protection, all the people in every generation have been of the first rank.

Originally, this matter was contrary to the Taoist doctrine of "Tao follows nature". No one knew what the purpose of the Taoist was in passing down an inexplicable Dharma to each generation. However, the Heavenly Masters of all generations have helped the world and abided by morality, so people in the world gradually got used to the Heavenly Master lineage until this dynasty.

Baohua Hall is the place where Tianshi Palace handles worldly affairs. Today, because they received a letter, all the old Taoists in Tianshi Palace woke up from their meditation.

"When did it become his turn as an outsider to speak at this Luotian Grand Ceremony?"

"Indeed, his mother was well-behaved when she was studying in Tianshi Palace. I never expected that he would be so unfilial!"

"Luotian Grand Ceremony is our Taoist ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven. It cannot be held without the approval of the Heavenly Master. How can we, the Heavenly Master, manage the world's Taoist sects in the future if he announces it to the world?"

The old Taoists were arguing over Zhou Tieyi's letter to convene the Luotian Grand Ceremony.

The fundamental reason for their quarrel was finally explained by an old Taoist priest.

Luotian Grand Ceremony has been a powerful tool used by Taoism for the past 20 years to train young people all over the world. Although more than 20 years have passed since Zhou Yulong convened the Luotian Grand Ceremony, it should be held again. However, it should be read by the Heavenly Master, and Zhou Tieyi should not announce this matter in Tianjing with great fanfare.

Even if Zhou Tieyi wanted to do this, he could first come to their Xuandu Mountain quietly and show some softness. For Zhou Yulong's sake, the old Taoists would eventually agree. But Zhou Tieyi should never announce this matter first and then force them to hold the Luotian Dajiao in Xuandu Mountain. Even when the Emperor of Daxia was at the height of his power, he never did this.

"I think the Cairo Tiandajiao is fake, and the dispute over the Taoist lineage is real!"

An old Taoist sneered and revealed a deeper meaning.

Everyone looked at the invitation in their hands again. It was clearly written on it that this Luotian Grand Ceremony would not only gather new Taoist talents from all over the world, but most importantly, would gather those Taoists who had been hovering at the fourth rank for many years to preach Zhou Tieyi's earthly immortal method.

Everyone present had also heard of the Earthly Immortal Method. Although it did not include the Taoist third-grade celestial phenomena, it was a different approach that supplemented the Heavenly Way with the Human Way, and it could be considered a grand avenue.

However, if all Taoists in the world were allowed to practice the methods of earthly immortals, it would undoubtedly damage the original celestial Taoist tradition. The core right to interpret the celestial Taoist tradition lies in the bloodline of the Taoist Master, the Xuandu Mountain lineage, which has always held the right to interpret Taoist scriptures.

Therefore, even if Zhou Tieyi begged humbly, the result would definitely not be as easy as these old Taoists said. Zhou Tieyi would have to give up a large part of his interests, or even take advantage of his seniority to make Zhou Tieyi make a big promise.

At this time, an old Taoist asked, "What does the old Taoist priest say?"

Ultimately, this matter still requires the final decision of the old Taoist priest.

The Taoist boy who had delivered the message from the Heavenly Master said, "The Heavenly Master's instructions are the same as usual."

There are three hills to the east of Baohua Hall. They are not the highest peaks of Xuandu Mountains, but they are the rice fields of Tianshi, where Tianshi practices Taoism all year round.

At this time, in the huge yard, bunches of golden rice ears drooped in the cold wind, and the exposed rice grains were like jade, which was the world-famous jade rice.

The old Taoist priest was tending to the rice fields, and said to the Taoist boy riding a cow beside him with a sad face, "It's a drought this year, and it's hard to take care of the rice fields."

The Taoist boy riding a bull was about four or five years old. He was the peerless Taoist genius Li Qinghua who had blocked the Illusion Priest at that time. He curled his lips and said, "Old man, don't try to be sarcastic with me. We have been together for hundreds of years. Is it so difficult to talk to each other every day?"

The old Taoist priest was exposed by Li Qinghua, and he laughed and said, "I am not being witty, but the people of the world are watching my few acres of rice. I gave it to you. If I don't give it to him, it will be bad."

"So you just watched them fight?"

"In the Way of Heaven, there is not only the principle of keeping emptiness, but also the principle of the survival of the fittest. Since people in the world like to argue about right and wrong so much, let them argue about right and wrong."

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"Extra, Extra, the Railway Chamber of Commerce, the Steamship Bureau, and the Steam Airship Factory plan to recruit 100,000 workers. The eight major banks want to apply for listing. All departments are short of workers. They plan to recruit apprentices from the Newsboy School and teach them the method of cultivation! Zhou Hou wants to open a farm and negotiate with the farmers, Gongshu family, Mohist family, and merchants to promote large-scale mechanized farming!"

After yesterday's funerals and celebrations, especially after the stock market surge, Tianjing was not only not hurt by the news of the fall of the front-line city, but instead there was a strange feeling of joy.

And a series of news items published in today's newspapers seem to be adding fuel to the fire.

The amount of information in each newspaper is enormous, and compared to the virtual economy such as stocks and bonds in the past, all the news today has turned to the real economy.

A large amount of recruitment information filled all the newspaper pages, and unlike the previous recruitment that was easily exploited, this time the recruitment information clearly stated the requirements and remuneration. When it was published in the "Tianjing Daily", it was almost equivalent to the court's approval, and no one would dare to falsify this matter.

The workers with the lowest salary were railway workers, but they also had the lowest requirements. As long as they could work hard, they would be fine. Food and accommodation were provided, and they also received two taels and five cents of silver per month. This was mainly set for the refugees coming to Tianjing, and the number of workers recruited was also very large.

The slightly higher level required literacy and the wages for factory workers under the age of 30, after initial training, ranged from 3.23 yuan at the Railway Chamber of Commerce to 3.26 yuan at the Steam Airship Factory.

Although the price offered by the Steam Airship Factory is higher, I heard that the admissions process is also extremely strict.

The best paid ones are the newsboys who were looked down upon by everyone in the past. All the major chambers of commerce have said that they will recruit the best people from the newsboy schools to work as helpers in the chambers of commerce. Although the salary is not high, only two taels and five cents of silver, they will be directly taught the practice methods of the Ninth Grade Business Dao!
The law should not be passed lightly!
Although various schools of thought had opened enlightenment schools in the past, they all wanted to select apprentices with the best qualifications and better family backgrounds, because the sages said that all wealth in the world has a fixed number, so practitioners must naturally have a fixed number, so that wealth can satisfy practitioners.

But Zhou Tieyi did the opposite. Not only could everyone become a scholar, but the world's wealth would also continue to satisfy the people's material and spiritual needs.

Therefore, the Tianjing business practitioners who were closest to Zhou Tieyi and were even regarded as Zhou Tieyi's other direct lineage became the first to dare to take the plunge and began to widely spread their own practice methods. Although it was a ninth-grade practice method, for real people, it was no less than a way to heaven, at least it allowed people to see the light leaking from the dome.

What's more, since they start attending newsboy school, these apprentices have basically become able to take care of themselves. Although the life is a bit hard, it will not add any burden to their families. Therefore, children from poor families now try every means to become newsboys, making the newsboy profession in short supply.

The Newsboy Academy also said that it is now tentatively planning to hold an exam every six months. Those who successfully pass the exam will be recruited by the Chamber of Commerce. At the same time, they will also give up their newsboy positions to others to ensure that new comers will have a chance.

Shang Dao was the first to try it out. Other schools of thought, especially the top schools such as Legalism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, were all hesitating whether to recruit apprentices from the newsboy school because they were different from Shang Dao.

Now that Tianjing's business is booming, these newsboys who can read and write and have been exposed to society can quickly become an excellent supplement to the business and produce value.

However, if Confucianism recruits students from the Newsboy Academy, it will have to further support these newsboys, which will become a burden to Confucianism.

Among the various schools of thought, only the practical theories of the agricultural school, the Gongshu school, the Mohist school, and the medical school can be quickly applied by these outstanding graduates, but the rate of return and return cycle are far less effective than those of merchants.

While the common people were rejoicing, the various schools of thought gradually realized that the merchants they had looked down upon in the past might really flourish this time. What concerned them even more was what should they do if Zhou Tieyi really turned to business and prepared to use business to establish his sainthood?
If someone had told them half a year ago that businessmen could also become saints, all the philosophers would have laughed out loud.

But now they have to consider this objective fact. Zhou Tieyi has never been judged by common sense. The probability of him switching to business seems extremely small, but it is unexpected.

At the same time, there is no doubt that Zhou Tieyi has a solid foundation in business. He can use his "theory of human desire" as the foundation of his business, and the industrial reform he mentioned as the way to advance his business. If, after a few decades, he really completes the world's continuous production and can continuously meet the needs of the people of the world, then it is not an exaggeration to call him a saint.

After realizing this, the various schools of thought had to start experimenting in this regard. Those schools of thought with large bows were difficult to turn around, but those with small bows were easy to turn around.

For example, the leader of the Tianjing Gourmet has announced that they are planning to form a Tianjing Gourmet Society, and will also recruit outstanding graduates from the Newsboy School. However, the recruits will have to undergo another six months of training, and once qualified, they will also be taught the Gourmet's practice methods.

Of course, this attempt was drowned out today by a series of recruitment measures implemented by Zhou Tieyi, because compared to the foodies, newsboys are now more willing to squeeze through the threshold of merchants. Although they don’t know that the merchants may make saintly remarks, as newsboys, they have the ability to inquire about information. They know that since the opening of exchanges and banks, the way of business has become extremely easy to practice, and every day there are news of breakthroughs by business practitioners.

The people admired the way of business, and the fortune of the world was also gathering invisibly, further promoting the practice of business, which was truly a scene of raging fire and oil cooking.

In addition to the prosperous trade route in Tianjing, there was another prosperous trade route in another place.

The illusory world!

"After breaking through the Juma City, Yuanmeng Heavenly Wolf God General continued to march a hundred miles to the city of Lin'an."

"The vast sea in the west of Daxia and the four continents of Tianyuan are in turmoil, and the people are stealing government grain."

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Compared to newspapers, the information provided by an organization spanning the entire world like Taixu Huanjing is naturally more timely. However, Taixu Huanjing used to take the high-end and secret routes, and everyone outside Taixu Huanjing was a well-known cultivator, so they naturally never thought of shouting like street vendors.

However, Zhou Tieyi's vigorous reforms in Tianjing naturally affected the Shinto high-level officials. So now, for these news that can attack the enemy's information, the Phantom Priest is not reluctant to act as a peddler and directly uses the Taixu Phantom Mask to transmit the messages.

And the result was unexpectedly good, just like the people of Tianjing bought stocks because they believed in a 'big victory' on the front line. Now Shinto's two consecutive actions almost ruined the situation in the west and the north, and the combined impact on the fourteen states of Daxia was a shot in the arm for Shinto's confidence, which had already hit rock bottom.

The most intuitive manifestation is that even with Zhou Tieyi, the Taixu Huanbi, which is backed by the Shinto high-level officials, has begun to stop falling and is rising at the same time. Especially in the past two days, news about the severe drought in Daxia next year, the further deterioration of the situation in the west, and the further loss of the north has come in one after another. The Taixu Huanbi has not only returned to its previous value, but has also begun to rise faintly.

Because at this time, everyone discovered that there seemed to be really not many Taixuhuan coins on the market, and they were really being collected on a large scale by Shinto high-level officials and people with ulterior motives.

Taixu Fantasy Coin is already extremely valuable, so under the combined effects of short-term money panic and panic, it is rising almost every moment, completely beyond everyone's imagination.

The happiest one among them was Yueqin, who had previously taken on enormous pressure to collect the Taixu Fantasy Coins.

At this time, the 'Tianbao Tower' opened by Yueqin in the market town was already quite famous. Although it was not as convincing as the 'Yunlai House' and other places directly operated by Taixu Huanjing, even when the value of Taixu Huanjing coins was the lowest, Tianbao Tower still traded a large number of Taixu Huanjing coins as usual, and naturally gained the trust of everyone.

"Mr. Panda, you finally remember your little business."

Seeing Zhou Tieyi coming, Yueqin rarely joked. She had been under great pressure before. In the process of purchasing Taixu Huanhuan Coins in rounds, even though Zhou Tieyi had already paid for a batch of secret treasures for cultivation, the number of Taixu Huanhuan Coins she had collected now had already exceeded 100,000, reaching an astonishing 700,000. It can be said that the price increase of Taixu Huanhuan Coins now is largely due to the fact that they have too many Taixu Huanhuan Coins.

Zhou Tieyi looked at the dazzling array of goods and said, "I heard that the Grand Illusion Realm is in great need of currency right now?"

Yueqin knows what Ya is saying, "Should we sell some Taixuhuan coins now?"

Before, Yueqin was not sure that the panda was Zhou Tieyi, but now, combining the operations of the two currencies of Daxia and Taixu Illusion, she is almost 90% sure that the panda is Zhou Tieyi. There is only one person in the world who dares to play with currency so big and so well.

Zhou Tieyi nodded and said, "Yes, spread the news to everyone. If you are short of Taixuhuan coins, you can buy them from us, but we only want gold."

(End of this chapter)