I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 555 Expectation Management
From Zhao Qinxin, the elders of the Qing Emperor's lineage learned the most crucial information. The current situation is still within Zhou Tieyi's plan. Not only has he not weakened, but he is continuing to get stronger. The image of sainthood in Taiyi Temple is not false.

King Zhao Fu of Chongshan asked, "Then he asked you to deliver the message..."

Zhao Qinxin stood up and said seriously, "Please ask the Emperor to open up cultivation materials, increase the number of cultivators in Chongshan Mansion, and collect gold from the world at the same time."

"Open up training materials..."

Zhao Fu held the jade pendant in his hand and pondered it over and over again.

A key point for aristocratic families to keep retainers is to control the materials for cultivation. Therefore, the aristocratic families have extremely strict control over the materials for cultivation. If someone asks them to release the materials for cultivation, it would be like asking for their lives.

But that was an ordinary aristocratic family. The Qingdi lineage was considering issues at another level, so the elders present were not as short-sighted as ordinary families. They did not jump up and down when they heard Zhou Tieyi ask them to release the supplies. Instead, they concentrated on thinking and analyzing the fundamental reasons.

In times of peace and prosperity, various schools of thought mastered the methods of cultivation. Although people all over the world knew that cultivation could lead to immortality, the method should not be passed on lightly. The most widely spread Confucian method was actually the worst at achieving immortality among all the schools of thought. Therefore, it maintained a society dominated by mortals, maintained a relatively sufficient output of materials for cultivation, provided a stable supply to the monks, and maintained stability in the world.

Although Zhou Tieyi scoffed at the Confucian idea that "the wealth of the world has a fixed number", this doctrine does have a set of logic that can maintain stability in the world.

If all schools of thought spread their teachings widely and the resources for cultivation were relaxed, the number of practitioners would increase rapidly, and even the number of ordinary people would decrease. Therefore, everyone in the world would value the methods of cultivation and the way to longevity.

This will lead to a fatal problem.

That is, mortals are not human beings.

In order to obtain limited resources, monks formed countries or sects, and the strong preyed on the weak and killed each other, turning the entire Daxia into a cultivation jungle. Those who were unable to practice cultivation were not worthy of being called human beings, and were reduced to the same level as pigs and dogs. They could kill and convict ordinary people like grass. A fight between two middle-level monks could kill a block or two of ordinary people.

Therefore, this situation can only maintain the prosperity of the cultivation world for one or two hundred years. The short-term surge in cultivators cannot allow the cultivation method to develop completely healthily, because the middle-level cultivators are fighting for material supplies and spiritual objects containing the ancestral qi of heaven and earth. At the same time, their lifespan is usually only about two hundred years.

When one reaches the upper third level, one no longer places importance on pure material things, but begins to pursue the orthodoxy of Taoism and the way of all living beings.

Therefore, as the Dharma is widely spread and the number of middle-level cultivators increases rapidly, in the short term the number of upper-three-grade cultivators will increase and the number of lower-level people will decrease. However, when the number of lower-level people decreases to a certain level, the promotion of the upper-three-grade cultivators will begin to be restricted, and the middle-level cultivators will be dragged into fights and die. Therefore, the various schools of thought will not be able to sustain themselves, and the top cultivators will re-enact the laws to suppress the rapidly increasing number of middle-level cultivators, increase the population of lower-level people again, and return to a social structure dominated by mortals.

The Qing Emperor's lineage was not unfamiliar with this process. They had experienced it twice, when the Holy Emperor was born and when Emperor Taizu was born. Those two eras were the end of the prosperity of the cultivation world. It was obvious that a military strategist could produce five first-rank people, and the way of cultivation was popular in the world, but why did the various schools of thought finally join hands to stop it?

It is because ordinary people can no longer bear the price and the foundation of the entire civilization has collapsed, so the era where monks are the priority must be ended.

Now Zhou Tieyi has spread the word through Zhao Qinxin that he wants his family to release the cultivation supplies...

Chongshan King Zhao Fu did not think entirely from his own interests. He stared into his daughter's eyes and asked seriously, "Is he trying to cause chaos in the world?"

Zhao Fu's problem is extremely serious. The Qing Emperor's lineage has been able to exist for more than two thousand years. It is certainly not a family so stupid as to only know the law of the jungle. Such a family is short-sighted. Even if it is prosperous for a while, it will eventually disappear.

This is just like a gambler entering a casino. If all he has in mind is the desire to win, you may win ten times, but you may not be able to afford the cost of losing once.

A clan like the Qing Emperor must consider the interests of the people of the world, so that the blessings can continue from generation to generation.

It was because they were the first to give up the pride of the imperial clan and turned to support Emperor Taizu of Daxia that they became the final "winners" among the descendants of the Five Emperors.

The same goes for Zhao Fu's support for Zhou Tieyi. The identity of the reincarnation of a god is certainly precious, but there is something in Zhou Tieyi that Zhao Fu values ​​more, and that is that Zhou Tieyi puts the people of the world first. In Zhou Tieyi's series of reforms, Zhao Fu saw a scene of prosperity rather than chaos, so he was willing to make up his mind so quickly, marry off his daughter, and push the family to support Zhou Tieyi.

Zhao Qinxin knew what her father meant, so she replied, "He didn't tell me that he was going to start a chaotic world. Father needs to ask him about this in person."

Zhao Fu nodded slightly, "I'll go ask him."

The elders then asked the second question, "Hasn't he collected a lot of gold from all over the world before?"

Zhao Qinxin could answer this question, and said, "Indeed, we have collected a lot. Three months ago, Western Buddhism was in chaos, and the Yuanmeng was pressing down on the realm. The value of the Grand Illusionary Coins in our hands increased greatly. Combined with the Grand Illusionary Coins collected by the Nine Ancient Gods, the currency in the Grand Illusionary Realm... contracted."

When talking about the word "monetary tightening", Zhao Qinxin paused, because this new word was taught to her by Zhou Tieyi.

"Then he released the Grand Illusionary Coins he had collected, allowing others to exchange gold for the Grand Illusionary Coins and cultivation materials we had. Although the Nine Ancient Gods didn't figure out what happened, they followed suit immediately."

Zhao Fu raised his hand to interrupt and said suddenly, "That means he actually had this idea at least four months ago."

Zhao Fu and several elders looked at each other.

Several elders sighed, "When he took out the ginseng fruit and other cultivation supplies, we thought he just wanted to collect a large amount of Taixuhuan coins to stabilize the Shendao that he had suppressed to the extreme at that time and maintain his power as a god. Now it seems that this is just one of his ideas. He always predicts the cause and effect of what he does. He is truly a saintly and arbitrary person, which is beyond the reach of mortals like us."

Several elders used the word "sacred and arbitrary" to describe it, which was enough to show the psychological pressure Zhou Tieyi's various arrangements had put on them.

Zhao Qinxin did not completely stand on Zhou Tieyi's side, and also helped the family analyze the situation, "Two other things happened at the same time. One was that the silver in Tianjing was greatly reduced because of his several collections. The currency in the Tianjing market was tight, and he took advantage of the situation to promote the Daxia silver bills. The other thing was that the excess Daxia silver bills were concentrated in the stock and treasury bond markets by him, maintaining the stability of money and grain."

"and many more!"

An elder interrupted, his expression becoming more serious, "We are collecting gold, the Shinto is collecting gold, and he must be using merchants to secretly collect gold... He still wants gold now?!" Another elder said, "Three months is enough for him to control most of the gold still in circulation in the world. What does he need so much gold for?"

"To maintain the stability of the banknotes?"

An elder of the tribe guessed that this was also their natural way of thinking.

Zhao Fu denied it, "No, it's a silver note, a silver note. The Daxia silver note he issued is marked with silver, not gold!"

Then he pondered quietly, "Silver, gold, how many taels of silver could one tael of gold be exchanged for in the past?"

Of course he knew about this, but he asked subconsciously now, hoping to get help to fill in the gaps.

Zhao Qinxin replied, "One ounce of gold is worth ten ounces of silver. Because gold and silver are widely used in alchemy, inscriptions, formations, and mechanical arts, and the demand is stable, this price has been maintained for at least fifty years. But in the past month, when I was collecting gold in the Grand Illusionary Realm, I found that the exchange rate between the big families has reached 1:13."

The gold in the Taixu Illusion Realm can be directly exchanged for various cultivation materials, especially ginseng fruit, which can directly enhance talent and is very attractive to the aristocratic families. This is their core.

The ginseng fruit can maintain a very high profit with just a complete corpse, so Zhou Tieyi naturally bargained hard for the gold. At first, no one noticed anything wrong, including Zhao Qinxin who did it.

Because in Zhao Qinxin's opinion, Zhou Tieyi made money by using currency as easily as eating and drinking. Half a year ago, he made a fortune by collecting a large amount of Taixuhuan coins. The gold he started collecting three months ago has now doubled by nearly 30%...

And this is still a compound growth. The Qing Emperor's lineage saw the profitability and increased their investment!

Zhao Qinxin sighed softly, "In fact, we should have thought of this a long time ago. How could a person like him only see the word profit?"

At the beginning, Zhao Qinxin and Zhou Tieyi collected Taixuhuan coins. She didn't know Zhou Tieyi's true identity. She just regarded it as a matter of training herself.

After learning about Zhou Tieyi's identity as Marquis of Great Xia, the family began to slowly intervene, but only as a way to get involved in the situation in Tianjing.

Finally, they knew that under the Marquis of Shengshi was the resurrected God, but the elephant was invisible and the family did not react at all. At the beginning, he collected the Taixu Fantasy Coins, issued the Daxia Silver Notes, and now collects gold, which is his means of manipulating the world.

Although they joined the game at the beginning, they only played the role of thugs. They could not see through the situation, even now.

Zhao Fu had already realized that something was wrong. He whispered, "It may be more than thirty-three. He was the one who promoted the construction of the Thirty-three Heavens. In order to take the lead, the Emperor of Daxia let the royal family take charge of the five Heavens alone."

Then Zhao Fu looked at an elder and asked, "How many ounces of gold do we need to build a Tianyu?"

The construction of a complete Tianyu is, of course, not just the structure of weaving legal principles on the Taiyi Temple. Unless there is a foundation like a school, a large amount of materials must be filled in. And as gold is a stabilizer for various formations, the demand cannot be low.

The elder lowered his head and said, "A sky tower will cost at least one million taels of gold."

Zhao Fu let go of the jade pendant in his hand and leaned back in his chair. "So the emperor's inner treasury can no longer produce much gold, and he needs more gold."

Zhao Fu looked at his daughter and chuckled, "And he will continue to release training materials and collect gold. It seems that he is not worried that we will not agree. Because we don't know what his trump card is, and we don't know how little gold he wants to reduce to suit his ideas. But I at least know one thing, he is going to warn the Queen of Heaven."

Zhao Qinxin knew the news earlier than her father, so she naturally thought of this and nodded, "Before he controlled the Daxia Bank, I heard that in the imperial study, he mentioned that there were several difficulties in issuing more currency, but he didn't say it clearly at the time. Everyone knew that he was warning everyone not to touch his currency authority easily, because it would be a hot potato in their hands."

"Yes." Zhao Fu sighed, "I originally thought that the world would need at least five years of stability. Five years is enough for him to complete the initial reforms."

"But Your Majesty... But the Emperor of Daxia also saw this." Zhao Qinxin changed her words, "So the Emperor of Daxia didn't endure for five years, and he didn't even endure for three months. The change was fast enough, but it still didn't keep up with his plan."

“The power of the central currency…”

Zhao Fu reconsidered the cause and effect, "The reduction of gold will shake the stable exchange rate of gold and silver..."

Having said this, Zhao Fu paused, because with the knowledge he had accumulated, he could vaguely infer the future, but it was not accurate enough, and he could not determine whether his inference was true or false. Even if he evolved according to the Taoist method, this kind of thing involved the transformation of money and goods in the world and the well-being of the people. Except for a saint, it was impossible to get an accurate conclusion, and he even saw contradictory results.

Just as Zhou Tieyi had thought before, if you want to successfully complete this world-class currency change, you must either have a complete history as a reference like him, or no matter how wise you are, your monetary theory will not be able to perfectly adapt to every stage of the entire change, because your monetary policy may need to change in less than a few months. This is a school of thought that has never been established by feudal dynasties or even the various schools of thought.

Zhao Qinxin helped her father analyze the situation with the knowledge and information she learned from Zhou Tieyi. "He said that this would lead to an appreciation of gold and a depreciation of silver. Now the entire market has accelerated the channels for exchanging gold for cultivation materials, but has not increased the channels for exchanging silver for cultivation materials. At the same time, the amount of gold is far less than that of silver. Once everyone from the noble families to the common people want to cultivate, silver will continue to depreciate. Silver is the basis of the current Daxia silver notes. If silver is despised by the people, then the Daxia silver notes will be despised. Coupled with the publicity of the drought that is bound to occur this year, there will only be one result..."

Zhao Fu sighed, "Silver is cheap, but things are expensive."

At this stage, the imperial court has completely relied on issuing more paper money as a means of maintaining its finances. Once the situation of cheap silver and expensive goods is opened, the market will quickly turn from deflation to inflation. If the imperial court does not manage it at this time and continues to issue paper money anyway, it will not take a year or two for Zhou Tieyi to use the Daxia silver notes to create an artificial natural disaster and destroy the imperial court's credibility among the people.

Zhao Fu asked again, "Does he really not care about the people of the world?"

Zhao Qinxin said in a strange tone, "He said this is just part of expectation management."

(End of this chapter)