I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 569: Mountains and Rivers in Mind
In the hall, even though Zhou Tieyi had restrained his own Taoism, the influence of his Taoism still remained in the hearts of the participants.

In the future beyond history, towering buildings are built one after another, and brilliant lights are lit in the night, far exceeding the ground lighting system of any city in Daxia today. It is like a ribbon or a bonfire lit on the ground, from the south of Taihang to the north of Yuanmeng. With wisdom, humans imprison the stars in the sky to illuminate the entire world.

In comparison, the jade buildings and jade plates filled with delicacies in the divine palace before one's eyes really paled in comparison.

Even the first-grade divine court seemed to be eclipsed. It was indeed worthy of the conception in the mind of the God. No, it was the future He foresaw.

Zhou Tieyi raised his hand, "Now everyone, please give your choices."

He spoke a lot, from techniques to principles, just to let the Da Xia followers present understand that he has the ideals and ability to realize the future, and all he lacks is time. But now time is on their side.

The moment Zhou Tieyi raised his hand, the two pacification envoys who had been silenced found that they could speak. The anger, fear, and worry towards Zhou Tieyi on their faces turned into the most speechless silence.

They really hoped that Zhou Tieyi's divine court would be in the same state as Yuan Meng. They even realized that they would face cavalry that were no less powerful than Yuan Meng's soldiers in Taihang Mountains. But now, Zhou Tieyi only showed his wisdom, but this wisdom was more terrifying than thousands of troops. It was a weapon that could truly undermine the morale of the people of Daxia.

It is easy to kill a person, but difficult to kill his heart.

This is a heart-breaking strategy!

The first thing Zhou Tieyi wanted to kill was their hearts. When the two pacification envoys were speechless, King Ning spoke again, "The Divine Master said this, and we should have another drink. Unfortunately, in this world, only the wisest and the stupidest are unchangeable. Even if we are willing to see what the Divine Master does, there are still loyal and courageous people among our subordinates who are entrusted by the court."

Zhou Tieyi looked at King Ning again with a sarcastic smile on his face. King Ning wanted to get out of the predicament, but he was just watching from the sidelines and wanted his subordinates to make trouble. However, he had already plugged such an obvious loophole. After all, King Ning's Tai Chi skills were still worse than in his previous life.

"That's easy. Prince Ning, do you know why I invited people from the God-Slaying Division?"

"Appreciate further details."

Prince Ning pretended to be confused.

"I am also from the God-Slaying Division." Zhou Tieyi was not shy about his origins. When a person's strength and wisdom have won the respect of everyone, including his enemies, then it is best to be realistic. This is the greatest confidence. "I believe you have all heard of my 'Plan for Further Study and Selection'."

"If the people below want to be loyal and brave, you can report them and let them go to the central government for 'further training'. I will help them arrange it, whether it is the Western Buddhist front, the Northern Yuanmeng front, or hunting down the remnants of the Taixu Illusion Realm. As long as they want, I will definitely let them serve the country with loyalty. Since they think that Shinto is bad, then killing the evil gods is killing them anywhere. They must serve the country with all their lives and die!"

In the main hall, the gods of the Taihang Divine Court could not help but smile knowingly. This was indeed the ability of the lord. He had both the overall situation and the means. Whether it was great wisdom or small cleverness, he could play with people's hearts in the blink of an eye.

Prince Ning also opened his mouth slightly, and then murmured, "Can it be arranged this way?"

Of course he understood this tactic of making things difficult for him, but he did not expect that the 'further study and selection' of the God-Slaying Division could play such a crucial role at this time. Now, they could no longer oppose it by using the names of their subordinates.

"What the Heavenly Lord said is the best. The Tangzhou Pacification Office is willing to change the system for the benefit of the people of the world."

Sha Youcheng stood up first.

This earned them angry glares from the surrounding pacification officers. Although they understood the general trend, it still took time for people to accept such a huge change, especially the cause of 'killing the gods', which they had been fighting for their entire lives.

Zhou Tieyi looked at Sha Youcheng. As expected, he was the one who was able to escape to Prince Ning's Mansion overnight. His decision-making ability was greater than that of most people.

In Sha Youcheng's mind, the entire Pingjindu incident was the most critical criterion. If Zhou Tieyi was willing at the time, he could have used himself and the people of Pingjindu to stir up the anger of the world against Confucianism, but Zhou Tieyi chose another solution.

Yuan Tong sacrificed himself to repair Pingjin Ferry, so Sha Youcheng also has a special feeling for Pingjin Ferry. He has visited Pingjin Ferry many times in the past six months and saw the changes in Pingjin Ferry in just half a year. Therefore, he is more aware than other pacification envoys that the people's reforms promoted by Zhou Tieyi are not empty talk, but are being implemented at a terrifying speed.

Sha Youcheng expressed his attitude, and Prince Ning also sighed, "Prince Ning's Mansion is willing to sit on the sidelines and watch."

After Prince Ning expressed his stance, the remaining pacification envoys naturally lost their backbone and expressed their willingness to restrain their subordinates and change the system.

Finally, Zhou Tieyi set his sights on the two opposing pacification envoys. They were silent for a long time, then said, "We are stupid people. We are exactly the people that Lord Zhou mentioned who are willing to devote their lives to Daxia and die for it. Lord Zhou, please mobilize us to the front line to serve Daxia!"

They changed the way they addressed Zhou Tieyi and called him 'Zhou Hou'. This meant that this was a power struggle within Daxia. Even if they lost, they were still subjects of the Daxia Dynasty.

Zhou Tieyi did not pursue the matter relentlessly, just like he admitted that he came from the Zhushen Division, he no longer needed to boast about his strength. Admitting that it was not something shameful that he had been a minister of Xia for a period of time. When he was a minister of Xia, he did not wrong the people or the monarch, and he was able to defend against enemies from outside and maintain peace within the country.

Only the Spring and Autumn Annals know me and judge me!
Zhou Tieyi laughed heartily and raised his glass, saying, "I wish you two a triumphant return!"

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One carriage after another went up Yujing Mountain in the morning light. Officials got off the carriages one by one. When they saw the magnificent carriage that had already been parked on the White Jade Square, their expressions became a little unnatural.

Zhou Tieyi got off the car. Now he was the Minister of Buddhist Affairs. He was dressed in purple and looked like a crane flying through the clouds. However, he seemed a little unreal in the morning light, as if the real, red sun was shining on the earth.

All the officials looked at Zhou Tieyi with complicated eyes. No one approached him to flatter him, and no one confronted him like before, because whether they praised or insulted him, it would not change the current situation in the world, nor would it affect Zhou Tieyi in the slightest, just like people cannot affect the sun in the sky.

This invisible power had already been felt by all officials, including Simin and Silu. When the morning bell rang and the palace gate opened, Zhou Tieyi did not wait for the new deputy commander of the Yulin Army to lead him. He waved his sleeves, raised a purple cloud, and leisurely stepped into the palace.

At his point, it is natural for him to follow his heart and not go beyond the rules.

Once the court session begins, the entire meeting will certainly not focus entirely on the Railway Chamber of Commerce issue, even though this is the main purpose of today's court session.

As usual, the military comes first.

Whether it is the Buddhist front in the west or the Yuanmeng front in the north, it can only be said that the situation has been stabilized according to Zhou Tieyi's strategy. Daxia is now far from being able to launch a real counterattack. Whether it is to completely wipe out the Netherworld Equality King Buddha of Buddhism, or to kill the Heavenly Khan of Yuanmeng again, this requires at least a true saint to be born to stabilize the current situation. Seven or eight points of the reason for this is that Zhou Tieyi, the reincarnation of the god, is willing to support the current Daxia court.

So even though Zhou Tieyi had a dazed expression and tilted his head to look at the glazed golden tiles and dragon-mouthed eaves extending outside the hall, and had no intention of interfering in the court's military affairs, the more everyone discussed it, the more they understood the importance of Zhou Tieyi.

Even if he was just standing here, no one, including the Emperor of Daxia, could ignore his existence. Otherwise, it would be like taking away a corner of the pillar of the Golden Throne Hall. No matter how magnificent and majestic the empire was, it would begin to collapse.

Zhou Tieyi was in a trance in the Golden Throne Hall, but the exchange was still open as usual.

Although the Crown Prince and the Seventh Prince urgently mobilized gold and silver at the last minute yesterday to curb the stock market decline, the entire afternoon was "quiet" yesterday. No good news was heard either in the palace or in the mansions of the dignitaries.

There is no good news, only bad news.

This shows that the Queen is still determined to take over the Railway Chamber of Commerce, and Zhou Dang, the backbone of the Railway Chamber of Commerce, is still uncompromising.

This involves the interests of countless people and also contains huge risks.

In the eyes of ordinary people, at most it is just a struggle between the Zhou party and the Queen Mother, but in the eyes of the real noble families, it even concerns whether the Great Xia country can continue to be so peaceful.

Many of these noble families have a heritage that is much longer than that of the Great Xia court, so they naturally know what to do at a time like this.

As soon as the morning hour arrived and the exchange opened for the morning session, countless sell orders poured in, ten times more than yesterday!

This stock was originally a bubble, and the valuation of the Railway Chamber of Commerce has already broken the high point of twelve taels per share. After dealing with the Western Buddhist rebellion and the Yuanmeng attack last time, it has been even more powerful in the past two months. The price per share is already twenty taels, totaling forty million taels. Although it has not reached the theoretical number of eighty million taels, even if the Crown Prince and the Seventh Prince sold Tianbao Tower and Linshuixuan, could they come up with forty million taels of silver to buy it?

What's more, the entire market is no longer selling stocks of the Railway Chamber of Commerce alone. Following closely behind are the eight major banks. Behind each of these banks is the rentier class of the Great Xia Dynasty. Zhou Tieyi did not give the shares to them for nothing. Even if Zhou Tieyi had not made a move in the past two months, they would have inflated the stock balloons. Together with other stocks, the total value of the entire exchange stock market has already exceeded 400 million taels!
The tax revenue of the Great Xia Dynasty is only about 20 million taels of silver per year, which means today. If we want to curb the decline, we must buy at least half of the stocks, which means the Great Xia court will not eat or drink for ten years!
At the beginning, the military heroes only invested a total of 100,000 taels of silver in the Railway Chamber of Commerce. Will they only get back 100,000 taels of silver now?

"What the hell! Do these people still have any regard for their country? They are all people who have no king or father!"

On the second floor of the exchange, Yan Zhen looked at the screen full of green scrolling transaction orders and smashed the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, breaking it into pieces, showing his inner panic. At the current rate, all the money he brought would be spent in less than a quarter of an hour. He didn't dare to think about the rest.

The fact that Yan Zhen, who had experienced many ups and downs and was calm in the face of difficulties, could be pushed to this point shows the charm of the stock market. After the rage, Yan Zhen was like an ant on a hot pot. He looked at Dai Cunfu, "I remember that the shares of the Railway Chamber of Commerce also plummeted two months ago, from 12 taels to more than 7 taels. How did Hao Ren buy them back?"

Dai Cunfu was a third-rank official after all, so he was more patient than Yan Zhen. "At that time, the Central Bank worked overtime to print four carts of silver bills, and the Qu family and other military heroes also stopped. If that person could confuse right and wrong in the newspaper, he would naturally turn the tide. But these three ways are useless to us now."

"I went to meet with the Queen last night and mentioned printing more silver bills, but the Queen did not dare to act rashly at this critical juncture, because no one would interfere with printing more silver bills in the past. But if more silver bills are printed now, and Zhou Tieyi lets the people know about it, the consequences will be disastrous. The Queen still wants to resolve this matter at the court meeting today."

"As for the military honors stopping, that is even more impossible. The Qu family and other military honors caused the stock market to plummet last time in order to seize control of the Railway Chamber of Commerce. The premise of their thinking was that the Railway Chamber of Commerce had great value. But today, if the court really cannot reach an agreement, Zhou Tieyi and the Queen will dismantle the Railway Chamber of Commerce, and then the Railway Chamber of Commerce will really have no value."

"As for the last way, it is still in his hands."

Yan Zhen looked at Dai Cunfu with an infatuated look, then turned to look at the large green screen that continued to sell, and finally sat down dejectedly on the chair, "It seems that we can only wait for the court."

At the court meeting, military matters were discussed continuously, but because the court had silver bills as a backing, all the appropriations for this spring were handled properly. Then they discussed farming issues. Also, because the eight major banks gradually took over local money houses and began to provide spring farming loans to ordinary farmers, the whole thing became extremely simple, as if the Great Xia Dynasty really had grown countless silver out of thin air, which was exactly the opposite of the current situation at the Tianjing Exchange.

But this also shows the importance of Tianjing Exchange!
The Great Xia Emperor said, "Mr. Zhou, what do you think about this?"

Zhou Tieyi did not move. The Great Xia Emperor frowned and said again, "Mr. Zhou!"

Zhou Tieyi seemed to come back to his senses at this time, and bowed to the Great Xia Emperor, "I was just lost in thought and preaching in Taiyi Temple. I didn't hear clearly what was being discussed. I wonder what your majesty is asking?"

Everyone saw how blatantly Zhou Tieyi was trying to be pretentious, but today the Emperor of Great Xia had to endure it even if he couldn't.

The Queen Mother said, "Just now, Minister Kong of the Ministry of Industry proposed to bring the Railway Chamber of Commerce under the jurisdiction of the court."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "Since Minister Kong has a clear mind, there is no need for him to ask me. All the good and bad will be on Minister Kong's shoulders."

The Minister of Works stepped out immediately and waved his hands, "Lord Zhou, this is wrong, this is wrong!"

(End of this chapter)