Trinity Traitor: From One Person to the Other

Chapter 156 Don't forget the share of the company's dividends from Trinity School
The Tai Chi diagram rotates endlessly in the air, seemingly carrying some mysterious truth.

“Although we are not Taoists, our ancestors advocated the integration of three religions. But since you consider yourself a Taoist, I will explain it to you from the perspective of ‘Tao’.” Zuo Rutong poked the Tai Chi diagram, causing it to unfold and turn into four hexagrams.

"We talk about the transformation of yin and yang. Yin gives birth to yang, and yang gives birth to yin. Taiji gives birth to two opposites, and two opposites give birth to four images. The four images are Shaoyin Shaoyang, Laoyin Laoyang. One is the beginning of life, and the other is the end of life."

The four hexagrams were arranged in the air, connecting from beginning to end to form a complete circle. "Of course, what I want to talk about is not the hexagrams. What I want to tell you is that nothing in this world is absolutely pure. You are in me, and I am in you."

Zuo Ruotong stood up, waved his hand to dispel the hexagram in the air, pointed at a half-yellow weed on the ground that was not growing well, and said, "Do you think if I water and fertilize this weed, can it grow better?"

"Of course." He Songling nodded.

"What if I pour 100 kilograms of water and 100 kilograms of manure on this grass every day?"

"Then they died naturally." Although He Songling had never farmed before, he still knew some basic things: "Either they drowned because of too much water, or they were burned because of too much fertilizer."

"That's right, too much is as bad as too little, kid." Zuo Rutong clapped his hands and said, "I don't understand what kind of business you are doing, but I know one thing, you are doing a big business, no longer the simple peddlers and small shops during the Qing Dynasty. I heard that you are going abroad this time for business?"

"Correct."

"Yes, we are doing business with foreigners. What do you call it? A multinational corporation, yes. Business across two oceans and three continents. How many people are directly employed by your company? And how many people in the upstream and downstream areas depend on your company for their livelihood?"

Zuo Ruotong's words were somewhat heartfelt: "Today, you feel that your cultivation path has been disturbed because you are too concerned about worldly affairs, so you want to throw away all these things and cultivate yourself. What about those people who rely on you for a living? At least thousands of people's jobs have been ruined because of your one thought.

I don't know how foreigners live in other countries, but looking at the situation in China over the past 100 years, how have people lived? Without the protection of a large multinational company like you, what kind of living conditions will they return to? "

Zuo Ruotong's words really touched He Songling. He knew that his master never cared about these mundane matters, but he could speak these modern business terms so accurately and clearly, which just proved that Zuo was always thinking about him and secretly went down the mountain to find Dongshan to inquire about it.

"Master, I..."

"Hey. Listen to me." Zuo Rutong stretched out his hand to stop He Songling from speaking. "I'm not saying that you should give up your practice and help ordinary people make a living. We in Sanyi Sect are not the kind of philanthropists who advocate cutting meat to feed eagles in Buddhism.

What I want to tell you is that when you discover the truth of a matter, you must have the courage and ability to continue on the right path. If you find that something cannot be done, you throw it aside, run away, and hide your head in the sand. This is called ostrich behavior. This is not called Xuan Xiu, this is called stupidity.

Leaving the world is not to avoid it. We cultivate the mysterious, not to mention more, at least we seek to have a clear conscience. You used to do things very absurdly, this may be your wisdom, maybe you will continue to do things like this in the future. I am very angry, but I have never punished you severely for this, because you have followed your own "Tao".

But now, you just ran back like this, so I have to criticize you. But fortunately, before you left, you explained everything first, which allowed your company to run smoothly and not collapse like a sand dune without you. This is something you deserve praise for. Remember, Xuan cultivation is not about being enthusiastic, but about finding a balance. This is not a universal truth, but at least it is the truth of our Sanyi Sect, and it is the truth that I, Zuo Ruotong, taught you. I don't enter the world because this is my way, Zuo Ruotong, and you also have to find your own way."

"Yes, Master, I understand." He Songling was moved to tears by Zuo Rutong's words. Look, what a good teacher is. This is called. In addition to teaching you how to make a living, he also teaches you how to be a decent "person".

"Master, it's hard for you. You were born in the Qing Dynasty, but you can understand modern business so well. I will always remember your care and dedication to you."

"Oh, that's not for you." Zuo Rutong waved his hand lightly:

"Your Nisheng Group has a share of our Sanyi Sect, right? Tsk, that's a lot of dividends. Hey, remember my share. I'll take the bill to Mount Longhu and show it off to the old Taoist priest. I'll make this old man jealous to death."

"???"

He Songling's eyes widened.

"Master, you have been possessed by someone, right? Whoever changed your character? I'll kill him!"

What the hell, how did Lao Zuo become a money-grubber? Is he still the immortal Daying?

"You're kidding. Do immortals not need to eat? Immortals don't need to eat, but don't you know whether there are immortals in our Sanyi Sect? Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, eating, drinking, defecating, which one doesn't cost money?"

Zuo Ruotong didn't value money, but he never despised it either. Otherwise, why did he take his disciples out to cheat people all these years, and let many wealthy people donate money to the Sanyi Sect? Did he really think that the Great Ying Immortal didn't eat?
“Before, we relied on our status as a Xuanmen sect to perform rituals, consecrate instruments, preach, and set up formations for the wealthy families living in the surrounding mountains. It was with the donations and contributions from the wealthy families that we were able to establish our Sanyi Sect.

But if you take someone's money and they ask you to do something for you, you have to do it for them. As for Li Muxuan, it was because I, as a teacher, couldn't save face with his father that so many things happened.

Now that you and Dongshan are running the business outside, we can make money on our own, so why bother dealing with those wealthy people? These people may not be bad people, but they are always entangled in worldly affairs. How can they be beneficial to our practice?"

"You just said that becoming a monk is not the same as escaping from the world!" He Songling obviously disagreed. Immortal Daying, you can't just eat and vomit.

"Nonsense, that's just for you. Do other people in our sect have reached this level? They haven't even reached this level. The less disturbances we receive, the better." Zuo Ruotong said unhappily.

"Take Lu Jin for example. He can break through from the first level to the second level in ten years. But if you ask him to go back and manage the Lu family and become the head of the Lu family, I guarantee that he won't make much progress in another hundred or eighty years. Do you believe it?"

(End of this chapter)