Unlimited employment

Chapter 84 [Taiping Dao State, Sima Zusun]

Time flies like an arrow; the years pass like water.

Sixty years have passed in a flash, and in the blink of an eye, a new cycle of sixty years has begun.

Possessing Taoist and divine arts that can be called dimensionality reduction strikes in this world, the Taiping Dao Kingdom, with its national strength growing day by day, has conquered the oasis city-states of Cheshi, Shanshan, Khotan, Shule, Qiuci and other oasis city-states in the Western Regions in the past sixty years; as well as the Parthian and Kushan lands further west; Buyeo, Goguryeo, the Samhan tribes and Fuso in the northeast; the Nanzhong barbarians on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau; and the numerous humid small countries on the southern peninsula; and crossed the roof of the world to occupy the Baicheng Dynasty and the Chola Dynasty, expanding the territory to an unprecedented level.

Although these new territories were plagued by rebellions in the early days of their occupation due to differences in language and culture, over the course of several decades, the Taiping Dao Kingdom, through tough military means and the real power of Taoism and divine arts, gradually replaced the non-miraculous beliefs of the surrounding ethnic groups, and with common beliefs as the bond, barely integrated the different ethnic groups into a whole.

The productivity of the small farming era was improved by using divine arts and Taoist techniques, and a huge country of faith with a population of 700 million was created. All the people in the country believed in the Supreme God - Huang Tian.

However, all the citizens of Taiping Dao Kingdom know that [Huang Tian] is the incarnation of the Great Dao, a great existence that mortals cannot understand and will not appear in the mortal world.

He abdicated the throne sixty years ago and took the title of [Great Sage and Most Holy Taoist Master of Taiping]. Now he has been sitting on the golden dragon throne for a full sixty years. He received the order from the Yellow Heaven, and he is in charge of all the people in the world, enthroning the gods, and commanding the ghosts in the underworld. He is the Taoist master who is the real ruler of the Taoist country.

Also, because the Taoist leader had to bear the heavy responsibility of faith and was unable to govern the country personally, he entrusted state affairs to the Great Sage Master.

This system has now been running smoothly for sixty years.

Under the leadership of the Great Sage, the Taiping Dao Kingdom ushered in an unprecedented era of prosperity.

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Tick ​​tick tick——

A four-wheeled carriage was moving slowly on the straight and wide Yellow River Bridge.

The horses pulling the carts were swift and sturdy, tall and strong. They were clearly the product of generations of bred stallions selected through Taoist techniques. Not only were they incredibly powerful and possessed endurance, but they were also known for their gentle temperaments. Each one fetched at least five thousand coins.

This four-wheeled carriage was not cheap either. Not only were the wheels made of inflatable rubber tires, but the chassis was also equipped with laminated leaf springs, which made it both shock-absorbing and labor-saving during operation.

Even after sixty years of development, the people of the Taiping Kingdom were generally able to have enough food to eat, but only the rich could afford to ride this kind of carriage.

In the carriage, three generations of a family with the surname Sima were looking at the surface of the Yellow River a hundred feet away with great interest.

In the surging yellow river, there were huge bridge piles exposed above the water.

At this time, there was a small boat floating near the bridge piles. The Yellow Turban strongmen on the boat were connecting the steel that had been bent into various shapes in advance with the original steel on the bridge piles, and then using wooden boards to make molds around them, and finally pouring soil and stones into the wooden molds.

After this process is completed, a person in yellow clothes on the boat will point at the mold and shoot out a yellow light, which will first melt the soft soil inside and then solidify it, turning the soil into hard stone to raise the bridge piles in the river.

It can be predicted that when the mold is removed later, the bridge piers that have been cast will be as solid as a rock and will not collapse.

Sima Yan, who was seven years old this year, left Henei County where he had lived for seven years for the first time in his life. Everything he saw on the road seemed new to him.

He leaned against the window and shouted while pointing at the bridge piles under construction.

"Dad, Grandpa, is this the Taoism you used to talk about?"

The child was still young, and his father Sima Zhao was willing to patiently answer all his questions.

"It's not a Taoist magic, it's the [mud-to-stone] technique performed by the priests, a divine magic bestowed upon believers by Huang Tian.

"Although it consumes divine energy and is difficult to use for large-scale fortifications, our Taiping Dao Kingdom has been able to pave roads through towering mountains and build bridges across deep valleys and rivers, and to possess and govern such a vast territory today. This divine art, specifically designed for building fortifications, has played a significant role." Sima Yan immediately shouted.

"Then I want to be a priest in the future, too. I want to be a priest and build a bridge."

Sima Yi, who was 64 years old this year, laughed loudly, and then said patiently.

"Yan'er, the priest is not good. Everything the priest has is a gift from heaven. If it can be given, it can also be taken away.

You will become a Taoist priest in the future, because a Taoist priest's skills are all in his own hands and no one can take them away from him.

When you grow up a little, you will understand that in this world, only the things you can decide will count.

As for the promises made to you by others, they are all like the wind before your eyes, you can’t catch them at all.”

As he spoke, Sima Yi pointed to the two bridges in front of him.

"Take these two stone bridges in front of us as an example. Twenty years ago, when the cross-river bridge was being built, Chen County and Wen County were arguing over it, with both wanting to have the bridge within their own territory.

The high-ranking officials of the Dao State at that time finally decided to build the first bridge in Wen County first, and then build the second bridge in Chen County when it was time to build it in the future.

Now, twenty years later, construction of the second bridge has begun.

But things have changed. Just because a Taoist priest appeared in Wen County, Daoguo insisted on building a new bridge in Wen County on the grounds that the old bridge did not have enough steel bars when it was built and was too old. It is said that the old bridge will be demolished in the future.

Yan'er, who can we go to in Chen County to seek justice?

So, if you want to be a great Taoist priest in the future, don't trust other people's promises too much."

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren chatted and laughed as they crossed the Yellow River in a carriage.

The next thing that appeared on both sides of the car window was the endless wheat fields.

It is now June, the season when wheat is ripe.
Walking on the official road, you can see neatly built ditches on both sides of the road, with green wheat stalks and heavy ears of wheat interspersed in the golden color.

Looking from the carriage, the wheat field seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see.

Seeing that it was noon and there were few people on the road, no one would pay attention to him, Sima Zhao used the Dragon Capturing Skill to secretly grab a handful of wheat and handed it to his father.

"Dad, the wheat south of the Yellow River looks very full this year, and the ears are big. The harvest should be very good."

"Of course, the crops grown around Luoyang are all high-quality seeds that have been selected using Taoist techniques. If there's drought, we can pray for rain; if there's flood, we can pray for clear skies. How can there be a bad harvest?
Although the people in other places did not live as well as those in Luoyang, as long as they prayed devoutly to God after their daily work, God would bless them with enough food and clothing.

Now is the day when we put aside the blue sky and believe in the yellow sky, it is really good."

The carriage continued to bump forward, and after another half hour, the huge Luoyang City without city walls came into view of the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren.

Sima Yi was about to give his grandson a detailed introduction to the capital when he heard his grandson suddenly exclaim.

"Look, there's a dragon flying in the sky!"

(End of this chapter)