People in the Central Plains actually treat religious affairs more like a transaction than belief.
This point is vividly reflected in Xiao Ye.
If you can fulfill my wish, you will continue to accept offerings. Otherwise, not only will I not give you any offerings, I will even have to increase the price of the statue.
In the past few days, Xiao Ye, under the double persuasion of the Empress and the Xian Princess, had visited various temples, large and small, but nothing worked!
Today, no matter how much incense money I give you, you must pay back ten times the principal with interest!
Monk thinks it’s expensive and won’t buy it?
It doesn't matter!
There are many Buddhist believers among the envoys of Chu and Zhao. If you don’t buy them, others will.
But one thing needs to be understood clearly. The royal inventory is only so small. If you don’t buy it today and someone else buys it, you won’t even have a place to cry!
Now, Xiao Ye already has the idea of demolishing their temple for the Buddhist sect that received Xiao Ye's incense money but failed to realize Xiao Ye's wish to beat his son.
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There are several people competing in front of almost every glass exhibit, whether they are Buddhist monks, members of aristocratic families, or they may be the two biggest enemies of Zhou and Zhao.
Now that Chu is in poverty, you actually want to stab him in the back?
If not, who would you cheat?
In front of a glass Ruyi place, there was a slightly fat young man who looked at the Ruyi jade on the display table with a look of covetousness. However, when he saw the price tag of three thousand taels, the young man's face showed a rather painful expression.
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The slightly fat young man looked at the guard on the side and said, "A mere piece of Ruyi Ruglai will sell for 3,000 taels of silver?"
The guard said: "Reporting to Your Highness, this jade Ruyi is indeed three thousand taels of silver."
The fat young man said: "I am the prince's son and a member of the royal family. Do I also want this price?"
The guard said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the price was set by the President of the National Commercial Academy. The price can only be high and not low. The one with the highest price will get it. Even if His Highness doesn't buy it, someone will come later."
Buy it, Your Highness, it would be better to buy it earlier."
Prince Cheng frowned and said, "Dean? Isn't the dean of the National Business Academy older than a relative of the emperor?!"
The guard guarding Liuli Ruyi said: "If His Royal Highness has any doubts, you can ask the dean in person. This Liuli exhibition was personally ordered by His Majesty. Since the price set by the dean appears here, I am afraid that it is the dean himself."
It’s not easy to change. Your Highness, please think twice.”
Prince Cheng said in a deep voice: "My son and my father came to the capital this time to pray for Your Majesty and the Kingdom of Chu. In terms of seniority, I am still Your Majesty's nephew. Even so, it would cost three thousand taels to sell."
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Liuli Ruyi's guard said: "Back to Your Highness, I am just a guard and have no right to decide the price of these Liuli. Please don't embarrass me anymore."
Prince Cheng looked at the guard with such a resolute attitude, gritted his teeth, glanced at Liuli Ruyi one last time, and asked: "Where is the dean of the National Business Academy?"
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another place
As Xu Qing walked, he said to Xiao Yeyan beside him: "Brother Xiao, you should believe in science. Giving birth to a son is like planting crops. Scientific sowing time and scientific sowing time are the important conditions for giving birth to a son.
, praying to God and worshiping Buddha is just a psychological comfort, and cannot truly fulfill Brother Xiao’s wish.”
Xiao Ye wondered: "What is science?"
Xu Qingdao: "The so-called science is actually systematization... Well, it is knowledge that has been sorted and classified. If you believe in science, you must not be superstitious. And I am a materialist who has never been superstitious."
"Materialism?" Xiao Ye asked curiously: "Does materialism mean firmly not believing in those ghosts, gods and Buddhas?"
Xu Qing shook his head and said: "Actually, it's not that firm. Materialism is just a mistake in believing in facts. Whenever those gods and Buddhas show their holiness in front of me, I will immediately change my views. But it is a pity that these requirements are met.
Why should I trust him if I don’t? If I trust him, can he give me hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? If I trust him, can he give me a son?”
When Xiao Ye heard this, he immediately understood, it seemed like this was the case.
Xiao Ye looked at Xu Qing and said: "In this case, Brother Xu, from now on I will also be a steadfast Wei...what's the reason?"
Xu Qing reminded: "Materialism."
Xiao Ye: "Well, yes, that's what anist is."
At this moment, a heavy figure suddenly bumped into Xu Qing's body. Xu Qing's body remained motionless, but the heavy figure was knocked to the ground.
Xu Qing looked at the man who fell to the ground, stretched out his hand to support him and said, "Is this brother okay?"
At this moment, Prince Cheng's face darkened and he said: "How brave, when you see this prince not only not being polite but also daring to rush in like this, what kind of crime should you do?"
Xu Qing looked at the Crown Prince, and then at Xiao Ye who was standing aside: "Is he also the Crown Prince?"
Xiao Ye was also confused and said: "I have been busy with Wan'er at home these days. I haven't gone to court, so I don't know him. Didn't he say that the vassal king cannot enter the capital unless he is summoned? Why are there other princes in the capital?"
Once those vassal kings were enfeoffed, they would not see each other for more than ten years or decades. What's more, they would never interact with each other until they died. Even if the clan members didn't know each other, it was normal.
But now, a man who claimed to be the Crown Prince suddenly appeared in the capital, and Xiao Ye looked at him as if he were a rare animal.
Seeing the two people ignoring him, Prince Cheng said in a deep voice again: "You are so courageous! You dare to hurt me and act as if nothing happened. How courageous of you! Do you still have the principle of a monarch and a minister in your eyes?!"
Xu Qing looked at the person who claimed to be the Crown Prince. He was probably a real Crown Prince who could enter this Lotus Garden with an invitation. No one in a place like this would have time to pretend to be the Crown Prince.
Xu Qing said: "What do you want, His Highness?"
Prince Cheng pretended to be dignified and said: "Then it depends on whether you want to be an official or a private person."
Xu Qing asked: "What is official and what is private?"
Prince Cheng said: "The so-called official, of course, is that I would like to ask Your Majesty to arrest you, the rebellious minister and traitor below, and to be executed on a certain day!"
Xu Qing asked again: "What about keeping it private?"
Prince Cheng said: "My prince is generous. Although you have injured me, if you are willing to compensate me for a few pieces of glassware, I will see that you did not do it intentionally and will not pursue it any further."
Xu Qing: "So, you are just planning on cheating?"
The words of the fat man in front of me are very similar to the sentence, I! Qin Shihuang, give me money!
Even a wise king would not dare to do this blatantly stealing money!
Prince Cheng said: "Nonsense! My prince suffered serious internal injuries! What do you, a rebellious minister and traitor, know? If you hesitate like this again, I will tell your majesty that you, a rebellious minister and traitor, will fill the whole family...ah..."
Xiao Ye, who couldn't bear it anymore, immediately flew up and kicked Prince Cheng in the stomach.
Prince Cheng cried out in pain and fell to the ground with a scream: "Ah! I am the crown prince...ah!"
Xu Qing looked at Xiao Ye who was so rude and coughed: "Brother Xiao, you..."
Xiao Ye kicked him again: "Anyway, he said that he suffered serious internal injuries. If you don't fight, it will be in vain. Brother Xu, do you want to kick him twice? This fat man is full of flesh, and it feels very good."
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Xu Qing: "Just now he said he was the crown prince."
Xiao Ye: "Whatever he is, beat him first and then talk!"