In front of the stone table in the small courtyard, everyone sat around, looking at the three tokens with the word "Miscellaneous" placed on the stone table, with solemn expressions.
Ziyu looked at two of the tokens, looked at Meng Jin and Meng Ziliang, and said, "You two must find a way to meet Zheng Lingyin."
Meng Ziliang and Meng Jin nodded, and then Meng Ziliang did not forget to add: "Of course it would be good to meet him, but the most important thing is to understand the swordsmanship of Tianxuan Mountain."
Ziyu rolled her eyes when she heard this, thinking that it was Meng Ziliang who was trying to maintain his own dignity.
She was too lazy to pay attention and looked at another token on the stone table, then at its owner Yue Jian, and asked: "Do you want to go to the Yaoguang Sword Pond to get the sword?"
Yue Jian's face looked a little embarrassed. After all, she had mocked Ziyu before, but now she wanted to ask for her help. After all, she couldn't lose face.
When Chu Qingxiao saw this, he was about to help her nod in agreement.
But when Yue saw this, she gritted her teeth and took the lead and said, "Well, I want to go."
Ziyu blinked and looked at her with a strange expression.
According to her temperament, at such a good opportunity, she had to say a few words to regain the face she had lost at noon today.
But seeing that Yue Jian had already gathered up enough courage to say these words, she still put her thoughts aside.
At that time, he cleared his throat and said: "If you want to enter the Yaoguang Sword Pool, you must first become an inner disciple."
"It's July now, and the Yaoguang Sword Pond will be open to the inner disciples once every October."
"The annual inner door selection will begin in September."
"So, if you want to go to the Yaoguang Sword Pond, you have to spend these two months to change from a handyman disciple to an outer sect disciple, and get the qualifications for the inner sect selection."
"Otherwise, we have to wait until next year."
"Next year?" Yue Jian frowned upon hearing this.
Staying in Tianxuan City is not a particularly good experience for her, not to mention that if she waits until next year or this year when Yaoguang asks for swords, it is still unknown how many of the swords belonging to Jianyue City in the sword pool will be taken away.
, this is obviously not what she wants to see.
Therefore, she shook her head firmly: "I can't wait until next year."
"What about us?" Meng Jin on the side also asked.
Ziyu said: "Zheng Lingyin is the leader of the younger generation in Tianxuan Mountain. It is difficult to meet her, but it is not easy to say that it is easy."
"I don't have many friends in Liuhuan Peak. If I want to help make an appointment, she may not be able to sell me this face. So the best way is to enter the inner gate, but..." Ziyu said and glanced at Meng Ziliang.
Some people hesitate to speak.
Although Meng Ziliang could become a handyman disciple by having money and being able to push the devil around, but it seemed like a fantasy to pass the inner sect examination.
"But there is a way. I asked about it today. Every month, the sect will hold a sword teaching conference in Tianxuan City. The inner sect disciples and direct disciples will explain the swordsmanship and some cultivation methods to everyone. Next month
The sword teaching conference happens to be hosted by Liuhuan Peak, and as the first disciple of Liuhuan Peak, Zheng Lingyin will probably be present." Ziyu said again.
"But this is also not something that everyone can participate in."
"What are the conditions for these?" Chu Qingxiao on the side asked to help.
"Spiritual iron jade." Chu Zhaozhao took over the conversation at this time and spit out three words.
"Spiritual Iron Jade? What is that?" Yue Jian asked doubtfully.
Chu Zhaozhao has lived in Tianxuan City for twelve years and naturally knows these things best. She immediately said: "In Tianxuan City, there is a disciple hall, where many disciple reward tasks are issued every day. According to the different levels of the tasks,
, grant different amounts of spiritual iron jades to the disciples, and at the same time, the disciples in the sect can also issue tasks through this disciple hall and use their own spiritual iron jades as rewards."
"If you want to become an inner sect disciple from a handyman disciple, you need three hundred spiritual iron jades, and to be qualified for an inner sect selection, you need five hundred spiritual iron jades."
"As for the sword-teaching conference... it also changes depending on the person who teaches the sword. According to Zheng Lingyin's identity, the sword-teaching conference she presides over requires at least a thousand spiritual iron jades to participate. And for Zheng Lingyin, it is possible to participate.
There is also a requirement for the number of people. Once the quota is sold out, even if you have spiritual iron jade, you will not get this opportunity."
"Then what are the tasks for earning spiritual iron jade?" Yue Jian asked at this time.
Chu Zhaozhao responded: "It's hard to say. Compared with the huge number of disciples in Tianxuan City, the tasks issued by the sect are in short supply, but in comparison, the number of spiritual iron jade given is also the most sufficient, so
Often there are too many monks and not enough rice."
"Some help the sect escort and take over goods, some complete various chores in the sect, and some even go to suppress bandits and handle cases."
"Normally, if I need spiritual iron jade, more often than not, I have to accept tasks issued by each disciple. Those tasks are more diverse and include everything..."
"For example, teaching swordsmanship, helping to find certain materials for refining elixirs, and even helping with cooking, delivering food, and washing clothes..."
After hearing this, Yue Jian nodded, but then added: "It sounds like most of them are not difficult, but I don't know if there is enough time."
"It's not difficult, which means that there are very few spiritual iron jade that can be earned. In the past, the most I could earn in a month was about thirty or forty spiritual iron jade." Chu Zhaozhao said this.
"That's it?" Meng Ziliang said with his eyes widened.
"Otherwise?" Ziyu rolled her eyes at the other person and said.
"Then when will we be able to get enough of this spiritual iron jade?" Meng Ziliang cried sadly, feeling a little discouraged.
Calculating, to achieve their goal, they need at least 1,800 spiritual iron jade, thirty-four pieces a month. This is enough spiritual iron jade, and they don't even know how long it will take.
"It's not that there are no other ways..." Chu Zhaozhao said again.
"What can be done?" Meng Ziliang asked.
Chu Zhaozhao said: "In Tianxuan Mountain and the cities under its jurisdiction, Lingtie Jade can be said to be a hard currency that is almost equivalent to silver money, so in fact Lingtie Jade can be purchased directly on the black market in Tianxuan City with silver money.
According to today's market price, almost five pieces of spiritual iron jade can be exchanged for one tael of silver."
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, his eyes lit up: "It means that we can exchange money for spiritual iron jade, so that we can avoid the trouble in the middle."
Ziyu sneered: "Of course, but do you have money?"
Chu Qingxiao was stunned when he heard this. They only had one hundred taels of silver brought by Yue Jian. They spent thirty taels on housing. Yue Jian spent another twenty taels on joining Tianxuan Mountain. Now they have nothing left.
The amount of money is less than fifty taels...
The Meng family siblings also frowned: "We only have about thirty taels left in total..."
According to Chu Zhaozhao, five pieces of spiritual iron jade can be exchanged for one tael of silver. Yue Jian alone needs 360 taels to qualify for the inner sect selection. Everyone obviously does not have the financial resources, let alone one or two months.
Time's food, clothing, housing and transportation also require a lot of money. The plan of spending money to buy spiritual iron jade is probably not feasible.
"Is there such a thing? Doesn't the imperial court care about it?" Yue Jian on the side frowned when he heard this, with a strange expression and a surprised tone.
When these words came out, everyone was puzzled.
"Why does the imperial court care about Tianxuan Mountain?" Ziyu asked puzzledly.
Everyone looked at Yue Jian with equally strange looks.
Yue Jian was a little surprised when she saw everyone's reaction. She looked at everyone as if they were looking at fools: "You don't understand?"
"What do you know?" Ziyu blinked.
Yue Jian sighed, and then said: "According to what you said, this spiritual iron jade has been circulated in hundreds of towns under the jurisdiction of Tianxuan Mountain, and it is a hard currency that can be directly exchanged for silver."
"So what?" Ziyu was still puzzled.
Yue Jian was a little helpless, but he probably understood that if he didn't expose the matter, the group of people in front of him would not be able to figure out what was going on.
She looked at Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu and asked, "Do you have any spiritual iron jade? Show it to me."
Hearing the sound, Chu Zhaozhao took out one from his arms and handed it over.
The so-called spiritual iron jade is actually a thumb-sized iron object with half a yin-yang fish shape, and a bluestone inlaid in the middle of the fish eye. The workmanship is quite fine, but the material is not valuable.
"It's just as I thought." Yue Jian said after studying the object for a while.
After that, she looked at everyone again and handed the spiritual iron jade forward: "You see, although the casting process of this spiritual iron jade is good, the material is ordinary and it has no value in itself."
"But relying on the reputation of Tianxuan Mountain and the nearly one million outer sect and handyman disciples in Tianxuan City, it has become a hard currency that can be exchanged for money."
"Does that mean that Tianxuan Mountain can make as many of these things as it wants as long as it is willing? Then through a huge number of disciples and hundreds of towns under peripheral control, it can be exchanged for silver, which is equivalent to the following
Making money out of thin air..."
When everyone heard the words, their expressions were a little strange. They heard some clues, but they couldn't tell the truth.
"Then this won't have any impact on the court..." Ziyu said, but her tone was already a little uncertain.
Yue Jian rolled his eyes at her and said, "How come there is no impact?"
"Imagine if the whole world of Dayu has a total of one hundred taels of silver, and Tianxuan Mountain creates fifty pieces of spiritual iron jade, and exchanges them for ten taels from Dayu."
"Dayu has only ninety taels of silver left in his hand, and fifty pieces of worthless spiritual iron jade, while Tianxuan Mountain has an extra ten taels of real silver. This is not making money, this is making money.
Steal money from the Dayu court!"
"This is still due to the current situation where Tianxuan Mountain's spiritual iron jade is only circulated in nearby towns. If one day, as Tianxuan Mountain continues to grow, his spiritual iron jade flows to towns outside his jurisdiction, throughout southern Xinjiang
Circulation means that the imperial court will have no way to deal with Tianxuan Mountain."
"What do you mean?" Chu Qingxiao asked.
Yue Jian said, "It's still the same as before. Dayu has a hundred taels of silver, and Tianxuan Mountain used more spiritual iron jade to steal more silver from them."
"Just calculate it as thirty taels."
"Now Dayu has seventy taels of silver and one hundred and fifty pieces of spiritual iron jade in his hand, and Tianxuan Mountain has thirty taels."
"Tianxuan Mountain is here, although it relies on the spirit iron jade to steal money from the Dayu Dynasty, making the Dayu court less comfortable. So these one hundred and fifty spirit iron jade are at least worth thirty taels of silver on the surface.
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"But if Tianxuan Mountain disappears, the one hundred and fifty spiritual iron jades will become scrap metal."
"Dayu lost three-tenths of his wealth in vain, and this was only a loss of money."
"After careful analysis, these three-tenths of the money fell into the hands of ordinary people. That is tens of millions of ordinary people's life savings, which were wiped out in one day. What do you think these ordinary people will do?"
"Can Dayu bear such turmoil?"
When everyone heard this, they gradually felt the horror in it. A chill ran down their spines, and their expressions suddenly became weird.
Tsukimi made his final conclusion at this time.
"So the imperial court allowed Tianxuan Mountain to manufacture and circulate this spiritual iron jade, which means that it has put its lifeline in the hands of Tianxuan Mountain."
"Tianxuan Mountain doesn't need the protection of any strong person from the Nine Realms and Ten Realms. With just this small piece of spiritual iron jade, Tianxuan Mountain can kidnap the entire Dayu court, so that they not only have to keep it standing, but also
As long as he could bear it, he kept stealing money from his hands..."
"This spiritual iron jade..."
"It seems inconspicuous, but it is enough to shake the foundation of the entire Yu Dynasty!"