Chapter 88: Money can communicate with gods, a tool of Shinto
It is said that it is good to practice while in court.
The imperial courts of various countries, supported by hundreds of millions of people and wielding power as powerful as the divine courts on earth, have always been the wealthiest places in the world.
Although An Zhongbang and the Leyang Party headed by him sent a batch of incense and jade coins in only a dozen carriages, Du Kang played with the jade coins cast in the shape of jade bricks and estimated the incense of this batch of jade coins.
The total amount can create a golden imperial god.
Whether a god can survive the many tribulations on the road to Shinto after absorbing these incense is another matter, but the total amount of incense is definitely enough.
"I received such a big gift on my first day in office. No wonder everyone likes to be an official. The left prime minister doesn't want me to be an upright official.
Please move all your things into the house, and when you get back, be sure to convey my gratitude to the Prime Minister, saying that I really like these daily necessities."
"Yes, I will definitely convey my thanks to the Master."
The dozen or so coachmen sent by An Zhongbang to drive the carriage were all mid-level masters who practiced strongman-type magic. After accepting the promise, they easily carried the carriage on their shoulders. Under the guidance of the servants of the mansion, they carried all the jade coins into the mansion.
inside.
Si Xiong saw that Du Kang had inspected the goods, so he took the jade coin in his hand, brought it to his nose and took a deep breath. Under the invisible pulling force, there was immediately a colorful, turbid and rich incense on the jade.
The money flew out and got into her nostrils.
After that, Si Xiong closed his eyes and trembled slightly, enjoying the power generated from the human heart.
Du Kang saw Si Xiong's expression of enjoyment and directly reminded him.
"Although the Nine Sons of the Dragon are divine dragons and can absorb incense to strengthen themselves, the incense in the jade coins is still too mixed. It's better for you to inhale less."
It wasn't until he sucked up the jade coin that Si Xiong opened his eyes and spoke nonchalantly.
"It doesn't matter, the Mountain and River Seal has the ability to purify and refine incense, and the distracting thoughts contained in it will not affect me.
However, An Zhongbang's move can be considered generous. High-level officials in the Liang Kingdom have always used jade coins as their salaries. Judging from the weight of these jade coins, they should be at least An Zhongbang's annual salary for twenty or thirty years."
Hearing what Si Xiong said, Du Kang couldn't help but his eyes lit up. He took Si Xiong's bare hand and walked to the mansion, talking as he walked.
"The Mountain and River Seal still has such a function? Brother Si, please help me practice tonight!"
The reason why Du Kang extorted this jade money was to improve the cultivation of his cloned calligrapher. He only had this clone in the capital, and a stronger clone would be more conducive to his actions.
And the ability of the Mountain and River Seal can help him save the time required to refine incense. How could he not be happy?
Si Xiong exposed his ability to refine incense in front of Du Kang just for this moment. There was a cunning look in her eyes, but she deliberately said with an embarrassed look on her face.
"Refining incense is a very labor-intensive matter. I am not one of your women, so I will give you my efforts in vain."
"Then let's be blunt, what do you want? Or what do you want me to do?"
Du Kang didn't care whether Si Xiong had his own small thoughts, he only cared about whether the people around him were valuable.
Seeing Ji Cheng, Si Xiong quickly walked a few steps, leaned his whole body next to Du Kang, put his chin on the man's shoulder and transmitted the message.
"Liang Guo is a large country with a population of hundreds of millions. It is much more powerful than the previous dynasty of Vietnam. Correspondingly, the incense belief that can be generated is also extremely large.
The annual regular salaries and rewards alone cannot consume 70% of the incense and jade money produced. Even if we include some rare and unconventional expenditures such as battles, sacrifices, large-scale awards, etc., there must be hidden treasures in the imperial treasury and palace.
A huge amount of jade money.
As one of the Tuogu ministers when the throne was vacant, Taifu is very likely to get involved in those treasuries to search for oil and water. If Du Lang can get the authority to temporarily control part of the treasury, I can help you refine the incense in it.
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As a reward for all the hard work, I am not greedy either. All the incense I have refined can be given to me only 30% of it."
These words made Du Kang pause slightly, and he immediately understood that Si Xiong had no expectations for his plan to steal the Daliang artifact.
The reason why Si Xiong still stayed by his side and did not leave was because he had the same idea as himself, and wanted to make a fortune out of the chaos caused by the change of emperor's throne.
Si Xiong, who has always paid close attention to the national power of the Liang Kingdom, is very aware of the power of this country and does not think that the Liang Kingdom has reached the stage of overthrow of the dynasty. She is the only one who can make a fortune in the chaos to accumulate strength and wait for the real troubled times to come.
choices made.
After thinking about this for a moment, Du Kang reached out and lifted Si Xiong's chin, took a deep breath of the fragrance on the woman's neck and said.
"I can only give you 10% as a reward for accompanying me on the adventure."
Si Xiong stretched out his hand to block Du Kang's mouth from kissing his neck, frowned and said.
"This is a life-and-death adventure. I want at least 30%."
Du Kang opened his mouth and held a green jade finger beside his mouth, as if he was savoring the unparalleled delicacy, and said in a coquettish tone.
"Thirty percent is not impossible. I'm always generous to women. If you sleep with me, I'll give you 30%."
"It's not impossible to sleep, I have to make it difficult."
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After playing games all the way, when they arrived at the practice room filled with incense and jade coins, the two finally negotiated a two-to-eight split of the incense.
Stepping into the open door, you can see that on the iron star wood floor in the practice room, open boxes occupy a large space. Colorful colors emanate from the incense and jade coins, dyeing the entire practice room in strange colors.
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Du Kang asked all the servants standing outside the door to step back. Si Xiong, who was closing the door, suddenly said.
"The servants in the mansion are all arranged by the Ministry of Revenue. It is unknown how many powerful spies have been planted among them. It is even possible that they are all spies.
If you have available men, replace them, so as not to make everything inconvenient in the future."
"It's not necessary. Even if we replace them with our own people, they are just low-level monks. They can easily be controlled and bewitched by spells. Just stay and take care of this mansion."
Du Kang took out the Nine-Dragon Divine Fire Cover from the divine body and lightly threw it over his head. The glass cover inlaid with nine red dragons quickly grew in size, covering the entire practice room amidst the long and violent roar of the dragons.
"It's getting late, let's get started."
Seeing that Du Kang knew what he was thinking, Si Xiong nodded, stretched out his hand between his eyebrows, and summoned a wide khaki-yellow seal from the sea of consciousness.
This is a strange seal with no sealing buttons on the back. The earthy yellow seal has four ancient seal characters Shanhe Sheji engraved on it. The back of the seal is structured into the shape of rugged mountains and rivers. There is a thin dragon in the sky above the seal.
The energy gathered into a small dragon and meandered around.
This is the Mountain and River Seal, a divine weapon of human destiny that fell from the super-grade to the top-grade because it lost the nourishment of a country's dragon energy.
Even though he has lost his former great power, Du Kang still feels uncomfortable in front of this dragon energy.
Si Xiong held the seal with one hand and gently stroked the mountain and river terrain of the seal with his other hand. A vigorous and powerful dragon roar sounded within the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Barrier.
The incense and jade coins placed in the box vibrated piece by piece amidst the dragon's roar, and the various incense stored in it also transformed into colorful long snakes, flying into the winding river of the seal.
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The water-like incense circulates continuously in the complex river ravines. When the incense flows in from one end of the river, it is extremely turbid, but after being refined by the magic weapon, it turns into a brilliant golden color when it flows out from the other end.
The refined incense was divided into two strands, divided into 28 and 80 parts, and flew towards Du Kang and Si Xiong respectively, blending into their Dharma bodies.
Now that the source of incense is available, the next step is distribution.
Due to the characteristics of the spell, Du Kang needs to fill up all the Shinto structures in order to advance to the Ren level step by step. At present, the Shinto structure ranges from two masters, three clears, four emperors and five elders, to the incompetent Mao Shen, all of whom are lacking incense.
, a state of waiting for food.
Under the current situation that incense cannot satisfy all the gods, it has become Du Kang's only choice to give priority to incense to powerful gods to improve their combat effectiveness.
As for the distribution of the incense, Du Kang had already planned in his mind. He sent the incense like a trickle directly into the heart orifice where Sun Wukong lived, and poured the pure incense into the body of the hairy monkey.
The first ability that Du Kang needs to replenish is Sun Wukong's [Body Holding Technique], which is also the magical skill that has the highest progress in refilling the incense.
Du Kang didn't understand at first. There were so many abilities in "The Legend of Gods and Demons", why this mediocre magical skill had the highest progress.
Later, I simply stopped thinking about it and started writing a lot of side stories about Sun Wukong settling the seven fairies in the Peach Garden. People in this world really like to see such plots, so I gained a little more wish power.
343/1000, 344/1000, 345/1000... Du Kang watched the incense filling progress jump up little by little. In his boredom, he inexplicably shifted his thoughts to the incense and jade coins.
I couldn’t help but start thinking, what exactly is money?
After a while, Du Kang combined what he learned in the knitting class in junior high school in his previous life and got a seemingly clear answer.
"Money is a kind of certificate after mortals create value. It is the equivalent of productivity that most people have to work hard to have. It is a publicly recognized medium for exchanging one's own labor for the labor of others."
Because money can fulfill the desires of most people in the world, more mortals believe in money than gods and Buddhas. Therefore, money has become the world's largest source of incense and power since its birth.
Naturally, incense related to money has become a sweet cake coveted by all the incense gods. For this reason, the monks have created various means of searching.
Gold and silver were originally just two common metals, but because of their ability to absorb will power, they were forced by the imperial court to become currency in circulation to absorb the huge will power generated during private transactions.
The imperial court would regularly recycle the gold and silver circulating among the people, initially refine it and then refine it into standard jade coins, which would serve as the salary for its huge bureaucracy and as a reward for the gods within the imperial system.
The only people who need incense are the gods and Buddha, but the gods have huge power. Using incense, you can purchase various services from the gods, so incense has become a valuable currency and is widely circulated among monks.
This is what is called, money can make God grind.
Praying to gods and realizing wishes have always been utilitarian...
During the short period of time when Du Kang was distracted, the incense had filled up all the shortcomings of the Immobilization Technique, and a fundamental divine vessel made of red gold was generated, shining brightly in Sun Wukong's divine body.
【Body-fixing Technique】: All magical skills of Monkey King, Monkey King, possess the power of fixing the body, mind, method and so on.
(Incense refilling progress: perfect, it can be based on the fundamental magic weapon evolved from the magic, and this magic can be given to believers for use through the faith connection channel.)
The first goal was achieved, and the continuous pouring of incense was transferred to Sun Wukong's hands. The iron rod was made of gold hoops at both ends, with a section of dark iron in the middle, and it was densely covered with dragon patterns, phoenix seals and other patterns.
The incense poured into the [Ruyi Golden Cudgel] like a rolling tide, and the talismans engraved on the stick began to light up one by one, emitting various auras.
As the talismans were activated one by one, the Ruyi Golden Cudgel began to show the various abilities represented by the talismans. It became larger and smaller, suitable for both soft and hard, split into two, evil-breaking divine light and other abilities appeared one by one in Sun Wukong's hands.
After all the talismans on the Ruyi Golden Cudgel were lit up, they quickly disappeared into the depths of the stick. Then, the two-color iron rod appeared directly in Du Kang's hand.
[Ruyi Golden Cudgel]: It is forged from the nine-turn iron and the Lingyang Divine Iron in the Bagua furnace. It has the ability to change as you wish, differentiate into thousands, be indestructible, suppress rivers and seas, and restrain ghosts and gods.
(Incense refilling progress: perfect. After completion, the artifact will be completely materialized. Incense will no longer be needed to support it. Any kind of demonic power can be used to drive the artifact.)
After the Ruyi Golden Cudgel was completed, the huge consumption of each skill and weapon caused the jade quality of hundreds of boxes of incense and jade coins to turn gray, and it was seen that less than 40% of the incense in them was left.
Du Kang quickly transferred the incense that was still being poured into the sea of consciousness. The Supreme Taoist, who was sitting cross-legged and meditating in the Taiqing Palace, suddenly flew out of his sleeves with a white and shiny silver circle, spinning rapidly in the air, greedily absorbing these golden
of will.
Time passed slowly, and when the jade quality of the incense and jade coins became completely clear, King Kong Zhuo also just finished filling the incense.
[King Kong Zhuo]: It is made from Kun steel, and it is made of elixir. It has spirituality, can change its size, is invulnerable to water and fire, can crush all things, and can also collect various magic weapons and weapons. It has endless wonderful uses.
Du Kang summoned the Vajra out of his body, put it on his wrist, and held the Ruyi Golden Cudgel in his left hand.
In this way, with the offensive ability of the Ruyi Golden Cudgel to deal with the enemy, and the defensive ability of the King Kong Zhuo to absorb all things, the calligrapher's magical weapon is barely complete.
After doing all this, Du Kang looked at the blank jade coins piled up around him, as clear as glass, and sighed secretly in his heart.
"Although An Zhongbang sent a lot of jade money, for the huge Shinto system I have built, this little incense can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket..."