Chapter 112 I have a dream (re-alliance for Submarine Street)
After Zhao Ran's detailed explanation, Li Dayin gradually understood, "What Zhiran said is very reasonable. Let's give it a try and improve the streets and carry out the image project that Zhiran said. But it still doesn't cost much money."
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Zhao Ran smiled and said, "I was about to ask Lao Li to come with me. Renovating the streets is just the beginning. Once everyone learns this method of doing things, with experience in large-scale projects and a group of suitable manpower, we can create a new team."
If we find a group of supporters who are willing to actively cooperate, we will break away from the scope of image projects and start real performance projects."
"Where are you going, Zhiran?"
"Riverside."
The two walked northwest, exited Yifeng Gate, went up to Lion Mountain, and reached the top of the mountain with a wide view, looking northward.
Zhao Ran pointed at the surging river water and said, "The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away the heroes. Right and wrong, success and failure are all gone, but the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times."
Li Dayin clapped his hands and praised, "What a sentence! If it hadn't been for today, I would have almost forgotten that Zhiran was still a guest in the mountains, and several of his poems are famous all over the world! Is this Linjiang Immortal? When did Zhiran fill it in? Is there the second half?"
Please Zhiran write it down and I will pay three thousand taels!"
Zhao Ran smiled and said, "I didn't come here to admire the moon with Lao Li Yinfeng, and I didn't write these words. If I want to see the second half of the palace, I'll go see Scholar Yang."
Li Dayin thought for a while and asked, "Yang Shen, the scholar at the Hanlin Academy? OK, I'll look for him later, but the person who wrote the handwriting is still Zhiran."
Zhao Ran nodded, "As long as he agrees, I will write it for you. What I want to tell you, Lao Li, is that since ancient times, while we celebrate this magnificent river scenery, we also regard this river as a natural chasm. Lao Li, you
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if one day this natural chasm becomes a thoroughfare and you can cross it calmly without having to ride a boat to break through the waves?"
Li Dayin didn't understand, "If you don't take a boat, can you still fly? Don't talk about ordinary people. Even if you and I are teachers, if we want to learn how to cross the river with a reed like Bodhidharma, we are unable to do it..." At this point, he suddenly stood up.
He was amused and said, "By the way, Zhiran, let's go and try together to see where we can cross the river with a reed. Wearing robes and shoes is not allowed, let alone using talismans and magical tools..."
Zhao Ran didn't mean to spoil the fun. He also wanted to see how his master's cultivation was, so he readily agreed.
The two of them descended from Lion Rock and came to the river. Each picked a reed, threw the reed into the water, performed the exercises, and stepped on it with both feet. When Zhao Ran Huang Guan was cultivating, he once crossed the Xiaojinchuan River at night. At that time, his ankle
The lower body was submerged in the water, and the trouser legs were wet. At this time, Dan was born with spiritual consciousness, and he was completely different. His two feet stepped on the reeds, and only the soles of his shoes slightly touched the water.
However, crossing a river with reeds is a completely different level of difficulty than walking on waves. The buoyancy of a reed is almost negligible, and it cannot provide any leverage. Instead, your feet are restricted to the reeds, and you have to find a way to carry them with you.
Crossing the river with reeds makes it several times more difficult.
The waves on the big river were also strong, and they were even worse than the small Jinchuan River. The two of them walked side by side for dozens of feet, when Li Dayin couldn't hold on any longer, and his feet gradually submerged into the water. Zhao Ran also felt a little strenuous.
Although he entered the army a year later than Li Dayin, his cultivation level is much deeper than that of Li Dayin due to the massive refining of the accumulated merits of drought resistance. In addition, the spiritual power golden elixir can be exchanged for emergencies at any time, so the situation is much better.
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When they reached a hundred feet, Li Dayin's entire feet were underwater, but Zhao Ran was still able to barely hold on. He expected that he should be able to hold on to the center of the river.
Seeing that Li Dayin seemed to be in trouble, Zhao Ran pressed his feet down gently, his body swayed, and his whole ankle went into the water. He smiled and said, "I can't, I'm going to fall into the water. Lao Li, slow down, I'll take a step first." After that, Kick away the reed with one kick, take out the shield-like magic weapon from the wrench and throw it forward, soar into the air. When falling, tap your left foot lightly on the shield, use the force of your body to move forward, kick out the toes of your right foot at the same time, and lift the shield. He kicked forward more than ten feet and caught his falling body. After continuous ups and downs, he finally reached the other side.
Li Dayin could no longer hold on any longer, but he was struggling to save his face. At this time, he breathed a sigh of relief, took out his flying sword, and crossed to the other side as well. The two of them were evenly matched, and they were evenly matched.
"San Mao Guan's exercises are indeed extraordinary!"
"There is something unique about Lou Guan's technique. After all, Zhiran entered the master level a year later, but he is not inferior to me at all. I admire him."
There was a burst of smoke rising from the feet of the two of them, but they each used their exercises to dry the wet feet.
Li Dayin looked back at the center of the river and said, "If you don't have a cultivation level above that of a trainer, don't think about crossing the river with a reed. No, there are not even enough trainers. The old monk Bodhidharma was probably at the Bodhisattva level."
Zhao Ran thought for a while and said, "I heard that he became enlightened by facing the wall in Songshan Mountain for ten years."
Li Dayin nodded, "There is a Bodhidharma Cave. It is said that the figure on the cave wall was left by him back then. I don't know if it is a Buddhist fabrication or if it is true."
Zhao Ran said, "From Longjiang Pass on the opposite side to Pukou City behind us, it is four hundred feet long. Only monks with a yellow crown or above can't cross it. They have to take a boat to ferry, otherwise they can only look at the river and sigh. How many people have been blocked for thousands of years?" The way to go...Lao Li, are you interested in us creating a miracle together?"
Li Dayin asked, "What miracle do you want to create?"
Zhao Ran pointed to the Dajiang Road, "I have a dream. I want to build a magnificent bridge on this vast mist, so that this natural chasm will become a thoroughfare from now on!"
Li Dayin's eyes widened and he said in disbelief, "Are you crazy?"
Zhao Ran smiled, "Whether you're crazy or not, I'll tell you later. I just ask you, if the bridge is built, how much credibility will it gain?"
Li Dayin opened his mouth for a long time without closing it, and said for a long time, "Is this the political performance project you are talking about? If it is really completed, and this miracle stands on the river, it will not be a political performance project, but a credibility project. I am afraid that the common people will not be able to do it every day." They are all going to burn incense and worship gods by this bridge. When the monks from Xixia see them, they will all kowtow and change into Taoism, right?"
Zhao Ran said, "After the bridge was completed, I made a stone into a stele, wrote a narrative, recorded the efforts made by our Taoist sect, and engraved Lao Li's name on it. Thousands of years later, Li Junda, the master of Sammao Pavilion, The title "Yin" is still recited by people all over the world..."
Li Dayin stretched out his hand to stop, "Wait a minute, Zhi Ran, wait a minute, let me think about it... Well, Zhi Ran, first tell me how you plan to build a bridge? I have never heard of anyone who can build a bridge across a 400-foot river..." This should be the narrowest part of the river near the capital, right? It turns out that Zhiran had planned it for a long time, you can't be serious, right?"
Zhao Ran asked seriously, "Are you interested in joining us?"
Li Dayin nodded subconsciously, "Of course."
Zhao Ran said, "Actually, it's not difficult to say. In one sentence, break the limitations of thinking."
"What's the meaning?"
"I used to wonder why no one thought of some things that were so simple. For example, why didn't everyone share the Taoist skills with the common people? Why did everyone in this world use their skills to practice?
For ourselves, whether it is promotion, fighting, enjoyment, or making money, we rarely think of using it on people's livelihood and on the people. We think that it is enough to give the people a stable world, but in stability
After that, can't we do more to make people's lives richer and more convenient? These things are very simple to do, just combine the needs of the people with the Taoism we have, and that's it."
"Link Taoism to people's livelihood?"
"Yes, it actually sounds simple, but does Lao Li know why no one has ever done this?"
Li Dayin thought for a while and said, "Practice is for your own ascension. Anyone who wants to ascend must work tirelessly and devote themselves to practice. There is no time to pay attention to the world of mortals."
He didn't talk about himself. In fact, a practitioner with no ambitions like him focused mostly on himself, so he wouldn't think of doing such a strenuous thing.
Zhao Ran nodded and said, "Yes, this is the selfishness of us practitioners. We only ask for things without asking for anything in return. We only think about our own ascension without considering the lives of the people... So, Lao Li, you know what?
From that time on, do monks need to rely on their faith to survive calamities and ascend?"
"this……"
"I don't know either, but as Master Chen said, in ancient times, faith was not required for ascension. Why is it needed now? When did faith appear?"
"..."
"In the past two months, I have been thinking about this issue. Sometimes I wonder, will this be God's punishment for us? He tells us that if we take something, we must get something in return. If we take something from the people, we must compensate it.
, this is the cycle of heaven. The generation of trust may be a measure of the compensation that heaven has made to us. It is essentially a feedback of debt. He does not tell us how much debt we owe to the people, but tells us that we
How much has been repaid.”
Li Dayin was a little confused, "You mean... when we pursue credibility, we are actually paying off debts?"
Zhao Ran shook his head, "I haven't thought it through yet. There are still many issues worth pondering... Anyway, I think I can give it a try."
"How to try?"
Zhao Ran snapped his fingers, "I just said, we can try it, use Taoism to serve the believers and the people, and work hard to pay off the debt!"