Lou Guan and his colleagues all went to Fujian to pay their respects to Master Xu on his birthday. Only Zhao Ran was left to supervise the work in the Dajun Mountain Cave. He said he was supervising the work, but in fact there was nothing to worry about.
When Zhao Ran came back in the morning, he had already walked around and found that everything was in order. Master Sun Biyun was refining the temple in Junshan Temple, and he had no way to get involved. After refining, he had already decided where to place it.
It has been planned, and the only thing that needs to be done is that when Master Sun needs any materials, he will see if he can help.
Stepping to the Junshan Temple, Master Sun Biyun and his disciples were refining the temple in the cave where the Xunlei Xiantian Fire was. Zhao Ran walked around a few times, but he didn't see anything. Instead, Fu Sihai proposed to him.
Request: "Uncle Master..."
Zhao Ran waved his hand quickly: "I can't do it, I can't do it!"
Fu Sihai nodded and said: "Okay. Uncle Zhao, the one hundred thousand taels of silver you left have been spent almost, and there are still a few thousand taels left. Now it seems that it is not enough. I wonder if uncle Zhao can get some more?"
"Approximately how many will it take?"
"I originally calculated that it would take about 80,000 taels, but the two hundred square meters of purple nanmu brought back by my uncle is very useful and makes up for the need for special wood. We plan to add it and re-refine it, so there is still about 50,000 taels left.
What still needs to be purchased is some refined copper, lead and mercury, and to refine a lot of talismans and magic weapons. I plan to ask two apprentices to go down the mountain to buy them back... If my uncle doesn't get the money, I will let them go back to Wudang first.
I, the Great Sage, will take some from Nanyan Palace."
"Where can I use your money?" Zhao Ran quickly took out a thick stack of silver notes and handed it to Fu Sihai.
Zhao Ran originally expected to invest 300,000 taels for the construction of the entire Dajun Mountain Cave Heaven. Among them, he could use all of his 200,000 taels, plus Lou Guan's family's 60,000 taels, and the remaining gap could be passed through.
Take away Buddhist ritual instruments and elixirs to gather enough supplies.
But since we have the free labor of those people, we no longer need to consider hiring people to do the work. This saves thousands of people more than a year of work time and money. It seems that it can be completed with only 150,000 taels. This is really a huge savings.
Well, he got back another 150,000 taels from Xixia, which was more than enough money.
After paying the money, "Uncle Zhao" was kicked out by the Fu brothers, and he strolled to the Lingyao Villa, which was under construction in full swing.
When it comes to building their own home, these spirit monsters have absolutely no intention of being lazy and spare no effort in building it. Even though the spirit monster villa covers an area of more than 800 acres, for such a huge villa, according to the design of Zhao Ran and Sun Biyun, its consumables are only
A mere ten thousand taels, in the eyes of connoisseurs, is really outrageously simple.
But I didn't expect that when I walked around for a while, I found that all the courtyards were quite beautiful, especially the gardens in each courtyard, including rockeries, ponds, woods, flower beds, everything!
Zhao Ran swore to God that there were absolutely no such things in his and Sun Biyun's budgets!
Couldn't these guys have misappropriated materials from elsewhere? Zhao Ran gave up the idea as soon as he came up with it. The construction of the entire Junshan Cave Heaven only cost 150,000 silver, which was mainly used for the refining palace of Master Sun Biyun.
, these spirit demons can steal materials from Master Sun? Zhao Ran doesn’t believe it anyway.
Zhao Ran first came to the "Daoxiang Village" built by Qingtian laymen - this vulgar name was given by Zhao Ran. At a glance, he saw Qingniu who was leveling the land. He looked around and saw that the Fairy of Toad Palace was not there, so he seized the opportunity to get there.
Ask before.
"Businessman! You windmill..."
"Moo~Zhao Xingxing, doesn't this windmill of Mavericks look good?"
"No, no, I'm just asking, where did this windmill come from?"
"Moo~ This is a tree cut by Xiao Niu from the mountain. He asked Master Fu to help him make it."
"Oh, that's it. Then, what about the rockery in the Huangshan Junhou Garden? Pindao looked at it and saw that it was a huge piece of Taihu stone. I wonder where he got it from?"
"Those are the items treasured by Taoist fellow Huangshan in Jianshan Cave. According to him, they have been collected piece by piece over decades. Since we are going to practice in the Dajunshan Cave in the future, we simply moved them all here."
I don’t know what to see, it’s just a pile of broken stones..."
This pile of broken stones amounted to more than tens of thousands of silver. Now Zhao Ran was relieved. Since it was not embezzlement or harming the world at the foot of the mountain, he was of course happy that these spirit demons had moved all the good treasures into the cave.
After the inspection, Zhao Ran gave Zhumeng a flying talisman.
"Junior brothers, how are you doing lately? Have you got the documents from the general survey? Have you gone to Wujiyuan to perform your duties as abbot?"
"Senior Brother Zhao has come back from Xixia? The documents for the general survey have come down. In mid-August, I went to the Elder Hall to sign up. I was the only one in the entire Huayun Hall who went there. The other brothers thought I was a fool."
"Don't be troubled by those ordinary opinions. Today they look down on you, but tomorrow you will make them unable to reach you!"
"Huh? Senior brother, what you said is very reasonable! By the way, on the first day of September, at the public recommendation meeting of Wuji Academy, I was promoted to the throne."
"How does it feel to be an abbot for a month?"
"As you said, I hosted a fasting ceremony, and it was really crowded! I invited a piece of land to wander around. What did you say? Well, it shocked them all! Haha, it's interesting! It's just flowers.
I paid dozens of taels of silver..."
Zhao Ran quickly stopped what he was saying: "Yes, yes, junior brother actually asked for the land. It's amazing! Is it the land of Wuji Mountain? Is it the incarnation of me? The fields under Wuji Mountain must have a good harvest this year! I'm just saying,
Junior brother, your level of Zhaijiao etiquette is absolutely top-notch, keep up the hard work! What happens next?"
"Then I will go back to the mountain. There will be a fasting ceremony at the end of this month, and then I will go to Wujiyuan. Didn't you say that I don't have to worry about the other things? I gave instructions to Liu Zhiguang, the prisoner, and if there are any major undecided matters,
Ask them to find you, and they ask me how to find you, and I say it’s up to you, haha!”
"Then I will serve as a Taoist clerk in Baimayuan. Has the overall plan been issued?"
"I don't know. I'm busy practicing, so I haven't seen it. How about you wait until I go to Wujiyuan at the end of the month and help you find out?"
Zhao Ran was speechless, but as long as Zhu Meng did not interfere in Wujiyuan's political affairs at will and did not give blind orders, then nothing would be a problem. Liu Zhiguang would never dare to change the major political strategy he had set without authorization.
Now that all the monks have performed their duties, it means that the West Zhenwu Palace of Long'an Prefecture has issued a document to remove Zhao Ran from the position of abbot of Wujiyuan and appoint him. I don't know if there is any document issued to Songfan Tianhe Palace.
Remove Zeng Zhili from the position of abbot of Baima Yuan, and let Baima Yuan re-recommend and recommend candidates.
On Songfan's side, it was not convenient for Zhao Ran to take the initiative to inquire. Although at that time, after taking care of the ascension ceremony of Zhang Laodao and the Lord of Qingshan on Wudang Mountain, Zhang Supervisor and Abbot Shen of the Overlooker talked about letting him go to Baima Yuan.
thing, but who knows if these two people will change their minds? As long as the document is not issued for one day, it will not be considered a real deal. If something happens in the middle, I will rush to Tianhe Palace to find Du Teng.
Yes, that would be too embarrassing.
Zhao Ran thought for a while and decided that to inquire about this matter, he would have to go to Bai Tengming, the abbot of Xizhenwu Palace. They are both state-level bosses. Bai Tengming must have accurate information.
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Ran immediately sent out a flying talisman.