Chen Shuhua's mansion has been razed to the ground.
The two first-grade spiritual officers working together were quite powerful, but when they met the Immortal Immortal, they were still a little inferior.
Chen Shuhua flew into the sky and reached out towards the outside of the city to grab it.
Before the uprising of the Dayu Kingdom, by chance, the founder of the Yu Kingdom got a sword body with the word "Shuntian" engraved on it. Later, he got the sword hilt and put it together to form a divine sword. He carried this sword and defeated the Great Wei Dynasty.
The army established the foundation of the Yu Kingdom and established its capital in Shenglongfu. ??
There is a large lake outside the city of Thang Long. When the founder of the Dayu Kingdom was boating on the lake, he suddenly saw a golden turtle emerging from the water and swam to the side of the boat, asking him for a divine sword. The sword on King Dayu's waist responded.
After falling, the golden turtle dived to the bottom of the lake with the sword in his mouth.
Later, it was said that the sword was returned by the immortal and inserted into the lake. The hilt of the sword remained on the water, forming a small pagoda in the center of the lake. Therefore, the lake was named Guijian Lake.
Following Chen Shuhua's actions, Guijian Lake, which was originally calm, suddenly set off huge waves. The pagoda in the center of the lake shook violently. First it swayed, the tiles shattered, countless dust fell from the gaps, and then the soil turned over.
Up, the foundation that was originally buried in the soil was lifted out of the ground little by little, and finally the entire pagoda was seen rising up from the ground and flying towards Chen Shuhua.
Chen Shuhua recited loudly, "I have a bright pearl, which has been locked up by the dust for a long time. Now the light is born when the dust is gone, shining through thousands of mountains and rivers."
The brick and wood structure of the pagoda began to peel off layer by layer, and a bright divine sword gradually revealed its true appearance.
The fairy sword is sheathed on a pagoda. Once it is unsheathed, the sword's light shines brightly across the heaven and earth.
This sword is called "Shuntian", and it is the fairy sword passed down from generation to generation in the Kingdom of Yu.
In the past, no one could use these immortal swords except the founder of Dayu Kingdom, and they were sealed in the pagoda of Guijian Lake. Today, as Chen Shuhua ascends to the realm of Immortal Immortal, he finally sees the light of day again.
Chen Shuhua holds the "Shuntian Sword" and is not inferior to Feigong Xizi in Fenglinzhou.
If Landa Zhenren had not destroyed the two immortal-level divine descending vessels in advance, when Chen Shuhua refined the "Eternal Life Stone" and entered the realm of immortal immortals, holding the immortal sword, Wu Luo and Zhenjun Siming, the three immortals joined forces,
The huge island of Borneo will probably change hands.
In order to pacify Fenglinzhou, Daomen has already involved most of the energy of the National Master and Taiping Dao. If Borneo rebels again, Earth Master and Quanzhen Dao will also have to fight against the rebellion with all their strength, which will put Daomen into a two-front battle.
In a delicate situation.
Only Tianshi and Zheng are left, and the Buddhist sect, which has been suppressed by the Taoist sect for a long time, may take action.
The Taoist family has a great cause, and it can still cope with it at this point. It's just that there is still shamanism, and the new
Factors such as Luo, the Golden Horde, the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Holy Court, and even the Daxuan Court, which has been preparing to make a move, may affect the whole body.
In these few links, if all of them make wrong decisions, it can shake the foundation of the Taoist sect, and even cause the Taoist sect to turn from prosperity to decline. Although the probability of them all making mistakes is extremely small, it still exists.
This is also where the Taiping Dao is entangled. They not only want to keep the abscess of Borneo to contain the Quanzhen Tao, but they are also afraid that they will lose it, which will lead to a series of chain reactions. Therefore, the Taiping Dao behaves extremely ambiguously and hesitantly. In Fenglinzhou
Before the war started, it seemed that he supported Wang Jiaohe, but he did not take any real action. He wanted to play a balance game, but did not dare to play it out to the end. The four words "almost as if apart" can be used to describe it.
After the Fenglinzhou war broke out, Taiping Dao finally no longer had to worry about it, and they let go openly and reached a compromise with Quanzhen Dao.
Over the years, the three-way struggle has become more and more intense, and their consensus has become less and less. However, there is one consensus that is unshakable, and that is unity in dealing with the outside world.
The Daxuan Imperial Court is known as the Lower Dao Sect, formerly known as the North Dao Sect, and can be said to be its own people. However, Borneo and Fenglin Island cannot be considered their own people.
To put it in a less correct and moral way, although Taoism has always advocated equality, in fact everyone understands that there has never been true equality.
In the last years of the Wei Dynasty, there were natural and man-made disasters, famine spread all over the land, and people died of starvation. Two hundred years later, according to the law of national destiny that does not last three hundred years, the Daxuan court should have fallen into decline. But the fact is just the opposite. The Daxuan court is in a state of decline.
In an unprecedented state of prosperity.
Of course, there is a reason for this because of the Daomen. The world is no longer ruled by one family. Dijing and Yujing restrict each other, which has alleviated the corruption problem within the high-level officials to a certain extent. But the more critical reason is that the Daomen and Daxuan have solved the most important problem.
The key contradiction between man and land.
The so-called rise and fall of dynasties. When each dynasty develops to the end, there will be more people and less land, and the land will be merged. The land cannot support so many people. A great chaos will inevitably break out, the population will be reduced, the land will be redistributed, and then there will be peace and prosperity again.
To solve this problem, there are two ways to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
Open source means to conquer foreign countries and open up territory. However, this has a drawback. If the territory is too vast and too large for the court to reach, it will easily lead to the separatist self-reliance of border areas and break away from the control of the court. This is what many dynasties do not want to see.
Moreover, once the dynasty weakens, these lands will also be easy to
Losing the 19 states in the Central Plains is almost the limit.
Reducing expenditures means internally purging officials, implementing the New Deal, and inhibiting land annexation. This also has disadvantages, that is, it touches the interests of powerful people at all levels, and they all hate them. Therefore, they are struggling to move forward. If they are not careful, they will suffer backlash, and they will be beaten at least.
Falling to the ground and leaving the scene sadly, the worst may be death, the family will be destroyed, and the infamy will last for thousands of years.
In terms of reducing expenditures, the dual structure of Daomen and Daxuan alleviates the problem to a certain extent. In terms of increasing revenue, Daomen has indeed expanded its territory.
However, the fundamental reason is the development of productivity. The emergence of flying boats solved the problem of too large a territory and it was beyond the reach of the whip. The improvement of agricultural technology allowed more people to be fed with less land. The prosperity of maritime trade led to the decline of the traditional land aristocracy.
Indirectly ease land annexation.
In short, the contradictions in the Central Plains did not disappear, but were transferred.
Regardless of whether the Taoist sect is willing or not, and no matter how much the Taoist sect emphasizes equality, in fact, there is a distinction between superior and inferior. Taoist priests are the first class, officials are the second class, and the people of the Central Plains are the third class, and then there is Borneo
, the natives of Fenglinzhou and other places are the fourth class of people.
Daomen will not beat other people into slaves like Westerners do. This is the behavior of pirates. It is too despicable and does not conform to Eastern morals.
However, in terms of the specific division of labor, there is indeed a distinction between superior and inferior. Taoist priests are not involved in production, but are responsible for management and distribution, and get the most. Officials, businessmen, and gentry are responsible for execution, and get the least. Common people in the Central Plains are engaged in production, but
Responsible for relatively high-end craftsmanship, you can ensure that you have enough food and clothing, have a certain dignity, and can support your children to study off the job. You can achieve a jump in status through studying. It can barely be regarded as a reward for every hard work. Ordinary people outside the Central Plains can only do some things that are not worth it.
A job with high technical content requires a lot of effort, giving the most but getting the least, the children cannot study, and sometimes food and clothing are problems.
But even so, compared to the Holy Court, Taoism is still noble. In addition to Taoism not selling slaves, at least Taoism still retains certain channels for advancement. People like Qi Xuansu can also pass the reading test and become a member of the Taoist priests.
In life, one must always have a sense of superiority in order to survive. It can be said to be the bad nature of human beings, but in fact it is like this. We don’t worry about scarcity but about inequality. If everyone is poor or everyone is rich, we can live.
If you are afraid of one being rich and the other being poor, you will not be able to survive.
In life, there must always be some thoughts to survive. What is thoughts? It is running, or hope. Although we are very poor now, we can gain wealth through hard work, and the upward channel has not been closed, no matter what happens now.
No matter how hard it is, you can still survive.
Whether it’s a sense of superiority or thoughts, it’s all here
stems from inequality.
If the world is equal, where is the sense of superiority? If the world is equal, there is no need to think about hope.
Equality is a very beautiful vision, but it is too difficult to realize it.
From this point of view, the foundation of Taoism is not so stable.
Xuan Sheng realized this, so he retained the Daxuan court and various small courts, preventing Taoist priests from directly contacting people's livelihood issues, and letting Taoist priests act as supervisors. Taoist priests were like a sharp sword hanging high above the court's head.
If the court did not do a good job, it would be cut off immediately and replaced by someone else. If the people at the bottom were dissatisfied, they would target the court responsible for the execution rather than the Taoist gates that were separated by one floor.
Both Quanzhen Taoism and Taiping Taoism understand this deeply, so both sides are very cautious when dealing with the issues of Borneo and Fenglin Island.
When Qingwei Zhenren put down the Fenglinzhou rebellion, he repeatedly emphasized the need to preserve a Fenglinzhou that won the hearts and minds of the people, rather than mass killings and violent suppression.
Donghua Zhenren decided to move the Borneo Taoist government out of consideration of the interests of Quanzhen Taoism, and also for the purpose of cleaning up the muddy water and eradicating the malignant sores.
As a result, it is inevitable for the imperial court to confront Taoism.
Even the Daxuan court, known as the Lower Dao Sect, still planned the Five Elements Mountain incident.
The Zunbang sect in Fenglinzhou has swept across the continent and it has not ended yet.
In Borneo, Chen Shuhua does not represent the interests of the Taoist government at this time. She represents the royal family of the Yu Dynasty. Wang Jiaohe does not represent the interests of the Taoist government. He represents the local power of Borneo.
The person who truly represents the interests of the Taoist government is the great master Lan Hexu.
In other words, when things have developed to this point, the nature of the matter has changed.
It is no longer an internal fight within Quanzhen Taoism, but a rebellion similar to the Fenglinzhou War.
Did Master Donghua anticipate this when he made his decision?
Of course it was expected.
It's just that Master Donghua faced a dilemma. He didn't want to alert the enemy prematurely, so he couldn't end it personally, so he could only send Qi Xuansu. But it was difficult to be foolproof with Qi Xuansu alone. So Master Donghua still found an insurance policy for Qi Xuansu.
That is Qiniang.
Qiniang finally arrived belatedly outside the city of Shenglongfu.