Chapter 89: Following the Will of Heaven

Chen Shuhua's residence has been razed to the ground.

The two first-class spiritual officials joined forces, which was not bad, but they were still inferior to the immortal immortal.

Chen Shuhua flew into the sky and reached out to the outside of the city.

Before the rebellion, the founding lord of Dayu Kingdom got a sword body by chance, with the words "Shun Tian" engraved on it. Later, he got the hilt of the sword and put them together to form a magic sword. He carried this sword to defeat the Wei army, founded the foundation of Dayu Kingdom, and established the capital in Shenglongfu.

There is a big lake outside Shenglongfu. When the founding lord of Dayu Kingdom was sailing on the lake, he suddenly saw a golden turtle surfaced, swam to the side of the boat, and asked him for the magic sword. The sword on the waist of the King of Dayu fell, and 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, and the hilt of the sword remained on the water, forming a small pagoda in the center of the lake. Therefore, this lake is called Guijian Lake.

Following Chen Shuhua's actions, the originally calm Guijian Lake suddenly raised huge waves, and the pagoda in the center of the lake shook violently. First, it swayed, tiles broke, and countless dust fell from the cracks. Then the soil was turned up, and the foundation originally buried in the soil was pulled out of the ground little by little. Finally, the whole pagoda rose from the ground and flew towards Chen Shuhua.

Chen Shuhua recited aloud: "I have a pearl, which has been locked up by dust for a long time. Today, the dust is gone and the light is born, shining through the mountains and rivers."

The brick and wood structure of the pagoda began to peel off layer by layer, and a dazzling sword gradually revealed its true appearance.

The fairy sword used the pagoda as a sheath. Once it was unsheathed, the sword light was brilliant and illuminated the world.

This sword is called "Shuntian", which is the fairy sword passed down from generation to generation in the Great Yu Kingdom.

In the past, no one except the founding lord of Dayu could use this kind of sword, which was sealed in the pagoda of Guijian Lake. Today, as Chen Shuhua entered the realm of immortal immortals, it finally saw the light of day.

Chen Shuhua holding the "Shuntian Sword" is not inferior to Feigong Xizi of Fenglinzhou.

If Lan Da Zhenren had not destroyed the two immortal-level divine vessels in advance, when Chen Shuhua refined the "Eternal Life Stone" and entered the realm of immortal immortals, holding the sword, together with Wu Luo and Siming Zhenjun, the three immortals joined forces, the huge Borneo would probably change hands.

In order to pacify Fenglinzhou, the Taoist sect has already involved most of the energy of the National Master and Taiping Dao. If Borneo rebels again, the Earth Master and Quanzhen Dao will have to do their best to suppress the rebellion, which will put the Taoist sect in a delicate situation of fighting on two fronts.

Only Tianshi and Zhengyi Dao are left, and the Buddhist sect, which has been suppressed by the Taoist sect for a long time, is likely to make some moves.

The Dao Sect is a big family with a big business. It can still cope with this step. However, there are still factors such as Shamanism, Silla, the Golden Horde, the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Holy Court, and even the Daxuan Court that has been ready to move. It is very likely that one hair will move the whole body.

In these links, if all wrong decisions are made, it can shake the foundation of the Dao Sect, and even make the Dao Sect decline from prosperity. Although the probability of all mistakes is extremely small, it still exists.

This is also where the Taiping Dao is entangled. They want to keep Borneo as an abscess to contain the Quanzhen Dao, but they are afraid that if they really play it out, it will lead to a series of chain reactions. Therefore, the Taiping Dao behaved very ambiguous and hesitant. Before the Fenglinzhou war began, it seemed to support Wang Jiaohe, but there was no substantial action. It wanted to play a balance, but did not dare to play to the end. It is more appropriate to describe it as "close and distant".

After the outbreak of the Fenglinzhou war, the Taiping Dao finally did not have to entangle, let go openly, and reached a compromise with the Quanzhen Dao.

Over the years, the three sects have been fighting more and more fiercely, and their consensus has become less and less, but there is one consensus that cannot be shaken, that is, to be united against the outside world.

The Daxuan court has always been known as the lower sect, and its predecessor was the northern sect, and it can be said to be one of its own. But Borneo and Fenglinzhou are not one of its own.

To put it in a less correct and less moral way, although the Taoist sect has always advocated equality, in fact everyone understands that there has never been true equality.

At the end of the Wei Dynasty, there were natural disasters and man-made disasters, famines everywhere, and starving people everywhere. Two hundred years have passed, and according to the law that there is no national destiny for three hundred years, the Daxuan court should have fallen into decline. But the fact is just the opposite. The Daxuan court is in an unprecedented heyday.

Of course, there are reasons for the Taoist sect. It is no longer a world of one family. The Imperial Capital and the Jade Capital restrain each other, which to a certain extent eases the corruption and degeneration of the upper echelons. But the more critical reason is that the Taoist sect and the Daxuan have solved the most critical contradiction between people and land.

The so-called rise and fall of dynasties, each dynasty develops to the end, there are too many people and too little land, land annexation, the land can not support so many people, there will inevitably be a chaos, reduce the population, redistribute the land, and then there will be a peaceful and prosperous era.

To solve this problem, there are only two ways: increasing revenue and reducing expenditure.

Increasing revenue means conquering the outside world and expanding the territory, but this move has a disadvantage. If the territory is too large and too far away, the court will be unable to reach it, which will easily lead to the independence of the border areas and break away from the control of the court. This is what many dynasties do not want to see, and once the dynasty weakens, these lands are also easy to lose. The 19 states in the Central Plains are almost the limit.

Saving expenditure means rectifying the administration of officials, implementing new policies, and curbing land annexation. This move also has disadvantages, that is, it touches the interests of the powerful at all levels, and everyone hates it, so it is difficult to move forward. If you are not careful, you will be backlashed. At the least, you will be knocked to the ground and leave sadly, and at the worst, you will die and your family will be destroyed, leaving a bad reputation for thousands of years.

In terms of saving money, the dual structure of Taoism and Daxuan has eased the problem to a certain extent. In terms of opening up new sources, Taoism 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 to reach. The improvement of agricultural technology can feed more people with less land. The prosperity of maritime trade has led to the decline of traditional land aristocrats, indirectly easing land annexation.

In short, the contradictions in the Central Plains did not disappear, but were transferred.

Regardless of whether Taoism is willing or not, and regardless of how Taoism emphasizes equality, in fact, there is a difference between high and low. Taoists are the first class, officials are the second class, the people of the Central Plains are the third class, and then the natives of Borneo, Fenglinzhou and other places are the fourth class.

Taoism will not make others slaves like Westerners. This is the behavior of pirates, too despicable, and not in line with Eastern morality.

However, in terms of specific division of labor, there is indeed a difference between high and low. Taoists do not engage in production, but are responsible for management and distribution, and get the most. Officials, merchants, and gentry are responsible for execution and get the second most. The common people in the Central Plains are engaged in production, but they are responsible for relatively high-end crafts, which can ensure that they have enough food and clothing, have a decent appearance, can support their children to study, and can achieve a leap in position through studying, which can barely be regarded as a reward for hard work. Ordinary people outside the Central Plains can only do some unskilled work, work hard, pay the most, and get the least. Their children cannot study, and sometimes they have problems with food and clothing.

But even so, compared with the Holy Court, Taoism is still noble. In addition to the fact that Taoism does not sell slaves, at least Taoism still retains certain channels for advancement. People like Qi Xuansu can also become a Taoist priest by passing the reading exam.

In life, you always have to have a sense of superiority to survive. It can be said that it is the inferior nature of human beings, but in fact it is so. It is not the scarcity but the inequality. Everyone is poor, or everyone is rich, and they can survive. I am afraid that one is rich and the other is poor, and then I can't survive.

In life, you always have to have some thoughts to survive. What is a thought? That is, the goal, or hope. Although I am very poor now, I can get wealth through hard work, and the path to move up is not blocked. No matter how hard it is now, I can survive.

Superiority or desire, they all come from inequality.

If the world is equal, where is the superiority? If the world is equal, there is no desire or hope.

Equality is an extremely beautiful vision, but it is too difficult to realize.

Confucianism cannot achieve universal peace, and Taoism cannot achieve true equality.

This is an objective fact.

From this point of view, the foundation of Taoism is not so solid.

Xuansheng realized this, so he retained the Great Xuan Court and various small courts, avoiding direct contact between Taoist priests and people's livelihood issues, and letting Taoism play the role of supervisor. Taoism is like a sword hanging over the head of the court. If the court does not do well, it will be cut off immediately and replaced by someone else. The people at the bottom are dissatisfied, and they also point their spearheads at the court responsible for execution, rather than the Taoist sect that is separated by a layer.

Both Quanzhen Dao and Taiping Dao understood this deeply, so both sides were very cautious in dealing with the issues of Borneo and Fenglinzhou.

When Qingwei Zhenren put down the rebellion in Fenglinzhou, he repeatedly emphasized that he should keep a Fenglinzhou that won the hearts of the people, rather than killing people and suppressing violently.

Donghua Zhenren was determined to move the Taoist government in Borneo, not only for the benefit of Quanzhen Dao, but also to cleanse the muddy water and remove the poisonous sores.

In this way, it was inevitable that the court would confront the Taoist sect.

Even the Daxuan court, which was known as the lower Taoist sect, still planned the Five Elements Mountain incident.

The Zunrong faction in Fenglinzhou swept across the continent, and it has not ended yet.

In Borneo, Chen Shuhua did not represent the interests of the Taoist government at this time, she represented the royal family of Dayu State, and Wang Jiaohe did not represent the interests of the Taoist government, he represented the local tyrants in Borneo.

The one who truly represented the interests of the Taoist government was the Great Zhenren Lan Hexu.

In other words, when things developed to this point, the nature of the matter had changed.

It was no longer an internal struggle of Quanzhen Dao, but a rebellion similar to the war in Fenglinzhou.

Did Master Donghua foresee this when he made the decision?

Of course he did.

But Master Donghua was faced with a dilemma. He didn't want to alert the enemy too early, so he couldn't go out in person and could only send Qi Xuansu. But it was difficult to be foolproof with Qi Xuansu alone. So Master Donghua still found an insurance for Qi Xuansu.

That was Qi Niang.

Qi Niang finally arrived late and arrived outside Shenglongfu.