Zu An's face darkened: "How dare you! The Jade Emperor has personally issued an edict. How can we disobey the imperial decree for such a harmless bet? You are trying to make me commit the crime of deceiving the emperor! Come on, kill this guy!"
All that was happening now finally reminded him of a legend from his past life. Although he couldn't remember it very clearly, he was keenly aware that this guy's idea was definitely a huge trap.
At this moment, the entire hall fell silent. The ministers looked on incredulously. The strategist, known as the Shad Strategist, burst into tears: "Your Majesty, I am innocent! I was only trying to advise Your Majesty and help you win this bet. What wrong have I done?"
Hearing his cries, many ministers pleaded for him, but Zu An remained unmoved. Soon, shrimp soldiers and crab generals dragged the shad strategist away.
Not long after, the soldiers rushed over and said, "Your Majesty, the strategist's head was cut off, but a stream of light suddenly appeared in his body and he disappeared instantly."
Upon hearing this, the ministers who had initially felt indignant and dissatisfied on behalf of the strategist fell silent. What was wrong with this strategist?
Zuan sneered, "As expected, he's the one who came to harm me."
At this moment, many ministers exclaimed in surprise:
"Who on earth is this person who wants to harm the King?"
"What should we do now?"
"Why don't we apologize to the fortune teller and ask him not to mind?"
"This is outrageous! Your Majesty is the mighty Dragon God who controls the rain. How can you submit to a human? Besides, those fishermen are all greedy. If the other party continues to instruct them to cast those destructive nets, within ten years, probably only one in ten of our Jinghe River's aquatic creatures will survive. Then the entire tribe will be wiped out."
"But what can we do if we don't back down? That fortune teller can even know the Jade Emperor's decree in advance. He must have powerful backers. Wouldn't it be suicide if we just fought him to the death?"
...
Hearing the ministers discussing the matter, each of them making some sense, Zu An felt extremely annoyed. He was currently thinking quickly about the whole thing.
In fact, he already roughly knew what this test was. There was a story in the previous life of "Journey to the West". The original Jinghe Dragon King, due to a moment of anger, listened to the nonsense of the shad strategist and actually cheated and disobeyed the imperial decree. As a result, he violated the heavenly rules and was beheaded.
Then the Dragon King of the Jing River panicked and ran to Yuan Shoucheng for advice. Yuan Shoucheng told him that the executioner sent by the Heavenly Court was Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty, and told him to ask Emperor Li Shimin of Tang for help.
The Dragon King of the Jing River appeared in the Emperor of Tang's dream, begging for help. The Emperor agreed, and on the day of the meeting, he specially summoned Wei Zheng to the palace to play chess with him, just to keep him occupied.
Wei Zheng fell asleep while playing chess, and the Tang Emperor thought things were settled. But little did he know that Wei Zheng's spirit left his body in his sleep and went to the execution platform to oversee the execution.
The wronged soul of the Jinghe Dragon King felt that the Tang Emperor had broken his promise, so he sued the Tang Emperor in the underworld. Just then, the Tang Emperor's lifespan was coming to an end, so the underworld sent ghost messengers to bring the Tang Emperor's soul to the underworld for confrontation.
Emperor Tang's one-day trip to the underworld left him terrified upon his return to life. He then held a grand Buddhist and Taoist ceremony to deliver the souls of those who had died at his hands over the past few decades. There, he encountered Tang Sanzang, and a discussion ensued between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism, which led to the story of sending Tang Sanzang to the Western Paradise to retrieve Buddhist scriptures.
The reason I didn't think of it at first is because this plot is too insignificant in "Journey to the West." His focus was entirely on Sun Wukong, the Seven Fairies, the Women's Kingdom, and other similar stories.
But now that I've experienced so much firsthand, those hazy memories have become clear again.
So how should I break this deadlock?
On the surface, it seems quite easy, but the fact that the strategist who stirred up trouble had a mysterious presence inside him made everything even more perplexing.
He thought of several key points and gradually formed an idea in his mind.
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