On that day, countless gods stood in the air in the city of Wu Dynasty. In different places, at the same time, they held bright yellow edicts in their hands, announcing the change of a dynasty.
"The Immortal Palace has issued a decree that the Wu Dynasty disobeyed the laws of the immortals, defied the authority of the immortals, embezzled the granaries, and caused millions of people in the world to suffer from hunger. This is the crime of slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people. From today on, the Wu Dynasty will be abolished, and the emperor and his relatives will be killed without mercy. The remaining territory will be temporarily governed by the Shangqing Palace."
The mighty voice spread in all directions and shook the whole world.
The Jindan royal priest of the Wu Dynasty carried thousands of heads of the royal family out of the palace, waiting for the monks of Shangqing Palace to count them. When the civil and military officials of the court heard the news, they collapsed to the ground, their eyes dull and their expressions broken.
Those who know how to observe qi only see that a country's destiny is being uprooted by an invisible giant hand, leaving no room for resistance.
In the past, there were monks who destroyed a country, but it was rare for a monk to destroy a country's national destiny. They usually weakened the country's national destiny by bringing down various natural and man-made disasters.
It could be destroying farmland, creating natural disasters, or even deceiving the emperor. But no one would uproot the national destiny of a dynasty directly from under the national destiny.
The consequences would be too great, and even someone at the Spirit Transformation Stage would have to pay a price. The higher the level of cultivation, the more they would fear the consequences of karma.
But today the Wu Dynasty was destroyed, not by natural disasters or man-made calamities, but by a decree, written in black and white on paper, which led to the demise of a dynasty.
The emperor and high officials in the temple can crush tens of thousands of people with a casual word, and the immortals can also crush them with a casual word. They don't care about the people, and the immortals don't care about them either.
That's fair.
At least that's what the Taoist who was riding a boat on the lake to the next dynasty thought. If someone likes the big fish to eat the small fish, then be prepared to be a small fish yourself.
Taoist Qingxuan landed on the boat. He no longer had the calm and composed look of the past, nor did he have the handsome appearance of the past. His brows were filled with fatigue, and the wrinkles left by the years on his face added a sense of sadness.
Shangqing Palace emphasizes following the laws of nature, and like many monks who practice asceticism, they do not deliberately preserve their appearance. Instead, they allow age to grow and let time carve its mark on their faces.
Qingxuan was over 2,100 years old at this time, which was considered old in the realm of spiritual transformation. In another 400 years at most, he would turn into a handful of earth.
He bent down slightly and knelt down, with his hands on the ground and his head resting on the back of his hands, kneeling in front of Li Changsheng.
"I apologize to the Immortal Lord."
The Shangqing Palace is responsible for the preparation and adjustment of the secular granaries, according to the plan discussed by many monks in the palace and two sects. If all the food in the world is centralized and managed, and granaries are built, the food in places with more food can be taken out and transported to places with less food.
Kyushu is so big that there are always places that are not affected by disasters. As long as the population is controlled, the disasters can be completely solved, and there may even be surpluses. There are so many farmlands in the world that they can fully feed the 50 million people in Kyushu.
Shangqing Palace even activated the Tianji Pavilion and asked them to use special methods to calculate the farmland under the sky, and finally came up with an extremely shocking data. The farmland in Jiuzhou is as large as 1.6 billion mu, and even if it is affected by natural disasters now, there are still 800 million mu left.
In view of the unreliable reputation of Tianji Pavilion, the one palace and two gates planned the arable land area at 600 million acres. It would be very easy to feed the remaining human beings with such a large amount of arable land.
If the food of more than a dozen dynasties were managed in a unified way, people all over the world would never go hungry.
This is what Yigong Liangmen thought, and so did many other powerful practitioners. So they began to act, with a perfect plan and a smooth process, but the result was not satisfactory.
I originally thought that the problem would arise in the process of harvesting grain, after all, grain is more important than anything else in the mortal world. But since Shangqing Palace took out a large amount of elixirs and gold and silver, the former for the princes and nobles, and the latter for the people in the fields, everyone was happy.
In addition, with the absolute military support of the monks, harvesting grain and building granaries went very smoothly.
Master Du Shi bought them five years, and they went very smoothly during those five years. But when it came time to inspect the results, something went wrong with the all-important granary.
Li Changsheng asked, "What crime have you committed?"
"Ineffective work and lax supervision will bring disaster to the world." Qingxuan replied in a deep voice.
"The Wu Dynasty had more than 1,500 granaries, storing a total of 10 million dan of grain. Half of the harvest in the past five years went into the granaries, so the granaries were full of grain. But after another check by the Shangqing Palace, it was found that most of the granaries had been embezzled, and it is estimated that 50 million dan were missing. If it spread to other dynasties, the number would probably exceed 30 million dan."
One dan of rice is equal to 100 catties. If an adult eats every meal, he can only eat 20 catties of rice in a month. Thirty million dan is enough for the people of Kyushu to survive the three-year flood. They can eat last year's harvest this year and this year's harvest next year.
Even if floods come again, as long as they don't submerge the entire Kyushu, the human race can survive it calmly.
"Can they eat all the five hundred million dan of grain?" Li Changsheng calculated the number of all the dignitaries in the Wu Dynasty with just a thought. Including the emperor and officials, there were no more than 500,000 people, including their families.
500,000 people took away the food rations of tens of millions of people. Even if they used rice bricks to build the palace, they would not be able to use so much food.
Qingxuan replied: "They can't finish the food. Even if it rots, they are unwilling to give it to the disaster victims, even if the food is stolen."
"Get up, you are innocent. You only have three pairs of eyes, ears and nose. How can you see the whole world?"
Li Changsheng raised his hand slightly, and Taoist Qingxuan's body stood up uncontrollably. Such profound cultivation was amazing.
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