Chapter 111 Emperor Yu Visits His Husband Three Times
Li Yanmo rubbed his temples and wanted to eat a bite of snack to calm his nerves, but when he saw the brown snack, Li Yanmo thought of the terrifying long-range attack launched by the Tianjie toilet plunger and immediately lost his appetite.
"That generation of Emperor Yu thought he had made a big mistake and was unworthy of the throne, so he wanted to abdicate the throne to his brothers and sisters. As a result, he was severely beaten and found with a toilet plunger stuck in his buttocks. In the end, he had to deal with the mess himself."
"After that, the Ministry of Industry's problems became more and more serious. The Ministry of Defense protested many times, saying that they spent money, provided blueprints, and provided rare materials and treasures, but when they finally got their hands on the magic weapon, except for the name, it had nothing to do with the magic weapon they wanted."
"In order to teach the Ministry of Works a lesson, Emperor Yu of that generation deliberately let it go, hoping to use the power of the military gate to suppress the Ministry of Works."
"But the strange magic weapons made by the Ministry of Industry are quite powerful. After using them a few times, the military sect no longer has any objections."
Jifa sighed helplessly.
"It was then that Emperor Yu realized that his situation was hopeless. In the end, he used both soft and hard tactics and reached an agreement with the Ministry of Works. At least, he didn't want the monks from the Military Sect to chase people with toilet plungers."
At this time, Leng Ningshuang also continued, "But as the saying goes, it is difficult to change a person's nature. The people in the Ministry of Industry just want to make strange magic weapons, but since that generation of Emperor Yu, all the Emperors of Yu have been cautious and check the Ministry of Industry's account books every day. So they opened a vest and swindled everywhere as wandering weapon refiners. In order to fool the Taoist sect, they would deliberately forbear and make normal magic weapons, so that the Taoist sect's weapon refining level almost caught up with the Great Yu Dynasty."
"Emperor Yu of that generation wanted to curb it, but he was unwilling to do so when he thought of his own bloody history. With the obsession of making the Taoist sect feel the power of the Ministry of Industry, Emperor Yu of that generation simply allocated funds to support the Ministry of Industry, and then the Equipment Refiners Association was established."
"Once those super sects fall into the trap and hand over their treasured blueprints, the Ministry of Industry will start to mess things up."
"What is the Yanfeng Shilang washboard, what is the Dashen towel, what is the Yujing chamber pot..."
"The super sects were so scared that they took their own weapon refiners away overnight to prevent them from being infected. Of course, based on the principle that they should not be the only ones to be cheated, the super sects kept promoting the Weapon Refiner Association, and then it became what it is now."
Li Yanmo asked with mixed feelings and seriousness, "Excuse me, is there any weapon refiner family that has no connection with the Weapon Refiner Association?"
He did want to spend money by refining equipment, but he didn't want to spend money to make a toilet plunger, let alone a very powerful toilet plunger.
"This... is true. The Zhuge family of Jingzhou is also a very famous weapon refining family. However, because they criticized the Weapon Refiners Association and refused to obtain the weapon refiner qualification certificate from the Weapon Refiners Association, they were alienated by the sect families and even their peers, and have fallen into decline," Leng Ningshuang said, pinching her chin.
"Jingzhou... wait a minute? This is a rare normal weapon refiner who has not been contaminated by the Ministry of Industry. Didn't the Dayu Dynasty recruit him?" Li Yanmo noticed something was wrong.
"This... Have you heard about Emperor Yu's three visits to his thatched cottage?" Leng Ningshuang said slowly after hesitating for a moment.
"That year, Emperor Yu narrowly escaped death and obtained the blueprints of the Immortal-Slaying Sword from an ancient battlefield. He hoped that the Ministry of Industry could complete the blueprints so that the Great Yu Dynasty could use the Immortal-Slaying Sword to defeat millions of sects."
"The Ministry of Industry accepted the job with great enthusiasm, which was very rare, and worked day and night."
As soon as he heard the words rare and enthusiastic, Li Yanmo knew something was wrong.
"Uh... So the Immortal-Slaying Sword turned into a kitchen knife? Or... a rolling pin? Or did it turn into a brick?"
Finally Jifa revealed the answer.
"In the end, the Immortal-Slaying Sword turned into a fly swatter. They said that Immortal-Slaying was not cruel enough and not domineering enough. Only a magic weapon that can kill immortals like swatting flies is worthy of the Dayu Dynasty."
"That year, Emperor Yu took a fly swatter to confront the super sect. That year, both sides felt that they were too impulsive."
"After returning, Emperor Yu reflected on his mistakes and decided to establish a new Ministry of Industry. The first place Emperor Yu found was the Zhuge family, hoping that the Zhuge family could revive the spirit of weapon refiners."
"So...the result?" Li Yanmo scratched his head.
First of all, the Emperor Yu of all dynasties were normal people, and secondly, the Zhuge family were also normal people. Both normal people were persecuted by the Ministry of Works, so there was no reason for them not to hit it off. Even if the Zhuge family was proud, they would not have received no response after three visits to the thatched cottage.
"The Zhuge family was a low-key family and did not like extravagance, so the Emperor Yu of that generation used the house where the Zhuge family lived as a toilet. He thought he came at the wrong time and waited patiently for a long time but no one came out. He thought the other party might be constipated and did not bother them."
"This happened three times in a row. Then Emperor Yu thought that the Zhuge family didn't want to see him, so he went to the toilet every time he came. Because Emperor Yu used a vest, he complained a few times when he went back. As a result, someone heard it and spread it. You know, Emperor Yu's vest at the time was a famous storyteller."
"Then uh... there were rumors that everyone in the Zhuge family was constipated, that the Zhuge family liked to live in a toilet, that the Zhuge family liked to draw blueprints while squatting on the toilet, and that all the Zhuge family's blueprints were made of straw paper."
"Then the Zhuge family disappeared from the world."
“…”
For a moment, the entire private room fell into deathly silence.
Leng Ningshuang and Ji Fa drank tea with twinkling eyes, while Li Yanmo's mouth twitched.
"So, the only normal person in the weapon refining world was turned into autism by Emperor Yu of that generation, right?"
"Well, that's not right," Ji Fa, the legitimate descendant of Emperor Yu, said with a twinkle in his eyes. "The Zhuge family had other reasons for seclusion. In order to prove to the outside world that they didn't live in toilets or use straw paper to draw blueprints, they changed their frugal ways and used the best of everything. Within ten years, they were heavily in debt and had to sell off their property and retire."
"…Isn't this your fault?!"
"Well, Emperor Yu did something unkind. In order to prevent the Zhuge family from having a miserable life, the Great Yu Dynasty paid to buy out the Zhuge family's assets, so that the Zhuge family's magic weapons would not fall into the hands of the Ministry of Works."
"It sounds like a hostile takeover."
“…”
Ji Fa was speechless.
At least that's true from the process point of view, from ruining the opponent's reputation to taking away the drawings in one go, all done in one go.
"Of course, in order to make up for the mistake, the Dayu Dynasty also arranged for many people to secretly send money to the Zhuge family. Unfortunately, the Zhuge family has developed a habit of spending lavishly... No matter how much money is given, it is not enough to spend. Every generation is like this, and each generation is more serious than the previous one. In the end, they even got addicted to gambling. In order to prevent the inheritance of the Zhuge family from being cut off, they had no choice but to change from sending money to borrowing money, and to use the method of debt collection to make them continue to study magic weapons..."
"So the Dayu Dynasty not only made the Zhuge family infamous, but also turned them into deadbeat gamblers?" Li Yanmo's eyes bulged.
"No, no... It just sounds like that, but it's only natural to pay back debts, right?... The Great Yu Dynasty also hopes that the Zhuge family can get back on their feet, so they are using debt collection to preserve the inheritance of the Zhuge family..."
(End of this chapter)
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