Chapter 154 The Secret of Dayu
Li Yanmo only breathed a sigh of relief after Zhong Sanyuan and others entered the ancient battlefield.
Acting was much more tiring than he had expected, but he managed to fool these geniuses.
Zhuge Moer held his chin, staring at Li Yanmo with his ethereal eyes.
"Sir, I can no longer tell whether you are a good person or a bad person? Or a person who has both good and bad sides?"
Li Yanmo straightened his clothes and put his hands behind his back, posing, "Miss Zhuge, do you know why you have such doubts?"
"Oh? Why?"
"It's caused by being too idle."
Zhuge Moer was choked and almost fell into the ancient battlefield.
"Master Li! Don't forget, you are inviting me to come out of retirement!"
"Ah... Does Miss Zhuge have that idea?" Li Yanmo scratched his head. Although he was still asking, he was obviously not as eager as at the beginning.
There was no way. Now he had a new Tianxu Tower on his hands, which was a small world built by Ji Lie by embezzling funds from the Dayu Dynasty and defrauding the Taoist super sect.
According to Du Chen, they would only calculate the portion of money that Ji Lienong used from the Dayu Dynasty's funds, but it was definitely not a small amount, and they would need some time to calculate it.
The purpose of this debt has been achieved.
As for Zhuge's magic weapon technique...
According to Ji Lie's description, he had been studying the secrets of Zhuge's mechanical magic weapons before and after his death. Zhuge Moer's technology of Zhuge's mechanical magic weapons all came from Ji Lie, so if he really needed to mass-produce agricultural mechanical magic weapons, he could just ask Ji Lie to do it for him.
Zhuge Moer wrinkled her nose slightly, and heard the perfunctory tone in Li Yanmo's words, "Mr. Li, you are not playing hard to get, are you?"
"Then Miss Zhuge, are you willing to fall for it?"
Zhuge Moer scratched his head, hesitated for a while, then his eyes turned, and he jumped around Li Yanmo with his hands behind his back, leaning back and deliberately lengthening his voice.
"My father said that although I am smart, I don't know the dangers of the world and I am easily deceived. But there is a saying that goes, seeing is believing, hearing is not. I want to see if I have been deceived."
"Okay - but before that I still need to talk to your father and Emperor Lie."
Li Yanmo shook his head and followed Zhuge Moer to find Ji Lie who was rubbing the skeleton model.
After hearing Li Yanmo's intention, Ji Lie seemed to be thinking deeply. He did not have the airs of a fierce emperor or a strong man at all. He bowed his head to Li Yanmo and said, "If what you said is true, then I would like to thank you for your kindness on behalf of the people of Ganzhou."
Li Yanmo shook his head. "This is what I should do, but... it may be a bit presumptuous to ask this question. I wonder if Emperor Lie can help me solve this problem?"
"Ask."
Li Yanmo pondered for a moment and asked slowly, "I don't think Dayu is just defending against millions of sects just because he wants to maintain his rule."
Ji Lie paused while fiddling with the skeleton model.
Li Yanmo hung his hands at his sides, waiting for the answer from the fierce emperor.
Song Yun once said that although the people of Dayu's Dynasty had differences in wealth, there was absolutely no distinction between noble and humble.
All the cultivators in the Dayu Dynasty had pseudonyms, and the Taoist sect was completely unaware of this for such a long time. This is not as simple as simple unity.
"Boy, what do you think of those powerful monks who have lived for thousands or even tens of thousands of years?"
Li Yanmo thought about it and said what he thought truthfully, "An old antique who doesn't know how to adapt."
"Your description is correct, but it lacks some details," Ji Lie put down the model in his hand, "To be precise, it's an old bastard who doesn't know how to adapt, but is so strong that the whole world can't adapt."
Li Yanmo was stunned, as if he had touched something.
"Logically speaking, it's hard for a dynasty to last more than a thousand years."
"The alternation of kings and ministers will bring a lot of uncertainty to the dynasty, which will lead to the collapse of a dynasty, but it is not all bad. After the collapse, the world will progress in this process."
“A wise and virtuous ruler who can live for a thousand years and a group of wise and virtuous ministers and generals who can live for a thousand years can ensure peace and prosperity for the country for a thousand years. However, after a thousand years, this dynasty will not change at all, and the people will die in comfort because of the peace and prosperity of the country.”
Li Yanmo frowned slightly, "Senior, forgive me for being blunt, dying in comfort should not be the fault of the people, nor should it be the fault of wise ministers and generals. Being born in adversity has always been a forced choice."
Ji Lie raised his eyebrows, smiling, "You are right, but also wrong. When the people no longer make progress and no longer seek better, then everyone in the court, including the king, who caused all this, is a mediocre person who is not worthy of the position. If the development of the entire dynasty stagnates, then they are the sinners."
"The purpose of the existence of the monarch and his subjects is to make the people better, not to keep them in captivity and make them fat and white."
"As long as they reach the Golden Core stage, cultivators can live for more than a thousand years, but a person's personality, habits, and intelligence are fixed after a hundred years. No matter how much experience they gain, they will only become more sophisticated. It is difficult for them to have the youthful vigor and imagination."
"So no matter how long the Emperor Yu of each dynasty lived, he could only stay in office for 300 years. Only by constant succession can the vitality of the entire dynasty be maintained and everything can flourish."
Ji Lie narrowed his eyes slightly.
"But boy, don't you find it strange? The Dayu Dynasty would replace a younger emperor every three hundred years, but Dayu has existed for more than 100,000 years, and the people of this world are still stuck in a backward life."
Li Yanmo was stunned.
This indeed woke Li Yanmo up.
This is more than 100,000 years, which is enough for humans to evolve into a new species, let alone develop technology. However, the people here still live an agricultural life.
"Because the monks still exist. Not only do they exist, they also often show up in front of the people," Ji Lie's eyes flashed with a gloomy look.
"Birth, aging, illness and death have made people want to change, but they don't want to change their lives, but to seek immortality. Becoming an immortal has become the only correct answer."
"Emperors of Yu have been replaced from generation to generation, but those immortal old men among the cultivators still hold the highest say among the sects. Their powerful, ancient, and barbaric ideas have trapped the people of this world for a hundred thousand years."
"Dayu opened schools everywhere, offering free teachings, but no one was interested. When people heard that a sect was opening a mountain gate to recruit disciples, many of them abandoned their families and children, preferring to die on the road rather than set foot on the ground."
Having said that, Li Yanmo finally understood the biggest contradiction between the Dayu Dynasty and Taoism.
“It may be difficult to overcome this problem.”
"It doesn't matter. The Dayu Dynasty has been working hard for a hundred thousand years. Another hundred thousand years won't be a big deal."
Ji Lie's tone was extremely calm, as if he was talking about something extremely ordinary. Li Yanmo immediately stood in awe.
(End of this chapter)
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