The Taoist ancestor is Cthulhu

Daozu is Cthulhu Chapter 431: The great cause of peace

If we only look at the Liguo court, we can simply bring in the rise and fall cycles of the feudal dynasty and apply the economic model of agricultural society. But if we also put the concepts of Xuanmen, monks, and Xiuzhen families into this basket, it will not be enough. It can be explained clearly in one sentence.

Li Fan didn't want to make a long speech, but only by understanding the significance and impact of the incident of "Mozhushan joining Xuanmen" on all strata in Liguo can we understand the violent social turmoil that is taking place in Changsi City, and even in Liguo as a whole.

First of all,

The real master of this world, the person who controls the most powerful force, is not a prince, a vassal, or a clan.

It was once Asgard, but not anymore.

This is the world of Xuanmen.

Or to be clearer, it is the 'monk group headed by the Nine Great Mysteries' that rules the world.

It is not the Twelve Kingdoms of the Immortal Palace, but because of the ‘Nine Great Mysterious Sects’, there are today’s ‘Twelve Kingdoms of Three Walls’.

Xuanmen is the true weaver, the maker of rules, and the maintainer of order today.

In fact, the three major sects have been exploring how to manage the 'monks', a group that transcends 'mortals'.

In fact, Xiangong lost the world because it failed to handle its relationship with this group.

After all, what practitioners care about are genius treasures, magical secrets, and breakthroughs in cultivation. What they pursue is pure, absolute power and immortality. Of course, they look down on those vain titles, fiefdoms, and rewards given by your king.

Therefore, the Immortal Palace's attempt to monopolize the method of cultivation and stabilize the rule of the family and the world is essentially standing on the opposite side of the world's monks.

Although the lineage of the Immortal Emperor has the orthodoxy of the world and is surrounded by the service of hundreds of civil and military officials, it was once able to kill and suppress the monks in the world like catching thieves and thieves.

However, the power of a monk requires repeated training and experience of Taoism. This cannot be achieved by relying on blood inheritance or monopoly of resources.

As the ancient Immortal Palace becomes increasingly corrupt and weakened, the Tai Chi Immortal Way is constantly innovating. Bloodline rule based on the cultivation family model is destined to be impossible to last long.

Therefore, changes gradually occurred in the place. It was enough for the bureaucrats to use their swords to bully and exploit the unarmed mortals. If they went to monks with swords in their hands to collect mountain and forest tax, vehicle and boat industry tax, and environmental protection tax, that was not the case. Looking for death?

If you always use the same old methods of dealing with mortals to manage monks, sooner or later a very messy and mysterious scene will appear.

‘I know that the Immortal Palace stipulates that you have to pay taxes, but I snatched all the geniuses and treasures back with one sword and one sword, so why should I pay taxes to you? I just won’t hand it over! What can you do? ? ’

What else can we do, violently resist taxes, just draw a knife and do it.

So in the end, the head of the previous Immortal Emperor who wanted to violently pay taxes was chopped off, and the rule of the Immortal Palace naturally collapsed.

In the past, Li Fan couldn't understand why Xuanmen won the Immortal Palace but didn't take the throne. But when he was completing his daily life, he accidentally wandered to Lou Guan Pagoda and saw the owner of the temple sailing on the ocean. On a daily basis, he understands.

Because it is no longer necessary. For Lao Xuanmen, it is good as it is now. The purpose of the monk group has been achieved.

To put it more simply, this purpose is ‘to pursue the Tao with ease’.

To put it bluntly, that is, 'If I don't pay taxes or food, I can ascend, and the common people will do my damn thing.'

As the ruler of the world, but not responsible for protecting the world, this is a born immortal.

Because supporting a huge bureaucracy and military group and maintaining order in the world is absolutely thankless and financially impossible to make ends meet.

Monks have to practice. Who among the normal cultivators has the time to care about such nonsense? You’re so busy that you’re bald and you can’t manage it, okay?

So you, the Immortal Palace, can organize themselves as much as you like. Anyway, don’t bother me in my cultivation of immortality. Just go away as far as you can.

But Immortal Palace also has something to say. If all the resources in the world are used by Xuanmen for cultivation, how will the remaining people live? Let the rich and powerful cut off your flesh? It's impossible, okay? Why don't we all just draw our knives and do it!

Therefore, the old Xuanmen did not do anything in the end, and did not completely eradicate the Immortal Palace. Instead, they made many compromises, compromises, experiments and peace talks with Sanyuan, and finally advanced to today's step, and finally launched Yuntai Peak. perfect system.

The foundation of this system is that regardless of the traditional sect, country, origin or bloodline, only those who have joined Yuntai Peak are considered 'Xuanmen'.

Only 'Xuanmen' can avoid paying taxes.

As for the casual cultivating sects in other places, as long as they are labeled as ‘devil’, they can be suppressed to death.

The political function of Sanyuan back then was gradually replaced by Yuntai Peak, and it became a pure administrative agency, responsible for maintaining the basic stability of the mortal world, while suppressing local casual sects, and in many cases, it could even get support from various Taoist sects. , let’s fight against the emerging casual cult.

Such as Mozhu Mountain.

Yes, from the perspective of the Liguo court, Xuanmen is the real master behind the scenes, the nobles and nobles are the flesh and blood backbone of the country, and the common people are the nourishment of this giant beast, and the local casual cultivating sects like Mozhushan, This is the biggest disaster that may lead to the collapse of this system.

Although the master of the temple is a national master and canonized by the Immortal Palace, Mozhushan has been recruiting people from the common people, expanding its preaching, and squeezing the space of traditional clans.

If the common people took refuge in Mozhu Mountain one after another, became disciples of Mozhu Mountain, or dedicated their fields to the monks of Mozhu Mountain, who would the court collect taxes from? Whose land are these powerful people trying to rob?

Therefore, Mozhushan, a loose cultivator sect under the control of immortals and a large tax collector in Liguo, has an irreconcilable conflict with Yushitai, the representative of Liguo's court.

Therefore, as long as Mozhushan is still a casual cultivator, the family members of its disciples are still not included in the "tax-free" quota, and they are still productive and have money and food, but they also have the thorn of resistance. It is the source of trouble in the world.

But now the situation is different, Mozhushan has joined Xuanmen, Xuanmen of Yuntai Peak! Become the master!

To put it most bluntly, now the disciples of Mozhu Mountain can finally justifiably avoid paying taxes to Li Guo!

The heads of the powerful families in Liguo are the most sensitive. They no longer simply buy a place and bet on both ends to maintain the relationship, but they are so eager to come over and submit their services.

Such Mozhushan is no longer the target of tax collection and suppression, but has become the master. How can Yushitai still look for trouble like before?

Of course, they are united around the leadership team of Mozhu Mountain with the Guanzhu as the core, hoping to send the children of their own clan to practice in Mozhu Mountain!

As for where the money for the imperial court comes from, aren't there still a lot of common people? If you squeeze in, there will always be some.

But ordinary people are not fools, okay?

It would be better to say that the people who could survive in this kind of world were more cunning than the last, especially businessmen like those in Changsicheng who were in the market and were accustomed to seeing all kinds of people. They also quickly discovered the policy loopholes in this change of Mozhushan Shengxuanmen.

It is different from Li Guo, who keeps pace with the times and repeatedly carries out economic reforms.

The one used in Mozhu Mountain is still the ancient system passed down from the ancient Immortal Palace era.

For example, Li Fan himself complained about the salary system. The monthly salary for inner disciples is only "two thousand gold", which is two thousand gold. Although the guardian of the Nascent Soul Realm collects offerings from the residents of the area under his jurisdiction, the monks do not require money, food or cloth. They only ask the families of the disciples in their territory to support them, plant some spiritual grass, raise mythical beasts, and make mechanisms for other tasks, but it is still better than nothing. That’s all.

To be honest, the disciples of Mozhushan hardly receive any sect welfare subsidies.

But on the other hand, Mozhushan's tax laws have not been updated for at least five hundred years.

In the past, Mozhushan was a casual cultivator and had to pay additional tributes to the Li Kingdom court. This tax was settled by the Li Kingdom censors based on the actual situation. It increased year by year, which was also one of the main contradictions. But now that Mozhu Mountain is a Taoist temple, the donation fee was immediately cancelled.

In this way, the disciples of Mozhu Mountain only need to pay the basic "oral tax", the head tax, the old, the weak, the women and the children, twenty cents a year, the "counting tax", the income tax for adults, one hundred and twenty cents, and the "household tax". ', the household registration tax for the land allocated to a family after starting a business is two hundred cents per year per household, and the land rent was also set by the Immortal that year, with a tax of thirty per year.

As for capital calculation, city tax, rent, customs and other commercial taxes, there are none. After all, we are cultivators in the mountains, bartering, why do we do so much mess? Not troublesome enough? As for corvee, there is no such thing! The treatment of disciples is already very low. How can we recruit new people if we continue to engage in corvee labor? Now when people are asked to do work for the sect, the KPI is calculated based on contribution!

From the perspective of the cultivating sect, the system of Mozhushan is really not very attractive. This has led to the disciples of Mozhushan being very keen on producing and doing business on their own, and their family units organized groups to go to Changsicheng for trade, and Make some money to support your family.

And now, Mozhu Mountain attracts refugees to reclaim hundreds of thousands of mountains, and the same management methods as the disciples of Mozhu Mountain are adopted for these refugees who venture to reclaim the land.

This is mainly to facilitate the unified management of refugees by various peaks and institutes, organize land reclamation, and recruit disciples. In addition, considering the difficulty of land reclamation, investment in cultivation methods, money, food, equipment, etc. is also given as subsidies.

Of course, the current situation is difficult, and in line with the national policy of farming and war, all the grain output of the refugees' land reclamation will be purchased by Mozhu Mountain, and the cultivation of grain, herbs and spiritual fruits will also be arranged and used by the sect. In view of the proliferation of Shengang money, Mozhu Mountain has also launched the ‘Immortal Ticket’, which can be used to exchange materials with the sect.

To sum up, this is the current situation of leaving the country.

Isn't this a fucking joke?

The people in Liguo will be exploited to death by exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. The taxes over there in Mozhu Mountain are as low as chicken feathers! And if you are a ‘refugee’, there are also benefits and policy subsidies for farmland reclamation! Are you a fool for staying in Changsi City and waiting to die? ?

As a result, in just a few years, as many as one million people have migrated from the Gyeonggi region alone! Most of the streets in the city have been emptied out!

Mozhu Mountain is currently short of people to farm and open up wasteland, so of course it is necessary to absorb all these manpower. Moreover, most of these people are experienced craftsmen in Changsicheng, so most of them have been recruited by Tiangongfeng to work in the factory. Otherwise, do you think that so many armored soldiers and crossbows in Mozhu Mountain fell from the sky?

And the officials in Liguo did not stop him. After all, those who really care about the country and know what is the fundamental virtue of the country have long been expelled from the court and left to eat sand on the border. The leader of the Li Kingdom doesn't care about this. As long as he can build a big house, he can keep his official position. What will happen to the Li Kingdom in the future? What does it have to do with the officials below?

Moreover, isn’t it just right to drive away all the stinky beggars from Changsicheng! It’s time to reorganize and develop the slums in Changsi City and snatch, ahem, rebuild and develop new residential properties!

After all, everyone understands it! Officials also have financial needs! They were corrupt, exploited and extorted, and hoarded so much money and food. Now the Shengang money has depreciated significantly, and the losses of the powerful are much greater than those of the poor!

But now that the trade routes are cut off, the national finances are under the unified management of the Zhidusi, silk and cloth have been sold at sky-high prices, and the surrounding land and estates have been carved up earlier, so what better investment method is there? Are there any other financial products that will never change?

Yes, I have! House! The mansion! How could houses in Changsi City fall? Is it a sure profit without losing any money?

As long as the private squares in the southwest are cleared and the development zones are rebuilt, everyone will make money!

In this way, the common people have a way to survive, Mozhushan has manpower, and the powerful have houses!

Win, win! Everyone wins! Everyone has a bright future!

So in the end, Changsi City became what it is now. All the civilian households in Changsi City who could escape ran away. Those who had some connections sold their properties, and even quit their citizenship and became refugees, and went to Mozhu Mountain to open up wasteland. .

Only those who came from humble backgrounds, were in illegal households, were old, weak, sick, and disabled who really couldn't leave, or those who still had some jobs or ancestral property and were really reluctant to leave their hometowns, still stayed in the city and were exploited.

As a result, by the end of the chat, not to mention that Li Fan was speechless, even the spies who were sent to monitor him were depressed. They came over one by one to drink bitterly, angry and complaining.

They all complained that prices were soaring, copper coins were depreciating, the court was still deducting the salaries of subordinates, the previous subsidies were gone, and the merchants were running out of money and their filial piety was gone. I can only get a dozen basic wages a month, which is not even enough to listen to a song.

But all those rich and powerful people have made a fortune, and the actors and actresses they love can easily get millions of dollars in rewards for singing a song! And they are not satisfied yet! The eunuchs used up the clan's private money and still speculated on land, causing housing prices to skyrocket!

Nowadays, even officials like them, who hold an iron rice bowl and work hard all day long, can't collect the dowry and can't get married. Alas, how did the country of Xiba become like this!

Then a group of tough men were there hugging each other and crying, and Li Fan couldn't help but...

You guys, what are you doing here crying and moaning while the people are being driven away? Are you sad about the rise and fall of the country, or are you sad that you didn't invest in real estate in time?

Forget it, it’s not that Li Guo didn’t have opportunities, good ministers and strong generals, opportunities of the times, etc. In fact, there is no shortage of everything. But in the final analysis, this is still a pure feudal dynasty. From top to bottom, it is a decadent feudal landlord class. Reforms without changing the medicine will end up like this. Even if the lottery seems to draw one or two wise kings and wise ministers, what's the use?

Fortunately, there is still someone to protect Mozhushan, so these millions of people still have a way to survive. What if they don't? Doesn’t that mean everyone has to die?

Look, it was getting late, so Li Fan didn't think too much. He took advantage of the spies to talk about their sad parts, hugged each other and cried bitterly without anyone paying attention, and decisively left to go to Taiping Temple in Dayefang, Dongshi.

Sure enough, Taipingguan is still peaceful.

The wealthy area of ​​Dongcheng is still as prosperous and prosperous as before, and even better than before. The rich and powerful have squeezed the savings of millions of households, making them extremely rich.

As the saying goes, what is good at the top must be bad at the bottom. Liqiu Palace is building new houses, eunuchs are speculating on land, and the nobles in Dongcheng are also renovating villas, building gardens and pavilions, digging lakes and ponds, and building gardens.

After all, commercial activities in Liguo have been completely monopolized by Duzhisi, or powerful families, so private trade routes have been cut off. However, the government can borrow the flying boats that transport military supplies to bring silk, tea, copper and ironware to the Nanyang Islands and Kunlun. Mountains in exchange for valuables such as pearls, agate, amber, rhinoceros horn, ivory, etc. UU read www. uukanshu.net The houses in the garden are decorated with splendor and splendor, like palaces.

The only difference is that some people earn more, and some people earn very much.

And Taipingyuan is a powerful person, a clan member and an immortal. Even if it was one of the richest people in Liguo, of course it made money this time, and it was really huge.

Now the entire Daye Square and the three or four surrounding neighborhoods have been bought by Taipingguan, and the walls of the square and the city have been smashed through, and it is called Taipingfang. Among them, in addition to the Taiping Temple, there are also three pavilions, Linchun, Jieqi and Wangxian, which are tens of feet high and dozens of rooms in the north, south and east. The window panes, wall strips, lintels, railings, etc. are all made of sandalwood, decorated with gold and jade, with pearls and emeralds in between, and bead curtains on the outside. There is a treasure bed and a treasure tent inside, and the decorations and decorations there are so magnificent that they have never been seen in modern times. Every time a breeze comes, the fragrance can be smelled for miles. The morning sun shines brightly, reflecting the light in the backyard. Under it, rocks were accumulated to form a mountain, water was diverted to form a pond, and strange trees were planted, mixed with anthers. Within dozens of miles around, there are also new residences of princes and princes, with buildings, pavilions and pavilions scattered in high and low places, with golden valley water lingering and flowing through them, birds singing in secluded villages, and fish leaping in lotus ponds.

Immortals and concubines who serve in the palace are constantly coming and going, and nobles and nobles are passing by, singing and laughing, playing silk and bamboo orchestras, enjoying themselves and being extravagant. The decadent and luxurious scene in it would make even the Immortal Clan of Miyuan see it, and they would be speechless.

Damn it, how can we manage the country well with these insects?

Li Fan was also suffocating in his chest, evil fire was in his heart, and he was so angry that he kicked him to the courtyard and roared so loudly that it shook half the city.

"Evil heretic! Trouble Chao Gang! Assassin the king and kills the king! The crime is extremely heinous! Get out of here with the Black Lotus Demon Dao! Take a punch from your grandfather!"

The disciples of Dayefang and the Taoist priests of Taipingguan only glanced at Li Fan, and immediately pouted in shock, and ran away one by one, screaming and screaming.

"Yaoshou! The Nangong family is here to kill them all!"