American Celestial Master

Chapter 37, Lu Yu

On the second day after finishing this small dream class, Lin Qiusheng received an email from the US National Supercomputer Application Center.The email notified him that he would be able to rent part of the computing power of the National Supercomputer Application Center in three days.

"The speed of queuing is much faster than expected." Lin Qiusheng thought so.

But this is also a common thing. Sometimes, those who are at the front of the queue cancel the appointment due to various reasons.So Lin Qiusheng didn't think too much, and immediately started to pack his bags and prepare to go to Champaign, Illinois.

American railways are mainly used for freight, while long-distance passenger transportation basically relies on aviation.There is no direct flight from New York to Champaign. Lin Qiusheng must first fly to Chicago, and then transfer to American Eagle Airlines' ERJ-145 regional airliner in Chicago to fly to Champaign.

Things like ordering air tickets are naturally left to the apprentices.The reason why Lin Qiusheng took an apprentice was that he used the apprentice as an assistant most of the time.

Early the next morning, Zhang Feng drove Lin Qiusheng to the airport, boarded a 737, flew to Chicago, and then directly changed to an ERJ-145 after leaving the airport.

As soon as he boarded the plane, Lin Qiusheng saw two acquaintances - former classmates Sharma and Kumar.

The two also saw Lin Qiusheng. Kumar stood up and looked at Lin Qiusheng with his eyes, then lowered his head habitually. Sharma stood up from his seat and greeted him, "Lin, I really didn't expect to see Lin Qiusheng." I met you here. Well, I haven't been able to contact you all this time, what have you been doing all these years?"

Sharma is of Indian origin. He has a tall nose bridge, green eyes, and slightly fairer skin than Lin Qiusheng—he belongs to the Brahmin caste, and his family is said to be a big landowner.This guy has an active personality, likes to brag with others, and has a wide social circle.

"I have been a priest for many years." Lin Qiusheng replied.

"My God, you became a priest? Then I have to respect you." Sharma said, "I told you a long time ago, you are a born Brahmin. Wait, what religion are you priests in?" ? Don't tell me you're the bishop of the Pasta Church now."

Lin Qiusheng laughed, the bishop of Flying Pasta, this was when Lin Qiusheng first met Sharma.At that time, Sharma asked Lin Qiusheng about his religious beliefs, and Lin Qiusheng replied that he was the rudder master of the hot and dry noodle sub-rudder of the Flying Noodle Sect. Ma is a vegetarian and believes in Hinduism, so he is quite resistant to the sharing of beef noodles, but he still very much agrees with the religious ceremony of sharing hot and dry noodles.

"Of course not. After all, priests of FSM, even bishops, don't get paid. Instead, we need to make continuous contributions." Lin Qiusheng replied.

"Although I'm not a believer in FSM, I'm willing to contribute to it." Sharma also smiled.

"I am now a priest of the Taoist Shangqing sect. You have studied religion, so you should know about it." Lin Qiusheng said again.

"It's limited to knowing names," Sharma said.

As an Indian, Sharma believes in Hinduism. Compared with the Abrahamic religions, in general, Hinduism has a peaceful attitude towards other religions except the Peace religion.Moreover, Lin Qiusheng's industry is different from his now, and there is no competition between them at all, so Sharma's attitude towards Lin Qiusheng is a little closer than before.Although the Indian gang may have played a role in the investigation of Lin Qiusheng's mentor.

"Kumar, why don't you come to say hello to your old classmates." Sharma turned and said to Kumar.

Kumar is a short, dark-skinned little man, only about 1.6 meters [-] tall, shorter than many female classmates.He is actually quite lively, but he is quieter when Sharma is around.

"Hello, Lin, long time no see." Kumar said the same.

"Lin, where is your seat?" Sharma asked again.

Lin Qiusheng said his seat number.

Sharma looked at the seat, which was farther back. ERJ-145 is a 50-seat regional airliner with a tail-mounted engine layout.The rear seat is close to the engine, which is noisy and not very comfortable.

Sharma frowned, then turned to Kumar and said, "Kumar, you change places with Lin. I haven't seen Lin for a few years. I need to talk to him."

Kumar responded with "OK", then moved the suitcase down from the luggage compartment above his head, helped put Lin Qiusheng's suitcase on it, and then dragged his own suitcase to the back.That acted as if he was Sharma's servant.

To say that they were like this when they were still in school, many of Sharma's things were directly asked Kumar to do, who made Sharma a Brahmin and Kumar just a sudra.But to say that although Sharma uses Kumar as a servant, and likes to ridicule that he is qualified to enter the Indian Institute of Technology by relying on the reservation system, he still takes good care of Kumar in some things, for example, after he entered Microsoft , and Kumar was soon drawn in as well.

Sharma and Lin Qiusheng sat down on the chairs.

"Lin, you are a priest now. What are you doing in Champaign?"

Champagne City has a population of just over 3, so it's just a small town in China.The small town is basically a college town, and even the airport is called the University of Illinois Willard Airport.So when a person comes to Champaign, most of the things he has to do are related to the University of Illinois.

"I rented a supercomputer, and the line is up." Lin Qiusheng replied.

"Oh." Sharma responded, and after a while he suddenly realized, "No, is it necessary to use supercomputers for religious activities now?"

"Is there any problem with this?" Lin Qiusheng's eyes widened. "Isn't this normal? Do you know? Taoism is also a religion with a history of more than 1000 years, and it was established hundreds of years ago. In Li, because of political reasons, he has been suffering from persecution. At least millions of congregants were massacred, a large number of classics were burned, and the church was forced to remain underground for a long time. What Christianity suffered at first in Nero That bit of persecution is almost insignificant compared to what Taoism suffered in history.

This hundreds of years of history has resulted in a serious consequence, that is, the entire Taoism has been broken up, most religious activities can only be carried out in a small area, and religious classics can only be passed down orally.Well, what consequences will this bring? I think with your intelligence, you should be able to figure it out easily, right? "

"I understand." Sharma said, "This situation will inevitably lead to confusion in the scriptures. Oral transmission itself can easily lead to confusion, and in things like classics, in many cases, the difference between even a single word, or even a function word, may cause confusion. Leads to a completely different interpretation. It's almost like a South American butterfly flapping its wings.

You just said that a large number of classics have been burned, which has brought about a large number of missing, and then coupled with errors in inheritance, various classics are likely to contradict or even oppose each other.If this problem is not well resolved, the entire religion will be split, and the split sects will be hostile to each other and regard each other as a heretic that violates the teaching law.My goodness, these things don't happen in your religious history, do they? "

"What do you think?" Lin Qiusheng asked.

"If you say that, then such a thing must have happened. This is almost inevitable. Although your church has a long history, under such circumstances, its influence must be very limited. But from a It is also a good choice to start with a smaller company, where it is easier to reach the top level and even become a CEO," Sharma said.

"So you chose Microsoft." Lin Qiusheng laughed.

"Yes, after all, the recession is now, and big companies are more stable—as long as your boss is not Musk, haha..." Sharma also laughed.

"And I'm not the same as you. I'm not as ambitious as you. You Huaxia people are like this. You all want to be the chairman, not the CEO. Even if it's the chairman of a small company, the company's annual profit is less than The salaries of their executives are high, but it is more attractive to you to fully control a company that is completely your own." After laughing, Sharma continued, "Let me guess if you want to use a supercomputer What are you doing?"

"Okay, take a guess." Lin Qiusheng said.

Lin Qiusheng knew that Sharma was a very smart guy. If you want to mislead such a guy, you can't say too much. The more you talk, the easier it is for him to find loopholes.So a better way is to give him some well-prepared initial information, and then let him analyze and deduce it by himself, and finally mislead himself.

"There are so many problems in Taoist classics, which are very serious problems for Taoism. Similarly, if someone can solve these problems, he will definitely become a big man in the circle of Taoism, and even in the history of your religion. Leave a fortune, like Sankara or Ramanuja. You guys are ambitious.

It is very troublesome to solve the contradictions between the classics and determine the authenticity. It requires a lot of boring work and a lot of logical judgments, so you want to determine certain rules, and then use supercomputers and artificial intelligence to analyze your classics. Analyze religious scriptures, find out which ones are the most reliable in terms of mathematics and logic, and exclude those that are obviously problematic.

Well, the religion that has been underground for hundreds of years and divided for more than 1000 years must have a large number of classics, among which the true and false must be mixed, even if the means of counterfeiting are very low, to find these things out of so many classics, It is also extremely difficult.With supercomputing, with AI, things may be different.Ah, this is even a first in the history of world religions.If you want to do this well, you will be the Shangkara of China!
Just be careful, religious conflicts, especially within sects, are often more intense than conflicts with paganism. "Finally, Sharma also reminded Lin Qiusheng.

"Our religion, after thousands of years of suppression, has become very peaceful." Lin Qiusheng said with a smile, "Now our sectarian conflicts are basically verbal attacks on each other, for example, one says that the other does not learn. He should be expelled because he distorts the teachings, and he should be expelled because he attacks his moral corruption and even raped the watermelon. So you don’t have to worry about such things for me. Sharma, I haven’t seen you in a few years, yours My thinking is still so sharp. It's really great." Lin Qiusheng also said.

(End of this chapter)