Cultivating the Tao: Beginning with Meditation and Liver Experience

Chapter 19 Spirit crystal control, the emperor Xunshou!
"Has the imperial court loosened control over spirit crystals?"

On the way back to the Hou Mansion, Xu Yan asked the old butler with a puzzled expression.

When Li Yong heard this question, he was taken aback for a moment, and then replied: "Master Hui, although the court has banned the use of spirit crystals by the people, but this is only for the people at the bottom. For the nobles at the top, as long as it is not used on a large scale Spirit crystal transactions are generally turned a blind eye."

"Even in recent years, many officials in the court have suggested that they want to amend the law in this area, loosen the control on spirit crystals, and allow the people to freely use and trade spirit crystals."

"The reason is that at the beginning of the founding of the country, the law prohibiting the circulation of spirit crystals was enacted because the court's reserve of spirit crystals was too small."

"Nowadays, with the increase in the mining and reserves of spiritual crystals, there is a surplus of spiritual crystals every year. Instead of piling them up in the treasury and wasting them, it is better to use them to develop people's livelihood and meet the people's demand and use of spiritual crystals."

"However, these proposals were all rejected by the Holy Majesty and failed to pass. The reason is that the spirit crystal is related to the country and must be controlled by the court!"

Li Yong said carefully, avoiding some sensitive parts inside.

Xu Yan nodded upon hearing this, not surprised by the choice of Emperor Dagan.

Because in this world, spirit crystals are really too important.

Auxiliary practice, building mechanism puppets, arranging city defense formations, making spiritual weapons, refining magic weapons...

Compared with oil, electric energy, and even nuclear energy in his previous life, they are more than a thousand times more important, and they are truly related to the foundation of the country.

Therefore, as long as the royal family is not stupid, it is impossible to agree to the proposal to loosen the control of Lingjing.

Even in Xu Yan's opinion, the court officials who proposed to loosen Lingjing's control were either really stupid or really bad.

The so-called consideration for the people of the world is completely a joke, just like in the world of science and technology, the control of nuclear raw materials is directly released, and it is no wonder that there are no problems.

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It should be said that it is even more terrifying than letting go of control over nuclear materials.

Because spirit crystals not only have strong radiation pollution, can attract weirdness and ghosts and gods, cause spiritual distortion, but can also be directly used.Unlike nuclear raw materials, even if you get nuclear raw materials, if you don't have enough strength and technology, you can only stare blankly and can't do anything.

Xu Yan could imagine that once the Daqian court released its control over Lingjing, chaos would not be far away.

"Now in the court, are there many officials who propose to let go of Lingjing's control?" Xu Yan continued to ask.

"A lot!" Li Yong said in a deep voice: "Not only did many officials from the civil service group propose, but even nobles and vassal kings also agreed. public circulation."

Xu Yan fell silent.

He felt that it was probably not that everyone could not see the consequences of Lingjing's release of control, but that the interests behind Lingjing were too great, making everyone jealous.

After all, the Dagan court can firmly occupy the position of the overlord of Shenzhou. The fundamental reason is that it controls a large number of spirit crystal resources in its hands. It can use spirit crystals to cultivate troops, canonize ghosts and gods, create psionic puppets, and make psionic weapons. wait.

For other forces, even if they can find some spiritual crystal mines, it is extremely difficult to mine the spiritual crystals safely, let alone purify the original crystals of the spiritual crystals into safe-to-use spiritual crystals.

The reason why the civil and military officials in the court propose to loosen the control of spirit crystals is that, to put it bluntly, they are looking at the huge interests behind the spirit crystals, or they are eyeing the spirit crystals stored in the treasury of Daqian.

For them, the interests of the imperial court are not important at all, what is important is their own interests.

So even if they knew the consequences of letting go of the spirit crystal, they didn't care at all.

I even hope that the Daqian Dynasty will become more chaotic.

"What's the old man's attitude?" Xu Yan asked curiously.

He can't control the situation in the court, and he doesn't have the ability to control it.

He wanted to know what the old man's attitude was towards this matter.

In other words, whether the Dingyuan Houfu supports the release of the spirit crystal, or is it firmly on the side of the Emperor Dagan and opposes the release of the spirit crystal.

"Should it be neutral?"

Li Yong said with some uncertainty: "Master Hou once ordered several young masters to strictly prohibit them from participating in this matter, and they are not allowed to discuss this matter in normal times."

Xu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "Well, I know about this!"

Don't take the initiative, don't refuse, don't mix, and don't take responsibility.

It seems that the old man still understands the principle of being wise and protecting one's life, and has not been dazzled by the interests behind Lingjing.

The interests behind Lingjing are huge, which makes people jealous.

But I think of the Daqian court and the Daqian royal family who have controlled the world of Shenzhou for more than 200 years.

Xu Yan didn't think that those officials who supported Lingjing's release could succeed.

After all, this world is not an ordinary historical world, but an extraordinary world where Taoism is manifested and gods exist.

In such a world, how effective the court's political means can be, I'm afraid only God knows.

Xu Yan was afraid that the Marquis of Dingyuan would also be involved in this matter, and would become the vanguard in the fight against the Daqian royal family.

If that was the case, he would have to consider other ways out.

"Has anything major happened to God recently?"

Skipping the topic of spirit crystal control, Xu Yan asked about other things.

"Master, nothing else happened."

"Nowadays in the capital of the gods, the most discussed issue is the six fireworks in the palace ten days ago as a warning, and then the upcoming Longevity Festival."

"Others are basically trivial things that don't matter."

The old butler thought for a while and answered seriously.

Of course, what he talked about was only for Xu Yan and Dingyuan Hou Fu.

People stand at different levels, and naturally see problems from different angles.

Just like in your city, someone won 1000 million in the lottery, but as soon as he came out of the award center, he was kidnapped and left.

For ordinary people, this is definitely a big event that can cause a sensation in the whole city, and it has attracted a lot of discussion.

But for the big guys at the top, it's a completely dispensable little thing, not worth paying attention to.

This is the difference in levels.

Xu Yan asked Li Yong what major event happened to God recently.

Li Yong looked at the problem from the perspective of the chief steward of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, so naturally nothing major happened.

"When is the Longevity Day?" Xu Yan suddenly asked, "If I remember correctly, this year's Longevity Day should be the Holy Majesty's ten-year birthday celebration, right?"

The so-called Wanshou Festival, to put it bluntly, is the birthday of the emperor, the birthday of the emperor.

Xunshou means dozens of birthdays.

"Master Hui, you remember correctly. This year's Longevity Festival is the Holy Majesty's [-]th birthday, so it is held in a grand manner. As early as the beginning of the year, everyone in the Ministry of Rites has already started preparations."

"The time is the fifth day of August in three months' time."

The old butler replied respectfully, not caring why his young master didn't even remember the time of the Longevity Day.

After all, he also saw how dandy the Ninth Young Master was before.

Xu Yan couldn't help rubbing his head when he heard the old housekeeper's answer, and said helplessly, "Well, it seems that I'll be busy for a while!"

I'm not busy preparing gifts for the emperor's ten-year birthday.

In fact, with his current status, he is not qualified to participate in the Son of Heaven Xunshou Ceremony.

Xu Yan felt that he would be very busy in the future because he was no longer the Habayashi Guard Baihu who was in charge of guarding the gate of the imperial palace, but the Zhaowu Colonel of the Imperial Division.

The emperor's Xunshou ceremony is approaching, so it's no wonder that everyone in the imperial court can relax.

At that time, other powerful children will follow their elders to participate in the emperor's ten-year birthday celebration, eating and drinking.

As for him, he needs to face the scorching sun, wear a heavy armor, and stand meticulously at the gate of the main hall to guard the gate.

It's frustrating to think about this.

When the Habayashi Guard Hundred Households was an official, it was to show people the gate.

Now he has become the Zhaowu Colonel of the Yuqian Division, and he still looks after the gate.

Isn't his official promoted in vain?
(End of this chapter)