I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 279: Money Falls, Clear Conscience

The golden toad resisted the plasma, and the Dao Realm Demon in the treasure bowl bewitched and said, "Why didn't your Master Xu come to save you? This thunder is not a heavenly thunder, nor a ground thunder. It is the Dou Mu Thunder of the Lishan Fenglei Sect, which belongs to the category of star-level divine thunder. You only need to use my method to easily resist it. I don't want anything else, just you open a hole, so that I can absorb the desires of all living beings. From now on, the wishes belong to you, and the desires belong to me. You are righteous, I am evil, and righteousness and evil are one. Isn't it in line with the principle of yin and yang?"

"Fuck you!"

The plasma fell on his body and melted part of the gold on his back. Some gems could not withstand such powerful energy and emitted dazzling light and then exploded.

The nine storehouses of wealth evolved into nine golden umbrellas for the people...

The local people were actually grateful to Jin Chan, even though his original methods were not just. Just like Hu Agui at the beginning, she was a low-class prostitute, but all the men and prostitutes in the city were grateful to her.

Now that she is dead, the status of prostitutes has become even lower, and the value of this is still increasing.

The same goes for Jin Chan. He made the people around him rich. The poor worked for him, and the rich contributed the gold and silver accumulated by their ancestors. In return, they received a stamped debt voucher. The voucher itself had no meaning. It only had the credit of Jin Chan himself.

The poor people don’t know the logic behind this. Most of them have lost their land. If they choose to continue farming, they are no longer tenants like before, but hired farmers. This is a change in their identity.

Instead of becoming hired farmers, they can also be apprentices, which is also a way to make a living. The good fortune realized by Jin Chan is carried out together with Xu Jia's strategy of "surrounding the cities from the countryside". These people can all be developed into Taoists, so being an apprentice does not mean working like a slave for three years after three years, but really learning skills, getting paid, and even receiving a subsidy.

Jin Chan thought: Have I done justice to the farmers whose land I bought? Have I made them homeless? Have I forced them to starve their children to death?
nothing.

Although the hired farmers are not the owners of the fields, they have signed a five- or even ten-year contract and will receive a sum of money to help Jin Chan farm the land. The seeds, farm tools, and cattle used for farming are all provided by Jin Chan. Regardless of whether it is a good year or a bad year, the hired farmers are not responsible for the output of the land. In return, Jin Chan will help them pay various agricultural taxes.

In the past, a farmer only cultivated two or three mu of his own land. After becoming a hired farmer, each person could concentrate on intensive cultivation and take care of ten to twenty mu of land. For every extra mu cultivated, he would get an extra wage, which was purely his own wage.

Similarly, a large canteen was opened in the village. No matter who came, the elderly, children, hired farmers, or their wives, they could have a meal for one dollar, with at least three dishes and a soup.

Women who are good at cooking are employed in the canteen to wash fruits and vegetables, light the fire, cook, serve dishes and rice...

Those who grow vegetables or raise chickens, ducks and pigs at home can sell them directly to the canteen and become the villagers' three meals a day.

The remaining people, with their hands freed, began to professionally raise chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, and grow vegetables... and then supply them to restaurants and hotels, earning their own money.

Jin Chan received a large amount of food, which was his ballast against risks. As long as the local food prices were stable, the basic situation would remain stable. At least next time there was a natural disaster, Jin Chan would have enough reserves to last him through a whole famine year.

The golden umbrella formed by the treasury representing the interests of farmers blocked part of the thunder, which represented the small peasant class represented by the golden toad.

The remaining thunder continued to strike.

Jin Chan thought to himself, "Am I worthy of being an ordinary citizen?"

The ordinary citizens in the county town do not farm. Instead, they wake up every day to buy food and daily necessities. They are financial entities who use money to consume in the market.

The ordinary people in Yushan and Dexing have also changed. At least it has become easier to make money, and they even have a place to save money and earn interest...

Since the agriculture is basically under the control of Jin Chan, the prices of vegetables and grains have tended to be stable, and there is no situation where the price of rice doubles, triples, or even tenfold.

In fact, the dynasty's decline had already become apparent. At least during the Dexing flood, when the Changsheng Sect had not yet been driven out, the highest grain price reached six or even seven times the previous level. Now, the highest is only twice as much. This is the result of the Golden Toad's regulation.

Since Jin Chan controlled grain prices, local landlords could not take advantage of the chaos to sell at high prices, and they would not actively hoard grain. Jin Chan would continue to actively purchase the released grain, so that although they could not make a lot of money, they would not suffer losses either, so they focused on other businesses.

At the same time, a large number of jobs make it easier to find a job, and ordinary people who master a skill can even consider further education for their children.

In the past, they could not save any money throughout the year and might even go bankrupt. Now, most people can save seven or eight taels of silver a year, which has greatly increased their ability to resist risks.

As for the petty bourgeoisie, Jin Chan thought: "I haven't let them down either."

The golden umbrella of all people representing this class burst out with golden light, further weakening the thunder summoned by Taoist Feng Lei.

"Am I worthy of the businessmen who invested in me?"

"They came only for profit, like a pack of greedy wolves. Initially, they wanted to share my food, but eventually they compromised and joined the game. They are the main source of wealth in my capital pool. They were originally gentry and local tycoons, the privileged class, and they hold the right to speak. Their wealth was obtained by exploiting the petty citizens and farmers."

"They invest their money in me because it is profitable, they can make money from money, they can speculate... they can double or triple their wealth through investment in a short period of time... In fact, I want to suck their blood, and they also want to suck my blood... We hinder each other and grow together, but I will eventually attack them and complete the harvest of merchants and landlords. I only need to actively burst this bubble to make their invested money evaporate, and then buy back their debts at a low price... Kick out these traditional merchants and landlords until they follow my rules, set up industries and factories, provide jobs for local people, and drive industrial development."

"For these people, there is no such thing as good fortune or good wishes. It's all in my heart. I think it's enough as long as I do my best for them."

The thunder fell on the golden umbrella of all people, with unclear meaning, and did not completely protect it, and fell directly on the head of the golden toad, because this part represents "faith". The golden toad invited people to invest in itself, and the result was the Hongmen Banquet. Merchants or landlords are the foundation of social wealth, which is the so-called "middle class".

"Have I ever been worthy of those county clans? Those scholars and gentry?" Jin Chan thought.

The county clans, gentry, and scholars are a political group and potential bureaucrats, but there are only a few of them in a county who are the so-called "noble people."

This group of people did not accept Jinchan's model, and even thought it was "harming the country." However, after some of them invested in Jinchan and saw a visible increase in money, they also joined the game.

Even after Jin Chan spent money to build several nurseries to take care of the young children of the common people and teach them some simple words, knowledge, and arithmetic, they wrote articles to praise it.

The biggest role of nurseries is to liberate women in petty-bourgeois families so that they can also participate in work. Children who are a little older do not need too much discipline.

Spending more time with children of the same age is like having many more brothers and sisters. You will naturally become more cheerful, more lively, more eloquent, which is actually "more intelligent".

In addition, Jin Chan also spent money to hire down-and-out scholars and students to set up elementary schools, enrolling children aged six and above and under twelve years old (in this era, twelve years old was equivalent to adulthood, and some people would even start blind dates and get married).

Although one still has to pay to go to school, many people in the petty bourgeoisie can already afford this elementary education, which undoubtedly breaks the monopoly of education.

Jin Chan thought: "At the beginning, the pure gold Wenchang Tower was built with me, but he did not nourish his spirituality. I have done what he should have done, Hongwen. I am worthy of these scholars. They always talk a lot, but in fact, they are just articles on paper. You can listen to their words, but you can't believe them."

The thunderbolt continued to fall, but was blocked by the golden umbrella that exuded Wen Qi. The sound of a child reading a book could be heard from inside: "If you are poor, you should take care of yourself. If you are rich, you should help the world..."

Jin Chan has already helped the whole village...

The divinity of the positive God of Wealth is gathering step by step, including wealth of benevolence, kindness, righteousness, trust, wisdom, literature, martial arts, hidden wealth, and yang wealth… These represent nine wealth vaults, and are also the goals of his transformation of evil wealth and partial wealth.

Under the thunder of heaven, I have a clear conscience.

Taoist Feng Lei finally sensed it in the Feng Lei Altar. When the evil aura dissipated, there was an indomitable righteous energy.

The ugly bump on the golden toad's back is indeed the desire of all living beings, it is indeed the poison of greed.

But it is also the yearning of all living beings for a better life. If everyone does not have these desires, all living beings will be like a pool of stagnant water, and it will no longer be the human world, but just walking corpses.

The interest of life always lies in this world.

The Golden Toad has completely transformed, and the nine treasuries and nine golden umbrellas of the people have merged into one.

The winged gold coin in its mouth flew into the clouds, and the thunder tools in the hands of those thunder generals fell down immediately.

Lei Jiang was shocked: "My baby!"

It was actually a thunder drum, with two golden surfaces.

The thunder drum was swallowed by the golden toad, and the golden scraps stuck to its cheeks. From then on, the toad's calls sounded like drums, and its cheeks reflected the moonlight.

There was a treasure bowl under the seat, from which gold coins gushed out like spring water, including pearls, gems and corals. The bowl grew from the size of a bowl to the size of a large fish tank, but the golden toad was still firmly sitting under his butt. Good cannot prevail over evil.

The Yin Demon in the Dao Realm lost his temper.

From the sky, a beam of golden light fell. It turned out to be a string of copper coins strung with gold threads. All of them had wings. They landed on the golden toad and were carried on his back.

"The ninth level of wealth in the realm of desire."

This is an acknowledgment from Heaven, and not just something the Desire Realm does on its own... This means that the Golden Toad has been recognized and valued by the God of Wealth in Heaven's Finance Department.

The golden toad's eyes suddenly filled with tears, and everything that fell turned into pure colored gems.

Taoist Feng Lei had a complicated expression on his face, and he withdrew his magic and descended the altar. She was as incredible as Fahai seeing the white snake giving birth.

"let's go."

She wants to take Lingyun and Yilei away.

But a golden dragon sword and a silver dragon sword broke through the Dharma Realm space and stopped her.

Xu Jia did not come in person, but the two magic swords were spiritual enough.

Taoist Feng Lei sensed the sharp energy above, the hair on his neck stood up, and he did not dare to escape.

"Fellow Daoist, have you asked me about this matter, since you cast a spell of lightning in my Jade Mountain territory and caused such a big commotion?"

The Golden Dragon Sword transformed into a slender golden dragon, and words came out of its mouth.

"I have come here to punish people according to the will of heaven. At most, I am an official of the Ten Realms Demon Test. The human demons among them are the thunder and lightning tests imposed by heaven in my name."

Taoist Feng Lei said something nice: "If there is no test from me, God himself will send down a corresponding test."

"I see. I thought you had come all the way here to cause me trouble, hoping to borrow your head for use."

Jin Chan has sworn a thunder oath, and now he has passed the first test of the thunder oath, but it does not mean that he can do whatever he wants in the future. It is very likely that the second or even the third thunder oath will be fulfilled. As long as he continues to do this kind of thing, he will always need to be subject to the strictest supervision.

Taoist Feng Lei said coldly: "Then you can give it a try."

Lingyun said bluntly: "These are all my faults. My cultivation is not good enough, my wisdom is not enough, I cannot see through the manifestation, see the essence, and mistake the righteous god for an evil god..."

"You read that right. He was originally an evil god. He just borrowed my hand to help him get through this great disaster and turn from evil to good. The evil god of wealth can be killed by everyone, so that's not a problem. The problem is that he can be cleansed." Wind and Thunder Taoist Yuan Wenying said, "It seems that this Lingbao leader is really a master of all trades."

It was embarrassing to call Lingyun this way. Taoist Fenglei had a hot temper and was very straightforward. It was obvious that this Lingbao Sect Leader was not someone to be trifled with.

If a fight breaks out, I’m afraid Master won’t be the opponent... After all, these two magic swords are not something that ordinary earthly immortals can refine.

After hearing this, Xu Jia was not angry, because he had already grasped the truth. The Golden Toad was able to survive the catastrophe and turn evil into good without his help, which made Xu Jia feel relieved. If he failed to survive the catastrophe, Xu Jia would fall into self-doubt, wondering if he was taking the right path or the wrong path?

Maybe the road is winding and there are times when you take the wrong path, but as long as you have the courage to face your mistakes, look directly at them and correct them in time, you will reduce the cost instead of rushing down the wrong path.

The golden toad represents Xu Jia’s “educational achievements”.

This kind of weirdo can indeed be educated and turned from evil to good.

This gave Xu Jia confidence and a goal.

"It seems that you are still arrogant, unable to see your own self clearly, disrespectful to the spirits of heaven and earth, unaware of the suffering of reincarnation, and still think that I am an evil and crooked person..."

Taoist Feng Lei said, "As far as I know, it is very difficult for most of them to change from evil to good. They can fall into the path of animals because of their karma. Even if they become monsters, they still have little humanity. As the saying goes, it is easy to change the country, but difficult to change one's nature. This golden toad became the God of Wealth by satisfying the desires of sentient beings, and it will inevitably fall if the desires of sentient beings are not satisfied. Your Excellency is responsible for educating the monsters, and you will inevitably be burdened by them."

"Being able to teach one or two people well is just a matter of chance. It's like asking wolves not to eat meat but only fruits and vegetables. This is against nature. Even humans can't change, let alone demons and ghosts."

"Fellow Daoist, instead of educating these demons, why not educate people? Choose those with good character, virtue, and talent, and educate them. Isn't it better than wasting energy on them?"

(End of this chapter)