Remove the Firewood From Under the Cauldron

Chapter 894: Cutting off the Fire

In the palace, Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu invited Yu Chenzi, Taoist Lin Xuan, Wang Muran, Si Yunxiang and others. Many of them were members of the Tianmeng at the time, and all of them were young people. They discussed how Yankang Kingdom should operate after this drastic change.

When Tianmeng was first established, there were only four people: Qin Mu, Lin Xuan, Wang Muran, and Xu Shenghua.

Later, Qin Mu and his friends grilled fish at Tai Academy. Ling Yuxiu, Si Yunxiang, Hu Ling'er, Monk Mingxin, Mu Qingdai, Long Yu and others also joined them. Qin Mu later also brought the Demon Ape Zhan Kong into the Tianmeng.

——As for Hu Ling'er, she likes to be lively and joined the Tianmeng just to make up the numbers. She didn't take it seriously, and neither did Qin Mu and the others.

Xing An and Emperor Yanfeng were also present at the time, but they were quite disgusted with the Tianmeng founded by Qin Mu and others and did not join it.

Xu Shenghua was missing from this palace gathering, and Hu Ling'er, Mingxin, and Mo Yuan did not come either, but there was one more person, Yu Chenzi.

Yu Chenzi said: "The New Heaven Map is extremely vast and difficult to refine. Even if it is refined by the Heavenly Court Dao Sect, it will take thirty to fifty years to refine it. Moreover, I, Qing Yuntian, am the designer of the New Heaven Map, so I can naturally leave some tricks in the New Heaven Map. Although the New Heaven Map is very dangerous, it is not without hope. The most difficult thing now is the eight items in the Heavenly Court's imperial edict."

Ling Yuxiu said: "In fact, there are only seven. My father and Jiang Guoshi are imprisoned in the prison. We don't need to consider them for the time being. Just focus on the first seven and come up with countermeasures. Will Yankang stop the reform from now on, or continue. If we continue, how can we break through these seven points."

Yu Chenzi looked at Qin Mu, and Qin Mu said, "Of course we should continue. If we don't, the emperor's annual sacrifices alone will be enough to destroy the foundation of Yankang's existence."

Everyone was puzzled.

Yu Chenzi explained: "The powerful demigods in the heaven eat blood. Every year, the emperor offers sacrifices to the heaven with young boys and girls. Offering young boys and girls to the heaven as blood food is enough to break the people's hearts. The people dare not complain about the heaven, but will only vent their anger on Yan Kang."

“Too cruel.”

Wang Muran frowned and said, "This alone is enough to destroy Yankang."

Ling Yuxiu said: "That's why we need to come up with a countermeasure. The Heavenly Court wants to take away my Yankang's coinage rights. How can Saint Xiang solve this problem?"

Si Yunxiang thought for a moment and said with a smile, "So, is the currency of the Heavenly Court circulated in Yankang, or in the entire Yuanjie?"

Qin Mu said: "The Heavenly Court will not create a currency specifically for Yan Kang. Now that the Heavenly Court has unified the metaverse, it is natural that all forces will use the same currency."

Si Yunxiang clapped her hands and smiled, "If a currency is designed specifically for Yankang, and the Heavenly Court controls the right to mint coins, then the economy will not survive and Yankang will be doomed. If all forces in the entire metaverse use the same currency, this is not a bad thing!"

Everyone didn't know much about this and asked questions.

"The entire metaverse uses one currency. The Heavenly Court is sucking blood from the Metaverse. They only need to create currency to plunder the Metaverse's wealth, but the Heavenly Court must also ensure that the currency can be used to buy and sell things."

Si Yunxiang smiled and said, "The Yankang people are best at doing business. They can earn more money from other places in the Metaverse through trading to ensure their livelihood. The Heavenly Court is sucking blood from the entire Metaverse and plundering its resources, while we draw resources from other forces in the Metaverse through trading. Emperor Yanfeng once said that Dafeng currency should be used in all countries. He struggled for this for many years, and unifying the Metaverse currency has realized his dream. It's just that there is an extra Lord Tian above his head now."

Qin Mu said: "You will be in charge of commerce and trade."

Si Yunxiang said: "I need your vixen to help me."

Qin Mu nodded and said, "The right to mint coins is the third one. Let Si Yunxiang handle it and stabilize people's livelihood. The first one is to burn the books of reform. No reform is allowed. All books have backups. Don't worry about it. The second one is to restore the ancestral system. The sects govern the country, and the people worship the gods. The sects worship the gods. Through the sects and the people, they control Yankang. This is a strategy to fool the people. How to solve it?"

Wang Muran asked, "Among these seven articles, is there any prohibition on establishing elementary schools, universities, or imperial colleges?"

Ling Yuxiu said: "There is no such rule, but primary schools, universities and imperial colleges in various places have been destroyed by the gods, and the books have been burned."

Wang Muran smiled and said, "Then build it again! Don't use the name of primary school, university or imperial college. Change the name to something like Yujing Sect, Tiansheng Sect, Daomen Branch Courtyard, etc., and make it more like a sect. Primary school, university and imperial college are essentially the same as sects."

Qin Mu said, "Let's do it this way. The fourth rule is that you cannot make heavy divine weapons, so don't make them for now, don't worry about it. The fifth rule is that you cannot change the magic and the way without permission. Only a few people have the ability to change the magic and the way, so don't worry about this one. The sixth rule is to offer sacrifices to the heavens, this one is too heartbreaking, how can we break it?"

Yu Chenzi thought, "I have some connections in the Heavenly Court Taoism. Perhaps I can ask some prominent figures in the Heavenly Court Taoism to come forward and change the things to be sacrificed. At the very least, I can't let the emperor sacrifice the human race as animals."

Qin Mu said, "Thank you, Senior Brother Yuchen. The seventh rule is to destroy all the things with unique skills and tricks. This one is not a big deal. After this catastrophe, most of the good things in the people's possessions are gone."

He looked around and smiled: "Then let's start thinking about how to counterattack."

Everyone was shocked.

Counterattack?

What big talk?

How to counterattack?

Qin Mu said, "I have an immature idea these days. I went around the capital these days and found that many heavenly soldiers and generals broke into the wealthy families in the capital and took away those so-called strange and lewd things. The gods in heaven seem to like these things very much. In this case, we can make them for free and only charge coins from heaven. The cheaper the better. We have many skilled craftsmen in Yankang. We can make things for the people and retain the skills of these skilled craftsmen."

Everyone still didn't quite understand.

Qin Mu continued, "Brother Yuchen, can you use your connections in the Heavenly Court Dao Sect to allow Yankang to manufacture some of the Heavenly Court's divine weapons?"

Yu Chenzi frowned and said, "You want Yankang to forge the New Heaven Map? Impossible! Heaven will definitely not give the New Heaven Map to Yankang to forge! This kind of artifact can only be made by the Zaofu Palace in Heaven! The Zaofu Palace in Heaven is the place where the most important artifacts are made! Almost all of the heavy artifacts in Heaven are forged there, and it is heavily guarded! If you go there to work, you must verify your identity with the Book of Life and Death every day!"

Qin Mu smiled and said, "What I mean is that Yankang will first make some daily necessities for the Heavenly Court, such as ice mirrors, windmills and the like. Then, it will make weapons such as divine armor, divine armor, divine soldiers, towers and ship formations that the Heavenly Court army needs. The Heavenly Court can use the currency they mint to directly purchase the treasures we make from Yankang."

Yu Chenzi was stunned.

Everyone frowned, still not quite understanding.

"Of course, Heaven will be willing to do such a good thing. But..."

Yu Chenzi was embarrassed and said, "The Yankang craftsmen worked so hard to forge treasures, but they can only exchange them for coins from the Heavenly Court. This is too..."

Qin Mu said: "As long as the coins can be circulated in the Metaverse, it doesn't matter how much money you make. Can you do it?"

Yu Chenzi said decisively: "Yes!"

Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then, how long will it take for Yankang's forging factory to squeeze out the Tianting's forging factory, leaving Tianting with only the Zaofu Palace that forges heavy artifacts?"

Yu Chenzi was shocked and said with a smile: "You are cutting off the source of the livelihood and economy of Heaven! The forces in Heaven are complex and there are almost free magic weapons available. Those factories will not last long and will be replaced by Yankang! By then, Yankang will be full of factories that can forge magic weapons, and Heaven will have no factories available!"

He walked back and forth, saying, "The Heavenly Court governs the Four Poles, Xuandu, Yuanjie, Youdu, Mingdu, Nantian, Beitian, Dongtian, and Xitian. There are also thirty-six heavenly palaces, seventy-two treasure halls, and all the heavens and worlds! If Yankang can supply the people's livelihood and military equipment of the Heavenly Court, the industries of all the heavens and worlds will inevitably become empty and there will be no money to use. At that time, the people's livelihood in all the heavens and worlds will wither, and they will inevitably rebel."

Qin Mu said: "I just ask you how many years it will take."

Yu Chenzi said with emotion: "A hundred years at most!"

Qin Mu thought for a moment and said, "A hundred years is enough. Can you use a free magic weapon to exchange for the emperor offering sacrifices to heaven without the blood sacrifices of boys and girls?"

Yu Chenzi thought about it and said, "We can give it a try."

"As for the other details, you are more familiar with them than I am. How to settle the people, how to revive the people's family business, reclaim good land, plant crops, and survive the current famine? There are many civil servants in the court who are proficient in them. You can ask them. Several of my parents are proficient in swordsmanship, battle formations, forging, medicine, calligraphy and painting, etc. You can ask them for advice."

Qin Mu stood up, bowed and said, "Then I will entrust Yankang to you!"

Everyone was shocked and quickly stood up to return the greeting. Daoist Master Lin Xuan said, "Why did you say that? Aren't you staying in Yankang? Now you are the Imperial Master of Yankang, and you also have the identity of Mu Tianzun. I don't know how many people are watching you. You are not in a good state now, so you'd better not run around."

Qin Mu straightened up, feeling a little dizzy, and said with a smile: "If I stay in Yankang, the Heavenly Court will keep a close eye on this place. They are not staring at Yankang, but at me, Mu Tianzun. As the State Master of Yankang, if I wander around, Yankang will have a chance and time to breathe. You don't need to say anything."

Si Yunxiang looked at Ling Yuxiu, who had a complicated expression on her face. She asked, "When will the Imperial Master return after leaving the capital?"

Qin Mu said: "I will come to look for you after I come back. As for when I will come back, I have no plan yet."

"How about coming back this time next year?"

Ling Yuxiu looked at him and said softly, "I know you are not in good health. Come back at this time next year and let me know that you are still alive."

Qin Mu laughed loudly, nodded heavily, and said: "This time next year, I will be back!"

He turned and walked outside, came to the palace gate, woke up Long Qilin, and walked towards the Imperial Master's Mansion together.

"Is Master Qin in danger?" Wang Muran asked quietly as he watched him go away.

"He has no soul."

Yu Chenzi whispered, "I have never seen anyone survive without a soul."

"The leader is not going to hide in a corner and die quietly, right?"

Si Yunxiang suddenly became worried, her eyes reddened, and she whispered, "I'm afraid he will worry about us and be sad, so he will hide away and die slowly. Even if his body is discovered, no one will know that he is Mu Tianzun, Master Qin, and the Imperial Master of Yankang..."

Ling Yuxiu shook her head: "He will come back. One year from now, he will meet us here again!"

There are two imperial master's mansions in the capital, one is the mansion of Jiang Baigui, the former imperial master of Yankang, and the other is Qin Mu's villa here. In the villa there is a lush and green Yuan tree.

Qin Mu came under the Yuan tree and stroked the trunk. Suddenly, Gongsun Yan in a green skirt came around from behind the tree, holding a small kettle, and said with a smile: "Brother, you are back? Yan'er, your master is back!"

Yan'er poked her head out of the bird's nest in the treetops, and then a chubby bluebird flew down and landed on Qin Mu's shoulder, smiling, "The bird's nest here is so comfortable that I don't even want to get up. Sir, are you planning to go out?"

Qin Mu nodded and said with a smile: "Sister Yan'er, since the bird's nest here is comfortable, you can stay here and take care of Yan Kang."

Yan'er hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said, "The Queen asked me to follow you, so I can't stay. Besides, Yan'er is better at taking care of people than I am. She has served me so well. There is everything in that phoenix nest. She prepared all kinds of fruits for me, and even insects for me to eat! I have never seen anyone more considerate than me. I have gained weight."

Long Qilin poked his head out from behind Qin Mu and was about to speak when the round Qingque glared at him and said viciously, "Shut up, Fatty Long!"

Long Qilin didn't dare to speak.

Gongsun Yan said with embarrassment: "I also want to go out with you, but I am rooted here..."

Qin Mu smiled gently and said, "Then stay here. This is my root. I will come back."