Chapter 1408 — The Two Ancestors of Dao and Buddha
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 1 of 3
"Celestial Master Meng, you are too serious.
" The old Dao Master laughed. "Jingping is most likely simply frugal, unaccustomed to spending lavishly. This little nation has only just risen, and it hoards by habit. And what could be simpler than making their wealth flow away like water? Let the Commerce Heavenly Palace keep minting coins, mint more heaven coins, and their wealth will devalue of itself.
How many heaven coins are minted—is that not for the Heavenly Court to decide? " Meng Yungui was caught between laughter and tears. "Teacher, the Heavenly Court can indeed mint more coins, but those coins will only make heaven coins devalue across the great heavens, worth less and less! And in the end, those heaven coins will still flow to the Yuan Realm, into Jingping! In the end, when the poor of the myriad heavens and worlds can no longer live, there will be only one road left.
" His voice turned cold.
"Rebellion! First they will rebel against the gods of the myriad heavens and worlds, against the sovereigns of the myriad heavens and worlds! The gods of the myriad heavens and worlds have money now, and the sovereigns have more, but when the myriad heavens and worlds rise in rebellion, if they do not join the rebellion, they will have their heads struck off by the rebellious rabble! There is no second road!
And when the gods of the myriad heavens and worlds rebel, and the sovereigns rebel, that is rebellion against the Heavenly Court!
" Meng Yungui sneered. "By then, the myriad heavens and worlds will rebel together, and that tide will be enough to leave the Heavenly Court scorched and reeling, beyond all remedy! However strong the Heavenly Court may be, can it slaughter every rebel in the myriad heavens and worlds? By then, with popular grievance boiling to the heavens, the emperors too will have no choice but to rebel, and if the Heavenly Venerates wish to keep their rule, they must push one of their own out to be beheaded, to atone before all under heaven! " The old Dao Master of the Heavenly Court said, calm and unruffled, "And who does Celestial Master Meng think will be pushed out to be beheaded and atone before all under heaven? " "That person must be of the very highest station, at the lowest a Heavenly Venerate.
Perhaps even. .
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" Meng Yungui could not help but shudder, his voice hoarse. "Perhaps even His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor!
" The old Dao Master said mildly, "Do you think the Ten Heavenly Venerates would be glad, or grieved, to push His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor out to be beheaded? " Meng Yungui was struck dumb for a moment, and a deep dread suddenly rose in his heart.
The old Dao Master watched him, eyes smiling, and said with weighty earnestness, "Celestial Master Meng, I know you attend to the duties of your office, but you still cannot see the present situation clearly.
Jingping is the domain of the Shepherd Heavenly Venerate; the Shepherd Heavenly Venerate means to forge a nation and gather the wealth of the heavens, but the Ten Heavenly Venerates are by no means failing to indulge him. However much wealth Jingping gains, its strength still cannot catch up to the Heavenly Court. When do you think Jingping will be able to force the myriad heavens and worlds into rebellion? " Meng Yungui said gravely, "Within a hundred years. " "A hundred years? Too many. In my view, they will surely rebel within fifty.
" The old Dao Master said mildly, "You are master of the arts of calculation, of strategy, of scheming, but you have not yet reached the utmost.
The Ten Heavenly Venerates cannot wait a hundred years; they hope that fifty years from now they can settle the Heavenly Emperor, settle all the ancient gods, and sweep away every obstacle!