Divine Brilliance

Not just the 2 of them, but Chuxue and Ruoshui sat up on the bed, interested.

If the rich don’t spend large amounts of money, how will the poor live… those words originally sounded preposterous, but thinking about it, it did make a little sense.

Ren Bo was stunned for just a moment before he scoffed coldly, his eyes filled with rage, “Ruler you are just spouting nonsense! The rich being extravagant to raise the commoners is just a made up theory! Maybe it would make sense during peaceful times but in this Donglin Cloud Continent where the cities are in a war, it is just a way to die! The amount of resources on this earth is limited. If we use more here, we will use less elsewhere. Our Gantian Mountain is surrounded by enemies, so we should be prudent and thrifty. We should put all our resources into the military! Like what the ruler is doing, spreading the power of the people. If the people of our country all work for those rich merchants and large races, how many will be willing to work for the army?”

He was obviously extremely furious, his mustache was trembling slightly, “It is okay that the ruler is extravagant, but why do you need to try to disturb other people’s heart? Do you know that if you say these words out, it will shake the foundations of the country? The rich races and merchants will all do as you do. The ruler’s thrifty spirit will be totally wiped out.

This time, it was Zong Shou’s turn to be speechless. Facing these series of accusations, he lost his breath. He thought that the old fellow was really smart. His excuse was actually broken so quickly.

He knew that the countries in the future not only promoted the flow of money and encouraged people to spend. However, he forgot the special situation of that era.

His words were said with proof and logic and made a lot of sense.

However, looking at how Ren Bo was filled with righteousness, Zong Shou felt quite unhappy and wasn’t willing to lose.

His eyes squinted as numerous thoughts flashed across his head. He even used the great sky changing meditation technique to quickly calculate and deduce.

Chuxue, at the start, had already heaved a breath, thinking that it was still the prime minister that was smart. As she was saying, how did being wasteful with money make sense? The prince was truly talking nonsense and trying to trick them…

Just as she was thinking that way, Zong Shou smiled, “Prime minister don’t be angry! I only have something I want to ask you. What is the grain production of our people for one mu of land in these two years?” As he said that he picked up a bear claw and bit on it, oil flowing at the corner of his mouth.

Ren Bo rolled his eyes. He really wanted to flip the table but he could only patiently reply, “One mu of land produced 4 stone of grain. This year we haven’t reached the time to collect grain. However, with my calculation it should be around 4 stone and 14 kilograms…”

Whilst he said that his gaze slightly constricted like he thought about something and was deep in thought.

“4 stone, 4 stone 14 kilograms, around that number. I remember the year before one mu collected 3 stone and 56 kilograms? Not only Gantian Mountain City was like that, but the other countries were also the same right?”

Seeing Ren Bo not deny, Zong Shou nodded, “with your knowledge, you should know the theory of how Low prices for grain hurt the farmers.”

“Naturally! The more grain there is, supply more than demand and grain prices will naturally decrease.”

Ren Bo’s expression was already solemn and a little ashamed.

Gantian Mountain’s grain production was slowly increasing, why didn’t he notice such a phenomenon? Luckily they noticed it early or it would have caused a catastrophe.

Xuan Yunlan thought about it and her face changed.

“If this grain isn’t sold then things like oil, salt, clothes, and vases won’t be sold too. The Farmers in the world that aren’t cultivators would have nothing and will be unable to survive. Prime minister is that the theory?”

The entire sleeping hall was silent. Zong Shou smiled and continued asking, “Does prime minister know the rough number of beasts outside of the city in the wild? Did it decrease or is it still increasing?”

Ren Bo’s face turned green however he had to reply the question, “I don’t know the specific number. I only know that this year’s number of people being hurt by beasts reached 4300, 3 times yet of other years.”

Zong Shou was delighted and he knew that he had control of the situation, “So how much of what I am eating come from grain and how much come from the wilderness? The things I use now, how much comes from those beasts?”

Ren Bo looked out, only to see that a large half of the table was wild prey while the remaining came from the cloud ocean.

Although the decoration was lavish, indeed a large portion came from beasts.

That warm spell formation was also the same.

“The merchants and aristocratic families are rich, but after obtaining riches, they didn’t use them and only stored them. If those beast crystals and mind stones can’t flow outside how will it strengthen our Gantian Mountain people? How would it make our martial arts atmosphere stronger?”

As he heard that, Ren Bo understood what Zong Shou was getting at, cold sweat trickling down as he had no words to reply.

Zong Shou smiled coldly, hammering one more nail in The Coffin as he asked, “Since that’s the case then what faults have I done?”

Ren Bo’s expression was changing as he stood rooted to the spot. He didn’t speak in a long time. When he opened his mouth, he bowed deeply.

“I understand! From today on I will encourage hunters and reduce Farmers to clear out beasts in the wild. The ruler is wise, killing many birds with one stone, I am in the wrong. If I made you angry please forgive me!”

After he finished he bowed once more. His expression extremely bleak as he walked out of the sleeping palace. All of a sudden, he actually forgot the reason why he came to look for Zong Shou, leaving with his soul out of his body.

Looking at Ren Bo’s back view, Zong Shou’s original gleefulness had suddenly totally disappeared. Deep within guilt rose up within his heart.

He indeed went overboard this time. He was already so old. Although his personality seemed to be a lot more gentle and calm, his desire to win hasn’t reduced even a single bit.

He muttered deep in thought, “if this Ren Bo met a great ruler, he would definitely become a great minister…”

Originally, he only used him because he didn’t have any choice. Now it seems like this person did, in fact, have the talent to rule a country.

His words were soft but Chuxue heard it all clearly at the side. Her eyes revealing curiosity as she asked, “Of course he is a good minister. Since the ex ruler invited him over the lives of our Gantian Mountain people have gotten a lot better. Young master definitely is a good ruler. The prime minister never praises people and even the ex ruler was scolded by him. Ever since young master became king, Xue’er have heard him praise you twice.”

Zong Shou couldn’t help but smile, thinking that he had nothing to do with a smart ruler. He was only relying on his ten thousand years of knowledge to bully people.

Xuan Yunlan sighed, “Hearing ruler’s words are better than 10 years of studying. I always thought that being thrifty was best. I didn’t expect that by spending money we can improve the lives of people.”

Just as Zong Shou felt gleeful, Ruoshui suddenly burst out into a laugh before her petite body fell onto the bed, “I saw the ruler blink many times just now.”

Xuan Yunlan was totally confused when she heard that whilst Chuxue was totally furious. The respect in her eyes turned into disdain.

She knew that when Zong Shou lied, he had a habit of blinking.

So it seems like when he invited people to decorate the palace and made the feast, he didn’t think so much. So the words to send Ren Bo away in shame was just nonsense he made up. He even made it sound like he had all the logic and moral high ground, how shameless!

Zong Shou’s face was as thick as a city wall. He wasn’t annoyed and his face didn’t turn red, instead, he smiled, not bothering at all.

After enjoying a delicious feast, Zong Shou took out tens of talisman paper and several mixed spiritual ink from his small heaven and earth-bag. They were produced from the Seven Spirit Sect and Qingyin School for direct disciples, rarely seen on the market.

However, these things weren’t given by Wei Xu, but he bought them himself.

His senior Brother obviously knew he was rich and didn’t give any of such things. Zong Shou was helpless and could only purchase it from Xuan Yunlan and Zhao Yanran. The former was okay whilst the latter ripped him off, extorting a huge amount of money from him. Hence there was one more grievenace between the 2 of them.

Because of this matter, Zong Shou also slandered Wei Xu for a full day.

His face turned serious as he waved the brush. On the talisman paper, he wrote a swallow word and a purify word.

Recently his martial arts cultivation rose really quickly due to Wei Xu’s help. On the other hand, his spiritual cultivation and soul power halted.

Even if he cultivated a grade 10 saint spirit meditation technique, it couldn’t make a difference.

If he didn’t understand these 2 words, his cultivation wouldn’t have a true rise.

Before Wei Xu left, he seemed to know his thoughts. Out of the books he left, apart from the great sky changing meditation technique as well as tens of common people path secret legacy spells, most of them were related to the swallow and purify words.

However, in this world, there were very few spirit masters who chose to form these 2 true spiritual talismans. Zong Shou took a look and they weren’t of much help to him.

His recent comprehension seemed to have reached a dead-end, unable to have new understandings in a long time.

However, luckily he had a new choice now.

He suddenly pulled out his sword, holding the broken nine qilin sword in his hand. He slightly hesitated before determination appeared on his face.

“Little Gold, whether or not your master can advance depends on you!”

With the thought using it, a ball of silver light on his left hand with pale gold liquid started in it started to flow down.

In an instance it wrapped up this nine qilin sword, causing the sword body to turn silver.

Just as the silver layer totally covered up the sword, Little Gold started to swallow!

First, it excreted a special liquid to cause the spiritual metal to split. Then it directly absorbed it into his body. Some of the metal that was of no use was directly purified and excreted.