Chapter 180 Cultivation and enlightenment
The more he realized the truth, the more Hongsang envied Yunyao and his disciples' luck.
Enlightenment means that the more you understand, the more you understand, but when you understand some things, you cannot change them. There will naturally be some strange factors affecting yourself. These factors cannot be reflected in detail, quantified, or interfered with.
It’s like different people in the same environment have different situations, or the same person has different experiences in different environments, and everyone is affected. Some people say this is God’s will, and some people say this is destiny.
The higher the Hongsang's cultivation level, the more he respects this kind of power, which is called Tao.
Simply put, there are few factors that people can control. You can study hard and practice hard, but Tao is not a good man. You will not succeed just because you work hard, and you will not become an immortal just because you practice immortality.
So inexplicable bottlenecks will arise, various disasters will come, and unknown causes and effects will entangle, making the cultivators breathless.
And being able to avoid being disturbed by these troublemakers is luck. Yun Yao's luck is very strong, and even Hongsang is envious.
But the more envious you, the more you need to practice, because as the practice deepens, Hongsang feels that those factors that were originally uncontrollable are gradually being controlled, and he can control his own destiny more and more.
It’s like a person who throws a coin to guess the front and back side. The first time he guesses, he must be fooling around, because he doesn’t know anything except knowing that there are two sides of the coin. However, the factors that affect the landing of the front and back side of the coin are not only the two sides of the coin, but also the throwing force, whether the texture of the coin is uniform, and the wind direction, humidity, and even the deflection force at that time. Of course, these are still quantifiable factors that can be measured, and there are some more mysterious and unquantifiable factors, such as what day it is today and how is your mood today...
Quantitative and non-energy factors form a huge environment, which affects the whole body with one wave. The three religions say that it is Tao, while Western religions say that it is karma.
The factors that can be quantified can still be controlled, but the factors that cannot be quantified are difficult to control, and even it is difficult to detect. Cultivation of immortality is divided into two steps: cultivation and enlightenment. Cultivation is naturally the control of quantifiable factors, and enlightenment is the understanding of the unquantifiable factors.
The more he practices, the more he understands why so many gods and immortals defect to Western religions, because the causal cycle of Western religions is indeed more specific, and many unquantifiable factors have been explained in detail, making it easier for monks to understand.
However, Hongsang still believes that the Taoism of the three religions truly controls the essence of Tao, and Western religions stick to details and still cannot achieve the perfection of Tao.
After obtaining the "Tao Te Ching", Hongsang's cultivation was improved very quickly. She knew that this was because of her disciples. All the infection factors in the thatched cottage were very thin, and the Tao seemed to be right in front of her.
Yunyao didn't know that Hongsang and her two masters had made progress beyond common sense, and they could scare the cultivators. As an immortal cultivator, Du Niang was still honing her innate energy and waiting to form a pill. She usually managed the fief carefully and improved the living standards of the fief people, and used it with all their hearts.
Shuzai and Yunyao mentioned that the development of fiefs would make the savages lazy. Now they no longer have to cultivate public fields. Yunyao also noticed that now the savages are thinking about the chickens and ducks in their homes. In the past, they could rest after finishing farm work and did nothing, but now they generally do handicrafts at home and raise chickens and ducks, so there is extra work to do. People's strength is limited. Public fields, private fields, handicrafts, and chickens and duck breeding require strength, so they can only be lazy in public fields. Private fields are their own food, and handicrafts have to be replaced with feed, and chickens and ducks can improve their lives. These three are related to interests. We must not be lazy.
So Shuzai was worried.
In five years, Yunyao selflessly contributed his skills and improved everyone's wealth, but naturally let the savages make choices that human nature will inevitably make.
However, Yunyao was not in a hurry at all. Anyway, the output of public fields did not decrease, because Yunyao developed bronze farm tools to help the savages be lazy. If they wanted to save their strength, Yunyao would help them save their strength. Once the bronze farm tools appeared, the savages would no longer have to work as hard as before. However, because bronze farm tools were too precious, the farm tools were completely kept by the fief and were only used when farming in public fields, because the quantity was not enough for each savage to farm private fields.
However, the savage really wanted to use bronze farm tools to plow private fields, so there are two ways to buy them, which is very expensive, and the other is to rent them. But obviously the savages did not want to spend money in vain, so they all ploughed private fields according to their original habits.
All the property accumulated over the five years was privately owned by Yunyao and no longer belonged to the State of Lu. This is why the authority of the Zhou emperor became weaker and weaker in the future, because the princes had completed the original accumulation, and some princes had mines, salt and various resources on the land, and their income was far more than the taxes given to the Zhou emperor. The taxes that the Zhou emperor could receive were fixed, and the Zhou emperor would become poor and the princes would become rich.
Therefore, it is very important to choose a site at the beginning of civilization. Whether resources can be quickly converted into wealth determines whether they can gain an advantage in the early stage.
The Zhu family's fiefs have not had much advantage, but Yun Yao is a time traveler. With a clever idea, he developed many instruments that transcend the times. He overcomes the disadvantage of having no minerals at birth and gets rich through hard work. Although it is very tiring, with the development of agricultural tools, the overall upward trend is obvious.
However, the great catastrophe of the human race has moved. Yunyao's teacher Ji She, as a mountain god, has often taken Lushan little demons out to subdue demons and demons. From time to time, some demons with spiritual intelligence appear on both sides of the Zhuhe River to jump out of the mountain. Every time Ji She gets news, she will ride Huang Xiaohu out of the mountain.
Ji She knew where there was a demon clan, mainly because the Dragon King of Zhuhe reported that the mountain god and the water god closely cooperated to form the defensive city wall of Zhuhe.
Yunyao was also prepared and accumulated enough food. If monsters attacked and destroyed the fields, they would not go hungry immediately. At the same time, Mo Wu patrolled the fief every day to ensure that he could detect the dangers of getting close as soon as possible.
"Can you eat people increase your mana? Brother, is it true or false?" A yellow dog and a black dog were chatting.
The yellow dog is named Black Dog Brother.
"Of course it's true. I heard from the White Rhino Immortal. Will there be any falsehood? Especially the little monsters who have developed spiritual intelligence but have not transformed into shapes, the effect is the best. If you eat a hundred people, you will think that they have been practicing for a year after they have been practicing." The black dog said.
"No, I haven't heard of it before."
"It's normal that we have never heard of it. The White Rhino Immortal is a great immortal in the fasting stage. He must be right. Let's go and eat people quickly."
"Okay, let's go eat people together." The yellow dog was easily convinced, so the two dogs happily headed towards the world.
Chapter completed!