"Fellow Daoist Jin, your sect needs to give us a reasonable explanation!" The envoys from the five sects, all with gloomy faces and menacing looks, asked Jin Dasheng, who was receiving them, as if they were raising an army to ask for guilt.
Perhaps, in the eyes of the people of the five sects, the cooperation discussed with the Yuqing Sect before was a compromise that the Yuqing Sect had to make due to the joint pressure exerted by the five sects. That auxiliary rail transit construction was just a nicer excuse to allow Yu Qingzong to compromise in order to save some face.
Jin Dasheng, who was responsible for receiving the envoys from the five sects, was sitting on the main seat in Confucian robes, swinging a folding fan leisurely in his hand. Hearing the words of the envoys from the five sects, he raised his eyelids slightly and asked lazily: "Who want to go?" What to explain?"
Seeing Jin Dasheng's behavior, several envoys suddenly became angry. Among them, the envoy of Ziyang Sect took two deep breaths, suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Why should fellow Taoist Jin ask questions knowingly? Your sect has never waited with me. After discussion, you can unilaterally terminate the previously agreed cooperation. Don’t you need to wait for an explanation? "
"Oh, so that's what happened." Jin Dasheng closed the folding fan, tapped it lightly on the palm of his hand a few times, and then said to several people: "I know why these fellow Taoists are here. I just want to let you know. I, Yu Qingzong, will explain to you, where do you start talking about this?"
"Where do we start from? Fellow Taoist Jin, please don't pretend to be confused with us!" the Ziyang Sect envoy said very dissatisfied.
"Haha, I'm pretending to be confused. I'm afraid it's a few fellow Taoists who are pretending to be confused." Jin Dasheng stood up from his seat, took square steps with his hands behind his back, and walked up to several sect envoys, looking from He passed over several people one by one, and finally returned to the envoy of Ziyang Sect. There was a bit of coldness in his tone, and he said questioningly: "What does our Yuqing Sect need to explain to you? Since we cooperate, we have a beginning." Finally, now that our cooperation with you has been completed, I really can’t think of any reason to continue this cooperation.”
In fact, everyone knows that when several parties cooperate to do one thing, since the thing has been completed, the cooperative relationship will of course end. This is a very simple truth. However, there are some particularities in the cooperation between the Yuqing Sect and the Five Sects, and it is not simply a matter of rail transit construction. After all, when the Five Sects came to visit, they didn't know that the Yuqing Sect was planning to build rail transit in several surrounding countries.
The reason why the five sects came together to put pressure on the Yuqing Sect on the grounds of "the dignity of the monks" was actually because the expansion speed of the Yuqing Sect's sphere of influence had already made the five sects feel a certain threat. However, after the arrival of the people from the Five Sects, the Yuqing Sect happened to have plans for the construction of rail transit in several surrounding countries, so the two parties reached cooperation through some exchanges of interests.
Therefore, from the perspective of Yuqingzong, this cooperation is cooperation in rail transit construction. After the rail transit construction is completed, there is no need for cooperation. However, from the perspective of the Five Sects, this was a compromise made by the Yuqing Sect under the joint pressure of the Five Sects. Since it was a compromise, it should naturally be long-lasting.
"Listen to Fellow Daoist Jin, is your sect going to cross the river and burn down the bridge?" the Ziyang sect envoy asked suppressing his anger.
"Crossing the river and burning down the bridge? This is really a joke!" Jin Dasheng sneered, facing the envoys of the five sects, he said unceremoniously: "The so-called cooperation is about each getting what he needs. This cooperation in rail transit construction, I, the Yuqing Sect, I don’t think I’ve treated you wrong in the slightest, so where do I start from crossing the river and tearing down the bridge? Is it possible that I, the Yuqing Sect, owe you all this, so I should worship you for the rest of my life!”
Jin Dasheng's words immediately left the five sect envoys speechless.
Although, from the perspective of the Five Sects, the benefit that the Yuqing Sect gave them in this cooperation was actually the protection fee given to them. However, can this kind of thing be said openly? After all, they are all righteous sects. Regardless of what dirty things they do in private, they still have to maintain their righteous image on the face.
When Jin Dasheng saw that the envoys from the five sects had stopped speaking, he then softened his tone and said: "Fellow Taoists, my Yuqing Sect and several other sects are all on the same righteous path after all. The end of this cooperation does not mean that it will be the same in the future." We’ve just stopped contacting each other, there are still many things we can do together.”
The five sects were headed by the Ziyang Sect. When they heard that Jin Dasheng's attitude had softened, the Ziyang Sect's envoy was moved and asked: "Fellow Taoist Jin, I don't know what my friend said about cooperation in other areas. What are the specifics? ?”
In the final analysis, the key reason why Wu Zong is so concerned about the suspension of cooperation is that they do not want to cut off the supply of spiritual rice. Although the original cooperation condition was that the Yuqing Sect provided some spiritual rice seeds to the Five Sects. However, spiritual rice seeds still need to be cultivated and planted, and each generation will degrade by one grade. After three generations, it will become ordinary food. Therefore, the five sects have no way to rely on those seeds to meet the needs of the sects.
Therefore, if there is other cooperation that can bring spiritual rice to the five sects, there is no need to worry about this cooperation.
Jin Dasheng opened the folding fan, shook it gently in front of his chest, walked back to his seat and sat down, and then said to several envoys: "Several fellow Taoists must know that my uncle Ye Zong is in the Virtual God Realm. Let's make an announcement. Nowadays, the construction of rail transit has been recognized by secular countries, and various countries have sent envoys to ask our sect to help build rail transit. Therefore, if a few fellow Taoists are willing, I, the Yuqing Sect, will do it. We are also very welcome to continue to cooperate with your sects in this regard.”
Of course, the people in the Five Sects also knew about the "recruitment revelation" of the Virtual God Realm, but they had received benefits without paying anything before, so naturally they didn't take the announcement seriously. But now, the original benefits have been cut off. If you want to continue to get spiritual rice from Yuqing Sect, it seems that this is the only way left.
However, would people from the Five Sects be willing to work for the Yuqing Sect
You know, even though Yu Qingzong said it very politely, he said that working for them was to help them. But everyone knows that this is essentially a part-time job, just like the low-level laborers in the world, working hard in exchange for a bowl of rice.
I think at the beginning, the five sects joined forces to put pressure on the Yuqing Sect, and the excuse they used was that "this matter is disrespectful to the cultivators." Although Wu Zong no longer mentioned this matter after receiving the benefits, it does not mean that his inner thoughts have really changed. Otherwise, when several countries were building rail transit in the past, Wu Zong would not have sent just one person to do so.
And more importantly, the five sects did not have to do anything at all before, and the benefits they received were far better than those "part-time workers". Now, if they are treated the same as those "migrant workers", the psychological gap is even more unacceptable to them.
Therefore, when Jin Dasheng mentioned this matter, the expressions of the envoys from the Five Sects suddenly changed slightly. The envoy of the Ziyang Sect frowned even more and asked with an unhappy expression: "Why, what do you think, Fellow Daoist Jin, is asking me and other sects to do those obscene things like them?"
"It turns out that this is how fellow Taoists view what I, Yu Qingzong, have done, so there is nothing to talk about between us." Jin Dasheng shook his head and immediately gave up the idea of continuing to persuade a few people. Originally, if the other party just couldn't accept it a little bit, he would still have the patience to persuade him. After all, the construction of rail transit was indeed short of manpower. However, the other party directly described this matter as a dirty thing, so what else is there to persuade
What's more, the construction of this rail transit is a matter led by Yuqingzong, and it is said to be a dirty thing by the other party. So who does Yuqingzong mean? It was Jin Dasheng who was also at a loss. If it were Ye Zan here, he would have kicked them out of the Jade Qing Sect long ago. How could he be so polite to them.
"What do you mean by fellow Taoist Jin?" Seeing that Jin Dasheng was about to see off his guests, the envoys from the five sects all showed dissatisfaction.
"You guys really don't understand what you mean? What I, the Yuqing Sect, have done is not in your eyes. Since you are so disdainful, what else is there to talk about?" Jin Dasheng stood up as he spoke and raised his hand. He made a gesture of invitation towards the door of the main hall.
If the envoys of the Five Sects could not understand such an obvious farewell, they could only say that something was missing in their heads. Of course, the envoys of the Five Sects also have dignity. Since they have been sent off on their own initiative, there is no way they can stay shamelessly. So, the five people stood up together, each with a gloomy look on their face, snorted coldly at Jin Dasheng, shook their sleeves and strode out of the hall.
Watching the five sect envoys leave, Jin Dasheng sat back on his chair, unfolded his folding fan and shook it in front of his chest, then stood up and walked out of the hall.
Ye Zan was in the courtyard, playing with his daughter, when he suddenly turned to look at the courtyard door and said, "Lao Jin, come in."
The courtyard door opened, and Jin Dasheng, who had seen off the envoys from the five sects, walked in from outside the courtyard door, bowed his hands to Ye Zan and said, "Disciple pays homage to Master Uncle."
Ye Zan looked at Jin Dasheng's expression and said with a smile: "How about it, the people of the Five Sects didn't agree, right?"
In fact, Ye Zan said before that he would stop cooperation with Wu Zong, and he had no intention of involving Wu Zong in rail transit construction. However, Wu Changsheng and others felt that even if the five sects secretly supported the Wuzhu Sect and wanted to contain the Yuqing Sect, they were all orthodox sects after all, so the relationship on the surface should not be too tense. Therefore, Jin Dasheng told the envoys of the five sects about the "recruitment notice". At least this can be regarded as a kind of cooperation.
But it was obvious that Wu Changsheng, Jin Dasheng and others had ignored the arrogance of people from second-rate sects. Those five sects are all considered old second-rate sects, and the disciples in the sects have the arrogance brought by the second-rate sects in their bones. Unlike the Yuqing Sect, although they were once rich, Mo Rushi, Wu Changsheng and their generation all struggled through third-rate sects. They don't think it's a big deal, but to those from second-rate sects, it may be absolutely unacceptable.