Chapter 416 - 31: Seeing the Master Again
"Yuqing Heavenly Venerate! Our Yuqing Sect needs thirty million dou of Spirit Stones. During your absence, we’ve had a ringing good time!"
"Three Pure Venerables never judge the sect by one’s origin. Yuqing Heavenly Venerate His Old Venerableness has been off duty for eight hundred years, yet your Yuqing Sect is still well off. Besides, the allocation of Spirit Stones has always been calculated per capita. Where is it heard to just ask for tens of millions of dou? Our True Martial Palace actually needs thirty million dou of Spirit Stones. We need to suppress the devils of the world."
"What supressing the devils of the world, you’re just the paging Magic Treasure of Chi Venerable. Our Spirit Plant Palace needs thirty million Spirit Stones to subsidize the people, otherwise there will surely be famine within a decade."
"Ling Jun! You shameless thing, even if just ten percent of the world’s Spirit Fields were taken out, there would be enough for everyone to eat their fill. Where is there famine? Let True Martial Palace directly deploy Taoist Soldiers from other places to arrest the local sects. With thirty-six provinces in the world and sixty million miles of roads, can we replenish that?"
"Our Fox Clan also needs Spirit Stones."
The entire hall was in chaos, it seems the high seat in the Jade Palace is only comfortable the moment one sits on it.
Gu Wen could have quelled everyone with his aura, but his master didn’t allow it.
He said, "You once said governing a great country is like cooking a small fish. As the Yuqing Heavenly Venerate, you cannot oppress people with your power."
Gu Wen thought it made sense. Although he disliked power and had little interest in governing others, he knew the importance of fairness more than most and the rules were the only way to generate a cohesive force that influences everyone.
"If one wishes to govern the world, it must first be just. Once just, the world will be at peace."