Volume 5: Overlord of the Sea Chapter 572: It’s a substitute!
"Miss, would you like to lend me a helping hand?" Bai Tu asked sincerely.
"The King of Chu wants to establish a great religion but lacks religious concubines?" Zhang Ning asked in return.
"I don't want to." Bai Tu shook his head.
Zhang Ning frowned when he heard this and asked, "Then what does the King of Chu want me to do? The Great Chu doesn't lack a city girl, right?"
"If the girl is willing to join Chu, she will have two responsibilities. One is to join the Religious Affairs Department, be in charge of the approval of various religions, and examine and supervise whether their spread complies with the declaration. This should be easy for the girl, right?" Bai Tu asked.
When it comes to "approval", Zhang Ning knows the twists and turns best, and...if Zhang Ning admits that Bai Tu's relationship with Huang Tian is "for the people", Bai Tu also believes that she also recognizes Chu's approval standards and will not be partial.
Another point is also the most important - examine the supervision!
What if there is a Taoist sect or Zen sect that sells dog meat under the guise of sheep meat? What if after getting approval, it mixes private goods into the teaching?
The methods used by the Chu State are now under the supervision of dedicated personnel, but the possibility that the supervisors are corrupted or deceived cannot be ruled out.
But it would be very simple if I gave it to Zhang Ning...
As long as the "faith wave" is generated, it will all pass through Zhang Ning once. Naturally, any radicalness will be sensed by Zhang Ning!
In fact, in the "power generation system" discovered by Pang Tong before, "prayer" or "cultivation" is also one of the means of generating electricity - mental power will be activated when learning knowledge. Similarly, Taoist meditation and sincere prayer also have similar effects.
It's just that Bai Tu deliberately avoided these two points...
Practicing Xuanmen meditation has very high qualifications requirements, and requires one to have relatively stable and in-depth philosophical concepts.
Philosophers are important, but having too many philosophers per capita... that's a bit of a drag, not to mention that not everyone has the potential to be a philosopher, and the qualification restrictions are much higher than those for practicing martial arts.
As for sincere prayer...
In the short term, "Shennong belief" can be used as a means of harvesting. After all, Bai Tu is now the reincarnation of Shennong, and with Bai Tu's contributions in agriculture and medicine, it is easy for people to be "sincere".
However, Bai Tu considered that people will eventually die. Now that he is the "reincarnation of Shennong", he is not afraid of being led astray. But what about a hundred years later? Who will have the final right to interpret "Shennong"?
Therefore, in the end, Bai Tu did not deliberately create these two points, but only used the most reliable "school" as the power generation center - knowledge is power!
But if Bai Tu wants, he can connect all Taoist temples to the Internet.
It was not for the little bit of electricity generated, but just to let Zhang Ning check and infer whether the doctrine was inflammatory in nature based on the power generation situation, and whether the psychological state of the believers was out of control.
"That's easy. What about the other point?" Zhang Ning's expression relaxed a lot after hearing that. He seemed to be very satisfied with Bai Tu's attitude towards missionary work.
"As for the second item...please forgive me, I can only tell you after you agree to enter Chu. Also, the second point may not be possible. I don't know yet how far you can go." Bai Tu kept it a secret.
In fact, Bai Tu wants Zhang Ning to be an "artificial satellite"!
To some extent, Pang Tong has mastered the technology of "wireless precision reporting", but he doesn't know whether it is a problem of mental power affecting the radio waves, or a problem with the atmosphere of the "Earth" in this world. The radio waves cannot be effectively reflected in the atmosphere, so the transmission distance is limited.
Therefore, Pang Tong believed that a spiritual power center was needed...
Of course, due to the special nature of the intelligence report, it is not necessary to actually use an aerial satellite. As long as one has strong enough mental processing capabilities, this step can also be completed on the ground.
In an ordinary hub, a city princess can work part-time, but the coverage area of a general city princess is only the area around the city.
For example, in the Jinling Prefecture area, there are Chu Ji, who was transformed from the former Jinling Ji, the new Jinling Ji, and Yu Ji from Gongkou City, three city Jis with relatively strong "power" in this aspect. However, they can only cover the signal in the urban area of Jinling at most - that is, the city within the original city wall, and the industrial area outside the city!
As for ordinary county girls, their coverage area is only slightly larger than the city area. They cannot cover industrial areas far from the city center, let alone the vast agricultural areas and wilderness.
If the signal coverage is small, it is not a big problem. However... even within the signal coverage, only wireless reports in the same signal area can be transmitted. For example, if you want to contact Qu'a from Jinling, although both have signals, one is Jinling Ji's signal and the other is Qu'a's signal, so they cannot be connected.
This has great limitations.
If there is a "hub" that can at least connect all the signal areas of the Chu State City, so that all people in the signal area can communicate wirelessly across areas, the practicality of wireless reporting will be greatly enhanced!
That is, it acts as an artificial satellite...
However, the ability of ordinary city princesses to handle mental power cannot reach this level.
Zhang Ning...
Maybe it can be achieved!
However, this matter is of great importance, and Bai Tu will not tell Zhang Ning unless she is willing to "connect" to the State of Chu.
Although the nature of Zhang Ning's existence is very special, not only does she have the side of a Cheng Ji, she also retains the side of a human, but logically speaking, as long as she is "connected" to the State of Chu, she should not violate the basic characteristics of a Cheng Ji.
Zhang Ning was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "The current Prince of Chu does have the same goal as me, but... I am not a Cheng Ji, nor a Yi Ji. If one day our goals are no longer the same, I will leave directly! At least while I am alive, I will continue to test His Majesty the Prince of Chu."
"The purpose that Miss Zhang mentioned is..." Bai Tu needed to confirm.
If it was just about overthrowing the Han Dynasty, Bai Tu felt that it was necessary to re-examine whether in-depth cooperation was possible.
"In the words of Chu studies, the ultimate goal is to make 'the eight wildernesses and six directions, and the four virtues as one'." Zhang Ning specifically chose the Chu saying.
"I'm afraid I won't see that day, but as long as I'm still here, this is the ultimate goal of the Chu State!" Bai Tu breathed a sigh of relief and said firmly.
"Your Highness the Prince of Chu must take good care of his health. Otherwise, if you don't live longer than me and I find out that the successor is different from Your Highness the Prince of Chu, I will leave at any time." Zhang Ning reminded with a smile.
"Tsk, if you die first, you'll still 'leave' anyway." Lu Lingqi said unhappily.
"No, it won't!" Zhang Ning specifically refuted.
Just as Zhang Ning finished speaking, a person with the same appearance as Zhang Ning appeared behind him, but his body was wrapped with talisman paper and runes only in the parts that needed holy light. Apart from that, the only piece of cloth was a yellow scarf tied on his flowing long hair. Another "body" appeared slightly in the air!
After seeing this, Bai Tu wanted to complain: Could this be a stand-in?
But after the corners of his mouth trembled, he still endured it...
"You...you are immoral!" After seeing this, Lu Lingqi's face turned red, and this was her first reaction.
"No, we have blocked all the places that should be blocked. It doesn't violate the Chu Law! Theoretically, there is no problem walking on the streets of Chu even like this!" Zhang Ning said very naturally.
"This is..." Bai Tu was obviously more concerned about what this "stand-in" was.
Lu Lingqi really wanted to cover Bai Tu’s eyes, but considering that he “looked” like he was talking about serious business, she didn’t take action for the time being.
"You can regard her as the side of me, 'Huang Tianji'. If there is anything that needs to be done by Cheng Ji or Yi Ji, it needs my body of Huang Tianji to complete it... When 'Zhang Ning' was still alive, she was just 'Zhang Ning's body of Huang Tianji'. After 'Zhang Ning' passed away, she became the real Yi Ji. So if you don't change, you just need to live longer than me!" Zhang Ning seemed to be open-minded afterwards.
Then, as if he suddenly remembered something, Zhang Ning smiled playfully again and said, "But it's useless to think of killing me in advance! Huang Tianji's body will not lose consciousness immediately. As for my life span... Judging from the loss of my current vitality, I estimate that I only have one or two hundred years left!"
"I will try my best..." Bai Tu said with a curl of his lips.
As for why Zhang Ning's vitality was dissipating so slowly, Bai Tu did not ask in detail. After all... even if he was told, he might not understand!
Moreover, Zhang Ning's existence itself is unique and not replicable. Bai Tu has no obsession with immortality or extending life for the time being. And he also knows from Yu Ji the disadvantages of "Cheng Ji"'s immortality - becoming a cross-dressing man who constantly loses his memory in exchange for immortality... It is better to live to death.
After the demonstration, Zhang Ning also took back the "Huang Tianji substitute".
If Zhang Ning was not lying, her stand-in was "Huang Tianji". "Huang Tianji" had all the qualities of Yi Ji, but in addition she had "Zhang Ning" as a manifestation of her autonomy!
Zhang Ning, who does not have Huang Tianji's substitute, is a Taoist master who is better than Ji in "Taoism" and even better than Nanhua and Zhang Daoling.
At least Zhang Daoling only lived to be over 120 years old, but Zhang Ning... in her own words, she could still live another 100 or 200 years. Her control over her vitality had reached an incredible level.
This should be the change that occurred after Zhang Jiao used his own life to save Zhang Ning and complete her "human" side!
Of course, the influence of "Huang Tianji" may also be involved.
"Zhang Ning, I meet the king."
After confirming his allegiance, Zhang Ning met Bai Tu again with courtesy, but it was still just a "meeting" and a half-courteousness, but the address was changed from "King of Chu" to "Great King".
"With the help of Mr. Zhang..., the State of Chu will be more powerful. Our goal will be achieved faster." Bai Tu changed the title to "Mr." as a respectful title.
However, Zhang Ning was basically immune to this kind of solicitation. He just nodded to Bai Tu with a very "easy-going" but obviously perfunctory smile.
Whether it is the identity of Cheng Ji or the identity of the super lady of Xuanmen, Zhang Ning is destined to be beyond "vulgar tastes".
For someone like Yu Ji, if he was besieged by armored soldiers, or if a strong enough warrior targeted him, he would basically have no way out, no matter how many tricks he used.
However, if it was Zhang Ning, even in the midst of thousands of troops, he would come and go as he pleases. If he hadn't encountered a monster of mental power like Bai Tu, even a basic "eye-catching trick" would have prevented anyone from discovering him...
Moreover, their vitality of one or two hundred years is enough to witness the rise and fall of dynasties, so their perspective is naturally different.
Seeing that Bai Tu had finished talking to the other party about serious matters, Lu Lingqi interrupted the insignificant polite words and asked Zhang Ning directly: "The method you used to sneak into the palace... can other Taoists do it?"
"Among the 'Taoists', Uncle Yu is already first-rate, and people like Nanhua can be called the pinnacle. Even if Nanhua were to be resurrected, he couldn't come in as easily as me, let alone others. As for people like me... there shouldn't be any." Zhang Ning stated the facts without being too modest.
"You can't come in easily...but you can still come in?" Lu Lingqi frowned when she heard that.
"People like Nanhua won't have any interest in assassination. Instead of guarding against the methods of the Taoists, it is better to worry about which divine general will come and kill us directly." Zhang Ning mentioned by the way.
Suddenly, Lu Lingqi changed her mind and asked, "Then can you just go and kill Cao Cao?"
Well, Cao Cao has always been a source of great hatred to the Lu family. Although Lu Lingqi never gave Bai Tu any strategic advice on how to target Cao Cao, if she had a chance to kill one of them, she would definitely choose Cao Cao.
Moreover, Lu Lingqi felt that if all the princes were killed, naturally no one would come to assassinate her.
"Even people like Nanhua would not have any interest in assassination, so of course I have no interest in it either." Zhang Ning replied with a "are you stupid" smile.
Zhang Ning would not think that Cao Cao was an obstacle to her and Bai Tu's "goal". She would only think that if they couldn't even deal with Cao Cao, it meant that Bai Tu and herself were not capable enough.
As for how many casualties can be reduced...
This kind of thing is probably not even within Zhang Ning's consideration.
In other words, Zhang Ning believed that these casualties were also necessary .
"Didn't you punish the evil bandits among the remnants of the Yellow Turbans before? Compared to them, the harm caused by Cao Cao is greater, right?" Lu Lingqi asked.
"This is probably just a hobby." Zhang Ning's answer was very electric.
It was as if she was pursuing her "ideal" so much that she was willing to formally enter the world and assist the State of Chu. However... although with Bai Tu's attitude, the ability to train the "Yellow Turban Warriors" would probably be completely idle, Zhang Ning had no intention of persuading her.
He has both an active and worldly side and the mentality of a Xuanmen boss - I think you and I have the same goal, so I will assist you. As for you not wanting to use my abilities? Oh, if you don't want to use them, forget it.
Lu Lingqi suddenly felt very conflicted, not knowing whether she should discuss with Bai Tu whether she should always keep a divine general in Jinling from now on...
Of course, Lu Lingqi actually understood that this was unnecessary!
After all, the divine generals are not cabbages. How could it be so coincidental that some of them would be so desperate as to want to assassinate?
From ancient times to the present, there has been no example of a "famous general" assassinating someone. It is better to beware of professional assassins than to beware of divine generals...
If the general is surrounded by a large army, he will die, and the assassination attempt may not succeed.
For such a thing, "tying up" one of his own divine generals in Jinling can indeed be described as "willful".
suddenly……
Lu Lingqi thought of another way - although it was a bit annoying, for the safety of the hard drive and Qing'er and Yan'er...
"Can you work in the palace?" Lu Lingqi asked Zhang Ning directly.
