Chapter 1 I Insist on Arguing!

As the saying goes, people in the same trade are enemies. One shaman who can talk nonsense and deceive people is enough.

If two appear at once, it seems that the character settings overlap, which is very boring.

The ape-man ignored Bai Yongyan's argument, lowered his head for a while, and then suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of confusion.

"Hey, hey? Can you hear me?"

Bai Yongyan waved his hand and asked, "Who did you just say died? Who woke up?"

"Did I say that?"

The ape-man looked blank, "I can't remember..."

You can forget what you just said, do you have Alzheimer's?

Bai Yongyan said seriously: "Yes, you not only said it, but also promised to help me get ten thousand taels of gold, countless silver, and thousands of mansions, to help me become the number one rich merchant in the world."

The guests were speechless for a while. You really are something, seriously altering what others say.

But after all, the ape-man is an auspicious omen, and won't be fooled so easily...

"Really?"

The ape-man looked at Bai Yongyan in surprise and said, "Okay, let me think about where I can get so much gold..."

He really believed it!!

The guests almost spat out a mouthful of wine. Many people cast somewhat suspicious glances at the Annam monk.

How do you feel that the auspicious omen you brought is so unreliable?

The old Annam monk closed his eyes and concentrated, not caring about other people's opinions, chanting words in his mouth, as if reciting scriptures.

The King of Shu was also a little speechless. After thinking about it, he said again: "Since you are good at the study of Xiangshu and Yi, divination and asking questions. Why don't you deduce the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, and calculate how the droughts and locust plagues in the world can be quelled."

"Quell?"

The ape-man shook his head, "In recent decades, the world has become increasingly cold.

In the northern lands, the years are bad and cold, and the glue cracks and fingers fall off;

In the Central Plains, the sky is frozen and the earth is closed, and the forests are cold and the caves are silent;

Even in the Nailing Mountains, which are hot all year round, September snow has begun to fall;

The northern lands are severely cold and there is no rainfall, resulting in insufficient winter snow. The wheat ears cannot overwinter and are completely dead, turning into barren land.

The climate is dry, the land is thousands of miles red, locusts are rising, and the plague is raging. This is the destiny of the next ten or twenty years, and it is not something that can be changed by human power."

Hearing the ape-man's words, the faces of everyone, including the King of Shu, were a little unsightly.

Although they are all extravagant, lewd, and pleasure-seeking noblemen,

They can still hear news of the deteriorating situation in their deep houses.

As the saying goes, it is better to be a dog in a peaceful time than a person in a chaotic world.

No one wants the current extravagant life to be ruthlessly destroyed by natural disasters.

Bai Yongyan twirled the wine glass in his hand, his expression neither sad nor happy.

The destiny that the ape-man mentioned should be the Little Ice Age.

In the real world, the Little Ice Age will cause global temperatures to drop sharply, food production to decrease significantly, and the population to decline exponentially.

The end of the Ming Dynasty, which is considered to be an extremely tragic and chaotic era, saw the population sharply reduced from 120 million to 50 million. This was still because there were potatoes and sweet potatoes introduced from the Americas to save lives.

The three Little Ice Ages before the end of the Ming Dynasty would even wipe out four-fifths of the population at that time. It would not be an exaggeration to say that nine out of ten houses were empty, and not even one in ten survived.

Compared with the turbulent and chaotic situation where human lives are like grass in the wind, Mexico in the real world is probably a paradise on earth.

"In addition to natural disasters, there are also man-made disasters."

The ape-man said indifferently: "Today, the gentry families in the world have connected fields for thousands of miles, and the common people have no place to stand. They also have to endure the exploitation of exorbitant taxes, the encroachment of droughts, floods, and locusts, and the ravages of soldiers in the wars between the vassal towns.

Outside of Luzhou, you can see people exchanging their children to eat, breaking their bones for fuel, scraping people on the roadside like butchering pigs and dogs, dissecting their abdomens and gouging out their hearts, dismembering them for minced meat.

White bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles. The sky and earth are dark in the daytime, and demons travel in broad daylight, almost like hell."

The King of Shu's face turned red, but the ape-man was still saying indifferently: "There are factions fighting internally, eunuchs manipulating power, warlords dividing up the country externally, the branches are strong and the trunk is weak,

The emperor above is昏聩incompetent, the courtiers are corrupt, and the gentry below are bullying the countryside and annexing land.

A mere demon is just a trivial skin disease."

The country, both inside and outside, is like a pile of rotten corpses, crumbling and smelling bad.

However, because moving one part affects the whole body, it can only be repaired and patched up, barely maintained.

It is really a chronic disease that is difficult to cure, and the accumulated problems are difficult to reverse."

"Nonsense!"

An eunuch behind Yu Qingqiu scolded: "This dynasty has Longhu Mountain cultivators guarding the dragon vein's qi,

There are also Wude guards patrolling the world for demons,

How can there be a sign of a country's demise due to the birth of妖孽?"

"Heh, the demise of a country has never been related to cultivators or demons."

The ape-man sneered: "The previous dynasty also had Longhu Mountain and Wude Guard.

In those years, the trend of seeking immortality and asking questions was prevalent, and the number of cultivators far exceeded that of today.

In its heyday, the previous dynasty even had magical warships floating in the sky,遮天蔽日, boundless and without borders, filled with cultivators wearing armor and holding sharp weapons,

Searching for the great demons and巨魔in the world,

Dragging them out of their lairs and throwing them all into the Demon Refining Cave to be used as firewood.

However, such a strong previous dynasty still collapsed when it was said to collapse.

The weapons that filled the warehouse were used by various warlords to kill each other.

The magical warships that had lost maintenance turned into scrap metal and could only be dismembered and dismantled, melted and cast into the most ordinary soldiers' armor.

The war was tragic, with nine out of ten houses empty, and the Longhu Mountain cultivators were still trapped in the deep mountains, ignoring the suffering of the world, waiting for the rebel army to decide the final winner and establish a new dynasty,

Then they will come out of the mountain leisurely, and like the past millennium, they will steadily sit on the position of the state religion of the new dynasty."

For some reason, the ape-man became particularly excited when he talked about Longhu Mountain.

"Hoo..."

The ape-man's chest heaved, and he let out a heavy breath of turbid air to relieve his angry mood. He then said: "Although Longhu Mountain is selfish and self-serving, it is not the key to the problem.

If the current emperor is exceptionally talented, can sort out the complex chronic diseases, appoint virtuous people, slowly reform, and gradually plan, little by little to rebuild the situation,

After several generations of wise monarchs,

Even if they cannot turn the tide and save the building from collapsing,

They can barely maintain the country's destiny, survive the decades-long winter, and achieve a prosperous rule.

It's a pity..."