Chapter 266: Jiejiao is selfless in a sense

The Chamber of Commerce established thirty-six warehouses in the Shiwandashan Mountains, and each warehouse attracted many monsters who migrated there to settle down.

In other words, one demon city after another is slowly being built.

The so-called city would not exist without a "city".

"City" represents safety, and "town" represents livelihood.

The Chamber of Commerce warehouse can provide the minimum security guarantee and is also a distribution center for materials.

The monsters scattered in the mountains migrated here spontaneously, like flying insects attracted by the flames.

However, the level of civilization of these monsters is still stuck in the era of slave tribes where a king leads a group of little monsters and lives in caves. They are too backward in all aspects.

It would be fine if they were scattered in the mountains at ordinary times, but when they gathered in the city, the appearance of the cityscape was really unbearable for Wen Rui, a modern person who traveled through time and space.

The Rakshasa woman felt that she was humiliated by Wen Rui, and followed him angrily with her arms folded.

Wen Rui frowned and continued to inspect the newly formed monster market.

"There are actually stalls selling demon corpses." Wen Rui rubbed his temple and said, "Business seems to be pretty good. Don't you have any psychological burden for eating your own kind?"

He turned around and said to the Rakshasa woman, "Remember this: from now on, the corpses on the city roads must be collected regularly. Also, the sale of demon meat is prohibited in the market. Selling slaves is the bottom line I can accept."

"Why should I remember all this?" The Rakshasa pouted and said, "I didn't agree to be a cleaner!"

"You really don't understand anything."

Wen Rui said: "I will hand over the management of the demon settlement formed outside the Chamber of Commerce warehouse to you, and let you take charge of the civil affairs of the demon town in the Hundred Thousand Mountains."

The Rakshasa woman was stunned, and quickly caught up with Wen Rui, walking side by side with him again, and asked, "You want me to be in charge? This is obviously your territory."

"First of all, the demons of the Hundred Thousand Mountains will not accept a human as their manager. Secondly, I don't have the energy to worry about these trivial matters."

Wen Rui shook his head: "Otherwise, why would I approach you and Bull Demon King to cooperate?"

The Rakshasa woman said thoughtfully: "I understand, you want to support me to be your puppet."

"Whatever you think." Wen Rui shrugged, without making any excuses, and said, "Anyway, you will definitely make a profit. Whether it's selling fertilizers or managing the city and collecting business taxes, you can make a lot of money."

"What are you planning? It shouldn't be for money. You are already the richest human in the Three Realms. Is it for power?"

The Rakshasa woman said uneasily, "Do you want to bring the two demon tribes under your command, make them loyal to you, and help you rebel in the future, attack the heavens, and sit on the throne of the Lingxiao Palace?"

Wen Rui stopped and laughed as if he had heard a joke: "Are you going to rebel with this bunch of rabble who shit everywhere?"

As he laughed, he pondered and said, "It's hard to say. The fighting power of the heavenly soldiers and generals is a mystery. A group of newly armed Maluo can compete with them."

"What do I want? Because the demons are stupid and they don't take baths?"

Wen Rui put away his smile and said seriously: "I just want to preach. There are many sects in the Three Realms, but only my Jie Sect teaches everyone. No matter how big the sect is, all demons and monsters can join the sect and learn the Jie Sect's true teachings."

"Moreover, my Jie Sect never interferes with the personal will of its disciples. Good and evil are both allowed. As long as they do not go against all living beings and cut off the survival of other living beings, it is not considered a violation of the basic doctrine."

"Western religions do have the rhetoric of saving all living beings, but saving demons and spreading the Dharma are two different concepts. What they call saving is putting a golden hoop on the demon's head and chanting sutras until the demon has a splitting headache if he doesn't obey." "I passed down the Jiejiao Dharma to let demons survive, and the longer they live, the better. When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace. Chanting Buddhist scriptures cannot make you have enough food and clothing."

"The demons are living a good life because they learn the righteous teachings of my Jiejiao. They will naturally believe in my teachings. Why should they worship me, respect me, and fear me?"

The Rakshasa woman seemed to understand what he said, and lowered her head and said, "You really just want to make the demons live a better life? That's too selfless, isn't it? It sounds fake!"

"You are a thousand-year-old witch. When my Jiejiao was at its peak five hundred years ago, you had already come to the mortal world to live in seclusion, right?"

Wen Rui said: "You should have heard of the fundamental teachings of my Jiejiao. Back then, my leader, Master Tongtian, trained thousands of immortal-level demons equally. What did he want?"

The Rakshasa woman nodded slowly and said, "When the Biyou Palace gave a sermon, I also went to listen and saw the grace of the Master Tongtian. I still remember it. He is indeed as broad-minded as the sky. He treats demons like us equally without any discrimination."

"My identity is not a secret. It's not difficult to find out."

Wen Rui continued, "As a disciple of Jiejiao, I am spreading Jiejiao's teachings among the demon tribes. I am just doing what I should do. What's suspicious about that?"

The Rakshasa woman's eyes were no longer so vigilant when she looked at Wen Rui. She glared at Wen Rui and muttered, "Sister, I am only 1,300 years old, not old! The lifespan of the Rakshasa people is 9,000 years, but because they are too warlike, they often die before they reach the end of their lives."

She looked embarrassed and said, "But I don't know how to manage a city, and I can't pick up so much demon feces..."

"If you want to learn, I'll teach you."

Wen Rui smiled and said, "Not only will I teach you, but I will also help you train a domestic affairs team."

"You don't need to compete with those long-established demon saints and demon lords for the authority of the entire demon and demon tribes. You just need to manage the city built with the support of the Chamber of Commerce warehouse."

The Rakshasa woman was confused and said, "I really can't see through you. You only care about the demons around the warehouse. Don't you want to save both the demon and the demon races?"

"I don't intend to become a demon king or devil king. I just want to fight for a glimmer of hope for the demon and devil tribes."

Wen Rui said indifferently: "Not all demons deserve to live. For those who like to commit sins and seek death, respect their fate and let them die as they wish."

As the man and the demon were talking, there was a commotion in the market. A tiger demon led a group of beast demons and were causing trouble at each stall.

"Who asked you to set up a stall? Don't you know the rules here?"

A wolf demon next to the tiger demon shouted, "Do you know who our boss is? You've heard of the name of King Yin, right? Pay today's protection fee obediently, or I'll overturn your stall, cut you into pieces and sell you at the butcher's stall to pay off the debt!"

The stall owner he threatened was the cow demon selling milk. He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he said in a trembling voice, "Please spare me, my lord. This little demon has come here for the first time and I really don't know the rules. How much do you want to pay?"

The wolf demon stretched out a finger and said, "One hundred kilograms of meat coins per day!"

The units of the credit coins issued by the Chamber of Commerce are not "yuan", "kuai" or "fen", but "jin" or "liang", and the value of the coin corresponds to the corresponding weight of meat.

"One hundred kilograms?" The cow demon was horrified. "I only produce 40 kilograms of milk every day, and each kilogram of milk is sold for half a kilogram of meat coins. It's impossible to make that much money with a small business."

The wolf demon pretended to be powerful and said viciously: "Humph, no matter how much you earn, the stalls here have to hand over 100 kilograms of meat coins every day. If you can't pay, I will use the beef on you to pay!"

Seeing this, Wen Rui whispered to the Rakshasa woman, "Did you see that? If you don't take up the vacancy in power, evil demons will take over. The most hateful thing is that these evil demons only know how to scrape the land and don't know how to pick up manure or collect corpses."

(End of this chapter)

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