Chapter 334 The Emperor Uses a Golden Shoulder Pole to Carry Manure, This Makes Sense

The immortal officials waited for a long time, and finally saw Wen Rui flying slowly towards the horizon on auspicious clouds.

It’s not that Wen Rui is not punctual, it’s mainly because the timekeeping method of this era is a little inaccurate.

Hearing that the auspicious sign had descended from the clouds, Lu Bi hurriedly led the officials of the Tiangong Supervisor to come forward to pay their respects, saying in unison: "We respectfully welcome the Emperor."

Looking around, Wen Rui remained calm, but he had interpreted some information from the welcoming scene in his mind.

From this we can see that this Lu Jiancheng is not a person who is good at scheming.

The first time Shangguan came to inspect the territory under his charge, he only arranged for a dozen officials of all ranks in the prison to greet him, which was a bit neglectful.

You have to know that Wen Rui is an emperor, so it would not be an exaggeration for Lu Bi to stop all work in the prison, organize all the immortal workers, and hold a grand and flashy welcome ceremony.

Acting in this way is of course very exaggerated, but isn't heaven a place that values exaggeration?
When many emperors traveled, they rode on the Nine-Dragon Jade Chariot, with attendants carrying various ceremonial objects lining the aisles to greet and see them off. They emphasized the majesty of heaven.

Lu Bi was negligent, and according to convention, Wen Rui, as his superior, would at least give him a reprimand or even a severe beating.

But Wen Rui remained calm and didn't even point it out. It wasn't because he was magnanimous, but he had never planned to stay in the position of Emperor of Heaven for long and was too lazy to bother with these trivial matters.

He came to inspect with the purpose of taking stock of the Tiangongjian's financial situation and calculating how much money he could embezzle from it.

"Lu Jiancheng, stop talking nonsense and report to me on the supervision of the Tiangong Jian."

The Emperor of Heaven can call himself "I", and others can call him "Your Majesty".

But since the Jade Emperor is also in heaven, in the Lingxiao Palace, the immortals simply call the Jade Emperor "Your Majesty" to avoid confusing him with other emperors.

"Your Majesty, there are eight workshops in the Tiangongjian, namely: Weapon Workshop, Armor Workshop, Utensil Workshop, Kiln Workshop, Boat and Vehicle Workshop, Fine Workshop, Art Workshop, and Magical Weapon Workshop."

"Each workshop has a hundred immortal craftsmen, hundreds of apprentices, and hundreds of strongmen..."

"The Armory is responsible for making weapons for the Heavenly Soldiers, the Sky River Marines, the Thunder Cloud Soldiers, the Water Soldiers, and the Fire Crow Soldiers..."

Lu Bi served as the Chief of the Imperial Household for hundreds of years. He was very familiar with the situation in the house and could talk about it fluently and clearly.

Wen Rui walked towards the Tiangong Prison while listening to the report, and a group of officials hurriedly followed him.

After listening to Lu Bi's report, Wen Rui learned that most of the weapons and tools used by the immortals in heaven came from Tiangongfang, which is also a very important logistics department.

But Tiangongfang was not taken seriously.

The main reason is that those who can use the items produced by Tiangongfang are all useless people.

The high-level immortals and gods above the Heavenly Lord simply look down upon the refining level of the Tiangong Workshop. Either they have extremely high refining skills themselves, and when they have nothing to do, they go to the Thirty-Three Heavens to collect some top-quality materials, and then refine them at home.

If you are not proficient in the art of refining weapons, you can also ask for help from fellow immortals. Take the materials and immortal jade and go to find fellow immortals of the same rank who are masters of refining weapons to help you refine treasures.

The fairies, like the heavenly soldiers, the Weaver Girl, the Taoist children, and the immortals, usually have their own duties and have very little free time.

Moreover, their general level of refining equipment is extremely poor, or even they don't know how to refine equipment at all, so they can only apply to the Internal Affairs Hall to obtain the unified standard products produced by Tiangong Workshop.

There is no business in the Heavenly Palace, and the salaries and immortal jades given out cannot buy anything at all. They are mainly used to maintain the consumption of cultivation.

Or if you want to refine some magic weapons yourself, fairy jade is also the best fuel for refining cauldrons. Put it into the cauldron to ignite the fire.

Similar to the rice salary in the mortal world.

The heavenly palace is already full of immortal energy. If the immortals have no ambition and do not practice diligently during their leisure time, they will waste their time all day long and will not fall unless they consume immortal jades.

However, if they wanted to make progress and advance from the Heavenly Immortal Realm to the True Immortal Realm, the amount of Immortal Jades consumed every day would be staggering. With their meager salary of Immortal Jades, it was just a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, although some immortals of lower ranks have small salaries, they can still save up some wealth over time.

Given the rank of Emperor Wen Rui, his salary was naturally not small, but it was a pity that his aptitude was so poor that even after reaching the heavenly realm, his cultivation speed was still terribly slow.

In addition, a large amount of gastric and intestines were removed, and a golden hoop was implanted in the body, which seriously damaged the meridian circulation and the balance of the five elements, and also cut off the foundation of cultivation.

But it would cost a lot for him to upgrade the cyber parts. To make the fairy-level Bagua furnace, even spending all his emperor salary might not be enough. He would have to find ways to embezzle some money to maintain his life.

As he entered Tiangongjian, he heard bursts of hammering and forging sounds. Wen Rui looked around and saw the neatly arranged courtyards like a chessboard.

Strolling into a courtyard, you will see a standard workshop layout. In the largest shed inside, several immortal craftsmen are taking red-hot steel billets out of the furnace and forging them with golden hammers.

Unlike ordinary blacksmith shops, this workshop has clean windows and desks, is tidy and orderly, and free of dust.

There was a fierce fire burning in the furnace, but there was not a trace of smoke, and the fuel used was pieces of crystal jade.

The furnace looked similar to a stone furnace in the mortal world, but it was carved from a whole piece of black jade. Even though it was burned by the fierce fire in the furnace, it did not turn black.

The anvil used to forge the steel billet is golden all over and emits golden light when hammered.

All kinds of tools in the shop, even a pair of pliers, were shining with gold.

If mortals from the lower world saw this scene, they would be amazed and think that this was the style of an immortal workshop.

Wen Rui frowned, feeling a strange feeling in his heart.

It was as if he had actually seen the scene that the ignorant farmers had imagined: the emperor using a golden shoulder pole to carry manure and eating rice and flour every day.

The technology of this immortal is indeed more advanced than that of mortals, but it feels like the technology tree is a bit crooked.

It’s like an army composed of heavenly soldiers and generals, which can clearly cross the universe to conduct interstellar expeditions.

However, the weapons they hold are still melee weapons, and their fighting method is still to fight in front of the battle first. After the fight is decided, they will charge forward to kill the enemy.

Even in the legion of heavenly soldiers, there were almost no cavalry. Although the soldiers could fly on the clouds and their speed was not slow, it was also inconsistent with the normal development path of war technology.

Wen Rui couldn't help but think of the Wakanda army, which also had extremely advanced technology, but still used spears and shields in war.

The factory in Wenrui's portable secret realm has already realized a fully intelligent assembly line.

The Tiangongjian in Heaven is still operated as a small workshop.

Even though this small workshop was well-equipped and the craftsmen were highly skilled, its efficiency was extremely low.

Scratching his head, Wen Rui left the workshop calmly, and even praised it: "Not bad."

Lu Bi was greatly relieved to hear this praise, and thought that Emperor Wen was really satisfied with the Tiangongjian.

Wen Rui was not satisfied at all. If this Tiangongjian was his own factory, he would immediately carry out a comprehensive reform of the entire production process and completely change the production model of the small workshop.

But considering that he traveled thousands of miles to become an official just for wealth, could he be promoted to the position of Jade Emperor no matter how well he did?

Tiangongjian did not have any performance appraisal tasks or production target tasks, so it decided to keep silent as it thought less was better.

(End of this chapter)

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