Road to science and technology

The Tathagata was still sitting on the lotus platform. He floated to the Lingxiao Palace and clasped his hands together. After the ceremony, he looked at the Jade Emperor who was sitting at the top and said, "Your Majesty, Sun Wukong has quite a magical power. He broke the Five Elements Mountain. I'll bet with him." Now that we have lost, I wonder if your majesty has any ideas?"

Tathagata is saying, what do you think we should do? The monkey head is so powerful, does the previous Journey to the West still count? If it counts, is there any plan?

"Peace, Lord Buddha. It's a matter of bet. As soon as I agree to my promise, I will go to Huaguo Mountain with Taibai to handle it."

The Jade Emperor continued slowly: "What happened here is that the Peach Conference is being held. Then I will look at the Buddha and the Yaochi for a while."

The Jade Emperor said nothing about what happened after the bet and promised, and the conversation changed to the Peach Conference. But Tathagata understands what the Jade Emperor means, that is, heaven will not care about future matters. You can take care of Sun Wukong's affairs yourself, and handle other matters as planned.

"Amitabha, that's good. That's it. I'll take my leave, poor monk." Seeing what the Jade Emperor said, Tathagata had no choice but to take his leave.

But it was said that as soon as the Tathagata's front heel left, Taibai Jinxing's back heel ran to the Huaguo Mountain. Sun Wukong had met Taibai Jinxing and had a good impression. The key was that he won the bet, so he was happy and took Taibai Jinxing to have a party on Huaguo Mountain. They entertained him with good wine and meat.

Taibai Jinxing is not a pedantic person, he should eat and drink. After drinking for three rounds, he mentioned the purpose of his trip. Sun Wukong was happy and readily agreed.

However, after verbally agreeing, Sun Wukong took out an agreement, which listed the relationship between Huaguoshan and Heavenly Court, as well as a bunch of non-aggression treaties.

Taibai Jinxing was not bothered either. He read these treaties carefully and felt that there was nothing wrong with them because there were no unequal treaties in them.

"Old official, since the Jade Emperor doesn't want to fight with me, I have a suggestion." Sun Wukong took the Jade Emperor's will from Taibai Jinxing and said without even looking at it.

Taibai Jinxing, who originally wanted to turn around and leave, shook his fly whisk and said, "Why are you so anxious about the proposal? The Peach Conference is about to be held, why don't you wait and talk about it?"

"Isn't it just a matter of spreading science?" Sun Wukong said with a smile.

"But we have agreed that science dissemination cannot be carried out in Dongsheng Shenzhou for the time being. Could it be that the Great Sage has just refused to accept the treaty after signing it?" Taibai Jinxing replied with a straight face.

The great sage he was talking about was of course Sun Wukong, but he was not the Great Sage of Equalization but the Great Sage of Science. This was of course done by the Jade Emperor.

According to what the Jade Emperor told Sun Wukong, the Great Sage of Science was a name blurted out by the gods in heaven after they were deeply impressed by Sun Wukong's magical powers. He has a friendly relationship with the heavens.

This statement was very useful to Sun Wukong, so the title of the great sage came from this.

"Why don't you admit it? I'm afraid that you will regret it in the future and come to beg me instead." Sun Wukong originally wanted to fight for it, but when Taibai said this, he no longer insisted.

Sun Wukong already knows the crux of the matter of spreading science, so he is not in a hurry. Now he will start from Huaguo Mountain.

As for why Sun Wukong is so persistent in spreading science, it is actually because he wants to collect more ideas so that he can quickly complete some research projects on the relationship between aura energy and other energies that Yue Yuanzhou assigned when he left Mount Tai.

Because only by completing these subjects can he have the opportunity to learn higher knowledge. Sun Wukong will not be satisfied with his current achievements.

But in this world, it is very difficult to spread science.

As we all know, whether it is the Heavenly Court or the Lingshan Mountain, they rely mainly on the belief of believers to offer sacrifices. They can purify the luck between heaven and earth from the beliefs of all living beings that usually only appear after calamities.

Therefore, the base of believers and the market of beliefs determine the development prospects and income of Buddhism and Taoism. The sentient beings in Dongsheng Shenzhou are basically the monopoly market of heaven. Of course the gods do not want these people to learn any science. Because if you look at Nanfangbuzhou, you will know that those human beings who have learned science will most likely no longer believe in heaven and no longer worship Buddha.

Heavenly Court naturally does not want its foundation to be destroyed by Sun Wukong, which is why there were all the previous conflicts. The Buddhas in Lingshan used the number of heavens as their banner to carry out the project of spreading Buddhism eastward.

On the surface, he wanted to save all sentient beings, but in fact, he also took a fancy to the vast number of sentient beings in Nanfangbu Continent. At the same time, he was able to manipulate this matter and created the Eighty-One Dilemma to deceive the luck of heaven and earth.

This was originally something that everyone was happy about.

However, a change occurred and made Sun Wukong what he is now.

Sun Wukong has learned so much knowledge, and naturally he is not a country monkey. He can understand the pros and cons, so he will no longer be entangled in the matter of Dongsheng Shenzhou for the time being.

However, Sun Wukong needs to study many spiritual energies to complete the project.

Since it is temporarily impossible to spread science here, Sun Wukong decided to find another way.

Having mentioned the matter of developing the sea-eye spiritual energy to the Dragon King of the East China Sea, Sun Wukong grabbed Taibai Jinxing's hand with ease and said with a smile: "Old official, what do you mean by the Jade Emperor just opening the peach conference? How many years has it been, and it’s been like this every time, and he’s not tired of it?”

"Are we going to taste the peaches for everyone, and then send gifts to each other and exchange various things we need? Let me tell you, this behavior is too inefficient."

"Oh?" Taibai Jinxing was curious about why Sun Wukong said this, and he asked: "It is the proper intention for the God of enjoying the flat peaches to offer some heavenly materials and earthly treasures to the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother, so the exchange of what the gods have at the banquet is also for each other. Cultivation is beneficial, may the Great Sage have any ideas?"

Of course he has an idea, Sun Wukong said in his heart, because he wants to study the pure innate spiritual energy and many heavenly materials and earthly treasures, but he cannot directly grab it like he did when he went to the East China Sea.

It's not that he was afraid, but that it was too inefficient. After Sun Wukong tried his hand at Donghai, it still caused such trouble, so he decided to change the method.

Sun Wukong pulled Taibai Jinxing towards the Water Curtain Cave, then pointed to the sofa in the middle and said, "Old official, sit down. Let's listen to what Old Sun has to say."

Sun Wukong sat down first, then reached out and took out the banana on the table. After taking a bite, he said to Taibai Jinxing opposite: "Old Sun plans to cooperate with the Jade Emperor to open a bank."

Taibai Jinxing heard this and asked: "What is a bank?"

Sun Wukong then explained the functions of the bank.

But Taibai Jinxing still had doubts, and at the same time he thought that Sun Wukong was fanciful, so he asked: "The so-called currency cannot be implemented at all. There is an abundance of spiritual energy in the world, and even those who cultivate immortality and enlightenment will look down on it."

Sun Wukong waved his hand and said with a smile: "You are wrong, old official."

"Don't forget the flat peach garden. If currency is issued based on flat peach, of course such currency can be exchanged for flat peach. In this case, the old official still thinks that the gods look down on currency?"

"You go back and talk to the Jade Emperor. If he can be the master, I, the old grandson, think that the name of this bank should be called 'Heaven and Earth Bank'. The Jade Emperor will personally serve as the president. My old grandson's Huaguoshan Well, Hehe naturally assumes the right to issue currency, after all, making aura-related currency is a technical job."

Sun Wukong thus began to sell his plan to Taibai Jinxing. He told the banker who was the Jade Emperor, as well as some of the gods in heaven, such as what position Zhao Gongming, the God of Wealth, held.

He said that even Platinum Star believed it.