Chapter 69 Taking advantage
"So they spent so much effort just to delay my Taoist sect for decades?"

Zhou Tieyi didn't quite understand. Everyone knew that Taoists knew the art of immortality.

If someone of the middle third rank, or even the third or second rank had come up with this plan, it would have been considered as their cleverness.

But for a school of thought that has been passed down for hundreds of generations to come up with this strategy seems superfluous.

The Lord of Daming Dao Palace placed his white piece and killed Zhou Tieyi's dragon, and the game ended there.

"For us, these few decades are nothing more than a passing cloud, but for the world, they have brought about earth-shaking changes."

"Now it is a prosperous era, with the fate of the five dynasties in the north and south unified, and several generations of emperors have been cultivated. The number of people has quadrupled. The fate of the world has reached its peak, not worse than when the Holy Emperor was alive, and even better. Even the fate of my Taoism can't be restrained, and a fish dragon has descended. Do you know what this means?"

Zhou Tieyi thought about why the Great Xia Emperor, who was so smart, thought he would succeed in cultivating immortality, so he threw in the towel and admitted defeat, saying calmly, "Send down another saint."

The Palace Master of Daming Taoist Palace laughed heartily, his laughter was like wind and clouds, rolling up the Penglai fairy mist around him, creating a magnificent scene.

Then the gleam in his eyes faded, and he said, "The old stubborn man in Xuandu Mountain is used to being content with poverty and thinking that just one sub-sage is enough, but I don't agree! That's why I came to Tianjing!"

These three people heard these words, and no one else heard them.

Zhou Tieyi pondered for a long time, then reached into his sleeve and took out a green paper slip. Instead of asking Prince Anle Li Jing to hand it to the emperor himself, he handed it to the Palace Master of Daming Dao Palace.

The Palace Master of Daming Taoist Palace took the green sign and read it once. This time his laughter was even louder, and he couldn't even control it. It spread outside the palace and could be faintly heard on the eleventh floor of Yujing Mountain and below.

Then he stopped smiling and said, "With this great article, we Taoists have the upper hand! What's the point of the Confucian "Plea Letter"?"

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Plum Mansion on Yujing Mountain.

There was a knock on the door.

The doorman went forward to open the door in confusion.

If it were in the past, when my master was the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, his house would naturally be crowded with people.

But ever since the master knelt in front of the Meridian Gate yesterday, all the welcoming and seeing off that usually took place suddenly turned into a scattering of birds and beasts.

Yesterday, the child of the censor Sima wanted to come and give gifts, but before he even reached the door, he was called back by his father.

The Mei family also realized that something bad had happened, so the lady ordered the door to be closed and not opened all day.

"you are?"

The gatekeeper opened the door and saw a handsome Taoist standing outside. The Taoist was dressed very simply, holding a green bamboo stick. The only thing on his head was a pear blossom with three petals in bloom. The more he looked at him, the happier he felt.

Because Zhou Tieyi's dress was completely different from before, and the doormen of the Mei Mansion had only heard of Zhou Tieyi's vicious reputation, they naturally could not associate the Taoist in front of them with the ruffian in the General's Mansion.

"I'm the teacher hired by Uncle Mei. Is your young master at home?"

The doorman was stunned for a moment, but Zhou Tieyi's demeanor and appearance were extraordinary, so he didn't dare to offend him, so he said, "Sir, please come in, I will go and report to the lady and the young master."

Zhou Tieyi was leisurely led into the main hall. Looking at the calligraphy works of scholars around him, he did not hesitate to sit in the host seat instead of the guest seat.

The Mei Mansion is not big, and Mei Juncang and Mrs. Mei came over soon.

Mei Juncang was wondering when his father hired a teacher for him.

The moment he saw Zhou Tieyi, he was furious and pointed at Zhou Tieyi, "Zhou Zhongman, you dare to come here!"

If it weren’t for Zhou Zhongmanzi, his father wouldn’t have ended up like this!
Zhou Tieyi sneered, "You still haven't made any progress."

Then he looked at Mrs. Mei and said, "Please go get the godson stick from under the statue. I want to teach the saint well."

Mrs. Mei was confused. Zhou Tieyi sighed and said, "Uncle Mei said that if I teach him carefully, he will accept it whether he lives or dies. I wonder if this still counts?"

Mrs. Mei naturally knew this sentence, but she didn't know how to respond. Should she really ask Zibang for advice?
Zhou Tieyi looked at the furious Mei Juncang and said, "Let me explain two things first. If you don't agree, I will pretend I have never been here today."

"What's the point?"

Mei Juncang knew that Zhou Tieyi was vicious and had suffered losses before, so he didn't dare to step forward and fight him. He could only listen in shock and anger.

"The first principle, your father asked me to teach you, so I came here, do you agree with this?"

Mei Juncang asked himself and finally could only sigh helplessly.

Under normal circumstances, he would have made some excuses, but his father had already knelt in front of the Meridian Gate for him, and it would be extremely unfilial to reject his father's wishes at this time.

"The second reason is that your father knelt for a whole day yesterday, and no one in the court dared to bring him food. You, his biological son, stayed at home, and I was the only one who went to bring him food. Do you, the Mei family, acknowledge this?"

Mei Juncang's face turned red with embarrassment and he stared at the ground, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

Madam Mei sighed, and took out a teaching stick from the study and handed it to Zhou Tieyi, "Please teach my son well, sir."

Zhou Tieyi held the teaching stick and said to Mei Juncang, "Come up and receive your punishment."

Mei Juncang moved forward step by step.

Instead of the blow he had imagined, Zhou Tieyi just hit him twice on the head with the teaching stick.

"You have no wisdom in your head. I will knock you twice today, and you will naturally become smart tomorrow."

Mei Juncang was stunned and suddenly felt aggrieved. The shock, anger, pain, hatred and regret of the past two days turned into tears and he couldn't stop crying.

Since when did he need Zhou Tieyi to teach like this!
How could this happen if his father was still at home!
But now he couldn't scold Zhou Tieyi, beat Zhou Tieyi, or drive Zhou Tieyi away.

Zhou Tieyi picked up the tea served by the servant and took a sip. After Mei Juncang finished crying, he said, "Do you want to save your father?"

At this moment, Mei Juncang was completely defenseless. Seeing Zhou Tieyi was like seeing the last straw, and he didn't care about anything else.

"Do you have any idea?"

"Of course there is a way."

Zhou Tieyi glanced at Madam Mei, and Madam Mei hurriedly left the hall with her servants and guarded the door herself.

Zhou Tieyi then said slowly, "Your father's misfortune seems to have originated from me, but I was just implicated by it."

Mei Juncang is not a fool. Although no one has taught him these two days, he has figured out half of it. It is just Zhou Tieyi, so why would he let his father do this? In the end, it was his father who wanted to do this.

"My method is simple. You write a letter. Your father's "Plea for Sin" was because he did not teach his son well. You write it now and admit your fault. There is no minister in the world who would humiliate the king, and naturally there is no son who would humiliate his father."

“Is it okay to write it like this?”

He can actually write this memorial.

"Of course not."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and said, "Your father's memorial has annotations from the Three Departments. You are a small flag of the God-Slaying Department, how can you be qualified to send it to the palace? So you have to find those relatives and friends of your Mei family, starting with the Third Rank Minister, and ask them to sign and endorse it for you, and then submit it to the emperor. If the Grand Minister of Justice writes it, it will be foolproof."

　Everyone is talking about changing the title of the book, and now there are three new titles: Usurping God, Stealing God's Power, and Stealing Heaven and Earth to Become God.

　　If anyone can give a new book title, please leave a comment here. The one with the most likes will be used as the new title. Thank you.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)