[Journey to the West] Wukong purchasing

The down-to-earth Elder Tang quickly became friends with the villagers of Chenjia Village: he planned to sponsor the children in the village to study in several nearby countries in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated. With only four Tang Xuanzang masters and apprentices, they can only explore the road suitable for traveling westward along the way. However, after returning to the Tang Dynasty from the Western Regions in the previous life, the Tang King summoned him countless times, and asked him some questions every time. He couldn't answer the question. The reason is very simple: in his previous life, he was just an ordinary monk. A monk sees problems, including the angle of thinking, completely different from the ruler of a country.

As for King Tang, as an emperor, it is impossible for him to let his hundreds of thousands of troops rely on the westward road explored by Tang Xuanzang alone to expand the territory. There is no way to retreat.

Therefore, what Tang Xuanzang will do next is to try to develop some of his own offline in the Western Regions.

These offline people will have many uses. Those who are good at learning languages ​​can travel to the countries of the Western Regions, learn the languages ​​of various countries, and help him translate the things brought back from the Western Regions in the future. This is what Tang Xuanzang must do. In his previous life, he had enough. Due to the lack of translators, he was the only one with a few apprentices to translate so many books from various countries brought back from the Western Regions.

In this life, it is absolutely impossible for him to spend the rest of his life trapped in a Buddhist temple in order to translate those things like in his previous life.However, the only way for him to be freed from the translation position is to train more translation talents for Tang Wang.

Moreover, these people who receive his funding can also travel for him in the countries of the Western Regions, recording the locations of official roads and post stations in each country, and even, if there are enough of these people, he can draw a more beautiful picture. A complete map of the countries of the Western Regions!

At that time, even if he only brought back this precious map, it would be enough for the Tang Dynasty to regard him as a national teacher!

Tang Xuanzang didn’t care at all whether he could become a national teacher or not. What he really cared about was finding a place to settle down in the Great Tang through his merits. The Anshi Rebellion was experienced in the middle, but overall, life is still much easier than that of neighboring countries.

Originally, he really planned to bring Wukong back to Chang'an to live, but Wu Hong's actions inspired him: After all, Chang'an is full of nobles, and Wukong has always been used to being unrestrained. If you can get King Tang to give him a mountain forest as a place of seclusion, when Wukong comes back, even if the two of them can't go back to Huaguo Mountain because of King Tang Go, live in the mountains, Wukong must be happier.

It just so happens that these young people in Chenjiazhuang have been trapped on the Tongtian River for generations, and they have never seen the world on the other side of the river since they were born. It can be said that they yearn for the outside world.The task Tang Xuanzang gave them was not difficult: with the support of the eminent monks of the Tang Dynasty, they only need to travel around the nearby countries, or find an academy to study, or take the money to do business, and when they come back, they will see and hear along the way. Write down all the roads you have traveled, and hand them over to Tang Xuanzang.

It means that Tang Xuanzang subsidized them to travel in the Western Regions at public expense. Maybe if they are lucky, their family will have a businessman who can make a lot of money.

When the old owner of Chenjiazhuang heard this condition, he wished that he would be decades younger, but unfortunately he was too old, and he had no desire to go far away. His physical strength and health did not support him, so he could only tell himself Two grandchildren and one grandson, teach them to cherish this opportunity.

However, Tang Xuanzang did not intend to be taken advantage of, and if anyone who came would not refuse, those who got this opportunity would not cherish it.

Almost every family in Chenjia Village signed up their children. In the end, Tang Xuanzang only selected seven articulate and flexible minds. Each of them received 100 taels of silver from the eminent monks of the Tang Dynasty. The money was not in vain. Take it, everyone signed a contract with Tang Xuanzang.Tang Xuanzang asked them to record what they saw and heard along the way every month. Those who could not read could spend money to find someone to write. They kept a copy of these "report materials", and asked someone to send the rest back to Chenjia Village. Someone will be sent to pick it up every three months.

"Regardless of whether the letters are lost or not, you must go home once a year and bring all the letters back. I will order someone to pick them up. If the letters are complete, there will be 20 taels of silver per person for hard work. If the letters are missing, the 20 taels will be paid. there is none left."

"I was ordered to select talented people from various countries for the king of the Tang Dynasty. I hope you will work harder. After two years, when I come back from studying the scriptures, if any of you are proficient in the languages ​​​​of the Western Regions, you can go back to the Tang Dynasty with me. It's not a problem to be an official or a noble." Tang Xuanzang dropped the last carrot, and the young people in Chenjia Village lost sleep.

That is the most powerful country in the east according to legend!

They, could they go to the Tang Dynasty with Tang Xuanzang, and even enter the court as an official?

I have to say, this is really ten thousand times more attractive than giving them 100 taels of silver.

At the very least, the old owner really didn't sleep all night, hating himself for not being born decades late?Otherwise, he must be the one who can become an official in Dongtu Great Tang!

"Elder Tang is mighty!" Wu Kong bowed in admiration.As expected, he was chosen by Guanyin Bodhisattva to learn Buddhist scriptures. This ability to deceive people's hearts is beyond the reach of ordinary people. If the demons can dig this elder over, it is estimated that they will be able to compete with Buddhism and Taoism for hegemony in the three worlds at this moment.

"I don't know where Wu Kong is now. Did any news come from the person you are looking for?" Although he knew that there was little hope, Elder Tang still had to ask this question every now and then.

"Not yet," Wu Kong smiled wryly and shook his head. "Our place is different from yours. Here is a whole planet. No matter how many countries are scattered on this planet, there is always a goal to find. However, the Star Alliance It's different. After we left the solar system, we haven't found a planet suitable for human habitation. We can only build countless living areas that imitate the ecological environment of the earth on various terrestrial planets. However, it is very difficult to maintain the normal operation of these living areas. "

"Therefore, the Star Alliance needs to keep looking outside for the resources needed for human survival, looking for various mineral deposits, energy, food... Countless pioneers left the living area by spaceship, and some even never Do you know how to come back again? I have been to hundreds of different planets even as a small peddler in the years I have been a purchasing agent. Let’s put it this way, even if the person I’m looking for has great powers, it would take at least 20 years to search through the entire Star Alliance’s existing pioneer planets.”

Tang Xuanzang remained silent, his pretty lips tightly pursed into a straight line.

He believed that Wu Hong didn't lie to him, because, more than himself, he hoped that the person they were looking for would send back the news as soon as possible, because his parents still haven't been found yet.He didn't know how long he could wait. After all, he was a mortal, so how many 20 years could he wait?

In this life, he will no longer naively think that if he retrieves the scriptures, he can become a Buddha, immortal and immortal.The lessons of the previous life are already painful enough, so what if you are devout to the Buddha and get back the scriptures?

After passing away, the dream of becoming a Buddha did not appear, but what awaited him was a millennium wandering with an incomplete soul... He knew that learning from the Western Paradise was just a dream about immortality fabricated by Guanyin for the world, and he could not be like the god in the sky Like a Buddha, he lives forever. Perhaps, by the time Wu Kong's people find the monkey, he will already be gray-haired, or he will be buried in the ground for peace, but, no matter what, he wants to leave something for Wukong.

This is his belated apology, an obsession spanning thousands of years.

Seeing Tang Sanzang like this, for some reason, Wu Kong felt unspeakably uncomfortable.He knows too well the pain and suffering of losing a loved one. It has been less than a year since he lost contact with his parents, and he is anxious to kill someone. What's more, when he came here, according to Tang Xuanzang, he actually died 1000 times. When I came back after many years, it means that I have not met Sun Wukong for more than 1000 years. After finally being reborn, I thought that I could have a new life with my apprentice, but I didn’t expect that this apprentice had changed his soul... …Thinking about it this way, he would have collapsed in his place.

Elder Tang still treats him as a counterfeit with a pleasant face. I have to say that he is really gracious.

Thinking of this, Wu Hao's tone couldn't help softening: "You don't have to worry too much. In fact, the Star Alliance's welfare policy is quite good. If, cough, I mean if Monkey King really loses his mana, what else will he do?" Being arrested as a mental illness might be a good thing instead. The mental hospital of the Star Alliance takes care of food and housing, as well as doctors... Forget it, just pretend I didn’t say anything, I’ll urge them to go to each living room first. Look for a mental hospital in the district."

Seeing Elder Tang's instantly ugly expression, Wu Hao knew that this person should know what a mental hospital is. No matter how good the environment is inside, it is equivalent to going to jail. For the Monkey King who was born in 500, keeping him in a mental hospital must be more uncomfortable than killing him.

What's more, in order to make patients be more honest, some mental hospitals may even use extraordinary measures such as electric shocks and auxiliary drugs. Think about it in another way, if your best friend is treated like this, he will also go crazy.

"Forget it, when I get to Jindou Mountain, I'll think of a way to get some good things. You can use them to clear them up. I think your star alliance has a roster. When the time comes, ask someone to look for it according to the roster. If you see it and Wukong The appearance is a bit similar, and then find someone to check."

Wu Kun looked at Tang Xuanzang blankly.

Unexpectedly, wow, this Elder Tang, who was aboveboard in the original book and refused to hurt even monsters by mistake, actually knew how to stuff red envelopes and go through the back door?

but--

"Jindou Mountain? Isn't that the territory of King Unicorn? This guy is not easy to mess with. Are we sure we don't want to take a detour?" King Si was a little apprehensive.