"You are unwilling to worship me as your teacher, which is always a pity." The national teacher said with a sigh.

"Sir, I have my own way." The young man said without being humble or arrogant.

"Your way?" the national master sneered, "Open a few restaurants and inns, build a money house, and make profits like a merchant. This is your way? This is also a way? If you have such talent for cultivation and talent for cultivation, you can become a strong man in the area. If you don't follow the right path and be so distracted, you will only bury yourself."

"Sir, I have a different identity from an ordinary cultivator." Jin Ling was silent for two seconds, "You know, I am the son of Jin Nanshan, the king of Jin, and the burden on my shoulders is very heavy. Therefore, such an identity destined me to not be able to practice by myself, and I must consider the life and death of the poor people of the Jin family who followed me."

He paused and said, "Just like the National Master, you, besides practicing by yourself, aren't you also particularly concerned about the affairs of the Northern Jin Dynasty? We immortals are both immortal cultivators, the country and the people. Since they are sharp swords, they have the sacred duty of protecting the country, protecting the land and loving the people. I want to believe that this is true whether I practice or making money and profit, it will bring stability and guarantee to my hometown."

"All nonsense!" said the national master angrily, "Cultivating immortal power and making yourself stronger can naturally defend your country. But like merchants, making money from the people, and trying every means to exploit the blood and sweat they have finally obtained, how can they bring stability and guarantee to the country? On the contrary, it will only cause the people to become increasingly poor and the country is uneasy! If not, why have merchants been ranked behind immortals, farmers and workers throughout the ages, and the end of the five people?"

"Sir, I think your understanding is biased." Jin Ling explained patiently, "Businessmen seek profit and develop business is not about exploiting the hard-earned money of the people. On the contrary, this can promote the economic development of the kingdom. Uh, this economy, do you understand?"

"What is economy?" The national teacher's tone became even more angry.

"Economy is the general term for the management and use of property. For example, producing a wooden table is economics. Purchasing a wooden table is also economics. In the process of production and purchase, money goes from one person to another person's hands, which is also economics. In other words, economy is the general term for the way of money and goods."

"Take that wooden table as an example, the lumberjacks worked hard to cut down trees from the forest and sold them to carpenters. The lumberjacks got a wage to support their families. After the carpenters got the trees, they used axes, planers, saws, chisels and other work to make them into parts for tables, and finally combined them into a wooden table, and then sold them to furniture dealers, and got another money. The furniture dealer opened a furniture shop, which was specially used for customers to choose and buy furniture. The wooden table was placed in the furniture shop and was bought by the customers, and the furniture dealer also got a money. In this process, the lumberjacks, carpenters, merchants, and customers each got what they needed, either money or things. The trees that were originally growing in the forests became real money and everyone benefited. Master National Normal University, what I said was wrong?"

"That's right. That's true." The national teacher had to admit that what Jin Ling said was right.

"But, in this process, all the premise is profit. The customer wants furniture to use it, and the final payer. The lumberjack earns lower wages because he does the simplest and least technical work. The carpenter earns more because it still requires a lot of skills and technical content to make a table that can be accepted by the customer and is willing to pay for it, and ordinary people cannot do it."

"The merchants have to pay the carpenters money, pay the store rent, account, salary, tax and other corresponding expenses. In addition to these expenses, the money earned is their own. This link also supports the accounting, the servants and even the landlords, and the taxes are used for the national governance expenses at all levels. However, lumberjacks and carpenters do not need to bear the risk. They take out the goods, deliver the goods in one hand, and collect money in the other. The merchants have to bear the risk of paying out the money but not selling the goods. If the customer does not buy the goods, the cost of the money will be wasted." Jin Lingzhen said, "The prejudice against merchants in the mainland always criticizes them for chasing them. It is a complete misunderstanding that interests and exploiting the people are completely misunderstanding. Merchants also play a very important role in this economic activity. Without them, producers, such as carpenters, have to go directly to buyers, not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also delay production, or greatly reduce production efficiency. If production efficiency is reduced and money earned, their enthusiasm for production will be hit. Carpenters will have less wood to loggers, and the loggers will have less money. Therefore, without merchants, it will be difficult to directly turn things into money, or it will be difficult to maximize the benefits, thereby promoting the development and improvement of people's living standards in the entire economic process."

"Many people still understand this principle." The national teacher nodded slightly, "but there are very few people who understand and explain it like you. OK, I have misunderstood you, come with me."

As he said that, the national master walked into a small room next to the thatched cottage, which seemed to be his study. Through the semi-open wooden door, you could see several rows of bookshelves inside.

Jin Ling followed in. This was a small house of about ten square meters, which was also very simple compared to the small hall in the outer room. In other words, this thatched hut turned out to be a thatched hut, but it was divided into three places with different functions using a little wooden board and straw mat.

There are several large bookshelf in this study, which house nearly a thousand books of all sizes. Judging from the titles, most of them are knowledgeable and strange ambitions, ghost legends, etc., and there are very few practices.

The national master just glanced at these bookshelfs, and his right hand moved slightly, but he could not see how he used his immortal power. With a loud bang, a thin booklet jumped out of the shelf and flew slowly into his palm.

He gently stroked the cover of the thin booklet, feeling pity like a child: "This booklet, called the Soul Record, was 491 years ago, when a fairy thought master of the Eternal Night Empire, Helan Jiuge, and Xue Zihuai, the sixth god general of the Eternal Night Immortal Emperor, talked about the cultivation of immortal thoughts. It was recorded by Feng Kaizhi, the sixth disciple of Helan Jiuge. It is not widely circulated in the world and is hard to come by. When I was young, I was inspired by this book. If you want to cultivate your own thoughts and make them powerful enough to kill the demon soul consciousness, this book can be read at one time, and may be inspiring."

After a pause, he said again: "I asked you to practice the Six Paths of Soul Cultivation before, and the Six Paths of Soul Cultivation are more profound and difficult to understand. This book can be regarded as the first chapter of the Six Paths of Soul Cultivation, and is worth reading."

"Thank you, Master National." Jin Ling took it and felt like he had a treasure.
Chapter completed!