In the first month of the fiftieth year of Longqing, the total population of the Ming Dynasty finally exceeded one billion. Among them, 650 million were in the empire itself, 600 million were in Yingzhou, more than 10 million were in the governorates of Korea, Donghai, and Nanhai, and 30 million were in the Annan governorate. , occupying 20 million for the city, 30 million for the Burmese Viceroyalty, 20 million for the Siam Viceroyalty, 40 million for the Bengal Viceroyalty, and each of the four vassals of Jabal, Bidar, Gubagar, and Bangalore are above 30 million. . Excluding Buddhism, monks of all types have historically exceeded the 1.5 million mark. There are 320,000 monks in the pavilions, 80,000 monks in Shifang Jungle, 350,000 casual monks and aristocratic families, and 750,000 monks from other walks of life. Due to the continued development of the demographic dividend, the total credit value exceeded 40 billion, reaching 41 billion. Due to the substantial increase in trustworthiness and the strict assessment of monks' ordination, the remaining trustworthiness of each provincial hall has accumulated too much, reaching the point of being inexhaustible. For this reason, Zhenshitang conducted a review of trustworthiness five years ago. The force distribution ratio was readjusted, stipulating that the quotas for the General View, the Pavilion, the Pavilion, and the Chaos Fairy Realm were 0.5, 1, 4.5, and 4 respectively. At this ratio, the accumulated reserves of Jiuzhou Pavilion's two credit pools have reached 15 billion, and the total value of credit invested in the Chaos Immortal Realm has exceeded 250 billion, and the Chaos Immortal Realm has reached 314,000. Thousands of square kilometers, the distance from Xianxian Peak in any direction is more than 630 miles! Such a large territory is equivalent to two Jiangxi, or seventeen Jiujiang, or more than a thousand Lushan Mountains. In this chaotic fairyland, there are already one thousand monks living in it, including 853 Taoists and 147 Buddhists. Since last year, the True Master Hall has moved into the Chaos Immortal Realm as a whole. The one responsible for the Ming Dynasty world is the fully grown joint meeting. After the joint meeting moved to Lushan from Yingtian, it has jurisdiction over ten institutions, including Jiming Temple, Yuanfu Palace, Daolu Division, Lecture Hall, Chaotian Palace, Lingji Palace, Xianling Palace, Civilization Committee, Donglin Temple, Brush Scripture Temple and Yikezhao Temple, the latter three are connected to the three major Buddhist vassal states of Xixia, Tubo and Beiyuan respectively, and eminent monks are sent by the three major Buddhist states to serve. Through the joint meeting, the three major Buddhist kingdoms were actually tightly tied to the chariot of the Ming Dynasty, forming a sect and vassal system with the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain and closely integrated with each other. The abbot of Jimingguan who is responsible for the credibility is the real person Pei Zhongning. She came to Songfan and reported to Zhao Ran, who had resigned as the real master for many years, about the preparations for the expansion of the Chaos Fairyland this year. "Our Taoist side is worth 16.4 billion Gui, and the Buddhist side is 16.8 billion Luo, which is equivalent to 3.36 billion Gui, so the total value is 19.76 billion. This year Buddhism applied for thirty-six people. As you know, starting from this year, great masters will be allowed to move in, and they applied for twenty-two first and second-level contemplatives in the Bhikkhu realm" Zhao Ran asked: "Buddhism this year's application Has the credibility report come up?" Pei Zhongning picked out one from a pile of documents and handed it to Zhao Ran: "Xixia 32 billion Luo, Tubo 18 billion Luo, Beiyuan 120 Yiluo." After reading it, Zhao Ran opened the application list for this year for Taoism and Buddhism. When he saw the long list of names on it, the sixth one was the great alchemist Pei Renxiao. He sighed and comforted: "Uncle Pei will be the last one. There is still no breakthrough, but it doesn¡¯t matter. I have entered the Chaos Immortal Realm, and my life has been extended to six hundred years. I have been practicing without worries for so many years. " Pei Zhongning said: "Fortunately, there is the Chaos Immortal Realm, otherwise our generation would have to experience it first-hand. Farewell, Senior Brother Zhao, thank you. "Zhao Ran said: "The chaotic fairyland is certainly good, but I regret that the world of Ming Dynasty is still inevitably sliding into the world of Dharma. I wonder if you have paid attention to a problem? " "What's the problem? " "The ratio of population to the number of monks. Wang Wusen has been doing research in this area. Seven days ago he submitted a report to me. This year's local population is 650 million, and the total number of monks is 1.5 million. , accounting for 2.3 per thousand. Compared with fifty years ago, the proportion of monks has doubled. It looks very good." Pei Zhongning said: "This is also Brother Zhao's goal. We are one percent away. "One step closer." Zhao Ran said: "If you exclude the meritorious monks, the number of pavilion monks and casual cultivators who practice spiritual power totals 670,000, accounting for one-thousandth, which is the same as fifty years ago. " Pei Zhongning thought for a while and said: "For a long time, the number of people with spiritual talent has been only one in a thousand. There is nothing we can do about it. " Zhao Ran sighed: "If it really remains at one in a thousand, then. Okay. Wang Wusen made a statistics. He found out the number of bone-setting pills that have been refined and distributed by Qifu Pavilion over the years and the number currently retained by each pavilion. Subtracting the two, this number is roughly equivalent to the number of bone-setting monks. "How much do you think it is?" Pei Zhongning was stunned and suddenly understood what Zhao Ran was talking about. Zhao Ran said: "FromFrom the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Jing to the present, a total of 230,000 bone-setting pills have been used! Without the Bone Setting Pill, the total number of spiritual monks would be 440,000, which is not one in a thousand, but 0.65 in a thousand. I asked Wang Wusen to make a coordinate axis, mark the annual numbers on it, and calculate the downward curve Well, it is a connection of digital trajectory points" As he said that, Zhao Ran took out a brush and threw it forward. It started moving forward steadily, and then started to fall. ¡°This curve is getting faster and faster. We predict that in another hundred years, the number of people with spiritual talent will be reduced to one in ten thousand, and in one hundred and fifty years, it will be reduced to one in ten thousand. One in 100,000, and two hundred years later, it will be one in a million. By then, only ten of the newborns born in the Ming Dynasty each year will have the talent for cultivation. Three hundred years later, there may be only one, or even less than one. " Pei Zhongning murmured: "The Age of Dharma End is coming so soon? What causes this? " Zhao Ran shook his head: "We are all considering this issue. Qingqiu and Nazhen said that it is the result of the dissipation of spiritual energy. If this is the case, we must find a way to delay this process, prevent or even rebel. Pei Zhongning nodded: "Senior brother is doing big things and considering big issues. No matter what he decides, I will support him." " Zhao Ran said: "Let's work hard together How are the preparations for my ancestor Yue's ascension ceremony? Pei Zhongning said: "There are 15 billion credibility in the pool, which is enough to use." All eminent Buddhist monks have expressed their intention to come to participate. Miss Ninth has been making preparations. I met her before I came, and she asked me to ask my senior brother to show me how many places are suitable for Buddhists to watch the ceremony? " Zhao Ran waved his hand: "I don't care about this kind of thing, you can just do whatever you want. "On February 15, the fiftieth year of Longqing's reign, the Great Heavenly Master Duanmu ascended to the upper realm. He spent 4.6 billion Gui on his faith and gained a life span of one Yuan.