In just two days, less than 30,000 people followed Yu Ji were left. Mu Academy had very high requirements and carefully selected them. In the end, only twenty-seven people were recruited, eleven of them were women. The workshop required a large amount, and more than 300 craftsmen were recruited, and more than 1,000 people were recruited. Xu Qian and Meng Jian were the ones who gained the most. They recruited more than 5,000 households and more than 30,000 people, which far exceeded the expected goal. Pingyu County could not accommodate everyone, so they could only arrange a part of them to Lin County.

However, for the entire Yuzhou, these thousands of households are no problem at all, and they can be resettled even if they have ten times more.

After completing the task, Xu Qian and others withdrew one after another, leaving Yu Ji and hundreds of devout believers to continue waiting. After gaining benefits, Yang Xiu felt much better and arranged an empty camp for Yu Ji and his believers to live in, but the food was still very average, and he could not starve to death and could not eat enough.

Yu Ji is very quiet. Don’t talk about the camp. He rarely even has big tents. He sits in the tent every day and meditates. Most of the time the believers spend outside the tent, sitting in meditation, chanting mantras, or walking in the camp, which is relatively stable.

When Sun Ce received the report, he felt that the time was almost the same. The time had been delayed for a long time, and almost the guests who should have invited were also invited, and it would take time to delay it. Although it was not good, many people had already become weak about the gods and believed that there were still many immortals, especially women. Yuan Quan wanted to see Yu Ji and wanted Yu Ji to explain Yuan Heng's misunderstanding. Those women who had relatives in their parents' home also wanted to ask the living gods to calculate when they could turn disasters into good fortune, and they asked Mrs. Chen to ask Yuan Quan to ask Sun Ce to lift the ban and let them pay homage to the living gods.

They could have gone to see Yu Ji directly - Sun Ce did not stop others from seeking a living god - but they either had interests or were worried about Sun Ce's revenge, so they maintained restraint and had to wait for Sun Ce to nod.

So, Sun Ce held a banquet on the water pavilion to welcome Yu Ji.

The banquet was held by Yuan Quan, with both guests and women. The couple came together and sat together. Those who came alone were looking for friends or randomly combined. Those who were unwilling to sit together would take charge of the case and would take their own measures. Although Yuan Heng was a wife, he had not yet passed the door, so he sat with Yuan Yao. Yuan Quan did not sit with Sun Ce, but with Yin Ge and Mi Lan, Sun Shangying led a group of younger siblings, Guo Jia led the military strategy office, and Lu Dai served as the welcome guest and arranged for guests to take the seat. Officials from the prefect's office such as Zhang Zhao and Xu Qian were among the invitations, and the Yellow Turban generals such as Gong Du, Wu Ba, and He Yi were also among the list.

More than a hundred people gathered together, and even the seats were arranged under the corridors of the water pavilions. Fortunately, the weather was not cold and the wind was not strong. The breeze was coming, the water waves were not stirring, the moon was hazy, and the water and the moon were in harmony, which was still very comfortable.

Sun Ce chatted with Zhao Wen. Zhao Wen was an envoy from the court and an elder who had been Sikong. Sun Ce was still very polite to him and arranged for him to sit beside him. In terms of superiority and inferiority, he was second only to the seat of the host and guest living god Yu Ji on the other side.

"Mr. Zhao, this arrangement is made. You won't impeach me after you return to Beijing, right?" Sun Ce said half-jokingly.

"How dare you, how dare you?" Zhao Wen smiled awkwardly. He understood what Sun Ce meant. Logically, he was an envoy of the court and the most honorable guest. Or the other party was a living god, so he was not good at fighting with Yu Ji. When this matter came to Chang'an, would anyone impeach Sun Ce? He didn't care. What he cared about was whether anyone would impeach him.

"Does Zhao believe in the sayings of gods?"

Zhao Wen looked at Zhang Zhao and others who were talking enthusiastically and pondered for a moment. "It's true, but there are many people who claim to be gods, and it's hard to tell the truth."

"I think so too." Sun Ce laughed, looking at a group of men and women who were anxious to see the gods, especially Yuan Quan, couldn't help but want to laugh. Yuan Quan was embarrassed by him and deliberately turned his head to talk to Yin Wei and Mi Lan, ignoring Sun Ce, but he couldn't control the flush on his face, adding a bit of mature and brightness under the light.

"What is the god in Zhao Gong's mind like?"

Zhao Wen thought about it carefully. "Looking forever, rejuvenation, being able to draw talismans and chant mantras, cure diseases, and so on."

"Hey, if you only know these, you can only be called a Taoist priest, not a god." Although Zhang Zhao was deeply implicated by living gods, he was still full of expectations for meetings with living gods. In his opinion, there were not many people who could talk to Yu Ji, and only Sun Ce was in front of him. Yu Ji was capable. He saw with his own eyes that Yu Ji cured people and cured them. It was just that ordinary people were not in a good state and could not understand his Taoism, so he refused to teach them easily. Sun Ce was an idiot, and his conversation with Yu Ji would definitely benefit a lot.

Zhao Wen was a little unhappy. He was twenty years older than Zhang Zhao, but Zhang Zhao was obviously not respectful enough to him, and he had a kind of conceit that was common to Kanto people.

"Please give advice from Mingfu."

"The gods are just a saying. Strictly speaking, gods are gods, immortals are immortals, and they cannot be confused. Gods are people in heaven. Or they descend from the sky, but after a person dies, they ascend to heaven because of their merits. They have not seen any flesh and blood to become gods. Immortals are different, but they can be reached by ordinary people and physical bodies. The word "immortal" follows people from the mountain. When people enter the mountain to practice, they become immortals, but they cannot become gods. Therefore, auspiciousness is an immortal, not a god. Immortals can be seen, but gods cannot be seen..."

Zhang Zhao talked happily. Among the guests, except Zhao Wen, his knowledge and official positions gave him the most say. Moreover, Yu Ji was from Xuzhou, so of course he should have been the Xuzhou native to Zhao Wen from Yizhou. Although Zhao Wen was a three-duke, the court was in chaos, and the three-duke had long lost the dignity that the three-duke should have. Zhao Wen came to beg again. Since Sun Ce, there were not many people in Yuzhou who really took Zhao Wen seriously.

Everyone listened with relish and agreed. Some yearned for the freedom of immortals, some praised Zhang Zhao for his knowledge, and even analyzed these issues into reason. Qing Xu's fairy style is the most important, and most of the invited people came to believe in gods, which is somewhat different from the heavy witch ghosts in Yizhou. To a certain extent, they looked down on the Yizhou people who believed in witch ghosts and regarded them as barbarians. At this moment, seeing Zhang Zhao explain the difference between gods and immortals to Zhao Wen, they were all excited and proud.

"What is an immortal? Longevity and long-term rejuvenation is just a first-class achievement. Drawing talismans and chanting curses, curing diseases and saving lives are just a trick. Tomorrow the way of heaven and earth, live with the heaven and earth, hold strange beads, eat fairy fruits, walk in the wind, travel around the world, and see the changes of the world, this is the real immortal..."

Zhang Zhao was so angry that everyone was fascinated by hearing it. Sun Ce saw it and couldn't help laughing. These people really didn't have a memory. They forgot that the living gods had been neglected for so long, and they almost broke up? But he didn't want to interrupt Zhang Zhao, so let him say that the higher the standard of gods, the more he could try out Yu Ji's value later. It was still a bit of a trick to attract so many people to accompany him and gain such a great reputation. But he didn't know if he could meet the standard [update fast] that Zhang Zhao said.

Yin Wei leaned into Yuan Quan's ear and whispered: "Sister, why are you a little uneasy when I look at my husband's eyes?"

Yuan Quanqiang calmed down and patted Yin Xi's hand. "Don't worry, my husband has his own opinions on doing things and will not do anything randomly. If he is not sure, how could he invite so many guests?"

Yin Wei nodded and was about to say something else, but people suddenly became quiet and hundreds of eyes turned to the stairs.
Chapter completed!