Chapter 284 283 People Fight for a Breath, Buddha Fights for a Stick of Incense

"Filming a video?"

"Taking jade as payment?"

Chen Jue was a little stunned when he heard this.

In his opinion, the fact that Master Zheng took the imperial green jade as payment was just like the Liangshan heroes in the book who liked to eat large pieces of meat and weigh gold and silver.

This was not taking money seriously at all!

As for why Master Zheng knew Chen Jue's identity as "Brother Jue", it seemed that he learned it from Zhao Jianguo.

After all, it was Zhao Jianguo who introduced Chen Jue to Longmen Sect, and the other party had contacts with Mr. Wu, so it was not difficult for him to learn about Chen Jue's identity in private.

What Chen Jue couldn't understand was that the monks of Quanzhen Longmen had always advocated "doing nothing and doing nothing" and "everything depends on fate".

They didn't pay as much attention to reputation promotion as Shaolin and Wudang.

When martial arts dramas and martial arts films were popular in the past, the scripts of Shaolin Five Ancestors and Wudang Zhang Sanfeng were taken out and filmed repeatedly.

As for the Quanzhen sect, most of the sects such as the Seven Sons of Quanzhen and Huashan Sect were used as backgrounds, without any positive image.

Even in real life, there are very few ordinary people who have heard of Longmen Sect.

At this time, when I heard that Master Zheng was going to make some efforts in publicity and to make a name for Longmen Sect, it was very different from the almost secluded route of Quanzhen Longmen in the past.

Seeing Chen Jue's surprised look, Master Zheng patiently explained: "It was your master's intention when he was alive to carry forward Longmen. Unfortunately, my ability is limited, and I have wasted my time to this age, and now I am a little overwhelmed."

"Your fellow disciples are not enlightened, and they have retreated from the world to practice too early and don't understand the secular world. If you don't do anything, I am worried that after I am buried, our Longmen secret sect will have no successors."

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After a conversation, Chen Jue finally understood what Master Zheng meant.

At present, Longmen Sect is not well-known in China, and it has always been low-key.

Most of the disciples recruited came in through the traditional way of referral, which led to fewer and fewer new disciples after entering the 21st century.

As the saying goes, people fight for a breath, and Buddhas fight for a stick of incense.

Since ancient times, religious sects have tried their best to win disciples and believers.

The dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in Chinese history has been reincarnated every few hundred years, and basically every dynasty has been tossed a few times.

Even if the Taoist sects are so calm and casual, once it comes to the issue of inheritance, they begin to take it very seriously.

And the more mainstream and popular sect in Taoism is the Wudang sect.

Every year, thousands of devout believers from all over the world go to Wudang to learn from their masters and seek art. Disciples of different skin colors can be seen everywhere on Wudang Mountain getting up early to practice, which has almost become a landscape.

People who like to watch short videos can often see Wudang masters appearing on the Internet, either explaining Taoist classics or showing off some martial arts that ordinary people don't understand to attract a wave of fans.

On the other hand, Quanzhen Longmen has only a few big and small people in the sect, and there is basically no trace of them on the Internet. On weekdays, when they finally accept a new disciple, most of them are referred from Wudang Mountain.

This is like relying on the popularity of others and relying on the support of fellow Taoists to barely maintain their daily livelihood. The business is so bleak!

The reason why Master Zheng wanted to save face is because he is old and his personality and temper are beginning to show signs of rejuvenation.

While practicing Taoism on weekdays, Master Zheng likes to watch new things on the Internet like a child, and he is very good at playing WeChat short videos.

After seeing that Shaolin recently sent a lay disciple to fight against fakes and create popularity in the martial arts circle, Master Zheng's mind began to become active.

In the past, he had been low-key and tolerant, which did not benefit the Longmen Sect.

Now that he was over a hundred years old, Master Zheng did not consider so many causes and consequences.

It happened that the new disciple had the advantage of publicity in this regard, so he planned to let Chen Jue give it a try. So much so that he took out all the treasures in the bottom of the box as a reward.

After watching the videos of Shaolin lay disciples that Master Zheng found, Chen Jue's face twitched.

Because these videos were too crudely made, the content was all based on the popularity of the inch-punch brick-breaking that was popular on the Internet before.

After putting on the name of a Shaolin lay disciple, he visited those traditional martial arts Internet celebrities who could break bricks everywhere, and helped netizens identify the authenticity of the inch-punch brick-breaking on the spot.

This is very similar to the past kicking and looking for venues, but it is just a new skin of Internet live broadcast.

Including the old naughty boy with real kung fu who Chen Jue had followed before, who also interacted with this person and broke a cement block mixed with rebar in front of the live camera.

This video content, which Chen Jue thought was very boring, ended up with a surprisingly high number of views, with several videos breaking hundreds of thousands of likes, and it is estimated that the number of views has exceeded 10 million.

In particular, the behavior of this Shaolin lay disciple bringing his own bricks made those traditional martial arts Internet celebrities hit the ground in front of the live camera, with their hands swollen like freshly steamed buns, but they still didn't break the bricks, which hit the G-spot of countless netizens.

The comment area was even filled with sarcasm: "Hurry up and hang up the bricks, I want to see 5 bricks broken with a inch punch (dog head)"

"Do you think you have a unique skill? Can you leave palm prints on the floor tiles? (laughing and crying)"

“I want to see if it’s the bricks of Miao Feng that are tougher or the mouth of this Internet celebrity (God of War with a Crooked Mouth).”

"After watching the live broadcast, I felt embarrassed and wanted to pick my feet. After trying for a long time, I couldn't lift the brick to hit it. Finally, I put a brick of my own to interrupt. I feel like I can do it instead (Happy)"

This kind of show-off and slap-in-the-face scene was so popular, which really surprised Chen Jue.

So after watching these videos, Chen Jue patted his badge and said, "Master, you can rest assured!"

"Disciple, I don't have much ability, but I'm definitely better than this guy at making videos."

Seeing that Chen Jue agreed, Master Shizheng also nodded happily: "If you have the heart to take action, I can be more relaxed as a teacher."

…

After receiving Chen Jue's assurance, Master Shizheng finally gave away the jade plaque that he had treasured for a long time.

After Chen Jue got the jade card, he didn't stay at Baiyun Temple. After saying goodbye to Shizheng and several senior brothers, he went first according to the business card he got on the plane and visited Brother Tan. Jewelry store.

This jewelry store called [Yuchun Pavilion] is located in a corner of a commercial street on the East Third Ring Road. The store is a two-story remodeled structure with an antique interior decoration.

Tan Yuchun was very enthusiastic after meeting Chen Jue, the boy who was the seat mate with whom he had met once on the plane.

Chen Jue was invited to sit in the reception room on the second floor for a while, and then looked curiously at the jewelry box that Chen Jue took out from his backpack.

"I just told you, Brother Chen, you are hiding everything!"

"I have rarely seen an old box of this kind of quality in the jade circle for decades."

"This is an old thing with a big door, at least it's an old box from the Qing Dynasty."

Tan Yuchun held a magnifying glass, first carefully studied the old red carved paint surface of the box, and then carefully opened the lid of the box.

When he saw the dark green jade plaque inside the box, he let out an "Oh!" and nearly jumped up on his chair with a tremble of his hands!

"My dear! Imperial green?"

"This kind of water is definitely made of glass. There is no strands or cracks inside. It's so beautiful!"

As if he had discovered some rare treasure, Tan Yuchun put on a pair of white gloves and took a small flashlight to shine on the jade plaque.

Chen Jue was drinking tea and asked curiously: "Brother Tan, this brand should be very valuable, right?"

"More than valuable!"

“It’s priceless!”

"The water, the green color, and the carving of the carp leaping over the dragon's gate are definitely the master carvers of the past. This is top quality jade that can reach the auction level. According to the market price, it is worth at least a fortune. Two, three hundred thousand and one gram.”

After talking, Tan Yuchun took out an electronic scale and weighed it. The total weight of a brand was 198 grams, and the total market price reached more than 50 million!

Chen Jue was also shocked when he heard this exaggerated price.

He didn't know much about jade jewelry, but he had heard that better jadeite was the finest jadeite.

Any jade that can be called jade can basically be sold at a price that ordinary people cannot earn in their lifetime.

He never expected that in order to "please" him to shoot a video, Master Shizheng would actually take out a piece of jade worth nearly half a billion yuan. This was really beyond Chen Jue's expectations.

With Chen Jue's current net worth, one live broadcast can attract half a million traffic rewards, so using this piece of jade as a reward is more than enough.

"Sure enough, the older you get, the better you become!"

"Master, he seems to be indifferent to worldly affairs, but in fact he is more enlightened than anyone else." Chen Jue sighed in his heart and asked Tan Yuchun to provide an appraisal report for this brand.

Old jadeite in private collections like this is not reported like the commercial jadeite circulating in the market. To prove its true value, you must find a relevant unit to issue a certificate.

It happened that Tan Yuchun was an expert in this field, so Chen Jue asked him to handle the certificate matter.

Later, I went to his store and picked out a sky blue jade bracelet worth 1.2 million yuan. I paid with my card and regarded it as repaying the other person's favor for helping him run the certificate.

As for how to make a video to promote his sect, Chen Jue already had a clear idea in his mind.

So after getting the appraisal certificate of the jade plaque and leaving Yuchun Pavilion, Chen Jue found a Hilton Hotel to stay, and hired a photographer online to take a set of close-up photos of the jade plaque.

The photos and identification certificate were packaged and sent to Qianhe's operations team, asking them to help produce a poster for the live broadcast preview of the tour.

But when Chen Jue decided on the title and location of this live broadcast and sent it to the operations group, the entire Qianhe team went crazy.

"Use martial arts to make friends and test martial arts around the world?"

"I'm so proud!!!"

"Brother, are you planning to go abroad to play gymnastics?" (End of Chapter)