Lao Tzu is Ji Gong

Lu Xiaoqian greeted, "Xiuyuan, get in the car."

Then, Li Xiuyuan said to his two secretaries, "I still have other matters to attend to today, you can go ahead."

Both secretaries, Tang Qian and An Shan, were reluctant to part with him, but they dared not disobey Li Xiuyuan's wishes. With the two secretaries gone, Li Xiuyuan greeted You Suowei and got into Lu Xiaoqian's car, as he was still the most familiar with Lu Xiaoqian.

Lu Xiaoqian asked, "Xiuyuan, where are we going?"

Li Xiuyuan said, "Let's find a high-class restaurant and talk over a meal. I have something very important that I need you to do."

Lu Xiaoqian nodded and said, "Okay." Then they took a car to a five-star hotel and booked a deluxe suite, but only a triple room, just for easier conversation. Otherwise, if it were a large table for twenty or thirty people, the space would be too far apart, making the conversation inconvenient.

It was winter, and Li Xiuyuan ordered a hot pot and a lot of high-end side dishes.

Li Xiuyuan looked at the room and smiled, "This place is very nice, both in terms of decoration and layout. Although it's small, it's enough for the three of us. It's also convenient for conversation."

Lu Xiaoqian chuckled and said, "This is all thanks to President You. Rooms like this are not usually available to ordinary people; they are typically used to entertain leaders of multinational corporations and government officials who have important matters to discuss. If it weren't for President You's connections, we wouldn't have been able to get in either."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan said, "Alright, let me tell you two first. First of all, I'm inviting you two to eat hot pot, making a total of three people including me, sharing one hot pot. However, today, we'll be eating the hot pot in front of us while discussing how to eat this Earth hot pot."

Upon hearing this, You Suowei was greatly surprised and said, "Xiuyuan, do you want the three of us to rule the earth?"

Lu Xiaoqian was also quite surprised, not expecting Li Xiuyuan to have such an idea. Li Xiuyuan smiled slightly and said, "Exactly. But I only invited the two of you to this hot pot."

Lu Xiaoqian was rather straightforward and asked, "Xiuyuan, can you explain to us why you suddenly had this idea?"

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan's face turned sorrowful, and he said in a deep voice, "These past few days, I've visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and Tiananmen Square—they're magnificent! The Summer Palace is also beautiful. But I still went to the Old Summer Palace. I do know that there's a Nanjing, and the most important place in Nanjing is that mausoleum for 300,000 people, isn't it?"

After Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, Lu Xiaoqian and You Suowei both fell into deep thought and remained silent. They knew that Li Xiuyuan might have a big plan to implement today.

Years later, someone might say that years ago, one person invited two others to have hot pot together. Subsequently, the whole world, like that hot pot, was shared and eaten by the three of them.

Li Xiuyuan continued, "Thinking back to my past life, I was also a citizen of the Celestial Dynasty. I can tell from the magnificence of the Hall of Supreme Harmony that the Celestial Dynasty once ruled the world."

The former Celestial Empire was very confident, so the Zhou emperor could say that "all under heaven belongs to the king, and all within the borders are his subjects."

There is only one Son of Heaven in the whole world, and that is the Emperor of the Celestial Dynasty. The rulers of other countries can only be subjects of the Celestial Dynasty.

The world must submit to the Celestial Empire; only with the Celestial Empire's investiture can everything he does have legitimacy.

I was thinking, since we possess the power to change the world and uphold the Chinese nation, why don't we give it a try?

After Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, Lu Xiaoqian and You Suowei were both excited by what he said. However, You Suowei had a more comprehensive view and said, "Xiuyuan, if we want to make the world's dominance fall into the hands of the three of us, we must start from the three main aspects of culture, economy, and government."

As for military matters, since you are involved, we can leave that aside.

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "I have my own plans. After all, I am a Buddha in this region, comparable to a saint. Leave the cultural aspect to me. Rest assured, just wait and see, the world in the future will surely be the domain of the Red Flag."

Then, I will manifest two clones to accompany you both, helping you accomplish many things that humans cannot do.

As for Xiaoqian, you're in charge of politics. I want you to subdue all governments and make them listen to you. You can use any means necessary, but with my clone helping you, everything will be very simple and smooth.

Yu Suowei, your mission is to seize all the world's funds, minerals, gold reserves, and so on. The government that Xiaoqian has subdued will provide you with enough financial resources to buy the entire Earth.

That's it. This place will be our secret hideout from now on. We'll meet at the end of each month to discuss the progress and offer assistance if needed. In short, within the next year, we'll have the whole world under our control and make them bow down to the Celestial Empire.

Then the conversation ended. All three remained deeply moved, the future already revolving in their hands.

What Li Xiuyuan needed to do was naturally the most difficult part: cultural matters. However, Li Xiuyuan had absolute confidence because Chinese culture is ancient and magnificent. Countless nations and peoples in the world have abandoned their own lifestyles and cultures to become members of the Chinese nation.

Therefore, Li Xiuyuan was very confident that he could make people all over the world believe in the culture of the Celestial Empire.

However, this origin is not from anywhere else, but from China.

Chapter 572 Sweeping the Globe

Although the people of China are quite confident in their own culture, there are still many who admire foreign things and fawn over foreigners. Li Xiuyuan's first priority is to restore Hanfu (traditional Han clothing).

To command the nation, to write passionately, to regard the powerful officials of the past as mere dust—is this not the proper way for all men to behave?

Although these things are simple for Li Xiuyuan to do now, if he does them, it will fulfill one of his dreams and expectations.

Back then, he also greatly envied those powerful and ruthless rulers who could control the country and the world with just a wave of their hands.

Although he can now truly manipulate the real country and control the winds of change, it's still not the same. If he does these things and settles these matters, it will greatly help him to sever his three corpses.

Li Xiuyuan began his global cultural domination with this film and television company.

Firstly, Li Xiuyuan, through the continuous manufacturing of fishing boats in the Celestial Empire, amplified the growing calls for the restoration of Hanfu (traditional Han clothing) among the entire empire, especially among the Han people.

Many businesses have taken notice of this trend and started designing modern Hanfu. Some schools have also incorporated Hanfu into their uniforms to attract attention and promote its use in schools.

At this point, Li Xiuyuan was confident of victory. Next, through covert manipulation, he ensured that all television stations broadcast traditional Han Chinese etiquette and other details, explaining them in detail.

Of course, it will be clearly explained that the Hanfu of that time was not abandoned by the Han people in order to worship foreign things, but rather it was because when the Manchus entered the pass, they announced the policy of "keep the queue or lose the head, keep the head or lose the queue".

Of course, Li Xiuyuan's film and television company was no exception; all the employees wore Hanfu (traditional Han clothing). Li Xiuyuan almost felt like he had returned to that world.

That day, Li Xiuyuan finally finished signing contracts with dozens of newcomers, all of whom had passed through his hands and gone through his review. Of course, he also slept with them all that night.

The two secretaries standing nearby spoke up: "Chairman, do you know that the call for the restoration of Hanfu among the Han Chinese in China is growing louder and louder? It's not just our company's employee uniforms that have been changed to Hanfu; now almost all schools and companies have switched to Hanfu."

In other words, nowadays, a large portion of the population in China wears Hanfu (traditional Han clothing) to school and work every day.

Li Xiuyuan was quite satisfied with what he heard. His manipulation over the past month had successfully generated buzz for this matter.

Then Li Xiuyuan asked again, "Do you think wearing Hanfu is a good idea?"

Tang Qian quickly answered, "Of course it's great! Hanfu is especially beautiful and has a lot of cultural significance. There are also many styles of Hanfu, so you can wear it for sports or even to sleep. We hadn't had much contact with Hanfu before, so we always thought that Hanfu was just long robes with wide sleeves, which were beautiful but inconvenient."

Chairman, did you know that there are growing calls across the country for the government to revive Hanfu? People nowadays really love Hanfu.

Nowadays, male students in schools are starting to grow their hair out to match their Hanfu (traditional Han clothing).

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Okay, I understand. It's the end of the month today, and I have appointments with two friends. Go call the driver; I'm leaving soon."

Li Xiuyuan then left the company and got into the car, flanked by his two secretaries.

His vehicle is a motorhome. Why does he always drive a motorhome? Of course, it's because Li Xiuyuan needs one.

Li Xiuyuan got into the car. The driver was a woman, probably not yet thirty, a professional race car driver. She was extremely arrogant, but also incredibly beautiful, and Li Xiuyuan was particularly fond of her.

Coincidentally, this female race car driver named Yue Lan offended many people due to her bad personality. Later, she had no place to use her skills and ended up on the streets, where she was taken in by Li Xiuyuan.

He paid her a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan as his personal driver, which was quite generous. However, Li Xiuyuan had other duties to perform for her, of course, even with such a high salary.

Yue Lan understood this, and besides, she was also deeply in love with Li Xiuyuan. As soon as Li Xiuyuan got into the car, she was tackled to the ground.

After a long while, Li Xiuyuan finally sat down with great satisfaction. He smiled and said, "You're really good, much more useful than those little lambs."

At this moment, Yue Lan got out of bed feeling very weak and sighed, "No matter how good I am, I'm still not as good as you. I always lose." Li Xiuyuan stroked Yue Lan's short hair and laughed, "If I'm not as good as you, how can I be your man?"

Yue Lan's first time was actually taken by Li Xiuyuan. The reason Yue Lan was unemployed was because almost every boss had their eye on her; after all, she was too beautiful.

Yue Lan's temperament was such that she had crippled several bosses, including her former racing coach. However, she never expected that she would eventually fall into Li Xiuyuan's hands and willingly become Li Xiuyuan's driver.

What she looked forward to most every day was that Li Xiuyuan would come out of the company so she could serve him properly. Li Xiuyuan always praised her, saying she was amazing, which made her very happy.

However, Li Xiuyuan still had something important to do, so Yue Lan got dressed, tidied herself up, and went to the restaurant that Li Xiuyuan had mentioned.

That restaurant was the one that Li Xiuyuan, You Suowei, and Lu Xiaoqian had visited a month ago. They had a private room there that they had booked for years.

They agreed to meet once a month at the end of each month to discuss their progress.

Of course, the most important thing is to help each other and work together to overcome some difficult challenges.

Not long after, Yue Lan drove up to the restaurant. Li Xiuyuan smiled and said, "Alright, you can wait here. Play in the car if you have nothing to do. I might be back a little late."

Li Xiuyuan nodded, and before leaving, gave Yue Lan a chance to apply lipstick. So Yue Lan was willing to wait in the car. (The last sentence appears to be unrelated and possibly a fragment from another context.)

Chapter 573 Mutual Help

Under Yue Lan's watchful gaze, Li Xiuyuan got out of the car and strode into the restaurant.

As soon as I entered the restaurant, a beautiful waitress came up to greet me and asked, "Excuse me, are you Mr. Li Xiuyuan?"

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "That's right."

Then the waiter said, "Hello, Mr. Li. Please come with me."

Li Xiuyuan then followed the waitress, walking forward with her. However, Li Xiuyuan noticed a delicate fragrance emanating from the woman, but it wasn't the scent of cosmetics.

Although the waitress smelled strongly of cosmetics, it couldn't mask Li Xiuyuan's scent, and he eventually caught it.

Li Xiuyuan was all too familiar with this smell.

This scent was the fragrance of a virgin, something that couldn't be faked. Li Xiuyuan immediately stopped in his tracks. The beautiful waitress, quite curious, asked, "Sir, what's wrong?"

Li Xiuyuan smiled and asked, "How much do you earn a month as a waiter here?"

The pretty waitress smiled and said, "Waitresses' salaries are very low, only a little over three thousand a month."

Li Xiuyuan handed him his business card and said, "After get off work tonight, take this business card and come to my company to find me."

The beautiful waitress took the business card and was overjoyed to discover that Li Xiuyuan was actually the big boss of a major film and television company. However, she didn't dare say anything, knowing when to back down, and simply said, "Okay. I will definitely go today. Please come with me, I'll take you to your room first."

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said, "I like your personality. If you come to my company, I will definitely promote you. Let's go, I still have things to discuss."

The beautiful waitress didn't dare to be negligent and immediately led Li Xiuyuan into the room.

Inside the room, Li Xiuyuan saw that You Suowei and Lu Xiaoqian had arrived early, each cracking melon seeds and waiting for him.

Li Xiuyuan glanced at the beautiful waitress and said, "Alright, you can go back now." Then, he stepped into the magical room.

Li Xiuyuan then spoke up: "Gentlemen, tell me about the progress over the past month."

Lu Xiaoqian laughed and said, "That goes without saying. With the help of your clone, things have gone very smoothly for me. We've taken over the whole of Asia. The same goes for Africa. We've also taken over a portion of Europe."

You Suowei also laughed and said, "Actually, there's really nothing to say. Everything has gone smoothly. With Xiaoqian's help, I've conquered the entire Asia, Africa, and Europe. Now I'm just preparing to march into Australia."