After Tang Seng finished asking, someone immediately answered:
"As long as we develop agriculture, then create jobs so ordinary people can earn food by selling their labor, then develop industry and use it to support agriculture in return. Eventually, industrialization will cause the population to shrink naturally, and then no one will starve to death anymore."
The one who had rushed to answer was a young Eastern Continent Person.
He looked immensely proud.
Then someone slapped him to the ground.
"You think this is a school lesson? There's no way the old monk can understand what you're saying!"
Yet Tang Seng looked enlightened. "That's right, that is the path. But you only described the general idea. How should the specific details be carried out?"
Everyone was astonished. What this old monk said was actually quite similar to what modern people would say.
Sun Wukong alone was not surprised at all. Tang Seng could understand because, in a previous cycle, two Outer Domain Great Sages had come to this world.
One had been a little girl, and the other an old man.
Well, in Sun Wukong's eyes, Wenren Sheng was an old man.
He could see through young people at a glance.
But he could not see through Wenren Sheng at all. Naturally, that made him an old man, as old as Tathagata.
Tang Seng must have recalled some things from the past, though not all of them.
"Aren't the details simple?" the young man said confidently.
"Please explain, teacher." Tang Seng was exceedingly respectful, more respectful and devout than when he bowed to the Buddha.
He truly wished to save the people.
And what was the greatest suffering of the people now? Not having enough to eat.
Most people toiled every day just to put food on the table.
Only