“The incorruptible accountant of the gods.”
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The Civil God of Wealth: the Shang minister who told King Zhou the truth once too often and had his heart cut out for it. Heaven, impressed by a man who could lose his heart and keep his integrity, made him the god of honest money: no heart, no greed, no favoritism. The incorruptible accountant of the gods.
He is balancing the ledgers right now — every coin in, every coin out, no heart to be moved by any of it. The books are perfect. The books are always perfect.
When the last dishonest coin is finally spent and honest money is the only money, Bigan will close the ledgers, and heaven will offer him back his heart. He will decline, politely. He has done better work without it.
“His ledgers are perfect — no heart, no greed, no error, the incorruptible accountant. Except at the year's end, the abacus comes up one coin over: a coin with no source, no destination, no name attached. He has carried the discrepancy for centuries, entered faithfully every year as 'one, unaccounted.' The Two Caishen checked the vaults. The vaults are exact. The coin is not in them.”
Bigan's abacus counts a coin that isn't there.
They started human. Mostly. The Monkey King, the sea goddess Mazu, Guan Yu and his long beard, the Kitchen God filing his annual report — and the First Emperor’s clay guardian, who has stood his two-thousand-year watch without blinking.
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