It’s too difficult to cultivate immortality, so I used a strange beast to clone myself into a Taoist

Chapter 8 The Way of the World
  The next day.

After Li Xian made breakfast in a hurry, he went out in a hurry, but he did not bring any linen with him. It seemed that he was not going to the market.

"Brother, did you hear any strange noise last night? It seemed to be on the wasteland outside the woodshed!"

Li Qingjing seemed to have not slept well last night and rubbed the dark circles under his eyes.

Li Qinglin looked calm: "Maybe you have a nightmare."

"Really?" Li Qingjing was a little confused.

"Good morning, second brother! Good morning, eldest brother!"

Li Qingqing didn't even open his eyes. He walked out of the door as if he was sleepwalking. He squatted on the threshold and washed his teeth with a willow branch dipped in water.

Li Qinglin reminded: "As a snack, don't drop it."

"Um?!"

Unexpectedly, Li Qingqing suddenly woke up and turned around with eyes wide open.

"Snacks? What snacks?!"

Li Qinglin was stunned. He didn't expect that his sister was so...childlike.

After a while, Li Qingjing's brother and sister packed their schoolbags made of coarse cloth, took their lunch food, and said goodbye to Li Qinglin.

The house suddenly became quiet.

After a while, the cleaning of dishes and chopsticks was completed.

Li Qinglin exercised for a while, and did not stop until his blood boiled and his whole body felt warm.

He stretched, lifted the fence, and walked out onto the path.

"Qinglin, are you up so early?" Sister-in-law Gou stood in the courtyard and greeted Li Qinglin from a distance.

Li Qinglin exchanged a few words with him.

"Ah, isn't this Xiao Li? Going home to visit relatives?"

"Look at this kid, he has become energetic. If Lao Li knew about it, he would be happy."

"Oh, he is the boy who was sold into slavery by his mother?"

Along the way, villagers greeted me from time to time.

Some people looked at Li Qinglin's back and pointed, with a lot of teasing in their eyes.

Sold into slavery, there will no longer be such a person in the ancestral hall. It will bring shame to the ancestors in any dynasty or generation!

The social relations in the shanty town are both close and distant, so close that if there is a new face on the street, every household will know about it in less than half a day.

Alienation, naturally, there are many flies and dogs lurking under the sun, working for profit and a future.

Li Qinglin didn't pay attention to the looks of these people.

He walked around the nearby shantytowns and learned more about the bottom layer and customs of this world from daily details.

Li Qinglin only had one feeling, and that was...contradiction!
  The residents of the shanty town are naturally not wealthy. Many of them are shabby-looking and half-clothed, even worse than the Li family.

But I rarely see homeless people or lazy people. Everyone is in a hurry, as if there is a whip whipping behind their backs, and they can't stop at all!

But even so, they still have a hard time living, with only a few taels of silver left in their years.

Moreover, Li Qinglin discovered a strange phenomenon.

Almost no one has been to other Dao counties, let alone the state capital. It seems that everyone has been living in Qiangfeng County for generations.

Everything about Dajiang, the court, and other counties can be learned through the "Guangmin County Instructions" promoted by the local government.

For some reason, Li Qinglin thought of the frog in the well.

It's not that the frog can't bounce, but its world is as big as the mouth of a well.

So, who built the well...

……

back home.

Li Qinglin dug out several books from Li Qingjing's room.

"Training Mongolian Texts"

"Young Learning Qionglin"

"Li Weng's Rhyme"

"Tian Guan Zhong Zai"

Li Qinglin browsed through it roughly. "Xun Mengwen" and "Li Weng Duiyun" were mostly books that enlightened the Mongolian students and also taught simple poems and poems.

It's very basic, and the use of words is not very advanced.

This knowledge is too simple for his ten-year-old brothers and sisters, but it is just right for Li Qinglin.

For a moment, Li Qinglin watched with gusto.

During this period of time, under the influence of the heart toad's encouragement and qi and blood feedback, Li Qinglin's memory and comprehension abilities were slightly enhanced.

At this moment, omissions are quickly checked and vacancies are filled, and knowledge is quickly absorbed.

An hour later, Li Qinglin put down the two books and felt his temples pounding, as if he was overusing his brain.

The heart sac opens and closes, and Qi and blood circulate throughout the body.

Suddenly, it was like someone was massaging me. The fatigue caused by hard study of knowledge gradually dissipated, and my brain regained some clarity.

Li Qinglin turned to look at the two books "Young School Qionglin" and "Tianguan Zhongzai".

These two books are extensive and all-encompassing.

The former includes astronomy, geography, rules and regulations, customs and etiquette, and even the traces of warriors cultivating immortality. There is some description and there is no lack of content about Taoism, ghosts and gods. Fortunately, Li Qinglin has a foundation in elementary education, so he should be able to dominate the elementary school, so he can still barely understand "Young Learning Qionglin".

As for the latter, it is a classic that seems to be dozing off, boring and about rejuvenating the country and educating the people. Li Qinglin can't even recognize the words.

At this time, Li Qinglin held "Tianguan Zhongzai" in his hands, and saw that the book as thick as a brick was actually written with dense notes and remarks.

The gaps in the paper didn't even register, and there were many leaves in the pages.

Black dye was also used on the leaves, with many words written on them that Li Qinglin could not understand.

"There is a saying in a scroll about the people of Heng: The people of Heng held a common cauldron to provide water and fire. Outside of their duties, they cooked food at home... All peoples are the same."

Qing Jing privately believed that by treating people like this, they could only achieve temporary stability, but not a lifetime of stability. What the people want is the road..."

Is it Li Qingjing?

Li Qinglin was a little shocked. He didn't expect his second brother to be so talented.

It’s actually a pearl in the ocean!

Those three sisters...

Well, it's okay.

You can't expect to have three heroes in one discipline, it would be nice to have the apple of your eye.

No longer caring about this classic, Li Qinglin turned his attention to the book "Young Learning Qionglin".

He looked thoughtful for a long time.

Dajiang, after all, was not ruled by Tang and Yu, but was full of tyranny everywhere!

Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger.

Dajiang implemented various taxes and corvee, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, there were two taxes, land taxes, and business taxes, and none could be escaped.

There is even a rule that a family of two must have at least three children. If there are not enough, an extremely high capitation tax will be charged!

Thieves come like a comb, soldiers come like a grate, and officials come like a shaver.

At this rate, how could there be no poor people, how could there be no shantytowns!
  It's like this in Feng County, and other counties are not much better.

In addition,

Dajiang does not have social and political structures such as townships, towns or even villages. The smallest administrative unit is Daoxian.

Thirty-six counties are thirty-six cities with a population of over one million!

This is extremely unreasonable and deformed!
  It seems that outside Dao County, in the vast wilderness, there is something that makes it difficult for ordinary people to live.

"Monsters and beasts are running rampant? Demons are everywhere? Or are they the forces opposing Da Jiang?"

Li Qinglin, who was a self-proclaimed Internet bookworm in his previous life, had various speculations running through his mind.

There are probably two ways for poor people to rise.

One is the literary test.

Since there are no townships, there are naturally no processes such as township elections and township examinations.

Instead, each major town in the county first holds a "lower governance test", usually every autumn.

After that, qualified students will take the 'County Examination', then the 'Prefecture Examination', and finally go to Beijing to face the saint and participate in the 'Dragon Head Case'.

The subjects of the literary test are different every year. The classics, essays, and policy questions will change every year according to the thoughts of the examiner. However, due to the great Jiang Shangwu, there will definitely be a martial arts test, but it will not focus on it.

The second is martial arts.

Unlike literary examinations, which are endorsed by official forces, martial arts are extremely complicated, and even the imperial power can only intervene, but not control, to a certain extent.

All the large and small families in various prefectures, counties and Kyoto will maintain private soldiers in nursing homes, and there are many people who are martial arts and divine.

Outside the high walls of the Zhumen, there are also forces such as gymnasiums and martial arts fields that recruit students and teach martial arts.

Those who are successful in martial arts can join the imperial court as military officers and lieutenants, and when they retire, they can become family guest ministers. From now on, they will no longer be just digging in the loess!

"A chivalrous man uses force to break the law, and a strong man becomes strong. How can a warrior honestly bow down to his subordinates when faced with a situation like Da Jiang's, who resorts to martial arts and plunders his own wool?"

"The imperial court actually still tacitly allows local powerful people to raise private soldiers. Isn't it afraid that one day the slogan 'Princes, generals and prime ministers should be better off' will come up?"

"Or... are you confident?"

Li Qinglin only felt that he had faintly touched something, deep and dark, hidden behind the giant Dajiang.

"The answer may lie in the pioneering work."

Li Qinglin's eyes flickered.

"Youxue Qionglin" naturally contains records about pioneering service, which can even be traced back to several dynasties such as Dajiangqian, Dashang, and Datie from recent to distant times.

"The natural flow of fire produces iron, and the iron-eating king worships heaven in the southern suburbs during the winter solstice, and worships the earth on the summer solstice. Finally, with the support of immortals and gods, he builds his capital in the flow of fire, named 'Datie', and the Datie clan opens up the wilderness. Build twenty more cities.”

"The wilderness arose, the calamity came, and the great iron was destroyed. At that time, a black bird carried a pearl, and planted it in the Huaihai Sea. The pearl gave birth to a human form, and it was raised overseas. It was named the Great Shang, and the responsibility of pioneering the wasteland was higher than the imperial power!"

"Three thousand years later, the Great Shang King apostatized, abandoned the ancient rituals, and abandoned the responsibility of pioneering the wasteland. He devoted all his efforts to building the Tower of Babel, captured black birds, and burned the flowing fire. In the end, he was punished by God. All the people died day and night. The Great Shang King Self-determination depends on the Tower of Babel.”

"... When it comes to Dajie, we will build official roads, connect the territory, recuperate and recuperate. It will take two years to carry out the responsibility of pioneering, transfer power to the people, and rule by the Golden mean. The country will continue for five thousand years."

"Dajiang...those who know don't speak, and those who speak don't know, so I won't go into details."

Gone?

What about Da Jiang’s information?

Li Qinglin was surprised and quickly turned the pages until the last page.

Are you gone now? !

"The author is... Yunsheng Sanren? Okay, okay, the critical moment is gone, very good. The author's information only has the year of birth, not the year of death. It seems that it is still based on... Don't let me meet you!"

(End of this chapter)