Divine Book Era

Chapter 3 Wei Xueshi

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Liu Xiu took out the kitchen knife, put it in his arms, and thought about the "assassination plan" in the study.

"The big river flows eastward, the stars in the sky are drawn to the Big Dipper...the road sees injustice and roars, when it's time to act..."

At this moment, the family is ruined and the family is destroyed, so why not care about the flood.

"Killing one is enough money, killing two is profitable. You let my family be ruined, and I will destroy your whole family, click, click, kill everything!"

A trace of cruelty flashed in Liu Xiu's heart.

Man is a beast first and a man second.

There are many rules that bind human beings, changing from beasts to human beings.

But now, Liu Xiu is going to break these shackles and become a beast again.

It was just written that Liu Xiu abandoned the assassination plans one by one. These were all on paper, and they didn't work.

At the critical moment, there are only five bloody steps.

Don't think too much, if a scholar rebels, he will fail in three years.

Because Xiucai was too smart and lacked animal nature, he failed.

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Three days later, Liu Xiu left home and headed for the county seat.

The reason for leaving home was to return books to the teacher.

I still gave up the kitchen knife, but planned to throw the explosive pack. Other weapons are easy to be exposed when bought.

It took about an hour to arrive in the county seat, first to step on the spot and determine the target location; then to start buying charcoal, sulfur, nitric acid, etc., and to start making black powder explosive kits.

For the traveler, making black powder is almost without any difficulty.

The only thing that needs to be done is to continuously purify the sulfur to increase the explosiveness of the black powder.

After making the black powder, Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.

In the evening, I threw this explosive bag into Wang Shun's house, killing all of them, and ending the enemy.

"Aren't I a bit cruel? Exploding explosives will hurt innocent people..." Suddenly, a thought flashed in Liu Xiu's mind.Throwing the explosive package in, that Wang Shun would definitely be dead, but his wife and children would also be affected. "Forget it, there is always a price to pay for doing things. Corrupt officials are greedy for money, and family members take bribes, so naturally they will be affected!"

After thinking about it, Liu Xiu's thoughts became clearer.

There is always a price to pay for doing things.

Corrupt officials are greedy for money, some of the property embezzled is spent by themselves, and some is spent by their wives and children.

Since one enjoys the benefits of corruption, one has to bear the consequences of corruption.

In later generations, there was network supervision and social reporting, but corruption continued; but in ancient times, there was no Internet, and there were no various reports, relying on implicating and deterring corrupt officials.

In later generations, corrupt officials are often imprisoned, but their wives and children apply for green cards, immigrate to the United States, and continue to enjoy the blessings of the people. The wife will be ridden by thousands of people, and the daughter will be slept by thousands of people.

"I didn't make a mistake in doing this. The only pity is that I didn't kill corrupt officials, but dirty officials. Instead of killing Yan Song and He Shen, I killed a small scribe..."

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After everything was ready, Liu Xiu walked towards Wei Mansion.

The middle of the night is a good time to kill people, but now it's afternoon, it's too early, and it's time to return the book.

The family is poor, and many good books cannot be bought, so they can only be copied, and after the copy is completed, they will return the book.

And this gave birth to a profession - copying books.

In this era, there is already printing, but there are still scholars who copy books to make money, and there are not a few people who make a living. Some wealthy families will hire scholars to help copy books.

Copying books is mainly done by literati, most of them are down-and-out poor scholars who live in poverty and need to rely on copying books to maintain their vitality; in addition, in the process of copying books, they can have a deeper understanding of the contents of the books and improve their knowledge level.If you read thousands of books, you may not write like a god; but if you copy thousands of books, you may write like a god.

In the process of copying books, many scholars gathered together to form a network of human relationships and relationships.

There is not much money to be made from copying books. The general price is ten copper coins for copying a book, and if you can copy two books a day, it is not bad.

A book here is not hundreds of thousands of words or millions of words in later generations, but "The Analects of Confucius", "Tao Te Ching", etc., a book.

A copper coin is at most equivalent to one RMB.One day of copying books can only earn 30 to [-] RMB at most.

And the owner of Wei Mansion is Wei Xueshi.

Wei Xueshi, who used to be an official in the imperial court, was dismissed later and returned to Donglai County, where he mainly gave lectures.

In Wei Xueshi's mansion, there is a large collection of books, and many scholars borrow and copy them to learn knowledge from them.

About ten minutes later, a quaint mansion appeared in front of me. The red lacquer gate was full of grandeur and grandeur, and there was a sense of grandeur. The ancients regarded red as the most precious and happy. It is only used by wealthy families. Above the vermilion lacquered gate, there is a black plaque of nanmu wood with golden silk, on which the words "Wei Mansion" are written in flying and phoenix dances!

The front door is closed, the side door is open, and there is a young man standing in front of the door.

"Young Master Liu, you are here!"

"I'll return the book!"

Soon after entering the mansion, Liu Xiu returned the books and handed over some copied books. He had already received a salary of one hundred copper coins.

"Master is giving a lecture in the backyard!"

The boy said.

Liu Xiu was delighted and walked towards the backyard.

I saw that the backyard was extremely wide, with no extra flowers and plants, only a pine tree.And under the pine tree, an old man was sitting on a futon, giving a lecture.

On the opposite side, scholars are either sitting or standing, listening carefully.

There were sages in ancient times, who gave lectures and teachings, and there were no distinctions in teaching. Whether it was gods and ghosts, beasts and monsters, or ordinary people, they could listen to them all, and there was no threshold limit.

In the later generations, under the pines and cypresses, great Confucian scholars preach, traffickers, merchants, farmers and workers, no matter what their status is, regardless of their high or low, you can listen to them all. If you like to listen, then continue to listen. If you don’t like to listen, then leave.

Without the futon, Liu Xiu took out a straw mat, sat on it, and listened to Wei Xueshi's lecture.

After talking for a long time, Wei Xueshi stopped preaching, took out the teapot, got a glass of water, drank it lightly, and moistened his throat.

"I have a question, can I raise it now?"

Wei Xueshi asked.

"Excuse me, sir, in this world, are there immortals and immortals?"

A student asked, his name is Zhang Xuan.

"The sage says, don't talk about strange powers... why don't you talk, the way is different, don't conspire with each other!" Wei Xueshi said: "We are scholars, walking the way of a sage. The way of a sage, with the body as a candle, illuminates To brighten the troubled world and open up the wisdom of the common people; the way of the sage is to use oneself as a sacrifice to sacrifice to the way of heaven to make up for the insufficiency of the heaven. And the gods and gods walk the way of immortality. The way is different, and there is no conspiracy!"

"As for longevity, it does exist; as for immortality, it doesn't exist. What is longevity?"

Wei Xueshi pointed at the pine tree beside him and said, "This pine tree has a lifespan of 500 years, so it can be called longevity!"

Pointing to the stone on the side again, he said: "This blue stone, after 3000 years of wind and rain, can be called longevity!"

"A thousand-year tortoise, a ten-thousand-year turtle, this is longevity! We scholars do not seek longevity, nor do we seek longevity, nor do we seek immortality, we only seek glory for a lifetime, and we only seek peace for the common people!"

(End of this chapter)