Chapter 213: The Three Principles of Order

Mengjiang Dynasty, Chaotian City.

This is the most prosperous city besides the Mengjiang Imperial City, with a constant stream of people coming and going.

Jiang Li left the mortal world and came here.

The Mengjiang Dynasty and the Red Dust Pure Land are adjacent to each other, and there is a candidate in Chaotian City that Commander Liu is looking for.

The face-to-face investigation has been completed by Commander Liu, and Jiang Li won't be able to find out anything if he shows up in person, so Jiang Li wants to start from the surrounding environment.

"Tanghulu, all kinds of Tanghulu."

"Give me a string of candied haws, not the hawthorn ones, but the one next to it with strawberries."

"Sir, please take it."

"A bunch of different styles... forget about the silkworm pupae." Jiang Li planned to bring some food back to Fairy Hongchen.

"I am from the Great Zhou. I heard that there is a teacher named Mr. Dong in Chaotian City, so I came here to visit him."

"Great Zhou! That's really far away." The candied haws vendor was surprised. The Mengjiang Dynasty was on the west side of Jiuzhou, and the Great Zhou was on the east side of Jiuzhou. This customer might have come to the Mengjiang Dynasty through the newly established space channel.

Mr. Dong’s reputation attracted other dynasties to come to the Mengjiang Dynasty, and the vendors also felt proud.

"Mr. Dong is the pride of our Chaotian City. He is well versed in Confucianism, knowledgeable, polite, and treats all students equally. Whether they come from aristocratic families or poor families, Mr. Dong teaches the same things. He does not teach more to those who pay more."

"Mr. Dong also strictly requires his juniors not to be arrogant and look down on others. If anyone dares to do so, they will be kicked out of the house."

Jiang Li listened with a smile. The peddler felt that a rich man like Jiang Li could actually listen to him so calmly, so he spoke a little more.

"Mr. Dong is definitely a great monk. Some powerful families and gangs in the city felt that they had some status, so they wanted to force Mr. Dong to be their private school teacher. Who knew that the next day, those powerful families and gangs stopped making trouble and sent their children to Mr. Dong peacefully, as if the coercion had never happened."

The vendor lowered his voice and said, "There is a legend that Mr. Dong is a cultivator in the God Transformation Stage!"

Jiang Li showed an appropriate expression of surprise.

The vendor was very pleased with Jiang Li's expression and gave him an extra candied haws.

Jiang Li firmly refused: "I really don't eat silkworm pupae."

Jiang Li went to wander around other small stalls, asking questions while buying things, and the answers he got were similar.

Mr. Dong has been teaching for more than ten years and is a good teacher who is strict with himself.

However, no one guessed too high, and only guessed that Mr. Dong was a reclusive person in the God Transformation Stage.

The fusion stage is too far away for ordinary people. Chaotian City is known as the second largest city in the dynasty, but it does not even have a person in the fusion stage.

After all, who would go to the second largest city when you can go to the largest city?

Those in the fusion period of the Mengjiang Dynasty either served as officials in the court or joined a sect; none of them stayed in Chaotian City.

Mr. Dong is of course in the fusion stage, and he is the only one in Chaotian City who is in the fusion stage.

"He is a reclusive person." Jiang Li had a good impression of Mr. Dong. "It is really difficult for Commander Liu to find a time to live in seclusion during the Fusion Period."

"So, your son is the student of the legendary Mr. Dong?"

Jiang Li looked at the person in front of him. He was an old farmer, an ordinary person, and his family could even be described as poor.

It seems that Mr. Dong really accepts all students regardless of their status.

"What legends?" The old farmer said with a smile, "Mr. Dong is very approachable and doesn't have the airs of a monk at all."

"Dad, I'm going to school." A young man carrying a cloth bag said goodbye to the old farmer.

"Wait a minute, can I also attend one of Mr. Dong's classes?"

The boy hesitated.

Jiang Li looks young, but he looks like a young man. There is no one as old as Jiang Li in Mr. Dong’s private school.

"It's never too late to start learning." Jiang Li didn't think there was anything wrong with attending a private school with a group of children at his age.

The young man thought Jiang Li was right, so he took him with him.

"Mr. Dong, this brother wants to sit in on a class."

"Hello, Mr. Dong. My name is Ding Li, and I am from the Great Zhou. I am passing by here and have heard of Mr. Dong's name. I would like to interrupt you for a class."

The students of the private school smiled secretly when they saw how old Jiang Li was.

Mr. Dong frowned and rapped the podium with his ruler: "Laughing, what's so funny! This is the attitude of learning. You should all learn from Ding Li!"

"Your parents didn't send you here to be lazy. Don't think that you don't need to study because you have a good family background. As the ancient sage said, 'My life is limited, but my knowledge is unlimited. To pursue the unlimited with the limited is dangerous.'"

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"Emperor Jiang Ren also said that learning never ends."

"Are you stronger than the ancient sages or the Emperor Jiang? Do you think you don't need to study?"

The students were afraid of Mr. Dong's ruler and dared not laugh anymore.

Jiang Li did not make any comments and sat at the back.

"Today we are learning the Three Principles of Order."

"The ruler is the guide for his subjects, the father is the guide for his sons, and the husband is the guide for his wife. These are the Three Guides."

"As a subject, if the king wants the subject to die, the subject must die; as a son, if the father wants the son to die, the son must die; the husband is the head of the wife, and the wife is required to obey the father at home, obey the husband after marriage, and obey the son after the husband dies."

"For example, Emperor Mengjiang is the sovereign, and the ninth-rank official is the minister. The minister is born to obey the sovereign. Even if the official is a cultivator in the fusion stage, it does not change the fact that he is a minister. The minister must do whatever Emperor Mengjiang tells him to do."

"What if the king is wrong?" Jiang Li asked.

"Shut up! I just talked about the Three Bonds of Order and you are so disrespectful. How can a student speak before the teacher has finished speaking!" Mr. Dong in the classroom was completely different from before and severely admonished Jiang Li.

Seeing that Jiang Li put down his hands honestly and stopped talking, Mr. Dong was very satisfied and answered Jiang Li's questions.

"How can a king be wrong? The founding emperor of the Mengjiang Dynasty was a wise ruler. His sons inherited his bloodline and naturally had the qualities of a wise ruler. The founding emperor made his most outstanding son the second emperor, so this second emperor must also be a wise ruler. This has been passed down from generation to generation, and the current Mengjiang Emperor must be a wise ruler."

"I know you may have doubts and think that Emperor Mengjiang sometimes makes wrong decisions. This is not the fault of Emperor Mengjiang, but some ministers did not fulfill their duties and did not report the truth, which led to Emperor Mengjiang making wrong judgments. Perhaps some ministers have bad intentions and are deliberately misleading."

"If the subjects do what they are supposed to do, how can the king make mistakes?"

Jiang Li remembered that Emperor Meng Jiang and Emperor Wei almost started a country-scale war because of the matter of Fairy Hongchen.

This has nothing to do with the ministers.

"If you can't understand the example of Emperor Meng Jiang, then I will give you another typical example, Emperor Jiang Ren."

"What is the Human Emperor? He is naturally the emperor of the human race, the emperor of all living beings. All the creatures in the Nine Provinces respect and lord over the Human Emperor."

"Whether they are ordinary cultivators or the emperors of the dynasties, they are all subjects of the Human Emperor."

"The emperor is the ruler, and the rest are the ministers."

Jiang Li gradually frowned.

(End of this chapter)