After Li Xian hurriedly prepared breakfast, she went out in a hurry, but she did not bring any linen cloth with her, so it seemed that she was not going to the market.
"Brother, did you hear any strange noises last night? It seemed to be in the wasteland outside the woodshed!"
Li Qingjing seemed to have not slept well last night and rubbed his dark circles.
Li Qinglin said calmly: "Maybe you had a nightmare."
"Really?" Li Qingjing was a little suspicious.
"Good morning, second brother! Good morning, eldest brother!"
Li Qingqing walked out the door without opening her eyes, as if sleepwalking, squatted on the threshold, and brushed her teeth with a willow branch dipped in water.
Li Qinglin reminded: "Be careful, don't fall."
"Um?!"
Who knew that Li Qingqing suddenly woke up, and immediately turned around with eyes wide open.
"Snacks? What snacks?!"
Li Qinglin was stunned. He didn't expect that his sister was so... innocent.
After a while, Li Qingjing's brother and sister packed up their coarse cloth school bags, took their lunch, and said goodbye to Li Qinglin.
The house suddenly became quiet.
After a while, the cleaning of the dishes was completed.
Li Qinglin exercised for a while, and only stopped when his blood was boiling and his whole body was warm.
He stretched himself, lifted the fence, and walked out onto the path.
"Qinglin, why are you up so early?" Mrs. Gou greeted Li Qinglin from afar while standing in the yard.
Li Qinglin exchanged a few words with him.
"Hey, isn't this Xiao Li? Is he back home to visit his family?"
"Look at this child, he has grown more energetic. If Old Li knew this, he would be relieved."
"Oh, he's the kid that his mother sold into slavery?"
Along the way, villagers greeted us from time to time.
Some people also looked at Li Qinglin's back, pointing and talking, with a teasing look in their eyes.
If someone sells himself into a slavery, he will no longer be seen in the ancestral temple. This will bring shame to the ancestors in any dynasty!
The social relations in the shantytowns are both close and distant, so close that if a stranger appears on the street, every household will know about it within half a day.
Alienation means that there are many despicable people lurking under the sun, pursuing profit and future.
Li Qinglin didn't take these people's gazes to heart.
He walked around the nearby shantytowns and learned more about the lower classes and customs of this world from the daily details.
Li Qinglin had only one feeling, that was... contradiction! The residents of the shantytowns were naturally not wealthy, many of them looked pale and had no clothes to cover their bodies, even worse than the Li family.
But you rarely see vagrants or lazy people. Everyone is in a hurry, as if there is a whip behind them and they can't stop at all!
But even so, they still lived a hard life, with only a few taels of silver left in a year.
Moreover, Li Qinglin discovered a strange phenomenon.
Almost no one has ever been to other counties, let alone the provincial capital. It seems that everyone has lived in Wangfeng County for generations.
Everything about Dajiang, the imperial court, and other counties was learned through the "Guangmin County Instructions" promoted by local officials.
For some reason, Li Qinglin thought of the frog in the well.
It’s not that the frog can’t jump, but that its world is as big as a wellhead.
So who built the well?
…
Back home.
Li Qinglin took out a few books from Li Qingjing's room.
"Mongolian Training"
《Young Learning Qionglin》
"Lisheng's Rhymes"
"Heavenly Official"
Li Qinglin roughly looked through "Xun Meng Wen" and "Li Weng Dui Yun", which are mostly books for elementary education and also teach simple poetry and parallelism.
It's very basic, and the words and phrases used are not sophisticated.
This knowledge was too simple for his ten-year-old brothers and sisters, but it was just right for Li Qinglin.
For a moment, Li Qinglin watched with great interest.
During this period of time, under the stimulation of the heart toad and the feedback of qi and blood, Li Qinglin's memory and comprehension abilities have been slightly enhanced.
At this moment, the gaps are quickly filled and the knowledge is absorbed quickly.
An hour later, Li Qinglin put down the two books and felt his temples throbbing, as if he had overworked his brain.
The heart and sac open and close, and Qi and blood flow throughout the body.
Suddenly, it was as if someone was massaging me. The fatigue brought by hard study gradually dissipated, and my brain regained some clarity.
Li Qinglin turned to read the two books "Youxue Qionglin" and "Tianguan Zongzai".
These two books are extensive and comprehensive.
The former covers astronomy and geography, rules and regulations, customs and etiquette, and even some descriptions of the ways of martial artists and the traces of cultivating immortals, as well as content about Buddhism, Taoism, ghosts and gods.
As for the latter, it is a classic book on building a country and educating the people, which is so boring that Li Qinglin can't even recognize all the words.
At this time, Li Qinglin held "Tianguan Zongzai" in both hands, and saw that the book as thick as a brick was actually covered with densely packed notes and remarks.
There is not even enough space between the papers to record the number of leaves placed between the pages.
The leaves were also dyed black, with many words written on them that Li Qinglin couldn't understand.
"In the first volume of the Heng people, it is said: The Heng people are in charge of the common cauldrons and woks, and provide water and fire. In addition to their duties, they are also responsible for cooking and boiling food... All the people are the same.
Qing Jing personally believes that treating people like this can only bring temporary peace, but not permanent peace. The way is to follow the will of the people..."
Is it Li Qingjing?
Li Qinglin was a little shocked. He never expected that his second brother was so talented.
It turned out to be a pearl in the ocean!
The three sisters...
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Uh, it's okay.
You can't expect to have three heroes in one family, but it's good to have a precious daughter.
No longer caring about this classic, Li Qinglin turned his attention to the book "Youxue Qionglin".
His eyes showed deep thought for a long time.
Dajiang, it is indeed not ruled by the Tang and Yu dynasties, but is instead filled with tyranny!
A cruel government is more ferocious than a tiger.
Dajiang implemented various taxes and corvées. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were two taxes, land tax, and commercial tax, and no one could escape any of them.
There are even regulations that a couple must have at least three children. If they have fewer, they will be charged an extremely high population tax!
Thieves come like a comb, soldiers come like a rake, officials come like a razor.
With this situation, how can there be no poor people and shanty towns! If Fengxian is like this, other counties are not much better.
also,
Dajiang does not have social and political structures such as townships, towns or even villages. The smallest administrative unit is the Dao County.
The thirty-six counties are thirty-six cities with a population of over one million!
This is extremely unreasonable and abnormal! It seems that outside Dao County, in the vast wilderness, there is something that makes it difficult for ordinary people to live.
"Monsters are rampant? Demons are everywhere? Or are they forces that are against Da Jiang?"
Li Qinglin, who claimed to be an internet bookworm in his previous life, had all kinds of speculations running through his mind.
There are probably two channels for the poor to rise.
The first is the written test.
Since there are no towns and villages, there is naturally no process such as township elections and provincial examinations.
Instead, the "lower governance examination" was first held in the major neighborhoods of the county, usually in the autumn of each year.
After that, qualified students will take part in the "county examination", then the "prefectural examination", and finally go to the capital to meet the emperor and participate in the "Dragon Head Case".
The subjects of the civil examination vary from year to year. The subjects of the examination, such as sutras, essays, and policy questions, change every year according to the mind of the chief examiner. However, since Da Jiang is a martial artist, there will definitely be a martial arts examination, but it will not be emphasized.
The second is martial arts.
Unlike literary examinations which are backed by official power, martial arts examinations are extremely complicated, and even the imperial power can only intervene but not control them to a certain extent.
All the big and small families in the prefectures and the capital would maintain private soldiers, many of whom were masters of martial arts.
Outside the high walls of the palace, there are also dojos, martial arts arenas and other forces that recruit students and teach martial arts.
Those who have achieved success in martial arts can enter the imperial court as military officers or become guests of family. They will no longer be peasants digging for a living in the loess!
"Knights use force to break the law, and a strong man is more courageous. How can a warrior honestly submit to Da Jiang, who is aggressive and exploiting others?"
"The imperial court actually tacitly allows local tyrants to raise private soldiers. Aren't they afraid that a slogan like 'Princes and generals are better off being cowards' will pop up one day?"
"Or... are you confident?"
Li Qinglin only felt that he touched something faintly, deep and dark, hidden behind the huge monster Da Jiang.
"The answer may lie in the pioneering work."
Li Qinglin's eyes flickered.
"Youxue Qionglin" naturally has records about land reclamation work, and it can even be traced back to several dynasties such as Dajie, Shang, and Datie from recent to distant times.
"Heaven created flowing fire, which in turn created iron. The Iron King worshipped heaven in the southern suburbs on the winter solstice and the earth on the summer solstice. He was eventually supported by the gods and built his capital in the flowing fire, named 'Da Tie'. The Da Tie clan opened up the wilderness and established 20 cities."
"Famine arose, disaster arrived, and the Great Iron was destroyed. At that time, a black bird carried a precious pearl and planted it in Huaihai. The pearl took on a human form and gave birth to people overseas. It was called the Great Merchants, and the responsibility of pioneering was established, which was higher than the imperial power!"
"Three thousand years later, the King of the Great Shang Dynasty deviated from the orthodoxy, abandoned the ancient rituals, abolished the responsibility of opening up the wilderness, and used the whole country's strength to build the Tower of Babel, captured the black bird, and set it on fire. In the end, he was punished by heaven. Within a day and night, all the people died. The King of the Great Shang Dynasty committed suicide in the Tower of Babel."
"…When the Great Jie arrived, the government roads were extensively repaired, the territories were connected, and the country was recuperated. After two years, the country was reclaimed and the power was transferred to the people. The country was ruled by the middle way. The country's prosperity lasted for 5,000 years."
"Da Jiang...those who know don't speak, and those who speak don't know, so I won't elaborate on it."
No more?
What's Da Jiang's information?
Li Qinglin flipped through the pages quickly in surprise until he reached the last page.
You're gone now?!
"The author is... Yunsheng Sanren? Good, good, it's gone at the critical moment, very good. The author's information only has the year of birth, but no year of death. It seems that he is still... Don't let me meet you!"
(End of this chapter)