Ask Sword

what do you want.

Li Ang didn't follow the other party's words, looked at Ya Jiu and asked directly.

Jiao Cheng's case involved Chang'an Ghost City and the Tomb of the Sword Immortal. The other party was able to collect good information in silence, and put on an appearance that he was not afraid of revenge from the academy. The plot must be serious.

It won't be something vulgar like money.

Release kindness.

Ya Jiu smiled slightly, raised his hand and snapped his fingers, releasing the sound insulation technique to seal off the conversation between the two.

I'm not a student of the academy, to be precise, I'm a failed student from a certain session of the academy.

Ya Jiu smiled and said: At that time, a doctor in the academy, Jun Qianzi—that is, your teacher's younger brother, found me and gave me a chance to be an apprentice. He took me on the path of cultivation and saw the world Grand and magnificent.

The teachers of the two of us are like brothers, and you and I, as brothers of the next generation, should naturally support each other.

Li Ang stared at the other party quietly, without saying a word.

Of course, I admit that it is really not good to invite you out with this kind of personal threat. But after all, you are now the founding county magistrate, and you still have the talisman given by Lian Xuanxiao on your body, so it is not good to 'invite'.

Ya Jiu spread his hands, and said casually: Anyway, I really just want to have a good chat with you when I invite you out of the city. If I want to harm you, I can write an anonymous letter to the town governor.

Or just write the investigation results on a piece of paper and spread it to Chang'an Fang City at night, isn't it.

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Li Ang looked at the other party and paused, Jiao Cheng and the others were all scum, if they were killed, they would be killed, and they could be exonerated with their titles.

Even the prince, Kaifuyi and the dignitaries of the third department could not think of overthrowing themselves in this matter.

But keeping Alienated Items privately, or even using Alienated Items to pass the academy exam and obtain the title of number one scholar, is another concept.

With the strict and conservative atmosphere of the academy, it is uncertain what to do.

Li Ang said, What do you want to talk about?

Ya Jiu smiled slightly: Looking at the expression on your face, it should be that Pu Liuxuan didn't tell you about my teacher, right?

Heh, Mr. Jun Qianzi is a very interesting person. He is strict with himself and lenient towards others. He has a kind heart, a gentle personality, and concentrates on academics.

He has presided over the construction of bridges in Shannan East Road and Shannan West Road, the construction of river dams and seawalls in Jiangnan East Road, and the locust disaster relief in Duji Province.

Just like what you are doing now.

oh.

Li Ang replied indifferently. During this period of time, he also read some past materials of the Academy in the library.

The names of Pu Liuxuan and Cheng Juxiu were seen in the records of some text files.

Cheng Juxiu is fine, but there are obvious traces of modification, erasure, and deletion in Pu Liuxuan's materials. Personal data is incomplete.

Generally, this kind of situation will happen to those who defected from the school, or caused great losses to the State of Yu, and were finally expelled from the school.

Combined with the fact that Pu Liuxuan left Chang'an fifteen years ago, it is not difficult to imagine that he was involved in some kind of turmoil and fell into such a long and narrow place.

Considering that Pu Liuxuan voluntarily sealed his cultivation and left, and the head of the mountain finally let him return,

In that turmoil, Pu Liuxuan should not be the main culprit or the main player, and it is very likely that he was only incidentally implicated.

As for who the culprit is

The text files that Li Ang read were completely deleted. In such a large college, no one is willing to mention it, including Su Feng, a doctor of science who has the best personal relationship, and Chao Wenyuan, a doctor of mathematics.

Junior brother, I'll call you Risheng, that's what your friends call you.

Ya Jiu smiled and said, Risheng, who do you think has the worst life in Yu State?

Um?

Li Ang raised his eyebrows, and the topic of Crow Nine suddenly jumped, which seemed a little inexplicable.

Who has the worst life.

The hard-working laborers in the mine who see no daylight,

The appearance and blood are the same as those of the Yu people, but because they are foreign nationals, they have no personal rights. They have replaced the nobles for generations as cattle and horse servants.

Children who were harvested and cut up by criminals who were trafficked and made disabled the day after tomorrow,

The land was annexed and the refugees who were forced to leave their homes.

Crow Nine caught Li Ang's slightly paused expression, and said with a smile: Look, you are not a Wuling boy who was born in Chang'an's rich family, and you have seen the miserable conditions of the people at the bottom of Yu State.

A fisherman's family with a daily income of 80 Wen - this should be very common in Weizhou,

There are fishing boats and fishing nets, and the family has lived on the boat for generations, fishing desperately every day and night to earn money for the family to maintain a normal life.

Such a family can only eat light food or pickles, and their children will never have the opportunity to study in a private school.

That is, at the temple fair every year, I heard that Mr. Shu gave lectures.

Such a family has no savings, no future, no hope, and no chance of recovery for generations.

A natural disaster, a heavy rain, an exploitation by evil officials, or even the collapse of a board of a fishing boat,

It is enough to make this family die without a place to bury them.

But in all fairness, are they the worst? At least they still have the constant production of fishing boats.

Ya Jiu said indifferently: Farmers living in the deep mountains have a more difficult life.

Corrupt officials, evil officials, and tyrannical government are fiercer than wolves, tigers, and leopards.

Whenever the year is bad and the output of the farmland is reduced, the farmers have to cut down on food and clothing, and even kill family members to save food rations.

If farmers encounter natural disasters, they will eat everything from bean crumbs and chaff, bark and leaves, to real rubber noodles.

To live is the greatest luxury.

Ya Jiu paused for a moment, then continued, There are slaves. Yu State prohibits keeping slaves, but it does not prohibit raising slaves without nationality.

In the families of those wealthy families, there is a slave family that has been passed down from generation to generation.

They will live in the mansion forever, and several generations will not step out of the mansion gate. From birth, they are instilled with the concept of being a good slave and serving a good master.

They are no different from Yu people in appearance and blood, but they always live in woodsheds and sleep on the floor. Their masters can beat and scold them wantonly and vent their anger. Even if they torture and kill slaves, no one or organization will question them. responsibility.

Decades ago, there was a general Xiahou whose slaves stole a pinch of salt from the kitchen in order to keep his son alive. After the incident was exposed, General Xiahou asked people to catch flies and insects and feed them to the slaves and their sons.

And in terms of experience in torturing slaves, that General Xiahou was far behind the real [nobles].

The most ironic thing is that in order for noble families to acquire slaves for generations,

Those nobles occasionally exchanged with each other.

A cruel smile appeared on Yajiu's face, Risheng, you should understand what this means, right?

A family or a few slaves can easily give birth to congenitally handicapped children,

Mutual exchanges must be made to prevent close relatives from getting married.

Hehe, the theory of non-marriage with the same surname proved by the Academy was used by these nobles to bypass the Yu Law—as long as both parents are slaves, the children born will also be congenital slaves of foreign nationality.

Ya Jiu shook his head and said: Besides, there are also women who have been reduced to prostitution in Jiaofangsi, Pingkangfang and various prefectures;

Abandoned old government soldiers who were disabled;

Laborers in workshops in Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places.

Risheng, you should have seen how those workshop owners who leased the patents of the academy squeezed labor, didn't you?

Otherwise, you would not voluntarily give up the sky-high buyout fee when authorizing the patent,

Instead of adding a bunch of cumbersome conditions that are completely unnecessary in the eyes of others to protect labor.

Seeing that Li Ang remained silent, Ya Jiu then smiled and said, Is the Academy good? It is indeed very good.

Compared with the pre-Sui and even longer eras, with the Academy, at least the survival of tens of millions of people can be guaranteed,

No matter how hard and poor, at least there is a chance to survive.

But Xuegong, can't you do more?

The monks and bureaucrats with the background of the academy are all over the country of Yu,

On the surface, the Zhenfu Division and the Xuegong are in separate courts, but everyone knows that the degree of penetration of the Xuegong into the court of Yu Kingdom is far from being comparable to the Zhenfusi.

As a whole, the Academy can easily decide the state policy of the State of Yu, amend the laws of the State of Yu, eliminate one or a group of ministers who oppose it, and even the emperor can be replaced at will if necessary.

Imperial power, to put it bluntly, is just power and status.

Whoever owns these two will be the ruler of Yu State.

But Ke Xuegong didn't do this.

Of course, those doctors, ministers, and priests can proudly tell their disciples that non-interference in government affairs is the pride and self-restraint of the academy.

But it's always been like this, right?

Obviously, it only needs a few internal meetings in the Academy to unify opinions and reshape the incompetent court of Yu Kingdom.

It can save those people who live at the bottom of the country of Yu and suffer no one to see,

However, Xuegong always doesn't take action because of his damn pride and self-restraint.

Even if the holy empress massacres the Li clan, court officials, and scholars who wrote against him,

Even if some Yu emperors before the Holy Empress were incompetent and greedy for pleasure, the people of Yu State suffered even greater suffering.

The court of Yu State and the Emperor of Yu State are just bullshit,

A monk in the Candle Sky Realm can play a greater role on the battlefield than ten thousand soldiers,

If you go to assassinate, then except for a few people in the world, everyone may die.

The academy is like a giant who has no power but lets his authority be manipulated by children.

If God gives but does not take, you will be punished by God.

Ya Jiu's emotions were agitated at first, then calmed down, and said to Li Ang lightly: Risheng, as a disciple of the academy, you should have read a lot of books, right?

Du Gongbu lived in poverty for a period of time in his later years, and had to join the ranks of the poor who ate cheap Taicang rice.

A friend invited him to eat a meal of Chang'an Winter Potatoes are sour and green, and the soil of Jincheng is crisp and quiet like training, which actually made him sigh with emotion, But to make my old age full, I only hope to see each other often.

Du Gongbu is my favorite poet, but the poorer and poorer people than him have never had a chance to make a sound - they can't read and write, so naturally they can only make a sound in the way of erupting before death .

My teacher, Jun Qianzi, believes that Xuegong clearly possesses the power to change the status quo of the State of Yu, and if it is not used, it is a breach of duty and morality.

So he defected from the academy?

Li Ang finally asked, with a declarative tone.

The process is a little more complicated.

Ya Jiu nodded and said: He used to have a high status in the academy, but he realized that, like Su Feng, a Ph.

Let them rentier better and more efficiently,

It is difficult to benefit the people at the bottom and effectively improve their living environment.

Instead, like the workshops that have sprung up in Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places, they will use all means and brains to exploit and squeeze labor, causing more people to suffer.

He tried to promote changes within the academy, but there was too much resistance.

Not everyone is like him, who thinks that the academy should be used to improve, or even completely replace the court of Yu Kingdom——

For the many doctors in the Academy, they only need to stay in the Academy to enjoy the resources sent by the Quan Yu Kingdom, and have status and power. Naturally, they don't need to take risks to overthrow the imperial court.

Including the use of the Dongjun Building - Dongjun Building has alienated objects collected by the Academy for three hundred years, and countless alienated objects can be used to improve people's livelihood.

But all of them were sealed up because of conservative ideas.

Only a few alienated objects, such as [Short-handed Insect] and [Chang'an Micro-Scenery], can be used.

He was so disappointed in the academy that he finally decided to defect. Also in this process, your teacher Pu Liuxuan was implicated.

Li Ang narrowed his eyes slightly, wondering if what Ya Jiu said was true,

If it is true, then with Pu Liuxuan's thoughts, he must break with that gentleman.

The final result of the defection was that my teacher absconded from the territory of Yu State, was seriously injured, and was on the verge of death.

And your teacher was angered by the court of Yu State because he failed to prevent the emperor from moving his son. He was forced to seal his cultivation, left Chang'an, and returned to his hometown in Weizhou.

Ya Jiu said: Leaving aside the right and wrong and grievances and grievances of the previous generation,

Risheng, what I want to know is, are you willing to join us?

Um?

Crow Nine uses our term.

Could it be that Junqian didn't die, and even recruited more people over the years?

Haotian Daomen only knows to enshrine ignorant idols, the court of Yu State only knows to maintain itself, the bureaucrats of Yu State only know about fish and meat, and the academy only knows to stay out of it.

Ya Jiu smiled and said, Only we can truly change the world.

who are you.

A gleam flashed in Li Ang's eyes, and Ya Jiutu could see that what he did and said before was all to attract him.

But even if only from the point of view of personal interests,

As the founding magistrate of Yu State and a disciple of the Academy, he needs at least a high price to persuade him to surrender.

You can call us Zhaoming.

Ya Jiu smiled and said: My teacher is already the son of a high-ranking monk in the Candle Sky Realm, and he is just one of them.

The power we have is beyond imagination, the future we can create is far beyond the imagination of the world, and the benefits we can bring to you are by no means inferior to those of the Academy.